God's Work of Creation

1. Heaven and earth did not simply originate from matter, nor did they emerge spontaneously or by chance. God, the Creator, exists. He is the first cause of the cosmos. He is absolute, eternal, unchanging, and good. He made all things in the universe according to His purpose of creation, His basic design.

God is the origin of heart and emotion, and His purpose is to create joy. However, one cannot feel joy alone. For a subject partner to feel joy, an object partner is necessary. The greatest joy comes from the exchange of love between subject and object partners. (190-320, 1989.06.23)

2. Heaven and earth originated from the Will of the One. Because God, our Heavenly Parent, exists, the created world came into existence. God, the Parent of heaven and earth, is the central Being.

That is why God is one with all beings of this world, and why God and I are one, not two. God desires, on one hand, to come down to earth from above along a vertical line, to stand at the center. On the other hand, He desires to connect everything on the horizontal plane with that center. (166-202, 1987.06.07) 3.

In the beginning, when God created heaven and earth, He had a design for the cosmos, an ideal, and a purpose for it. Through it, He wanted His creation to correspond to His internal standard so that He could relate to it forever. The center of it all was God's heart of love.

The origin of the cosmos was God Himself, and it was God's heart that provided the original impulse that set in motion the phenomena of creation. From that heart of love springs the ideal realm where all things come into oneness.
(15-045, 1965.02.07)

God's plan for creation

4. Adam and Eve are God's body. They are God's visible body, and they are in the position of the visible God. God is the originator of energy; He cannot be seen even in the spirit world. He has no form.

Too, He has to assume an external, physical form. If, instead of falling, Adam and Eve had reached perfection while living on earth and then gone on to the heavenly world, they would have become the visible form of God.

The invisible God and visible Adam and Eve would have been one. Then, since Adam and Eve's laughter would have been God's laughter, it would have been the laughter of heaven and earth.

God created this world so that He, who is incorporeal, could emerge on earth in substance. In other words, this world was created so that the incorporeal God could emerge as the substantial God. (105-193, 1979.10.21)

5. God is the womb of human beings and the nucleus of all things in the universe. Then why did God, the nucleus of all things, have to create the heavens and the earth? It is because if a nucleus exists alone, it will perish or disintegrate.

Consider electricity. No matter how perfect a positive charge is, without a negative charge it will disappear. There are no exceptions to this. If a plus wants to survive, it has to align with the principle that sustains its life.

Therefore, through the plan of creation, there will emerge a perfect minus. It is because existence depends upon the interaction between the two.
(035-055, 1970.10.03)

6. God, who made all things of creation in heaven and on earth, established His perfect substantial object partners in the external world to reflect His feelings and the inner world of His mind. He did this so that He could fully interact with them.

He created human beings as object partners who would take responsibility for this, endowing them with a foundation that would allow them to engage in perfect giving and receiving.

That is why, of all His creation, God loves human beings the most, and why they appreciate God the most. They respect God. Therefore, they go searching for God and God comes searching for them. (151-212, 1962.12.15)

7. When we say, “God is the Lord, the Creator who made heaven and earth,” we mean that He is the origin and subject partner of all things. Hence, all things of creation are His object partners. An artist who wants to create a masterpiece will first plan it in his or her mind.

The artist expects the work to unfold according to plan and that the result will be pleasing. What does it mean to be pleasing? It means that the work of art should be pleasing to the eyes, the ears, the mouth, and every cell in the body in a harmonious way.

Then it will be pleasing to the mind, which represents the body. Seen in this way, the original standard is the unity of the mind and body. Our spirit selves have five spiritual senses; our physical selves have five physical senses.

These two should be in perfect harmony. This doesn't happen simply by enjoying a meal. Harmony between the mind and the body begins with true love. (185-153, 1989.01.08)

8. God is the subject partner who created the universe. Even though God is the subject partner of human beings, and we are His sons and daughters, He follows the principle: “I exist for human beings.”

Because of this, we can be happy people. There is nothing more we would want. Originally, we should have had this status, but we failed to attain it. That is why we hunger to possess the very best thing. The very best thing is God's love.
(062-219, 1972.09.25)

9. God created for the sake of those with whom He intended to form a relationship. He invested tremendous energy at the outset, but not for Himself, not for His pleasure.

He invested everything to create partners with whom He could build a relationship. In the pursuit of ideal partners, God invested Himself totally, creating everything in heaven and on earth. (086-116, 1976.03.14)

10. What comes first, existence or life? Philosophy places the question of existence first. It does not deal with life. Then from where does life come? Life does not come from itself; it comes from parents' love.

God governs the world of life and the world of love. Life precedes existence, but philosophy deals only with questions that come after existence. It is a life that moves all existing things.

Then what is the cause that moves life? Love moves life. Because life comes from love, the natural way of life is to seek relationships of love and to attain the outcomes of love. This is the heart that lies behind the creation of heaven and earth. (050-279, 1971.11.08)

11. No matter how great God is, He is lonely if He cannot feel love. He would want to hug even a cat and say, “I did such a good job making this cat. When I made its ears, I felt good.

I made its paws like this so it could easily catch mice. It gives me such a good feeling.” This good feeling toward everything He made is related to God's inner heart and motivation. (141-026, 1986.02.16)

12. God is still striving to use His power of creation to build a new environment for us. He has that power. However, as long as we are in the fallen realm, it is not possible. It cannot be done unless we meet certain conditions. It is not because God lacks power that He has not done this.

When the conditions are ripe, when the arrangements are in place for God to move, then a new history and a new environment can emerge, no matter the time, and of matter the age.

God has the same power and authority today that He had in the beginning when He created all things. He has possessed that power throughout history; He possesses it today, and He will possess it in the future. He is the eternal Lord of Creation. (147-172, 1986.09.21)

13. When God began the creation, He had His Will, He had an idea, and He had a master plan. Thus, God's original Will went along with a plan to create human beings, and based on that plan He built a world correlative to us.

That is why, despite the human Fall, we who live in the realm of God's providence of salvation in this day and age have to stand at the center of His Will, that is, within the realm of His Will and plan. The time has come.

That is why God is preparing the conditions by which we can enter the realm of His Will and plan. Throughout history, numerous religions have emerged to pioneer the environment, setting the conditions so that we can enter the realm of His plan. (076-092, 1975.02.01)

God's total investment in the creation

14. When God created heaven and earth, why did He create human beings? As long as God was without a partner, He had no stimulation. He made human beings as His partners, who would allow Him to feel love, life, and hope.

God did not create human beings as the Bible seems to imply, simply by saying, “Let there be you!” In reality, God put all His life, love,e and hope on the line to create human beings. We can say in short that God invested everything into the relationship between Himself and human beings. His was an unconditional, total investment.

This reveals to us that God intends to realize true love. For love, He invested in His counterparts one hundred percent. The process of God investing Himself requires Him to deplete His energy, but because He invests everything totally, the outcome is not depletion.

When He invests one hundred percent and completes His work, the counterparts into whom He invested one hundred percent, after they perfect themselves one hundred percent, return to God and infuse their love into Him.

They emerge with everything God invested in them coalesced together with their power of love, their value, and their honor as His partners. Possessing all of this, they stimulate God, and God can finally feel joy. (69-061, 1973.09.10)

15. Parents instinctively invest everything in their children. God is the same. God does not invest Himself for His own sake. He exists not for Himself but for His counterparts.

If God were to exist only for Himself, He would not be the God of true love. Love, life, and hope are realized when parents sacrifice themselves completely for their children with the desire to be together with them.

Accordingly, the true God of true love, true life, and true hope wishes to give His true love, true life, and true hope to human beings. He gives these things not to please Himself, but to please those who receive them. (69-062, 1973.09.10)

16. In creating His partners, the true God completely invested Himself to fashion them into the most valuable, ideal, and perfect form. This means that once He created Adam and Eve, God lived for their sake, not His own.

God moved from the time of living for His own sake to the time of living for the sake of His partners. An ideal being does not live for his or her own sake. An ideal being lives for the sake of others, for the sake of the object partner. This is the core principle of the universe. (69-083, 1973.10.20) 17.

The Bible gives the impression that since God is omniscient and omnipotent, He brought everything into being by merely saying, “Let there be heaven” and “Let there be earth.” But this is not the case.

God invested everything, all the energy He had. By investing the full power of His love, He created all things as offerings and gifts for His beloved sons and daughters who were to come, His beloved future family. (112-307, 1981.04.25)

18. Creation entails the investment of energy. Every artist in the world desires to create the greatest of masterpieces. He or she invests everything, spirit, heart, and soul, with the utmost devotion. It is not partial investment, but total investment that gives birth to the perfect masterpiece.

Perfection finally comes when the created object needs nothing more. Can you fully love an object of hope that you made while withholding something of yourself, withholding your flesh and blood?

It is only when you have given everything, your bones, your flesh, your ideas, and everything you possess, that you can bond with what you have created as the object of your hope. That is why I am saying that the beginning of the process of creation itself could have been possible only through investment.

There has to banhe investment of energy. Nothing can be made without the investment of energy. Committed to the principle that a perfect object partner is created from an infusion of all one's energy, God invested everything He had as the subject partner to create His object partner.

God's work of creation was the beginning of His movement toward the state of existing not for Himself, but for His object partner. (078-111, 1975.05.06)

19. To create all things, God had to pour out His very essence. That is, He invested a great deal of energy. This could have depleted His energy and resulted in God suffering a loss.

Yet, He created the world with love, to be His object partner, and He devoted Himself to fulfilling this purpose. His investment was not to bear fruit in Himself but rather in His partner. Since God created with love, even though He fully invested Himself, He did not feel diminished.

Rather, He felt satisfied. This became a principle, and this essence of parental love became the tradition. God's total self-investment meant that He was not conscious of Himself as He worked. He was so immersed in pursuing the purpose of His partner that He completely forgot Himself.

In the end, God wants to live for the sake of the human beings whom He created. This is the basic principle of creation. (60-086, 1972.08.06)

20. In the world of physics, the input is greater than the output. But in the world of love, the input is less than the output. Because this principle applies on the horizontal plane, the universe exists forever.

Consumption depletes everything. But because of its constant motion, the energy of love that is invested without limit is not consumed or depleted; rather it is expanded. Thus, God's existence is perpetuated based on love. The universe maintains its existence eternally through this continuous circular motion.

Therefore, from the family to the tribe, from the tribe to the nation, and from the nation to the world, everything expands on the same basis and with the same value.

Thus, all people in the universe will agree, like unto a single human brain, and we will be able to build the ideal world, the realm of total oneness in unity and peace. (289-098, 1997.12.30)

God created through principle and law

21. God gave Adam and Eve the commandment as a condition of faith when they were in the position of His object partners. However, from now on, God will seek something more substantial.

Therefore, we must unite our minds and bodies to embody God. We must become more than someone whom God can relate to as only His object partner. By adhering to the laws of creation, we must become His substantial self.
(002-331, 1957.07.28)

22. The Bible describes God's creation of heaven and earth in simple terms, saying that God created heaven and earth through the Word. The impression is that when He spoke the words, “Let there be…,” that entity appeared with a snappy “Here I am!” When God said, “Let there be light,” the stars appeared.

When God said, “Let dry ground appear,” the earth simply formed itself. However, please be aware that in this process God maintained the principle of progression, starting with the lowest and simplest things and going on to create higher and more complex things according to an all-encompassing order and law.
(65-021, 1972.11.13)

23. In people's lives, true love for the sake of others is the foundation for mutual relationships. We experience this first in the true love of parents. Parents' true love, rooted in God's true love, can perfect individuals.

Perfected individuals, who then become husband and wife and build an ideal family, can bestow true love upon their children. That is the order of creation. The ideal world on earth expands from the perfect individual to a family, society, nation, and world of true love.

Our present world, however, emerged from a beginning very different from this ideal and expanded according to the results of the Fall.

This world is separated from the proper order of true love, the essential dynamic of God's creation. The world today, which ignores the order of God's creation and follows man-made structures, social forms, and laws, cannot give rise to ideal individuals, families, or nations. (219-009, 1991.08.24)

24. When God created the heavens and the earth, He first made all things, and then He created human beings as His object partners. The dynamic of giving and receiving is a basic law, so until you give everything, nothing will return. This is a principle. A husband has to love his wife completely before she will say, “I completely love my husband.”

Only when she has received his complete love will she begin to give back completely. This is a principle of heaven and earth. Thus, only when you receive completely from your subject partner do you reciprocate completely.

If you were to reciprocate before you received it completely, what you returned would not be perfect and complete. This is a give-and-receive action based on love; it is a law of the universe based on the Principle. (60-232, 1972.08.17)

25. We can see that the process of God's creation follows a principle of three stages. First God has an idea, then He completes that idea in His mind, and finally, He manifests that idea. He formed all things of creation through these three stages.

Of course, God cannot substantiate His Word in His mind alone. For this, He too had to unite His mind and body. That is how He could finally bring about His creation when He spoke, “Let it be! Let it be created like this!”
(60-261, 1972.08.18)

26. God's process of creation began from the concept of creating His counterparts and the motivation to do so. He began with extremely tiny entities. When they were complete, He added a higher motivation and purpose and advanced to larger entities.

He continued this process to achieve stages ever more complex, adding new design elements and higher purposes until He came to create human beings.
(66-243, 1973.05.15)

27. Based on the principle, God the Creator substantially developed all things from the beginning of creation, throughout history,y and until now, through a process of growth. He created Adam and Eve to go through the same process.

Where did this begin for them? In the same way that tiny cells combine to form bigger things, a baby is formed through ten months in the womb to emerge as a male or female child. If this were not the case, we would have no way to explain the logic of the inheritance of life.

In other words, the realm of the object partner must correspond to the realm of the subject partner. In Divine Principle terms, there has to be an external form that corresponds to the internal nature. (225-199, 1992.01.20)

28. The internal nature has the innate capacity to unite and communicate with the external form in every fundamental respect. As a result, the birth and growth process of human beings allows the invisible, incorporeal God to see Himself in their substantial forms.

Because His every intrinsic aspect is expressed and manifested through them, God cannot help but love them. That is so for each of us. We are God's embodiments, His substance. To transpose invisible substances into visible substances, God has to invest everything. (225-200, 1992.01.20)

God's dwelling and manifestation

29. Where does God want to dwell? If Adam and Eve had not fallen but had grown to perfection, and true love had united them in total oneness, that oneness is where God would have dwelt.

On their wedding day, God wanted to meet them at the center of their first love. Where else would God plant His blood, His love, and His life? In that love, internal and external, plus and minus would have united in harmony.

For that reason, we treasure first love the most. God owns vertical eternal love and the husband owns horizontal eternal love.
(347-166, 2001.07.04) 30.

God's intention and purpose went beyond perfecting the vertical subject-object relationship with human beings in love. After perfecting vertical love, He wanted Adam and Eve to bear the fruit of their horizontal love.

That moment was to be the very moment when the internal Parent, God, and the external parents, Adam and Eve, would achieve the ideal of love in complete union.

Then the incorporeal Parent, through the form of Adam and Eve, would have become the eternal Parent in this corporeal world. At that moment Adam and Eve would have become the True Parents and true ancestors of humankind.
(135-012, 1985.08.20)

31. When God created heaven and earth, there was no need for restoration. His hope when He created the original world, with human beings at its center, differed fundamentally from the hope He has for the world of today, which needs restoration.

His genuine hope in creating Adam and Eve, surpassing everything else, was to manifest Himself. In other words, through Adam and Eve, God aspired for the day when His internal attributes would become external substance.

God's hope for restoration is to align human beings with this majestic hope He had at the time of creation. (029-292, 1970.03.12)

32. God's purpose in creating the world was to live together with His creation, but today there is no realm in which people, the things of creation, and God can live together.

God lost His dwelling place as a result of the Fall. From the day He lost Adam and Eve until today, God has been roaming about looking for His people. Why is this?

It is because when we become God's temple and God's body, united with Him as substantial beings representing heaven and earth, our joy will become God's joy, and God will connect His joy to all things through us.

It is because we will become the mediators connecting God with all things of creation. (5-140, 1959.01.11)