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<a href="/blog/2018/06/26/historical-debt-and-the-liberation-of-ourselves/" title="Permalink to HISTORICAL DEBT AND THE LIBERATION OF OURSELVES" rel="bookmark">HISTORICAL DEBT AND THE LIBERATION OF OURSELVES</a>
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<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="/blog/author/fami1yfed/" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-26T05:11:43+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/26/historical-debt-and-the-liberation-of-ourselves/" rel="bookmark">June 26, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-26T05:11:43+01:00">June 26, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1991/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1991</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">December 29, 1991<br />
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Belvedere, New York<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>The topic of Father’s sermon this morning is “Historical Debt and the Liberation of Ourselves.” When we say history do we mean American history or the history of any one country? [No.] Do we mean the history of Korea? No. From the view point of the dispensation, history is the path human beings have trod on the way of restoration and improvement. History began at the time mankind fell and was lost to Satan and it has continued as human beings improve themselves for the sake of eventually winning over Satan. That is history. In the course of history the name Israel appeared. It means “gain victory over,” which makes it a very significant word. After the victory of the self, the family, clan, nation and the victory of the world, cosmos and God, a true sense of liberation can set in. After liberating God we can liberate ourselves. It must happen in that order. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>By looking at our lives today we know we are not living in the realm of liberation. We are still fettered; we are not free. We only have freedom after being liberated and we have to be free before we can seek happiness. There is such a formidable and strong wall between the individual and the family and the family and the nation and so on. Today, for instance, we do not feel liberation within the self. Our minds and bodies are still struggling and trying to overcome. The same is true within the family and all the other levels as welt This is not something light that you can afford not to think about, but it is a great question we must consider.</p>
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<p>In order for me as an individual to be liberated, I have to take certain steps. Likewise, for the liberation of the family certain steps are to be taken. The same is true for the nation and world. Can God, who is almighty and omnipotent, walk horizontally right into our lives and world? Can He do that? We must understand that as omnipotent as He might be, it is not possible. Vertically, He can, but not horizontally. Because each individual is born with an original mind he wants to follow his conscience and stand vertically. Since God cannot come horizontally, it means man must breakdown the walls, then God can come in. It works in that order. God needs to be liberated before He can sit in the subject position. Man is in the object position which is secondary. It goes without saying that the subject must be liberated before any object can hope to be liberated.</p>
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<p>Until we reach that realm, we live within the realm where Satan and his laws prevail. We live there waiting for the day to go into the realm of liberation. What has mankind done in so many years? What are man’s achievements? Have they done well at taking down the walls and going over the barriers of the individual, family and so on? Obviously, it is not enough for an individual just to go over the wall or make a big hole and go through it and stay there. We have to completely do away with the wall, making sure it crumbles down. Who eliminates that wall? Mankind has been doing this kind of work through religion. The ones who try to go around the walls are the ones who do not have a set religion. They are not religious people, they just want to achieve the goal. Those who do not pay attention to religion seek happiness by going around each wall, but certainly they can never achieve happiness, try as they might. Instead they only reach hell We see conflict everywhere and in every circumstance as the manifestation of that.</p>
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<p>Why is there war? Why hasn’t God tried to stop war? Why does He rather choose to allow war, hoping it leads to improvement? So people will make change, with the larger entity absorbing the smaller one. Together they can then make improvement and progress towards reaching the final goal of taking the wall down. As we have seen, the world has been filled with conflict. There have been many wars, all headed towards a certain goal. Until now we saw the confrontation taking place between two main powers, the democratic countries and the communist countries. The right and left wings made up the two elements of conflict. We easily speak about right wing and left wing but there is no clear demarcation between the two. The whole world is in chaos; we live in a very complex situation, yet walls are strongly maintained even though it adds to the complexity.</p>
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<p>On December 25th, the communist empire came down for good. It was historical The very element which created so many problems and violence for the world disappeared almost overnight What about America? America too is going through a lot of change now. The giant has become so sick that it is leaning to one side. There are a lot of problems here. After the fall of the communist countries, America would now like to maintain its superiority as the strongest nation; the one with all the nuclear weaponry. America would like to stop those like Kim Il Sung from owning nuclear weapons because if he possesses nuclear weapons, his neighbor, Japan, will not feel comfortable. The Japanese would then have to develop their own nuclear weapons just to prepare themselves. Then many countries would come to possess these weapons. America does not want that, but can any one country possess all the weapons of war and continue that way? That is the question.</p>
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<p>America would like to maintain a rigid situation of supremacy over the world, but looking from the perspective of the cosmos, America is not equal to the rest of the world. America is a part of the world, it is not the world itself. America just wants to maintain its wall, not take it down. This is against the cosmic movement. America’s future is greatly in question.</p>
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<p>It is a principle of nature that the one which is highest sooner or later falls down to the lowest position because of its weight. Once something starts rolling downhill, it becomes very difficult to apply the brake. Is America ascending today or is it about to come down? If it comes down where would it come to rest? Would it fall part way down? No, once it starts coming down, it will gain momentum so it isn’t hard to predict what will happen: there is a danger it could fall lower than ever. The fact that America started to fall is proof enough that it must be going against the rules or desire of the universe. Otherwise, all the elements of the universe would protect it so that it wouldn’t fall. The fact America is allowed to fall shows it is going against the trend of the world.</p>
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<p>Externally this is very visible. What about on the internal level? Internally, a very similar thing is taking place. Religions today will be re-balanced. That means the higher religions will come to absorb the lower ones. They will merge into one. People want to become higher and higher in spirit. From God’s perspective, the great question is, what kind of country or external form will remain and stabilize? And, what kind of religion will remain while others fade away? The standard they finally will have is of great concern to God. Externally speaking, God would like to see the world without the boundaries of countries and without the boundaries of culture. That is what He visualizes as ideal God would like to see a world without these limitations. All the wars, struggles a difficulties mankind has had all contributed towards the goal of doing away with these walls.</p>
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<p>Through the fact that our intelligence always improves, we’ve come to realize that it is useless to maintain all the walls. We have to do away with them. This is the whole purpose; to bring the walls down and create an environment of peace. This is the purpose behind religion too, which is the internal aspect of the human being, as compared to the external which is manifested in politics. The historical debt is a wall. It cannot disappear automatically. It has to come into confrontation and collide with something. Then either the wall or the force that hits it will come down. After the wall comes down, unity will be realized. In other words, we have to pay a certain price (of indemnity) for the wall to come down. Just like we see a war on the external side with fighting between countries, a similar thing takes place internally; two religions will have a bloody fight. After that we see the external and internal elements fight also. That means a country will fight against a certain religion. Simplified, this is the same form as the mind and body struggle. Just like the mind and body fight each other, different elements war against each other on the external level.</p>
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<p>Who has been playing the leading role in history of bringing about these improvements in mankind to reach the ultimate goal of having no walls? The great name is Israel. God made the Israelites to lead the way; the first Israelites, the second Israelites and the third Israelites. In the interim God created such a great country as America. A lot of walls have been taken down within America. Many people of different races from all over the world have come to live in harmony without walls. Practically speaking, people of every nation have come to America. God created such a country. Unlike Americans who want to keep this country for themselves, God would like to have this immense country exist without walls so that any people from the north, south, east or west could come here and migrate back and forth to their own country. God visualizes everyone coming and going through this great free country.</p>
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<p>Why is it necessary? by doing so people come to understand the ideal world God wants to see. They will see an example. by coming to America and experiencing life here they can see what God’s country is like. They will come to know, “This is what God eventually may create in my country.” They come to – learn. Everybody who comes through America and then goes back to their homeland learns about God and God’s country. When they go they should have twelve countries they will make effort to unite through their love and their service for the sake of others.</p>
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<p>When the United Nations was conceived it seemed rather easy in principle to unify the whole world. They wanted to create an upper house and lower house. To the upper house they would bring the presidents of all the countries in the world and to the lower house, they would bring all the congressmen of each country and make one huge unified organization representing the world. If America had accomplished that and created an environment where there were no walls, where anyone would be free to go in and out, and had educated them all painstakingly, then America could never fall or experience hardship. God would have preserved America. That is what would have happened.</p>
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<p>For example, if you undertook serious cultivation of this immense fertile country, it would provide enough resources to feed the entire world. Nobody has to go hungry. But why is it not practiced? Because of the borders of countries. Countries simply want to keep things for themselves and not let anyone else come in. The world is destined to be one country, not hundreds of countries. It isn’t difficult to understand that the whole world must become one in order for God to be liberated. When God wants to go to Korea, does He need a Korean visa? You laugh, but we should be serious about this matter. So God can go into Korea as He wishes? At least that is the way it should be, right? But today, can God go into Korea and live as He wishes in Korea? [No.] That means God does not even need to go to Korea. There is a wall. Korea is just for Koreans, Korea is not for the world. That is why God cannot go in.</p>
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<p>What about this great Christian nation where people believe in and preach about God and do everything in the name of God? Can God come to America? [ No. ] How many invisible walls are there in America? We have experienced many. Different denominations fight each other. That is a great big wall. If we think this is an environment where God can come in and out as He pleases, we don’t need to pray to God. All we would have to do is talk and God would listen. If you called, “God please come here”, He would come. But since He cannot, we have to pray intensely to reach him vertically in the morning and evening and throughout the night. In order to communicate with God now, we need a big antenna to send out a strong message. This is not the original idea though. Originally we were built to talk to God easily.</p>
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<p>Are there walls within the Unification Church or not? [Ideally, no.] “Ideally” is not reality. How many walls are there when we sit and look around, “Oh, he is Korean, he is English, he is Japanese, he is American . . .”? There are cultural walls too, “Oh, he does it the Korean way.” These are all walls. America has been historically proud that whoever comes here becomes Americanized within five years. This is the melting pot and no metal escapes melting. Then Reverend Moon came here and didn’t seem to melt like America want him to. Rather, they think that he is a fearful guy or that they don’t need him because he doesn’t melt. Father wants every American to melt in God’s way and take down the walls.</p>
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<p>We see a certain type of freedom in American society. Is there more freedom within the Unification Church society than outside of it? [ Yes. ] Does that mean there are that many less walls? [Yes.] That is a very serious question. If you really mean this, you don’t need to worry about it. If it is an outside person’s judgment, it means they come and see there are no walls here, so they want to stay and rest their minds and bodies before they go out again. So just like Father said it should be in America, it can be within the Unification Church too. Everybody can come in and go out, come in and go out. While they do that, they come to understand, “This is what the godly way of life is. This is the godly way of thinking.” Why is this migration necessary, where people come in and feel comfortable, then go back out and others come in? It is because in the spirit world there are twelve gates of pearl. Are the twelve gates of pearl kept open or are they kept closed? They are open in such a manner that you can go in through any gate and go out through any gate. There is no set rule that you have to come in this way and go out that way. Of course in order to travel through you have to reach the hub or center where the twelve gates connect. If you don’t reach that, the only way you can exit is the same way you came in. As long as you reach the center you are free to leave from any exit. That means once you go through God’s palace you can go anywhere. This is why you are very free to travel anywhere in Heaven. Adam and Eve were originally a king and queen, weren’t they? They were to establish the royal family too.</p>
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<p>The key question of history is how to effectively take the walls of every type down. Who is anxious to take the walls down and who is anxious to keep them up? Satan doesn’t want the walls to come down He wants to build them higher and make them more sophisticated. We know why. God and the people on His side should be the ones who are anxious to take the walls down. We also know why. In order for all the walls to come down, somebody has to pay the price, which is indemnity. Therefore, the conclusion is, all the high level religious people should pay indemnity because their life’s goal is to take the walls down. The Bible mentions this many times, “Blessed are those who are peacemakers.”</p>
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<p>In a family where the husband and wife disagree very seriously and fight all the time, their children want to nullify their differences and take the wall down so they can become peaceful That child is indeed a peacemaker. A peacemaker is the one who takes the wall down. Such a person will stand as the center member of that entire family. Of course, the father is the center, but not always. If a son or daughter is a better peacemaker, a better wall-tearer down, then he or she will be the center. The only difference here is that the children have to bear the indemnity. They have to bear many times more indemnity than their parents or grandparents would pay. Do you follow? Therefore, we Unification Church members who are sitting here right now have a clear resolution and idea that within our own generation and with our own hands we have to tear down the walls. Never pass this to the next generation. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>Why did Jesus have twelve disciples? It is simple. So he could make twelve disciples into one. With Jesus sitting right in the center, any person could go through one of the twelve disciples and reach into his realm and then travel out through any gate. They could then come in any gate again and go back out any gate over and over. Then we could say “They have become one.” When we say “becoming one” this is what we mean. Extend the twelve disciples of Jesus into twelve countries and twelve religions. That would be the world by itself. Jesus’ goal was to liberate God and liberate mankind, but obviously he wasn’t successful. Even Jesus could not do this. Unlike others, we Church members see clearly what Jesus came here for. Therefore Unification Church members should achieve at least what Jesus came here to achieve. That is something very clear that we know. You should think, “Centering on my family, I will lead twelve families and bang them into unity.” Is it easy? You have already been trying. Think of your family and then think of twelve more families around you. Twelve is the minimum. You need to bring them together. If one is not even thinking of the let alone not doing it, how can God or anyone else trust him to lead twelve nations? All of us Unification Church members are boastful; bragging, “I am living for the sake of the world.” But how can you do that if twelve people cannot live harmoniously centered on you? Or if twelve families cannot live centered on you? How can such an individual live for the sake of the world? How can we not take one step but still expect to go ten steps? Some people are frustrated enough to say, “Father, this is too complicated. Why don’t we just live like everybody else and just mind our own business? If everybody lives like this, the world will be a nice place to live. Why does it have to be so complicated? Why do we live like this?” There is a good reason why we do this.</p>
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<p>Where are we headed in this world? We are certainly headed somewhere, where we want to find happiness. In the spirit world, when some visitor or guest comes to visit your family, you will give them the best bed in the house. You will give your own bed to your guest. When a black guest comes to a white family, will you say, “I don’t want to give him my best bed”? No, it doesn’t work that way. Even if a black man comes to a white family, he will be given the best bed for the night. Why is this natural and no one questions doing it? Because the bed in which I am sleeping is not actually mine. It belongs to God. Everything belongs to nature itself and God. It is God’s property.</p>
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<p>So centering on love, we go through the hub. If this person at the center is noted by others all over the world who then come storming in to visit because she is so wonderful, you’d have to do a lot of work to accommodate them. But eventually would you be a happy person or unhappy person? Happy. So each one of us should be like a gate. We let everyone come through us and go out as we please. We are the passageway. If I don’t open my door the traveler has to go around a long way to reach another entrance. Knowing this, we open our way day and night so anybody can travel through me a short distance. There are millions and millions waiting to travel. This is the reason all Unification Church members must go through rigid training by which we can accommodate twelve different races and nationalities. How do you like it? Just like Father has twelve tribes and just like there are twelve tribes in the Bible, we too should be the center of twelve different races. That is how all Unification Church members should be. Are we proud of it, do we want to do it? Would we be better off doing it? Yes or no? [Yes!]
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<p>Maybe you can accommodate 100 people, maybe you wouldn’t mind even up to 1000. but when the number endlessly increases, would you say it is too many? Or would you say, “The more the better”? Is it increasingly more difficult or increasingly easier? More difficult, it is very difficult. How do you solve that difficulty? It is very easy in principle. All we have to do is be submissive to everybody. Live for the sake of everybody else. Don’t draw any lines. That means everybody is determined not to be indebted to others. Whenever somebody does something for you, you immediately want to do something in return as if to pay them back Always live like this.</p>
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<p>We always talk about training. What are the best forms of training? The best form of training is for as many people as possible to learn to live harmoniously with each other. People from one extreme living with people of another extreme is even better. That is the best training for the sake of spirit world. When this becomes a reality you can ignore all the walls and all the national borders and you can travel in and out as you wish. What is the most ideal state of living? To live with the attitude that anybody can go through your property and travel freely in and out. Even though a thief may occasionally take something away from you, at least you have something that he can take, and he goes in and out but you just close your eyes to it. This is the way God is thinking. We cannot be that generous, but God can. Why? Because God feels that, “Though he may be a petty thief, he is still in my domain.” He is still in God’s world and he is still God’s man. He can repent and change overnight. God is thinking this way. Do you think you’ll see any form of lock in heaven? Do you think God has to carry keys?</p>
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<p>Everybody agrees with the standard of God. Compare it to America’s standard. Is America closer to God or closer to the opposite of God which is hell? [Hell.] Today when you go to a hotel, you can see very sophisticated keys. You’ll be shocked. They used to have simple locks, which some smart person could go around and open without authorization, but now security is becoming much tighter because the walls are becoming tighter. that closer to heaven or hell? The news keys are very effective but they are closer to hell! The outside world is getting worse and tighter. Does that mean that Unification Church members have an easier life or a more difficult task? Which are we experiencing? Our lives are not getting any easier. You are getting better, but it is not getting easier.</p>
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<p>If the Divine Principle and Father’s teaching about God’s ideal were practiced universally, do you think America would be a better country to live in or a worse country? [Better.] Do you like the idea of that better country? Do you think you can just sit and hope for America to be a better country some day or do we have to constantly invest and improvise to make it better? Of course, when the sun is shining no one minds working, but when it rains no one wants to go out. Which is more precious? To go out in the middle of the rain and save one soul or close your business when it is raining and only work on fine days? Which effort is more precious? [In the rain.] The more difficult and more severe the conditions, the better.</p>
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<p>We sit here but we see with our own eyes a clear vision of what the ideal world is, even though we’re not there yet. Still we can be in that kind of high level Obviously that is a very high level. Years ago, nobody even dreamed this was a practical matter, and now it is a reality with us. Think about it, did it come easily? Did it come because we are so worthy to see this day? How much work has been invested into the foundation upon which we’re sitting? How many people were brought into war and killed? How much misery has been realized to pay the price of indemnity for the general level to come up as high as we are sitting today! It is all meant for “me”, not us, but “me”, so that each of us sit in that privileged high position. Why? Because all the work that has been done in the past, present end future of history’s progress is for my liberation. For one man to be liberated hundreds, thousands and millions have had to literally pay with their lives. There was bloodshed through wars and religious dedication. Make no mistake about this. God has been clearly going in this direction and doing this. It is God’s will to put every single person, with no difference, into the same position as God Himself. That is God’s wish always.</p>
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<p>Among us who are gathered here, those who have confidence that they will never die, raise your hands. [No one.] We live here because we were born. We didn’t plan fir it, nobody planned. Make no mistake about this. Think about it. You happened to be born in an American family, so you are American. That is all. That person is never any better than someone who is born in the worst place in the world. And our way of life is certainly not better than other peoples’. We wake up and eat three meals a day, work, sleep, get married, have children and go to spirit world.</p>
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<p>Some people want for nothing. They are millionaires born into good, highly respected families. They never have to do anything to make a living. They live lavishly and arrogantly trying to protect their position. They go to spirit world. Others work, breaking their backs, but always wanting the ideal world and always wanting to get near God. All throughout life they are miserable by any standard, but that person is better off in spirit world. Those are the ones who always pray. They have to because they are wanting so much, but by wanting so much, they come to discover a deeper God. Every day is a prayer.</p>
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<p>Wait and see, in spirit world you will realize, “This world is different from the world I left.” What will be the difference? Here on earth we always pay the price of indemnity and work miserably searching for God and searching for the ideal. Then you go to spins world. Once you reach that world, you are no longer miserable. You can travel all the domain of God freely. No guard can stop you, you can pass freely. However, those who lived for their own sake, all of a sudden find themselves stopped everywhere. They cannot go anywhere in the spirit world. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>Historical debt means we owe something to history, to the many historical happenings and to people. As a result of them, we sit here in such an elevated position today. So our goal in life is at least try to pay back the historical debt you incurred. You have a debt, your bank account is on the debit side. We have to pay it back.</p>
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<p>Today, truly we have come to the world level. Whether it is external in the political area, or internal l like religion, everything is complicated and in chaos. Who is going to rearrange and solve this situation? What is the Unification Church? What are the people to do? From the worldwide perspective, Reverend Moon becomes more and more famous. More people are learning about him. It has become almost common knowledge among intellectuals and to everyone else that Reverend Moon is the one who worked all his life to destroy the walls of communism. Today we see no trace of the walls of communism. this is owing to whom? Did it happen automatically? Nothing happens automatically. It was Reverend Moon who took down the walls of communism. This is a historical fact. Father fought so fiercely against communism. Why? To destroy them? No, to save the people under communism. After Reverend Moon met Gorbachev, it was a mere eighteen months before communism came to a complete end. It is a short transition compared to the years of historical turmoil, beforehand. Now that Reverend Moon met Kim Il Sung, won’t it be interesting to see how long it win take before North Korea disintegrates? Can you imagine it?</p>
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<p>What is Father thinking about all the time? How to effectively educate the youth of North Korea and mainland China. We have to educate them just as we have educated here. Father already educated a great number of Russian students. Those very sons and daughters of the highest officials of what used to be the communist regime regard Reverend Moon as higher and greater than their own parents. Spiritually, they are in a higher plane than some or most of us. Isn’t that amazing? It is alarming</p>
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<p>Dispensationally, the second generation is closer to Father’s side. Kim Il Sung’s position is the worst imaginable, but what about his offspring? Do you think Kim’s son is closer to or farther away from Reverend Moon? He has to be closer, not farther. The one who invited Father to North Korea was Kim Jong I1, the son of Kim Il Sung. It was not Kim Il Sung who invited Father to their country. December 25th, Christmas of 1991 was a very significant day. it was the day the Soviet Union was phased out and on the same day Kim Jong Il, the son of Kim Il Sung, took charge North Korea. So when North Korea and Father become one there is no major conflict anymore and certainly no one here on earth can make any organized effort to kill him or hurt Father like North Korea did in the past.</p>
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<p>We have headwing thought. Centering on the head, there is the right wing which denotes the democratic world and left wing, the communist world. The legs represent the laborers and workers. The right hand and left hand is the right wing and left wing. Now the head has come to exist. Centering on the head, right and left will merge into one. Where is headwing headed? Vertically, directly towards God. So, headwing is Godism. Godism means vertical and right and left wing together are horizontal. The horizontal era has ended and the vertical era is beginning. Human history had been heading towards hell but now it has turned around and is headed back to God. What was left is right and what was on the right side is now left side. You may call it ironic, but look at the fantastic things now happening. Those who were under communism, the Russian students, have been trained by Father in the Divine Principle. They have gained so much confidence that now they are inviting American students from Ivy League schools to Russia and they are teaching the Americans about God and the Divine Principle! Can you imagine? America has always been the country propagating God and the right wing, but now they are learning the A,B,C’s of God from the Russian students. In Korea, the cows have rings through their noses, which makes it easy to lead them. Americans always thought they were the ones leading the cow, but all of a sudden the Russians are leading the cow by nose. One day you will wake up and find this is true. What will you do? Americans will look around in disbelief and ask, “What happened? I thought I had the ring in my hand!”</p>
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<p>It is true that Reverend Moon came to America physically, but he never worked for America’s sake alone. It is clear now that Father worked for the sake of the world, especially the major opposing area of Russia. The center stays in one direction but it goes around. When the center turns around, what was on the left is now on the right and what was on the right is left. This happens all the time. Father is not dumb. All during his incredible fight against unrighteousness in America, Father always extended part of his work and energy behind the iron and bamboo curtains. Father prepared even during the incredible difficult times. Father has representation in almost all the countries, of course some were underground. Now they are no more underground. Unification Church members like us are found all over the world. Did that idea ever occur to you, that this is happening all over the world?</p>
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<p>Who will be the true master or owner of America? That is the question of the future. America today should be reminded that they owe a lot of blood to the Indians who were the original owners of this land. Reverend Moon is not dumb, he knows who his cousin is. The Indians are a similar race, like cousins to the Oriental race. Reverend Moon never tried to retaliate against America. He tried to put everything he had into America. Even when America turned enemy to him, Reverend Moon still did not change his mind. History revolves, it does not only go in one direction only. It goes around Koreans are very much up to focus now aren’t they? Ten, twenty or thirty years ago they were still far behind, but now even in America a lot of people pay attention to Koreans. Sometimes we see clashes between blacks and Koreans. Inevitably the outcome will be better relations.</p>
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<p>The Japanese are diligently searching Wall Street and looking for something to buy. Americans cannot dismiss Japan lightly. This is history is inevitable course now. Western civilization is at its height so now the world is turning to the east again. The Pacific era is coming about now. Will Western people understand Eastern people or will Eastern people understand and digest Western people? Digesting means to understand and embrace and make good of the relationship. If there are 3.2 billion Asians and 850 million whites, who will be taken more seriously by God? The larger number of course because to God’s eve every life is equal. Until as recently as only a few decades ago, Asian people were all down and Western people were up. But in a mere few years the situation has changed significantly. Can America say, “We are going in the wrong direction, let us go back”? Not even America can do that. This is the tide of time and you cannot reverse the tide. We have to understand why so many Orientals are coming to America, more than at any other time in the past. They are exerting great influence over America whether Americans like it or not. God is allowing this to happen, not for the Orient to invade the West as the West may think (because they did that to the East). Eastern people must come and help this country get better. The time is coming soon for America to realize the gravity of the situation and accept Oriental influence. Then, will they just welcome any Japanese, Koreans or Chinese? No, only Unification Church, because Unification Church has international marriage. They are Asians but they are married to Westerners. Their children are certainly a fair and impartial entity. We have seen the limitations of Western people, but Western people in the Unification Church are different. They are better.</p>
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<p>Why are these historical things happening? Where are we destined to arrive? We are very clearly and unmistakably destined to the liberation of the individual. Isn’t it true that Orientals know about the west almost entirely, 100 percent, whereas Western people do not understand the Orient so much? Who will be the natural leader? The one who understands everything becomes the natural leader. That’s true. How many Americans can speak Koreans and Japanese? Very few but all Koreans and Japanese speak English do not be endlessly proud of a certain culture. A certain culture will be challenged by other elements and our whole purpose is to bring about an even better culture. This is where history is going. The only one who can harmonize the extremes of East and West both spiritually and physically is Reverend Moon. This is not just one man’s assertion or claim. It is the result of his work which has been shown over tens of years now. The Divine Principle is perfectly capable of understanding and absorbing all the existing Oriental thought let alone Christian thought. Nobody has ever imagined this, but look what Reverend Moon is doing. Oriental people are hermits, very exclusive to Confucianism. They never speak to Buddhists because there is nothing much they have in common. There is so much difference. Then there is Hinduism and Islam. Father brought them over here and taught them Divine Principle. Father also brought the Buddhists to Divine Principle. For the first time Confucionists too can see the common point. Father received a very interesting yet very serious report about the Muslim workshop yesterday. When these governments send their representatives here for workshop, they do not send them for fun. They are serious; they mean business. They are trying to find a way. Two of the elite group in forty day training now got really exhausted and decided they wanted to go home. So they sent a telegram to the Royal home office in Jordan, their own country, saying, “We want to come back before the forty days ends.” They received a reply that said, “If you want to do that, you pay you own fare. And, when you come back be ready to give up your present position.” Yesterday Reverend Kirn reported this to Father. This is how serious they are about the outcome of Father’s teaching them. Father has done this many times before so they know what to expect. People can be changed.</p>
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<p>Father created the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace in August as the internal organization. The World Federation for World Peace is the external way. They are in the position of mind and body in relationship. One group was organized based on political people and the other group was based on internally religious people, not just Christian denominations but all major disciplines. In effect this is taking the wall down. The wall has already come down very much. The utmost goal of the Religious Federation for World Peace is to adopt a common scripture from the essence of Buddhist teaching, Christian teaching and all major religions. They formed a committee to find the common denominators that they all believe in. What a large step in history! Already sixty countries are involved. That is a majority of influential countries. Twelve major denominations of religions are involved The only other way for them to accomplish unity would be a bloody fight but Father brought them up and now they are seeing the light peacefully. The world knows Reverend Moon was the one who invested over fifteen years to raise the denominations up. Everyone thought this was reckless. Many experts wondered what he was doing but Father did it. The people from the Islamic realm and the Jewish realm can never meet each other. The’ have had no common ground up to now, but when Reverend Moon steps in then they can begin to talk. Even the scholars of these two countries can never meet each other on their own and come to significant achievements, but through Father they can.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is an entity that Muslims, Jews, even those who used to be the communists can come to. Americans can come in. Anybody can come into the Unification Church and anybody can leave as they please. And when they leave they are better than when they arrived. We have no walls. When any of us go to England or Germany and say, “I am from New York” everybody will embrace you and say, “Oh, please stay.”</p>
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<p>So many walls are found everywhere, but numerous walls are now down. Who made the major effort? No one but Reverend Moon. This fact is recognized all over the world. Of course Reverend Moon was not completely alone. Alone, he never could have accomplished this. God was always right behind Reverend Moon. From this time on where is the world going to go? Does anybody know? That is the question. Only the person who has done the past work can do the future work too and that is Reverend Moon. Imagine, this big transition took place while the world fiercely opposed Reverend Moon’s path, yet Reverend Moon achieved this. Now the world is just about ready to accept him, welcome him and listen to him. Once they start to listen, how quickly progress can take place.</p>
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<p>It was only 1987, four years ago, that Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung got together and talked seriously about how to get rid of Reverend Moon. They thought Father was the only block in their efforts to communize the whole world. So they called on twenty four Red Army members. One of them was caught on the New Jersey turnpike quite by accident. He had a bomb so he was arrested and interrogated and he said he came to kill Reverend Moon. Other people were skill at large. His case is still pending; he didn’t receive a sentence yet. This was only four years ago, but amidst all this Father went by himself to Moscow to meet Gorbachev, the very person who was serious to eliminate him. How can all this happen? Because Father knows where history is going. Father never said, “Oh I am very glad you invited me.” Father went there and spoke his mind saying, “If you continue to do this you are going to perish.” It was the same when Father went to North Korea. He told Kim Il Sung, “Give up your intention of communizing this world and send every person under you to me so I can educate them. I can make your work easier.” Father did say that to Kim Il Sung. As you know, Kim Il Sung is formidable, he can do anything. but what could he say? He just laughed diplomatically to Father and didn’t mind. Father did say that.</p>
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<p>Father was bold because he knew what he was doing. It was not just the first or second time. What happened in America? When America indicted Reverend Moon they did not do it because he did a seriously wrong thing. They indicted him to discourage him from coming into this country. They thought he wouldn’t bother coming back. But is that what Father did? No, he had to do the work he was destined to do and walked, literally by his own feet, into prison in America just like in Moscow and Pyongyang. it’s the call of duty, the call of God, Father’s vocation. Father has always trod the straight path. That is why God is able to help him Father has always told us to travel straight. Father said we must take the statue of Lenin down before Russia can live again and it all happened. Wherever Reverend Moon and the Unification Church go, they gulp the walls up. We are the wall eaters!</p>
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<p>Up until a decade ago, each religion thought that with the help of God, they could accomplish their own goals. But now everybody is seeing straight, “Nobody can do it, not me either.” Only Reverend Moon is in the position to bring all the religions into one. Major religious leaders are saying that.</p>
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<p>The realm of liberation is in sight and expanding. We can see it becoming more and more visible. What about God’s liberation? When we see our liberation, we will also see the liberation day of God and Father. Until that time Father will not be liberated. What about us? We have to work for that day. So what is your conclusion? Don’t even think about anything else but God and True Parents. That is all that matters to you. Nothing else actually matters.</p>
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<p>Whose achievements are these historical accomplishments? Did Reverend Moon do it or did God? Each had to fulfill the right role. If Reverend Moon didn’t know the Divine Principle, which God could not teach him, could God have helped him? No, it would have been unprincipled. We must understand \the Divine Principle and know how important it is. We are not serious enough. Are you studying Divine Principle very hard? Read the Principle and avail yourself to be seriously moved. Shed tears in spite of yourself and then God will visit you. The Unification church takes tradition seriously. The Unification Church also talks about education and takes it very seriously. Action is third. After being educated you must carry it out.</p>
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<p>What is the tradition of Unification Church? The tradition of Unification Church is Divine Principle. Of course, the Divine principle book itself is not our tradition, the tradition is represented by Divine that is everything that is behind the Divine Principal book, which is heart.</p>
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<p>We now come to realize the historical debt we have incurred and all the indemnity directly paid by Father. Because of that incredible amount of debt and the price that has been paid, we now see the realization of liberation at hand. Therefore at this juncture we have to be able to see what is ahead of us. What should I do? What is my goal as we head toward this final goal? This is what we have to think about. What is Father’s age today? Seventy two. In eight years it will be the year 2000. Father will be eighty. Kim I1 Sung met Father when he was eighty. And Kim Il Sung opened up his heart and allowed his feelings to flow to Father.</p>
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<p>There is a definite road ahead which Father and all of us must trod upon toward the year 2000. It is not vague or conceptual. There is a list of many things Father has to do and we have to do. We all know Korea is a unique country. Kim I1 Sung has reigned as the satanic second coming in North Korea, as king. In the south there is God’s side second coming. There has been no time in history when these two have been arranged in such a direct confrontation. Kim says he is a Father, but we know our parents are in the south. There are two parents for mankind now, one in Cain’s position and one in Abel’s. But Cain and Abel’s purpose for being is to become one.</p>
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<p>In this case the twins struggled in the womb and Cain and Abel recovered elder sonship. When this day comes, this is an unmistakable sign of the end of days.</p>
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<p>Imagine what America will experience in the eight years to come. We’re not talking about 800 years, but eight years from now. The communist countries which seem to be quite helpless still have their direction determined in a certain way. What about America? Its major problem today is the economic problem. Usually an economic problem would be solved in two or three years. The oversimplified thing for Russia to do is disband the urban areas and ruralize, letting everyone go and farm their immense land. [if they dedicated everything to agriculture nobody would starve. It would bring an economic recovery. By far the most important aspect is the spiritual side; their value system. They have to fill their heads with something. They have to be educated with some kind of content just like Orientals have been educated by Confucianism, which worked pretty good so far. What are the Russians going to fill their heads with? Confucianism? Certainly not! Reverend Moon’s teaching alone.</p>
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<p>People will look around and select the best understanding. They are now deciding to study Godism, Reverend Moon’s thought. Here in America, since people literally have a thousand things going on in their head at the same time, they have failed to make classifications, so they say the Unification Church is only one teaching among many. There are so many denominations here. They treat Unification Church as just one of literally hundreds of denominations. They have failed to see the meaning of it. In Russia, once they decide which direction they will go, all they have to do is push one button and everybody will go that way. To work the same way here in America you would have to have hundreds and thousands of buttons. And they wouldn’t work either!</p>
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<p>This is why God is now helping the Christians to go beyond the church and discourage attendance. The result is when you walk into a church there are only a few people there and they are much older. But who is that Christian? The Christian that God put everything into. Mankind shed so much blood for the sake of the rise of Christianity, but that very precious heritage is not fulfilling its function today. God wants to break it down and salvage it. That way more people will benefit from the new truth That is what is happening today, so there is a lot of work we have to do in the future.</p>
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<p>You heard about the USA revival meetings, didn’t you? Father said they need to resurrect America, “revival” by itself is no good. USA means United To Serve. Why does Father do so many things, from major tasks, medium tasks to little tasks in every detail?? Father sees that if he does not provide a path then America has no way to go. There is no other way to save America so Father allowed USA to take place. How disappointing it is for America, out of all the countries that God created, to become helpless in the face of communist youth and be taught about God by them. There is nothing but Divine Principle to save American young people.</p>
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<p>We need a revolution, but not one with tanks and artillery. The only way to save this country is to“ revolutionize the concept of sex and do away with promiscuity. We need to get rid of drugs and the immoral family. If you study modern history you would know about the Opium War. The English brought a lot of opium to China to anesthetize the country. Now, they are reaping the result of their actions. They are receiving spiritual retaliation. Is Reverend Moon saying, “Good for you, you deserve to perish”? To the contrary Reverend Moon has undertaken the impossible task of saving America from its drug war. Many of you used drugs, didn’t you? Do you still use drugs? Certainly not. President Bush declared a war against drugs but now he admits he didn’t win that war. If Bush was humble enough to say to Reverend Moon, “I can’t do it, please help me” Reverend Moon already would have been successful in accomplishing this. Father told him that a long time ago. It is now a part of history. Bush thought that by working with Reverend Moon he would perish. On the contrary he would have been saved. Father is not the one who causes anyone to perish.</p>
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<p>Our tradition is the Divine Principle. Knowledge is power. We must have Divine Principle knowledge or else we have no ability to lead anybody or do anything. Certainly we would not be able to rise up in position without it. Father has been working so hard, even breaking his back God has been doing the same. For whom? For us, for everybody. That is how much we have a historical debt. Today we inherited so much invisible debt. Father is just reminding us. When we know the will of God and our call of duty, we cannot stay idle. There are so many people we have to save, and feed and worry about. Even the remote countries of Africa, where the situation is very bad, we need to worry about them too. Twenty million people are starving. Sixty thousand die of hunger every day. You can see it on television. God feels a deep agony from this. God’s sympathy and enthusiasm towards America have turned into anger. He thinks, “I did not bless this country so your stomach could get big. The reason I blessed America is so America can feed and take care of the world.” That is what God would say. Do you agree? We see a lot of waste and think nothing of it. People have had plenty all their life so they feel no sense of remorse or guilt.</p>
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<p>Isn’t it part of our thinking as Unification Church members to regard others as brothers and sisters and to see everyone as fellow human beings with the same fate? We see each other as eventually having the same root and the same nation, the same everything. We see each other as a family that spreads all throughout we world. Isn’t this the thought of our movement? If we become serious about that do you think God will help us or not? Will He just leave us alone? He will help us if we become serious. Father has told us over and over that because he had this thought and determination in every inch of his being, ever since he took up this mission, no matter how difficult the path became he never faltered. He never failed. God always came to help. Likewise, if we inherit this thought, as children inherit their parents’ thought, and if we work and think like Father, then God will also never fail to come and help us. Our work will prosper. We have to experience <em>shim jung segye</em> or the heartistic world. The only way we can reach the goal of a heartistic world is by following Father’s path. There is no other way. That is also God’s path. We cannot imagine how many buckets of tears Father has shed to reach this point or how painful and spiritually agonizing it was because he had to bear so much loss. That we did not know this so clearly means we never bore our burden. We didn’t know it, let alone did we bear Father’s burden as if it were our own. This goes for all members whether they be long time members or even older Korean members. Father bore the burden by himself up until this moment. Should that continue? That is the question.</p>
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<p>What is wrong with us? We have gone over most of the persecution. Now Father has come to the peak. Should he start flying now or should he go back the way he came? [He should fly.] Yes, he should fly, not walk, back to the east. This is what Father has to do. When he does that the center point of the future will be determined. The whole world will start moving when Father returns to the east.</p>
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<p>Father is well known to the world now. The world recognizes Father’s achievements and his thought. What about Unification Church members? Father will be recognized and welcomed, but what about you? Can Unification Church members go anywhere and hear people say, “Oh, he is like God”? Have we become like that? Because Father has come to the focus of attention, people all over the world are beginning to study his actions and his teachings. Everyone is researching Reverend Moon. Father was really surprised when he went to North Korea. He learned that the communist staff members had read at least 200 books about Reverend Moon. They have such thorough knowledge. Most Americans never even read one or two. What about we, Unification Church members? How many volumes of Fathers words have we read? Are we better or are we not any better than North Korean people?</p>
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<p>They are caught now. Like us, like any human being, the more they read, they will be moved. They decided to themselves, “this is it.” That is their conclusion. Once they arrive at this conclusion, will they ever listen to anybody else? When Father went to North Korea this time, in a mere five or seven days the government made a brand new road to Father’s old house where he was born. They made a new lawn at Father’s parents’ tomb. There were brand new tombstones there. And Kim Il Sung said he is going to preserve Father’s area forever. Why would he do this? Because they studied who Father is and what he does.</p>
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<p>Does any one enthusiastic member of the American CIA study about Father so laboriously to be able to decide whether Reverend Moon is a good person or bad person? KGB members said as early as eight years ago, they were concluding that the Unification Church and Reverend Moon were significant. They decided to invite Reverend Moon to Moscow then, it wasn’t an overnight decision. Even today America is opposing Father with no good reason. They cannot state any reason for their opposition, they just do it. There is no such thing as “just opposing!” Not even God can do this. Why does Father say this? Because we in the Unification Church are America. God has no problem accepting Unification Church members as America even though America does not respond.</p>
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<p>Now we are in the days of liberation. We live in the realm of liberation, but our country is not liberated. The schedule is already there, but it is not happening. Are you going to abandon the ship of America or are you going to jump in and save America? You have to decide one way or the other, there are no two ways about it. When that salvation happens, Father will no longer be in America. Father will be back in the east. Father has to go to the east. All of us too, will go to our hometowns. Father must go to his hometown too. Father already told all of us to go to our hometown and then Father went to his. On the Ist of September, 1991, in Korea, Father proclaimed to the whole world that everybody should go to their hometown. In a mere ninety days Father went to his own hometown on the 30th of November, 1991. The number nine is satanic, but Father took it. It was interesting that someone prophesied Father would meet Kim Il Sung on a certain day. They figured the day like this. The name Kim, of Kim Il Sung, is written in Chinese characters with eight strokes. It takes four strokes and Sung takes six strokes to write. Eight plus four equals twelve which is December and six, December sixth. In Korean writing there is a mystical quality. It always works. Someone made this prediction.</p>
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<p>Kim Il Sung means golden day perfection. That means Adam and Eve’s perfection. Even these small things are not significant. Like many major works in Gods dispensation, especially during this time Father was in North Korea, many coincidences occurred. Only we know they are not just coincidence.</p>
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<p>So much has been invested for the sake of liberating “me”. So my liberation is that important and valuable. Much effort was made for each one or you. Don’t take this lightly. Think about that. When you enter Harvard on a scholarship you are expected to work seriously. It is the same with you. You are expected to return so much to society. Historically each one of us is sitting in a position of great indebtedness. So much investment has been made by mankind and God for the sake of “me”. “Me” is then expected to do a lot of things for society in return. Father knows this, therefore Father has protected us. He never let evil penetrate us. Father always became a bullet-proof shield against evil When evil attacked, it didn’t attack Unification Church members, it always attacked Father. For decades Father took all the arrows and all the bullets. In this time of liberation of each self, Father took the burden upon himself and came into this world to protect all the people. The second realm of liberation embraces all humankind living on the face of the earth All this was done by Father himself.</p>
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<p>What about after liberation? Liberation is not the end of it. Once you are liberated, you have to maintain it. So Father must take the responsibility and make a plan of protection after liberation. Liberation is one job, but after than, protecting the liberated is another job. Do you understand? We must understand that after liberating this country and liberating ourselves, then Father has to go back to the east and form a second liberation realm to maintain this liberation. We must understand and inherit his burden.</p>
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<p>In the outside world, the well-meaning Christians especially are really horrified now because they feel the day of judgment is near. They feel that the worthy will be uplifted to heaven. They have insecure days now. But we Unification Church members don’t worry. We know somebody will take responsibility for me so we don’t even worry about it. However, sometimes we don’t make any decisions. That is wrong. We shouldn’t worry, but we should take responsibility for the rest of America and mankind.</p>
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<p>Liberation takes place and then our concern is how to secure the second realm of liberation. According to how much you achieve this is yours to keep. This is your realm of activity. Father has to work for the second realm of liberation in the next eight years to come. Like Father, we too must create this realm of second liberation. That means we have to liberate a lot of people and maintain it. How much we can do that will be reflected in spirit world. Whenever we walk, breathe or eat a meal we should never forget how much has been invested in us. Therefore we have to realize our responsibility to return something back to the source of that investment. We should never go to spirit world keeping that debt. We should pay it back Getting into Harvard is a joyous occasion, but after graduating then a student is expected to do so much good for the country. It is the same with us; there is an obligation. Somehow we in the Unification Church have been selected. We come to occupy that precious foundation where so much investment has been made. But just like Harvard doctorate graduates we are expected that we will return this to the world. This will be a source of judgment to us Therefore where, ever Father went, he never complained, no matte how difficult things were. To whom can Father complain, except to himself? Father had that kind of resolve. Then what happened? God said, “Yes you are right” and for the first time God could help Father. And we see things are happening.</p>
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<p>We should start thinking now, “Many, many people should come in and out of me to save themselves and make their own foundation.” We must allow ourselves to exist that way. That is a liberated self.</p>
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<p>There are brothers and sisters from ten different countries living at East Garden. Not one time has a loud voice been raised at East Garden. Father and Mother never even once scolded or gave strong advice to any brother or sister. Father never scolds, but why is he viewed with such awe? Why do they revere Father and not come to him casually? Why are they sort of cautious, even afraid to come to Father easily? Because they have a conscience which knows that what Father does is world level work. Each mind realizes that. Our realm of work at best is local, but Father’s realm of work is worldwide. Therefore everyone is afraid of coming to Father to speak because they know he is on a different level. In East Garden Father may be doing a certain thing physically, but what he is doing actually concerns world matters. All things Father taught this morning are the result of what Father has achieved over many years in the past. Nobody can deny the result of our work. Heaven and earth must recognize it and no one can change it. Father expects that to happen within us. Do your work so no one can touch your work.</p>
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<p>Even though now there is only a handful of us here, if Fathers message were broadcast everywhere and people knew it would be spoken again here on a certain date, there would be a huge crowd gathered. History is moving in that direction. When a crowd of people gathers here, what Father spoke here will be realized at that time. Think about that. Sometimes we say, “Oh today is Sunday again!” We should not. if we become lenient like that, we don’t deserve what we have. What happens if we stop coming here or if we lose our seriousness or forget our indebted position? Then somebody else will move in and steal that position from us. Maybe even our own enemy. The enemy means those who opposed us and bothered us, namely Christian church people.</p>
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<p>Father went to Kim Il Sung and shook hands and they both agreed to become brothers with each other. Premiere Kim Il Sung is reported to have boasted about it to some visitors. We are living in the kind of time when enemies can meet each other and become close. If your enemy comes to find out what is going on and he finds tremendous value, and he also finds out that you don’t realize that value, he will take it away from you. Now the Japanese have come to America and they have found gold here. Americans didn’t think they had gold, so the Japanese took a lot of it, didn’t they? It’s the same thing. They worked hard for it because they realized the value. We must be the same. We must truly work hard once we realize the value, or someone will come and take that value away from us.</p>
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<p>Can you quantify the amount of debt we have? One way to quantify it is to think that even if we pay all our life, we would still have difficulty paying back our debt. We must work all our life to pay back our debts. Are we going to truly work hard whether anybody sees us or not? [Yes.] First, we have to take responsibility for our own country, America. And since America’s responsibility is taking care of the world, we have to take care of the world too.</p>
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<p>Let us take it easy from now on and let’s wine and dine! [Laughter] Why did Father speak in such a fashion? Because today is the last Sunday of the year. It is the year end, so at least at this serious time we have to brace ourselves to live up to the standard. For at least that one day we go into 1992 so that God can recognize us. We are about to fly over this promising year of 1992. We have to resolve many things. Isn’t this true? We don’t want to be stragglers left behind. Those who truly determine, this moment, that in 1992 “I will become a new person”, raise your hands!</p>
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<p>Father’s title today is, <em>Our Mission During the Time of World Transition.</em> Through the study of history we learn that no matter how big this world may be, things always start from one person. One man can influence the zig zag course of history with the direction he maintains and the ideas he lives by. What are the elements which make the most difference in the direction of a mans life? His way of thinking and his faith. He doesn’t know about the future so he has to go by faith. Many times he is torn between the two. Which perspective should he use to maintain his direction? Should he choose a human perspective (thought) or God’s perspective (faith)?</p>
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<p>We find human level thought mainly expressed through politics. Political ideas and religious ideas have been the two types of thought steering mankind. In the medieval age political and religious thought merged for a time but that value system crumbled and gave rise to humanism. Still later humanism gave rise to materialism. Since then these conflicting thoughts have influenced people.</p>
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<p>When spiritualism or God centered thought crumbled it changed the quality of the world’s ways. We saw the rise of Protestantism which went against Catholicism, which was supposed to be the orthodox faith. History witnessed how the Protestants disobeyed and the two fought each other. Eventually the Protestants came to America. America was the first independent country to be centered on Protestantism. Since then the presidents have represented that religion. Kennedy was the first Catholic president. Centered on Protestantism God gave America and its presidents the initiative to unify the country under that banner and spread it throughout the world. America was equipped and prepared by God to unite the world centered on this one ideal of Protestantism. America was built up and God expected it to do well just as He expected Catholicism to do well in medieval times. But as Catholicism failed then, Protestantism failed here in America. This was the situation America was in right after World War II in 1945.</p>
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<p>America, with its enormous background should have absorbed the religious thought of the Orient, but America simply didn’t have the religious content to do that. The Unification Church came into being with the ability to accomplish what America was unable to do. We can imagine what would have happened if the two had united together. But, history saw America go against the Unification Church so the Unification Church had to maintain its independence and go its way alone, maintaining itself while fighting all the antagonisms up to this point.</p>
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<p>The Christian cultural realm must inevitably go back to the east. Why? Christianity started from Asia and then went in the direction of the east. It later came to America and created a spiritual foundation. Christianity doesn’t have the physical foundation because it lost Jesus and his body. To restore this, Christianity must restore a physical foundation and that is why it must return to the east. Who makes that connection? According to the law of indemnity, who is the one that separated it in the first place? It was the first Israelites, those who were on God’s side. Therefore, the second Israel which is Christendom is expected to indemnify that failure and bring the spiritual and the physical foundations into unification. The first Israel separated from Jesus’ body, so the second Israel has to combine into one with Jesus’ body in the spiritual world. That was the mission of Christianity. Christianity must re-indemnify this realm of re-unification which includes indemnifying the separation of Jesus’ body and spirit. This process includes digesting the religions of the east, namely Buddhism, and so forth. But Christianity could not do this. They were to prepare for the coming of the second advent, but when they failed who was the baton handed to? It was given to the Lord of the Second Advent who himself had to prepare his own way because of this failure.</p>
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<p>At that time what was it that Reverend Moon must do? It was the very time in which Christianity had the opportunity to be brought into unification. That was the seven year period after World War II between 1945 and 1952. The unification realm could have been accomplished by the third Israelites on the world wide level, not by east or west alone. But that did not come about.</p>
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<p>After forty years lapsed (1945 to 1985) we are back to a significant seven year period (1985 to 1992) for re-indemnification. We are in 1991 so we have one year to go. The Unification Church is the place this very mission needs to be accomplished. This is the will and expectation of God. There is hardly any good foundation. Reverend Moon who has not been helped, only opposed and even persecuted has to work out the way to accomplish this goal which God expects. This is something God has been trying to do for 4000 years since the time of Jacob. The Israelites beginning was 4000 years ago. Starting from the Israelites’ individual level to family, clan and nation, God wanted to unify the Israelite country. God sent Jesus 2000 years later and expected him to digest even the Roman Empire. Jesus very well could have done this. God expected him to and made all the preparation for it.</p>
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<p>Jesus did not accomplish this though and when he died his foundation was lost. Christianity should have traveled to the Asian area at that time, but it did not. Therefore it traveled in the eastern direction which brought it to the western country of America. In Jesus’ time, everything was prepared. The goal was not impossible. God had already created the highly developed realm of Oriental religion; Buddhism, Hinduism and the like were spiritually already very close to being united. But it wasn’t fully accomplished. The mission failed and it had to travel the reverse way. Its the reverse way in every count. For the individual it is the reverse way, as well as for the family, clan and nation.</p>
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<p>Christianity continued to be opposed and martyred and Christians suffered to indemnify its failure. When it reached America it became independent for the first time. This was the first country for the second Israelites. Even though Christianity represents the second Israelites they still couldn’t combine both spirit and body. They had mostly a spiritual foundation with no bodily foundation. In Jesus’ time the physical foundation was lost in Asia. In this time we will go back and accomplish that unification in Asia. Now we must accomplish what Jesus was supposed to do and combine the spiritual and physical foundation.</p>
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<p>This is not something which we can only talk about and reconcile. It is something we must inevitably go and achieve. This is our fate. No matter how advanced and successful Christianity may be, unless it absorbs the physical foundation on top of its spiritual foundation, it has no goal. It cannot go forward.</p>
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<p>Because our age falls in this specific realm of time, we live in the Pacific cultural realm. Why Pacific? Because the origin of history centering on Jesus took place here. It is an inevitable conclusion that Christianity must face the east and that is the reason the east has opened.</p>
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<p>When Christians become one with Reverend Moon they will have more than enough content to accomplish their God-expected mission. The unification of the spiritual realm and the physical realm will be achieved. Not much effort will be needed for them to become one under Christianity. Automatically they will be fused and the goal will be accomplished. Because the spiritual and physical foundation did not come together in the past, the world has been blocked on every level from individual all the way up. What does that mean? That means Reverend Moon had to re-indemnify the entire 4000 years of history which was not accomplished here. How can an individual live for 4000 years to do this? He had to indemnify the 4000 years of accumulated failure on the individual, family, clan, race levels, up to the world level in a mere forty years because a man cannot live for 4000 years, not even 400 years.</p>
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<p>Based on a religious foundation the Unification Church is countering the political realm as well. As Father mentioned earlier there are two sides, the political world which is ideological and the religious side, which Father has to counter with. What does that mean? He has to use religion to deal properly with the world of politics. Through the PWPA, the Summit Club and with the help of the media world, Father has been dealing with the political side of things. With the establishment of the Federation for World Peace on August 28th in Korea our movement reached its culmination. The Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace was accomplished one day earlier on August 27th.</p>
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<p>As a result of that, nobody can undermine or think little of Reverend Moons foundation today. All advanced nations including America, Russia, Japan, China and even the vast expanse of communist countries, do not know which direction they should head in. In the past they knew, but now they do not, why is this? Because now history is not continuing in the fallen realm. In other words, from now on history is not for the fallen world, but the restored world where only Adam can go. The archangel side is always limited, it cannot go perfected Adam’s way. Until now Satan controlled love. Now, a different day is coming centering on Adam. The future of the world is connected to the perfection of Adam’s realm. You have to know this point clearly.</p>
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<p>So the characteristics of this time include the established nations going down. They cannot continue to prosper in the same way they were before. Now America is experiencing a lot of difficulty and is coming down. Germany is no exception. In the case of Russia, it literally came down. It is very interesting. Father expected everything to be taken care of by the end of November and it happened just as expected. Now we have only one year left until the end of the seventh year, 1992.</p>
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<p>The major task was done within three days. Father, centering on himself with mind and body in unity has opened the way and now the world is coming into one. After this is accomplished no one can effectively block the path of the Unification Church. They cannot oppose and stop the Unification Church anymore. There was a proclamation of tribal messiahship, the great movement to the hometown on the first of September, 1991. With this distinct change of time, Unification Church members need to go bravely and boldly forward. Nothing will be in our way. The time has changed. We go forward and they will retreat. What is a tribal messiah? [Father draws on the board.] Here is a tree, this is the earth and these are the roots of the tree. Father’s path and condition is to win over the individual victory and make it as a condition for the victory on the family foundation, the clan foundation, the national foundation and the world. Here is the right wing and here is the left. The right and left fought for a long time. Who made peace between the two? By establishing the vertical standard, the fighting between the two can be reconciled. Father himself fought personally to win over these foundations. He has been growing these foundations as the base to make peace between the right and the left.</p>
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<p>Why did Father come to America? [Drawing again.] This is America and this is the right wing realm. Was there even one person in America who welcomed and supported Father? All opposed him. It was the same way with the left wing, communism. They even got together and opposed him. What about the religious realm? Was there even one person in that realm who welcomed Father in this country or anywhere in the world? Even Korea opposed Father. Why? You can look at it like this. Korea heard the world opposed Reverend Moon and Korea is a country which follows the world. All these countries opposed Father to an extreme degree. All by himself, Reverend Moon went this way. What about Unification Church members? Did we really help Father? Most of the time Unification Church members did not know where they were or what they were doing. Father personally made all the foundation that has been accomplished today.</p>
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<p>Look at the Washington Times. No one in America helped to create that. Without Father’s guidance for the Washington Times, this country couldn’t have found a direction. Literally nine hundred million to one billion dollars has been spent to activate and run the Washington Times. Did we make any part of this money and give it to Father, saying, “Father, please use this to continue the Washington Times”? The world thinks it is true that Reverend Moon really exploited young Americans by making them go out and sell flowers. The amount of money that American members raised was not even enough to support themselves with food and shelter every day. Father brought tons of money to this country to accomplish his goals. So how can they say Reverend Moon exploited the youth of this country? Because of this Father was persecuted.</p>
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<p>Now we must look back and understand the time we are living in and what Father did in this country. Father worked to bring America into unity at the highest level like what God expected 2000 years ago and again in 1945. Father came to accomplish that and put all of his energy and might into this one goal. Because of this one goal all he received was persecution. That is how Father lived here in America. We must see that clearly.</p>
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<p>Father was not just working on that alone though. At the same time he was thinking about the fall of the communist world. America represented the spiritual realm which was on God’s side. The communist countries represented the body on the satanic side and the two fought each other. To come into unity they had to center on something. God and perfected Adam are the ones who could be at the center of that unity.</p>
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<p>Now we see the rise of the headwing ideology, a unity of the right and left wings. Headwing is the thought of Reverend Moon. Headwing is horizontal. Now we don’t foresee so much opposition from outside people towards the Unification Church and its path, do we? It was only a few years ago in 1989 that Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung got together and tried to eradicate Reverend Moon. The Japanese fellow arrested with a bomb in his car is still awaiting trial here in America. More than twenty people were dispatched to carry out this work. Before that was even settled, Father visited the archenemy’s castle, which was Moscow. The CIA and FBI told Father, “I wouldn’t go if I were you.” But one thing Father didn’t do was listen to their advice. They do not know what is ahead of Father. Look how much change is taking place. Look how much the world has changed since Father visited Moscow. The Soviet government completely crumbled down. This is reality. China too. Kim Il Sung’s coming to Father’s side had that history also. Kim looked all over the world and saw what was happening.</p>
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<p>When Gorbachev met with Reverend Moon and embraced him, he asked Father which direction to go in. China too, was expecting Reverend Moon to be helpful to them. Kim Il Sung saw this so he opened up totally. There was actually no head of state ever welcomed in such a way by Kim Il Sung, from the bottom of his heart. All of these things have taken place in a rather short time before 1992. It is a source of wonder, almost like a miracle.</p>
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<p>The providence is now going to the world level. If America had welcomed me after World War II we could have made the world level foundation at that time. But at that time they went against me and chased me. Alone, I had to take the path of restoration for forty years. Now the outside world conditionally has the national foundation and from now we will see the expansion of the world foundation. The outside world foundation is already connecting the American side, Soviet side and China side, Japan side to me. Do you understand? We are in the center to connect and control all over the world. We are standing in that kind of time.</p>
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<p>It is with the headwing that Father is now dealing with horizontal problems. With tribal messiahship he is addressing the vertical situation. Once we get momentum, these two will move together strongly and the world will come into unification. Give and take between the right side and left side will lead to expansion. It will create a victorious atmosphere on the earth.</p>
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<p>Its like two forces; one a centripetal force and the other centrifugal. One is pushing and one is pulling, but the center is one. It will create momentum quickly. Centering on Reverend Moon, the individual ages of family, clan and the like will lead to unification. This is why Father positioned the tribal messiah.</p>
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<p>This tree is Reverend Moon. The old world means the opposing world, there was no supporting world. So now the old world on each level has been brought up by Father. He is on top now. Then horizontally he connects his branches like so. Do you follow? Now is the time to complete that. Now the time has come that all parts of the world can connect with this tree. How? By grafting. Tribal messiahs are another big branch. All the tribes will graft into this one big tree because there is no other or better thought than Reverend Moon’s. So we have a strong idea armament. From inside and outside, all the conditions have been made to bring unity. Therefore when Father kicks the big existing structure, it all crumbles. All the things in the Satanic domain will fall apart. What is your guess-do you think that what Father has explained really is taking place? [Yes!]
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<p>Now is the time of world transition, not just local transition. The whole world is about to change so everything is moving now. We are living in that kind of time. Did you understand this is the turning age of the world? How can we live and what should we accomplish in this age? Now we can really stand up and march forward in the same direction with utmost confidence. We read about Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible, but now America is becoming the same. We cannot have any hope in America as it is today. America will keep going down because of what is going on here today. GM, the legendary, biggest automobile company recently reported 75,000 people will have to be laid off. Why?</p>
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<p>For the Unification movement to have the world foundation, everything else must step one level down. That way everybody will follow the Unification movement rather than any other movement. That includes the Unification Church too. They too, will return to the starting point. Other people may be confused and disappointed but we are not. We know exactly what has happened and why we are standing at the point we are. So we should not despair even though working may become difficult, because we know it is our fate to accomplish this and bring America and the world to True Parents. We are bold because we are chosen for this time and God is right behind us. In other words, God will have no one if He doesn’t have us. We have to have strong confidence in ourselves that we are the re-creators. We create anew. No wonder it is difficult. We should not expect something easy. Until now we have taken the indemnity way, but that has disappeared. In the recreation center God helps anytime, anyplace and anywhere. He can do that. Do you understand? There is no Satanic side against us. We should be bold and have utmost confidence that what we do is right and what we do will work.</p>
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<p>Father looks at all the members and sees they look kind of miserable. You think, “Christmas is coming and I don’t have anything. There is such a heavy schedule to keep” and all that. But this is normal, it is nothing to worry about. And you are young! Father’s young age was gone fifty years ago!</p>
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<p>We can only imagine the desperate, miserable, difficult task Father faced in pitch darkness to prepare this forty years of re-indemnity. We can only imagine what Father had to go through, but perhaps this is the same thing we have to go through so what are you going to do? In that long, long forty years Father accomplished everything, even to Father’s own criteria, everything. Nothing was left undone.</p>
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<p>After Father saw Kim Il Sung the world literally boiled, especially Korea. Who is Kim Il Sung? He is the second advent on the satanic side, the side opposite to God’s side. Korea is divided into north and south. The bad father, or worst father in the whole world and history is in the north-you know the people of North Korea call him Father. However, the good father is living in the south. Literally millions of people have been “purged” (executed) in the north. A number of four million has been quoted. Did Father purge or execute even one person?</p>
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<p>This is what has happened. The worst father, Kim Il Sung reigned as king for forty years but has now come down. After forty years of terrible persecution alone Father has now gone up to that position. The world is in utmost chaos and nothing is clear. No one knows which direction to go in. Only one, Adam knows where to go because it is his time.</p>
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<p>Why doesn’t President Bush, who boasts leadership of this big important country, meet with Reverend Moon and see what happens? Father will not propose a meeting saying, “I want to meet you.” It is America, the administration, the President himself which must come down and propose to meet Father. That is more natural.</p>
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<p>Father told the Chinese Premiere, “If America boycotts us, fine. Let us do this work by our own hands.” Japan too. Moscow also. We must understand and the world must understand what Reverend Moon did here was done all by himself with no else’s help or guidance. Father came this far by being opposed.</p>
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<p>Now it is time that we represent Father in many, many ways and accomplish the things that are left to be done. Compared to the major work Father has already done, we are left to do the small chores. It is small work compared to what Father did. Reverend Moon has a set course to trod, whereas the world does not have that. Step by tedious step Father walked. He did not soar up overnight to reach this level. He paid four thousand years of indemnity. Now Father is thinking about what way he will go after we follow. Father’s main concern is what form, how and with what results he can bring the unification of North and South Korea.</p>
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<p>Actually, both have something in common. Even South Korea fears Father’s thought. They fear it because they don’t understand it, but they know it is powerful. North Korea is also very fearful. They are fearful so they just tag along and cautiously hang on to Father. Nobody understands what Father and Kim Il Sung discussed with each other. You might say, “At least Dr. Pak knows or Mother knows.” No, the North Koreans invited everyone into a different car and they surrounded Father like so. There was no one else except Father. This was how they did all their important talking. Of course, they tried their best and were always successful to persuade Father, right? [No!] Do you think Father was persuaded by Kim Il Sung or was Kim Il Sung persuaded by Father? We are all dying to find out the contents of their talk, right? It’s a secret only Father knows.</p>
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<p>If the satanic world has compromised with him, do you think Esau and Jacob’s transition has come about? They paved a new road to Father’s village and they painted Father’s old house. They made the village completely new. They put new tombstones at Father’s parent’s tomb. You can imagine they did everything to welcome Father. They brought all Father’s relatives from all corners of the country to one place and several times they threw banquets. Father thought to himself, “How can the world change like this, from the worst to heaven in a mere seven days?” Something no one could imagine actually became reality in seven days.</p>
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<p>All the North Korean citizens saw the big stories about Father in the news paper and are now thinking “Reverend Moon certainly is the one to bring about unification”. They are very hopeful that North and South Korea will soon be united. South Korean people too, don’t know how, but believe somehow that Reverend Moon will bring the two counties into unification. Until now, from hearing what other people said they thought Reverend Moon was the worst person alive. They thought he was the number one worst guy, but they know differently now. Reverend Moon is the only one standing on the most high peak. How do you feel hearing that kind of statement? [Great!]
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<p>We cannot deny the fact we are right on the threshold, the new time is right in front of us. It is completely different from before. What happened to bring about this transition time? This is our responsibility, so what should we do? We should represent our Father and completely inherit the foundation which Father built. All we have to do is stand firm on that and act as the messiah.</p>
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<p>It is like an exodus from Sodom and Gomorrah to the ever hopeful new world of victory. We all must march together strong and bold. Father gave up and threw away everything; his home, family and everything, during this forty years. When the time was right everything came back to him. This is what will happen for all mankind. First we give up, then all will come back to us. When we are treading this way, every day is difficult and we almost want to give up. It is so desperate and difficult but we will gain back a hundred times over when the time comes. We should have that absolute faith.</p>
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<p>Name one place Father didn’t go, including prison. He didn’t go to only one prison, but many prisons. Every time Father went to prison he didn’t say, “Oh I pity my family.” Father never thought like this. Father never even thought about his hometown or his family’s well being. Father never even thought about Korea which is his home country. Father’s only thought was, “What do I do next? What is there after I come back from prison?” Father thought ahead in these small steps. Father always knew and told himself that since he is the only person who knows this way then he should go and do it by himself. Now Father is spreading this out and giving this foundation away. We didn’t do this, but we now we know what we are about. Your goal should be clear by now.</p>
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<p>The only thing you should be thinking about is how to accomplish and complete your tribal messiahship and how you can accomplish the home church messiahship. That’s all you should be thinking about. It is not something you have a choice about. Just as you have no choice but to live day by day. It is our heavenly fate. This is a schedule nobody can change. Even if we die doing this, we are still better off.</p>
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<p>When Father heard he was indicted he was in Korea and the lawyer told him he didn’t have to return to America. “Everything will be peaceful if you don’t come.” But Father didn’t choose the so-called peaceful way. Father immediately returned to America because he saw this was his path. If his family opposed him, even if his wife opposed him, Father decided he would travel alone.</p>
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<p>Alone, only with God. On one side, one man and on the other side one God combined together vertically into one. You have to take a course with the same meaning. As such, there is no way of reviving or waking up America. There is no way to repair it.</p>
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<p>America will come down. It’s individual families, communities, society and the nation as a whole must come down. Can anyone help them or revive them? Even though it is sporadic and not united, if you plant your good seeds in your tribe, they will one day prosper to fuel America. If Father were you and he had to do this mission like you are supposed to, he would work with the same intensity he did for forty years and accomplish it in maybe four months. Why? Because Father made a foundation all over the world.</p>
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<p>Humanity welcomes him now. No organization can have power against me. They welcome me and us. Until now they looked at Moonies as so bad but after a long time of watching us now they are saying, “Moonies are not so bad.” They see Father blessed oriental women to western men, who then live in such a hopeful way. Western people cannot find that themselves. They will see that a western race mixed with another is the most beautiful combination-couple life-style. They are amazed. People are admiring Moonies now, “We are proud of that Moonie center here.” According to the spread of the foundation that expansion will happen nationwide. This is reality not concept. The time has come. Kick out what gets in your way. That has been Father’s position and attitude. Go forward to do God’s mission no matter how difficult it is.</p>
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<p>Whatever obstacle is waiting ahead of me, I will tear it down. This morning Father talks like he is speaking about a dream. Sometimes Father feels as if it is a dream himself! “How did I reach here?” Father feels, “I don’t know!” Have you ever been to the circus and seen the acrobats? They do superhuman work. It’s life and death. One wrong move and they will die, but they don’t quite know how they do it. Only afterwards, when the audience breaks into a roaring applause, does the acrobat come to his senses and realize, “Oh, I’ve done it.” It is like the applause Father got from the spirit world!</p>
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<p>Worldly people did not budge but the spirit world is in an uproar. As much as the satanic world is calling him bad names, good spirit world cheered him on. Father hears both sounds, but only one side matters.</p>
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<p>Many of the people who opposed Father here, especially in the last fifty years have now gone to spirit world. They look down and think, “We made such a big mistake. How can we repent for thinking that way?” They come down to the earth and help their offspring. They try to make up for their mistake with that kind of activity. For those who went to spirit world after opposing Father, even their ancestors will kick them out saying, “You are the one who opposed so you help him.” This actually happens.</p>
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<p>So all in all, our time has come. That is the point. One day there will be a big storm coming and the only way you can overcome it is by becoming an even bigger storm. Otherwise you will not survive. In one year we saw a lot of things change, right? At this rate imagine how much the world will change in three years! A day may be coming very soon when all the roads Father travels will be lined with people standing on both sides of the street holding pickets saying, “Welcome Reverend Moon. We welcome you.” This is not a day dream. This is something that might soon happen.</p>
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<p>Do not ever take tribal messiahship lightly. You have to think that you are running out of time and with that mind be serious about tribal messiahship. There are 360 homes in Home Church. 360 is not a big number at all. If you get 120 of your relatives and extend that number into in-laws and their children, 360 will soon come about. Just let them agree with your teaching. If they say “I agree” that is condition enough. Have a flag there so they can hoist a flag and then get a memo from them saying, “I welcome you to train my own sons and daughters.” Let them go to Unification Church to listen to a Divine Principle lecture. That’s all. Then 360 will be done.</p>
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<p>Still today in Korea they are all puzzled. Outside people thought their relatives had perished, lost everything and didn’t accomplish anything when they joined the Unification Church. Now their relatives have come back home and they don’t talk like losers. They talk and everybody listens. They talk like no president talks, but in a very high level. They work very hard and go everywhere making many connections. They takes action to influence the area and create an expansion of the village to the whole county. That is what our members are demonstrating in all parts of Korea. Korean people are amazed, “How can you be like this? Where did you learn this?” Quite frankly, most Korean people are not well educated or successful in any way. But even Korean people accomplished success after being Unification Church members for twenty or twenty five years. What about American people? All you need to do is stay here three years then go back to your hometown and do the same thing as the Korean members are doing. Right? In ten or twenty years here we have learned so much. American people are proud that until now they have been number one and leading the world. “How wonderful and powerful we are!” So you have to do well. Can you? [Yes!]
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<p>So that is our responsibility. All we have to do, is for three years bear what Father has borne for over forty years. “No matter what happens I will bear his burden for just three years and not let him carry my burden.” If we started doing this then nothing else should matter. Everything else would fall into place and be solved. There may even be a miracle to save America, which is surely headed to destruction, it if every one of us can do like this. This is what Father did in Korea. Now it’s your turn. Give your husband, give your wife, give your children for three years.</p>
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<p>This is a time of conscription. In three years, if they work with all their might and move around their clan, we know that the whole world will begin to move. When the western clan is mobilized Father will give you the direction to go to Korea and work there. Do you think they will or they won’t all go to Korea and work? We may not know how ardently every religious person is eager to find their Fatherland, just like the Israelites. The Israelites really tried to get their Fatherland back, didn’t they? Likewise, all religious people are dying to see and live and die in their Fatherland. When they find out there is a fatherland for them, they will go through life and death to go there. We should understand that. This is why Father told us many times to learn the Korean language and even learn their customs.</p>
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<p>Then we can speak to Koreans when we get there. Many people wondered and puzzled, “Why does Reverend Moon intermarry eastern and western people? What does he get as a result of that except for a lot of problems and a lot of bad publicity?” But when their time comes it will be a pride of the world level. Now we can see clearly that international marriage, and those who keep their family in the exemplary way, will become a standard or model for international marriage in the future world. Father will point them out for all to see saying, “Take after them and be like them.” In the future our families will need the tradition of that family result. Father has married you for the future; to bring in millions of people, not just one couple. Today Father is amazed at the good way your children look. All the children of international marriages are so beautiful, aren’t they? So intelligent too.</p>
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<p>How many years should Father tell you to act in his place? One year? Two years? Three years? Like Father lived for all his life. What do you think would be an appropriate number of years? How about three years? If we live like Father did all his life, for three years, how about it? That means we sleep, not in bed, but anywhere, with clothes on, not off. You know how intense a life you must be leading to do this. Father doesn’t say don’t take a bath, you can, but how many baths would you take if you lived like that? Imagine living like that. That is our responsibility.</p>
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<p>What is our reward for that? America is in despair and is totally giving up, but it may rise again. That is our reward. How can we bring the American standard of living to two thirds of what they are maintaining now? That is a big task. When they do this and Americans travel everywhere in the world and work for the sake of others, do you think America would change?</p>
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<p>What about Father’s standard of living? Father’s standard is the highest in the world. Father intended that. But what happened after Father came to America? He had to go to the lowest place, prison. You can’t go lower than prison. A peaceful life in prison might not be so bad, but even while he was in prison the whole world came against Father. That is the worst situation you can imagine. Father volunteered for that and went through it to the last day. Father went through every miserable situation but today finds himself in the greatest position. It is nothing other than a miracle.</p>
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<p>What if all Americans could live with just two thirds of the standard they have now? They don’t have to give up everything, just one third. Father gave up three thirds. He didn’t even have zero, he had minus. He was indebted. If America not only devotes everything it has to the world, but even borrows money from others to give it for the sake of the world, do you think America will perish? On the contrary, it will blossom. We’re talking about reality, not a dream. What can make this possible? Nothing other than religious fervor, especially the Moonie religion. Once they understand the contents of Divine Principle and God’s history, do you think they will follow Father’s direction? [They will follow it.] Why? Because that is the way to life. If we don’t do it now we have to do it in the spirit world which is more difficult. It is a hundred thousand times harder to work from spirit world.</p>
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<p>What pushed Father to accomplish his work? He could work like that because of the knowledge he had. Father knew if he didn’t do this now, he would have to do it later anyway. If we don’t do this and then go to spirit world, we won’t be able to bear looking at Father and many of our own ancestors as well. They will accuse you. Has Father accomplished his mission? With all confidence Father is directing us and ordering us to do it too.</p>
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<p>That is what Father is doing this morning. The results are unmistakable and guaranteed. We’ll get the results Father said we will get. We should pledge now, “Yes Father we will follow your tradition. I will follow your way of life for three years. I will dedicate myself in that way for the sake of others, not myself.” Those who pledge this, raise your hands. Father wishes God’s blessing upon all of those who raised their hands.</p>
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<p>Now is the time of a great transition in history. We must abide by this responsibility and to live up this change and new historical direction.</p>
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<p>The topic of Father’s sermon this morning is, <em>The Realm of Heavenly Liberation.</em> Every individual on earth dreams of becoming happy and wants to lead a happy life with a happy family. People search for a place in which they can find happiness. That place must have something pertaining to all aspects of happiness. The conditions for happiness within the individual, family, nation as well as on the cosmic level must exist there. Let’s examine and find the conditions necessary to become happy.</p>
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<p>We would like the huge cosmos to embrace the world within it. We want the world to embrace many nations. The country should embrace many different clans and races. Within the clan we want to see many prosperous families. In the family we would like to have as many members as possible starting from the grandfather down to grandchildren. “I” am one of those individuals who is constantly seeking happiness. The happiness I would like to have is happiness in all standards and every direction. We don’t want to have just one criterion for happiness, we want happiness in every possible respect. That individual is then likely to be thinking about the whole world. He is placing himself in a position of being greater than the world, greater than the clan and the nation. Such is the human being that has been created! Now we know what all mankind is seeking, but we don’t see it anywhere around us. It is apparently something that man has lost.</p>
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<p>We are not daydreaming. It is not the concept of happiness we are seeking, but the reality of happiness. Centering on myself I can pull the country and the country is pulled to me. If I push the country, the country is pushed away from me. We all want to be able to exercise our will in such a way.</p>
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<p>Immediately we think that money can help us do that. Money is so important. But apparently even when people have a lot of money, they have the tendency to build walls and isolate themselves. Certainly then money is not the way to bring happiness to an individual.</p>
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<p>The next thing we consider is knowledge. You may think a Harvard education will help you. But we see that knowledge also is helpless in achieving lasting happiness. If you take knowledge seriously, it becomes very narrow and specialized. Narrow knowledge can never encompass a world view. Knowledgeable people don’t usually have a large view. If one scholar knows even one more word of vocabulary than another he claims he is better. So happiness doesn’t seem to be found in knowledge either.</p>
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<p>How about power? Everybody likes power. Can power produce happiness? If you have power do you want to distribute it and share it with others? No, you want to keep it to yourself. All these things we have listed don’t seem useful in attaining happiness. At best they may help, but none seems to be an important factor in finding happiness.</p>
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<p>All sorts of walls exist in the world today. Starting with national boundaries and the walls of secularism, what could possibly go through those walls or bring them down? Money? To some extent yes, but very little. There is only one hope in the fallen world to penetrate these walls and do away with them. That is love. Isn’t that true? If we become a part of love in either the position of object or subject, and become involved in the give and take of love, there is no place we cannot go. Of course we have to consider that there is good love and bad love. There is also mediocre love, which is neither good nor bad, but neutral. Which layer of love do we live in today? Yes, we have to confess that we are living more in the realm of bad love. How would you define these three realms of love? What is the standard by which we decide either good, bad or neutral love? It’s not complicated. It is all determined by the kind of man and woman involved.</p>
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<p>According to the man and woman and their relationship we can determine what realm of love they are in. People will say, “She is a good woman” or “She is a so-so woman” or “She is a bad woman.” And the same thing is true among men. With these three types of men and three types of women, there are six combinations that you can put together, not more. Only one of them is the best liked. The good relationship between a good man and a good woman is what the world wants to see. In America the population is 240 million, half of them are men and half are women. Is America a good country or bad country? You don’t know? [Bad.] Are there more good men or good women in this country? Which percentage is higher? What is your guess? This is serious. We need a good analysis. In order to do so, you have to list everything and give it a lot of thought and evaluation.</p>
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<p>Someone said America is bad. Is this because there are more bad women or bad men in this country? Let’s be serious and honest about it. The divorce rate in this country is said to be more than fifty five percent. Can the cause of divorce be more often traced to man or woman? Answer clearly. [Both.] That is not acceptable, it is either man or woman. Some thoughtful woman here said, “women.” So, individually speaking are there more bad men or bad women in this country? So, in order for that bad country to become good, should men follow women or should women follow men? Woman has to follow man. This is the conclusion. [A sister shouts, “Women have to follow God.”] That’s not even part of the question! In this country men follow women. Do all men follow all women? No, because of all women, only about ten percent are beautiful! Their eyes are crazy and upside down. Men seek to follow what they think are beautiful women.</p>
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<p>People try to make themselves more beautiful by using cosmetics. Do women do that more or do men do that more? The use of makeup is almost the total monopoly of women. If you think about it seriously should we leave makeup alone or should we revolutionize cosmetics? Individual women may not like the way they look, but after they use elaborate makeup, they come to like themselves and walk proudly down Fifth Avenue. Not to be critical, but honestly, would you women like to wear dark, dingy clothing? Would men like to see women dressed that way? Or does everyone want women to wear nice, bright, attractive clothes? We like to see women wearing colorful and attractive dresses. Women want everybody to pay attention to them. Alright, let’s say a women tries hard and gets lots of attention from men. Then what? Would she show them something good or something bad? That’s the next question. What do you women think? After becoming beautiful and gaining lots of attention, then what? [Good things.] Yes? It’s clear enough that when you become beautiful, you gain the attention of men and they will follow you. Now, would you determine to make those men who follow you into great patriotic men who can do service to their country, even to bring them to the level of saint? Or, would you make him pay for you and provide you with many things, to buy you drinks and live a lowly life? Which way would you choose? [The first one.] American women think on such a high level? It sounds strange to me. After you are well dressed where do you want to go? Maybe the theater and then a dancing hall. You enjoy yourself and feel high, then what would you like to do? Maybe you’d like lots of drinks after that. We’re talking about the average woman in any country.</p>
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<p>We think about the fallen world all the time. Is the fallen world closer to sainthood or closer to the secular life Father described?</p>
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<p>Let us be reminded, everyone is seeking happiness. They do what they do in search of happiness. We know painfully well they cannot find happiness there. On the other hand, we have a group of people who are agonizing and suffering almost to the extent of misery. But there we can find true love, lofty ideals and all the positive things. Now we can reach a conclusion based on common sense. It is generally very true that in the secular life of physical enjoyment, almost no enduring love can be found. The general rule and conclusion is that you have more chance of finding love among those who lead a suffering life than among well-to-do people. That is exactly what Jesus pointed out when he said it is more difficult for a rich man to go to the kingdom of heaven than it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. The chance is so small.</p>
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<p>Who is the most patriotic person in a country? Is it a person who has everything at his disposal and can do whatever he desires? Is this well-to-do person the one who has love or is it more likely the one who lives in a miserable condition but is ready to give whatever he has for the sake of the nation? Which one has more chance of finding happiness? The sacrificial person. Nobody envies him, but he himself is in a better position.</p>
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<p>Of course there are two kinds of humble people. One is forced to live this kind of life simply because he is poor. That may be a different story. But the man who could lead a first rate, rich life but gives it up to live in a more humble fashion is the one who has the chance of finding love and happiness. You know the rules of the Principle very clearly. By the same token, a citizen in the greatest and most affluent country of America, who gives everything up and chooses to go to Africa and suffer with the people there, helping them to improve and raise them up above misery and sickness, is a great man. If Americans chose to trade for that way of life, they would be respected all over the world and they would find happiness. They would find the love and respect of other people. Does this sound far fetched or reasonable? This is reality.</p>
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<p>You cannot accomplish that with money. In other words you cannot use money to go down to a low position. Only love, and true love at that, can make you do that. If you talk about true love, people will demand to know where they can find it. You can explain that when this happens, there is a good chance true love dwells there. God is the king of all goodness. Everything that is good is connected to God. But if God said, “I am good and you must all serve under me”, can He remain good? Therefore God too, would like to give all the good things up and come down to live with those in difficulty. When everybody knows this and follows God down, would we want God to stay down forever or would we say to God, “We will replace you here. We will take your place here so why don’t you go up a step higher above me.” We would like to push God up and elevate him. In order for us to recognize and glorify something good, we have to lift God up. Nobody cheers something which is going down. So before we can cheer we want to bring God up. We have to do that so we can glorify Him. Isn’t that true?</p>
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<p>We talked about happiness. From this perspective we have to truly understand what is the happy way of life. Then if we choose to live in this fashion, we don’t want to attract love or anything at all, but people will come in spite of that and recognize you and love you. Then you are where God wants you to be. Through logic and reason, we see clearly that in this huge and complicated world every imaginable wall exists. You cannot even travel a short distance without being blocked by some kind of wall. Only through true love you can go anywhere you choose-a good place or a bad place. You can go anywhere with true love.</p>
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<p>Which travels ahead of an individual, true love or true life? Which one will pull which? [True love will pull true life.] Are you sure? What you have just said is; in order to follow true love you have to give up your life. Very interesting. Is it true or not? There is absolute power in that understanding. Now we are aware of the truthful statement in the Bible. Jesus always tried to teach men, “If you want to live, you must die.” Another paradoxical thing he said is, your own family is your enemy. No one could ever understand this. Your family pulls you back and says, “Be comfortable.” That will prevent you from going to heaven. Today’s world challenges us greatly. Christians say, “Believe and you will go to heaven.” We know this is not true. How can we just believe and go to heaven? We have to believe and do before we can go to heaven.</p>
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<p>The world is full of true love like it is filled with air. The space of the world is filled with air isn’t it? Now don’t you experience within your small family and between brothers and sisters, that you cannot make another person do your will, right? An elder brother especially will never listen to his younger sister. Even in a small family there are walls. How can we bring them down and penetrate them? Pushing them down is one way, but can you successfully do that? Can you force your way in? Or because you are so smart can you sweet talk others and bring down the walls? It might work at first, but once they find out they’ve been deceived they’ll come and pay you back with biting! That is human nature.</p>
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<p>But love is different. Love is the only way you can penetrate the walls. Only true love can do it. The conclusion is simple. Father has a secret to share here. Let’s say within a family there is an older brother who is really a tyrant because he is the heir. He is an impossible person, like a bear who won’t budge. Nothing will make him move. But his little sister can penetrate him with true love. She will make a small hole in his wall, but he won’t mind. In fact he will ask for more. That bear-like man won’t mind this in true love. So the hole becomes bigger until she can run a thread through it. Then she breaks through another hole, and this time runs a thicker thread through it. Later she can use a rope, and eventually this little sister will be able to get her brother to be any way she likes him to be. The love of a small woman can have that kind of strong power. Is it clear?</p>
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<p>These thick walls are penetrable by love. We often talk about the messiah. But who and what is he? He thinks about breaking through these walls and nothing else. In a way, he is a specialist who is always thinking, awake or asleep, about how to penetrate different walls. He doesn’t want to just penetrate the wall, he wants to build a road and pave it so that many can come in with no problem. He is a highway builder. Messiahship is accomplished by the one who does this at the cost of his own pain and sacrifice. He endures pain and works hard knowing that this road will benefit more than just his family. Millions and billions of people will benefit from this highway. Without it they could not go anywhere. The messiah knows this better than any other person. He does not proclaim himself, but other people looking at his work and realizing the benefit it brings, will make him the center of his home, his clan, nation, and the whole world.</p>
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<p>Everyone will fight to make him the king of kings. They will look at him forever not only as their king, but their True Parent, also true teacher and true owner.</p>
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<p>Who is the true teacher? He is the one who teaches everything he knows that is absolutely necessary for everyone. Without knowledge he knows that people cannot amount to anything, so he teaches them again and again. If there is nothing more to teach he will even research something new so he can have more to teach. That is a true teacher. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>He is a true owner at the same time. What does that mean? He not only owns this position himself, but he wants to give this true ownership to everyone forever and ever. He wants to make all men owners, so that they don’t have to belong to anyone else. For example, America is a great country. If someone was the true owner of America he wouldn’t stop there. He would create an even bigger country outside. This true owner would be twice as rich then, but he wouldn’t want to keep it. He wants to give it to everyone. He creates and gives, over and over. He doesn’t take and give. Let us assume there is such an owner, a man of heart. God has a big gift box that He is dying to give away. He is trying to find someone worthy of receiving it. Is any American qualified to receive the big blessings of God? We aren’t that way now, but even the fact we are thinking that we need to become that qualified person will make God happy. God then has hope at least. He is waiting for the day He can give this big box to the true owner.</p>
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<p>Father’s topic this morning is the realm of Heavenly liberation. What kind of place is heaven? Here in this world, we need our eyes. Is heaven a place where we no longer need them? We need our eyes in heaven too. Our eyes are dying to see the sights and scenes of true love in heaven. In heaven will men’s eyes by intoxicated by looking at another man? What will men’s eyes want to look at? What will women’s eyes want to look at? [Someone answers, “A true man will want to look at a true woman.”] What do you mean by true man? The hairiest man?</p>
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<p>A true man is the one who has given up his life 100 times for others. The one who has given up his life more than 100 times is a more true man. You become more true in that fashion. Which kind of true man do you want to be? Do you want to give up your life just ten times, or 100 times or a million times? If there was such a person in the spirit world and your eyes could see him, what kind of relationship would you have with him? How can you envelope him? One way you can relate to that true man even though you may not be as great as him, is to become like a child to him. Trust yourself to him. How can you refuse a small innocent child who is completely trusting you and feels most peaceful in your bosom? Isn’t that one way of being a part of that true man? Any mother would give all her five senses and all her attention to that baby. She would devote everything to that child. What about God? Is God too great to be involved in that? God too, just like a devoted mother would pay all His attention to that baby. We prize concepts and good talk but would you trade that baby’s reality for millions and billions of concepts and words? No, this reality is greater. This entity of true love can never be traded. No one would want to trade him for millions of words or concepts or acts of love.</p>
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<p>Is it easy or difficult to go to heaven? [Difficult.] How difficult? Let us think about one simple criteria. In the fallen world we always struggle to survive and go to heaven. Who has more chance of going to heaven? The one who fights the battle and survives or the one who fights and loses in this world. The one who wins over the battle in this evil world is the one who has the chance of going to heaven. If your loving wife says, “Oh, there are too many walls and they are too high to go over, why don’t we just give it up now?”, can that couple go to heaven? The husband should say, “Satan, get behind me.” The wife will not retreat peacefully either. She will jump, scratch and bite. If that is your wife will you fight against her or will you just give up fighting? Wait until she gets tired. Run her down and then carry her over into heaven. Father would like to see one example of this among the thousands of Unification Church members in America. If anyone has seen that person, please let Father know. Children will fight against you too. What can the parents do? They must put up with them and persevere. The country will throw a tantrum too, demanding that you aren’t being reasonable.</p>
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<p>They will do everything, perhaps even putting you into jail. What can you do? All we have to do is persevere. Maybe you barely manage to gain the recognition of your country. Then the world will come against you, saying, “We don’t need a saint from another country. We will produce saints of our own country.” They want to protect themselves and push you out so what can you do? You are only a small man and not powerful yet. Can you hope to fight against them equally and still hope to go to heaven? No, you cannot go to heaven fighting. You simply have to persevere and do more.</p>
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<p>We know now that God is the king of perseverance and He apparently still has a longer way to go and persevere. Therefore we must simply do the same; persevere and try harder, until God doesn’t have to persevere anymore.</p>
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<p>Satan has been building walls throughout history. He will stop true man’s approach to his goal. But the true man should not fight against him. He should persevere and even love Satan more and after all this is done, even Satan will be able understand the power and happiness of love. Then Satan will bow down to the true man saying, “Your way is better than mine. Let me surrender to that idea and learn that new way of life from you.” This is the day when the solution to this complex world will begin. Once that happens the problems will be solved in no time.</p>
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<p>How many people are willing to keep the same stance as God and that true man? Forget how many, is there even one person who has mentioned that stance here in the human world? Did anyone even teach this? What kind of person is Reverend Moon, the leader of the Unification Church? He is the only person who knows God’s tradition of sacrifice. He is the only person who knows who God is and what God has been doing all throughout history. Following this tradition faithfully, he has penetrated all the walls of the individual level, the family level, even to the highest level of Satan himself.</p>
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<p>Now Father met Kim Il Sung. Father has now realized exactly what he envisioned. Only through true love could Father penetrate the thickest, biggest wall of communism and Kim Il Sung; the worst impenetrable wall the world has known. Father understood that the course he has been following was exactly right. He completely got what he expected out of Kim Il Sung.</p>
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<p>Even Father was challenged in that situation. In 1976 or ’78, Kim Il Sung employed twenty six assassins to kill Father. Kikamura was one of them. His trial is still pending in the United States courts. Not just one or two people were sent after Father, but over twenty and this is addition to the KGB which was at its strongest at that time.</p>
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<p>How could Father go over that? He didn’t try to destroy them, but tried to love them and digest them and penetrate that thick wall so he could reach behind the Iron Curtain with brotherly love. It was not easy. It was relatively easy for Reverend Moon to love his own wife, children and disciples, but to love the archenemy of God and himself was not easy. How to accomplish that was his own challenge. Now Father could be so comforted in knowing that his understanding and actions were right and that his efforts were not in vain.</p>
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<p>Father’s meeting with Gorbachev seemed to be a very simple encounter, but this isn’t so. It took all the energy Father had to survive and reach that point. After Gorbachev was penetrated by true love, he gave in and discussed many things with Reverend Moon. Look at how much the world changed in such a short time of one year. That is the Principle of “plus power.” If there is a strong positive, a strong negative will come out of nowhere into existence right away. Even Kim Il Sung, the strong minus, has an original mind, deeply hidden and guarded. But when this strong positive force like the core of God appears, he will be switched. The contents will be communicated and this giant plus and minus will mingle into one.</p>
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<p>It is just like when a parent is dying and wants to communicate his will. No child, not even a bad one can resist that. By the same token this tremendous power of the true love of God was always directed to Kim Il Sung. When Kim Il Sung heard Reverend Moon speak, he could not resist. He opened his mind and received a flood of thought. Reverend Moon spoke to him on that level, saying “Don’t forget what I say.” In spite of himself, Kim will do things and think things. He didn’t plan for it to happen that way. Some call that a miracle but we would rather say a new creation is taking place.</p>
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<p>As human beings, all of us have to stand in Father’s position and meet our challenge as individuals born here on earth. Have we ever loved another human being so deeply? Have you loved your wife the way a true husband would love her? Have you loved your husband the way a true wife would? As a parent, have we loved our children so truly? Have we ever loved our parents so truly? These are the points we have to challenge ourselves on today. We need to go exactly the same way as God and Father did. The ones who can reach the realm of heavenly liberation will be a true brother, a true child, a true couple and true parents also. He will be a true ancestor. These are all categorized as the true generation. For the true generation, all the walls that we find in the world will not exist in the realm of heavenly liberation. All the walls will be gone, therefore all can go into heaven. No matter how many people are living now, or how many lived in the past and are now in spirit world, by participating in the same love, they all have the ability to eventually go to this realm. In the same way children have the ability to go where their parents go.</p>
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<p>If your finger has the touch of true love it doesn’t matter where you push through. It may be painful, but if it is a finger of true love you don’t mind. Actually that pain is a pleasure. A true love finger can travel anywhere and no one will mind.</p>
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<p>The model of all the achievements here is simple enough: God gave us family. The regret and sorrow of God is that until this moment he could not find a text with which he could teach his loving children. He simply did not have a textbook. Why? Because everything is fallen, there is no prototype for such a textbook.</p>
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<p>We must understand and go along with God’s historical desire and deep wish to teach right things to His true children. God’s other regret and deep sorrow has been that He could not find love between brothers. When we say brothers, sisters are included. Saying brothers and sisters doesn’t just mean between two people, there could be as many as thirteen or fourteen brothers and sisters. There was no textbook for God to teach them how they should live their lives. They remained ignorant. Another of God’s deep regrets is that He could not make a textbook by which He could teach the true husband and wife relationship. Husband and wife could not learn anything because there was no textbook and God couldn’t make it because there was no example. Today it doesn’t exist either. Nor could God teach true parents proper conduct towards their children. That textbook is not there. These four textbooks are lacking.</p>
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<p>As soon as these four textbooks are complete and everybody learns their secrets, then Satan will be completely expelled from the face of this earth. Then we will see the kingdom of heaven come on this earth. We won’t have to wait to go to spirit world to see it. At that time no messiah, nor even religion will be necessary because people will already have fulfilled the goal of the messiah and religion. That is a world where everyone is intoxicated just as if they drank a lot of wine. They would be drunk with love. They wouldn’t want any more. Everybody would be full. That world is full of happiness and no want.</p>
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<p>How then will God go about compiling those textbooks? For that purpose God picked one person who represents all manhood. He then picked out one woman to represent all womanhood. Centering on this couple, all perfection will take place when these four textbooks have been completed.</p>
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<p>Here we focused on true love, that a man representing all mankind will live in true love. That true love will be the same among children and brothers and sisters and life. All these four loves are there. After that textbook is complete, is it easy or difficult to learn? After the book is written it is easy. Thanks to Father we already know the reason for our existence. We already know that woman exists for the sake of man and man exists for the sake of woman and that parents exist for the sake of children and children exist for the sake of their parents. Every individual lives for the sake of another, going beyond his own life to love others.</p>
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<p>Why is it that a man needs a woman and a woman needs a man, absolutely and with no exception? If a couple gets along fine alone, why is it that they need to have children? Why is it that the more children they have, the better? Why not just one child? Because if there are more subjects and objects of love, there is so much more you learn. The larger the family the better.</p>
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<p>Look at it this way. Why does man need woman? Because he needs a textbook to learn from. Man learns from woman. This was why God brought man and woman into existence. Why do we need brothers and sisters? So that we can learn to love the parents. Without loving each other, they cannot properly learn to love the parents. In this way every individual component is created for the sake of others. Amen!</p>
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<p>If a brother loves so much that his whole purpose of existence is for his family members, and he lives that way more and more, even though it hurts him and he is not paid back for his efforts, he must then forget the hurt and begin again and again. His brothers are there to love him and he is there to love his brothers. God also looks down at him. All three elements of love are directed toward that individual. This is a holy position where he is the essence of God’s love.</p>
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<p>Why should a family live for the sake of the nation? Why don’t we just forget about the country? It is because a country is not just one family. There are hundreds, and thousands, even millions of families like your own. That makes a nation a million times more precious than one family. It is the law of recreation, that the smaller entity should be absorbed by the larger entity. God created it that way. When you come to think like this, go into the subway and look around. You see so many people who aren’t just individuals, but heads of their families. Each one has a precious family as you do. You come to revere them and be sympathetic to their problems of managing a family. It may even strike you as awesome how so many people realize a family and reach to God. Think about those among them who will become prominent statesmen and maybe one day a president who can bring this country into prosperity and peace. Another may become a great doctor who one day when you need him can provide the cure for your problems. Then you can come to respect them. You will feel that all those people are there for your sake, able to provide for you as much as you can give to them. When you feel this respect towards them, it will be followed by love. Then you will feel thankfulness for everything.</p>
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<p>Isn’t it true that if you think like this in a crowd, then God looks down at you and will say, “He or she thinks like me.” He cannot miss that. After that, God will get right behind that person and protect him. When he is going into danger God will preserve him from the danger. This is reality. God truly does that.</p>
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<p>Doing as much as Father has done for this country, how can he suppress his anger and disappointment? America is traditionally a country where they treat guests well. But Father is the guest of all guests. There has never been any more valuable guest to come to America throughout history. But he received nothing but persecution here. How does Father overcome that? Father says these people must want to see the character of God beyond any dispute or doubt or compromise in their imagination. They all want to see the perfect personality and character of God in Father, so Father keeps on persevering, thinking, “Thank you. You are trying to help me become more perfect. So I will try better and harder.” This is the way Father has lived in America. Jesus didn’t feel anger at those who pierced him with the spear. He simply felt sorry for them. Jesus felt more pitiful than angry towards the mob.</p>
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[Referring to drawing on board.] All the steps here line up in a vertical arrangement. This family system is a unit. The national level is an expansion of the same situation. It expands to the world level with the same contents and same situation. That will expand to the cosmos and then the greatest expansion place which is heaven. Do you understand? The concept and contents is the same. That is living for the sake of others.</p>
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<p>Father’s conclusion: there is no one living entity which exists for its own sake. Not one. Isn’t it true that man and woman are even physically built for each other? Did God create man first and then see what was happening? Or did God have the concept of love very clear before He started to create human beings? Man’s reality is to live for the sake of others. That is God’s concept. Man must live for others. First comes concept and that is to love others. Second is reality and that is the opposite sex and partnership. Man first has to think about love and then he has to think about woman. But this love is for the sake of others. If he thinks about himself, he is Satan. If he thinks about everyone except himself, he is God-like.</p>
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<p>Father lived for the sake of Kim Il Sung too. It is not because Kim Il Sung drew Father but Father drew Kim Il Sung. Father confirmed this to us today. America also may go against Father, but there will be one day when the whole country will kneel down before Reverend Moon once they know what he has been doing for America. The question will be who won? You know the answer. As of today, is America winning or is Reverend Moon winning? In terms of true love Reverend Moon won. He won in terms of God’s formula.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon carried on that same way of life in Danbury prison. It also worked there. For some reason all the prison inmates were drawn to Reverend Moon. They didn’t know why, but they felt drawn to him. There always seemed to be more people in the room where Father was. No one told them to do that, but they naturally did. When they finished their terms and were about to leave, they would always come to report to Father. They would cry just like they were leaving their own family. Reverend Moon was only a yellow guy, but these white men would come to him with respect. How about you? Do you love me or not? How much? Even though we would have to give up America, we would rather follow Father. So the nationality boundary, the race boundary, the tradition and cultural boundaries are no problem. We can solve all of them with unification. Let’s do it! That’s all!</p>
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<p>Now we see the possibility of heaven being liberated. Heaven is bound and gagged now, but this is the way we can liberate it. Then all things are restored as God intended. The liberation of women will also take place. This is where the four textbooks will be fulfilled. With that, God will be able to travel anywhere He wants. He will be able to direct all mankind into any direction He wants. There will be no more sorrow, no more burden and no more tasks to do. God will finally rest. This is the realm of the liberation of heaven. This is where God can rest in peace for the first time. We must realize that we are living for that day. We are living according to the textbook on how to become true children, how to become true brothers and sisters to each other, how to become a true husband or wife and how to become true parents. When we live like this we are surely and steadily going to this area of liberated heaven where even hell can be converted into heaven. We must understand that ahead of us, True Parents are treading surely into that direction. That is all they are doing.</p>
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<p>In True Parent’s family, these four textbooks are already well under way. The textbook to learn what true children should be is first. Secondly, the textbook which teaches what true brothers and sisters should be. Third, the textbook which teaches what true couples, or true husband and wife should be and lastly what the true parents should be. Those four textbooks are already healthily well underway. That is what the true family is developing. Amen!</p>
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[Father addressed each of his sons by name] All brothers, you have to memorize Father’s speech this morning. Do you understand? [Then his daughters] You have to make that standard of a true family system. Do you understand? You have to make that kind of tradition. Its not so easy. Don’t forget Father’s speech this morning. Say it in a loud voice. Yes!</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">September 8, 1991<br />
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<p>Now we are in the position to see that the tide of the world is not influenced by many people. It does not take many, many people to shape events; rather, one or two decide the trends and the tide. We can see very easily that the tide of history always has been influenced by a few people who represent many. Only a few represent the Soviet Union, America, or Asia. They are the ones who decide the direction of history.</p>
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<p>The Soviet Union now is witnessing the fall of communism. The secular humanism which is the guiding philosophy of life in America and the free nations is failing. The fall of these previously held concepts as well as the religious thought undergirding them lets all know that their direction holds no guarantee of success. They have difficulty in keeping up with the times.</p>
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<p>The Soviet Union and China are going down. The United States thinks it is leading but the reality of America indicates weakness. There are many problems in the family; everywhere there are difficulties. Nobody would have believed that America would become like this. What leader really knows how to lead his country in these times? Even the American president does not know. Here Reverend Moon looms up and people begin to pay attention, asking “who is he?”</p>
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<p>We all know what has transpired. For years Father predicted the future of the communist countries and how communism would fall. Everyday in every year Father said what would happen in the Soviet Union, and now history has come to pass as Father predicted. Also Father juxtaposed all the problems existing in America and warned how America would become. Father also proved to be very accurate in predicting what America would be. So now many people in the world are beginning to pay attention to Father-what he says and how he leads. Look for example at the recent ICUS. Father gathered together scholars centering on the science conference, as well as religious leaders from around the world. At the same time Father brought together leaders of the world and showed them the clear way to peace in a unified world in the future. No-one else dared do that, but Father did, and everyone believed in Father because of what he has done in the past.</p>
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<p>This fostered a lot of hope for the world and the future. Without one way, you cannot have one goal. Everyone says “We want peace. Peace.” But we have to have one way to pursue the one goal which is peace. Father made that very clear. Now everybody saw for the first time how peace can be achieved. Father even told them what peace is. Father gave a very basic definition of peace, yet even this flabbergasted people. Father showed the clear way to achieve peace.</p>
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<p>Now the Unification Church, centering upon Father, has literally come to the apex, the highest plateau of the world. Father has clearly shown where the world should go.</p>
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<p>What everybody assembled there together needs is the pulling power, the locomotive, the engine. Someone has to pull them in that one direction of world peace, which Father laid out clearly, and that one locomotive or pulling power should be none other than you. All the Unification Church members must be that power.</p>
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<p>Now the world already knows that we need a very powerful direction. America and the free world have a Christian background. With this Christian culture, based on the New Testament and Old Testament, America is in the position to reorganize itself based upon these newly revealed facts. America is also in the position to help the communist countries who have lost their ideals and help them reorganize. All of this is now apparent. Everybody around the world knows. But the ironic thing is that only the Unification Church members are in the dark. They still do not know clearly that this is happening.</p>
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<p>Using our teaching, we have solved all the difficult points in the Bible. Therefore we are greatly empowered. The power is in our hands. We should be able to turn people from atheism to theism. We are armed with that degree of power. And in the future we should be able to lead the world. We should be full of power NOW. That’s the fact.</p>
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<p>You have the arms, the weapons, but are powerless and don’t know how to apply it. You don’t even know what you have. That’s the problem. Maybe we will all be dragged out by Father, first this way and then that. We have been so-called obedient, and have followed Father. But we haven’t had the slightest idea what all this is leading to, what this really is. Now, as we have witnessed, all Father’s important dispensational moves have been accomplished. As far as Father’s role is concerned, everything is complete. But we don’t know the fact that Father has already done this. We don’t even know what he has done! That’s our situation. Maybe you thought you walked the horizontal way, but actually you have been climbing up, and even now you should climb up more, rather than walk on the horizontal plane. We should walk vertically!</p>
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<p>Now when you are walking horizontally, you can see fairly well where to go. But when you climb vertically, it takes all your might, every ounce of energy to go forward. There is no time to look around at leisure. You have to climb at the cost of your life.</p>
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<p>Now are you on the same plateau as Father? Do you have no need to climb anymore? No; we must continue to climb. We are aware of the Eight Stages Ceremony (Pal Chung Shik), but at which stage are you? Just like an elementary school course has a number of grades to pass through, in which grade are you now?</p>
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<p>Restoration by indemnity means that we are to pay the price first and then we go one step up. Now do we really practice this way of life? To begin with, do you believe it? You say “Yes,” but are you paying the price, indemnifying and then moving on?</p>
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<p>Just as there are cycles, such as the time of the first coming and time of the second coming, you have to re-indemnify and elevate the level. We have to restore by indemnity. Does the rule apply to us also? Very much so. Then what grade are you? At what stage of the eight stages are you now? The individual level? Family level? Clan level? Then are you at the perfection level of the individual? You have to measure your own position with your own ruler. Have your mind and body achieved unity? If your mind and body are not achieving unity, can you still go up to heaven? Of course this is one of the fundamental teachings we already know, but then again, some people still do not really know it.</p>
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<p>Can an individual whose mind and body did not yet come into oneness have his family come into unity? According to reason we must say “no”. Have American and Japanese members come into oneness? Have we achieved unification between American and Japanese?</p>
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<p>Thanks to Father, who has somehow, all alone created an overall harmony, somehow everybody has survived, and sometimes are even getting along very well. Think about it. It’s really a mind-chilling phenomena. If Father was not offering himself, then you would not be connected to any center. When you are not connected, you become independent. You then have no base to achieve unification, not at any level. Not even at the individual level and certainly not at the family level, much less the true country level. That’s something we have to consider. When Father removes himself from here, can you achieve the same results as today? Just think what it would be like if Father were not available.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately we cannot simply go up to heaven. “Oh Father, you are in heaven; so am I”. We cannot say that. Not everyone who goes to the same school graduates at the same time. There are all kinds of variety, centering on the teacher. Some really follow what the teacher teaches and practices, making effort day and night. Others goof off all the time. There is a spectrum including all kinds. Not everybody graduates at the same time. Some flunk and have to do it all over again. They may take how many years? God knows!</p>
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<p>What is your own assessment? What do you think about yourself? Do you think, now Father can leave you all on your own and you will continue to foster and protect the ideal, and you will promote it? Will you teach it to other people and safeguard it without Father’s help? Can you do that without Father being close to you? Can we do it by ourselves, just as Father has been doing it himself? That means, since the seed has been planted and now it is harvest time, can Father now harvest? Is that grain now ready to be sown again, so it can also bear fruit? That is the question. When you harvest grain, some seeds are healthy, and when planted they will bear fruit. But some grains, although having a perfect shape, have nothing inside, there is something missing. Some grains are decaying, they are rotting. Such grains cannot produce healthy crops. So there are all different types of grain even in the same harvest. Do you understand the analogy?</p>
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<p>Father is harvesting at all the different levels-individual, family, nation and world levels. Father has established the International Religious Federation for World Peace centering on religious people, and he has also established the Federation for World Peace centering on political figures. The political figures are like the body and the religious people are like the mind, even though in the past this proper order always has been reversed. The people in the body position have been influencing badly the people in the mind position. In other words, the politicians have always been suppressing the true religious activities. So Father has corrected that this time. Father took the religious people and the political people and set them where they should be, making unification within each side and then between them. That is what Father did in Korea.</p>
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<p>So now, what is the difference? The difference is great. The political groups have always influenced people away from the position of the mind, and this should not be so. Now that Father has set everything in the right position, great changes can occur. The religious people, who are in the mind’s position, will take initiative and take a leading role over those who are in the body’s position, that is the politicians. Who has done that before? Who in the religious sphere has done this? Without centering on Father, this cannot be done. Without becoming one with Father , no-one else can do it.</p>
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<p>These newly unified religious people will exert more influence in their own countries over other religious people too, and then eventually exert God-centered influence over political activities. They have just made such a beginning. In America, for instance, centering on the President, all the different religious factions can come into one arena and unite. They can understand that something may be imperative for the country, and then respond. But until now there has been no real center. Who leads them, and to where? There is nothing that God wants more badly than the true center. That means, God really wants some person and group in the spirit mind’s position to have subjectivity over the political people who are in the body’s position. Heavenly Father wants to see that very much.</p>
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<p>It is nothing short of amazing that people representing science, politics and religion all gathered together. You know what their relationship has been like until now. No one of them could follow or respect the other. They were all downright enemies. Religion and science have been enemies to a great extent. Politics and religion have also been enemies, and politics and true science also have been enemies to some extent. Now these three will get together and embrace and welcome Reverend Moon without criticizing each other. Naturally, and most importantly, none of them will criticize Reverend Moon. This is an amazing historical event.</p>
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<p>In history nothing like this has happened. But to Father, this is not amazing at all. It is something that should be happening everyday in your own city, in your own village, in your own arena. Everywhere you go, you should reproduce that. What is odd is that we have not seen this happen in the past.</p>
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<p>The practical question is, when you go back to your own hometown and find scientists, politicians and religious people, can you play the role which Father has been playing all his life? Can you harmonize them? Can you make them take you as their center?</p>
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<p>There are a lot of trees in America and a lot in Korea. They are not different trees, but similar. For example, the poplar tree in America and Korea is the same. If you engraft American poplar into a Korean or Japanese poplar, it will become even stronger. By today’s method of cloning, even an individual cell can be cloned. Father gave the poplar as an example. But what about a Reverend Moon tree? A Reverend Moon tree is big and strong and nice. Did we become its branch or clone so that everywhere we go we can be recognized as a small Reverend Moon tree? What is your answer? “Yes, I am a small Reverend Moon tree”?</p>
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<p>What does a Reverend Moon tree look like? How can we define a Reverend Moon tree? First of all, he is a man God loves. That one man that God loves so dearly does not just sit down and receive love from God. In fact he tries to love God in ever greater degrees. He is that kind of tree. No matter how many times he finds himself on the verge of dying, he doesn’t die. He lives again and always tries to do even more to fulfill God’s will. What about you? If you experience a severe setback, do you just simply die, or do you never die, because you are a Reverend Moon tree? To achieve God’s goal in this world, just as Father we must give up our lives, our wives, give up our children and even our nations to go after God’s will. Are we ready to do this? Think about it deeply. Don’t just say “Yes Father, Yes Father”. It’s not that easy. You know that. Think deeply, and then say “Yes Father.” It’s life and death. Will you still say yes when you go through greatest torture in prison? You can only imagine how painful it is if they use pliers to pull the nails off your fingers. Can you still say “Yes Father” then? Then they cut your finger and they do all kinds of terrible things to you. That’s a very serious situation. What if you go through that? How many times are you prepared to die for the sake of the will of God?</p>
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<p>Even Jesus had to ask God “why are you giving me up?”. What about you? Are you going to be better than Jesus? He then said, “Not as I will but as You will.” He acknowledged that there was God’s will and Jesus’ will and they were not necessarily the same. “I don’t want to die. I want to achieve my will for God.” That was Jesus’ will. But to let him die was God’s will. Jesus said, “Don’t do as I will but do as You will.” Are we going to repeat that? How many times?</p>
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<p>All of us have lived “as I will,” but now we have to die and be resurrected. We have to be born again. When the American government very unjustly indicted Father, Father didn’t have to come back to this country. If Father hadn’t come, that would have been the end. America would have been happy and nobody would have questioned Father. They could not have forced Father to come back so they could punish him since there was no treaty between Korea and America. So even if he had committed many crimes, there was no way they could have forced him back. Father decided on his own to come back. Why? He saw that it was God’s will. He saw that there was a way that America could be saved as a result of Father going to prison. So Father said, “Gladly I will go God’s way. So he came back to America and went straight to prison. That opened up an avenue, a way for America to repent. If Father didn’t come back and go to prison then America would have no way to repent. But as it is Father came back and sacrificed himself, like dying on the cross. Now there is a way open for America to repent, and when God accepts their repentance then America will live again.</p>
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<p>We have seen the grand rule. God sacrifices His own loving sons and daughters, putting them to death. As a result of that He saves a greater number of people. God has been doing that ever since history began and He did it to Father. This is God’s formula. He does that to all his loving sons and daughters. Why? Because of the fall. Man inadvertently received Satan’s lineage, his blood, his life, his love. Man has no choice. To be in God’s lineage, man must give up all these things. He must go through and beyond the difficulty of giving them up. It is like dying. You must first die before God can lift you up. That means we must go beyond the realm of this world, of Satan’s love and Satan’s life. We must go over Satan’s world and be free of these three powers-Satan’s love, life and lineage. This is then the starting point for the heavenly site, a foundation on the earth.</p>
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<p>If someone says, “Are you going to save your life or give up the connection to Satan?” you must be able to say, “I will give up my life and give up Satan’s connection.” You must even deny your life. All of us want to be saved, right? But what do you mean? You are already alive, are you not? You are breathing, walking, speaking, you are very healthy and alive, so why do you need to be saved? You are alive but dead. So that means that you have to go out of the realm in which you are and move into a new realm of God. We want to be saved in that way. In order to start love, life and to start everything godly, no matter how difficult it is, what we need is to live or die for it.</p>
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<p>So the Bible says that unless you receive the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, you cannot be saved, you cannot live. When you receive the Holy Ghost, when you receive Mother, then you will come to a new realm. Do you follow? The Holy Ghost is what kind of God? It is the feminine God. What about Jesus? What gender of God is he? He is the husband God, the world God. Since Jesus died without fulfilling all things that he was to accomplish, the relationship became vertical between husband and wife instead of horizontal. The husband and wife relationship should be horizontal, but in Jesus’ case Jesus went to heaven and the Holy Spirit continued to work on earth. Satan became rampant in between. Now in true love, these two must come into unity. So we become as ones conceived in the Holy Spirit (in the Mother’s position), conceived a new and thus “reborn.” And Jesus’ male element is also part of the process of my rebirth. We are not born by the mother alone. The father’s part should be in the mother before I can be born. That means that the Holy Ghost, representing the mind side, and you, on the body side, become one and receive the father’s seed. Then Jesus can come upon us and we can receive love from the father’s side before conception takes place. That is the meaning of being born again.</p>
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<p>Whether you are a man or a woman, the Holy Ghost will come in the mind’s position to each of you in the body position. You must become one with the Holy Ghost, and then Jesus will come down and inject love so the new person can be born.</p>
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<p>That is exactly how the fall took place between Eve and the Archangel. It is the same pattern, only this time it is God and Jesus coming down, not the Archangel. That is the meaning of being born again in Christianity. But that reversal is the spiritual reversal. Now in substance we have to be born again. That comes at the time of the Second Advent. Mind and body will become one for the first time and will receive the inheritance from our Father.</p>
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<p>This has been demonstrated often, in the early days of our church and even now. Whether we are man or woman, it doesn’t matter, we really miss Father so much, so much that we even cry-in complete oneness.</p>
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<p>There should be a role to be played with the passion of an unmarried Adam-person going into the mother’s womb to be born again. It is relatively simple to explain what takes place. But it can be very difficult to actually go through this rebirth process. We haven’t taken this serious step have we? You may hear what Father is saying, but what is Father really saying?</p>
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<p>Simply, we are born again spiritually through Jesus and the Holy Ghost. That gives us a very important condition-that we are reborn through Father’s body. It is important that we have this horizontal connection centering upon the body, with Father. Otherwise we cannot complete the process of being born again, and we cannot fulfill the course of restoration. We know that we have to be restored, which means to be born again.</p>
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<p>Those spirit men who have never been born again come down and connect with an actual physical body to experience this born-again process. Then they can be born again through the body. When that happens, then the spirit man is actually born again and his mind and body are both perfected, and salvation is now complete. If you really love Jesus, when Jesus feels pain, you will feel pain too because you are part of him. You have to be that close. We are part of him because we are his children. The same thing occurs with Father. When Father feels so much pain, we have to feel the same pain or else we are not one with Father.</p>
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<p>In the same way as you imagine you are a fetus in the mother’s womb, you are the result of father’s sperm, so we should feel the father’s pain also because we are connected. But are we like that? If we are not, it means we still have a distance to go before we are restored. We must close that gap now while we have a body. What happens if we die now? Let’s say a person has this much of a gap, this gap could continue on for hundreds of thousands of years in the spirit world. How about a larger gap? It would continue on longer. Now while we have a body we must become one. Then we probably won’t have to wait thousands of years.</p>
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<p>As much as Father taught us, it somehow has been eluding us. We did not concretely learn all that he taught. We still tend to think, “Somehow I will go to heaven.” We have to be more exact, correct? We have to really know what it takes. It’s a science. You can discern the person who is very exacting from one who is not. How do you tell? Their mind and body do not fight each other so much. Such a person whose mind and body do not fight, we say, “he’s one with Father”.</p>
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<p>When mind and body are born again through true love, the person is free. This is not rhetorical or abstract; this is reality. Here is a man who used to love drinking very much, but now his mind and body became one, through true love. So he’s well connected to Father. Then all of a sudden he realizes he really hates to drink wine. That kind of phenomenon always happens. Cigarettes, homosexuality, all these lose their allure. For instance, what happens if our brother or sister who joined the Unification Church continued to have homosexual experiences on and on. They would go directly to hell; there is no way they would return to heaven. We must understand this clearly. Then how can he be saved? When he becomes moved by the Holy Spirit, then somehow he will not desire to do that anymore. Re-birth through true love occurs. No matter how much he liked smoking, drinking or even homosexual activities, the mind now says, “No this is no good.” Then that’s it. It’s the end of the dispute. He simply doesn’t like it. He hates it. You will become like that. You must become like that.</p>
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<p>What if you tried and tried to make that happen? Then you have to try harder. You have to cry and cling to God to make it happen. This is up to you. You have to pray. You have to deny your body, even to extremes, and you have to ask God to make your mind and body become one. Prayer is essential. Don’t underestimate the power of prayer. Pray. Ask God, ask God. Beg God. Forget other things. All you want to do is experience Parents’ love, inherit Parents’ love. That’s all you should want to do. Forget everything else. Seek Parents’ love, Parents’ life, Parents’ lineage.</p>
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<p>Isn’t it the Principle view that since we started at one point, then we need to return to that point, change course and then go on? So we need to continue to deny ourselves until we reach that zero point again. Then new life can begin. At that zero point a new world, new life, new being can begin. So we need spiritual parents and physical parents. Then we need to connect these two into one. How difficult is Father’s mission-to connect and unify those two worlds and make a victorious atmosphere in the spiritual world. To become the owner of this physical world, most important is Mother.</p>
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<p>The original point is the one point of Adam’s couple. We went the fallen way but we now have to come back to that original point, losing all of Satan’s world-everything: nation, tribe, parents, brothers and sisters, even the self. We have to lose all this and reconnect with Father’s new seed in the mother’s womb, and bear a new child. From there a new world will start. This is the fallen people’s formula course-the way to go back to the original point. This is according to Principle. This is not just Father’s idea!</p>
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<p>When you think about it, when were you born again? Can you remember? Otherwise you cannot claim you have new life, a new world centering on true love.</p>
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<p>To be reborn is not easy. It is not simple. Heaven knew and Satan knew, but no human being knew. But now many human beings know for the first time in history. Father pioneered to road of knowing and applying this. As a result of that we can accomplish this now. So the Satanic world must depart now. It must lose ground, step by step. The Satanic world began through a mother’s womb didn’t it? So the new, sinless, born-again world should begin in a mother’s womb.</p>
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<p>So here is a new Adam. We must become one with Adam and be born again out of this new Adam. Therefore it is an absolute rule that we must love Father more than anybody else. That’s why Jesus said, “You must love me more than anybody else, otherwise you will not go to heaven-you will not be worthy of me”.</p>
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<p>This is not simply to be done on a joyous or comfortable occasion. Each must bear his own cross, paying his own indemnity to become like Father. We wish it would happen very simply, automatically, but it doesn’t happen like that. We have to indemnify, we have to pay our indemnity to become like Father.</p>
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<p>So this is very much a spiritual process, isn’t it? To become completely one with Father and to love him and cry for him means we have to cry so much because we miss him so much. That is spiritual. Then after that we are born again, and we have to go through the horizontal path where we have to fight against the world, accomplishing restoration through indemnity. So we have two wars to fight: the spiritual and the horizontal. Who among you are working very hard towards accomplishing that goal now? Yes, each of you. We are all supposedly very busy doing that. Of course we cannot do it simply by ourselves. Only parents can give us rebirth.</p>
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<p>Father is working very hard to make this process as easy as possible for us. He is chasing Satan far away, as far away as possible. Therefore we all don’t have to fight Satan so much, because Father already has defeated him. Isn’t this true? Isn’t that what Father has done from the individual to the country and world level. At the country level, people do not oppose us so much because they understand what Reverend Moon did for America. Father has established a foundation at every level and Satan has retreated.</p>
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<p>So both vertically and horizontally Satan is being pushed back and as a result of that, we now enjoy a very peaceful atmosphere. Now we have come into the time when Father can make the Federation for World Peace. If we have not done anything before, but now we take it very seriously and carry it out, then we can become completely one with Father and he can re-create us any way he wants us to be. We should not be plus in front of Father because Father is plus, and two plusses repel each other. So we have to be minus. If we deny ourselves, believe in Father and obey Father, then we become one with Father, and Father can do many, many things through us. He will say, “You go.” And even though you know you will die if you go, don’t say “Oh no, I’ll die if I go.” Can we say that? If we really think we will die there and we say, “Father, do you really want me to go?” and he says, “Yes!” then we still go. The chances are that you won’t die if God is guiding us. But that’s God’s problem. We should be ready to die, correct? Now all of us here are special people, special brothers and sisters here, but what is our qualification? Satan would like to see that each individual would have passed the life and death border a long time ago. We should always be ready to die.</p>
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<p>But why does Father always nag me and chase me into a very uncomfortable position? You are like a cup with dirty water in it. So what do you want to do? Father would like to throw that water away. Then Father would be free to refill you with real water and you will be a different person. Do you understand? You may not see yourself so clearly, thinking that water is alright since you had that water all your life. But inside, God cannot tolerate many of those dirty family elements. So Father wants to first throw that out so he can re-fill you. That is a correct analogy.</p>
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<p>Now as you look back over your Unification Church life, maybe you joined fifteen years ago. You suffered so much. Father knows that. Father now says, “Let’s suffer again, all over again”. You respond, “Oh Father, should we do that all over again?” But we had best do that again. We want to empty ourselves once and for all and then Father can work much more easily with us after that.</p>
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<p>Blessed couples may say, “Oh Father, you blessed us, so I’m not going to depart with some of these things. I’m going to hold onto them for ever and ever.’ Are you going to say that, or if the task is big enough, you will go at any cost, forgetting your husband, your wife, your children. They may starve, you don’t know, but if Father says “We must go,” then we go. A lot of you went through that course. Once you have done that then we don’t have to suffer in the Satanic world again, from that point on. Our heavenly life begins from there.</p>
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<p>If Christianity and America had supported Father, Father would not have had to go through all this. Father’s family took all this persecution for forty years. All you blessed couples are now the growth stage of this process remaining. You have to follow Father’s path of the cross.</p>
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<p>This is why Father is chasing the blessed couples away to the couple’s home. Once Jesus was crucified there was no way for us to evade going that same course. We may not be crucified literally, but we have to be crucified symbolically. So if Father has gone the same course, there is no way for us to evade going that same course as Father. We must go. Even though it may be only a short time. When Father went through that difficult course it was under terrible persecution, much more difficult than now. Now there is no persecution, so it is much easier for us. But still we must go this way. There is no way we can avoid that. If you go now, there is always somebody who can take care of your children. But when Father started this course this was not so. Father had to fight every inch of the way, in every area. Now, nobody will persecute your children when you leave them behind.</p>
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<p>Because of what Father did in Korea recently, the Korean members will suffer perhaps more than any other members, but the Principle stays the same. Separate from your wife and your children, and go. Now they are gone. What about the organization, HSA? It doesn’t matter. One individual will go and recover the clan and then come back with the victory; that is tribal messiahship.</p>
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<p>What we have done on the individual level and the family level, now we are doing on the clan level which is our perfection level. Formation, growth and perfection, that is our formula course. That is our organization, too. Wherever we go there is always three tiers, three levels of relationship. Now we are working at the clan messianic mission.</p>
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<p>Now the time has come for each individual, by going through this course, ultimately to go back to the original home, back to a completely new world. There will be no persecution there. So Father has restored himself three great rights: elder sonship, parentship and kingship. By doing that he pushed back the Satanic realm. He did this from the original Adam’s position, the position Jesus would have been in if he had fulfilled. That of course is the position of the second coming, the original Adam’s position. The third Adam, the completed Adam, the Second Coming, all these are synonymous.</p>
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<p>Adam was the elder son wasn’t he? But he lost that position didn’t he? Also, Adam was to be True Parents originally wasn’t he? He was also king, right? But he is now none of these.</p>
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<p>On the 28th of July we all got together and heard the pronouncement of the Royal Family of True Love. The royal family was formed. The course that is taken from now is that of true love. Father individually restored the individual, the family, the clan, nation and world, and when he returns there is no opposition. Peacefully he can return. When he returns, we all can follow him and return too. The original Adam’s course is the vertical line. This time he is making the historical condition based on true love. This same straight line will connect all families, centering on true love. The individual portion is small compared to heaven’s portion. The tribal portion is bigger than the individual, the national is bigger still, and world bigger still. But all will have one center of true love, one main direction. The world direction is connected with the individual direction by the true love line. This is the love direction. Satan cannot follow this way because we will be going in the direction opposite to Satan’s way-180 degrees different to Satan’s direction. From here, from Adam’s family, a new age starts. From Adam’s family starts a new tribe and this ultimately will connect to the world. The foundation of heaven’s world is the way opposite to Satan’s. Heaven’s side will gradually collect all humankind through true love, by people understanding the true way.</p>
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<p>So now all the communist world and the free world welcome Reverend Moon. They want to follow absolutely. So that means they have to cut from everything that is not God’s ideology and concept. So if we multiply individual, family and clan restoration then the whole world will come to exist within God’s world automatically. Adam was supposed to establish a nation. That’s what his purpose was. He was not simply meant to remain on the family or clan level at all, but rather to establish a country. Now we, by accomplishing clan-level restoration, will automatically be able to make a country through the root. Ultimately this big tree with a big trunk will be connected by engrafting. The tribe forms the branches which is connected to the trunk and root.</p>
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<p>You are in the original Adam’s position, given to you by Father, and he has said “go.” So you are to go back to your hometown to become a tribal messiah. By doing that you can resurrect your own physical father and mother, and they too can stand in the position of restored Adam and restored Eve. You are in the position of Jesus’ family whereas Father is the True Parents’ family and through them everyone is automatically connected to the same realm horizontally. By doing that you will eventually get rid of the position of fallen Adam and Eve. You will also rid yourself of the failed Jesus position. In other words, you will establish a successful position and be connected directly to Father’s position. By doing that the restored world will automatically come to exist. The first, second and third Adam will horizontally come into one, come into unity. There is now no spiritual atmosphere that will work against this course. So we can recreate the new Adam position, the new Jesus or second Adam position, and completely connect them into one. The sons of the first Adam (fallen people), and the sons of the second Adam (the Christians, restored half way) all become one with the third Adam’s children’s position.</p>
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<p>We can make this connection through the tribal messiah foundation.</p>
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<p>You have your hometown. Why? Your parents take the fallen position and we take the restored position. Jesus made a nation and we can automatically connect with the world through the engrafting process.</p>
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<p>What it amounts to is that all you have to do is connect that branch of yours into the main trunk. Then all of your clan will come alive. As a condition Father has already pieced all these together. So as soon as we connect ourselves then all things will come alive. That is the strategy that works. Father’s tree has all the conditions within it. We connect with it, from the root, by simply doing what Father is asking now. It will work. So all parts of the world will be directly connected with our native land, which happens to be your hometown, your native land, which has nothing to do with the fall anymore.</p>
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<p>Today, your hometown is still under Satan’s dominion. But once you go there and achieve this, then your hometown will be a restored hometown. You don’t have to do anything special because of what Father has already done. So by connecting through you, with the true root, this will be achieved.</p>
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<p>The parents’ concept consists of three parts: the fallen parents, the second or Jesus’ position parents, and the perfected parents. We are at the perfection stage of the parents’ concept now, so we can fulfill all three parts.</p>
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<p>The second position or middle position is always important because it is the connecting point. As a result of that, Adam now resurrects, and Jesus can resurrect, and your original self can also resurrect. Do you follow? That is the sketch, the outline of why the tribal messiah is necessary and why it works.</p>
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<p>What is the actual meaning of the tribal messiah? First it is to let your own physical parents stand in an unfallen position, a restored position. The first thing you do is to put them in that position. Some of them are in the spirit world, but still they are under Satanic dominion, right? Jesus’ disciples who are up in the spirit world, and who are on earth, are still not exactly in the heavenly domain. They are under Satanic dominion to some extent. Perfected Adam is now working spiritually and physically. He has created the victorious foundation to connect both ways-spiritually and physically. So you too can connect with what Father has achieved-the restored Adam position. And so all can be connected with this. When that is realized then the full spirit world can come down and resurrect. So we must do the tribal messiah work so we can connect with the spirit world. We have a lot of ancestry in the spirit world. To connect these three in the course of formation, growth and perfection, you must carry out tribal messiahship. By doing that, each level will be connected to the true root. By doing this the whole resurrection of spirit men becomes reality. This is what Father has been looking to accomplish.</p>
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<p>The second coming will be the perfected Adam, and the position of Jesus and the first Adam will be in it, so your tribal messiah work will directly connect all your ancestry to the perfected Adam position. Jesus is a branch, Adam is a branch, there is Father’s own original branch-all these will be combined in one concept of perfected Adam. The environment and domain of Adam was small, Jesus’ was a little larger, and so on, but each is still connected to the mission of Adam, and Jesus. The core of each centers on Adam’s family, Jesus family and third Adam’s family. The restorational value is connected with the numbers of people who center on each of these three. But ultimately all are connected. The end result is that we will have the same value as everything perfectly restored. Father wants all of us to reach this.</p>
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<p>One thing is for sure, even though you don’t understand exactly what Father is saying because of the problem of translation, you must restore the fallen clan. You must be the clan messiah. You understand that part don’t you? Why? So that you can make your own native land, your hometown, a heavenly hometown. And so you can make your own parents not the enemies as they are now, but on your side so you have your own foundation to stand on too. Then your whole clan will be blessed. The hometown that they inhabit will become a heavenly hometown. The hometown where Father was originally born must be restored also, otherwise it cannot be Father’s hometown. The same applies to him. Just as Father must have his own hometown, you also must your own hometown. This is your mission-to restore it. You must feel God’s heart by returning to your hometown and working through it. Otherwise you cannot live in heaven.</p>
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<p>We have to restore Canaan. Because there is no persecution, no opposition, Canaan can be directly connected through your own hometown. The providential time makes this possible. So going back to your hometown, all you have to do is enroll in the Israelites’ position, as belonging to one of the tribes. A tribe’s ultimate goal is to establish a nation. That is the tribe’s whole purpose.</p>
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<p>We must understand that when the Israelites went into Canaan, almost four thousand years ago, they were more like beggars. They had been out in the wilderness for forty years. Compared to the Canaanites, they were beggars. The Canaanite seven tribes were rich, they had cattle, homesteads, pretty daughters and good sons, everything. Now the Israelites were in the position to digest the Canaanites. But they were digested by the Canaanites and Jesus had to suffer so much as a consequence. We are to set a Godly tradition. We are not to go back to Satan’s tradition.</p>
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<p>There are the seven tribes of the Canaanites, but we are in the elder son’s position. That is the difference. The Satanic world will automatically stand in the younger brother’s position. If you use your good subjectivity, the good inner sovereignty of yours, then they will listen to you. Now the big difference between you and your brothers to be restored is that they are individualistic but you are holistic. So they are about to be digested by you. You bag is bigger than their bag.</p>
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<p>I wrote down these directions in my memos and gave them to the Korean and Japanese members. Now I will give them to you, and it will be all over the world. Follow exactly what I tell you.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">“The Conference Memos and Direction given<br />
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before Father left Korea the 29th of August, 1991.”</h3>
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<ol type="I">
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<li>The Return to Canaan, Restoration of Canaan, and its Dispensational Meaning.Tribal Messiahship, which we must take very seriously, would not have been necessary if Christianity and America had received Father 46 years ago. Within seven years, what you are about to accomplish would have been accomplished-by 1950. It was extended, postponed forty years. The date has been pushed back to 1992 as the date by which this has to be accomplished, instead of 1950.
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<ol>
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<li>What was the purpose of the course in the wilderness? The purpose of the course in the wilderness was to separate from Satan, to separate Satan’s world from God’s world. To separate the two, it took Korean history 4000 years. We had to restore 4,300 years in 43 years.</li>
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<li>Now that we have gone through the wilderness course, we have to return to our home town and restore our ancestry.
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<ol type="a">
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<li>Restore Elder-Sonship.</li>
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<li>Restore Parentship.</li>
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<li>Restore Kingship.</li>
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<li>Make three great victorious conditions: your grandfather, your father and your brothers should serve you. You are Abel and Cain must be subjugated.</li>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<li>Original Ideal Family
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<ol type="a">
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<li>
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<ol>
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<li>Heavenly Father King</li>
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<li>Earthly King</li>
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<li>Prince</li>
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</ol>
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<p>That means three generations. The Heavenly King position is the heavenly position. The King on Earth position is the Father and Mother’s position, and the prince is the children’s position. These three positions represent different levels of kingship. The first represents the past (grandfather), the second represents the present and the third one, the prince, represents the future.</li>
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<li>Husband and wife living in the True Love Palace.</li>
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<li>Parents and Children in True Love.</li>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<li>Establishing a new tradition that is 180-degrees different from the satanic tradition.</li>
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<li>Complete absorption and digestion of the Cain traditions, the Cain realm.</li>
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<li>Establishing a nation: bringing everything into the heavenly position, the environment of heaven. In there our standard has to be very high. What standard? The standard of filial sons and daughters has to be very high, the standard of royal citizens toward the king has to be high, the standard of sainthood should be high (higher than the historical standard), and the standard of the holy man should be high. You see even the world has sons and daughters of filial piety. But our standard for filial sons and daughters should be higher, our standards of sainthood and holiness has to be higher.</li>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<li>TrainingOrganization based on the Divine Principle view:
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<ul>
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<li>Neighborhood (tong-ban), precinct (li), town (myun)</li>
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<li>Town, county, state</li>
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<li>County, state, central government</li>
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<li>State, central government, capital congress</li>
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<li>Central government, congress, world</li>
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<li>Congress, world, cosmos</li>
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<li>King’s Palace, God</li>
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</ul>
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<p>This is the organizational plan based on the Divine Principle. Everything is comprised of three. The eye represents God, the nose, Adam and Eve, mouth, all things. The eyes have three parts-white, iris, and pupil. The ear also has three parts. Everything is created in three stages.</p>
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<ol>
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<li>The Contents of the Organization.If you so wish you can team up as four. Working alone is sometimes difficult. So four people can team up and form a group and work together, and have an advantage. A tribal messiah group can work together, and take turns. Do you know what Father means? Instead of doing everything individually, four people get together and you can take turns staying in this home town and then the next -four different home towns. Also, you can form a twelve-person group. That doesn’t mean Father is saying work with twelve people. No, work alone; but, if you find it more advantageous, four people get together and work. If still you cannot do that then you can form a twelve person group. That is an alternative. If you are a really good organizer you can organize up to a 120-person group.</li>
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<li>Tribal Messiahs accomplish 120 families and 360 families and if you multiply that by two, 720 families. Those are your goals. Once you get their agreement to be trained, you can do almost anything to teach them.</li>
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<li>In the particular situation of Korea, many are from North Korea, so obviously they cannot go to their hometown right now. So in Korea Father allowed them to select a second hometown and establish that, which will immediately be connected to their original hometown when the north/south border is abolished. So Father is recognizing them as second son, and when the first son is restored, of course then you will have a first and second son. That pertains more to Korea, but in America also you can do the same thing. Even though you have your own original hometown you can select, just like in Korea, a second hometown. That means that when they pay enough attention to Unification Church and its teaching and its essence, its True Parentship, then that second town can follow just as easily as your hometown. Our main task is to teach them Divine Principle.
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<ol type="a">
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<li>Educational training</li>
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<li>Itinerary workers. IWs conduct the revival meetings and so forth. Over one hundred American members just went to the Soviet Union and did things similar to which Father is now describing there. We are about to do these things in our own hometown.</li>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<li>Unification comes not from the country but from the individual and family levels. It works its way up, not works its way down: from individual to family, clan, nation and world. Use public meeting places and churches as the training sites, teaching rooms. In America we have a lot of churches so we have lots of teaching areas. In Korea you can live in churches temporarily. Actually you can come and live there physically, but in America it’s a little different situation. That means use the Christian churches like your brother’s home. Maybe we can change the pattern, and people can stay overnight.</li>
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<li>We will train and arm people with thought that is superior to the world’s level. That means, in the world they have a value system which is pretty weak; but ours should be stronger. Our thought and organization should be stronger than our counterparts in the satanic world. By doing that we can win over the social situation (of course this is very much with the Korean situation in mind, but it applies almost equally to America). We organize an effective team and organization and teaching, centering on good people.</li>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<li>The Mission of the Tribal Messiah: Three Great Missions
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<ol>
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<li>Parent<br />
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Teacher<br />
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Owner, or master<br />
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Father often uses these concepts, but also these are basic concepts for us to understand and use.</li>
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<li>Owner=Kingship position; Country level Teacher=School Teacher position Parents=Family</li>
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<li>The mission of the tribal messiah is our inevitable mission-our destiny. Messiahship is not something we can give up or leave half-done, it is something that we have to accomplish. Jesus came as a Messiah and if he didn’t completely succeed he has to try again until he succeeds. So where is Jesus now? He is in Paradise, waiting to attain heaven. So once we undertake the tribal messiah mission we cannot quit as we wish; there is no quitting.</li>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<li>The Tradition of God and True Parents.
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<ol>
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<li>To live for the sake of others</li>
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<li>Invest and invest again and forget the fact that you invested, just like God and just like our Parents. Forget that you invested, don’t remember it. Get it?</li>
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<li>Pray for perfection and dedicate a lot of heart for the sake of perfection. These three points are self-explanatory. These are Father’s, Parents’, God’s tradition.</li>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<li>Steps of Recreation.
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<ol>
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<li>Creation of the EnvironmentWhat did God create first in the beginning of the world? The environment. So we first have to create the environment because we are the Messiah himself-the representative of God. The Messiah represents God’s creative power. So it is a formula. First we have to create the environment.</li>
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<li>Subject and ObjectWhen there is an environment, there is subject and object, otherwise there won’t be any environment. The environment always has subject and objects. Even the mineral kingdom has plus and minus parts and the vegetable kingdom has stamen and pistil (same thing), and insect kingdom and man have male and female beings. Why do they exist in subject and object form? For the purpose of love, which is the whole purpose of God’s creation, period-love! If you want find something mystical, the very fact that everything comes in these two beings, male and female, it’s the most fantastic, it’s mystical! How anybody could do that is mystifying. Centering on what? When you understand love, it’s not mystifying at all. Your faces are telling me, what is so mystifying about it? But think about it-Love! Then it is a mystery!
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<p>All of us have really suffered wanting to know what is our purpose in life. Everyone said, what is man’s purpose? No one ever said, “What is man’s purpose and what is woman’s purpose?” Father is the great discoverer of that. Father said, “Not just man but man and woman.” Why did man and woman come into existence? Because God had love in mind, that is why mankind came into existence. So man and woman become one centering on love. More specifically, physically, centering on what? The sexual organs. True? These are love’s essential organs. There the unification between man and woman becomes realized. There is nothing obscene about it. It is not the mouth-to-mouth kiss that is the ultimate purpose of man and woman, nor to have a strong handshake. No one can oppose and say “I was not born for the sake of love.” No one can say that. They say, “Yes, I am.”</p>
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<p>So before man and woman came into being, the concept of love was already there. After that concept was established then God made man and woman; that is the reality. This is a very serious point. It’s serious enough to divide the whole philosophical world into two opposing camps. So no one can deny, even though you are an ardent student, that man was born for the sake of love and woman was born for the sake of love. Why, then, do we have to marry? We get married so that we can become one centering on love. So becoming one is rather conceptual. Actually, becoming one through sexual organs, that kind of oneness, that is the real original palace of love, not only of love but of life and lineage too. So it is the most important area, the most valuable place in the human’s life; no place is more valuable than that. The fall was the destruction of this great palace of these three things. What does the fall mean? It destroyed the three greatest palaces. This should have been established centering on God, but the fall established it centering on Satan. That is the difference.</p>
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<p>When God created woman did He create her with just woman in mind, independent from man or anything else, just a woman? Before God started creating woman, He already had a clear idea what man was like. Then he started creating woman. So, what is the purpose of woman’s life? Woman’s purpose in life is never for her own sake, as many people may think now. Woman was created for the sake of man. The starting point is that woman was created for man. So “me” has no place in God’s creation; “woman” has nothing to do with woman, but woman everything to do with man, and vice versa, “man” has nothing to do with man. So in God’s wisdom He didn’t give man’s most precious thing to man. In other words, God gave it to woman: “You hold it for him.” So the sexual organ that women have, does it belong to her, or is the original owner of that part someone else? Who? Her husband, right? And the sexual part that her husband has, who is the real owner? The husband? NO! That is the wife’s, the woman’s. So this is a very great point here. You are holding something very valuable for someone else. But you thought all this time that it was yours, so you misused it in many ways. That very satanic attitude came about, “Oh, this is mine, I can use it in any way I please.” That is a very satanic tradition, whereas the Godly tradition is the other way around: “That is not mine, even though it belongs to me, it is not mine.”</p>
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<p>Why is there no peace today? Because everybody thinks that he exists for himself. If he knew that he exists for the sake of others he would never fight, and if man and woman, only knew that they came into being for the sake of love they would never fight. So whatever you have, centering on love, it is not yours, it is simply not yours. Centering on love, I am not the master of myself; my master is somewhere else: my husband or my wife. Isn’t that true? What a striking concept this is. There is nothing over which either man or woman can claim, “It is mine.” Nothing, not even my little finger. Not anything. It belongs to love.</p>
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<p>Centering on love, everything you have belongs to your spouse. Women came into being for the sake of who? Man. And man’s love didn’t come into existence for the man. Man’s love partner is woman. Can you say “My love partner is me”? Nothing belongs to man. So how can you make a mistake and look at a woman other than your wife, and go wrong with her? You cannot; even if they pay you millions of dollars you can’t. Your organ is not yours; it is your partner’s! True? If you misuse it you are like a thief. If you have someone else’s bankbook and you spend their money, you are a thief. Taking another love owner’s place and using it as if you were his wife, that is robbery. Don’t do it! The precious part that the man has, the wife has to ask for it or you should never expose it, because it is too precious. You are not going to use it in any other way because it is simply not yours.</li>
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<li>Corresponding relationshipsFind material through which you can recreate (fundraise). Restore from the satanic world. You must add your blood, sweat and tears to it and offer it to heaven. Through this you can go up and inherit the elder son’s position. You must win approval from Satan.
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<p>Father, too, just like God, invests so much but then forgets; he doesn’t remember. If he remembers, Father says, he cannot continue. So he forgets, does it again, forgets, does it again, and it becomes bigger not on the same proportion but on a larger proportion. A lot of Korean people and the Korean government cannot figure Father out. Father makes so much money and puts everything into America and what does he get? They think, nothing. Is that so? Something is brewing, and that is, of course, what people don’t understand immediately.</p>
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<p>If you really had a genuine friend, and that genuine friend gave you a present of love valued at $100, you know that it cost $100. Then toward that genuine friend and genuine present of love do you say, next time I will give him an $80 present? Not even a bad man would think like that. You would want to return to him $150, because you know his true intention. Because you know his true intention you want to pay back more, not less. Even though man fell, man is born with a godly essence; even fallen man has that kind of good God’s quality. So we who live on earth, we don’t want to drain someone’s resources and then go to spirit world. We want to give more than we receive and when we do that and go to spirit world then we receive that much more than we gave.</p>
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<p>So we should have the habit to, invest-forget, invest-forget continually investing. We live for the sake of doing that. Among your friends, the one who always tries to do something for others, he become popular, doesn’t he? He becomes the center of that group. That’s Father’s tradition, that’s God’s tradition. Why do you become the center? Because God is like that. Because you resemble God and God is the natural center, you are also natural center. So this is a formula: the more you do for the sake of others the more you will come to receive in the future. So that is the tradition of our Parents, and of God.</p>
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<p>Look at Unification Church members for example. If there was this kind of person we would have a great list now today. “Oh I joined Unification Church, I dedicated all my junior effort and youth, ten years, fifteen years into the cause. What do I get? I’m so short-changed. I am not going to do anything more.” Does this resemble God? Apparently not. If you genuinely invested yourself, then the universe would have come around and filled you up already, like air. If there is a vacuum, a low-pressure area, then the high pressure will gush in and a storm will form. The vacuum power is greater than the pushing power. Do you understand? So if that is not happening to you then maybe you didn’t work so hard during all those years. The inexhaustible, unlimited, power of life should come in when you invest and invest and forget.</li>
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<li>Connecting with True LoveThen we come to eternal life-the life that never stops, never ends, because it becomes greater. Our life, through true love, will continue and prosper more and more, eternally. It is easy to say eternal life, but where does it come from? There is nowhere it can come from except from in here. We don’t have to think like that all the time, it is already on an unconscious level. Men, women all go after true love. Why? Because they gain something. That gain is eternal life. How grateful we are because it is the spouse, our partner, who helps me to gain eternal life. Without her, without him we cannot reach eternal life. Why should we get married? What’s wrong with celibacy? It is wrong. True love has to be eternal. To be eternal you have to get married. Why do you get married? You have to have a specific purpose. For the sake of connecting to eternal life we marry. When you do that you become to eternal subject, who is God. Then you become eternal object to that eternal subject, God. And you become one with Him. That is the full purpose of marrying. By marrying and having an eternal life you occupy God, you pull God in, God cannot help but come to you.
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<p>True love always has ownership, so God occupies us through true love. So if you and your husband, you and your wife have true love, God immediately comes and claims ownership. Wife and husband each are half, combined making one, true love sphere. Completing that centering on true love, then automatically the Original Center comes, making a partnership on the opposite side. Opposite side, connecting there, making that connection to subject-object, connected centering on love make ideal couple connected with one, centering on true love. Centering on True Love, making unification and centering on True Love you can inherit everything. Participation everywhere, same place. God is mine, including God’s property, everything is mine. That means whole universe, centering on true love, unites with God and the whole created world is my property. Do you understand? That is ownership. You want ownership at a high level, don’t you? You are greedy. Why? Originally we had that kind of position. After the fall it was a miserable situation. In your original mind is like an electrical power, indicating north and south, moving that original fork. Your original mind has that characteristic, walking in that same direction, no matter how much your present fallen situation resists that. Your original mind is working to go back to that original point. That is my mind-working power. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>So your mind clearly understands the high level it wants to reach. “I want all of the creation. Even the high level of God, I want to occupy fully.” Greedy, aren’t you? Same thing. Everyone wants to become a King. Everyone wants to be a high professor. Everyone wants to become the True Love Parents. These are the three main subject thoughts. Who is the main subject being of these three goals, or thoughts? God. God is the owner of all the created world; God is the great teacher, knowledge king; God is the True Love King. God is that kind of three owners. That is the subject one; we become the object ones. Object means the same level partner. So the mind that wants ownership is like God, also high teacher and high parents. Connecting into one. We have to have that kind of greed to lead us to that high level. Everyone’s’ greed can make the completion of the original purpose of creation of humankind. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>After the fall we had a miserable situation-we lost everything-but your original mind understood that kind of direction. Why? Because Adam and Eve grew up almost sixteen years. Their mind grew up going in the correct direction, constantly moving forward to the terminal point. They were ambitious. Do you understand? Humankind’s ambition to obtain these goals is an original natural characteristic. Do you follow me, do you understand?</p>
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<p>Father wants that, no matter how difficult the situation. Do you know that I was creating the Washington Times during the court case? It was on tape that the American government wanted to kill me. They were my enemy-I understood that. But God until now, has been forgiving and loving His enemies, investing and forgetting that He invested in His enemies. I followed God’s attitude-I forgave everything. Do you know how much the Washington Times spent? 830 million. How much money! Only one, The Washington Times , spent that much money. How much money was spent for all American activities? But Reverend Moon didn’t take a loss. Why? I gave everything, centered on true love. So it expands everyday. So that I could affect the depth of American thinking, filling it full of true love water. Completely full, occupying everything.</p>
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<p>You know that Inquisition book has appeared all over America. After people read that, they can change completely, 180 degrees. Until now the worst guy is Reverend Moon. “Reverend go back home.” But now they understand, and say Reverend Moon don’t go back home. If you go back home America has no hope. Now this miserable situation in America; who can save her? The American government, economic power, knowledge power, cannot save her. She is perishing. No hope. But, Reverend Moon leading her can resurrect another hopeful world. Do you know what I mean? I gave everything and then forgot, through true love. By doing so I didn’t perish. I was making that atmosphere, and then went up and up more and more. Until now, when Reverend Moon appeared somewhere, the media world said, “UHHHHGG!” Isn’t that true! Not taking me as a serious person. Now there is a welcoming atmosphere all over the country. So you have to follow behind God and True Parents. Don’t take the road that leads to death, only prosperity. That kind of attitude will only bring you prosperity; you will not perish. Believe in Father and invest.</p>
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<p>You have to know that recreation course and atmosphere. You have to make that recreation atmosphere. You have to make resources, that is fundraising work, going out and receiving persecution, meeting Satan on the frontline. They took our original front line power; they took the elder son’s position, we were standing there in the youngest son’s position. The youngest son cannot inherit ownership. Isn’t that true? So then, we have to restore that ownership. Ownership refers that Cain and Abel concept. What is the Cain/Abel concept? That is subject-object. The vertical subject-object concept is that the parents are subject, and the children are object. The horizontal concept is husband and wife. Front and rear concept is brotherhood. That together is what we call Cain/Abel concept. At first Satan occupied that first son’s position, so we stood in the youngest child position. We have to restore the original elders’ position, that is mankind’s original ideal of creation position. That was lost, we have to rediscover, go back. That is clearly the restoration purpose. You cannot deny that. So think about the recreation course formula way: how can we make the restored atmosphere? God first made the environment, that sets up that subject-object concept. This concept is the Cain and Abel concept.</p>
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<p>So, if you count that as a chapter, Father has already given you a whole book about what to do when returning to Canaan-how to restore your hometown when you go back.</li>
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<li>The Foundation of Victory and the Foundation of Cain and Abel.That means that unless subject and object become one the realm of victory doesn’t come to exist.
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<li>The Family FoundationUnless the family, centered on husband and wife, has good give and take the family foundation does not exist. A victorious family foundation becomes the Cain and Abel foundation. The foundation of victory only comes from the foundation of Cain and Abel. In other words, unless there is a good relationship between Cain and Abel, perfection does not result.
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<p>So realize that wherever you happen to work, you are not working there to receive the living expense. No. Let’s say your value is $1,000, and you invest it in something and get only $50 or $500 back. Why would you do such a foolish thing? Then why do you work in a company? If you work in a company you must work as if you are the eternal partner of that company. Then nobody can take you away from it. So you work with the company. If you honestly put your genuine effort in there you will occupy the full thing, not in a negative way but in a positive way. You will be the center. If somebody tries to eliminate you, no, he will be eliminated. You don’t evaluate your spouse as a condition to do something, no, you unconditionally receive him or her. Likewise in a company where you are working, you are part of it, you’re the partner, no one can erase you out of there. You are not working for money. Like Father, too, he goes day and night and invests and forgets and invests again, whether it returns or not. No one else can come to the same ground and try to occupy that. It simply will not work. Someone can say, “Oh, I can do as well as Reverend Moon, maybe I can do better, so that’s mine.” No. It’s never possible. Because Father is subject and invested everything in the object, no stranger can come in and intervene in that subject-object relationship.</p>
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<p>Dr. Weinberg is such a razorsharp critical person and he will never easily respond to anybody’s good will, even Father’s. So he said in his confession that he watched and watched Father and the Unification Church and now he is very proud to say that there is no discrepancy between what the Unification Church claims it is and what it truly is. Everything that the Unification Church did was genuine, he said. Perhaps he watched how much Father invested in it and how much Father remembered, and maybe it passed his criteria, his test. He observed that Father invested and invested and has no trace of remembering it, and it moved Weinberg and he proclaimed “This is genuine; in seventeen years I found this out and now proclaim it.” He was jubilant when he said that. Of course, even God is moved by Father. The fact that Weinberg is moved is really not that great. God follows Reverend Moon, how can Weinberg fail to recognize that, and not follow?</p>
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<p>Father likes to boast and be proud too. If Father really expressed his pride in all the things that he has done, he could do it so much that maybe you would all run away. Father is treating you like Father’s bosom friends, eternal friends, and Father shares with you all the essential things. If Father knew that you were not worthy of it, how miserable Father would be. But Father trusts you as bosom friends and shows you these things, knowing that one day you will live up to your standard. This is the way Father feels. Father’s grandson and granddaughter, how loveable are they? So Father embraces them. But can Father speak anything to them? He cannot, they are only two or three years old. Maybe you are a little better than that? At least you understand what Father is talking about, at least you seem to understand. You respond! So you are better than Father’s three-year-old granddaughter and grandson. Maybe that is why Father is doing this. So Father misses you. Father means that. When you have to go away, Father wishes you would stay a few minutes longer before you go. Maybe you feel that heart, so you feel the same thing toward Father. You don’t want to leave Father immediately, you want to stay with Father even a few more minutes. Knowing we are unworthy, we still want to do that, and that is the give and take of love.</li>
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<li>The Foundation of the Nation (Adam and Eve and Jesus’ Foundation)If Adam and Eve hadn’t fallen, God’s country would automatically have come to exist. But since this didn’t happen, we are about to restore it, and we have to do these things before we can restore it. If that foundation had been done in Jesus’ time, Rome would have been absorbed and digested for the heavenly foundation.</li>
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<li>The National Foundation.Jesus was to fulfill the national foundation-we are now restoring Jesus’ work-but Father’s work is much more extensive than that. Father first has to make a national foundation, then make a world foundation, and then a cosmic foundation, and then he returns to God. Then, from the children’s to the parental foundation, everything will have been accomplished. What is remaining now, which is absolutely the last step, is the Unification Federation for World Peace.
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<p>Unification federation means country-to-country. It means neighboring countries being on good terms, friendly countries. The whole world will be moving into the realm of salvation. We won’t have to do tribal messiahship or anything like that. Whole countries will return to their original positions. Tribal messiahship is necessary to establish the national foundation. That is what we are doing now. The Unification Federation will be a vertical relationship. That will be really the end of Father’s work. After that all Father has to do is enjoy and sleep. Centering on true love we can make the Federation for World Peace. That is the end, our terminal point. Isn’t it? Then what will we see? The satanic world completely vanishing and only the heavenly world reigning forever and ever. This is the end of Father’s notes.</li>
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<p>What if a lot of the Egyptian people had followed the Israelites? Then the Israelites and the Canaanites would have established a subject-object relationship-an ideal situation. They would have realized a unified world right there. Subject and object relationship is the key-making subject and object into one and spreading that relationship all over the world. At that time they could have made a unified world. Do you understand? No fighting there. Egypt itself would have become the God-centered country. Compare this to the America situation. Reverend Moon and the Unification Church are subject to the American nation. The American government and the established churches have a reversed relationship. Making into one here could build up into the accomplishment stage.</p>
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<p>America doesn’t welcome me, so I go back to Korea. I will work to unify North and South Korea. I have been working on this for 13 years. Kim Il Sung wants to meet me. I always made conditions for North Korea, to unify the Korean peninsula centering on Father’s work. Do you understand? Now they can take only one direction. Now the United Nations is admitting both North and South Korea. That means they are making the national foundation, on the same level as the entire Free World. Taking their visa, they can travel back and forth, no problem. Do you understand? The North and South Koreans were separated at the time of the Korean War. How can they stay separated? Even the American situation, the Western world or whatever country, if they hear about parents and children being separated, they immediately give residency to unite them. Same thing, both sides, automatically uniting relatives. How can anyone stop that? Making expansion of that relation to the national level. Automatically they are combined into one. North Korea understood that. All will be combined with Reverend Moon into one.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon has a worldwide foundation, all over the free world, and in South Korea too. Connect with Reverend Moon into one. South Korea has the same situation. How can they be unified with North Korea? North Korea’s armament, their ideology, is communist; how can South Korea digest it? South Korea does not have that kind of knowledge; only Reverend Moon has it. Centering on Reverend Moon both sides can connect and digest each other, no problem. South Korea represents Christian world ideas, we have Divine Principle. North Korea is connecting to the communist regime. We have realized victory over communism, too. Both sides Father digested; centering on Father they will move 180 degrees different direction, no problem. They will be silent. Do you understand? They will say, “We want to follow you.” That phenomenon will occur, based upon those conditions which Father made. Father’s direction goes back to God’s way. No one knows that direction, only Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. That is clear.</p>
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<p>No-one know how to make a unification federation for world peace. In God is the power to be the king of knowledge, of sovereignty, of prosperity, of everything. That day is not far away from us, we can see that. It is within my vision. Do you know that? Now can you solve these things? I gave the contents, the explanations. Father just gave us the contents for reaching this goal, reaching our original world. Father would not mind to share more with you, but no more now.</p>
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<p>So, God established the restoration of the elder sonship on the individual level when the Israelites came into being. They were standing on the right side and the satanic world was then pushed to the lefthand side. Here is the very origin of rightwing and leftwing. God has no place to settle down on this earth, He has to move to and fro. The head is who? That is the perfected Adam. The perfection of Adam is the perfection of a nation. It is not an individual; Adam is not an individual, he is already a nation. So expanding, it will become nation automatically, it’s not two different things. So centering on the Israelites God promised to send the Messiah. Who is the Messiah? He is the head, the perfected Adam.</p>
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<p>So the Messiah came on this foundation. Here are the Israelites, the Jewish religion and country, and here are all the peripheral religions, and here is where the head, the Messiah, came. So if Jesus, who stood in that position, had been voted in, he could have unified the twelve tribes immediately with no problem. Then with that, he could have made the subject-object relationship with all the Oriental nations and with the later-to-become Muslim nations. If the Israelites and the Christian church combined into one at that time, immediately Moses’ twelve tribes could have come to the Islamic world-the Middle East side. Do you understand? At that time the Jewish center, the twelve tribes would have been in the subject position. Automatically they wanted to meet the Messiah, unite into one immediately. The subject’s area would have enlarged. At that time the Oriental world, the religious and cultural world of Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism automatically would have been object to Jesus in the subject and center position. Subject and object would have combined, no problem, immediately. That then would be subject, and with Rome as object, being immediately digested, a unified world would have been no problem-a federation for world peace at Jesus’ time. Within his lifetime, achieving that purpose would have occurred. Jesus on the national base of subject and object, Jewish and original Christianity combined, then that center would have opened. It is like the head, the nation means the head. Mind-side is right side; body-side is left side. Standing left, king position is head position.</p>
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<p>But the Israelites and Jewish religion combined with Rome and cut Jesus’ neck. At that time there were the right thief and left thief named Barabbas. Three thieves at that time! Who is the thief who was spared at Jesus’ time? Barabbas. Only Barabbas. At that time the thief on the right, protected Jesus, thief on the left attacked Jesus. The two fought. At that time the right thief and left thief died at the same time. If Jesus was not killed, automatically those thieves would have combined into one. Those two combined with Jesus as subject, would have digested the left thief with no problem. In his lifetime, the false world could have been digested. At that time, Barabbas could have turned around 180 degrees.</p>
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<p>That means Jesus’ mission would have been completed. Combining all the Middle Eastern world, and combined with that, the Eastern and Western world in the unification federation of world peace centering on God’s love. At that time Jesus was killed when those two thieves died. Died means Satan connected to those positions, making a world-level foundation. After Jesus was killed Satan expanded his world foundation.. The resurrection of those positions is at the Second Advent, the Last Days. The left side and right sides have expanded, continuing to fight. The communist world was the devil’s world. That means at Jesus’s death, the realms of right and left expanded to the world level. The United States was centering on the right, the communist world centering on the left. Exactly the same as at Jesus’ time. At this time, we are resurrecting that world foundation. At the time of the second advent Jesus again appears as the center, and then the free world can combine into one and communist world combine into one and Muslim world combine into one. That is the mission of the Second Advent. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>The Unification Church, centering on Reverend Moon, came to America to connect that victorious foundation with the American government, the presidential level. The Christian world didn’t take the subject position. Instead, the Unification Church inherited the Christian world, combining with it into one. Father is standing upon that combined subject-object foundation. Reagan became the president in 1980 through me. Think about it. Five years after the Vietnam War, a conservative, moral, rightwing Reagan could become the President of the United States. Who made that? Reverend Moon. During my time in Danbury jail, in 1984, I helped Reagan too. He was my enemy. Bush, too. I chose those great American leaders, centering on the Unification Church as subject, with the American government as object-connected into one. The Washington Times helped America overcome the communist world. The Washington Times completely serving the nation, eliminating the Soviet curse. That means that, centering on Father, the rightwing united into one and digested the leftwing. That is the resurrected Jesus’ world foundation. Occupying those two thieves completely, and Barabbas’ position. Islam is like Barabbas’ position, that third one. God’s religious side doesn’t have that kind of concept. On Satan’s side, the communist world represents the body and the Muslim world is the mind. Syria represented the center of Soviet terrorism. How can God digest that kind of situation? I chose the Syrian Grand Mufti, and brought him and his followers here for forty days education, digesting them here in America. After that they are completely following me. Three Muslim nations fulfilled this course, which is now finished. Reverend Moon combined with those three, turning them around completely 180 degrees. Now occupying them, with no accusation, no persecution. Making one direction.</p>
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<p>The time is coming when the mind and body, which were separated after the fall, will be united into one. Who made that? Adam, the worst parents, separated into two parts. The True Parents are combining the religious (mind) and political (body) worlds into one. Everything is being turned around, and the free world, communist world, religious world and political world cannot come against me. The whole world is following that. Automatically this makes a peaceful world, one terminal point.</p>
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<p>How can all those directions be unified? The scientific world, political world, secular world and religious world combine centering on Father. This is everything. Why is Reverend Moon the Second Coming of Christ? Because the communistic world, free world and secular world, Muslim world, religious world and political world are all being digested. That is the messianic mission at the Second Advent. Do you understand? This is true, you cannot deny it.</p>
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<p>That is the terminal political point, historical point, ideal world peace point, with everything toward one goal, making unification. That is all there is, all is finished. I established every areas’ conditions. Not only conditions, almost reality! It is more than seventy percent accomplished.</p>
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<p>So, you have to clearly understand Father’s mission, how he could make that completion level. You have to know that, to understand how to inherit Father’s foundation. How can you expand your national foundation to cover the free world? This is the Unification Church’s mission. Do you follow me? No matter how difficult your situation, you have to push over, going on to the hopeful future. That is it.</p>
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<p>Now we understand what the Lord of the Second Coming is, what the Messiah is. He is coming with Godism and Headwing Thought, Godism is vertically connected to the spiritual world. From Godism to Headwing Thought, he accomplished everything. So the one who understands this much, already understands that first are Headwing and Godism, and number three is Reverend Moon-there is no one else that can be connected right here. And the Unification Church. They all know what we stand for. Is it as clear to you as it is to all the world leaders? This is the right way of interpreting history. For the first time, Father explained it exactly, how history is proceeding and why. Also Father is completely right about the law of restoration by indemnity. This is a law which Father introduced.</p>
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<p>So, the conclusion for us, now, is that we must return to our native land, our hometown, and create the subject-object relationship ourselves we must establish the subject/object relationship. You being subject establish the realm of object.</p>
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<p>Have you ever thought before this moment that you have to establish the subject-object relationship in creating an environment? You first have to realize your own environment, and you have to teach the Divine Principle with words, to recreate people. So the Divine Principle should be your main armament for you to educate people.</p>
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<p>Without knowing Divine Principle, they will eternally remain ignorant of the godly way. Now that Father entrusted you as the subject and object in the Cain and Abel principle, he can leave you anywhere. If Father goes to Russia and asks for a room, he trusts that they will give him one of the best rooms in the Kremlin palace. We are in that mission. We are Abel. Gorbachev will say, “Yes, of course.” But can Bush say “Yes” with equal confidence? Well, if they can’t, they are the losers. The Soviets will be the winners. Now Father is trying to evade that mishap. He is trying even now, trying even harder, to bring Bush and Gorbachev into the right relationship. But it is not so easy.</p>
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<p>Now, you all have been to Russia, have you not? Please raise your hands-many. What did you feel there? What are the possibilities there? Which youth will be easier to educate-the Soviet youth or the American youth? (Soviets) What an irony-they are much more qualified here, but they are not going to be of any value.</p>
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<p>No matter what any leader’s personal opinion is, no one can take Unification Thought out of their minds-it is already implanted. Gorbachev thought the KGB were difficult to deal with, so please educate them. Father is still thinking about that. And Gorbachev said, we have no one to trust in the Western world-how true-Gorbachov saw it right. And he asked Father to find some men in lieu of Western people and educate them. And the CIA says, “What are you doing?” But that is what Gorbachev wants, and he needs it too. He needs good, patriotic people.</p>
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<p>So, what is your guess? Do you think Father is smart or not too smart? (Smart!) Smarter than we? (Yes) A few dimensions ahead of today, that is for sure. Father is several steps ahead of you, maybe that is why you don’t understand.</p>
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<p>But, have you ever really believed in Father? You did not understand what Father was up to. You thought he had Oriental concepts, different from American people. And you thought that Americans were somehow smarter than Father, even though you wouldn’t say it. But now, anyway you slice it, Father’s thinking is far more substantial than anything you ever think.</p>
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<p>So, Father invested here, there and everywhere, and you didn’t know. Your head was spinning and you didn’t know what Father was up to. Now, when Father put together the pieces like a jigsaw puzzle, it fits and you begin to see the picture. Now you start nodding more approvingly. Father is a wonderful leader-we didn’t know that.</p>
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<p>So, we thank Father and wish Father the final success, and we should go to hometown and become tribal messiahs. Do you understand what Father is saying? If the Israelites had not gone into Canaan when God told them to do that through Moses, if they had stayed in the comfort of Egypt, they would have been eternal slaves, servants. Now, Father, as the subject of a victorious foundation, is allowing us to be in the realm of object, and the object will completely obey to the subject, becoming one no matter what, and go ahead and carry out Father’s direction. We will be owners ourselves. Otherwise, we will be slaves, like the Israelites would have been if they had remained in Egypt, servants.</p>
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<p>You don’t have to worry about the country so much. Do it, and the country will come to exist-God will bring us the country. And the nation and world will follow, the cosmos will follow, no problem. We can win over hell, too, and Satan too.</p>
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<p>So Father accomplished it and made a special ceremony to that effect, the first of July. What if Father, for today’s celebration of five birthdays, had that broadcast on television, and four or five billion people could view it worldwide. “Reverend Moon is so famous worldwide. It is his children’s birthday today.” All over the world, people would want to participate in those birthdays! Many countries are becoming like that. One time, two times, stir up the world. We can do, no problem. I made that television studio center-big. That company can connect to every country’s television stations, no problem. Many companies are moving into our studio complex. Father literally became a media center.</p>
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<p>So, we made Father work all morning. How can we express our appreciation? Now, Father will go to Alaska, and will continue to study to make up all the deficits we are making now. He has to pay extra effort to make this happen.</p>
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<p>So, Father reduced this church hierarchy to a minimum. Father told Mr. Kamiyama and all the old 777 couples to go back to Japan and start anew. Only the relatively new Japanese members will remain in America. You see, the times are changing. In Korea, for instance, there is only one person at HSA, and everyone else went to their hometowns. We must stay abreast-what about America, should we do the same?</p>
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<p>We didn’t come around Father to get a job and a living expense. We came here to be educated and to create a new country, a new nation-and we are the soldiers of independence forces. We are not dependent forces, but independent forces. You must inherit the American Founding Fathers’ spirit-you will be the founding fathers, the pioneers of this country-one nation under God, and we’ll make one world under God. You are the harbingers, the pioneers. We know the sacrifices of the Pilgrim Fathers, and should we sacrifice more or less than they, knowing everything we know today? Decide in your mind, make up your mind. But you are not desperate-your door is open ahead of you-a big road, instead of a small road. All you have to do is have absolute confidence. The Pilgrim Fathers just believed, hoped. You can do much better because you know-how can you not do so much better than they? You walked the way knowing where you were going. Is that true? You know well.</p>
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<p>Today, upon the founding of The Federation for World Peace, I am very honored and pleased by the presence of such distinguished leaders of the world. Please accept my heartfelt gratitude for coming and for making this ceremony most memorable.</p>
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<p>From the beginning of human history until the present time there has never been a period when people did not long for lasting peace, nor has there ever been a person who did not wish deeply in his heart for true peace during his lifetime.</p>
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<p>Yet, contrary to the desires of all people and in spite of our great achievements, humanity has yet to secure world peace. Quite the contrary has been the case. At no time has human life been free of war and bloodshed. Why is this so?</p>
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<p>In contemporary history mankind has experienced two world wars. In 1914 with the assassination of an Austrian archduke at Sarajevo in Bosinia, the first world war was ignited. Eventually this war engulfed the whole of Europe. Sixteen nations were involved. In the end at least 30 million men and women were either dead or wounded. It was Europe’s worst tragedy.</p>
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<p>The inhumanity and severity of this war caused world leaders to acutely realize the need to strive for world peace at all costs, to end all wars. On the wave of this genuine desire for peace and longing for the improvement of human welfare President Woodrow Wilson of the United States spearheaded the founding of the League of Nations.</p>
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<p>Although the League handled over forty political disputes with varying degrees of success, its inability to resolve major crises between the powers eventually determined its failure. Sadly, President Wilson could not even bring the United States to participate in the League, and his noble dream for peace failed. The world’s ardent desire to put an end to war remained unfulfilled.</p>
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<p>Less than 20 years after the ending of World War l mankind faced another cataclysmic war. At that time, World War ll engulfed not only the Atlantic Region but the Pacific Region as well. Many more millions of human beings were the victims of war, suffering injury, destruction, and death. Only after the atomic bomb was used against Japan did this most tragic world war come to an end.</p>
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<p>Once more world leaders were alarmed and anguished. They sought to find a means to prevent the world from again becoming a living hell by war. The fruit of their efforts was the United nations which was inaugurated on April 25th, 1945 in San Francisco. The history of the United Nations has thus spanned 46 years until this time.</p>
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<p>Yet, has the United Nations been able to alleviate the tragedy of war? Is humanity living in peace? Unfortunately the answer to these questions is no. Even after the founding of the United Nations, wars have continued to break out. There have been more than 60 wars and skirmishes since the end of World War ll, including the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War. The tragic cycle of human destruction continues as before.</p>
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<p>Why is peace so difficult to achieve? Today we are gathered together for the inauguration of The Federation for World Peace. Before we proceed, however, bearing in mind the previous record of mankind, we must think deeply and analyze accurately as to why peace is so difficult to achieve. Without knowing the causes of war, without a deep analysis of the past, we may very well repeat past history, and the noble goals and ambitions of this Federation would remain unachieved.</p>
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<p>Ladies and gentlemen, up until this time people have longed for and anguished for peace without having a true philosophy of peace. Without this philosophy of peace, there can be no true methodology for achieving peace.</p>
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<p>The fundamental reason that peace has constantly eluded mankind is rather simple yet profound. Human beings have lost their relationship with God. Because of that, they have lost the ability to attain true peace. Since that time, men and women have repeatedly tried to restore peace, but have met with failure after failure because they have been trying without God. This is the fundamental error mankind has been committing. This is the real reason why we have not yet achieved peace.</p>
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<p>God is the source of true love and true peace. Yet in the world which God created, the inhabitants are pitted against each other in war and mutual killing. This is completely paradoxical.</p>
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<p>God created man in his own image. Furthermore, God created man as a holy temple in which He, God Himself, wanted to dwell. Suppose each individual were a perfected temple of God so that each individual was living every minute of every day with the spirit of God dwelling within him. In this situation could man war against man?</p>
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<p>In the original world of God’s creation men struggling against men would be something like your right hand fighting against your left hand, or even more, your own hand pulling out your own eyes. In other words, in the ideal world of creation it would be impossible to have war among men. In this world, people would only be capable of loving each other and harmonizing together. The only challenge would be in competing in ways to glorify our Creator better and further.</p>
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<p>No matter how large the population of this world, it should still function like one person’s body. In one human body, as you know, there are many billions of cells. Although each cell has its own individuality, among them there is not contradiction. Likewise, each individual in the original world would become a temple of God, and God would dwell in the hearts of everyone. How can God, dwelling in each person, engender a contradiction among men? It would be impossible.</p>
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<p>In such a world there would be no conflict, no misunderstanding. There would only be harmony, cooperation and mutual assistance. There would be unity among people in the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty. This is truly the world of peace which man seeks. This world would reflect the nature of God, whose primary characteristic is unselfishness unselfish love, unselfish peace. In religious terms this is called the Kingdom of God on Earth. The basis of such a world is the worldview of Godism, or the headwing ideology.</p>
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<p>If God is Almighty, He is certainly capable of realizing a world of peace and happiness for all humanity. If this type of world could not be achieved, then we would be forced to conclude that there is no God.</p>
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<p>At the dawn of human history, when God began to realize His world, something tragic happened. Our first human ancestors lost God.</p>
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<p>God created one man and one woman to be the beginning point of humankind. In religious terms they are called Adam and Eve. Tragically, at the outset of human history they committed sin, not allowing God to dwell in them, and they were expelled by God from His Kingdom. At that very moment, with their departure from God, man and woman failed to achieve their potential, and were unable to become temples of God. At that moment peace was lost. Instead they became the temples of Satan, whose characteristic is selfishness.</p>
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<p>Since this occurred at the very start of human history with the very first human ancestors, all their descendants up to the present generations have grappled with the arduous task of finding God. Without the knowledge of God as our True Father and the understanding that all humankind are true brothers and sisters, men have become each other’s enemies. Originally if you were to hurt someone else, it would be the same as hurting yourself, since the same God is dwelling in both. But humankind has become spiritually darkened. Under the present tragic conditions when one kills his own brother he feels no pain.</p>
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<p>Furthermore, to make things worse, since man has become the dwelling place of Satan, he is aware only of himself and not the whole. The natural result if the manifestation of selfishness from the level of the individual to the family, society nation and world.</p>
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<p>With this limited outlook, when someone’s own interest or profit is violated, he is ready to fight. War is thus inevitable. This is the real reason for war on every level. Then what does God intend to do with this fallen world? God is living and God is Almighty. As I said, God is a God of love.</p>
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<p>God, our Creator, has a Will. That Will is to restore this world into the world of true peace. In other words, He will restore the world of His original nature and ideal by re-creating the present world.</p>
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<p>For this reason, there is hope for true peace in the future. God’s Will is to eradicate selfishness from each individual, then transform or re-create that person into His own temple, and make all men holy.</p>
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<p>For this reason true world peace between nations begins not at the national level, but with the perfection of the individual. Each person is perfected by becoming the temple of God. This is where world peace is germinated. Each one of you, ladies and gentlemen, is the true beginning point of world peace.</p>
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<p>Since the Fall of Man, there has been a constant war going on within each of us. It is an inevitable consequence of the Fall of Man that there is continuous struggle and conflict going on within ourselves between mind and body, and between the desire for good and the desire for evil.</p>
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<p>Originally mind and body were to be one.. The mind and body were to be one. The human mind represents God’s mind. The human body is to be a container to accommodate the mind, or a dwelling place for the mind. Separation came between these two when the Fall of Man occurred.</p>
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<p>The Fall of Man resulted in the body coming under the domain of Satan or selfishness. Thus tragically the human body has become the servant of Satan.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, the human conscience is the agent of God in the individual person. One’s conscience does not exist for the benefit of oneself. The conscience is planted by God for the sake of righteousness. Thus, the conscience always strives toward goodness and unselfishness. Yet the body rebels against this conscience. The body only seeks after comforts and tends to act selfishly, going after carnal desires. The conscience in turn is trying to chastise the body and direct it toward the mind. This is why there is always inevitable conflict and struggle within one’s self.</p>
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<p>This is the reason why the traditional religions of the world unanimously teach the principle of chastisement of the body through fasting, prayer, and other disciplines doing things the body does not want to do. Religion is the training ground where the desire of the body is suppressed, thus bringing the body to the will of the mind. For this reason religion has been the instrument of God to bring men back into the original ideal.</p>
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<p>However, no one is capable of dominating his body without uniting with God within himself. The only power that enables the mind to have dominion over the body is that generated by the unity of the mind with God’s truth and love. Mind is subject and body is object. God’s love and truth have the power to bring them together into one harmonious person. This is what religion defines as a man of perfection or a holy man.</p>
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<p>God-centered men and women in perfection are called men and women of goodness. These good men and women may receive God’s blessing of marriage and be united into a couple of husband and wife. This will be the beginning of one ideal family of men on the face of the earth. This model family is what God wanted to have as a building block of the society, nation and world.</p>
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<p>There is an old saying in the Orient that “once peace is dwelling in the family, everything goes right.” A happy and harmonious family is a family of peace and the foundation of the heavenly kingdom.</p>
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<p>The dynamic of the family is true love. You must love God first, then love your husband or wife and your children with truly pure and sacrificial love. This is the manifestation of true love. God created love as the supreme force in the universe. He has created nothing greater in this universe. True love is supreme.</p>
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<p>True love, of course, originates from God. God has invested everything, every ounce of His energy, for the creation of all things and mankind. Love is the only thing that when invested fully, returns fully. When you invest true love, no attrition occurs. It will multiply and prosper. Investing 10 per cent of true love will yield or return 120 per cent. One might think that those who practice true love would become poor and miserable, yet the end result is to the contrary. By practicing true love you will acquire prosperity and eternal life.</p>
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<p>This kind of family of true love becomes the foundation for creating a society, nation and world. That society, nation and world shall be true-love centered, and shall become ideal and peaceful. There you will find harmony instead of contradiction. You will find understanding instead of misunderstanding. You will find unity instead of division. You will find unselfishness instead of selfishness. This is the society, nation and world where sacrifices and good service become the dominant virtues. The realization of the ideal of God is the way to achieve the ideal of true peace in the world.</p>
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<p>When the Bible says that God sought to create human beings in “His own image,” this means that the invisible God wanted to manifest Himself into a visible form. In other words, men and women would have become the personifications of God.</p>
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<p>If the first man and woman had realized the ideal of God they would have become the first visible form of God and created the first family of man. Then God-centered children and grandchildren would have formed an ideal society, nation and world. In this case the invisible God would become the vertical True Parents of man centering upon true love, and the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, would have become the horizontal True Parents of mankind centering upon that same true love. Centered upon these True Parents of man, humanity would have become one family eternally fulfilling true brotherhood.</p>
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<p>however, the fall of Adam and Eve meant that humanity lost True Parents. That day we became orphans. Brothers turned into enemies. As a result, nations came to develop antagonistic relationships rather than friendly ones. Accusations abound on every level</p>
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<p>In the final fulfillment of human history, therefore, God’s work of restoration is the restoration of True Parents first, liberating humanity from its orphan status. Today this is the central dispensational work of God to bestow True Parents upon mankind, to create the original family of man centering on God and true love.</p>
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<p>Ladies and gentlemen, today’s creation of the Federation for World Peace must be different from that of the League of Nations and the United Nations. Most important is that we must found this organization upon the true ideal and philosophy of lasting peace as well as the ideal of True Parents. In the final analysis, peace in God and with God is the newest level of awakening. This is therefore a refreshing new beginning toward the attainment of peace. The exclusion of God from human efforts for peace is the core reason for their failure. Therefore we shall make God the center of this movement and the dynamics of this movement will be true love.</p>
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<p>For men and women who are fervently longing for world peace, today’s gathering is a historical gathering. There are many presidents and former presidents here today, as well as prominent religious leaders and leaders from every walk of life. This is truly a rare and extraordinary assembly. Furthermore, there are leaders from the East bloc and the West bloc. Until recently, those leaders were mired in the Cold War and locked in a chilling confrontation. In this auditorium however there is no East no West. Everyone is gathered together in one spirit of cooperation and reconciliation.</p>
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<p>On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall finally came tumbling down. Ever since that event we have been living in a different world. The world is moving quickly toward reformation, change, mutual understanding and friendship. Everyone today feels acutely that the mood of the world is opening up to the blossoming opportunity of peace.</p>
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<p>If you agree that the principles I have expounded are the fundamental criteria for peace, then true peace is reachable and achievable. The industrialized North must reach out to help liberate the South from pervasive impoverishment. The developed nations must reach out with a helping hand toward the developing countries and the new democracies. Each nation’s attitude must be changed from a selfish one to an unselfish one. That in itself is a revolution. Nations can do this when leaders see from the position of parents. The most unselfish and sacrificial love of all is the love of parents. From that perspective, one can see that all nations are brother and sister nations. Then a fresh new vision emerges and new opportunities will open up in front of us.</p>
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<p>It has already been announced that in September North Korea and South Korea together will become member nations of the United Nations. This is another significant positive development toward the achievement of world peace. Then the number of member nations of the UN will reach 163 countries. What should be the priority of those 163 countries in the days to come?</p>
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<p>The time of colonialism is over, where the powerful nations exploited the weakest ones. The law of the jungle and Herbert Spencer’s “survival of the fittest” do not apply in our world. The age of the superpower arms race that drove the world and humanity into fear and uncertainty has also passed; humanity ought to be liberated from the devastating threat of nuclear arms. What time is it in God’s timetable? This is the time that the Holy Scriptures refer to as that of “beating our swords into plowshares.”</p>
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<p>This is the time for developing mutual trust based on a high moral standard. It is a time when all the member nations of the United Nations with a relationship of mutual respect and love should jointly declare one final war against our common enemies the scourges of hunger, ignorance, disease and crime.</p>
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<p>This is in God’s plan. From this time on, the definition of “my country” will expand. Although everyone has their home country where their family lives, in a larger sense, the world now becomes “my country” because it is where God my Father and my brothers and sisters all the people of the world live.</p>
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<p>From this point-of-view, advanced nations should seek to share high technology with the developing nations and new democracies. To do otherwise would be a moral crime. Things which are good and beneficial must be shared among all nations. When a new discovery is made, it should benefit all nations. If something is good for humanity and the world we must fulfill it transcendent of national boundaries. For a long time, I have been fighting for equal opportunity in the use of high technology by all developing nations.</p>
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<p>Ladies and gentlemen, your coming to this place is not an accident. Nothing happens by accident. I feel you are ordained to be here. You are chosen by God as champions of peace.</p>
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<p>Within our lifetime we shall commemorate the year 2000. That year will be history’s new turning point. A new era is unfolding. With the cooperation of God and man together the twenty-first century will be a century of peace. In order to make that happen we shall work tirelessly together for the next nine years. If we do, we shall be able to eliminate all obstacles that might hinder the attainment of peace.</p>
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<p>The twenty-first century shall be a righteous century. In the twenty-first century wealth will not be the dominating factor. Instead the human spirit and human soul shall be dominant. The twenty-first century shall be the era of unity between God and man. It shall be the era where a new awakening will come to every man a realization that he shall benefit himself more when he genuinely lives for the sake of others. In the twenty-first century selfishness will decline. Life, honor, and glory based on unselfishness shall be triumphant. These are the characteristics of the coming twenty-first century.</p>
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<p>The era for peace is approaching. Even the opportunity for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth is closer. The twenty-first century shall be a hopeful and glorious century. TO make this happen, the Federation for World Peace will provide the ideal and philosophy to educate the world’s population. The Federation will assist spiritually, mentally, and financially in the development of needy nations. The Federation will set a high moral standard and take up a dynamic role in building a world of peace.</p>
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<p>Ladies and gentlemen, you are the apostles of peace. A bright new hope as well as an exciting new future is awaiting us. Today we should fervently feel the desire to fulfill the great mission that is being bestowed upon us.</p>
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<p>In order to achieve this sacred duty and the historic responsibility of building lasting peace, we should dedicate our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor with total commitment. The very first item on our agenda shall be to invite God into our individual hearts, and those of our family, society, nation and world. When God is with us, who shall be against us?</p>
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<p>Respected friends, my beloved brothers and sisters, we are called to this sacred mission the building of world peace. Our noble march shall begin today toward that glorious future. Let us build a true world of peace together with God.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="center">Founder’s Address<br />
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<p>Respected and eminent religious leaders from countries around the world, distinguished representatives of worldwide religious organizations, scholars of religion, and all participants who are present here. From the bottom of my heart I welcome you to this historical Inaugural Assembly of the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace.</p>
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<p>In the Founder’s Address at the first Assembly of the World’s Religions, which was held in New Jersey in 1985, I identified three essential tasks for religious people. First, all religious traditions should respect each other and, at the very least, work to prevent conflict or war between religions. Second, all of us, as cooperating religious communities, should serve the world. And third, in order to fulfill the mission of religion, we should contribute to the development of world peace by means of an organization in which all religious leaders would participate.</p>
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<p>At the second Assembly of the World’s Religions, which was held in San Francisco one year ago, I called for the creation of the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace. Today, with the co-operation of religious leaders such as yourselves and in the presence of representatives of religions from around the world, the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace is announcing its historical birth.</p>
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<p>Now is the time when all the world’s religions should keenly feel central responsibility for the realization of world peace and should take action for this purpose. The future happiness of humankind cannot be achieved through the pursuit of economic prosperity alone, but only by overcoming conflicts between ideologies, between cultures and between races through inter-religious understanding and spiritual harmony. Therefore, the main theme of my message at this Inaugural Assembly of the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace is <em>The Mission of Religion in the Establishment of World Peace.</em></p>
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<h3 align="center">Our purpose</h3>
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<p>God’s ideal of creation centers on true love and calls each of us to exist for the sake of others. The purpose of human existence is to realize an ideal family, society, nation and world through individuals who embody this ideal and whose mind and body are harmoniously united into one. However, through Satan’s false love and self-centeredness, each human being became an individual with disharmony between mind and body. The family, society, nation and world, consisting of human beings characterized by such contradiction, have troubles and dissensions that are nothing but the multi-dimensional amplification of the disunity and struggle that exists within the individual.</p>
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<p>The democratic world has become increasingly individualistic and self-centered. This is what Satan wants, and thus Satan is leading most of humankind toward damnation. In order to stop this decline, we cannot rely on left-wing or right-wing ideas alone. We need head-wing thought centered on true love, which transcends ideologies on both the left and the right, and we need Godism, the teaching that human life is to be lived in relatedness to ultimate reality centered on true love.</p>
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<p>Since the disunity in our society and world originated with Satan’s false love, creating the discord between mind and body within individuals, true peace cannot be brought about without harmonious unity within individual human beings. This unity can only result from the experience of true love. The base for realizing the peaceful world is not to be discovered merely by seeking global solutions, but rather through individuals and families. Individuals whose mind and body are harmoniously united by God’s true love and who go beyond Satan’s dominion, and families, formed by such men and women, these become the delivery room for world peace.</p>
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<p>The human fall, which came about through false love, created discord between mind and body. As a result we experience disunity and struggle in vertical relationships with God, our parents, our children, our students and in horizontal relationships with our spouse, our siblings, our friends, our co-workers. Instead of being characterized by love, these relationships became distorted due to the confusion within individuals between the mind’s desire to serve others and the body’s desire to gratify the self. The discord can be seen in the value systems (worldviews) which guide individual and social life. The confusion between mind and body extends to the confusion between religion and science, between idealism and materialism, and between value-seeking and fact-seeking pursuits.</p>
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<p>According to the ideal of creation, as mind and body unite within an ideal individual through God’s true love, mental and bodily worlds, which are extensions of individual mind and body, also should come into a harmonious relationship, not contradiction. Religion and philosophy represent the internal world of the mind; the bodily world is represented by politics and economics. Just as mind is in the subject and leading position, while the body is in the object position to harmonize with the mind, religion and politics also should achieve harmony and unity in a subject-object relationship. Otherwise, the ideal society cannot be created.</p>
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<p>What has been God’s purpose in sending saints and prophets? God’s desire is to educate all people about His will of true love, by showing a model in personality and lifestyle. In particular, God’s will is for the mental and bodily worlds to unify in a great harmony centered on God’s will of true love. This can be accomplished by educating rulers and leaders about the Heavenly Way so they will then practice it.</p>
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<p>But, as the body often does not follow what conscience requires, many rulers have not recognized holy men and saints; have not received their teaching; and have ignored their warnings. Who can take responsibility to solve the misery and the evils in contemporary society: the confusion in values, moral corruption, drug addiction, terrorism, racial discrimination and so on? Can politicians, with political power, completely solve such problems? There is a great responsibility and burden which accompanies the decisions and choices made by politicians. This is true especially in this age when societies are more pluralistic than ever and are so internationally interdependent. I think that rulers, when making an important decision, should humbly listen to the voice coming from heaven and look for solutions through following the Heavenly Way.</p>
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<p>We should repent that religions themselves, representing the mental world, have not fulfilled their responsibility for bringing about the peaceful world. We cannot deny the fact that religions in their current state lack the life energy necessary for leading and purifying the world, and rather are going against their original mission. Each religion should revitalize its internal purity and life energy through God’s true love; reform itself in a determined way; and develop harmonious relationships with other religions according to God’s will of true love.</p>
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<p>Devotion to God and His great will of true love is the mission of each religion. As such, the prosperity of each religious organization alone cannot be the purpose of religion. God demands that we come to know His great will for saving the world and that we practice this in our lives. This is more important than studying scriptures or observing religious ceremonies. Religions, for too long, have failed to relate to the living God and to bear witness clearly to Him. The God that I know has no attachment to the content of doctrines which are put together according to human logic. Since God is the Origin and Parent of all of us, He does not discriminate between races or between religions.</p>
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<p>Therefore, religious believers should completely follow God’s will of true love to realize the ideal world of peace, and the salvation of all people. Given the contemporary reality, religious people should not lead comfortable lives. Instead they must go on the way of a living faith, centered on true love and true life energy, having conversation with the living God. This cannot be achieved in the prevailing atmosphere of religion today. Unprecedented change on a global level, through the motivating power of all religions joined in a movement of a new dimension, is demanded.</p>
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<p>The hypocrisy of those religious people who were not sincere in their practice of God’s true love has led to the proliferation of atheism. This world should be changed. Each religion should make efforts to purify itself and to become the leading actor in a new reform. All religions should leave behind the pursuit of their own benefits; take up the cause of world salvation that God hopes for; stand on the front line in the effort to eliminate poverty, disease and crime in the world; become a bright light in this dark world of the Last Days; and so teach and guide leaders in every field such as politics, economics, or social work.</p>
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<p>Respected religious leaders. Following the direction of God’s providence, I have been devoting all my energy to the work of reforming the world and restoring God’s ideal of true love. Through the activities of the International Religious Foundation the Assembly of the World’s Religions, New ERA, the Council for the World’s Religions, the Religious Youth Service, the Inter- Denominational Conferences for Clergy. and the Youth Seminar on World Religions I have tried to provide a model of inter-religious understanding and harmony, and a model of that practice of God’s true love which religious people should embody. I am doing my best for the sake of the ideal of world peace.</p>
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<p>Today I announce the publication of World Scripture, completed after five years of cooperative effort among scholars of religion and after review and endorsement by heads of the world’s religions. World Scripture will become a shining light, a volume of holy scripture that puts together the universally valuable contents of the world’s religions. In particular, it will become a precious textbook for educating the younger generation who are to live together as one global family. It will teach them to be able to overcome barriers between religions, between races, and between cultures. I believe that, through this text, all people will not only free themselves from religious ignorance and self-righteousness, but also realize the fact that, among religions, there are shared values and a universal foundation which are of greater significance than the differences which have historically divided religions. I thank those scholars and Editorial Board members from each religions who worked for the publication of World Scripture.</p>
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<p>Following this Inaugural Assembly of the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace, which represents the mental world and stands in the subject position for world peace, and International Federation for World Peace, which represents the bodily world and stands in the object position, is to be inaugurated here in this place. Leaders from every corner of the world are arriving for this event. If these two organizations, harmoniously cooperating internally and externally, practice unification through true love in accordance with heavenly will, then the peaceful world will be realized. When the unification of religion and politics, representing the unification of mind and body, comes about through God’s true love, the world of peace will soon follow.</p>
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<p>Respected leaders of religions. When we sincerely reflect on this age, we come to know that now is an urgent time when not only faith, but also practice and action are demanded. The world’s problems including such miserable struggles as racial wars and religious wars which have come about through the spread of atheism, hedonism, secular humanism and through the distortion of true religion, are extremely serious.</p>
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<p>In Western societies there is a tendency to take life easy, especially now that communist atheism has lost its ground. This tendency, however, comes from a superficial assessment of the situation, founded on ignorance about the real essence of the problems that we face. As long as a new awakening movement of true love centered on God does not occur throughout the entire society, the fall of contemporary civilization whose center has been Western society is coming, and that outcome will bring more misery than we can imagine.</p>
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<p>The world as it is now cannot be left alone. There is no time. Who can take responsibility for this generation? Military leaders? Politicians? New social engineers? We, representing the religions, should take that responsibility. I ask your active cooperation. When, through the movement of the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace, historical religious traditions harmoniously advance in practice toward world peace, then the spiritual foundation for guiding the world will be firmly laid, and the ideal of peace centered on God’s true love will be completed. When all religions of the world have a unified direction, the peace of the unified world will come.</p>
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<p>Your busy schedule of these past few days is now over, and now it’s time to bid farewell; I want to express my deepest gratitude to our Conference Chairman, Dr. Alvin Weinberg, for his dedicated leadership in the last three conferences. He has continued to raise the level of ICUS to even greater standards of academic excellence.</p>
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<p>I also want to thank our distinguished Vice Chairmen,Dr. Tor Ragnar Gerholm, D. Michael Higatsberger, and Dr. Se Won Yoon, as well as all Committee Chairpeople and participants. Your very intense discussions and hard work during this conference have borne great fruit.</p>
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<p>Mrs. Moon and I have been very happy to welcome you here to our homeland of Korea, where you could experience the Korean countryside, the warmth of the Korean people, and continue to forge bonds of friendship across national and cultural boundaries in this radiant land.</p>
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<p>Over the past twenty years, we truly have become the “ICUS family,” composed of scholars seeking to make the world a more ideal place. On each opportunity that we have to be together I have tried to share with you something from my heart centered on the will of heaven. This evening, I would like to share with you something about my thinking in placing such importance on giving encouragement and support to the scholarly community.</p>
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<p>Scholars serve humankind through their wisdom and knowledge. Scholars enrich our lives and make them more convenient through their advances in science and technology. But even more importantly, realize that they have a mission to accomplish in realizing an ideal world of happiness.</p>
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<p>In spite of the most earnest desires and fervent efforts of scholars, and in spite of the fact that we have seen a revolutionary improvement in our external material living conditions, humankind has yet to find a way to escape from anxiety and chaos, or from crime and violence. We find today that we need to develop deep wisdom concerning life, much more than we need further quantitative increases in our share of knowledge. Going one step further, we are in a position today where we must apply our wisdom to the realization of God’s Ideal of Creation.</p>
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<p>We who have been born into a fallen world carry within ourselves an original mind, that is, a mind that seeks to live forthrightly and to serve others, and also another mind concerned only with our own selfish gain and individual peace of mind. We have all experienced how the exponents of these two minds contradict and oppose each other in our daily lives.</p>
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<p>It is God’s desire that we follow our original mind in order to fulfill His Will. If only you can control the impetuses of your selfish mind, you will have true peace of mind and you will be able to hear God speak to you with His intimate advice for you. When we come to know the living God and form a heartistic relationship with Him, we can possess the ecstatic happiness of being enveloped in the ideal of God’s true love.</p>
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<p>Unlike knowledge, which is accumulated through a series of steps involving research and study, wisdom is gained through spiritual inspiration received as a result of God’s blessing. People cannot develop spiritual faculties of inspiration as long as they follow the course indicated by their selfish minds.</p>
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<p>I believe the greatest of all wisdom is to know the heart and ideal of God. We in the ICUS family need to develop a forum for our common efforts that will transcend the dimension of conventional research and enable us to possess the wisdom of heaven. If this is accomplished, we will be able to take a central responsibility in bringing about an ideal world of peace that is the ideal of God and the common hope of all humanity. God is eagerly awaiting scholars of good conscience who will take on such a role. In view of the expectations that society places on scholars and of the mission that scholars bear in the education of our young people, it is clear that the role models that you provide will have wide-spread influence.</p>
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<p>I am deeply touched that you and many other scholars like you are coming together to work for this noble cause, although you may not share all of my ideas. I feel that God is pleased to see you pouring out your wisdom and knowledge in service to the future of the world, and I’m sure His blessing will continue to be upon your efforts.</p>
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<p>We have made many important contributions over the past twenty years, and I believe there is still much more that we must do. I will continue to support your efforts. The world today way present us with problems that seem beyond our capacities. As long as we root ourselves in the spirit of God’s true love, that is, the spirit of living for others, our sacrificial efforts will serve as the primary force in accomplishing a world of peace.</p>
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<p>I am happy to announce that I have invited Dr. Tor Ragnar Gerholm to become the Chairman of the next International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, which will be held one year from today, in August 1992, here in Seoul. The 19th ICUS will be a part of the great festival of world culture, which you have heard me speak of before.</p>
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<p>I am sure Dr. Gerholm will be calling upon your cooperation and assistance in organizing next year’s conference. I know you will give him the same active cooperation that you have extended that you have extended to Dr. Weinberg and other chairmen in the past. I look forward to welcoming you, the members of the ICUS family, together with the participants in the other cultural and athletic events that will be held then.</p>
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<p>Honorable chairman, vice-chairman, committee chairmen, distinguished scholars, ladies and gentlemen.</p>
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<p>It gives me great pleasure to greet you again in my home country of Korea. Already, ten years have passed since we held our discussions here in Seoul on “The Creation of the New World”. At that time, I proposed the building of an international highway system extending from East Asia and connecting all regions of the world. Also, we began then a project to publish the results of your research in a manner that would give constructive influence to the younger generations around the world.</p>
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<p>Ten years ago, such plans seemed like impossible dreams. Today, however, we have established the necessary foundations for their realization, and we are beginning to see emerge the broad outlines of their completed forms. Preliminary plans have been completed for an undersea tunnel connecting Japan and Korea, and an exploratory tunnel is now under construction. For the publication of your papers and books, we now have the publishing house Paragon House and the magazine The World & I. In addition, the International Federation for World Peace and the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace are to be established here in your presence. I proposed these two organizations last year, and I believe you later received mailings with further information.</p>
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<p>Ladies and gentlemen, the contemporary world around us is in a period of transition, and is in need of careful reassessment. In the past, the consistent emphasis on values in ICUS conference themes may have been considered prophetic in their nature. Today, however, the cry for new values can be heard from around the world, and the work of this conference has become an important means for dealing with our immediate reality. The dramatic changes occurring in the Soviet Union and in Eastern and Central Europe underscore this fact.</p>
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<p>Following the collapse of the communist world, there are those who speak with self-assurance of the superiority of the West’s existing values and institutions. We must examine, however, the societies of the free world and other non-communist countries that until recently stood in opposition to the communist bloc. Where are these societies going? Does their progress reassure us that the future happiness of the world’s people is guaranteed? We can see that, even after the collapse of the communist bloc, many problems still remain in our world. To develop the necessary solutions, we need to look to the deeper origins of such problems. Our task should be a fundamental reassessment of all the institutions and life-styles of our contemporary world. Such a reassessment will enable us to identify those aspects of our world that can be considered suitable and filling by an enlightened and awakened humanity possessing a renewed consciousness.</p>
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<p>Fundamentally, the confusion in the value systems of today’s societies derives from a break in the original vertical order between God and humanity. The various institutions and values we have today lack clear direction and are inherently unstable and mutually contradictory, because they are man-made orders established horizontally, that is, without an axis connecting them to God.</p>
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<p>The universe does not exist merely on the basis of individual material substances that are its component parts. Our world is not a mere sum total of isolated individual substances. Material substances derive their primary existence from the energy that appears through their relationships with other substances. Societies exist, prosper and develop within the context of mutual give and take relationships. Behind such relationships-that is, behind each relationship between material substances and behind each give and take relationship between individual beings-there is a pre-existing vertical order of a higher dimension that endows these individual substances with a common motivational drive and purpose. For example, human beings have been endowed with freedom in order that we may experience the highest levels of joy and love for God and for our fellow human beings. Thus, if we are to attain the purpose of our existence, we must first inherit the true love of God.</p>
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<p>In the ideal human society, true love that always seeks “to give to others” forms the basis for all relationship. Such true love is motivated by the experience of the true love of parents. The true love of parents, which is in turn rooted in God’s true love, is the means to nurture a child’s character to its full completed state. A man and a woman nurtured in this way, and each possessing completed character, come together as husband and wife to form a family, where they will convey true love to their children. This is the original order of Creation. The ideal world on earth is built when one individual possessing completed character is able to expand true love in ever-widening concentric circles of family, society, nation and world.</p>
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<p>Our world today has a different origin from the ideal world I have just described. Today, we have an expansion of the results of the Human Fall, an event in which human beings departed from the most important of the principles of God’s creative act, that is, the discipline of love. Having turned against the order of God’s Creation, our world today places value in man-made organizations and structures and in the order of law. These are incapable of raising up ideal individuals, families and peoples. They cannot provide a guarantee for a truly brighter tomorrow for the people of the world.</p>
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<p>Respected scholars, you are highly educated in fields dealing with the developmental aspects of nature and human society. The natural world around us and our societies are suffering daily violence and injury. With each passing day, the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat become more polluted. Despite advances of science and the increasing convenience of daily life, we find increasing cause for despair. If humanity in the twenty-first century continues to place itself outside the fundamental principles of God, who created the universe, we will no longer be able to exist as master of the planet earth. Closer human relationships, even if some may not want them, are necessary for the future of humanity.</p>
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<p>We are entering the age of “one global family”, in which we will have no choice but to live in much closer proximity to those who religions, nationalities, and skin colors are different from our own. In such a world, we will need to develop a genuine acceptance for-as opposed to simple appreciation of-the wide variety of religions, cultural traditions and life-styles around us. It will be impossible for any individual or group to selfishly choose to possess their own separate haven. Humanity must no longer despoil nature for its own selfish purposes but must utilize and develop nature in accordance with the larger purposes of the world community and future generations. What will be the underlying order of this new age and new society, and how are we to raise up the constructive members of such a global society? This question can only be answered in terms of the order of God’s Creation, with the discipline of love as its central axis.</p>
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<p>Respected scholars, perhaps the points I have raised here will help to explain why I, as one who has consistently sought to realize God’s Will, have sponsored eighteen sessions of the International Conference on the Unity of Sciences over nearly twenty years. Decades ago, I foresaw the future toward which society was progressing. Despite the inability of some to appreciate my efforts, I have maintained my spiritual and material support for the conference with conviction. It is because of this ardent desire to serve the future of humanity that, beginning with the first session in 1972, ICUS has had an unconventional structure that brings together scholars in the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences in a common forum that emphasizes interdisciplinary harmony and unity. I recognize that each academic discipline has its own specific characteristics, and I understand the need of specialization in research. Research conducted in the various individual fields, however, must be brought together through mutually cooperative and complementary relationships in order to serve the purpose of good. This is also the reason I have continued to place in the theme of each ICUS conference the term “absolute values”, although scientists frequently find this concept objectionable. I am grateful that you and many other scholars around the world have some to share my vision and are cooperating to organize and continue the work of this conference.</p>
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<p>ICUS must now develop to a new level. With absolute values as our central axis, we must now begin an aggressive effort to teach and apply the results of the comprehensive research of this conference in ways that will benefit the future world. With this in mind, the ICUS structure already has served as a medium for establishing branches of the Professors World Peace Academy in ninety-five countries, so as to involve the scholars in these countries in a worldwide cultural effort. Many people have expressed great hope in such a practical movement of conscientious scholars. For intellectuals, who form the most respected group in our society, taking the lead in conveying proper values to the young people of the world is no less important a task than you work as professors in your specific fields. I believe it is important to have scholars from around the world form teams to visit various countries and give wide-ranging instruction. A program of this type has already been conducted with significant success in Japan and Korea. There is a need for a worldwide participation of scholars in a movement to give new vision to the people of our contemporary world, particularly the young people, so as to save them from the snares of drugs, hedonism, violence and war. With your ingenuity and practical experience, I know we can build a new world culture.</p>
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<p>Finally, let me say that I am confident that many valuable discussions and conclusions will come out of this conference being held in my home country. I am proud of Korea for the fact that it has maintained a beautiful cultural tradition, including a strong tradition of families, in spite of its long history of suffering. I also believe Korea can be praised for having risen from the ashes of successive wars to rapidly achieve its current economic prosperity. I hope you will have a fruitful stay here.</p>
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<p>In the last several years the situation of the world has changed most dramatically. As you know, communism has tumbled down and I had to prepare internal and providential changes in order to generate these external changes. I have been very busy to keep up with the schedule of the Providential will and program and therefore have not been with you too many times. Do you understand and welcome me?</p>
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<p>As you well know, the Unification Church has been in the position to receive the most persecution. From that position we are rising to the position of being most welcomed by the society and the nation. I’m sure you feel that change to the bone, don’t you? We have witnessed the collapse of the left wing or communism, and watched the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. The right wing, or democracy, which is represented by the United States and the free world, should be prospering while the left wing is going down. However, that is not happening. The free world is also going down, following the path of the demise of communism. This is the real problem today.</p>
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<p>Of the two thieves on either side of Jesus at the crucifixion, one opposed him and one offered his support, introducing the terms left wing and right wing. During the time of the Second Advent, the left wing and right wing terminology will disappear. The Messiah shall stand victoriously in the center, forming the headwing, or Godwing. The left and right will unite with the central Godwing ideology. This is the conclusion and culmination of religious history.</p>
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<p>The world is in absolute confusion today. The democratic world is in trouble and has no solutions. The left wing is in disarray. Can the leaders of the free and communist worlds find a solution for lasting peace? No! Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s actions will become the focal point for promoting peace.</p>
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<p>The Unification Movement is a multi-colored movement with people from all backgrounds. Many governments have persecuted this movement and tried to wipe it off the face of the earth. But we have continued to prosper. Therefore, they now know they must either join or decline.</p>
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<p>The popular opinion was, “Those Moonies are weird people. There is something wrong with them.” But now world scholars and philosophers are studying Father’s teaching, the Divine Principle, and have completely surrendered to it. People thought communism would conquer the world. Instead, communism collapsed. Who went to the Soviet Union first? Reverend Moon and the Unification people. We are teaching the Divine Principle to the communists.</p>
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<p>The surprising thing is this: Reverend Moon’s strength has been studied, not only by scholars, but by government agencies such as the CIA, the FBI and the KGB. They have come to the conclusion that the Unification Movement it not a cult; on the contrary, it has a value system that needs to be adopted throughout the world in the twenty-first century. The ideologies of East and West have failed and the leaders have thrown their hands up. They must turn to me to study my teaching and value system, which is centered upon God and exists absolutely for the future happiness of all mankind. This is their conclusion, not my conclusion.</p>
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<p>Shall we talk about a bad topic or a good topic today? In order for me to speak about a good topic, I need good people to listen. Are you good or bad people? Have your actions been really good in the sight of God or are you only answering positively? Then you are actually bad people. We are at the final crossroads of good and evil, so we must evaluate ourselves.</p>
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<p>Even today, you can make a new beginning. You may think, “I have not been so good, but here in the presence of Father, Mother, the True Family, the spirit world, and the beauty of nature, I will make a pledge to move toward the good side. From today on, I’m going to be an absolutely dedicated Unificationist.”</p>
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<p>Our title today is: “The Royal Family of True Love.” Am I speaking about a conceptual idea that will happen a thousand years from now, or am I speaking about reality? (Reality!) There are many of you who have not really believed in your heart the things Father has said. There are few Unificationists who have believed in Father one hundred percent. Is there anybody who can say, “Father I have been with you one thousand percent; I never doubted any of your words”?</p>
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<p>The fact is, whether you believed it or not, Father’s words have been fulfilled to the last iota. Was God’s will automatically fulfilled? Not at all, because there is always a factor of human responsibility. That is precisely what the Divine Principle is all about.</p>
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<p>There are many Unification Church members in Korea, Japan and elsewhere in the world, but none of them had anything to do with the fulfillment of Father’s prophecy. Only one person, Father himself, has fulfilled his five percent of human responsibility, leading to the fulfillment of the Providential will. Therefore, who will pioneer the new future history? Father himself.</p>
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<p>On August 31, l989, in Kodiak, Alaska, Father declared the Pal Jong Shik, meaning Eight Stages Settlement Ceremony. Do you know its contents? You’ve been saying, “I’m a member of the Unification Church,” but you do not know Father nor the Unification Church so well. In that ceremony, Father proclaimed that the world would quickly and drastically change.</p>
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<p>Then, on September 1, Father declared the age of True Parentism. If True Parentism had appeared at the outset of human history, there would have been no Satan and no evil; God’s will would have been long established here on the earth. Satan’s world has been flourishing, but when Father declared True Parentism, Satan had to retreat.</p>
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<p>What happened after that? That same year, the Berlin Wall, the symbol of East-West separation, came tumbling down. Only five months later, Father went to Moscow and met with President Gorbachev in the Kremlin on April 11, 1990. Through this, True Parents set the condition for the second generation of the communist world to follow a new ideology and value system. So far, 3000 Soviet college students from the best universities have come to Father’s seminars to learn the Divine Principle and have become incredibly inspired.</p>
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<p>President Gorbachev not only amended the constitution to end the communist dictatorship, but has virtually declared the end of communism. The Soviets are trying to imitate the Western economic system. But where can they gain a value system for their future? Only from Reverend Moon’s Godism ideology. It is the hope of the Soviet Union. History has been made by men, often without God. This time history shall be made with a God centered-ideology!</p>
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<p>What if the Soviet Union’s dramatic acceptance of Father could happen in all the fifty states of America? What if each governor told Father, “Please come and set up the Unification Church in our state because only your ideology can save our people”? It would be a miracle. But it is already happening in the Soviet Union.</p>
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<p>Recently members of the KGB confessed to Father saying, “We have been gathering information about you and your movement for ten years.” They thought Reverend Moon was their archenemy but with recent changes they came to the conclusion that Reverend Moon is the greatest ally of the Soviet Union and the Divine Principle has the answers for the problems of the Soviet people.</p>
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<p>While the Soviet Union is making this kind of foundation, what is the free world doing, especially America? This is a problem. Do you want to be defeated by the Soviet Union? (No!) No matter how they acted in the past, the Soviet Union has now changed their direction 180 degrees. This is reality.</p>
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<p>In the Bible there is a saying that the last shall become the first and the first, the last. Father first came to the United States and put most of his energy into this country. In terms of God’s Providence the Soviet Union is the last country. They are just now accepting the Divine Principle, but the last are becoming first. This is a realization of that prophecy.</p>
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<p>Furthermore, established Christianity was the first, worshipping Jesus Christ and God. However, because they did not accept this last days truth coming from God, they will become the last, and atheists who accepted True Parentism and the Messiah will become the first. Those atheists will accuse Christians, asking, “You’re supposed to be Christ’s disciples, but what have you done? We have been atheists but we accepted the truth. We know True Parents now, we know true love now, so we are ahead of you.” This kind of transition has been occurring at this time.</p>
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<p>We are now having follow-up training for the Soviet students in seven different locations throughout the country. Over 2000 people have been attending these workshops. You applaud but your applause has no power because though one side is happy because Father has so much success, one side is ashamed thinking about the Church in the United States.</p>
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<p>You have not been listening to Father too well and never really believed Father’s message, but what about today? Can you believe the things that Father is announcing to you? (Yes!) Those who say, “Though I may have doubted in the past, I repent and from this time forward pledge to believe you with no doubt whatsoever,” raise your hands! Now that I see you believe me, I have more power and fun to speak to you.</p>
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<p>Belvedere seems to be a magic place. Everybody comes here and gets so energized and yells “Yes, yes!” to all I say. As soon as you get out of the Belvedere door, you begin to worry about your groceries, your trip to the drug store, and other things. By lunchtime, you have a thousand things to worry about. You wonder if you really saw Father and don’t remember what you heard. You become your old self. In the meantime, one year is passing, ten years are passing, and your life is passing away.</p>
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<p>Is there any school that will allow you to stay for ten years or more just because you are a slow learner? There is no room to keep you there for so long, so they will kick you out. Do you understand? Your life and your fruit is not Father’s responsibility, it is not the Unification Church’s responsibility. You yourself are responsible for your eternal life and your heaven. In the Bible, Jesus was passing through Jerusalem and saw a fig tree growing by the side of the road. He was in a hurry and crossed to the tree wanting to pick some fruit, but there was none. Jesus accused that tree and immediately it died. So don’t die. You not only have your life, but you have to bear fruit. Ten years, twenty years of membership does not automatically bring you fruit. That is not the way that God works. You must have actual fruit.</p>
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<p>For example, many United States citizens claim to be patriots. But it doesn’t make any difference unless they have some patriotic deeds to support that statement. This is true for saints as well. No matter how many good words you are speaking for the sake of humanity, unless you bear fruit you are not going to be regarded as a saint. Words pass away, but only fruit remains as real accomplishment. Reverend Moon is the same, no exception. If I just talked empty talk, it would not bring me any glory or accomplishment. Even I am worried about how much real accomplishment or fruit I am bearing throughout the world.</p>
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<p>Great countries like the United States, Japan, the Soviet Union, the Republic of China, Germany, England and France are all fearful of me. Is it because I am some sort of criminal? No. What they fear is that I have made achievements they cannot even imagine, and in such a short time. So, when you stand on your accomplishments the entire heaven and earth shall surrender to you. Have you heard about the book, Inquisition? It tells what actually happened during Father’s trial, proclaiming the truth about how the United States government conspired to put Father into jail. Yet, while he was on trial Father created projects like the Washington Times and Insight magazine, The World and I, and so on, in order to save America. I never sought revenge. In 1975, the United States was defeated in Vietnam and plunged to the point of lowest morale in American history. Liberalism was rampant. It was only through Father’s support that the right wing could regain leadership of America. History will prove these things cannot be denied.</p>
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<p>Though I supported the Reagan administration, the biggest irony is this: The Reagan administration is the very one which allowed the government to put me into jail. Under normal circumstances I should feel vindictive. Instead I created many projects to support the conservative cause. I do these unusual things because I am not working for myself, but for God.</p>
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<p>I also knew that the Soviet Union had a plan to conquer the United States and the free world. I could not allow this to happen because it is not God’s Will, so I assembled every ounce of energy of our movement for this purpose.</p>
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<p>Recently I spoke to the Washington Times staff: “I have invested millions of dollars in this newspaper. Many people think there must be some ulterior motive for this continuous investment even though there is never any profit. Do you know my hidden motivation? I have a divine calling from God.” I clearly stated: “I created the Washington Times for the sake of the collapse of communism. That mission is accomplished so now is the time to deal with the domestic moral agenda: the decline of Christianity and the rise of secular humanism, the drug culture, the breakdown of families and juvenile delinquency. All these problems are your problems, not my problems. I could wash my hands and walk away, but I stay. The reason is you don’t understand and even more you don’t have a solution. So I am going to stay here and fight that battle to clean up America and save this country.” They were very inspired to hear this.</p>
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<p>Korean and Japanese people came to America only because Father wanted them to come. Were they welcomed by the United States and welcomed by the American members? Or did you say, “We don’t need them. We have a Christian heritage and Korea and Japan are not even Christian countries”? No matter how proud you are you don’t have the contents needed to move into the future world.</p>
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<p>But I am different than you. I have a strong ideology. Once someone studies the Divine Principle they can turn completely around in only three days. Its power is much stronger than economic power. But you foolish people don’t know what a strong armament you have.</p>
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<p>Do you think white people are the supreme people? A very famous white American journalist recently wrote an essay claiming that Asian people have a much superior quality compared to the white race. Koreans kept their traditions intact through 5000 years and 931 invasions. Wisdom, power and courage enabled the Korean people to maintain their Korean identity. Although Asian people’s skin is dark and their height is short, they have stronger human qualities within them. I know very well that within American society they are worried about Reverend Moon’s epidemic: “Don’t catch that one. Reverend Moon will persuade you and brainwash you” and on and on. But actually, what I am doing is trying to save this country, both white and black people. Even though you never say it, white people subconsciously look down on other races. But I want you to know, and only Reverend Moon can say something like this, you are being defeated right now by the Asian people, in every way. Asian people’s good characters are becoming more and more evident in American society. So you must wake up! God sent one savior, the True Parents, out of the Korean race. This is the most logical thing.</p>
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<p>Korean people can quickly summarize the situation of the world, which country is going up or down, what people are good, what people are evil. God gave them special training for 5000 years. Out of that race came the True Parents. The religious world knows that there is no one like Reverend Moon, who within his own lifetime has prescribed the salvation for all of humanity, and is doing everything possible for humanity’s sake, giving every ounce of his energy, sweat and blood and his soul. Yet, in parts of the religious world we still hear: “Oh, Reverend Moon, don’t infiltrate Christianity!” and in the political and business world as well. People are very envious of Father’s success.</p>
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<p>Everyone had thought that Father and the Unification Church could never survive through such persecution. And when I went to Danbury, many members cried at East Garden. But I never cried. I said, “Why cry? I am not looking at the front of Danbury prison, but at the other side of Danbury, at what kind of glorious and victorious history shall be made.” I kept working to make that prophesy come true and after Danbury it came true, didn’t it? Now my name is being resurrected. Father once said at Belvedere, “The day that Reverend Moon’s name is resurrected, this world will have salvation and true lasting peace.” That day has arrived, amen!</p>
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<p>Furthermore, through uniting with me, you are also ascending into heaven, both here on earth and in your eternal life. Korea was the number one country against me. Because Korean people are smart, they know how to persecute well too. But presently the Korean people think there is only one person who can unite North and South Korea – Reverend Moon. They have said, “We have never seen a living saint since Taegun, Korea’s forefather, but we have seen one in Reverend Sun Myung Moon.”</p>
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<p>Many established Christians still believe that the Lord of the Second Coming will appear on the clouds of heaven. But some feel, if he comes in person as did Jesus Christ 2000 years ago, there is no one but Rev. Moon who fits into that category. They reason, “Who else has the qualifications excepyt Rev. Moon.” I subjugated the Antichrist, the communist world, which is the number one qualification of messiahship.</p>
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<p>Three consecutive forty-day seminars have been conducted for Muslim leaders-Syrians, Yemeni, and Egyptians. Mingling with other religions is usually a high offense, but they are allowed to come by their leaders. Could those Muslims listen to Christian leaders? Could Billy Graham or the President of the United States do that? Only Father can do that!</p>
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<p>Last year, Father spoke in ten gymnasiums throughout South Korea, as well as in the major cities of the United States, to the Korean people. I proclaimed True Parentism. They just listened with no objections, particularly the Korean Christians. In one gymnasium tens of thousands did a True Parents’ mansei at the end.</p>
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<p>How much transformation in men’s lives has been brought about on the face of the earth because of one man? Until now, humanity had no hope. Now, True Parents’ direction alone will provide them salvation.</p>
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<p>Father brought more than 30,000 Korean leaders to the United States, across the Pacific, to attend a Divine Principle seminar and see Father’s accomplishments. But people say, “Reverend Moon is a great liar. How could anyone bring that many people across the Pacific? Not even a government could do that.”</p>
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<p>Here is the United States many eople live on either the West Coats or the East Coast. But they can live and die without even having gone to visit the opposite coast. But I am bringing people from the other side of the world, from Korea, Japan, and the Soviet Union. People disbelieve Father because it is too incredible.</p>
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<p>You are very powerful individuals, but you don’t know it. Why? Because you met Father. Otherwise, you might live and die in one place. By joining with Father you have been around all 50 states doing MFT or evangelization work, and furthermore, many of you went to Europe, Asia and Africa. If Father asks you to assemble in Korea in one month, it is nothing for you. You are well-trained to go anywhere in order to save the world and liberate God.</p>
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<p>You have now heard all the prophesies which Father has fulfilled; therefore, you must become a true believer. Everything I have said has been achieved and is thus easily believed. So now I must give you new words.</p>
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<p>Today’s topic is “The Royal Family of True Love.” I have spoken for two hours just about history. Everyone now pledges, “Yes, I am going to follow Father’s words and become a champion of this church.”</p>
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<p>Today’s topic sounds easy, but none of you really think about how difficult it is to fulfill this title – become a royal family of true love.</p>
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<p>What is the original site of the royal family? Is the royal family centered upon man or God? If the royal family is humanity, then what is God’s position? God is the royal family lord, owner, and subject. What is another title for God? King, kingship! Without a king there is no royalty.</p>
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<p>Normally, is the king a man or a woman? Will American women say, “The king is a woman”? Does the king come first or the queen come first? (King!) Where there is a king, there should also be a queen. They are meant to be equal, but if the queen doesn’t follow and unite with the kingdom’s law and philosophy, she is certainly not entitled to queenship. The king and queen’s children constitute the royal family.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church we are always talking about the restoration of the elder son’s right-Cain and Abel. We are also pursuing the parent’s right and the king’s right. Do you know who should be the king of the Unification Church? God! But since God is invisible, He bequeathed the kingship to His son, Reverend Moon.</p>
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<p>God is the King of Kings-the problem-making King of Kings. Why is Reverend Moon so controversial? Because I am the heir of the problem-making King. But I am making problems for Satan, pushing him out wherever I go. I have created so much noise that people hear about me and without even knowing me, want to spit at me. I am like a poisonous snake to them, but to God, I am a trouble-making king for Satan’s world.</p>
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<p>I have been creating individual problems, family problems, tribal problems, national problems, world problems, spiritual and physical world problems, cosmic problems. Hell’s world has united to push me out: “Don’t speak out, or you will die.” But I didn’t care. I have been speaking out, year after year, until now I am over seventy years old, an old grandpa. God gave me the power to overcome Satan. No one can deny that any longer. Can you deny or accept that? (Accept it.)</p>
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<p>Is Satan’s world a nice place or a bad place? It is the worst place, and that is where you come from. It is a wonderful privilege to become a trouble-maker for Satan’s world.</p>
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<p>I infiltrated and overcame Satan’s world, with God as my Partner. Satan has been trying to hide certain information from me, but spirit world informs me right away. That is why Satan dislikes me so much. Satan’s side thought they had completely demolished us, but all of a sudden they realized I was not only alive, but getting stronger. They were shooting at my lower body, but my head was way above, protected. So my head got the victory; this is why Reverend Moon’s ideology finally received the name, Headwing-it means head won!</p>
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<p>The whole world united to shoot at one target-Reverend Moon. But who protected me? (God.) They tried to break through the invisible shield of God and heavenly fate, but it was too strong.</p>
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<p>Father has declared the victory. As early as l979, the academic community attempted to knock my ideology down, but I won the knock-out victory over them. The only people still opposing me are those who are not informed. Suppose all the established Christians listened to a Divine Principle seminar for one week. Would they be turned around, changing their concepts and attitudes? (Yes.)</p>
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<p>Since the liberation of Korea in l945, established Christianity has been the major obstacle for the advancement of the Unification Movement. Since l945, how many people have died and gone to spirit without knowing the Divine Principle and True Father? One billion lives ended up in hell because established Christianity blocked them. These Christians think they can go to heaven through worshipping the Lord Jesus, but when they go to spirit world, one billion innocent victims are waiting for them: “Because you opposed Reverend Moon, I could not end up in heaven.”</p>
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<p>Furthermore, Unification Church members also are going to be accused, because those in spirit world will say that you knew the True Parents, knew how to obtain salvation, but because of your lack of doing, you couldn’t restore even your own tribe. Because of you, the True Parents’ name has not reached every corner of the earth. Victims have been increasing every year. They will say, “You rascal-you too became an obstacle for us to go to heaven.” What do you think? Will your ancestors welcome you in the spirit world, or will they be cursing you in the spiritual world? (Cursing.)</p>
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<p>You are not here because you are eligible to become a member of the Unification Church. You are the representative of your tribe and of your ancestors. If you fail, you are responsible for the failure of your entire family clan. God chose you for this mission. It is a public mission, not an individual mission. A public mission means restoring history, from the individual foundation to the cosmic foundation, including God. Look at the miserable situation of downtown New York City? Who should save it? Should God or Father do it? No. That is your mission, why you were called by God.</p>
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<p>You must take the repentance way. These are not Father’s words, but God’s words. Future generations will accuse you, “Did you do your mission?” You must repent and do your public mission.</p>
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<p>How can you liberate these levels? You must take up the cross, and go the agonizing indemnity way, as Jesus did. This Grandpa went this way, step by step, and the next generations must each pass though the same absolute course. From now on you must take the way of repentance.</p>
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<p>When I think about the persecution I encountered, it was God’s way of protecting me: “Don’t go astray, take the correct path.” The correct way was liberating the individual level to the family, tribe, nation, world, and cosmic levels. Not the way of just individual salvation, as established Christians believe. What was my path centered upon? True Love. True Love is the center of that straight and narrow way, the only way to open the gates from the individual to the cosmic levels.</p>
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<p>I expanded a rocky mountainous path into a superhighway. So, you must follow behind me, taking the true love way. Don’t wander around-take the short-cut of true love!</p>
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<p>I encountered so many walls and barriers along the way, but they have been torn down. You never understood Father’s miserable situation during this course. Going to jail is no problem, compared to Satan’s secret obstacles, which only Father knows about. It was worse than a head-on collision. How many times I smiled, but I was desperately fighting to break up Satan’s world. Only I understood God and Satan’s secret war, so I took responsibility for this mission. I stood at the center of the battlefield with every imaginable satan shooting at me, trying to destroy God’s foundation. But I moved forward to liberate God throughout the free world. From now on, no more persecution appears on the horizon. I liberated everything.</p>
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<p>When I came to America it was like a modern-day Rome. I proclaimed to Senators and Congressmen, “You are wrong!” I fought to become God’s victor, restoring past history and making a foundation to restore the Christian second generation in the United States.</p>
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<p>Now the American government and American churches must follow my teachings. There is no hope otherwise. I am being recognized for who I truly am. The <em>Inquisition</em> book clearly proclaims the truth. As opinion-makers read that book, they change 180 degrees: “We must repent for our treatment of Rev. Moon.”</p>
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<p>The satanic world has been targeting Father. However, Father repelled every one of those attacks and declared the victory. One man stood with all humanity against him. From that a foundation was built, through the indemnity course. Parents, brothers and sisters, and relatives kidnapped their Moonie children. That phenomena occurred only in the Unification Church. But I won back the individual foundation, the family foundation, ultimately indemnifying the world foundation.</p>
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<p>At the family level all families came against me; at the tribe level, all the tribes of the world attacked me. After winning the tribal level we rose to the national level, and all the nations of the world gathered to destroy us. Finally, all of the spiritual world came against me.</p>
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<p>But now, the leading nations of the world no longer have any power over me. They said, “Reverend Moon, we don’t want you!” But all of the worldwide opposition caused me to be raised up even more quickly.</p>
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<p>Even hell’s gate has been opened. I connected the bottom of hell to the highway course to heaven. You don’t know how many miserable tears I cried to reach even those in the depths of hell. I threw a rope down and you grabbed it. I went the liberation course way, from the individual to the heavenly world, opening all the gates. It is done.</p>
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<p>All living things on the earth have heard about me, even babies on their mothers’ backs. Why? So much noise surrounds my life. How to reach everyone on earth was a major problem for me. Even a really good person who spends his whole life serving humanity cannot reach many remote areas. But, fearful mafia figures are easily known throughout the world. So my strategy to proclaim my name even in remote areas was to make trouble and receive persecution for forty years.</p>
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<p>People in the spiritual world will ask, “Did you live on the earth during this time?” “Yes.” “Have you heard of Reverend Moon?” “Yes.” “Is he good or bad?” “Bad, bad, bad.” In established Christian churches, children are asked at Sunday school to write, “Reverend Moon is an evil person.” They are singing, “Jesus Christ is our Lord. He is coming back on the clouds to save all sincere Christians and bring us up to heaven.”</p>
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<p>Your mission is to clean up evil! When did you understand and follow me? I was shielding you from Satan’s bullets, because you didn’t have enough strength. Now, your remaining mission is to clear up the darkness of the satanic atmosphere. Whose mission is that, yours or Father’s mission? (Ours, Father.) You must walk on the road to liberation that I clearly taught to you.</p>
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<p>Pal Jong Shik was an important ceremony to transfer your satanic, stained blood lineage to God’s side. You were connected to Satan’s love, Satan’s life, and Satan’s lineage-a satanic trinity. The blood lineage is connected to the parents’ life, which is centered on love. Man and woman become parents centering on love. The father and mother’s love have give and take, forming a sphere of love. At the center point of that love, life is conceived. Centering on the parents’ love and life, the blood lineage is connected. Even though a woman divorces her husband, she and her children cannot be easily separated, because children are the fruit of love.</p>
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<p>But all of humanity is the fruit of the fall. Even though you wanted to go the original way, it could not be found. God and Satan’s direction are 180 degrees different. God’s side does not allow divorce.</p>
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<p>What does fallen humanity need? Messiahship! Only there can be found God’s love, life and lineage. Through inheriting that, you can rebuild the original world, centering on God and true love. How can fallen humankind regain their former condition? Only by changing 180 degrees. What is the enemy’s base? Satan’s love, life, and lineage-Satan’s love seed. That seed was multiplied, generation by generation, to the world. This is modern humanity’s miserable situation. You cannot find true love, the true way of life, nor the true blood lineage in Satan’s world. Instead, everyone says, “I don’t need my spouse, I don’t need my parents, I don’t need to have children.”</p>
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<p>We must turn around 180 degrees! America was rampant with streaking, Hippies, the drug culture. Upon arriving here I agonized day and night, “What can I do about America’s miserable situation?” It is like an overflowing trashcan! Free sex, secular humanism, just enjoying life.</p>
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<p>How can you guide people? You must inherit absolute life and absolute love. But where can those contents be found? American young people are in mental agony, going down to hell every day. I could hear the sound of cries ringing out everywhere.</p>
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<p>I looked toward America’s future and saw only darkness. You don’t how much I agonized over this situation. Someone had to bring enlightenment to this dark atmosphere. But one cannot find that kind of light in the established Christian world. The American government, American families and young people have no hope. Who can save this situation? Only Almighty God! Man’s power is used up! Look around you-communism and democracy are fighting. Now Unificationists proclaim, “We will make the parents’ path, resolving the fighting.”</p>
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<p>So, to help humanity’s miserable situation you need Parentship, centering on God and True Parents. You need True Parents to clean up Satan’s love, Satan’s life, and Satan’s blood lineage foundation.</p>
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<p>What is the connecting place between man and woman? The sexual organ! That organ was originally to be God’s love palace! Love, life and lineage palace are combined into one foundation – man’s sexual organ. It is meant to be the holiest place. Only after the fall did it become the most dirty place. God put it in a protected part of the body, like a hidden construction. God is such a genius!</p>
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<p>We must realize the most valuable foundation for life, love and blood lineage are all to be found in that organ-past, present and future history are all connected to it. Satan defiled the most holy place, planting his corrupted seed in the first human ancestors. That seed was bequeathed generation to generation. Springtime and summertime have already passed, and now the autumn harvest time is here.</p>
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<p>In the Garden of Eden, teenagers corrupted the most holy place. In the harvest time, free sex flourishes throughout the world, like a weed. This concept must be totally destroyed. It belongs solely to Satan’s side. The only way to banish it forever is to teach the Unification course. Through that you can win over your brothers and sisters, your parents, your relatives, your nation, your world, your cosmos, including hell. All these must be connected to the parenthood foundation. You must clean up Satan’s filth. Every day God has had to look at it!</p>
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<p>We must change this painful history, creating the future of goodness. No matter how difficult the situation, you must beat back Satan’s world. Now, courageous young people must stand up one by one, covering the four corners of the earth. This is what God wants! It is the only way to save humanity’s destiny. Can established Christianity or the sovereign powers do it? Only those who understand the problem can do it. But no one knew those contents, because Satan blocked them. The only one who knows is Reverend Moon and his beloved followers. You are a small number of blessed people here, compared to the power of the world. But, be like Father! Father alone challenged the American government, declaring, “You must take the repentance way otherwise you will perish.” They didn’t want to listen to such an insignificant person from Korea. They spat me out.</p>
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<p>You have been called by God. Go the way of natural subjugation. I took that way through the court case here in America. I went to Satan’s basement, Danbury prison, to open that too. From there I began the resurrection course. Now it appears that Reverend Moon is not the lowest scoundrel, but a man with worldwide connections. We have knowledge power, organization power, scientific and technological power. It is all for fulfilling God’s mission.</p>
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<p>I had to destroy Satan’s foundation from the individual to the cosmic levels. No matter how powerful Satan was, he knew that he was unrighteously occupying the earth. I represented God, and proclaimed, “You are wrong!” Satan had to get behind God. God became the king of judges and placed his sentence on Satan, “Get out of the world! Reverend Moon is the righteous center of the world, My true love center!” Satan couldn’t object because that was the Principled viewpoint. I made a foundation to the cosmic level through the natural subjugation way. No more persecution remains. I restored individual ownership, family ownership, tribal ownership, national ownership, world ownership, cosmic ownership, and God’s power on earth! You have to connect to this foundation! A purer atmosphere is growing on the earth. Proclaim that God is the King!</p>
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<p>The liberation foundation has been made on the earth. After Adam and Eve’s fall, kingship, parentship, and elder brothership were completely lost. Satan occupied everything. Now God is taking ownership of His original property. Now the worldwide economic and political viewpoint are connecting. The spiritual, vertical world and the physical, horizontal world are connecting. God’s cosmic ideal family world is appearing! It is like a true love soccer ball that God can kick around-such an exciting world! Every point on the sphere makes a vertical axis to the central point. Therefore, all points can equally receive God’s love. There has been so much inequality throughout the world because mankind never took the vertical axis position to God.</p>
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<p>Until now, there was never an original nation. The original ideal hometown never existed! This mistaken world must be kicked back to the original world. Proclaiming and taking action for God is the Unification Movement way. The contents of this movement are absolutely centered on love. God’s ideal, God’s existence, everything is connected to that central true love place, the dwelling place of true love, true life, and true blood lineage. From where did humanity start? Not from the eyes, nor the nose, nor the head, but from your holy place-your sexual organ.</p>
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<p>But is your sexual organ truly holy? Your blood lineage is stained, so salvation is not easy. People say, “If God has absolute power, why did He leave the world in such a miserable situation for so long? Why didn’t He take away sin and raise up goodness? God has no power.” Man’s conclusion was, “God doesn’t exist, God is dead.”</p>
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<p>Satan cleverly led mankind into secular humanism and free sex. Look at the misery of the American family system. Fathers and grandfathers have sexual relationships with their daughters and granddaughters. Satan has been accusing God: “God, look at mankind. You can’t save them.” What could God answer? How miserable God has been since He lost His Kingship. You don’t know that, but I understood it so clearly! I proclaimed to Satan, “I will go the Principled way, centering on true love, climbing past the individual peak, the family peak, tribal peak, national peak, free and communist world peak. I made a new tradition uniting the races of the world.</p>
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<p>I have built a worldwide foundation in the religious, political, and economic realms. I reclaimed God’s ownership. How did I make that foundation? God worked in mysterious ways. I prepared for the coming heavenly fate time, when all levels from individual to nation would start to welcome and follow me. It is now that welcomeing time.</p>
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<p>Do you like a victorious man? (Yes!) The individual victor is standing in front of you. The family victor is standing ion front of you. Can you believe it? You doubted me every step of the way, so after 20 years I am way ahead of you. Now can you believe me or not? (Yes!)</p>
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<p>Heaven and hell were divided worlds, but I opened the gate that separated them and connected them to the true love race. I made the individual bridge to God’s true love and then a true love bridge to the world. I had only one armament — absolute love.</p>
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<p>I connected nations, cultures and races. I even blessed people from enemy countries. Korea and Japan are historical enemies, but Father blessed them in l988!</p>
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<p>At that time, Korean and Japanese leaders pleaded with Father to not go through with that Blessing. They reported that many Japanese were upset. The Korean nation responded the same, but I didn’t care! I didn’t take those satanic recommendations. They were in the archangel position, recommending that I avoid controversy.</p>
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<p>I connected the free and communist worlds. If I made one mistake, the left side would have conquered the right side, creating such misery. But I changed everything around 180 degrees. The left side is crumbling down. This is the harvest time. Father started from the individual level, going the reverse course, rebuilding God’s family, tribe, nation and world. Now God’s original ideal, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and in the spiritual world is appearing.</p>
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<p>So you have to go back to the original and the final point. The final point is not family, tribe, nor national level-it is the individual level.</p>
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<p>You have to go back to the original place, your hometown! This is the Divine Principle viewpoint. Just obey. Now in Korea, members are spreading out to their hometowns-Tong pang kyok pa! Your hometown includes formation, growth and perfection levels. Centering on your family, you must fulfill those three levels, and connect them to the tribe, nation, and world levels fulfilled by Father. You have to expand God’s foundation horizontally. Satan will be driven out of every corner of the earth. When you build the foundation in your hometown, it won’t take long to restore the world.</p>
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<p>Do that immediately. You have a welcoming foundation. Reverend Moon is so famous. The past persecution is now being balanced out. The American atmosphere is different starting from today. Until now your parents and relatives united against us, but they understand in the bottom of their hearts how wrong they were. When you go back at first your parents will say, “Why did you come back?” But they have been hearing about Reverend Moon’s patriotism in America. They will repent in front of you. No one will speak as tears flow on every face.</p>
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<p>Going back to your tribe is such an easy way compared to Father’s indemnity course. No matter how difficult it is, you have to go through this course, otherwise you have no hope, no eternal life, no future heavenly hometown. If you fulfill this point, your hometown will be raised up to heaven. We must restore the individual and family site. Don’t follow Satan! Satan’s world should follow us.</p>
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<p>I clearly understood that I needed to settle in my hometown in Korea. Satan also understood, and worked through six successive Korean regimes to try to kick me away. But the seventh time Satan will no longer have power.</p>
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<p>Now I am proclaiming messiahship. All people on both the left and right sides who don’t follow me in the future will have no hope. No satanic power can eliminate or erase what I have done. I am proclaiming the elder son-ship, parent-ship, and kingship, right? You have to know those contents clearly. Who is the elder son? It is Adam. Who are the first parents? Adam and Eve were the first, worst parents-and we are connected to them. How can the True Parents’ way appear? Only through true love. The first parents ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of evil, bequeathing their evil blood lineage to all generations. Contrary to that, you must follow the true love way. But your body is connected to Satan’s love, Satan’s life, Satan’s lineage! Is it easy to separate from Satan? It is so difficult.</p>
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<p>The providential way of salvation is the restoration way. Restoration is recreation. When God created the world, there was only one concept. We have to go back to the zero point before creating God’s side. So the Bible teaches, he who wants to live will lose his life, he who can lose his life will gain it. What is the meaning? To want to lose one’s life means losing Satan’s life-cut from Satan. Otherwise there is no way for God to connect to you. Historically, evil prospered and goodness suffered. These directions are being exchanged. Now, good people will go up, bad people will decline. This is the crossing junction time, the zero point time. The free world has lost its way. Communism took the worst direction and now stands at the zero point.</p>
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<p>The free world, with its brothership system, must follow parentship, otherwise there is no hope! You came from the worst parents and fought between brothers. Now, you must make a new history, whose contents are good parents, harmonious brothers, good tribes, good nations, good world. This is the completion of God’s original purpose.</p>
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<p>When Jesus died he went to Paradise, but could not get into Heaven. You can go into Heaven only as a family, not as an individual! That is why we need the Second Coming. Is Jesus Christ coming on the clouds? Parentship was lost on the earth and must be regained on the earth.</p>
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<p>Today you have to clearly understand that and take up your mission. Don’t take the wrong way! My mission is education, and I fulfilled that. Satan hid the truth, but I revealed everything.</p>
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<p>So, where can the original true parentship, true kingship, and true elder son-ship be found? At the center of God’s palace, true Adam’s perfected family foundation. Adam’s body is God’s dwelling place. God gives love to Adam vertically and Adam gives love horizontally. God doesn’t need power, knowledge, or money. He can create those anytime. But one thing He can’t make, is true love. Love implies the existence of subject and object.</p>
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<p>The established Christian world says, “Does an Absolute God need love?” But God says, “Like you, I need true love.” God needs an absolute love partner, just as man does. Man’s feeling is, “I want my love partner to be greater than me.” Also, we want our children to be greater than us, the parents. Where did those two desires come from, originally? From God. That means God also wants partnership and children-ship. No matter how absolute a being God is, He needs a love partner and children and He wants them to be better than God Himself. Why did God create humankind? For love partnership!!</p>
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<p>We have to return to the original individual and family. What is that? That is the elder son-ship, parent-ship and kingship, right? Adam was meant to be God’s true love partner. How incredible! Once connected in true love, there would be no separation. For the first time in history, Reverend Moon has appeared and proclaimed clearly that Adam’s unified foundation is fulfilled in me! Unless you inherit that, even if the outside world becomes unified, you cannot connect to it. You have to go the reverse course, denying Satan’s concepts. Can you find true love through free sex and homosexuality? If children deny their parents, how can they connect to the vertical Parents’ love? How can a true love tradition be established? When parents deny their children or couples deny each other, no love tradition is established. Satan separated everyone, sending them to the bottom of hell. God had to look down on that kind of miserable situation. So no matter how difficult the situation was I found myself in, I had to persevere.</p>
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<p>If intelligent people hear the truth for one week, they will turn around 180 degrees, no problem. Communist ideology is so strong, but in one week’s time Soviet leaders turned around 180 degrees. This is reality. The Soviet satellite countries recognize my desire to help them harmonize.</p>
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<p>You must choose the way of repentance. The only remaining obstacle is pride, too much pride. Every minute the American national debt is rising. The American lifestyle shouts out, “We are high-level, proud people leading the world.” But they are spending too much money, and now, America is crumbling. You Moonies have been survivors, leading a humble lifestyle. I trained you like that. I never think of my own economic benefit, but try to solve the problems of mankind. So we have to go back to the original site-our hometown. I accomplished everything in America and became the victor, no matter how much persecution came against me. Now I have to go back to my hometown because I am over 70 years old.</p>
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<p>I coined a new phrase – “forgetting concept age”. Even though I memorize some English in the evening, the next morning I can’t remember. As a young man I could study ten or twelve pages and clearly remember. I have to learn English because I have to pull young Western people back from Satan.</p>
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<p>You are still young, so you have no excuse not to learn Korean. You should read Father’s speeches in Korean. Those speeches contain a wealth of knowledge and solutions to problems from the individual to the world level. Famous scholars are now studying Korean in order to read my speeches in the original language. Translating them into English is a shameful situation. Those famous professors will ask you how many years have you been in the Unification Church: “More than twenty years.” “Do you know the contents of Father’s speeches in Korean?” “No.” “Then you cannot claim to be disciples of Reverend Moon.” This is a serious issue, so I recommend that you please learn Korean.</p>
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<p>You are so much younger than me. How can you be defeated? You have a good brain, so learning Korean in three years should be no problem. From now on, those who don’t understand Korean cannot visit me in Korea. Shall you make a promise or not? (Yes!) The Pacific Era is coming, but who will lead it? God needs someone like me, who follows Him no matter how much difficulty comes to me.</p>
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<p>You now understand your course. The short-cut is true love. Even the highest saint needs a love partner. God knew, before He created man, that He needed a horizontal love partner. Man’s mission is to harmonize horizontally. Man stands on the East Coast and woman on the West Coast. Men and women should understand their need for a love partner, and meet in the center. No matter how many material objects a woman collects, if she cannot find a man, she feels no value. In the Garden of Eden, Adam was a man of action, and Eve wondered, “How can I unite with such a trouble-maker?” But through their give and take with God, they could begin to take steps toward each other. Overcoming one problem, they could take one step, overcoming something else, another step-toward the central position.</p>
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<p>Where is Reverend Moon standing? Exactly in the central place. When you stand in that direct vertical line, God’s love will come down, uniting you into one. Man has initiating power and woman has receiving power. As you come to the center and revolve in loving actions, you make an eternal sphere of love. Even God will follow that absolute love. Eternal true love is the center, not God. The subject and object form a partnership centering on love, embracing forever. You will revolve eternally, faster and faster, like a merry-go-round.</p>
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<p>We are reaching the historical terminal point. Your hometown is where you will find true parents, true couples, and true children. That is the only place.</p>
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<p>Now then, return to your hometowns! There you will restore Adam’s victorious position. God wanted to connect in true love with the first parents-Adam and Eve, but could not.</p>
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<p>Your grandparents are the same forever! Do you want to be separated from them? (No.) How about your parents? (No.) How about your spouse? (No.) How about your friends? (No.) You desire a completely unified family, surrounded by God’s true love, revolving in love eternally.</p>
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<p>In Adam’s family, the Grandfather is God. Adam and Eve, centering on God, are the horizontal king and queen. God and True Parents unite vertically and horizontally into one through a ninety degree angle. Humanity receives God’s love through the ninety degree angle. Once the sphere of true love is created, everyone can connect directly to the center. There are no losers.</p>
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<p>What is true love? Satan invaded true love. Illicit love will lead you to hell. Jesus said, “If you want to follow me, you have to deny your parents, friends and spouse, otherwise you are not worthy of me.” The simple conclusion is that you have to overcome fallen world love in order to attain spiritual life. Once you make that foundation, Satan’s love world will disappear and God’s love world will appear. This is the Messiah’s mission.</p>
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<p>So read the Bible, because it will teach about denying yourself. Everyone has to go over Satan’s line. Even Christians are connected to Satan’s foundation. You received the worst love seed from Satan, through your sexual organ. You have to receive a new seed centering on God’s love. This is the main point of your tribal messiah mission. You must inherit God’s life, love and lineage. If you didn’t make that connection, you cannot go back to your original hometown, the ideal world. Is it clear now?</p>
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<p>You have to fulfill that mission. It is your homework. Can you follow me, going over the mountain peak to the eternal site? In Korea, we are occupying the family site. Korea is the original nation, centering on True Parents. True Parents’ native home is in North Korea, so how can we let Kim Il Sung occupy it? He will automatically have to leave, because I made so many conditions. He is in debt. Now, North Korea is welcoming me.</p>
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<p>So inJuly, I proclaimed that the free world, communist world, religious world, and political world are united into one. I proclaimed that the world of mind and the world of true love have sovereign power. We are going to clean up Satan’s world.</p>
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<p>In the past you did not believe me. Now, take me seriously, for God is raising me up. No matter how strongly Satan’s power persecutes me, I am going up, and the other side is going down. Satan can longer push us around. No matter how difficult the situation, we must overcome the fall! Our sexual organ is supposed to be the palace of heaven and earth-the love palace, life palace, and blood lineage palace. Father won the eternal love, life and lineage tradition! This is our unification family system.</p>
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<p>When the vertical King of Kings connects to the horizontal Parents, it is so powerful. The third Adam’s family is the central family eternally! Other families must receive their tradition and create one world culture. God’s grandsons and daughters, true Adam’s family, will be princes and princesses-that is you, humanity! True Parents centered on God, the King of Kings, are the royal family.</p>
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<p>After the fall, many people wanted to become king. Every woman thought, “I want to occupy earth and heaven, including God.” Actually, God wants to give us the position of royalty, fulfilling those desires. But after the fall, kingship was lost. The original mind was still connected to God, like a magnet. It was hidden by Satan’s power, but when the absolute plus appears, it will pull all mankind’s original minds to it.</p>
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<p>Satan’s world and concepts will try to prevent you from going to God’s side. You must fight Satan’s fallen lifestyle everyday, training your attitude. Which way should you go? Your nation’s way, your parents’ way, your culture’s way? Or Reverend Moon’s way? (Reverend Moon’s way!) I don’t know if you can do it. To create the vertical love position is the most difficult way. I experienced hellish waves of negative power coming against me, but I continued to stand at the center and proclaim the truth.</p>
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<p>You must build your individual and family foundation, and unite it with your tribe and nation. This is your mission. All national, worldwide and cosmic conditions were fulfilled by Father. You will be making the horizontal foundation on earth. The family is formation level, tribe is growth level, and nation is perfection. Through that, every country will be connected to Father.</p>
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<p>You have to go back to your family! Otherwise you cannot build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven. Now, I have to go over the peak of North Korea, Kim Il Sung. My hometown will include the individual, family, tribe, nation, and world.</p>
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<p>I had to fight back up from the individual level when the established Christian world didn’t unite with me. I was chased out to the wilderness alone, clearing the land, making fences, expanding the Unification Church. The United States couldn’t fulfill the Providential expectation, and God’s foundation was lost. England in the Eve position, America in the Abel position, and France in the Cain position should have united into one and then united with True Father! History was reaching its terminal point. The foundation of world Christianity was the bride to the bridegroom. This foundation was to connect to the Asian foundation. Why? Because Jesus Christ was crucified in an Asian area.</p>
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<p>One cannot have children in the spiritual world. Children can only be multiplied on the horizontal earth plane. So you have to have many children, centering on true love. There are many senior citizens in America! They are your parents! You cannot separate from them. Three generations will fulfill the four-position foundadtion.</p>
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<p>Father is creating the original true family for the first time on earth, the royal, God-centered family. This is the Kingdom of Heaven! You must feel the urgency of the last days. Go out in the tradition of Jesus’s twelve disciples. Connect your foundation to the original Eden family system.</p>
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<p>Father made a victor’s foundation all the way up the cosmic level. What shall True Parents do now? Bequeath it to the true children. But the children didn’t understand.</p>
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<p>You must get a ticket! You must be registered in the original book of life. It is like a birth certificate. You must also register your tribe, centering on Parentship. Where can you get that certificate? Not from the national foundation but only from the individual and family foundation. So you have to go back to your hometown! Today! You have to pass through individual and family level perfection, making the original God-centered, true love centered palace. Then you will become royal palace members. You will have no more enemies, only praise. This is our last main goal. Shall you go to that settlement place or not? (YES!!!) Raise your hands! When you complete this, we will create the royal familyship, throughout the face of the earth.</p>
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<p>Japanese, Americans, and Koreans, you have to forget your national concept. The only true way is the Love Parents’ concept. A child has only one concept-to love and obey his parents. You have to go to the original settlement, your hometown. Tribal messiahs are in the position of Jesus Christ. Until you fulfill that foundation you cannot inherit the merit of the Second Advent.</p>
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<p>There is only one time when True Parents are alive on the earth. All of your ancestors deeply covet your position. They endured so much suffering and persecution and died hoping to see the True Parents. The Christian world wanted Jesus Christ to return. How can their suffering be liberated? When God looks at their situation, He cannot stand it. But I understood how miserable their lives were.</p>
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<p>The good parents’ mission is to liberate that situation from the individual to the world level. It was such a heavy load, but now everything is liberated. The wind is changing direction. A hopeful time is coming. You only have to win your families. You must fulfill Jesus’ mission. From there, restore the first Adam’s position-your parents. Until now they have been so against the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Then, on the foundation of tribal messiahship, you can connect to the national foundation, which Father already fulfilled. Thus, the formation, growth and perfection levels can be connected directly, vertically, to the nation, world and cosmic center. The tribe center is not the center. The cosmic center is Father, who is vertically connected to God. Your ancestors will visit your relatives and witness to them. We will expand God’s foundation on the earth.</p>
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<p>Become good problem-makers!! What kind of trouble makers? True love trouble makers!! What is true love? True love means to invest everything, and then forget you ever invested.</p>
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<p>Let me hear your voices! Will you go to your original homeplace? Do you want to become the royal family? Welcome it with a “mansei!” If you are ready to go, raise your hands!</p>
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<h3 align="center">July 1, 1991<br />
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<p>I just arrived from Alaska. I am making a special visit because this time has great significance from the point of view of the dispensation.</p>
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<h3 align="center">The Meaning of July 1, 1991</h3>
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<p>The first day of July this year is not an ordinary first day of July. From the point of view of the history of the dispensation, this is the central year of the three-year course, which itself is a transitional period in history. The flow of history must now change. The democratic world and the communist world have lost their direction completely, and the religious world has also fully lost its direction. All foundations in which men took pride have been destroyed. This had to take place.</p>
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<p>When the autumn arrives, the true fruit and false fruit will reveal their true identity. False fruit naturally will enter the fire and burn, and true fruit will be reaped. But from the perspective of the dispensation of restoration or salvation, we are not interested in many fruits. The fruit of realization which religions seek is not many but only one. Although there are many religions such as Buddhism, Confucianism and so forth, the fruit they pursue is one.</p>
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<p>Who is the owner of that fruit? It is not some sovereign. It is not some nation. People who rule over nations cannot reap the fruit and the many religious groups cannot each reap this fruit and claim it as their own. The fruit must represent some particular religious group that represents all religious groups, which reaps the matured fruit to be received as the fruit of God.</p>
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<p>From this perspective, what would God desire? I will not get involved in a long discussion of the dispensation of salvation being the dispensation of re-creation, but if we were to say that it is the work of re-creation, then the question is why God needs to reap the re-created fruit. Looking at it centering on heaven, it is not because the other fruit is unworthy, but God is seeking the fruit of the heavenly lineage, for the sake of establishing that blood lineage. In order to establish the blood lineage, we must connect to the tradition that can pass through the karma of love centering on God.</p>
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<h3 align="center">The History of the Restoration of<br />
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<p>Fallen people today have inherited the blood lineage of Satan. This is the problem. How difficult is it to restore the people cleanly back to heaven, once they inherited the lineage of Satan? Let me answer this way: heaven’s position is similar to a man who lost his beloved lover, and has to love another woman and, further, to love her son, whom someone else fathered, as his own son. The problem is how God can accept that son as his own direct heir. Frankly, it must be miserable and tormenting. Since this acceptance could not be done at once, God began from the individual position and passed through a course of tribulation involving that degree of love on the family, tribal, societal, national and world levels, persevering and overcoming everything. In this way, He has been waiting until the time He can send the Messiah.</p>
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<p>How does the Messiah come? He comes after the purification of the blood lineage. As you know, because Cain and Abel were born based on the unity of Adam and Eve [false parents], in order to cleanse their lineage, Cain and Abel must enter the womb of True Parents and be reborn in the reversed positions of eldest son and second son. Originally, there would not have been such things as eldest-son “type” and second-son “type”. There cannot be eldest son and second son for the sake of distinguishing them [as relatively good and evil]. From the viewpoint of the dispensation of restoration, simply establishing the position of the second son as the elder son is not enough to rectify the lineage. The two must seek and enter the source of life once more. This is what happened through Tamar in the Old Testament era.</p>
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<p>When you look superficially at the Bible, it is difficult to accept the story of Esau and Jacob. Their mother deceived her husband Isaac and her eldest son Esau to let her younger son Jacob seize the blessing. This is unacceptable even by the ethical standards of that time. It is wicked. So the question is, why was this content recorded in the Bible as an important event?</p>
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<p>It is the same when you look at the life of Mary. A virgin gave birth to a child. What was the situation of heaven which necessitated a virgin bearing a child? Why was it necessary to send the Messiah in that manner? In order to lay that foundation, the connection was made from Esau and Jacob to Tamar, and restoration was to be done centering on the offspring of Hagar and Sarah, and then substantially history was to go forward on the national and world levels centering on Mary.</p>
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<p>That tradition must be recognized and inherited, and the proclamation must be made that a new Messiah will appear. Centering on the period of the world level and the national level, the historical national standard is to be set by tying all these events together and proclaiming the truth behind them. Without this proclamation, the historical standard is not set.</p>
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<p>What happened to Jesus, who came on that foundation? What would have happened if, when Jesus came, Judaism and the nation of Israel had united as Cain and Abel? How would Jesus have returned? Jesus had to enter in the position of father. In order to do that on this earth, as a resurrected, substantial being, he had to compensate for all the sacrifices made by the second sons for the sake of reclaiming heaven’s birthright given the eldest son.</p>
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<p>The Abel view of history is that all must be divided into Cain and Abel and then into Esau and Jacob. Even after all of that, on the national level Jesus must gather all the relationships of Abel, and as the Abel-type resurrected substantial being and as the representative of the nation, he must rectify the birthright of the eldest son on the national level again. Without rectifying it, the birthright on the world level cannot be reclaimed.</p>
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<p>What is to be done after restoring the birthright and claiming the birthright of eldest son on the world level? After restoring the birthright of eldest son on the world level, we can establish the right of parents on the world level. Unless the birthright of the eldest son is reclaimed and the course of conflict on the world level is resolved, parents cannot establish the original lineal relationship.</p>
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<h3 align="center">The Path of Restoration Through Indemnity<br />
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<p>After they come to the earth, the task of parents is to establish the kingdom. The messiah, who represents Heaven, should have come to this earth centered on the nation of Israel and Judaism, and overcome the Roman Empire. It is not to be overcome through conflict. Everything must be invested in order to bring about re-creation. Giving and forgetting, investing and forgetting, and in this way forgetting time and forgetting one’s life and environment in order to invest — this single-mindedness is the way that your love will last in the context of God’s will. If you assert yourself and promote yourself, what you do will not remain during the course of re-creation.</p>
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<p>For this reason, God cannot have any regard in His mind for people or nations as He deals with the national and world foundation. He must re-create those who become like the descendants of Adam and Eve who did not fall in the Garden of Eden. He has continued to create Adam and Eve, to invest and forget and then invest and forget again repeatedly during the period of individual, family, and tribal restoration. You must understand that God has had that attitude as the foundation for the restoration of a conditional tribe, a conditional people, a conditional nation and a conditional world.</p>
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<p>Even in the period of such conditions, it cannot be carried out at our convenience in a humanistic way according to some seemingly reasonable plan. God has not changed during the period of restoration on the individual level, family level, tribal level, society level, national level and world level. He has maintained the original spirit of love that always invests from the position of emptiness. With regard to the original nature, even with regard to evil or the realm of the devil’s powers, the form of the original love has remained unchanged.</p>
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<p>For this reason, even Satan acknowledges before Him, “You are the only owner of the creation.” He must make that acknowledgment. How much is Satan changeable? He changes every moment and in every place, south, north, east and west. He drags the central headquarters to the east, to the west, to the south and to the north. Dragging it everywhere in the environment according to his whims, he brought a lot of confusion in the center. You must understand how miserable this was for Heaven, which had to ignore it and persevere through the course of re-creation centering on the standard of original nature.</p>
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<p>Ladies and gentlemen, where can you find an instance in the world when, while having one’s beloved spouse stolen, one takes in the children of the snatched wife or husband and takes care of them as one’s own? Blessed families especially must be clear about this. Everything is not accomplished just because you received the blessing. The blessing is conditional.</p>
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<p>In tune with the dawning of this age, the purpose of which is to inherit the realm of God’s heart, we must understand the toils of God, who labored to establish the historical tradition. From this perspective, you must criticize yourselves by the standard of that tradition: “I, so-and-so, have been living centering on myself.” You know this better than anyone else.</p>
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<p>For the sake of the dispensation of restoration on the family level, God has forgotten about His position and prestige in order to carry on the battle. To accomplish the completion of restoration, He ignores His own dignity and takes in the children of the enemy and tries to make them His own children. You must understand that the world can never pay back the debt that is owed to God, who did not hate the enemy but continued such actions throughout history. If your facial features are normal and if you love something about your neat appearance, then you especially must understand that you stand on the foundation of the toil and accomplishments of a God who tried to preserve such appearance as much as possible.</p>
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<p>The path that you will travel, in the eastern, western, southern or northern directions, is not something that will be welcomed; it will not be as if you are in a free environment. Devils are opposing us in our path from a hundred directions, creating an opposing environment. You must recognize them and overcome them.</p>
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<p>What are you trying to bring with you? You can only go with the progressive original heart that God created; you cannot do it by a clever method or strategy. The path of the will cannot be traveled half-heartedly. It is a serious matter of life and death. This person who stands here, who founded the Unification Church, has lived his whole life like that. Such a tradition must be left behind, yet what have the blessed families done? They centered on their own families, for the sake of their own wives and children. What are they doing to educate them so that they can be better than others? When I look at the blessed families who are begging me to select their own children for the public path, I am so disheartened. From the viewpoint of the original tradition of heaven, how can this be tolerated? There are some who fall, and after the fall want to be blessed again. How can there be another blessing? The blessing is like dangling one rope down the cliff. It is you who must climb up. You must understand shame. There will come a time when I must cleanse those who received the blessing.</p>
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<p>You must check your transgressions of the Principle by yourself, and repent. You cannot pass over the barrier by yourself. I also cannot freely cross over the barrier by myself. If I bought and blessed a piece of land, I could not sell it until now. Even when I had to, I could not sell it. Everything must be offered to God. You have sold the properties of the church according to your own desires, and so forth, haven’t you?</p>
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<p>By concluding the ceremony of July 1, we inaugurate the time in which the True Parents can have complete freedom. Until now, I could not do as I wanted. If I could have done as I wanted, why would I have suffered? Why would I have acted so powerlessly before the world? There is a time for everything. Without fulfilling responsibility in regards to time, one cannot lift up one’s face and act freely.</p>
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<p>In order to cross over the pass of indemnity, in order to go to the kingdom of Heaven, you cannot take along the things that you possess. You must pass all things of the world over to that side. You must cross over with new belongings. Satan is following. So, it is my desire to sell all the properties of the Unification Church, and to give them to the nation, to the people of the world, and to even sell all that you own to give it to them. This is how it is with God. You must completely cross over the pass of dispensation.</p>
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<p>I have no need of newspapers and corporations. I needed them until now in order to provide protection against the satanic world. What I need now is the appearance of a simple traveler who can walk freely all over the plain of freedom. We must enter the territory of the kingdom of Heaven is this manner. It is a solemn thing. You must understand that the breathtaking moment is coming when we must conclude the life on earth and with a solemn heart seek the homeland.</p>
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<p>It has been seven years since I proclaimed that you become tribal messiahs and do home church. I have been teaching you this for seven years. Is there anyone who said that he would do it, who made that determination and cried out for the sake of that action without sleeping at night? If you spent your time meaninglessly, then you must repent. Do you think of the will as some simple matter? I cannot tolerate that.</p>
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<h3 align="center">The Course of Restoration Until the Time<br />
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of Hometown Providence</h3>
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<p>You must think about the position from which the original nature of heaven entered this world. Centering on the original nature, before that standard, the realm of Israel on the individual, family, tribal, racial and national level has been established. How anxious must Jacob have been until the moment he won over the archangel at the Ford of Jabbok and received the blessing of Heaven? You cannot imagine how amazing the moment was when the name of Israel was proclaimed on earth.</p>
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<p>You are not to defile the name of Israel. Not only the name of Israel, you are not to defile the lineage of Israel. The Israelite people did defile the lineage, and Christianity emerged as a clan centering on Jesus, but debased itself. Christianity, which was centered on Jesus as the king and parent representing Israel, was defiled.</p>
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<p>Today, centering on the Christian realm, can we win back the sovereignty which God wants, the sovereignty with which He blessed Israel? Can we reap the fruit which represents the nation? Where can we reap the fruit which represents the nation? How can we do all of these things? It is through the Messiah. We must seek the seed of the one true fruit.</p>
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<p>Today, the western civilizations, centering on England, America and France, are Cain. Asia is taking the Abel position, yet whom are Cain and Abel seeking? They are seeking their parents. Heaven chased out Eve with two sons at her bosom. The parents are to be sought out again. Cain and Abel are seeking parents in order to receive the seed of Heaven’s pure lineage. Although Heaven has been bearing with the seed of the enemy until now, all the past must be liquidated. Putting the whole family and nation behind, overcoming the opposition while dodging tribulations and facing death, we must seek the position where we can be embraced by the true husband and receive the seed of the true son. This is the dispensation of restoration. The true seed is none other than True Parents, True Father.</p>
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<p>True Father must prevail over the satanic realm. Now, with the name of True Father and True Parents, we can win over persecution on the individual, family, tribal, society, national and world levels. Although the free world and the communist world opposed the Unification Church and Reverend Moon, by educating the Russian leaders in Washington, in the free world, I have secured spiritual victory. Throughout history, they will regret the fact that they persecuted the Reverend Moon, not realizing the dispensational significance. How can they liberate themselves from the burden of having mistreated the most precious guest, one who was unprecedented in history? Based on the directives of one person, using the people and the environment, they did everything they could to block the Unification Church from expanding out to the world. How can they be exonerated from such evil actions?</p>
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<p>Now the trends in the western world are changing because of Reverend Moon. The trends created by western society have passed away and the time has come for the trends to flow from Asia. For the proclamation of settlement to be made before Heaven and earth, all the opposition first had to be overcome. Then all the elements necessary for complete restoration had to be indemnified, culminating in a victorious foundation throughout both the democratic and communist worlds, fulfilling the highest standard. By doing so, the settlement of the new age can happen for the first time. To do this, I have prevailed over all persecution, starting from the individual and moving to the family, tribe, race, nation and world. Therefore, centering on the blessed families, I am sending everyone back to their hometowns.</p>
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<p>Due to the fall, the world became evil, starting from the family. We must completely restore it. All of the Cain-type people have risked their lives to kill me by creating opposition in the family, tribe, race and world, but I have overcome all obstacles in order to get this evil world under control.</p>
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<p>Because I have prevailed, now I can scale the world, and then I can find my country and surmount it, and then find my hometown and finally my whole family. Since that time has come for me, it is the same for everyone. But all of you are not going to my hometown. You were born in different places. How can many of you be born at once in my hometown? Since you cannot claim this, you have to build your foundation, following my example, to settle in your own hometown. That is the preaching of the tribal messiah.</p>
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<h3 align="center">The Reason I Tell You To Do Family Church</h3>
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<p>Where do you settle? Settling among your brothers in your family is not your stopping place. After you deal with your brothers in your family, you have to find your mother. With ourselves in the position of the resurrected Jesus, we have to put our parents in the position of Adam and Eve on the horizontal level, centering on the realm of liberation. In the position of Jesus on the tribal level, all the things that Father completed in the parental position connect to the horizontal foundation. Through this, the origin of all the hatred in the course of horizontal history, which was started by Satan, will be completely vanquished, because the new horizontal foundation has been completely built up.</p>
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<p>Centering on the family, the man is the east and the woman is the west. A line has been drawn between east and west, and there is no way to change this with your own individual power. Where can we restore this? It is not in the nation. It is not in the tribe. It is in the family. Adam and Eve, centering on false love in the family, turned around 180 degrees and created hell. Today, there is no rebirth unless the Unification Church turns families around 180 degrees and they are reborn in the heavenly lineage as a new seed, engrafting into the purified lineage as children sown by parents and as new ancestors. Without that, there is no salvation at all.</p>
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<p>Is there salvation in Christianity? There is no salvation of real life, centering on eternal love. Therefore, Father established the way of the hometown providence and proclaimed that everyone should be tribal messiahs in their hometowns.</p>
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<p>When did I start teaching this? To do that we have to make a home church which can get the Cain and Abel problem under control. When did I tell you about home church? It was seven years ago. Did you fulfill it or not? Didn’t I tell you that you have to do home church? Did you succeed in what you said you would do? Here I am, standing in front of you, having walked that path. I never tried to retreat from anything in the satanic world. God will take care of it. Follow me and see what happens. If you do not go on that path, God will block the way for your sons and daughters. Because I know that horrible era will come, I have kept on going this way.</p>
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<p>Even though I was staying in Korea, when there was news that I was being indicted, I immediately flew back to America. Those who leave the battlefield cannot be brave generals. If you do not become brave generals you cannot be victors, and if you do not become victors, you will not be welcomed by the nation. If you run around acting like hit and run liars, you cannot attain victory. When you accomplish, risking your life centering on a life and death situation, the nation will protect and welcome you and you will earn the right to live.</p>
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<p>Can you offer something to God — make a donation to God — and take it back? You cannot do that, even at the cost of your life. No matter how hard your life may be, you must live for the sake of others.</p>
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<h3 align="center">After the Center Is Fixed, There Is No Forgiveness</h3>
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<p>Today is the Declaration Day of God’s Eternal Blessing. What does that mean? The right wing and left wing came into being. This has been trouble for God. They must come together as one. We have to march forward as we bring right and left together as one. Until now people have been playing the right and the left. To get this split history under control, God has been receiving persecution here and getting hit there. Like a wife who lost her husband, like one who is chased by enemies, God could not go the right direction to the place where God wants to dwell, but He went here and there and left and right.</p>
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<p>Since you joined the church, how many times have you moved left and right? Until now you have said whatever you wanted to say and have done many wrong actions at the expense of True Father. Now Father is praying deeply about how to resolve the problems connected with this. God’s blessed families, whom True Parents desire, are not yet like True Parents. Blessed families have split into left and right. Have your mind and body split, too? God wants the family to unite centered on God. Historically, God has made so many sacrifices to bring the dead back to life. In the process of trying to guide history, God has suffered so much to get everything, left and right, under control. God has patiently waited, enduring a thousand years as if it were a day.</p>
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<p>Although True Parents have come to earth, people have treated them like dirt. All of you have wanted to take advantage of True Parents, and True Parents have been abused. Today, July the first, on this very hour you should really repent of all the things you have done wrong and you should make a fresh, brand new beginning. Through your own will you should lament and repent, feeling a guilty conscience and heart-broken embarrassment. You should know that you are in the position to mourn and repent.</p>
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<p>Father can make no retreat. Can parents retreat? You should know that parents cannot retreat. Will all your sons and daughters inherit the position of parents, so that your blood lineage is carried on? Centering on these sons and daughters, nations and the world will be formed. This is a serious task. Can you trade your parents for money? Or for dignity? This Principle will not change even if the universe changes. Can you deny this Principle for money? Or for dignity? For power? It cannot be denied even at the cost of your life. Parents should die for the sake of the children and the children should die for the sake of the parents. Only in this way can we truly carry on the way of the universal Principle.</p>
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<p>Father has called you through the will of God, made you true sons and daughters, and assigned you the position of tribal messiah. What is the messiah? Jesus wanted to take the victorious position at the cost of his life, mobilize the enemies who were against his mother and father, and put his enemies in Adam’s position. This story [this hope and plan] is like a dream. Unless it is accomplished, however, the horizontal standard on which east, west, south and north can live together in the center cannot be set; the 360 degrees will not be drawn. That is why we have to bear the cross of love and forgive. The chance to do this does not happen all the time. When the messiah comes, settles, and becomes the center, this will not happen. The messiah will judge. Once the center is set and determined, there is no forgiveness. If you have the law, you have to live by the law. However, before the center is set, forgiveness and “re-salvation” are possible.</p>
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<p>In this free world, the truth and the heavenly way must be centered on True Parents and the Unification family. Are your wife, husband and children living the principled life? When the day comes, those who did not work hard enough will face the outcome. You might think everything is going your way, but just wait and see. Gradually it all will get twisted.</p>
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<p>If a parent does not fulfill the responsibility, the child will not find the right way to go on with his life, and he or she will pay the indemnity. The child will end up suffering. If the child suffers, so does the parent. That’s the way it is. A parent who cannot take care of the child properly cannot be here.</p>
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<p>It was the same in the Old Testament Age and the New Testament Age. During the Completed Testament Age, True Parents come down to the earth in order to comfort the suffering God. The Completed Testament Age is the era for true love to eliminate the miserable domain of rejection.</p>
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<p>The standard of false parenthood established by Adam and Eve, who were not united with true love, should be corrected based on love for the way of the child, the way of all things, and the way of God. This is an unavoidable conclusion in our Principle view. There is no possible objection to this view.</p>
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<p>Those who bowed down first [in the July 1 Main Ceremony] were the representative of the free world and the representative of the communist world. Right now is the turning point when left becomes right and everything reverses. Because of rejection by the realm of Christianity, the realm of communism is progressing. Now we are stepping onto that new level. If the realm of communism does not take the path centered on Reverend Moon, it will fall off the track by which the world will progress. It is the same for America. However, Americans now are realizing that I possess a tremendous influence for good.</p>
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<h3 align="center">Now the Right and Left Have Become One</h3>
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<p>Now the time has come when both America and Russia need Reverend Moon to provide the providential direction. Recently, 200 Russian military generals and members of the Parliament received Principle education in America. They are taking this up with the belief and knowledge that they will be victors by realizing the ideal world through Father’s Godism and Headwing Ideology. They know that Father’s thought will overcome their former materialistic idealism and will create the ideal world.</p>
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<p>Looking ideologically at Communism, it is onesided, but because it contains facts which cannot be denied by history, the communists were able to influence and manipulate elite groups.</p>
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<p>But now I have taken care of the conflict of left and right. On this foundation, Reverend Moon can go back and forth from America to the communist world, going straight where he wishes to go. Until now, we have always moved straight forward through our opposition. Although it has been this way since the beginning, absolutely the time in which it was even possible to wander without direction has passed. Now we have entered a time in which we can march straight towards our destination with the force of a hurricane and accuracy of a bullet.</p>
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<h3 align="center">You Must Fulfill Your Responsibility After the Blessing</h3>
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<p>You must all prepare. There is only one parent. You must go through the right process. In order to do this, a father and mother cannot go together at the same time. The father’s heart and mother’s heart, and the father’s body and mother’s body, must be in one line. And then, the son’s heart and the daughter’s heart, the son’s body and the daughter’s body, must be in one line. Two people cannot enter and exit side by side. You must overcome. You two are just one person when you overcome division. There is no room for Satan to come into an opening made by a second person. The father’s heart and mother’s heart, father’s body and mother’s body: parents are one in heart and body. In one body, the son’s and daughter’s hearts and bodies must be one and stand on a straight line. Only when these four come together as one can they extend horizontally. Once you set up vertically, then you can set up horizontally.</p>
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<p>If you do not, you can never come here, eternally. You will be disqualified even if you have been blessed 1,000 years. Didn’t Adam and Eve originally receive the blessing of God? God willed them to be blessed, saying “be fruitful, multiply”, but they did not realize the blessing. Whose responsibility was it? It was not God’s responsibility; it was their own. It is the parents’ responsibility to bless their children, but to realize the blessing is the children’s task.</p>
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<p>True Parents have gone through this path. You should understand this point clearly. How can you love your children if you as parents are not united? It won’t happen; it is against heavenly law. Your children must be able to say, “My mother is heavenly mother, and my father is heavenly father.” When they look at you, completely united as husband and wife, they have to see you as a physical substantiation of God. You must be the parents who can be glorified, whom your children will not trade for anything.</p>
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<p>But if you do all kinds of bad things, cheating on others, it is absurd to think that your children and your family will prosper. The path we have to walk is a one-way street, but people are walking in four different directions. This undermines the heavenly standard.</p>
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<p>Husband and wife bow together during pledge, right? That is horizontal unity. But Reverend Moon is vertical. There are millions of branches, but there is only one vertical axis. I do not carry on the providence haphazardly. I do it to reveal heavenly law.</p>
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<p>Is it acceptable as a blessed Unification Church member not to do pledge as a family? The time will come when God’s will is done by a child condemning his father, saying, “Having received the blessing, why am I, your child, like this?” There will come a time when such children would even strike their father harshly. Because I know these things, I lead on the front line with unblinking eyes. Since I know what to do, I must tell you before I go.</p>
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<p>We call this the era of the second generation. Therefore, you second generation must do better than your mother and father. The second generation must correct the mistakes of their mothers and fathers, and be prepared to straighten out the crooked branch and fulfill their responsibility.</p>
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<p>In order to restore the nation, I have had to walk the path of indemnity alone, yet joyfully, in order to indemnify the failure to offer the nation to God. You must fulfill your portion of responsibility. I labored and was a beggar for God’s providence. If you think and work only for your own success and that of your family, you cannot stand before True Parents as children.</p>
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<p>I will make the True Family, the 36 Couples, 72 Couples, 120 Couples, 430 Couples, extending to the nth blessing group, stand correctly. But the blessed families who fail will become nourishment for worms.</p>
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<p>I’m a person who even disregarded his own parents. Not only did I leave my brothers and sisters, I even left my own tribe. I left everything for God. Does God have a nation? Does God have parents? I attended only God, on behalf of the nation, parents, and elder and younger brothers and sisters. Despite many complications, I didn’t get caught up with distractions. I walked my way imposingly. To straighten the way, I overcame the environment. Even today, no matter what others say, I pioneer my way and walk the path. I overcame everything, so I make this proclamation today.</p>
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<p>Is the representation of the democratic world, communist world, and religious world a problem? Making the democratic world and communist world into one is a problem. They came this far with their minds and bodies separated, and because of this separation there has been a lot of bloodshed. Religion and government have stood face to face until now. The people in government have been beating the people of religion. The body always strikes the mind, right? They are each other’s enemy.</p>
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<p>Religion has sacrificed a lot and shed much blood. No one knows where and when the blood you shed will bear fruit equal to its value. This is the meaning of being a true parent: because of True Parents, the religious realm and the governmental realm, as well as the democratic world and the communist world, can be united. Why? Since all conflict began with the separation of false parents, it must be brought into oneness by True Parents. This is logical. These are not just words made up for appearance’s sake. Because this is reality, we are proceeding according to the truth.</p>
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<p>This is the basis for what we are preparing in August. We will found the Federation for World Peace and the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace. I’m trying to finish everything in August. That is why we are promoting this. If we promote it, then Heaven will organize it. The foundation to resolve everything over which the communist world and the democratic world have been fighting is mobilized in the spirit world.</p>
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<p>Religious leaders and politicians have been enemies until now. How much did political figures persecute and even kill religious men? They all are enemies, aren’t they? But when you look at it more deeply, they are brothers, and they want and need to be forgiven by love. There will be forgiveness, and in that realm there will unfold a movement for alliance in the open and free areas of the spirit world.</p>
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<p>Thus we are restoring elder sonship. Territories in the spirit world are separated because the realm of religion and the realm of secularism were fighting over elder sonship. By restoring elder sonship, change can take place in the spirit world and on earth. By restoring elder sonship, which was stolen by the archangel centered on Adam, we can enter the original world, in which the world of angels can nurture Adam to maturity. That means the spirit world will not be able to use the human world. Up until now, how much did it use and take advantage? Devils have been using many good men. Satan is the one who played the trick on Adam and Eve which led to the fall. Even the Buddhists have played this kind of game, and other religious leaders as well.</p>
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<p>Therefore, I want to unite the brothers to create elder sonship. This causes the followers of Satan to lose their power, putting them on a horizontal level. The authority of True Parents and Heaven are the only things that can rise to a higher level. Therefore, the strength people have used to exceed their rightful authority will disappear. No matter how much they try, it will fall. This can occur in Korea, both North and South. No single leader in North and South Korea can accomplish everything which needs to be done. That is why this proclamation must take place. The task must be taken care of centering on Father. Until now, false parents have been taking care of it, but True Parents put it together and proclaim this. Today is the day to proclaim this.</p>
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<h3 align="center">Making a Breakthrough in the Neighborhood<br />
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and Settling the Family Is the Most<br />
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Significant Struggle</h3>
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<p>Elder sonship, as I told you, is not yet concluded. Now it is parentship. You have to understand the significance of your request to become tribal messiahs [the application for Tribal Messiahship submitted worldwide on July 1, 1991]. Because this is that day, you have to fulfill it now. Even if you are the elder in your clan, or if you have been in the church for a long time, if you don’t request to become a tribal messiah, you’ll be left out. Then, for example, if you are Kim, you can’t establish Kim’s tribe. Whatever your position might have been, it will be meaningless. Even if you are the chairman of the Federation or a Regional Director, if you don’t make this request to register as a Tribal Messiah, you are disqualified. If you act according to your own consensus, you’ll be greatly ashamed for the rest of your life.</p>
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<p>Where did the loss of elder sonship, loss of parentship, and loss of kingship take place? It was not out in the world. So, where can we find these? At home. At home, we lost everything. What we have to do now is settle as families by breaking through the rigid social structure. That is the core of my direction. It is a battle for life, a fight which determines everything.</p>
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<p>I did not plan to come to Korea at this time. And I did not plan to declare the Day of God’s Eternal Blessing. But we cannot do without this ceremony. Through the declaration, we will see who is determined to fight with their life, and who is a fake. In a serious time such as this, can one just be a bystander? Can one worry about finding a job? Did you come to the Unification Church in order to get a job? Did you get blessed so you could get a job? If your wife and children block your path in doing the will, you should be ready to leave them. I did not bless you to be people who would do otherwise.</p>
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<p>You should go back to your hometowns to establish family foundations and, centering on your parents, build the foundation for restoration. Aren’t your children born within the family? Do you not make love in your home? Where do husband and wife stand in unity based on love? It is in the tribal hall of assembly. This is the time that has come after unimaginable difficulties. I spent 40 years, 70 years in reality, to come to this moment. Given the fact that we are in a time when all can go back to their families to build foundations to restore elder sonship, the realm of parents, and the realm of kingship, anyone who denies this reality and acts on their disbelief will be punished. We have to cut it off from our line of people.</p>
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<p>I will look closely at those who try to protect their blessed families. Should I forgive them just because they are blessed families? There may come a time when I personally will cut away those blessed families who do not follow the will.</p>
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<p>In the future, a wrongdoer in the tribe is to be judged, and the offender will be cast out by the head of his or her tribe, and children will be sent to take his or her place. Such a time will come. No third parties will be able to meddle in the affairs of the tribe on behalf of the wrongdoer. After having passed through that gate, the devil with his false words will run away.</p>
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<p>Next is the restoration of original nature. You have to represent that original nature. You should proclaim, “I am now absolute in representing God. I have the heart to relate to the object of love, centered on love, and I want to make that person even better than myself prior to establishing this heartistic relationship. Thus, I am without doubt a representative of God.”</p>
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<p>Restoration of heart is next. As a representative centered on love, you should be the owner of love. If you can be the owner through that love, eternal life will be perpetuated. Without the owner of love, this world cannot beget the owner of life. Love comes first. If you want to be the owner of life, you have to be the owner of love.</p>
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<h3 align="center">Fulfill the Kingdom of Heaven<br />
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of the Family Centered on Love</h3>
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<p>Through the True Parents, God has become the owner of love, and He wants to be the owner of life. Satan has to be eliminated in order for that to happen. We even want to liberate Satan. The archangel was in a position to take his place behind mankind. He was to wait for mankind to be liberated from the pit of hell, and to fulfill his original mission by guiding the children of Adam and Eve to Heaven. Following the original principle of protecting Adam and Eve from falling at any cost, he even was to seek after the people in hell. That’s how it is. Finding this path is the course of restoration.</p>
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<p>Today, I proclaimed the victory that liberates the realm of Cain from Satan’s dominion. So there is nothing for which Satan can accuse True Parents. This does not just happen through a wily scheme: it has to follow the law of Principle. Because that was done, the world revolves around the fortunes of your family. It is not a company. It is not a nation. The nation of Korea does not shape the heavenly fortune. If this does not start from your family, the race and the nation will disappear and will have no relationship with Heaven.</p>
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<p>After I gather all for whom I have fought on the worldwide level and bestow blessing upon them, you will go back. You must land at the original base and secure the supreme power of the family level victory, coming to represent the birthright of Heaven. Then you will represent the parents’ right and the king’s right, and when you accomplish that you do not need to be under the control of anyone. You will know how to live, right? If there are things of which you are not sure, you can read my collected sermons. My sermons reveal how I have lived my life.</p>
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<p>You are a royal family of heaven in your home. With the messiah, with the Lord of Second Advent who is coming, each of you will play the role of a king. What is your outlook on the world to be? There is no gap between siblings. Your grandfathers represent everything of the past [gap in the tape] . . . and the contents that represent the spirit world and ancestors will become the ideology.</p>
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<p>Your parents represent all humanity of the [present] world. Men and women, and parents, all have to become masters at least. A master represents a family. The representative of the family is the parent. Sons and daughters are descendants. They are the microcosm of the past, the present and the future, and the visual representation that illustrates the ideal of love on the kingship level.</p>
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<p>Therefore, if a son or a daughter-in-law maintain, centering on love, all of what he or she advocates, then, needless to say grandfather, grandmother and grandson all will follow them. That family welcomes assertions which are centered on love. What kind of love? The re-creational love of God, altruistic love, the love that is forgotten after being given and invested. Even if a grandson makes these assertions centered on love, his grandfather and grandmother will bow their heads in acceptance of it being right.</p>
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<p>After establishing this moral foundation in a tribe, a nation and the world, then this family must keep the master’s love of the family heaven in its center, and stand in the master’s seat centering on love. Then that family gains the qualification to be a master of life and to start putting forth buds.</p>
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<p>Life starts from love. The lineage begins from the place where life and love are united. Upon receiving God’s blessing, if you govern a long life receiving Heaven’s blessing, prosperity will result. The descendant who can expand horizontally will be born.</p>
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<p>Unless you become a master of love and true life, the investment cannot be made. It will gradually become reduced. You will see how that mother and father will move on and what will happen to the son and daughter. You wait and see whether what I say is right.</p>
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<p>If a son and daughter come to understand, and can say, “Ah, Heaven cannot but love our mother and father. They never stray from the path of being patriotic day and night. The will of Heaven in all senses will be able to protect them,” then that family will prosper. It is the same with my family. When I said to myself, “Ah, the son or daughter this time will be born this way,” they were born like that. Therefore, I cannot complain.</p>
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<h3 align="center">Standing in the Line of Tribal Restoration,<br />
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<p>Where are the three generations going? Is the mainstream going zigzag or straight? This is a very serious problem.</p>
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<p>After having put this vast and confused world in order, I have made a ladder which mankind can climb. If you are to go up, you can climb even hundreds of stairs. No matter how seriously you search for one, there is no other way to go. I drastically cut off the ladder of temptation. You cannot find a way up by any other means.</p>
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<p>Since I proclaimed the Unification Ceremony with that in mind, I wish you would go forward with that knowledge and with confidence. From now on, people who oppose the Unification Church will suffer. I do not expect to be opposed, and I should not be opposed. I want you to be active in the name of the Unification Church as much as possible.</p>
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<p>Jesus could not have a “Messiah Proclamation Ceremony.” Centering on Judaism and Israel, he could not do it. What does the “Messiah Proclamation” require? He had to do it with the people of the nation, after having stepped forward with one tribe centering on his own family. He needed the people to make the proclamation. He needed the tribe to make the proclamation. But did he even have a family? Reverend Moon has traversed this entire path. In a free and democratic world in which you can proclaim the True Parents, no matter what anyone says, Reverend Moon is a world figure. When I look at the letters that come from people of all social standings throughout the world, I come across many who testify to that. You should be able to glorify such a tradition, even to your family. When the branch and bud of the teacher emerge and come to look beautiful, you take that branch bud and plant it instead of your own vertical column bud. Then it will become your new vertical column. You know that I have to bless you with the True Family and weave you all together.</p>
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<p>Today is the first of July. You must understand how important this ceremony is. This Proclamation Ceremony is an event for which the True Parents have wished, for which God has desired, and for which all religions and nations have hoped. The problem will be settled from now on, based on this standard.</p>
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<p>This moment is the same as the time when Adam had the authority to name all things. Now, in accord with the way which I have proclaimed, standing united with the will of God, and standing in a realm that is free from opposition, things will come about as I say. That is the special right of the True Parents.</p>
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<p>If you utter a word of curse out of anger with this faith, it will be realized as a real curse. The punishment will be immediate. Therefore, the result of the dispensation will appear to be increasingly fearful. It will affect your families in ways that are revealed externally. Once God takes His place on the seat of judgment, He will not be forgiving. There is no forgiveness.</p>
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<p>It is a shame that there appeared offspring who obstruct the heavenly way. There is no way they can be redeemed. Can the parents beg for the redemption of the offspring? Although the offspring can beg for their ancestors’ redemption, the parents cannot beg for the offspring’s redemption. That is how I understand it. So, the second generation must go the righteous way. I desire that you do not go in a way which will make your descendants ashamed of you. This problem will get increasingly serious.</p>
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<p>I am presently praying for three important things, but I cannot disclose them yet. Once I start laying my hands on this, the judgment that can bring about worldwide devastation will take place. Who will take responsibility for what results? No one can take the responsibility. In the fallen world, there is no one who can bear the responsibility. Who is going to be responsible after the complete destruction of the nation? I know that the True Parents cannot bear the responsibility.</p>
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<p>For that reason, as a sacrifice which can take responsibility in place of that someone in the end, one must bring one’s own children and set them up. This is very serious. Until we had crossed over, all of this was possible. The question is whether this still will take place, now that we have completely crossed over.</p>
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<p>Knowing that the time of seriousness is coming, starting from tomorrow, I wish that you not turn back from the direction, perspective and intuition you have on the path in which you are going. Up to now, there has been persecution. However, now, there is no persecution.</p>
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<p>When you cross the road at the utmost top in fine array, Satan will be cut off, tried and finished. If you destroy Asherah completely, you have to give all your valuables away and go forward seeking with bare hands. Weren’t the people cast out with bare hands?</p>
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<p>You have to cry loudly over the wickedness of the offspring who committed the grave sin, shedding tears with shimjung. We do not know when and where that one day will come.</p>
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<p>Now, even if the parents die, it will not be a failure. Since we have finished the Proclamation Ceremony, I ask you to stride with more strength on the advancing line, with that knowledge, handling things upon such a standard, and having faith in that standard.</p>
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