Today is November 1. One thing I wish to say to you this morning is, "Know that we are secret envoys who have received the heavenly mandate to furnish without fail good individuals and to form a good people and family, to form a good clan, and to form a good nation.
To leave behind the result of truth
To leave behind true goodness is not a simple matter. When we consider that in the process of history countless people pursued goodness and pursued a nation of goodness but have not yet accomplished it, and that it has been left to us as a historical legacy, we who know God, who know the process of history, who know what the mission given in the present age is, and who know how the future world is concluded, must without fail attain this purpose of goodness.
Truth does not arise by chance. Truth arises only when there is, without fail, a motive, and a process is passed through. Otherwise, the result of truth does not come forth.
Who must become the motive of that truth?
It must be one of two: either God or a human being. Apart from these, nothing can be the motive of truth. No third condition can become the motive of truth and be joined to us. When we think of such things, either God must guide and lead us human beings from a true position, or we human beings must attend God from a true position. You must know that otherwise the true individual, or true family, true people, and true nation that we desire cannot be formed.
We know that the countless great figures who came and went in history fought to become true people and offered their lives for that. That they sought to become true people was not to leave behind only their true individual selves. We know well through history that they walked such a road of suffering and a road of a pioneer, hoping for the day when, forming a relationship with that true self, beyond a true people and a true nation, humankind of the world would become a true citizenry and a true world.
Thus, truth without fail has a motive and passes through a process and appears as a result. Until now God has been the motive of truth. From inheriting the motive and passing through the process to bearing the result, there is a distance. Who connects—that is the question. We know well through the Principle that God can be the motive, but in passing through the process and bearing the result, He cannot stand directly at the head and lead. Then who must bear the responsibility in this process? Human beings must bear it.
The road walked by the countless saints and sages who came upon this earth, pursuing truth and fighting for goodness, was not a smooth road but a road of suffering. Why was that? They had to maintain truth and connect it to their age and living environment, and they had to leave that truth behind. But the foundation of living and the environment were not in a condition that could absorb truth. That is why collision without fail broke out. In other words, on the road truth walks, because the surrounding environment was not in a condition that could welcome truth; it could not proceed smoothly and without fail and passed through a process of struggle.
This world in which we live is sinful. Moreover, the history of humankind, premised upon the fall, is a history that evil governs. That is why, in an environment where evil holds the framework of all authority, in order for goodness to multiply, it could not but pass through a course of indemnity. Then from where must the foundation of goodness be widened? It must be widened from the individual. For that, one must wage an individual struggle. And thus it must be developed for the family, the clan, the people, the nation, and the world.
That is why God, who is the origin of the motive, has always been bestowing upon us human beings the motive of goodness. We must know the fact that, saying, “You must become citizens of a new nation. You must become good citizens of a new age.” He has sought ceaselessly to supply us with the motive of goodness through great figures or saints and sages or men of the Way in every age, centering always on content that becomes the motive. We must know the fact that God, continuing this until history ends, holds on to the bond that becomes the motive and dispenses, feeling His way behind human beings who live less than a century and pass away.
That is why, although history seems to be connected without furnishing a bond, its motive behind it comes forth, forming a bond with God. What has unfolded in the realm of Israel centering on a new realm of the advanced, upon the basis of such a bond, is the present Christian cultural realm.
Seen from this viewpoint, the time when the content of the motive and the human beings of the process and the purpose of the result can be made one body is precisely the time of hope we desire and the age of the consummation of human history. Such a time must without fail come.
That motive and process and result must be compressed, and that motive must appear as the result, and that process must be connected to the motive and connected also to the result and become one, so that my individual self may stand in a position of giving thanks to God for itself and praising God’s victory.
Otherwise we cannot complete the character of the individual that we desire. We cannot restore the character of the true individual that we desire. We must know the fact that we are racing toward that place.
A true person must appear in whom the motive, process, and result of goodness are united
In order for the motive and process and result, centering on truth, to bear fruit in your individual selves, before there is a historical Last Days, there must first be an individual Last Days. That is, there must be once when evil is driven out and the motive and process of goodness are joined to one human being, and a true individual can be settled who can step forth before this Cosmos holding one purpose of goodness. God has until now looked toward that time and come seeking a true center, that is, one true human being. This is the thought of the Messiah.
Outwardly, one true person in whom the motive and process and result of goodness are united must appear in this heaven and earth today, and he must be a person who has completely inherited the historical bond. He must be a person who inherits all the content that became the motive of God’s creation and who bears content that can satisfy all the desires of the countless people who pursued truth in the process of history.
The Messiah is the one who comes as a man representing humankind, bearing the responsibility of connecting even the result, as one combined body of the process that can thus join the whole together and be a comprehensive, substantial human being.
If a foundation is laid centering on this Messiah and one woman is found and established there and a family is formed, that family becomes a true family that heaven and earth can publicly recognize.
Such a family cannot be accomplished all at once. Not to speak of God’s countless labors since human beings fell, it is found only after humankind too has paid the price of much suffering in the process of cooperating with Heaven’s Providence.
Therefore, the content of value that the family so found possesses cannot be exchanged even for the history, and it cannot but be something precious that cannot be exchanged for anything whatsoever that has been expended until now to restore while passing through bonds of indemnity.
Moreover, it is a being that cannot be exchanged even for the result itself found at the borderline where the sorrow of indemnity in this fallen world must be sifted out worldwide. You must know that one must become such a being of value.
What do these words mean?
They mean that one must become a center that can always rise in the heart of God, who is the motive, as an object of praise and an object of joy. Furthermore, one must prepare one's foundation of victory in the process of history and become a being of value that can be praised as the center of the whole.
One must become a central being furnished with content of value that can do more than stand in place of these three kinds of value combined. Only then can one stand in place of the vertical position and become the center of a new horizontal world. Thus, becoming the center of a new horizontal world, one must bring about one new result without contradiction and collision, passing through a process in which there is no strife in the new horizontal world. This may be considered the combining of God’s desire and the desire of the whole of humankind and the desire of the whole of history.
God’s love is the center of motive, process, and result
Then from where will such a position begin?
Of course it will begin from one individual and will begin from one place. But what will the content of that beginning center on? What is that center that can move the origin of the true motive, and what is the factor that can pass on the true bond left in the historical process, and what is the center that can pledge the true historical result? It is God’s love.
Leaving out God’s love, one cannot set up a true motive, cannot inherit a true process, and cannot bring about a true result. When we consider such things, what must remain in the end is God’s love.
God’s love is not the kind of love of which human beings today speak. It is a love that can more than encompass the whole. What becomes the motive of all life and becomes the factor of happiness in our human life and can stand in place of the whole of the accomplishment of that purpose is God’s love. You must know that God is seeking a true person who stands centering on such a love.
But one cannot become such a person all at once. To become such a person, one must have a right motive. One must have a motive of yearning for God’s love, and the process of that life must be such that it can be absorbed into God’s love. That life itself must pass through a process of yearning for God’s love.
That result too must not be for one’s own individual self but must become a center of love that the whole can look to, that becomes the factor of the life of the whole, and that can be of benefit to the whole. This is precisely God’s love. God’s love is the center of every motive, the center of the process, the center of the result. Only by being a motive centering on such love of God, and a process, and a result, does one become truth.
A patriot too is not made in a single morning. One must receive education from one’s forebears. There must be a bond of having received from one’s parents, pierced to the marrow of the bones, the teaching that one must love one’s nation, and from there one must sift the guideline of one’s life and set a purpose. One does not become the motive by oneself.
No patriot became a patriot by becoming the motive by himself. Only when, without fail, either receiving education from his forebears or receiving some shocking inspiration from the depths of his conscience becomes the motive, and the whole course of his life goes seeking the result arising from that motive, does he appear as a patriot. This you must know.
When we examine such inner factors, in everything there must without fail be a motive. If that motive is connected to the spirit of the people that has come down from thousands of years ago, one can become a substance that has inherited the historical motive, and if it is united with the spirit of the people remaining in that age, one can stand in place of that whole people.
Here, if there is a person who stands in a position of being able to inherit both the past spirit of the people and the spirit of the people of the present age, then in the future the nation can without fail be newly gathered, centering on him. We can know such facts by inferring from history.
We must emerge as a church that can bear the historical mission
Seen thus, the truth we pursue is not found in a short time. Seen centering on our church today, we must not think that our church set out from the one individual Teacher Moon.
We must know that the historical bond is long and long. It set out from that age before the fall when God dreamed of the ideal of creation and has flowed down until now. You must know that the bond of our church has thus a history of thousands and tens of thousands of years.
Then what is it that God has come seeking through that long process of history? He has come seeking a victorious church that can prepare one true foundation of victory. The historical origin of our church, which has thus come forth in hope, is far and far back. You must know that if one traces this back, it spreads back to the very central realm of God’s inner heart.
You must know the fact that within the history of the church dwell all the circumstances of historical sorrow and historical blemish, in which countless holy forebears and righteous ancestors, centering on the motive that flowed from that center, fought without shunning the road of death to maintain the road of the Way and did not forget it but held on to it even in the fierce process of struggle. Therefore, when this church emerged in the environment of the age today, it itself must not fall away from the historical motive. It must not be pushed aside before all the content and misery of that age.
We must know that the larger the church grows, and the farther the distance becomes from its departure, the more its motive must not grow dim but must, inversely, become clearer.
Seen from such a position, although our church set out as a small band and set out within the limited realm called the Korean people, it must not be confined here. It must emerge as a historical church that can bear a new historical mission.
For that, it must not be pushed aside by any church whatsoever that has appeared in the process of history until now. Furthermore, it must not be pushed aside before anyism or thought of any age.
Only when there is something that can encompass all of these and prepare a new origin and set off a new bond can one prepare a framework of goodness that can create a new history upon this wicked earth. Therefore, goodness is not accomplished instantly.
We must revive the achievements left by the countless historical meritorious figures who appear in the Bible and gather them up within ourselves. Even seen centering on our Republic of Korea today, there are countless patriots. There are many people who sacrificed behind the scenes to leave this nation behind. They would have had a motive of goodness they wished to leave behind and a desire of goodness by which they wished to form a people.
We must be able to gather more than gather all of this whole. And thus we ourselves must become ones who are not ashamed to face our forebears and who are furnished with the ability to step forth and give assurance on behalf of the whole. The question is how to unearth such ability.
Therefore, you must always think about the question of how one becomes a self that can stand in place of a history that comprehends the whole from the origin of goodness.
To become a fine person
To become a fine person, one must make all the fine teachings of countless teachers one’s own. Otherwise, one cannot become a fine person. Even if one goes from kindergarten through elementary school, middle and high school, university, and graduate school and becomes a doctor of learning, one must stand in a position of absorbing as one’s own all the knowledge of scholars of worldwide authority and of taking that comprehensive value as an element of one’s own life and of emerging here as a distinctive new substance of goodness. Only then can one become a worldwide scholar and become a worldwide thinker. It is the same on the road to accomplishing the will of goodness.
The question is how much you act as an absorber to accomplish the fruit of goodness. If a person struggled all his life for goodness and to find the value of goodness and offered up his life without finding it, then when we ask whether goodness will be fulfilled by that, it will not. But you must know that if what he strove for on behalf of goodness was sincere, then even though he did not see the purposed result in the course of his life, his course, with process extended upon process, plays at least the role of one bridge connecting to the age of the result that goodness purposes. Therefore, if I cannot accomplish the substance of goodness, a thought and conviction are needed that one will furnish at least the ability to play the role of a bridge in the process of goodness being accomplished and will offer one’s life for that.
In this sense, we must know that there have been the merits of the countless prophets who, while Christianity passed through a process of sacrifice and denial through a history of thousands of years until today, endured and endured again to find the one day of victory and sacrificed as a bridge. We must know the fact that all this has been combined and inherited and connected to one purposeful world of goodness.
We must know that it is the mission of us who are responsible for providential history today to combine in our people what thousands and tens of thousands of people have sacrificed in the process of thousands of years of history and to express that total value.
The mission of the chosen people
Here the question is how to find an individual who is not ashamed before the individuals who appeared in the process of history, an individual not ashamed before families, or an individual not ashamed before the clan, people, nation, and world. One must become such an individual.
Next, centering on that individual, one must form a family and become a family not ashamed before countless families, a family not ashamed before countless clans and peoples and nations and the world. It is the same with the clan.
Such a clan must become a clan not ashamed before countless clans, and a clan that can boast of being a clan not ashamed before countless peoples, nations, and the world. And it is the same with a people. It must become a people that the countless prophets and righteous forebears who came and went in history can praise, saying, “That people is indeed the people we desired,” a people that countless nations can praise, saying that they had come forth hoping for such a people.
You must know that the thought of the chosen people of the people of Israel came forth for this reason. That God chose the people of Israel as the chosen people was not to set forth the victory of some particular individual. It was to gain not only individual victory but also family and clan and people and national victory, and, centering on that victory, to set forth a victorious individual, a victorious family, a victorious clan, a victorious people, and a victorious nation, such that the countless individuals, families, clans, peoples and nations of the process of history, on seeing them, could not but praise. You must know that this was the mission of the people of Israel, who possessed the realm of the chosen people.
Then at what time is this value of the chosen people manifested?
It depends on whether one becomes completely one body centering on the one Messiah, who, as I said earlier, becomes the center of the historical motive, the center of the process, and the center of the result. Whether or not the purpose for which that nation was formed is attained is decided.
We know that the people of Israel could not do this and thus walked repeated roads of countless indemnities in the course of history.
That is why the history of Restoration is that the first Israel has developed toward one point of purpose, changing its thought to the second Israel, and the second Israel to the third Israel.
Seen from this viewpoint, we who go forth setting ourselves forth as the third Israel must go forward with a new thought of the chosen people, more than any nation in history and any band in the world. Therefore, the true road we aim at must be the only road.
Become a center that achieves the balance of power
Then, seen centering on our individual selves, do we stand as a substance of hope in which the countless individuals of the process of history can believe? Or, seen centering on the family, have we become a substantial family in which the countless families that came and went in history can believe and hope? As a clan, have we become a clan of desire before countless clans, and can our people and nation become the people and nation of desire to which countless peoples and nations look? This is no simple matter.
Only when we become so can we become one focal point, and we can be connected as the center in all historical relative relationships. Because this center must become a center that achieves the balance of power in the contest of power with the whole, it must not be drawn in by the object partner.
Therefore, one must form a thorough individual, a thorough family, a thorough clan, a thorough people, a thorough nation, and become a center that can do more than move the whole world. God cannot but accompany such a center. Without a standard with which God can be together, one cannot become the center. Otherwise, that center cannot connect the three ages.
Seen thus, what is the one center that can concentrate in one place the three stages of motive and process and result? It is God’s will and God’s love. You must know that this is joined here.
If God’s will is spread out, it becomes the world, and if God’s love is spread out, it becomes the source that can set forth the victory of the individual and the victory of the family, the victory of the clan, the victory of the people, the victory of the nation, and the victory of the world. That is why, if all this is concentrated vertically, it is combined upon this point of origin called God’s will and love.
To become a true human being, one must have the will. A person without the will cannot become a true person. And even if one has the will, the motive, and the process, the result must not differ. They must be brought to one conclusion. That is why there are such maxims as “the same from beginning to end,” “utmost sincerity moves Heaven,” and “when bitterness is exhausted, sweetness comes.” That such sayings came forth is proof that the process of pursuing truth is by no means smooth and shows that it is difficult to remain the same from beginning to end. It is truly difficult to establish a center called truth in the midst of this wicked world.
Utmost sincerity moves Heaven
Absolute truth comes only by, without fail, passing through an absolute process.
That is why, to find it, bitterness (苦) must be exhausted (盡). Individual bitterness, family-level bitterness, clan-level bitterness, people-level bitterness, national bitterness, and worldwide bitterness must be exhausted for worldwide peace to come.
Furthermore, it is said, “Utmost sincerity moves Heaven,” but is utmost sincerity (至誠) an easy thing? It is not an easy thing. Utmost sincerity is offering devotion with the resolve of death.
To what degree is the limit of that utmost sincerity?
What is the highest utmost sincerity among utmost sincerity?
If one offers utmost sincerity for one’s own individual happiness, one perhaps accomplishes one’s own individual will, but by that utmost sincerity, one cannot accomplish the will of the world. Is offering devotion to the nation the limit of utmost sincerity? That perhaps becomes utmost sincerity for the nation, but it cannot become more than that. What becomes the limit point of utmost sincerity is accomplishing the will of the world.
One must offer utmost sincerity for the world. Then what is the reason for offering utmost sincerity to the world? It is to accomplish God’s will. Then what purpose is in God’s will? There is the will of individual salvation too, but you must know that saving the world is God’s will. So one must offer devotion for the world.
That is why the saints and sages of history have without fail revered God. There is no saint or sage who did not revere God. You must know this. Those who have joined the ranks of saints and sages founded religions, and they without fail taught the way of Heaven. That is, the saints and sages are those who, centering on the heavenly way, made heavenly feeling (天情) into human ethics (人倫) and taught humankind, taking as a worldwide goal the way of human conduct (人道) and human feeling (人情). So the saints and sages are not nationalists but worldists.
What is the highest utmost sincerity among utmost sincerity (至誠)?
Until now, there have been many parents who offered up their lives and offered devotion for their sons and daughters. But there have been no people who offered devotion for the nation and the world. Therefore, there must be a band that offers devotion and sacrifices for the nation and for the world, and what sort of band is such a band? It is precisely the band that reveres religion. That is why, in the long process of history, there have been times when a people perished, but religion has not perished. Therefore, the purpose of religion will without fail be accomplished.
Only when there is upon this earth a band that offers devotion for the world can God’s will also be accomplished. God has until now been on the side of such bands. That is why religion must, through God, without fail, form an environment in which it can hold worldwide sovereignty and conquer the world.
If there is a central religion that offers devotion for such a day, then at the Last Days the world will be encompassed into its realm, centering on that religion. This is the phenomenon breaking out in the democratic world centering on the Christian cultural realm of the present age. Seen thus, we today must offer devotion.
If we concentrate what has been said until now into one, it becomes a matter of God’s love and will. A person who offers devotion and lives centering on that love and that will is living for the individual, yet becomes a person who lives for the world; and if there is a family that lives centering on that will and that love, that family lives for that family, yet becomes a family that lives for the world.
Further, you must know that if there is such a clan, people, or nation, they too become a clan, people, or nation that lives for the world.
That is why, if the whole thirty million of these people ideologically uphold God’s will and cling to that will without falling away, these people will without fail become a people that lives together with that will.
Seen centering on the Unification Church today, if you lift the whole centering on God’s will, are you the ones who can be made one body with God’s will without falling away, even though your life is cut off? When we ask whether you are in a position of loving the will and forming the motive of life together with the will and of living a life of the process and of being able to conclude even the life of the result, if you can say that you are, then, given that God’s will is truth and God’s love is truth, you become true people. You must know that such a time is coming.
God will without fail test us, centering on that one time. We must, without fail, pass through a testing process of how much I, as an individual, love the will, and how much I, in being for the will, will bear the cross for humankind, and how much I can sacrifice my body to love God. And thus we must receive the public recognition that it is enough.
When bitterness is exhausted, sweetness comes (고진감래)
To receive such public recognition, one must contend with bitterness (苦). In the process of bitterness being exhausted, one must be able to overcome that bitterness. One must become a subject that can take over sweetness (甘) after bitterness is exhausted. One must pass through such a process. And for a family to be so, it must pass through such a process on the family level; for a clan to be so, the clan must pass through such a process; for a people to be so, the people must pass through such a process; and for a nation to be so, the nation too must pass through such a process.
From this viewpoint, although the Republic of Korea today bears a history of suffering people and is in a subject position of bearing alone the storms of a turbulent world, I do not think of this sorrowfully.
If it is, in any case, a process of suffering we must overcome, then when such a fortune of heaven and earth approaches before us, is not that environment an opportunity to offer full devotion before the road we must walk, before the road the people and the nation must walk, and a shorter distance on the road of running toward one summit? If we think in this way, we must consider the fact that these people not living well can, on the contrary, become a blessing for us.
A person whose heart of pursuing truth is strong must, without fail, pass through a negative process and cross over that borderline. That is why you must know that, rather than feeling lonely because we are placed in an unfree environment and placed in a pitiful position where everything is worse than others’, when we hold hope there and tread upon and cross over that negative environment, there is also one road by which we can cross over toward a new heaven and earth.
The question is whether, when a national period of trial comes, we can become a people that can be loyal to God. If thirty million of these people today are not so, what must we do? We must be able to stand on the road of trial and take responsibility on behalf of these people and guide them and fulfill the mission of a pioneer who pioneers the road these people must walk.
If we do so, these people will know that it must go that way. Looking at the currents of world thought from 1970 to 1972, we must know that we have a grave and weighty responsibility to do that.
Truth is not accomplished in a day or two. One must without fail pass through a historical process and combine all the things of the age and see it to the end. Even looking at mountains, a high mountain has a long mountain range stretching out. That range begins from a very distant place, so far that one cannot even know where it began. Whether anyone recognizes it or not is not the question.
Everyone, go and see Jeju Island. It is as if the whole island of Jeju existed to make Mount Halla. Even the flatland is all like that. In the same way, everything belonging to it must take that one mountain as its standard and grow to resemble it. Its angle fits wherever one goes, and it belongs to that mountain.
Likewise, you too must know that, going forward toward one standard called the summit, even though you are each at a far distance from one another, you must furnish a form whose angle can fit the summit.
Truth is not made in one stroke. Our church, even while walking the road of suffering until now, has not made excuses. Though we have undergone all manner of humiliation and been driven into all manner of environments and received opposition, we have had no time to make excuses. Our road is busier than that. Thinking that such is the process of history, we are now running up the slope toward the summit.
Up to 1972 is the historical period in which, centering on world currents of thought, we must cross over the crest of the han of the people. Because it is the year of a full twelve years since the Blessed Families set out, we must bear the han of the people and cross over. Because a course of responsibility remains in which we must bear the family cross until 1972, we must go.
A life lived for the future and a life for the nation and the world
In this period we must prepare a historical process of overturning by uniting with all the outward situations of the world. Knowing that this is the result seen from the viewpoint of the Principle, we must resolve anew.
One must not hold one’s own individual self in high regard. If one thinks of centering on oneself, one easily becomes a traitor to the people and falls and easily becomes a betrayer of the world and falls. Furthermore, try dreaming of comfort centering on your family. When that comes to be a betrayal before the people and the world, or before the heavenly bond, will it not become an enemy of God, an enemy of the world, and an enemy of the people? Let us not be so.
In any case, we are pioneers who must pioneer the path of goodness. Because the steps we have taken as such pioneers are holy, that process too must be holy, and that result too must be holy. Even though one falls at the last, one must become a person who lives with the hope that, becoming one seed from which one new sprout comes up, one will not be a tree standing in a crevice of rock on a ridge but a tree grown in rich soil, and that if one cannot reap the fruit one hoped for in one’s own generation, one will reap it through one’s descendants.
A person who fights for future happiness with such a heart is a fearsome person. A band that seeks to sacrifice itself for future victory is a fearsome band. You must know that if there are such people, even though those people are few, those people will rule the world in the twenty-first century of the future, or the thirtieth century, or the fiftieth century.
We must not be discouraged that the Republic of Korea today has not achieved unification. If there are people of even a few generations who bear the thought needed in the future and possess a historical tradition that can be revered before countless peoples, through those people the nation will be built again. We must run bearing such a solemn hope.
We must live a life of hoping for the victory of the future rather than the victory of this one day. You must know that this is the life by which true people can inherit truth. Jesus too, when he stood at the final road of destiny in the garden of Gethsemane, imagined the kingdom of heaven of the future and the happy world of the future, and decided to sacrifice all of his own and go the road of death for that.
Jesus, seen by the people of that age, was a foolish person; seen from the environment of that age, he was a traitor to the people; and he was a pitiful one who was mocked as a madman of an age that hoped for miracles and who disappeared sorrowfully. But because the will he bore was a will that no one in the world had borne, through that will he was able to move the world and found a new cultural world.
However fine you may be and however much effort you make, if you live a life for yourself, the end is near. But you must know that if you live a life for the people and the nation and the world, the end is far.
The Teacher’s standard of living until now has also been that. That the Teacher has offered up his life with such conviction and come to this point today is also because God cooperated. I do not think even in a dream that it became so because I am fine. It is that God cooperated. God without fail cooperated. Because there was God, who always counseled me at difficult passes and at lonely turns of the road, I could remain on this road today and meet you. It will be the same for you.
You must, from now on, know how much of the road remains to be walked, centering on the individual, family, clan, and people, and must walk such a road. In connecting the process of walking such a road and going forward to the destination, what will your form be? This is the question.
The motive is tremendous, and it is serious. You must know the fact that the motive is moving ceaselessly for the purpose of the whole. Just like the heart that moves ceaselessly to maintain your life even while you sleep, the motive has no rest. That is why God too has no night and day. He is not one who distinguishes night and day and sifts out His work. Because He is always in a position of motive that cannot rest, even if He tried, and in a position of subject, He is continually at work.
When we think of this, we must not become forebears who are criticized before their descendants in the process of taking over what began with God as the motive and passing it on. Furthermore, we must not become a base that is accused before our descendants because of the environment. Had you not known this road, it would be one thing, but if you have known the great road you must walk and have known the direction in which that road must be laid, then however great the difficulty there is, you must collide with it and push on. Is that not the responsibility of one who lays this road? And if that road has already been laid, one must walk that road rightly. That road has already been laid. Even though the direction of the laid road is indicated, if one cannot walk this road, one perishes.
The completion of truth
Now, in the midst of such things, meeting the first of November, we must make a new resolve and become a band that offers devotion for this people and the world. Let us bear the world on our backs and overcome, for the fulfillment of our responsibility, to the very point where bitterness (苦) is exhausted (盡) and the marrow of our bones melts away.
When a tree is grafted, the graft takes over new sap after passing through the borderline where its elements of life are exhausted. Likewise, a nation too is destined to be grafted, centering on a new ideal, and because you individuals too are in such a position, you must cross such a borderline. That is, the origin of a new departure is sought from within, through a process of self-denial. This has been the traditional actual state that history has woven until now.
We have until now set forth the tremendous task called the Victorious Unified Front and fought through the year 1970, centering on it. During that time we held many international events—the Asian Victory Over Communism rally, the WACL rally (World Anti-Communist League) held in Japan, the 777 Couples international group wedding, and so on. And in November too, there are events, and we are carrying out event upon event. Through such things, the foundation for all the plans of the 1970s must be laid in this year, 1970. So you must know how great a responsibility you have to bear this year.
Furthermore, there is the matter of preparing the funds needed to build the World Mission Headquarters on Yeouido. I feel as if I were trying to catch a running tiger with bare hands. From now until the end of February next year, we must make well over 400 million won with our bare hands. This is a possible thing.
We can create history and can pioneer a new age. That we have done this until now is not because we had much money. We pioneered even in the midst of having nothing.
If we go forward with the conviction that it will be done if God cooperates, it will be done. The question is whether you yourselves, who are in a relative position centered on the Teacher, fulfill your responsibility or not. You must know that if we go forward as one body, we can do more than create a new world.
One must become a true person and build a true nation and make a true world, and there they attend God and live receiving God’s true love. You must know that that is human life.
The history until truth is accomplished is long. It is not accomplished simply. If there is a people that has endured for several hundred years and inherited truth, that people can inherit a history of thousands of years. Furthermore, if there is a band that endures a road of suffering of thousands of years to inherit truth, it will inherit a history of tens of thousands of years.
The question in this age is how we ourselves will go before the will that wishes, through us, to form a bond before these people and to have us stand at the head. Shall we turn back, or go forward, or go sideways? There are many roads. If one turns back here, one will without fail fall into a pit, and if one goes sideways, one will without fail be invaded by robbers. There is no other road to go, even if one tried. Had there been a road to go, I would have gone already.
If there were another road, who would eat abuse and suffer like this?
If it is not this road, there is no road to go. Other roads are blocked even as one goes. In any case, it is the fate one was born with. It is the fate of unification.
Perhaps that is why, when I look at your faces, they all look like faces of a hard fate. If you say it is too hard and you cannot go, to whom would you hand over that shabby fate? It must all be stripped off cleanly. When the husk of fate is all stripped off and only bare bones remain, one must mold flesh again and go. Until it is all stripped off, one must go with the determination that one will not change even though one is left behind and falls and dies.
That kingdom and that righteousness of which Jesus spoke
As I said a moment ago, you must love God centering on the will. When God goes centering on the individual, the individual must run before God, and when He goes centering on the family, the family must run before God.
Furthermore, when God takes hold of the clan and goes, all of you of our church, who must carry out the clan-level mission, must run. If in this way the people are lifted before God, this becomes a worldwide matter.
If thousands and tens of thousands of a band hung upon your neck and twisted it, would your neck break, or would the power pulling from above be stronger so that you were pulled up? For one to be pulled up, the pulling power too must be strong, and the neck too must be sturdy.
In that sense, the Teacher is not one who is in debt to you. I absolutely do not go into debt to you. That much is certain. I would rather be for you than be in debt to you. A leader who goes into debt perishes. His destiny is wretched. God too absolutely hates going into debt. The more one knows, the more one stands in a position of having to repay a debt.
You too, if you know the will, must repay that debt. Even if all alike are for the will, the stem is for it less than the root, the branch less than the stem, and the leaf less than the branch.
Truth is worldwide. It is not individual but worldwide. Moreover, truth is historical. It was needed in the past, is needed in the present, and is needed in the future. Because truth is worldwide, its value must be eternal.
Then what will be worldwide?
Think about it. Can a person’s will be worldwide? If it were my will that is being spoken of here, then if there is a person who says he is finer than I, he can assert, “Is that your will? My will is this.” That worldwide will is not the will of any saint either. Even among saints, the will of a Western saint and the will of an Eastern saint differ. Because the background of the people or the cultural background differs and the traditional bond differs, they can make differing assertions. So their assertions too cannot become a worldwide will. It can be no more than a sectarian will.
Is the center of the will that we can uphold as a worldwide will upon the earth? It is not on the earth. The things of the earth have no consciousness either. People dislike following the will of a person who is upon this earth. A person wishes to follow the will of a higher Absolute Being. Such a worldwide will is the will of God, who is the Absolute Being.
That is why it is said that Jesus is fine. Jesus said,
“Do not worry about what you shall eat, what you shall wear, what you shall drink. These are all things the Gentiles seek. Seek first that kingdom and that righteousness” (Matthew 6:31).
Here, what kingdom is that kingdom? Is it the nation of Israel? That kingdom is not a kingdom that Jesus himself desires. It is the kingdom God desires. It is the kingdom the Absolute Being, who is the center of truth, desires. Then what will that be? It is the will for accomplishing that kingdom. Everyone, you must know this. That will is an absolute will and a true will, and it is not a person’s will but God’s will.
Then what sort of being is God?
In what relationship would He wish to be with people? We call God a God of love, but in what position would that God wish to form a relationship of love with us human beings? Would He wish to form a relationship in the position of a friend? He wishes to form a relationship in the closest position. Then what kind of position is the closest position? It is a position that becomes the relationship of father and sons and daughters. There is no position closer than that. God is my Father. How splendid is that! If one is to love, one must love in the position of father and sons and daughters; without being able to have such love, how can one say one has loved? Apart from that position, it is all false love.
The most needed and most valuable love among love is love from such a position. Because in the relationship between God and human beings there is no relationship above that of father and son; He wishes to be bound to us human beings with the love of father and son. And human beings too wish to receive parental love from God.
Do you wish to receive parental love in the position of an adopted child?
Do you wish to receive love in the position of a friend? You will wish to receive love in the position of a son, or in the position of a wife. This is the marrow of Christianity. Speaking of Jesus as the bridegroom and God as the Father is what makes that relationship clear.
Then if that absolute God is my Father, that Father’s will becomes at once my will. God’s will is a worldwide will. That will is not a will for saving only the Republic of Korea. Because it is a will for saving all under heaven, a person who is loyal to all under heaven, centering on that will, comes to join the ranks of saints.
To become a filial son and a loyal subject
The will that loves the world, the will that is for the world—this is God’s will. So you must know that loving and being for the world is the road of loving God, and you must live holding that heart.
What is the ism of a person who thinks and lives his whole life that way?
It is worldism; it is Cosmism. Such a person, even in speaking, knows how to say nothing but that, and even in working, knows how to do nothing but that work. Such a person is a true person. Furthermore, a family that lives so is a true family, and a clan formed by the gathering of families that live so is a true clan. And a nation that lives for the world, centered on that, is a true nation, and the world accomplished in that way is a true world, that is, the kingdom of heaven.
Truth is connected to the world. Moreover, it is absolute, and it is historical. It combines past, present, and future. That is why you must know that truth is the fruit of history, the center of this age, and the departure toward the future. That is why in the Unification Church, even for parents, the True Parents come forth. The True Parents are the parents of humankind found within God’s will. A true family is a family that has inherited the will of those True Parents. A true clan likewise is a clan formed centering on the True Parents. Knowing this, you must become true people. A true person is a person who loves the nation, loves the world, and loves God.
Even if you die, the world must remain. God’s will for the world must remain, and God’s love for the world must remain. Therefore, even if you die, you must leave those behind. You must know that a person who sacrifices their life to leave that behind becomes a filial son and becomes a loyal subject.
A one-day filial son or a one-day loyal subject is not needed. Even the most wicked robber can become a one-day filial son, and anyone at all can likewise become a one-day loyal subject. It can be done by repenting on the spot. God desires a person who can be born a filial son and loyal subject from the time of birth, live as a filial son and loyal subject, and die as a filial son and loyal subject. In your case, what kind of filial son would you desire? Those who have newly come here will not know anything.
If you and the Teacher are compared, the Teacher will be more of a filial son before God than you. Why? Because he has offered up his life until now and done such work. But I do not think, even in a dream, that I have fulfilled the way of a filial son. The farther I go, the more I feel my insufficiency. A person who thinks he has fulfilled the way of a filial son and the way of a loyal subject ends there as a filial son or loyal subject. A person who protests, saying, “I am a filial son; I am a loyal subject. Why do you not recognize it?” is a person who retreats at that pass. You must know that only a person who, the farther he goes, discovers that the way of filial devotion remains, and the farther he goes, that the way of loyalty remains, and who takes fulfilling that filial devotion as his philosophy of living, can become a filial son and loyal subject of Heaven.
For how many years indeed have you been loyal for the will?
Will you all go for the will? Will you all go? Let those who say they will go for the will raise their hands. You raise your hands well enough. Put them down. For how many years will you go being loyal before the will? Do you say, “How many years? Seven years is enough!” And while saying that, if you say, “God, bless me,” can you become a filial son?
You must know that even on the road of a loyal subject and a filial son, there are grades and there is history. We must go thinking long, wide, deep, and high. If I stretch myself out within the long, the being called disappears, and if I spread myself out within the wide, I disappear. Furthermore, if I set myself up at the high place, I disappear. But by doing so, I do not disappear in the end. Therefore, where one lives for God’s will, there is peace.
Why does a child long for the bosom of his parents? Because the parents live for the child, and because there is peace there.
Though heaven and earth shake, we cannot rest
The secret by which the Republic of Korea can prosper is simple. It is enough if the sovereign lives for others’ sake. Let those who govern live for the nation and the citizens. Knowing that this is the road of truth, you must walk such a road. And if it fails, come and protest to me.
While I have lived this way until now, the people of the world all said I would perish and disappear, but I have not perished. I now have nothing in the world to envy. Although I was born one man of Korea, if I only give an order here, there are people abroad who will dance if told to dance and will do anything whatsoever. In such things, no one in the world can follow me. Why is that? It is not because I have a talent for fraud and am good at manipulating and controlling people from the front and from behind. Though I say nothing, their hearts are naturally drawn. If they do not do what they were asked to do, their hearts are distressed. It will be the same with you.
When the Teacher tells you to mobilize entirely, is there anyone who wishes to be mobilized?
In fact, I do not wish to mobilize you either. When pretty young ladies who like to dress up smartly in Western clothes and powder their faces and wear themselves neatly go out to the provinces and work, they get tanned dark; who would like that? I, too, do not like to see a face that is not liked. But if we do not mobilize, both perish. Then must we go the road of perishing or the road of prospering? Because we must go the road of prospering, there is no choice but to mobilize. It is the same as eating mustard while weeping. There is no help for it. Knowing such things, you must not go the road of perishing.
Is “the same from beginning to end” (始終如一) a good saying or a bad saying? “A good saying.” It is a good saying, but is it easy to do or difficult? “Difficult.” Then is “when bitterness is exhausted, sweetness comes” (苦盡甘來) a good saying or a bad saying? “A good saying.” Then is it an easy thing to do, or a difficult thing? “Difficult.” How difficult is it? It is more difficult than dying. But a person who resolves upon death and crosses over it can feel the sweet taste of having conquered that death.
Because you have already known that and set out, you must be the same from beginning to end. Even if we go to prison, even if the whole Republic of Korea opposes us and all under heaven shakes, we cannot rest. We cannot be broken because they oppose us. The band of the Unification Church is different from the people of the world. Even if someone tries to use a bribe us, it does not work.
In society, they say that to get people to work, one must buy them cigarettes or buy them lunch, and only then do they do the work properly. Even at our factory, when people from society come and, thinking we are like that, ask for work and, while doing business, give money saying it is for lunch, our church people say, “What is this?” They are not like the people of the world and do not know courtesy, they say. Bribes do not work on us. When the people of the world look at us, we probably look as guileless as boiled chestnuts, as if they could pick us up and eat us as they please. But if they eat us wrongly, they will either get diarrhea or die. (Laughter) This is our Unification Church.
These days too, I hear that all sorts of rumors are flying about concerning our church. Even so, there is no need to be shaken by this. If rumors are to spread, let them spread. Our road is time-sensitive. Because we go on that way, newspaper reporters say that the Unification Church does not know how to handle the press.
But it is all right for us not to know such things. Rather than being concerned with that, our road is more urgent. I ask you not to get involved in such things but to strive for the attainment of our purpose. Do you understand? “Yes.”
Now let us roll up our sleeves and run once more. In the past even girls of fifteen or sixteen went out witnessing alone and worked, but now it is not so. Now we will send out witnessing centering on the married women. We will organize teams of about ten each and have them bustle through whole villages witnessing. This too is progress. In the future, the time will come when those ten witnessing members increase to a hundred, and they go and witness in one village. When that happens, anyone who does not want to believe in the Unification Church will have to die or move somewhere else.
If Korean people witness it and they do not believe, Western people will come and do it, and Japanese people will come and do it. It will without fail be so. So if they would rather not see that sight, they will have to believe in the Unification Church or run away or die. Things will unfold that way.
We now seem to be nothing, but if we unite, we can bore through bedrock. When one lights the fuse of dynamite while it is sputtering and burning along, it seems to be nothing and looks like a false fire, but look when the fire reaches the detonator, and it explodes. Whether I am strong or you are strong—at that time even a great mountain is broken apart. We must go forward with such a resolve. Do you understand? “Yes.”
Truth is eternal; this will is the will all people must pursue
Today is the first of November! It is a pleasant day. Now about sixty days remain of 1970, and in 1970 we must lay the whole foundation needed in the 1970s. So we are now trying to buy about ten thousand pyeong of land on Yeouido. It is enough if each person buys one pyeong. If that happens, the land we buy may be the largest on Yeouido.
Now we must also earn money with grim determination. So hereafter we must make it so that all the people of the Unification Church can build buildings and live in them. If we make the effort, will it not be done? If we, in one century, make effort without distinguishing night and day, in what others would take one century of effort, we can live twice as well as they. That is why our factory is now working at night too. It must be tiring, but let us try it once. If we come to live well, let us save the nation and save the humankind of the world. We must go forward with such a goal.
Truth is eternal, and the will of truth is God’s will. So this will is the will that all people must pursue. Knowing that truth is established only by living, centering on this will, and modeling upon God’s love, I ask you to take this as your philosophy of living and live by it. Even so, you will not perish.
Have I perished?
I began with bare hands. Even if I say I will do work that costs hundreds of millions of won, I can do it.
If it cannot be done in Korea, I have laid a foundation on which it can be done even by moving the world. I have laid a worldwide foundation even while being driven out and persecuted. That is not because I am good at expedients but because I rightly knew the principle and practiced it. If one does according to this principle, one will without fail not perish. So I ask you too to move according to this principle. Do you understand? “Yes.”
Now the married women of the Blessed Families must receive training at the Sutaek-ri training center and go out from the first of December. You know that, do you not? We will send out about one thousand two hundred, and the Teacher will examine that activity.
If they do not carry out the activity, even if the Teacher disciplines them, there will be no one to protest. The Teacher tells them to do it, having already done more than that. A person who cannot do that is a person who has no relation whatsoever with me. Knowing this, you must go forward vigorously toward this nation and this people. We must advance. Do you understand? “Yes.” Let those who say they will go that way raise their hands. Put them down.
