When I was a student, there was a Japanese wrestler called Futabayama. I wonder if he is still alive. If I had wrestled, I would have liked to wrestle him. [Laughter] I am good at Korean wrestling. In my middle and high school days, I was the best wrestler.
I was the champion wrestler in high school. I was good at running and jumping. I even boxed. I could hit a bad person—Pow!—and he would go flying. Why did I do this? It was not to fight. To realize a great revolution, to put this world back on the right path according to heavenly law, to make a peaceful world, I needed a strong, healthy body.
Life in student lodgings
I was often treated badly when looking for lodgings in Japan.
If I thought about that, when just listening to the Japanese language, I got a headache. But I had to love Satan’s children more than I loved God’s children. That’s God’s heart. To this day, I have lived like this, thinking about that point thousands and thousands of times. It is true.
Not so long ago, I visited one of the many lodging houses I’d lived in. I met the lady who ran the lodging house. At that time, 100 yen [today, $1] was a lot of money.
Do you know how much the room rent was? It was 11 yen a month.
I had an experience in my lodging house that I cannot forget. The master of the lodging house used to come home drunk late at night and beat his wife, who was not one to stand still and take it.
If he tried to hit her, she became angry and would shout and scream so much that the whole neighborhood was upset. [Laughter] The sound of them fighting woke me up on numerous occasions.
So I called on the lady and asked her, “Why do you stay and let yourself be beaten? Why don’t you return to your hometown?” She said, “Unmarried people can’t comprehend the pleasure of making up and of making love after a fight.” [Laughter] That’s how it is.
After a fight, you do not qualify to make love, so you have to beg for forgiveness and then… She may have been afraid of being hit once or twice, but she understood him and accepted his bad habit.
It must have been interesting—her husband trying to reconcile with her and express his love for her for a few days. Anyway, that’s how they lived. I am not sure what to say about it. [Laughter]
Investigating and systematizing the Principle
You have no idea how much I suffered in trying to find the Principle. I prayed for ten to fourteen hours a day for many years.
Do you understand how wretched I was?
My blood, sweat, and tears permeate Exposition of the Divine Principle. Each page is soaked in my blood and tears and is crying out to young people like you. It is the result of my having sacrificed and invested my youth. My blood and tears are crying out to you.
I did not discover the Principle only by looking in the Bible. If the chapter on the Fall represents the Book of Genesis, the chapter on restoration represents the Book of Revelation. I told myself, ” If the Tree of Life has become as it was in Genesis, the Tree of Life in Revelation has been restored.
If that is not correct, the Bible is a lie. Why? Something that is born of a seed returns to a seed. Because I knew that Christianity had to be the center of all religions, I decided to dig to its end, the root of Christianity. In doing so, I discovered how the Creation took place, what God was doing, and why God loves.
Nobody taught me anything. I discovered it for myself and systematized it. I caught hold of it and put it in my pocket. It sounds like a dream. God was not a loving God toward me. He was coldhearted, merciless. He never sympathized with me. If he had, Satan would have interfered.
That is the difficult thing. I had to uncover everything and systematize it. I am no ordinary person, which is why I was able to systematize it. That world is so vast; you don’t even know where to start.
There have been countless philosophers, saints, and sages, but they couldn’t solve these problems. I came to know the reality of the spirit world, and I met all the spiritual teachers and leaders and held discussions with them.
I thoroughly studied the spirit world, and based on heavenly law, I had to set boundaries and sort out everything. Later, I had to take this even to God to debate its veracity with Him. Without the approval of the spiritual world, you cannot unify the earth.
The father-son relationship is the core of the universe
There was a time when I entered a transcendent state to look for the origin of the universe. God told me that it is the parent–child relationship, father and son. This is the conclusion.
The universe originated out of the parent–child relationship. The creation is a garden created for the children. If you clearly understand God, the principles of creation are revealed naturally.
I invested the most energy in finding the answer to the question of the origin. After nine years of continuous struggle, I finally discovered the answer.
After we realize this, it’s elementary, isn’t it? I told myself, “Oh! I didn’t realize it was so simple.” I knew everything else, but I did not come to understand this point for a very long time.
The principle of reciprocal complementary action
Scholars say that the universe exists according to the principle of reciprocal repulsion, but this is not true. It exists according to the principle of reciprocal complementary action.
When storm clouds build up and rain falls, or when lightning flashes and thunder crashes, billions of volts of negatively charged electricity and positively charged electricity clash. Then billions of volts of electricity with a positive or negative charge appear in the lightning flash.
How can you explain that?
This is what I was planning to write about for a doctoral dissertation. The numerous positively charged particles and the many negatively charged ones cannot appear in one flash without first joining plus and the minus, first joining minus.
The positively charged particles come together, and the negatively charged ones come together, and then they clash. There is no way to point out what happens in lightning without this kind of explanation.
It seems to contradict the basic theory of electricity, but it doesn’t. The conceptual framework is different. The plus and the minus receive protection when the object partner is decided.
What conclusion can we draw from this?
People say it is a universal law that when a subject and object become absolutely one, to protect that unity, a plus will repel another plus and a minus will repel another minus, but they don’t repel each other. They protect each other.
Developing my philosophy
I never told anyone what kind of system of thought I followed. My friends didn’t know. I researched the Bible and various books about religion and brought home philosophy books that ordinary people don’t read.
I had a friend who was studying politics and economics at Waseda. He was studying communism. I had heated arguments with him.
Once, I gave a speech by the roadside. I even gave speeches where many people had come to see the cherry blossoms in bloom. I criticized the times. I shouted about how the youth of today have to act. The things I prophesied then are all being fulfilled now.
I understand communism well. I have fought against communism since I was twenty years old. Among the communist leaders who returned to North Korea and were given government ministerial positions were some of my friends.
I told them in our student days, during the Japanese occupation, “You and I have come together to fight, but in the future we will be on opposite sides.” This was very real to me. They had no idea I would become the main person in bringing down communism, but I already knew then.
Regarding the question of where human beings originated, I can say that our emergence did not result from our self-awareness or some developmental action from within ourselves.
There should first be recognition of the fact that there was indeed fundamental action, direction, and sense of purpose.
From this standpoint, human beings, like all other forms of creation, did not evolve and develop on their own; rather, they began to exist as entities with an awareness already determined, with their purpose, mandated to take certain actions towards a certain direction under that purpose. We must understand this fact, which cannot be logically refuted.
Sun Myung Moon