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REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
SPEAKS ON
FOLLOWING THE
COSMIC TRUE LOVE WAY
Belvedere -- International Training Center
Translator -- Peter Kim
When we raise the question of the purpose of life with ordinary people, no one
seems to know the answer. Do we live for the sake of eating or eat for the sake
of living? If animals don't eat then they will eventually die. Why then do we
eat? Why do we live? These are fundamental questions. If you had the choice,
would you rather be born as a woman or a man? There are more than five billion
people living on the Earth. They all exist in relative subject and object, plus
and minus relationships. This is also true within the mineral kingdom.
Therefore, we can conclude that the universe consists of the relationship of
subject and object and plus and minus.
If only plus elements existed or only minus elements existed within the
universe, all species would become extinct. Likewise, if there were 2.5 billion
women in the world and not one single man, then how long would these women last?
One generation. If there was only one man in the world and 2.5 billion women,
what would happen? [Laughter] Do you imagine the entire 2.5 billion women would
all rush toward him and try to grab him or just observe him from a distance?
(Rush to grab him.) That would probably be the most fearful last war in human
history. [Laughter]
When these 2.5 billion women are rushing toward this one man, do you think all
the women would make themselves beautiful and wear their best clothes before
approaching him, or rush toward him naked? What is your answer? Would they cover
every part of their body and approach him or try to show everything to him?
Would they approach him with a fearful appearance, or offer the best smile
possible in order to attract him? It is more than obvious that women would try
to present themselves in the best possible light.
Men and women look similar in a way, even though there are distinctions. When
you were first born did you concern yourself with your spouse and future
marriage? How about while you were growing up, did you really worry about such
things? No. Why not? That is the way you were created. While Adam and Eve were
growing up do you think they were concerned about their future spouse? No, they
were not. They didn't have to worry about it and neither do you have to worry
about it. It is all well prepared and arranged.
What was the cause of this universe? In observing the world outside, we can
conclude that the entire universe consists of male and female, plus and minus,
subject and object relationships. If Father concludes that the entire universe
consists of male and female would you agree or disagree? (Agree.) By being born
as a woman do you carry eternal purpose, or only temporary purpose? (Eternal
purpose.) You know so clearly. If there were no women is there a possibility
that men would exist? The reality is, we do have men and women in this universe.
If women were born for their own sakes and men were born for their own sakes,
then they would go their own way instead of combining together. They would have
nothing to do with one another. If men and women were living such parallel lives
would they perish in the end or prosper? (Perish.)
Then are women meant to live their lives alone, following their own goals,
without considering man? (No.) It is a very serious subject. Women alone cannot
live their lives. No matter how great a man might be, he cannot live his life on
his own. No matter what this world might say, the inevitable consequence is that
man and woman must travel together in life. Whenever we say man and woman
together, then the entire universe will immediately bow down, smiling in
agreement. As soon as we claim anything to the contrary, the universe will shake
its head from side to side at us.
Then how should men and women live their lives together, in conflict or in
harmony? (Harmony.) Suppose they fought each other in order to occupy the
central position? Who is usually the central figure of the average American
family? You American men answer Father. [Laughter] Are you the center of your
families? (Yes.) We are not talking about Unification families, but rather
secular American families. Who plays the central role in the average secular
American family? (Woman.) Those American women consider themselves as family
queens who can control their husbands. Would such families prosper? (No.)
There is a great deal of family breakup here in America. Is the husband or wife
usually the cause of this breakup? (Wife.) You know well. Is that a good thing
to see? (No.) Absolutely not. It is very bad to see the family destruction. When
a divorce case comes before a judge in a court of law, which side usually gains
the most sympathy from the judge? (Wife.) Do the children of this divorcing
husband and wife belong to the father or mother? (The father.) Even if a couple
goes through the divorce, the children must belong to the father. Why? Because
the origin of the seed for the children comes from the father. The mother is
like the blanket or scarf within which the seed is wrapped in order to germinate
and grow. Usually it is the wife who insists on being given the custody of the
children. Is such a mother right or wrong? She is wrong.
If there was a law written into the American Constitution which states that
children from divorced couples belong to the father, there would not be so much
destruction within American families. With such a Constitution, if there was a
divorce case, the wife would leave her husband but she would receive no child
support or alimony whatsoever. According to American law, when a husband and
wife divorce the wife has the right to raise the children and receive financial
support from her husband to do so. This gives them something to lean on.
Otherwise they wouldn't dare divorce so easily. Do you agree? (Yes.)
Women are given breasts to feed their children and large hips to raise the
children inside the womb. While your baby is inside your womb you share your
blood and flesh with your child. The more children you have the more full will
be the mother's love. Just as a man who lives a long life and experiences many
various situations, a mother who raises more children will be filled with more
love and knowledge in raising children with different characteristics. The
mother will become a more rounded and loving person. The mother represents the
earth. The four seasons take place centering around the atmosphere of the earth.
We human beings obtain our nourishment from the planet Earth. Likewise children
gain their nutrition from their mother's body to begin with. In that sense we
can say that women represent the Earth. On the Earth we have four different
seasons and twelve different months. Mothers should be able to have many
children and in raising them become a more rounded and loving mother. She would
not complain, just as the planet Earth doesn't complain to anyone. If you have
twelve children who represent the twelve different months, some months will be
in conflict, some will compete and fight. However, as long as they have a loving
mother who acts as a harmonizing force amongst them, they will be able to
harmonize with one another.
All the children will extend their arms and embrace one another and, including
their mother, become one big harmonious circle. How wonderful this is. Amen. How
about that? Woman's purpose is so precious. Should we have as many children as
we can afford, or just a limited amount? (Many.) Many or money? [Laughter] There
are some women who want to have only one child. But why did God create two
breasts? These two breasts are indicative that you should have at least two
children. If you have only boys or only girls, one way or another the human race
will end. Father concludes that unless you give birth to a boy and a girl, at
least one of each, you cannot say that you are a mother or a father. No matter
what, you need at least one boy and one girl.
Since you women have fully developed hips you are able to sit on the floor this
way. Since woman represents the Earth she should sit on the floor. In order to
have a greater chance of conceiving children, you always have to keep your hip
area warm. A Korean style room where the room is heated underneath the floor is
ideal for you. Therefore, you should marry a Korean husband and live in Korea.
The under floor heating system began in Korea. Since this Korean heating system
was created many years ago, we can conclude it was to keep mothers lower body
warm. Therefore, Korea may produce world class leaders and eventually the Lord
of the Second Advent may come from Korea.
Korean women usually wear long, loose fitting dresses. It is like a wind blocker
because it is full. By contrast, Western women wear short, tight skirts so that
when they walk with high heels [Father demonstrates] [Laughter] they are off
balance. Western women, in general, don't wish to have many children. In
comparison to Oriental women, Western women are more nervous by nature. If there
is only one Oriental woman and ten Western women here who are engaged in
conversation with one another, who do you think would be the last person to give
advice? Oriental women.
Should we have as many children as possible, or only a limited number? (Many.)
With your twelve children sitting in front of you and your husband sitting
behind them, won't you feel really grateful to your husband to see that, in
part, the children resemble him? Have you ever thought that your husband is the
one who gave you the opportunity to use your breasts and hips most fully for the
original purpose? Who is the one who caused the utilization of your breasts and
hips most fully? The father of the family. You all experience your monthly
period. Why? Does that indicate that you wish to reject your husband or still
welcome him?
In order to have a relationship with your husband you have to be married. Women
who refuse to marry will be condemned to death. If you were to survive, the
universe would eliminate you. This is the truth. In that sense, following
Father's teaching this morning, can we find a true original woman in the
American secular world? (No.) Is there even one single woman who qualifies to
meet Father's criteria? Does a woman with small hips have a good chance of
bearing many babies? Do you American women prefer large, fully developed hips,
or small, nice looking hips. Do you women prefer to have a slim body or a fat,
well developed body? This question has something to do with our ability to bear
children. Logically speaking, if any woman has small hips she is supposed to
have small breasts as well. But usually it is the other way around. Even though
women have small hips they have large, fully developed breasts. This means they
are unbalanced. Whatever is unbalanced will eventually be eliminated by the
universe.
You proud Americans sitting before Father feel as if you are condemned. In
general, women have been living their lives in ignorance. There is a world of
confusion out there. Was it a wise decision to join the Unification Church? You
may not prosper in your generation, but your future generations are guaranteed.
Guaranteed. Do you like that? (Yes.) Remember, your body structure is for the
sake of your children and your love is for the sake of your children. If woman
and man claim that their sacred sexual organ belongs only to them and no one
else, what is going to happen in terms of their relationship as husband and
wife?
Both will become extinct. Suppose you have a choice between two types of
husbands; one claims to exist for you for all eternity. The other husband claims
to exist absolutely for you only until he reaches thirty years of age. Which one
would you choose? (First one.) When your husband claims to live for your sake
throughout eternity, this means he lives for every part of you. For your
belongings, your relatives and nation. Would this not make a wife so happy? This
husband should have the concept that he does not live for the sake of himself,
rather he is totally devoted to his wife. Do you want that kind of husband?
(Yes.) Really? (Yes.) Father believes you.
This same principle is applicable to wives. A wife who loves every part of you
and everything and everyone related to you, then you can certainly refer to her
as the number one wife in the world. The final conclusion is that we should live
our lives completely for the sake of others. This creates happiness in our
lives. Do you understand Father's message? Father hasn't even begun to scratch
the surface this morning and already one hour has gone by. Should we stop here?
(NO.) (Tell us more.)
Why do your five organs exist? Do they exist for your sake alone? Does your nose
exist so that you can smell yourself? (No.) Do you think that your ears exist in
order to hear yourself? Does your right hand exist only to touch your left hand?
They all exist for the sake of your object. Man exists for the sake of woman and
vise versa. That is the natural conclusion. Is there anyone who disagrees with
Father? That means you understand Father's teaching well. Some Westerners have
blond hair, blue eyes and a different skin color. Sometimes Father wonders if
you understand Father because you look so different from Orientals. Yet you
understand. It is amazing! [Laughter] Therefore, the truth leads everyone in the
one direction irrespective of race or cultural background.
If there was an American woman who was totally individualistic and living her
life selfishly, then upon hearing Father's teaching, wouldn't her original mind
begin to accept the truth? Just like a gradual soaking from the rain, the truth
penetrates our being. Why then are we born? For the sake of others. Why do we
live? For the consummation of love. That is why Father's topic today is
Following the Cosmic True Love Way. That means we have to conquer that Cosmic
True Love Way. Those who live their lives for the sake of themselves will
automatically flunk the test. However, those who dedicate their lives for the
sake of others eternally will be able to conquer cosmic love. That is a logical
conclusion.
Since Father knew this truth, he didn't mind the thorny path of persecution and
difficult life course up until now. Still Father continues to practice this
Cosmic True Love Way. Therefore, the universe begins to recognize Father and
praise him. This is the stage Father has reached now. Whoever is close to God
and belongs to God, will eventually be revealed. Even if that person is buried
in the mud, as the universe continues to evolve, his presence will become
apparent. Because God has been wanting to give so much to the universe. However,
there is no way to give anything to the universe and so God's eyes are swollen
from shedding oceans of tears. It is not easy for God to see the sunlight
anymore. He has cried so many tears that his eyes are so swollen and almost
melted.
We can say that God's eyes are supposed to be the King of all the eyes in the
entire universe. Don't you agree? In the same way, God's five senses are the
King of all senses. God automatically thinks for the sake of others without ever
thinking of Himself. Don't you desire such parents? Don't you also wish to have
such a wife, brothers and sisters and fellow patriots. On the other hand, if you
truly love your wife, your parents, family and country, do you think they will
refuse you? If they refuse you then they are wrong and you are right. If you
truly dedicate yourself for the sake of others and the universe, you can expect
that reciprocal kind of relationship. When you are happy you want the entire
universe to be happy also. Then when you are sad you want to receive their
sympathy.
When you mothers breast feed your babies do you feel arrogant? Each time you
feed your baby do you keep a journal as to how much milk you gave to your baby?
(No.) When a mother gives such loving care to her children there is no beginning
and no end in terms of value. It keeps going on and on. The reason we live for
the sake of others is because it is the way of True Love. The rope of love is
wrapping around your body more and more. That is how we can conquer the love of
the universe. The universe stands in the object position in terms of the love of
God. But through such a life we can even conquer the subject of love, who is
God.
Where do you suppose God would want to dwell? He would like to dwell at the
core, the very center, where the universe becomes one, centering upon True Love.
That is the place that God wishes to dwell. Centering upon True Love, totally
uniting our minds and bodies and bringing unification within our families. Then
the entire universe is in perfect harmony and by so doing I can claim the entire
universe as my own. That is the state of the True Love life. Women have two
duties: to love your children and to love your husband. Who comes first, your
children or your husband? (Husband.) You don't sound very confident in your
answer. Please answer Father clearly. (HUSBAND.) That is true.
From whom do you begin to receive love? From your husband. Until you receive
love from your husband you cannot conceive your children. You all know the
preciousness and intensity of the first love your received from your husband.
However, you should have an even greater degree of love that you can pour into
your children. That is the way that you can raise your children properly. Do you
understand? (Yes.) They will become the children who can dwell with God. Such
children's entire bodies will be covered with the traces of their parent's love.
They will be sealed within parental love. How wonderful such children are.
(Amen.)
If you have such quality children, then when you enter the spiritual world God
will receive your children and then you will be admitted eventually to the
Kingdom of Heaven, too. Otherwise, you have no hope. Do you imagine that we can
enter the Kingdom of Heaven without practicing love for the sake of others?
(No.) Absolutely no. Father feels sorry for you women. However, Father also
realizes that we are all fallen descendants who are not perfected yet. We have
only one choice and that is to receive this teaching from the Lord of the Second
Advent who came as the only True Father. [Applause]
Unless the women in the world eventually receive Father's teaching and follow
that teaching, they have no other choice but to head toward Hell. Therefore, you
have to follow Reverend Moon's teaching. When you use your five senses in
speaking, seeing, hearing, smelling and tasting this must be done with love.
Your five senses have two different paths. The original path is centering upon
the unification of your mind and body and your five senses should follow that
original direction. The alternative way is separating your mind and body and
following your bodily desire. We always have to check ourselves as to whether
our five senses are functioning in the only original one way, or whether we are
deviating. This is the cause of a lot of confusion in this world.
There is a simple way to solve this problem. As long as you live your life in
the spirit of love for the sake of others then you are on the right track. There
may be some people who wish to remain as a seed that doesn't have to germinate
or grow and practice Father's teaching. They want only to receive Father's word
and keep it as a seed while continuing their lives in a different way. In fact,
if Father's word is the seed for the teaching of happiness, peace and all good
things, that seed is supposed to be germinated and grow and bear fruit and
produce another seed. There are some people who claim to love Father's teaching
but who don't want to follow the practice of Father's teaching. They conclude
that it is too difficult to follow in Father's footsteps. Can they claim to be a
true seed? (No.) Absolutely not.
What kind of Unification Church leader do you all wish to become? Once you hear
one word from Father do you wish to practice one hundred times more than the
word that Father gave you? Would you rather hear one hundred words and practice
only one word out of the hundred? Would you say that even if you receive one
hundred teachings from Father that you don't even want to practice one out of
the hundred? Is that what your mind is saying? (No.) It is important for us to
clearly understand that while this seed may have quality, only the good seeds
which can reproduce will be stored in the heavenly storage barn. When you hear
Father's teachings, such as this morning, yet you don't practice it, then you
will have nothing whatsoever to do with Father in the spiritual world.
When you look at the life of snakes, they have to rid themselves of their skin
at various stages of their growth. Likewise, sheep and cows shed their thick
coats when Spring comes. What about you men and women? Looking at the world, we
see all living creatures going through such stages in their lives. Are we an
exception then? When you hear such precious teaching as Father is giving us this
morning, do you think it will help us to grow or not? (It will help us grow.)
These words will take off your skin and give you rebirth. Without this process
you are not able to grow.
When a snake rids itself of its dead skin, it passes through a space smaller
than its own body. Do you also want to do the same in order to shed your old
skin? That is what is called the way of indemnity. Most people don't like this
road of indemnity. However, only by passing this way will we be able to grow
ourselves and move up to another level where the entire world will embrace us.
There is a beautiful world outside. Why are we sitting in this small room
listening to this teaching? Shall we stop this sermon now and go out and have a
stroll? (No.) Father likes the Spring as much as you do you know. Father has
millions of ways of communing with nature. However, whenever he comes to this
room he feels suffocated.
Yesterday, Father had an exciting boat ride from Tarrytown all the way up to the
Unification Theological Seminary at Barrytown. The Hudson River is known as a
most scenic river. There are high mountains, small hills, picturesque towns, and
places where it is covered with morning mist. Then Father realized that it is,
in fact, the most scenic and exciting river to sail along. There are trains
running to Albany and New York, while on the New Jersey side there are long
freight trains. There are also trees and hills and Father was so happy to see it
all. Father felt like a miniature world was surrounding him as he sailed up the
Hudson.
In one particular village along the Hudson Father saw this old-fashioned boat
which is started by hand. Its engine spit and spluttered. Father realized there
are so many different situations and circumstances developing along this river.
Then as the subject, I have to become a dancer, an engineer, and an artist.
Father thought of how, when God was dealing with the entire universe, how busy
He has been because he has been dealing with every possible situation. God may
need more than a million ears and incredible eyes and organs that are way beyond
our imagination. Otherwise God could not deal with all these different facets of
His creation.
However, we must follow the course of the road of restoration. No matter how
scenic the riverside was, the goal was to reach the Unification Theological
Seminary. Therefore, Father's boat just kept on going. 'Merrytown' is a very
good town because there we have UTS! [Applause]
During the time spent in Barrytown it began to rain and so for the return
journey Father sent all those who came with him home by car. But Father himself
traveled back to Tarrytown Marina by boat, in the rain. Because Father didn't
want to lose that opportunity of observing the various aspects of the Hudson
River again.
Now let us discuss substance. Why are we born? For the sake of love. God's first
thought was of love. In order to achieve love there should be two shapes of
convex and concave. The male shape is convex, while the female shape is concave.
What is the purpose of these different shapes? For the purpose of true love. If
the purpose of creating man and woman is to create true love, then what degree
of fit should these two shapes have? A perfectly tight fit. When these two fit
perfectly and someone comes along and gives them a big kick, should they still
fit perfectly or should they expand and move? They should continue to fit
perfectly tightly.
We are born for the sake of True Love and in order to achieve True Love we need
the perfect fit between concave and convex. Just like being welded together so
they could never come apart. This perfect fit should be eternal. Everyone
desires this absolute love. Repeat after Father, ABSOLUTE LOVE. (ABSOLUTE LOVE.)
UNIQUE LOVE. (UNIQUE LOVE.) FOREVER LOVE. (FOREVER LOVE.) UNCHANGING LOVE.
(UNCHANGING LOVE.) How wonderful they are. (How wonderful they are.) [Applause]
Can you ever forget your first love? (No.) When it comes to the notion of your
first love, is it stained or pure genuine first love? (Pure and genuine.) Do you
think that your five senses are looking for pure and genuine love, or stained
and deviated love? (True and pure love.) As a woman, as soon as you hear the
word love you should immediately think about your husband and no one else.
Supposing that you are seventeen years of age and walking on Fifth Avenue and
encounter one very pretty woman and handsome man holding hands and talking
together. What would you feel? Would you feel jealous or would you feel that no
matter how beautiful and happy they may look I have a husband who is far better
in every way and who gives me so much happiness. You should feel that they are
like kindergarten school students compared to your couple.
Who is the oldest man in the world? (God.) Do you want to love God? What degree
of love are you willing to offer to God? Will you love your husband first and
then God or will you push your husband aside and love God first? (Love God
first.) You are laughing. Is that because you like that idea? (Yes.) Then the
sound is not so bad. Where do we receive love from? Practically, we receive love
from our parents. Then we have to trace back all the way to God. In front of
God, centering upon True Love, what is the closest to us, our children or our
partner? (Spouse.) That is correct. God created Adam and Eve as His son and
daughter, but God had in His mind their relationship as husband and wife.
Therefore, at their level, that relationship comes first. If God is a
male-oriented Being what position does He stand in? (Father.) A convex shape.
Human beings are in the position of concave. That is the secret of the creation
of the universe.
Until this time, no one understood this truth. As a man and woman, until you
become totally one between husband and wife, you are both only half of a human
being. A mother has within her plus and minus elements. The children, as sons
and daughters, representing male and female, should then unite with their
mother. From that position they can stand before God. Do you understand? Who is
in the position of subject? The subject is represented by the vertical position
and the object is represented by the horizontal position. When we are young and
going to kindergarten we always run to our mother in order to share everything,
both good and bad. By sharing with our parents, even at such a young age, we try
to find balance within our lives.
Parents are like a nucleus and children are like the flesh surrounding this
nucleus and they evolve around God. In the world of God's love there is no
falsehood. Parental love is supposed to be the original genuine love. At the
stage of elementary school there will be the same relationship of parents
representing the nucleus and the children representing the flesh. The children
revolve around the parents in harmony and unity in front of God. Eventually,
that level elevates to greater levels. As an adult God stands as the central
plus, then the parents as plus and children as minus, together form another
minus to God's central plus.
Vertically God and parents and horizontally parents and children. [Father draws
a diagram on the board to illustrate] When you reach this horizontal cutting
line as a man and woman you cannot continue separately in this way [indicating
to the board]. This is the growth period, then naturally you are growing
separately centering upon God and your parents. However, when you reach
adulthood, in order to find your own love you have to come back to the original
center point and find your spouse. God is the origin of love. Then the question
is, how can we meet God? The reason God gave us this period of growth, is so
that both parents and children can pass through different stages of experience.
God Himself had that kind of period spiritually speaking. In passing through
these various stages of growth we can gain many experiences which we can then
share with God. Do you follow? (Yes.)
God's growth period, which was spiritual, has to be manifested at this physical
level. For example, when we want to see a tree we have to first plant a seed and
have it grow into a tree. Looking at the seed itself we cannot see the tree.
Then at what point can the invisible God become united with His visible
children? That is a key question. God has His internal plus and minus, male and
female characteristics. Spiritually, God passed through these different periods
but there was no substantial body. However, because of human beings' different
stages of growth, God Himself can substantialize His body. First, the reason
that God created human beings is that He wanted to see His physical form in
them; second, humankind was created as God's love partner; and third, in order
to create unity between God and man and woman.
It is very important to remember that the very reason God created man in such
way to have the growth period, is that God wanted to manifest His own growth
period and see it manifest in this physical world. Do you wish to look at your
childhood photographs? (Yes.) We are all so interested in observing our various
stages of physical growth by looking at pictures of our childhood. In the case
of God, His spiritual growth period is not visible anymore, that is why He
created Adam and Eve so that He could observe their growth just like you looking
at your childhood photographs. God is always happy to observe His children.
God's past spiritual growth period is now being manifest here on the Earth as a
living being through His children. By looking at His children He desires to feel
such a great deal of stimulation, almost like an explosion.
In this physical life, we are first in the womb stage of life, followed by
infancy, then brother and sister relationship, and then the conjugal
relationship of husband and wife. Eventually we can become parents ourselves.
Centered upon our parents we kept on growing higher and higher. This growing
period is aiming toward securing the parental position. Before reaching the
position of parents we first have to experience our love partnership. Only after
experiencing conjugal love will we be able to obtain the parental position.
God exists for the sake of love. The ideal of God's creation is the
manifestation of His invisible Being, including His growth period. Then finally
as a substantial Being, through man and woman's perfection, He wants to create
the foundation of love for the visible and invisible world at the uniting point.
The period of children, brother and sister, husband and wife and parents are all
very distinct one from the other. The children have to be united with their
parents, then brothers and sisters centered upon parents should become one,
husband and wife should be united with their parents and as parents you have to
become one.
Even at the fetus stage your parents represent the nucleus of your world of
existence. This is true at the various stages of your growth, childhood, brother
and sister, and husband and wife. All the way up through each stage your parents
are the vertical center of your life. Then even when you become parents
yourselves, your parents are still your center. Father concludes that when it
comes to the road of the practice of vertical love, there is one vertical axis.
From the stage of childhood, brother and sister level, husband and wife level
and as parents yourselves, still your parents' love is the vertical center of
your life.
As we go through these four different stages, God's love experience will be with
you at each and every stage. God will come down to your level vertically and
meet you at each stage. This invisible, spiritual realm comes down to the
physical realm and becomes one. That is the point where the ideal of children's
love, brother and sister's love, conjugal love and parental love meet.
[Indicating to the diagram on the board] This very point is where the internal
purpose of love, and external purpose of love occurs at the time of your
marriage centered upon God. This is where the convex and concave meet for the
first time.
Shall we have two vertical center lines or only one? (One.) Absolutely only one.
This left-handed side [indicating to the board] as a woman from infancy through
adulthood, then on the other side as a man from infancy through adulthood. Then
they come to the central point and meet and form this double layer at this
central point. The conclusion is that the culminating point of True Love for
each of these stages of growth is where the marriage of man and woman occurs
with God's blessing. Marriage is the place of eternal settlement. Which is the
place of sexual intercourse? (The sexual organ.) Until now all human being's
sexual organs were considered bad. But originally it was the central love palace
place. This is the Holy of Holies Headquarters Palace Place. How wonderful.
Without that sexual organ connecting place we can never discover True Love, True
Life and True Lineage. Without that place there can be no beginning to the
Kingdom of Heaven. That is the way to true peace, true freedom, true happiness
and true unification. Freedom means an open place, not a hidden shameful place.
Husband and wife meet one another naked and unashamed. Completely liberated and
free. The love action is a totally free intoxicating action.
When you make love as husband and wife do you proceed very carefully or do you
proceed using your full power? That is the moment that the entire Heaven and
Earth are shaking. It is like thunder and lightning and then the rain comes
down. Man and woman are the King and Queen of love. Making noise is good. Every
cell of your body is intoxicated with joy at that time. Don't you want to see
such a phenomena. Humankind has to follow the recreation owner, the second
Creator.
What is the Unification Church? It means the place of unification of the mind
and body and the place of study of the Divine Principle. This teaching instructs
clearly how to unify the mind and body, man and woman, parents and children
centered upon True Love, True Life and True Lineage. The West and East are
separated now, but with the appearance of Reverend Moon the East and West can
become unified through true marriages.
Those internationally Blessed couples, raise your hands please. There is one
particular American brother in Kodiak who told Father that he has several
physical brothers who are all married to American women. However, this
particular brother has an Oriental wife. When the brothers gather together they
sometimes have arguments about who has the better wife among them. According to
him Orientals have the softest skin and so as far as touch he has the best
quality. Many Western women have hair growing even on their legs, which they
shave. Therefore, when they put their legs next to their husbands in bed at
night, the husband feels a roughness. On the other hand, Oriental women don't
usually have body hair. They are so soft and smooth.
Because Oriental women are so small, they sleep like a shrimp. [Laughter] In
order to find your wife you have to search around the bed to find her. This is
what Father was told by this brother, this isn't coming from Father's
imagination. [Laughter] Some Western women are larger than their husbands. But
this brother told Father that his wife was so small so he had no fear. She is so
small that he could embrace her entire body in his chest. However, Western women
are usually large enough so that you cannot embrace them in the chest. From that
lesson Father comes to the realization that God is the King of wisdom.
Between a husband and wife which one is supposed to be helped the most? If you
are walking together and you come to a stream that has to be crossed by getting
your feet wet, if your wife is larger than you it isn't easy to carry her. If
you happen to have a large wife, then even if you give her a ride on your back
her feet may still touch the water and she will direct you to raise her up
higher. But a small Oriental wife will say nothing even if you give her a ride
on your back with her facing back to front. When a husband awakens in the
morning and wants to have just another few moments of dozing, a Western wife
would make a lot of noise by wearing high heeled shoes around the house even if
she is only making one pot of coffee. However, an Oriental wife would quietly
slip out of the bed and make no disturbance whatsoever and prepare a delicious
breakfast table by the time you wake up.
An Oriental wife would welcome her husband home and prepare everything for his
comfort; she might even clip his fingernails. [Laughter] That's true. [Laughter]
She would even trim her husband's nose hair. Do you American wives know how to
do such things? (Yes.) Even if you do know there is no fun when an American
woman does these things. This one American man in Kodiak concluded to Father
that it is much better to have a small Oriental wife than an American wife.
Whatever is precious is usually small. Have you ever seen a diamond as big as a
house? Precious treasure is usually small enough for you to be able to hide it.
[Father suddenly notices the clock on the wall] There is something wrong with
that clock. What time is it? If any minister tries to give a sermon for more
than thirty or forty minutes the congregation would try to kill him. [Laughter]
How about all of you, do you want Father to continue? (YES.) With such a wide
topic Father might have to continue to talk for more than one year.
Father wants to give you in a nutshell what the essence of this topic is.
Therefore be alert. Now you understand this point, that God is the first
Creator. Adam and Eve were in the position of the second Creator. Adam's
children were supposed to be in the position of the third Creator. God as the
first generation; Adam and Eve as the second generation and the children of Adam
and Eve as the third generation. These three generations had to be perfected.
However, God was unable to have His grandchildren and so this world became a
fallen world. The family is the center of the universe because God, husband and
wife, children and each stage of human beings' lives is centered upon the
family. Where is that central place? (The sexual organ place.) The feeling when
you say that isn't so good.
The action of the Fall destroyed this most holy place. Therefore, whenever
anyone mentions this sexual organ in the secular world it is the worst kind of
curse or feeling. No matter how handsome or pretty you may be, you all have the
destiny to secure that holy place. The sacred place of your sexual organ is the
final place that you have to conquer. Ever since His creation, God has been
seeking after that most holy of places. Because that is where Love, Life and
Lineage emerges. That place is the final destination for God and human beings.
Without that particular organ God is unable to perfect Himself centering upon
love. Because of man and woman's sexual organs, centered upon True Love, we can
liberate God. This is absolute truth.
Throughout human history has there been anyone who knew this very truth which
Father teaches now? (No.) We must understand that thousands of lives have been
sacrificed, and thousands of kingdoms have passed throughout history and yet God
has been seeking this very secret place. In order to find and secure the value
of that organ God has had to sacrifice millions of lives. Therefore, Father
concludes that if we use this sexual organ properly following God's direction,
the entire universe will be restored. However, if we should deviate even one
degree, the entire universe and your life will be destroyed. With what can man
and woman find this very central point. Can it be achieved through marriage
between woman and woman? (No.) How about man and man? (No.) Even in the animal
world this does not occur. Love is the most valuable and precious thing.
Once Adam and Eve would have become totally one centered upon their sexual
organs, then God would have followed them. The first generation is represented
by grandparents, then parents, and the children as a couple. Do the grandparents
live their lives holding onto money? (No.) What then? They live by holding onto
each others' sexual organs. That is the best and only thing. Once that
relationship is broken everything else will be destroyed.
Do you think that there is any family who wishes to see their grandparents
broken apart? (No.) Everyone wishes to see their grandparents holding onto one
another. Is money the glueing power between a mother and father? (No) It is
their sexual organs. What about you, between husband and wife? Once your love
relationship is broken with your spouse your house and assets all fall apart.
Love is the key to everything. This is not some concept, but this is reality. Do
you clearly understand Father? (Yes) God is the first Creator; Adam and Eve are
the second Creator; Adam's children are the third Creator. If the grandchildren
level had been perfected at the time of Adam then this foundation could have
been expanded overnight.
Once it is perfected at the level of children, then the number can be multiplied
instantly. Because of this reason and relationship, those who reject the levels
of God and parents, cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, don't you
feel that you should have your children? We are referring to prior to the Fall.
Adam's children were supposed to be in the position of the third Creator. As
Father explained earlier, God's experience of this growth period was inherited
by Adam and Eve through passing through this practical, physical growth stage.
This invisible growth stage was manifested within Adam and Eve's lives in the
visible world. Combining these two, Adam and Eve's children will pass through
the same experience. They will inherit Adam and Eve's growth stage experience in
this physical world.
In the Unification Church teaching, without knowing the content of the first
Creator, God, and the second Creator, Adam and Eve and the third Creator, all
the children, these secrets cannot be revealed. That is why the Unification
Church is teaching these various teachings and content. The children's level are
God's grandchildren. When Adam was growing up, to reach this point he received
only God's love. However, the grandchildren, when they reach the same stage,
will receive love from both God and their parents, Adam and Eve. In other words,
they inherit the kingship from the spiritual world and the kingship from the
physical world. That is the way the Kingdom of God on Earth will be naturally
connected to the Kingdom of God in Heaven. The Kingdom of God will include this
physical world kingdom and the spiritual world kingdom. They are inseparable.
Have you American young people received both grandparents love and parental
love? Many have only step-grandparents, and step-parents, not original
grandparents and parents. This is not God's ideal. Those who do not experience
living with their grandparents and parents and receiving the proper love and
care from them, do not have the right to bequeath your tradition to your
generation following God's direction. Do you understand Father? (Yes.) That is
why the family is the key. The family is the only place that you can find that
kind of treasure of love and experience. Without the family you cannot inherit
the ideal kingdom. Do you understand? (Yes.) This is the formula.
True Parents are in the position of grandparents to all of humanity, True Father
position to all of humanity, Husband position to all the women of the world; and
Elder Brother position to the entire world, particularly women. This is precious
good news for us all. Historically, our ancestors failed in fulfilling this goal
and so this is the last golden opportunity that we all have to unite with True
Parents horizontally. By doing so we can expand this level of the ideal world
and establish the Kingdom of God on Earth here. Together, following True Parents
we can enter into the Kingdom of God in Heaven. [Applause] Father is now erasing
this diagram from the board. You understand this content fully, do you not?
(Yes.)
The reason that Father discloses the very secret of why God created human beings
and what kind of relationship we should have with Him, is because as heavenly
citizens we must have full and complete understanding of this very truth. We do
not begin to learn these things after entering into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Imagine if this kind of heavenly secret were to be revealed through live
television coverage to all 240 million American people. How many days or hours
would be necessary for a great percentage of the American population to turn to
God? Once they clearly understand this, what percentage would turn around do you
think? Nobody knows. Do you think this is some kind of fiction story or the
truth? (The truth.) Because of this power of truth, the Unification Church, in
such a short time period, has spread throughout the world. No matter how severe
the persecution has been, once people know the truth, they can always overcome
that kind of obstacle and remain with God.
If the citizens of the developed countries of the world continue to oppose
Father and refuse to accept this truth, then African brothers and sisters who
openly embrace this truth will become the masters of these developed countries
eventually. The history of the Unification Church is almost fifty years old. The
world population now stands at approximately five billion people. If each person
on average lives to one hundred years of age, then each year we are losing fifty
million people worldwide. They pass into the spiritual world without knowing the
truth. We have wasted billions of people in the past fifty years because we
didn't teach them the Divine Principle.
The so-called developed nations status is now being taken over by Oriental
nations. The Orientals are working day and night like ants. Western people are
like grasshoppers by comparison. The developed countries are losing the edge
now. Do you suppose that America is able to digest Japan, China, Reverend Moon,
Communism and Soviet Russia? Single handedly Father has launched campaigns to
unify China, Japan, Soviet Russia, Africa and America. This is the reality. Does
Father have a good brain or not? (A good brain.) Satan's world is completely
opposite to the way of God. Satan doesn't like this 180 degrees opposite way to
his.
There is now a competition between the South American nations as to who is going
to adopt Reverend Moon's teaching first. The African countries are trying to
claim that ideology even before South America. African brothers and sisters feel
that 3.6 million couples is an easy task because the African continent alone can
reach that goal.
As you know Father completed educating 3,600 Christian leaders in Brazil. They
felt that 3.6 million couples could be found in Brazil alone. Brazil has a
population of 170 million. The neighboring countries of Uruguay, Argentina and
Paraguay complain that it is unfair of Father to pay so much attention to Brazil
just because it is a big nation. Even though they are smaller in size they claim
that they can do better than Brazil because as their nations are smaller it will
be easier to restore and for Father to establish the heavenly sovereignty and
build the Heavenly Kingdom there.
Father is thinking of hiding himself somewhere deep within the Himalayan
mountains where no one can find him. In that deep mountain sanctuary Father
might issue an order that anyone who truly wishes to see him in person should
come and find him. Father expects the Unification Church members to be the first
ones to come to find him in the Himalayan mountains. Is that true? (Yes.)
Problem or no problem? (No problem.) Suppose Father were to hide himself deep in
the jungles of South America and issued the order to the people in the world,
would you Unificationists come and try to find Father or would you stay away?
(Find Father.) If Father were to stay in the Arctic and you were not allowed to
travel to see Father by boat or airplane, but rather you had to build a bridge
to the South Pole, would you do that? (Yes.) Is that true? (Yes.)
Since the nations of Uruguay and Korea are exactly opposite to one another
geographically speaking, instead of flying around the world in order to reach
Uruguay, how about building a tunnel from Korea to Uruguay with an elevator
system? If Father were to issue such an order to all of you to begin digging a
hole from Korea, would you do that? (Yes.) If Father tells you that unless you
complete digging this tunnel from Korea to Uruguay you cannot enter into the
Kingdom of God, then you will probably accomplish it.
Once you were willing to do whatever Father told you to do, like when you first
began to follow True Father. You temporarily abandoned your families and homes
and some even had to go to jail just for following Father. Isn't that true?
(Yes.) We are all born for the sake of love. Love is very equal. When you
achieve the quality of love when you are living in an externally poor state, it
is more precious. If you are living an affluent life, there is a greater
possibility for your love to fluctuate. Are Unificationists wealthy and affluent
people? (NO.) We are all cousins to beggars actually. However, we still enjoy
our lives more than kings and tycoons in the secular world.
If Father directs you all to pack up and go to Africa today, would you do so?
(YES.) That is a fearful sound. Members of the CIA and FBI might come here
secretly, but Father is glad if they are here to receive this message. There is
absolutely nothing to hide. Even within America there are many various layers of
communication systems. Even if such a hearing device is hidden here, Father
cannot be restricted because of that situation, otherwise Father is not a true
prophet. However, Father desires to declare the truth in front of anyone. Father
is not a thief and so he is unafraid.
We have to follow the path to find love. From where does love begin? During the
month of April, around Easter week and True Parents Day, Father taught us that
we all have to go through mother's womb stage, then united with mother go
through father. This is the stage that we have to travel in order to find love.
Without doing so we cannot achieve the goal of love. All of us want to become
the center of the world. Isn't this true? (Yes.) Also we all wish that people
would follow us. However, the world is wide and big with thousands of years of
history. The world grows and develops in various stages. Even though human
history is fallen, the ultimate destination of human history is the original
world. We all want to become the center of various stages of human history.
Adam's family, tribe, society, nation, world and cosmos are all different
stages. Adam's family represents the seed of humanity. When there are many seeds
like Adam's family then they will become a tribe, society, nation and world. The
vertical tradition always comes down to the point of one single family. Without
the family we cannot connect the various stages. The Unification Church's
teaching has this vertical central axis which is connected all the way down from
Adam's family to the center of the world. Adam is the center of his family and
the king of all humanity will be the Lord of the Second Advent.
This worldwide scale king's family and Adam's original family are the same in
value as the seed. However, due to the Fall, this seed family disappeared until
this time. As a fallen human beings we all have to go through this seed family,
otherwise we cannot be saved. Therefore, finding this seed family has been the
purpose of human history. Since this seed family is here, even though we didn't
inherit all these various stages of seed families, from Father's seed family,
various stages can be engrafted. It can come down to our individual family.
Blessed families will stand in the position of seed families on the worldwide
scale. The True Family is the central vertical axis. However, when it is spread
horizontally there should be many Blessed couples. Once True Parents have
appeared the unity between man and woman will occur and they will create a new
seed again and the various stages will be engrafted.
On the worldwide scale, beginning from the True Parents, Father has given
Blessing to 30,000 couples at the formation stage, 360,000 couples at the growth
stage, and next year 3.6 million couples at the stage of perfection. The
globalization of Blessing is taking place. The secular world also talks about
the globalization of sports, academics and economics. However, no one has any
idea of globalization of the ideal family. Because the key problem of the world
is neither economic nor political. Rather the problem within families is the
key. Particularly the developed countries families are all torn apart. The
central country which has been spreading the practice of free sex throughout the
world is this America.
The time is coming when the United Nations will come up with a resolution to
prevent American young people from entering the rest of the world. Why? Because
they are the source of free sex and AIDS and all manner of disorder. Is this
true? (Yes.) Just because Americans have sufficient money individually does not
qualify them to travel wherever they want. Especially when they used their money
to spread some incredible immoral disease. Therefore, America is doomed to
perish.
If America were a country where all the poor people live, in other words if
America were a poor country, it would have more hope than it presently does. We
need the globalization of the ideal family. Do you understand? There is no one
in the world who has anything vaguely like this idea. Have you gained or lost
ever since knowing Father? (Benefitted.) You are all indebted to Reverend Moon
for eternity. That doesn't mean that Father wants you to pay him back. Rather,
Father wants you to raise your children in place of Father. In other words, when
you have your own children, stamp your label upon them and bequeath to the next
generation. You need to set that kind of tradition with your families.
How many couples will America be responsible to bring to the next Blessing?
(360,000.) What is the population of the United States? (240 million.) If
America had received Father as the Lord of the Second Advent directly after
World War II, then by now at least two or three generations would have prospered
as God's children. You all want to become the central families centered on True
Love, don't you? (Yes.) Therefore, do you clearly understand Father? (Yes.) In
order to follow the road of love you cannot travel alone. We must come to the
realization that we are nothing other than the fruit of thousands of generations
of human history. We are not the origin, but we are the result.
This brother here has over forty billion cells in his body. Each cell of his
body contains elements inherited throughout human history from the time of Adam.
In order for any tree to bear fruit and produce new seeds, the tree has to
become full-grown. It needs to develop its root system, trunk, branches and
leaves. Once the tree reaches maturity, that is the only time that it bears
fruit and eventually creates new seeds. In the same way, this brother is sitting
here, but in order for him to be sitting here it has taken all of human history.
He is the result of all of that. Ultimately there may be many seeds, but this
brother wishes to become the central seed which will play the major role in the
future.
We have to understand clearly that each of us is the result of tens of thousands
of various generations of fathers and mothers resulting in his lineage. Adam's
family time, Adam's nation time, Adam's worldwide time, this kind of lineage is
all connected to him. Because Adam represents God Himself, the center of the
family, but at the same time the body of God. The center of the nation, and yet
God Himself. The center of the world, and yet representing God.
Human beings are born to achieve the unification at the family level; national
level; and Heaven and Earth level. That kind of seed of potential is entering
into the wife's womb from the husband. This is not merely from the husband
himself, rather it is connected with history. Bequeathed generation after
generation. Do you think in these terms? When you look at your husband you have
to think in such historical terms and value. Your husband is not simply one man,
but rather he is connected all the way back to Adam through thousands of
generations. Your husband is the inheritor of all these thousands of ancestral
seeds of life which will be given to you as his wife.
These seeds have the vision and desire to be connected with and continued
through thousands of more generations to come, eventually to be able to build
the Kingdom of God here on the Earth where God's loving children can dwell
together with Him. Connected vertically to God all the way down [Father draws on
the board to illustrate] to your couple. This point here represents your husband
in the plus position. This represents the wife in minus position. Between
husband and wife a branch can be developed. As a wife, have you ever thought
that you have received the historical seed through your husband, and together
with him you are about to create a new historical fruit? The seed of life never
perishes.
The love-making between husband and wife is the place where you receive the
historical seed. It is the place where you can generate new historical seeds and
create new life. As an ideal wife you should not be ashamed in front of anyone,
neither should your children. You should be proud that your husband represents
the entire male population of the world. Because your husband is the number one
male in the world, your couple is supposed to create the number one children in
the world. In order to do so, don't you think you have to become absolutely one
with your number one husband? Your ten senses, mind and body, every part of you
should exactly fit in perfect harmony with your husband. Have you become one
with your husbands?
This human seed contains the plus and minus characteristics of both you and your
husband. The wife stands in the position of a big minus and the husband in the
position of a big plus, then together you form perfect oneness. That is how the
revolving motion will take place and you will be expanded to a greater level. In
order to accomplish this, first the mother and children should be united
together. Based upon this unity between mother and children, then unity with the
father takes place. This is how unification will continue throughout eternity.
Without securing this unification, these various historical stages will become
broken, which means that your family cannot have any connection with the
original seed of God. Do you understand? (Yes.)
This took thousands of years of history. Since mother and children are supposed
to become one, the mother is in the position to share parts of this seed of life
from the stage of pregnancy. Because you are sharing your flesh and blood with
your child in the womb. That is how you can become one with your children. Even
at the stage of fetus, children receive the flesh and blood of their mother. In
this sense they are part of the body of their mother. When they are born they
are fed by their mother and that oneness continues. Once you have total unity
with your children then you bring your children to your husband so that all of
you can become one.
Until you are born you receive everything from your mother for your existence.
However, the seed of life which the baby contains, comes from the father, but
the structure is from the mother. Nothing belongs to you, yourself, when you are
born. You have to understand that clearly. Nothing belongs to you. Therefore,
until you die you have to be absolutely united with your father and mother
because everything belongs to them. Do you clearly understand? This is the way
in which we can spread this horizontally. You are the result of thousands of
years of vertical history and at your level you can spread this at a horizontal
level. This enables your whole family to be connected to this vertical lineage.
Remember that of yourself you have nothing. When do you become the owner of
yourself? If Adam and Eve had become perfectly matured, then God would have
entered their lives and they would have been able to claim that God belonged to
them and that they belonged to one another. The only time that we can claim
ourselves is when we consummate the married life of True Love. Through the
practice of True Love you can claim your husband, your wife and your children.
Because that is the place where God can dwell. This is the point where you
become totally one as husband and wife and one with God. Upon that foundation
you have to offer your absolute love, faith and obedience to True Parents and
then you have hope.
Until you find your ideal spouse with God's blessing you have to give your
absolute obedience to your parents. You don't have any concept of freedom. These
are not the words of Reverend Moon; rather this is the law of creation. You
American leaders need to understand this clearly. You all have a concept of
freedom and privacy. What is freedom and privacy? Until you are blessed as a
couple you have no freedom of your own. Even in the secular world, only when you
are introduced as a married man and woman are you perceived as a serious mature
adult. You have to reach the position of parents.
Have you really obeyed your parents until you got married? In order to reach the
Position of Adam and Eve's blessing they had to be centered upon God. When you
reach the stage of husband and wife, then you should inherit True Parents'
heart. That is the only way that you can produce children of True Parents'
heart. Then when you have your own children, until they receive the Blessing,
you have to always protect them and carry them around with you. Do you
understand? You cannot let boys and girls run freely together.
Do you think that you should give your first kiss to your eternal spouse or to
some other playboy? (Spouse.) That is your original mind responding. Even
holding hands and giving your heartistic embrace should be only for your first
love. Pure gold will transmit electricity using every part of that gold. This is
how pure men and women are possessing that same eternal value.
If you fail to go through these stages in this physical world, when you join the
spiritual world you will have no choice but to go through this process. This
individual family expands to the worldwide level. The husband is the center of
the family. The center is one point, but the angle should be 360 degrees when it
revolves around. Mother and children should unite together and then become one
with the father.
When your children are inside the mother's womb they receive their flesh and
blood from the mother. Once they are born and begin growing up, then together
with their mother they receive flesh and blood from their father. The father has
to go out and shed sweat and tears in order to bring back home food to the wife
and children. During the first stage of existence in the womb, children receive
flesh and blood from their mother, but in the second stage, together with their
mother, they receive blood and flesh from their father. That is what a family
is. No concept of self existence should exist within the family.
As a husband and father we have the responsibility to raise, feed and share our
flesh and blood with our children and wife. Even if husbands have to shed blood,
sweat and tears out in the world, they have to appreciate that. As a child, you
should consider your mother as the source of life, love and lineage. Then
together with your mother you should consider your father as the source of love.
This is the way that your family will become united and perfected. The seed of
life came to you from your father. Therefore after becoming one with your mother
you eventually have to become one with your father who is the source of the seed
of life.
We have to become good quality mothers whom children can unite around. Also, as
a mother you have to be able to unite with your children. It is essential that
you all become mothers of this quality. The mother alone cannot raise the
children. Because the children are supposed to share the flesh and blood of
their father as well. Therefore, how can you even think of taking your children
away from their father.
[Father begins to draw a diagram on the board] This is the stage that we refer
to as the family Kingdom of God. The next stage that we refer to is that of
national parents. Therefore, we have to become national level parents. Who is
the national level father? Adam and God. Adam and Eve inherited that right from
God, but actually it is the position of God as well. This represents the nation.
The parents of the nation, representing plus and minus, make up millions of
families within the nation. Within these millions of individual families there
should exist unified families who should have a reciprocal relationship with the
parents on the national level. Do you understand?
If these individual families live their lives for the sake of the entire nation,
then the national level central parents will give and share their blood and
flesh with those individual families. The king who is willing to sacrifice his
own children, and his throne in order to save his people will be called a
righteous king. In this relationship we can see this ideal relationship between
the family of the king and your individual families. On the national level, if
this situation is an ideal one, then this king will take care of the individual
families personally. Such a king would be referred to as a righteous, saint-like
king.
Then to whom does this land of America belong? Do you have an American king? You
have an American president. However, the position of president is only in place
for four years. This is the land intended to be prepared to receive the Lord of
the Second Advent who will rule this world for eternity. Just as the father
shares his blood and flesh with his children, then on the national level the
king is supposed to be in the position to share his blood and flesh with all the
families of the nation. The land of America belongs to the king and the king's
family.
We are all standing in the position to receive blood and flesh from our parents.
Without our parents we cannot exist. Who are the children of filial piety? The
children who please and obey their parents are referred to as the sons and
daughters of filial piety. On a national level, when you devote your entire life
for the sake of the entire nation you are referred to as a patriot. However, at
a higher scale, when you live and dedicate your entire life for the sake of God
and humanity you will be called a saint. On the cosmic level you should be able
to sacrifice everything, yourself, your family, your relatives, your nation.
Until you reach that point, there is no concept of yourself, your family, or
your nation. Only when you are fully accepted by and become one with God can the
concept of myself, my family, my nation come into existence. Because of the lack
of this system of understanding there has always been conflict, dictators and
wars in this world.
First, within your family you should achieve unification; second, you should
achieve unification with your king; third, you should achieve unification with
God, your ultimate parent. On this final level, more people are involved.
Yourself, your father, your mother, and your king which includes your entire
kingdom. Then you can go to God and become one. Then you can truly claim
yourselves as children of God. Do you clearly understand Father? (Yes.) In one
kingdom there can be millions of different ideal families. Under God there can
be many thousands of different kingdoms united with God.
Our Family Pledge No. 2 states: We families centered upon True Love, pledge to
attend God and True Parents, to become central families representing the cosmos.
To fulfill the way of Heaven, becoming individuals of filial piety for the
family, patriots for the nation, saints for the world and holy sons and
daughters of Heaven and Earth.
Please remember, until we reach this final stage, in the process of becoming one
with my family level parents, national level parents with your ideal king, there
can be no concept of the individual self, family or nation. Only when you become
totally one with God will you become totally liberated to claim yourself, your
family, your nation and your world. Do you clearly understand? (Yes.) Until we
reach that ultimate level, we can have no concept of our individual self. In
order to reach that goal please become one with your mother first. This is the
first stage in this process. We have to clearly understand our path. Then
finally when we become totally one with God, we will be fully recognized as
children of God. Then we will stand in the position of sharing love with the
world in the position of lords.
We need to follow the family level parents, national level parents, and cosmic
level parents in absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. In such a
world, could you possibly imagine any concept of self? No. That is why those who
enter the Kingdom of God do so with their restored nation. The perfected Adam's
family will enter the Kingdom of God. This includes the family level, national
level and cosmic level. If you reach to that level then God will dwell with that
family. That is how Adam's family will become qualified to enter the Kingdom of
God. Once you make mistakes at these various stages, how difficult it is to
return to the original position.
This four position diagram [Father draws on the board] as we learn these eight
different stages, we are all helped and obtain approval from parents. That is
the only way we can proceed through the various stages. Isn't this true? (Yes.)
Father's conclusion is that in order to achieve the ideal of True Love, we have
to sacrifice ourselves in order to reach the family level, centering on family
level parents. Then we have to reach the goal of national level parents. Finally
we reach to the cosmic level God and we will be able to achieve the ideal of
love.
Through living our lives for the family, this family then exists for the nation.
This seed of life came from God originally so we have to go through various
stages, then the ultimate goal is to reach God. Once we reach the place of God
then a new universe and cosmos of peace, love and freedom will blossom. There
will be no worry concerning money, food and material needs. This will be the
life in the Kingdom of God.
In such a world we won't need any physical vehicles, food and clothing. All we
will need is True Love. Whatever you have based upon the spirit of True Love
will manifest before you immediately. This vast universe will become your holy
ground; your home. Many precious stones are awaiting their owner. This means
God's true princes and princesses. In such a world you can travel billions of
miles in an instant. With the spirit of True Love, the moment you have the
desire to see someone, then no matter how far away that person might be,
immediately he will appear right in front of you. Centering upon true love and
the Will of God, if you have the notion to have a banquet for thousands of
people in the grounds of Belvedere tonight, then as soon as you have a clear
plan the entire set up will appear here before you. Everything is possible in
that world.
Once you experience that kind of world, you will lose all interest in this
limited physical world. The world of spirit is such a convenient place. It is
the world that transcends time and space. Do you want to follow where True
Parents go? (Yes.) Then you have to know this truth. Only after Father
established the victorious foundation to be able to introduce these secrets is
Father revealing these truths to the world. Father knows this very truth from
the individual to the worldwide level. Therefore, he just continues to follow
this course. Today our topic is Following the Cosmic True Love Way. What Father
has described to us is exactly that. Through following this way we can reach to
the position where we can claim to be the children of God and the friends of
God.
Since we originated from God, we have to return to God by following the Cosmic
True Love way. Do you understand that? Chinese characters are deeply meaningful.
This one here [Father indicates to the board] means two people. Then together
with this character [indicating to the board] it means the house that is
surrounded by God. A God-caring house where two people live is the cosmos. How
about that? That is why Father's title today is Following the Cosmic True Love
Way. Centering upon True Parents, on the family level, we will become the true
children of filial piety. On the national level we will become the true
patriots. On the world level we will become the true saints. On the cosmic level
we will become the true holy sons and daughters. Throughout history no one has
accomplished this. However, since we have learned this secret truth from True
Parents, we stand in the position to achieve this. God Himself needs His family
because He is all alone now. After establishing all of these various foundations
we can claim to be holy sons and daughters.
This means that we have to invest everything for the sake of the family; the
family for the sake of the nation; nation for the sake of the world; and the
world for the sake of God and the cosmos. This is the course. We have received
too much, that is why we have to constantly invest and give. Do you understand
Father's message this morning? (Yes.) Since we have learned this cosmic true
love way from Father, we have to follow this path. Those who are determined to
follow the true love way show both of your hands to Father. This is the month of
May when everything is flourishing. Just as God's blessing is pouring abundantly
upon creation during this time, may His blessing pour down upon all of you.
Please join me in prayer.
