The One World Had There Been No Fall
What is the motivation that can make unfallen people unite into one?
It is to make unity perfectly centered on one nation, one world, and one universe.
This can be the only motto for all those who live in the unified nation: How to live a happy life, making unity centering on God. There can never be division.
If there were division, it would be in direct opposition to God and damage the nation, the world, and God, as well as causing self-destruction. This fact must be known clearly.
Above all, the place where the individual stands must be based upon God, the world, the nation, society, tribe, and family. The whole foundation from God to the world can belong to one individual.
Therefore, not to become one means to destroy God, destroy the world, destroy the nation, destroy one's tribe, and cause the destruction of the family. It is very obvious. Because of such a situation, there cannot be any separation.
Because the degree of our unity becomes the standard representing the value of the whole, we must go through daily life and our entire life, upholding this as the standard.
This is the essence of human life and the viewpoint for the family, for the society, and the nation as well. Then one nation and one world of eternal and unchangeable sovereignty can be set up centering upon God.
There can be no opposition to that nation and its sovereignty. Because it is constituted with the same structure as the human body, just as no organs of the body would rebel against the brain, likewise that nation would be one systematic, ideal world centering on God.
Therefore, when God feels joy, automatically we also feel joy, and when we feel joy, then God cannot help but feel joy, too.
In a dark world, everything would be united, centered on the sun. Likewise, this world would be united, centering on God. If such a world were built, we could see the individual, the family, the tribe, the nation, and the world that live centered on God.
Furthermore, we would see that we live together with the spirits of the spiritual world. The spiritual world is not a separate but all part of one world. If such a world were built, there could be no war anywhere in the whole world. Furthermore, language would not be as complicated as it is today. (72-286)
Sun Myung Moon
A Fallen Human Being Has Two Opposing Purposes
We human beings are each individuals with two opposing purposes. No one can deny this. The mind wants to go toward a good place, but the body wants to go in the opposite direction. I am a man in whom mind and body are combined, yet these two entities are fighting with one another.
When such individuals come together as a man and a woman, then this forms a family. However, each of us has an inner self and an external self, so when husband and wife meet, four human types are manifested and engage in different actions. Suppose there are eight members in a family – then they become a family with 16 different, conflicting directions!
When we look at the family, then among families, they are likewise standing in opposition to one another. Moreover, the clan, the tribe, the society, the nation, and the world are all divided.
However, what we can be truly thankful for is that this whole world, rather than being divided into hundreds or thousands of fragments, is, on a broad scale, divided into two great blocs. That is a strange phenomenon.
When we look at the original natures of good and evil, we can find fundamental differences between them. Goodness pursues the benefit of the whole, but evil lives for the sake of the individual, ignoring the whole. To the evil man, there is no family, no neighbor, no nation, and no world.
On the contrary, the good man puts the family ahead of himself, and the village first before the family, then the nation ahead of the village, and the world foremost, ahead of the nation.
Until now, history has been filled with struggles between the selfish aspect and the public aspect. For God, it is required to destroy the root of evil centered upon the body. On the other hand, the requirement of evil, centering on Satan, is to mercilessly destroy the conscience.
In this way, history has consisted of struggles between God's side, centering on the conscience, and the evil side, centering on the body, denying God and living based on material. Seeing this situation, we can conclude that the whole of humanity must be divided between two sides corresponding to such concepts as materialism and idealism.
Yet if there were no God, the world as we see it could not even have come to exist.
After all, evil brings about self-destruction by emphasizing jealousy, division, and struggle.
Therefore, where must the ideal and unification be realized?
Essentially, it must be realized in myself before it can be realized in the world. Fundamentally, in each one of the individuals! (53-11)
Looking at ourselves, we can easily recognize that we are each living with two purposes. There is the purpose pursued by the mind, and there is the purpose pursued by the body. Mind and body do not keep in step with one another, but always struggle with one another. They are clashing in a disorderly manner: in front and back, to the left and the right.
Mind and body are fighting throughout our entire lives. Of course, it was the same with all our ancestors, and just as it is with us, so it will be for our descendants in the future. That is, our mind and body are constantly fighting. The mind asks the body to do goodness.
If there is a poor man, our mind pushes us to help him. Despite whatever difficulties, your mind calls you to sacrifice yourself for the sake of others and to help others. However, as we know, the body takes a direction opposite to the mind.
Facing that situation, our absolute mandate is to conquer our body completely; to make a victorious foundation to overcome the body, centering on the mind, amid this continuing struggle of mind and body.
We cannot live our daily life centering upon goodness, year in and year out, for ten years or our entire life, without realizing this. We must become unchangeable men and women who can live committed to goodness. Our first, the highest priority, is to become such a person. (41, 59)
My mind and body are in a state of confusion. The body wants to go this way, and the mind wants to go that way.
Can they make unity under such circumstances?
Have your mind and body been fighting every day, or do they live amiably together like friends? [Fight!] They fight and fight!
Then, on which side do you stand? You stand on both sides. Within you, there are two parties: that is, one which is heading in the direction the body likes, and the other which is going toward the direction the mind likes.
Sun Myung Moon
God Would Never Create A World With Two Conflicting Purposes
Looking at God, does He also have a mind and a body? What do you think?
Does God have a mind and body?
God must have both, too, because He resembles us, and He must have even more than what we have. Because God must possess the more complete model, He must have a mind and a body.
If God has a mind and a body, would His mind and body be fighting? Do they fight day and night? Do they fight, or make unity and get along with and like each other?
What do you think? If God has a mind and a body, they ought to fight. Why? Because God resembles us.
If I come to such a conclusion that God's mind and body must fight because God resembles you and me, how do you feel? Why are you laughing? Are you laughing because you feel good, or do you feel bad? Maybe you laugh because it is strange. You are laughing because it sounds strange!
Of course,e God resembles us. But what is the difference between God and human beings? God has a mind and a body, but they never fight each other; they make perfect unity.
They are one. If it were not so, God would have created one world which appeals to His mind, and also one world which His body likes. It would mean that God created a world with two purposes. Therefore, such a God could not be absolute.
Accordingly, within God, His mind and body never fight with each other. If we understand God as the One in whom mind and body are united, the One with a unified view of purpose consisting of dual characteristics harmonizing the purpose of the body and the purpose of the mind, then the Creation which God would desire and would approve, must resemble Him. (70-47)
If God created man as a being with two contradictory purposes, such a God would not be logical. Just as there is no being throughout all the created world existing without a purpose, likewise, nothing can exist with two purposes. Something that has two purposes cannot exist and will be destroyed. (18-319)
We are existing beings. As long as you speak of existence, you cannot avoid speaking of relationships. There must be a vertical subject and a horizontal object in the relationship of subject and object. Then the ideal can be realized. You must understand this clearly.
In today's world, we can expect happiness and the ideal only after we realize a better resultant being. What is that resultant being? The individual is a resultant being; also, the family, the society, and the nation are all resultant beings. The world pursued by these resultant beings cannot be two worlds; that world must be one.
If there is a subject who pursues two worlds, he ought to have two heads. Such a subject can never be an absolute being. If the causal being expects two results, he cannot be the Absolute One. “Absolute” means “only one.”
The perfect origin cannot be two: only one. Therefore, the world of results originating from one origin must be one. That is an inevitable conclusion that no one can deny. (59-79)
Are you one or two? Two individuals or one individual? [One!] That is a lie, a lie! Your mind asks you to go this way, but your body says, “Oh! I don't want to; let's go another way!” It looks like one shape, but has two contents.
Then who made it like this? If the absolute God did it in play, this must be a crazy God! Don't you agree? If God did that, such a God doesn't exist. That is the unsolved question until the present, leading to all kinds of complicated thoughts, including the so-called dualism. Am I right?
If there is a man who goes to the east with a God-centered intention, then he should do so to accomplish one absolute purpose, and if there is a man who goes west, it must be for the accomplishment of one absolute purpose.
Reflecting upon ourselves, we have a physical self and a spiritual self opposed to each other like east and west. (47-22)
Due to the fall of the human ancestors, human beings are in a midway position. For that reason, each of us can become a good person, and we can also become an evil person.
If we take one step to the right, we can become a good person, but by taking one step to the left, we can become an evil person. Accordingly, we should know that each one of us is dominated by two masters with two opposing purposes.
When I reflect upon myself, I realize that I have not become a person who can take free action by the desire of the mind. At the beginning of the year, we each pledge by our own will that we will accomplish a certain goal, yet we do not accomplish what we pledged, but rather something which we did not intend.
We often see such results in our daily lives. So, when we look back upon our life after one year has passed, for the most part, we feel that there were many regretful moments during the year.
Why is this? Why are we not going the way we want, but instead the way we do not want? Because there is a stronger power leading us in the direction we don't want than the power leading us in the direction of our true desires.
You must know that you are in a midway position. We are in a position between good and evil. That is why we are dominated by goodness and at the same time by evil. So we have to know that these two boundary lines are connected, centering upon myself.
One thing which you must always keep in mind is that because the absolute God created man, a human being should pursue one purpose perfectly. The purpose of the absolute God cannot be two.
If an absolute God created all things, He should create all things to harmonize, centering on the purpose of the universe. Therefore, the purpose of existence cannot be two, but only one. (41-58)
Sun Myung Moon
The Fundamental Cause Of Struggle
Look at today's world. What kind of world is it? Is it a world of love? No, it is not a world of love. This is not a harmonious and peaceful world of love, but one of hostility, jealousy, and struggle.
Within the individual human being, the mind and body are struggling. The original mind, which pursues goodness, and the body, which pursues evil according to physical desire, are fighting.
Because we are human beings with conflict within ourselves as individuals, the families built by such individuals conflict; and because tribes are composed of such families, they are also struggling; and because nations are built by such tribes, they are also struggling; furthermore, nations are struggling with one another. Therefore, wars have occurred ceaselessly everywhere on Earth.
However, human beings would rather not fight, and from the bottom of their hearts do not desire war. If this is true, then why must we continually deal with fights that we do not want? It is because of the Fall. (1981.5.10)
About today's world, in which two sides, left and right, are divided and confronting one another, did not come about merely by chance. This present reality must be the world that the Creator Himself must have foreseen could come about if humans were to fall.
If the human ancestors had not fallen, then we would not see such a tiresome world on the face of this earth. But, because of the Fall, such a world came into existence. (10-311)
What is the Fall?
It means to lose unity. Mind and body became divided, and natural law, heavenly law, and the whole Logos became divided, and all people became divided. To bring these divisions into unity, God has, for generation after generation, conducted His providence of bringing about unification centered upon a certain tribe or nation.
History has been the history of war. Why is that? Because history began with selfishness, in the pursuit of individual gain. The original circumstance of the Fall was like that. Because our human ancestry is rooted in such a wrong motivation, everyone born throughout history has taken that form and brought forth the same fruits. (166-220)
Because fallen history started with conflict, it will also conclude with conflict. Of course, the process along the way is also the same. No matter how wonderful our parents may be, and regardless of what nationality we may embrace because we belong to humankind, which has lost the place where we might seek peace of mind, we cannot escape conflict.
When we answer the question of why war takes place, of course, there must be such reasons as problems of material; however, most of the causes relate to the problem of love. War occurs because the people of one country do not love, but hate, those of another country. Everything is like that.
The person who hates a certain nation hates its king and his dynasty, too. Isn't that so? Suppose there were a person who wished his enemy nation to perish. Then would he first wish the people of that nation to perish, or that the king of that nation perish first? What do you think? To hate a country is to hate its president.
After all, when we hate the president of a nation or the prince or queen of a kingdom, war can break out. But if we like them, there can be no war. So, war takes place due to love problems.
Therefore, war occurs according to the degree of lack of love and the infringement of love, in relationships between sons and daughters, and likewise in relationships on an expanded scale. (72-219)
Without exception and regardless of sex, all three billion people living in the entire world today were born with a fallen destiny. What is that destiny? It is the destiny of division.
This is not the destiny of unity and prosperity, but the destiny of separation and destruction. As we know through the Principle, we have fallen human lost God's Will, desire, and purpose. (21-99)
What happened to man after the Fall?
Originally, human beings should have established the four-position foundation in unity with God; however, because of the Fall, Adam, Eve, and their children divided.
They separated from each other and created four divisions. Originally, they should have all been one, but instead, they divided, the reverse. We must unify that. (19-205)
The most miserable war among all wars is the war within one family, when parents and brothers and sisters point guns and swords at one another. The bloody war within the same family started with Cain in Adam's family, and expanded to war on the tribal level, on until today.
Unless we make the foundation that can bring about reconciliation between tribes to indemnify such a history, then the nation of God's ideal will be unattainable. Unless we build the foundation for the harmony of Cain and Abel, God's Will can never be realized. (1982.3.25.)
Sun Myung Moon
A War More Dreadful Than Nuclear War
The war between the mind and body is more hazardous than World War II and more dreadful than nuclear war. There are truces in those wars, but here there is no truce and no end.
Since human life began, there has been no truce, but only fighting in the very core of our minds, and this will continue until it comes to an end. Such people built families and tribes, and so they fight more.
Furthermore, they have formed people who are fighting even more, and these combine as nations, which are fighting ever more and more.
Up to the present time, human history has been filled with wars. There was not a single day without war. Where is the basis for war? That is the mind and body. Because the mind and body are the base for war, the individual, family, tribe, and nation all become like that. (19-287)
Neither the First nor the Second World Wars were the biggest wars in world history. There has never been a bigger war than the war of conquering myself. This war has continued unabated for six thousand years. Has it ended or not? More bundles of sin have been continuously piled on.
Accordingly, six thousand years of sinful history are concentrated upon you. Then, who will overturn this sinful history? Because you are incapable of doing that, you need a Messiah with stronger power than you. To be sure, we need the Son of God. (21-189)
How difficult it is to save one person, yourself, from evil! What is the main problem for the Unificationist? It is how to completely liberate “me,” centering upon mind and body.
How difficult is this task, and how intensive is this battle?
We cannot even compare it to such a war as the competition between the USA and the Soviet Union. This fight between the democratic world and the Communist world is not the real problem. It is much more difficult than that war. This is the fight originating in me.
Just as two parties are fighting within one individual, there are also two parties in the family, in the society, in the nation, and the world. According to heritage or legacy, on one side are the evil individual, evil family, evil society, evil nation, and evil world, and on the other side is the good individual, good family, good society, good nation, and good world.
This world is divided like that. One side is under the sphere of religion, centered upon God, and the other side is under the sphere of material, denying God. That is the state of the human being and all humankind. (41-63)
There is greater damage resulting from the war between mind and body than any kind of suffering in the world, or all the trouble and destruction caused by war. You must know that tremendous sorrow remains after the defeat of the mind.
Even though many times per day the mind is defeated in the battle with the body, people don't even realize it. However, people never forget the moment they tripped over a stone and fell in the street.
People remember very well and remark, “Oh! Here I tripped and fell decades ago!” Yet, we can be sure that countless people forget and think nothing of the defeat of their minds in the battle between mind and body.
If we were to think about it, however loudly you would like to excuse yourself, you are the person bearing the label of a straggler, a defeated soldier. But, originally, the mind was supposed to win the victory in the battle between mind and body, and to always gain control over the body. Yet, because this was not the case, the mind and body came to pursue different directions separately. (19-285)
Sun Myung Moon
The Basis Of The Solution To World Peace Is The Human Mind And Body
Where South Korea and North Korea are divided is not at the 38th parallel, but rather in the human mind.
We planted such a seed within the mind, and accordingly, we have harvested such a fruit as this. Am I right? [Yes!] We harvest what we have sown. We live in such an environment of conflict and struggle between people of the mind and people of the body.
We have gradually expanded what we planted in the beginning. Consequently, in this age of the world, what is our result? Firstly, there is the democratic world based upon the idealistic view of history. The democratic, idealistic world is the fruit of the mind on the worldwide level, is it not? [Yes!]
The idealistic view of history is that of history based upon the mind. On the other hand, the other association of people on the worldwide level is centered upon the body, namely the Communist world, upholding the materialist view of history.
If so, where will we find the solution?
Today, even though the USA conducts a good foreign policy and military policy, yet it is unable to solve this problem. It is already a failure. A failure! Even if the Soviet Union were to take over the democratic world, as long as they cannot establish unity between the mind and body, they will be divided again. This is certain.
Look how the Soviet Union has advanced under the banner of international Communism! Nevertheless, despite this cosmopolitan ideal, such a rift took place between China and the Soviet Union beginning in the 1960s, and now no politics and no policies can correct that and reestablish unity. For them, to think of unification seems to be a fantastic proposition. What this means is that they think it is natural to be divided.
So, where is the basis for a peaceful solution to that problem?
Neither the USA nor the Soviet Union has the answer. You must know that. Where is there a basis for a peaceful resolution? Nowhere! Neither the USA nor the Soviet Union can help. Where is the problem? In my heart.
It is significant to find the harmonious view of the universe and a happy and peaceful worldview in a human heart, where the mind and body are fighting.
(85-302)
Let me ask you a question. Do your mind and body fight, or not? [Fight] Is that peace or struggle? [Struggle] When will it be resolved? When will this struggle come to an end? Have you thought about that? When will the present world war end? You don't need to think about that, but rather, when will the war inside myself be finished? When that is finished, the world war will end.
Peace within myself connects to peace in the world. Looking at the Bible, we can find many paradoxes. It says, “The heavenly kingdom is within you.” Is the great Heavenly Kingdom in my mind? What does that mean?
If mind and body are not in conflict, and represent the universe perfectly, then the Heavenly Kingdom will indeed come there. (82-134)
Sun Myung Moon
The Pattern For Unification
A Pattern For Unification Is Necessary
If there is a providential subject, it is necessary that this subject can say of itself that it is the model pattern for the human being. Among human beings, there are men and women. If this is a man, the other side is a woman.
Together, they become a human being. Therefore, such a pattern must be created. Namely, they will establish a family through becoming one.
A pattern for the family is also necessary. The family is the building block of the world, once we establish the realm of perfection. Such a pattern must be necessary. Do you have such a pattern?
Is there anyone here who can say, “My family is the representative of the universal law of heaven and earth? You are far from it. It is the same with the tribe and nation. Is there any pattern for the heavenly nation?
Today, the Communist countries are saying that they are the model nations, and democratic countries are saying the same thing. Is it possible for two separate patterns to exist?
There is fighting all the time, and the two patterns exist. It is significant to solve this problem. South Korea and North Korea make frequent declarations. However, without solving the fundamental problem, we cannot resolve the issue of the unification of North and South Korea.
The philosophical struggle continues because Communism began based on its philosophy. Without knowing the cause, it is difficult to solve the problem. To solve this problem fundamentally, we have to locate the cause and the result, and then bring the direction of unification into correspondence with the normal process based on the original pattern.
Let us think about the whole world. Can we say that this world is according to the pattern desired by both humankind and the Causal Being, the Subject of the providence? No. Even though we cannot see it, human beings are looking for it. We are seeking a higher level, a more unified being. It began from one original.
It follows naturally that something that began from one should eventually come back into oneness.
Sun Myung Moon
Jesus Came As The Pattern Of Unification
There must be a unified individual before a unified family can exist, a unified family before a unified tribe can come into being, a unified tribe before a unified nation appears, and a unified nation before the unified world can come about. This is a problem.
The question is, from where must we begin to establish this unity? This world is the world of results. Therefore, we have to find out the solution from the cause, namely the individual.
The way of unification, the principle of unification, begins from the individual and proceeds to the family, then on to the tribe, the nation, and finally the world. This pattern begins with the coming of the Lord.
Today, to establish one world, the ideal world, God needs to have His blueprint on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, nation, and world.
It is the messianic thought that God promised to the chosen people of Israel to send His representative to accomplish complete unity on the individual level between mind and body, on the familial level, on the tribal level, on the national level, and the global level.
God planned to save the world through the expected unity between the Israelite people and the ideal patterns of the individual, the family, the tribe, the nation, and the world.
Jesus, who accomplished perfect unity between his mind and body, achieving the model of man, could have established a unified family together with a woman who was likewise unified. if so, the unified nation and world could appear.
Jesus came on earth as a unified individual. Then he was supposed to establish the pattern of a unified family, a unified tribe, a unified nation, and a unified world. However, he ascended to the spiritual world without realizing these.
The nation of Israel was like a vineyard of wild olive trees whose owner could do anything as he pleased. Jesus came to this vineyard of wild olive trees as a true olive tree to cut down the wild olive trees. Then God intended to graft God's pattern on the individual, family, and nation according to His plan.
If this had been accomplished, what do you think would have become of the Israelite nation and the Jews?
Would they have become true olive trees or wild olive trees? True olive trees. Then, if they had started witnessing to the whole world centered upon their national authority and Judaism united, the whole history of Christianity would have been unnecessary.
God sent Jesus as the standard of unity to the human world of a united mind and body. However, he was nailed to the cross. The foundation established by God over several thousand years was returned to Satan's side. Therefore, mankind had to suffer for 2000 years.
Finally, the nation of Israel achieved independence in 1948. From this, we have to recognize that today is indeed the time of a new beginning on the worldwide level. So we must realize that the time of the Lord at the Second Advent is at hand.
If the Lord comes and establishes a family on this earth, he will establish a family that has no relation to the Fall. In other words, God will establish a model family that can bring about unity on the worldwide level.
Only the Lord at the Second Coming can establish the foundation for the unification of the entirety. Otherwise, it is impossible. That is why the Messiah must return.
The Lord comes to establish the family that God desires. That is why the Lord will not come on the clouds. However, to establish a family is not enough. A tribe is necessary to secure the family, and a people are necessary for the tribe to exist, and a nation is necessary for the people.
Today, Christianity should realize that without making the pattern of centering on one nation, we cannot find the nation of the Third Israel.
The position of the Lord at the Second Coming is as parents to all humankind and as sovereign to the nation. He has to establish the nation of the type of the extended family. Then, in what direction is it supposed to go?
It is supposed to head toward one world, the ideal world which God planned from the beginning.
Sun Myung Moon
Unification Will Be Established By True Parents
What is the purpose of creation? Adam and Eve were not created just to look at. Men and women were not created just to get old and die as a man and women.
They were created to establish the true Kingdom of Heaven on Earth centered on God through the reciprocal heart toward the opposite sex after reaching maturity, and to establish a love nest.
Here, Adam (man) is the representative of heaven, and Eve (woman) is the representative of the earth. They are two individuals. But if they become one horizontal, it means the unity of heaven and earth. When two persons make unity centered on God's love, the entire cosmos will be automatically unified.
The first ancestors should become one, as a model of unity. Then the root centered on God's love becomes the root to form the foundation of the mind and body. God created human beings to enter God's ideal world directly through the one way of following God's love.
This direction is the way centered on God's love. The individuals were realized with mind and body unified in God's love, but the way that such a man and woman should go was changed because of the Fall. The Messiah, the Lord, is the person who was sent by God to resolve all these problems.
The Savior saves people by restoring lost love. Human beings were born through false parents because of the Fall. Therefore, he must come as the true parent, fulfill the love that human beings could not attain centered on God, and then teach people to enter the realm of God's love.
All humankind has to find their True Parents again, the absolute origin of God's love. All the problems of the fallen world – all the sadness, sorrow, suffering, wars, disease, and so on – can be solved by setting up the core of love.
The principle of the heart-centered family is passed on from parents to children.
But this was not set up correctly in the beginning. The purpose of the history of restoration is to set it up again. Here, the representative of man is the Messiah, and the representative of woman is the Holy Spirit.
Because the engaged bride and bridegroom violated the heavenly principle at the beginning of the world, the Bride and Bridegroom must be installed and set up as on the original stage. For this purpose, God has conducted the providence for salvation.
Because of the human Fall, God expelled them. Subsequently, He called groups of devout believers, through special dispensations, to form new families, tribes, and a new nation.
The Israelite people were the representative people bearing the responsibility among the numerous peoples. So the people of Israel became the central people on a worldwide level.
Human history was originally supposed to develop centered on the first ancestors, Adam and Eve. However, this was not realized. History should bring about a standard centered on the ideal, with the reappearance of the original ideology. It should be the standard of hope, fulfilling the hope of Christianity.
Namely, from the viewpoint of Christians, it is the thought of the Messiah and the thought of the Holy Spirit.
What is the thought of the Messiah?
It is the thought for the sake of the world. The center that can unify the family and the world is True Parents.
What is the fruit of Christianity?
Christianity has been heading toward the standard of the bride and bridegroom, passing through numerous difficulties.
With what qualification does the Lord come?
He comes with the qualification of his parents. However, when Jesus came on this earth, he could not attain the position of parents; namely, he could not approach God and bring glory to Him, nor could he establish the substantial foundation for consoling God on behalf of all humankind.
That is why the Messiah must come again and why he cannot come as a glorious Lord. Therefore, the Messiah at the Second Coming has to succeed in the mission of Jesus on earth, carrying out his filial duty, which can console God substantially.
Furthermore, he is chosen by God to subjugate Satan. He has to establish the foundation that can return glory to God. Otherwise, he cannot qualify as a True Parent.
Even though this world could not develop a resplendent culture, and instead became dark, confused, and devastated, if it comes into a relationship with True Parents, then it will become the kingdom of peace.
Several people have maintained the focus of thought, spirit, and life centered upon this standard throughout history. God has guided history toward one world externally, to finally connect it internally, through religion, to its true owner.
Sun Myung Moon
We Can Achieve Unity When The Blood Lineage Is Changed
How did Satan invade the human body? What was the reason? What kind of disease did human beings acquire?
We have to understand this. As you know, through the Principle, Satan's blood lineage entered your body after the Fall. You have had a connection with Satan's lineage. All causes and results became entangled with Satan's love.
Therefore, when we inject into your body something stronger than Satan's love, Satan runs away. What is the absolute center that can unite the mind and body according to the principle of God's creation? We can make unity centered on God's love alone. No other love.
What kind of tree did human beings become due to the Fall?
They became wild olive trees. Therefore, the Messiah must come to the fallen world as a good olive tree. Then what should he do? He has to cut off the trunk of the wild olive trees and engraft a sprout or branch of the good olive tree.
The eyes of both are the same. When we cut down all the wild olive trees for only one eye of the good olive tree, people who do not know this process may say that it is extremely hard work. Yet, that is why Jesus said that anyone who does not eat his flesh and drink his blood has no relationship with him.
After the wild olive trees are engrafted to the good olive tree, Satan has no relationship with them. They have no connection to Satan. Therefore, at the autumn harvest, the engrafted trees will automatically bear the fruits of the good olive tree, and they will enter the heavenly kingdom.
The wild olive trees must cut themselves off and be engrafted onto the good olive tree. Otherwise, they have no way to revive. Most of the major religions, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Islam, have a concept of the Second Coming.
They say the Savior must come, and they are waiting for him. Without the worldwide work of the Unification movement, which the Messiah has unified with God's love to engraft all people, these words “unification” and “one unified world” have no meaning. We cannot be saved by religious doctrine.
The main point is how to remove Satan. We cannot enter the heavenly kingdom without removing Satan. When someone has a condition that Satan can accuse, he cannot enter the Heavenly Kingdom. The blood lineage must be changed. This is an absolute requirement.
The foundation of unification is me. However, it is impossible to erect by myself. Because the root of our lineage is from Satan, we cannot separate ourselves from Satan. Do you follow? That is why the Bible mentions that we became wild olive trees.
Originally, if we had become true olive trees, we could make complete unity of mind and body, becoming individuals whom everybody likes, and enjoying happiness together with others. But instead, we became individuals who are liked by nobody because we are wild olive trees.
As a result of having Satan's root, we became branches and leaves of the wild olive tree. That is why human beings are fighting each other. Analyzing fallen humans deeply, Hegel concluded that the essence of human beings is struggle, and so he developed the theory of the dialectic.
We must understand that we were born in Satan's lineage. For this reason, religion denies the pursuit of physical desires. They follow the way of suffering to deny the relationship with Satan's lineage.
They fast to deny the physical desire for good food. They deny the love of husband and wife and also children to receive God's love. They must deny the family, society, nation, and world that were conceived by Satan's love.
They cannot receive God's love unless they deny the entire world. Reverend Moon and the Unification Church today can give a clear explanation for it. Without the Unification Church, your mind and body cannot establish roots of love.
The Unification Church has to be a root of love, as well as the branches and leaves centered on God's true love to connect with people, nations, and the world. Then they must all be engrafted. Before engrafting, we must cut off the whole world.
That is why Jesus said: “He who believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live.”
Sun Myung Moon
The Holy Son Is The One Who Has United the Mind And Body
The minds and bodies of human beings are fighting incessantly. When they fight, each time the body is the winner and the loser is the mind. We have to understand how to reverse this state of affairs.
Who can make the mind the victor and unify mind and body, standing in the position of absolute goodness, and not dominated by others? It is miserable that throughout our entire lives, we are unable to reach such a position. Furthermore, these same types of people who are living today will also be living in the future.
Thinking about this, we must bury the past and become a person of absolute goodness who has committed no evil in our entire life. This is the ultimate hope of all human beings.
Where is that person?
It is impossible to find one. It is very difficult to find any person who succeeds in reversing all the evil consequences coming out of human existence. Knowing this, we can find no one who has no evil but only goodness.
To control oneself is difficult because the mind wants to go in one direction and the body in another. There is a traditional Oriental proverb: The human mind changes from morning to night, but mountains never change, whether in ancient times or the modern age.
The problem is how to achieve unity with an ever-changing mind. We would need to know how the greatest saints of history were able to dominate their bodies. Let us look at Jesus, Confucius, and Buddha. Our mind and body are constantly changing, but holy sons and daughters keep them unchanging.
For example: what would happen to the mind of Jesus when he saw a woman? His mind might shake because he is a man, but Jesus wouldn't take a step, and his body would not fall. However, ordinary people are different. Their hands and feet follow; they cannot control the desires of their body and mind, and their body succumbs. No one can be better than Jesus.
Jesus unified his mind and body, but we are different. When American men and women meet one another, they can kiss and enjoy each other at any time, but we must make love in the proper place.
This is an example of fallen worldly people. If we seek a new ideal, then, as righteous people, we should start with mind and body unity. We can conclude that it is impossible to realize the ideal without the unity of mind and body.
We must unite our mind and body centered on God's true love in our lifetime.
Throughout your entire life, eating, thinking, and acting should be centered on God's true love. But instead, your mind and body are enemies. Your mind and body took their root not from God's love but from Satan's love. The mind and body struggle begins there.
In God's ideal of creation, Cain was Abel's elder brother, but after the fall, Abel stood in the position of God's elder son. When we indemnify their failure, we can establish the ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven.
In the fallen world, the body dominates the mind. Therefore, there is fighting at all times and in all places, and injustice and immorality continue because the body does not submit to the mind in the fallen world.
Because the mind and body confront each other within each individual, husband and wife, and consequently parents and children, and different people and nations, fight each other.
When the mind and body will finally be united, then this fighting will come to an end. To achieve this, we need to meet and engraft to the True Parents.
Mankind has to attend True Parents and be renewed by God's love. Otherwise, we cannot stop this fighting because we cannot control ourselves.
Sun Myung Moon