Inheriting the True Parents' Tradition

1. Because of the seeds that were sown by the Fall in the Garden of Eden, various phenomena of the harvest of their fruit will arise around the world. Now is that time. Since this world cannot continue as it is, the time has come to reap the fruit of the Fall.

This world became the way it is because it inherited a tradition that deviated from God due to its relationship with the fallen parents.

Therefore, True Parents must come and establish a new teaching. Should it be based on the current ways of the world or the cosmos? No, it should be based on true families. Unless the teaching of the true family appears, the teaching of a new world cannot emerge.

The representative of this true family teaching must be God's true son. He should be the internal heir who inherits everything related to God's heart. He should also be God's external heir, who inherits the ownership of all things.

In other words, he should be a man who can inherit God's heart, God's body, and all things. Only such a son can be God's representative. Only when that son comes will God's kingdom finally be realized. (21-049, 1968.09.01)

True Parents tradition

2. How will history unfold? When True Parents' tradition is established, True Parents' actual way of life will remain in history as the standard for all traditions for all eternity. Suppose we continue for one thousand years from this point. People will not be moving forward looking to the future; rather, they will move forward-looking back one thousand years, modeling their lives on things as they are in this present time.

Until today, fallen people have sought to unify the world, but once the True Parents emerge and are recognized as the central individuals of the world, all people will emulate the tradition of the True Parents and uphold them as the center. As time goes by, the domain based on that center will continue to expand.

Indeed, the True Parents family is the foundation representing the tradition of a future that people hope to see. The purpose of God's history of six thousand years has been to create a True Parents' family.

Why are people going through struggles at present? It is so they can meet True Parents' family. (44-134, 1971.05.06)

3. What is True Parents' Love? In the Garden of Eden, the first human beings failed to become true ancestors and could not establish the tradition of original love.

Therefore, at some point in time, the Messiah must come, and in the position of the True Parents, he has to establish this tradition of love from the level of the individual to the family, tribe, people, nation, and world. When it is realized on the level that transcends peoples of all ethnicities, the kingdom of heaven will be established on earth.

It will be God's museum. Thus far, individuals and families have been disconnected from God. Hence, what I am trying to do at this time is to connect them to the whole, and God, and establish the proper tradition of love centered on the family.

To prepare such a wonderful foundation is the mission of the True Parents, and to uphold and actualize that purpose is the mission of the Unification Church.
(107-161, 1980.04.20)

4. You can become an owner only when you act with the heart of a parent and the body of a servant.

This is how God has been working to fulfill the Will. Hence, you too can fulfill it only if you have the heart of the Father and shed your tears, sweat, and blood. To become a true leader, you need to receive true leadership training.

You need to inherit True Parents' way of tears, sweat, and blood, which is the way of Heaven. You, too, have to shed tears, sweat, and blood; then you will leave it behind as your tradition. (11-155, 1961.05.18)

5. What is the tradition of God and True Parents? First, it is to live for the sake of others. Second, it is to invest, Invest, and forget. Third, it is to pray and offer devotion to fulfill the Will.

It is a goal that you cannot accomplish by yourself. Why do you need to pray? It is because you need to receive the help of God, your subject partner, and to have Heaven with you and support you.

Why do you have to offer devotion?

It is to enable you to prepare for the path and accept any circumstances that you might face. Prayer is to create a bond with God, the subject partner, and devotion is to expand your horizontal relationships. (219-216, 1991.08.29)

6. What kind of family is True Parents' family? Their family is the fruit of history, the center of this age, and the starting point of the future. So, in the future, when the world we live in becomes the kingdom of heaven that we've hoped for, every aspect of True Parents' lives will serve as the tradition.

They will become the mother's womb of the ideal nation. They will be the starting point for building the ideal world. Therefore, based on the vertical connection to True Parents, you as their children should always establish a realm of three generations together with True Parents.

The vertical three generations are God, the True Parents, and you. Horizontally, three generations are True Parents, True Children, and You.

Heaven and earth will not be united unless these three generations are formed and perfected. (44-169, 1971.05.06)

7. The tradition, education, and practice that we talk about refer to tradition and education under True Parents. All you need to do is follow in True Parent's footsteps and inherit all the victories that they won in their battles against Satan.

True Parents are going to gather the offerings of all believers and offer them all to God on the altar. They will do so without discriminating among their sons and daughters or the things of creation. Further, they will do so without distinguishing between the Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age, and the Completed Testament Age, having liberated them all from Satan's accusation.

They will offer God the UN and the entire world united together. Then, True Parents can inherit the world from God, at which point their right of ownership will begin. (417-124, 2003.09.05)

8. For the past six thousand years, the purpose of God's work has been to establish the True Parents' family. Why has humanity been struggling to this day? It is to connect to True Parents and their family. In the future as well, our descendants will exist to produce descendants for the True Parents.

They do not need to create a nation for True Parents or make a world for True Parents because once True Parents emerge and receive public recognition, True Parents' nation and world will come into being naturally.

To support True Parents you should make descendants for them. It is not a matter of making a nation for them. At this time, what is most ideal for you is to live with True Parents at the center of your life. In the future, when heaven and earth will be governed under the authority of True Parents, you will not be just ordinary citizens who come and go.

You will carry the tradition that was woven centering on True Parents, which will remain forever in history. There can be no greater tradition than this.
(44-134, 1971.05.06)

9. Had Adam and Eve not fallen, human history would have originated with True Parents. Their words would have become their descendants' words, their way of life would have become their descendants' way of life, and the environmental conditions they experienced would have become their descendant's reality. In this way, history would have started with True Parents. (26-280, 1969.11.10)

Inheriting True Parents' tradition

10. Fathers and mothers want to bequeath everything they have to their beloved sons and daughters.

Parents and children who follow the tradition of love come to stand in positions of equal value; hence the parents can bequeath the whole universe to their children with their minds at ease. That is why parents would like to have children of filial piety.

Who are children of filial piety?

They are those who participate in their parents' eternal love. They are the ones who will carry on the tradition of bequeathing love. (140-235, 1986.02.12)

11. Who do you want as the leader of your family? What kind of person would the father, the grandmother, and the entire family want to have as the heir? They would want the one who loves the most.

If the grandfather loves the entire family the most, the family members will report to him rather than to the father. This is natural. Thus, the person who becomes the leader of a household is the one who serves others with the most loving heart.

The one who serves others the most, with a heart of love, will inherit the tradition of that family and imbue it with love. You should understand that only such people will belong to the line of inheritance that continues for eternity.
(141-292, 1986.03.02)

12. To inherit God's providence in its entirety, we have to be faithful to His providential tradition. And not only should we be faithful to the tradition, we should take responsibility for it. After taking responsibility, we should transform society.

Heavenly Father's tradition needs to be passed on to everyone. If the social environment is not in accord with His tradition, then we must fight to change whatever is contrary to it. Otherwise, there will be no progress.
(152-197, 1963.05.10)

13. To inherit a historical connection with God and True Parents and fulfill the responsibility of pioneers in this era, you need to receive the pure tradition of God's providence of restoration, assume responsibility for the existing circumstances of your life, and fight to build the foundation for a new ideal in the future. (152-198, 1963.05.10)

14. The heavenly kingdom is the place where people who live for the sake of others go. They are those who invest themselves in the world and cultivate relationships with its people. They journeyed throughout the world to embrace its people to serve God and strive to realize the ideal.

Furthermore, they will be the owners of the heavenly kingdom. You should take pride in doing these things. You should be able to take pride in your mother and father, your wife or husband, your sons and daughters, and your siblings.

Then, you need to extend this tradition and apply it to the nation; you need to extend this formula to the world and heaven and earth. If you become such people, then wherever you go you will have the right of equal participation, the right of equal position, and the right of inheritance. (175-139, 1988.04.10)

15. The victory I bequeath to you is the family-level realm of victory. What kind of family am I talking about? It is a family that represents the world. The family that fulfills a messianic mission represents the world, embracing and taking care of all matters and traveling back and forth freely among all people. I want your family to become such a family.

When all five races want to find their way into your family, when they try to create relationships with your family, you should not block them or say that only certain people may come in. It is a principle that if you are connected to the central point of the heart, your heart will expand in all four directions.

Power and action emanate from that central point in all directions without exception. That center is the True Family. Accordingly, the True Family must be at the core of your family for it to realize the kingdom of heaven.
(100-309, 1978.10.22)

16. The family is the base for finding the homeland and hometown and settling there. How should you live in such a family? You should connect to True Father and live with him, immersed in his tears.

Then you will weep for the sake of your nations and your families. You need to recover your family.

How can you do that? It is by upholding the tradition of tears, the tradition of sweat, the tradition of blood, the tradition of water running from the nose, and the tradition of investing your whole self.

That is how you should bequeath unchanging purity, an unstained lineage, pure love, and a pure approach to sexual relations to the second and third generations, and on to countless generations of your lineage.

Above and below, front and back left and right – all directions must all be cleansed. Only then can you bequeath the pure love of an unstained lineage. You have to pass through the gate of pure sexual relations to plant pure seeds of true love, true life, and true lineage. (484-084, 2005.01.20)

17. You need to suffer for the Will more than others do. If you do, everyone will follow you. Who has suffered for the church? Who has sacrificed their family and relatives for the church?

Who is suffering more and is therefore closer to the tradition of heart? When someone of the lowest rank prays night and day for the Will and sheds blood and sweat while striving to realize the spirit of love, whether that person is a woman or a man, Heaven will make a new history through that person. In the Unification Church, that kind of tradition is already established.

The question as to which of my sons or daughters will become my heir will be decided based on which of them suffers the most for the Will and fulfills his or her filial duty. It is the same for each of you. It is the same in the family and the same in the church. Everyone must follow this tradition. (113-147, 1981.05.01)