God as the Root and Original Being

1. If the Absolute Being created us with the intention that we practice His love, it is clear that He had a motive and a purpose in creating us. To clarify that motive and purpose, we need to know the nature of this Absolute Being; that is, we first need a correct view of God.

A correct view of God will reveal His purpose and motivation for creating us. It will also clarify why we have to practice absolute love for the sake of peace.
(110-253, 1980.11.27)

God the First Cause

2. In the world, there are two kinds of people, men and women. They do not change their position.

We were born as one or the other not by our desire. Even though we did not think about this or want it, and did not understand the process or the result, we were born as we are. No matter how successful a person is, no one can deny that he or she is a resultant being, not a causal being.

This implies that there has to be a first causal being. Whether called God or something else, that causal being must exist. (279-104, 1996.08.01)

3. Human beings certainly are not the first beings, but secondary beings. For a secondary or resultant being to exist, there must be a first, causal being. Ultimately, no force can separate these two beings.

The first and second beings engage in a relationship. They each desire to become one, as cause and effect. If God, the causal being, becomes the center of all human beings, they, as resultant beings, need a process through which to fulfill His ideal.

That is the process of life by which they mature, and from a broader perspective, the process of history. (185-148, 1989.01.08) 4.

All the creation is composed of things existing in pairs. The mineral world comprises positive and negative ions that engage in give-and-receive action. Flowers have a stamen and pistil, and the animal kingdom has male and female animals.

Recently, it has been discovered that even bacteria are male or female. If in the microscopic world, invisible to our eyes, there are males and females, what about the world that we can see with our eyes? Did all these male and female entities in this vast, limitless world come into existence by their will?

Or was it by another will? It was by another will. Hence, I repeat: no matter how great we are, we are resultant beings, not the primary causal beings. Simply put, we are beings occupying the object-partner position. (232-012, 1992.07.01)

5. Human beings originated from the first cause. What is the first cause? It does not matter what name we use; that being is absolute and has an absolute ideal. We are not “primary” beings, but are resultant, “secondary” beings. For each of us, our immediate primary beings are our mothers and fathers.

Our parents' primary beings are our grandmothers and grandfathers. If we keep going back, we come to our first ancestors. If God is behind our first ancestors, we go back to God. (196-308, 1990.01.12)

6. God is the motivation within our hearts. He is our original source and the root of our ideals. Without a cause, there can be no result. Therefore, the universe cannot exist apart from God. Dwelling on this earth, we are like orphans who have lost our parents.

Imagine the joyful shout of someone who finds his or her lost parents. That joy would be incomparably greater than the joy of a general who conquers the world and gains a material fortune.

The heart is what is important. No matter how praiseworthy your successes, if you do not go before your father and mother, you cannot stand as a true child.
(026-227, 1969.10.02)

God the Original Being

7. History began on the individual level and has unfolded throughout the world. Where will it conclude? It will continue until we establish an eternal relationship with the Absolute Being of the highest goodness.

The highest goodness is eternal and unchanging. There can be no higher level. When we look at the current world, we see that people of different nationalities are gradually coming to share the same attitudes and feelings about life. Furthermore, many who are seeking truth based on their beliefs are coming together and moving in the same direction.

The root is the same. History as a whole is marching toward the one point of absolute value. We can say that the worldly values people pursue are in reality only relative. (10-127, 1960.09.18)

8. God is the Original Being of heart, intellect, and will. As such, what is God's sense of purpose?

God must have been conscious of His purpose before He began His creation, not only afterward. Were this not so, He would never have been able to guide human history. Behind history lies a force that we cannot consciously perceive or feel. But for this, God could not lead us toward the world He intends to see.

God has a purpose for the world, which He holds in the depth of His heart. Even though we have fallen, He is determined to find human beings who can be instilled with this purpose, which has nothing to do with the Fall. (9-311, 1960.06.19)

9. God created human beings because of love. Yet love cannot be experienced by one person alone. Therefore, the only thing that God needs is an object partner to whom He can give His love. In other words, God needs His beloved object partner.

He can love only when He has a partner to love. God is the origin of love and heart, and His motive in creating the universe was love. As Genesis 1:27 reveals, God created human beings in His image, as His substantial object partners.
(135-010, 1985.08.20) 10.

God is the ultimate being of love and the origin of the earth, which is deeper than love. God's Word, deeds, and philosophy are rooted in His heart. None of these can exist by itself. Each stems from God's vertical heart. We therefore need to share God's heart toward history, the present, and the future. (11-267, 1961.12.14)

11. It is said that God is the origin of truth, the origin of goodness, the origin of love, and the origin of life. What do these phrases mean? They all refer to the same thing. For there to be truth, there must be love and life.

To become a person who can speak the real truth, you must have the will and desire for truth pulsating within your life. As the origin of life, love, and truth, God is the Father and also the Mother of all humankind. The core is that God is the Parent. Seen in this way, it is easy to understand God. (021-184, 1968.11.20)

12. No one can change the fact that True Parents were born in this country. How precious it would be to be one with the people of the nation that will remain for all eternity the nation that gave birth to the True Parents!

All resultant beings want to be united with these original beings, who are eternal and unchanging. To be in an intimate relationship with these original beings is the highest hope in the world of heart. (249-328, 1993.10.11)

13. God, for whom we seek, is the origin of hope. At the same time, He is the origin of glory, encapsulating the value of the universe. Therefore, to restore God's dominion over the entire creation, we have to possess God within ourselves.

We should be able to welcome and attend to God. He is the Creator of all things, the one who has been toiling to exercise His dominion over all creation. When you say that you possess God, He is your God. As He is eternal, so are you.

As He is the governor of all things of creation, so too, can you govern them as His substantial embodiment? If you cannot be such a person, do not say that you possess God. (001-121, 1956.06.27)

14. We have to eliminate the elements of sin which we have held until now. We have remained in the grip of the power of death, but we should attain a standard of faith that liberates us from that. To accomplish this, we have to find the path of life that eradicates doubt. If there were no such paths in our world, God would not be able to come to us.

God is an actual being. He can stimulate our conscience to make us aware of our mistakes and repent for them. This being so, we should fulfill God's desire by attaining the highest standard of hope, of life, and of human ethics. Such a time, the historic Last Days, must come in the end.

This destiny involves the whole universe, but how seriously have you thought about it? We live in an environment in which we can nurse doubts about the universe, about society, about the world, and even about ourselves. God is the central being who can provide solutions to all these questions.

God is also the only one who knows everything we are pondering, and the only one, the Absolute Being, who can solve our fundamental problems. (3-012, 1957.09.08)

The Lord of heaven and earth

15. God is the central being of the cosmos. He is the Parent of the universe, the Parent of all creation. God is the Creator who will surely bring His purpose to pass. The True Parents on earth are the ancestors of humankind.

They are the ones who inherit the parental heart of the Creator and give birth to humankind on this earth. From this perspective, we find three sets of parents in the cosmos: the eternal Heavenly Parent, the True Parents on this earth, and the parents in our families.

What do these parents pursue in their public life? Not money or material things, not knowledge or power. They live with love as their center. God, True Parents on earth, and the parents in the family are the owners whose governance is based on love. (199-231, 1990.02.21)

16. To humankind, God is the Parent and King of kings, as well as the center of all things of creation. Hence, He is to lead and guide filial sons and daughters, patriots, and saints who represent the world.

When this takes place, God will reach the highest position. God can be the Parent as well as the King. These positions are not separate; God is the central being who combines them. If it were possible, a person should combine the highest qualities of filial piety, loyalty, and holiness, and attend God. Surely, God would like to be attended by individuals with the qualities of a filial child, patriot, and saint of saints. (062-033, 1972.09.10)

17. The Creator, standing at the center of the universe, protects it with a strong sense of responsibility. He protects and nurtures the universe well. Not only that, He takes responsibility for all things, good and bad. He never runs away from that responsibility. As the great Lord of the universe, God takes responsibility, protects, and nurtures it. Thus, all beings desire to create unity with God at the center.
(200-020, 1990.02.23)

18. God has boundless blessings to give. He is the central being of all blessings. His blessings are the most valuable benefits. You cannot purchase them, and you would never exchange them for anything in the world. He has everything that you could want.

What He possesses is more precious than your beloved wife, more valuable than your father, and more precious than the sons and daughters whom you love with your life. Therefore, the person who can call God his or her own is the one who can claim to be the most victorious and successful person on earth.
(154-060, 1964.03.23)

19. God is the Lord of heaven and earth. He possesses the highest ideal; He is the standard around which our motivation and purpose converge. Therefore, God is the motivation for and purpose of our existence.

Then where do this motivation and purpose lead? God's motivation is to have a family that centers on His Will, a family that can fulfill His purpose for the world. (025-083, 1969.09.30)

20. God is absolute, omniscient, and omnipotent; hence, space and time do not restrict Him; He transcends them. Circumstances do not bind Him; He can break through them. If such a God still has an unresolved hope that He has been pursuing until now, that hope cannot be for Himself.

His hope is for nothing other than to recover humanity as His children. He cannot fulfill that hope by Himself. Human beings have to resolve this and then return to God. (047-149, 1971.08.28)

21. We are not the origin. Our life did not originate with our parents, society, people, or nation, but with the one transcendent origin, namely, the Absolute Being, God. Hence, we need to connect our life to the transcendent and absolute cause.

This connection should not derive from a particular time, environment, or social condition. To make a leap and go beyond these particulars, we must link our origin to that transcendent cause and transcendent purpose. We have to link our life to the transcendent motive, for life did not begin with us. It began with the absolute God.

When we link our life to the transcendent motive, even if we die, it will be according to His Will, through a course that is transcendent to us. This is not a purpose swayed by the environment or based on worldly relationships. This Will moves toward a transcendent conclusion. It has a transcendent motive in transcendent relationships.

The transcendent motive is God, the transcendent process is His Will, and the transcendent purpose for which He advances is the good of the world.
(036-064, 1970.11.15)

22. God is the vertical Father and vertical subject partner, and human beings are the horizontal subject partners. Only when the vertical and horizontal become one is a being perfected. A three-dimensional being must unite in relationships of vertical, horizontal, and front and back.

The vertical relationship is the parent-child relationship. The horizontal relationship is that between east and west, husband and wife. The relationship of front and back is that between brothers and sisters. Connecting relationships in this way establishes the spherical form of the ideal of love in each family, which is the ideal of creation.

Where is God in this sphere? He is at the center. God's ideal of creation is the father, husband, mother, wife, son and daughter, older sibling and younger sibling, each representing God, who stands as the central being. (267-224, 1995.01.08)

23. God always takes the position of subject partner to those who dedicate their lives to a public purpose with a loyal heart. Thus, when we struggle and shed tears, God, as our subject partner, struggles and sheds tears more than we do. When we walk a public path with a burning heart of love, we stimulate God, who is the subject partner and center of love, and He always comes to us as our partner.

God is also the subject partner who, as the source of energy, provides us with the energy to achieve these purposes. In this world, it is difficult to find a partner with whom to work to fulfill the purpose of love.

How happy we would be if God were our partner! Partnership with God would be better than with our parents, our siblings, our teachers, or anyone else who loves us. (098-013, 1978.04.02)

24. Our subject partner is God. We should be happy together with God; we should sing with God and dance with God. If we could, how wonderful that would be! Our purpose is God. What are we looking for in our journey through life? We are looking for God, the real God. (021-345, 1969.01.01)

25. God owns each individual, the owner of each couple, the owner of each family, the owner of each nation, the owner of the world, and the owner of the cosmos. From the very core of His being, through His love, He wants to take the role of the owner. In the position of subject partner, He wants to establish the world of peace through His object partners.

Christianity teaches that the Creator is holy while humans are sinful. Yet, they say this because they do not know the value of human beings. This is what I would like to teach: God created human beings in His substantial form; that is His first purpose for creating us. (286-126, 1997.08.09)

26. God is the most public-minded of subject partners. Then, what is God's most important lesson for us? It is that we should devote ourselves at the risk of our lives for His sake. That is even better than working for a public mission for the world. The one who puts his life on the line is the superior person.

Therefore the Bible says: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment." (Matt. 22:37-38)

In light of this, what kind of being is God? He owns the whole cosmos. Therefore, love God. The whole world will belong to the one who loves God.
(033-324, 1970.08.23)

God, the subject partner of love, life, and the ideal

27. God is the subject of life. Where there is life, there must be love that maintains it. You were born through the love of your parents, but someone with love, life, and purpose is behind them. He is the subject, but not a subject partner like you. He is the root of the whole.

As His counterpart, you can consider yourself to be a cell, and He is like the root of everything, the nucleus of all beings in the universe. He is the nucleus of all life force. If there is a love force, He is its nucleus. If there is a purpose, He is the cause and the nucleus of that purpose. (110-072, 1980.11.09)

28. When the sun rises, the buds of each tree face the sun. What is it in the sunlight to which the buds respond? It is life elements. For us, human beings, love is our life element. God is the sun of love.

You have to engraft the ideal of love and harmonize with it to develop your love and life, and to cultivate your character harmonizing with the eternal world. Otherwise, you cannot assume the position of counterpart to God; you cannot live in the realm of love partnership. Human beings are that precious. God created us as His partners of love. (144-214, 1986.04.24)

29. God is the subject partner of love, the subject partner of life, and the subject partner of the ideal.

Therefore, we can conclude that human beings are the object partners of love, object partners of life, and object partners of the ideal. Because God is absolute, we also seek an absolute position. Because God is unchanging, we seek to be unchanging. Because God is unique, we seek to be unique.

Because God is eternal, we seek to be eternal. From this standpoint, it is human destiny to have eternal life; we inevitably arrive at this conclusion. No matter how much love God has, no matter how much life He has, and no matter how high His ideals are, if we do not also possess these it is all in vain. (069-074, 1973.10.20)

30. God is the subject partner of our life. Because He is the subject partner of our life and love, we should appreciate the force of life and the force of love within Him.

However, due to the Fall, we do not live in a world where God's force of life and God's force of love are valued. Hence, we ought to again seek such a world and recover it. The world we are living in now is not the world God desires, nor is it the one we desire. (086-293, 1976.04.11)

31. God is the subject partner of all living things, of all things in which there is action. He is their subject partner, not only today but throughout time. Thus, every living thing, whatever it may be, has an original nature that desires to be with God eternally, to live with Him, and even share death with Him.

God has to maintain His position as the subject partner. But He is beyond doing it as a duty; He is working passionately to govern all things through relationships of love based on heart. (006-274, 1959.06.07)

32. Until now, we have called upon God based only on a concept. We have referred to God as our subject partner only in a religious sense. Yet, God is the subject partner of our very existence.

Furthermore, He is the subject partner of our daily life and the subject partner of our philosophy of life.

However, no matter how deep and wide our philosophy and view of Him as our subject partner may be, if we cannot explain and experience God in daily life, emotionally and practically, what good is it?

If there are people whose philosophy of life enables them to experience the value of God as their subject partner in daily life and to be so united with God that they would not exchange Him for the world, they must be the people whom God is seeking. (11-087, 1961.02.12)

33. God is the foundation of happiness. Among all seeds, He is the seed of life. It is because life comes from God that life is great. God is the seed of a life that manifests the ideal.

What is it that enables us to connect from the base of God's happiness to God's ideal? It is true love. God is the origin of life and the origin of love. He is also the origin of man and woman. He is the origin of the mother and father, of brothers and sisters. (174-248, 1988.03.01)

34. God values life because He is its root. God values the Word. Furthermore, God values action and love.

When a person recognizes Him as the root of his or her existence and speaks His Word, God loves seeing that Word bear fruit as He has spoken it. Once that Word is spoken, it bears fruit.

Then God does not leave the fruit of that Word alone but continues to love it. In this way, God speaks the Word, a person puts it into action, and through action, the person emerges as the embodiment of the Word. Then it is for God to develop that person into the embodiment of love. (105-073, 1979.09.23)