God Is Our True Parent

1. As God's substantial object partners, a man represents God's yang characteristics and a woman represents God's yin characteristics. The Principle of Creation divides God's characteristics into two genders and then brings them into union again as one body.

Through the union, they come to resemble God's original characteristics. When they are born, a man and a woman each resemble one facet of God's dual characteristics. Accordingly, the union of one man and one woman is the union of God's yang and yin characteristics.

In other words, by uniting they become a harmonious being that resembles God. Thus, the two people as husband and wife form a union that resembles all facets of God.

The man becomes the second self of the True Father by representing God's yang characteristics, and the woman becomes the second self of the True Mother, representing God's yin characteristics. In addition, the man and woman are each an individual representative of God. (9-083, 1960.04.16)

The parent-child relationship is the center of the universe

2. God is the Father of humanity. We are the sons and daughters of God. If God is the first generation, we are the second generation God. The first-generation God is a plus, and the second-generation God is a minus. Plus and minus automatically unite as one; that is the Principle of Creation. (275-316, 1996.01.01)

3. What is the center of heaven and earth, and what is the root of the universe? When I entered into a mystical state and prayed to God about this, He told me that it is the relationship between the Father and his sons and daughters, that is the parent-child relationship.

If you think this refers to the relationship between a physical father and mother and their sons and daughters, you do not understand it fully. I am talking about the relationship between God and human beings. (19-160, 1968.01.01)

4. God and human beings have a parent-child relationship. How do we come to this conclusion?

When you enter a mystical state in your prayer and ask, “If human beings are the center of the created world, what is the center of the universe?” you will receive a simple answer: “It is the parent-child relationship.”

You may think that the parent-child relationship here refers to the relationship between your physical mother and father and yourself, that is, a relationship centered on human morals and ethics, but that is not what I am talking about.

The parent-child relationship between God and human beings united in heart is multidimensional. It is that point that is the center of the universe.
(048-209, 1971.09.19)

5. From the viewpoint of love, we are each the fruit of a mother's love, of a father's love, and of God's love. Vertically we are the fruit of God's love; horizontally we are each the fruit of a mother and a father's love.

Because we want to follow this love forever and unite with it, we can never betray it. We would like to stay and live in that love forever. That is why, even though mothers and fathers have fallen, they still would like to live with their children forever.
(191-230, 1989.06.25)

6. God too has a mind and a body, which are united in a relationship of subject partner and object partner. Because they are united, God can rest there in peace. God dwells eternally at the place where mind and body are united.

They are united and centered on true love. God created human beings to be His object partners, united with Him in mind and body. The parent-child relationship is one of lineage.

Children inherit every element from their parents. From their father and mother, children inherit their internal nature and external form, which relate to subject and object partners. Taking after their mother and father, children inherit these plus and minus elements.

There is nothing else they can inherit. The oneness of God is like the oneness of all the bones that constitute one body. It is from that point that our mind and body become one. Thereafter, we come to need a partner. A man requires women, a woman requires men, and they require their children and family. (266-222, 1995.01.01)

7. God is the Father who represents the mind, and the first ancestors centered on true love, which has nothing to do with the Fall, are the Parents who represent the body.

Having uncovered this truth, which had remained hidden throughout history, the Unification Church uses the name “True Parents.” In the original view, the ideal of creation was the horizontal True Parents, God's son and daughter. These were to have been Adam and Eve. (177-338, 1988.05.22)

8. God is the God of love. Where is it that God truly loves human beings? It is in the place where people would most wish to be, and God too surely loves that place. That place, where God's heart and the human heart are bonded in unity, is the parent-child relationship. The parent-child relationship is the root of the universe.

It is the relationship between the absolute God, who created heaven and earth, and unfallen, original human beings. The place of original value, where we are meant to arrive, is the place where God stands as the Father, and we stand as His children. (053-286, 1972.03.04)

9. What is the root of the universe? The beginning is love; the result is a father and son. God created the universe to have a relationship of love between parent and child.

The root of the universe, therefore, is the parent-child relationship. Since you are connected to the root of the universe, you need to become a parent and also a son or daughter. (118-290, 1982.06.20)

10. The root of the universe is the parent-child relationship. When we ask our original mind what our life's destiny is, it will no doubt reply that it is to make God our own and to win God's love. Even if parents have ten children, their love for each one is absolute.

When all people, with one accord in mind and action, call God, “Father!” the long withheld love of our Father, so deserving of sympathy, will flow forth. When the parental love in the father's heart and mother's heart flows forth from their bone marrow and enters their children, they all feel the beginning point of utmost happiness. We can dwell there; it is the homeland of our heart.
(023-129, 1969.05.18)

11. People like what resembles them. Thus, the ideal world should resemble God. How did God create heaven and earth in the beginning?

Genesis 1:27 reads: "God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

That God created man and woman in His image means that human beings resemble God. We like what resembles us, and because we resemble Him, God also likes us. God created all things in the universe. Looking at them brings Him happiness because they resemble Him. (26-167, 1969.10.25)

12. God is the Absolute Being; He is omniscient and omnipotent. But whom does God resemble?

Since we are created in God's image, God resembles us. God is a personal God, and it is in that way that we say He resembles human beings. It is stated that human beings were created in God's image, and certainly, the Father God resembles His children. If God resembles human beings, whom does that mean He resembles? God resembles woman and God resembles man. (070-047, 1974.02.08)

13. Whom do we resemble? We resemble God. From God's vantage point, we resemble God; from our vantage point, God resembles us. In other words, in a father's eyes, his son resembles him; in the son's eyes, his father resembles him. God resembles us, and we resemble God.

Whom do we resemble in terms of our desire? Our desire resembles God's desire. Because our desire resembles God's, we desire to own the best. God as the Absolute Being is the highest of all beings, so He would rather not settle for anything inferior. He wants the best. This is also true of our desire.
(39-171, 1971.01.10)

14. God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, and eternal. Which point should we resemble? If we resemble Him, what does that mean for us? Since God is eternal, we should be eternal, and since God is omnipresent, we should be omnipresent.

That is why we desire to live anywhere and everywhere in the world. We want to rule the entire world with almighty power. The fact that we desire such things shows that we resemble God. (26-167, 1969.10.25)

15. Consider the relationship between God and human beings, with God as the Father and we as His children. If someone were to say, “Your children are more handsome than you, God,” God would not feel bad. If He felt bad upon hearing such words, God would be no better than fallen human beings. This is why love is necessary. (40-343, 1971.02.11)

God is our True Parent

16. God is the vertical True Parent. Our Creator, God, stands in the position of the vertical True Parent based on true love. Yet if God owned vertical love only, His love would touch only a single point. Thus, He would ask how He could expand His love horizontally.

True Parents, not God Himself, are the ones who give birth to children. True Parents are a couple standing as the parents of horizontal true love. They possess horizontal love at a 90-degree angle to the vertical love of God, the True Parent. You need love from the parents in both positions.

One is the Parent who is the Creator. The other is True Parents, whom God created in the position of the body, as His object partners, in pursuit of the ideal. Thus, God is the Parent in the position of the mind, and True Parents are the parents in the position of the body. (182-259, 1988.10.23)

17. God is the vertical Father. He is the Parent of vertical true love. Had Adam and Eve grown to maturity and fulfilled God's Will, they would have become the horizontal parents.

They would have stood in the position of the parents of horizontal true love. These two sets of parents would meet at a 90-degree angle, the crossroads of love. (183-104, 1988.10.15)

18. God, the Creator, is the vertical Father. Adam and Eve, had they not fallen but reached perfection, would have become the horizontal Parents. If they had become one centered on love and had given birth to children, those children would have resembled their vertical Parent and horizontal Parents.

They would have become the embodiments of the love of these true Parents. These children would have represented both God and True Parents.
(183-187, 1988.11.01)

19. God is the vertical True Parent of true love. He is the vertical axis. There is only one such position; it is eternal and unchanging. God is in the position of the vertical True Father of true love, the True Parent.

Without true love, we have nothing to do with God. About the True Parent of vertical true love, Adam and Eve are the horizontal Parents of true love. The True Parents' position is that of horizontal Parents of True Love. (184-250, 1989.01.01)

20. From the viewpoint of love, God is the vertical Father and the True Parent of vertical love. He is the True Parent who can endow vertical life and vertical lineage. God is the vertical Father who can give us true true love, life, and lineage.

The fruit of that Father is your mind, which stands in the vertical position. That mind is your vertical self. (231-078, 1992.05.31)

21. God is the vertical Parent, and Adam and Eve are the horizontal Parents of true love. Originally, human beings should have been born as descendants of these two united sets of parents, and, without falling, should have inherited their lineage.

But Eve, before she was twenty years old and while she was still immature, paired with Satan. According to the Principle, no matter how devout your faith is, unless you have a chance to attend true parents on earth, there is no way for you to go to the kingdom of heaven.

Then who are the True Parents, who have overcome the Fall? God is the True Parent of vertical true love, and the mature Adam and Eve are the Parents of horizontal true love, the horizontal Parents.

With what can the vertical Parent and the horizontal Parents be bound as one? With the explosion of love that occurs at the 90-degree angle. Through this explosion, Adam and Eve become heavenly people as they give birth to children to create a family, a tribe, a people, a nation, and the world. (185-187, 1989.01.08)

God has to attain His kingship

22. Who in the world is God? People say, “God is absolute. As the Creator, He is the Holy One, while human beings are profane.” This is an incorrect understanding, however.

If God is absolute and holy, then that which He created according to His ideal should also be holy. Long ago, during their course in the wilderness, the Israelites worshiped the Tabernacle, which contained the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies.

Yet, can you compare the Holy of Holies fashioned by human beings with the Holy of Holies and the Holy Place that God created as the original nature of unfallen Adam and Eve? What was the Tabernacle, composed of the Holy of Holies and the Holy Place? It was nothing but a transitory symbol that prefigured the substantial being – the original Temple and the original Holy of Holies.

Its symbolism compounded, expanded, and elevated the ideal of the one who was to come. It represented the union of Adam and Eve in their ideal restored form. The symbol in and of itself is not holy, but since people revered the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies made by fallen human beings, then how much more should we revere Adam and Eve, who were made by the absolutely Holy Being?

God is at the center of the Holy of Holies, which corresponds to the minds of Adam and Eve, and in the Holy Place, which corresponds to their bodies. Adam was to have become God's body and Eve too was to have become God's body.

Adam was to resemble God's masculine nature and Eve God's feminine nature. The marriage of these two, Adam and Eve, was to have been the ceremony to set up the cosmic kingship, the kingship of love. (143-236, 1986.03.19)

23. Adam and Eve are the bodies of God. Adam becomes the king and Eve the queen of the future, with God as their center. They are one in body with God. This is referred to as origin-division-union.

Division occurs from the origin for the sake of love. If you were asked, “Why did the absolute God divide them? Couldn't He just as easily have done whatever He wanted, without dividing them?” what would your answer be?

He divided them because, although God created the physical world, He cannot reign over it as an incorporeal being. He therefore needs a form. God's purpose of creation is to acquire a substantial body and substantially become the Parent. Who were the substantial begins to realize this purpose?

They were Adam and Eve. Had Adam and Eve reached perfection, God would have entered their minds and they would have attained God-centered kingship.
(214-040, 1991.02.01) 24.

Why did God create human beings? God did so to manage and lead the physical universe. He intended to do so through Adam and Eve, who were to become the substantial lords of the universe.

Because God remains without form, even in the spirit world, He cannot reign directly over the universe. Thus, He created human beings to assume a physical form and, through that embodiment, become the King who could govern His descendants, His children born into the world.

Then, whose face was meant to be the face of that king? It was Adam's face. Once God created a king, He needed a queen. Eve was meant to be that queen. Together, they were to become the ancestors of humankind both on earth and in the spirit world. Hence, if the traditions set up during the lifetime of these Parents had extended throughout the world and been bequeathed for thousands of years, there would have been only one kingship, the kingship of the physical world as well as the spirit world. (199-144, 1990.02.16)

25. God is incorporeal. Hence, even when you go to the spirit world you will not be able to see Him.

God created Adam out of love. Because the created world has form, God also needs form to become the Father. When He assumes physical form and becomes the Father, the incorporeal and the corporeal become one. This represents the unity of the cosmos.

I am saying that God created Adam and Eve to dwell within their bodies. That is why Adam and Eve were to resemble God in His external form. When Adam and Eve were enthroned in heaven, God would have dwelt in their hearts as King and Queen and governed the earthly world and the incorporeal world. This is how God's kingdom, the kingdom of love, was to have been established.
(143-093, 1986.03.16)

26. God is the King of kings and Parent of parents, so Adam and Eve were to be the prince and princess of God's true love. But due to the Fall, they lost their positions as prince and princess. Further, they lost the right of the eldest son, the right of parents, and the kingship. (222-139, 1991.10.28)