Sunday, May 28, 1967, Former Headquarters Church.
Everyone, which is better, the hometown or the original homeland? What sort of place is the hometown?
The hometown is the place where one stayed, the place one longs for when one leaves, the place one wishes to go to, the place one wishes to live in.
On this earth today, many people live, and if one asked all those people whether they have a true hometown, a true original homeland, would anyone answer yes?
Where is there such an original homeland—a place of which one can say, “This is the place our ancestors wished for, the place all the people of the world long for and wish to come to and wish to live in, the place from which our descendants for all generations cannot live apart”?
Jesus of old was born in the nation of Judea, but in the true sense, did Judea become Jesus’ original homeland?
If that place had become Jesus’ true original homeland, he would have longed for it forever and wished to live there; then why was it that Jesus had to leave that land behind and wander as a homeless sojourner in every direction?
The Human Being Who Has Longed for the Original Homeland
Then what will one do when going to the original homeland?
It is not to go to the original homeland and fight. It is not to go to the original homeland and act as a guest. It is to live centered on love. What love? The love of parents, the love of husband and wife, the love of children, the love of brothers, the love of relatives. It is to live centered on that love.
You bear the mission of going to your hometown and, because your relatives were born there and grew up there, transmitting the principle of love together with the nature that those relatives love.
For a person to have a strong power of love, he cannot help but have a bond with his hometown. That is why the hometown is a place of longing. A person living within a sphere where he can long for his hometown is full of confidence.
If that hometown were an original homeland where all people could long for it and all blessings could dwell, we would not strive to seek another place but would, centered on the family there, enjoy the love of parents and the love of brothers and live a life immersed in that love.
While history has flowed on until now, countless people have come and gone.
Among them were countless prophets, and there were also sages who represented the prophets. But among them, was there anyone who proclaimed, “This is the land of the original homeland where all people can dwell forever”?
All the sages passed by, and even the hometowns where those sages were born have been forgotten.
Going back further, if one asked Adam and Eve, the ancestors of humankind, “Did you have a true original homeland?” how would they answer? They, too, would say they did not have an original homeland.
The original homeland is a place where one wishes to live forever, singing of happiness, immersed in the love of parents and the love of the family, having dominion over all things of Heaven and earth, amid the rejoicing of Heaven and earth.
When one asks whether Adam and Eve lived centered on such love of the original homeland, they were unable to. Then who saw that they did not live in such an original homeland? Did you see it or not? Your answer is not certain—did you see it or not? (We have not seen it.) You did not see it directly, but you heard that it is so, did you not? Then, which is more accurate, hearing by word or seeing directly? Of course, one can know by hearing alone, but seeing is more accurate. But while anyone can hear by word, not everyone can see.
When a radio station broadcasts, anyone can hear it, can they not?
But is hearing better, or is seeing better? (Seeing is better.) Of course, hearing too is good, but one is not satisfied by hearing alone.
For example, when one hears a piece of music and is moved by it, one wishes to see the person who composed that music. Is that not so? One wishes, while seeing that composer, to be in accord with his musical world as he is. One wishes to feel together with him the deep flavor of the musical world he feels.
Then, do you who are gathered here this evening know by seeing, or know by hearing, whether Adam and Eve lived in the original homeland or not? One ought to know by seeing. But is there anyone who directly saw it?
There is no one who saw it directly. Because the ancestral progenitor (宗之祖上) of humankind did not see the original homeland, his descendants have not seen it either. That is why the human world is a fallen world and a world of evil.
What Sort of Place Is the Original Homeland
What sort of place is the original land?
It is not a place where evil dwells; it is an eternal unified world where one lives singing of happiness for all eternity, centered on the original, overflowing love, having severed all ties with evil.
But was there anyone who lived in such a place?
There was not one. In history, many people pursued such a world, but such a world was not established upon this earth. Many spoke of what sort of world it is, but there was no one who practiced it in person and achieved such a world.
It was the same with Confucius and the same with Jesus. Jesus, too, came to build the original homeland, but he went without having built that original homeland.
Though he did say the Word, “The Kingdom of Heaven is within your heart,” Jesus did not directly see the Kingdom of Heaven.
However excellent the prophets, righteous forebears, sages, and noble individuals who came and went in the course of history until now, they did not see that one place; they did not greet that one day; and all the people who inherited the lineage of evil from the fallen ancestors have not yet touched a bond with the original homeland.
Therefore, all people go forth searching for the ideal. They go forth to find the original homeland.
Then what sort of world would that be?
It is not a world where people are mutually hostile and jealous, where one’s stomach aches when another does well, and one says one could die when another is pleased. Because one person’s doing well is doing well on behalf of the whole, and one person’s being pleased is being pleased on behalf of the whole, the original homeland is a place where, when one person is pleased, the whole is pleased, and when one person rejoices, the whole rejoices along with him.
Then is there anyone who has lived in such a world until now?
Perhaps there may have been someone who experienced it spiritually, but there was not one who lived such a life substantially. That is why people go forth searching for a better place, a better world, an ideal world.
When one asks what the purpose is for people who walk the road of the Way, or people who live a life of faith, resolving and pledging inwardly and outwardly to seek, braving the difficulties of the environment and receiving the arrows of persecution, the answer is simple. It is to go forth searching for a better place, a better place.
Then how good a place is that place? Would it be a place of the standard we know, a place we hope for?
Would it be a place all humankind hopes for?
Would that place, on the standard all humankind looks toward, be the true original homeland?
Is the original homeland the standard we look toward, the original homeland that is the final terminus humankind must reach? Is it the ideal world? No one knows.
Why Does the Conscience Command Ceaselessly
Because each people of the world has a different cultural background, a different social system, and different living customs, the direction in which they conceive the world of their original homeland also differs. And the direction our church people conceive and the direction the people of the world conceive also differ.
Where the people of the world are physical, we are spiritual; where the people of the world are outer, we are inner. Seen thus, the direction of our church and their direction differ.
Even from the standpoint of the cultural spheres formed through all times and places, East and West, because the direction that people living within the same environmental sphere aim at differs, the original homeland and destination they wish for also differ. But all human beings go searching for a better place—in that alone there is no difference.
What you cannot but experience in living is that, in the course of passing the twenty-four hours of a day, whether in individual life or in social life, your mind interferes one by one with every matter you encounter in living.
It must not be done that way; one must not go that way; one must go this way; one must not put that person to sleep; one must wake that person—in such a manner the conscience interferes one by one.
If one asked that conscience, “For what do you interfere so?” the conscience’s answer would be simple. It would answer, “Because I long for a better me, and long for a better me to live in a better environment, I command you day and night.”
Then, to what degree of goodness does the conscience wish and command?
If one is in the plight of a poor traveler without a penny to one’s name, can one be satisfied merely by solving the problems of food, clothing, and shelter—such as by preparing a lodging where one can dwell?
Even if one is satisfied for the moment, that does not last even a week. For that moment one may rejoice and say it is good, but seen over one’s whole life, the conscience by no means tells one to rest there. It does not say that it is a place where one can rest forever, inwardly and outwardly, but commands: go, and go again.
If the Teacher were a multi-billionaire and distributed so much money that even the thirty million people of the Republic of Korea, and even the babies now in the womb, would have more than enough to spend, would you feel good, or not?
Of course, you would feel good. But if, thereafter, one asked the mind, “Is it enough now?” how would it answer? Would it say, “Yes, now I am completely satisfied”? It absolutely would not. It would say, “Ah! Distribute it to all three billion of humanity of the world, too.” The mind has much of such a disposition.
Who is the one with the most desire in the universe?
It is God. When the Teacher went up to the holy ground this morning and sat quietly on the hill and looked, there were truly many small insects. And birds were chirping, and the smell of earth wafted, and, feeling that the mystery dwelling in nature is truly wonderful, I thought, “God created with much desire, in great abundance.”
If one goes to a place like a lawn and looks quietly, there are passageways along which small insects come and go. And if one quietly parts the grass and looks, there are flat insects, round insects, pointed insects—all sorts of insects coming and going.
But not knowing such things, when we spread ourselves out and sat on the grass, saying it was soft and good, the young man insects and the young lady insects that were coming and going there would, pitifully, cry out for their lives, “Ouch, I’m dying!”
God, Who Has Great Desire
Insects, too, like human beings, are equipped with all the harmonious organs a human being possesses—respiratory organs, digestive organs, and so on—though they are not easily seen.
How marvelous it is! You may think that the world is simple, but it is by no means simple. Hereafter, the Teacher intends to set up a world-class researcher and have such a world explored.
If God had no desire, would He have made such things?
God, who made this world, has infinitely much desire. Because such a God sent Jesus to this earth, Jesus too had infinitely much desire.
So Jesus sought to give infinitely to this world. Because God is one with much desire, on the day He fills all the desire He has held in His bosom, He will have a grand good time, saying, “Break open, pour out!” Because God has much desire, the Teacher too has much desire.
Even looking at the sea, all sorts of fish live there. And the earth too is big, is it not?
Having visited many countries, the Teacher found it fascinating that all kinds of races live on the earth. And compared with such an earth, how big is the sun? The sun is 1.3 million times the size of the Earth, so how big must that sun be?
Many planets gather to form the solar system, and in their movement, those planets do not move as they please. Centered on the sun, some planets circle round several times a year, and some several times in ten years, in a hundred years, in a thousand years; yet they do not collide with one another, nor do they fall away from their places.
Compared with such things, the lives of the people who live on this planet Earth are like children playing house. In fact, it is not even that much. It is a tiny thing, not even as much as a speck of dust. And yet the people who cling fast to it are called the lord of creation—how forlorn it is! Even riding the toy airplane children ride at the park, after going around a few times, one grows dizzy and cries out, “Hey, hey!”; so imagine the figure of people clinging fast to the earth, which turns round once every twenty-four hours.
How laughable it is! And how forlorn are people who, while at it, hold themselves up as the lord of creation and go on living!
The Human Being, Who Has a Great Mind, Is a Precious Being
All things throughout Heaven and earth do not have such a disposition and desire. Among all the phenomena of the universe, only the human being, who wishes to live forever, has such a desire.
If one spread out such a human mind, how large would it be?
Even if one drove in a thousand or ten thousand Republics of Korea, and drove in even the whole universe, it would not all be filled.
The human mind has such magnanimity that it can even quietly usher in God, who has the most desire, and lay Him down in comfort. It is because the human being has such a noble mind that he is called the lord of creation—so the Teacher thought in the past.
If a human being had no such mind, that human being would be wretched. He is wretched as a child because he does not know who God, the Father, is.
The human being is precious because he has such a mind. Then what does this mind command? It commands: even at the cost of death, do not enter the place of evil. Evil is bound, without fail, to perish, and goodness, however much it is persecuted, is bound not to perish but to win.
All the saints and sages who appeared in history walked, from the good standpoint, a road that seemed worldly-wise was perishing. But because the epochal fortune and worldwide fortune that lead an age can move an age but cannot block the road the heavenly fortune walks, a person who works within the sphere of the heavenly fortune can leap over the worldwide fortune and the epochal fortune.
Even the worldwide fortune, which can move the world as it pleases, moves within the sphere of the goal of God, who created Heaven and Earth.
The End of Human Desire
Everyone, the weather is truly fine today, is it not?
The weather in the Republic of Korea is fine, but if one looks at the weather of the whole world, there will be places where all sorts of things are happening—places where a typhoon is blowing, places clamoring with a tidal wave, places where rain falls, places where snow falls. But such phenomena are phenomena that occur within the atmosphere of the Earth.
But if, beyond this small planet Earth, one gazes at the vast universe, what sort of phenomena would be occurring in the universe? Things we cannot even imagine would be occurring in myriad forms, within an absolute and profound harmony.
That is why our mind wishes for something better. Even if one brought all the money bundles that the thirty million people of the Republic of Korea have and fulfilled the mind’s wish, the mind would still have desire. To what degree is what the mind wishes? Even if it occupied God, it would be unsatisfied and say, “Do more. Do more.” Even occupying God, it does not rest.
Then, centered on what must the mind find in order at last to take an eternal sphere of stability and rest?
Even conquering the enemy, it cannot rest; even occupying Jesus, it cannot rest; even occupying God, who created the universe, it cannot rest. Yet that does not mean the mind moves without a purpose.
There is no law by which anything acts without a purpose. As you can well know, if you observe chemically, even some molecules absolutely do not move without a purpose. It absolutely does not perform an action that would cause loss to itself. That things move to become a plus to one another is the law of Heaven and earth.
Granting that we cannot deny the fact that our conscience acts, does that conscience act without a purpose?
If not, then what indeed is the purpose for which the conscience acts?
The final point of that purpose is in God and is by no means in oneself. That is, only when the human being occupies the unfallen love that is within God can it be said that he has succeeded. You must clearly know this.
When one occupies the whole of the love of the one God and, setting aside what one has to do, resolves the han of history and then rests, God too will dance, and the world too will all dance. The mind dreams of such a day. Is it not truly splendid?
The ultimate purpose of walking the road of the Way, too, is not to go to the heavenly nation nor to know God. It is to occupy the love of God.
It is the instinct of the human being to wish to go to a perfect, supremely high, eternal world.
Whom does that instinct resemble, that it is so?
It is so because it resembles God. There is the desire of the Lord of Heaven (天主), and because the human being was created as a son or daughter of that Lord of Heaven, the human instinct was born resembling that standard.
That is why the human mind wishes to become one with God forever and to be in contact with the living standard of a true person and to be able to live with a true mind. And when the center of the true mind comes to stand, it is the desire of the human being to be engrafted forever into true love.
God and the Human Being Are Father and Son
There have been many religions worldwide until now; what must those religions teach?
Every religion must, first, teach about God. A religion that does not teach about God is not a religion. And a religion that, though it teaches about God, teaches vaguely, is uncertain.
Then, what is a religion that teaches how a true religion is?
A religion that teaches about such things as—if God exists, in what manner does He exist, what is God’s personhood like, and what is God’s love like—is a true religion.
If there is, among the world’s religions, a religion that came forth with such deep inner content, it is Christianity.
Then how has Christianity taught about God?
It has taught that He is Father. That is why one calls Him “God the Father.” The human beings upon the earth must attend, as the bridegroom, the Lord who comes in a position of equal rank with that of the Father. And the bride who will attend that bridegroom is the believers who believe in God. Thus, Christianity proclaimed the standard that is the center of the whole family. Why would that be?
The place that the founders of many religions go searching for is a place where the mind can dwell forever.
If there is truth in their religions too, that truth must be able to teach God clearly. And it must be able to teach clearly the relationship between God and the human being. And when it teaches, unless it teaches centered on love, it is no more than groundless rumor. According to differences in the doctrines taught, the divisions of religion arise.
Among the countless religions centered on Christianity, Jesus came to this earth and proclaimed, “I am the only begotten Son of God. There is no one but me who was born into the human world as the Son of God.” To say one was born as the Son of the Father means one was born having received the Father’s bone marrow and having received the Father’s flesh and blood. That means one was born by God the Father’s blood coursing, His flesh knitting together, and His bone meeting bone.
Between parent and child, when the child grieves, the parent grieves more, and when the child is glad, the parent is more glad. Such a bond of father and son cannot be severed by any formula or law of the world and cannot be denied by any power or honor. Is that not so?
Even if someone appeared and, pressing a knife to one’s breast, threatened, “Answer that he is not your father,” then, though one might, to escape that spot, deny one’s father in words, inwardly one would all the more resolve, “He is my father. I am his child.” This is something no one can deny.
Even one with a brain that can renovate the universe, revolutionize the universe, and shatter the universe cannot deny this. Nowhere does there exist any ground on which the bond of father and son can be denied.
From this viewpoint, you must know that Jesus’ calling God Father upon this earth was a proclamation before all beings of the fact that he came holding a privileged central mission that can rule all generations.
The Purpose of Christianity
In the process of your going searching for God the Father, you are in the position of bride to bridegroom. That is why Christianity is a religion of the bride. It is a religion of bridegroom and bride, which must introduce to the human world a bond of love that other religions do not possess—a bond of love packed lovingly, deep, deep within the bones of the Father.
Many religions discuss truth, freedom, or a conceptual ideal, but the only religion that passes through a history of struggle in which love is directly entangled on the stage of living and tumbles over and over as love is Christianity.
In the process of Jesus’ going searching for the bride, he is the bridegroom, but after the wedding feast is over, he is a brother. He becomes an elder brother to a man and an elder brother to a woman.
When one says “elder brother” and “younger sibling,” a relationship of subject and object is already established. Coming in a horizontal position, one establishes a relationship of subject and object.
A religion that fancies only a three-dimensional world is not ideal.
Unless it is a religion that, holding the content of the three-dimensional world, is founded on the actuality of the horizontal, planar world, it cannot be an ideal religion. Why? Because a person is made of mind and body, the mind must have a relationship with the three-dimensional world, and the body must have a relationship with the planar world so that one is equipped with an ideal foundation in both worlds. That is the world of love.
So, after meeting Jesus, one comes to stand in a relationship of brothers.
Would you prefer Jesus to be the Lord or to be an elder brother?
The relationship between bridegroom and bride is always dangerous. For a married couple, there is always the possibility that a divorce can come about. But can a relationship of brothers, or of brother and sister, be split apart?
However, one tries to sever it because the blood is the same; it is a relationship that cannot be severed. That is why a relationship of brothers, or of brother and sister, is better.
What is it that Christianity has sought until now?
What is it that Christianity so eagerly awaits?
It is to attend God, to attend the bridegroom whom God sends, and to prepare the bride who will greet that bridegroom. And it is to seek the children, to prepare a clan that can rejoice together with them, to organize, together with that clan, a people that can restore the world, and, together with that people, to organize one world-nation.
The purpose for which the countless religions seek to do ever more witnessing lies there too. It is to gather the people of the world centered on the Way.
So all the religions of the world, through witnessing, make a chosen people and then make the world one hometown, the people of the world into relatives, into the people of God. In that, our Korean people are the descendants. They are the descendants who believe in the religion. And they are the lineal heirs (宗子).
Even so, they must become one with Westerners—that is, with white people and Black people. What does one become one by? One must become one by love. That love must be a love in which the blood and flesh of God course together.
All people differ only in the environment in which they live; in the point of being human, whether white or Black, it is the same.
If some person married a Black woman and lived with her and bore a Black child, and then again married a white woman and bore a white child, that person becomes the father of the white child and also the father of the Black child. That is, their father is one father.
Unless one makes the heart well up that the whole human race of the world is, somehow, one family of brothers born of one father, the unification of the people of the world is impossible, and the gathering of all generations is impossible.
When one quietly observes the young men and women of the world, even while loving some person, if a person better than that one appears, their mind changes, and they end up loving that person.
And if a partner appears who is equipped with every condition, inner and outer, whom the whole world can respect, they wish to like that person more than the person they have liked until now.
Such is human desire. Probably the husbands of the world find even their wives’ believing in Jesus displeasing. Why? Because their wives come to love Jesus more than their husbands. And it is the same when one considers Jesus and God. Would Jesus say, “Do not love God; pray for me”? One must love God, the Father, more than Jesus, the bridegroom.
When We Are Connected to God’s Love
When one asks whether the bridegroom is better or the sons and daughters are better, the sons and daughters are better than the bridegroom. A married couple can split apart, but one cannot split from one’s sons and daughters.
Even if one is struck from the family register because they have inherited one’s bloodline, one cannot split from them. Bridegroom and bride, if they divorce and part, can even be forgotten, but as time passes, one longs for and wishes to see one’s sons and daughters all the more. This fact anyone who has had children will know well. Even parents living in the satanic world cannot deny that alone. That is why God, too, likes sons and daughters.
Then, to whom do we look, Jesus?
We look to him as the bridegroom. And we also wish him to be a father. That is why we must step over the love of the bridegroom and go searching for the love of the Father, the love of God.
Jesus’ coming upon the earth was not only to introduce Jesus’ love but also so that all people might, through Jesus’ love, receive the love of God.
That is why in Romans 8:39 it says,
“Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
No one can sever the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. But from Jesus’ love alone, the love of God can be severed. Therefore, the final purpose is to receive the love of God.
Do the members of the Unification Church like to be loved or dislike it? The people of the world hurl all sorts of abuse, saying the Unification Church dances naked and this and that, but frankly speaking, the Teacher has never once danced. And yet he has heard such talk.
Do you not wish to be loved?
Of course, the Unification believers also wish to receive the love of God. But have you seen that God? And have you seen the mind? You have not seen God or the mind, but they clearly exist. They must not be absent.
If they are absent, it is a grave matter.
If one said to some person, “You are a person with no mind,” would that person feel good? To have no mind is to be a dead body.
The Purpose for Which All Things of the Universe Act
The human mind performs motion. As you will know well from having heard the Principle of Creation, when a subject partner and an object partner become mutually relative standards and give and receive well, power arises. When power arises, they become one with each other, and when they become one, they multiply.
A subject partner alone absolutely cannot act. Liking someone is likewise the act of mutual force. To like someone means that person’s mind and my mind have fit together. When one comes to like someone, without reason, the mind comes and goes.
So strong is that mind that it drags the body about; in the manner of “If not this person, I die,” leaping over death, it drags the body about. That is because what the world calls fate acts in that way.
A good person likes good people, and a wicked person likes wicked people.
Everything in the world is so. For example, in athletic contests, those who run well gather with those who run well and race, and in the wrestling ring, those who wrestle well gather with those who wrestle well and wrestle.
Likewise, our mind does not move just any old way. Without fail, a subject and an object perform some action with each other.
And that action is not performed to suffer loss. Think about it, everyone. Who would like to suffer loss? Even in doing business, there is no one who does it to suffer loss.
Likewise, our mind too does not move to suffer loss. That the Teacher is now speaking to you is not to suffer loss but to leave behind some profit. That every being thus seeks, without suffering loss, to leave behind some profit, is all the providential action of God.
Whoever does whatever, there is not one thing done to suffer loss.
If one observes the actions of children closely, it is so. How would children know that and do so? And animals too are so. Animals too move for the sake of their benefit.
If you went out to Myeong-dong and grabbed the people coming and going and asked, “How much loss did you take today?” how bad would the person asked feel?
Even asking one who took no loss would make him feel bad; so if to one who actually took a loss one said, “Since you took a loss today, that’s good,” he would curse you. Why? Because every human being, even if he actually took a loss, dislikes saying he took a loss.
Then what is the fundamental purpose for which one thus acts?
It is to add. Everything acts to add. Everything that acts is to gain profit, absolutely not to suffer loss.
Everything is equal. So the foundation is peace and harmony, loyalty (忠), and harmony (和). Equality can be called the horizontal, and the horizontal does not come about just like that.
What was in a relationship of high and low, of upper and lower, becomes horizontal only after passing through some action. Because there is a high and a low, it becomes horizontal only after passing through the action of receiving from the high place and adding to the low place.
Then, considering the human being, is it made horizontal?
It is not. The human being is in a low place. That is why it can become horizontal only by receiving from a high place. So the human being must seek a higher-order ideology and must have a higher-order place of consolation for the spirit. That is why a higher-order, worldwide religion that can surpass the twentieth century must appear.
The horizontal does not come about just like that. Power must be supplied from another place. Because one cannot be supplied from within oneself, there must be a place that supplies. That place that supplies is a high place. It is not a place that is high yet bad, but a place that is high and good.
That place is the place all people wish to go to and wish to live in—in other words, the place all people hold as their ideal (理想). Then what indeed is that ideal? It is not eating well, nor sleeping well; it is true love.
The Ideal of the Human Being Is Achieved Through Love
How is it when you go to the house of a close friend, close enough that you would not mind even taking his clothes to wear?
Not only do the mind and body not shrink, but even the cells become at ease. The bosom of one’s parents is longed for because of that too. But how is it once some time passes? The mind that had been at ease begins, little by little, to feel cramped. And then, in a state where one can neither do this nor that, one has no choice but to return to one’s own house. Is this peace? Is it harmony? Peace means that everything is unraveled. Rest is likewise. To untie every last string and cord is rest.
Until now, in the course of history, human beings have never once, for even a single day, rested centered on the original mind and centered on the person the original mind longs for. That is why human life is called a sea of suffering.
Seeing this, the human being must find one standard. And thereby the aim is to love. But in love, there must not be only two people. There must not be only the father and the sons and daughters.
For people to love one another, people must gather, and dancing and song are necessary. One might say, “It is enough just to say the word love; what need is there of song?” but to express love with feeling put into it, song too is necessary. And one might say, “It is enough to stand still; why must one dance?” but dancing too is necessary.
When a person, intoxicated in something good and holding a loving mind, sings even a chang (唱), a commotion breaks out in which one goes soft to the very marrow, the cells stir and quiver, the eyes go misty, and even tears come.
Then why are such things necessary?
Is it not good enough for father and child, the two of them, just to gaze at each other? That too is love, but that alone will not do. In that place, the harmony of Heaven and Earth must break forth.
For that, there must not be only the two—God and I, father and child. Many adjunct conditions are necessary.
If there is a father, there must be a mother, and if there is a man, there must be a woman. If it were a world of only women, the women would tire of always meeting only women. And if only men lived together, the men too would be likewise. That is why, if there is a father, there must be a mother; if there are parents, there must be children; and next, there must be brothers and sisters.
Then for whose sake must “I” exist? Would it be for the sake of the parents? For the sake of the brothers?
For whose sake indeed?
I exist precisely for the sake of myself. Father and mother too exist for my sake, brothers and sisters too exist for my sake, all exist for my sake. Thinking thus, one’s mouth opens of itself in gladness.
How much desire the human being has! They are people who wish to receive the love of God by the bundleful and hold it alone, giving it to no one; so if one said they were born for the sake of the Father, born for the sake of the Teacher, how bad they would feel! For several thousand years, our ancestors have come and gone, but they all came and went for the sake of me alone. So how important am I?
That is why Jesus said,
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36)
Then, for whom would God be God?
It is human desire to wish to say that God is not a God for God’s sake but a God for my sake.
When the Teacher looks after the babies at home, if he first takes the older children into his bosom, the little younger one, seeing that, says, “Daddy, hug me too.”
Fixing those small eyes piercingly on the arm that holds the older brother or sister, it says, “Daddy, hug me too.” Seeing this, one can know that the essence of love that can long for the land of the original homeland is made to be so.
Then, for whose sake is believing in Jesus?
For the sake of God, or for the sake of Jesus? No. It is for my sake, because of me, that one believes. Then, for whose sake does one believe in the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity?
This, too, one believes for my sake. The world I must achieve is the original world, and that original world must be achieved in any case; so if one tried to achieve that world alone, how strenuous would it be!
But if all the people belonging to that body join their strength, that world can be achieved. That said, if one thought that Jesus appeared in the world because of me, that God too is contained within me, and that the world too hangs on my hand, so that the only chosen person is me, that would be a great mistake.
Since I am the subject, if the subject and the object give and receive well, they become completely one. So, standing in a place of oneness, he too is I, and I too become him. This comes to such a conclusion by the law of love.
A world that debates and interrogates the relations of precedence to find a condition of the moral Way is anxious. When, centered on love, one stands in a place where the relations of precedence have become completely one and can give and receive, and looks about one’s surroundings, it seems as if there is no one but me; but one must keep in mind that there is always a subject.
To Go in Search of the Land of the Original Homeland
Then what do the countless people throughout the world go in search of?
They go in search of the land of their original homeland. For that, one must offer an offering. That Cain and Abel of old offered offerings before God was also to go in search of the original homeland.
That Noah built an ark for 120 years was also to go in search of the original homeland. On the road to going in search of the original homeland, a conditional object—the ark—was necessary.
If it were a thing that would shorten the road to going in search of the original homeland, one would have to do anything at all. It was the same with Abraham, too.
To go in search of the land of the original homeland, the ultimate destination the human being must reach, one must forsake even the mountains and streams of one’s own hometown, even the land of one’s own fatherland. Because the original homeland cannot be two, one must forsake even the ideal world one had looked toward.
To go forth toward the Heaven and earth of the original homeland, where all people alike can rest, one must forsake all one’s own individuality, one’s own single nation, and all one’s own dreams.
If one tries to set up one’s lineage centered on one’s own dream, going in search of the original homeland is impossible. That is why, having forsaken everything, one must go in search of the land of the original homeland with single-hearted devotion.
All the more, one must live a life of eating with that one thought of going in search of the truer place, sleeping with that one thought, and feeling joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure with that one thought.
For that, Abraham forsook his hometown, Ur of the Chaldeans, and Moses too, to find the land of the original homeland of his people, the blessed land of Canaan—to prepare the foundation of the original homeland where all people could dwell—forsook the splendid palace of Pharaoh and the position of prince and lived a life in the wilderness. And that the people of Israel wandered as homeless sojourners in the wilderness for forty years was also to go in search of their hometown, the land of the original homeland; and that they wandered the world as homeless sojourners without a nation for several thousand years until now was likewise to find the longed-for land of the original homeland.
That the countless peoples spread throughout the world migrated or raised revolutions, so that history changed, was also to find the land of the original homeland, to go to the world of the original homeland. Because that road is thus a road of common destiny that all humanity of the world must walk, everyone, without exception, comes to walk that road of destiny.
Then who would be the protagonists who must solve that destiny?
Because God is together on that road, the leaders who, centered on that God, take responsibility for the road of the Way, and the people who follow the road of the Way, must bear such responsibility.
Upon them lies the mission of preparing the land of the original homeland worldwide. That is why individuals of faith who cannot purify the world become no more than human-ethical religionists of the human world.
A person can form one personality only when the mind and body become one. That personality cannot appear by the body itself alone. For personality to appear, the body must respond through the mind. Therefore, personality appears through society, centered on human relationships in the planar environment, through the mind and body.
Religion teaches about the inner field—that is, the world of the conceptual—but a social practice field where one can practice it is necessary. Religion until now has pursued only the spiritual aspect—that is, the next world—but a person, before going to the next world, is living in reality. One is meant to enter the next world through the real world.
But religion until now has drawn the outer world, reality, through the inner world.
Why did it do so?
Because the outer world had gone wrong. Because the outer world had already been occupied by Satan, one prepared the inner world first, in reverse, and thereby pursued the outer world. That is why you must know that all humankind is placed in a destiny of having to go in search of the original homeland.
The countless prophets and righteous forebears who appeared in history did not mind even the road of death to find the land of the original homeland.
They breathed their last in truth. There are many prophets and righteous forebears who, not minding all manner of hardship and the road of death, were martyred while going in search of the land of the original homeland.
The Responsibility of a Believer
In going in search of the land of the original homeland, one cannot go alone. One must, without fail, pass through a historical bond. That is why we human beings go forth holding a historical bond.
If there is merit in one’s ancestors, one wishes to boast of one’s ancestors; if there is merit in one’s parents, one wishes to boast of one’s parents; and if one’s parents became renowned, one wishes to bring up one’s parents’ name and say one is so-and-so’s son. This means that we hold historical bonds in esteem.
That today exists is to prepare for tomorrow and to make yesterday shine.
Therefore, one must stand not in a place that denies the facts of the past, but in a place that acknowledges the facts of the past.
In the course of history, what is it that can truly acknowledge the past? Seeking this, one comes to find the true road, and seeking the true road, one comes to find the true religion. And upon the foundation of the true religion, to introduce the original homeland, one absolutely cannot leave out love. Seen from this viewpoint, Christianity stands in a critical position.
Then where does the mission of Christianity lie?
One must regard believers as life, love one another, harmonize by love, and transmit love. And that love is the source of all life.
Then, in what position must the people who believe in Christianity stand?
They must stand in a position that gives influence toward going in search of the original homeland of love. One cannot but live a life of faith standing in such a position. Seeing this, it is only by love that harmony and peace are achieved, and only by love that all people become equal. That is, love must not be absent.
What kinds of love are there? There is inner love and outer love—that is, love for the spirit and love for material things. A person, too, can be divided into an inner person and an outer person. This is the same for any one of the five-colored races.
Then to what degree must we love, in loving?
Before that, for us to become people who can love, we must first stand in a place where we can take possession of God’s love.
For that, we must love all people from the same standpoint as God’s love. Just as God loves all people like brothers and loves all people like children, we too must stand in the same position as that Father. That is why in the Unification Church we say to hold the heart of a parent.
To hold the heart of a parent, one must know what the heart of a parent is, and to find the heart of a parent, one must go to the land of the original homeland. One cannot find it anywhere else. The countless people living on this earth today must, in any case, go to the original homeland and find the heart of a parent.
However much one pursues the Way and is skilled and versed in the affairs of the world, without passing through the heart of a parent, one cannot become a child.
A person is born out of the love of their parents. We were indeed born through the love of parents, but we were born through the love of false parents. This means we were not born through the normal love of parents centered on the principle of the original homeland.
We fell midway on the road to going in search of the original homeland. We ought to have been born centered on the love of parents after entering and resting in the land of the original homeland, but we were not.
Therefore, we must go to the original homeland to find the love of our parents. You must know that ours is a human life that must go in search of the original homeland to find the love of parents.
Only by Being Resurrected and Reborn Does One Become a Son or Daughter of the Original Homeland
Then, through the fall, to what point did love fall?
It fell, descending gradually from the love of parents through the love of children, the love of brothers, the love of relatives, the love of friends, down to the love of a servant, and to the love of a servant of a servant. That is why, in walking the road of the original homeland to find the love of parents, one must again seek back upward in reverse.
So, through the life of the Way, centered on God, one must enter down to the position of a servant of a servant—down to the position of a servant of a servant.
A servant has a master, but a servant of a servant has no master. From the position of such a servant of a servant, after passing through the process of a servant, we must seek our way up to the position of an adopted son. To say an adopted son feels bad, does it not?
If one had no direct children of one’s own and had to bequeath all one’s inheritance to an adopted son, would one feel good?
An adopted son and a direct child differ not only in bloodline but also in all their features, such as flesh and bone. One must climb even to the position of such an adopted son and be engrafted by a direct child.
And seen centered on love too, from the love of a servant of a servant, one must climb through the love of a servant, the love of an adopted son, and the love of a direct child, to the love of husband and wife and the love of parents. Then, through the love of parents, one must be resurrected as a child. This is the rebirth of which Christianity speaks.
Then how must one act to pass through the heart of a parent?
Because the life of a person is, without fail, born by passing through the love of parents, one can pass through the heart of a parent only when there is a standard of having received the love of parents. Then, centered on what is the love of parents?
Because the protagonist of true love is God, without passing through the process of the true heart of a parent and the true love of a parent centered on God, one can neither be reborn nor be resurrected.
Then, seen centered on love, what sort of person must you seek?
Most of you long only for the love of a partner. But that alone will not do. Only by going beyond that and, centered on the heart of a parent, being resurrected and reborn can one at last take possession of the land of the original homeland.
It is not enough merely to receive the love of parents. Only by being born again, centered on that love of parents, does one become a son or daughter of the original homeland.
Unless one is born again, one cannot go to the original homeland. In other words, one will get as far as Paradise, but cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Then who must there be to be born again?
There must be parents. To save your life, you must pass through a process like spending ten months in the mother’s womb. So, just as a fetus grows by receiving all the mother’s nutrients, you too must grow. But we Unification believers are losing such a position.
One is not born again merely because one has met parents, merely because one receives the love of parents. Because you are people who were sought from a fallen world, you must cross the same crisis as that in which your parents fell.
If you do not, you can never enter the land of the original homeland. Here, a process of rebirth must break out, in which one turns oneself over once and enters the mother’s womb once more and comes out.
So one must grow up from a position like an innocent, artless little child. For you to be born again, before standing in the position of entering the mother’s womb, you must stand in the position of entering the father’s bone marrow.
So the Unification Church did such work up until 1960. That is why, when one takes a good look at our Unification Church family members, they are different in heart.
The Blessing and the Indemnity Condition
However much one is a person going in search of the original homeland, one must reach the completion level and meet one’s partner. But there is still a distance before you go up to the completion level.
Because we fell, we departed from below the formation level, not from the completion level. Therefore, however well a person believes and lives a life of faith, he must climb from the foundation level.
Then, the problem here is how one comes to be connected to the completion level.
In the living of worldly life, one may fall down and then rise again and go, but on the road we walk, once one falls, one cannot rise and go.
However well one believes, however loudly one boasts that one does well, one must cross the pass of completion. Without doing so, one cannot settle and live in the land of the original homeland.
To enter that land of the original homeland, the life-body must be resurrected based on the heart of a parent. For that, the heart of a parent must be the center; it must not be that oneself is the center.
Considering the so-called Blessing of the Unification Church, what is the problem?
The problem is setting up the indemnity condition to receive the Blessing.
Grievous content is bound up with this. Seen historically, you inherited the lineage of the fall. That is why, to receive the Blessing, a heavenly condition is necessary that can strike the lineage of the fall and solve the fundamental problem.
So the Unification Church has been persecuted until now and has walked, in heart, the road of the cross. That is why, when one enters the Unification Church, one severs all one’s private bonds until then. One severs them all.
In any case, the place we must go is the land of the original homeland, so we must go in search of the original homeland. We must find the true original homeland.
To find the true original homeland, how must we fallen people act?
We must climb to the position before Adam and Eve fell. But the human being has not yet been completely restored to the position before the fall.
Originally, had the human being not fallen, he would have passed through the three-stage process of growth, reached completion, and lived there; but because he fell, he could not. That is, the human being was not born inheriting the true lineage of parents through the true love of parents that God can approve.
The Unification believers today must win worldwide and be recognized worldwide. Centered on God’s heart and loving humanity of the world like our compatriots, we must walk the course of indemnity. And we cannot but advance for the sake of the nation and the people, or to build the earthly Kingdom of Heaven.
The Grafting Truth of Christianity Is the True Truth
When the Last Days come, Christianity says the Lord comes. If the Lord comes, will he come as a man or as a woman? (He comes as a man.) The Lord must come as a man.
Until now, all people have indeed been born, but they have been born as phantoms. For example, one that ought to have been born a toad has been born a frog. One that ought to have been born a peacock has been born a rooster. It is that sort of case. The seed has changed.
That is why one must deny all of oneself and be newly engrafted. Because the kind is similar, engrafting is possible. Seeing this, the grafting truth of Christianity is the true truth. To engraft, one must cut off cleanly all that one has been until now and bring a new shoot and engraft it.
Therefore, one must engraft a new thought, a new life force, and a new lineage and make it the center that maintains the whole of one’s life. That is why Christianity, until now, has had to play the role of a religion that lives for the sake of others.
Then how must individual human beings act?
The Lord who comes as the bridegroom is the father of the human being. And the bride is the mother. Because Heaven symbolizes the man and the earth symbolizes the woman, a woman must come forth upon the earth. That is why the woman is called the field, and the man is called Heaven.
That is why we Unification believers must return to the seed of life. Rather than to life itself, we must return to the seed of life.
For the Unification Church, up until 1960 was such a period. That was a time when the Unification believers made a great fuss wanting to see the Teacher. Before the Teacher sheds tears for you, you must first shed tears for the Teacher.
Such a thing must break out. Thereby one must form a bond as a son or daughter yet to be born, from within the father’s bone marrow—one who has not yet multiplied good and evil. In forming such a bond, one must form it centered on the heart and centered on love.
That is why, when one enters the Unification Church, it feels like one’s own home. Though it is the first time one has come, it does not feel like the first time.
If one comes here and, receiving grace for about three days, then returns to one’s own house, one’s own house feels like a goblin house. One’s own husband looks like a thief, and one’s own children look like a thief’s brood.
Strangely, it actually becomes so. But when one only comes to the church, even a person of any odd sort simply feels good. It is the same as the fact that anyone who is a person from my hometown is good.
Yet at home, even toward one’s own beloved sons and daughters, the mind with which one faces them becomes entirely different from before. Because such a change breaks out, a history of turning oneself over comes to arise.
So, centered on the heart, one must dig deep into the Lord and form a bond in which one’s living emotion too is the same as the Lord’s, and in dying one dies together with the Lord, in living one lives together with the Lord, and in rejoicing one can rejoice together with the Lord. Thereby, one must stand in a position like a son within the father—that is, within the Lord—who is still in the position of not having married.
So one must stand in a position such that, when the Lord who came as the bridegroom greets the bride and forms a married couple, one is born again through that bride—that is, the mother.
That period of passing through the mother is precisely a period of laboring centered on the earth, which symbolizes the woman. Through that mother, one must, simultaneously with one’s own resurrection, resurrect one’s ancestors and even one’s people and nation. Do you understand?
Thus, only by being molded through the Lord, without fail, does one become a me who can live in the land of the original homeland. And only by becoming such a me can one, at last, before history, call one’s parents father and mother, and call the individuals who stand in such a position brothers.
When such brothers gather, they form relatives; when such relatives gather, they form a clan; when such clans combine, they become a people; when such peoples combine, they become a nation; and when such nations combine, at last the world is unified. Thereby, the world must be equipped with the form of a form that arose from one root centered on God and centered on God’s love.
Only then will the world at last become a world centered on God, and a land centered on God—that is, the earthly Kingdom of Heaven—be achieved. This is precisely the original homeland where we can live forever.
The Awareness That Everything Exists for My Sake
For what does the being called “I” today exist?
We were born to attend God freely, from a place where, treading over and beyond all the affairs of this fallen world, we have achieved an individual resurrection together with a family resurrection, a national resurrection, a resurrection of the nation, and a worldwide resurrection.
Since we entered the Unification Church bearing such a mission, each of us must faithfully take responsibility for such a heavenly mission and carry it out.
Then, for whose sake is it that one takes and carries out that responsibility?
Going forth is centered on God’s love—for whose sake did I say a moment ago it is? It is for the sake of me, my own sake. That the True Parents come is for my sake, that the love of the True Parents has been achieved is for my sake, and that brothers and relatives centered on the love of the True Parents have come into being is all for my sake.
Seen from this viewpoint, since they are relatives and a clan bound to oneself by ties of blood, whether well-favored or ill-favored, only when one can feel that their disgrace is my disgrace and their shame is my shame does one become a qualified one who, as a person of the original homeland, as an original person, can stand on behalf of all Heaven and earth.
That is why, because the being called “I” is a cosmic self, the whole of all beings has been mobilized together with history for the perfection of me alone, and the whole of created things too exists and moves for the perfection of me alone. Seen from this viewpoint, everything—each of you looking upon the world, praising God, and loving your brothers—is, in the end, for my sake.
I was born because of me, and I am living for my sake. Because loving too is loving for my sake, the more one loves, the greater it grows; the more one does it, the more it develops; the more one does it, the deeper it grows. In doing such love, one must do a love centered on the land of the original homeland.
If there is an ill-favored person, think that that person came because of me. Well, everyone, do you think so?
The trials that come to our Unification Church members all come for my sake.
When one thinks thus, that everything exists for my sake, would I have an enemy? There is no enemy.
That is why Jesus, when he was dying on the cross, did not regard as enemies even the enemies who drove nails into his hands and pierced his side with a spear, but prayed for them with such a mind as this: “These are people who came to complete me.
For this one moment, they stand in a valley that maltreats me, but eventually, they are people who thronged for my sake.
So I must not treat them harshly. If I treat them harshly, my mission will not be completed.”
It is the same with God, too.
If God thought, “That I have toiled for six thousand years until now is because of you all!” then God too could not walk the course of restoration.
If He thought that He toiled because of human beings, and that because of human beings He walked a road of sorrow through the six-thousand-year course of history, then God Himself could not go even to the original homeland. Therefore, to say “because of someone…” is heresy.
So one must say, “I am the owner.” “You exist because of me, and that I advance toward the ideal is also because of me.” It is because of me that one goes, not because of the Father. We must hold such a self-consciousness all the more strongly.
The Purpose of Self-Perfection—the Perfection of the Universe
The Unification believers today must cross over Jesus’ remaining course. You will know well the reason for this.
If one does not even know that, one is not a Unification believer. You yourselves must heighten such vigilance and be able to take primary responsibility. The Unification Church needs such people.
When one thinks of the fact that everything exists to perfect me alone, to be for me alone, and for the sake of the will of me alone, one can know how large the place of the human mind is. This stone too, the grass on this mountain too, and the trees too—all exist for my sake; and though the countless peoples differ in concept from one another and differ in cultural background, all are moving to perfect my ideal. Just think that the universe is turning centered on me alone.
When one thinks of the fact that I have entered such a cosmic sphere, then even to walk a road of being driven together with God is fine. How happy a place is a place where one can feel the value of one’s own self! It is a place where one can always be grateful to God.
Whether a person who has lived a life of faith or one who has not, seen outwardly, this one looks like that one, so there is no great difference from the people of the world. That is because no mark whatsoever appears outwardly. But when one goes to the spirit world, it is different.
The spirit world, too, is a world the same as the earthly world. Seen on a large scale, that spirit world is like the shape of one person. Among the spirit-people, there are spirit-people like eyes, spirit-people like ears, and spirit-people like hands.
Likewise, completing the Cosmos is like one cell gathering with others and being formed. The whole Cosmos is connected. Would the blood passing through the eye say, “Oh, I will go only to the eye and absolutely not go to that foot tip”?
It would not. Circulating through the whole body, when the time comes, it flows even down to the very sole. That is why there is nothing that is not needed. All is needed.
To form a bond with the spirit people who came and went in history, people upon the earth who resemble them are necessary. That is why the thirty million people alone are insufficient, and the three billion of humanity are also insufficient.
That is because only from a position resembling the people who have gone to the spirit world can a relationship be formed in which one can give and receive together with them. Therefore, you must know that even the person who says, “Oh, I am different! I alone am enough,” must be restored.
If there was something in which Jesus differed from all humankind from birth, it was that he came from God as the Son of God. He is the Son of God.
What is the Son of God?
He is the temple of God. Jesus was always in such a position as “I exist for the sake of all people,” “At the same time as I exist for the sake of all people, all people exist for my sake”; so even when he was dying on the cross, he was not going alone.
Because all the ideologies centered on this universal world had grown old, he bore them all together with the cross and went. Thereby, all beings entered the sphere of the cross, but because Jesus was resurrected, they too could take part in the sphere of resurrection.
That is why all beings must not think in the manner of, “Jesus lived alone and died—what relation has that to us?”
From the beginning of all beings to the end of all beings, the whole exists for me alone.
As I said a moment ago, seen centered on love too, everything is thus connected. It is not that I love others for the sake of others, but that I love them for my sake.
Only when each one, holding such a mind, goes forth for the sake of God can the whole universe become one centered on God.
From this viewpoint, you must think. And, going beyond this standard, you must ask yourself and find out: what sort of person am I?
I am a son or daughter of God, so what is it that constitutes the will of God?
You must know the fact that my being born is so that, together with the perfection of me alone, the universe may be perfected.
Thereby, when, from such a position, with the heart of a parent, one prays from a place where the mind to love one’s brothers, love one’s relatives, love one’s clan, love one’s people, and love the world is felt with real feeling, that prayer becomes a prayer for the sake of the world.
The Original Homeland Is Where One Lives as a Prince and Princess of God
Before a tearful true love, the world is drawn along. The person who can, centered on such love, bring the world into a standard where it becomes one is a person who can take possession of the complete land of the original homeland.
But one who cannot become such a person not only cannot go to the land of the original homeland; even if he goes in search of the land of the original homeland, he cannot cross over into the land of the original homeland.
If one goes to the land of the original homeland and yet can neither enter it nor come out, then for that person, there is no land of the original homeland.
One must become a person who, having gone there, can both enter and come out.
And one must be able to come out as one pleases and enter as one pleases. If that comes about, how could the owner of the world not dwell upon this earth!
Jesus, in coming to this earth and going, died. He ought to have come as he pleased and gone as he pleased without dying. And in doing so, there ought to have been no persecution.
You must know that only when such a world comes about is the Kingdom of Heaven achieved on earth, and the longed-for world that God wishes achieved upon this earth.
When that comes about, one can automatically occupy the love of God that the mind wishes. But until now, there have been no sons and daughters with whom God could come and become one.
You must know that a person who has become one, centered on the love of God, becomes an active subject who can rule the whole universe for all eternity within that sphere of love, and so becomes a princess of Heaven and a prince of Heaven. Do you understand?
God is going forth in search of human beings through the course of restoration.
That God owns all people and is the subject of all beings. He is likewise the subject of all nations. Who, then, would be the son and daughter of such a God—that is, the prince of the heavenly nation, and who the princess of the heavenly nation? The prince is the Lord, and the princess is the Lord’s bride.
We must be born again, centered on that Lord and bride.
When that comes about, the Lord and the Lord’s bride become the ancestors of humankind and become the parents. When we are born again through the love of those individuals, we can inherit the position of parents, and can stand in the position of second princes and princesses.
All people must all become sons and daughters of God. That is why it is the desire of the human being to wish to attend God as Father. Even a person who has conquered the world and the universe longs for the love of God. This is the same for the ill-favored person and the well-favored person alike. That the original mind of every human being thus acts to long for the love of God is because there is a one-hundred-percent possibility of its being so.
That the human mind thus has the desire to equip itself with the original posture centered on the love of God is because it was originally in a position where it could be so.
Therefore, centered on the love of God, all of us can take possession of the place of prince and princess of the heavenly nation.
Thereby all the possessions of the heavenly nation and all the destiny of the heavenly nation become ours, and the Father’s become mine. The Father’s circumstances too are mine, and all the Father’s possessions too are mine.
When it becomes so, because there is nothing under Heaven one cannot have, there at last one can be happy. There, everything one needs—that is, love—is present, and even all the adjunct requisites apart from love are fully equipped.
That is at last the place where we human beings can rest, and it is our original homeland. Let us all pray together.
Prayer
We did not know that the historical consummation, far off, is calling us, nor did we know that Thou, O God, hast raised us high and hast hastened the road we must go.
Father! We feel anew how much Thou hast toiled, leading forward such ignorant ones as we, each time we strayed onto the side paths, and drawing us up to this day, the age of the consummation of history.
O Father! Where does our mind wish to dwell?
And where does our body wish to remain longer? Since we have come to know that the place where our mind and body must dwell is the deep, original center of the Father’s love, encourage, O Father, the many children who have not yet reached that place.
In longing for that place, we must long for it until our eyes ache, and in yearning for that place, we must yearn until our hearts ache. And to find that place, we must wage a fierce struggle; and though we fall defeated a thousand times, ten thousand times, and suffer the sorrow of the loser, we know that it is our duty to rise again and go on fighting; therefore, O Father, direct Thou our mind and body in person, and let us not become losers in this fight.
Make us feel to the bone the sorrow of the one who has been defeated, and make us feel to the bone the fact that we are fallen descendants as well.
How many mistakes did our ancestors make, who bore the Father’s providence of Restoration through the course of history from our forebears until now? Make us feel that fact painfully to the bone also.
We who are living in this present age must feel to the bone that we ourselves are far too insufficient to bear the Father’s mission and go forward. We must feel so even as we look upon our past selves, and we must feel so even as we look upon the figure of the self placed in the present reality. And, thinking of the figure of our future selves, let us become figures who know how to long for ourselves.
We must newly recognize and must respect ourselves, in the fact that we exist to find and offer to Thee the victory the Father wishes and the joy the Father wishes. And we must form an environment that can praise the Father through the aspects of all beings; and for that, we cannot but hold some subjective something; therefore, O Father, protect Thou every mind that feels the Father’s love.
If the Father’s love were absent, we could not rest; and if the Father’s love were absent, we could not feel the Father’s heart; therefore, pour the waves of the Father’s love upon our deficient minds, and call forth the grace of rebirth.
O Father! Since we know that the laborers of unification are, on this day, bowing down and worshiping before the Father, we believe that Thou wilt be present in person at every one of those places. And remember the children of unification who, scattered throughout the world, are longing for the day when they can meet again.
Though we differ in lineage, and differ in history and tradition and custom, we are a multitude who, centered on the Father, are of the same blood-kin and the same sphere of heart.
Since we know that their shedding the same tears is the mutual communion of heart, and that their sharing of stories with one another is the communion of circumstance through the same bond, grant that all these stories may become stories that can be shared with all the peoples of the world.
We earnestly beseech and desire that all their emotions grasped through experience may commune within the heart and the life of all people.
For that, we must not merely sit like this; grant, O Father, that each of us may feel that we must advance toward the course of the fight under a grave resolve and determination that can mobilize Heaven and mobilize the earth; earnestly do we beseech and desire it.
When we look upon the remaining course of Restoration, make us feel that the Father, even at this hour, is anxiously crying out, “Who will take responsibility for this course?”
Thereby grant that we may become Thy sons and daughters who, whatever sacrifice may follow on the battlefield, bear this responsibility alone to the end, and can sing a song of victory before the Father; earnestly do we beseech and desire it.
Grant that we, equipping ourselves with the glory of victory on the battlefield of Restoration, may become Thy sons and daughters whom the Father can set up and boast of before all beings and before all people, and who can be praised by the Father; earnestly do we beseech and desire it.
Grant that we may go in search of the land of the original homeland, and grant that we may find our original brothers. And grant that we may become Thy sons and daughters who can have original parents and original children, and Thy sons and daughters who can fulfill for Thee the purpose of joy that the Father sought to administer through love; earnestly do we beseech it.
Father, receive this day as holy. Guide us so that, ever keeping in mind the fact that we are gathering and moving to prepare a foundation of victory for the fulfillment of the Father’s Will upon this earth, we may never perform any action that brings loss before the Father.
Grant that we may become sons and daughters who can leave behind something that is of profit before the whole; earnestly do we beseech and desire it.
Make us the Father’s sons and daughters who can fulfill the mission of a pioneer and the mission of a forerunner, pioneering the foundation of love, even if only indirectly, by doing benevolent work that can gladden the Father—not only at the church, but likewise on returning home and on going out into society.
Since the han of all people yet remains, grant that we may pioneer a new source of life to resolve this han, and may share out to them the grace of love; and grant that we may become contributors and forerunners in preparing the foundation upon which the Father can directly operate; earnestly do we beseech and desire it.
Upon the days remaining ahead too, be together with us in the Father’s love, and grant that Thy eternal wish may be fulfilled through us; earnestly do we entreat.
All these words we have offered up, upholding the holy name of the True Parents. Amen.