In our Unification Church, the word Blessing is generally connected directly with the word marriage.
Among the countless people living upon this earth, there are many who wish that they themselves may become happy. There are many who wish to inherit some legacy from their forebears, or many who wish to inherit an inheritance from their parents. But to receive an inheritance from parents, one cannot but become a son to whom, among the brothers, more affection goes than to anyone, so that the parents can say, “I will bequeath everything of mine to you.” That is, it means that without passing through a period in which one can be acknowledged by the parents, one cannot receive an inheritance and cannot go forth to a position of receiving the Blessing either.
The Origin of the Blessing and Its Conditions of Establishment
When we consider the word “blessing” today, centering on the Will, this word did not begin from the Unification Church. We know that God has come forth holding this word within His inner mind while orchestrating the Providence of Restoration until now and wishing that it be put into practice.
It was likewise the same when God created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and blessed them and wished that it be achieved. No one at all has yet put that Blessing into practice. In this way we come to know the fact that God has passed through the historical process until now from a grievous position, awaiting as the wish among wishes that the Blessing be put into practice.
After passing through such a four-thousand-year historical process, God sent Jesus to this earth in order finally to carry out the Blessing He had originally wished to give. Though God conducted such a providential history, we know that Jesus too died without going forth to that position of the Blessing. We know the fact that even after that, though many Christians fought while shedding the blood of martyrdom in the several-thousand-year historical process of Christianity, they have still not resolved that wish of God’s.
Therefore, we must know that this word Blessing did not begin from our Unification Church, but that God has always pursued and desired this as one wish within His inner heart through the historical process from the creation until now, after the Fall.
God has walked a road of suffering until now to find this day of wish, but has not yet found it. That is why, if one finds this one day, this day is a day on which one can resolve the han of history and accomplish it and a day on which God’s historic wish is achieved. When we think of such things, we must know how tremendous this position of the Blessing is.
We fallen human beings were not born holding a direct blood relationship centered on God. Therefore, unless one denies this, forms a new bond with God, and returns to the original position, one cannot go forth to the position of the Blessing. To put it another way, it means that because we were born in a fallen world of death, to return to a world of life centered on God, one cannot but be resurrected. It means one cannot help but be born anew.
Being born here does not end merely with having been born; one must pass through a process in which one can grow. To pass through that, one must go forward, setting up all conditions of indemnity. In going forward, setting up all conditions of indemnity, one must bear responsibility for and go forward with not only individual missions but national missions and worldwide missions as well.
We must know the fact that the question of the Blessing is determined according to how one has done centering on such responsibility.
When we set out the question of the Blessing today, it is not that one has stood in a position where one can be blessed as an individual, whether Kim or Park. Then what must someone first be equipped with to come to the position of the Blessing? There is, without fail, something that must first be equipped here. The Blessing is given not for one’s own individual sake but to have that individual form a new family standing in place of the clan, people, nation, and world. That family is not a family only for one’s own individual self, only for the Kim if one is a Kim. It is not a family only of that Kim but a family that stands in place of the people and nation and, further, can represent the world. We must know the fact that unless one forms such a family, the Blessing cannot be established.
The Providential History of Seeking One Man and One Woman Who Can Be Blessed
Why is that? Because although Adam and Eve, the ancestors of humankind, are two individuals, since they stand at the starting point of history, it does not end with those two alone. Through those two, a new family will be manifested, and further, a new clan will be manifested, and further, a new people and nation will without fail be manifested. The position where such a worldwide foundation is settled is precisely the position of the Blessing.
Because Adam and Eve, by falling, lost this position of the Blessing, we are standing in a position of having to restore this again. That is why such a Blessing is not limited to the Blessing of our individual selves.
Accordingly, we know that it is an inevitable fact that unless one pledges that one must receive the Blessing from a position where one can cross beyond the standard of people and nations, which is the foundation of this Blessing, one cannot see the completion of restoration.
Seen from this viewpoint, one must know how grave a position the individual who must go forth to the position of the Blessing stands in. That position is a position where one can settle accounts for all the sorrow in the historical process woven from the past until now and a position where God’s wish, unachieved until now, can make a new departure and a base that can be taken as an occasion from which a new future departs.
So what is the six-thousand-year history until now, a history for finding?
It was a history for finding one man. What is it that countless prophets and noble forebears have come seeking from Adam’s family until now while paying the price of sacrifice? That is, what is the content of that toil for finding? It is for finding one man who is Adam. After finding that man, what must one do? One must find one woman through that man.
Just as when God created Adam and Eve, He first created Adam and then, through that Adam, created Eve, so they have fought until now, centering on God to fulfill the historical responsibility of first finding Adam.
If one has found that Adam, what must one do?
From that day, one must go on re-creating Eve. In re-creating, one does not do it in a comfortable environment. It means that without completely resolving the decisive point of victory of having re-created the nation, if a nation and the world were before one, one cannot achieve the Blessing.
The one who was born as one man to indemnify everything that failed after Adam is Jesus. But even that Jesus, in achieving the Will, cannot do it alone. However much Jesus inherited all the content of the providence toward the people of Israel, it means Jesus alone cannot form a nation. It means that for Jesus to form a nation, he must first organize a new family.
To form a new family, one must find one woman who can represent the countless women upon the earth. That is, it means one must find one woman who can represent countless women with the whole stake, nationally and worldwide.
If one would find and pull out that one woman from the satanic world, one must fight a fight of cutting out what countless Satanic forces in the historical process until then have raised the banner of revolt against and opposed. It means that people who sympathize with this must join, and from a position of raising the banner and refuting Satan, one cannot but find one woman. To put it another way, it means that without presenting to Satan a victorious condition by which one can completely cross beyond everything invaded by Satan for four thousand years, one cannot bring back the lost Eve from the satanic world. That is why it means it is not simple.
So to become a historic woman, one must settle accounts for the content of historical failure and being driven. Furthermore, to become the Eve of the age, one must set up one's standard of having fulfilled the duty of loyalty and filial piety before Heaven, representing all the women of the age. And as one woman, one must step forth holding the heart (심정) of a woman of fidelity toward one man.
Without such a woman appearing, one cannot find the one restored substantial Eve that has been hoped for through the historical process until now. That is, it means one cannot establish one person who can represent all the women in history. That is why it means that making the environment behind finding that one woman is not so simple a problem. Because that position is a position of facing one another one-to-one, we must know the fact that world-historical content is contained in it.
If one finds that one woman, through her a new people are formed, and through that one woman a new world is formed. Setting out such a fact, you must know that bringing about the result of re-creation by finding that one woman is by no means an easy thing.
The Significance of the Blessing Ceremony in the Unification Church
But here it will not do with Eve herself alone. To put it another way, it means that in a world centered on Satan, the Satan who stood in the position of the archangel who made Eve fall in the Garden of Eden, in Adam’s coming forth seeking Eve, it will not do without one masculine being who can, in place of the archangel, assist the road Eve goes. One must know the fact that it is made so that one can find one woman only by passing through such complicated and manifold content.
In our Unification Church, this Word called the Blessing came forth centering on the 1960s, and that this living was presented to you together with this Word was not only from a demand of the age limited to the 1960s. What is the highest wish God desires at each place, or at each time, where He spreads the providence through the historical process? It is preparing one base called the Blessing. We must know this fact.
The responsible person who appeared upon that base of the Blessing, that is, the central being, is not a being placed only in the limited environment called that age. It means he is a central figure holding world-historical content. That is why the Blessing does not end merely with being equipped with the bond of husband and wife. Through that Blessing, a new family must be formed, and a new clan, a new people, a new nation must be formed. It means all of that sets out from here.
Seen from this viewpoint, you must know the fact that from the 1960s we entered a new historical age. Through entering a new historical age, a new clan will be manifested here, and the formation of a new nation, a new world, will appear here. Centering on such a base, the Unification Church has, until now, held Blessing ceremonies several times.
Through such ceremonies, it must not end merely with their receiving the Blessing. We know the fact that through such ceremonies we have come forth, widening one shield of victory, one base of victory, before the people, before the world, before the course of the Providence of Restoration. Seen from this viewpoint, you must know that the Blessing is thus tremendous.
At this time when, in the Teacher’s lifetime, we would now hold a grand Holy Wedding ceremony of the Blessing of seven hundred couples, among you here too there will be people who come to attend that place.
If there be people who come to attend that place, it means one must not attend from the position of one man or one woman just as one is. That position is a position representing the many men, or the many women, who came and went during six thousand years until now. You must have the awareness that you have been invited to that place.
You must grasp such a fact through experience with an inner heart (심정). Even though there be many such men, or such women, before God, the number of them is not the problem. It means there is, without fail, only that man and only that woman. It means there are only the two.
If those two would welcome a new turning point and make a new departure, it means they cannot but appear equipped with the form of the substance of re-creation that God has found and established.
Seen from such a position, it means a new world centered on heaven and earth must unfold. One’s own individual self must be able to say, “I will become such a son and such a daughter. The road this son and daughter go on is a road gone for the sake of the nation Thou desirest. It is a road gone not only for the nation but also for the world Thou hast pursued until now.”
Along the way there will be much difficulty and many twists of destitution. But it means that is not the problem; the problem is how one will become a husband and wife who can somehow break through all this and pass beyond the nation and go into the world.
The Position for Forming the Bond of the Blessing
As one man and as one woman, living the two accompanying each other through a lifetime—that is not the foundation for receiving the Blessing. It means this is a position of entering, having formed a decisive bond by which one cannot but go, shouldering a destiny of forming a new world.
You must know that that position is such a position of blessing. This road is not such a road that one can go on because one wishes to go as one pleases and can refrain from going because one does not wish to go. It is our road of destiny that must inevitably be gone. It means this road is a road that cannot be given again, that can be bestowed only once for us.
You must know that if one goes wrong here, it is a final road on which one cannot again find and establish the noun restoration.
Adam and Eve’s fall came about not by centering on God but by centering on Satan. Originally, love ought to have come about through God, but through Adam and Eve’s fall, it brought the result that love came about through Satan. But because it centers on love, Heaven’s side must always be the beginning and the result; God has until now conducted the history of restoration, taking love as the standard.
Therefore, if an individual would bring about the victory of love, one must become a self who can be one with God. If a family, husband, and wife must become completely one. It means the husband and wife who can become the origin of a family must become completely one. It means that, becoming completely one, one must wipe away God’s sorrowful mind as He faces fallen Adam and Eve and must resolve the han of God’s pierced heart (심정). One must become such a husband and wife.
When God made Adam and Eve in the beginning, He first made all things and made Adam and Eve, the center of all those things, as substances of glory and wished to have one day of blessing on which they could pledge a victory full of delight. But because Adam and Eve fell and thus did not achieve that Will, we must make it so that we can complete that one day of wish in our generation. It means one must raise high that glory of victory and, ourselves, or as husband and wife, offer praise before all heaven and earth. To welcome such a joyful day, we must know how blessed a thing it is to attend such a tremendous position of glory that comes only once.
Then when we think of the past of the countless people who came and went on the course of the Providence of Restoration, or of people who fought while offering up their lives facing the Will, just as Jesus died gazing upon this Blessing, what was the wish of those people who made effort by investing all the sincerity they had with single-hearted devotion before God? It was certainly to achieve this Blessing. It means that the countless spirits who have gone to the spiritual world too, because they have not yet formed this bond of the Blessing, are wishing there too that they may certainly come to form this bond of the Blessing.
If we look at the Bible, there are the words “a crown of righteousness” and “a crown of love.” What is the emblem of that crown? It is being equipped with a partner of the Blessing before God and becoming a citizen of the nation God permits. You must know the fact that receiving such a privilege from God is made the symbol of the crown.
Such a fact achieved in the Unification Church today does not reach only a plain and limited environment. It means that the base of hope, which the countless spirits of the spiritual world have inevitably pursued and craved through the past course of history, through the present, through the future, is being achieved here.
When we set out whether the parties who come to this tremendous Blessing know that, you cannot but criticize yourselves from a serious position and resolve anew.
The Duty We Must Be Equipped With
It cannot but become a question whether I am standing in a position where God can call me in Adam’s place, or whether I am standing in a position where He can call me in Jesus’ place, or whether I can be acknowledged as having stood in a position where I can stand in place of the Lord who will come anew. Seen from this position, you who have the Blessing before you must criticize your living from your past to the present.
Among you today there are many who think in their own way. Though you may think, “The Blessing is what the church does as a customary matter. Since such and such conditions are established for me too, or since several years have passed since I entered the church, I will have become one qualified to correspond to it.” It means one must not think so.
It means this day is one day God has hoped for during six thousand years. That is why, through welcoming this one day, one comes to find the lost son and comes to find the lost daughter. Through these, a point of accord is prepared by which God’s love can be connected, and from here we can know this tremendous fact that a horizontal ground is prepared on which God can spread His will. It means we cannot but think again here about the question of how many sons or daughters there are who, holding a mind that can be in accord with God’s inner heart in this way, are preparing to welcome one day of the Blessing.
When we look at your figure, your face is fully equipped with eyes, ears, mouth, and a nose. Also, your body is fully equipped with four limbs and all its parts.
When all of this is joined and appears before God, which part of you will God love? God does not love centering only on some one part of you. It means God wishes you to become a son and a daughter whom He can love entirely. The standard God wishes for is not fifty points. Nor is it sixty points. It means it is not seventy or eighty points either. It is more than a hundred points.
What is that standard of more than a hundred points?
It is not the position of the standard at which Adam and Eve fell. It is a position where one can pursue a value beyond the standard at the time of the Fall, by which one can restore all those things through indemnity before God, who has looked upon the sorrow of the Fall. To put it another way, it means, is it not the Father’s mind to pursue a value beyond that of Adam and Eve before the Fall in the Garden of Eden?
If one cannot establish such a condition, God’s dignity until now falls to the ground. When we set out the fact that Satan invaded Adam and Eve and trampled that one day of glory, God must have a husband and wife who can receive a new Blessing that surpasses that. It means that if Satan comes to be in a position where he can go seeking God’s sons and daughters and take them again, God cannot find and establish His dignity. When we think that there is such a tremendous standard, it means one must not seek to receive the Blessing holding some circumstance of one’s own here.
Such a position of the Blessing must set out from a position where God cannot but acknowledge it, standing in a position of a decisive result with Heaven. This is the attitude a fallen human being must take. And yet you must know that when one cannot be so, this position is a position where one remains as one defeated.
If you go wrong once in this position, your descendants of hundreds of millions of ages come to be caught in it, and your forebears too come to be caught in it.
The Reason Jesus Came to Die
Then why did Jesus come to this earth and fail?
It is not that Jesus came and failed because during some thirty years he could not do all the work he had to do. Nor did he fail because he could not do everything he had to do with his disciples or with his relatives in the course of his public life.
Simply, the motive of that failure is that Jesus could not go forth to the position of the Blessing. Furthermore, the direct motive of his bearing the cross lies not so much in the people of Israel betraying and the Judaic believers opposing as in his not having had such a day of blessing in Joseph’s family.
If he had had one day when that could be, Jesus would not have died on the cross.
Therefore, what are the cause and motive of the cross, in which everything converged? It is because he did not achieve the Blessing. That is why Jesus died on the cross.
Where does the cause lie for humankind’s groaning amid suffering until now?
It is because we had ancestors who fell and did not reach the position of the Blessing. Because there was that history of misfortune, the descendants are still groaning again and again. Then what is it that all humankind under heaven wishes for alike before Heaven? It is one day of the Blessing. This is a historic fact unprecedented or a sequel.
That the Blessing, which has been inwardly awaited and inevitably hoped to be manifested, has been achieved at the altar of unification centering on the land of Korea is not a matter limited to our Korea but a world-historical matter.
If there be women of such a worldwide stage, are they not themselves ones holding considerable value in the historical age? To put it another way, is it not a figure without shame for God to call in place of the lost Adam?
Therefore, when we ask whether there be such sons and daughters in the true sense, there is a marked difference here. It means it is a difference of heaven and earth (천양지판 天壤之判).
When one considers one’s own position here, though one holds a shameful figure that cannot step forth to a position of the Blessing that Heaven can permit, one stands in such a position of saying, centering on oneself, “I am such and such…” But if Heaven grants the Blessing, one must receive it with gratitude.
If He does not grant it, it means one cannot but grant the Blessing to a person who presents a condition that says he will receive it by whatever means.
When we set out the Blessings until now, there were many cases in which the Teacher took responsibility entirely and gave the Blessing.
It is a fact that that too is not a help to the development of the Unification Church. Even so, it means there is content in me by which I cannot but give the Blessing. When we set out whether these Blessed Families until now have fulfilled their responsibility as families God wishes for, one must once again criticize and reflect upon oneself.
The Responsibility of a Blessed Family
A blessed husband and wife have a responsibility they must carry out from the day they were blessed. That responsibility is not that a husband and wife join and form a family and live, but that the two joined must form a people or a nation. It means that is the problem.
If there be ten blessed people, the families of those ten people must join and, with a new worldview, organize one new clan. It means that if one were to form a new nation, one must first organize a new clan. That clan must not be a divided clan but a clan unified into one.
So the purpose of the ten blessed people must be the same for each other. Because these families are a few families found and established in the satanic world, they are always in a position where they can receive the offense of the satanic world.
That is why one must always become one and unite and make an internal solidarity that can surpass the external force pressing in upon that environment. It means that if one were to surpass that force, a complete unification within itself must be achieved.
If one becomes a figure that has thus become one, however much one outwardly receives Satan’s invasion, one can well overcome it. From being equipped with such a consolidated substance, a new clan is formed that does not receive the invasion of the satanic world. Will it not be that a people are formed through such a united clan and a new nation is formed through those united people?
Then when we ask whether the Blessed Families today are completely investing their lives and property and bearing responsibility in God’s place and fighting to save that nation, if a nation or people, it means they are not. But a blessed husband and wife must go through their family until the day when they can embrace not only the nation but even the world, which is its terminal point. It means that even if you would not go, it comes about so, in any case.
If you fail to go the road you must go as a Blessed Family upon this earth, you cannot live by going to the spiritual world. Though you think that you, as blessed husbands and wives, will go to the heavenly world and live happily, in fact it is not made so. Through that Blessing one must oneself become the center of the substance of glory in the world of existence of ten thousand ages. That is the original posture of creation. But it means there is no one in the fallen world equipped with such a posture.
In the world there is Korea, and at the same time Japan, and also countless nations are scattered in every place. Because in the satanic world such nations are made into camps of the enemy, one must find and establish all of these within the decisive sphere of victory in Heaven’s place. And so one must stand in a position where one can return glory and praise before God. It means that if one goes to the spiritual world from a position of not standing in such an original position, one cannot take a place where one can rest. That is why it means one cannot but lead not only one’s husband or wife but even one’s children so that they can certainly cooperate in restoring the world. You must know the fact that families standing in such a position are precisely the Blessed Families.
One thing you must know is that the spiritual world and the physical world are utterly different. It means the spiritual world is a world in which the world one can think of with the mind is concretized just as it is. So it means it will not do with that mind alone. That is, it means it will not do to keep only within one’s mind that one will devote loyalty facing the Will. Here a relative substance must, without fail, accompany it.
So mind and body must become one, and one must without fail bring a good result upon the earth. It is the same as the fact that the being created through God’s Word is the human being, and it means it will not do to hold only the mind. That is, it means that without passing through the perfected substance, one cannot go to the world of result.
Seen from this viewpoint, the question is how one can unfold substantial action if one goes to the spiritual world from a position of not having been equipped with what one must be equipped with upon the earth and of having had one’s mind entirely taken away by Satan. It means that it is exceedingly difficult.
If you fail to carry out responsibility upon this earth, you must set up your descendants in your place. Setting up those descendants in a position like a messiah who can save themselves, one must help them and cooperate while looking after their circumstances. It means one is placed in a position where one cannot but cooperate so that they can achieve the field of responsibility one did not do while alive. We know that this is the phenomenon of resurrection through the Second Advent.
Then, if one is placed in a position where one cannot but resurrect through the Second Advent upon going to the spiritual world, can one be happy in such a position?
It means that it is impossible. It means it is something that cannot be. It means that a person who has not fulfilled his responsibility cannot go forth to the glorious position of one who has fulfilled it. Because the spiritual world is a world of infinite merit (공적 功績), if one has not carried out one’s responsibility, one cannot enter just as one is. It means it is extended for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years; that is, for a long time, until one carries out one’s responsibility again. It is a natural principle. When we set out in such a position, how precious is this time in which we are alive today!
The Wish and Conviction a Blessed Family Must Hold
The one partner Jesus would find and establish, that is, the object of the Blessing, is a person who is not limited to Jesus himself but can stand in place of the world.
Because he is a central being who can stand in place of the world, one must go this road until the time when that central position can be appointed by the world. So it means that whoever has formed a Blessed Family must go this road.
Then where must our families place the wish of everything?
One must place it in the conviction that it is a family for the nation and the world.
And holding a sense of responsibility that one is a substitute for God who can form a nation and a world, and holding such a mind, one must be able to bind all one’s actions to that.
Even though you do work in a limited environment, whose command you are doing it under is important. One must hold the conviction that one is doing it, having received God’s command or having received the calling of the world and the nation. One is doing work in place of the world in a limited environment. It means one is doing work in place of the nation too in a limited environment. It is the same with work centered on the individual. It is the same, but it means that according to the background from which one received the command, the result of that work also differs. You must know that.
When one says that I do work representing the world, it seems there is not much difference from the work one does as one’s own individual self, but when one says I do it having come forth having received the command of the world, one is bound to the world.
Furthermore, when one says one does it having come forth having received the command of the nation, though the environment is the same restricted environment, this contributes to the nation.
Therefore, it means transcending the notion that everything we live by today, or the living of Blessed Families, is lived only for one’s own husband and wife.
Otherwise, you cannot leave a standard of being a meritorious subject in setting up conditions of indemnity upon this earth and restoring the world, and a meritorious subject in restoring the nation too.
If you cannot leave such a standard, it means you cannot manage your road upon going to the spiritual world. It means that if there be a person who went to the spiritual world from such a position, one cannot but deal strictly with that person.
That is why it means that the road you must go after receiving the Blessing is not a road for your husband and wife. Only by being for the clan before being for husband and wife does a position unfold where husband and wife can rest.
Furthermore, only by the clan’s being for the nation does a position unfold where the clan can rest, and only by the nation’s being for the world does a position unfold where the nation can rest.
From this viewpoint, you must know that the Blessing itself is not for your individual selves. Each of you must go holding the conviction that “the Blessing represents the whole.” When, from such a position, you become one with each other and form a family, that family at last becomes a family that can head toward the world.
If there be only one such Blessed Family, it means that one family must absolutely bear such responsibility.
The more families there are that go forward under such conviction, that is, if one family and another family remain in the process of going forward, it means the history of restoration advances. Seen from this position, even though there are many families going the same road, it means not merely to rely on one another but to let each hold its autonomy. Such a family is a family for the nation and a family for the world. It means that if it is a family that goes forward under such self-awareness, the descendants born in that family too become people who are for the nation and for the world.
When it becomes so, that husband will certainly become a historic husband, and that wife will become a historic wife. Also, their descendants will become a clan necessary for restoring the world in the course of God’s Providence of Restoration.
If they have become a husband and wife who can be equipped with such a clan-level bond, they will be enthroned in the position of ancestors of a new generation. It becomes so.
You must know that the position one attends to settle a bond by which one can be given such tremendous responsibility and mission is the position of the Blessing.
The Road a Blessed Family Must Go
In receiving the Blessing today, there must not be anyone who passes through that process with a customary notion. It means it will not do merely to pass through the process. One must know how appallingly entangled are the circumstances and bonds woven there. It means that if one comes forth knowing that, the world is determined. So it means that if one fits one’s direction toward one purpose and goes forward, the world is made to come toward that direction.
That is why blessed husbands and wives cannot live as they please. It means one must live for God’s public pledge, or for that nation’s public pledge. It means it is not the problem whether one’s own partner is fine or worthless, but the purposefulness one must go for is the problem. That is, it means the problem is how one, while alive, paves the normal road one’s descendants must go.
When we look at you, husband and wife each say to the other, “Love me”; it means such a position is wrong. It means such love cannot be acknowledged. So before saying “love me,” one must first love the nation and love the world. And after that one must say, “Love me.” This is the road one must go as a Blessed Family. Here, husband and wife are all the same. That is, it means one must be able to say, instead of loving me, love the nation, love the world, love Heaven. But it means, when have you loved Heaven, and when have you loved the world, and when have you loved the nation? This is the problem.
If Adam and Eve had not fallen, their loving would have become love standing in place of heaven and earth and would have become love standing in place of the world. Also, it would have become love standing in place of the nation, and love standing in place of the people. It means everything begins through them.
But when have you, who go seeking toward this course of restoration, stood in a position of loving the nation, and when have you stood in a position of loving the world?
Furthermore, when have you stood in a position of loving Heaven? It means you have not yet stood in such a position. It means such a position is not a position of wishing to be loved centering on oneself and of asking that a relationship be formed centering on oneself and that requisites of happiness be established. It means that with such a way of thinking one cannot go the normal road a Blessed Family must go.
A Blessed Family is originally in a destiny of having to find the love it could not give toward Heaven because the ancestors of humankind fell, and a destiny of having to find the love it could not give toward the world, and a destiny of having to find the love it could not give toward the nation. Also, it is a destiny of having to find the love it could not give toward the people and clan. That is why one must cross beyond the nation and cross beyond the world and love Heaven.
Here one must receive public acknowledgment of having loved Heaven and then love the world and receive public acknowledgment of having loved the world and then love the nation.
Also, one must receive public acknowledgment of having loved the nation and then love the clan and receive public acknowledgment of having loved the clan and then love the family. When one has received public acknowledgment of having thus loved even the family, that is, after having such content acknowledged before Heaven, only then must husband and wife love each other. It means it is made so that one loves in reverse in this way.
But it means a family in which discord arises among Blessed Families and in which husband and wife say this and that to each other is a family centered on itself. It means it is not such a thing that something unfolds from a position of having forgotten the Will? That is why it means a wife must say to her husband, “Before you love me, you must know how to love Heaven first. Receive acknowledgment of having loved that Heaven and then love the world.
Receive acknowledgment of having loved the world and then love the nation. Receive acknowledgment of having loved the nation and then love the clan. Receive acknowledgment of having loved the clan and then love the family.”
In this way, it means a Blessed Family must love the people more than its family, and must love the clan and further must love the nation and the world. And it means one must love one’s own relatives and one’s blessed colleagues.
If there be one family thus connected, that family, however many thousand people or ten thousand families there be, is marked when one looks at it. It means that in that family in which man and woman have become one and joined, the shape of loving the nation, the shape of loving the world, the shape of loving Heaven appear. In this way, husbands and wives must be in accord.
It means that a Blessed Family must not say the kind of words that the husbands and wives of the world have been able to say customarily until now, asking that one love only oneself or saying, “You are mine.” So one who is a wife must, whenever she has time, devote sincerity so that her husband does not become such a husband.
Also, one who is a husband must, whenever he has time, devote sincerity so that his wife does not become such a wife. Each must join strength to strength and help and guide the other. It is husband and wife and family that bear together the responsibility of giving each other courage and guiding and being guided so as not to be disheartened in going that road.
If husband and wife cannot find the nation they must find, that husband and wife must separate and find it. Otherwise, the two must join and, certainly, find it. If one does not do this, there remains the mortifying fact of having to come to this earth again and cooperate. That is why it means open the road by which Heaven can go, and open the road by which the world can go, and open the road by which the nation can go. It means come down in reverse. One must receive such public acknowledgment before God and set out. To do so, the question is whether husband and wife have united their minds and fought for the world and the nation and whether they have always fulfilled the duty of loyalty and filial piety for that nation.
A blessed family must, from the day it is blessed, each bear a double cross and go. It means the man must bear responsibility not only for his world but even for the woman’s world, and the woman too must bear responsibility not only for her world but even for the man’s world.
On the road of the two thus bearing responsibility and going forth, one must not leave content by which Satan can accuse. You must know that this is the road Blessed Families must go hereafter.
The Married Life of a Blessed Family
Then, setting out the question of whether I have become one who can go so, and whether I have been equipped with content by which that can be, the term “condition of indemnity” came out here.
If one were to set up that condition of indemnity, three sons and daughters of faith are first absolutely necessary. Why? Because through Adam and Eve’s falling, their eight family members fell, so it means one cannot go without crossing a standard that can represent those eight family members. Without being equipped with that, the words “I am for the people.” I am for the nation. I am for the world” are words that amount to nothing but a mere formality. It means that from such a starting point this standard is absolute.
You must clearly know that the position of the Blessing is a position on a road of destiny on which one must settle that absolute standard and go.
If there be such a family here, it means, think once about how great God’s expectation of that family will be. If it be a family that can become the center among countless families, that family will become the family Heaven can love most among many families. Then what kind of family will the family centered on the Unification Church be? It means this is the problem.
Seen from this viewpoint, if one has lived loving only oneself while forgetting the Will with each other, one must know how to feel shame before Heaven. This is the married life of a Blessed Family. It means one cannot develop if one stands in a position of forming a bond among themselves with the Will before one is running a family seeking only their happiness. It means one absolutely cannot develop.
Accordingly, if there be a good thing in the family, it means that they must form a relationship together with the nation, together with the world, together with Heaven. It means the joy of that family must be the boast of the nation, the boast of the world, the boast of Heaven.
It means that when you bear sons and daughters, you must offer them before God as such fine sons and daughters. When one devotes sincerity, holding the faith that though I did not go forth to such a position, a day will certainly come when I can achieve a position that can comfort Heaven, those sons and daughters come to appear as beings necessary before the world and the nation. It is made so. But a family that gropes for its happiness centering on itself amounts to nothing but seeking to use Heaven’s Will. It means there are many such families. It means such families will not do.
That is why from tomorrow I intend to begin such work again. Though I do not know whether it will take one month or two months, the Teacher who takes responsibility for you and carries out this work does not do this work as a hobby. It means it is a serious matter. In seeking a partner this time, we must fight a fierce battle. It means that either I drag him along or he drags me along, so in any case one of the two must go first. Only when one of the two stands in the position of going ahead and one follows can one without fail go this road. It means that if the two do not cooperate and go so, one cannot go this road.
Then who becomes the subject here? Who becomes the object?
If the person who can become the subject in the life of faith is one’s own wife, even though she be one’s own wife, one must attend to her and go. One must lead such a life. Here one must absolutely obey one’s wife. It means that just because one is a man, one must not speak loudly. It is likewise the same with the woman. When the man has become the subject and borne responsibility, it means do not say this and that to the man with external problems. That he cannot earn money, and his appearance is poor, and he is incompetent… It means that is not the problem. It means the problem is how much one can be loyal toward the Will. It means the problem is being able to become the center of each other’s lives.
It means look at the people who, not regarding this as important, went seeking the external conditions they themselves wished for. It means the result was without fail not good.
So it means do not be discouraged even though it be not the relative standard the individual wishes for. It means that if his mind of being for the Will is ahead of one’s own, one must say one will go seeking the world through him.
One must step forth seeking such a man, such a woman. It means that rather than a doctor of learning who is equipped with an external form and is sleek, on the contrary, those of rural origin who are innocent and simple can be more blessed. It means that a person who, rather than putting himself forward and clamoring loudly, silently goes where he is dragged if dragged, or who can eternally keep that place if he is set in some place, is more necessary before Heaven.
The Blessing Cannot Be Twice
You must know that if you go with the Will before you while indulging your greed, you go not forward but backward. It means there have been many such facts. It means one cannot introduce one’s own greed there.
If there be a husband and wife who, after receiving the Blessing, live indulging greed for each other’s own profit, that husband and wife come to reproduce the figure of Adam and Eve’s fall. The Fall began from greed. It means it is not that, holding only one’s own subjecthood, one wishes the other to submit to it.
The Blessing must in every respect come forth, forming a bond of love centering on God. But Heaven will absolutely not agree with a person who puts forward only himself, saying, “I am such a person.” Until now in our Unification Church there can be no such thing as romance. It means it is not acknowledged either. It means the Blessing is absolutely not given to those who have had someone in mind among themselves. To receive the Blessing, one must pass through the regular course of faith. But it means that when we look afterward at having given the Blessing to a person who was not so, the result was not good. It means that, without fail, that turns out to be the case.
Love ought to have begun from Heaven, but it began from Satan. What is the Fall? It is what began from Satan, from Eve, horizontally. Because you are their descendants, you are horizontal. It means the Teacher is being used by you. Even so, what does the Teacher wish you to become? He wishes for you to do well.
Furthermore, he wishes that bad descendants not be born from you. The Teacher’s purpose lies here.
Today our unification family must not remain in its present position but must now develop. It means one must bear descendants who can be born embracing the fortune of the nation and the fortune of the world. Marriage is groping for talented people who can form a new people, a new nation.
Until now, the people of the world have said they marry for their own sake. But the marriage of our Unification Church is done for the people and for the world.
There cannot be two peoples. Because you are a husband and wife for the people, you cannot marry more than once. Likewise, just as there cannot be two worlds, because you are a husband and wife for the world, you cannot marry more than once.
Furthermore, God cannot be two, and because you are husband and wife for that God, you cannot marry more than once. From this viewpoint, you cannot help but think about attending this event.
What Kind of Position Is the Position of the Blessing?
It means, even though during your married life you live wretchedly and with difficulty, even though you lead the most miserable life in the world, do not be discouraged. It means one must know that though one lives wretchedly, one’s own family can become a family of a savior who can save the countless families that were on the course of history.
So it means do not lament, however unhappily one lives in a difficult position. It means, think that that position is a position of becoming a subject who, to restore all the people of the world through indemnity or for the sake of the spirits in the spiritual world and the descendants of later generations to come, becomes a guide in their place and opens the road they must go. It means one must think that I am now living to stand in such a position of a savior.
A blessed husband and wife in the Unification Church must not lament even though their wife has died or their husband has died first. Nor must one remarry as one pleases. It means that if one did so as one pleases, one is caught in the spiritual world. It means one must, without fail, report before Heaven and go as Heaven guides. But when we look today, there are people who do not do so.
What will that result become?
It means this does not appear upon the earth. But it means trying to go to the spiritual world. It means such a person undoubtedly stands in a position more evil than Satan.
That is why it has been turned over for six thousand years because of this problem. In this way, the position of the Blessing is wonderful. Here one cannot do it suitably through one’s own feelings. The value of one life is more precious than the universe. That is why, in taking responsibility for one person, one must take responsibility centering on eternity. You must clearly know that a position where such problems are determined is the position of the Blessing.
That is why, if one has held such a moment in one’s lifetime, he is a happy person. For you to take part in such a tremendous position of blessing, you must make a historic resolve. There will be sins my forebears committed, and the question is how I, who have inherited the bond of those sins, can attain the position of the Blessing.
You are now standing in such a position, from your present position, of being connected to the Republic of Korea and the world centering on your clan. So one must swear that, standing in place of the world’s humankind and in place of the thirty million people of the Republic of Korea and in place of your clan, one will bear the responsibility of a priest. And thus one must receive the Blessing under a resolve that says one will leave the absolute content that our family is a family that can remain in the historical age centering on Heaven, a family that was needed before the world, a family that was needed in Thy world of love. One must know such content.
The standard of that family God comes seeking is not limited only to your family. It means the family God has found and established can go to the world. Because the steps that came forth to make a family that can represent the nation, and can represent the world and can represent Heaven are the steps of the Blessing, one must receive the Blessing through the family of the heavenly Parents. And when, after receiving the Blessing, one goes the normal road as a family that devotes sincerity, those sons and daughters will be born bearing the great fortune of the Unification Church.
It means that however worthless those father and mother be, their children are born bearing Heaven’s fortune.
So how does one leave descendants who can be born bearing Heaven’s fortune?
You must know that its content is determined according to the standard by which the parents devote sincerity. That is, it means one must know that the destiny of the descendants to be born hereafter is determined according to how earnest that mind was for the nation, for the world, for Heaven and how much utmost sincerity one gave.
Who Decides the Partner in the Blessing?
Even though one moves holding one’s own greed, it means Heaven does not agree with him. It means that if one does so, Heaven departs. It means that when one comes forth holding a love for satisfying one’s own individual desire, God is not together there, and that He is together only when one is in a position for the world and the nation and the people. That is why you must clearly know that it is the road of a Blessed Family that one must find and establish a broader and higher love.
If in receiving the Blessing there be a person who wishes in his mind for his partner, thinking, “It would be good if I were joined with so-and-so,” he is a person who has blasphemed God. It is the same as when Adam and Eve fell in the Garden of Eden.
When Adam and Eve fell in the completion level of the growth stage, it means they did not clearly know that they were each other’s partner. They clearly did not know. It means that from a position of not knowing, through Satan’s temptation, they brought about such a result unawares. You must avoid such a road.
So it means, can one know one’s own partner before receiving the Blessing and go forth to receive the Blessing, and can one decide one’s own partner before receiving the Blessing and go forth?
The deciding of the partner of the Blessing is done by Heaven. It is done by the Parent. That is, it is done by God, who is Adam’s Father. Seen from this, it means the traditional Korean wedding ceremony is a method of marriage that corresponds to heavenly law. It means one absolutely cannot marry without the parents’ consent. This is absolute.
That is why it means, if there be a person one likes and one has him in mind, one who is a son or daughter must report to the parents at once. It means receiving the parents’ public acknowledgment before the words that one likes that person come out of one’s mouth. It means that if they acknowledge that it is all right for the two to associate, that is all right. It means that reporting and then having a romance is not a sin. But it means that what is done without reporting cannot be acknowledged.
Our world is a world of the result of the Fall. That the ancestors of humankind, Adam and Eve, sowed the seed of love without any permission in their adolescence is being reaped by the youth of today just as it was sown. Just as one reaps beans if one sows beans and reaps red beans if one sows red beans, since the ancestors of humankind fell so, it means an age in which one can reap so is now setting in worldwide.
Because of this, people of the world spread the rumor and say that in the Unification Church, even marriage is done by dictatorship. But what if it is a dictatorship? Heaven cannot be two.
Since there is not two but only one, is that nation dictatorial? No one apart from you can be set up here. Today in philosophy too, if philosophy, its origin is one. According to whether it is an idealist view of history or a materialist view of history, the formation of society differs. It means one’s own side is absolute. This is dictatorship. It means it cannot accommodate two. It means their origin alone is one.
The Unification Church’s view of history, unification philosophy, sees these two as one. It means the two are joined and become one. It is so even looking at the content of the dual characteristics that come out in the Principle. Two are joined and become one, and like it, what is dictatorship about that? This is not something Teacher Moon of the Unification Church does alone. It is done for each other’s good. It is done because it will be good for the person I face; it is by no means done for my own good. It is done because it will be good for all people. And what dictatorship is this!
The Difference Between a Blessed Family and an Already-Married Family
If a child has been born as a Korean, when one feeds him food, one must feed him Korean food. Feeding him the food of various Western nations cannot be done.
Since he was born as a Korean, because it is the principle to live centering on one’s own parents, it means one must eat Korean food. It means that is absolute. It means one must do so until you are all grown. You must know that. It means, absolutely do not hold the notion of dictatorship. It means you too do not hold such a notion. It means that if you hold such a notion, the Teacher regards that as most unpleasant.
If you have come without receiving the Teacher’s consent and without the permission of the church leader either, or if a district leader hinted to you and told you to receive the Blessing with someone, it means the Teacher acknowledges it as far as the district leader. But if other Blessed Families hinted to you and you thought about it, that ends as a thought and is not a decision. You must clearly know that.
What gives me a headache is those fellows who whisper behind the scenes. It means those fellows who are joined in that way are wrong. It means that goes against heavenly law. Each partner can be decided only by Heaven. So it means there must not be such people.
There is a problem with already-married blessed families. It means those already-married families become a problem. It means it differs upon going to the spiritual world. It means that the blessings received by unmarried young men and women are proper, and the blessings received by already-married families differ. Upon going to the spiritual world, there are three levels of heaven. It means that just as there is upper, middle, and lower in present society too, so it is in the spiritual world. Then when we set out the 36 Families, to put it another way, when we set out the 36 Families in which twelve families each stand in place of Adam’s family, Noah’s family, and Jacob’s family, if we ask which family is most precious, it means the very last families are most precious. It means one must hereafter serve such families. It is only that now the time is not yet, but it means there is a difference in all. It means they differ.
Why is that? It is to save the fallen world. There are many spirits who married as they pleased until now and lived and died. Because there are many people who died that way, the descendants must open that gate. It means that if that gate opens, they can leave. That is the formation stage. Next is the growth stage, then next is the completion stage; there are three stages like this. This must be made into a standard, but it has not yet gone that far.
For you, the question is what relationship I must form with Heaven in this game that comes only once in a lifetime; it means this is the problem. That is precisely the problem between you and Heaven. It means it is a problem between a man and Heaven if a man, and between a woman and Heaven if a woman.
Also, in the Unification Church, the question is how one must form a relationship with the Teacher; it means this is the problem. It means it is a one-to-one problem between the Teacher and a man if a man. It means it is a one-to-one problem between a woman and the Teacher if a woman.
It means that without finding the point of resolution of that problem, one cannot enter the heavenly kingdom. Why? Because their having resolved it among themselves is the cause of the Fall. That became a bitter han.
When we ask, is that not the basis of the Fall?
To indemnify this, one must settle it with the Teacher. But it means one has not yet settled it.
The Most Precious Blessing in One’s Whole Lifetime
That is why one takes an oath here. It means questions and answers unfold before the Will. One must have questions and answers, and after the Blessing is decided, one must live diligently. But it means they gather and sit among themselves and whisper, saying so-and-so is such-and-such. It means those who whisper so are unfit people. This time there absolutely must not be such a thing. It means your aunties here do not sit at the back and trivially say such words as “Who is what” and such. I dislike that most. If, doing so, there is a family that deviates from the principle, that family will not be good. Such a person is not in a position of helping Heaven but rather in a position like the archangel.
The Blessing is the most precious position that can come only once in eternity in one’s own generation. It means one must settle it in that most precious position together with the most precious One and cross over. It means Heaven cannot but come down here. And thus, one must become the most precious substance decided together with Heaven. It means it is not the principle to decide on such a precious substance as one pleases.
You must know that because this was done wrongly, the han of the Fall has been pierced until now. From our position of having to identify this and go forward, the question is how one must go seeking this precious position. It means that until now Blessed Families have been vague from such a viewpoint.
In the Unification Church, one cannot have a romance. It means one absolutely cannot. It means love must begin from Heaven and end in Heaven. Then what will happen hereafter when there is a time of the Blessing centering on the world? It means the Blessing is bequeathed to you.
If a father bequeaths what he possesses to his son, that passes over to the son. It means the ownership is the same. Just as the person who has inherited manages all the fruits of the harvest there, however young in years and younger than oneself that person who has inherited be, one must be regulated under that person’s management. Here, being fine or worthless is not a problem. When hereafter the Teacher hands this over, it means you must go before that person who has inherited and received the Blessing, even though that person be crippled. Such a time will come soon. It means, realizing such things, I hope you know that this position of the Blessing is a position that settles the most precious bond that can come only once in your lifetime.
Before receiving the Blessing, the time when the Teacher calls you and holds questions and answers is the most precious time for you. Hereafter, I intend to have such a period at the headquarters to bless many people. To do so, it will take considerably more time, and the members at the headquarters are worried, but it means the Teacher must do that work every day even though it takes several months. It means it is not an easy matter. So you must instead pray much. It means come to this place having devoted sincerity.
The Attitude of Mind One Must Be Equipped With Before Receiving the Blessing
When I looked at the time of the Blessing before, some people were overawed in their eyes. But the Teacher at first left them alone among themselves for about a week. Then some people came to the door and made a fuss, looking the other party up and down.
Indeed, since one is trying to look at all of several hundred people alone, one would be busy. But it means do not think of reviewing them. It means, hold the thought that you will marry the most worthless person. It means, think, “Even if I meet that worthless person, I will live happily with that person.” It means, would one’s mind not be at ease if one sat thinking so?
But it means that without any beginning or end, one’s mind floats up for no reason and flies to this person and then flies to that person. It means that it is troublesome.
When the Teacher told them to write down their object on paper and submit it, some people wrote down five people and submitted it. They wrote down five people and submitted it. Among those attending here too, there will probably be such people.
So the Teacher thought this time of telling them to write down more than ten people. But it means it is troublesome even to ask them to write down more than ten. One must know the names.
Since it exceeds ten, one cannot draw a round face on the paper and mark it either. It means one must clearly write only the three letters of the name. So it means it is troublesome if there are many. That is why I tell them to write about five.
But when one looks at what is written on that paper, it is quite a spectacle. The women are all concentrated on the man said to be the finest among the men. Furthermore, the men too are all concentrated on the woman said to be the prettiest among the women.
If five hundred, all five hundred are concentrated on that person said to be fine. Since one cannot marry off all five hundred to one person, the calculation comes out that four hundred ninety-nine must be cut off. When it becomes so, it means the women are truly in more trouble than the men.
In any case, it seems the men’s thinking is better than the women’s. When the Teacher glances at the slip a man submitted and says, “You fellow, the number-one candidate you wrote down has flown off elsewhere,” the men simply accept it so. But when I say to the women, “You fellow, the number-one candidate you wrote down has flown off to another woman,” the women make a fuss, sulking. It means this makes me feel so bad I could die. Is it not a natural principle that he flies off? But it means the women do not even think about it being five hundred to one.
Rather, they think, “Since I prayed for the Teacher, the Teacher will undoubtedly hear my prayer.” Such a prayer is of no use even if one prays for a thousand years. It means do not pray such a prayer. It means that prayer is a prayer holding one’s own greed. It means this will not do. Is that not so? Ah, it means, will not all four hundred ninety-nine pray, “Let me marry that person”? It means they all pray. Then whose prayer will God hear? It means He sympathizes with the person who did not pray. It means that even if the Teacher were God, one cannot but do so.
So it means those who pray for themselves are all greedy people. It means, rather than praying, think, “I entrust it all before Thee; will there be no partner for worthless me to meet? Do only as the Father disposes.
If Thou tellest me to grow old alone and die, I will gladly live and die.” It means that one is most comfortable inwardly.
The Person Who Will Truly Be Blessed
But not thinking in this way, they whisper among themselves about what the Unification Church is like and so on. The Teacher feels such a thing. When it becomes so, I leave them alone for about a week. Then it means they make a fuss because the result must come out but does not. It means that once about three days pass, they become serious and do not even eat.
After about a week has passed like that, when the Teacher considers that their worldly eyes have relaxed and they have revived again, I announce the results.
The Teacher, if he looks, knows all what kind of people are people who will be blessed. It means that if one goes to some place where people are gathered, one knows whether this person will live in abundance or not. Therefore, it means one makes them suffer for about a week and then goes seeking their partner.
In deciding the partner, it means one absolutely does not do it first for the fellow who shakes his head, saying he dislikes that partner. It means such a fellow is done at the very last.
If the Teacher does not do it, what can he do?
Some people think, “Because I bathed and purified myself and offered a forty-day prayer of sincerity to receive the Blessing, the Teacher will undoubtedly do it for me first,” but that is by no means the case. It is the opposite. It means it absolutely is not so. It means that a person who devotes sincerity centered on himself is a person who will receive Heaven’s punishment.
But if one prays, “There is a special gathering because of this Blessing; O God, whoever my partner becomes, do it from among those in whom Thou canst rejoice. It would be still better if that person were one I know. This prayer, because it is made attaching a condition, communicates with Heaven. It means that if one would pray, one must pray such a prayer. But what would happen if all prayed, “It must be that woman and no other”? It means it will not do.
It means do not even look up at all but look only downward. It means a person who looks up is a thief’s cousin. Why? It means he is a thief who seeks to deceive himself. Some people write the other party on a slip alone and reach a decision. It means that if a woman writes some person as number one on the slip and that person is not chosen out during the week, she carries on a romance alone in her mind. It means she is already growing close in her mind.
If that other party says he likes her, it means she now thinks that person is her own. It means do not do so. It means thinking of the slip as “something one can just try writing once.”
You yourselves must not decide the partner. It means, especially, do not do it by praying. It means that when one looks at such people, it is not good. There is a fact that the Teacher in the past set up a condition of indemnity for two such people and blessed them. But neither of those two was good. It means one cannot say who they are. Only the Teacher knows. It is because that is the principle.
Of course, even though the Teacher forgave them and they set up a condition of indemnity, it means that in the end it is not good. It means such a phenomenon without fail unfolds within three generations of the descendants. That is why the Unification Church is a fearful place.
When you face the Teacher and think, it seems the Teacher is nothing, but in fact he is a fearful person. It means those people who made life hard for the Teacher all end up that way. That is why it means I am serious when I work facing the Will. It means one does not decide some matter irresponsibly. It means that before deciding a matter, one first consults with Heaven and sets up every standard and then decides. When that is Heaven’s Will, however the world may see it, one does not regard it as a problem.
The Blessing for Restoration Through Indemnity Is Complicated
You may be able to raise such an objection: “Then to achieve the Will, are you saying to live together even with an American?” When the Teacher says to live together, one must live together. Can you do that or not? What will you do? Korean traditional law does not permit that, does it? It means it does not. But what will you do if the Will is achieved? Auntie's here; answer. What will you do? Must one live together or not? It means you may come to stand in such a position hereafter. Then what will you do when told to live with a Japanese? The Blessing for Restoration through Indemnity is complicated.
Furthermore, what will you do when told to live with a grandfather? “What kind of God is that!” You would say so, would you not? Such a thought is one’s own thought. Do you know how complicated the road of indemnity is?
If we look at the Bible, with whom did Tamar have relations? “Her father-in-law.” Through Tamar having relations with her father-in-law, Perez and Zerah, whom she bore, became direct ancestors who received Heaven’s Blessing, did they not?
Furthermore, how was King Solomon, Bathsheba’s son, born?
That Solomon is a child King David obtained through Bathsheba, the wife of his own loyal subject Uriah, whom he killed.
Since he violated the wife of his own loyal subject, King David ought to have been punished, and a child ought to have been born who would ruin the world; how then was a king of glory called Solomon born? How did it come to be so? In the Gospel of Matthew, Rahab appears. What kind of person is Rahab? A harlot, is she not? But whom did she help? She helped the spies. That was, in actual terms, work for the enemy nation, but she took an adventure. It means one must take an adventure for the sake of Heaven’s Will of public righteousness. It means denying one’s own life and all one’s environment and all one’s privileged things. When one does so, history develops from there.
These days there are many young men who live with older women. Moreover, among young people. It means there are plenty of people who live with women of the same age as their mother. Why is that? All of you, there is the word “cataclysm of heaven and earth” (천지개벽), is there not?
Originally, a normal man must marry a woman younger than himself. That is normal. Then what is it for heaven and earth to be overturned? It is being reversed. It means that skipping over one stage among those of the same generation or among brothers is a cataclysm of heaven and earth. Marrying and living with a woman older than oneself, of the rank of one’s mother or aunt—that is a cataclysm of heaven and earth.
Young people must bow their heads to the aged. But at a time of cataclysm of heaven and earth, the aged must bow their heads to the young. Why? If she has obtained a young man as her husband, however aged a woman like a grandmother she may be, she must bow her head to her young husband; what else can she do? A cataclysm of heaven and earth becomes so. Even so, this is not something formalized. It means, so to speak, could it not be so?
That is why it means do not carelessly lay a hand on a prostitute abandoned by the roadside. It means that if a cataclysm of heaven and earth unfolds, that prostitute could become even the wife of His Majesty. Is that not so? Is there a law that says it cannot be? It means that if His Majesty says he will die if it be not she, there is nothing to be done. It means do not look at the world by your own view. A wise person is wise at such a point. It means do not look only at the summit because it is high. It means there are infinitely high places even at the very bottom. It means it is so. Seen in a three-dimensional world, it is a course that turns so. To put it plainly, it seems that Namsan in Seoul is the highest, but it means that the farther north one goes, no mountain is higher than Namsan. It means it can be so.
Seek a Partner Centering on God
Among you there will be people who say, “Since I graduated from university, my partner must be a woman who has taken a bachelor’s degree,” or “It must be a man who finished graduate school to suit me.” It means a laborer suits too. It means man and woman are made to suit. But they think as they please. It means do not think so.
It is so with you too in buying and selling goods. If both the buyer and the seller are to feel good, when one asks, “How much is this?” and the answer is “This costs such and such, so I must leave such and such a margin," the response is, "Ah, is that so?” — It means that if one does business openly and frankly in this way, even though it be expensive, both the buyer and the seller feel good.
Furthermore, in buying some article, when someone asks the price of that article, if one says, “This article was bought for five thousand won, and in selling I must receive only five hundred won more.
If you need it, pay only five hundred won more and buy it.” It means that in buying the article, because having bought it expensively can, on the contrary, become a boast, one buys it, giving more money than that. It means it can be so.
You too always think from such a viewpoint, and it means absolutely do not take your place centering on yourself. If there be a compass here, this compass is always God’s. It means turning this compass around, centering on God. (He wrote on the blackboard.) It means that if one turns this compass centering on oneself, side effects arise.
How greatly do those side effects arise?
Since one turns it centering on oneself, it means one comes at last to a state of dying. It means that if such people are left just as they are for about a fortnight, their eyes are sunken in. It is made so that the eyes sink in. Setting out such things, it means you must seek a partner centering on God.
When the Teacher gave the Blessing, there was a time when I quietly watched a certain one among our members. I called that person once and tested her. That person was a woman, and when I asked, “What kind of person would you like the Teacher to give you?” she said, “I would like such and such a man,” so I said, “What is this kind of man? Your greed is great too. You are not fated to marry”; then she said, “Is that so?” and said, “If the Teacher designates someone who pleases the Teacher’s mind, I will do it with any man.”
So I said, “Is such a person good too?” and told her to go up from the very bottom, and she said, “Ah! Of course it is good; it is good.” Then it means the Teacher absolutely does not give her one at such a bottom. It means one does the opposite. It means that in Heaven’s work, one who would be high is made low, and one who would be low is made high.
The Teacher himself was so too. When the Teacher married, he did not seek to look upward. It means that if one were to work while looking upward, it would be hard.
Likewise, it means it is hard if one were to live while looking upward. It means it is comfortable to live while bowing one’s head and gazing below forty-five degrees. Think about it. How hard would it be to live attending to a wife said to be fine?
There are men who say, “Aigo, because I could not study, I need at least a wife who graduated from university,” but it means such a person is wrong. How worthless must a fellow be that he can sit before his wife’s knees and go on about learning and such? It means it is all right even if she did not learn.
Then is one saying that women who graduated from university must not marry?
It is not so. It means one does not send them off to marry, but the story is to take off within one’s mind the official hat called “university.” What use is it if one has a degree? Is a university diploma necessary for bearing sons and daughters? Is it necessary that I be a bachelor of arts, a doctor? It means such things are unnecessary. Just as there are lyrics in a song asking whether one is a man only if one has gone to university, whatever one’s appearance may be, it is enough if one suits well. It means that if one sets up the signboard of the university, there is much hindrance in marrying. So it means absolutely do not think such thoughts.
When we set out the question of the Blessing in this respect, I consider that hereafter our Unification Church members too will have considerably many problems in receiving Heaven’s Blessing. What kind of feeling arises for the Teacher himself, having done this work for several months and taking responsibility for it at present, is the feeling of entering a coal-mine pit. It means you too try entering that pit. One cannot enter there if one has angina. When one first enters, it is dark, and one comes to feel that the farther in one goes, the narrower the road becomes. It is the feeling that the Teacher is now passing through such a pit.
Do Not Hold Excessive Greed
So I hope that those attending here will certainly not hold too much greed, but entrust everything to Heaven and pass this month well. And the parents and elders who could not attend here, or the general members, must pray for this. It means that if, instead of doing so, one whispers behind the scenes, there come to be many side effects.
When I gave the Blessing before, there was such a person. When the Teacher was going to give the Blessing to certain people, another person beside them said, “Ah, they say that person is such and such.” So then I said, “Who is the person you recommend as good?” and it turned out she introduced a person she herself liked. That is, the person she recommended to the Teacher was a person she had in mind. It means it is a mind that wishes, if it be the same, to obtain a fine husband, a splendid husband, for a person she cherishes. Is that not so? It means the mothers here too, when they look at their prospective sons-in-law, whisper among themselves, seeking to obtain good sons-in-law for each other. In the end, that woman denied the Teacher’s word and listened to such words said beside her and married that person. But it means that the result was not good.
If the Teacher decides definitely for you, saying, “This person is a match made in heaven for you,” it means that it is without error. The Teacher cannot properly sleep at night to join your pairs. It means that from a position of having taken responsibility for another’s problem of life, the problem of the soul, this is not simple.
Furthermore, when one looks, there are people of harsh fate. It means that when one looks at the face, there are types who must marry several times. Such a person is undoubtedly a type who will become a widow. It means that whether one looks at the eyes, or the lips, or the bridge of the nose, it is undoubtedly made so. There are types of women for whom the man who suits her cannot but live unpleasantly for at least several years, having to live bickering. It means that it is hanging out a signboard. So it means one must have such a person meet a man beyond that.
It means that when such a man becomes her bridegroom, at first he seems just like an enemy. It means he seems like an enemy. Because if one starts well, it breaks apart; it means only by starting from an enemy does it fit perfectly later. It means the Teacher knows such things. It means that concerning the Blessing one must in any case consult the Teacher.
It means the record concerning marriage until now is probably held by the Teacher as a world record. If we do it up to this time, it means we will leave a historic record.
Since much time has passed while telling such stories, I will tell just one thing more.
At the time of the Blessing, there was a disabled woman among the women. It is not that the woman’s face was ugly. She was a woman well endowed in the bonds behind her and in her inborn nature, but she had become crippled through her later life, that is, through her parents’ fault. But it means that when men were to be joined with that woman, they all said they disliked that woman.
In fact, who would there be to say that a crippled person is good? But when I quietly looked at one certain man, his eyes were sunken, and there were many defects in his features. It means the woman who could supplement those defects was precisely that woman.
So the Teacher set about a work of persuasion. I told him at length, saying, “Though this woman looks like this to your eyes, she is a good woman. If, while living, some part comes to be unpleasant to look at, would it not do then to close one’s eyes? But the woman’s face is truly well made.
And for what do you marry? Is it not precisely for later generations that you marry?
If you marry from such a position, would this not be a matter that remains long in the history of the Unification Church? Would it not be a matter unforgettable in the Teacher’s lifetime?” And I joined the pair, saying, “If you marry that woman and bear a daughter, you will bear a beauty; and if you bear a son, you will bear a general.”
Several years later, the Teacher went on a provincial tour, and that couple attended that place. But as soon as they saw the Teacher, that fellow ran out before me.
Since I had been curious how things had been meanwhile and now met them, I said, “Let us see their baby,” and looked, and just as I would expect, they had borne a truly beautiful daughter. So he boasted of his daughter. Saying that what the Teacher had said was without error. So it means you too do not think that a person is good just because his outward appearance looks good.
A Partner Suited to One’s Type
What looks good on the surface is what hangs out a signboard and advertises in the satanic world. It means one gets overcharged if one goes into a house that advertises so and buys goods. You must know that.
It means that if one goes seeking into a place that advertises well, the great majority get overcharged. It means the genuine article does not advertise. It means it is the same. It means that when coming to receive the Blessing this time, do not take as a partner such a woman who wears new clothes and puts rouge on her face and prances about. It means that it brings a tremendous result.
On the contrary, it means there is something in such a plain woman such that if one peels off one layer, there seems to be yet another layer.
And a woman with thin flesh is not excellent. It means a woman whose cheeks are made thin, or a woman who behaves softly and pliantly, is frivolous (경선 輕先). It means that if one were to live with such a woman, one must have a fight once a week. It means the man who can live with her cannot grow old together with her unless he is like an ox, like a lump of rock. It means, knowing this, such a woman must not think in the least about marrying a handsome man.
If a handsome man and a beautiful woman come to live together, do you think that family could endure?
It means it could not. It means one must without fail do the opposite for such people. All the reasons of heaven and earth are so. One must join a tall person with a short person; if one joins tall people with each other, it means there is no interest in their living. Knowing so, it means that a person whose own face is broad must not seek to obtain a broad person but must think of obtaining a slender person. That is why one must join a person with a snub nose to a person with a hooked nose. It means one must join a person who looks as though the eyes are only half open with a person who has large eyes.
Also, there are people who, whenever they open their mouths, feel uneasy night and day. It means that when that person opens his mouth, one feels uneasy. It means one must join a taciturn person to such a person. In this way, one must match this and that entirely.
Because the Teacher has until now guided many people, it means that when some person comes and one just glances at that person’s smiling expression, one can catch all that person’s strong and weak points. Indeed, there are women whose eyes protrude forward as though they would fall downward.
For such a woman, one must obtain a person whose eyes are sunken and whose cheekbones protrude. It means that Unification Church women made so must not even think in a dream of the man they wish for.
If one does not even think of oneself and asks to be joined with such-and-such a person, what would come of it with that person?
It means it will not do. It means the Teacher cannot do it so. It means that if one truly wishes to do so, go out and do as you please. It means the Teacher will not oppose such a thing.
Where is Choi Do-sun here?
When one looks at her character, it is like a man’s. It means she is a woman like a man. Because her husband’s character has the character of a gentle woman, it means they are living well as husband and wife. That husband is a person of perfect inborn nature. Though hers is a character such that if the man once made a wrong swing of his fist, she might grab whatever came to hand and strike him, they are living well. It means they are living well until now because that character was joined with such a man; otherwise it would already have… When Choi Do-sun picks a fight, saying, “What kind of man is this?” (He imitated her.) The man dodges like this. It means it must be so. That couple’s sons and daughters are fine too. (He asked Miss Choi Do-sun) How many daughters? How many sons? “Three children.” Three children—well, they have equipped all they must equip, having achieved even the Four Position Foundation…
I do not know whether the Teacher has told this, but when the closing ceremony of the training session was held at the Sutaek-ri training center, someone gave impressions and said that when she bore a baby, she could not bear it normally and bore it by cutting open the belly. But she said it is truly strange how good she feels. She said she cannot explain it somehow, but it is good. And she said, “When the Teacher always spoke to us of restoring the Four Position Foundation I did not know, but having borne a son and achieved the Four Position Foundation according to the Principle, I know.” In fact, that can be said to be a boast. So the Teacher said, “Hey you fellow, do not talk of the Four Position Foundation and such, but say frankly that if you feel good, you feel good.” It means it is so. It means that if one equips everything, it is good. But it means that if one cannot equip those things, one is unhappy. However beautiful a woman she may be, if she lives alone, she is unhappy.
That is why it means that marrying in our Unification Church is to be thought of as done for long life hereafter and for the sake of one’s own descendants, and it means, do not think of how one’s own appearance is. It means, frankly, it must be so. It means, think, “Because I am made like this, only if I obtain such a man will such a child be born as my descendant.” And there are people whose cheeks protrude like this. Or there are people whose eyes are sunken, and it means such a person will undoubtedly become a widow.
So it means that for such a person, one must, on the contrary, give a person whose eyes protrude and whose cheekbones protrude. It means everything must be matched so. How shall I put it—it means one does this game of grafting to improve the seed and obtain a new one?
So it means do not worry that the partner is not to your liking. The Teacher has guided many people until now. It means that when one looks at the sons and daughters of the people blessed until now, on the whole they are better than their papa and mama. Well, does it seem so or not so? “It is so.” If so, it becomes a story that I joined them with as well.
There is a certain Mr. Lee in Korea, famous for reading marital compatibility well. That person, after coming to know our Principle, is a person who respects the Teacher considerably. That person said that until now he has made a name in Korea and, because that is his profession, he must help in the Teacher’s giving the Blessing. So the Teacher said, “I have no need,” and asked, “Well, how many couples can you do in a day, old man?” and he said, “To do one couple takes at least a week.” It means that manner does not get through with me. That old man asked, “Then how many couples a day do you do, Teacher Moon?” so I said, “My best record is seventy-two couples, and ordinarily one must do seventy couples a day.”
The Teacher said to that old man, “Let us try once contending, in the manner you are doing now against the manner Teacher Moon of the Unification Church is doing,” and pulled out and showed him the Teacher’s material. Then that person marveled here. “You are indeed the Teacher”—it means, how could it be so? For instance, this woman is a woman who, if things go wrong, will die a sudden death, and though one would choose a man to suit this woman under all heaven, one cannot choose; how then did one match a man so well as a pair for her? It means the Teacher has something in this way. It means that when one glances at you, one already feels something one does not know. It means that beyond an extraordinary head, the Teacher holds such a peculiar aptitude too.
That is why the Teacher found out even the Principle. It means that when something flashes, one thinks to feel already what its reaction and result become. There must be such a something. The Teacher, even when he studies, absolutely does not read a whole book. It means he does not read even half and reads another book. So it means that when one glances at a person, one quickly feels that because that person is such a person, that person’s partner must be like this. So it means the Teacher is better than you in every respect.
The Attitude for Receiving the Blessing
When the Teacher gave the Blessing, I matched about ten couples who liked each other among themselves and were impatient to do it, and later eighty percent were not good.
So hereafter, going a little further, I will assign numbers and match them number by number. So it means do it if you will do it and do not if you will not. It means one must do tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of couples. When the candidates are sitting with numbers attached, it means the Teacher’s antenna then differs. It means at that moment he is not a person of the world. It means that at that time the Teacher unfolds an emergency strategy. It means one uses the emergency strategy with which one has until now confronted and fought Satan.
For that, one must devote much sincerity. It means that if one blesses twenty couples, deciding the partners is done within ten minutes. Instead, to decide, one does it after deep deliberation; it is not done carelessly.
Knowing this, you must follow the Teacher’s Will in this Blessing. Among the people who until now did not do so but liked each other married, some people have been bereaved. It means that even though the Teacher said it would not do, they kept asking, saying they liked each other. Even when I asked, “Is it all right even if you die?” they said it was still all right. So I said, “Very well, try saying it is good,” and did it. Sure enough, it means it all turned out so.
That is why marriage is not something done carelessly. It means it is not something done between people who met coming and going in the street. It means that if one marries because affection has grown between them, an accident unfolds immediately upon marrying.
So it means there is something. It means they do not suit each other. Pines must be grafted with pines. It means there is a type that suits each other. Knowing such things, you must attend this Blessing with a new attitude.
I ask that you absolutely not stand in such a position of seeking to pass through in your own way. And you must know that the Blessing, as said above, is done for the nation and for the world.
Also, you must bear in mind that it becomes precisely a blessing for later generations.
