We know that in history until now countless people have been pursuing goodness and pursuing truth. This pursuit of goodness and truth does not end with us today but will continue eternally even through the history that comes hereafter.
Human beings alone cannot establish a good world
When we consider the one good place, the good society, the good nation, and the good world that we seek, it makes us feel an uneasiness we cannot quite name.
When we consider the better thing we seek from the higher and better position we are pursuing here, the broader love we hope for, and the more precious value, we can know that with human beings alone we cannot furnish such a world, society, family, and individual. Therefore, in daily life we cannot but pursue something more ideal and more absolute.
Goodness is not a lowering from the present position; good things are born and good things are accomplished in a place that becomes higher. Accordingly, without possessing a direction that can overcome the present position, settle the present environment, and lead all our present desires and circumstances to a higher order, we cannot pursue a better world, a better society, a better family, or a better individual. In other words, because goodness can be pursued and found only on a road that seeks what is above me rather than what is below me, we cannot bring goodness forth through our ordinary living environment today.
Moreover, when we consider the question of whether we human beings can apply what we call “good” to the family, apply it to society, or apply it to the world, that very thing which we ourselves, living within a limited realm today, call “good” comes down in every case to something centered on ourselves. For this to appear as what the whole calls “good,” as something centrally good, the conditions that press upon it must be raised to a higher dimension than those.
Therefore, when I look at the family, society, nation, and world from the standpoint of saying that I am indeed a good person, that I must become a good person, or that I am looking toward a good person, we can flatly conclude the fact that one cannot go by oneself.
However firm a resolve we human beings may make, we can see that it begins in a moment and ends shortly. How many people are there who, passing through 365 days, accomplish what they resolved at the start of the year?
However firmly one has resolved, because that resolve easily comes apart and vanishes, when we consider that we are selves who cannot press on with vigor toward the purpose we pursue, we cannot with human beings alone establish the true world we hope for, nor can we become beings possessing infinite value as true individuals and advance into a world of absolute value. We come to know that this is impossible.
Human beings, who need an absolute being
Then what is needed here?
We need an absolute being. We must take as our example one greater than ourselves; we must follow one higher than ourselves, and we must go relying on one stronger than ourselves. Seen from this point, the stronger our desire to pursue goodness, the more we are in a position where, corresponding to it, we cannot but pursue something absolute, like an indirect object.
Therefore, to attain our hope, the value of yet another absolute being who can become the subject of the hope of all people and the subject of all power, not of me alone, cannot but be revealed. That is, we cannot but bring in the being called “deity,” the being called “God.” Because human beings from birth know their insufficiency and weakness and know that they begin in incompletion and will end in incompletion, without knowing it, they go through life believing in and hoping for something. Out of this, a heart of faith comes forth.
There are times when, setting out on a road, though you sense that the road will not be smooth, you set out with a heart hoping that all the difficulties will be resolved by something else, rather than with a heart of resolving that difficulty yourself. Even though this heart is something that occurs in one moment of a single day’s living, this cannot but be one segment representing the course of a human life. When we come to feel that such a thing is a weak appearance representing our character, the expression of a heart of faith comes about and the content of a heart of faith appears.
From this viewpoint, if I have become a self who knows the fact that there certainly exists a subject-like object that can resurrect our living and resurrect our lives and thus make us pursue goodness, and who accordingly equips himself with a heart of faith, then I, from the position of an object, must become one with that subject and take a point at which the purpose of the subject and the purpose of the object can be united. Such a person can overcome any environment, however difficult it is. However difficult his circumstances may be, the more clearly he knows and the more clearly he realizes that such are the desire and purpose of that absolute being who is the subject, the more that realization becomes a source of new strength directly in the course of his life—this you will feel through your life of faith.
To form a good world, a good nation and a good society are needed, and to form a good nation and a good society, good individuals must exist. Then, in the light of what I have said until now, can one become that good individual by oneself? This is close to impossible.
When you consider how many days there were in a year on which you set a plan to do such and such a good thing today, set out in the morning bearing hope, and could return in the evening boasting with a joyful heart that you had accomplished that hope and it today had become one day that could shine in your life, we know well that the days that were not so are more numerous.
We who pursue what is good could not but admit for ourselves that we are a fallen appearance, unable to establish good things from a subject-like position. The more we feel such a heart, the more such work has come about of determining a new subject who can supplement our insufficiency and supplement our incompletion. To determine this, faith became necessary and religion became necessary.
To dissolve God’s suffering
Then what is it that religion pursues?
Religion has been pursuing good people. And after pursuing good people, what will it do next? It pursues a good society. God hopes that not only society A and society B but also all the societies forming the world—that is, all the societies formed through past, present, and future—will become good. Yet because the societies presently formed do not become good, God has had to labor.
Why must God suffer?
If He were to separate off the societies that are not good and stand in a position of having no relation with them at all, there would be no reason for God to suffer, but does He suffer because there is an original relationship by which God cannot but face these societies that are not good? Considering this matter, it is because He is a God who has been facing all the societies that are not good that He is suffering.
Going further, from the position of having to pursue a nation of hope, He hopes that the countless nations will become better nations, but because He faces a realm of nations that cannot but fall short of that, God cannot but be more sorrowful and cannot but suffer more.
Then how will the heart of the suffering God be filled in?
It is not filled in by some individual praying fervently and comforting Him. Unless one good nation is formed that can lead toward the kingdom of heaven of hope from a subject-like position, God’s sorrowful heart cannot be filled in.
It is the same regarding the world. The greater the gap by which the present world falls short of the standard of the world God desires, the greater the suffering God undergoes.
Then at what time will God be able to dissolve that suffering?
God’s suffering is not dissolved by one individual resolving to become a good person. Is it not that only when a world in which God can be joyful is formed can that suffering be dissolved?
What must we do today to pursue goodness, or to become good people?
It must not end with my becoming a good person. If there is a gap between me and the standard of the good person God desires, the sorrow arising from that gap must be resolved. Thereafter, it is God’s will that through these people one new family and clan and people and nation and world be formed.
But this present society, which cannot be united with that will, and we individuals and families, who cannot be united with the good world that will aims at and who differ greatly from it, cannot fill in God’s heart. Therefore, unless even a small band furnishes the conditions by which a symbolic form can be established in forming such a world, one cannot accomplish even the second desire, the indirect desire.
Until now we have all pursued goodness centering on ourselves. Forgetting the surrounding environment entirely and centering only on ourselves, we have tried to settle everything, saying the motive too is me and the result too is me. But even if I became a good person from such a position, the question will be whether I can thereby become a self who is necessary to the world God desires.
Seen from this point, Jesus Christ agonized more than anyone. That is why the words of the Bible also say, “There is none righteous, no, not one.” Truly, it is so. Looking at Jesus as an individual, there was not the slightest fault to find, and he could stand boldly on behalf of the people of Israel, but before God, who was seeking a nation of hope, there was a gap between the Israel of hope He sought to recover and the Israel that then existed. We must know that due to this, God felt grief and desolation. Such was God’s desolation.
Who will resolve that sorrow of God?
By Jesus as an individual alone, that sorrow could not be resolved. Unless a standard were to come forth that possessed at least the form of a nation that could appear upon that foundation centering on Jesus, He could not relate to it as an object of God’s joy. Seen this way, the more keenly Jesus felt his mission for the future, the more he knew, more than anyone, that he bore a compounded responsibility.
Where do we place the purpose when we say today that we must do good work, that we must act well, or that we must become good people? When we consider the question of what that purpose is, it is not me. It is not me. However good an individual I may have become, there must be a good family. However good an individual one has become, one must furnish the foundation of a good family. With the individual alone, one cannot represent the family.
For me to become a self who can form a good family, the horizontal relationship becomes the problem. Even though a good family has been formed, with that alone one cannot form a good society. To form a good society, many good families must be connected. To furnish such a form of society, an individual family alone will not do. Considering one society, it is the same in forming a nation, and considering one nation, it is likewise the same in forming a world.
From this viewpoint, you must know that on the road of a person of faith who pursues goodness today, one must not live a life centered on oneself. It may seem that I am in a subject-like position, but that is in every case a subject for settling myself, not a subject that moves to accomplish the purpose.
That is why religion teaches absolute conformity and absolute obedience.
Moreover, it teaches absolute sacrifice. In other words, before the absolute being, my self must follow from a position of nothingness, and, regarding the absolute being as the subject, I must pursue from an object position an appearance that can harmonize with that absolute being. This is the course of faith.
Why is that? However good a person one may be, that alone will not do. Because it is the destiny of us human beings, placed on the road of restoration, to connect individuals horizontally and thereby to bring forth a value of higher dimension. Because God knows this position of ours, He teaches us to live for others. He tells us to live not for ourselves but for our brothers and sisters and for the nation.
Therefore, Jesus said,
“Do not worry about what you will eat or what you will drink or what you will wear. For all these things the Gentiles seek. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness.”
Good people alone will not do; a good nation must be established
What kind of nation is that nation?
It is a nation centered on God, a nation that is for the whole. Within the value of the whole, my individual self shines. Within the value of the individual, the whole cannot shine. The world in which the individual can shine within the value of the whole is precisely the kingdom of heaven.
Among the words of Matthew chapter 25, there are these words:
“When I was hungry you gave me food, and when I was thirsty you gave me drink, and when I was a stranger you took me in, and when I was naked you clothed me, and when I was sick you looked after me, and when I was in prison you came to see me. Then the righteous will answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?… And the King will answer and say, Truly I say to you, since you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.”
What these words mean is that as much as we human beings long for the subject, for the sake of that subject, we must be connected horizontally. These words mean precisely that a human being’s loving the subject must without fail be connected horizontally. In other words, because the subject and object are a vertical-horizontal relationship, in order for the vertical and horizontal to become a circle, the vertical and horizontal must be equal. Only when such action is carried out is a circle drawn.
You regard the vertical relationship with God as important, but there are many times when you disregard the horizontal relationship with people. Considering the content that must be taught within our Principle, this cannot but be a precious gospel and truth. So unless the vertical content in relation to God is united in the horizontal Cain-Abel relationship, restoration cannot take place. You must know that all the content symbolized by truth is contained here and that the meaning symbolized by the cross is contained here as well.
Therefore, everyone must always think of God, whether in good times or in sorrowful times. Before the vertical standard, one must think of God in good times and think of God in difficult times as well. Why must it be so? It is so that the whole may become one together with God. Therefore, when I am sorrowful, there must be a foundation on which I can be sorrowful together with the members in the horizontal environment. And when I am joyful, there must likewise be a foundation on which I can rejoice together with the members.
Accordingly, one must be for people as much as one is for God. You must know the meaning of Jesus’ words, “Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these, you did it to me,” spoken though the disciples had not done it to Jesus directly.
However good a person one may have become individually today, being merely a good person will not do. In other words, a good person by himself cannot connect good families. Nor can a good family by itself connect to a good society. A good family can be connected with a good family, a good society with a good society, and a good nation with a good nation; but a good individual cannot be connected directly with a good nation.
Positions that are mutually equal—good people with good people or good families with good families—can be connected horizontally with one another. And good nations too can be connected horizontally. Here there is equality, that is, peace. The “pyeong” of “peace” (平和) means “level.” Without this “pyeong,” even if there is harmony, that harmony soon disappears. Members of the Unification Church must not forget this fact.
We must sacrifice for the nation. In what position must we sacrifice? We sacrifice not centering on ourselves but for the hope of the thirty million people. What is it that the nation seeks? It seeks a new kingdom of heaven. Therefore, to find the kingdom of heaven, there is no way but to sacrifice in the place where the people are sorrowful, where the people suffer, where the people grieve. That is the only road good people can walk. In the Last Days (끝날), one must possess a transnational feeling for the sake of the world.
The requirements of a good person
Considering God’s love, can the Republic of Korea and Japan face each other today with the same mind as when they stood in the position of enemies more than thirty years ago? It must not be so. Between the two nations, a relationship of brotherhood centering on God’s love has been formed.
With a relationship of heart transcending the nation, as sons and daughters whom God desires, one must form a vertical relationship with God, and it does not end there—one must form a horizontal relationship proportionate to it. Overall, whether the kingdom of heaven is accomplished or not, whether the standard of the absolute being manifests upon the earth or not, depends on this. Accordingly, you must know that the question is how to make the horizontal foundation worldwide.
What must be done to solve that problem?
I must not be absorbed but must be able to absorb. A people with strong absorbing power will become a people that can absorb the world. Then what kind of person is a good person? He is a person who is absorbed into what is good. Not only that, but he is also a person who, even regarding what is bad, is absorbed into it without revealing anything at all, even if his essence is turned inside out. Yet though he is absorbed, he transcends the very thing that absorbed him. In other words, even though he has been absorbed into that society, he does not remain a person of that society but passes through. That is why I tell you, “Endure, be patient, overcome.” Without passing through such a process, one cannot become a good person.
A person possessing a true heart, a person who receives God’s love, must be able to say, “Receive my love.” What kind of person is such a person? He is a person who, when he faces a sorrowful person, can be united with that person’s heart, and when he faces a joyful person, can share that joy. When one becomes sorrowful due to the sin of having fallen, one must not be seized and absorbed by that sin; I am absorbed, but proportionally, I must, on the contrary, absorb. And thus, one must perform the subject-like role of stripping off the shell of sin and enabling the person to rise again.
Evil is like water flowing downward, and goodness is like water flowing upward. The phenomenon of the tide (潮水) rushing in and rushing out appears through the direction being changed by the moon’s gravitational pull. For the direction to be changed, there must be something that can change that direction. That is why God is absolutely necessary.
A good person is needed wherever he goes. And a bad person is also needed. Then why is a bad person needed? Because he can be absorbed into a good person.
When things are difficult, one must be able to become the master of that difficulty and receive all the difficulties. One receives all of it into one’s heart, yet in the end one is not governed by it; rather, having received it, when one reaches a state where one could not absorb any more, even if one tried, then it is reversed. Only a person who, even while being absorbed, possesses such a standard is good. In other words, a good person must be furnished with two-sided content. That is why everyone likes a good person.
What kind of being is God?
God is good and fine. Being good is not being good only in one direction. He must be infinitely open not only vertically but horizontally as well. Because our ancestors of the past also came pursuing and seeking the absolute God, we, their descendants, without exception, must do the same. Only when we pursue God not as a God needed only in a vertical relationship but horizontally as well, beyond an infinite world, can God be joyful.
Even a bad person likes a good person. Even if a bad person tries to absorb a good person, because the good person possesses more elements of goodness than elements by which he could be absorbed into the bad person, in the end the bad person absorbs the elements of goodness. Because the elements of evil are removed from the bad person and the elements of goodness remain, through that good person and through the good God, the grace of the resurrection of goodness comes about. Therefore, a good person is a person who has become a foundation that can supply goodness infinitely.
The person who can establish a good world
When there are two people, and we consider the question of which of those two is a good person, the good person is a being who can supply goodness infinitely or, if we compare the boundary line of one’s original nature to a vessel, a subject-like being who can fill that vessel full and give so that it overflows. To complain in the process of absorbing, or to fight from a position of not overflowing, is evil; it must overflow to be goodness. And what happens when it overflows? One comes to have dominion over the person who caused one to be absorbed.
That is why God’s strategy is a strategy of giving and taking back. In giving and taking back, one does not take back by sacrificing but takes back by resurrecting. If there are two things that can absorb, the one with the stronger power to absorb supplies what is absorbed as nourishment.
It was the same with the cultural worlds of the past. A strong culture absorbs a less strong culture. It is the same with good people: the stronger good person absorbs the less good person. What being strong means here is possessing content that can give more and supply more.
Then the question is whether the Unification Church will perish or not perish, whether it will receive the judgment of the ages of history or not. If it possesses content that can give more, going beyond the standard of the ages of history, it will not receive judgment.
If the Unification Church lives by taking and eating amid this world situation in the midst of today’s confusion, the Unification Church will perish. But if it is a Unification Church that can give and have more besides, without fail a day will come when it governs the world. To become such a Unification Church, what must you as individuals do?
Moreover, what must be done to give to the world?
Here, one person alone will not do. Because one must give by passing through individual, family, clan, people, and nation, a nation must be formed, a people must be formed, a clan must be formed, and a family must be formed. And a relationship must be formed between you and me. This is what becomes the problem.
However much one loves God and however much one has received God’s grace, if one cannot love people, in the end one does not receive God’s love. A person who cannot like people cannot become a person who can establish a good world.
What kind of person is Abel?
He is a person who likes people in any environment. In liking, who likes first? God likes first, and then one must like in that environment. Considering such content, we can know that in the family of Adam and Eve, Abel did not fulfill his responsibility.
When two people hold feelings toward each other as toward an enemy and, unable to endure, stand in a position of confrontation, which person remains? Here taking revenge is not the iron rule. If behind that revenge there is one condition—that is, magnanimity that can forgive—then revenge does not hold. Before what is better, what is lesser is absorbed. Which here is the subject and which is the object? What is better is the subject, and what is lesser is the object.
Then what kind of person is that person you say you will become, a good person? He is a person who has established an absolute standard before God, who is the absolute being. In that absolute standard, the world is included, and the nation and the people and all the systems and ideologies of society are included. It must be so. One must furnish such an absolute environment. In whatever society, within whatever system, one must become a being possessing the magnanimity to give.
If so, what kind of person is a good person?
A good person wants to give eternally, not only in the age in which he lives but even into the future. Until now, such a person has been called a holy saint.
The essence of love
Yet the problem is what one will give. It says to love people, but what will one give? It is not giving money or giving power but giving love, which is better than truth. What kind of love is that? It is God’s love. One must give the absolute love of God.
What kind of person is the person who can remain to the last in the history of humankind? He is a person who wails because he wants to give to the people of his age and who wants to give without harboring han even if he enters a position where his body is ruined.
If he wants to give but the people cannot receive, he must give for the world. He gives, not looking for any profit of his own but hoping for the resurrection of another’s life. For the resurrection of life, he must live with the hope of meeting a future world in which life has been resurrected, sacrificing his body, and he must feel more attachment to it than to his life and feel it to be of more infinite value than his life.
A good person wants to give more even after giving everything
You must know that because Jesus Christ died in this way, the cross has meaning. Because Jesus knew God’s will, even in death he went to God. Since he received from God, he must give to humankind. In giving, one must give, having set up the condition of intending to give to humankind through God. Therefore, once a vertical standard with God has been established, at some point a horizontal line must be drawn here.
Because heaven and earth possess an orbit that revolves from such a position, a level moment must come in which a horizontal line at ninety degrees to the vertical line can be drawn. That is why Christianity, the horizontal religion formed through a relationship of love centering on God, overcame all the difficulties of the ages of history, created a new cultural world, and has remained until the present Last Days, until the level line can be drawn.
We must not complain. We must not make excuses either. We cannot make excuses. Why is parental love precious? Because though it is vertical love, it does not end as vertical love but strives to let horizontal love dwell in it—that is why it is precious. Parental love possesses content by which parents seek to become guides for their children through daily life, lest their children go wrong.
What is that?
Vertical love is bound to create horizontal love. Parental love too, according to this principle, has been formed by being concentrated vertically and horizontally centering on God’s love. Because parental love is thus responsible for the elements of the vertical and the horizontal, parents wish to give what is precious to them just as it is to their children. They wish to let them receive it just as it is and then broaden it horizontally. Such is the essence of love.
Why is the essence of love like this?
Because it is love formed in a relative relationship, it cannot but be so. The relationship between subject and object cannot but be so. Between subject and object, by giving and receiving with each other, a circle is drawn. Because the subject is vertical and the object is horizontal, these come to a ninety-degree angle and draw a circle. Therefore, the essence of love without fail possesses vertical and horizontal content. Between vertical and horizontal, which sets out first? The vertical sets out first. That is why love flows out from the parents. If you analyze the inner heart of love, there is a vertical-horizontal substance of love.
God’s love is vertical. Yet God’s love does not end only as vertical love; because it is a love that can be furnished with horizontal content, it appears before horizontal sons and daughters. As those sons and daughters broaden it not only by a vertical standard but horizontally as well, from there the beings of all creation broaden from a vertical environment into a horizontal environment, and the world and the Cosmos wait.
And so, with this heart of love as the motive, one comes to have thoughts of governing the world, or of possessing something, or of what would be good to do. That is because, without your knowing it, a vertical-horizontal relationship of love is being drawn upon the essential foundation of your mind. You cannot deny the fact that your desires are fulfilled by that essential craving.
God’s love cannot end as God’s love alone. That love must without fail extend horizontally through human beings. This is like a shadow. A shadow appears as a responsive phenomenon representing the form of the substance. Speaking in terms of electricity, just as when plus and minus give and receive, a reaction inevitably arises, so when subject and object give and receive, a responding pole arises. Such a thing unfolds again elsewhere.
When we say a person is good, what does “good” mean?
It means being kind. Within that meaning of goodness there is also the emotion of beauty, and the emotion of love, and the emotion of hope. Because what becomes the object before love is beauty, when the relationship of subject and object is determined, hope is without fail drawn. That hope is accomplished by acting. Hope is accomplished across a distance. Because hope appears only when a relationship is formed, there comes to be a distance here.
Therefore, in being kind, there is, without fail, hope. Without hope, one does not become kind. Without hope, one does not think one’s children lovable. When one is kind, hope can be accomplished. That is why kindness becomes an object of beauty. Not only that, but it also possesses love. Is it not so? A kind baby is pretty. There is, without fail, an element there that induces love. Therefore, at the same time as the value of an object is determined, hope dwells there.
In love there is, without fail, a purpose. Therefore, the subject and object must not be without a purpose. From such a viewpoint, dialectics came forth, centering on a view of purpose, and from this, the dialectical materialism of communism came forth.
Looking at you of the Unification Church, you try to do well toward God. But you must not put yourself forward, saying, “Father, love me.” Think how stifling it would be for God if you hoped that the world would shine within yourself and hoped that God would come and live inside you.
If God, who governs the universe, were to go and live within your mind, which is like the eye of a needle, how stifling would that be! Your greed says, “God, come into my mind and do as I will.” But Jesus, even in praying, said, “Father, let it be as You will.” There is no will of his own there.
Why must Cain and Abel be restored?
Because it is a world without a horizontal subject and object, Cain and Abel must be restored. Is it not so? For that, the subject and object must give and receive from each other. This is the principle. If they cannot give and receive, the horizontal aspect is not determined, and therefore Cain-Abel restoration is absolutely necessary. Centering on love, even had there been no fall, two people are, without fail, necessary on the earth.
If parents do wrong and lose hope in the parents’ generation, they hope in the children’s generation. If the parents cannot accomplish the hope even in that children’s generation, they hope it will be accomplished in the third generation, the great-grandchildren’s generation; if not in the third, in the fourth; if not in the fourth, then through the tenth generation, the hundredth generation.
What must be done to accomplish that hope?
They must not become mutually incompatible. To become sovereigns of goodness who can govern the world and rule the world, one must not bring out factors of conflict and develop that standard by coercive force. A thought possessing one view of the nation, or a worldview, with subject-like authority by which all people can be automatically absorbed into that standard and harmonized with it must come forth.
When one looks at you praying, you always love yourselves. You love only yourselves. As long as I am living in a fallen position, I must go about seeking. It was said that he who seeks to die shall live and he who seeks to live shall die. If you would be treated well, treat others that well.
Even if one is oneself good, if one receives from a position where goodness cannot be hoped for, it becomes evil. It is the same whether one receives it or not. So one must receive from a position where one can digest it. Everything received while I am in an evil position is sin. Only when one can say, after giving everything, that one wants to give still more can one at last receive. You must know that a good person is such a person.
The settling place all people long for is where love is
You must not become individualistic and egoistic people. Freedom obtained by attaining an egoistic purpose amounts to nothing but freedom for receiving. Here thousands and tens of thousands of walls lie in the way. Moreover, here there is no view of the nation and no worldview. Such a thought is an extremely dangerous thought and a thought that will perish. The tendency of today’s liberal thought is a thought that will perish.
Within such a thought there can be no family, no clan, no nation, and no world. Only in a position that can bring the world together in a vertical-horizontal relationship can the nation enter, and society enter, and the family enter, and the individual enter.
If one falls away from there and becomes a wanderer with only you and me, where will one abide? Where is the settling place that all people can long for in common? That place is where love is. Yet if one furnishes four-directional completeness centering on a momentary love, it ends with one generation. Love must appear, centering on the individual, as a form of the world in which family, clan, people, nation, and—if there is an absolute being who created heaven and earth—that absolute being become one, and the love of that absolute being is included.
If we analyze that world, there is an individual representing the family. In their essence, the individual and the family are the same. Isn't the ideal nation a form of nation in which such consistent individuals and families have become total and have become one representative form?
Ideologically, individualistic thought in the history of humankind is meeting its consummation. That is why, as I said earlier, a good individual alone cannot be connected with a good world. To be connected with a good world, there must be an excellent thought possessing worldwide capacity. Just as God created heaven and earth with a certain conception, so for us, who must carry out the work of re-creation, we must go forward centering on a worldwide conception through the way of God’s heart. Therefore, a unifying ideology is necessary.
Until now humankind has pursued thought, but because this thought has not contributed to humankind, we have met an age in which this thought must be abandoned—so is this not the end? All the people who took up that thought as good believed they would all live by it, but now they stand in a position of having no choice but to abandon it, and what must be taken up is not humanistic thought but a new God-centered thought.
Hereafter, is there such a thought by which, centering on God-centered thought, this world can enjoy glory and can attain the summit of a new cultural world? Is there a religion that can found a new culture of a transhuman, transworldwide standard hereafter? There is not. Considering this matter, you must know that the individual is precious.
That is why, in this age of consummation today, Unification Thought is absolutely necessary. The thought that must present a new view of purpose and a new worldview before humankind and must present not only the direction but even the environment for it is precisely this Unification Thought.
Then how must this be presented in presenting it?
It must not be presented by exploiting and plundering, as countless statesmen and sovereigns have been doing until now, but must be presented while striving with a desire to give infinitely, making oneself the offering. And thus, one must expand a horizontal love that can extend beyond national borders into the world. When a horizontal foundation is formed that can go beyond the nation and beyond Asia and beyond the world, then because the standard of an absolute object is determined there, God’s love appears.
When you set out for the sake of something, there must without fail be either a starting line or a starting point. What is that line and what is that point? A line is the sum of points. Therefore, there must be a point. There must be a correct point, and what is that? It is the absolute subject. Among subjects, if it becomes the representative subject, that subject becomes the symbol of the whole. The center of that subject is precisely God’s love. The center of the subject is precisely God’s love.
Without loving, one cannot return to the original world
Why is that love of God good?
Because it is not a love for oneself but a love for the whole. Moreover, God’s love does not end with giving everything to the whole; even after giving, there is more remaining. That is why it returns to the subject. It must be precisely such a love. God’s love for human beings does not end with that love alone.
When the person who has come into contact with that love is completely harmonized with the subject’s love, that love is sent back again through the relative human being. Because human beings thus possess content that can be returned, it is eternal.
If you compare input and output, the force coming in and the force going out, the force going out is smaller. Have you thought about this? Why did God have relative love, that is, the relationship of subject and object, come about in the world? God gives love to us human beings. That love abides in your individual selves. Yet God’s love decreases in the course of passing through us human beings. If what goes in is the input, what comes out again is the output, and the output is always smaller. Love is consumed.
Then, considering the question of how this is to be reinforced, another horizontal subject and object are needed here. By yet another subject and object giving and receiving with each other, something new is reinforced, and as this is joined horizontally, will it not be changed into a force that can newly return? Such an action of force is the principle.
Therefore, why must people love one another?
Because without loving, God’s love cannot return. Not one point of it can return. Before vertical love, there must be the relative love of subject and object. In order for the force of vertical love to reach even a relative relationship, a new force must be reinforced. Because vertical love acts to reinforce a stimulating force and again to store up a plus-like stimulus, God’s love can return even to its original self. Therefore, for the sake of the vertical and horizontal subject and object, a vertical subject and a horizontal subject are necessary.
Just because one has received God’s love does not make one good.
As it says, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29)” and “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Matthew 3:17)”
— Is everything finished for such a beloved, only begotten son once he receives love? No. If he has received love, he must love. He must supply strength. He must give sufficiently. He must give sufficiently to the nation and give sufficiently to the world.
It is the same with the Unification Church. If we have received God’s love, we must give sufficiently. I tell you to give for the sake of the will. Through oneself, one must satisfy the nation and the world. Yet a good person alone will not do. Good people are needed. Without good people, the kingdom of Heaven, the world of Heaven, can by no means be established.
A good person is a person who can give. A good person does not end with liking the subject; the two must be joined. When two are joined, power comes forth. What kind of power comes forth? A power stronger than the power of life comes forth.
That power must not be consumed by the two but must be added to a new power of Heaven. Looking even at the cells of your body, the cells give and receive with one another. By doing so, how could they bear fruit if they fell away separately? It is because they possess the purpose of being absorbed into a new life called “I” that they are connected well.
When praying, in the established churches they pray, “Oh God! Please look after our church in such and such a way.” This prayer forgets the nation, forgets the world, forgets heaven and earth, and prays for their church. Such a church will perish once the age of the church has passed. When we have entered the age of the people, if one prays about the church, God rather retreats from it.
Would it not be so? Even when a fine feast is held in a household, to establish the household’s norms, the feast is held centering on the elder. Thus, the household law of a family is formed centering on the elder. Who is that elder? Among the elders, it is the grandfather if there is a grandfather and the great-grandfather if there is a great-grandfather. Even if that great-grandfather has become senile, the center of the norms is the great-grandfather. Even though he cannot speak and cannot give orders, when there is something to eat and when something good arises, the principle is to inform him first. Why is that? Because he is the vertical center. In other words, that grandfather is the vertical standard. All the good and bad things of nature bear fruit only after passing through the vertical relationship. That is why there is reason in the saying that if one fails to recognize one’s ancestors, one perishes.
The horizontal alone will not do. That is like a wanderer. This holds as a formula wherever one goes. Looking even at the formulas until now, there is none that has not been formed by a vertical-horizontal relationship. There is no formula formed apart from the relationship of subject and object. It is by this standard that a formula is formed.
The Unification Church, which aims toward the world
A formula is nothing else. If there is something possessing subject-like content that can be applied to the whole to maintain one relationship, that becomes a formula. When one condition can be brought to a conclusion representing the whole condition, then it emerges as a formula. Such is the principle. A formula means a center. The center is precisely the vertical standard. Therefore, the vertical standard is not two. It is one.
Looking even at one household, who is the center of that household?
The one advanced in years—that is, if the great-grandfather is alive, that great-grandfather is the center. If the family disregards that grandfather because his time to die has come, it is the same as disregarding the vertical world. Even though he has become senile, the center of that family is the great-grandfather. Even if there is something to eat, it must be brought to him first. However much the father is the president of that nation, it must be given to the grandfather first. Why? Because the son is horizontal.
Looking today, centering on our Unification Church, what we desire is not the Unification Church. That is what I think. The signboard of the Unification Church is not what matters. Why do we try to do the social work that the nation has not done? It is because the Unification Church is not for the Unification Church itself. The Republic of Korea is for the Republic of Korea itself, but the Unification Church is a church that goes beyond the Republic of Korea and beyond Asia and is for the world.
Then what is it that can do that?
It is Unification Thought. Considering the thought of the world, its current should draw a vertical straight line, but looking at today’s thought, it is drawing a horizontal line. Yet though the vertical relationship is wrong, one must pass through this horizontal line and be connected to the vertical line. Until that time, this thought cannot but come forth. What kind of line is that vertical line? It is the only line there is. The perfectly drawn line is one. It is not two but one.
The vertical world is not two. That is why it is a worldwide ideology and a worldwide thought. It is worldwide, not as a divided thought but as a unified thought. Until now, such a history has been unfolding within this world. History follows thought that can be better, centering on the past, present, and future.
Then where will this thought appear?
Wherever this thought appears, it must go all the way to the central position. That position is the center of the world. Therefore, an individual can also become the center. This is an individual within the world. A family too can become the center, and a clan can become the center, and a people can become the center. To become a worldwide people, one must become the center. For that, one must run for the sake of the world. One must give for the sake of the world.
Where is the place where one can love for the sake of the world and be loved for the sake of the world? That place is the kingdom of heaven. That place will become the center of every individual’s mind, and the center of every family, the center of the clan, the center of the people, the center of the nation. When such a standard appears, the world will automatically open into a realm of unity.
Seen from this point, the standard the Unification Church aims at today is not the Unification Church. It is the founding of the kingdom of Heaven, that is, of the Third Israel. What is the founding of the Third Israel? It is not making a world for the Third Israel but founding a Third Israel for the world. Do you understand what I mean?
Give everything for the sake of the world
One must give everything for the sake of the world. It is an Israel that must stand in a position of giving from the very start and at the same time be able to give eternally.
If there is a victor, or someone who has set a record, authority is given to that person for the sake of the world until another person appears. One must follow his command, and because he is the absolute central being, others must stand in a relative position. Until one possesses value beyond this, that position cannot be yielded. Because that position is great and high and precious, in terms of truth it is a more progressive truth, and in terms of value it is more valuable. This position is one. That is what is meant by the central position.
For what was a person born?
He was born for the sake of the world. Then was he born into the world? No. He was born through God. You were born for the sake of the world, but because God is the subject, you were born to receive the love of God, who becomes the center of the world.
Then where does one receive God’s love?
One receives it at the center of the world. In other words, one receives it within the realm of victory called “Israel.” That is why the Unification Church comes forth hoping for the founding of Israel. You must know that the founding of that Israel is not for Korea but a founding for the world.
It is not a world for Korea but a Korea for the world. Do you understand what I mean? Without standing in such a position, it will not do. If it is a Korea for the world, we must give first. When we receive after giving, we settle in place. This is the principle of giving and receiving. Likewise, when we give for the nation and the nation receives, what did I say happens? It returns. Where does it return? It returns to God’s nation. That is, it returns to the position of Cain and Abel. That is why, centering on the Republic of Korea, we must hereafter give to the foremost nation of the world.
When one has received grace from Heaven, unless one expends that grace in a larger sphere, that grace does not remain. If one has received grace of a value of ten and expends it by eleven, then grace of ten always remains. If one adds just one more and gives, ten always remains. Conversely, when ten is demanded and one could give only nine, even if one is short by only one, one is always short. One hundred points is complete, but ninety-nine points is incomplete. What is incomplete must retreat and start over again.
If one took an examination and got ninety-nine points, what must be done to get a hundred? One must take the examination again. Therefore, if the Republic of Korea becomes a Republic of Korea for the world, the world becomes a world for the Republic of Korea. So we must become a Christianity that is for the world.
Until now, Christianity has said it is for the world, but it has not managed it. Since it has not managed it, it must start over again.
Seen from this point, if members of the Unification Church wrap up their bundles and shoulder them and just sit still, they are the same as lepers. Is there or is there not a heart in your minds that wants to be good? “There is.”
If there is such a heart, one must prepare a position from which one can pursue a third point. This third point is because it becomes the standard. For you to do well, a third point must be established. My telling you that you must witness is also because a third point is necessary. It is to establish this third point that you must witness. Otherwise, a circle is not drawn. Why must a circle be drawn? Because when a circle is completely drawn, the center is automatically determined.
Therefore, even in praying, you must change your method. You must pray for the world from God’s position. Before praying, think of yourself as having become God’s right arm. With that arm, what must you give? God wants to give to the whole world. He wants to give this and that and everything. How magnificent that is!
Then will He give only to the people of the present?
Must He not also give to all the spirit people of the spirit world who came and went in the past? Now they are without form, but because they too were born as people in the past, they will hope to receive from God at least once. So how busy God must be! Would He not be unable to give it all even in a thousand years, ten thousand years? Therefore, even if we cannot become loyal subjects, must we not become at least one cell within God’s head?
The driving force that enables development is goodness (善)
Only when a cell leaves behind an element that cooperates for the sake of the living body, for the human body, if it is the human body, can it be said to function as a cell; if that is absent, it suffers. For cells to be generated, cells must be constituted and must leave something behind so that they can form a third cell; only then are they generated. Otherwise, everything blows away.
In Christianity today, it is said that one is saved through grace, through faith. One is saved not through grace but through works. Without works, grace cannot be accomplished. Grace and works are in a vertical-horizontal relationship. Therefore, separating the two, nothing is accomplished. They must become one.
If one has received grace, one must return value proportionally to what one received. The factor of development lies here. If one cannot return it, there is no development. Do the branches of a tree extend by being given nutrients or by being forcibly pulled? They extend by being given nutrients. The factor of development lies in giving.
What is a good thing?
It is the driving force that enables development. Therefore, one must give. In giving, what must one give? One does not give the worst thing. One does not give scraps of cloth, and one does not give leftovers. One must give life. Not only life, but even the only love must be given. This is parental love. That is why in the Unification Church it is said to bear the heart of a parent and wear the body of a servant, and to shed sweat for the earth, tears for humankind, and blood for Heaven, and give love. Then there is no way of perishing. One absolutely will not perish.
Human beings were born to receive love and to love from the central position of the world. That position is precisely the position of Adam and Eve. Your coming forth following the relationship of restoration is also to find the original position of Adam and Eve. So one must receive God’s cosmic love and love the world. One must live for the sake of the world. One must not live pettily only for the Republic of Korea. Without a heart of loving the world, it will not do.
That is why one must draw a straight line by which one can live for the sake of the world. How does this straight line come about? When the straight line is drawn to a certain extent, a vertical line is drawn. Once this vertical line is drawn, God’s love comes forth automatically. Once a perfect object is formed, a perfect subject automatically comes into being. It comes into being automatically and becomes the plus.
In electricity, if a perfect minus comes into being, does a plus come into being or not? “It comes into being.” In order for a perfect plus to come into being, there must be a perfect minus. Accordingly, in order for God’s love to become a perfect plus and stand in a subject-like position, there must be a representative foundation. This foundation is the problem.
When, by giving and receiving, this becomes a perfect plus, because there is power there to create a minus, a minus is made. When it becomes so, if one only grasps this power, it gathers at one point. When this gathers at one point, it takes on a direction and acts.
Therefore, a person who gives and receives vertically and horizontally must without fail require a third point. If there is no third point, an environment in which love can be given and received does not unfold. Requiring this third point is normal. The subject and object must without fail pass through a third point.
This third point must exist for the sake of the subject’s purpose and the object’s purpose as well. When it becomes so, a larger nucleus unfolds. Because it develops in that way, when the body and mind of an individual become the subject and form one nucleus centering on that subject, a subject arises that can relate to an object.
Next, when man and woman become one and give and receive this completely, they become one subject and a nucleus and can relate to the clan. It develops in that way. When the family becomes completely one with the clan, centering on that clan, it becomes the subject and can go forward for the people. And when the people become one centering on the nation, they can go forward for the world. That is why the nation of Israel is the problem.
The standard of a good person
Some people say that it is easy to become the president of the world but difficult to become the president of the Republic of Korea. This is said in every respect from the standpoint of the will.
Then what is the standard of a good person from the standpoint of the will? A person who is good on the clan level disappears in the age of the people. And a person who is good on the level of the people disappears in the age of the nation. Can Admiral Yi Sun Sin, a loyal subject of the Republic of Korea, be called a meritorious subject of the world? Seen from Japan’s position, Admiral Yi Sun Sin is an enemy. Admiral Yi Sun Sin, who loved our country, is an enemy in Japan. That is the principle.
In a position of contesting victory and defeat while shedding blood, the word “enemy” cannot be erased. Unless a position is laid where giving and receiving can take place through God’s love, enmity does not disappear. It is religion that seeks to eliminate this enmity. And among religions, it is Christianity that seeks to give to the world through God’s love.
Because Christianity, while shedding blood and being martyred until now, stood in a position of giving to the persecuting Roman Empire, it could become a worldwide religion today. Had it taken revenge, or had it wrapped up its bundles and fled, it could not have become the Christianity of today. It put down roots in the very place where it was opposed.
From this viewpoint, for what do members of the Unification Church live today? For what do you live? You live for goodness. Goodness will not do with God alone. Goodness unfolds when God and human beings are joined.
What is the highest goodness among goodnesses?
Or what is the best among good things? It is God’s love. It is not conjugal love. It is not fighting. That is why all people hate war.
You must not be as good as individuals alone. Therefore, one must love people as one loves God. I do not know whether you love me, but you must love me. You must love me as you love God, and you must love one another as you love me. Without doing this, it will not do. There, one must not act as one pleases, thinking that one is the center. From a position in which everyone can understand, that whole environment must be able to uphold and attend to a center. It must be sorted out not by force but automatically.
Just as when you set an object in motion, what is heavy automatically settles beneath, so a heavy person is driven to the middle. In turning and turning, what is heavy does not move, but what is light keeps moving and therefore goes around the perimeter. Because what is heavy does not move, it naturally moves into the middle. It becomes so without being taught by anyone. So one comes into a position of attending to that person as the central figure of oneself. Then what must one do for that? One must give everything. This is the motive of faith.
Seen from this position, we are people born for the sake of the world, centered on God’s love. You were born for the sake of the world, were you not? If so, are you living for the sake of the world? On a road of a thousand ri, is one step the start of the thousand-ri road, or not? It is the start. Two steps mean one has gone that much further. The thousand-ri road grows shorter. Whether one step or two steps, the form is the same.
One must live for the world one’s whole life
On a road of a thousand ri, some people walk with a limp. Is that walking or limping? Looking at that alone, is that walking? It is limping. Yet that too is walking. Even if one walks while taking a nap, it is walking. Walking while taking a nap is to go faster. Even sleeping is the same as walking. Everything is for the goal. Eating and sleeping too are to go. When one thinks in terms of being for the goal, even sleeping becomes going.
You must live for the sake of the world your whole life. Even though you live in a small eastern country called the Republic of Korea, furnished with nothing, in a narrow place, you must know that this is a process for making something greater. Do you understand what I mean?
Why is that? It is to walk a great road. It is because one must live for the sake of the world. I am like this now, but wait and see for a while. Whatever anyone says, one must go. One must break through a complicated environment and go in the direction I have presented, even if others oppose. How must one go for the sake of the world? One must go not by violating or using others but by standing for others.
When witnessing, if there is a person with much money, you may think it would be good if that person came in, but what good is it if such a person comes in? Is that for the Unification Church or for that person? It absolutely will not do to have the person you witnessed make an offering because he has some money so that you can solve your housekeeping. In saving a life, one must not think about material things. You must sort out all such things.
You must not judge people as good or bad by their appearance. To become a high person, one must settle the low people well. One must not step on low people and climb because one is high.
If one does so, all the trampled people will climb over one, and those who trampled will go down. This is the principle. Therefore, one must go and stand up for others. One must go and stand up for one’s family and for one’s workplace. When something goes wrong at the workplace, if there is a person who is more for the company than the company president is, that person can become the president of that company.
What kind of person is the most formidable as a person of faith?
On the road to Heaven, it is a person who asks to be commanded to do, for the sake of the world, what no member could do. Such a person comes to occupy a worldwide foundation. One must say that for decades, even if all the trials and sufferings of the Republic of Korea are poured out, one will bear every cross until one dies. To love the world, one must be so. One cannot but walk such a road of suffering. Before an earnest heart of wanting to love the world, no flat cross that comes upon one can be a problem.
Facing a flat cross, one must join a vertical cross to it and bear the cross of Heaven and go. When we consider that God is undergoing the suffering of the cross beyond the suffering I undergo, we must feel that rather than becoming losers and leaving behind unfilial conduct before God, by overcoming this, it is the final opportunity for God to prepare, through me, an origin of greater hope. When one faces the cross, feeling such a heart, that position is precisely a blessed position. You must know that going in this way is faith.
Such a person, even if dragged into prison, will say that it is for him a nest in which he can find happiness. This moment is a moment in which one can break through the boundary line of the kingdom of heaven and shorten one's distance. That very position is the position of offering all one’s devotion and, night and day, straining every nerve and investing one’s whole mind and offering the highest devotion for the sake of the world. That position is not a position of sorrow.
Even if the enemy’s whip comes flying, let us gather strength and repay the enemy. Being struck ten times first and then striking three times cannot be avenged from Satan’s side.
If one has been struck ten times first despite having done no wrong, then even if one strikes ten times, twenty times, or several hundred times, Satan’s side cannot protest. This becomes fine material for subjugating Satan for the sake of the world and a fine reference for removing all the evil of the world.
Become a person who does not push himself forward
You must be struck and must also suffer hardship and undergo difficulty in a position of death. That is not an enemy. This position is a position where one can receive blessings a thousandfold, ten thousandfold. You must overcome beyond even what the righteous forebears of history did, who led the way while keeping a loyal subject’s integrity even in the lonely position of groaning to recover the nation.
Moreover, one must advance even beyond the position in which Jesus Christ groaned and prayed at the summit of the cross. Unless it is such a position, one is still far from a position of being able to stand for the world. Therefore, on the road that goes that way, death follows along.
You must go, saying that even if at some time you collapse, you will subjugate the enemy. Then what work must you do for the sake of the world? You must not work for the sake of your sons and daughters. You must leave something behind for the sake of the world. Such people are precisely the people needed for the world of goodness that humankind aims at. There are bands of people who, at even a little hardship, make excuses about this and that; let them try as they may. When one puts oneself forward, however much one tries, it will not work. One must be connected to the essence of faith. This principle is without error.
When I see a person, I know at once for whom that person lives. Where is his starting point? Is he a person who lives for the nation or a person who lives for the world? If one talks a few words, I know at once. However one dresses it up, I know. I am that kind of person. Yet to a person who, though he is a lowly person possessing nothing, feels a shame he cannot bear the further he goes and therefore tries not to show himself but to hide, God gives more. This is the Principle. It is the same as the reason it was said that he who seeks to die shall live and he who seeks to live shall die.
Why have I until now not tried to reveal myself in this nation?
Why do I not appear in official settings even now? Even when so-called notables—a bureau chief, a section chief, this or that—ask to meet me, I do not meet them. A time will come when I can take pride in the authority by which God lets me meet them all.
Because it is a course of restoration in which one goes putting forward the people who follow one, I put the followers into a position higher than that, and looking at it, I rejoice. That is a parent’s heart. Among you there are fellows who keep pushing themselves forward. A fellow who says, “Save me,” will not do. Because it is not the stage of appearing before many people and speaking; I am not speaking, even though I am a self who could boast. And yet you are indebted to others for your own sake? You rascals.
It is because I have not fulfilled the responsibility I must fulfill toward this nation and this people that I do not yet speak loudly. Concerning the principle and the fundamental rule, I can speak loudly, but I cannot put myself forward and speak loudly.
That is why my road is time-sensitive. My road is urgent twenty-four hours a day. However tired I am, I must not sleep. If I even take a nap, I repent. After sleeping, I cannot lift my face for shame. I am a person who lives with a mind that feels shame, like the mind of a woman when she exposes her body before men. Let anyone pound and prattle as they will about such a one as I. In the end, who perishes? God always wants to listen, but even though He wants to listen to that person’s words, He cannot.
This realm develops because it has, without fail, a relationship of giving and receiving. You have now all settled into your places. Looking at the candidates for the Blessing these days, they are all centering on themselves, saying who is such and such and who is good. They do not know how great the sin is of trying to use me for their own receiving of the Blessing. When they go to that world, there will be no way to escape it. However ideal a spouse one has met, when one goes to that world, one is caught.
The best among good things is God’s love
However good a position that person has entered, what could I give to that person? You must think well about the fact that such various problems are related three-dimensionally. Because God is a fair God, if there is a person who received a smaller ration, He will without fail give more at some time. Therefore, do not lament that your spouse is bad. Before that, love your spouse first. Even if you complain, complain after loving beyond a hundred if a hundred is what the spouse can receive, beyond a thousand if it is a thousand. If you complain without loving, you perish. One gives and then takes back.
That descendants receive blessings is because God is a fair God, and if there is a person who is lacking and received less, He gives it back with several hundredfold interest. Therefore, good descendants are born to a person who lives with such a heart.
If a pit has formed, it must be filled in, must it not?
And if a low-pressure zone has formed, must not the high-pressure zone distribute to it? This is the principle of heavenly law. That is why I tell you not to complain. There is nothing unfair. Just as what is bad currently becomes fertile soil in which roots take hold and good fruit is borne, so God sends as descendants the people needed for the nation and the world.
Were we born for the Republic of Korea or born for the Unification Church? We were born to become loyal subjects for the world. The formula is so. The world remains eternally. So let us become friends of the world. You must live with such a heart.
I must be able to give for the sake of the world. For that, even in educating one’s children, one must educate them to broaden the road by which they can give to the world. If I have come to know the will but cannot walk that road, I must have that road laid even through my sons and daughters, or through my children of faith. A person who offers all such devotion, even if he does not reach that limit within his lifetime, will emerge as a glorious central being in the world. Here dwells a relationship formed through the law of love.
Parental love crosses national borders. Just because a son has gone to America, is the love of his mother in Korea restricted? A mother sheds tears for her son. Though her body is in the Republic of Korea, her heart sheds tears for her son in America. Her sweating and her working, too, are for that son. This is impossible except for a human being. Can it be done by force or by shouting? Only a heart of love can do it.
Then why is love necessary? Love is necessary because it is the center among good things and is God’s love. That love of God appears in the parent-child relationship centering on human beings. And so the relationship of parents’ love for their children unfolds. The world of heart centering on this love becomes the foundation of Unification Thought.
My being good as an individual alone will not do. Good people are necessary. Being good as an individual alone will not do. If there are no good people, one must make them. For that, one must bear the heart of a parent and wear the body of a servant and live washing and wiping and clearing away everything with tears and blood and sweat. Unless there is a good nation formed of good people, the good world needed in the world cannot come about.
Then how great is the distance between that nation and the individual? With what does one make this one? There is no way to make it one with anything else. That is why one must connect it with heart so that individuals can like one another and families can like one another for the sake of the world. Because God’s love is central, it becomes the content of the whole, and if it is spread out, it is everything.
If this is contracted, it becomes my individual self. When I am in a position without God’s love and without an object, I am just one; but if I stand for the world and for the nation and for the clan and for the family, I become the center of the world, the center of the nation, the center of the clan, and the center of the family.
In this way, the center that is my single self broadens in scope into a first horizontal standard, a second horizontal standard, and a third horizontal standard to produce a horizontal standard out of the vertical standard. That is what the history of restoration does.
Lay a good foundation upon which people can submit themselves
Why did our countless ancestors—Noah or Abraham—fail to fulfill their responsibility? Because they all centered only on themselves. The people of Israel, too, thought that they could handle the world centering on themselves, but it was the opposite. They did not know that when the Messiah came, there would be a quest requiring more labor than laboring for their nation.
You, too, must have thought it would be nothing but good when you believed in the Unification Church, but you must cross over one more crest. Beyond it is a valley, and having passed through that valley, one must climb again. This is our norm. Passing through indemnity, we must climb toward the final summit where we will abide.
Where is that summit? It is the nation. One must climb to the standard of the nation. The Unification Church has crossed toward the inner summit for the sake of the nation, but it must cross once more through the valley. And so it must cross over the nation. Before crossing this, there is no road to go on. If you collapse in this valley or complain that you dislike this road, everything perishes.
How is a good nation made?
Until now, I have been carrying out this strategy. I am doing that work regarding Japan as well. It is precisely I who put Kuboki forward and had the officers carry out a strategy for the restoration of the Republic of Korea. Why? Because Japan is the Eve nation and must present the condition of having restored the Republic of Korea. Then who must coach? The original Adam, God, must coach and establish the standard of having won. All this is according to the Principle. Knowing such things, you must strive to make yourselves good for the sake of the world.
If you have several sets of clothes, you must have a heart of wanting to distribute those clothes for the sake of the world. And even when buying land, you must have a heart that can buy it for the sake of the world rather than buying it to bequeath to your sons and daughters. Then one will not perish.
If we spend money not for the Unification Church but for the nation and for the world, it shines. When an aged parent whose face is full of wrinkles wears, for the child’s sake, the clothes the child made with effort, in the heart of the child who looks upon that appearance, a filial devotion that cannot be forgotten for thousands and tens of thousands of years bursts forth.
In this way, when we lay a valuable, good foundation before which people can submit themselves without our saying anything, God’s will will surely be accomplished. Moreover, one immovable, perfect framework will be prepared, and it will develop normally. You must know such things well.
