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1. The spirit world and the earthly world are not two separate worlds cut off from each other. Under the fundamental principle of existence, they have a mutual relationship of giving and receiving, that is, mutual exchange.
We began our association originally as the Holy Spirit Association, to achieve unity through divine spiritual power. What is divine spirit?
It does not refer to distributing transitory spiritual power or spiritual activity. It is the power of God's love through which the spirit world and the human world can harmonize and resonate based on true love.
The Unification Church movement, of course, moves the hearts of people through a lifestyle of true love, living for the sake of others and investing oneself for others, but also through gaining the spirit world's cooperation. (260-135, 1994.05.01)
Spiritual phenomena and our attitude toward them
2. In the early days of Christianity, all manner of wonders took place, including speaking in tongues, carrying out works of the divine spirit, and uttering prophecies. Because there were so many works of the divine spirit in the early church, ignorant people who did not understand the content and who encountered spiritual works here and there became confused.
To overcome that confusion, they said, "The words of the Bible are best." In the Bible we read that "In the Last Days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." (Joel 2:28)
This foretells that in the final days of Christian history, the phenomena of the early church will reappear in the world. Many groups will arise and will be accused from all quarters of being insane or heretical. The Unification Church is one such group. (6-184, 1959.04.26)
3. When those who have received an outpouring of the spirit do not know the reason for it, Heaven enlightens them. When they open their eyes, they see the spirit world, and when they act, they behave like the people in the spirit world.
Their eyes, hearts, and actions may be completely out of the ordinary. They may look like lunatics. Long ago, did Jesus appear to be a normal person? According to many people of the time, he must have seemed like a fool or a dullard. In the future, such spiritual phenomena will sweep through us, sweep through societies, and sweep through religious bodies.
Therefore, around the world today the number of patients suffering from incomprehensible mental illnesses and diseases of the nervous system is increasing. A world of fear, a world of anxiety,y and fretfulness, is fast approaching.
This is because Jesus, the Son of God, lived his whole life engaged with the Will, with fretfulness, anxiety, and an agitated heart. That is why similar phenomena will sweep the world.
When that happens, people will not be able to find their direction, try as they may, and events will come to pass in which what is true seems false and what is false seems true.
An era is coming in which what is false will gain power and what is true will lose power, an era in which what is false prospers and what is true loses its voice. We need to pass through such a period. (6-184, 1959.04.26)
4. The more the Last Days advance, while some people are seized with dread, others will be seized with joy. Such developments will inevitably emerge. While some people are extremely evil, there will be perfect others.
Something extremely evil cannot invade an excellent person and something perfect cannot have anything to do with an extremely evil person. Even God will not be able to hold on to this society. A time will come when even a spiritual person, even a person who has received the grace of Heaven, will be unable to unite to this world, try though he might.
When that time comes, the people living in the extremely evil world, the people who have failed to form a connection with Heaven, will surely find themselves subject to judgment.
A time will come when a state like this will unfold in your heart: the mind desires to go this way, but the body desires to go that way. Those who struggle due to their failure to set the conditions to be able to unite their body and mind are surely bound for hell. (7-237, 1959.09.20)
5. God carries out His providence centered on a specific religious denomination. At the time of Jesus, developed His providence internally in advance, without anyone knowing, centered on the families of Joseph and Zechariah.
In the very same way, right after the liberation of Korea, Heaven prepared the content of this providence unknown to anyone. Thus, there had to be a group that could fulfill the mission of the archangel.
What was lost spiritually will have to be found substantially, and the time to do this was the time before the liberation, so in that period one person who could carry out the mission of the archangel in the flesh had to come forth.
This is why, from among the people who can communicate with the spirit world, some came forward claiming they were Peter or Paul, or asserting, “I am John the Baptist.” The twelve disciples did not have faith in Jesus, so to atone for having failed to lay a foundation for him, their spirits had to come down to lay this foundation substantially on earth. Such work has been carried out until this day. (50-207, 1971.11.07)
6. What is Jesus' greatest sorrow? It is that he was unable to establish a substantial realm on earth with his disciples. The twelve disciples were unable to unite centered on Jesus; Joseph's family was also unable to become one centered on Jesus; Judaism was unable to unite and the nation of Israel was unable to unite.
Jesus tried to manage the situation based on the twelve disciples, but everything broke down. Jesus left behind the model spiritual standard, but because he could not establish a substantial standard, we need to reproduce the model of the twelve disciples who established the base of spiritual victory and work with the Lord of the Second Advent on the earth.
After the foundation has been laid – that is, once the disciples who did not believe in Jesus and expelled him can believe in him and work again – the work of the Second Advent can begin.
That is why in the time before the liberation of Korea, among those who could communicate with the spirit world, people claimed to be Peter, John, Paul, or Abraham, and people representing many of the prophets who have come and gone in the course of history appeared all at once in the spiritual groups in the horizontal world of Korea. (50-208, 1971.11.07)
7. Up to the present day, because evil spirits have come down to earth and carried out their work, there have been phenomena such as mental illness and the degradation of people's character, but this will not be the case henceforth.
We will conquer our bodies, form a realm of resonance,e and immediately enter the higher realm of spiritual experience. A realm of noble character will be formed. (259-163, 1994.04.02)
8. There are only two kinds of spiritual phenomena: those that are caused by God, and those that are not. We can tell right away; that is, when we classify spiritual phenomena as good or evil, we have a standard that tells us what a good phenomenon should be like.
We should not move forward unless we check the phenomena according to that standard. Every few hundred years or so, a period of great transition or extensive spiritual phenomena comes about. When this takes place, a nation either perishes or prospers.
If evil spirits are mobilized, they perish. If good spirits are mobilized, it prospers exceedingly. How could the fortunes of the world get mixed up with all this? It is not a simple thing.
Then what is the purpose of these spiritual phenomena or religion? The reason Heaven stirs up spiritual phenomena in the course of the providence is in the end for the perfection of humankind. (227-117, 1992.02.11)
9. The works of an evil spirit and the works of a good spirit begin in the same way, but their results are different. In both cases, there is trembling, a disturbance, and the overturning of things. There appears to be no difference between the two. But what comes of these works in the end?
When carried out by an evil spirit, rather than profiting the world or benefiting heaven and earth, the results of such works profit only the evildoer. When you do something, it should benefit not only you as an individual or a family where you are the center.
If it is done egocentrically, whatever the good intentions, it will eventually come to naught. To some extent, the spiritual phenomena of the providence of God at the start may appear the same as the evil side. But God's providence sets its standard on the world level.
A church with a purpose apart from the liberation of God and the liberation of humanity cannot endure through the Last Days. That church will get away based on greed and naturally collapse. Its leader will be taken away.
And when that happens, that church will not connect to the environment of the age. This will be because the leader did not understand the situation he was placed in. (163-134, 1987.05.01)
10. We who live today can witness spiritual phenomena in the world. It is a historical fact that, no matter the age or time, the realm of life for religious believers and non-believers alike has intermingled with the spirit worth of each person's relationship with the spirit world.
We know that people lived in this way throughout history, even if we do not believe in religion, through dreams and various mystical experiences. Good spirits and evil spirits dwell in the spirit world and, owing to their influence, people on earth are divided into good and evil.
This is logical. Then what is our concept of a good person and an evil person? Some receive help from good spirits and others receive help from evil spirits. From these two sources of help, we can judge whether a person is good or evil.
(131-167, 1984.05.01)
11. I think an age will come in which we can even invent instruments that will help us see spirit-world phenomena. When that comes to pass, no one will be able to say there is no world of the spirit.
When your spiritual eyes are opened, you can see the spirit world. You will be able to perceive through your senses all the phenomena, everything that exists, in that world.
If you could see such things as you would a weather forecast, you would not say, for example, that there is no God. Then it would be natural for religion to disappear.
If there had been no Fall, this would have been such a world. Things turned out the way they did because of the Fall. In the process of restoration, this earth is a training center for us, to bring us into a reciprocal relationship with that world. (256-250, 1994.03.14)
You pay the price for working miracles and wonders.
12. God's cooperation comes about when we apply principles and rules in our life. God does not like mindless faith. What happens to people who chase after miracles and wonders and declare, “Just believe, and it will come true”?
When a person works miracles and wonders, what happens to him and his clan? In the case of revivalists who were famous in Korea, and whose names were well-known in the past, did things go well for them and their descendants? Things did not go well. Why is that?
When you blindly ask for something, and it comes true, you inevitably have to pay the price for what you blindly asked for. If you perform miracles despite not possessing such ability, you are performing such acts by the power granted to you by God.
When you do such things with the power of God, Satan will accuse you of the blessings and the things you received but did not merit. It is the same as everything crumbling when there is no foundation. (084-079, 1976.02.22)
13. If Moses had not performed miracles and wonders, he would not have failed. That means that if Jesus had not performed miracles and wonders, he would not have died on the cross. Miracles and wonders are not good things.
They draw down a great deal of sacrifice for just a smile. Nowadays, where are the preposterous groups of people who unthinkingly believe in miracles and say that through miracles and wonder, they will sort out heaven and earth and settle everything in the world? (136-285, 1985.12.29)
14. Jesus, who walked the course of restoration, didn't perform miracles and wonders happily. If you think he worked miracles and wonders because he was joyful and comfortable, that is a big misunderstanding.
Since he had no place to lay his body on this earth and no place on which he could rely in the universe, he was in a situation where he had no choice but to appeal to Heaven. We must consider the resoluteness of Jesus who was in such a desperate state.
When he was in sad and pitiful circumstances and raised his hands and called out, “My Father!” miracles occurred there. Those miracles and wonders appeared through circumstances in which he called out from a place of such extreme sorrow that even his bones and flesh were melting from sheer grief. (5-227, 1959.02.01)
15. If I pray, I can perform any number of miracles and wonders. However, regardless of what circumstances arise, I will not do so. What is the use of fixing temporary circumstances?
Even if I fix them, is it of any use in heaven? It has no effect. Quite a few people have performed numerous miracles in Korea, but I have never done that publicly. Even when I am insulted, for example, I remain still. Since I walk alone, I must prepare myself for the path I will take.
I believe that people who do not prepare fade away. After making all the preparations, I went on the big stage of America and shook it up. I said Christianity had done wrong and should repent. (237-291, 1992.11.17)
16. If I had lacked wisdom, I would have ruined everything. If I offered prayers to cure illnesses, a thousand, or even ten thousand people would have been cured. However, I would rather not do that. Instead, we have to educate people.
Spiritual works are for the moment, but the truth lasts for ten thousand years. Now it is your time. You can do anything, even cure others' illnesses. With just a look, you can cure leprosy and all other disorders.
If your passion is set aflame, and you forget to eat or sleep because of your love for Rev. Moon of the Unification Church, any illness can be cured.
You will even forget you are sick. And after you have lived for a year forgetting you are sick, your illness actually will be gone. The miracles and wonders of the Bible are nothing. Looking at it this way, I have carried out countless such works.
(299-285, 1999.02.18)
Sun Myung Moon