When we read the Principle of Creation, there is a sentence that says, “How can we know the divine nature of the invisible God?” Father told us that, during his research about God, he thought a lot about why God is invisible.
We can’t see God’s form even after we go to the spirit world. Why is that? Father gave us two reasons. The first chapter in the Cheon Seong Gyeong deals with "True God" and many points regarding this are dealt with in detail.
First, God would find himself in a very difficult position if he had a form because people would try to take God for themselves. Everyone in the world would say “God! Come to me.” “No! God is mine!” and they would fight each other to own God. Wars even more devastating than the two world wars in the twentieth century would continue to happen. This is the reason it is better for us to not be able to see God. Humans and all creation are created by God as a manifestation of His form. Therefore, there is nowhere God does not exist. But if we were able to see God, it would be terrible.
The second reason is that if God had a body we could see, like our own, the size would become a problem. How large would God’s body have to be, when there are creations such as lofty mountains and deep oceans?
Some old ladies had bright spiritual senses in Daegu. They are now all in the spirit world, but the testimonies they gave during their lives were quite fun to hear.
When they asked in their Daegu dialect, “God! You have a human voice, but how come we can’t see you?,” God would answer in their dialect, “I got nobody!” If they nagged God, saying, “No way, It can’t be! Show me!,” God would show them a great tsunami and tell them, “This is me!” If they said, “No. No. I hate water like that!” then strong stormy winds began to blow. Then they said, “No! I hate wind too!”
What God told them was correct. Wind and water are part of God’s image. When the old ladies kept nagging God, saying, “Show yourself in a human form!” God would appear in front of them as a father with a warm smile. It is because if Adam and Eve had been perfected, they would have become the body of God, and God would have appeared in the form of Adam and Eve.
If God appeared as a great mountain, the people below would not be able to have a good night’s sleep because they would have to run away from God to save their lives. This is why God determined that “I should have no form at all. If I appear, my beloved children will cry out that they are all going to be squashed to death. There won’t be a day that goes by without someone crying out about it. I must not have any form.”
Father told us, “Don’t try to see God. That’s what will happen to you if you try to see God, so don’t try that anymore.” It was revealed later that Father also thought, “I’m grateful that God does not have a form.”
God”s dual characteristics
To help your understanding of God’s dual characteristics, I am going to show you part of the diary written by Hyo Won Eu when he was editing Explanation of Divine Principle and Exposition of Divine Principle based on the Wolli Wonbon under Father’s supervision.
Monday, January 31, 1966
I asked him whether Sungsang and Hyungsang are formed by the harmonization of Yin and Yang.
The teacher’s answer was the opposite.
He said the harmonization of Sungsang and Hyungsang creates Yin and Yang. My world was turned upside down.
He overturned the traditional theory that everything comes into existence through the harmony of Yin and Yang.
He explained that it is true in the world of cause and effect but not so with God. If God already had Yin and Yang in Him, there would have been no creation.
He then explained that God exists as the harmony of Sungsang and Hyungsang and is the Yang type of existence. Therefore, God had to create the Yin type of world.
I asked the Teacher if I could write that all things were created with Yin and Yang and Sungsang and Hyungsang because God has Original Sungsang and Original Hyungsang which have the relationship of man and woman. The teacher said yes and I realized his intention.
Thursday, February 3, 1966
I had to rewrite the first part of the Principle of Creation.
The argument is that Sungsang and Hyungsang are the most fundamental essence of all existence. I realized again that The teacher truly is the Original Body of the Truth.
Father thoroughly applied the principle of give-and-take action
The most important aspects of the Principle of Creation are Give and Take Action and Human Responsibility.
After researching the principle by which God created the universe, Father discovered that everything is in reciprocal relationships and that this was the principle of give and take action between subject and object partners.
For everything you give, you will receive. If a subject partner gives something to its object partner but the object partner does not return anything, that object will be destroyed. In this sense, True Love is something that is given infinitely. In other words, you invest and invest without looking back. You do not keep an account of what you give. I truly felt that Father was a person of such kind of love after serving him so closely for so long.
How could Father have done that?
In the late 1980s, Father asked church-related businesses to invest some 300 million dollars in China to create the Panda Automobile Company. The reason behind this was that God’s providence could be fulfilled if China, the Archangel nation, helped Korea, the Adam nation, and Japan, the Eve nation.
Ultimately, the 300 million dollars was invested in a way that returned very little profit to us but was very advantageous to China.
Then the Tiananmen Square incident happened in 1989. Students and young people during the time of Deng Xiaoping rallied for freedom and democracy. They formed a large protest group demonstrating in Tiananmen Square against the Communist government. The Chinese government was extremely surprised. The government ordered tanks to fire upon the protesters and this resulted in thousands of deaths in Tiananmen Square and all over the city. It was a gruesome incident.
Many foreign investors at that time felt that there was no hope to invest in this country, and took the money they had safely kept in Hong Kong and went back to their own countries. At that time, Bo Hi Pak phoned Father and asked, “What should our people do? Should they withdraw the money from the Hong Kong Bank and return to Korea?” Father told him, “You sit tight. Don’t you think I foresaw this type of event when I sent you? If the money is withdrawn, China will fall. Leave it there, and just wait! The time will come soon, so wait!”
Those who left China with their money were still observing China from their own country. When they saw that Rev. Moon did not guide his followers to leave with their money, people thought there still may be some hope. They came back to China and deposited their money back into the Hong Kong Bank. China was saved. That is why China’s economy at the time was not destroyed.
As a result, the Chinese government began to trust Father. At the time, it was very difficult to cross the 38th Parallel between North and South Korea. However, the Chinese government permitted the professors and students of Kim Il Sung University to freely engage in various activities with our organizations. Thus, the Providence advanced rapidly.
Do you know who was most shocked by Father’s success? Of course, the free world was impressed, but Mikhail Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung were even more surprised. Three hundred thousand Chinese soldiers went halfway down the Korean peninsula during the Korean War in the 1950s. They thought, “How could Rev. Moon help his enemy like that? Rev. Moon must be the kind of person who transcends ideology, race, and religion, and will help anyone to realize world peace.”
I was in East Garden when I saw Bo Hi Pak present Father with a white ceramic gratitude plaque sent from the Chinese government. It carried an inscription in bold red letters that said, “Leader of World Peace, Reverend Sun Myung Moon.” Father was so happy to receive it and said, “Yes! China will now listen to my words.”
Mother was able to proclaim the Word of God in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People thanks to Father’s helping the Chinese economy. Mother’s speech originally could not be held there, because it had been reserved for many meetings of the Wives’ Associations at the end of the year. When Deng Pufang, the oldest son of Deng Xiaoping heard of this, he shouted, “This is the wife of Rev. Moon, who saved China from an economic crisis. We must have her here even if it means we have to cancel your schedule.” This is how Mother was able to hold the rally in the Great Hall of the People.
This was the reason Won Bok Choi and the leaders of the Women’s Federation could go to China with Mother just before Christmas, 1992, and hold the Rally to Declare Father’s Words. At the time, China was a very poor place without even sufficient electricity. A female government minister came to welcome us, and she appeared in a plain sweater and a pair of pants. However, they made a great effort to treat Mother the best they could, such as laying out an old carpet for her to walk on.
We were relieved when we saw a large welcoming party lined up at the airport.
The oldest son of Deng Xiaoping invited us for lunch the next day. He invited Mother to the guest house-(Diaoyutai State Guesthouse), where the most important national guests were hosted. There, he told her, “Welcome, madam. I respect your husband, Rev. Sun Myung Moon. I realized that he does not hold any enemies to realize world peace. That is why I am reading Rev. Moon’s words every day to lead my life according to his teachings.”
Mother was moved tremendously and told him, with tears in her eyes, “Thank you. There are still many people who oppose and misunderstand us, and I am so grateful that you understand the works of my husband.” Looking at them warmly exchanging kind words as if a mother and her son had met after a long separation, I realized how great the effect of the Father’s love expressed by his investment in the Panda Automobile Company. This is how the 1.3 billion people of China were able to listen to Mother’s Hoon Dok Words through China’s national broadcast.
As Father often told us, give and take action means that if you give infinitely it will return to you with great compounded interest. Tongil Industry invested a lot of technology in the Panda Automobile Company and our members, including our Japanese members, made a lot of investment with our donations.
Father gained greater results than just making a profit through businesses. That is the nature of God’s True Love. God’s shimjeong which leads Him to invest more and more even after already investing 100 percent is based on this. Father realized such a great principle.
Father said that anything he invests justly for God’s Will always becomes hundreds and thousands of times larger and comes back to him. This is why he continued to invest.
Purpose of Creation, Three Object Purpose, and Four Position Foundation
God created humans and all things. God created in two parts: the spiritual body and the physical body. That is why humans now have the spirit self, which is like God’s spirituality.
Humans can have dominion over all things created by God because God made a human’s physical body with dirt. Humans can have relationships with all things because they have a physical body. God cannot interact with all things directly. This is the importance of the physical body.
Also, God blew His spirit into that physical body. This spirit is to grow and become complete before it can have dominion over the spirit world. Humans have a physical self and spiritual self to have dominion, on God’s behalf, and as God’s children, over the worlds both visible and invisible.
Secondly, God made humans as his object partner. As we are unaware of the existence of our mind unless it receives stimulation, God created the substantial body that can be seen. Since He cannot feel love alone, He wanted to dwell in that body. Did n we learn that God was to dwell in Adam and Even once they were perfected? Then Adam and Eve would live while attending God. Adam and Eve would be God’s home. God created Adam and Eve because He needed bodies. God had no choice but to create.
Next is Three Object Purposes. Father one day told us “Three Object Purpose, it’s difficult to understand, right? In terms of love, this is like the unity of love.”
For example, the grandfather in a family is in the position of God. Then, in the position of the unity of love, there is his grandchild. If his grandchild one day asks his grandfather, “Grandpa, give me a piggyback ride!” then regardless of how high, God-like position the grandfather is in, he will still say “Yes, of course!” and give his grandchild a piggyback ride. At that moment, the grandfather responds to his grandchild’s request. Here, the grandchild becomes the subject partner and the grandfather becomes the object partner.
When we look at the relationship between husband and wife, the wife’s original position is that of the object partner and the husband’s position is that of the subject partner. However, when the wife asks her husband, “Honey, I have muscle cramps in my back. Please give me a massage!”, then the husband will surely give a massage to his lovely wife, correct? At this moment, because the wife moved her husband according to her will, because the husband did what his wife had asked him to do, the wife goes to the position of subject partner and the husband the object partner.
When the husband goes somewhere, the wife follows him unconditionally. She does not even ask a question but follows her husband like a magnet. Then their children will go in the same direction because their parents are going there. Then who will follow them? God will follow them joyfully. When we practice Absolute Faith, Absolute Love, and Absolute Obedience, we, who are in the object partner’s position, will go to the subject partner’s position and God will follow us.
The four positions in the Four Position Foundation are equal in value, with no one position being higher than the others. They are equally the same. They are united. In other words, they become one in the body. This is how when God is in the subject position, the other three positions become three object partners. There are God, the Subject Partner, the Object Partner, and the union in the Four Position Foundation, and when the object partner becomes the subject partner, then the other three will become its object partners. When the union becomes the subject partner, then the other three, including God, will also become object partners. Three Object means that there is one subject partner and three object partners. This realization of the Three Object Purpose in the Four Position Foundation is unity through love.
When the husband and the wife are completely united, they don’t have a reason to fight. Also, as God appears through the Four Position Foundation, it becomes very lonely if even one of these positions is absent. It is because God’s love realizes the unity by fulfilling the Three Object Purpose through the Four Position Foundation.
Father loved God more than anyone.
Father told us that there were three questions God would ask each of us when we go to the spirit world. These questions are asked to everyone without exception.
First, how much did you love God while you were in the physical world? Second, how much did you love people? Third, how much did you love creation? He told us that God always asks these questions. This is why the Father has been telling us to love God, love human beings, and love creation while we are in the physical world.
I saw how Father loved God. I am unable to know about all the love Father gave to God, but I want to tell you some of the things that I witnessed while attending him closely.
Father sometimes said, “I am crazy about God. I am crazy about the Principle.
There is nothing I do that deviates from the desires of God and the Principle.” What does it mean to be crazy? It means that a person has no awareness of himself. Father was someone who always asked, “What is God’s Will? What does God want?” Such a desire only got stronger as time passed.
When Father would sit quietly, it seemed like Father had nothing. He seemed to be in a state devoid of thought. He sometimes hummed quietly and looked like he was waiting for someone. I sometimes saw Father trying to catch the frequency of God’s Will like a rotating antenna, always keeping himself empty. Then, when he would start something. He would move with great speed, like lightning.
American members have asked me:
“What kind of person was Father? How can you describe him in just one word?” This is a truly difficult question to answer. I answered it this way: “He had nothing, and he had everything.” I don’t think I can give a better answer than that.
Also, Father was like the bridge that allowed people to cross the river to escape
from Satan and come to God. A bridge connects two sides of a river. However, should there be an obstacle in the middle of the bridge, that obstacle will hinder people and cars from crossing. Therefore, bridges must be kept clean and free of obstacles. Father was like that.
Father was also like a tunnel that lets people pass through a mountain with great ease. Cars can swiftly drive through a tunnel only when the tunnel is clear of obstacles.
So Father has the role of a mediator, like a bridge or a tunnel, who connects one side (human beings) to the other (God). Meanwhile, he keeps no trace of himself in his unconsciousness.
Father often said a person must become more humble as his position rises and he takes on more responsibility. He must be like a fetus in the womb. A fetus in its mother’s womb does not have freedom. A fetus receives nutrients through the umbilical cord connected to the mother. If the mother lies down, the baby lies down, too. When she gets up, the baby must get up too, and follow the mother wherever she goes. The fetus does not have any freedom.
Big and small positions that we find ourselves in do not belong to us. Instead of being ours, they belong to True Parents. This is why you must stand in the position of defending what belongs to True Parents. You will become the pastor and regional and national leaders in the future. You could also become a leader in a providential organization. In other words, as we rise in the organization, our positions do not belong to us. Heaven has given us the positions, so that we may take good care of it. You must
know that it is not your position. Leaders also have to pray continuously, do Hoon Dok Hae, become role models for others, and live for the sake of the members. If you can stick to these rules, you will do well no matter what position you are entrusted with.
Then, your heart will be empty, and you will always ask God, “Father, you have put me in this position. What do you want me to do? What shall I do?” We must have that kind of mindset. Leaders must have that kind of mindset. Then God will always shower us with inspiration and wisdom.
Father once told me, “You must be a happy person.” So I asked him, “Why, Father?” Then he answered, “You can control your schedule when you go on a speaking tour. You have that freedom. I don’t.” We may think that Father is the freest person of all, but Father has no freedom. He does not have freedom, because he always seeks the Will of God and strives to become one with the Will.
Father is very sensitive to all aspects of the environment, from the weather to the direction of the wind. Father once said, “I am in a state of complete unity of mind and body.” Father said this state means there is no concept of separation between mind and body. God’s feelings are within him because his mind is one with God and he acts according to his mind without a second thought. When we cannot make up our minds about something, it is evidence of our disunity between mind and body.
That is why Father thinks things that happen to his body are very important. For example, there was an instance time when remained in his bed until it was almost time for him to leave for an appointment. Those of us attending him became anxious. We told him, “Father, it’s almost time to go.” Then Father said, “I know that, but don’t go. My legs don’t want to go. I think I should go later.”
A few times, Father would have appointments around 10 a.m. and he rose from his bed very early and left the house around 5 or 6 o’clock. In the morning. When we asked him why he was leaving so early, he told us that there were people who were trying to harm him if he went there on time. He knew about such schemes through his spiritual senses. Sometimes he would not leave the house until much later, even though he had an appointment at ten. He would say he had to go late to avoid plots to harm him.
Father always told us that no matter how sincerely we serve Father, nothing we do could help him extend his life. Father always said he protected his own life through his spiritual senses.
I dream quite often, and one day I had this one dream. There was a building with gigantic pillars, and we were at one end of the building with Father. At the other end were countless enemies, and they were shooting arrows and throwing spears at Father. We were scared and we screamed. Even though we were very close to Father, we were only trembling in fear instead of helping Father. Father moved quickly to dodge all the projectiles raining down on him. After this dream, I realized, “If we are just following Father without being of any help to him, we are only becoming a burden to Father!"
One time in a dream, I was following Father and he suddenly disappeared. He just disappeared into thin air. I started looking for Father as if playing hide-and-seek, thinking “Oh, where did Teacher go?” In my quest to find him, sometimes mountains blocked my path and sometimes there were rivers I had to cross.
I summoned all my strength to overcome these obstacles. It was very difficult and tiring to overcome these mountains and rivers, even though it was just a dream. Just when I was about to fall exhausted, I saw that there was a small hut on the side of a valley in the distance. I felt sure the Teacher was there. When I arrived at the hut, there was space enough only for one person to lie down, and Father was there alone.
In those days, Father was receiving a lot of persecution from Satan. I also had a dream where Father was running away desperately to save his life.
Former Amb. Sang Guk Han has a son named Cheori. He opened his spiritual eyes when he was only four and he read people’s minds accurately. Ambassador Han asked Father, “Should everyone open their spiritual eyes like my Choeri?” Father answered, “No. If human beings had not fallen, they would not have known that there is such a thing as a spirit body.” He meant that the physical body and the spiritual body would be united so completely that they would not even be able to distinguish between the two.
If human beings had not fallen, God’s Will would have been known directly by our spirit bodies, and we would act according to God’s Spiritual phenomena can be compared to trying to fix a broken machine by punching it. Father told us that such things are phenomena seen in the path of restoration to God.
When we consider these things, we can understand that the Father is always ready to follow God’s Will at any time. In other words, Father is like this, because he is in a state of complete absence of self.
People are object partners of love and teachers of love
The next question God will ask us is how much we loved other people while we were in the physical world.
Father taught us there are two ideal ways to interact with people.
The first way, he said, is to treat anyone, be they children or the elderly, as people sent by God. He would look at people and say: “I will do the best I can for these people.
How will I make them happy?” He would keep thinking about how he would do this. Eventually, he would find a way to be good to them.
We say God is all-powerful and all-knowing, that He knows everything and can do everything. But such a concept can only be explained through love. God is such a being.
It is similar to the way we humans seek the best ways to make our children happy. If we think about it hard enough, the way to do this will come to our mind naturally.
Father naturally figured out the best way to make people happy, and it came to him after some thinking. Then he gained the ability to make it happen as well. If we also want to become all-powerful and all-knowing, we need to become the owners of such true love.
Father said the second way is to think that there must be something he can learn from each person. Father would treat each person with humility, thinking that he must learn something from that person. He would consider that God must have sent this person to Father to teach Father something. When he thought way with great sincerity, there was always something that he could learn. Father said it was because every human being is born with one of the twelve character types of God.
Father told us he feels immense joy when he serves a person as his teacher. He said he could live every day and every moment like the first day of school, excited to learn new things and without any sense of boredom. For us as well, a person who has a heart to learn from others, and to do good things for others, is the happiest person alive.
The richest people are those who strive to live for the sake of others, and the poorest are those who may have a lot of wealth but still try to devise plans to use people. Father said that such a person, although he may have mountains of material goods, will never feel satisfied because of his greed.
So we need to think seriously about how we will love people and live for the sake of others. We must learn that Father treated every person preciously.
The level of Father's love for nature
The third question God will ask us when we go to the spirit world is how much we loved while we were in the physical world. To learn the answer to this question, I closely watched how Father loves all created things.
First of all, Father carefully organized everything that he used. He kept his room so tidy that one night when the electricity went out for three hours, he had no problems moving around and finding everything he needed in the dark. It was because he knew where everything was since he kept everything in its proper place. He could still find any item and later return it to its place. That’s how organized he was.
The True Child who most resembles this aspect of Father is Un Jin Nim. Father used to peek into his children’s rooms in the daytime or at night since he was so busy and did not have much time to spend with his children. Un Jin Nim used to make her bed very neatly and sleep on the floor. When Father asked, “Un Jin! Why do you sleep on the floor and not on the bed?” Un Jin Nim would answer, “I can’t sleep on the bed. It’s clean, and it will wrinkle if I sleep on it.” Listening to this, Father said,” You take after me!”
Father is very organized, and he also conserves things very much. One time, a delicious-looking melon was cut into eight crescent-shaped slices and cut so that people could use forks to eat it. After eating the last piece, Father took a spoon and started gouging the white part attached to the skin just like a typical old man in a rural farming village. Watching this, Mother asked Father, “Father! Do you want another?” He replied, “I'm only doing this because I don’t want to waste the uneaten part by throwing it away.”
Mother once bought a new crystal drinking glass for Father at a department store. Father was very sad, though, and asked where his old drinking glass had gone. He asked why she had to buy a new glass when the old one was still in good condition. He said he had many beautiful memories with old glass, and he enjoyed thinking of these while he drank from it. The glass had many memories attached to it, such as the times he thought about God’s Will and when he yearned for certain persons. All the layers of memory would disappear if the glass was thrown away.
He also would wear the same sweater for a long time. He would say he had many good memories attached to a particular sweater. When he received a new sweater or necktie, he would wear it once, on a special occasion such as Christmas, and then give it away. Father would then go back to wearing the same piece of clothing he had been wearing. He would sometimes talk about the clothes, r thinks about a particular person, or abo’s Will while wearing a particular piece of clothing. Everything around Father was alive. Any article might become a conversation partner for Father.
Father would treat each article as if it were part of his own body. For example, whenever he would travel by commercial plane, he would clean the toilet in the passenger cabin very thoroughly. He would say it made the aircraft happy for him to dance. He would feel these things with his mind and body. The aircraft would tell him where bad people were sitting. When he would go to someone’s private home, he could know the atmosphere of the house by looking at the ceiling or the curtains and understanding the personality of the owner of the house. It was because all things responded to him.
Fathers could know these things also by looking at the pet cats or dogs in a home. If the owner was short-tempered, the dog’s bark would reflect this. If the owner was easy-going, the pet would resemble this character trait.
Father talks to nature like this. Father said that truly loving all things in the world and making them our friends lets us experience what it would have been like for Adam and Eve, had they achieved dominion over all creation.
One day, Father went with other church members to the house of a member who raised quails. This person was famous for raising many quails. Father looked at the cage where hundreds of quails were being kept. Then he asked me while quietly observing the cage, “Gil Ja, when do you think quails are the happiest?” I said, “Well, it must be when a male and a female quail make love.” Father told me, though, “No. Since all things are created by God for human beings, they are the happiest when they see humans look at them with love in their hearts.”
So it is important for you to love all things before you go to the spirit world. Father also told us to conserve all things.
Once, Father was training second-generation blessed children to catch tuna. He noticed that they took long sheets of toilet paper with them when going to the toilet. Father told
them that if they waste toilet paper like this, their descendants would be beggars. This is how much Father conserved things. He would say all things become joyful and follow humans only when we practice conservation things. Let us keep this in mind and not waste things.
Father moves heavenly fortune by knowing the providential time
Here, we will talk about the Three Orderly Stages of the Growing Period.
I will explain with a diagram so you can understand this more easily. (See the picture on page 32 of the 3-hour Divine Principle Summarized Hoon Dok Charts.
Why does the Principle say Adam and Eve fell at the completion level of the growth stage? This is not something Father just made up. Just a clue can be found in the Bible. It is the three sacrificial offerings of Abraham. Abraham’s three offerings represented all things in the cosmos. (See the picture on page 138 of the 3-hour Divine Principle Summarized Hoon Dok Charts.
God told Abraham, “Offer me two doves and two sheep. However, offer me only one cow.” Why did He do this? It was because Adam and Eve grew in a horizontal relationship during the formation and growth period, but they did not have the same horizontal relationship in the completion stage. That is why God told Abraham to offer only one cow, which symbolized the completion stage.
So the conclusion here is that Adam and Eve fell while they were at the completion level of the growth stage, and Satan could invade up to this level.
However, Satan could not invade the completion stage.
We can also know this by observing the way Father advanced the providence in reality. In 1967, Father said in Japan, “Communism will not be able to rise any further, once 70 years have passed after the Communist Revolution in Russia.” He spoke again at a time when Communism had expanded its influence over the globe, saying “Communism will only go down. It will end.” People said “Oh, we thought Rev. Moon was a smart man, but what is this? Is Rev. Moon mad? How could he say Communism will end when it’s spreading like wildfire?”
Each of the three stages of the Growing Period, Formation, Growth, and Completion, represents 33 percent of the whole. The portion up to the completion level of the growth stage, where Adam and Eve fell, would be 66.7 percent, which is approximately percent. That is why Father said Communism would begin to decline 70 years after the Bolshevik Revolution.
Communism ended, just as Father predicted. Signs of its demise slowly began to appear 60 years after the Bolshevik Revolution. By the time 70 years had passed, it was clearly in decline. Even the top figures of Communism, Mikhail Gorbachev,v, and Kim Il Sung, bowed their heads to Father. It was because the time had come. That is why Father said, “I am a human just like anyone else, but I can do things that you cannot.”
Judging from this, Father knows the correct time in the providence. That is why he can predict what kind of time will come and what kind of age will dawn. Nobody knows when this time will come. Only Father knows. Father predicts and he prepares accordingly.
Second, Father moves heavenly fortune. What does it mean to move heavenly fortune? In other words, he moves the spirit world according to his will. Who made the Cheongpyeong miracle happen? It was Father. Heung Jin Nim and Dae Mo Nim were able to move the ancestors and the whole spirit world upon the victorious foundation prepared by Father in the physical world. Father moves heavenly fortune in this way. In other words, he moves the spirit world.
Father once told us that moving the g spirit world can be compared to trying to control a storm. When faced with a storm, human beings cannot stop it. Father moves heavenly fortune by moving the spirit world, and no leader in the world can defeat Father, because they are facing a storm.
You probably gave Holy Wine to many people. What do the people of the world think about this? Most of them will say, “What are they doing?” Still, Father makes us do things that people outside our church don’t understand. It is because such actions can move the spirit world and bring heavenly fortune. Helping people drink the Holy Wine becomes a condition.
We are in the same position as we are in the spirit world, but outside people do not understand this. We also don’t know everything. So what is absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience? Even though we do not understand, if we follow Father’s direction, we will be a part of Father’s work and we will be following Father when he moves heavenly fortune. That is the reason things keep going well for Unification
.Church members, while people outside the church keep experiencing that things that would normally be expected to go well somehow do not.
Growth and perfection the of spirit self
When we read Section 6, The Incorporeal World and the Corporeal World Whose Center is Human Beings of the Principle of Creation, explains the growth of the spirit self.
Our spiritual self grows in three stages. Each stage of the growth of the spirit self has a name. The names are form spirit, life spirit, and divine spirit. Here, divine spirit means luminescent spirit. The name of each stage of growth of the spirit self has its meaning.
Before we received the Holy Blessing. While we were still attending university, Father would come to our campus. Father told us then, “If you marry a man in this world, you will give birth to a child whose spiritual self is half human and half animal.” He told us half half-human and half-animal beings exist in the spirit world. At the time, I didn’t understand what he meant. I could only listen to his words with amazement.
Recently, though, I have been feeling the reality of those words.
I went to the British Museum when I visited London. At either side of the front entrance of the museum, there were statues of beings that were half animal and half human. Their upper bodies were human, but they had the lower body of a horse, with four legs and a tail.
Perhaps the sculpture intended to symbolize someone of great ability by giving the statue the lower body of a horse, since transportation was not as well developed then as it is today. In those days, horseback was the fastest and the most convenient way to travel. In reality, though, the sculpture created a statue resembling half animal and half human being in the spirit world.
Before a human’s spirit takes form, it is at the level of an animal. Ok Soon Shin, a lady now in the spirit world whose spiritual eyes were open, told us that humans may walk on two feet with their physical body, but the spirit selves of those who have not gone through resurrection walk on all fours like animals. She told us that since we have accepted the Word and have been resurrected, our spirit selves have taken on proper form. She also said that most of those who have not gone through resurrection have an animal-like spirit self that crawls on the ground. Furthermore, people’s spirit selves take the form of dogs when their ancestors were sexually promiscuous, the form of a pig if they were greedy and the shape of snakes if they were liars.
What I realized while attending Father very closely was that Father was well aware of these facts. We used to listen to Father’s Words during Sunday services held in the Old Headquarters Church at Cheongpa Dong. Father would come downstairs from the second floor at seven o’clock to have his breakfast. Then, we would listen to Father’s words, sometimes through the day and into the night.
Sometimes, we would be sitting in a circle, listening to Father speak, and there would be someone Father would not talk to for the entire day. He would not even acknowledge his presence. There would be others with whom Father would exchange many words. He would select a few among the seated group to speak to. In other words, he was discriminating among people.
At first, I could not understand why Father would discriminate against certain people. It was only much later that Father told us, “The reason was that those who are not in a position where I can have direct dominion and give my love directly have spirit selves whose forms are not yet human.” When I heard him say this, I could understand the reason for his earlier behavior.
For example, one person’s spirit self would have an eye that was not in the proper position on the face, o nose would be crooked, or a mouth located on the back of the head. There are people whose spirit self has an unimaginably fierce look.
Father said that he should leave such people alone. If Father speaks to them or interferes with them, their eyes, mouth, or nose will never return to the proper position.
Father does not speak to such people, because he loves them. Father said the best way for him to love such people is to let them learn from the words he speaks to others.
They can repent and repeat the process of resurrection to have their spiritual selves return to their normal form.
Let’s say there is a farmer. He has sown the seeds, and these seeds have now sprouted. Now the farmer’s job is to leave them be so they can grow. He should not foolishly pull up the sprouts in hopes of making them grow faster. Similarly, I have witnessed many instances where Father treated people differently according to whether they were in Father’s realm of direct dominion or indirect dominion.
Then, when we enter the formation stage, our spirit selves take form. I am always amazed by the word "spirit self".
I had a question that I could not answer while I was attending a Christian church, before joining the Unification Church. We say that our spirit has a body and that our spirit goes to heaven when we die. I wondered where my spirit was. I thought it might be in our brain because we think with it. Or it might be in our hearts since we feel things with it. I was very curious about the location of my spirit. I even thought at one point that the spirit exists in limbo, like a cloud or fog.
According to “The Incorporeal World and the Corporeal World Whose Center is Human Beings” in the "Principle of Creation", our spirit self develops in exact resemblance to our physical body. So our physical body is like the frame for our spirit body. It may be due to this reason that no two people in the world are exactly alike.
There is an interesting story. One of the 36-couple wives had an uncontrollable rash on her face. Her condition would not improve even after hospital treatment. So, this woman ended up praying to God. “Lord! I am your daughter. I have this painful rash on my face. Please heal me.” She begged God. Then, from within her body, she heard God’s voice saying, “OK! OK! Apply your saliva to where it itches.” She followed God’s instruction and her rash later disappeared.
Amazed and overjoyed, she asked, “Lord! Where are you? I heard your voice but I don’t know where you are. Where are you?” Then a voice came out of her mouth, saying, “I am here. I am here,” and she continuously hit her genital area with her hands. The voice within her also said, “How come you do not know this! How come you do not know this!”
Father heard this story and found it interesting. When Blessed Families were gathered in Cheongpyeong for a workshop, Father asked the woman to come forward to give her testimony to everyone. She gave a very exciting testimony.
Curious, I asked Father, “Does God exist in the reproductive organ?” Father said, “When He was creating humans, God spent the most time creating man and woman’s reproductive organs.” This is how important our sexual organs are.
Father gave us many precious words. He said, “I am wearing a body and you are wearing a body, but how many tens of thousands of people do you think I will meet while I am alive?” When we were serving Father in Cheongpa Dong, there was no gatekeeper in that place. Anyone could walk into the house and see Father. When Father later moved to Hannam Dong, we could not enter without permission. It became more difficult to enter. Father was too busy to see all the members who wanted to see him, so he had to limit the number of members coming to Hannam Dong. Father was sad too about this.
Things will be different, once we go to the spirit world. Father told us that when he goes to the spirit world, he will become a bright divine spirit emanating light. We will also shine brightly in the spirit world. The intensity of our light will depend on how much we live our lives sincerely while loving God, humankind, and nature. Those who lived such a sincere life will have a brighter light emanating from their spirit self.
This is one eternal truth that cannot be denied. When we leave our physical bodies, the intensity of our light will determine how easily we will be noticed. It will be as if we are looking down from the sky on the night cityscape of Seoul. The brighter lights catch our eyes more quickly than the dim lights. The Spirit world is filled with countless spirit selves who have separated from their physical bodies, and Father says he will notice the brightest spirit selves first.
Father once told us that when such a bright person leaves the physical world and enters the spirit world, Father will welcome his child even before his child finds Father. It will be as if the person’s father is embracing him, and saying, “My beloved son!
Daughter! I wasn’t able to be close to you when we were in the physical world, but you have lived your life very sincerely while loving God, people, and all things.
Now, let us never be separated. Let’s live together forever.”
That is why God is fair. Even if we aren’t able to attend to Father closely in the physical world, we can live with him when we go to the spirit world. This will be a great inspiration to all those who never had a chance to attend to Father closely in the physical world. If you are young, you may have some hopes of meeting Father directly, but older people cannot have such hopes. Many older members yearn for True Parents very much.
It does not matter if a person lived in the countryside without any position in the church. If the person lived his life sincerely offering himself to God, his spirit self would become very bright. The important thing is the intensity of light from our spirit selves that we can prepare before going to the spirit world.
The perfection of the spirit self is the perfection of personality, character, and love.
This is the reason that, if we live according to the Principle, we will be able to sin even if we try. It is difficult not to sin in today’s world, but when the world of the Principle dawns we will not be able to sin.
There was a 430-couple member who died and then came back to life. She said that she was most ashamed of two things while she was receiving her judgment in the spirit world. The first thing she felt ashamed about was her debt to Shimjeong, her financial debt, and all the favors she owed to other people. The second thing she was ashamed of was how she hated others while she was alive.
Let us look at the second verse of the Family Pledge.
”Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to represent and become central to heaven and earth by attending God and True Parents; we pledge to perfect the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters in our family, patriots in our nation, saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and earth, by centering on true love.”
Here, we can find the expression “saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and earth.” I asked Father what a saint was. Father told me that there are three kinds of people: ordinary people, evil people, and saints. Evil people do bad things to people, even those who do good things for them. Ordinary people are just normal. They will be good to you if you are good to them and bad to you if you are bad to them.
Saints will only do good for others, regardless of whether others do good or evil toward them. I asked, “Father, then how is a saint different from the divine sons and daughters?” Father answered, “You can become a saint by obeying the laws of the earth, but divine sons and daughters must also obey the laws of the spirit world.”
Father said, “How have I lived my life? In one sentence, I have walked the path of loving my enemies, living for their sake, and loving them.” In other words, the growth of the spirit self means the perfection of love and the perfection of character. Therefore, to fulfill the duties of divine sons and daughters means that you must practice something of a higher dimension than saints.
The 16th-century Korean patriot Adm. Yi Sun Shin sacrificed his life for our country and is a hero in the eyes of the Korean people. He could not go to the best place in the spirit world, however. This is because he hated Japanese people when he died. Adm. Yi wanted to kill more Japanese soldiers, even as he lay dying. That is why he could not go to the best place in the spirit world. Also, when he was shot, he yelled, “You Japanese bastards!” Since he was unable to love Japanese people on earth before he died, he could become a hero but not a divine son.
Even those who are revered very much by Korean people do not receive good treatment when they go to the spirit world. Koreans may find this upsetting, but that is the law of the spirit world. When we want to hate or fight people, we must pledge that we will fulfill our duties as divine sons and daughters and overcome such desires. We must not hate anyone.
Do you know who the most powerful people in America are? Surprisingly, it’s the Mafia. The Mafia kills people with all sorts of methods for their profit. They have created their underworld kingdom.
Father tried to develop land-based businesses at first, instead of going out to the ocean. Our church is well-organized so we could make good businesses out of dealing with junk, old cars, or used paper. However, as soon as he tried to establish a business, Father realized that all businesses were connected to the Mafia. It was dangerous to do business without giving a portion of the profits to the Mafia. They had influence even in the garbage collecting business.
Father wanted to create businesses to do good things that would help save people.
He could not give the money earned by our members to the Mafia, but the Mafia threatened to kill our members if they didn’t get their cut. Father tried to find a business that the Mafia did not have any influence over. So Father went out to the ocean.
Receiving such harsh persecution from Christian churches, Father said one day, “Oh, I wish I could realize the Will by taking revenge just like the Mafia.” He must have been greatly disheartened. However, Father still said, “No! That is not the way God wants it. I cannot do that!” As we can see from this, God and Father’s strategy is only one way. It is love, sacrifice, and service.
Mrs. Gil Ja Sa Eu
