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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="2018-06-20T05:39:41+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/20/stony-path-of-death/" rel="bookmark">June 20, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-20T05:39:41+01:00">June 20, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1980/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1980</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">April 27, 1980<br />
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Belvedere<br />
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</h3>
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<p>What is this stony path? That is the road of providence or dispensation. No one in history or in the world today readily volunteers to walk the stony path. No individual, family, society or nation would like to walk a stony path, for they want to have a smooth road instead. People would rather drive on a highway in a scenic area instead of a desert. In the Oriental concept, man’s life is compared to a journey, and people think of life in terms of a happy and peaceful, or unhappy journey. Why are some people destined to walk a stony path? The reason is quite mysterious.</p>
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<p>This desire is not limited to man, but includes nature. Grass wants to grow in fertile ground with lots of sunlight and nice rain, and birds look for a comfortable dwelling where they can be at peace. All of nature wants to live in peaceful circumstances.</p>
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<p>But what about God? He also would like to have a peaceful existence. It is man who sets himself apart from nature in his suffering and struggles. Why? There have been many great and righteous people in the past. What kind of life pattern did they have? Usually they lived in tears, toil and hardship. Did they volunteer for that life or was it forced upon them by circumstances? Though they did not volunteer, their environment brought a hard life upon them. They lived a life of difficulty in order to overcome unhappiness for man. Those who pioneered the righteous path in history did so in tears and sweat.</p>
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<p>Where does true happiness begin? Where does true peace or the ideal begin? Do true peace and righteousness begin after a life of toil and tears, or before these things? Why are they only found beyond that hill? Something went wrong. That something was the fall. Religion came into being in recognition that something was broken down by the fall. Without the recognition that there was some deviation from the original world, religion could not exist. The fall reduced mankind to an abnormal and unhappy state. Religion tries to overcome that unhappy state and bring man back to normality. Therefore, religion is on a collision path with man’s unhappy state, trying to shatter it into pieces.</p>
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<p>Is religion based on the charismatic personality of its leaders, or on God? Religion must be based on God. Is God, who has to drive man onto this path of collision with unhappiness, a happy God? Man has only a limited life span, and in that brief time he has to go through much hardship and toil to overcome his unhappy state, but God has had to continue that struggle for thousands of years. Can you imagine His grief and misery in having to do so?</p>
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<p>The fall of man is directly connected to the sorrow of God. Today we see people who live from day to day for fun and entertainment, but if they truly want happiness and righteousness they cannot continue that way; they must collide with their surroundings and rise above them. The first step in a life of religion is recognizing the tragedy of the fall, and trying to remedy that state. The fall brought misery not only to mankind, but to God. He has been living continually in struggle and unhappiness, but no man has recognized this.</p>
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<p>Does the solution begins with man or God? If it is only man’s problem then we don’t have to worry about God, and if it is only God’s problem then we don’t have to worry about man. But the problem is equally serious for both man and God, and thus the solution must be structured in such a way as to include them both. Because the fall brought tragedy to both man and God, they must think along the same lines if they are to bring a solution. If God is crying then man cannot be laughing; if God is struggling over hills then man cannot skip over flat ground. Man always looks for three meals a day and a good night’s sleep. Is God looking for those things also? Is God confined by man’s calendar of years and life on this planet?</p>
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<p>If you are sorrowful and someone comes to comfort you, will your sorrow automatically go away? You have heard the fable about the ant and the grasshopper, in which the ant worked hard during the summer while the grasshopper enjoyed idle time. Could the grasshopper understand the ant’s experience? The ant worked so hard that his waist became as thin as a thread, and he was exhausted with fatigue. Could the grasshopper comfort the ant if he never had experienced hardship himself? But the father of the ant could understand how the ant felt because the father had worked even harder than his son.</p>
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<p>This analogy applies to man and God. God has worked hard, like the ant, while man has been like the grasshopper. In America people eat, drink, and disco. It’s a grasshopper’s life. How could such people say they understand God’s suffering? Would God be comforted by them? The only way truly to comfort God is to work harder than God and understand what He has experienced. Then God might be comforted by you.</p>
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<p>Did God begin the universe in joy or sorrow? During the process of creation God felt joy and said that His creation was good, but did He feel the same joy at the fall of man? God’s joy would have been complete if man had become perfect in the object position, but that never happened. Therefore, human history started in misery, and God’s history was also miserable. There was no sound of joyful laughter, only tears. The echo of those tears has resounded throughout history down to the present day.</p>
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<p>The sound of tears began history, continued through the centuries, and will be the future agenda of history unless we bring total change. This is the universal atmosphere surrounding our life, so if you are trying to be happy all by yourself it is futile. You are swimming in waters of unhappiness and it is impossible to get out by yourself. Does God have reason to grieve or not? His grief begins in the realization that if things had been different He would have been embraced in joy, but instead He is surrounded by sorrow. Is God’s situation clear to men?</p>
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<p>Is it understood why men toil and sweat in tribulation? People know they have restless, unhappy lives, but they don’t know why they struggle so much for so little. Do you Moonies know why you are here and what you’re going to do? You are here to make controversy, aren’t you? Or just to fund raise? To be problem children to society? I don’t think you are treated like royalty here, with good food and nice clothes. The women don’t wear makeup; your only cosmetic is the water you wash your face with.</p>
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<p>The world is in total darkness and people don’t know why it happened or how they can resolve it, but still they continue to struggle. Would God guide mankind along a flat, beautiful, scenic highway to get out of this situation? God knows that bringing a solution to the situation won’t be easy, so will God want you to forge ahead, or would He be lenient about allowing you to continue your past lifestyle?</p>
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<p>Could God work out a solution in a happy way or a difficult way? God’s direction is to bring the solution by following a stony path, but religious people today shun the cross and ask God for blessing and money instead. To God’s ears such prayers are worse than seeing the lazy grasshopper-kind of man. Not only do such people not comfort God, but they want to steal something from Him also. Religious people don’t realize that they are driving one more nail into God’s back each time they pray that way. Instead of comforting Him, it causes Him more pain. On the other hand, if there is a group of people who can say they understand God’s situation and who want to take care of His sorrow, will they be closer to God?</p>
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<p>Americans like pets, especially puppies. If one day there is a big fight between a husband and wife and the husband throws his wife out of the house, just by licking her hand and wagging his tail the puppy will give her more comfort than her husband. The relationship between men and God is somewhat the same. Man and God have been in conflict, with man defying God and demanding to know why he should go a stony path. God really needs the comfort of even a little puppy, but He doesn’t even have pets.</p>
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<p>White people are telling God they don’t want to be bothered with a stony path in life, and black people are saying they have already suffered enough. Protest comes to God from all sides. Should God side with the white or black people in that case? It is a big problem.</p>
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<p>I invited all our Ph.D. candidates to come this morning, and it is good for them to hear this. What kind of scholars are you going to be? Maybe you think you have bigger things to do than bear the cross, but anyone who thinks in that fashion is a thief. My reason for sending these people to study is to prepare them to go to the highest academic level and bear God’s sorrow there, not just to become snobby scholars. I want to grab their neckties and say their lives will be thorny and tearful. What will you say when I tell you that’s your mission? Are you ready? The snobby scholars thought that it is much better to say yes than no this morning!</p>
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<p>Are you serious about God? How serious is your yes? How broad and hard is your yes? If you close your eyes and say yes, no one will trust your answer. If someone plucks your eyes out, will you still say yes? How much do you need God? The intensity of your yes is the key point here. The problem is whether anyone can stop you from saying yes, even if they chop your head off.</p>
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<p>When you look at your own life, your yes gets smaller and smaller as you suffer through all the persecution and criticism and hard work. Even one of my orders is hard to carry out, but sometimes you get one dozen orders a day. You have a hectic schedule selling papers, witnessing, fund raising, plus meetings at night, and then you also want to squeeze in time with your fiancé. Initially you shove your fist in the air and shout yes, but after several days go by you are not so sure. When you hear me you become different people, all electrified and bright-eyes, but within a week after you go back to New York you are like melted chocolate.</p>
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<p>A pig has always lived a certain way in his pigsty, so because he knows he cannot become a bird, he says, “Why should I change at all?” Are you determined to change? Your eyes can see what is good and your mouth knows the taste of good food, but in the meantime you have to go in the opposite direction, and it is painful.</p>
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<p>There is no hiding place for me. When I get on a plane, people give me dirty looks and start whispering. I rode on the subway once and people started pointing and whispering there too. That has been the pattern of my entire life, in Japan, Korea, England, every country I go to. What is that good for?</p>
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<p>Did that happen because I don’t know how to be diplomatic and get accepted by society? I have complete confidence that I could be the king of gangsters if I wanted. I could be the biggest swindler. I am a born fighter, and I never scale for second place in any battle I fight. Is that your image of battle manhood?</p>
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<p>I could live my life comfortably and peacefully if I chose to, but right now I have absolutely no freedom. After all these years I still wonder whether I deserve any nice food that I eat, and check with God whether it’s acceptable for me to wear nice clothes. There is no night when I can go to sleep and forget about the mission. No one is asking me to do this, but my mind is completely bound by my purpose. Is that a happy life?</p>
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<p>Not only internally but also externally I have no freedom. Everyone looks at me as the founder of the Unification Church, so I must act appropriately. I cannot just act freely and go anywhere and do anything. God would remind me that my enemies would be happy at that behavior, and He would not like that. BY worldly standards I must be a very unhappy person. At home I have no freedom even to reprimand my children the way most parents do, by spanking or yelling at them. There is a certain standard to meet and the world is watching. When I am frustrated do you think I could just explode and have a big fight with Mother? The entire universe is watching me.</p>
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<p>Of course I get frustrated, and my fist might shoot out, but always it misses the target and returns to my side. Why should I live like that? That’s no fun. The only reason is to uphold God’s way. I know the true, suffering, anguished God of tears, and the only way to comfort Him is to bear His burden and uphold His honor. I know I am the only person on earth who truly knows God and can comfort Him.</p>
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<p>I have been living in that awareness every day and I am determined to continue until I die. God has now said I have done enough and He told me to relax because He has been comforted by me, but that is the one command from God that I am defying. I cannot rest and I want to go on until I die. Will God send me to hell for that disobedience? Usually God punishes a person for disobedience, so why would God like this disobedience? Will such a person go to hell or heaven? Does that principle apply only to me or to everyone? The attitude of total sacrifice, of not wanting anything from God, is the key.</p>
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<p>If God finds such sons and daughters then for the first time He will be comforted and wipe away His tears. A different kind of tears will be shed-tears of hope and joy. So far God has never shed tears of hope, only tears of despair and sorrow. But as He sheds more tears of hope He can gradually be liberated from sorrow and become happy. God is the emperor of heaven who has shed the most miserable tears, and God sent Jesus so He could shed tears of hope. But then God had to plan to send one more son so He could shed tears of hope and happiness.</p>
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<p>Unless we go over that hill, there is no way to extinguish God’s tears of sorrow. My way of life and ideology is to change God’s tears of sorrow into tears of happiness. That is the crusade I have given my life to. Looking at the entire planet, there has been no place God could find hope, but in me He has found hope for the first time. God has to cling to that hope, no matter what the rest of the world says.</p>
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<p>The secular world is against you, but the heavenly world will embrace and welcome you. That’s the side I choose. You have to shed tears; your eyes should not be dry, for there is no such thing as a true religion without tears. You do not know how much I have shed tears in prayer, like a stream flowing down. You have to cross that creek of tears to meet God. If you shed tears out of self-pity, there is no way God can connect with you, but if you shed tears for mankind and the sorrow of God, He will be linked with you.</p>
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<p>The pioneering religious path is one of tears. In order to pioneer, step by step, the individual level, family level and national level, many tears were shed, so to inherit that tradition you have to inherit His path of tears. Those who want to become religious so they can have ease and peace are thieves and hypocrites. If you are trying to be comfortable in a religious life, it cannot work. Those who study God will suffer more if they are to close to God. Is that way of life closer or more distant to the heart of God? Would intellectual Americans agree with that thinking, or am I dumb for thinking so? Will you think that way?</p>
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<p>I want my flag to be big enough to cover the entire universe so everyone can see it. Is your flag so small that there isn’t room to write “Moonie” on it? When people ask you who you are, do you hesitate to say you are a Moonie? You can say, “Don’t you recognize that I am a Moonie? I am clean cut and don’t wear any makeup. Only Moonies look like this.” Don’t you wrap up the title Moonie in a dirty handkerchief and keep it out of sight? Maybe you think you love me but you don’t like to be called a Moonie. Are you proud of being called a Moonie?</p>
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<p>We can make the Moonie flag so big that it can cover the entire United States, and everywhere people turn they cannot avoid seeing that flag. Everything you do comes under your Moonie flag. Your makeup consists of washing your face in the morning, and your walk is a Moonie walk. Do you carry that kind of flag in your heart? I haven’t been able to trust you before today, but maybe your yes today is real; I’ll forgive you for everything up to yesterday, but from today you must be a proud Moonie.</p>
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<p>When you hear me you feel good, but by the time you get back to World Mission Center the title Moonie is back in your pocket, isn’t it? When you leave here your pride should blossom even more. Those who are really proud in your hearts of being Moonies, raise your hands. Is your title in your pocket, or in your shoe? If you can really believe in the blessing and tradition of being a Moonie, God will bless you exactly as you believe. When you stand in front of the largest crowd you should feel that you represent God and that you will shame everyone into being heavenly people. You should not feel that your witnessing is for yourself or the Church, but to bring blessing to them. You are bringing the message for the sake of God, humanity and that person, not yourself. Why should you feel ashamed or embarrassed? There is no reason for it.</p>
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<p>From today on be proud Moonies. Some people will be unkind and hostile, but don’t back down. Confront them and demand to hear what they actually know about Moonies if they have no facts or first-hand experience. One thing is sure. God will never dwell with a coward. He wants nothing to do with such people. I fight with a big sign up saying that we are Moonies. I will confront the Congress, State Department, and IRS with my flag flying.</p>
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<p>If I am doing this do you want to hide and be meek? So far you have been unsure and weak and not spoken out. We have described how God is heartbroken and tearful, and we have to liberate Him and change His history once and for all. Can you accomplish this goal by hiding your Moonie flag in your pocket? Even Mafia thugs have pride in being part of certain mob families; even the pickpocket boys on the street are proud of their skill. Why shouldn’t you be proud as well? Being Moonies is the most honorable and distinguished thing in the world.</p>
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<p>Even God is advertising and promoting Moonies, along with the whole spirit world. But you are hiding your title. How ridiculous that is! I am uncompromising with such people. Even some leaders say they should be diplomatic and slowly reveal who they are. That is no good. When the CARP movement has a demonstration, they have big signs saying who they are. The words victory and Moonie fit together very well. Moonie; Victory. Victory; Moonie.</p>
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<p>God really wants to promote Moonies. Even if you are a simple fund raiser or witnesser, at least you should have pride to go out with guts and fly your flag. God will smile at your courage. The kind of person who doesn’t want to be known as a Moonie won’t last very long. There is an advantage to becoming well known even if later on you want to retreat, you are too well known to drop out of sight or contradict your own reputation. If you have testified a lot about me then you can’t go back on your word and be different. Your testimony is actually like a safety belt.</p>
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<p>Some members don’t even have the smallest flag, and though they are in the Church they never think of themselves as Moonies. Have you been that way, or have you been proud Moonies? You know that persecution will come when the world hears you are a Moonie, but let me ask you-if you think you will wait until times get better, when would you like to be proclaimed a Moonie?</p>
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<p>Imagine that you do a lot of service work in your area, helping old people and cleaning up, but you just tell people you belong to a church. Sooner or later first one person, then two and three, and finally everyone will know you are a Moonie. Then they will look at you as a hypocrite and a coward. They will see that your good deeds had a shady side. People will say that you are sneaky and have some secret plot so they will be wary of you.</p>
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<p>Many people have thought that a subtle tactic would work better, but in many cases that is why the Unification Church is being persecuted today. If they had squarely said they were Moonies, even though they were persecuted initially, much future persecution would have been prevented. But because you have been cowards, I am bearing the burden of it.</p>
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<p>What color flag would you like to have? A spotted flag is one that you show when it is convenient, and hide when it is not. The Moonie’s flag has a white background, with letters in red. Red represents heart.</p>
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<p>From now on it will be more difficult to hear me because I will speak less frequently. It is a rare privilege to come on the morning when I speak, and there are many mornings you come when I am not here. Maybe you think I have given a long enough sermon now. Normal Moonies favor short sermons, but in time you will want longer sermons and wonder why I speak only a short time. The time will come, however, when there are no longer any sermons at all. In time you will be guided directly by spirit world, so you really won’t need to hear a long sermon from me. I will tell you to follow your guidance from spirit world, period.</p>
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<p>Those who have experienced tears during your prayer, raise your hands. Which kind of tears did you shed, sad tears because you were tired and felt you couldn’t go on? Have you shed tears for God? How do you know God has shed tears? Your experience with God has been indirect. How can you relate to God? How can you change and be linked directly to God?</p>
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<p>The key word is Father God. Even at the time of Adam and Eve God was invisible, but Adam and Eve were created to be the visible form of God. They were like the body of God, and God was like their mind. In spirit world as well Adam and Eve would have been the visible form of God. God created man so He could manifest Himself in a visible form; He wanted to have a visible form to communicate with. Second, God created man to fulfill love. God is our Father. Man is the temple of God, and inside the temple dwells a mind which is a microcosm of the infinite God.</p>
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<p>How far is God from you? He is as near as your mind, for that is His dwelling place. God knows good and evil, and your mind also knows what is good and what is evil. Your mind knows whether you are headed for heaven or hell. Your mind is a proper guide, but the problem is whether your mind is strong enough to pull your body toward the goal. If the body fails to obey then you go to hell. You resemble this infinite God because you possess all the elements of that God. In order to be His child you must be like Him.</p>
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<p>All of history hinges upon one word-restoration-because Adam and Eve never became God’s dwelling place. Right now your body is always pulled in the satanic direction, so your mind has to be anchored to God and be able to conquer your body. Your little mind must become big in order to do that job. Right now there is a race between the two, and when your mind overwhelms your body there is no chance your body can go astray. The person who can discipline his body most will grow fastest. You have to make it a habit to subjugate your body to your mind, a process that takes about three to seven years.</p>
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<p>Therefore, you should do whatever your body dislikes. The body always goes in a satanic direction, so you should do whatever it doesn’t want to do. Whenever it wants to sleep, stay awake. This is why we do many things our bodies don’t like. Our bodies don’t like to fund raise or fast or witness, but that’s what we do.</p>
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<p>Those who are trying to hide the fact that they are Moonies don’t have their mind and body united. It is as though they put on makeup to go to the outside world, but make their faces black when they go before God. Tell the world that you are in the image of God and you resemble Him, and that thus you can bring salvation to the world. That is the only way the world can be saved, and that should be your pride.</p>
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<p>Do you go the flat path or the stony path? Have you ever imagined how rugged the stony path is? You women want to be blessed with handsome, elegant men don’t you? You are so silent all of a sudden! Your eyes are cunning in a way because they recognize when a man is handsome and tall, and then you hope he might be your husband. But you must deny what your eyes see and what your body wants. Ask God for the ugliest possible man so that you can look at him as being in the image of God and serve him. People always say, “Yes, yes, yes, except for one thing.” That “except” is always the problem.</p>
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<p>It is my experience that God is the champion at disguising Himself. He tries to give you the utmost love, but in order to ensure that you are qualified for it, He will disguise that love in the form of the ugliest person. When you truly love that person as you love God and give God your thanks, then God will slowly reveal Himself through that person. If you get a handsome husband or beautiful wife, you should think that something must be wrong that God gave you such a person.</p>
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<p>A beautiful face always receives more temptation and always gives more temptation; when a handsome person says that you shouldn’t have to suffer by living a Moonie life, it is always more tempting. There is always temptation behind a beautiful face, so watch out. Goodness dwells behind the ugly facade, and furthermore, no one will look at that person except you!</p>
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<p>Some of you may think I say this because I already have a beautiful wife. But actually I really asked God to give me the ugliest, fattest woman in the world. I was totally ready to receive a 250-pound wife because I thought God might want me to appreciate His bigness. If you have a small wife then you can think God wants you to enjoy His charming side.</p>
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<p>You have to overcome what your eyes are telling you. There are many conspiracies and plots being planned in the world; do they use beautiful or ugly men and women to carry them out? If you have a beautiful face you should think you must be careful that Satan does not use you. But if you are ugly then you can think that you are on God’s ground and there is no problem. Black people can think they are lucky to be black because it is the safest place in God’s heaven. White people are more arrogant, while black people have no room for that. You can thank God for bringing you closer to Him.</p>
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<p>God is very fair. Can you overcome what your eyes tell you? You weren’t given eyes so you could look at the world in a secular way, but so you could shed God’s tears. That’s the most precious way to use your two eyes. You like to hear sweet words, don’t you? You have to cross over the hill of your ears also. Maybe your husband is not only ugly, but every day he grumbles and complains. What would you say? In order to separate your thoughts from Satan you have to think that the grumbling is sweet music from God. When your husband keeps snapping and nagging, give him his breakfast and tell him to nag afterward. At night tell him to sleep and then nag tomorrow. Do that for forty days, and then he will say it is no fun nagging because there is no response from you.</p>
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<p>Your nose is very sensitive. Mother likes and dislikes certain smells, but I know the day will come when she likes the smells that she dislikes now-such as a toilet smell, or the body odor that some Westerners have. Overcome the hill of all your senses. How many exams have you passed? You can always come up with excuses. Some people might say they can’t get up early because their hips are too small and they don’t have strength in their back. Another person might say her hips are so big she can’t carry them early in the morning! Your body always makes excuses.</p>
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<p>Your hand knows what your body wants, so your hands reach for the nicest food before anyone else gets it. You should tell your hand to reach for the things other people don’t like. A woman’s body offers a certain temptation and has a certain craving to be touched, so women have to cross the hill of hips and bosom. Men also have their own hill to cross. You have to transcend temptation and not do what your body wants.</p>
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<p>There are seven tests to go over: eyes, ears, mouth, hands, nose, legs, bosom and hips. Keep a list and cross off each test as you pass it. But denying temptation is only the beginning. Then you must utilize all these organs to cry out in understanding God. Have you ever experienced having not only tears running down your face, but saliva drooling and your nose running as you cry in prayer? If someone tries to talk to you at that time, you don’t hear them, and if they touch you, you don’t feel it. Furthermore, with that heart you want to shed every drop of blood for the people. God wants to see your whole body dripping sweat as it works for humanity.</p>
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<p>That is because Adam and Eve fell in sorrow and shed tears in sadness. Cain shed blood when he killed Abel. They shed sweat in tilling the land. How do we know Adam and Eve shed tears? They recognized that they were fallen and separated from their Parent. That was the beginning of history. Cain shed Abel’s blood and began the first war between brothers. Finally, the children of Adam and Eve shed sweat. In the satanic world the early pioneers on God’s side shed sweat.</p>
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<p>This is the way history has been sown, by individuals, families, tribes, nations and the world, so it must be harvested on all those levels. History began in the wrong way, so we must turn it over and cross the boundary to a new level. Can you shed tears without crying? You must become the king of crying heavenly tears. You can only overcome historical tears by shedding tears on all levels of restoration</p>
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<p>God has been shedding tears all these years, not for Himself but for humanity and the world. Therefore, we shed tears for God and humanity, not ourselves. The secular world sheds tears, but heavenly tears should be greater than those tears. I knew that dispensational path had to be walked, so I never cried for myself, or my family and parents. I cried more than anyone else on earth, but my tears were for God and humanity. My tears soaked all my clothes, even my thick winter clothes.</p>
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<p>That’s the only way I could inherit God’s kingdom and lay the foundation for the Unification Church. Those tears are the root of the Unification Church. I would like to change the tears of sorrowful people into heavenly tears shed for God’s circumstances. Just as Adam was kicked out of the garden, so I was kicked out of my own home, family and nation. Neighbors and brothers tried to kill me by sentencing me to a prison where prisoners were worked and starved to death slowly. But I shed tears and overcame death; furthermore, I shed more sweat than anyone who ever lived.</p>
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<p>Even in prison I never complained. I never explained how much pain I endured. My only worry was that my blood and sweat were shed for God’s sake. You have to cross over and make restitution for all historical debts through your sweat, blood and tears. No one can compete with me in shedding tears. In my life I have set the record for shedding tears, for suffering the most, and working hardest.</p>
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<p>I did that to pay the historical debt and cross all hills to lay the bridge that all mankind might cross over. Fallen mankind has been burdened by a debt of blood, sweat and tears. If you ask God to tell you some of His experiences since the fall, there is nothing else He can tell except a story of sweat and tears and blood. He has no other history but that. Today’s Christians truly don’t know what God is all about. They imagine Him sitting on a glorious throne enjoying life, but that is not true at all.</p>
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<p>Someone has to liberate God and He cannot do it Himself. The agony of parents, or of husband and wife cannot be solved by themselves alone. The agony of parents can only be solved by children; the agony of a husband can only be solved by his wife, and the agony of a wife by her husband. The only way to liberate God from His sorrow is by becoming a son of filial piety to take over His agony. Or by becoming like a wife who is taking over the agony of her husband.</p>
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<p>Even if you are not the children of certain parents, or the wife of a certain man, if you serve those people more than their actual children or wife, you will actually be closer to them than their own family. The only way to help is to show more filial piety and genuine devotion than their own children or wife would do. If you show even more love and devotion to God than Jesus did, then you will be closer to God than Jesus was.</p>
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<p>Do you think I truly love God? The same truth applies to you. If you give more sacrificial love to God than I do, you shall be closer to Him than I am. I suffered all my life for God, but if anyone of you can do better then certainly God will be closer to you. This principle applies to everyone. If God loves you more, will I be jealous at how you are doing better than I am? No, I will dance with joy that finally there are men and women who love God more than I do. That will be the greatest of all news, and then I won’t have to worry any more whether the Kingdom of Heaven will be reality and God will be liberated. I will be happy to follow such people.</p>
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<p>God wants to follow anybody who has such love. If you shed your sweat, tears and blood all your life for God, then because of you God will be able to shed tears of happiness and hope for the first time. What other honor could you ask for? You won’t have to worry about going to heaven; God Himself will personally escort you to the highest place. The greatest path in history is the path of liberating God from His sorrow.</p>
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<p>A true son of filial piety will move his parents’ heart to tears. The true loyal subject will move his king to tears. If many subjects can give their lives for their king and queen, they will certainly be moved to tears. That is my goal-I am giving all my devotion to the task of liberating God from tears of sorrow and moving Him to shed tears of happiness. That is the root of the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Adam shed tears; Cain and Abel shed blood; Seth shed tears and they all passed these tears down to history. In order to make restitution, Noah shed sweat, blood and tears for 120 years in truly sacrificial devotion. That’s why God can use that faith to wipe out the world of tears, sweat and blood. When Abraham left his home he shed tears; his son Isaac was offered to be a sacrifice, conditionally shedding blood; his grandson Jacob really shed sweat. This is the pattern of pioneering the dispensation.</p>
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<p>Moses was thrown out of the Pharaoh’s palace, and many times he shed tears. Jesus shed blood on the cross. The Lord of the Second Advent will shed the most sweat in finally building the Kingdom. It was sown at the time of Adam and Eve, and is reaped in this way through history.</p>
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<p>Someone must liquidate the sorrowful blood, sorrowful sweat, and sorrowful tears of history, and then build a new history of joy in laboring for the kingdom. Because of rejection, tears, sweat and blood were shed at the time of Moses, Jesus and the Lord of the Second Advent. If there had been acceptance, they would have shed only sweat in building the kingdom. At the time of the Lord of the Second Advent restitution must be made totally; therefore, the Lord must be a king of sweat, tears and blood, paying the debt of all history.</p>
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<p>All of history’s sadness must be liquidated. Therefore, this is the time of harvesting that sweat, blood and tears. The tears of the past were false; there was much blood shed in the past, but it was not the true blood shed unselfishly for God. Without going this path in the righteous way there is no way you can inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. Does this just seem to be true, or is it really true?</p>
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<p>This is my path, and I have lived it triumphantly. Now it is your turn to do so in the same position, inheriting what I have done. You have shed tears in the past, but when you met me the meaning of those tears was changed into tears of joy and hope. Your tears of despair are now tears of happiness. When home church is consummated and you are really embraced by the people as being God’s messenger, then you shall truly have tears of happiness.</p>
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<p>When that day comes and the people of the world can shed tears of happiness, I will shed tears of happiness to see it. Then, seeing me shedding tears of happiness, God will finally be able to shed tears of happiness. God is looking at this place, with five colors of skin gathered in one common love, for one common goal, shedding tears of joy and hope as parents and children, and that scene will bring God tears of joy and hope.</p>
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<p>This is why Jesus said that he who would save his life would lose it, and he who would give his life would save it. We shall overcome the thorny path of death. Either you go over it, or you retreat in fear and trembling. If you can cross over it, the family, tribe, nation and world will all go over the thorny path of death.</p>
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<p>What kind of life do you lead? Just live as I have. There is no other choice. Since you cannot deal with the whole world like I have, you have been given home church, where you will do as I did. By doing so you will be given the same recognition as if you had saved the whole world. You shed tears for home church, and suffer almost until you die, and be persecuted almost until you die. The Cain-Abel struggle is going on in home church and you might almost be killed, as I was almost killed, but you must overcome and conquer death there.</p>
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<p>Until you overcome Cain, the stony path of death remains. You must be a pioneer and shed sweat as a living sacrifice. Until the time that your home church people will shed tears and sweat for you, you must keep going. But when you come that far then you are liberated, and you can shed tears of hope and happiness. Then God will say, “Amen. You have done it and truly you are my son.”</p>
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<p>The stony path of death must be overcome. Your world is 360 homes, but in finishing that dispensation you will receive recognition just as if you had done it for the whole world. If you don’t like to shed tears or want to go to home church, then you have rejected your chance for blessing and you must inevitably decline. You want to go over the hill, don’t you?</p>
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<p>Temptation is waiting everywhere to block you through your body. I am not just trying to convince you so you’ll work harder for me. This is the only viable principle, and it has been upheld by the entire universe and spirit world. Spirit world will be your judge. They know I am qualified, and now they are watching you to see how you are living. The Book of Revelations talks about the 144,000 who will welcome the Lord and be lifted up into heaven. If we have that many home churches here in America then we could almost cover the entire nation.</p>
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<p>The time will come when there are so many people in the Unification Church that there won’t be enough homes for everyone to have 360 homes. Then the extra people will have to go to Africa and find 360 homes there. If you don’t do home church well then people won’t welcome you in their homes and will look for someone better to be their messiah. They will kick you out and get a messiah who practices what I am teaching.</p>
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<p>We must jump over the stony path of death. How do you do it? By shedding more tears for home church than for your parents, your home or yourself. Shed tears, blood and sweat for your home church, period. If there had been no rejection at the time of Moses and Jesus then my path would have been easier, but instead everything was left on my shoulders. By myself I had to overcome it all, step by step, shedding sweat and tears for all of history. I have done it, and now I am asking you to do it on a limited scale, but still you will receive the same recognition I did. Isn’t that a good deal? That is your destiny.</p>
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<p>You might die in the process of shedding tears and sweat, but don’t worry; you will not lose, but will be in the highest heaven. In that case you can make your own second coming. Jesus was crucified as a tribal messiah and was not able to complete the entire dispensation, so he came once again. In the same way, if as a tribal messiah you are martyred, your second coming is guaranteed, and on earth the people who inherit your mission will continue home church. There is no way you can lose.</p>
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<p>We will create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. God created the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, but Adam and Eve destroyed it, so we men and women will rebuild it. Shed sweat for God and humanity and cry out. Then you will know the tears of hope and happiness that are waiting for you. You will be like an Apollo 11 that takes off and lands in the bosom of God. That is exactly how I have lived all my life, and am still living. Since all these things are now prepared to leave to you, even if my life ended right this minute I would never be a failure. The dispensation would go on and the Kingdom of Heaven would become a reality.</p>
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<p>So far I have preached many times about home church, but now it has come to the ultimate level. When you hear this you have to become crazy about home church. Your position is like Jesus’, that of a tribal messiah crying out in the wilderness. Just as God prepared John the Baptist to testify to Jesus, God will also send a John the Baptist ahead of you to testify about you. It is hidden now, but in your area there are people prepared, just as God prepared the nation of Israel.</p>
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<p>Home church is the place where you overcome the stony path of death. This is the one subject you must consummate in your lifetime. Without it, there is no room to be accepted in heaven. When you want to visit me or my family in heaven, it will be impossible until you meet the standard of home church. That is your 5 per cent responsibility. It doesn’t have to take seven years; if you do well it could be done in seven months.</p>
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<p>1987 is seven years from now, but you don’t have to take that long. Either seven months or even three years is adequate. If you fail to do it in seven years then it will be postponed for 21 years, and you don’t want that. If we neglect the time of the dispensation then you will have to literally shed your blood at the hands of communists. You know it, don’t you?</p>
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<p>Shall we leap over? Those who can say they will then you will have to literally shed your blood at the go over the path of death, raise your hands.</p>
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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="2018-06-20T05:39:04+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/20/true-parents-mission/" rel="bookmark">June 20, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-20T05:39:04+01:00">June 20, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/blog/category/speeches-of-rev-sun-myung-moon-1980/" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1980</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">April 20, 1980<br />
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Belvedere<br />
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Translator – Bo Hi Pak</h3>
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<p>All people desire and pursue an ideal world, but what kind of ideal are they pursuing? The true ideal world. What is the background of that truth? Many things form the background of truth-knowledge, the universe, and the present reality of our world. When we classify animals and plants, we talk about a pure or original species. When we say that an animal or plant is in its original form, we are referring to an invisible, intended purpose which became reality in that species; that is the original form or prototype of that purpose.</p>
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<p>There are many imitations in today’s world. An original masterpiece is unique, but there can be many copies. Those copies cannot have the same value as the original. The value of that original is not determined by the material it is made of, but by the feeling and attitude of its original owner or its creator.</p>
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<p>The sovereignty of this nation is represented by one man and woman-the President and First Lady. Should the value of precious things always be shifting? In a democracy officials are elected every few years, while in the past kingdoms were reigned over by monarchs who ruled for their lifetime. Of these two systems, which is closer to the ideal? If a monarchy is closer to the ideal, because the sovereign is not a new person every four years, does it mean that America’s system is not perfect?</p>
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<p>Democracy is not the ideal system devised by God, but until we find the ideal system of monarchy in the universe, democracy is the best. If democracy is but a stepping stone toward that heavenly monarchy, then to continue it temporarily makes sense. It is worth considering why all the monarchies of the past have been transformed into republics today. It is because there has never been a true king; peoples have always been governed by false rulers. We are in the process of finding the true sovereignty and ruler of the world.</p>
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<p>People today are so intoxicated with democracy that even children may demand that the whole family take a vote on a family decision. If societies and businesses can be run in a democratic way, why isn’t it feasible for children to have an equal voice in family decisions? America has always tried to convince the rest of the world that democracy is the best system of government, but can people vote on candidates for the position of God or the Messiah? There is a fundamental element missing from democracy that keens it from being God’s ideal system.</p>
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<p>Everyone has parents. Who and what are they? You have your natural parents, of course, but are they true parents or not? When you say that something is true, it must have the qualities of being absolutely unchanging and unique. Today in American society there are many stepparents, and sometimes they are better parents than one’s natural parents; family life is very confused in this nation. Unless we can clarify the definition of truth, and of fundamental right and wrong, there will be even greater confusion to come in history.</p>
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<p>Do you need only one mother, or several mothers? Ten dollars are better than one dollar, so aren’t ten mothers and fathers better than just one? You could get more allowance if you had more than one! You could have good fund raising if each one gave you $2, but why don’t you even want to consider that situation? True things always start from one source. What you are looking for is true love, not just material things. Money that is not given with a loving heart is not worthwhile; you want something which is heartistic</p>
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<p>One standard or measure of true love is needed. There must be a way to find the original, which everyone can recognize and trust, and then duplicate. This is how weights and rulers are made. There must be an original standard from which all others are created.</p>
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<p>What is the most precious thing in our world today? What are True Parents good for? Do you like them because they give you an allowance, educate you and entertain you every day? You say they give true love, but what is true love good for? The Louvre in Paris is one of the best museums in the world, with many original masterpieces, plus some of the original standard weights and measures used in science. How would you like to be a museum which possessed many of the original things in the universe, as well as many ancient antiques? You would certainly be wealthy, and proud of having many things which no one else possesses.</p>
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<p>Now imagine that there is a museum displaying love in its original form. Would God like to visit there? What would be displayed most prominently and with greatest honor in that museum? Chunks of gold, or knowledge, or power? More than anything else, people would want to see the love museum. Today you have learned a fantastic word: love museum. Can you find such a place in Britain or France?</p>
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<p>Wouldn’t you like to go to the love museum? What kind of displays would you see there? Should it last only fifty or ninety years, or forever? When architects plan a museum, they take into consideration every possible disaster that could make it fall down, and take precautions to control light and humidity around the displays. How thick should the walls be of the love museum? If God knows best, where would He want to build the love museum? Here on earth, or in spirit world? If it were built on earth then thieves and gangsters would want to break in and steal, so God decided the love museum would be the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Today’s Christians want to go to heaven, so they say they believe in Jesus. But actually what they mean is that they want to be qualified to be displayed in God’s museum. However, most of them want to receive God’s grace instead of giving true love. Who will enter God’s love museum first-those who receive love or who give love? Do you want to receive love or give love? You say you want to give love, but I say you are a bunch of liars!</p>
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<p>Do you women marry to give or receive love? The person who marries to receive love instead of giving it deserves to go to hell instead of to the love museum. What kind of species is made to give love? Could the person who would take out his own eye if it told him only to receive love be qualified to go to the Kingdom of Heaven? If your body wants to give love but your mind wants to keep it, will only your body enter heaven? Do you want to enter the love museum as a whole being, or leave part of yourself behind?</p>
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<p>Is the person whose body only wants to receive love ready to go to heaven? You must be just the opposite and be anxious to give love instead. Can you distinguish between the parts of yourself that want to give and those that want to receive love? Since I have told you the criteria, you can evaluate yourself. If you are entitled to go to the love museum, would you want to be the most superior exhibit in the museum, or the poorest?</p>
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<p>We hear that God is good and omnipotent, but why is He there? What is His purpose of existence? Does God need love too? How do you know He does? President Carter is in the White House, running the country, but does he have love? No matter how powerful he is, when he is all alone there is no way he can give or receive love. What about God, the creator of the whole universe-can He have love all by Himself? Can He laugh with love all the time on His throne if He is by Himself? If so then He is a crazy God. If He has at least a handkerchief then He has an object He can interact with.</p>
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<p>Do you think that Almighty God needs an object to relate with? God knew that He absolutely needed an object to relate to. If He is almighty, could He create that object? Why then did God create the universe? Simply because God needed an object to relate with. Why do people like to keep pets, and have gardens and bird-feeders? Because they find joy in relating to an object. God created the universe for the same reason.</p>
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<p>I have seen that many Americans really love their pets, but sometimes they love their pets more than they love their fellow man. Is that good? Why not? Would it be right for God to love plants and animals more than man? I have heard of the gay movement in America. Is it natural in the animal world for male animals to love other male animals? When we look at the animal world we see natural, God-made behavior. Then when we look at behavior in the human world, it makes us sick. Would God put the gay movement in the most glorious place in His love museum? No, just the opposite. God feels that such people are trash and doesn’t want to be near them.</p>
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<p>If true love is destined to be displayed in the love museum, then a perverted thing like homosexuality is destined for hell. I’m sure that hearing this makes you solemn and serious. Indeed, America today has the symptoms of many sicknesses, and if it continues this way it is destined to decline. This continent is a sample of hell. Men are precious creatures of God who should be born in love, mature in love and fulfill their lives in love. That’s the way God created man to be.</p>
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<p>You are not proud of your parents if they marry many times, and you don’t want to be part of those relationships. Why don’t you feel that if it makes them happy they should go right ahead? God always made His creations with two aspects, subject and object. The beauty of the two is the bridge which joins them; children are the link between the father and mother to bring them together. When men and women take marriage vows, they are pledging themselves to one purpose and goal: pure unity of love. When the parents are united in love, the children are the participants or evidence of their unity.</p>
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<p>You are the fruit of two lives, and you cannot deny that solemn fact. You want to keep hold of that purity and original relationship forever, don’t you? That’s why nothing else sounds right. Since you are a testimony to your father and mother’s love, you want them to keep that relationship forever and be elevated to heaven together. A father, mother and children are like magnets pulling each other together, and no principle in the universe has the power to separate them.</p>
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<p>That bridge is God’s walkway between the two poles. He wants that walkway to last for eternity, not just a few years. If one of the poles or pillars breaks, what will happen to the bridge? The bridge is the original form or prototype of true love, and if just one part of the masterpiece is broken, the whole thing collapses. God doesn’t need money, power or knowledge because all these things belong to Him. The one thing God needs is love. God’s desire is to go down the highway of love.</p>
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<p>The religious world is God’s highway, where God will drive His own vehicle. Who would God want to be His chauffeur or companion on that highway? A short Japanese? A tall American? Should there be boundaries, customs inspections or roadblocks on that road? The highway of love that God wants to have is a universal one, with no national or racial boundaries. The man who can drive with God on that highway should be a man with universal qualities who is above all these things.</p>
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<p>God wants to love white men, but if their minds are divided by cultural and racial prejudice, will God like that? If God is driving down the road and people of other races stop the car, protesting that they cannot let God’s white chauffeur onto their territory, will God insist that they must let Him pass because this is a good man? Or will He concede that they have a reason to demonstrate against this man? Will he say He can’t go any further until this situation is remedied?</p>
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<p>God will give one of those people the opportunity to demonstrate how he is better than the white man and how far he can drive. I know from experience that this is absolutely true. A long time ago I volunteered to be God’s chauffeur, so I started on the highway of love in Korea. All of a sudden I encountered a demonstration of people blocking the road and protesting that I shouldn’t be allowed to pass. I just told God to fasten His seat belt, and then I pushed the accelerator down hard and the car took off!</p>
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<p>The Unification Church door is always open and anyone can come in anytime. People want so much to follow me that they would do anything, even if they had to give their lives. This is because they want to have universal love so they can jump over all barriers. They see that everyone can come in and be united in one common love. I jumped over to Japan and never felt that it was a strange country, but that it was my country. Then I came to the United States, but even though the State Department thinks of me as an alien from Asia, I feel totally comfortable here. The only thing I am worried about is making sure God is still in the back seat with His seat belt on; the car has gone so far so fast that maybe something could happen to Him!</p>
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<p>All the young people come to me because God is still sitting in the back seat and they feel His power. God’s true love is the power that pulls them. It is so strong that people call it brainwashing! I am not offering you a comfortable life, so why do you come? I am always pushing you out and asking you to suffer, but still you want to come. There are many other ways of worshipping God, so why did you come here to sit on a concrete floor? To make things worse, my sermons don’t last just fifteen minutes, but sometimes six or ten hours. Your legs and bottoms must ache by now, but still you are vibrant and happy. Why is that? Here you have tasted a chunk of God’s true love.</p>
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<p>You feel some power and energy flowing here that you never get tired of. When President Carter goes to other countries he is greeted with 21-gun salutes and red-carpet treatment, but are people so glad to see him that they welcome him with tears? No, in many countries there are demonstrators yelling, “Yankee go home.” When I go abroad there may not be 21-gun salutes and red carpets at the airport, but in 127 nations of the world there are people who genuinely want me to come. They pray with tears day after day for me to come to their country.</p>
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<p>I am like a bridge constructed in many different directions to connect various nations and cultures. I know very well what Americans want to hear; they would like praise and nice words, but instead I tell them that this nation is headed for disaster and decline. It needs a physician from another country to bring a cure and salvation. I know Americans don’t like to hear this, but still I say it. I am not persecuted because I am dumb enough to say those things. I can be very diplomatic if necessary and I don’t have to lead the Unification Church in such a puritanical way. I could encourage you to go to the disco every night and then the State Department would think I was normal.</p>
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<p>The question is very simple-shall we do what pleases the State Department or what pleases God? Many times I am critical of the Carter policy when it displeases God, even though I know it won’t benefit me to anger the head of state by speaking out. It is because I speak out that I have been investigated by many government agencies in this country.</p>
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<p>Even now I know there is a bugging device here and my words are being recorded somewhere. But I would like the eavesdroppers to hear this sermon! I don’t benefit by speaking out; setbacks are inevitable, and people plan drastic measures against me. The KGB and the whole communist world cannot afford to let me get any bigger. You Moonies are looked at scornfully and treated as abnormal and sub-human, but I am determined to make you men and women who can please God, not the State Department and the Kremlin.</p>
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<p>At one time or another we will all die. This is reality. The important thing is whether we will qualify to be displayed for eternity in the love museum. God is checking and watching, looking to see what your conduct is in all areas, seeing who is a masterpiece of love. I want God to be astonished at everything I can do. God sees that there is tremendous diversity in the love museum, and He is looking for a prototype or model for all history. That is what I am striving to be. I am painting a masterpiece which portrays the love of God.</p>
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<p>The American people come against us because they do not understand us, but our intensity of love will surpass all their love. Moonie love should be the hottest. Truly Moonies are mysterious figures in American life. No matter how people look at you, they can’t understand you. Everyone thought that Moonies are brainwashed and they expect you to be dumb and look odd. But when they look at you, they see fresh, sparkling young people who have a great purpose in love. Then people wonder how Reverend Moon managed to attract the cream of America’s young people.</p>
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<p>Now Americans oppose us because they don’t know about me, but later they will oppose us more because they will realize I have gathered the cream of the crop and they want you for themselves. When I retire or go to spirit world, would you want the president of Ford Motor Company or even the American President to take over in my place? With my dark skin and small eyes I am not handsome. Wouldn’t you rather be led by a white man? Then you won’t be persecuted. Could you imagine Moonies without Reverend Moon?</p>
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<p>The Unification Church phenomenon is a subject of study by people from many areas trying to figure out what 1 am. I pop up in the academic area, the cultural and sports worlds, and business world. What am I trying to do? I want to represent God in every field, so that God will say, “My son, truly you are my representative.” Would it be more pleasing for a parent to say that his son knows everything about one area, such as law, but little about anything else, or that he is well-versed in many fields? There’s not a dull moment in the Moonies’ life is there? You might get four missions in the same day. Sometimes American leaders ask me to give them one mission at a time because they are so busy, but I want to train them to attend to many things at the same time.</p>
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<p>I want you to be a prototype in the American museum. If you are refused admission to the museum because you lack certain qualities, you will complain to me that I didn’t insist you do appropriate things so you could supplement your personality. Now you say you can’t do many things at the same time, but I want you to try everything, from fund raising and witnessing to education, business and restoration.</p>
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<p>You want to be close to me, don’t you? Are you going to say you won’t do something just because you don’t like it? If you could pass up things you didn’t like, then I could tell God that I shouldn’t go into certain areas because it would bring persecution. If I were that way then would I be a true model? On the contrary, I always asked God to let me do whatever other people didn’t like to do. “When all mankind shuns that mission, let me do it,” I would say. So far, Americans have heard of me in a notorious way, but the time will come when they will hear good things about me.</p>
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<p>You are a good example. You didn’t necessarily love me to begin with; in many cases you were anti-Moonie, but then you turned around and became dynamic Moonies. When the American public is told the truth about Reverend Moon, they are bound to love me. I think that America will be the country to erect the biggest, tallest statue of me in the future because Americans will feel so guilty at how they persecuted me. I can proclaim that in time America will repent.</p>
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<p>I was treated worse here than in any other country, but it doesn’t matter now because I have finished and fulfilled. I could leave America any time without regret because I have been victorious over this nation. No shock or deprogramming will change you because you are staunch men and women of God who stand on the Principle. Do you want to be a masterpiece in God’s love museum? Can I trust you?</p>
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<p>Now one hour and forty-five minutes are gone, and chapter one is finished! Those who want to take a break, take off, but chapter two will begin now. Shall we save chapter two for later? I am tired. It is not easy to talk a long time! I have been speaking all my life. Do you want to go ahead?</p>
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<p>Which animal do you think God loves more? Why does God love man most? We cannot fight like tigers or run like deer or fly like birds, so why does He like man? Man has more limitations than animals. How do you know animals don’t love God? Man is the only creature which has the capability of grasping eternal love. Do animals talk about religion and eternal life? God made man the only creature with a sense of eternity and tradition. In that way we are in the image of God.</p>
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<p>The white race basically originated in northern Europe and Scandinavia. White men developed the tradition of fighting duels of honor over a woman, who then goes with the winner. That is a primitive, animal world kind of standard. White people have frequently resorted to bloodshed in history, in part because they are basically meat-eating people. First they ate raw meat, then later rare meat, which always had blood on it. Another kind of culture is the vegetable-eating culture. Which would be closer to God’s side? The trend toward health-food and vegetarianism is a good sign in America. Also, America is looking to the Orient for some solutions to her problems, and is intrigued with the mysticism of Asia. I am not saying this to criticize, but so that you can see the overall picture from a historical point of view.</p>
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<p>Now there is a tendency for men and women to go on a date, spend one night together, and then go their own way, maybe not even knowing each other’s name. How is this any different from animal behavior? In a way it is worse than animal behavior, for at least animals unite for the purpose of multiplication, a few times a year. But men may even do that every night, just for carnal pleasure.</p>
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<p>Men have a moral character which can realize the meaning and value of love and eternal tradition. These are the major elements that make humans supreme. God defined what man’s way of life should be. Should God’s way be the standard, or is that old-fashioned and a thing of the past? Shall we change God’s principle, or shall we change? More change is needed here in America than any other place. Would a movement which is trying to restore a God-centered life be welcomed here in America, or be accused and persecuted? Will America survive longer by living the moral way or the corrupted way? America should change, shouldn’t it?</p>
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<p>Let’s talk a little about the True Parents. Does God need the True Parents for His sake or for their sake? The equality movement is very strong in America. Did God create everything to be the same on every level? Putting yourself in God’s position, would you create man or woman first? Women would say that naturally God would create woman first. God needs someone who can be master, or subject, and take up responsibility for the whole. That is the masculine quality. If the lion roars, someone is needed who can dominate the lion. Picture a lion roaring, and a woman standing there shrieking, “Stop that!” Wouldn’t it be more natural to see a man standing there, bellowing, “Stop!” Which one seems more natural? The masculine characteristic is to face danger and take the responsibility of protecting everyone.</p>
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<p>Even without reading Genesis, when you analyze nature you can see two distinct characteristics of subject and object, each with their special assets. In history there was a period where humans primarily hunted for food, and always men were in the forefront, right? All the great heroes in war were men, and men pioneered in settling new lands and developing industry. What would God say if women demanded total equality and wanted beards too? He would be embarrassed! I can accept equality for everyone when we are talking about supreme love in God’s sight. Then we are all equal. But a woman who demands a divorce because she wants equality already has forfeited her claim to equality. Women are object, and in the position of beauty and reflection.</p>
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<p>Is the President’s wife automatically the First Lady, or is she accepted or rejected based on her appearance? Theoretically you could have a First Lady with one leg and a head facing in the wrong direction, but as long as she is married to the President, she is automatically the First Lady. Why? Even if she has little qualification for the job, no one can deny her that position as long as her husband is elected. That is because she is inseparable from her husband; in love they are one unit. Suppose she acted heroically to save her husband from danger, but in the process lost one leg or became crippled. Then her missing leg would bring her even more honor. Her action demonstrates that she loves her husband more than she loves herself. If this humble-looking First Lady arrived at a glittering social reception for important government people, would the glamorous guests want to avoid her? They would have tears running down their faces at seeing the nobility of her love. Her genuine, sacrificial love would cause them to cry.</p>
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<p>America has many patriots who were martyred or mutilated for the sake of their country, and everyone honors and respects them. Isn’t that true? The same principle applies in service to God. If you genuinely love God and sacrifice yourself for God’s purpose so that you are tortured or martyred, in the heavenly kingdom all the leading citizens will bow down to you. Even God will deeply comfort and love that person. Love has that power to conquer.</p>
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<p>Even God has no power before that kind of pure love. A seemingly insignificant woman can be a source of inspiration for all people if she demonstrates genuine love. That is what moves people-nothing else. As long as I give more love than anyone else in striving for the sake of God, it wouldn’t matter how lowly I was or what I looked like. The testimony of that life will be the most honored in God’s love museum. There is no one in the religious world who has raised more problems or controversy in his lifetime.</p>
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<p>I raised controversy in Korea, then Japan and now America. Am I doing it for money, for women, or honor? The only reason I am controversial is that I am committed to totally loving God and fulfilling God’s will on earth. Many people in Korea and Japan have prayed for God to remove me from this earth and get me out of the way, but those are the people who have vanished, one by one, while I kept on going.</p>
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<p>Money and power are not my goals, but God has blessed me with young people and the necessary resources to move forward with the mission. They were not my goals, but God has given them to me as His blessing. I always prayed that if my suffering would speed the fulfillment of God’s will, I would be glad to receive it. I was ready to marry the ugliest woman in the world in order to set an example. But while I was moving in that direction, God responded in the opposite way and always gave me the best in people, fortune, honor and a beautiful wife. I never asked for all those things. Isn’t that mysterious?</p>
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<p>I know this is the way Principle works, so instead of comforting you and letting you live in ease, I make you suffer and have you demonstrate your devotion in the name of God, knowing that God will reward you beyond your expectation.</p>
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<p>If you ask God whether He has ever been loved, His answer will be no. If you ask God to trust you to love Him, He will refuse. Why can’t He trust you? First you must prove your love to Him. He will ask you to go to war for His sake, and ask if you can become a beggar or a martyr for His sake. He will ask whether you can bring your children and tribe with you in that direction, instead of going by yourself. When God asked me if I could make soldiers out of my own family and relatives, sacrificing them for God’s sake, my answer was Yes. Can you give not only your own family, but bring the entire world to come together in that same spirit? That’s what God asked me.</p>
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<p>Jesus taught in the Bible that anyone who loved his wife or children more than he loved Jesus was not worthy of Jesus. Jesus insisted that people must love him most. That was a most dramatic declaration. According to scientific reasoning, Jesus made many contradictory statements, such as “He who would save his life will lose it, but he who would lose his life for my sake will save it.” He also said that one’s worst enemy is his own family.</p>
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<p>There are many examples of saints who were martyred, or whose families became a sacrificial offering for God, but not many who could bring their own nation and world to God’s altar. Love of God starts from the center, encircles the whole universe, and then goes back to the center. God has not received this absolute standard of love from anyone-an individual, family, tribe, nation or the world. If there had been no fall, God intended Adam and Eve to fulfill that standard in the garden of Eden. No tradition has been set of the love of God on any level, however. Religion should set such a standard and tradition through the Messiah, who comes as a man of God. As an individual he sets the tradition, then brings his family, tribe, nation and world. That’s the purpose for his coming.</p>
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<p>Do the Christians who love Jesus have this tradition of loving God? Is it God’s will to have hundreds of Christian denominations? God allowed the power of communism to become great so that righteous people would be warned that something wrong is happening in the religious world. The corruption of American young people through drugs is another symptom of something wrong.</p>
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<p>When you see such decay and destruction in the world, do you think I should sit idle and enjoy my own life? This is an emergency, and drastic measures must be taken. We declare war on homosexuality, drugs, prostitution and promiscuity. Will that serve our own purpose, or the purpose of God and the world? God wants someone to emerge who can set the standard of love on the family, tribal, national, and world levels. This has never been done in all history.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church we transcend language, race, nation and color. Should only yellow men be given responsible positions simply because I am yellow? No, we transcend racial consideration. Adam and Eve should have been the first forefathers of mankind, the first true parents, but instead they became sinful, false parents. They did not have a true God-centered tradition of love to give their children. They should have set the tradition of true man and true woman living as brother and sister, then the tradition of true husband and wife, true father and mother, then true grandparents. Has the family existed on earth which fulfilled God’s wishes? No.</p>
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<p>Unless that tradition is born on earth, there will be no God-centered tribe or nation. Until the man emerges who can set the standard and be a model, the rest of the world cannot be set right. We cannot change falsehood to truth overnight; you have to go to the satanic world and demonstrate true love, and only then come back to the origin. It will be a great good fortune to have the tribe and tradition which is truly centered on God. It has been God’s dream all this time to set the tradition of love on earth. To make it come true, He will send the Messiah.</p>
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<p>The True Parents are the prototype of God’s family; they have perfected the position of brother and sister, husband and wife, parents, and ultimately grandparents. Adam and Eve should have led their tribe, and then an Adam nation and Adam world have been formed. All that begins at one point. Have you ever heard this before? There are all kinds of religions today, but they have never grasped this concept. Sin brought destruction of it all.</p>
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<p>Jesus came to this earth to be the true, everlasting father of mankind. That’s why he said true believers would deny their false parents, false society and false relationships-to come to their true father. The essence of Christianity is the tradition of true love. But while he was doing that important mission, Jesus was crucified. There was no chance for the tradition of true parents to blossom fully in Jesus’ time, and Jesus was not installed as everlasting father before his crucifixion.</p>
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<p>The entire world is looking for the day in which they can receive restoration through true parents, who bring the true love tradition centered upon God. The creation of the family of God transcends race; it is like a super-race. The fallen world will have to be born again into the new world, and by denying falsehood and accepting the truth it will begin the family tradition, tribal tradition, national tradition and world tradition.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church has a unique phenomenon-the founder is Oriental. but the members come from all five races. All kinds of people come to inherit the true tradition of the love of God. Once we receive that tradition, we are all equal and united. White, black and yellow all marry and create international families of many colors, truly a most beautiful thing in God’s sight. This is how the inheritance of love will expand everywhere and cover the world. The Unification Church conducts mass weddings because we are all part of one family of man.</p>
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<p>We have the tradition that married couples separate to work hard, and everyone upholds that tradition. You cannot find that anywhere else in the world. Tradition always starts out with one man, then one family, a tribe, a nation and then the world, and then returns to God. This is the direction of the tradition of love. When you cover all this territory and consummate it, you are truly a masterpiece for eternity in the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Which section would you like to be placed in at the museum of God: the family section, the tribe, nation or world section? There are many sections on the national level, but when you go to the cosmic section there is no one there. I knew that room was empty, so I made that my aim, and also my goal for all of you. We can cover that distance to the cosmic level very easily, right? No, it is the toughest route. It is so tough that your eyes cry, and your nose and mouth drip liquid as well. Your whole body just drips sweat. But I decided that I would go there no matter what, even if the whole world came against me. I decided that even if God came against me I would not be deterred.</p>
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<p>No one can bother me or push me aside. The room of the cosmic level is the grand finale of the whole museum, and all mankind will plead to have that room opened so they can see it. Because God cannot help me, He will also be waiting outside that room. Even if God could not help me I was determined to go because it is the only way to save mankind. Once I won it under my own power, God would pay billions of dollars to own that museum. I would ask Him, “What would you pay? I don’t need money in spirit world, so you, God, are my ransom!” Once God agreed, I would say, “God it is not enough to give yourself as ransom; you must include your heart and love.” God has to agree because that’s the only way His dream can become reality.</p>
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<p>When I received God’s love, I would show Him to a throne prepared inside the museum for Him. But He would refuse to stay there and want to come with me, saying that I was His owner, so He had to go wherever I went. Then when God wanted to own something He would have to ask me because I would be the owner of His love. That also happens in society; a husband may ask his wife for permission to do something, and even parents may ask their children. Ultimately God will have a family and tribe where He will ask permission for doing things. That’s the kind of tribe God has been wanting all this time, with which He can have intimate oneness, and where He can dwell with men. That will be the family who inherits His true tradition.</p>
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<p>Who is the Messiah? Adam and Eve were supposed to set this tradition of love and true parenthood, but that was not done. It was not done 2,000 years ago either, so at some time the Messiah will come to install true parenthood, including all the traditions of love. The original measure or standard would be the True Parents themselves, and then many copies could be made.</p>
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<p>If you want to find out how good you are, all you have to do is compare yourself to the measure. The True Parents mission in the Unification Church is to establish the God-centered tradition of love here on earth by achieving it and leaving perfection behind. The Unification Church is here to become the training center for that love, and you shall be pioneers of that tradition on earth.</p>
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<p>I have had many incredibly bitter experiences in coming this far, but I endured and kept silent, persevering every day, knowing that this was the tradition to live up to. This is an amazing age we live in, in which the True Parents could declare the consummation of the three seven-year courses. That is a great victory in itself. Now I have declared the beginning of the second three seven-year courses, in which the reorganization of mankind will take place in our lifetime.</p>
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<p>You need to consummate the tradition of love on your level, and that is what home church is all about: becoming a tribal messiah who lives up to this tradition. You are like the copies of the original measure, going out to make more duplicates in your home church. Home church is the most gratifying thing you could have. Without home church you will feel poor and unfortunate.</p>
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<p>Do you need the tradition of love? Do it then. The time has come. If you have become a person who inherited God’s tradition of love then you dove me, and as much as you love me you can love home church. Then others will love you as you love me. The True Parents’ tradition will be fulfilled through your family, where God can visit and dwell. If you practice this tradition, your family will certainly be a dwelling of God. The name Unification Church will not be needed in the future; it is not needed for the Church itself, but for you and your descendants. Without going this route, no one can enter heaven.</p>
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<p>You want to meet the criterion and enter the love museum of heaven, and the testing area is home church. There are all kinds of people in your home church area, so it is a microcosm of the world. You should make every single one of them the children of God, so God can dwell with them and ask their permission to do things. The greater the mission and tribulation, the more you will shine in the heavenly museum for eternity. What about the older women, will you do it?</p>
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<p>Once I knew this secret, nothing could stop me. Otherwise, I would have gone an easy way; I am not dumb. I have a big head, but I have small eyes which can see a long distance. Big eyes look at immediate things, such as material things, and Westerners have big eyes. But small eyes see beyond material things to spiritual things. There is a great urge and longing in Westerners to merge with Oriental culture. The proof that God loves you is that God sent Reverend Moon to America. Amen.</p>
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<p>I want you to say, “I will do it. I can do everything.”</p>
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<p>Thank you very much. God bless you.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">April 15, 1980<br />
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<p>There are many nations and people in the world. All people, as well as the nations and sovereignties of the world, hope that their nation is playing the major role in the providence of God. It is true not just today but in the past and the future that people want to play some major role in the providence of God. When I say “people” I am talking about all people. When I talk about hope and desire, I am talking of the hope and desire of all people.</p>
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<p>What is the central point and theme of that hope? Always happiness is the paramount desire of men, but over the centuries people have harbored desires for various kinds of happiness; there has been no consistency to their desires. Beginning with that point we can talk about freedom, peace and other things. The fundamental question today is why people are still looking for happiness, since true happiness has never been realized since the beginning of history.</p>
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<p>We are living in an age of cosmopolitanism, when no individual can survive on his own and no nation can survive on its own. In past decades a problem in faraway Africa was considered inconsequential for America: But today a problem in Africa will have repercussions in America almost immediately. Furthermore, events in America can affect people all over the world. Africans and Asians cannot say they don’t care about something because it is America’s problem. There is no longer any such thing as “America’s problem.”</p>
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<p>In this situation where can people in each nation find the fulfillment of their desire for happiness? Who will define what happiness is? What Americans define as happiness will not be acceptable to people around the world: What is universal happiness then? In order to obtain happiness, people have struggled, fought, killed and resorted to war through the years. Yet today we still have not found happiness. Where can we find it? Can it begin with men, or somewhere else?</p>
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<p>Many people today are pessimistic that they can find lasting happiness, since no one else in history could find it. It seems to them to be impossible. It seems inevitable that they will continue to dwell in unhappy circumstances and bequeath a troubled society to their children, generation after generation, throughout history. People are so pessimistic today that they say “the ideal world” and “true happiness” are just empty words and vague dreams. No such thing seems possible.</p>
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<p>Many people today are convinced that true happiness can never be found, so in their desire for any joy at all they see no reason for not indulging in day by day pleasures and carnal happiness. They see the butterflies flitting without a care from one flower to the next, sucking the nectar, and it seems to them that the butterflies are happier. People even envy the birds singing in the spring sky. They envy not only the animals, but the plants which come up every spring without fail and don’t have to struggle to survive. The pine trees just spread their seeds and multiply, without regard for national boundary, but when men travel they have to obtain visas and passports. Pine trees spread all over the world without visas, but men need visas! Do air and water need visas? Who would say true happiness could be found only in a country where visas were required?</p>
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<p>Why do I say these things this morning? Unlike many other people, I am concerned with these fundamental, seemingly impossible questions, and I have agonized over their solution. No one can survive by himself, and everyone’s destiny is linked together. If all the past traditions are wrong then we have to separate from them. Do you have the courage and power to sever your connection and bondage to them?</p>
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<p>People come to America from other countries thinking that the ideal can be found here. They try to learn the American way of life and become part of this country, but they end up struggling just like any other American. No one has ever come to this nation to transcend the American tradition and discover a better way of life. When we look at the reality of America, we know it is not an ideal country. Instead it is a troubled and declining country. In a sense the worst things are happening in this country. It would be truly wonderful if here we could live a life of true happiness, but if we embrace America’s present patterns, they will lead us to an immoral way of life and finally despair. That is not the way of happiness.</p>
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<p>When happiness rejects you, that’s the end, so you must change before you are rejected. If you flunk a course one semester, the next semester it is too late to start trying to make a good overall record. Before you flunk you have to change and make a new beginning. What we need most today is someone who can provide the true definition and direction for happiness. Will those who can lead the way into true happiness look normal, or seem strange and almost crazy?</p>
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<p>Men have tried every normal thing throughout history and have not found the answer, so we should look in some strange or ”abnormal” direction. Whoever looks in that direction will look almost insane, yet there may be hope for the answer to come from that place. People are in despair, but when they look in a strange direction and find hope, they can keep going.</p>
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<p>What is the direction and goal of true happiness? Does it mean you eat constantly day and night so that you cannot stuff any more food into your stomach? That may look like true happiness because you don’t have to walk-you just roll! If you say that having food is not true happiness, then perhaps having beautiful clothes will be happiness, particularly for women. Happiness is wearing the latest Fifth Avenue fashion and looking like a model, right? Perhaps happiness is having a PhD from Harvard and becoming a leading politician and famous President?</p>
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<p>What is happiness for normal people? Is the White House the ultimate terminal of happiness? The Kremlin in Moscow? Is happiness having power, so that when you shout out one command millions of people will obey? You say none of these is true happiness, but what is? You say having true love is true happiness, but hoed out your hand and show me true love. I say that love means “long, long, very much.” What is love? What is true love in particular? Today it seems that all kinds of love are in trouble. Where can you find true love? There is no way we can find true love in this sinful and degraded world.</p>
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<p>What is the starting point of true love? You say God is the origin. When you spell God backward, it becomes “dog.” Do you mean God or dog? Have you seen God? If men can generate true happiness or love on their own, why are they unable to control it? We conclude that the ultimate starting point of true happiness and love must be found somewhere else. Actually, the people who are searching after true love and happiness without trying to determine the source of it are the crazy ones. They run around looking in all four directions; they are the crazy people because they will never find it.</p>
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<p>The real problem is knowing where true love begins-whether from men, or from some other I source. What is that source? If you are right and there really is an incredible existence called God, we can solve no problem on this earth unless the riddle about God is solved. There are many religions on earth. Are they united, or do they have many boundaries and compartments? Why did God allow religions to set up so many compartments? If God is ideal, why are there so many boundaries in religions? How can this be explained?</p>
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<p>Unless we get to the bottom of this problem we cannot come up with the ultimate answer. As long as these questions remain unsolved, people cannot believe there is such a thing as God. Scientific minds ask how a good and almighty God could be so helpless that such contusion and evil are possible. Such a person wants to grab God and protest, “Why did you allow this to happen? Why are you helpless?” What would God’s answer be? If this situation were the result of God’s own making then you would have reason to protest that God must be evil instead of good.</p>
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<p>There are two possible answers God could give you either, “I just don’t know what happened”; or “l didn’t create this situation. I am not responsible for the evil of mankind.” To this you might reply, “Even if man made this evil world, why can’t you do something about it if you are omnipotent and good?” God will tell you that there is a reason He cannot interfere. When you ask what it is, He will say it is not simple, but if you want to know then He will tell you. But He will ask if you are ready to be responsible to take action based on such knowledge.</p>
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<p>If you ask God if He is happy, He will say, “Certainly not.” We already know that man is not happy. If man is not happy and God is not happy, then what happened, and why isn’t God doing something about it? Here we arrive at the key realization. The situation we face today cannot be solved by God alone, or by man alone. Only God and man together in cooperation can solve the problem. An ambitious, good-looking young man might address God, asking if He isn’t waiting for some man to step forward and help solve the problem, and if so this young man is ready to volunteer. God will reply that He has been waiting for thousands of years for someone to step forward and say, “God, I am at your service.”</p>
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<p>God will tell this man that He has a concept of the true man and true woman, a concept of the ideal family, nation and world. To actualize that blueprint true love should be at the core, and that love will come from God. God is a well of true love, but so far it has not flowed out of Him because there has been no one capable of or entitled to receive it. Why couldn’t God give true love to men? Because men became fallen and sinful. The fall brought everything to destruction. True love became false love, and God’s true love could not have give and take with it. When wells become polluted, no pure water can be found there.</p>
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<p>Because of the fall, everything became divided into compartments. What can be done to solve the question? God will say that He is doing something, but how can we know what God is doing so we can respond? Falsehood and truth look alike. God will say that He will help you to know what is true and what is false. Religion is God’s tool, and He will tell you to look for the one religion which is most persecuted. His power will be working through that religion and through His power it will rise.</p>
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<p>If a person wants to be truly committed to a religion, he must be able to withstand all temptations from the world. That qualification can be gained only by surviving persecution and still advancing upward. The world needs a Messiah because the average man cannot withstand such hardship without faltering or falling into temptation. To show such weak men the true way, the Messiah must show mankind the ultimate hope. That’s why all religions have some concept of a Messiah to come.</p>
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<p>The Messiah comes as a champion of God, a man who is invincible and cannot be overcome by satanic power. If even a weak man declares a partnership with the Messiah, that person can become as strong as the Messiah is. We can conclude that the only true hope in this sinful world is to find the Messiah who comes as God’s champion. Our duty is to unite with him, and then He will show us how to overcome evil and be liberated from sin. Do you need the Messiah? Perhaps only Koreans or Africans need a Messiah? Certainly sophisticated Americans don’t need a Messiah, right? How can you speak for everyone else? We can know logically that even the most prominent leaders and thinkers of a country need the Messiah.</p>
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<p>Many people think we Moonies are crazy or brainwashed, but from God’s point of view we represent His hope because we are earnestly searching after true love. Therefore, in His sight we are the normal people. Are you proud of being Moonies? You Moonies give me all kinds of trouble-if you didn’t follow me then the communists would leave me alone and the religious leaders wouldn’t oppose me. The communists feel threatened because we oppose communism, so they hate me. I can only conclude that you give me trouble!</p>
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<p>I am one, but you are many. Is there one kind of you, or many kinds? But do you have one thought and conviction? What is today? This is a Moonie celebration of true parents which only Moonies have. The rest of the world cannot understand why Moonies are gathering from all over the world on this day. When Moonies move, all kinds of people murmur! Reverend Moon is a topic of talk all around the world. They aren’t talking about me because they like me or think I am a hero, but because they think I am terrible. That means I am a big question mark in this country!</p>
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<p>If my business had nothing to do with God’s business then when I made all kinds of commotion God Himself would send a team to investigate what I was doing. If He found I was doing something very terrible then God would simply call me upstairs. But on the contrary, all kinds of human agents have investigated me, yet God allows me to prosper.</p>
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<p>If God ever called me upstairs to spirit world because I was causing too much trouble, who would be the happiest? Not the American FBI and CIA, but the communists, who would then be unopposed in their efforts to take over the world. Many people have prayed that I will die and disappear, but even though God has heard their prayers, the Moonies are still growing and expanding. We have the brightest young people of the world. How can anyone explain this?</p>
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<p>You are not simple people, but energetic, ambitious people who want to do something about the world Why should so many ambitious and determined people gather with me to do something? It could only be because God is with me. How can you know for sure” It may be difficult for other people to know what we are doing, but I know very well. What makes me so strong that I speak out without fear? I am not an athletic champion or a giant, but when the President makes a mistake I will speak out. When communists do evil, I speak without fear.</p>
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<p>The word “god” in Korean refers to the traditional black Korean hat. So far I am just warmed up. Are you ready for the message now? Actually you don’t need a message because you look inspired already. Today is a day to honor the True Parents and give them a day of rest, but instead you keep asking for more. How cruel you are! Can we conclude now?</p>
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<p>So far we have determined that God hates me, right? Does God love me? God loves Moonies. If and when God loves Moonies then for sure He would love Reverend Moon. What kind of love is God giving?- hot, cold or what? Very, very hot love. When you talk about true love then you have to say, “Very, very, very, very, very hot love.” True love should have even more “verys.” When God talks about true love He would be screaming, “Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot love,” and then faint. That’s true love. Am I very cold, lukewarm or hot?</p>
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<p>When you are faced with an emergency situation, you look for the person you truly love. A dying husband will call for his wife, a dying child will call for his parents, and parents for their children. This is because they love them the most. Your loving relationships should be that extensive and deep. Only in love of that depth can God reveal everything He knows to man and share all His secrets.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church has its origins in that intimate relationship of love with God. Therefore, God revealed the secrets and truth which He never revealed before. With the power of that truth we can clean up the tree world and liberate the communist world from their ideology because we truly know who God is and how He loves us. The completion of the providence, or God’s will, was the goal both before and after the fall since even men without sin have to grow into perfection. The will of God was meant to be consummated through complete unity of God and men. Man’s perfection can only come together with God. After man fell, the completion of God’s will became more difficult. It is not easy to become one with God in the fallen world because sin blocks everyone.</p>
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<p>God created Adam and Eve to center upon God, thus forming a trinity in union with Him. This is also the starting point of true love. First there must be a son who can deserve true love. Then comes a woman who receives true love from God. The son and daughter God created in the garden of Eden were entitled to God’s true love. Before they were husband t and wife, this man and woman were true brother and sister.</p>
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<p>The word “true” is important here. The tradition of true love was meant to be born in Eden, the beginning point. Then where would that tradition of true love move to? The true brother and sister relationship would become that of true groom and bride. When husband and wife are united in true love could anything separate them? Even God could not separate them because He would be melted by their love and want to join them. God is almighty and omnipotent, but He is helpless before true love. In true love there is no rank or degree, and all can become one together. Anything that accompanies true love is welcome, wherever you are and whatever you do. It a person of true love is moving into hell, the door will be wide open for him and hell will become heaven. Nothing hinders true love.</p>
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<p>True love imparts the power of true life, and when you receive true love you feel the surging power of life within you. The eye is drawn to true love, and all your senses are alert. All your heart yearns in that direction. You never get tired of seeing true love, and you want to be near and touch it. Do you like it? We can feel intoxicated even just thinking about it!</p>
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<p>When you climb in love to the top of a mountain, not only your voice but every cell shouts out in true joy. I look like any average man, but when I travel to other parts of the world you miss me and count the days till I return. When a person has this longing, his parents will become jealous, or his husband or wife, and they will try to make trouble. What kind of trouble is that? It is love trouble, the conflict between true love and false love.</p>
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<p>At this moment I want to greet the guests from Argentina who have been listening with earphones to my sermon. They are getting an unexpected experience this morning, and I am sure they have never heard a sermon like this one! I want them to know that there is a reason for what I am saying, and ask them not to jump quickly to conclusions.</p>
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<p>The tradition of true love between brother and sister develops into true love of husband and wife, and next it should develop into love of true parents. Mankind needs the love of True Parents. That tradition and position have not been established. Next true grandparents are needed. Then what? By the time they become true grandparents there will be many children, cousins and nieces and nephews, and all together they will form a tribe. The tradition of the true tribe should be established, and that will expand into a tradition of the true nation conceived in true love.</p>
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<p>Do we have this true nation anywhere in this fallen world? Whatever culture and language is possessed by that nation is the true culture and language. That is most logical. But we do not have that one true culture and language. Actually this planet is meant to be one nation, God’s nation, but today no nation is truly God’s nation and no people are truly God’s people. Did you grow up in the tradition of true brotherhood and true husband and wife? Don’t you think God wants a change?</p>
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<p>Today America is focused on ungodly selfishness. The entire world, and especially America, is focused on individualism. New York is a living grave, where people bury themselves in drugs and immorality. In the time of Jesus leprosy was a great problem, but today drugs are a great problem. I know Americans want to hear something nice about their country, but I cannot say it. I don’t care whether they hate me or not-I must tell the truth. If they want to hear good words then they must live up to them. America today is declining like Rome did. America today needs to be awakened and someone has to shock this nation. Korea is certainly in trouble also, but for the sake of the world America must be awakened immediately.</p>
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<p>God’s blueprint is very simple, beginning with one man and woman under God, and then expanding to one ideal family, tribe and nation. We are talking about making the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. If you live in heaven on earth, after you go to spirit world you will enjoy heaven for eternity. That is how God envisioned His ideal. Where must that tradition of true love begin? The beginning point is earth. Someone must create such a tradition, and we will do it.</p>
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<p>God’s original scheme was to have a world of goodness and perfection, but the very man and woman that God created moved in the opposite direction, toward the kingdom of hell on earth. Don’t worry about going to hell after you die, for everyone is living in hell on earth today and is choked by sin. In Divine Principle we talk about the original four position foundation of God, Adam and Eve, and their children. That is how the Kingdom of Heaven should have been erected. But God became separated from Adam and Eve, and Satan became the father of mankind instead, usurping God’s rightful position. The four position foundation was created under Satan and multiplied into a tribe, nation and world. The hatred, war and corruption of the world is the result of the fall, and was not God’s original intention.</p>
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<p>Today we are totally surrounded by sin. In order to solve the problem today, we have to go back to the cause at the beginning, reorganize it, and then make a new beginning. It is the destiny of each man to return to that point and make a new beginning. This is why many people today feel that we must be near the end of the world. Even people who have riches and comfort are restless. They cannot feel settled because everyone is destined to go back to the beginning and start over.</p>
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<p>Today everyone is denying everyone else- parents deny children and children deny parents. Husband and wife deny each other. People deny their governments; students deny their schools. This is part of God’s scheme because He wants people to realize that nothing is settled and they must search for something stable. They will not find it until they find God. This is a restless, wandering world, and now is the time when God promised He would send the Messiah, the one hope for mankind. The incredible decline and breakdown we see in society is not just a bad omen, but is all part of God’s scheme. He is shaking everyone so that when the Messiah comes they will cling to him and make a new beginning centered on God.</p>
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<p>There is much entanglement in human affairs, so each human being has to cut this world off and return to the original point. No one has the energy to do it alone, so God shakes everyone up, and as a result they feel no connection to anyone else. Then it is easy for them to go back to the original point. Many people see only despair in the world today, but it is actually a time of hope instead. This is the best chance for everyone to go back to the original point and make a new beginning.</p>
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<p>When people are going back, looking for the original point, the truth and untruth look alike to them. When people deny the establishment they might start something like the hippie movement or the back-to-earth movement, while we started the Moonie movement. They all look crazy, but one is true and the others false. We are heavenly hippies, and in time the worldly hippies will come to you as their Abel. Out of despair can come gigantic leaps and bounds. There is gigantic hope now as the new day dawns, for the end of the old world brings the beginning of the new. Today there are two major ideological divisions in the world-the free world and the communist world-one which is God accepting and the other God-denying. The logical next step is to make one world. This is really the time for a new God-centered beginning, and so this is the most hopeful time.</p>
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<p>What is necessary for a new beginning? We have to give people a better ideology than what they have. We offer a better alternative to communism and to the governments of the free world. What is that ideology? First, it must be God-centered and aimed at the true love of God; it must be able to reconstruct the true individual, family, society, and nation. Today I am in a tug-of-war with America, yanking this nation into motion. Next I will tug the communist world. Our CARP movement is all over America, shoving this nation.</p>
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<p>Some of the Unification Church leaders are sleeping. They think I do things in the Korean way and want me to act according to the American way. They should stop thinking that way. There is only one way-we follow God’s way.</p>
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<p>Who brought the fall and incredible suffering to mankind? Adam and Eve. The first man and woman, who should have been elevated to true parenthood, united instead with Satan and brought the world with them. Therefore, reorganization must begin with the True Parents, and this is why no one can do it except the Messiah. He comes in the position of the true, perfected Adam who is united with God. United with the true woman, he will form true parenthood to give mankind new birth.</p>
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<p>What is the Messiah’s qualification? One criterion is that he must win over all the temptation and suffering of the fallen world. Satan has many weapons like money, power and knowledge, but no matter what direction Satan’s temptations come from. the</p>
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<p>Messiah must remain incorruptible. Every cell of his body exists for the sake of God, and every ounce of his energy and thought is centered upon God, with no deviation. There must be not only a perfect man but a perfect woman, who will together become parents and can give mankind new birth.</p>
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<p>You will face temptation from all kinds of people whispering in your ears, trying to dissuade you from going in the right direction. I am sure many of you will be shaken by it and leave. I know these temptations will come to you because they have come to me. Satan has whispered in my ears, saying such things as, “God doesn’t really love you, or else why would you be put in this prison camp for three years? How could He allow you to suffer if He really loved you?” After I came to America Satan whispered to me, “If God really loved you why would He allow so many Americans to demonstrate against you? You shouldn’t confront the American government because you will be crushed.” That is how Satan talked to me.</p>
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<p>Your temptation is nothing. It is the natural course of things, so just blow it away. Many people have said unkind things about me, but during that time I accomplished many things. My major accomplishment is that thousands of you young people around the world have become God-centered and nothing will shake you. In Korea I received incredible persecution from people who called me a traitor and evil man. But today, a few years later, they say I am a true patriot and must be a man of God. They even say that in Korea’s 5,000 year history there has never been such a giant. I was also persecuted in Japan, but today major leaders in the government openly proclaim that Reverend Moon’s ideology is the only hope for Japan to turn back the tide of communism. They see there is no other method that can prevent a communist takeover of Japan. They say that Reverend Moon is not just Korean but Asian, so they have kinship with me. I like that.</p>
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<p>Now it is America’s turn. This nation has given me great hardship, calling me a brainwasher and family wrecker, and an agent of the KCIA. But you have a smile and sense of devotion and purpose; you have totally changed your way of life. You look charming and young, but you have incredible inner strength through your faith in God. Even if you are put in jail you are not bothered. There is no way America can handle this kind of men and women.</p>
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<p>Moonies are busy people. None of you women are wearing heavy makeup because you don’t have the time to spend in front of your mirror. You hardly even have time to wash your laundry. Yet you are happy people who have single-minded devotion to increase the work of God on earth. You don’t care what people say because you have already make up your mind. Even if I give you a hard time you still come back. I have set many records, and certainly one of them is that I have received more curses than anyone else in history. I am also the champion for training the most stubborn young people to work for the highest purpose.</p>
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<p>Certainly the President of America could not do what I am doing. The Prime Minister of England or Japan could not do it either. I am also the champion fighter against communism and the champion in awakening Christianity. I am the champion in remaking young people of all nationalities into moral people. In order to do that I have to push you out, but do you love me? Why? Simply because I am the champion of bringing the true love of God, a bridge of the true love of God. Are there any challengers? Raise your hands and come on up!</p>
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<p>Today you and I are in the world championship in every area-in conveying the love of God, the work of raising moral men and women, in fighting communism. Day and night you go out fund raising and witnessing, without food or sleep. You know that becoming a champion is not easy. Do you expect an easy way? Competing with me is an uphill fight.</p>
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<p>Today I am giving you an easy way out, however. Why not just pack up and forget about that difficult fight? Find your own wife or husband and live your own life. No? There are two kinds of “no”-no and know. You say “no” because you “know” the truth, right? So you are happy, aren’t you? When you lose energy, “happy” becomes very “heavy,” but when you have energy you are very peppy. Are you heavy or happy?</p>
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<p>Now you know what our life goal is and what is true happiness. The house of happiness is made of the tradition of the true love of God. That’s the dwelling place you have found, and it will be eternal. When you are equipped with the true love of God, you will be welcome wherever you go. The new order and new world is coming soon, and in that world the Unification Church members will travel without visas because everyone will want them to come.</p>
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<p>I want to speak to the white American couples. I might visit your home in very humble, ragged clothes, and when I ring the bell will you say I should call ahead and make an appointment? If I withdrew all your savings and spent your money would you call the police? Why not? That’s the American way of life. I have heard that in America couples make up marriage contracts concerning who owns what, and they even have secret bank accounts. I heard of a man who put his money in his sock before he went home because otherwise his wife would take it all and he would have nothing. What a different standard we have!</p>
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<p>Would it be normal for you to call the police if I took your money? The early Korean and Japanese couples know that I know best in every way, including how to use a home and spend money. They ask me to go right ahead and take what they have because they know I will use it for the sake of God. I asked the American and European leaders to come hear this message because they need to be awakened, to repent and make a new beginning. They have been living their own way of thinking.</p>
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<p>I have already done whatever I ask you to do’ for it is my standard to do something myself before I talk about it. I abhor the leader who just sits and gives commands and lets other people carry them out. I act first and then have other people follow me. That is heavenly tradition. I have done one thing for the sake of the world-set the tradition of the heavenly way under true love. This is universal and it works everywhere, for every man.</p>
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<p>There is no one in spirit world who does not know me and what I am doing. This earth reflects the spirit world, so here in America everyone knows my name, though they do not know what I am doing. But they will know soon. The amazing fact is that the communist leaders are the ones who most clearly recognize my ability. Moscow and Peking know precisely what I am. The communists are afraid that the free world leaders will know me as well, so the communists are trying to create a smoke screen to keep people in ignorance. They are also trying to destroy me before I can become known.</p>
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<p>The communists even manipulate the American government in their scheme to get rid of me, as well as Christians and Jews. But even under these intimidating circumstances I have been prosperous. Certainly I could never do this with my own power. Only the power of God could do it. Right after the 1976 Washington Monument Rally I declared that the Moscow Rally would be next. This movement is entirely focused on liberating the world from the communist ideology. I am one bulwark to stop the spread of communism and I will eventually turn the tide back. Do you support that? Do you joyfully support that?</p>
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<p>If you would be victorious over communism, must you be superior to the communists” Only if your power is superior will you be victorious. In my whole life of pioneering I have never resorted to any physical showdown whatsoever. My weapon has always been silent endurance.</p>
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<p>Today I declare the end of the first 21 year course. This is a momentous day. Today another 21 year course has begun, and in this time our movement will grow physically as well as spiritually and we will be strengthened in every way. We must deter the advance of communism and we need the power to liberate them. Even for the communists I am in the position of father, but it is your position actually to win over them and be victorious. You shall be superior in God-centered character and in strength of knowledge, experience, and organization.</p>
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<p>The communists are determined to destroy the free world and take over, but we will save the free world and also the communist world. That is our goal. The Unification movement is here for recreation. The original will of God was corrupted, so we are here to recreate the world. We are that force and movement which will liberate the entire world centered on the true love of God. Our method is home church, through which you can contact everyone.</p>
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<p>Your home church area is a little world which represents the entire fallen world and history in miniature form. When you win your battle there, God will consider that you have won the entire battle and inherited my victorious tradition on the universal level. Your goal, then, is to become a tribal messiah to home church. When there are home messiahs, then tribal messiahs under the worldwide Messiah, all shall be accomplished and fulfilled.</p>
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<p>A dynamic, explosive era has dawned today. The second 21 year course has begun. If you give all your heart for your task, however, you can accomplish everything in the first seven years. Then you will be finished and have no more seven year courses. You will enjoy the fruits of your effort and not have to endure more tribulation and hardship. Jesus’ spirit was always centered on love, and he demonstrated that love on the cross. He sacrificed himself as a single person, but today we have the privilege of bearing the cross as husband and wife. In the next seven years husband and wife will do this as one unit.</p>
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<p>Many blessed couples think they have worked hard and now I should help them. But I tell them it is their responsibility. Even if I help them, their own responsibility remains of becoming victorious on their own. That’s the criterion. God will give ample blessing, including material blessing, after you set the standard and tradition. If God gives blessing before then, you will be accused by Satan and he will steal it. God does not want that.</p>
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<p>The Messiah given to the world by God will not receive God’s help every minute of the day. God will leave him alone to do his own responsibility. That’s the way Mother and I suffered, but in that way we could become victorious over hardship and Satan can no longer accuse. When you become a personification of the true love of God, the rest of your problems will be solved automatically, including your food, housing, clothing. The Bible says so, and I say it again. If that is not true, then I am an imposter.</p>
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<p>The title of today’s message is “Completion of the Providence and Parents’ Day.” The True Parents set the tradition, and now you are to follow and set the same tradition and standard on your own. Then you shall be at the same level as True Parents m God’s sight. This next seven years is the time for you to demonstrate what you are and what you can do. Any organization or system that hampers this movement or your achievement will be demolished. Home church is the primary dispensation and anything else is secondary. I am declaring to Unification Church members all over the world that this is the Parents’ Day which ends the first 21 year course and begins the second 21 year course.</p>
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<p>You are independent messiahs, and whatever you do is your own responsibility. You are to bring the Kingdom of Heaven in home church. Traditionally I have rejected any outside help, whether from nations or government agencies, but I offered to help any government that needed it. I don’t want the American government to help me, but I want to help the American people. I am pouring all my blood and sweat, and my money and knowledge into this nation.</p>
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<p>Many foreigners come to America to create a fortune and take it back home with them, but I came to this country to pour everything I have into saving this nation. I am truly the most precious visitor to come to this nation, but the people and government treated me in the worst fashion. I could easily feel hatred and want revenge, but I have never felt that. I want to embrace America with love. Every day my effort is to love and educate America. If America rejects this love and education then this country won’t have to try to get rid of me-I will leave on my own. But that will be a tragic day for America because thousands of people will follow me in tears. America will be devastated if I leave because many significant people will no longer love this nation.</p>
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<p>Argentina has been mistreated and misrepresented by America, struggling for its own freedom and survival against communism. I see there is a great opportunity for God to help Argentina restore its freedom.</p>
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<p>We know today that we have an inner, spiritual strength that is tougher than iron. Now we are building physical strength that includes manpower and money, organization and publicity. If anyone opposes Moonies, don’t let the opportunity go by, but demand that they say what’s wrong with us and what they really do know about us. We know what we are, but how much do they know? I can endure being cursed and persecuted, but I want you to be respected by the nation and world.</p>
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<p>This afternoon we have a martial arts demonstration and I would like you to see these champions in action. They will demonstrate what the mind and body can do, and how we can be strong not only in spirit but in body. You should know about the communists. They will come against you with dirty tactics, just like they have done in Argentina, and you should be ready in every way. If a thief comes in your door and tries to stab your own father, would you just stand by and watch? If an evil man slaughters the good people of your town, would you just try to escape?</p>
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<p>The same thing can be said about nations. Today many South American nations are on the verge of being murdered, but America is trying to look away and say it is none of this nation’s business. Is that how to follow the commandment to love one’s neighbor” It is my lifetime dream to create a tribe and nation that can be strong and stand up for righteousness without fear of death. That’s the kind of courage we need to I liberate the world from the evil ideology of communism. It is certainly not my ideology. This is God’s ideology. Even if I falter at this moment, millions of other Reverend Moons will arise because this ideology is immortal and eternal.</p>
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<p>Today we declare the beginning of the second 21 year course, in which we shall become superior in every way over the evil ideology of communism. Our goal is to create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and in order to do that we must liberate mankind from sin. We are committed to rise to the challenge without compromise. If you promise that to me, raise your hand. We’ll see you in Moscow.</p>
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<p>I am sure that in a few minutes the State Department will know what I have said, and even sooner than that the Kremlin will know. Actually I want them to hear.</p>
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<p>Many people are trying to kill me because I speak out very clearly. The other day a person came to our CARP center. He had carried a pistol for three years waiting for the chance to kill me because he thought I was an enemy of America. But after reading the CARP newspaper he realized that I was the best friend of America. He came to surrender his pistol and join CARP.</p>
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<p>You can see that my freedom of movement is hindered. But at the same time I have given my entire life, giving my youth for the mission of erecting the Church, never even looking after my own family in my concern for the world. Now it is your turn. My main responsibility now is to set up the model family of heaven, the tradition of true love. I set the world tradition, national tradition, and tribal tradition, and now I must set the family tradition.</p>
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<p>So far it has been my tradition to love the members more than my own children and wife. Some of the 36 couples are sitting here, and if they don’t recognize and appreciate my love then they are really traitors. I have loved them more than anyone. I will go home and set the family tradition because this is my remaining responsibility, but you cannot go home until you assume my role on the front line.</p>
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<p>I cut all the satanic ties and overcame this world, returning to the beginning point and setting the pattern of the heavenly tour position foundation. Now you are taking over and it is your turn to build your own tribe, nation and world. You inherit my tradition now and make it your tradition. Erect your own family, tribe, nation and world tradition. You should be the bulwark in the heavenly fight, the leaders who can say, “Follow me.” Will you do that” Do you know this to the bone?</p>
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<p>To send a rocket into space you need a launching pad, and your 360 homes will be that launching pad for you. As much as you long for me, let them long for you so much that they cannot live one day without you. Satan fears home church because unconditional love is your weapon and Satan has no defense against that. We should march for that goal, giving true love and true education. These are the two most basic goals. You have to digest this yourself and endure all hardship. Don’t get diarrhea in assimilating this.</p>
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<p>When you move fast you have more energy and the other side will be shattered, not you. Whether you go fast or slow, the opposition will have the same strength, so it is a far better tactic to move quickly because it will penetrate their defenses. This is why I don’t believe in working piecemeal, but going all out. That’s why in 1975 I sent out missionaries to 120 nations all at once. They were lightning rods for persecution, to get it over all at once and end it.</p>
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<p>Before I undertook any task in this country I met the major leaders here-such as most of the Senators, including Senator Kennedy, and President Nixon. I met former President Eisenhower. Go to the famous people and well-known people in your area. You should feel that you will contribute more to your area than they do and love it more than anyone. You can say proudly to the parents that you love their children more than they do, and to the children that you love their parents more than they do. You love them more because you love with the unselfish love of God.</p>
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<p>Very definitely people will be moved and inspired by you. In the beginning they will stand firm against you, but know that before too long they will be melted by your love. No other power is greater than your God-centered love. You have a weapon as powerful as an atomic bomb. No other power can compete with the power of love. The best people are either hot or cold. Those who oppose you will be your target because they will be your best members when they are turned around.</p>
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<p>Your parents did not like me too much, but I loved them more than you loved them and eventually they will be melted. This is our principle strategy. This morning I have showed it plainly to you. The greatest weapon we have is the power of love The entire world will be influenced by it and bow down to you. What is needed are people who will initiate home church’ and when that is all done you will register as citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. But that registration will be conducted by families, not individuals. This is not my concept, but God’s.</p>
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<p>Since this is God’s original concept, I have no choice except to follow that tradition. You have no one to blame or complain about. If you are not making good marks at school you can’t complain about anyone except yourself. Do not ever think you are working for the Unification Church; you are working for your own church. You are not working for the Unification Church nation and world’ but your own nation and world. But it happens to be my nation and world as well.</p>
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<p>Why are that nation and world needed? For you and me. Actually you are working for yourself, so it is your responsibility. The leaders should never think I will solve their problems, but should confront the hard questions themselves. There shall be no complaint because what you earn is what you get. That is the property you will earn and can leave to your children. The more of yourself you empty out, the more you will receive.</p>
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<p>Do not ever think that I am taking a holiday from now on. I want to buy one airplane, but not for a vacation. Have you seen me take one day or week of vacation in my whole life? Do you have any objection if I buy a plane? The plane will be for me to take the hardworking members to visit many places. Would you want me to buy it, or will you do that for me? OK, buy it right away!</p>
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<p>Mother is a very ugly wife, isn’t she? No, she is known for her beauty, but she married an ugly husband, didn’t she? One thing is for sure. I treated her as though she were an ugly wife and never paid attention to her. I want to have at least a little time to show her the rest of the world.</p>
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<p>I have four more years before I reach what you call the retirement age of 65. If you can let me retire four years in advance because you will take up my job, then that is your pride. But I have an insoluble problem. There is no place I could go where I would not be recognized and besieged by people. Even if I don’t send notice in advance, spirit world lets people know! When I go to Japan and Korea, the moment I arrive there is a hectic schedule. My real problem is that there is no sanctuary for me.</p>
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<p>I am now appealing to spirit world not to send a message that I am coming so that I can have peace and quiet for a few years. But actually I am just kidding. I have much work left to do. Before I finish my life on earth there is much more I must do on my own. In my own writing I must set down all the heavenly rules and regulations of Life in Principle. No one else will do that after I die. I want you to pay more attention to your mission of home church than you do to me. Will you promise me that?</p>
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<p>I have gone over the hill but you are still coming up. If at some point you no longer see me it is because I will already be on the other side. That’s natural and you shouldn’t worry about it, but just keep climbing and doing your mission of home church. Every nation has more hills to cover, including America, Argentina and Korea. Americans should have the will power to climb over that hill.</p>
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<p>We are laboriously pounding in stakes at each step now, but later we will build a cable car so that everyone can just ride quickly to the top. Will you do that?</p>
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<p>We are aware that we were born, and that we encounter many situations around us. For instance, we have families, a society and nation, and so forth. Beyond that, our nation has other countries and a world to relate to. Speaking simply, each nation has its different language, values, and customs; many nations are in competition, and some are backward and others advanced. The various nations contain many different elements, so when we come to think about all this, we ask, “What is the relationship between these things and myself?”</p>
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<p>Nowadays this question is magnified, and young people especially are doubtful and searching, questioning more than at any other time what they have to do with all these different elements in the world. At one time or another they pass through a stage of saying they don’t care about anything else except the fact that they exist, and then they tend to care only about themselves. If you are a little more sophisticated, however, you realize that your lack of trust in the world begins with the fact that our circumstances have nothing to do with the ideal. Somehow the world started in such a way that it became separated from the ideal, and people are not moved by the highest motives.</p>
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<p>Now we have to define what the ideal actually is. Every person would like to develop as an ideal individual, and create an ideal family and society. What kind of society could be called an ideal society? We can safely say that the ideal should not be changing in quality, but should carry on consistently. This is one element to be considered. Each part of the ideal must be constant, with each existence naturally and easily connecting to every other existence. Is there any family or society that is close to this situation? No.</p>
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<p>Let us consider a simple example. An individual may find it difficult to communicate with the other members of his family, even his parents, who are the direct cause of his existence. On a larger stage, citizens of different countries may find communication difficult with other countries. People are primarily concerned with their own well-being or profit, instead of with other people, and this is generally assumed to be normal. If we are serious about the ideal, however, we immediately realize that this is contrary to the ideal. Selfishness and concern for one’s own profit cannot help sustain the ideal.</p>
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<p>This struggle continues all through life, generation after generation. The elements of money, power and knowledge are utilized to promote profit and to survive competition, but this also is distant from the ideal. It is this way everywhere we look, so in the midst of this situation there is no hope for the ideal. Paradoxically, everyone wants peace and an ideal society to live in, but we can only dream about happiness as long as the present situation continues. No matter how proud or ashamed it may feel, every country lives in this situation, as well as each family. Though no one can avoid living in these circumstances, we can divide mankind into two groups-those who are religious and those who are not. Which side do we belong to?</p>
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<p>What are we working to achieve? We are particularly interested in bringing everything into unity. As soon as we make up our minds to it, unity will be achieved, right? A man may have one eye that sees well and another that sees poorly. Is it easy or difficult for him to improve the poor eye to see well? One ear may hear less than the other, and one arm or leg may be shorter than the other. It would be very difficult to improve the weaker limb to be as strong as the other.</p>
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<p>Making unity sounds very simple in concept-all you have to do is make the disadvantaged element conform to the standard of the other element. Another way would be to destroy the healthy element and have it meet the standard of the unhealthy element. But of course, when we say unity we mean bringing the bad one up to the standard of the good one. It is the same with everyone-when we talk about unity we mean raising the lower element to measure up to the higher element. How difficult it would be to do this with a society or nation. There are many medical specialists, even doctors who specialize just in feet. Would it be the ideal to go to a specialist for each part of your body, or just one doctor who knows about all parts of the body?</p>
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<p>Everyone is looking for the ideal, including such diverse groups as the communist world, the free world, hippies and churchgoers. If the ideal had a color, would it be white, black, yellow, or what? We have to think one step further now and determine what is the starting base of the ideal. If a man works hard to get his Ph.D. and then does research for years and finally is awarded the Nobel Prize, how much longer will he live to enjoy that honor? If you closely observe a so-called “man of success,” you will see he is looking at a much narrower world than any of you sitting here. The world may praise and honor him, but when you look closely, you will find you wouldn’t want to be like him.</p>
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<p>A great scientist may be given a Nobel prize for eye research, but he knows only a little bit about your eyes, which are only a small part of yourself. Even the greatest psychologist has only scratched the surface of the self. Any man of knowledge knows about only a small part of human phenomena. America is proud of its technological advancement and its living standard, but when we look closely we see that America is standing on very shaky ground. The more seriously we look for the ideal, the sadder we become because it seems we are getting farther away from it instead of closer.</p>
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<p>Was there any time in the past when things were more perfect than now? Actually the past was even darker than the present. Will the future improve in any way? If we had hope for the future then we would not be disappointed in today, but there is no reason to think that it will get better. A sensible man could only conclude that no one can achieve happiness and the ideal. He may keep searching, but he is destined to be disappointed.</p>
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<p>Many people think America is the land of their dreams and that it stands for what is good. But if they carefully examine this country they will see it is far from measuring up to their dreams. In this country, Americans from the East coast go to the West coast looking for something; when they can’t find it they keep going on to the Orient, hoping to find something ideal. America is not the only country where we can’t find a clue to our ideals. It is the same in the Orient, Africa and Europe.</p>
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<p>Everyone wants to go to Harvard and is proud when they are accepted, but if you ask the students who study there, they are likely to express as much disappointment as any student studying in some other school. Since school fails to give us a clue about life or the ideal, naturally we turn to religion. The man who fails to find what he seeks in college will turn to church or religion. In the beginning he may feel that something about church is different, but soon enough he finds it contains as much inconsistency as any place else. The closer he examines it, the more clearly he will find that the church has as many problems as society.</p>
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<p>People talk about God, and perhaps find some consolation in their belief, but they don’t know about God. Even though church is really no different from society, it demands a stricter life but gives no benefit for it. Thus, religious life feels like a bigger burden to carry. Discouragement in your quest of religion is your second disappointment.</p>
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<p>In a regular church you will be greeted by the whole congregation when you become a new member, and after service people will shake your hand. The minister wears a handsome robe to preach in, and by being seen at church you may gain some social prestige. But after that you come to the Unification Church, which is rather unpopular, and was even started by an Oriental. Here people don’t regard you as a perfect person, and don’t even offer you a chair; here at service you sit on cold concrete. You might wonder if this will prove to be yet another disappointment.</p>
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<p>In the midst of that, you ask, “Who is Reverend Moon?” You know one thing for sure. He denies everything that is established. For instance, he will not recognize existing churches, no matter how beautiful or famous, because they have nothing to do with God. You may have noticed that there is no part of the world that I accept. You know that, yet you are determined to follow that path. You are sure that disappointment is ahead of you, aren’t you? Maybe the longer you stay the more you feel that eventually you will give this up. You say no, but up until this morning I don’t think you were so sure!</p>
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<p>Someone might speak up, asking, “Reverend Moon, who are you?” I would confidently reply that I am the one who has experienced the deepest disappointment about the world. Therefore, I represent all those who are denied by the world and the churches, and who have given up all hope in this world. The voice will ask why I didn’t totally give up in despair, and my answer will be that I have found the possibility of a religion which has a concrete plan, not just wishful thinking. Thus, I have begun anew.</p>
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<p>We are teaching other people that if they come to the Unification Church they will find hope and an avenue to create a completely new church, society and life. We merely said that the possibility exists; we didn’t say it would be done easily. Then we teach how it is possible. In this we are very down-to-earth, covering even the smallest detail. If God exists, and sees anyone who has reached this point, then we can imagine that God certainly would give His whole attention to that person. All of us here are part of the Unification Church. God doesn’t think as much about the other billions of people on earth, but concentrates on the Unification Church here in America.</p>
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<p>Now that you know you are the ones whom God pays most attention to, let me ask you a question. You were deeply disappointed in the past; if you are disappointed here, do you think you could go back to the place of your first disappointment and continue living? If I say you are not needed here, would you go back to your old place? If you refuse, does that mean you have nowhere else to go and you will stay here, no matter what? Sometimes I have an urge to chase you out of the Church!</p>
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<p>There are many things you must do, like fund raising and home church. Sometimes going to the bathroom is a smelly experience, but some of the things we do seem worse than going to the bathroom. You are not the only ones who feel that way. Do you think I enjoy everything I do? I am not handsome according to American standards, but by Oriental standards I am very handsome. I could have been a big businessman, or a famous political leader. I am confident I could have done anything I wanted to, if only I had not been disappointed with the world.</p>
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<p>Why would I live the kind of life I do now if I could have been established and successful by worldly standards? I came to America as a lonely pioneer. All the churches and newspapers have slandered me, so that everywhere I go people watch me and the FBI keeps track of me. Why don’t I quit and just go to another church? I don’t enjoy traveling all over and being watched, so why do I continue?</p>
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<p>Since I was disappointed with the world, the world was disappointed with me. They have pretty much kicked us out and we have no place to go, but even though everyone is opposing me, am I disappointed? No, I am confident and my only thought is how to change this world into the world of God. Why do we think and talk like this? First, we must really know for sure what circumstances we are in. Our big breakthrough is in knowing why the world became as it is and why there is no trust or love.</p>
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<p>The world is a broken heaven, like a radio broken in its most essential part. Anyone trying to repair it will mess the machine up even more. If the fall had never happened, yet the world was this way, there would be no hope at all. But we know that the fall shaped mankind to be the way they are now. We hate the fall so much that when difficulty comes to us we are not disappointed, but grateful for what we know. Because we know about the fall, we have hope to become the way men should have been if there had been no fall. We know clearly that history began upside down, and knowing the cause of it, we know how to change it and we can be strong.</p>
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<p>Knowing about the fall gives us hope. Now we know that the world can be saved. Now we know that God has been working for many, many years. All during the time when we were in darkness, God was thinking and working. When you come to know what God already knows, the spark of electricity jumping between you will be bright enough to light up the entire world. Everyone else remains in disappointment and despair because there is no way any man or power could change the world. But we know God has been working to make a good world, so together with God we are strong enough to remake the world.</p>
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<p>We know that we are living in the midst of the dispensation of restoration. Was God already thinking about how to save man, or is the Principle something I thought up for saving the world? Many important incidents took place in history, but only those who know the meaning of those incidents can have anything to do with them. The dispensation of salvation has been going on for thousands of years, but if people don’t know about it then they have nothing to do with it. Only the person who knows accurately what took place and why can be saved.</p>
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<p>Who knows the most about this dispensation? When you are disappointed and it is difficult to continue, you have to confront God about why He is letting these difficulties happen to you. You should demand that God let you know why you are here, because that is what you are going to teach the world. If you think you are having difficulty, you can demand to know why. I confronted God with this matter. Do you think it was easy? No one knows God more deeply than I do, and you cannot imagine how difficult it was. Were there no greater men than me in these thousands of years? Weren’t there other people God could teach? There were many great men in history.</p>
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<p>If God were to hate me then He would have to hate me more than anyone. But if He were to love me, then He would have to love me most. As Divine Principle teaches, God has been working rather unsuccessfully in history, and now I am determined to finish God’s work. If God were to hate me, why would He hate me most of all? Restoration is so difficult that God felt perhaps no one could ever do it. If I volunteered but failed, then God would hate me most. On the other side, no one has even worried about what God was thinking, let alone volunteer to do what He is doing, so God would embrace me for being even willing to try. In that respect God could love me most.</p>
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<p>If you look around the world you will find that the same people who say they hate me will also say, “But you know, I like Reverend Moon!” You sometimes hate me too. When I tell you something, you sometimes criticize, and that is the same thing as hating me. If I tell you to do something but you don’t, it is the same as hating me. Until today you have been that way. Is it easier to say you won’t work hard because your leader isn’t working hard, or to say that because your leader isn’t doing so well you must work harder?</p>
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<p>Did you come this morning because you knew I would speak, or even though you didn’t know for sure? Did you come like a rising sun, thinking that because of you Belvedere would come alive? Have you ever come with that kind of mind? Maybe you drag yourself here out of duty, even though you don’t care about salvation because you feel ready to die yourself. Let’s be open about this! Is it more difficult to come as a dying man, or to bring a dying man with you and revive him? Until today you admit that you came like dying men, but are you going to continue that as of tomorrow? Would you feel that you cannot give up your position because it is the best in all history, or would you just give up?</p>
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<p>You have a place to sleep and three meals to eat, so now you say you will hang on even if you die. But what if you go hungry? That day might come. You might even sleep in the rain, but would you say that you can’t give up, even if you die in this situation? You thought the assignments I have given you so far were very difficult, but if I gave you ten times as much would you still try to live up to it? Many Koreans promised me they would fulfill but they did not. Many Japanese promised me but they didn’t do it. How could I believe that you will do what you promise me?</p>
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<p>America is thought to be a great country, but its people are individualistic and have hardly experienced difficulty. When Americans encounter difficulty they find it hard to endure through, so America has little basis for saying that only Americans can do something. Can I believe in and trust America? Can I have hope because Americans have bigger eyes than mine, or because they are taller? The Bible teaches that those who are willing to die will live. You shouldn’t just know this in your head, but feel it every day.</p>
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<p>We know that Reverend Moon and the Unification Church are advancing, but do you think that many times I was about to die in reaching our present position, or that I never experienced that situation? How could you say you will go the way I went and not expect to experience that? For a long time God could not believe in me. We can understand God’s situation, however; Adam and Eve, who had no original sin, abandoned God, so what guarantee did God have that I could change the fallen world I was born into? I went through incredible situations to win God’s approval, and finally after many such victories God came to trust me.</p>
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<p>If I push American members into a difficult situation where they don’t think they can succeed, but they do, then I can trust America. Would that be reasonable?</p>
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<p>Now that you have been engaged by me, are you in a position to talk all the time about your fiancé? Do you love the dispensation and God more than your fiancé? Really? That is a practical matter than you cannot bypass, and you have to evaluate yourselves in this matter. I am here physically with you now, so if you go wrong there is a way to correct it immediately, but if you want to go forward all by yourself there is no way to correct yourself if you go wrong. You have to understand the significance of my presence here.</p>
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<p>How do you go through the dispensation of salvation and restoration? God comes to man through the angels and through all things. Since the fall, both God and the angels must come down on earth, but is that God’s original position? Do you think God has been a true God so far? Has He had dominion over the world, or has someone else been in control? Satan has held that position of dominion and God has been looking in from the outside, so He has to remove the archangel and put him in his true position.</p>
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<p>The religious and non-religious worlds both follow the same pattern. There are many religions today, but there should be one central religion. Each religion today claims that it is the central or chosen one. The Protestants, Catholics, Jews and Unification Church all say they are the center. Who is actually the center? If people hear that the Unification Church is the center, and yet they see that Unification Church members are greedy people, they will say Unification Church members are thieves. Are we greedy in an ambitious way, or in the sense that we want to do many things? People say Reverend Moon has lots of ambition and is greedy like a thief. How then could the world believe the Unification Church is the central religion?</p>
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<p>If you say the Unification Church is the central religion, how can the world believe you? You are not well-dressed and don’t have important positions. The world doesn’t like Moonies. In the beginning people will not believe you, but they will watch as you keep coming back to see them. Then their idea about you will begin to change. When a person sees the Unification Church moving intone city, then finds it working in another city, after a long time his idea may change and he may feel that the Unification Church is different. People will find that Unification Church members are absolutely different from all other regular church members. I have a feeling you already understand about this.</p>
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<p>In this country people date all the time and go to the disco, but in all the years people have watched Unification Church members, they have never seen one of our boys and girls walk hand in hand, and they know we are very strict even after marriage. Officials know that for three years after you get married you still work apart from your wife or husband. People can never understand that. If they were put in that situation, they would protest after three days, but after three years you are still going strong. That’s what they can’t understand, and their conclusion is that you are brainwashed.</p>
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<p>Actually this idea of brainwashing is a convenient tool for us. People sometimes say Unification Church members are glassy-eyed. They think there is no singing and happiness in Unification Church, but they are wrong. All of you could be great dancers, and I could be the best disco dancer; if I were determined to do it, I could disco many nights without sleep. I know that if I gave you the go-ahead you could out-dance the whole world. One day God will tell us to indemnify the fact that we never danced in the past, so we will have to dance a lot. I know the longest dancing champion will come from the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is different from the secular world. Where would God and mankind find hope in this world? If someone is different, then hope might be found in that difference; there is no hope in being the same as the world. Many people think I carry guns and handcuffs because they think I have a fierce temper and am a dictator. They connect all the bad names of the past with me, saying I am like Hitler and Stalin. They even say I am worse than Hitler because at least Hitler paid his army; you not only don’t receive a salary, but you fund raise to support the Church! People think that you must be forced to do that. Non-religious people could never understand.</p>
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<p>But I am not paid either. Everyone has to pay their own indemnity to God. Sometimes you wonder who is going to support you; we are different in that we support the Church, while other churches pay their ministers and officers. Strangely enough, the people who get paid don’t work as hard as those who work without pay. Is there such a thing as an eight hour day in the Unification Church? We work 24 hours a day, but even then we know we haven’t done enough.</p>
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<p>People in the everyday world work eight hours a day and buy their own homes, but we work all day and still own nothing. Do you realize we are different from the world? We are 180 degrees different from the world. The point is, who has hope and inspiration and feels secure in their happiness-those who work eight hours a day, or those who work all day and own nothing for themselves? We are proud of our job. I push myself in a difficult way of life, but I have nothing to be ashamed or afraid of because there is nothing I have not experienced. It is a privilege not to be afraid of anything.</p>
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<p>No matter how the world may oppose me, some day the world will have to make way for me and for our movement. What a privilege it is! Though I sleep only a little, when I do sleep it is so deep that all the kings of this world would envy me my peace of mind. Deep inside I have nothing to worry about or be ashamed of. I sleep short hours, but very peacefully. Is such a man happy or unhappy?</p>
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<p>I was fascinated one day watching Kook Jin and Heung Jin playing with a whole company of toy soldiers. They had a mock war under way and were so absorbed with their game that they never noticed time passing. I wished that I could play like that, and now maybe sometime I will. If all of you work like I have and bear the burden, then I will be relieved and be able to play like the children.</p>
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<p>The problem is that Unification Church members don’t think so much about how hard I worked in the past. I have graduated from working, but the members then question why they have to work while I have finished. One day I might go to the ballet with Mother and a few staff members. Then one leader might think he can come too, and then when the people under him hear where he is, they think that they can also go to the ballet. Then I feel that I shouldn’t go to the ballet in order to prevent everyone else from thinking they can go too. For that reason I find it difficult to play like the children with toy soldiers.</p>
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<p>You must bear in mind that there are graduates and undergraduates. My children go to school, so if they ask to accompany me everywhere I go should I say yes? I tell them they must go to school. There will come a time when I must go to other countries to meet national leaders, but can everyone come with me? Will I go in a small airplane? The American President travels in a big jet, so shouldn’t I go in a bigger jet? No one criticizes the President, but if I fly in my own plane, people will complain that I am a dictator and wonder where I got the money. You think like that, don’t you?</p>
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<p>People compare how I live with how you live, and sometimes you too might wonder why I live in a big house. It is a mansion only because it has many rooms, but I need many rooms because I have eleven children already. Years ago my house was big for a family of four, but since I moved in, four more children have been born. Several years ago the garage burned down, so now we are building a new one. Initially the city denied us a building permit, but when we asked them to review the case they asked how many people and how many rooms there are at East Garden. Later they said they could understand how I needed more room! Finally they gave us the permit.</p>
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<p>Many people who don’t know the facts can’t understand why we are erecting another building. People may criticize, but what about you? You want me to live in the biggest house on earth, don’t you? But the world would hate me for that.</p>
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<p>People think we are crazy, but a psychiatrist who interviews a Moonie soon finds he will be brainwashed by the Moonie! The top student at Harvard Divinity School is a Moonie. The other students have fuzzy thinking, but the Moonie students have sharp straightforward thinking and the professors can’t understand why. The patriots who care most about this country, even at the risk of having a bad reputation, are the Moonies. If the President recommends that the draft be started, the communists stage demonstrations against it, but the people who stand up against the anti-draft movements are the Moonies. Whether in the home, the community or the country, the Moonies are there. When no one has a solution, a Moonie is there to suggest a solution. Then people debate whether Moonies are good or bad.</p>
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<p>Some people are beginning to realize that they would like to see more Moonies around. I don’t say this to brag, but this is exactly what is happening in Korea. Even the Korean political community is paying attention and studying what the Moonies are doing and why. They say that they know Reverend Moon is a patriot, and can’t understand why people speak badly of him. The same thing is happening in Japan. Soon it will happen in America.</p>
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<p>If Unification Church didn’t exist in America, would you have any better alternative to offer America? You know that I love America and the world, but in the beginning I had to renounce the world and only later embrace it. If I went to the middle of the desert, many people would give up living in green fields to join me there, or even to live with me on the sea. Why would you miss me so much?</p>
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<p>From all this evidence we can conclude that there is a good possibility the Unification Church will become the central religion. People think that the Unification Church is dynamic because I am a superman, but that after I go to spirit world the Unification Church will become soft. How can you say that won’t happen? The real reason is that God will continue to support Unification Church. Not only will God lead us spiritually, but we have the truth and highest thought as the foundation of the Unification Church. Whoever is willing to try it out will soon find he is living exactly as I did. If you duplicate elements and circumstances in a laboratory, the end product will always be the same. If the same thought and ideal is followed, many Reverend Moons will be born. Whoever has the same qualities will feel grafted to me, just as you feel grafted to me. Now do you believe or do you know that Unification Church should be the center of all religions?</p>
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<p>In this world where there is no hope, the Unification Church came to exist. Is that good for the world? How much tuition should we charge people to attend this school? A student pays much tuition to attend a famous college and then he has to work hard. How much money and time would you have to devote to attend a school, like Unification Church and learn to perfect yourself? Is this an easier course than Harvard, or more difficult? You are right-it is harder. How ashamed would you feel, standing before all history and God, to think about how difficult this is and wonder when it will end. The tradition at Harvard is to pursue knowledge and reach ever higher standards. If it is the Unification Church tradition to encompass all the thousands of years of God’s dispensation, can you let your mind wander and not do God’s work in a straightforward way? Do you really value this tradition?</p>
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<p>Tradition is not important for our sake, but for our children and grandchildren. It is also very important for society, and for Unification Church members to come. Without that they will have much difficulty We are in the middle of establishing that tradition. I made sure we would do it, so can you say it is hard? If you complain, imagine what kind of enemy you will be to the future! This is a very fortunate place, but if you don’t conduct yourself correctly, it is a very fearful place. Do you believe that? Can you continue establishing the tradition in the years to come?</p>
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<p>The more you know, the more humble you must become. Likewise, if you work hard you should feel you need to do even more. Just like a stalk of wheat bows down as the ripening grains get heavy, walking humbly is the normal thing for man.</p>
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<p>When God looks down at every corner of the earth, will He be interested in and attentive to the Unification Church? What in America would God have utmost interest in? So far you have vaguely known that God was focused right here, but now do you know? If God tells you, through me, to do something but you do not, have you thought that you could be an enemy to other people because of that? You must always realize that God is paying much attention. I am always aware of what the leaders are doing, and how strongly they feel. The world is watching the Unification Church in America. Conscientious and religious people are watching us. How can a person who represents God act in an irresponsible way? No one is always reminding you of the importance of your position, but how can you help thinking about that fact?</p>
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<p>You must think that every problem of the past and present rests on your shoulders, and the future will be determined according to the direction you go. In this sense the world is at our mercy. Have you ever thought that? It’s good to be simple and humble, but it’s also important to realize the real situation. The real situation is that your country will be affected by what you do. Realizing that, you know that your position is not an easy or casual one, but a fearful one. The dispensation and yourself are linked together, just like an arm to a body, and if you do wrong, it affects God’s dispensation. That is why it is fearful.</p>
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<p>Things will be lifted to heaven according to how they develop in this world. Today we see the world has no hope, no foundation or center, no nothing, but now we are going to lift it up. Before we go to spirit world the Unification Church will become that center and original point. Already all religious circles pay much attention to Unification Church, and even non-religious people have hope in Unification Church. Attention is paid around the world to words spoken by the Unification Church. Part of our mission is to organize against the evil power of communism. The communists have no lasting power because they don’t have God.</p>
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<p>What was the center for God when He created the world-the society, family or individual? The individual was the center of the world, and after that the family was to be the center of the world. Are you going to be individualistic and live by yourself, or are you going to live with a spouse? You want to live with a spouse because that’s the way we were created. But it must be a true man and woman whom God will recognize and love. The man and woman God could recognize would have to think the same way as God, having the same purpose and dream. You have to know that you are meant to be matched to each other; first you should become perfect and later be matched.</p>
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<p>You have to know God’s thought and ideal in the deepest part of yourselves. What does Divine Principle teach you that God’s thought is? God’s thought and ideal is to perfect the four position foundation. That four position foundation is not isolated from the world, but will be the center of the world and universe.</p>
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<p>Don’t think of yourself as a member of the Unification Church or a citizen of the United States. All of us are the center of the universe as part of the true four position foundation. Have you ever stopped to think this is not exaggeration, but is the true situation? We know one thing for sure. God is looking at you this way. When God thinks about you and your situation, He thinks of you in this position and about how you will fulfill His ideal. When you are blessed and walk together as man and wife, do you ever think that the whole universe is following your footsteps? You just don’t realize that this is the way it is. How do we know this is true? Because that’s the ideal God has created; that’s the Principle.</p>
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<p>You all want to be the center or owner of the universe, don’t you? Why do you feel that? Because you were given that when you were created. If God had not given that thinking to each man then maybe we would be crazy. But we are not crazy; that’s the way God created man in the beginning. You might wonder, “I could understand if I were the only person thinking like that, but not if everyone is like that.” Would God be happy to see only two magnificent trees in a barren world? No, He would want many different kinds of great trees making one world. Anything less than that is not a perfect world.</p>
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<p>It is a Unification Church assertion that each individual is a truth body of the universe. Every essence of the universe is contained in each individual. One day God will order each individual in a four position foundation to march together in God’s love- left, right, left, right. One day all God’s sons and daughters will march like that in a big group; this is the time God has looked forward to. To restore someone means to bring him back to the original state. He is not restored according to his own law, but according to the very law by which God created in the beginning.</p>
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<p>When I came to America and landed in New York, I felt that God and the universe were right behind me. Other people were bustling about, but God wasn’t noticing them. When I see birds fly, I know that those birds are flying for me and no one else. The mountains and trees exist for me, and for each individual. When I catch a fish from the ocean, I know that out of billions of fish in the sea, this one had to land on my boat. When I go to the mountains, I feel that the mountain has developed for millions of years to reach the point where I will meet with it one day. I like the ocean and mountains and all nature because they are pure.</p>
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<p>I recently spoke to a new pioneer group of members, and everyone felt that I was so natural in being with them. Americans are more natural and casual than Orientals, but I am more relaxed and natural than Americans. Before that experience many of them thought I was more formal. You like me in spite of yourselves because I have that quality and nothing changes me. When you think about me you feel good. I am like a magnet, and the more you are like me, the more magnetic you also become. That’s why you like to be near me. There are some Korean leaders here, and when they are respected by the members and share in my authority, they realize that they are respected because of what I did. How can they be proud? Because they have loved me much. They think as I do and do as I do.</p>
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<p>Each individual is in the process of being recreated. Where do you belong now-to hell or heaven? Actually you belong to neither. You are out of hell, but you have yet to create the heaven in which you can live. If you don’t create it, you will have no place to live. For all of you there is not yet a true God or archangel or all things. You even have to be selfless and have no selves. To be a true man one needs the original of everything-God, angels, world, and true parents. Mankind lost those things, so we need to recreate them. How are we going to recover them? Man lost them by his fall, so it is man who will have to restore them. We are not going to create God because He is already there, but somehow we have to find a way to make connection with Him. If we don’t have an angelic world, we have to create it, but we find it is there. In this we are fortunate. The world of all things was lost to man, but it is still there, so we must make a connection with it. Man must be recreated, but though he is broken, the basic structure is still there.</p>
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<p>What would start the fire which will melt everything into one? Would it be love that originates from you? It will start only with God’s original love. God’s love for us today is not His original love, but a kind of love given temporarily during restoration. True love can only come from the original God, original archangel, original creation and original man. That makes sense. Where does that original love begin? It starts from the original parents. Those original parents, in Unification Church terms, are True Parents. Have you ever stopped to think about the deep meaning of True Parents? Just having the name of True Parents, let alone the real entity, is such a blessing for it has such a strong meaning.</p>
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<p>Because of True Parents, the true family, true tribe, true nation and true world can come. Because of True Parents, all other true things will begin and can be connected. This is why they are so important. As Unification Church members, you have learned this, but have you ever deeply felt that realization about True Parents? Just knowing that you should love True Parents is not enough; you have to understand how bleak and painful the day was for mankind when the True Parents were lost. Only in that way can you understand the true joy of finding them again.</p>
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<p>We must know how difficult and long a course it was for mankind to find the True Parents again. First you must know how sad mankind was in the beginning to lose the love of True Parents, then you have to know how difficult it was to find the True Parents again, and thirdly, know how joyful it is to find them again. God tries to forget the painful past, and I will try to forget it; from now on we have to help the rest of mankind find True Parents, and then there can be a joyous, ideal world for everyone. God, True Parents, and all of you are going in that direction. All religions are going toward that day of joy when there is no more sorrow. That day is here.</p>
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<p>Love starts from parents, and the angelic world and all things all come under their love. We already have God, the angelic world, man and all things, but to restore all of that we have to go through the peak of difficulty. People oppose us when we witness to them, but we have to overcome opposition instead of being overwhelmed by it. Going beyond difficulty, we have to gain material. The angelic world will rebel against us, but we have to love them and bring them back. Even if God doesn’t recognize us, we have to do our best until He does. All things will say, “No matter how much you do for me, I won’t listen to you. But if you bring me the true love of God then I will come.” That’s the original Principle of creation.</p>
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<p>You should not fund raise blindly, but know your reason for it, and have a light heart, realizing that you are bringing the result back to God. When God created, He gave much love and devotion, and when we recreate and bring material back to God, we also must have that kind of feeling. Go out with the heart that you are doing it on behalf of mankind and all things.</p>
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<p>Since God created all things with the assistance of the angelic world, restoration of the physical world is done with the help of the spirit world, or angelic world. When these three are united together then the recreation of man will begin. We do these activities over and over again to condition ourselves so that in God’s eyes it will make a condition, as well as making ourselves accustomed to it. Fund raising is not merely making money; in raising funds we experience these feelings and recreate ourselves.</p>
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<p>You have to realize that no matter how many millions of dollars you have in your pockets, they do not belong to you. First you must return the money to God and then let Him give it to you. Then it is yours. But until He gives it to you it is not yours. We even dig into our own pockets to give everything we own back to God, wanting nothing in return. That is the position of returning to God and being restored. When we recreate something we have to have things to recreate it with. We could not recreate people if we were empty handed, even if we wanted to. First we need all things. Without enough foundation of restoring material, no one can remake God’s man. This is the meaning of fund raising. It is not that we need a certain amount of the world’s wealth; what we make is used as a condition in dedicating man to God’s side.</p>
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<p>Even a rich man will have to do fund raising in the future. Even though he can dedicate all his wealth to God, he still has to make some connection with the world by bringing material from the world and dedicating it to God. Then he can recreate himself and is ready to recreate man.</p>
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<p>We know that the man to be created will rebel and not listen nicely. But when we can overcome that person’s reaction, we will experience God’s love and reach the position of original man. The person who witnesses to the people should feel that people oppose him because he is lacking something. Like a rough stone being smoothed, when you persevere and continue, God will take it as a condition for you to be restored. In the world you can advance by taking material to important people to win or influence them, but in Unification Church it doesn’t work that way. We live by the Principle, which everyone can understand at the same time.</p>
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<p>Have all of you experienced fund raising? After fund raising you must be successful in witnessing and overcome all opposition. Then you will overcome your impure qualities, and can perhaps enter heaven. If you don’t do that, you cannot enter heaven, even though you have received the blessing. The gate will be open but you cannot enter.</p>
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<p>If you have not even made your own foundation then it is a pity if you have a family and children. You still have to redo your environment and comply with the Principle-there is no compromise in Principle. It is pitiful if you have lots of children, yet are not ready yourself. If God could help you in this situation, He would not have waited thousands of years for restoration, but you have to do this yourself. You know these things only since learning Principle. Once you take off the glasses of Principle you are confused about which way to go. This is why 1 want you to wear the glasses now; just like someone wearing glasses for the first time, you may feel it is inconvenient, but I insist that you keep them on. If you wear them long enough then everything will become clear. Then you can see God and everything</p>
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<p>He did in the past. isn’t that true? A person who doesn’t wear these glasses has to tag along with other people, like a blind man. Don’t depend on someone else to guide you; do it yourself. With those glasses you can see God and Satan and tell whether you are going the right way. Would you want better glasses than anyone else? Would you choose wooden frames, plastic or gold, or diamond frames? I will follow the person who has diamond frames, and even God will follow him. The person with wooden frames can’t see so well.</p>
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<p>The people I pushed into suffering in the past now have gold frames, but they didn’t appreciate them. Now they come and say they regret not having suffered more. Whoever studies the most will have a better academic record, and in the school of restoration the person who suffers the most is likely to get the best record. What will be your standard when you go to heaven? The person who has suffered in many parts of the world will have more to talk about in heaven and be the most exciting person. If you are skeptical about this then you might as well stop following me. If that is not true then God does not exist as you have been taught.</p>
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<p>No one knows the history of restoration better than God because He has worked through every bit of it. The first one to be persecuted and to suffer was God. We want to take after God’s heart, but how do we find it? By doing the same things God did in the past. That is how we develop God’s heart. Without that heart how could we sit near God in heaven? How could anyone who has not suffered share in the conversation or the life in heaven?</p>
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<p>I will gather all the contents of what we have done around the world and we will take off like a missile to the universe. God wants us to escape earth’s gravity, and this will happen inevitably through dispensational history. All our work is contributing toward that goal. The altar for that offering is home church. How can the person who never did home church be considered to be a serious student? Home church is the arena in which we will go through all things God has done and said and through which He wants us to inherit His broken heart. In that way you can inherit the true individual, true family, true tribe, true nation, and True Parents. Can you say you don’t want to do that?</p>
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<p>You have to be able to leave your hard work in home church to your own sons and daughters. If you don’t have that, what are you going to show them? By going through this you will qualify and become a rocket yourselves. Without doing that there will be no happiness for you.</p>
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<p>All the world watched as Armstrong landed on the moon in 1969. People were excited at a mere moon landing, but now we are realizing the meaning of the fall and the recreation of the new world, and we are about to take off to land on God’s heart. When I am the pilot on that flight, all the spirit world will follow my progress. When God is receiving such a long awaited guest, will He keep him waiting, or tell him not to come? Imagine that one moment, when God will be ecstatic hundreds of times over.</p>
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<p>True Parents is not a title given only to Mother and myself. You all will have to inherit that lineage because you will have children. My power lies in my authority to bequeath this to thousands of families. Will you engaged couples be worthy of that title? Are you confident of becoming worthy? It’s not a simple thing. You have to build a foundation, which you don’t have yet. It took me almost all my life to build my foundation, but now you are about to create it.</p>
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<p>After Apollo 11 takes off, another rocket has to be made for the next launch because the first one won’t come back. But the second time it is much easier. You have to think that instead of sacrificing yourself for God and mankind, God, True Parents, mankind, and all things are tools for you to perfect yourself. In this way, whenever we look around, everything is a source of thankfulness. You are grateful that True Parents exist, for without them you would have no base. Everything exists for you, so if you didn’t exist, what good would the world be? If you can feel that way, you won’t get tired.</p>
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<p>Those who are matched, raise your hands. Think that with your own hands you will make your foundation as an individual, and then when the blessing day comes you can really cherish your own spouse. During that time you will make yourself a perfect man with the love of God, and then as a real man you can really embrace and squeeze your fiancé. If you are saturated with love and power, your spouse will be also. When both of you generate billions of volts, the spark between you will be so tremendous that the entire world will wake up. You will soon encounter that great historical event, so you should prepare for that day. When that happens then God’s dispensation will come to a successful end, and your work and career will have a successful end.</p>
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<p>After that time you will not be hampered by borders between nations. You will go anywhere you choose, to any community and any country. In that kind of world, flowers will bloom all the time, and the singing and dancing will never stop. I like that kind of atmosphere! How about you? “Yes” sounds like Ye-su, the pronunciation of Jesus in Korean. You will become like him in your work.</p>
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<p>These are the goals and steps you will go through. You are not doing this part-time or for a short time. If this were a business, would it be worth investing everything you have, including all your money and love and self? Are you going to go there slowly, or with real zeal? Actually it’s all up to your mind. If you are really confident to move fast, then you will go quickly. I cannot imagine that we have time to play or wander around. When you do one year of good work here, it is the equivalent of 1,000 average years.</p>
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<p>You all know that spirit world exists. When you die, can you say you won’t go there? In spirit world there are countries where God lives and countries where Satan lives. Where will you go? In a heavenly country there are three levels-the stage nearest to God, a middle level, and then the lowest heaven. Which heaven would you want to be in? The person who had the hardest life will go to the lowest heaven, won’t he? Of course he will go to the highest heaven. If I am a loving leader will I keep the highest heaven a secret so only I can go there, and then tell you to take it easy? Or will I tell you to do your best and then ignore you? No, I will tie dynamite to your back and light it so that you will run hard! The rest of the world will say what a cruel man I am when they see the dynamite. Everyone will wonder what is happening, but you won’t care what they say. When you finally run over the hill then the people of the world will forget what they said.</p>
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<p>Would the leader who ties the dynamite on you be a good leader or a bad one? Why would I come all the way to America and send so many Koreans here and make you suffer? You have seen me every Sunday, so you know the conclusion of each sermon – “Oh, Father is going to make me suffer again.” But now at least you know why. I know that in spirit world the question will be asked-who brought more people to heaven? I would like it said that Reverend Moon is the one who brought the most people to the highest heaven.</p>
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<p>The heaven in spirit world has to draw love from me and come under my influence. I know that at that time all thanks will be given to me and the people I pushed will be grateful, knowing that they never would have made it otherwise. Now you just think I am cruel and you complain. The most valuable gift in all history is not just words and thought, such as Jesus gave, but an actual physical foundation, such as I give you. This is the best possible gift any human being can imagine on earth. If I were to buy you a diamond ring, which I will do some day, you will be proud of it. If you know the value of a diamond, why don’t you know the value of what 1 give you now-home church? It is more valuable than the biggest possible diamond. I couldn’t give it to you if I myself did not have the necessary foundation.</p>
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<p>Have you ever thought that home church was more valuable than a diamond ring? So far some of you have paid little attention. In the dispensation of salvation God has worked to recreate mankind, and now we are doing the same thing. Where are we going to do it? Home church has a direct connection with the four position foundation. The home is the foundation where the four position foundation is increased. Now the four position foundation is everywhere here on earth, but with Satan at the center. We are going to change it into God’s four position foundation.</p>
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<p>Where would you engaged couples go to have your children? Where would you go to dance on a happy day in the future? Wouldn’t you be happier returning to the home of your own parents? If you wear the glasses of Principle then you know you should go to your own home church to celebrate. You cannot be proud of your family all alone, but only in your home church area. After that what would you become in your home church? Not only the true parents of the home church area, but true parents for your own clan.</p>
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<p>When you have your own clan, what will you teach them? You must have material and tradition to teach them. That is what you will set in your home church. You will make a textbook or manual of love for your clan in home church. Even though you leave this earth for spirit world, you will have written down everything you did. Some crystals are big and others small, but they are the same in structure and clarity- everything except size. This is the relationship between your family and my family.</p>
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<p>This is the first Sunday in April, and it is almost like the first day of spring. Spring is the time when everything lives again. Like the spring season in nature, I want you to have life welling up in you again. I want you to start a new life from now on. You may have an old idea of home church, but throw it away like winter clothing and have a bright, new home church idea, knowing the relationship of yourself, God and the dispensation. From now, march on. Amen. Amen. Amen.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">February 21, 1980<br />
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<p>Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for your deep congratulations. I owe you an apology. I myself limited the attendance at this meeting, and many could not come from around the nation and the world. We are in a war centered upon God, and I want to wait and have a great celebration after the victory is won over Satan and atheistic communism. Because we are still in the middle of that war I didn’t want to make this a spectacular occasion. I want to thank those people who could not come from this nation and around the world for their love and prayers.</p>
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<p>People normally want to be proud if they have something special that others do not have. If a person has only one thing but then acquires another thing, his pride gets bigger, and if he adds one more then he is even more proud. Does the same principle apply to getting older and acquiring more years? People under twenty years old don’t care about age and are eager to get older, but when you are advanced in years and know more of life then you know that each year brings you closer to something!</p>
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<p>In Oriental philosophy the sixtieth birthday completes one cycle in a person’s life, so it has a special meaning. This is the biggest birthday celebration according to Korean custom. When I was a young boy there was always a great celebration for grandfathers, with singing groups and dancers. I enjoyed the performance, but at the same time I pitied the man who was honored by the celebration; he was very old and it wouldn’t be long before he finished his life. At that time I felt I would never reach sixty, but that memory seems like just yesterday, and today I am here being congratulated on my sixtieth birthday!</p>
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<p>I am also concerned that since I am getting older you Unification Church members won’t pay any more attention to me. That’s true! I think so. There are many people who see only that I am a very controversial figure, and they are glad to hear I have reached sixty, thinking that it will be only a few more years before I am not around to trouble them any more. There are many people who follow very complex thinking. On the other hand, you people don’t care what they think and just give your single-minded devotion to following me. You wonder if there isn’t any way I could age in reverse, and next year we could celebrate my 59th birthday.</p>
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<p>Let’s not worry about what other people think, or even what you think, but about what God thinks. Would God think that I have been on earth for sixty years and have suffered tremendous tribulation, and then want to bring me to spirit world out of compassion for me? Or would He feel that He knows how capable I am so He wants me to stay and clean up the world a little more before He brings me to spirit world? Parental heart is always concerned whether children suffer too much, so maybe in God’s heart He wants to have me come to spirit world. Do you think so? But I know that you want me to be with you for a long time to come because if I am around then the hardest battle is fun and victory is sweet. Does that mean you want me to stay and continue to suffer?</p>
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<p>Now let’s consider how Mother and my children feel. I’m sure the closest members of my family would want me to relax finally and be a little more comfortable and happy in the years to come, and maybe have more time to spend with them. Now God is very confused about what He should do about me!</p>
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<p>Do you want to hear what I think? For purely personal reasons I would not want to prolong my life on earth too much longer, simply because I know the spirit world so well. The reality in spirit world is so good that for myself, prolonging life on earth has no special meaning. But I am very aware that we have begun the divine task and it is not yet complete.</p>
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<p>The democratic world has no direction and we must guide it. No one knows what will be the end result of the powerful, enormous communist world. But I am sure that no one here on earth knows the heart and will of God better than I do. Sometimes I think I would have been a happier person if I had not known this truth and the will of God so clearly. Furthermore, when we talk about the destiny of the world we are not talking about one hundred or one thousand years in the future, but about today, this year and next year. The world situation is deteriorating so rapidly that sometimes I am very fearful about how we can catch up with the situation.</p>
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<p>Then what about us as Unification Church members-where should we be? You are the champions who are fighting every day, and sometimes you get discouraged. I know that if I were not here on earth with you that your fight would be much more difficult. Even though I am an old man, the fact that I am with you is a source of power and inspiration that energizes you and helps you keep going. You need my guidance and direction.</p>
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<p>When I was a young man I was pushing you hard and working hard with you, but now that I am an old man and still am pushing you, it might not look too good. Do you mind? But I know it is a necessity. The world needs a push because time is against us. It is quite true that when you get old your health declines and you feel less energy than in your younger years. But at the same time the mission is greater and requires more attention. The situation is imbalance, with the mission getting bigger and yet my age getting heavier.</p>
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<p>I have been a front line soldier all this time and I will remain so. Will you be a burden to me and drag me back, or will you push from behind? Do you want to push me by yourself, or bring a nation and your race and mankind to push me? Would you want to mobilize even spirit world? Would they be on my side? Are they pushing me? Who is the head man in spirit world? Would you want spirit world to be pushing on the front line, or would you rather be on the front line and have them push you from behind?</p>
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<p>Spirit world is different in one respect. They are not limited by time and space. They can continue 24 hours a day, and that is their advantage over us. Do you think spirit men need time to go to bed? Is that good or not? When you are really involved in some game or activity, you forget about eating or sleeping. If you are intoxicated in your mission to that degree then working 24 hours a day might not be a burden. But how serious and intoxicated are you with your mission? Have you felt that the mission God gave you is so exciting and wonderful that you forget about eating and sleeping?</p>
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<p>Are the witnessers and fund raisers really caught up in their missions? Are you knocking on the doors of home church with that passion? If not then you are defeated; you are not confident and sure of yourself. Today is a happy day for me, so you thought I wouldn’t scold you, but then all of a sudden-boom! But I want you to become people who are proud in your missions. I am determined to make each of you such a person.</p>
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<p>I know that a shortcut to finishing the mission is to be so busy that you don’t even worry about eating and sleeping. Then you have so much power and energy that you can go on and on. Will you be upset if I crank you up with a winch when you are tired? Would you be willing to let me use such a machine on you? If so then I thank you very much. Do you promise?</p>
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<p>Right now the beautiful ceiling is complaining that I haven’t mentioned how lovely it has become for this day. The beautiful ceiling and moldings have the same birthday I do because they are born today and they want some attention from us. I can hear them calling to me. Why don’t you say, “Happy Birthday, ceiling”? You know what this ballroom looked like before restoration. It has been completely revolutionized and I designed it. I know you don’t realize it but this place is sanctified and consecrated by this day. This is the only place I have designed. It doesn’t matter how big or how old this building is; the people of the world in years ahead will come to see it and remember what I did here.</p>
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<p>People will come in the future to celebrate this day long after Mother and I are gone, but today you are celebrating with me. Would you like to celebrate in a more exciting way than people who will come here in the future? Look at everything here and appreciate it with your eyes. Open your mouth and your eyes and shout out.</p>
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<p>You don’t need any more serious talk, do you? You want me to talk even more! You said you want to celebrate my birthday but instead you want me to work some more. How unfair you are! You have seen me and heard me, so that is enough, isn’t it? Who will decide, you or me? I don’t want to speak. I am getting old!</p>
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<p>Do you feel a little relaxed and warm and happy inside? Is there anyone here meeting me for the first time? Seated here in front are the missionaries who are returning now after five years overseas to report to me. Part of this group are native members who are meeting me for the first time. When you see me for the first time you probably think I am an ugly man. New members sometimes think I am a superman who doesn’t need to use stairs to go to the second floor, or even use a fork and knife to eat. Also they think I never need to go to the bathroom.</p>
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<p>Sometimes people have a mistaken idea about what it means to be holy. It is not necessarily a super thing but a natural thing. A singing bird is a genuine thing, and a blooming flower and growing grass-the creation that God made is always holy. When a person becomes a natural being the way God created him to be, he is holy. Then blinking your eyes and smiling and moving your arms and legs is holy.</p>
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<p>I have the same emotions you do. I can feel joy and sorrow and anguish, with the difference that the depth of my feeling is far greater than average. Sometimes people portray me as being cruel because I am iron-willed, but sometimes I am warm-hearted and even fragile because I have both aspects. The significant thing is that I live in rhythm with God and with nature, the way God intended man to be. I could talk in great depth about this area, but I am sure you hear something about this in Divine Principle lectures.</p>
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<p>Instead of my selecting a topic for today, I want you to select the topic. I will obey your direction. The topics you mentioned are all there. What is something you don’t have? We have some money and we have people, don’t we? What don’t we have? What doesn’t God have? One thing He doesn’t have is a nation of His own sovereignty. So what should we do? I would like the topic to be Fatherland or Motherland of God, or Ideal Nation of God.</p>
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<p>What citizenship do you have? Many of you are Americans, so for you America is your fatherland What is my fatherland? Of course, it is Korea. Mr. Kuboki’s fatherland is Japan. Dennis Orme’s fatherland is Great Britain. Paul Werner’s fatherland is Germany. I’m sure people sitting here in front will have many different countries as their fatherlands. But what is God’s fatherland? It doesn’t exist. God hasn’t found His nation on earth. All the fatherlands which people claim have no connection with God. All the characteristics of the different nations resulted from division in the world, usually coming out of war and struggle. That’s the way new nations are born. There are many boundaries on earth, all of which are stained by the blood of soldiers killed in hostilities.</p>
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<p>The highest wall built to prevent invasion is the one you build between you and your neighbor. As technology advances we can travel to the other side of the world in a short time, but because ancient nations didn’t have that mobility they struggled with neighboring nations.</p>
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<p>The rise and fall of nations in history often occurs through war and struggle. National boundaries have always been stained by the blood of their people. For all the hundreds of nations on earth there have been thousands of struggles throughout history, resulting in many divisions of sovereignty. That happened because of the fall of man and man’s separation from God. What do we mean when we say the fall of man? It means that man and God became enemies instead of being one, that there has been struggle instead of harmony and peace between men and God.</p>
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<p>The primary question facing mankind is that of peace. But in light of the background of history, can we really attain lasting peace? When the cause is wrong’ the result is always wrong. The result cannot be changed without changing the cause. Human history so far has been sown in blood and war, so we can only reap such a result. Therefore, to obtain a new result in history we have to begin with a new cause, with a fertile land to receive the seeds of peace.</p>
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<p>Today the world is filled with more hatred than love between neighbors. There is division between individuals, between tribes and nations. Unless we can start with a new beginning, a new world cannot come about. Human history started from lies, so we have to restart human history from truth. Unless a new movement develops which can sow true peace, there will be no lasting peace.</p>
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<p>If there is an Almighty God, would He be content to put up with today’s reality, or would He do something to change the world back into its original shape? If there is someone here on earth commissioned by God to take over His mission and cause, what would that man or group claim? He would proclaim that the world’s present course is in error, insisting that mankind must turn around. He must tell mankind that their direction must be entirely changed.</p>
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<p>What would be the slogan of that man? If you are clever you should be able to figure it out. If the world began in hatred and lies, then a course which is 180 degrees different would be one of absolute love, love so great that you love even your own enemy. To me that is a powerful slogan which can change the course of history. Can you find anything more powerful than this? Some might think that it is an easy answer; once you know then it seems to be an easy answer, but when you don’t know what it is it seems very difficult to find. All the saints of history have searched for this answer and never found it.</p>
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<p>If you have such great love that you can love even your enemy, that power will melt everything. God needs a movement that can melt the wrong world down and change it into the right one. The entire world of religion is pursuing this one slogan, though in varying degrees. Which of all the saints do you think God would love the most? The answer is simple because there is someone who proclaimed this slogan. Jesus Christ stands like a giant because this is what he said.</p>
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<p>When Jesus was on earth there was a great wall of hatred between the great Roman Empire and the little nation of Israel because one was conqueror and the other the conquered. Jesus knew that the only way to conquer Rome was through love. Rome conquered Israel with military power, but Israel could conquer Rome through love. Even though Jesus was crucified, he could still pray for God to forgive the very people who killed him. No power could be any greater. Love can overcome any walls, no matter how high and thick. Jesus knew that individuals have enemies, families have enemies, and tribes and nations have enemies. Hatred and animosity always cause killing on each level, and only one strategy can break down this wall-love your enemy.</p>
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<p>The fallen world always responds to animosity by seeking revenge. If God and Jesus had used the method of revenge to build the Kingdom of Heaven, however, then there would not be one human being left here on earth because God would have extinguished them all in retribution. A great movement of restoration only comes from this ideology of love. Only the power of love could begin the new history and new age. When a person has the power to love even his enemies, he is truly a giant and there is nothing he cannot deal with or embrace. Ultimately that person shall conquer the world in God’s way. Christianity has always possessed that ideology, and God sees that as long as Christians pursue that doctrine then they shall conquer.</p>
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<p>When you plant bean seeds, beans will grow. When you plant carnations, carnations will grow. No one can deny this principle. If you sow hatred, hatred will result. When you sow love, then the fruit of love will indeed come. The important thing is the size of that love. There is small love, and there is giant, universal love. Christianity has been failing to live up to this principle and failing to love its enemies. This has been its major difficulty.</p>
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<p>Christians preach about loving one’s enemies but Jesus also said to love your neighbor. Who is a Christian’s neighbor? Certainly it is another Christian. But are they doing it? Do Catholics love Mormons? Do Jehovah’s Witnesses love Methodists? It doesn’t matter who calls us heretics; whoever practices this principle of loving one’s enemy is closer to God and is the orthodox Christian. That is my belief. Love can unite. If Christians practice love then we can unite with Christians and then Christians can unite all the religions of the world. But until we achieve this goal we cannot go on to the next.</p>
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<p>Aren’t we heretics? Why not? How do you know? If you tell the Christians of the world what Unification Church is about, they will say you are a heretic. The important thing is to inherit the true tradition and spirit of Christianity, however, and as long as we inherit the doctrine and practice it, we are the most orthodox.</p>
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<p>Does America have enemies? Who are they? Isn’t the worst enemy Reverend Moon? Many Americans say so. From your parents’ point of view their enemy is Reverend Moon. The media, business world and religious world all think I am their enemy. They say I steal the children of American citizens.</p>
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<p>If this nation had no foundation of law, I’m sure this nation would have done away with me already. Who is Reverend Moon for you? It is a very serious matter. The people who know me say they cannot change their religion, no matter what their parents, or the government or the media say. Even if those people are kicked out by the American Government they would want to continue being Moonies. This is why people say you are crazy! People have no logical explanation for your attitude, so they found a word just for you-they say you are brainwashed.</p>
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<p>Many prayers have reached my ears, prayers by Christians who want God to take me away to spirit world because they cannot stand me. God is listening to what the Moonies are praying and what I am praying. We are asking God to forgive America and awaken this nation and let us bear the cross as a sacrifice. God is looking at these two groups-the group which wants me taken away, which is rich and powerful, and the other group, which is humbly dressed and eats only two meals a day. Moonies look like miserable people. Do you think God will decide He wants to be on the winning side and put the Moonies away? You say no only because you are Moonies, don’t you?</p>
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<p>I have had the opportunity to peek into the Book of Life in God’s mansion in spirit world. I saw that the people who were oppressed and persecuted and martyred all have their names in that Book. They looked like they were defeated in their life on earth, but the millionaires and famous preachers and politicians aren’t there. Sometimes people say, “Reverend Moon, you are a millionaire. Why don’t you give all your money to the poor?” Of course, I am willing to give money to the poor, even the last cent I have, and then I am entitled to receive money because I practice the principle of loving my enemy. I have been giving out not only money, but my blood and sweat and heart as well. Such people are entitled to receive money because they use it in the right way.</p>
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<p>Sometimes I ask God for money, telling Him I need resources to do His work. There are billions of dollars in the world, so I tell God that He knows how I will use it. God blesses us many, many times, yet I am still penniless. Anyone who can love their enemy- whether individual, race or nation-will inherit from God any resources he needs. That is the kind of nation God has been waiting for. Once that nation appears on earth, it will become the center of God’s dispensation and through it He will fulfill all the promises of the Scriptures.</p>
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<p>I know that with the power of God nothing is impossible. Therefore, immediately after the Washington Monument Rally in 1976 I declared that the next rally would be in Moscow. Moscow is a very prophetic name. In English it sounds like “must go,” so Moscow means “must go.” Some nation and some people must go to Moscow. Do you want to go?</p>
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<p>The true dispensation cannot appear on earth unless an individual, family, tribe and nation can practice the principle of loving their enemy. Until such a nation appears, you cannot talk about the Kingdom of God on earth.</p>
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<p>I do not regret that the State Department, Congress and entire American Government have been very hostile to me. Because of that I have much more to show God as my achievement once it is all over. If everything had been rosy and peaceful then I would not have had an opportunity to prove who I am through dramatic achievement. I have never once spoken against or cursed anyone who opposed me, because when a great enemy attacks me God will send a great friend. When more people came against me in the Government, more people stood up to protect me. God is fair.</p>
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<p>Wherever there is a high pressure area in the atmosphere, a low pressure area is created. When a great negative force appears in America, some positive force appears around me. I have learned that persecution can be very sweet if you persevere with the right frame of mind. That way I can win more friends and comrades in arms without fighting.</p>
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<p>In home church work you go voluntarily to serve the people, but when you arrive and they find out you are a Moonie, they push you away from their door, and even beat you up. I know this is your story. When you are treated that way, some of the neighbors will support that hostile person because they don’t like Moonies either; but then others will be outraged and ask how these people could treat any human being that way. When you show up again the next day and the hostile people confront you, the other neighbors will come out to defend you. When you keep coming back with a peaceful face, these neighbors will say that you seem even better than Jesus because the Bible records that Jesus got mad on occasion, while you never get angry.</p>
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<p>The people who see you are mistreated will be anxious to know something about you. First they may think you are dumb and foolish, but they will see that though you are not elegant you are clean-cut and neatly dressed and you talk intelligently. When they learn that you have a college degree they will be astonished and want to know why you are doing this, and then you can tell them that it is because we believe in an ideology of loving people, that we have a dream to build God’s fatherland in this nation. If they ask why God needs a fatherland when He is already omnipotent, you can invite them to hear a lecture. Can you teach Divine Principle? I am telling you that absolute rejection will bring absolute friends.</p>
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<p>The more dramatic the persecution you receive in your home church area, the better it is. If you are kicked and knocked unconscious, people may think you are dead and the headlines will proclaim that the Moonie was kicked to death. Then when you revive later the headlines will announce that you resurrected! If this happens two or three times then you will easily restore the whole area in the meantime.</p>
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<p>On the outside I seem to be mean and ugly instead of handsome and nice, right? The entire world may say I am mean and ugly, but God will be the one person who will definitely veto that statement. Because the power of God is absolute, there is nothing to fear even when the American Government comes against us. I speak out strongly and without fear when the President does something wrong. God is stronger than any President. I don’t care what the people say; I only care what God says. As long as God thinks I am His champion then I don’t care what the world says.</p>
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<p>If I were a solitary individual then it wouldn’t matter how much I was intoxicated by this doctrine. But the problem the world faces is that there are more and more Reverend Moons coming forward every day, hundreds, then thousands and millions more. Heavenly families, heavenly tribes and heavenly nations are being formed. That is the world’s problem. In the Unification Church incredibly dramatic things can happen, with one extreme uniting with another extreme to create beautiful families. The couples I create will march forward as flagbearers who can love their enemies. Together they will become princes and princesses of God. This is the exciting life we live.</p>
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<p>No trivial barriers such as race or culture and language matter to us. We transcend them all with the love of God. A great blessing took place in 1978 in Great Britain, and in most cases the couples came from countries that historically had been enemies. In some cases they couldn’t even talk each other’s language, so they created their own eye and sign language. It is dramatic to touch your fiancé’s hands when you can’t say anything. Then a kiss is really sweet.</p>
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<p>There is no barrier we cannot overcome with the power of love. Some people might say they like everything about the Unification Church except MFT duty. Today you have the solution-if fund raising is your worst enemy, then do it and love it. Can you do it? Some people might think Unification Church life is exciting except for witnessing and meeting people 24 hours a day. Now today you have the answer: if witnessing is your enemy then love doing it.</p>
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<p>The New York members might have felt that Bo Hi Pak was their enemy when he pushed them every week to do home church. Now they say, “But now a new man has come, Reverend Won Pil Kim; he looks mean and he is old and needs eyeglasses to read with, and he is even worse than the previous one. I can’t stand these Koreans. They smell like kimchi all the time. They are my enemies.” Today you have the answer-if they are your enemies, then love them all and the Kingdom of Heaven shall come from that love. From the moment you can love your enemy, the Kingdom of Heaven shall come.</p>
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<p>My philosophy is very simple. If you have the attitude to love your enemy then you can overcome any situation and there is no obstacle that can block you. In my lifetime of sixty years I have experienced everything. There were many things I didn’t want to tackle, but I did it because I loved my enemy. I did the worst things there were to do-I was a beggar, a laborer, a farmer, dockworker, a miner. I became a fisherman and even the tough professional fishermen gave up trying to beat my record.</p>
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<p>Every day I am living this principle, and when I look I see that there are many people of all colors following behind me. If I push them away and tell them to leave then they go, but then they come in the back door again. The Unification Church principle is rather simple and we live it. Other people trying to find our secret under a microscope won’t find it there, but we live it and are serious about it. Shall I continue? You cold-blooded Moonies, you hate me! You make me work so hard on my birthday!</p>
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<p>My topic today is the Fatherland of God. God needs a nation here on earth. We Moonies don’t have our nation. God wants a nation that will practice this principle of loving one’s enemies.</p>
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<p>Today we are celebrating my 60th birthday. These sixty years have been years of paying incredible indemnity. From this day on the years of my sixties are beginning, initiating the years of completion and the decade of fulfillment and perfection.</p>
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<p>We are multicolored here; this auditorium is a miniature of the heavenly kingdom, with five colors of skin from 127 countries. All we have to do is practice this principle. We are not going to destroy our enemies but will liberate them. We find love by loving them. You will practice this in your home church providence. That is the base of the Kingdom of Heaven. That is where you can learn to bear the burden and taste God’s tears and broken heart.</p>
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<p>You have your own territory, and as we get bigger we can cover all of New York, then America, the entire world, and the entire spirit world. Finally we will cover God with home church. Home church people will tell God to stay in heaven while they do the work, but He will protest that He wants to be with them. God will shout out, “This is my home. This is my tribe and nation. The fulfillment is complete. Let us dance and sing together.”</p>
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<p>The day of victory is coming when God will see His people and nation here on earth. Then He will declare His heavenly constitution. Will it be inferior to a democratic constitution? Truly there shall be a real democracy for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness under God. There will be a right to life. Life is sacred and has the right to exist-that is the basic human right.</p>
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<p>We are engaged in the work of liberating people in every field and arena of life. Therefore, we engage in every walk of life-business, education, the arts. We will liberate people with the true heart of God.</p>
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<p>Eventually I want to see a world without any national boundaries. I am in a position to hate Americans because they have done so much against me, but I do not hate them at all. I have confidence that with our ideology we can break down all the barriers there are. We can do it simply through the restoration of a fatherland for God.</p>
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<p>Where is your enemy? We have no enemies because we return debts of harm with love. We repay with love any damage and persecution that come to us. Your real enemy is anything that your physical body likes. That is the one enemy you must watch out for. Don’t worry about other people and what the papers say. Our real enemy is not communism, but the internal enemies of drug use and tree sex and immorality, plus the infiltration of evil ideologies such as homosexuality.</p>
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<p>Today we are talking about the restoration of God’s fatherland. Let us pledge ourselves to march forward for this fatherland here on earth. Those who pledge to God and True Parents that they will give themselves for the restoration of the heavenly kingdom and fatherland of God here on earth, raise your hands. Amen!</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 27, 1980<br />
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<p>In our world we have many systems and regulations to live by. In the same way there are many limits to cope with, so when you go beyond a certain line you are always in a different environment or atmosphere. We can appreciate that the fallen world has some limitation lines; heaven also has boundaries because it is bordered by hell. Sometimes we have to go beyond those lines, and sometimes stay within them.</p>
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<p>If we are isolated by the enemy in a war zone, we have to think how to break out of enemy lines. In order to survive you have to break through all the obstacles in front of you. A line of limitation is a boundary between two aspects, and to make a breakthrough you have to deal with this boundary.</p>
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<p>Divine Principle is not a random ideology, but is precise enough to guide you in a certain direction, and according to Divine Principle there are certain limitations which we have to be bound by. When man becomes one in mind and body, for instance, then he can make a breakthrough and move over to another area. But if mind and body are going in different directions, it cannot happen. You must have mind and body in unity in order to go beyond individual perfection. The principle that mind and body should be united is already there; it is not created by you. You do not create any new rules. These are given by the Creator of the universe, who has certain immovable principles that guide unity between mind and body. In going the Principle way there are formulas that you are bound by.</p>
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<p>According to Divine Principle, when subject and object are united into one then unity is always formed along a central line. It is not only a line of guidance and direction, but extends to eternity. When two objects or individuals are united, the central line of unity can be extended to eternity.</p>
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<p>We are confined by the fallen world, so in order to get out of that circumstance we have to break through many lines of limitation, step by step, before we are liberated. Those lines of limitation are trying to contain us. In order to break through those lines, two objects have to be united. What is the factor that can unite them? It is a common goal and purpose which brings two together.</p>
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<p>That common goal does not start from the two individuals, but is greater than either of them. The Creator who made both already set up the purpose; that higher purpose which joins the two requires that they be united. Suppose plus and minus are united into one. When they are united they correspond to some higher purpose. When they come closer and closer to unity, their purpose is being elevated and the Creator’s idea is coming down, moving toward the central position. Those four components then meet in a central place.</p>
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<p>This principle applies as well in your work or mission. You have a goal to reach, and while you are working toward it the purpose and high ideal which corresponds to the purpose are being achieved. This is why we say that the presence of God is found wherever subject and object are united into one. Then the two united beings have give and take with God and His presence becomes obvious.</p>
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<p>There is an ancient tradition in the Orient that you use both hands when you give or receive some precious thing from someone. A gift rests on your two palms, which are subject and object, upon which the gift or the purpose is given to a higher personage. Then the joy of God stays with it.</p>
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<p>When two entities are united they don’t usually stand still but make some circular motion. Where will this movement go? How do you know that the movement is upward? When subject and object turn, the object is pulled toward the center. The give and take of centrifugal and centripetal forces will bring an object toward the center. There are two opposing strengths having give and take, and when the central pulling power is strong the object has to be moving around it and coming closer to the center.</p>
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<p>When the pulling strength gets stronger, the object will move toward the center; when the pushing power gets stronger, the center will move outward. Altogether it is a relationship of the two forces that sets the direction. When the subject power is stronger, the object should be pulled into it. God is the center, so do you think He is moved by the pulling strength of any other creature, or does He pull the creatures toward Him?</p>
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<p>In our society we make conscientious effort to be united into one. In school students try to unite with teachers, and at work employees try to unite with employers. Why? Because through unity they want to be closer to the common purpose which comes from the Creator; in other words, they want to be closer to goodness. What is that goodness and who determines it? Goodness always has the quality of making you closer to the Creator and origin of the universe. It enables you to resemble more and be more sensitive to the original quality-that quality is goodness. What kind of quality makes you resemble God? The characteristic of the Creator, the origin of goodness, is a quality of public-mindedness.</p>
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<p>Within yourself you will find two components- subject and object, a personage of mind and a personage of body. These two are always sharing or coexisting within you. Which of these should be subject? You might say that your body is the most visible so it should be subject. No? Then you are saying that the mind should be subject, right?</p>
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<p>Why should the mind be subject? Suppose the mind tells the body to help all the white people around the world, and then to relax and enjoy itself. Once the body finishes, the mind discovers that it is not content and decides to tell the body to help all the other races before it relaxes. You will find that the mind is very greedy. When you help the people of the world you might think the mind would be content, but instead it wants the body to go help the things of the creation next. It slave drives the body. The more you do, the greedier it gets because it can expand without end.</p>
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<p>The mind has no line of limit, but your body always wants to worry first about itself. The body is uninterested in the country or the rest of mankind and only worries about itself. It is always self-centered. Therefore, you find a war going on in yourself, with the mind and body each trying to pull the other in its direction. Sometimes the body rebels and goes its own direction, trying to be happy. Then all of a sudden the mind appears and chastises it. If the body enjoys some carnal desire then afterward it wants to hide from the mind, but it is to no avail.</p>
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<p>If the body is pulled by the mind instead of going in its own direction then it is completely worn out, but the mind will come and praise the body and sleep together in peace with it. The mind is always delighted when the body lives up to the mind’s expectations, even if the body gets totally worn out. Then the mind always gives it comfort and peace. On the other hand, if the body gets very ambitious and succeeds in conquering the world, the mind will always be there to shake its finger and scold the body.</p>
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<p>Suppose the body decides it doesn’t need the mind and wants to cut loose; the body will never succeed. The body can never completely escape the mind. Can the body fully conquer the mind? No, never in a million years. But the mind is always capable of conquering the body completely. Which is the subject then? Is it the being which has the ability to conquer and control, or that which has the ability to be conquered?</p>
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<p>Then why would the mind and body try to unite? When mind and body are united, they make a perfected object which can have give and take with a higher subject. If students try to comply with the wishes of the teacher, the end result will be a good one; the students will be moving up the ladder of accomplishment. It doesn’t matter what area of life this principle is applied to, whether government, business, or education-where the object tries to live up to the wishes of the subject the outcome is always good.</p>
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<p>What would the mind like best? The mind likes good things. What are good things? What is the central purpose of God’s existence? Does He want to fulfill power or knowledge? What is the central essence for which God must exist? What is the central strength for which purpose even God exists and everything can be created? There must be some essence of desire; that is true love.</p>
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<p>If true love pulls the subject then there must be an object for true love. If true love is the subject, then false or illicit love could not be an object because they could not unite. Do we need true love? Why do you want to become closer to God? Because God is the subject of true love; He is the reservoir or source of true love. Everyone is seeking their ultimate resting place of tranquility and peace. God is seeking it; man is seeking it and the creation is seeking it. What should that resting place have? Would you like to live permanently in the place which generates power and electricity?</p>
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<p>A place of trueness has a certain unchanging and unique quality. The way of true love is like a shortcut because it is a straight line. Even electricity always travels through the shortest circuit when it has the option of going along several circuits. Even if the shortcut is tough and rugged, it will always go that way. There must be some circuit of give and take between God and man, and the shortest route is the way of true love. When you say you like true love you are saying you like the way of life or direction of true love. What are you trying to achieve in the end? You are expecting to capture God. Instead of taking God’s position yourself, you want God to take your position. Instead of God possessing you, you want to possess God. That’s the ultimate privilege we men are seeking.</p>
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<p>Why did God make two separate entities which could potentially come into conflict? Why not make one entity? The mind should be able to bring the entire world with it, not just be one with God by itself, because then there would be much more variety for enjoyment. You don’t want to wear the same color all the time; you want variety. In your home you want to have pets, to have a garden. When you were young you had a variety of toys. You may think you need nothing except your loving husband, but when you really want to enrich that love you need a variety of surroundings that create a rich atmosphere for give and take of love.</p>
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<p>When the master gives love, all the creation responds, whether it is animal or plant. Nature also inspires the master; the singing of two birds in love, for instance, gives you an idea for loving your own husband or wife. Nature offers that kind of stimulation. Why do you like to wear ornaments like earrings, and even nose rings? Because you want to relate to nature in some way, and nature wants to be part of you by being worn by you. That’s all part of the world of art.</p>
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<p>Imagine a playground that is absolutely flat, with no other objects there at all. No one would think of it as artistic or functional. Suppose it was completely flat but you put an ugly rock in the center. Now there is something to hold on to. Even the ugly rock will break up the monotony, and make the playground much more attractive. Man is not just a material creature, but an artistic one.</p>
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<p>We are living in a world which imposes all kinds of limits. When you think of all the limits that impose on you, sometimes you feel choked. Young people hate lines of limitation and they rebel against them by living any way they want to. The hippies don’t want to be bothered by anyone else’s standards, yet even with that attitude they still think of love; it may not be true love, but they want love. They think they can have love with anyone they choose. What’s the difference between this love and true love? There is no purposeful direction in that love, so there is no truth there.</p>
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<p>What is the difference between truth and falsehood? Truth has permanent direction and purpose, while false things have no direction or goal except momentary fun or satisfaction. People who pursue false love reject the bonds and commitment of marriage, and feel free to have affairs with married people. Even hippies who disregard regulations cannot disregard love, but their love has no direction. Is such love pulled by the desire of the body or of the mind? This is an irresponsible exploitation of love, turning the supreme thing into the dirtiest thing under the sun. When this misuse of love is rampant, a nation becomes the most immoral in the world.</p>
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<p>We are igniting a revolution in America. We talk about love, but it is love with truth. We want to perfect love with truth and be governed by the mind, which is connected to the ultimate purpose and goal. When you pursue illicit, aimless love, destruction and sadness always result. But when you go in the opposite direction and pursue love governed by the mind, there is harmony, productivity and joy in the end.</p>
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<p>Do you think God, in His perfection, would have created mind and body to be in opposition all the time? Or did He provide some other way? If God could not provide a way for them to be in harmony, He could not really be God. Your two eyes coordinate to produce one image; they focus instead of going in two different directions. If even one side of your nose becomes stuffed up, you suffer. If your two ears can’t coordinate, you suffer. How much more would you suffer over the separation of mind and body? The greatest pain results when mind and body are moving without harmony.</p>
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<p>If a part of one hand is missing, you feel embarrassed and want to hide it. If you feel such shame with a crippled hand, why don’t people feel shame when their mind and body are crippled by separation? If some cripple swaggers about, boasting how great and handsome he is, people look at him as though he were crazy. It is the same with people today; they feel they are wonderful and handsome, but God and spirit world see them as cripples who don’t realize their true situation. They can only pity such people.</p>
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<p>The most important thing is to realize what shape we are in as a result of the fall. Would you blame God for your misfortune? It was not God’s original intention to create cripples, but to have perfect sons and daughters. What brought such great pain and disfigurement to mankind? Love itself. Originally love should have been governed by a God-centered mind, but first mind and body should be united. Because of the work of Satan the mind has been enslaved by the body and love has been abused and distorted.</p>
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<p>The mind should be plus and the body minus, but Satan made the body a plus; in physics two plusses repel each other. The misuse of love caused the mind and body to push themselves miles apart, so what is the cure? Illicit love was the cause, so the cure should be true love, which is completely the opposite. The body should become minus by denying its desires. Denial, therefore, is the beginning point.</p>
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<p>What has been the central teaching of God? It has been the denial of body-centered desire, of self-centeredness. Complete denial brings complete love. A house must be cleaned in order to receive the new master. This is what religion has always taught, emphasizing sacrificial service. Sometimes the body cannot be still or patient, but the mind insists that the body take a beating. In the Unification Church we intensify this process so that we can welcome true love.</p>
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<p>Today two worlds are in conflict, the communist world and the free world, because both want to be subject. The communists say that God does not exist because He cannot be seen, and say that material, or the body, is the only reality. By doing so they are trying to create a permanent base for Satan. But the free world rejects that, saying that God, and thus the mind, is the center of the world. The communists insist that there is only physical love, but the free world proclaims that God-centered, purposeful love is central. Love is one, uniting one man with one woman. That is a basic principle of the universe. The direction of love must be straight, not zigzag. A zigzag is not the shortest route. American society today has become the victim of Satan, so this nation is bound to decline because there is no room for God here.</p>
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<p>Originally the mind was subject, but the problem is that the body wants to be subject as well, not object. We have to push the body back to its object position. There are many layers of obstacles blocking you before you can conquer your body. There are two ways to go about this-go through each layer one by one, or all at one stroke. Jesus taught the method of doing it all at once-nail your body down on the cross. That’s why Jesus taught that the person who wants to gain his life would lose it, but he who would lose his life for Jesus’ sake would gain it.</p>
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<p>Even in spirit world at this time there are many limitations and compartments. What is the method of transcending all these limitations? The only way is to become a center of true love, the personification of true love. Then you will be welcome everywhere in spirit world and on earth.</p>
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<p>Love is governed by the Principle; there is love of brothers and sisters, of friends, of parents, of children, all of which are governed by heavenly principle. But when roles in love are ,mixed up, it is not true love. True love is a ladder by which you can come closer to God, but false, illicit love takes you away from God. Each form of love results in a different movement. When you become men and women of true love, you will be welcomed by the entire universe because you will be a harmonizing factor. This will be true on earth and in spirit world, so everyone will welcome you.</p>
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<p>Wherever true love moves all barriers are shattered and there is no limitation. Within the guidance of your mind, which has no limit, you have absolute freedom. As long as your mind is subject, you can enjoy true freedom. How big is your mind? It is so big that you can embrace God and then go to sleep.</p>
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<p>The religion which teaches true love is the true religion; it will also be a logical religion because it starts with truth. Do you love me? If you say yes then would Mother feel jealous? She won’t be jealous if she has true love. Wherever love goes there is harmony and a certain standard of discipline. There are specific distinctions in love-love of father and daughter, of father and son, of husband and wife, for instance. Here I look at you as sons and daughters, in the straight way.</p>
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<p>I have a special privilege because I am welcome wherever I go. Even the heart of someone who has lived alone all his life is warmed. Even if I don’t give you gifts or money, you feel warm inside when I come. It is because I am bringing you something- true love. Therefore, I live life without limitation. I can go through the boundaries of white people, black people, yellow people, and cultural boundaries make no difference. I bring the same warmth and fullness everywhere. When Satan sees me moving so freely around the world he anxiously looks for a way to lock me up somewhere. Satan puts up walls, but I just move through them.</p>
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<p>You are not bothered by stone walls because with true love you can crawl under or go over, or seep through. Love is so powerful that people will give up their life even for satanic love, but how much more would you do if you had true love? Then no power would block you. True love is like a rubber band that can stretch over miles and miles, no matter how far away you go. There is a lifeline connecting your spirit and body, but it is so elastic that even when your body is asleep your spirit man can travel all over spirit world, many millions of miles away, and it never rips or gets tangled up. Love is that kind of line.</p>
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<p>Young people are very excited about freedom, but what freedom do they want? Do they want money any way they can get it? The freedom I am talking about is freedom to have true love. True love will give you total liberation. With true love alone can you enjoy true freedom. Wherever you go with true love you always have dignity and pride. If you do fund raising with true love there is no greediness; true love always wants to add to your accomplishment, not take away, so what you do shines in an eternal sense.</p>
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<p>When you release an arrow of true love, it will penetrate the entire earth and hit the bull’s eye- which is God’s heart. You don’t even have to aim it. This is not just talk, and when you go to spirit world it will be completely obvious in daily life. True love is omnipotent, regardless of what shape or direction you have. It always goes in the right direction, whether you are walking, jumping or flying.</p>
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<p>If you have only 50 per cent true love then 50 per cent of your limitations are still there. Do you believe this is true, or know it as a fact? When you get straight A’s at Harvard that record remains with you the rest of your life. The same thing can be said in the realm of religion. What kind of teaching are you getting here? This is the university of true love. Harvard is a big name in American colleges, yet there are many ungodly activities there and secular love is rampant. If Harvard represents one extreme, this university of true love represents the other extreme. We are looking at love through a telescope, which means we have a direction and discipline in love. It is so disciplined that men and women even sit separately.</p>
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<p>In the everyday world it is the accepted thing for men and women to have fun together. But in our world even men having fun with men and women with women is not normal! What is our purpose then ? We don’t want to deviate even one iota from true love. For what purpose? Because true love represents total freedom. If you are climbing up on God’s shoulders in true love then He is happy, and even if you kidnap God He will be laughing and happy. That’s the way spirit world works.</p>
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<p>When you get to spirit world with true love, you won’t even have to go to God’s throne-He will bring His throne and entire palace to you. All spirit world will want to bring heaven to you. I have struck the best deal in the cosmos. It is so fantastic that many people think I am crazy. They can’t believe anything that good could be true. True love is the outcome and gain, so I am not satisfied with the idea of just brainwashing-I would want a bodywash, footwash, handwash-total wash. Would there be anyone who wouldn’t want it? The point is that no one can get this true love unless they are correctly guided and go to the right university. People say Moonies are brainwashed, but I say we are true-love-washed. True love is like a fireball, and when you are touched by it then it is no problem for mind and body to become one; true love will melt them into one.</p>
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<p>With this realization, Jesus’ teaching becomes clear; he said you can even love your enemy. With true love there are no enemies. True love is so powerful that it can melt hell into heaven. That is the proclamation and gift we can give to the world. This is a gift that will last forever and never be bound by lines of limitation. We can give it to the world this year, next year, next century and forever thereafter. People oppose the Unification Church only because they do not know what it is. Once they know, there is no way they could oppose it.</p>
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<p>Sometimes our members get agitated and ask God why He leaves our detractors and the deprogrammers alone, complaining that He should strike them down. But that is a bad attitude. These people are only opposing us out of ignorance. It is our privilege to liberate them from ignorance. Unless you have given them the truth. how can you condemn them? Furthermore, we have true love that is good enough to melt their animosity. Even in the secular world you have to examine all the evidence and test the competency of a defendant before he can be sentenced to prison. We cannot just judge people before we make sure they know what we are standing for. We have a responsibility to teach everyone so that they can know.</p>
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<p>Whenever you meet people who oppose you, you should repent, thinking that you are responsible for that because you have not yet given them the truth. When our enemies truly know what we are doing, don’t you think those enemies will repent? I know precisely how we can eliminate the lines of limitation and enjoy true freedom; it will happen through true love.</p>
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<p>Your worst enemy is actually your own body. If you can dominate your own body then unity with the rest of the universe will come easily. My lifetime slogan since I began pioneering this path has been, “Before you long for dominion of the universe, you must have control over yourself.” That is the first battle to be won, and if you fail here then you will get nowhere. When you get control over your own body you are on your way.</p>
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<p>True freedom can only be enjoyed in the Kingdom of Heaven. In today’s crazy world people are running after physical, carnal desires and comforts, but those things don’t give them true comfort and peace because their consciences are always saying, “You are wrong.” Shall we begin this journey? Raise your hands if you can say Yes. God bless you.</p>
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<p>I want you to know that from now on there will be a special system for attendance at Belvedere on Sundays; this will be a place mainly for leaders to come on Sunday morning, who then will tell the rest of the membership what my message was.</p>
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<p>I consider no one my enemy, but many people consider me their enemy to the degree that they want to harm me. They think that if they eliminate me from America or from the world that the Unification Church will come to an end. As long as there is God there will always be a Unification Church and millions of Reverend Moons, but the problem is that those who consider me their enemy don’t think so.</p>
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<p>There are many things going on behind the scenes which you do not need to know. I have become a giant threat to the communist world, so the next five or six years will be critical and those who hate me will do everything they can to kill me. That’s the reason we have to take such precautions as are humanly possible. We have to have a certain organization and discipline to do important things for the sake of posterity.</p>
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<p>I will be traveling a lot and you will not know where I am. You should just go ahead with your mission regardless, knowing that always I will be working harder than you are for the work of God.</p>
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<p>No one is more expert on communism than I am. You are novices and simply have no idea what the communists are like. I even have information from other governments warning that certain precautions are needed. Also spiritually I know there are groups who are trying to curtail our movement. It makes sense that these things are happening because you know what I represent and what we are trying to do.</p>
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<p>The communists are experts on dirty tricks, and you may not even know who the person sitting next to you really is. There was even a bomb discovered in this room. The ignition wires had been lit, but mysteriously went out before the bomb exploded. I am not bothered by these things because my life is in God’s hands. I have lived my life under constant threat, but it still is our duty to take maximum precautions.</p>
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<p>Once the third seven-year course is over I won’t have to risk my life, but until then I have to go on, and no matter what I will always be at the front line. While I am living on earth I must set certain rules and traditions which will guide the Unification Church for thousands of years, and much work remains to be done.</p>
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<p>This does not mean I will not meet you, or that I will avoid the mission, but I will do it according to a certain standard and criterion. Great safety precautions are taken even for one head of state. There is a great deal of potential danger when my family travels, or goes to school. The time has definitely come when we need our own country, where we can have our way of life.</p>
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<p>For the time being I will speak to 70-150 members, mostly leaders who will be coming from all different parts of the world. They will be taking my message to the members. Of course, new members and home church members will always be coming to service at the World Mission Center. It is not for my private reason but for the public purpose and the well-being of our movement that we do this.</p>
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<p>I may not speak every Sunday, even to the leaders. When I pray on Sunday mornings at East Garden I receive direction from God about whether I should speak, so even I will not know until the last minute whether I am coming. I know you will appreciate how precious this concrete floor is. I think you fully understand the reason for this, right?</p>
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<p>Many indications over the past weeks have prompted this action. Sometimes even our members are attacked, so how much more could I be a victim? I want each of you to be ready to defend yourself by learning martial arts. The communists are often brutal and vicious, and they don’t care what method they use as long as they accomplish their end. This is the reason everyone is afraid to deal with them, but I am not afraid. I will confront them face to face. That is how our movement works in Japan, how CARP is working here in America, and that is my policy everywhere.</p>
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<p>Over the last sixty years the communists have thought that their goal of world conquest was becoming a reality. It is their unmistakable goal to conquer the free world, but recently they have seen some rough resistance coming from Reverend Moon. I am the one who educated all South Korea about anticommunism, and put the Japanese communists on the defensive for the first time. Kim 11 Sung is outraged at what I am doing. Ironically it is the communists who know best what I am doing. The charge that I brainwash people originates with the communists because they know how powerful the Divine Principle is. They fabricated many lies about me and fed them to the media, who ate them up. This character assassination is how they want to discredit me.</p>
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<p>Communist infiltration has become complete in the Christian churches. Recently I have received a heartrending letter from some young Korean residents here. One said he was employed by an organization headed by certain prominent people who promised him good pay. It has turned out to be a communist front and they want him to pretend to become a devout Christian, give large donations to his church, and become a leader of the youth groups there. He is asking me to help him get away safely from these people. That is how communists work. There is tremendous infiltration in the State and Defense Departments.</p>
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<p>The attacks against me intensified at the time of the Fraser investigation, and in Fraser’s own words, they tried to crucify me. But they failed. They have tried every possible peaceful means to eliminate me, such as legal action to deport me from America, criminal investigations and IRS investigation, but there is nothing there. I am completely clear, so their last resort will be violence.</p>
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<p>Look at what happened to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. I know very clearly what happened behind the scenes of those assassinations. There are many conspiracies between the CIA, KGB, and the Chinese and North Korean equivalents of the KGB, as well as their powerful underground organizations. I have witnessed first hand the inside of the free world and the communist world. Even Christianity and Judaism are not that friendly to us, but are our formidable enemies. This shows how strong we are. Otherwise they would never waste their time.</p>
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<p>You love me unconditionally, and they hate me unconditionally. I can never be in the middle ground- either I am extremely good or extremely bad. Would you want to protect me more than these enemies of ours are loyal to their own cause?</p>
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<p>I am so well-known that wherever I travel I am recognized. Therefore, the best place for me to stay is East Garden. The Shah of Iran is a very unfortunate man now because in the entire world there is no sanctuary for him. That is my situation too, but I have hope and I know the Kingdom is coming. But while the way is still being fought certain precautions must be taken and I don’t have much freedom of movement.</p>
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<p>The next few years will see a heated showdown and will determine the outcome of the struggle. If I do not see you too frequently, don’t be disappointed, but understand.</p>
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<p>We are all destined to go through a course of life. Let us think for a moment at exactly which point our course of life starts. We can think of this in different ways, but of course in one respect it starts in the mother’s womb. A majority of people contend that life on earth is the entire period life, but actually there is life inside the mother, life on earth, and thirdly, eternal life. Before we are born we have parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on, back to God, who is the original ancestor. Your beginning does not start with your birth, but traces back many, many generations. America is special because it is woven of strands from all over the world, and probably you Americans have parents of lineages which never came together before. Each cell is a continuation of many generations of ancestors from both sides. Many, many elements are inherited by each individual.</p>
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<p>The physical life of each person starts with a tiny cell from both the father and mother, cells which have an abundance of elements. What color would each cell be? If the best color we could imagine would be white, would the cell be all white, or contain many different colors which all together make white? It would be made of all different colors, deriving from the ancestors, and if it were magnified it would look like a composite of all mankind.</p>
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<p>The problem is whether the meeting of these cells is based on the pure love given by God. Instead of traveling an ideal path of growth and love, each parent in history has come through a course of abnormal turbulence. Each individual contains that kind of tangled history.</p>
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<p>The meeting of two extremes such as man and woman can be compared to the Arctic and Antarctic coming together. The earth has magnetic fields which have give and take, and a similar process goes on in man. Each individual has subject and object within himself which have give and take, but the question is whether he is then a great man or an insignificant man. One way of distinguishing a great man from a lesser one is that the great man has experienced many circumstances or situations. The more varied and complicated they are, the greater is that man’s history.</p>
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<p>If there had been no fall, wouldn’t God go to the place where all the descendants of the first ancestors could meet together? How great that occasion would be! Everyone attending that meeting would enjoy the fruit of happiness, an explosion of the ideal, and then all existence would be a spark of the ideal. Would Adam and Eve also be happy, or just indifferent? How about God, the angelic world and all created things? We can say that the moment that Adam and Eve are happy will also be the moment when God and all creation can be happy.</p>
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<p>What is the energy that is generated when subject and object meet? It is energy for the realization of the ideal. Electricity is generated by give and take, of course. Which would be more powerful-electricity, or the power of give and take between Adam and Eve? How can you confidently say that electricity is not stronger? It can be understood by the fact that electricity can only flow through a conductor, but love can go everywhere and through everything. Love gives off sparks whenever it meets something.</p>
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<p>Have you ever thought about what would make God happy? He might enjoy the variety of beautiful scenery from nature, or the wild animals, or the complexity of the microscopic world. Perhaps part of God’s enjoyment comes from the variety He sees, but what if He were to view everything with glasses of love? His creation is already beautiful, but seen with love each entity becomes magnificent. In love even the smallest thing is exciting, but without love nothing is very thrilling. If there is laughter there as well as love, it will be multidimensional laughter.</p>
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<p>When we remove the element of love from all goings on, can we say that anything is ideal? What can we say is happiness and the ideal? The ideal and happiness will fill anything to overflowing that they are put in. Here is one concrete example-if you are hungry and eat enough to be only half full, are you happy? But if you eat to complete fullness then you have no more urge to eat and you feel happy. If you are going to fill something completely, what would you fill it with? If something is completely filled with power, you might be afraid the container would break, so power cannot be the source of happiness. Perhaps the container could be filled with much material, but would it be happy? What would everyone like to be filled with in order to be truly happy? True love. But can true love fill everything?</p>
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<p>Women’s hands are small and beautiful but they can scratch sometimes. Sometimes in a wrong mood their small mouths just won’t budge. Sometimes their eyes are terrible, like the eyes of a snake. Sometimes those pretty ears are plugged up and won’t listen. Even when there is utmost urgency, those feet sometimes won’t budge. Sometimes wealth and power is offered to a woman, and sometimes knowledge, but she is still going here and there, up and down. But if someone could offer to fill her with true love, at that moment she would forget everything and just melt.</p>
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<p>Does a person who is in love stiffen up, or relax? Even the coldest looking person will open up the door of his heart to love. All his actions will be unified and focused by love. How fast could love travel? Love has to be the speediest, greatest thing on earth, and when two loves collide they will explode like an atomic bomb. Will two individuals who are in love remain passive after the explosion? No, they will be totally harmonized. What could bring all people into unified action? Nothing we can find could do this except love.</p>
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<p>Imagine a soft, downy quilt made out of love. It would contain fantastic colors, so would it be a good color or a bad color? The more you imagine it, the more elated you will be. That elation will spread out in all directions, yet in love there is always just one central point. You have seen pictures of veterans returning from Vietnam, and their families are so happy that when they embrace they turn round and round. At that point the central point is not the woman, but the man who has picked her up.</p>
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<p>Love is not a vague area, but has a central focal point which is the ideal. When it is still, then perhaps it reveals many colors, but when it is going around at tremendous speed it is only one color. If something has seven colors but is whirling around, it looks white. The fastest give and take results in whiteness. But white people are not white as a result of give and take! Even though a person’s ancestry may be stained, if he can have give and take in an ideal way it will be beautiful to see, regardless of his ancestry.</p>
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<p>Where do we come from? At what point are we born? Will you be born far away from, or right at the central point? Man is naturally born from that point, whether or not he chooses to be so. You feel good as soon as you realize that, don’t you? You are not born as a bystander or a person of secondary importance, but as the center and master of love. The best of a mother and father’s love is united, and out of that center their children are born. They are the center of both, and are aggregates of their lives.</p>
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<p>Neither your father nor mother is the center, but you are the center of both. Without you, their love would never have come into one. Actually it was for you that all ideal things took place between them, and you are the purpose and center of it. Thus, your parents are firmly attached to you and when you move they have to follow. Because that bond is so strong, you can claim the same rights as your parents. A child can say that no matter how perfect his parents think they are, without him they cannot be happy. When you check closely, he is right. If he is not there then they cannot be as happy.</p>
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<p>The child is the result and the parents the cause, and only when they have harmonious interaction can they feel love. Through the Principle we know that whenever a subject and object exist in give and take some power is inevitably created. Together they form a greater object to the greater subject, which is God. It is only through the child’s becoming one with his parents that together they can be object to the greater subject. Whenever that happens, there is a light glowing throughout the universe.</p>
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<p>This also provides a simple explanation of how a motor turns. There are plus and minus terminals, and once the motor starts turning it goes faster and faster. One aspect will push and the other repel and as the motor goes round and round it gains momentum. When love goes round and round, it is no longer a small power but will fill the universe.</p>
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<p>Were you born as the result of a conflict somewhere? You should be the result of love. Wherever a mother or father are feeding their baby, they kiss him, clean his nose out, and when changing the diaper they don’t even mind if something splashes into their mouth; they just spit it out and remark that it has a taste they never tasted before. There is no way the baby could offend them because at that moment love overwhelms them.</p>
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<p>In looking at their baby, the parents feel again the love they gave. The baby feels that love as well, and holds tightly to them. The parents and baby just want to absorb one another. Breastfeeding actually drains nutrition out of the mother, yet she can give away those precious nutrients and still be happy. The baby is happy too when he sucks the milk.</p>
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<p>When you think that you are the result of this fantastic love, are you happy to be born? There are degrees of love, so how happy are you? Are you crazy happy? Don’t you want to shout, “Look at me and how precious I am”? Aren’t you worthy to be proud? You have many cosmic reasons to be proud because you are the result of love, so you are justified in protesting when anyone belittles you. God will take your side. When you really know that you are the result of love, even God will have to acknowledge it.</p>
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<p>In His laboratory God could not develop anything more fantastic than a person who is the result of love. We can easily conclude that anyone who tries to foster love will be a good person; whoever tries to destroy that love will be the worst evildoer because he destroys not only himself but the universe he represents. Now you know why suicide is such a terrible sin. Have any of you ever had the urge to commit suicide? Now that you know what your value is, could you ever think that way again? In no other church does the congregation get up early on Sunday morning and go out in the cold rain to hear their minister, but it’s worth it coming here on Sunday, isn’t it?</p>
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<p>You are the unified body of your parents’ love and life, tied to them with invisible string. Again, who am “I”? “I” am one with my parents, bonded by love. We are participants of love with our parents, the unified body of our parents’ ideal. That ideal includes peace and happiness and all the desirable elements. There are many desires and activities in human life, but for a parent nothing, not even his own advancement, can compare with the happiness of recovering a lost child.</p>
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<p>Who are you? You are the unified body of parents’ life, love and ideal. Although it’s invisible, the strongest bond is that of life, love and ideal with parents. It means that your parents cannot become happy without you. No power, not even God, can cut the tie between you, and all existence on earth wants to protect and cherish that bond. Therefore, to love, cherish and respect your parents is the most worthy thing in your life. Why? Because when these two have give and take, the universe will glow with light.</p>
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<p>There is an Oriental saying that blessing will come to a harmonious family, and now you know the very reason for it. If this is true then for the parents to separate or divorce is nothing less than cutting their child in half with a saw. The public law of the universe won’t allow that. Happiness draws farther and farther away from such a parent. For this reason, divorce is impossible in the ideal world. Those whose parents are divorced or separated, raise your hand. Do you feel as though you are cut in half? If there are millions of such families in a nation, that country must eventually perish.</p>
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<p>Now you know your value. Parents follow you wherever you go, don’t they? Could you say, “Father and mother, you are too close to me”? To say that would be a sin. Whatever you want to do, first you think of parents and want to bring them into a valuable place. This is normal thinking. If your mind tends to go the other way, that’s the beginning of the fall.</p>
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<p>Your eyes are alive because of your parents, not yourself. When you grow and mature it is not for yourself but for your parents. When you think that way, are parents something nice to have and to be grateful for? In the long history of this wide world I am the only one to teach this. It would take hours and hours to elaborate on all the details of this.</p>
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<p>How many parents do you have? There happen to be three. Your body is made of material, so all the creation are your first parents. They are the first elements which gave birth to you. Actually, the material elements are meant to exist in love, and that means that our cells cannot be peaceful when we are angry. All the elements of the material world exist in you.</p>
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<p>Your second parents are those who gave birth to you. Through them all material elements were gathered to compose you. Though they can be master of your life, they cannot be master of your love, however. Where does love come from? From God. God’s role is to universalize love in all things for eternity. God exists because He is the subject of love. Altogether we have three sets of parents.</p>
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<p>Your life in your mother’s womb is the state when all materials are gathered. This is the stage where love of material is realized. The physical world supplies all the elements necessary for you to come into being. You live for ten months in your mother, then for a hundred years on earth, then for a thousand years and eternally thereafter in spirit world. Just as material is gathered in the womb, so the spirit is developed during life on earth. A child is taught by his parents, who supply things of invisible nature for their child. Those elements will enable the child to connect horizontally in relationships with all other beings, and are finally consummated in his marriage.</p>
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<p>Parents will be responsible for the child until he marries. What is the nature of marriage actually? That is where the child inherits his parent’s love. That is also where he inherits the essence of all the lessons he has learned, such as how much his parents have loved him. By knowing how much our parents love us, we become capable of loving others. A mature man is capable of receiving love and of giving love.</p>
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<p>Birth as a baby is the first birth, but the transition which society calls death is the second. What happens when we go to the next life? That’s where all the best elements in the spirit world-love of country, family and individual-will come to you and automatically be unified. This is the nature of the spirit world. In the womb the baby breathes through the umbilical cord and lives in an environment of water. Once born the baby breathes air. The transition from living in water to living in air is birth. How do we breathe in spirit world? All our cells breathe love in spirit world. Wherever we go we are contented and there is no complaint or discontentment in that world. God exists above us, so that’s why man walks erect instead of horizontally.</p>
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<p>Because man is physical he basically likes material things, like money, and wants to have the ideal here on earth. That ideal is love. Our course of life is to connect these three points into a straight line.</p>
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<p>You began with parents’ love, and centering around that you develop love of family, love of country, and love of all the physical realm. We are supposed to lead our lives as centers of all three loves. Even the most harmonious family today is not aware that it should be the center of all society and all the universe.</p>
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<p>Strictly speaking, if you do not take good care of your family it is a sin against your society and nation. You never thought your position would be this significant, did you? Logically, perfection of the family with love is the base for the perfection of the nation. We find it is easy to love our families, and you should easily be able to extend that love to the world.</p>
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<p>First we have love of material and then love of man, and then we become the center of love in the universe and go straight to the center of God’s love. We begin from love, we mature in love, and we become the fruit of love. Do any of you remember how difficult it was for your mother to give birth to you? How could you be taught how difficult it was? You will only know by giving birth to your own baby.</p>
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<p>Why did God set things up so that many things in life are enjoyable, like eating, love and sleep, yet giving birth is so painful? He did that so He could see glowing love. When you throw an electric switch the electricity initially surges through the circuit in a great burst, then settles down to a lesser but steady current. Likewise, the first creation involves a tremendous explosion of power and sensation. In childbirth a woman experiences many feelings of anguish and hardly knows if she is dead or alive, but when the baby first cries she forgets her pain and experiences her first feelings toward the baby.</p>
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<p>If childbirth is very difficult then automatically you feel much love for the baby, in spite of yourself. Like the first electricity in the wire, your first love is a great surge of affection for the baby, stronger than the pain. Does the pain of childbirth bring more happiness or agony for the mother? The father won’t ever know, certainly not as much as the mother would. Mother really knows the taste of love because she has had many children.</p>
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<p>You might imagine, too, what an adventure birth is for the baby, who loses the umbilical cord which has been his lifeline and leaves the water which surrounded him. The baby would feel, “This is the end of me!” Only after birth would he realize that it was not unhappiness at all but a new happiness. In the mother’s womb there was only one pipeline, the umbilical cord, but after birth there are two-his nose and mouth. One day he has to give even that up. Just like a baby would have preferred to stay in his mother’s womb it he had a choice, so would we want to keep living on earth after a life of a hundred years or so if we don’t know what the future holds.</p>
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<p>A dying man might struggle to stay alive and only face death reluctantly, but then all of a sudden he is in a different world, a world where he is feeling completely new sensations. The first thing he realizes is that in spirit world he is released from the bonds of the physical world, and elements of time and space no longer exist for him. In spirit world travel from one corner of the universe to the other is instantaneous, like a spark flashing between two electrical poles. Like finding a station on the radio, all you have to do is tune yourself to the proper wavelength and everything that you want to experience will come to you.</p>
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<p>The fact that there are three levels on your face shows that there are three phases of life. The mouth represents life in the womb, or the water phase, the nose represents life on earth and breathing love, and the eyes, which can move freely, represent life in spirit world.</p>
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<p>All parts of the body are composed of three stages, even your fingers. You have a hand, lower arm, upper arm; head, torso, limbs; feet, calves, thighs. The mouth has three stages-upper lip, lower lip, and the demarcation between them. The nose has two nostrils which become one inside. You have two eyes, whose optical nerves become one inside the brain. Actually, the eyes are connected in four positions. Three stages and the number four are everywhere. Your ears represent four directions also. A baby in the womb wraps his thumb around his four fingers, instead of protecting the thumb by holding it inside his fingers. The thumb represents God, so the baby is attesting to the fact that God is the center of the universe. The four fingers with three bones each represent twelve months, or the four seasons.</p>
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<p>We anticipate the eternal life in spirit world, which is represented by the eyes. Through the eyes we enjoy beautiful scenery and can judge height and depth. The eyes are the most important sensory organ in our bodies.</p>
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<p>Even in life on earth we have to have some ideal images within us. We have many activities, like running, eating, working, and so forth, but love is the most important. Therefore, when we direct our love in spirit world we can go everywhere and be welcome. We are born of parental love, and inherit that love by experiencing it ourselves. Once we become perfect in love, we advance to the center of God’s love. In other words, these two stages of love are preparation to experience God’s love so that we can fully resemble Him.</p>
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<p>These three stages are the eternal center of the cosmos. The diameter of love in perfection should be larger than these two stages can accommodate, even in spirit world. The realm of perfect love is actually big enough to encompass anything that enters it. Always we have to be aware that every effort is directed toward experiencing and improving love, that the whole purpose of life is for us to reach the center of love. Originally man should not have had to try hard to reach that point, but because of the fall religion had to come into being. The purpose of religion is to redirect a person to this destination. A true religion provides a focal point where all things want to center on God’s love.</p>
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<p>Our response to parental love is strong, but our response to a spouse is even stronger, and love toward God is even stronger still. If someone were to step on the path of God’s love he would soon forget about parents, wife, society and nation because the desire to pursue this love would be so strong. His body and feet would automatically start walking in this direction in spite of himself, and the only way for his wife to be there would be for her to follow him. If she refuses then she has gone astray.</p>
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<p>God created the Unification Church for the sake of true love of God and of mankind. Before you joined the Unification Church you were anchorless, with your eyes, ears and mouth all going in different directions. But in the Unification Church they became focused on one point, even though you didn’t consciously think about doing that. Even if you go back home to your old bed, your nose will smell what the Church is doing; your ears will hear the happenings here, and your eyes will see them. As soon as you wake up, the first thing you think about is the Church, and only after you come to the Church do you remember that you didn’t make breakfast for your family. Everything else becomes immaterial when you have found the source of life.</p>
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<p>The members in Korea had the experience that when I prayed strongly for them they felt drawn to me just as though to a magnet. If I spoke fluent English I could probably do that here, but actually it’s probably better that it doesn’t happen to you! Even though you have really changed only a little, the American people think we are being different and they persecute us. If I were to give you that electrifying experience, however, you would probably just go out on the streets, laughing and shouting. Then the Unification Church might be persecuted even more! No one who was not a member of any of the major religions has ever understood them; a person has to be part of it to understand.</p>
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<p>Everything we do is founded on cosmic history, so our work is very logical and scientific. How could anyone in the world imagine that? Why did you come to sit on the cold concrete? You are not here to oppose anyone; you are here to pursue the ideal of love. That makes us very different.</p>
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<p>You wear three dimensional glasses, but the glasses I see through are very thick and multidimensional as well. I heard an American member saying that he had worked hard on MFT for four years and hoped very much to be blessed with a Japanese sister, but instead he was matched with an American. He was blaming Mr. Kamiyama in a way, who had said that if a person works hard for the dispensation then anything he wants can happen. But I knew that an American was better than a Japanese for this brother. I want to tell him to wait until he has been married many years and then come to thank me or to complain. Also, he shouldn’t care about how happy he is with his wife. The children they have are what matters. At one time Adam and Eve were the only two people in the whole world, and they didn’t know that what mattered most to God was for them to form the four position foundation.</p>
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<p>If my father and mother hadn’t liked each other and insisted only on their own happiness, would I have come into being? My mother was very active and my father more of a scholarly person. My mother intuitively decided what was good, while my father waited and reasoned everything out slowly before making decisions, so they were always in some conflict over decisions. If they had both been of the same aptitude then I wouldn’t have inherited both elements in good proportion. There is no highness or lowness; what makes something high is that something else is low, and there is harmony between them. If my parents had been divorced before I was conceived, how could they have faced God, who would scold them for messing up His dispensation?</p>
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<p>Here in America parents call us heretics, but still the Unification Church is indispensable. American parents try to kidnap their children from the Church, but in Korea a husband would wait in an alley and try to kidnap his wife from the Church, or a wife kidnap her husband. That husband or wife would run as hard as they could back to the little church where I was. A husband might lock his wife in the house to keep her from going to the Church, but somehow she would escape and then run back to the Church. At that time this kind of thing was like crows eating the newly sown seed, but today this kind of thing is like taking a melon out of a field of melons that are ripe and ready to be eaten. You think Church life is difficult now, but it is nothing compared to the early days.</p>
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<p>If you think it is difficult now then you don’t know what difficulty is. The only way to know difficulty is to look at the situation I experienced with the very early members. If someone is wandering around wondering if he should leave and then he finally goes, what tragedy is that? Of course, it is sad for that person, but how could God’s eternal plan and love be affected by that one person? Would the eternal love of God change? No matter who leaves, I will continue.</p>
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<p>I had experiences with all types of people before I came here. I saw many people pledge their unchanging loyalty after experiencing the love of God here, but then spiritually I would say to them, “Let’s see how many years you can sustain that.” The love of God is eternal, but would those people be willing to suffer eternally?</p>
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<p>Imagine that all four billion people in the world were men, with the exception of one woman. Would they all compete to win her? Would you think, “I am just one out of four billion, so what use is there in trying to compete”? A normal man would fight for an equal chance. If there were four billion females and only one male, would you just give up, thinking that there were many others who had a better chance?</p>
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<p>If there were four billion men and women but only one Church of love, what would they all do? When they began to compete would they think, “I am from a democratic country so I have to have three meals a day, eight hours of sleep, a good insurance policy and a car”? Or, knowing what the significance of the goal was, would they give up all their old habits?</p>
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<p>If a man of prosperity, who has grown fat with his easy life, competes with a man who has lived in the mountains and caught his food barehanded, who do the odds favor? Can you pick and choose what you like and don’t like about the Church? Where on earth is there a church which keeps such long hours? You might wonder why the sermons are so long. and why people don’t greet you at the door after service, shaking your hand and saying nice things about you.</p>
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<p>Don’t you think I have thought about these things as much as you have? I already thought about doing all of that. If you wonder why you get persecuted if things are really so good here in Unification Church, then let me ask you-who has been persecuted more. you or me? Who has suffered more, you or me? Am I leading a more comfortable life than you? If it is difficult for you, know that I have had much more difficulty. If you suffer, I have more suffering now. not even counting the past. If you would rather die than go on, know that I have felt that way even more strongly than you. How can you say that no one here understands you? How many of you doubt that you can go on living like this for the rest of your life? All of you feel that way, don’t you?</p>
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<p>We are in a small boat in a big typhoon. If you are in the prime of your life and in top condition, and if you are pursuing this goal, then you have to run. But if you are not prepared in the ideal way, how can you keep going? If you think that before you die you have to visit each of 70 million homes at least once, you have to start running because you have only a little time left. The best way is to think that if you work ten times harder then you only have to visit seven million homes; if you work one hundred times harder then only 700,000 homes, and if you work 1,000 times harder then you only have to visit 70,000 homes.</p>
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<p>We are blessed by knowing about indemnity. Indemnity is the only realistic way to shorten our suffering. You can work harder, and then add more hardship on top of what you already have. That concept makes this work more practical. Even if you are not completely successful by the time you die, America will sympathize with you one day, and certainly God will recognize you. All spirit world will know how hard you are working. You are not alone.</p>
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<p>Can you even think about trying to get blessings without working hard? How sacrificially have you worked for God and mankind and brothers and sisters? You have started to complain and criticize before thinking about that. Such a man deserves the punishment of receiving more difficulty.</p>
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<p>You go this path of love as an individual’ not with a spouse or even your parents. This is why traditionally the road of religion has been a solitary one. When you are getting married do you get together with a friend first? We begin and conclude as an individual. What place does your best friend have in your Church life? Even your parents have their own way to go.</p>
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<p>In this country parents often chase their children out of the house when they reach 18. That is good only if the parents have supplied them with enough love, and in the name of the child’s own individual perfection they chase that son or daughter out. It is meaningless if they do so without having given that love. I don’t look at you as individuals but as representatives of a segment of the world. I think of you as representing hundreds of thousands of other people, and with that thought I feel I will introduce you to Heavenly Father. I don’t recognize you and encourage you just because you work so hard.</p>
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<p>If you have the urge to blame God for all the persecution and suffering you get, then know that I have felt that urge many more times in past years. But I never, ever complain, and that is why God is grateful to me. We are all going the path of the ideal. If you complain early in the course then what is the meaning Of it? We are on a road that is difficult because no one else is there, but if you stop early then you are more likely to find yourself slipping even farther back. If you pick up again but start complaining, you find yourself even farther back than before. Don’t you understand that this is what’s happening to you?</p>
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<p>In the world of love, one word can be most destructive, such as complaint. We resolve never to complain all throughout our life. There is no one who can evade this course. If we don’t make much progress this year then it will be extended to next year. We very much want to terminate it while we are still on earth, but if you complain then you have to start over again. How discouraging it is to find yourself even further back than when you started!</p>
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<p>If you are only a few steps from the final destination but then you complain, how miserable you would be when you had to go back to the starting point. This is a fearful thing because cosmic law is so strict. Is the course of our individual life straight, or does it wander around? This is the destined path for all mankind, and if we go to spirit world only part way down the road then we have to pick it up there where we left off. Completing it there will be much more difficult than on earth.</p>
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<p>While we have a physical body our path is very short, so there is not a lot of extra time for anything else. You have to feel this. Each one of us is going that path, but how fast and how seriously we go is the question. Our seriousness has to be reflected in prayer. I am the only example you have to follow, and to shorten the difficulty you have to run hard even though your physical circumstances are not ideal.</p>
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<p>The hope we have is found in home church. What do we do in a home church area? You have to supply your home church with the essential elements for their particular stage of growth, just as though they were in the mother’s womb. The person who is already born spiritually has to be given much love. You have to be exemplary in showing this life to those who follow, and have confidence that if they follow you then one day they will go to the bosom of God’s love. You have to be confident that you are doing as God does, supplying all the elements they need. I feel exactly the same toward you and your children.</p>
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<p>I am determined to provide for your children who are not yet born, planning what businesses we need to provide income for them in the years ahead. Not only that, I am planning for schools and in what way we will teach them. I am not thinking as much about my own children as many people think I should.</p>
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<p>The ultimate judge is God. God knows that no one on earth understands me now and many people don’t like me, and He is the only one who knows I resemble Him. If I were to take from you for selfish reasons, it would only harm me.</p>
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<p>You have only vaguely known the course of life before this, but now that you know concretely you can follow it step by step, and eventually you will resemble God. What will you do then? You can stay and live with God, and share whatever privileges He has and the work He does. This is your lifetime work, which needs to be completed in the name of eternity.</p>
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<p>Going this path is homework you should do before going to spirit world. If your homework is not done, you are not qualified to go to class the next morning. The spirit world is your school, so you have to prepare the homework. If you don’t do the work then you have to come back and work through people on earth, which is much more tedious and discouraging. The only way you can come back to earth is spiritually, so how can you do the homework? It is millions of times more difficult because you have to go back and forth constantly. You really have to understand how precious it is to have a physical body.</p>
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<p>Imagine how fantastic life with God will be. If you think how fantastic it would be to live in a king’s palace in Europe, then life with God is hundreds of times more fantastic. Seeing the best show on earth is nothing compared to life with God. We are preparing for life in that world. If an American spy goes to Russia, what law does he live under? He pretends to follow the law of the Russians, but inside he is loyal to the United States. He realizes that his mission may cost him his life, but he has to try. We are citizens of the heavenly kingdom, which has a law different from the satanic world’s. We won’t break any laws here, but we have a much higher aspiration and loyalty.</p>
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<p>We have a great purpose to achieve, so we have to be men of imagination, as agile, sensitive and shrewd as serpents, yet innocent as doves, like the Bible tells us to be. Can we just do whatever we want and say whatever we want? If a man has done great work for America, he can freely visit the White House. Have you ever thought that you are an agent of the heavenly kingdom?</p>
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<p>If a heavenly agent is interfered with by satanic law, just as Iran is illegally keeping fifty American hostages, would God just sit tight and look on? I am an ambassador from the heavenly kingdom to America. Would spirit world do nothing if heaven’s champion and his followers were overwhelmed by greater numbers of people who oppose them? You cannot compare millions of unrighteous people to one righteous man. When you realize that doing one wrong thing can affect millions of people, you have to be serious about your situation.</p>
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<p>You are working in the heavenly embassy here in America. Would you only want to be the janitor? There are many different ranks you can hold. It is easy to say you would hold the high position, but is it easy to qualify? If someone needs to sacrifice then you should step forward voluntarily. Would you want to be weak and helpless all the time, needing someone to nurse you along, or would you rather be strong and mature and work on your own? This life is one orderly stage you cannot bypass; once preparation is complete then real perfection is expected. We would much rather know what is ahead and just push through instead of wandering about and leaving the outcome to chance.</p>
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<p>Do you believe or do you know that spirit world exists? Life in spirit world is even more vivid than life here. All things are possible in spirit world as long as it is acceptable in God’s plan. It is a place where we can have a banquet for everyone at the same time and all the preparations will take only a second. The way of life I am teaching you is all in preparation for that, nothing else.</p>
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<p>Eventually everyone will make the transition from this world to spirit world. If we carry out what the cosmic truth teaches us, we will be received in the palace of the heavenly kingdom. If I told you only this part then you could hardly believe me, but I have explained the basics of life and so it is easy for you to believe in this conclusion. Who will come to meet us, and where will we go? I want you to be people who can be welcomed by Jesus and the saints as honored guests. Who would you want to introduce you to everyone in spirit world-Jesus, Confucius, or God Himself?</p>
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<p>How nice it will be when this introduction can take place, with all the important people of history there to greet us. God will introduce you and tell in detail what you did on earth. Certainly God will want to introduce the one who has worked hardest for the Unification Church. I know who will introduce me in a great ceremony to all who are present. Spirit world will welcome us from the bottom of their hearts in a spectacle quite unlike anything we see in this world. From then on their outlook toward earth and their hope for its future will be different. Day by day I am closing in on that point.</p>
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<p>How would the maximum you can do compare with what I have done? You know how much difference there is. Are you a member of the Unification Church which has the same standard that I am thinking of? If an ex-Moonie speaks about the Unification Church, does he know a fraction of what the Unification Church ought to be? The difference between reality and what he knows is like the difference between man and insect. If people form their opinion of the Unification Church after listening to such a person, they will believe it is too unpleasant to tolerate. An ex-Moonie lives in a different world than we do. Even today’s Moonies are not up to standard members of the Unification Church. You are more like candidates to be Moonies who are still working hard to become real members of the Unification family.</p>
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<p>The blessing should take place only after you have finally reached that standard, but time won’t wait. You must realize that you have to close the gap between the standard and reality. If the Church had only the standard you uphold, it might as well perish. As quickly as possible you have to leave these uncertainties behind and get a real start. We are always going forward with a purpose in mind, not waiting to see where events in the world will lead. If you sleep comfortably, it is only because you don’t know the spirit world. You have to go through this course of life and do your very best while I am still on earth with you.</p>
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<p>Once I leave America, there won’t be any opportunity to see you and speak every Sunday morning as I have been doing. If I were to spend only one year in 120 nations, it would take 120 years. If I spent three months, that would still be thirty years. No one can tell me that I should stay in America all the time. It would still take ten years if I stayed only one month in 120 countries. The day is coming when you won’t be able to hear me speak.</p>
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<p>If you really know the importance of my words at this time, how could you doze off? All the happenings here are recorded in spirit world, and if someone is dozing off then his recording will show that. How annoyed all the people attached to you in spirit world will be to see it! What will they say when they testify that you dozed off when you heard me speak? How would you overcome that shame?</p>
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<p>What I am saying is not just for you but for all societies and the whole universe. Everyone watches the American President when he speaks on television. This sermon is of historical importance, yet you doze off. I have the highest standard in mind when I talk to you. I am speaking to history.</p>
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<p>You can never know when you will go to spirit world. After you find yourself in spirit world you will know clearly for the first time that what I said was true and it will be a source of regret. If you make excuses, saying that because of your husband or family, or because you had to go to school you could not do everything, you will regret it later. The path ahead of us is a very serious one and my concern is to shorten the time. We have to know that this is the point of history we are standing on.</p>
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<p>When you go to spirit world your wife or husband should testify that you worked harder for the sake of God than anyone else he or she worked for. Our children should testify that we worked so hard for the sake of God and the dispensation that we hardly had any time for them and it seemed we didn’t care about them at all. They should even be able to say that you loved God so much that they couldn’t even copy you. That’s what everyone in the world will have to say about me one day. When my own children say that I loved the 36 couples more than them, then they will be the fortunate ones.</p>
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<p>I have been pushing everyone to work hard for the sake of the country. You might think I am pushing you hard and not paying much attention to you as individuals. But when America is recovered in the sight of God then you will be the masters of this nation.</p>
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<p>Koreans know that no one has worked harder for Korea than I have, and the Japanese will soon understand that no one has worked harder for Japan than I have. We do not treat white and black separately, but make them all work to the same degree. You should work harder for America than any past patriot. This is the standard I have upheld all the time, yet many people call me names and oppose our work. Former members are being manipulated by various groups for some hidden purpose, but they don’t realize that. Those members never really cared about God, so after three or seven years they just drop away.</p>
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<p>The standard for being a good Unification Church member is to go through incredible difficulty for seven years and longer. Then I can begin to trust such a person. You are still being trained and you are not even on the track yet. Do you think you will survive until you are put on the track and really start to work hard? Will you be barely breathing, or will you be very active? I have gone this course of life like everyone else. There are many things I am attending to all at one time that you don’t even know about. Many people predict that the Unification Church will dwindle and become dispersed, but it will never happen. People don’t believe it can happen, but the Unification Church will prosper and grow. This is how it has always been.</p>
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<p>It’s easy to say we live for the sake of mankind and God, but actually giving the effort is something else. Have you ever shed sweat and tears? Remember that it will never be wasted but will be returned. This is a good time to challenge yourselves. Are you ready to go the course of life necessary for establishing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth? Those who are determined they will never complain, raise your hands.</p>
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<p>Arrogance has no more place than complaint. Always you have to feel lower and lower, not higher. What is your reason for becoming lower? It is because we are perpetually making ourselves a live offering. When we eat, it should be done in that position, and when we speak it should be under that condition. Whatever we do should be with that heart of being a live offering.</p>
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<p>When you make yourself an offering it becomes possible for other people to live. Can such an offering have any complaint? Did Isaac protest when Abraham was about to kill him? He didn’t even think that he was supposed to inherit Abraham’s position. Those who never thought that they wanted to be assigned a prominent position, raise your hands.</p>
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<p>Any member who writes to his or her fiancé that he knows of an easier job for that person is really Satan. If someone has an easy job physically, such as in an office, he has to have the heart to feel for members who work harder. MFT is a basic qualification for all members. Recently there was an applicant for seminary who had a 4.0 average in college, but because he had never done fund raising I excluded him from seminary for the sake of tradition.</p>
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<p>Being arrogant means always thinking about yourself. If other people are complaining against you but you are standing firm for the sake of the Church then you are in the position of live offering. You can be determined that you will make people complain about those neighbors who do not work for mankind yet complain about you. You shouldn’t despise them or blame your critics, but pray about them and love them even more. Whoever can do that is automatically a live offering.</p>
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<p>How loving it is if you can say, “Just blame everything on me.” If the offering sheds blood and dies, then for the first time everyone will understand him and bow down. This is the nature of being an offering, so you should not be afraid or be disappointed at what happens to you. It is a difficult position to begin with, and always receives criticism on top of that. Even though people may criticize me now, after I die all America will bow down.</p>
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<p>This is my own credo and philosophy of life. As an individual I made myself an offering in ways that no one understood, and it wasn’t until I was well along on the family level that individuals began to realize what I had done. When I was on the tribal level of sacrifice, families could understand what I did on the family level. Only after I started to work for the world could the nation begin to understand what I did for the nation. This is Korea’s situation now.</p>
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<p>People may abuse you because they do not know that you are an offering, but they will pay the price for that. Most of us have underwear that is completely worn out, and those who don’t live that way ought to. It would be even better if you were too busy to wash, and the lice found a home on you! Those lice would be the source of your biggest award in spirit world. At one time I did not just pick the lice off my body, but brushed them away by the dozens, leaving a red streak where my blood was crushed out of them.</p>
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<p>If your shoes and socks and even the soles of your feet have holes for the sake of humanity, it will be the source of honor and decoration for you in spirit world. Being tortured for the sake of God will be your source of pride and respect, and any scars and handicaps will shine like diamonds. If a martyr’s motive for suffering is to enable himself to go to heaven, he had better change his motive quickly before he dies so that he is dying for mankind instead. Then he will find himself in paradise instead of hell.</p>
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<p>You should not think that you must work hard so that you can be blessed in three years; you should work with the attitude that even if you die you must work hard, and then blessing will automatically follow. I am still going strong after all these years. If a husband and wife talk together and decide they should drop away from the Church, wait and see what happens to them.</p>
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<p>Don’t get exhausted, don’t complain, and don’t be arrogant or self-centered. When you work hard day in and day out but still you are not sure if you have done enough, then ask God, “Father, have I done enough?” If He doesn’t answer then you know you have to try harder. But if God sees that you have done enough then certainly He will say, “Yes, you have done enough.”</p>
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<p>Much money is necessary in order to move the world significantly, and economic work takes much of my time. However, there are always more expenses than income; MFT money provides but a fraction of what is needed. I am not indebted to the American church; it is the American church which is indebted to me. I am more serious than any other member, including the President of the American church. It is surely a miracle that I have managed to meet all the deadlines for payment on the different areas we are working in. I don’t own any bank to dip into. Have you ever thought, sitting here every Sunday, that I am doing all this? I don’t want to go into detail, but this money thing is rather burdensome.</p>
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<p>I can clearly see the help which spirit world gives in this area. It would be humanly impossible to carry out otherwise. There are many dramatic incidents in which spirit world inspired people to give money; a man might just walk in and give his life savings, and sometimes the president of a company will bring in a sum of money. If I were raising money for my own sake then certainly spirit world would never help like this. We are in a joint venture with spirit world.</p>
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<p>I have an uneasy feeling when I know how hard a situation the Japanese and Korean Churches have and then look at how America receives what I am giving. I feel that if Americans continue as they are then they may be punished. As soon as I finish my part of the mission here in America then I will leave without even saying goodbye. Will you slow down after I go, or continue to work hard?</p>
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<p>We are going to break down the walls of hell and let all mankind come into heaven if they wish. We can do that only as a result of our hard work; that is the hardest job we could imagine. Whether difficult or easy, this is the way we have to go. I push you hard like this so that one day I can bring each of you to the same place I am going in spirit world. I told my own children that the other day.</p>
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<p>Some people might say the Divine Principle is just a fantastic story, but no one else in all history has ever been able to solve all the historical problems and questions which the great thinkers have tackled century after century. This is too good to be just a story.</p>
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<p>You call me your True Parent, don’t you? Parents and children have the same origin and are inseparable. Where does that relationship come from? Only from the love of God. This meeting point where parents and children love God is where the relationship comes to exist. We are the participants of’ love. The parents’ ideals are firmly interwoven with their children’s ideals.</p>
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<p>Our objective is to till ourselves to overflowing with love. Then even if someone is trying to pull your nose off your face your ideal will still continue. When you are suffering I automatically suffer I could never make you suffer if I did not. We have to feel how sorrowful God is and spirit world is, if for no other reason than because they depend on us. How could we not be sympathetic? I have opened up the all encompassing way, and that is to suffer. There is a way to satisfy all the necessary conditions when we suffer</p>
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<p>This is the third Sunday of 1980. This year will be a glorious one if we reach out to become a live offering without complaint. Once you get the knack of it, you will gain speed and move faster and faster, even with a heavy load. This will happen with love, which God supplies us.</p>
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<p>That’s the only worthwhile thing let’s for us to do; there is no other capability we have. Those who realize this in their hearts, raise your hands. No one except the Moonies could do this.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 13, 1980<br />
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<p>When one says “I”, he is not thinking of himself as a solitary individual. Each person comprehends himself within a certain background and set of circumstances. When I think of myself I think of my family, parents and surroundings. Each of you is aware of being a citizen of America. A man of deeper thought thinks of himself as part of the world. If he is truly religious then he will feel connected to God who created everything around him.</p>
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<p>In various circumstances there is some good, some bad, some happy and unhappy, all put together. A person may assess himself as good, or as bad but trying to improve, and as generally happy or unhappy. When each of us thinks of “I” we think in connection with all these surrounding conditions. That “I” exists now but when did it begin’? You might think, “Well, I am thirty, so I started to exist thirty years ago.” In addition, you think that you have been and always are increasing in age.</p>
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<p>You also realize that you didn’t just abruptly start from nothing, but received certain things from your parents. You didn’t begin to exist with yourself but with your parents. Your course of thought traces back to your parents, their parents and so on through your ancestry. If you have a good imagination you might trace it back to the beginning of energy, which has been passed down through your ancestors. If you pull yourself in a certain direction at this point you are not pulling yourself alone, but all your lineage as well. If I pull one thin hair on your head, the rest of your body had better follow along if it doesn’t want to feel any pain. When you dance about the floor the whole lineage that is connected with you is also moving around.</p>
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<p>No one wants to be isolated, but desires instead to be proud of representing everything that is connected to him. Would you choose to be isolated and independent, or to represent many more people than just yourself? Everyone wants the second choice. Why should you feel like that? Why do we tend to think of ourselves as the center of everything surrounding us? Is it because we want mastery and control? Whatever the reason, the fact remains that an individual will try to protect himself from invasion. Also, you want your eyes to be the best of all eyes, your nose and even your hair to be the best. You want to protect even external things which change, like your clothes. Where does this quality come from?</p>
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<p>Everyone wants to advance, whether he is of low or high capacity. We can state that the action of “consciousness” demands that uplifting of the individual. Why does each person want to make himself better? Where does that action of conscientiousness come from? It is derived from a cause and effect relationship. No action is initiated without purpose; all actions have some purpose. The bird sings and the bee hums, the butterfly flies, the wind blows-all of these have their purpose. When your eyelid blinks it certainly has a purpose, doesn’t it? Your breathing has a purpose. When you smile it is not for yourself, but for some reason. No action takes place without purpose.</p>
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<p>Scientists maintain that the universe is made up of energy. Energy exists everywhere, as well as force or power. Is force or energy first? Does the Divine Principle teach that force comes into being by give and take action, or does give and take exist after the force exists? We should examine our thought carefully to see if we are not taking the answer for granted. Seen from different angles, both viewpoints seem entirely correct, so it is important to know which is the correct answer. What is your opinion?</p>
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<p>Action certainly must come from a definite source. The subject and object precede action. If we pursue this a little further, we can say that if God is omnipresent then He must have both subject and object qualities. God’s dual characteristics are not just conceptual or abstract; they are very real and important to our lives. Ever since the universe and individual entities came into being, subject and object were the beginning of the existence of self. All things in the universe are made up of these two different qualities or parts, and each is involved in give and take action.</p>
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<p>The force, or the result, is the consequence of the subject and object having give and take action. Let us take the simple example of parents having give and take of love; their child will be the result. The child is like the force which results from give and take action. What causes that? God is the cause, and that process follows the pattern of God’s creative process. The force has within itself the possibility of give and take action because it is the result of give and take. When we think of force we immediately comprehend two qualities of subject and object, cause and result.</p>
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<p>When you think of your existence you think of the power within yourself, but prior to that you realize the give and take action within yourself. Therefore, you are the subject body of force. You are very powerful. In you are a mind and body which form a subject-object relationship, and when they have give and take you can’t help but feel the resulting power within yourself. When you draw a line down your front, dividing you in half, the two parts look alike externally. Why is that? Because the cause has that quality, the result has to be that way. That’s a very logical reason.</p>
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<p>When scientists examine the development of life forms, they conclude that energy randomly evolved into higher and more complex beings, and this is how man came to exist. This theory is not logical when we really examine it. It is more reasonable that subject and object together would form a self, which in turn would become a subject, and take an object. Together they would form some higher life form or bigger self as subject and take an object, and so on, forming greater and greater entities.</p>
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<p>In our social life we want to broaden our sphere of influence, increasing our areas of activity. When you become a subject on one level you want to find an object on that level, and then when you are united you find that together you become a subject on another level. Scientists explain the formation of new species through random mutation, saying it happens by chance. We can immediately see that is false logic, but they have not come up with some better theory so they stick with this one. It does not stand to reason to say that a small thing could just suddenly become big. Even a non-scholar would find the subject-object explanation more reasonable.</p>
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<p>How could a bigger self come to exist? Where does the original force come from that can cause a smaller cell to grow bigger, that can enable a small group of cells to become bigger and enable each step to develop? Certainly no give and take happens without purpose; a force is the result of give and take, but there must be some purpose preceding that give and take. Nothing happens without purpose. A chemistry professor trying to mix a plus element and a minus element of different quality will never get a reaction. But if he prepares a compatible subject and object and merely brings them close together then give and take will automatically happen. This explanation based on give and take describes science more adequately than theories of probability or random occurrence.</p>
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<p>In the beginning I pointed out that each person wants to become greater and greater in his life, and gets angry if he cannot do so. Does that happen at random too, or is it inevitable? We know now that it has to happen like that because the conscience is at work. Everything comes into the realm of subject and object, and is a collection of subject-object relationships. This means that “I” exists within a broad universe, and lives only within that broad purpose. Therefore, one’s conscience always directs him to become bigger and greater. We have to be aware of the purpose for that.</p>
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<p>This is explained through the four position foundation. In order to have circular action there must be plus-minus, plus-minus, not plus-minus, minus-plus. Can you name one thing which does not move or turn? When anything stubbornly refuses to move, it ceases to exist. Each cell is vigorously active, and the collection of these cells which is you is even more active. The whole universe is full of vitality. You can easily accept that, can’t you?</p>
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<p>Our conclusion is that this big universe moves with a certain purpose, not haphazardly. Even one of the billions of tiny cells in your body has plus and minus and is an inseparable part of the universe, and so it wants to become as great as the whole universe. Even a tiny cell will rebel if the larger organism no longer wants to become greater. This is why each man has hope for greater happiness in the future; if a person is restricted to living in one situation for the rest of his life he loses his will to live.</p>
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<p>What existed before force existed? The action of subject and object. And where does action come from? Action derives from a subject and object, and the whole thing takes place because of the whole purpose.</p>
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<p>There are dual purposes here: one is to maintain oneself, and the other to become part of the larger self, which is the universe. A man’s purpose for taking an object is to preserve and perfect himself, and then become one with a woman, and their purpose is to have children. Then they stand in the same position as their ancestors.</p>
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<p>Let us look at the example of our eyes. The eye has the purpose of self-existence, but also of serving the whole body. The ear has to operate automatically, but it also helps the whole. Because of this purpose, everything from particles to the largest creation has a right to exist. How could the universe be interrelated? It is because all individuals have dual objectives: one is to protect the self and the other to make sure the self combines with another self to make a bigger self. The theory of evolution understands individual purpose of self-preservation, although it does not grasp the ultimate purpose of the whole.</p>
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<p>Conscientious scholars today have no answer for the question of how the universe is perpetuated and what its purpose is. Their conclusion is that it has no purpose, but just goes on and on and will perish at one point. But we know this is not true; something may seem to perish, but as it passes away something else will be formed. This happens because everything has a purpose. The same principle applies to every aspect of the universe. Individuals gather to meet individual needs, but also for the purpose of forming a greater being. If someone wants to have great character, he must be available as an object to the whole universe as his subject. He must be worthy of it.</p>
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<p>Today white people tend to stay together, ignoring other races. But their purpose is not only to be with whites but to embrace all other colors as well. Individual purpose must always follow the purpose of the whole. Conscientious people wonder why big fish eat little fish, why some animals are carnivores, why the powerful eat the weak, and see this as a chaotic situation. According to the principle that the smaller things exist for the larger purpose, the lion is justified in eating the rabbit. This is the key to the whole problem. The small purpose exists for the purpose of the greater existence, which is ultimately the whole universe.</p>
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<p>Americans don’t know that they exist for the purpose and betterment of the whole. Who says so? God says so. More objectively, the universe says so. Unification Church members are the most consistent people in all history because they know the individual should exist for the family, the family for the tribe, the tribe for the nation, and the nation for the world. We not only think that but live that way. Why do we do that? In a sense it is for a selfish reason, because by going on to bigger and bigger levels we make our selves available to become big individuals.</p>
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<p>Young people now do what I call the kisco dance; “co” means “nose” and “kis”, means “kiss”, so “nose-kissing dance”. For whom do they dance-America, the world, or themselves? It contributes nothing to the whole and limits them to the individual purpose, so it stops their development. It is even worse than a lion eating a rabbit-it is a sin. For the betterment of the whole we want to get rid of whatever harms the whole, but we know that the kids won’t listen if we just say outright, ” You shouldn’t do that for all the following reasons.”</p>
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<p>If I gave you some money and free time would you go disco dancing? If it were for your betterment and the world’s betterment then you would disco 24 hours a day, right? Russia is visibly closing in on the free world, and if disco dancing would halt their advance we should disco 24 hours a day. No one today, from the lowest to the highest level, knows what man is, or who the individual self is. All their confusion arises from ignorance. First we must teach them, then show how to live, and then we can restore order in the world.</p>
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<p>This principle explains all phenomena from the past, and we have to apply it consistently all the time. You cannot learn this in school because the teachers don’t know it. I am the first teacher of this knowledge. This is the beginning of a new culture. By knowing this you can comprehend Divine Principle even better, and know why there are three stages, subject and object, how give and take occurs, and why there is a purpose. Now the Divine Principle is no longer conceptual, but something you can put into action in every circumstance. Now you will never forget because the Divine Principle is you.</p>
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<p>When you think of force what do you think of? Action. And when you think of action you immediately think of plus and minus, subject and object. When you feel powerful you can know that some give and take action is happening, so your mind and body must be in harmony. You must be smarter than to think it begins with you, and remember that God, your Father, gave it to you and you resemble Him. You then remember that He has the whole universe under Him, and your self is a small part of that universe; you are a small minus to the universe, which is the biggest possible Plus.</p>
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<p>God is a big plus and you are a small minus, but this small minus has the purpose of becoming as great as the plus. This is why you want to become great. This is perfectly logical, and something that stands to reason is reality itself. Each of us has an urge to become great, but until now you didn’t know why God and the universe also wanted you to become great. They want to pull you up like a big winch.</p>
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<p>If you go to the top of a mountain you can actually catch up with God better. In other words, if you have a broader, deeper thought, God can love you and encourage you to go higher and higher. What is God’s thought? His thought is to become powerful according to Principle and to realize the ideal world. Will He do that by force’? Is God going to make the world great because He has all knowledge’? Could the strongest man on earth make the ideal world? Harvard professors are proud of their knowledge, but could they do it? What is the essence that can make the ideal world? True love.</p>
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<p>The other day I paraphrased love as being “long, long very much.” You think you know English, but you didn’t know love was long, long very much. Love should last long and long and very much more long. How does God want to make the ideal world’? If you ask God where He wants to be at any given time, He will say He wants to be at the center of the universe. If you ask which center of the universe He wants to be at-whether of knowledge or power-He will say He wants to be at the long, long very much center. Is this stretching the truth too far?</p>
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<p>When I asked why you wanted to become greater and greater, you didn’t have an answer. Now you know that you want to be great so that based on love you can become the companion of the center of the universe and be worthy of being His object. Though we know we are very small, we want to be objects to the great universal subject in love. If God wants to be at the center, where would you want to be’? At the center of the love in the universe. When I seriously ask you where we are going, you have to have some answer. We are going to the objective of love on the universal level. Since God is going there also, we are bound to meet Him. Even though you become very knowledgeable, it will eventually pass. Power cannot last eternally either. But if you are pursuing love and find it, it will last long, long very much.</p>
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<p>We have to have some life perspective, some awareness of our purpose. When we have that in ourselves then we can go there. With this life perspective you can know why the world has to be peaceful and how that can happen through love, and then your entire plan and idea can come to one focal point. Only a handful of people on the face of the earth know that they should be living with their purpose and direction taking them toward love. If that prevails in the world then the earth can become peaceful.</p>
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<p>Now when I ask you who you are, you are in a position to answer for the first time, “I am the one who is supposed to go toward the purpose of love on the universal level.” We know that all things exist for man because man has love. The animals and plants willingly sacrifice for man because he is reaching for the objective of love with God. You like steaks, don’t you’? Do you eat a steak for your own enjoyment, or do you think that the steak will help you get nearer the love of God’? If it was for love then the meat would be glad to be eaten and say, “Eat me quickly!” That meat also craves love. A stick of celery wants to continue its own life, but when you eat it you can say, ‘ I assure you that through me you will come closer to God’s love.”</p>
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<p>If a person is perfect in this respect, all things will want to tag along and be eaten by him. Money will want to be earned by him. Today men chase money but the money runs away. If you become a person of original purpose, however, then money will follow you. If another person follows after money, the money will be scared, thinking, “A tiger is after me!” That person will end up in hell. Would you rather follow money or love?</p>
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<p>No one is dozing off this morning: everyone seems to love love. Is it good or evil to sacrifice your own life for the sake of the world? These pragmatic Americans call something evil with one side of their mouths and then call it good with the other side, twisting it around for their convenience.</p>
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<p>Throughout history God has seemed to be unjust because it was good people who were sacrificed all the time, but being sacrificed is the best way actually. What kind of person makes a good President? If a tyrannical, pushy man is the one who works best for the sake of the world and is the most effective in educating Americans and the world, then is it good if he is President? Or does a tyrannical person have no place? It is good if he is doing God’s job. Is Mr. Carter very dynamic? The first thing a politician thinks of is how he is going to get reelected next term, and he makes compromises with justice and righteousness to get along. It should certainly be wrong if a President thinks more about his reelection than about what is right for America.</p>
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<p>No matter what the situation is, my purpose is consistent. I work for the sake of God and humanity and never compromise. I keep telling Americans the truth. Americans don’t like to hear bad things all the time, but if they have to hear bad things over and over in order to finally change, then the purpose of giving that advice is served.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is not fighting for the Unification Church; we are sacrificing Unification Church for the sake of the world and God. That is what I have done all my life. That doesn’t look very workable to pragmatic people, but actually it is the most effective way. A self-centered person doesn’t understand that self-sacrifice is the best way of life simply because God and the universe always protect a person who is working for their cause. An explanation must be consistent, from head to tail, no matter how big or small the situation.</p>
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<p>Would you prefer a leader who buys you candy all the time, or one who makes you into a person who is worthy to be object to this great Subject’? Do you think it would be easy to convert a person away from evil and make him into someone who is worthy of being that object? It is even harder to do in America because here there is an adverse atmosphere of self-centeredness. I have to pluck someone out of that environment before I can teach him. It is a little less difficult with an Oriental because that culture is more oriented toward the whole, which is God’s way of thinking. Here the culture is not group-centered but individual-centered. You have to realize that you can’t take individualism for granted.</p>
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<p>Even unambitious people are excited and inspired when they join the Unification Church and realize what God’s idea is, but the difficulty of everyday life is also fantastic. It doesn’t make sense that you can have only things that are fantastically happy, and not those which are fantastically difficult. Any worthy man in the past has led such a life.</p>
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<p>You know this is the most fantastic life possible, but you wait three years to be blessed and have no dating in the meantime. Then you wait three more years after getting married, and even after you are together you do the hard work of witnessing. The women worry also about whether they will be too old to have children by the time they get married. On top of that there are many Orientals in charge of your activities, pints you go fund raising and you receive no recognition. All put together, you are in a quandary deciding whether this is fantastically miserable or fantastically wonderful. But even when you are full of tears you know this is the best way. Even if you have to risk you life a dozen times a day, this is still the best because it is the way of love.</p>
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<p>I am no dumber than anyone else; I knew this principle before you did and have gone this way my whole life without compromise. There is no in-between way for either you or me. I thought that probably no one else on earth would have courage or wisdom to do this, and that I would probably be going all by myself, but then I looked back after a time and found hundreds of followers straggling after me, trying to go to the same place. And there were many white people among them who were determined to give their lives! Then there were other white people who weren’t happy with me and tried to persecute me. The important question is which side God and the universe will be on.</p>
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<p>Now you know better who you are. Confucius said that whoever knows himself will be a success, and wise men have always accepted this. Should we let any circumstance divert us once we know who we are? Once you know, you should be able to laugh off the scorn of even millions of people. This is 1980. This is the year to take off and fly and go into orbit. You should be confident that you are master of the universal thought which has been hidden all these thousands of years. There is nothing vague about this.</p>
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<p>Now I can give you a little more explanation which will make it easier to follow. Why do I train you on earth instead of later in spirit world? Why do you have to struggle on earth in order to learn? Of course, you have to reserve yourselves, but you must love your family more than yourself because it is a bigger cause. Even though it is painfully difficult and you may not be able to carry it out on earth, you will be given credit for doing your best. Then when you get to spirit world the path will be open to accomplish it successfully there. When the family has to be sacrificed for the world and you try your best, even if you are not completely successful on earth, a crude road to finish it will be open in spirit world. If you don’t even try on earth, however, there is no road for you in spirit world later.</p>
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<p>You are in hell when you find yourself with no avenues open at all; then you are living in complete isolation and are unable to go where you have to go. You can see ultimate happiness around you and it looks within reach, but in reality it is too far away to seize. If you can’t get along with a certain person on earth, that relationship will carry on into spirit world and be hell. You will know you could experience happiness with that person, but because you didn’t make it happen on earth you can’t do it in spirit world. The most important reason why I work so hard pushing you and trying to inspire you to go the difficult road is that I know about spirit world; if you can unite and follow then there will be at least a small road open for you in spirit world.</p>
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<p>If you are successful in loving people of all races, all spirit world will applaud you and welcome you. Wherever you go in spirit world, spirit men will tag along. Our life here is short but we can accomplish and settle much in order to claim happiness in spirit world. Your status in spirit world is eternal. This is one of the reasons why we suffer willingly. The purpose of a business is to gain profit by investing some money. If we invest very much pain then we profit a hundred times more. In the lottery one dollar can win thousands. but here there isn’t even any risk and still we are guaranteed to win.</p>
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<p>One step after another we lengthen the sections of the bridge of love. We are building it inch by inch, and though there are miles to go, we keep going. No matter what opportunities there are for you in life, you would rather follow me, right? Why? I don’t give you money or time or power. You say it is for love, but have you seen that love with your eyes? I am like a parent nagging you to study after school, and pushing you to study again even when you have finished. You get frustrated, I know, but still I tell you to keep studying. That’s love.</p>
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<p>You may be comfortable if you don’t do it now, but for the sake of the big purpose you sacrifice a little time. That is goodness. It can be good to spank a child if it is intended to secure his eternal well-being. It is correct logically. True love is worth anything.</p>
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<p>Now you know about the individual, so let us think when we would like to be in that position. Ten years or a hundred years from now? Now sounds pretty close to “no”. And “no” sounds close to “know”. Do you know or not?</p>
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<p>Can you go this path alone? Who do you need? Would you rather have a yoke on your neck to be sure you go the correct way? Should I allow you to do whatever you want? Now we are secure and comfortable because we know the objective, but the problem is half solved. But now you have to accomplish the goal and you think you need someone to push you because you can’t do it alone. You feel you can be a champion if only you had a trainer. A trainer is someone who gets after you and nags you all the time. At some point you get so aggravated that either you confront your trainer and give up, or you become the champion. At some point you want to do away with the trainer and rebel. That is the reality.</p>
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<p>Don’t appoint only one trainer, because you will have tree time when he is away, which is no good. Appoint a dozen trainers, one Chinese, one Korean, one Japanese, one American, one German, and so forth. Then wherever you go you will bump into a trainer and he will chase after you. Perhaps you could tolerate one person kicking you, but what about twelve people kicking you at one time? But when you determine to survive, you will be a champion when they get tired of kicking you.</p>
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<p>This is no ordinary life to be lived at whim. It is most serious, not only for our generation but for all history. All Unification Church members know they each have a spirit man which lives eternally in spirit world. You have never been to spirit world, so you are persuaded through logic that it is so. Because you start at the lowest part of life there is no place to go but up. The thousands of people outside the Church who study us can’t figure us out because they don’t know about the spirit world. Sometimes I look ordinary, sometimes deceptive, sometimes great. Even many intelligent people all have different opinions about me. They can only conclude they don’t understand me.</p>
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<p>Am I going my way by accident? No one in the world has any idea what the world will be like even next week, but we know how the past was and what direction history will take. Our path is basically a religious life, and who is the most strict, most serious of trainers? That’s Reverend Moon. This is a training ground and that’s why you sit on a cold concrete floor for hours and hours; you are here to be trained, not just to enjoy a sermon. You do that for years and years, and people wonder if you do that because you are scared.</p>
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<p>Our training is conducted in the most painful way. We have no such thing as comfortable training. Why? Because we want to shorten our period of training. You have just begun to know a few things, and you have to meet the challenge and go over it. You only have a few years to do that so I am pushing you to speed up. Even at this moment I am pressuring you. Throughout the seventies you had some complaint, wanting to know why life had to be so difficult, why the hardship couldn’t be spread out. But starting at this moment you should give up complaint. Starting this year you should look for the difficult jobs to do.</p>
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<p>The members usually feel that fund raising is our most difficult activity. If the fiancé of an MFT member writes to say there is an opening in his office and why doesn’t the MFT member come to do that easier job, the fiancé is actually Satan, blocking the other person’s training. What he is actually saying is, “Become a third rate champion.” What he should say instead is, “MFT is too easy, so go to Cambodia to fund raise.” Is this illogical? We have to develop according to the principle and reason for all these things.</p>
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<p>If someone asks you for proof of how much I love humanity, you can tell them that I have matched thousands of couples of all races in the best possible way. That’s proof of having loved mankind. And even afterward I continued to train them and to care about them as I would my own children, planning how they will support and educate their families in the future. I have no preferences or prejudices; I have loved black people as much as white people and yellow people. When I go to spirit world I will visit hell where black people are and no one there will oppose me; I will go to the area where white people</p>
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<p>are, and no one will accuse me because they will know they are the ones who did not listen. In heaven white people will want me to stay at their house and sleep in their own bedrooms.</p>
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<p>There are twelve pearl gates to heaven, and I can pass through many of them. Why twelve? Because that represents 120, and also represents 360 degrees, encompassing every angle. Also it symbolizes 12 different types of personalities. How can you pass through the gates? Only when you tag along with me! There are guards there who will challenge you and ask, “Who are you?” Then you will say, “Reverend Moon happens to be my father.” They won’t be satisfied with that, however. When they ask for proof you can say, “Don’t you know the Divine Principle? The Divine Principle says so.” If he still doubts you, you can say, “Don’t you think I look like Reverend Moon? I did the same things he did so I should look like him by now.” If the guard thinks you look like me then he will let you in.</p>
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<p>You said you wanted to start the strictest training now, but actually it will last for the rest of your life and you have no idea how long your life will be. If you have hated black people in the past, you should fund raise in the most difficult possible place, where you can only earn a few dollars, and then invite the ugliest, fattest black man or grandmother to go out for lunch at a Chinese restaurant. Then over lunch you can say, “I have a confession to make. I have hated black people, but now I want to love them.” You can tell her how you felt in the past, but when you joined the Unification Church and met Reverend Moon you worked to train yourself as a champion of goodness. Now you repent, and as a sign of apology you sincerely brought her out to dinner. When you beg her with tears to eat the dinner you buy, you will have indemnified your hate in the past.</p>
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<p>If someone has hated white people in the past then he also has to repent. Whatever you have bound in the past, you have to unbind now and indemnify it. If a man has been a playboy in the past and made many women sorrowful, he has to find some situation where he can apologize to one woman representing all of them. If a woman has married several times then she has to apologize to a man in the same way. Everything you have done which was unprincipled you have to indemnify. That is your main task in 1980, to repent and then forget about the past. Don’t let it drag you down, but pray to heaven to help you do away with it. Then look for the difficult thing and tackle it. That will be your best and fastest training.</p>
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<p>If you are trying to find some loved ones, more value is added if you go a difficult way. It is not as valuable if you find one in an easy way, and you cannot feel as much value even if you try. But if you go through difficulty you feel the value even if you try not to.</p>
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<p>We all say we love and follow God, but when you say it and I say it there is an entirely different quality in our words, even though we say the same thing. The main difference is that I have gone through tremendous suffering, while you have not. Never forget that how we go the path of true love is the real question. Whether you get a passing grade or flunk the course is determined by what difficulties you have persevered through. Are you going to be a failure or success’?</p>
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<p>Now when you say “myself” you don’t think in isolation, but in the context of parents, grandparents and God, all flowing like a big river. When you say “I”, their image immediately appears in front of your eyes. You have to feel that the perfection of the world comes through yourself. When the four position foundation is formed, a central point is needed, which is God. The center of the family is love. In three dimensions the four position foundation has six points, with one in front and one in the rear, plus one in the middle, which is the seventh. Thus, the number seven is the number of perfection, but that is formed only after adding the one point of love.</p>
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<p>A straight line denotes one, and when it is cut in half it actually has three in it. Thus, the tour position foundation has the number twelve in it at the same time. The number twelve represents the entire spirit world; for instance, the twelve pearl gates referred to in the Bible. Jacob had twelve sons, Moses led the twelve tribes, Jesus had twelve disciples. The number twelve was necessary to fulfill the important requirements of the universe, so at crucial points they had to satisfy the number twelve. We know that Jesus was the ideal man, and as such he had to be able to get along with twelve different types of people. These twelve actually represented people of 120 nations of the world, meaning in fact all elements of humanity. This included even the Judas type of person.</p>
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<p>The twelve types are the spring, summer, autumn and winter natures. We need winter-type people just as we need the season of winter. If the world had begun in an ideal way then the spring-type culture would have been established, but because of man’s fall a summer culture was started instead. Mankind did not see the blossoming of Adam and Eve; man started his evolution from summer instead of spring, with the ancient civilizations in their warm climates. Now in the twentieth century we have entered the autumn culture, when everything ripens. Now the winter-type civilization, centering on Russia, is trying to invade this culture, even though it knows that it is destined to go through the springtime eventually.</p>
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<p>All the autumn leaves have dropped off the trees and are withering now, and only the civilization which has life in it can remain. The winter civilization actually has no place either, and eventually has to be drawn into the God-centered spring civilization. We call that spring culture the centrally harmonized civilization or roundly harmonized civilization. All the summer, autumn, and winter civilizations will oppose us as we try to go to the spring civilization which is true life, but we will drag them with us. That’s the course of history and the dispensation so it has to move forward.</p>
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<p>No matter how stony the communists may boast they are, when the cosmic spring comes, the ice has to melt. That cosmic spring centers on the warmth of love. When love visits, everyone opens the door of their mind. There is no area love cannot pass through. Just as Jesus followed a pattern, so we must do likewise. Each individual must condition himself to pass over a certain type of peak. In Western culture thirteen is an unlucky number, but actually it is a good number and we must cross over it. Americans are not ignorant people, but they don’t know this all important fact. If you are not successful with thirteen then when winter comes you will die of the cold.</p>
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<p>Americans are confronted by communism now and can’t wriggle out of it. They are afraid of communism, wringing their hands and wondering what to do, but not the Moonies. You have been taught that you have to go over the winter to enter the spring so you will just swallow communism and digest it. America needs a leader who has intelligence enough to know this and to lead the nation in the right direction so it can conquer communism.</p>
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<p>Once America survives it can conquer the number thirteen and stand right beside Jesus. We are bearing the cross of mankind, just as Jesus did. Now the Moonies are doing it in place of today’s Christians. The letter b is like the number thirteen; everything that starts with b is connected with 13. That’s the quality you have to have to survive: be a believer who is brave, bold and bright.</p>
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<p>America is facing collapse from every angle, and the only thing holding it together is the Unification Church. It is incredible but true. The most profound reason we fund raise is so that somewhere along the line we can get the signatures of twelve different people, representing 120 countries. This is exactly what America eyes nation composed of 120 different nationalities of people. When a person gives you a donation he is actually loving you and doing the same work you are. Therefore, God will give him some blessing. Then America, where the money will be spent, will also be blessed. All things will benefit from our fund raising. We do home church in order to find the twelve different types of people. Eventually you have to get their signature of approval. For the time being take my word for this and act on it, and later see whether you can find any evidence to the contrary.</p>
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<p>Of course home church is difficult. If you go knock on the door of the most unpleasant person you know he will yell at you. You may not want to see his face but you knock anyway and he yells at you. If you go back three times I can guarantee that his voice will become lower. After four or five times he will want to know why you come and wonder what kind of person you are.</p>
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<p>The moment he smiles at you will be the moment the walls crumble and the twelve gates open for you. If you seriously work for that goal then when the 360 homes welcome you your cosmic spring is really at hand. You can know that one day your home church members will be waiting outside for you to ask you for lunch. Some day the worst person will be waiting to ask you for dinner and to sleep in his house. That will surely come to pass.</p>
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<p>That’s our objective, and until that day comes you will keep knocking on their doors. We talk about hope and faith, and what higher hope is there than to look forward to the day when they welcome you? When you go around and around knocking all the walls down, you will eventually arrive at the central point you should occupy. Then you will be a successful number thirteen. At that moment you will have finished historical indemnity centering on yourself. You will have achieved something no one ever dreamed of achieving and will occupy the central position with God’s approval. That’s when your rocket of love will take off to the center of the love of God.</p>
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<p>I know that many of you, especially the women, study yourselves in front of the mirror and wish that maybe your nose or mouth or ears were different. But I am telling you that they make almost no difference. Forget it. If you are running as fast as you can then you are beautiful; no manicure or makeup will make you beautiful. You don’t have to have position or a degree. If you don’t have anything it is still fine.</p>
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<p>How fast are you going to go-like an airplane, a rocket, a bullet? Will you really run in the 1980s? In the 1970s your mind and body, your eyes and ears, were all going in different directions. But in the 1980s are you going to assemble everything in one direction? Our only focal point is love. Your eyes will focus on love, your ears hear nothing but love, your mouth speak about nothing but love. If they go in single file, which should go first? Your mind, then your body-eyes, ears, nose, limbs and so forth.</p>
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<p>If you fly as fast as you said you would then your arrow cannot be pulled out of God’s heart. Do you think God will want to pull it out because it’s painful? No, God will push it in deeper. You are just thinking about God’s heart now, but one day you will be living in it. When that happens, whenever you want to do something God will want to do it too. That’s the sole objective we will strive for in the 1980s. We will not look back or to one side, but just go for the goal. Will you do that this year?</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">January 2, 1980<br />
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<p>You are the wings of the Unification Church, the aspect which is responsible for our financial foundation. Since I set up this year’s new motto I am sure some of you wonder what you can do about home church, since you can’t settle down in one place. The most important thing you should know is why we are doing home church. I told our members to do home church. But MFT [ed. Mobile Fundraising Team] activities are also the result of my direct instruction to you. This is your mission for God’s dispensation.</p>
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<p>There are many other missions in our Church apart from the regular home church dispensation. Many other brothers and sisters are doing special tasks. The important consideration, however, is whether a member receives his instructions wholeheartedly and fulfills them to the utmost.</p>
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<p>Home church alone could not fulfill all of God’s dispensation; it must be united with all the other components to make up the heavenly victory. Your attitude, or the shape of your mind and heart, is important, and second, how much time you invest in your task. Finally, how much drive you invest to overcome any difficulties is of concern. Ultimately speaking, your commitment, persistence and determination that what you do is vital for the ultimate victory of God is the key point. Each activity is crucial in the direction of God’s dispensation, so what is important is how well the different components come together to fulfill one central goal. We need personnel, an economic foundation, and other support elements to thrust toward the goal. Because we are focused on that central goal, we need many different departments and elements that will make a wholesome, self-sustaining entity which can push toward the goal.</p>
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<p>Let us analyze what we do in the Unification Church. First we do fund raising, Second, we do witnessing. We have the CARP movement, VOC activities, a newspaper, and businesses such as the fishing industry. All of these are components of the whole movement that will thrust us to the ultimate goal. At this point in our history, the mission of the MFT is very vital. The MFT is even more important than the witnessing mission because witnessing only has impact on the national level, but the economic foundation can have worldwide impact.</p>
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<p>I sent out the head of the World Mission Department as my roving representative to hold conferences in all different areas of the world. He reported to me over God’s Day and said that in many parts of the world our missions are booming, but if we had more money for them to work with then they would just explode with success. In order to meet such a worldwide financial need our income should be ten or a hundred times more than it is. The need for funds is so great that current income could never meet it. If a person who is capable of witnessing has proper financial backing and goes out to a world mission, he could get explosive result in a short time.</p>
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<p>When I came to America I had to build a proper financial foundation, which included assembling properties such as the New Yorker hotel. Unless we have tangible things to show, who would respect us? It is reality that we will be judged by our financial strength and organizational capability. Our American Church properties were purchased mainly during 1975 and 1976, when the persecution was at its peak. Why did I buy property during that time? Because I knew that doing so would have an impact on history. When everyone welcomes you and there is no opposition, no one will take much notice when you make advances. We are still buying property, but now people take it for granted. No one is surprised that I can do it. When you do things under great adversity, however, they have much more impact because people respect the person who achieves great things in the face of difficulty. We are doing many activities today that seem to have no direct relationship to the religious work of the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Fund raising is a requirement for every member in the Unification Church. The financial responsibility of the dispensation should not be undertaken by just a handful of people. Just as with witnessing, everyone should undertake it. Since there are so many diverse missions to be undertaken, we created a national MFT to be the main thrust in financial responsibility. Not only in America but in Japan as well the members are fund raising with great intensity, and in Korea in their own way they are doing their best.</p>
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<p>I am looking at these activities from the worldwide point of view and I see who is heroically doing the most under adverse conditions. In other areas of the world as well, our members are working under tremendous pressure. If you are single-mindedly doing your mission then that is all you need be concerned with, but I have to be concerned not only with the income aspect but have to plan and erect a lasting economic foundation.</p>
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<p>Mr. Kamiyama is not sitting in his office doing nothing, but works late day after day because he carries an incredible burden. Once a year he gives me an annual report of financial affairs and MFT activities. I never tell him that he did a good job the previous year and will reduce his responsibilities. I do just the opposite. This is God’s position though. Each year the mission is getting more complex and more heavy, with the worldwide requirements getting bigger and bigger. Thus, I am always pushing Mr. Kamiyama and telling him he is not doing enough, that he has to do twice as much as before.</p>
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<p>You may feel that you have done pretty well and had good averages, but you should not feel satisfied and content. You should raise your goal for the next year. You can push yourself and your team, but each person reaches a certain limit where he thinks he cannot do any better. At that point you have to be careful of getting discouraged; you might think you are no good any more or wonder what point there is in trying since you can’t fulfill it anyway. Regardless of how capable or hard-working you are, everyone stumbles across that trap sooner or later.</p>
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<p>I am responsible for the gigantic timetable called God’s providence of restoration. God is pressuring me to meet certain time schedules. Many times I have come to the point where I think I can’t go beyond a certain point, but God doesn’t want to waste any time. He actually wishes that the complete restoration could have been done in one day, or if it were possible in even one second. God is looking for a man who can take His mission and understand and digest it. God’s desire to fulfill is overwhelming, and He is anguished over fulfilling a certain thing by a certain time, so he looks for His most trustworthy son, to whom He can say, “This is my goal and it absolutely has to be done. No one else understands this but you may. But in order to fulfill it you may have to do ten times more than you are already doing.” How that son will respond is very important.</p>
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<p>First the son must realize that he is the only one who can fulfill that task, or even come near to understanding it. He knows that God feels only he can do the task. In that situation you realize that you are no longer free and you no longer have choices. You know you are the only one God can call upon. The mere fact that when God is anguished and overburdened He has come to you means that you are very privileged. Then you feel you never want to let God down or betray His hope.</p>
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<p>At that point you have to apply the Principle. You don’t feel, “God, You are supposed to be almighty. Why don’t you do it yourself? Why ask me? I’m not almighty.” We know through Principle that God is doing His 100%, but that the dispensation will never be complete without man’s portion of responsibility, no matter how much God does.</p>
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<p>The success of the dispensation hinges on what man does. God doesn’t demand that man give God his 5%, but instead gives His 95% to man, realizing that man can make or break everything. He has man do the whole mission. God saves up His 95% and makes it available to man any time he wants to withdraw from the account. When you fulfill your 5% that account grows and grows, and the blessing can be handed down not only to you, but also to your descendants, generation after generation.</p>
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<p>The MFT understands commercial activities very well, so you can understand when I say you could never find any greater business profit than you find when you deal with God. The capital is all there waiting for you; all you have to do is use it and then all the profit is yours. One kind of person would tell God that he has earned a certain amount of money and is putting it into the account, and he wants a strict accounting of the interest. Another type of person would tell God that he has money to put in the account along with God’s 95%, but that he wants God to have it all because his only desire is to make God happy.</p>
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<p>What use does God have for money? He is spirit, so even if He had hundred dollar bills in His pocket they would be useless to Him. God would rather delegate custody of the account to someone He can trust, knowing that the person shares God’s desires and that he will use it for the heavenly purpose. He will tell that person to keep the account books and spend it as he sees fit.</p>
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<p>This morning there are 280 MFT members here. I hope there are many among you who, if they earned $10,000, would offer it to God, saying, “Here is Your money, Heavenly Father. Please use it any way You want to.” And then when tomorrow comes you would forget what you did yesterday, except to remember so that you could do better today. Some people would think that way, others would think they deserved a week of vacation. If you worked so hard that God came to urge you to take care of yourself and rest a little, some would respond, “Father, don’t worry about me. I am more worried about Your health and Your problems. I want to keep going and bring more success to You.”</p>
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<p>If God asked such a person whether he was keeping a record of his accomplishments, that person would reply that he has already forgotten what he has done and all he remembers is what he is going to do today and tomorrow. Would God exclaim that he is being foolish? If God were to recite to him a list of what he had done, he would reply, “Did I really do that? I am amazed!” Would God disown such a son for being foolish and forgetful? God would be deeply touched and feel even closer to him.</p>
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<p>When you do things with love you don’t want any reward, right? Love is unconditional, and no matter how much you have to sacrifice, you don’t look for anything back again. God knows that principle so well. You forget the contributions you gave God in the past simply because you did it out of love. That’s how God wants you to be like Him. The only thing I remember is that I will go on with the determination to do better than yesterday. This year we should do a great deal, and then next year forget it as we try to do better out of love.</p>
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<p>You can tell God to go and give His support to people who really need it, that He doesn’t have to worry about you because you will get a great result anyway. Then, as you are running along every day, if you turn around God will be there behind you. If you ask Him why He is hanging around after you told Him He should help the other people, God will tell you that He can’t stay away, that He wants to be with you.</p>
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<p>God knows that you would tell Him to go be elsewhere if He came in the daytime, so He will sneak in at night. No one could criticize God for doing so if they really knew the motivation in the heart of that son. I want you to become the men and women God can’t help wanting to be around. Other people might complain that He goes to that son even at night, and never visits them even when they ask Him to come. Is any complaint that God is unfair justified?</p>
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<p>What kind of sons and daughters are you? You are going to be the children who give your best out of love so that God cannot leave you. Are you such people now? Whenever you do well, you will forget, and the more you forget, the better. If ever you do evil, then you remember.</p>
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<p>Satan is always trying to promote evil work to you, saying that nobody will see what you do and tomorrow you won’t remember. But you reply, “I have a very clear record of any evil acts, and I won’t forget the slightest evil I do.” Forget the good you do, but remember the bad things and let them be your warnings. You know what imperfections there are from your past life, and to cleanse it all you will go on with added stamina. Then Satan will realize that the little evil he got you to do has only hardened you against doing any more and it inspires you to work harder for God. Satan will realize he can only lose by tempting you further.</p>
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<p>God will be watching these conversations, and would He feel good or bad at the outcome? God sees that everyone can make mistakes, but usually people just give in completely after failing a few times. Wise men and women will utilize their past mistakes to bring even greater victory to God, however. It is common religious practice today to ask God for unconditional forgiveness, without realizing that past error has to be indemnified in order to be cleansed. The whole matter boils down to how you can separate yourself from Satan.</p>
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<p>In conclusion, when you do good for someone don’t remember it or hope for a reward. On the other hand, don’t forget your shortcomings and mistakes. Such a person will always prosper. You should feel that in order to make up for the past you want to do ten or a hundred times more for God than the average person. Then you are always cashing in your past for greater good.</p>
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<p>MFT work is difficult and troublesome, isn’t it? Only a handful said no, so the rest of you must agree with me. When new members come and are getting assigned to missions, they often hope they aren’t put on MFT. The important point is whether people just want a free ride and an easy job. or really want to take responsibility.</p>
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<p>I want to tell you a story. When I was at the communist concentration camp at Hung Nam, the prisoners had to do forced labor. Some duties were easier than others, but the amazing thing was that the prisoners who tried to be smart and get the easier jobs were the ones who never lasted. They all died. I looked for the hardest task of all in the prison and wanted to do that. And not only that, I decided I would always work even if I were sick. Even in a prison which the communists designed to kill the prisoners slowly, I was always recognized as a number one inmate.</p>
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<p>The inmates were organized into ten man teams, each with a quota of bags to fill, weigh and load. In order to meet the quota each team had to be really united. After a while everyone wanted me on their team because they knew I could help them meet the goal and then get their whole ration. I knew that if I applied this principle in business that I would succeed incredibly. Some people would rather have an easier mission than MFT, but eventually they will leave the Unification Church to go to another group which seems to have an easier life.</p>
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<p>The person who always wants the easier task is developing the same disposition as Satan. The easy ways of getting money are always dangerous, aren’t they? Anyone looking for the easy life will eventually be rejected even by the satanic side, which also wants hard-working champions. Everything else except the mainstream will come and then go.</p>
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<p>Why did God choose a man like St. Paul, who was one of the worst persecutors of the early Christians? God knew that the same qualities that made him a champion on the satanic side would also make him a champion on God’s side. When you listen to Mr. Kamiyama as he gives you new missions or tales tough to you, you can think, “Is that all you want me to do? I will do ten times more.” Anyone who thinks that way and strives toward the central goal will undoubtedly become the central figure of his whole team and region. There is one type, who always wants to talk about his own accomplishments, and another type who is silent yet gives his entire heart and soul to the task. In the short run the person who advertises himself may seem to succeed, but he will not last.</p>
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<p>I never complained to God, but always think that people have a right to criticize me because I haven’t finished my job yet. I don’t resent America or want revenge because America criticized me; I think I deserve that criticism. If I had come to America after building the Kingdom of God in Korea, this nation would not dislike me. But 1 have not done that. The same thing applies in your individual position. I think I will work doubly hard here and succeed for both nations. My goal is Moscow and the liberation of the communist world. If I fulfill the Kingdom of Heaven in the free world, how could Moscow reject me? I must have something better than they do or else they will reject me.</p>
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<p>Before you complain, think that there is still a great deal for you to do, and then you won’t want to waste your time complaining. If Mr. Kamiyama told you to be here at 7 a.m. but you thought’ “We’ve had so many meetings already. I think I’ll sleep in this one time,” then he could be angry if he called for that member and he wasn’t there. The only way you would be justified in not coming is if you had already made up your mind to achieve a greater goal than Mr. Kamiyama wanted to set, and felt that coming to the meeting might convince you to lower your goal. Could your bigger world be contained in Mr. Kamiyama’s smaller world? But then you have to prove it in action.</p>
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<p>If you really put my words into practice, in five or ten years you will be able to see the miraculous impact that it will have on your life. Once on MFT you will not quit before you set the record. There is no such thing as retreat; first go over the MFT mission and then on to something else greater. If you are a plane flying toward a mountain, there are only two ways you can survive-crash through the mountain and come out on the other side, or go over it.</p>
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<p>When I first came to this country I felt that America was a tall mountain ahead of me, and I would either penetrate it or go over it. Going over the hill requires more energy and creates many complications, so the easiest way is to penetrate it. My method is not to circle and beat around the bush, but to confront and penetrate any problem. This extraordinary method has never been seen in American history. I want to meet the person who will say, “Reverend Moon, I will either go over you or penetrate you.” I invite that kind of person to step forward. I want all of you to compete with and do better than me.</p>
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<p>It is not entirely true that you do MFT without complaint. Everyone commits that sin of complaint to a certain degree. If all 240 million people complained except one man, he would become their hope. Even a complaining leader is looking for the person who doesn’t complain.</p>
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<p>I know which tactic will eventually win. I am in a life-and-death venture to win the world. It is like running a store with three billion employees so you can imagine it is a complicated venture. Some equipment breaks down, there are health problems, accidents happen, and so on. There is no time to do anything except concentrate on running the store.</p>
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<p>My main message to you today is to forget the good you have done but remember your mistakes and keep a tight record. That is my way of life. If I don’t have a mistake to remember, I will remember someone else’s mistake and make it my lesson. Whenever you have complaint, I think I will do more so that your own children will know that your complaint was not justified.</p>
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<p>I remember a woman who was a member some time ago and followed me very closely. But when I went to North Korea to continue the dispensation she dropped away. That woman heard about my ordeal in the communist prison camp, and later when I returned to the south and was persecuted and imprisoned there also, she became very opposed and sided with the Christian opposition. One day she came to see what I looked like after all this time. I don’t want to go into detail, but I will say this: I cannot forget what she said to me, and I determined that no matter how shabby I was after prison I would never quit until that woman and her children respected me. I cannot forget her scorn, and even now I still go on to vindicate myself.</p>
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<p>Past members who thought they could do better outside the Unification Church left to organize their own businesses and professions, but now the businesses that I organized are buying up their companies. Such a person finds that some member who was in a lower position than himself when he was a member is now chairman of the board of the company who is buying him out. Now that person finds himself asking for even some lowly job from me. I will not forget the mistreatment people give me, but will renew myself to keep going to vindicate the people who were loyal. That includes you.</p>
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<p>Remember that no matter how people mistreat you, you shall be vindicated. When you can think this way then no matter how tired you get you can immediately be uplifted and go on. You cannot be defeated then. The American people and government might mistreat me, and even the Soviet government might oppose me, but instead of running away I will face it and penetrate it.</p>
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<p>When I was in Korea last year I learned that my vindication is taking place. One of our young members is teaching Divine Principle in the same courtroom where I was tried, to the judges and government prosecutors who condemned me and put me in jail. The tables have been turned. That is the day I have been waiting for, the day when the people who condemned me can be taught how to live a proper life. I won’t tell you how much the American government has mistreated me and even plotted against me. As an individual I do not seek revenge, but for God’s sake my position as His representative must be vindicated. Justice must be done.</p>
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<p>Here I see the future presidents of big corporations, including the women. That is how I look at you. Will it be easy for you to meet my expectation? I want to see each of you become leaders eventually and educate all Americans.</p>
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<p>We have an entirely different motivation and standard from the secular world. Many people think the Unification Church is going nowhere and they leave to do better on their own. But are they succeeding better by themselves? In ten or twenty years you will see the fruit of their mistake. In some cases you are mistreated by people you meet fund raising, but even when they hit you and spit at you endure. Inside you can feel that some day you will vindicate Reverend Moon’s name. Years later you may be President or First Lady and then no one can deny you. That is the way God thinks.</p>
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<p>God always remembers who was mistreated and He feels strong anguish over it. He wants to work for those people. God can only be God because He forgets all the good He has done for thousands of years. But He never forgets how much evil has been done in this world and who was victimized by it.</p>
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<p>I need nothing for myself-no people, no money-but I need a way to fulfill God’s desire. For that purpose I need money and men, and day and night I am thinking how I can meet the need. As the work gets harder and more hectic, even dangerous, then the more excited I feel. God has not given me even one piece of paper as a citation. But I will never question why He has given me nothing for all I have done. On the contrary, I think I should be the one to give God a citation. God deserves a citation, so in looking down He is thinking who He wants to receive that citation from. I know that undoubtedly God would pick me. You can ask God whether that is true or not, but I think that is the case. If that is not the case, then God isn’t perfect, and if He’s not perfect then I wouldn’t give Him a citation anyway! If a person thinks in that fashion, how could that person take even one moment to complain about something?</p>
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<p>Normally people think that they deserve to rest if there are ten spare minutes. Sometimes I doze off for ten minutes, but when I catch myself and wake up, I repent. This attitude is how I am different, and this is why I think God would choose me personally. You are hand picked as well because you have certain comparable qualities. Why would God pick you to be a Moonie? Why is it that you stay here, knowing the Unification Church is unpopular? You don’t want to leave the Moonie taste because it’s so sweet.</p>
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<p>Do not ever complain, or think you cannot go on any more because you are so miserable. Think of God at that moment; God is far more miserable than you are and He needs you, so you can think, “God, if that is the case, nothing will stop me. I will go on and on. I have no freedom to give up.” If you go on like that for one year, two years, three years, and then look at your situation, you may be skinny and tired looking, living in a shabby room, but in the meantime the whole world is being changed and coming into your arms. In time people will come to pay their respects to you and want to hear your experiences. When you testify to your way of life, people won’t be able to listen without crying.</p>
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<p>What relation is there between God and Unification Church members? Why will the world eventually come and bow down? Because we love God and not ourselves, and we give our sacrificial work to the world while people do not realize it. When this becomes apparent, people won’t be able to help paying their respects.</p>
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<p>When I was beginning the movement in Korea and persecution was coming to us, I never thought to ask God to stop it because we had had enough. Instead, I told God that I knew we would get the same persecution in Japan, America and Moscow but it would never stop me. Even if God gives me the cross, I would do it for you and your children. When you see me and realize that I have gone through incredible suffering, do you think I look sixty? Even though I suffered, my mind is still young because there is more to be done. If you do home church with this spirit it won’t take even three years, but maybe only three months.</p>
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<p>I would like you MFT members to think that you have an important mission to do and that you will do your best. If you are doing home church ten years from now you should feel that you will do it in the shortest possible time based on your hard work on MFT. Here you are reshaping yourself to resemble me, and when your home church opportunity comes later, you will knock it over in no time.</p>
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<p>If one runner at a marathon race is sitting by, eating his lunch when the gun goes off, by the time he finishes the other runners will be miles away. If he gets up, stretches, and idly notices the time and then starts running yet still wins the race, would that be a dramatic victory? That’s the way I see the providence of restoration. I always want to be number one, yet to do it in a unique fashion. Biblical history is like a marathon race, with many champions like Abraham, Moses and the prophets who have already been running for thousands of years. Because they are running in darkness they are running in the wrong direction, so before I start I am looking at them to see what mistakes they made.</p>
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<p>The Divine Principle points out what their mistakes were, so do you think I will repeat those errors? I unlocked all the secrets of the universe and all the mistakes God’s champions have made. On top of that, I found they are running in the wrong direction, so what good would it do for them to keep running for thousands of years? I found that the completion of the dispensational goal is only one step away, so I got up and took that one step and waited for everyone else to arrive. When they arrive could those champions complain I have to run for thousands of years to qualify as a winner? Or would they have to acknowledge that I am the winner?</p>
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<p>Your MFT is like this marathon. When you see someone making a mistake you can apply the Divine Principle and learn from it. Then you will find the clear way to win a decisive victory. There will be one chapter of Unification Church history devoted to MFT, with many historical names recorded there. I want to see your names there as people who made history. Home church also needs that kind of men and women. Those testimonies will form an eternal tradition. Once you women are seasoned on MFT, supporting your own family will be no problem. This is a great task you are fulfilling, and now you have confidence to do it.</p>
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<p>I came to America barehanded, yet even with incredible disadvantages of language and culture I determined to gather people and make money and set up every organization needed to fulfill God’s will. I have a wealth of experience to enable me to do that. I know how to make money. I know how to witness. Who has done the most about winning members here in America? No one can compete with me. More members joined when I spoke to the public than any other time. If I went out to the campuses and spoke to young people, getting 30,000 members would be no problem.</p>
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<p>The CARP commanders reported that I am very popular with the young people, especially on campus, and said that if I ever said I was coming to speak, the whole student body would gather to hear me. I said I would consider it, but on one condition- that talk should also be broadcast live to the whole community. I told them that I would speak if they arranged that. If I concentrated on making money, getting many millions of dollars would be no problem. If I concentrated on witnessing, I could win several thousand members in one day. I will not be indebted to anyone. I always feel that America is indebted to me.</p>
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<p>I am looking for men and women who can inherit this tradition. I am not waiting for you to become company presidents and then bring your company to me; I am training you to become leaders of corporations, and when you are ready I will give you a company to run.</p>
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<p>I am sorry to say that the American MFT record is far behind that of the Japanese. I don’t do too much for the Japanese MFT, like signing pictures, but whenever Mr. Kamiyama asks me to sign pictures and books for you I always do. I am afraid that if I do too much of this for you that it will become cheap. I have never signed anything for Japanese MFT members who have worked ten years and more because I want to set the condition of loving Westerners more. I am an Oriental man, but I want to love Westerners more and give them more privilege. Now that you know my thinking, do you feel good to hear this? Knowing how I treat the Japanese, who deserve these things more than you, will you determine to do better because you have been given more?</p>
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<p>Mr. Kamiyama has reported to me that some of our members have been stabbed, and one brother was even shot. But the bullet passed through his neck, never touching any vital organ and he was saved. When Mr. Kamiyama reported this he said that God was really protecting us. But I thought that if someone suffers some great injury for God and is left with scars it would have more value. That person has recovered fully and now the incident is forgotten. If that bullet had damaged some major artery, for instance, so that the person was permanently harmed, do you think that as a parent I could forget that member for the rest of my life?</p>
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<p>In 1974 a bomb exploded at the French Unification Church. One sister who was there narrowly escaped death but she was hospitalized for almost two years. I cannot forget that person, and over the two years I sent words of comfort and money for the hospital bill. The last time I went to Great Britain I asked her especially to come and she was matched with a wonderful husband. I matched many couples in Europe, and have forgotten where most of them are, but I will not forget this one couple, and even now I know where they are. I went to see how they are living.</p>
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<p>All these things shall become tradition in the sight of God and humanity. Her scars are not shameful, but are eternal decorations that are the pride of Unification Church. They will attract my attention and God’s attention. I am thinking about what kind of children that couple will have and I am anxious to see them.</p>
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<p>Don’t ask for a smooth, uneventful life on MFT. You should expect controversy and hardship instead. How you penetrate that will become our tradition and history. Only a few extraordinary people among you will set a tradition.</p>
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<p>My own record cannot be removed from the history of restoration. Bo Hi Pak was speaking with me yesterday, and he said that over the last 21 years he remembers that I would stir up controversy sometimes instead of just smoothing things over. Now, seeing my explanation on the blackboard, he can understand what I was doing and he is completely amazed at how I was fulfilling one precise thing after another. In the meantime there is a great tradition left for the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>If I am father, then you are children, so whom should you resemble? Kwon Jin’s performance last night was not rehearsed, but he looked and acted just like his father. He is precisely like I was at that age. When I saw him I thought back to those years, just like looking in a mirror. Do you think I was gutsy and dynamic and had a sense of humor, even when I was young? If you say you are my children then you must resemble me in that way also.</p>
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<p>In looking back on my life as I reach sixty, there are many things I can be grateful for. I made honest. mistakes in the past, yet God still embraced me and guided me, so my mistakes taught me a lesson and could bring more blessing to me. When you think back to all the great men in American history, can you find anyone like Reverend Moon who thinks big, who thinks about God and humanity and eternal tradition? Is it then a privilege to be guided by me directly? That is your pride and dignity. That’s why we can be proud and why we alone can do the difficult task.</p>
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<p>No one else ever conceived the idea of MFT. No one can compete with you and that is your pride. We have home church pride as well. There is hardly any campus organization working for goodness, but we started CARP and that is our pride. When the world is beset by the problem of communism, we set up the <em>International Federation for Victory over Communism</em>. No one else has done such a thing. That too is our pride. America is surrounded by the sea but has not conquered it. I initiated our fishing business to revitalize American fishing and seaports. This is certainly our pride. The ocean contains tremendous resources but no one has received them. We are inheriting it from God and all we have to do is tap it.</p>
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<p>Don’t ever be ashamed of being a Moonie and what you are doing. Money is a secondary goal; most important of all, MFT is the best possible training you could get. In time our movement will grow to include hundreds of millions of people working for world restoration. They will think the world comes first and give their salary for the providence. In the meantime, you always have an earning capability. If millions of people practice our way of life, think of the resources we could gather for world restoration.</p>
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<p>Imagine the day when the Unification Church has ten million families, whose women are so capable they can support the family themselves and free their husbands to do their missions. You are trained to earn a certain amount per month as a standard, so don’t you think this could happen? Right now you are fund raising under adverse conditions, but in ten years the world will know what we are doing, and with community and media support you could certainly do more than you do now. Then raising family expense money and Church money will be simple.</p>
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<p>We use your fund raising result for the world and in the future will be able to give each nation much money for development. The foreign ministers of different nations will camp outside East Garden waiting their turn to petition for aid. We will buy apartments for people to stay in while they wait in Tarrytown so they won’t have to camp out, and while they wait they can learn Divine Principle. Since America is the best country for MFT, forty or fifty more million members will come here from all over the world. Because everyone will know the Unification Church is fund raising for the sake of the world, would people welcome us? Would the free world decline or become strong enough to defeat communism as a result?</p>
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<p>No one will take this privilege away from you. No one can take away the training you have gained on the MFT. No one can take away your ability to gather money, and long after I am gone to spirit world you will be able to support and educate your children and grandchildren. You can tell them that you are able to do that because Reverend Moon trained you on MFT. Most people who reach their sixties start thinking about going to senior citizens’ homes, but you Moonies will still be going strong. You will be able to speak more profoundly and people will respect you more, so you can inspire people more when you ask for contributions. With your own income you can help needy people with their school fees and hospital bills. You are setting up an incredible tradition and accumulating great ability.</p>
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<p>How much impact will this have on the national spirit if the older people are the best fund raisers for the sake of the nation and world? I am testing whether this is possible with the Japanese blessed couples who are over forty and have several children. The outcome is that the skills they acquired when they were younger are still there and they are getting a great result. Shall we be prepared for the future and for your families here in America?</p>
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<p>I made the movie “Oh Inchon!”, and in fifty days paid the entire cost in cash. What is my power? I have nothing in the bank and nothing at East Garden. I am still barehanded, but when I make up my mind that we need money for a certain project, there is a way for it to be done.</p>
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<p>I am now planning to buy a top level machine manufacturing company in Germany and here in America. Tong Il Industries is top level now in Korea, and together with industries in Germany and America they will become a powerful axis of the Unification Church movement. Why am I doing this? It is for the sake of your children. None of you may benefit, but your children will. Why am I working so hard every day? Ultimately it is for the sake of your country and your children.</p>
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<p>At the end of December Mr. Kamiyama told me that you had a pretty good month. Then I asked him what he was going to do about January 1980 and he couldn’t answer. I told him that doing well in December is natural; I take it for granted. But when you do well in January then you can be proud. If you are going to be a leader you have to think the way I think, that it is normal to do well in December. You have already made up your mind that December is a good month and that January is not a good month, so you and Mr. Kamiyama have already limited your own minds. You think that because everyone is spending money for Christmas it is easy to make money in December; in January they have already spent their money so you know extra energy is needed to do as well as in December.</p>
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<p>You are not going to retreat but will move on to set better records and standards than last year, and in 1981 do better than this year. You can test yourself even while you are walking along the road: telephone poles are an equal distance apart, so find out how long it takes to walk between two poles, and then go twice as fast between the next two, then three times as fast between the two after that.</p>
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<p>You return to the same towns several times for fund raising during the year, so keep track of how well you did there last time and plan to do it faster this time. Always compare yourself with your past record. You can keep a record of how much money you make there by using color coded thumb tacks, and when you go back again decide how much more you will make this time. Always keep track of what you have done and then push yourself to do better next time. The relationship of time and income makes up your record.</p>
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<p>If you feel excitement and enthusiasm then you cannot be dragged down or discouraged. You can make a chart to record your results. When you see from your past record for a specific time of year or a certain town that you are advancing, you will not get discouraged. Captains and commanders should make sure their teams keep their records straight. You can make a graph of monthly results and have annual records side by side in the same diagram. Are you doing it? If not then you will get tired and bored.</p>
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<p>You have to pick yourself up further and further. You should know only advancement, never retreat. In the first year you make a certain average, then three years later it should be higher, then five years and ten years later much higher. You know how much you did in 1978 and 1979, so now you can plan how much you will do in 1980. You have to have a track record of your advancement. Those who retreat are dying, but a man with life wants to advance. Don’t be intimidated by the highest record, or complain when Mr. Kamiyama sets a higher goal that he is trying to get more out of you this year. If you truly understand what I am saying this morning then you won’t think that way.</p>
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<p>We are starting a new decade. The seventies were full of tribulations and difficulties, but the eighties will be a decade of great hope. From this time on we will have nothing but victory. We are winning every legal battle in getting permission for fund raising. My ultimate goal is to have 100,000 members on American MFT. America is so big that 1,000 people is a small number, but you are running so fast that every time people turn around they meet another Moonie. If we have 100,000 Moonies running around, what do you think will happen? If they are well trained then they will be like a great wave, like Niagara Falls. Politicians in particular will see this all over the country, and Presidential candidates will think they have to get your support in order to win, so they will join MFT for one month to win your hearts.</p>
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<p>Is it easier to get one dollar from a person, or get his vote? If you can earn a certain amount per month then certainly winning 100 votes a month is easy, and all together you will be in a position to affect ten million people. If the amount of money 100,000 people could make in one month for the Unification Church were used for a presidential campaign, do you think you could elect a President?</p>
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<p>Now do you know whether or not your job is needed? This is the fastest way to restore the country, and it is quite vital. Would you women be good campaigners if your husband were running for a congressional seat? You have a great advantage with your experience. Furthermore, the entire spirit world is active and ready to help. Now you see only the grim reality, such as the van breaking down, or the rain and snow, or an accident, or sick members But when those things hit you, think of the future.</p>
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<p>As a group go ahead and prepare for the salvation of the nation. If you leave and try to prepare individually to run for office twenty years from now, you can never be as well trained as the MFT members. At one time Senator Kennedy’s standing in the polls was so high that everyone thought he would inevitably be the candidate, but after one small statement about the Shah his standing was completely changed. This is the reality of the world.</p>
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<p>What we see now is the hope of the new decade. We will make headway all over the world in the eighties. In summary, don’t complain and never be discouraged. Forget the good things you have done and the good records you set, but remember your mistakes. Win a greater result this year than last year and let us see hope for the future. We are the incredible hope of the world and in the mainstream of destiny. You must never forget this.</p>
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<p>The MFT mission is only one period in your life. Even though some of you have been doing it for several years, new missions are coming. You are there to set the record and get some achievement so you can move on to another mission on the foundation of a good record. This is most important. I want to create a manual of your experiences so that future members can follow your success stories. In 1980 we shall do better than 1979; in the eighties you shall do better than the seventies. Will you promise me?</p>
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<p>In January will you bring your record down or up? Do you want me to make a bigger budget for 1980 than 1979? Are you saying yes on the condition that I give the MFT more people to make up the difference? Are you promising me you will do better? I want to see Mr. Kamiyama come up with more money than the budget requires so we can buy some boats. I would like to have a series of names for the boats every year.</p>
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<p>In 1979 Mr. Kamiyama couldn’t come up with even a penny for boats; with that in mind, how many boats will we get in 1980? You should think that with your result you can get one boat by yourself in 1980 and it can be named by you. Shall we do it? I told Mr. Kamiyama that if any month this year exceeds the record month of last year we will set aside the difference for the boats. When the boat is purchased, it will be named for the person and team who contributed the most toward that result. I told Mr. Kamiyama to mark that extra money especially to be set aside and not spent. No one can touch it. If all have worked equally hard and if you would rather draw straws instead to see who names the boat, that’s all right too.</p>
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<p>Each person should write up his record for 1980 and make a projection for the future, and report to your team captain and commander, and it will be reported to me. Every three months I want to hear whether you are fulfilling your own projection.</p>
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<p>When you go out to sea you will see those boats and can remember that they are the ones you bought in 1980 and 1981, and see how many more you got in each succeeding year. The serial number shall be coded: F for fund raising, and the last two numbers of the year, such as F80.</p>
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<p>No discouragement and no complaint. Better record and advancement. See the future with hope and vision. Are you ready to go and do well now? CARP is going strong and I am pushing it full ahead. Would you want to fall behind the CARP movement? I am going to be meeting members around the country and talking to them, and I am focusing most on CARP centers. Would you like to have me visit your center?</p>
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<p>If the first boat is bought in the next three months then I will do it, but if CARP does more then I will go there instead. If you get more than one boat we will label them F80a, F80b, F80c, and so forth.</p>
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<p>A state leaders’ conference has been waiting for me since 8:30. Mr. Kamiyama begged me to speak even just ten minutes, but he knew that I would speak to you for three hours!</p>
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<p>This year we are celebrating the thirteenth God’s Day. This is also the year I will welcome my sixtieth birthday. Do I look old? No? Thank you. But no matter what you say, time is marching on and you cannot negotiate with it. Time doesn’t listen to you.</p>
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<p>Eighty per cent of the congregation this morning is more or less the age of my sons and daughters. I will celebrate my sixtieth birthday soon, but do you think that I once had a youthful time in the past, just like you, or was I born sixty years old?</p>
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<p>In Oriental philosophy the sixtieth birthday has a special meaning. According to the Oriental concept, sixty years makes one complete circle, so that when you reach your sixtieth birthday you complete one full circle and start a new one in the other direction.</p>
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<p>The number six has a very important meaning in biblical history. Heavenly Father created everything in six separate days and on the seventh day He took Sabbath. The Sabbath is like the beginning of a new circle, so six makes one complete circle or creation.</p>
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<p>In communist history the Bolshevik revolution came to Russia in 1917 and in 1978 they celebrated their complete sixty year circle. Now they have to start a new turn. Since communism is sixty years old it now has to go around in a different direction. The new circle they are starting will be smaller and more feeble.</p>
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<p>The puzzle in contemporary world history is how the communists could come to dominate so much of the world in just sixty years. Satan has been arguing with God all this time, saying, “God, I took over the world and took care of the world for 6,000 years, so isn’t it only fair that I should have some brief period of time when 1, as Satan, can govern the world?” That has been Satan’s claim all this time. God cannot help but allow Satan to take over the world briefly if Satan’s children demonstrate a more arduous and hard-working standard than God’s own children. If that is the case then God has to allow even Satan to take over the world for some time. God cannot say, “No, you can never take over the world at all.” God is a God of logic, and He sees that Satan has a point.</p>
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<p>Communism is a very low level ideology, and therefore, when communists took over each nation they started with the laborers and uneducated people. But God is at the highest possible level, with the highest possible standard, so there are two different worlds-the physical world and the spirit world. The spirit world is much higher than the physical world. The communists cannot deal with the reality of the spirit world, so their philosophy has focused on materialism. Matter forms the essence of the communist ideology. Satan has been taking the world over piece by piece with this ideology and trying to make matter almighty.</p>
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<p>Why would God allow Satan even a brief time to take over the world? Because God knew that ultimately His own children would come forward and say, “God, when we are loyal and work harder for your kingdom than Satan works for his own kingdom, would You want us to run the world?” What do you think God’s answer will be? There is one condition, however. God’s children must be superior to the satanic standard.</p>
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<p>First of all, the heavenly ideology must be better than Satan’s ideology. Satan came up with a convincing, though imperfect, ideology, and when Satan’s side worked harder than the people on God’s side, he took over the world. If that is how Satan took dominion then there must come a time when a godly man will develop a better ideology than the satanic one. There are many scholars and researchers developing materialistic and atheistic philosophies. Communism is the most highly developed of this kind of philosophy. To counteract it, godly people will search more intently to find the truth about the spirit world and physical world together, not just the physical world alone. That is the logical process, don’t you think?</p>
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<p>Good men and evil men have been fighting ever since the fall, so what do you think God will do when good men want to research the highest truth and philosophy? He will be excited and say, “Go ahead. Do more!” There have been two distinct camps since the fall of man. Evil men have fallen prey to Satan, who became their master. On the other side, there are good men and always behind them God is giving His support. God certainly wants to win the battle over evil by working through the good man.</p>
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<p>In the satanic world men focus all their activity on accumulating material. They seek knowledge in order to get money, and they seek power to hold their material. They even use love to keep material. Everything is motivated by their desire for material. That is the ideology on the satanic side.</p>
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<p>On the other side, everything should be for the purpose of finding God. That is the complete opposite of the satanic philosophy. On the heavenly side people seek knowledge for the sake of God. They seek power for the sake of God. They seek money for the sake of God. They even seek to possess love to fulfill God’s will.</p>
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<p>Consider the students at Harvard University. They are brilliant people who are working very hard. What motivates them ? Do they want to gather knowledge in order to earn money and fame or to find God and work for His purpose? When a person’s motivation is centered upon money, knowledge and power, he is centered on material things and has a self-centered purpose. Which side is he standing on, Satan’s side or God’s side?</p>
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<p>Let us coolly analyze American society today. Is America today more centered on money and prestige, or is America seeking God and disregarding everything else? By your own analysis, is America as a whole more on the side of God or on the side of material and Satan?</p>
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<p>Since Satan strove very hard, God had to say to him, “All right, go ahead. Take over the world.” But God knew very clearly that according to Principle satanic dominion could not last beyond one full cycle of sixty years. Satan can have from number three to six, or thirty to sixty years. In other words, one complete cycle in the history of communism is finished, and in the next thirty to sixty years it will go in a different direction, forming a smaller cycle. The communists’ power will decline in thirty to sixty years’ time, but it would happen in an even shorter time if the free world really united together.</p>
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<p>When Satan told God he wanted to have the world, God gave him permission because Satan’s side was working very hard. Do you think that God became totally helpless, or did God know that Satan’s prosperity would last only sixty years ? God prepared to send someone who could truly represent God’s side sixty years later. In the Divine Principle a preparatory period normally lasts three years. From 1917, when the Bolshevik revolution took place, Heavenly Father very quietly prepared for another great day sixty years later. Who was born in 1920, three years after that?</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon. Now Reverend Moon is a giant name, but in 1920 he was just a little baby in a cradle, crying for mommy’s milk. I will not go into detail here, but the important thing is that God in heaven has planned out history. When God allowed satanic people to take over the world, He was already preparing heavenly fortune.</p>
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<p>When God’s champion was born, would He want to see him being lazy, living a relaxed and mediocre life? Is that how he would become God’s champion ? Would God want him to work harder and more meticulously than Satan, tasting the worst possible hardship and tribulation and yet still become a winner and champion? God wanted His man to be the deepest thinker and find the solution to the most incredibly complicated problems. His son should have the sharpest eyes of all, eyes that can penetrate the spirit world and see the truth there. Satan cannot do that, but God’s man should be able to.</p>
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<p>If God’s champion has ears then how much would God want those ears to be superior to Satan’s, so sensitive that he can hear the incredible beauty of sounds that even Satan cannot hear? God would want His son to have a nose which is the best, one which can detect all odors, whether unpleasant or fragrant. Satan wouldn’t be able to compete with the nose of the heavenly man. A champion has a mouth too. Should his mouth shout, “Good, good, wonderful!” or “This is unbearable. I cannot take it”? Which kind of laughter should he have-a mousy, crying laugh, or laughter as loud as possible? The mouth of God’s champion was used instead for crying in heavenly sadness, in such brokenheartedness that even his tongue could not move.</p>
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<p>God also wants His son to be a champion of self-denial in all kinds of feelings-for example, in withstanding hunger, in denying the feelings of loneliness or greediness, the pull of sleepiness, the desire for physical love. God wanted His son to do so well in these things that no one could surpass him.</p>
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<p>I am the foremost champion in the physical world. I have gone the worst possible route, where not even a single person could follow. The entire satanic world should say, “Reverend Moon, I cannot go that way. It is impossible.” That’s the kind of criterion God wants to establish here on earth.</p>
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<p>Is it logical that a person has to make himself superior in order to become God’s champion? When Satan looks at me, what do you think he’ll say? Will he say, “That is incredible, but actually, my children can do better than that. No problem”? Or will he say, “How in the world could God make a man like that?” Even compared to the toughest satanic standard, what I have done is incredible. Not one of Satan’s children can compete with me.</p>
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<p>Do you think that I ever had fights when I was young? Once I decided to fight I would go on with the fight twenty four hours a day. No matter how strong my opponent was, he had to surrender because I would go on and on and on until the other side surrendered. In my village I had a reputation for being a fearful young man. However, with superior thinking, superior vision, superior hearing and superior taste I penetrated deep into the heart of God, discovering the incredible truth about God and man. That is the Divine Principle. Finally God knew that the hidden truth of the universe, the truth about God and His grief was unlocked.</p>
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<p>When I returned to the physical world after unlocking that incredible truth, I wanted to implement what I had discovered. Then the whole environment came completely against me and circumstances tried to knock me down. I started my fight in communist territory, and the entire communist system came down on me, trying to stop me. Everything you can imagine threw its whole weight upon me, trying to knock me down. But what is the difference between the world and me? The world is desperate in trying to stop me, hitting and kicking with all its force. But I always have room for smiles, for loving and room for tolerance. That is the difference. Do I look very desperate today?</p>
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<p>If there is truly a living God existing in this cosmos, how will He feel if He sees a man come out who is prepared and determined to fulfill God’s will and challenge the satanic world? Will He be happy to allow him a chance to do so? If I were in God’s position, I would say I needed a man just like me. I would say, “My son, it’s all yours. Go ahead and do anything you want to handle it.” In God’s eyes I may not be the most handsome or the tallest person; I look like a stump. Yet with my sharp reasoning, deep philosophy, and penetrating vision and dream for the sake of the world, don’t you think God will get</p>
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<p>excited about me? Would that kind of man, motivated and trained and going through such hardships, be classified as a good or evil man? I think that kind of man would be an evil man! (No!) Yes! (No!) Yes! (No!) I surrender. Thank you very much.</p>
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<p>When I began my tough march toward the goal, I determined that I would go over the hill of sixty years of age successfully. Why sixty years? Because I already knew God’s plan and knew that in Divine Principle Satan’s reign could not go beyond sixty years, and that his second cycle would begin his decline. Then at that moment I would climb up for the sake of God and humanity. I knew that the glorious, victorious day was coming, so in order to be ready when that day came I wanted to get all kinds of qualifications ahead of time.</p>
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<p>I described earlier this morning how a rocket that is taking off should not have any negative forces pulling it down, but only supporting forces pushing it up. When my rocket was lifting off, however, none of the forces supported me. The Korean government and the Korean people were trying to bring me down. Japan tried to bring me down. Now America is trying to bring me down. And of course the communists are trying to bring me down. Even the Christian churches and Jews are trying to bring me down. All the powers were trying to ground me and make the rocket explode before liftoff. But was I grounded or did I take off?</p>
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<p>Now the completion of one giant cycle of sixty years has finally come. Now I am beginning a new circle, and that circle has no limitation. I can make it as big a circle as possible. It is going in another. direction, but instead of stopping it is going to make many big circles, one after another.</p>
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<p>When we observe the phenomena of our world we see that everything has certain limits. Everything in life has a saturation point after which nothing more can be added. There is always a limit. Everything makes a circle, soaring up high, and then accelerating downward, but unless new power is added as the first circle is completed, the next circle becomes smaller, and the circle after that becomes even smaller. However, if you have pushing power that thrusts you up further than the first circle, you can go on and on and on. Always the problem has been that once you go up it’s easy to go down, but once you come down it’s very difficult to go back up higher than before.</p>
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<p>Material is the lowest level thing that God created. If material things are at the center of your life, you will be weighted down and be unable to go back up. But Unification ideology is not based on material. Our base is spiritual and our real boss is God. Therefore, as we swing around the limitless energy of God will pull us up higher and higher. With the pulling power up in heaven you can go way up instead of winding down.</p>
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<p>You joined with me and we are completing the circle of sixty years together. Where are we going down to? We are going down to home church and there we will find even more thrust and firepower. What you will find is that home church is the base for the Kingdom of Heaven. Home church is like a gasoline tank and you are going down to the home church like a fireball. What do you think will happen? The explosion will lift you all the way up, and give you the speed you need to go all the way to heaven in one stroke.</p>
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<p>My very special, secret weapon that Satan couldn’t find was home church. I prepared it like a secret bomb and now it is complete. The time has come to ignite it. The time has come for the fireball to land. Then home church will become a launching pad to the Kingdom of Heaven. That is why this year’s motto is “Home Church is the Base of the Kingdom of Heaven.”</p>
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<p>Once you land, home church will all of a sudden become a launching pad and you will lift up together with me. Then everyone will be looking up with their mouths wide open. Communists, Christians and Jews will all be gaping with their mouths hanging open, exclaiming, “That’s Reverend Moon! ” When you fly up in the sky and look down, all the powers that opposed us will look like peanuts. How great you will feel! Hallelujah! In preparation for that moment my entire body was used in hardship and in test after test. But this time all my senses will be excited and happy, exploding with joy.</p>
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<p>You may be so excited and jubilant up in the air that you get exhausted from dancing around and maybe doze a little bit, but still your rocket will be flying further and further, and when you open your eyes you will find yourself in the bosom of Heavenly Father. God will take care of you like a doctor taking</p>
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<p>care of a patient and give every cell an injection of His love. Soon you will wake up and find yourself completely drunk in the love of God. That will be the first time God would ever taste love. Then God would be discovering for the first time the true taste of love, true smell of love, true feeling of love, true vision of love.</p>
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<p>God will be like a hungry person eating up the intoxicating fragrance and taste and touch of love. Then God Himself will be intoxicated in love, the love of man. Do you think God can get drunk? At this time God will get intoxicated and fall asleep. As he is lying there, momentarily unconscious, He begins to sense something all around Him, a whispering, a presence, and the sound of breathing. That feeling is so good that He will want it to go on and on. Then God would open His eyes wide and see His children all around, His sons and daughters touching Him. Would He say, “I’m terribly unhappy”? Just the opposite. There is no adequate word to describe how He would feel. It’s so mystic and incredible that no human language can possibly describe what God feels at that moment.</p>
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<p>In the meantime, He feels deeply grateful. God has gone through so much sadness and tragedy after all His suffering that He will feel thankful happiness. Today the topic is “Grateful God’s Day”. Which is going to be the happiest day for God? God’s Day falls on January 1. Why does that day make God happy? Whom does He meet on that day? His true sons and daughters.</p>
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<p>Satan’s number is 666, because Satan took the number six in the garden of Eden. Therefore, God always consummates His dispensation with the number seven. Since number six is over, we are moving into number seven now. Satan has gotten the glory so far, but from now on Satan’s side will get the hardship. God’s side, the heavenly side of Unification, is moving on to heavenly prosperity in the decade of the 1980’s. When you do right, every conceivable idea and dream in the dispensation of God will be completed before the year 2000.</p>
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<p>Are you lucky to be in the Unification Church? My testimony this morning was so vivid. Do you think I made it up, or did l live through it with every ounce of my energy? Every cell of my body is speaking out for it. No one in history has received criticism and hardship and accusation like I have. But what did I do? Did I rob someone? Did I kill someone? The job that Jesus came to fulfill 2000 years ago was so tough that after three years he was crucified.</p>
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<p>Why is the year 2000 so important? I was born in 1920 and twenty plus sixty equals eighty. When you add eighty to 1920 what year do you come up with? This year I have been battling forward for forty years. These forty years were equivalent to the Exodus of Hebrews from Egypt and their wandering in the wilderness. These forty years I have been working for the dispensation on the global scale. Now this forty-year period is consummated, so what is next? Entering the land of Canaan on the worldwide basis is next. When you look at my testimony, then at the background of history and the work I have fulfilled, then you know that what I told you is correct and based on the truth.</p>
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<p>I already mentioned that Satan operates from number three to six. During this period Satan will try his best, but when we do a superior job then during this time we can finish the task. In other words, we can only be persecuted for a maximum of sixty years. We can turn the tide around during this time. You just wait and see. In 1960, when the True Parents were installed, there was only a handful of members in Korea and Japan, a very small number. When they gathered, I spoke about the world future, with visions of the 1980’s, 1990’s and the year 2000, of the global dispensation and having members in 130 different countries, and of how communism would decline. Then even the members who truly loved me and believed in me 100% would say, “Father is a pretty good liar! That cannot be done. It is impossible that Father could be in America at that time.” They really thought inside that I was doing it to comfort the members. But today there’s not just a handful of people. We have a worldwide movement, yet when I give you the vision of the year 2000 some of you look skeptical. Would you believe it? You’d better!</p>
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<p>I want you to trust me. That’s one simple thing you can do. And live up to the criteria of being superior to the highest satanic standard. Be better than all the loyal subjects of the past and the most filial sons and daughters; whatever service they rendered and love they gave, we shall be superior to their standard. That’s the only criterion we go by. Then everything shall be done.</p>
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<p>Don’t you want to go visit your sweetheart? You want to eat delicious food, and I’m sure you want to get a little more sleep, particularly after hearing a long speech last night. Last Sunday I spoke almost twelve hours. Have you ever heard of a preacher or pastor delivering a Sunday sermon lasting twelve hours? I must be dumb to preach that long, right?</p>
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<p>That may be my record in America, but it’s not my longest sermon. My record is a fourteen and a half hour sermon, speaking to the congregation. But when I was teaching Principle to the early members fourteen hours was nothing. I went on and on for two days, three days, a week, ten days.</p>
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<p>Indeed I am a record breaker. If the world’s beauty queen says, “Reverend Moon, you think you are like a rock and no one can move you. But I’ll entice you. I’ll move you,” do you think I would fall into that kind of trap? Certainly not. Even though people come in line after line, begging and begging, it won’t make any difference. Many beautiful women came and tried to win me with money and gifts, or tried to serve me, even breaking into my bedroom. All kinds of incredible things occurred. Many people think that the Western woman is strong, but I tell you a secret. Watch out for the Oriental woman. They are small and look shy, but they are hot peppers. They really go after you! Not only the women tried to tempt me, but their parents would do everything possible to make me their son-in-law. I certainly hold the world record for being offered temptation.</p>
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<p>If I wrote down all the episodes that have occurred to me it would make a very interesting book! I have one reason not to write that book-you will never read the Divine Principle because you will be reading that book instead. I don’t know how handsome or how great or ugly you think I am, but one thing is sure-I am the tastiest and sweetest man! All right, laugh. Go ahead. I want you to explode with laughter the first day of 1980.</p>
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<p>Already much time has passed. The ideal speech is only fourteen minutes. That’s true. That’s the American way. I have violated that rule completely already. Shall I go on?</p>
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<p>I am a Moonie and I love it! And I am proud. You have a proud name. No matter how much you have, millions of eyes. millions of arms, millions of legs, millions of bodies, it doesn’t make any difference. “Moonie” shall be the proudest name under the sun.</p>
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<p>I am intoxicated by the charm of all your beautiful faces. Why do you all look alike? Because you all have one True Parent. That means you are all capable of receiving the love of God. The channel has been opened now, the channel which was closed for 6,000 years. Now it’s open to you. Let’s open the door of our mind. You say to the world, “Everyone, please come into my mind and swim, and enjoy it. My mind is wider than space so any plane can come into my mind and fly. The pilot of the Concorde doesn’t even need to open his eyes. Even if he flies blind, he’ll never hit the wall. Even if you fly over the wall of my mind you won’t need to worry because my mind will expand ahead of you wherever you go.”</p>
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<p>Many people say all kinds of incredible things about me, but let them do it. As far as I’m concerned I’m feeling wonderful. I’m feeling truly grateful to life, and grateful to God. Glory to God! Hosanna!</p>
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<p>If ever I had the chance to grab a microphone and speak to the American people for many hours in fluent English, in the native tongue of the American people, in a few hours I could make 240 million Americans cry in front of their television sets. All I have to do is expose them to my experiences, nothing more. It wouldn’t even take a week; overnight is good enough to turn the nation upside down. Do you think I have the content and ability to do it? Do you think that Reverend Moon, who is not an American, who is not a black man or a white man, who is just a Korean man from the Orient with a yellow face, could still do it? That’s the puzzle. That’s why people just don’t understand us. But don’t you think it’s a dramatic way of proceeding with God’s plan? God is a very dramatic person, really.</p>
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<p>It can be said that God is very fair. Look at Korea. For 5,000 years it had nothing but tears, nothing but tribulations and hardship. But in the end, by giving Reverend Moon to the country, God balanced out all that suffering. He gave hardship to Korea, but also extraordinary blessing. Don’t you think so? You can say that God is very fair. If a man of my caliber and mission was born in America as a white man then we could accuse God of being unfair.</p>
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<p>Many of you have blue eyes. Some of you have black eyes. Did God create blue eyes or black eyes first? Did blue become black or black become blue? I really enjoy that question because you cannot answer it. What about those of you with blond hair-were you born blond, or with darker hair that later turned blond? The latter is true. God made the black model on His drawing board; He painted eyes black first and then made variations later. When you look at a person with blue eyes and another with black eyes, which eyes look deeper? Oriental people generally have dark eyes and when you look at them their eyes look deeper. You cannot really see the eyeball, it seems so deep. Because Westerners have blue eyes you can see everything.</p>
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<p>Your eyes reveal the depth of your mind. Western philosophy, therefore, is rather shallow and on the surface. You cannot absorb anything deep inside, but want to get it all out front. The Oriental attitude goes deeper and is more sustaining, but neither is ideal. The Oriental is too internal and mysterious, while the Westerner is too open and shallow, so I had to find the happy medium. Therefore, Oriental people are admiring Western civilization. On the other hand, Westerners are longing for the mystery in Oriental civilization. Is that true? When such a craving comes from both worlds it is one indication that the day of fulfillment is at hand.</p>
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<p>When you pursue the religious way of life you have to deny yourself and deny more of the material world. That’s the only way you can get deeper in a religious sense. In the material world, however, when you know more and have more experience you can always reach out and gather more. When the Orientals pursue only religious, spiritual perfection then they have to deny the material world. Then someone else has to harvest it, and that’s what the Westerners have been doing. This has been expressed through Western colonialism. That was not completely bad actually because God needed someone to develop the world He created, the world which religious people were seeking to deny. Therefore, the major Oriental countries like China and India were overtaken by the Western powers, who controlled those nations for many years. That was a sign that a new religious awakening was close at hand. Do you know why? Since Oriental people were focused on finding spiritual perfection, they needed the Westerners to come and help them develop the other way of life as well. That’s what God had planned.</p>
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<p>After World War 11 a new age of equality began. The Western influence started democratic winds blowing all over Asia, bringing an influence that would make the people free and equal. We know that the Westerners who developed the material world were usually greedy and wanted to keep all the wealth themselves. But actually all material belongs to God and He wants it developed for the use of all humanity. Therefore, God used the cold, brutal power of communism to shatter the wealthy capitalist nations. Marxism teaches that economic wealth belongs to the government, and that it shall be used for the benefit of all the people. God is even taking advantage of communism for His heavenly purpose.</p>
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<p>America today is at a very important stage. God has given an incredible amount of material blessing to this nation, but it is not just for the sake of America. God’s assets should be divided up by the American people and used for good, for the sake of the world and humanity. God wants America to be a steward and develop its wealth for the sake of godly people. Since America has not done that, only Satan can claim it and it will benefit communism. That was not God’s original intention. Do you think America is totally immune from communist infiltration?</p>
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<p>This is a very philosophical analysis of the final days of the world. America should know what her timetable is and where she is. The only way that America can survive and prevent a communist takeover is for a man like Reverend Moon to come and tell the American people that their wealth doesn’t belong to them alone. The only way America can ultimately survive is by giving that wealth for the sake of the people of the world. This is exactly why we develop our fund raising-we ask Americans to give their money and then we use it for the sake of the world. Since Americans haven’t given it to the world, we are going to give it to the world in their place. The MFT fund raising effort is important in the sight of the heavenly dispensation. This is not just arbitrary rationalizing. Not at all.</p>
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<p>My topic is Grateful God’s Day. It doesn’t matter how many people are gathered in this auditorium or how many thousands come to hear me. The question is how many people come who truly love God and are thankful to God. God needs men and women to come for His God’s Day celebration and God feels so close to you who are here. God cannot resist the urge to touch you. That’s the kind of God’s Day we must make.</p>
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<p>You thought you knew a lot about this, but today you realize how little you know. Now you will say, “God, I know you are anxious and this time is urgent, but could You give me a little bit more time? I want to finish my task for You in the next three or four years. Divine Principle says we can take up to six years. Can You be patient with me? I will become the kind of person You cannot let go of. In six years when You come, I’ll be transformed. I’ll be as sweet as honey and You will want to swallow me whole, from top to bottom. I will become that kind of child.” God will reply, “All right, my son. I will wait. I will give you that time so we can make a thankful God’s Day.”</p>
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<p>If you really make yourself that kind of men and women then your relation with God will be so close and intimate that God will long for you as you long for Him. You and God will be inseparable. Then you are already liberated and there is nowhere you cannot go. Whether here on earth or up in heaven, you will have no limitation. The entire universe will be yours. That is going to be the privilege God grants you. We have that privilege in our hands and all we have to do is use it. You have a special right or special authority granted by God. It is more than a privilege.</p>
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<p>Did you know that when you achieve that goal your level is equal to God’s? You are truly the top of the world. This is not an evil desire to want to become greater than anyone as long as you use it the right way. You can climb to the highest point. That desire is in everyone’s heart because God planted it there. I am asking you to become men and women who will exercise your special given authority. You should claim it and exercise it. That is the kind of men and women God is wanting to have today because only they can save the world.</p>
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<p>Actually, your toughest competition is not the communists; your toughest competition is me, and God is an even tougher competitor. You don’t have to worry about communism because while you are trying to meet God’s expectation you will have surpassed any communist ten times over. The difference between the communists, myself and God is that though we are all competing with you, I am not hating you or wanting you to be crushed. No, I want you to win. I want to push and support you. Behind me God is pushing too because God would rather be defeated by you. God is a cheerleader for you now, urging you on.</p>
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<p>You can think today, “Father, you have given me absolutely everything I need. You have spoken everything I wanted to know and I don’t need any more. All I want now is action. If you speak to us anymore, it will only complicate my mind. Father, I’m going to do it.” Those who say so, raise your hands, please.</p>
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<p>Thank you. God bless you.</p>
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<p>Today you can have as much Deli steak as you want. Also, today you can celebrate in an unprecedented manner, such that the New Yorker has never seen such joyful people. Today, all day, eat and sing and dance and play yoot. I called all the state leaders together, but I don’t want to start the conference today. We are going to celebrate. Tomorrow, you can stand before heaven and earth and say, “Look at what a proud Moonie I am! Look how I will plunge into my mission like a bullet.” Will you do it?</p>
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