What must our Unification Church leave behind in history? We must leave behind joy.
There is one thing that I now regard as admirable. The other day the Teacher met a certain member who had already fallen ill with a serious disease difficult to cure.
To find out what sort of mind he held, facing death, I said to him, “When the time comes to die, one must die.” Then I looked at his expression, and he did not grieve in the least but said, “A person comes once and goes in any case, but the one thing I regret is that I have not fulfilled my responsibility before the Will.”
What Shall We Leave Behind
Unification Church members are different from the people of the world. Centering upon the Will, we hold conviction concerning the world after death, that is, concerning the future, and we feel this directly in our cells.
The countless human beings who have passed through this world until now, and the countless saints and sages who came and went in history bearing a Will, strove with all their strength for their whole lives upon the problem of where man comes from and where he goes, but went without finding the point of resolution.
The Teacher has no thought of wishing to live long in this world. Yet the one thing is that, when I consider that after I have gone there is no person who, holding a mind like mine, can be filial before the Father and be concerned for that Will, I am anxious for the pitiful God. Apart from that, I have no lingering attachment.
There is no limit to the mind that wishes to live. Even if one lived a million years, there would be no limit. Even if one asks an old woman of sixty or seventy who has become white-haired, it is the same. All of you too have lived more than twenty years, but what is the use of merely living long without a Will? One must live to be a plus before the nation if it be the nation and a plus before the historical age if it be the historical age. Life is needed to leave behind goodness, to leave behind something better. One must not live like a parasite that only eats.
Every day, as I ride in a car and go back and forth, I pray. Countless people will ride in cars and go about, but whenever I ride in a car and go anywhere in this Seoul, I without fail pray, “Guard this road,” and then go. I go thus for the sake of a new Will. Otherwise, it means that Satan bars the road one goes. The Teacher is living in this way.
You have come to know, through knowing the Unification Church, what has become of the road of your lives. The other day the Teacher heard a grim report from a certain person who had believed in the Unification Church and then fallen away. He said that since this road is a road he must walk in any case, he had unavoidably returned and asked whether he would be received again.
Seen centering upon the Will, it means that there is content here that cannot be answered. He said that he had gone all about the world and tried every sort of thing, but had nowhere to go and so had returned. Yet though it is good that he has returned even now, there is suffering upon the road he goes. There will be difficulty beyond that which he called “difficult” in the past, and how will he cross that?
It means consider for yourself and ask yourself whether you can take responsibility for that. If he could take that responsibility, I have the magnanimity to forgive even ten times. Yet if one forgives him when he cannot take responsibility, it becomes a matter of causing him to commit a double sin. So I could not answer and only remained silent. Do you understand what I mean? (“Yes.”) When one goes out, one goes out standing, but when one has gone out and comes in again, it means that it cannot be so.
The Problem Is How One Spends One’s Life Course
Hereafter, a time will come when the history of suffering that those who have long walked this road have passed through will be revealed before the world. Together with the Teacher’s history, it will remain in history that a certain person passed through such adversity. When it is said that they did not live well and dress well and live in a good environment, but in a single room in the three winter months, clothed their sons and daughters in hemp jackets and hemp trousers, those hemp clothes will become a lamp that lights a new road for human beings for a thousand years and ten thousand years. It becomes so.
I have gone in and out of prison many times until now, and each time I underwent torture difficult to endure, I thought thus. It means that the bloodshed by the loyal subjects who loved the country, centered upon the history of the people and departed, and the blood I shed are different. It means that the blood and sweat I shed and the blood and sweat they shed are different. Having once thought them different, it means that they will be different from the very end. Even when the enemies raised the whip and raised the club and struck at me, I received it with dignity, saying, “Strike if you would strike; I shall remember these blows of yours.” The Teacher has overcome and come through even such environments of crossing back and forth over the brink of death.
Countless loyal subjects shed blood for the nation and were sacrificed and departed, but I have undergone suffering for heaven and earth, for the historical age, and for the world.
If there is a person here who can say, “I will bear everything with my physical body and die,” one must, centering upon the nature of the mind that thought so, bear witness for that person in the spirit world. The Teacher has held such conviction and has carried on the vein of the history of Restoration until now.
It means that I do not perish. Heavenly reason is so arranged. Because Heaven carries out a strategy of being struck and taking back, I will bring to submission those who struck me. A day will come hereafter when countless sovereigns bow their heads to me. I have come forth until now holding such conviction. This is not boasting. It means that the principle is such. You must know this.
Therefore, the problem is how one spends one’s life course and for what one dies. You perhaps answer, “When one grows old, one dies,” but that is a mistaken thought. The problem is not at what time one dies but for what one dies.
Because he became President and so forth, we who have met with such a matter today think of him deeply in our hearts, and in the spirit world too they welcome him and so forth, but the problem is in what position he died. How good it would be if the President had walked, from the departure to the end, a road that God could love! If he could not do so, we must be able to supplement the points in which he was insufficient by doing for him what he could not do. We must bear such a joint responsibility and go. Therefore, it means that even if one lives a thousand years and ten thousand years, there is no limit.
The road of faith is a road of resolving the road of death and crossing beyond. When the time comes to die, one must make preparations to die. The road of stepping forth after settling is the road that the Unification Church goes.
Do you love the wife who has not been resurrected more than my life that has been resurrected? Do you love your child more than my life that is to be resurrected in the future? One’s own self must enter within the sphere of resurrection.
To undergo in life the hardship one would undergo after death is the road of the Way. Indemnity is that. Indemnity is the passing through a valley, a deep valley, by which human beings who are placed in a destiny of being able to go nowhere but to hell eternally and eternally can taste every sort of hellish living upon earth through a life course of seventy or eighty years; and to pave a road for passing through that valley is religion. I hope that you will know such things.
We Who Must Pay a National Indemnity
However much you may say you will not die, when the time comes to die, you die. Before President Yu went to the spirit world, countless people who commune with the spirit world bore witness. The Teacher, too, knew to some extent, but it means that anyone must go to the spirit world when the time comes.
Among those who go to the spirit world too, there are kinds. There are those who go having lived out their allotted span, and those who go without having lived out their allotted span. Among those who go without having lived out their allotted span, some die early through receiving punishment, and those who go to indemnify the sin of the people or of the world.
If only three young men in their thirties who were counted among the foremost in a certain village die, it means that blessing comes to that village. Even in a certain clan, if only three young men like tall poles who were looked to with expectation die, it means that blessing comes to that clan. That is, it means that indemnity must be paid. It means that it is so anywhere. The law of cause and effect applies anywhere.
When God sets one being who holds the value of a thousand people in a central position and has him walk the road of death in the stead of a thousand people, if that person’s grace and virtue move the thousand people and are for that person and take his life course as their model and say they will live as that person lived, then those people come within the same sphere of benefit as that person. That people seek to take as their model the thought of a loyal subject and seek to take as their model the thought of a saint or sage is also to enter within the same sphere of benefit as they.
Last year, too, several people went to the spirit world, and this year, too, several people will go to the spirit world. Though I have not said so, the Teacher already knows it all. Why is this so? Because when one crosses over a stage, indemnity must without fail be paid.
Now there remains an indemnity that the people must pay. This our Unification Church must do. Because the Teacher ought to have set out from a free position immediately after the Liberation but could not do so, we must gather this nation and block the fortune of communism.
In Japan now the communists are having the students of the Korea University of Chongryon go from classroom to classroom propagandizing that the Victory Over Communism Association should be overthrown. When we see such things, it means that it is truly a serious problem. As came out in today’s newspaper too, Chongryon is splitting in two. It means that it has come to the stage of breaking apart, divided into the Han Deok-su faction and a certain Kim faction. This time too, they sought to hold a general party convention but could not, and a fight broke out with us. They seek to strike us, but if only we fulfill our responsibility, God will be together with us.
Since each one of you must fulfill your mission in this age, it means obeying the command. I am directly commanding President Kuboki. Therefore, it means obeying the President’s command. The Japanese government, too, is at present opposing us.
President Kuboki has arranged to meet the person in charge of the CIA for the Far East region this evening. The Teacher gave instructions to meet the person in charge of the CIA for the Far East and the CIA representative in Washington and to bring the matter of the world anti-communist convention to a decision. I told him that if it would not do, he should take hold of their necks and wail aloud.
If America is pushed back by the communists in Asia, heaven and earth too are pushed back. Since President Kuboki said he would meet the person in charge of the CIA and Prime Minister Kishi, the American State Department investigated what sort of person Kuboki is. Yet it is said that an aide of the American embassy spoke quite favorably about President Kuboki. That is why a message came saying they would meet him.
Such an article once appeared in an American newspaper: that a young man has appeared in Japan asserting that Korea and Japan and Taiwan should be connected and a military alliance concluded. (The recording was briefly interrupted.)
The Urgent Ideological Arming of the Whole People
In strategy for waging a fight, there is direct strategy and indirect strategy. If one carries out direct strategy and it cannot be done, one must carry out indirect strategy. An indirect strategy is an encirclement strategy. Do you understand what I mean? We are now placed at a difficult point. Seen from the standpoint of the Will, the present withdrawal of American troops from Korea means the withdrawal of the heavenly hosts and angels. Do you understand? It means that that is the problem. With what will America save us? Trusting in what will they save us? It means “do not like America.
I opposed the armistice. If I had been in Dr. Rhee’s position, I would absolutely not have made an armistice. Whatever I had to do, I would not make an armistice. Even supposing one made an armistice, it is my doctrine to strike north again. I don't understand why Dr. Rhee, having gone forth greatly, yielded. It was not so arranged that he should retreat there. Even if he retreated, he ought at least to have asked them to restore what had been destroyed throughout South Korea.
When I met the former American president Eisenhower directly, I said this: “America has failed in world affairs since the Second World War.” The first of these is that the policy America ought to have unfolded immediately after the Second World War was to procure funds by which a movement to make the world prosperous could be carried out, centering upon religious bodies.
If at that time about one billion dollars had been invested and a fund for making the world prosperous had been made, the Arab sphere could not have been communized, and everything would have gone as the Teacher says. Yet because this was not done, we must hereafter bear the cross and go forth. This is a problem in Korea too. Next, I spoke about various problems, such as the dismissal of General MacArthur. Therefore, it means that your responsibility is important now.
You must not rely upon America. Do you understand? You are not now so arranged as to rest well and eat well and sleep well. Night and day you must put forth strength in ideologically arming these people.
If only the six-hundred-thousand-strong army were armed with the Unification Thought, there would be nothing to be a problem. If only it became so; it means that no hill or artillery or pillbox would be a problem.
If we had armed an army of close to seven hundred thousand with the Unification Thought, would we be unable to go for fear of a pillbox? It means that it is astounding.
The other day, a certain police station chief came directly to the training center and said this and that. It means that it is like blowing the trumpet after the procession has passed. In the old days they regarded us as enemies and drove us, and now they come and ask us to help them. The intelligence section chief, too, says these days, “Oh dear, please come to us too and do a little witnessing.” And this from a person who in the old days would not even let us witness. That is why we believe in God.
If Kim Il-sung comes out really viciously, He takes him away. Even this evening, if he is called, must he not go? If only the summons order is issued, one goes. There is no help for it there. And that within a few hours. Since there is such a firm backing, why be anxious? It means that because we have established inner and outer conditions of indemnity by which we can be guaranteed by that backing, this body does not collapse.
That is why the Teacher has told you to shed sweat and undergo hardship. It is not that one should undergo this hardship for a thousand years and ten thousand years. Even though one lives so hard that one cannot even eat outer cabbage leaves, like the Black people of Africa, nay, even though one eats and lives worse than that, one must be able to give thanks. Only then can one restore the world, can one not? It is for this that we do such work. It is not because I have no money that I undergo such hardship. I do not need money. What I always need is the actual achievement of having undergone hardship. That is why I put you through hardship. It means that women and men, we send them all out wearing only an undershirt and shorts.
If the nation should perish, it will be worse than that. It means that if we do not fulfill our responsibility, it becomes so. Do you think you will survive? Women, do you think you will be able to go about in a crimson skirt and jacket? If it became a communist world, they would seize all the Unification Church crowd and trample them and tear them to shreds and kill them. It means do not even think of leaving. It means love that snout, that face, to your heart’s content. What will you do when the communists are waiting before you with picks and shovels?
Because the Time of the Unification Church Is Drawing Near
Now in Japan the Victory Over Communism personnel are carrying out anti-communist activity, but it means that you are indifferent. Ought you not at least to take an interest in what is happening? The more the raging billows press in and the typhoon sweeps down, the more one ought to act according to the boatman’s directions, yet it means that you are all doing other things. It means do so and then see whether you remain.
If you do so, the Unification Church absolutely cannot remain. Even if I were to drag it along, I cannot drag it along. It means that Heaven does not leave it alone but sweeps it clean away. The substantial course I am walking is such. That is why the Unification Church is fearful. Because I know that well, I fear this seat of the Teacher of the Unification Church.
Even when the Teacher steps forth before a multitude, if Heaven does not first appear before that place, he absolutely does not step forth. If one sought to step forth before a great crowd and speak, why would there be no content to speak of? One could step forth even to propagate the Unification Church. Yet it means that only when Heaven first steps forth into that place do I step forth.
If one steps forth when the time has not come, one perishes. If one strikes at the pastors and elders of Korea before the time comes, one perishes. People like Elder Pak and Elder Na too received grace and then both perished, did they not? Why is that? Because they did not have the time. Because the Teacher knows that he waits until that time comes. When the time has come, one cannot but step forth. At that time one must certainly step forth. At that time, even if one were told not to propagate, one must propagate even by going into another’s inner room. Such a time is coming. Therefore, you yourselves must walk the road you must walk even in such an environment.
If they had listened to the Teacher’s words, today’s situation would not have gone on to become like this. When the Teacher told the Japanese members to carry out anti-communist activity, what they said was that in a world now like a world of goblins, what was he talking about? They said, “In a situation where the communists are fighting a decisive battle staking their lives, we should be anti-communist?” Look a little at the university campuses these days. They are all communist gangs. A wave of demonstrations is sweeping the campuses. Yet the work is now coming to an end. This is crossing over the hill.
Not long ago, Khrushchev, while making a speech from the rostrum of the UN General Assembly, took off his shoe and struck the table with it. You know of it too, do you not? Now the communist gang will go down. It means that they are perishing. It means that if at last one wields power beyond one’s own authority, one perishes.
The Unification Church has not until now exercised power. Has it exercised power? Teacher Moon of the Unification Church has only taken reviling; have you seen him wield power? Has he reviled the pastors and elders of other churches, saying they are thus and thus? Have you seen him say, “You wicked things, let us have it out once”? It means that he has not revealed it even once. Because I know this, I remain quiet.
If only I sought to do it; I have confidence that even by setting you forth I could win that fight. Do you have confidence, or not? (“We have.”) Do you yourselves have confidence to do it? (“Yes.”) Really? (“Yes.”) Because it is only words, you say you have confidence. If one told you actually to do it, you would open your eyes wide and say, “Oh dear.” If you do so, you perish.
In other words, one goes to the Kingdom of Heaven even ten times. Those who believe in Jesus, the pastors, in words, go to the Kingdom of Heaven several thousand times, several ten thousand times. Those who believe in Jesus, the pastors, in words, go to the Kingdom of Heaven several thousand times, several ten thousand times. Yet when one goes and sees, what Kingdom of Heaven is there? It means that it is not the Kingdom of Heaven but hell. I hope that you will know such a thing and bear in mind that there must be doing before words. Do you understand?
If only a little more time passes, the time of the Teacher of the Unification Church comes. Such a time is gradually pressing in. It means that the time when one is not needed before God passes away. Because such a time is drawing near, from last year our family too, and the circumstances of the Association have become tolerable. That is why we are giving life to the Association and giving life to the provinces.
Since it is such a position, you must go forward centering upon the Association. It will not do merely to sing and dance. To greet such a time, you must go on indemnifying. When the people of Israel of old came out of Egypt too, they smeared the blood of a lamb upon the doorposts. Staying awake through the night, they offered devotion and sprinkled the blood. It will not do merely to sleep.
Become One and Pray for the Restoration of the People
We must transcend life and death and cross over. In crossing over, one must offer devotion, and it means not offering devotion for your own sake. Do you understand? One must offer devotion for the sake of the nation. In the old days one lived for one’s own family, but such a time has passed. Now we must be mad for the sake of the nation. How valuable it would be to be mad for the nation! If one does so, one can possess the Kingdom of Heaven. Within the nation, the lineage too is included, and my family too is included. Therefore, if one becomes a loyal subject of the nation, the heart of a filial son in the family is already equipped.
Now then, for what will you live? Will you live for yourself, or will you live for your wife and children? (“We will live for the nation.”) It means living for the nation. To say go for the nation” does not mean to carry explosives in and die.
Since it is a life in which one comes once and goes once in any case, it means let us today, with a new resolve, promise that before Heaven. Do you understand? (“Yes.”) It means know that the more complicated problems draw near before us, the nearer our time has come. It means knowing that the more a distressing environment draws near, the nearer our time comes.
The more it is so, the more we must unite with one mind and go before Heaven. When the fortune of the world enters into a sphere of the age in which it can bear fruit in a nation, a heavenly world is formed. Until then, let us stake our lives and hold confidence and offer devotion and walk this road. When all the families that have accomplished the Four Position Foundation and accord with the principle of heavenly reason become one and go forward shedding tears and praying for the people, Satan too submits. Do you understand?
Yet if the whole of the Unification Church members do not become one, Satan strikes. When the people of Israel did wrong, the Gentile peoples struck them, did they not? Therefore, our Unification Church must become one and offer such prayer. Men, do you understand? (“Yes.”) Women, do you understand? (“Yes.”)
A little while ago we sang the song of unification, but one must without fail first unite my body and mind and next be united with the Father. Here one must without fail pass through a process of indemnity, and for that, I, who have been united, must become one centering upon my family. Moreover, if the fortune of Heaven has come seeking the people, my family must first carry out a national indemnity for the sake of a national family.
Therefore, when a national family has been established, I must take that family as Abel and, from a Cain position, obey and cross over a seven-year course. That seven-year course is absolutely necessary. Do you understand? One must walk that course. The Teacher himself too walked such a course. Since the Teacher, who is the center, walked such a course, you must know, centering upon the Teacher’s words, how to cross this course. Do you understand? (“Yes.”)
Even though your minds and bodies have become one, you must pass through a course of indemnity corresponding to the number seven. One must pass through the first, second, and third seven-year courses. Even though you cannot face God directly, centering upon the Teacher’s words, which stand in God’s stead, and holding the one thought of wishing to greet the day of the people’s liberation, your bodies and minds must become one, and you must give your lives and walk a course of suffering for indemnity with blood-and-sweat devotion for seven years.
We must walk a course of suffering for the sake of this nation and for the sake of world restoration. A person who has passed through all of this can, from a Cain position, stand in an Abel position and can take part in a place of glory.
If the Unification Church grows just a little larger, an age of tribal liberation will arrive. Hereafter, when the Unification Church grows and becomes renowned throughout the country, the clan of the Moon family will come flocking all at once, saying, “Let us cooperate with our Teacher Moon.” Do you understand? On the day it becomes so, it means, centering upon that Moon clan, let us restore in order the numerous tribes.
If one only takes firm hold of the top, those below are so arranged as to follow. If there is a head of the clan association, one connects the tribe all at once, centering upon that head of the clan association. If one only connects three tribes in that way, these people are arranged to come over automatically. Do you understand what I mean? If only the Gimhae Kim clan were restored; Korea is easy to restore. There are many Kims, and many Yis, and next there are many Paks, are there not? If only these few clans were made one; the restoration of Korea would be no problem.
Moreover, since I am a Moon, the Moon crowd will later come packing their bundles and say, “Our clan head.” It means that in the not-distant future it is so arranged as to become so. If one only takes hold of the top of three or four clans, it is simple.
Moreover, even if it is not a clan, it means that it can be so centered upon religion. There are many denominations that have fallen into a corner because their material circumstances are difficult.
If one grafts such denominations and has them come in to us, the brother-in-law is pleased and the sister is pleased, and the father-in-law and mother-in-law are pleased, and mother and father are pleased, and the whole village is pleased; so what else can they do but welcome us with both hands raised? It means that that is a matter of course.
If elsewhere they give a monthly wage of ten thousand won and I give twenty thousand won, they will come dancing for gladness. If one only does that three or four times, they all come over. It means that it is simple.
Accumulate Actual Achievements of Which You Can Boast Eternally
Yet what is the problem? The problem is how many people there are here who can gather these up and can be set forth before them and boasted of. It means that the problem is how many such people there are.
People of old are fond of reckoning genealogies. Even while living with a wicked gate hung up, upon entering the house, they clear their throats and behave like gentry. It means that they grow a rat’s whisker and clear their throats and are still singing the tune of gentry. And if one says anything to that, they raise their voices and boast only of their genealogy, saying their ancestors were thus and thus. With what qualifications do they boast of a genealogy?
What must boasting of a genealogy be a boast about?
One must boast that our forebears were loyal to the nation in such and such a way and that I, as a descendant of so many generations, have attended him with devotion as if he were God. Can one deny that?
Likewise, you too must have such content. If there is no such content, your descendants will look at you and call you unlucky gentry. It means that it can even be so. Yet it means that we have content by which we can boast of a genealogy. Though we know nothing, it means that we Unification Church members have content by which we can say that we did thus and thus upon this earth.
If one goes to the headquarters of the Unification Church, what is there?
What sort of headquarters of the Unification Church is this?
If one sold it, how many million won would one get? A person who looks at such a building and says it is good ought to die. Yet it means that if one comes in here and looks, there is content by which one can sing a tune of genealogy. People who sing only the tune of their genealogy will come in and perish. But if people who love the nation come in, all are one. Singing only a tune of genealogy, one cannot endure. Is what we say a fact or a lie? It is an unmistakable fact. Therefore, you must undergo hardship.
You have said until now that you undergo hardship, but what have you accomplished?
What development have you made beyond the 1960s?
It means that you have rather whittled it down and eaten it up. And even so, when you speak of having undergone hardship, you do it well, saying this and that. To look at you, you are like inedible husk-chestnuts, and side-chestnuts, and I was anxious about what such a one would say, but when one sets him forth, though he looks about him this way and that, later he opens his eyes wide and speaks eloquently. This is what is called a child of the gentry. Going before a crowd, one must know how to beat a drum a little and pluck the strings of a guitar. It means that you have such a talent. That one thing is good.
Apart from that, what is there in you that is different from the people of the world? It means that you are rather like a rotten empty chestnut. Can one believe with words alone? It means that one must be equipped with actual achievement. One must have content by which, meeting people who call themselves well-off and are glossy with oil like a phonograph record, one can say, “I have done thus.” Now it will not do with prayer alone. If you cannot do it, I will step forth carrying a placard. If I step forth for only one month, I have the confidence to accomplish what you would do in ten years.
If Teacher Moon of the Unification Church were to hold a revival meeting, people would come flocking in great numbers. If I did it with that skill I had in the old days, there would be a commotion; yet the reason I do not step forth and do it is to indemnify and restore what these people opposed. That is why I am now doing such work.
Unification Church Members Who Must Reflect
We have come forth holding fast to God just as we were, even while being persecuted by the established religious bodies. And so we set up the condition that we took responsibility in their stead for what they could not take responsibility for, yet it means that this too is a commotion. It means that having brought beggars and made them into gentry, they are again playing the beggar. This is the same as having caught a pheasant chick and reared it and it going up into the mountain. It means that having reared it to be serviceable, it has gone back to the old days. It means wait and see what becomes of it. Will you too become pheasant chicks? Yet even though you become pheasant chicks, I do not perish. Overall, it becomes a matter of your being used by the Teacher.
You feel aggrieved at hearing such words, do you not? It means that the Teacher cannot but use you even if he would not. Though they are pheasant chicks, he sought to love them and rear them like chicken chicks; and if that cannot be, what becomes of it? Though they are pheasant chicks, it means that they were all born for their master. Therefore, it means that if one seeks to use the Unification Church, one is rather used by Teacher Moon of the Unification Church.
Look a little at the eyes of Teacher Moon of the Unification Church. How are they made? Do they look made to be used by you? It means: do not even dream of thinking of using him. When I first stepped forth upon this road, would I not have thought several thousand times, several ten-thousand times? It means that I thought several hundred times more than you can think. It means that I discerned everything and cast lots and measured and reviewed it and reckoned it and worked it out and set out because it was unmistakable. Do you think I am carrying on this play because my head is worse than yours? And yet you, who have nothing but soybean paste in your heads and are people who will collapse by the roadside, go about swaggering. It means that there are many such people. It means knowing such a thing.
Then will you become pheasant chicks or chicken chicks? (“Chicken chicks.”) One must become a cockerel. For that, one must first pull out the tail feathers. It means that one must pull out the tail feathers of the history of sin. It means that upon what is bright red, one must paint at least a yellow color.
Did you from the first even know what religion is, what Christianity is, or who Jesus is? You who hear such talk for the first time are all a crowd of idlers. The “geon” of the word for idler (건달) is the character for dry (건, 乾). And do you know what character the “dal” is? It is the character for “dal” that has grown thin and dried up and fled away. What is there in someone such as you? Since you are people who came in having eaten for nothing, do you have money? Do you have anything? It means that only your eyes are bright red and round.
And even so, having entered the Unification Church, you run a little, but you stop halfway and say your legs hurt. Since you have not eaten, of course your legs hurt; what else can one do? And while doing so, saying this and that, you say the Unification Church is bad and you cannot attend and fall away. I absolutely do not think so. Will you fall away, or will you not fall away? (“We will not fall away.”) If you wish to fall away, fall away. Let us speak plainly.
Teacher Moon of the Unification Church does not perish. It means that God moves together with him. This is without fail a relative relationship. If I offer devotion, God is without fail together with it there. That is a matter of the Principle. The Teacher is walking this road holding such confidence.
Now in our country a great recession has arisen, and the more it is such a time, the more you must pray, centering upon these people. There perhaps be people who, saying that they have now done all their work, seek to take a nap; but is it now so arranged that one may take a nap? Is it so arranged that one may take a nap? One must become one body and go forward. Even ten years ago it was not so. Yet now is a time when we are running a race; can one take a nap? When one looks at you at present, it is astounding.
You must know that God exists and go forth colliding with the enemy. We must meet again and fight the enemies who expelled us and liberate them. It means that we have entered a sphere of the age in which we can play a large-scale role in reconciling the company that was driven out and the company that drove them out.
Establish the Dignity of a Warrior of Heaven
Teacher Kim Young-oon is here too, but President Nixon signed and sent three thousand dollars to the International Federation for Victory over Communism in Los Angeles, America, where we are active. And I hear he will send a hundred thousand dollars more. In this way, America is helping the activity of the International Federation for Victory over Communism. That is the practical attitude of a religious person. When we see such things, it means that our time has come to the gate.
Until now it was a time of praying, but presently the day of the feast is drawing near. When one greets the day of the feast, it is all right even to eat one’s fill and take a nap with a full belly. Yet now is a time when one must undergo hardship and cross that threshold, and when one can even hear frying pancakes and pounding rice cake in preparation for the feast, can one sleep? And yet a person who sleeps is a madman.
It means that you are now in such a case. All of you, must you run, or what must you do? It means that a time has come when all must run about the village and spread the word, saying that a feast must be held. To say it again, it means that it is a time when one must witness. Despite that, if one is told to go out to witness, some people say, “That season has come again. During the summer vacation one ought to rest a little. What will remain from resting unconditionally?
Hereafter, you must not envy the children of the gentry. It means that you yourselves are seeds with a backbone. One must leave behind for one’s descendants at least the signboard of being a seed with a backbone. It means do not live without a purpose. Do you understand? I mean, you Blessed Families.
There are many times when I am put to challenges because of these Blessed Families. If something happens, it is, “Oh dear, Teacher, what shall we do? A certain family has become thus.” Then what is the Teacher to do? Since there are many families, it means that there are many who stretch out their hands. It means that there is nothing but a crowd that fights to draw something out of the Teacher, each for himself. Is there room for you to say this and that? You must die if the Teacher tells you to die and live if he tells you to live. There is no road left but that. Are you displeased at my saying this? Even if you are displeased, there is no help for it.
In walking the road of the Will, if one only fulfills one’s responsibility, that is first. There are such cases. It means that a certain person whom one thought to be a swindler came into the Unification Church and became a genuine person. It can be so, can it not? It means that such a person remains to the very end.
We have come forth undergoing hardship until now; having done it until presently, shall we say we cannot do it now? You must offer devotion all the more and shed tears for the nation and must hold fast to your mothers and fathers and shed tears. Only then does one stand in a position of being loyal to the nation. We must step forth and carry out an indemnity for the sake of this nation. Do you understand? (“Yes.”) (The remainder was not recorded.)
Hardship and Actual Achievement
We have come forth undergoing hardship until now; having done it until presently, shall we say we cannot do it presently? You must offer devotion all the more and shed tears for the nation and must hold fast to your mothers and fathers and shed tears. Only then does one stand in a position of being loyal to the nation. We must step forth and carry out an indemnity for the sake of this nation. Do you understand?
