Former Headquarters Church.
Marking the year 1969, our church has come to set out equipped with a new system. Until now, our church remained at the family stage. That is, by holding the Holy Wedding in 1960, it set out from the family stage and, over three years, blessed as many as 120 families.
Our church has a point of difference from ordinary churches, which is that church and family are gathered. In fact, our church, founded in 1960, changed into a new form.
During the First Seven-Year Course, we set up a single goal each year and pushed forward: the goal of the first year was “Let this be a year that leaves the greatest achievement of our lives”; the next year, “Let us become the Father’s representatives”; and the next, “Let us become ones who can show and boast.”
We came forth, thus setting up a single standard of heart. And from the fourth year of the Seven-Year Course, under the slogan “Let us become victorious masters,” we came to see the completion of the First Seven-Year Course.
The Providential Meaning of the Slogan “Total Advance”
During this period, in keeping with the heavenly inner providence, we came forth setting up standards of indemnity from the individual standard of indemnity to the national standard of indemnity, to carry out national indemnity. Thereby we sought to gather the inner conditions and rise to the standard God aims at.
Considered centered on Cain and Abel, our nation and the Unification Church are in the relationship of Cain and Abel. Though it is not the whole realm, we, centered on the Unification body and standing upon a heavenly viewpoint, ended the Seven-Year Course by drawing the outer environment up to the standard we had desired.
And last year, together with the departure of the Second Seven-Year Course, we fixed the Day of God, and today is the day that becomes its first anniversary.
This day is a day that was never in history, and a new commemorative day that was never in history. God's Day is an important day we must commemorate.
The year 1968 was a year in which, simultaneously with the departure of the Second Seven-Year Course, we set up the slogan “Let us make the total advance” and pushed forward.
The total advance is not something hoped for centered on some individual; centered on the whole, we must move the world forward by a total advance.
Just as it is so with our church, there will be such a time for Korea too. Just as it is so with Korea, Asia too must go forth from such a standpoint, and the world too must go forth from such a standpoint. Yet the world, Asia, and our nation all have no clear purpose.
Therefore, unless one passes through hardship following the trend of the age that flows without purpose, one cannot fit the individual aspect to the trend of the whole, centered on a new problem.
Yet the Unification Church came forth, centered on a heavenly purpose, under the slogan of the total advance. But this slogan of total advance, unless we achieve a total victory, remains only a slogan.
That is, although we set out centered on the slogan of the total advance, until that purpose is achieved, much process remains; at the least, we must go up to the standard at which, centered on the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea and the Unification Church can be fully recognized nationally.
Because we must continue with this operational system until then, this year too we have taken “Total Advance” as our slogan. Therefore, I declare to you that, until 1969, we will move while strengthening our system and activity, centered on the slogan of the total advance.
When we examine one by one the constituent elements of our church from the standpoint of having to make the total advance, first there is our church, second there is the family, and next there are the Victory Over Communism Federation (승공연합) and the Principle Research Association (원리연구회), which are equipped with an outer system of activity centered on the church, and there is the field of enterprise. Thus, there are these five fields of activity.
Our church moves with such a system. That these must be made to advance all together from the aspect of the total advance goes without saying. To make these advances totally from a three-dimensional aspect is God’s urgent demand.
But viewed realistically, our actual situation is placed in an abnormal environment in which even the level standard has not been fully equipped. That is, conditions are lacking: first, human resources are insufficient, and second, economic backing is insufficient. These two conditions are bringing enormous loss and hindrance to the activity of the whole.
We Must Establish a Tradition of Faith United with the Word
This year we cannot but consider the matter of numbers within the church.
Centered on the Unification Church, how large a number is needed?
There is all too great a difference between the Unification Church as seen from outside and the actual state within.
So how, within this year, to make the inner foundation firm and bring it into balance with the outer recognition, and further to appear to hold subjective authority, is the most important problem of all.
To draw the church up to such a standard, in the end the standard of faith becomes the issue. Considered centered on this standard of faith, our road of faith differs from the road of faith of the believers of ordinary established churches.
The course of restoration through indemnity that the Unification Church walks, standing upon the Principle, is like a formula course.
That is why, upon a foundation equipped with a firmer standard of thought than any religious body, we must increase the number of the church. What must precede everything here is establishing a tradition of faith.
We must establish a tradition centered on the church. Thereby we must secure numbers centered on this tradition; if we secure numbers without tradition, they become nothing but a disorderly mob.
Then how shall we secure numbers grounded in tradition?
First, we must put in order the tradition centered on the church. What the Teacher emphasized in the First Seven-Year Course was establishing tradition. You must establish a tradition regarding the Word.
The Unification believer of Korea, the Unification believer of Japan, and the Unification believer of America must all establish a unified tradition in grasping the Word. That is, with a way of thinking and an attitude of living grounded in the Principle, we must establish a unified tradition centered on the Word.
Until now, each has set up his tradition in his own way, but from now on we must establish a unified tradition in Korea and Japan and even throughout the whole world. When touring abroad too, I emphasized this point centrally. We must establish a worldwide tradition regarding the Word, I say.
Second, we must equip ourselves with a character that can become one with the Word. That is, the Word and you must not be split apart, the Word going its own way and you going yours.
At the judgment of the Last Days, there are three great judgments. The first is the judgment of the Word, the second is the judgment of character, and the third is the judgment of heart. These are set up as absolute standards.
It is the Fall that the human being failed to stand in a place united with God’s Word. He should have made the word “Do not eat” absolute and established a tradition. But because he failed to do so and fell, those who walk the course of Restoration must establish a tradition by which they can become one with the one truth-Word that will appear at the last.
In Heaven such a tradition is established, but for the people living upon this earth it has not become a tradition.
If this tradition is not established, the Unification Church too has the possibility of splitting into countless denominations like the established churches until now.
That is, how to establish a tradition of becoming one centered on the Word unfolds as an absolute problem.
The Standard of Original Human Character
The Word going its own way and we going ours must not be. We must become people who can raise ourselves centered on the Word. That is, we must become one with God’s Word. But what you know is a word related to Satan, and the system of thought you now pursue and think has not escaped the standpoint related to Satan. Because all the constituent elements of the satanic world, whatever they may be, appeared centered on the human being, they have not escaped the fallen sphere.
Accordingly, one must, with a new Word, reform everything.
Then, harmonizing just as one is with the conventional word until now, can one go along together with it?
Absolutely not. The conventional word must be completely broken off and settled.
Even the satanic notions, beliefs, and habits held until now in the satanic world must all be swept away. Thereby, one must establish a tradition centered on the Word of the absolute standard.
You, too, must come into contact with the standard of the Teacher’s mind at the time of establishing the Word. Even though you say you learn the Word, it is to believe from the standard by which you learned, centered on the Word; it is incomplete. Because a traditional standard is hidden behind that Word, you must grasp that standard through experience. That is why one cannot but establish all the more a tradition regarding the Word.
Next, a character is required. The character here means a character that can bring Satan into submission—it means precisely the perfection of individuality.
Then what kind of thing is the standard of the perfection of individuality that Unification Church members speak of?
It is not that one is perfected in individuality merely by having spent a certain number of years as a Unification believer. That standard is the standard that can bring Satan, who tormented God for six thousand years and gave God agony, into submission, who cannot be permitted for hundreds of millions of generations. That is the standard of original human character, of the human being as God created him and unfallen.
Who is Satan?
He is the archangel. The archangel was God’s servant and is precisely the serpent who tempted God’s son and daughter. A father’s servant is a servant to the son too. Yet that servant became an enemy and became Satan, who comes forth holding conditions of accusation before God.
Therefore, one must equip oneself with original character and bring Satan into submission, and to bring him into submission, it will not do with force alone; one must bring him into submission with the Word.
Satan’s temptation of Jesus was also done with words. Therefore, you must, centered on the Word, confront Satan and, from a public standpoint, present before God all the facts of his historic crimes from the motive by which Satan became Satan, and, becoming a prosecutor, be able to criticize and bring Satan into submission. Such a person is truly a person who brings Satan into submission.
Satan has until now dragged fallen human beings, set them up in the court before God, and dragged them all off to hell. Of course, the human being has sin, but Satan, who well knows God’s purpose from its very motive, has played the leading role in separating the human being from God. We must know the fact that we are placed in a standpoint of having to bring such a Satan into submission.
It is the Fall that the human being lost the right as the original son and daughter, who were to inherit God’s authority and rule over Satan. Therefore, for the human being to cross over the fallen standard, he must without fail recover the original right.
To do so, one must set up as the judge God, who is the great sovereign of Heaven and earth and who judges unrighteousness centered on the public law of the Cosmos. Thereby one must equip oneself with the qualification of a prosecutor who can drag Satan before God, expose all his sins, and demand a sentence.
Only then does one become a person equipped with the character that can stand before God.
The Qualification to Become God’s Sons and Daughters
Religion must agree with God’s purpose and enter the world God purposes. That is, one must enter within God’s realm of direct dominion. For you to enter within God’s realm of direct dominion, you must completely settle accounts with your relationship with Satan and be in a place of eternal parting from Satan.
Only then, receiving God’s direct dominion, can you bring Satan into submission.
Unification believers must establish a tradition by which, bringing Satan into submission, they can govern Satan. To do so, one must know Satan well.
One must clearly know what crimes Satan committed before God behind the six-thousand-year history of humankind. Only then does Satan bow his head, recognize it, and submit before that Word.
If there is a murderer-robber in the world, he can hide and live to some degree in some environment, some world. Though on his conscience he thinks he did wrong, he can continue his living. But if even a mere child detects the truth of his crime and testifies to that robber that he saw him commit the crime, he bows his head before him.
In the same way, when you know in every detail the truth of all the sins Satan committed and appear holding the authority to accuse or indict him before God, only then does Satan submit.
For you to gain the qualification that can bring Satan into submission, you must, centered on God, cross over the standpoint in which Adam and Eve fell together with the archangel. Adam and Eve too, before the Fall, did not know such a thing as the Fall.
Then, having gone forth to that place, what must one do?
First, one must attend to God. To attend God, one must sever all the bonds of the world. In severing them, one must sever them while holding a mind of love. One must deny all social conditions. One must deny them completely.
Every religion has its lineage established from self-denial. That is, the right way unfolds from self-denial. The greater a religion, the more it denies not merely some part but the whole of history and reality.
Christianity came forth, denying even the Old Testament before Jesus. That is why, though it shed the blood of martyrdom and fought in the course of history, it has developed until now.
Why is that?
It is because God desires that the human being’s standard of character agree with God’s absolute love, and that, attending God, one becomes one with the Word.
The road you of the Unification Church must go is just one road. You must make God’s Word completely your own. You must grasp through experience all the content of that Word as your own. Thereby, when you equip yourself with a character united with the Word, you become a son and daughter of God. Without becoming a son and daughter of God, one cannot command the servant.
Though the archangel, from the standpoint of a servant, fell and became Satan, the principle of the heavenly way absolutely does not permit denying the position in which one is placed. That is why the position of a son and daughter of God is a position higher than the position in which Adam and Eve fell.
In other words, it is a position higher than Adam and Eve before the Fall. That is, it is a position where, when one commands the archangel, the archangel must comply, saying “Yes,” a position where one can sing of glory as a child of God, and a position where one can receive God’s utmost love.
That is why what the Unification Church asserts is not merely to believe and go to heaven. Before going to heaven, one must resolve such problems. That is, your character must be able to bring Satan into submission.
One must have the conviction that one can bring Satan into submission, not within a limited environment, but anytime, anywhere, in Heaven and earth, in the spiritual world and the physical world. Thereby, centered on God and standing on God’s side, one must take over God’s authority.
Restored God-ism, Cosmos-ism
Human history develops through culture. The purpose behind forming a cultural world is to seek a truth-body centered on a single character. That is, it is to go seeking a character-body centered on truth. Therefore, human history is a history of going to seek truth. That is, it is going to seek the true Word and the true way.
Then what is an -ism or a thought?
From the very beginning, there cannot be any such -ism or thought. If one must attach a name to that -ism or thought, it is Adam-ism, Adam-thought. Adam-ism is neither communism nor democracy. It is Parent-ism.
If originally Adam and Eve had not fallen and, setting out centered on God, had attended God as their Father and become His son and daughter, then the -ism centered on them is God-ism.
That -ism centered on God is an -ism in which all people can harmonize with the subject, can affirm the whole, can absorb the whole, and can have themselves absorbed, and in it there cannot be any faction. But because the human being fell and such an -ism could not come forth, one goes back seeking it again. This is restored God-ism. It is also the -ism of the son and daughter centered on God.
In the Unification Church, we speak of Cosmos-ism (천주주의, 天宙主義). Cosmos-ism refers to the son and daughter, centered on God, becoming husband and wife and forming a family.
Now, not one person has asked why, in Cosmos-ism, we do not write the ju of 主 (master) but the ju of 宙. The 宙 in Cosmos-ism means “house”; the reason for using the character 宙 (house) is that a house refers to a family, that is, to husband and wife.
A family will not do with the son alone. With Jesus alone coming forth upon this earth, it will not do, I say. Why? Because the Fall was done by husband and wife.
Accordingly, on today’s course of Restoration, husband and wife must without fail come forth. Because the Adam and Eve who were to become husband and wife fell, a perfected Adam and Eve, that is, good parents, must come forth.
Such parents refer to the Lord at the Second Advent and his bride at the marriage of the Lamb that Christianity speaks of. That is why the man must equip himself with character, and the woman too must equip herself with character.
The standard of the perfection of individuality, by which character is constituted, must be the Word. Therefore, the perfection of individuality cannot be done apart from God’s law. Yet however much one governs Satan, having equipped oneself with character, that alone will not do.
Only by governing Satan as a son and daughter of God can one govern him eternally. Why? Because Satan too received God’s love.
That Satan felt a sense of the decrease of love because of Adam and Eve became the motive of the Fall. Satan, for a long period before the human being was made, monopolized God’s love. But when Adam and Eve came to receive God’s love, he sought to make them fall and monopolize God’s love.
Originally, Adam and Eve were, after being perfected by keeping for a long time the word “Do not eat,” to become husband and wife and love each other.
Jesus too, upon the earth, did not completely bring Satan into submission. Though he was victorious over Satan in part, in the worldwide and total aspect he did not completely bring Satan into submission. Why? Because, since the human being was born through husband and wife, without passing through the gate of husband and wife, one cannot win complete victory.
That is why Jesus was to, together with the Holy Spirit, form a trinity centered on God’s love and bring Satan into substantial submission. This is the principle of the heavenly way.
So however much one is equipped with character, if one fails to receive God’s love, it will not do.
The human being, whom God made with the Word, is a substance that can contain God’s Word. But because of the Fall, he failed to become a substance that can contain God’s Word.
So to restore that, Christianity seeks to fit it back in reverse, centered on the words “bridegroom” and “bride.” This is absolute. That is why a person of faith desires to become a person of character who, centered on God’s Word, can possess God’s heart.
The Reason for Sending Unification Believers to the Front Line
In Christianity, it is said that before the road a person goes, there is without fail the judgment of truth.
If the individual fails to conform to truth, he is judged individually; if the family fails to conform to truth, it is judged as a family; and if the people, the nation, or the world fails to conform to truth, they are judged nationally and worldwide.
To escape such judgment, humankind has set up -isms and thoughts. But with -isms and thoughts alone, it will not do. Because it split into Cain and Abel, that is, communism and democracy, the -ism of husband and wife must come forth.
What is that -ism of husband and wife?
It is the -ism of father and mother centered on the bond of the family. This is Cosmos-ism (天宙主義).
For you to establish the tradition of Cosmos-ism, you must equip yourselves with a character that can become one with the Word. Thereby, so that God, beholding your character, can bequeath the whole of all the universe, you must equip yourselves with an active subjectivity.
Our Unification Church must, centered on husband and wife, establish a tradition by which one can inherit such a bond of Cosmos-ism. Now, to establish the tradition, one must bring Satan into submission. To bring Satan into submission, one must kick off the whole world, go forth, and win victory. Within the fence in which you live, Satan defeats you. Springing out from here, one must meet Satan at the very top, where all can recognize it. That very place is God’s front line and Satan’s front line. Therefore, God’s rear and Satan’s rear are your family.
Satan’s foremost front is where one fights with God. That is, for these people, it is the 38th parallel, where democracy and communism confront each other. The moment when one resolves to cut off everything and cross the line is the issue. It is because there, at last, the duel unfolds.
The decision of victory that can bring Satan into submission is not made in your inner room. It is decided at the crossing point where a fierce battle unfolds. That is why Jesus went seeking such a place.
The Garden of Gethsemane is precisely such a place. The moment on the cross when death and life cross, the moment when it is decided whether death or life—that is the moment when victory and defeat are decided.
Now is the moment when 1968 and 1969 change over.
What did you feel? Have you already crossed over without feeling it?
For you as individuals too, there is a crossing-over moment, and for the family, church, nation, and world too, there is such a moment, but people pass over without knowing it. One must not fail to know it.
The Unification Church sends people out to the front line to make people who hold the authority that can bring Satan into submission. It drives them to a place the nation opposes and the world opposes, a difficult place where not a single person takes their side. To such a place as where Jesus felt, “Oh! I alone am left”….
For you to be restored, you must go to such a front line. Accordingly, at the least, you must pass through three villages, three towns, and three counties, go seeking three provinces, and go seeking three or more nations.
Therefore, the Unification Church must go through the trials of at least three great nations. That is why we came forth suffering persecution even in the Japanese colonial period (왜정시대), under the Communist Party, and in the democratic world. You too, each of you individually, must pass through such a process.
What We Must Do During the Second Seven-Year Course
To proclaim the Word, one needs people who can practice the Word. One needs people who resolve to die fighting together with the Word. One needs people who vow to follow the purpose at the risk of their lives.
That vow must be made at the very moment of deciding the contest with Satan. Before that, one must not make the vow.
Passing through such a standpoint of vowing, one must set oneself up as God’s representative and, centered on God’s heart, avenge the enemy. One must find out and bring into submission God’s enemy. Thereby, you must hold the authority to bring Satan into submission at the front line. Only after that can one at last cross over the process of judgment.
This is the tradition of the Unification Church that our Principle teaches. The First Seven-Year Course has ended, and we are walking the Second Seven-Year Course; there may be a person who says, “Well, I am an exception, so can I go without regard to that tradition?” But it does not work that way.
The Teacher, to establish the Word, duelled with Satan, centering on everything of the spiritual world, and duelled with Satan in a place driven from the front, back, left, and right by all the persecution of the physical world. At the highest front line, it was so individual, so in terms of family, and so in terms of tribe, people, and nation.
You must know the fact that the Teacher too walked such a road to establish the Word, and established the tradition of the Word in such a place.
That is why you must establish a unified tradition, centered on the Word, a tradition unified, centered on the heart. To do so, you must hold, as God’s representative, a heart of parents standing in for God’s heart, and a heart of loving humankind in the body of a servant. And in confronting Satan, you must receive from Satan the sign, “Yes, it is right.” That is, you must receive from Satan a confirmation stating, “You have won victory.”
Though such a great task remains, some people say, “What has that to do with me? It concerns our Teacher, not me, ”but by no means. The Teacher holds problems of the national, worldwide, and cosmic range, but you must take responsibility at one stage lower.
From this viewpoint, for you to stand in the standpoint of having known the purpose and become Unification believers in the true sense, you must go out to the front line and win victory individually, in terms of family, and in terms of tribe. No less than a tribal victory. That is why the Blessed Family must fulfill the mission of a tribal messiah. The period in which one must do this is the Second Seven-Year Course.
So during this period, one must establish tradition. One must establish the tradition of the family, the tradition of the tribe, and the tradition of the whole church.
In the Seven-Year Course, one must live centered on this mission, fight centered on this mission, and die centered on this mission. The conditions of victory and defeat are decided centered on the Seven-Year Course, and the total advance too must be made centered on this Seven-Year Course. So you too must firmly establish tradition here.
To Become God’s Representative
This year we have come to enter the second stage of the total advance, and this second stage is the issue. In the Second Seven-Year Course, we must without fail establish tradition.
The first slogan of the First Seven-Year Course was “Let this be a year that leaves the greatest achievement of our lives,” was it not?
For a human being, the greatest achievement of a lifetime is to perfect one’s individuality. That is, it means that one individually brings Satan into submission before Heaven and earth and is oneself liberated.
Becoming, by having much money, one of the rich of the nation, or becoming the sovereign of a nation who enjoys power, is not the issue. Those all flow away and have nothing to do with the purpose of one’s life. They may be able to be a temporary purpose of living, but they have no relation whatsoever with the purpose of a lifetime.
The greatest purpose of a lifetime is to perfect one’s individuality centered on God. That is, it is to become, united in Word, united in character, and united in heart, a son and daughter who can receive God’s love.
When you become a son and daughter of God, you become God’s representative.
But to become a representative and fulfill the mission, the man alone will not do. Jesus too came to this earth and stood in the standpoint of God’s representative, but because he failed to greet a bride, he failed to fulfill the mission. Alone it absolutely will not do. Even considered centered on the individual, just as body and mind must become one, a reciprocal standard must be formed.
Even considered as individual men and women, to become completely God’s representative, the two must cross over the fallen line. Because the two fell, that fallen line absolutely cannot be crossed over alone.
That is, unless a complete man and a complete woman become one centered on God, one cannot become God’s representative.
Next was “Let us become ones who can show and boast.” This refers to the Four Position Foundation.
It refers to the Four Position Foundation that appears as the result of having fulfilled the mission as God’s representative. Thus, all of it was said with the family in view. It is not that one goes out into society, forms a group, and contributes to the nation; it is said with the family in view.
One must restore the Four Position Foundation before God. Only by restoring the Four Position Foundation and showing it to God and the heavenly world, and showing it to the world of all things, does one at last become a master.
Because the Four Position Foundation went wrong, to restore this Four Position Foundation, one must become a victorious master. A person who can govern the four directions becomes a victorious master.
Greeting the Second Seven-Year Course, one must make the total advance.
Thereby, you must perfect your individuality. To perfect individuality, the Word is needed, character is needed, and heart is needed. Without these, everything comes to nothing.
We who go forth under the slogan of the total advance must not become braggarts. As sons and daughters of God who have perfected their individuality, we must make the total advance.
Making the total advance, one must make a garden of the welfare of peace. To build a garden of the welfare of peace, man and woman must, centered on the ideal partner, form God’s Blessed Family, the foundation of happiness.
Therefore, the purpose of the call to make the total advance lies in preparing, centered on the family, a foundation of peace and rest in which God can rejoice.
Blessed Families Must Awaken
The First Seven-Year Course is spoken of as centered on the Teacher. So the Teacher, centered on 1960, passed through the Seven-Year Course holding the thought of preparing a foundation of peace and rest.
To establish the inner standard, one must restore through indemnity. Once one has established the outer standard of the Blessing, one must inwardly put things in order.
That is why, in the three-year course, one must complete the Four Position Foundation and cross over. That is achieved centered on the Teacher. It was centered on such problems that the slogans came forth.
Therefore, centered on the Blessed Family, one must go forth seeking the national right of inheritance. One must cross over the standard at which Abel was killed by Cain. Even though the nation opposes, one must certainly rise to a standard where one can be welcomed.
Accordingly, one must study the Principle thoroughly. Even if I do not tell you to study the Principle, you must know to do it yourselves.
The road of going equipped with the thought of Cosmos-ism, centered on the ideology of the Unification Church, is absolute. This is the most important problem in our church, and the time has come to put this in order anew. You must know this.
Now, to expand the number and establish a firm foundation, one must establish tradition.
You must, centered on Word, character, and heart, become one with God and become one with the central being, so that the family and everything else stand upon a foundation that God can recognize. Thereby, you must be able to appear as traditional substances.
From the standpoint of having taken on substance, if you establish the tradition of the Word, the tradition of character, and the tradition of heart, and stand in for the Teacher, that is enough.
The Teacher, to prepare a foundation of victory by dueling with Satan centered on this Word, came forth overcoming all sorts of drudgery and suffering. Thereby, he firmly planted the signpost of victory. He prepared a foundation of heart that only God and the Teacher know. He cultivated a foundation of achievement and heart that no saint or sage since history began could achieve. That is why, with the Unification Church, it is not the church itself that is dreadful; it is the content the Unification Church holds—the content—that is dreadful.
Therefore, you must, standing upon that foundation, absolutely obey the words of the Teacher who gives directions. The Teacher too is absolute before God’s command. There is absolutely no discount there. Transcending one’s own circumstances, desires, mind, and heart, one cannot but face it solemnly.
Do you think it will do to just, in one’s own way, half-heartedly do or not do one’s own responsibility?
Absolutely not. If it could be done that way, it would all have been done six thousand years ago.
Centered on such problems, one must establish a clear tradition. In realizing this, the responsibility of the family is greater than anything, I say. Yet the families are losing strength. They regard the Blessing as cheap, I say. God longed for the Blessed Family for six thousand years. Despite this, the families forget this fact.
The Teacher too, for over forty years of his life, came forth seeking it. In the course of history, paying every sacrifice and casting away everything, he cultivated that foundation, I say.
Just as the signing done by the sovereign of a nation and by a commoner is the same, yet there is a difference of Heaven and earth in its content, so with the Blessing too, seen outwardly it looks like nothing special, but considered in its content and value, there is an enormous difference. So the families must awaken.
The Blessed Family, the Seed Among Seeds, and the Root Among Roots
For the four thousand years before Jesus came, to achieve God’s desire to bring the enemy villains into submission, humankind shed Abel-like blood, passed through countless national courses, and set up conditions of offering. Yet that came to nothing. Thereby the root of han came to be planted for hundreds of millions of generations.
To relieve this han, He carried out the Providence for 1,600 years from Adam to Noah but failed to relieve it, and though four thousand years passed, passing through Abraham and Moses to Jesus, He failed to relieve it.
From Adam’s family, centered on Abel, He sought one man who would achieve God’s desire, but such a desire of God’s was not achieved, and the Providence was prolonged for four thousand years, and Jesus came worldwide.
Despite this, even Jesus failed to relieve that han. Since the man failed to relieve it, needless to say, the woman. That is why it will not do for the women of the Unification Church to receive the Blessing and fail to fulfill their responsibility.
Thus, to seek one man, for four thousand years they cried, “O Lord! O Lord, who is the bridegroom, come quickly!” But because Jesus came and departed without achieving the purpose, thereafter, for two thousand years until now, countless Christians, dying while vomiting blood, have come to cry out, “O Lord, come!”
If one knows the twists and turns of the han-filled history brought about by one woman’s mistake, women today must feel responsibility all the more greatly and repent. But women, until one man wins victory, cannot achieve the purpose however much they pray and strive.
In this end time today, after the six thousand years of history have flowed, having passed through such a winding historic course, at last a new thing that was never in history has unfolded under the signboard called the Unification Church. That is why the Unification Church cannot be exchanged even for the whole world given in return. Therefore, the Blessed Family of the Unification Church must establish a new tradition.
For one man to appear, over six thousand years countless people have shed blood, and countless nations have been whipped. Through the band who, staggering and staggering to cross the ridge of the han of six thousand years, shed tears they did not even know of and bore God’s purpose, God has until now pioneered the road on which one man could stand. He gave such grace of liberation, bestowed such privilege of liberation, and set the man up in a place of Blessing so that he could stand unconditionally in such a place of liberation.
The Blessed Family comes to have a bond that cannot be separated even from the fortune of Heaven and earth. What God wishes to set up in a precious and precious place, calling them the forebear ancestors (선지조상), He has long and carefully kept for hundreds of millions of ages, the root among roots and the seed among seeds, is the Blessed Family.
In other words, what appears to hold the privileged grace of crossing over the origin of the evil parents of humankind brought about by Adam and Eve’s fall in the Garden of Eden, tracing this back in reverse, deciding the standard of good parents, and holding the right of the good ancestors of a good world, is the husband and wife who form the Blessed Family.
So the joy of that husband and wife must be able to be said to be the joy of Heaven and earth. One must become such a family.
You have probably met the many spirit-open people who testify to the Teacher.
You wonder why so many spirit-open people testify to the Teacher, but once you come to know the facts, you cannot help but testify. There is hidden an all-too-enormous problem that you cannot know.
There is only one road. To go this road, only this one road, the Teacher has devoted fifty years of his life. From today, the signboard of fifty has been attached to the Teacher.
I prayed to God to let the han-filled ridge of the forties pass quickly. Now, entering the ridge of the fifties, what shall I do in the ten years until sixty? I intend to have the tradition as a family established and to have that mission fulfilled.
The Mission of the Blessed Family
The family exists for the sake of God’s purpose. So without the purpose, the family is ruined. That is why a person who resolves to live as he pleases, centered on his family, perishes however much he struggles and writhes. In the end, there is no way but to follow the standard by which the Unification Church itself develops.
Such a family absolutely cannot follow the standard by which it develops, centered on God. God is absolutely not one who exists for the sake of such a family’s development, such a family’s benefit.
Yet the family receives the benefit of the Unification Church; the Unification Church by no means receives the benefit of the family. What this means is that the Teacher himself absolutely does not think of setting up Blessed Families and receiving benefit from them.
The man is like the right foot and the woman like the left foot. There must by no means be conflict. The reason the Teacher speaks about the family is that the family is a holy place, like an utterly sacred holy of holies. But the family is a fearful place.
On the day the family goes wrong, it will entirely ruin the sons and daughters hereafter.
If one of the man and woman is excellent, one can go on supplementing the lacking field of the partner, but if the two both go wrong, it is entirely ruined.
If a single seed is sown in a spring garden and that seed sprouts perfectly and grows, it brings complete fruit, but if it fails to sprout, even the seed disappears.
In Adam’s family, He sought the Blessed Family by setting up Abel, and in Noah’s family and Abraham’s family too, it was all the same. That is why, in fact, the Blessed Family of the Unification Church, rather than living with relish, must repent.
The Teacher too made his beloved wife and children suffer hardship. He cultivated it while making them suffer hardship in a place despised even by a passing beggar.
This is because the people and the nation failed to fulfill responsibility. Therefore, however lowly a place you are in, in conduct at least you must fulfill responsibility as a family of Heaven. It is similar to how, once one has married into a household, one must keep the tradition and law of the man’s house.
Yet how many families are there who set up the face and dignity of a Blessed Family and, keeping the tradition and law of Heaven, fulfill responsibility?
A public family must set up the tradition of Heaven and keep that tradition firm as iron and stone, whether eating a meal, walking the road, or breathing. Man and woman must, becoming one body of one mind, keep it. And at the least, for forty years, one must offer special devotion.
The Teacher too, for the forty years of his life, suffered all sorts of injustice before the people, and cultivated this road bearing a han that pierced to the bone. A person who does not know this is accused before the Teacher. He is also accused before the merit of God’s six thousand years of labor and Jesus’ two thousand years of labor.
When one thinks of bearing such an enormous burden behind oneself, can one sleep? Even bathing in cold water for three years and offering devotion is not enough.
One Must Without Fail Have Three Children of Faith
We have a public law. There is a public standard by which, whether one dies, one must die for public work, and whether one lives, one must live publicly. Yet there are many loafers. One cannot but awaken.
The Teacher commanded the district leaders to keep these three days from today as a festival of Heaven. Then yesterday, a certain person who founded a sect of the Buddhist line came seeking me and testified that in the spiritual world he had been commanded to make these three days from today a festival like no other in the world.
In this way, everything we are doing is being testified to. He even told me which people came and went at this Korea-Japan hunting meet and Korea-Japan Victory Over Communism rally.
Now the time has come. The Teacher has, until this day, sacrificed his family. It is not that he does not know how to love the family as much as you or does not know the love of the family. Nor does he not know how to put the family in order as much as you. Because the people and the church did wrong, that must be indemnified in the Teacher’s family. Because he knows this, the Teacher goes this road, alone receiving the agony intact.
If that is the tradition, that family must, even staggering, call upon the Father and run toward the final terminus of victory.
The Blessed Family must go on establishing tradition. Considered centered on the destiny of the Unification Church, the family is inner.
If inner, one must apply the whip. So one must pray, even making our families scattered over the three-thousand-ri peninsula and the world into an offering, “O Father, love Thy son. Love the humankind of the world!”
Just as Jesus prayed, “Abba, Father, not as I will, but as thou wilt,” you too must pray, however much your son suffers hardship, to save all people and liberate all people. Despite this, you fail to come to your senses. I, too, have Seong-jin (성진), but I cannot take hold of Seong-jin and love him tenderly and affectionately. That is because, by the principle of restoration through indemnity, it is set up so that, without setting up Cain, Abel cannot be decided. Thereby, once Cain has decided, Abel cannot but save Cain.
It is the same for you. Centered on the baby in your womb, you must know the fact behind it. When a baby is born to the family, you leap with joy and spend money recklessly, but if you have such money, use it for the sake of the purpose, I say. The Teacher is a person who has been unable to hold even such a hundred-day feast, or the yearly birthday feasts.
Because even the baby in your womb comes through three stages, one must seek and set up three children of faith in the standing of Cain so that they can submit to the baby from within the womb.
Otherwise, one cannot love one’s own child. That is, just as the archangel attended and served Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden from when they were in the womb, you must set up three children of faith in the standing of Cain and have them attend your child from within the womb. There are such twists and turns on the road the family goes.
Dictatorship communes with the best and communes with the eternal. The absolute is the highest dictatorship. Even using dictatorship, one must make level ground. That is why the mission of the family is enormous.
In your family, you must set up three sons and daughters of faith and put in order even the children in the womb from the start.
One must have sons and daughters of faith who can say, “O baby in the womb! Be born quickly.” Otherwise, complete indemnity is not made.
The Teacher too did such a thing in the Seven-Year Course. Therefore, you too must do so until the baby passes the age of twenty and marries. One must be able to sacrifice for the baby and even offer one’s life, and still say thank you.
Considering this content centered on Jesus, Peter, James, and John are Jesus’ sons. Under such a principle, Jesus led those three sons about. Such a Jesus, as the bridegroom, was to greet a bride, marry, and become a father. Thereby, at that time, the three sons of faith, Peter, James, and John, were to wish that the baby be born quickly to Jesus, and, once that baby was born, to raise it gently and without accident until it reached its twenties and married.
Protecting it so and having it receive the Blessing, they were to restore the standard of Adam and Eve before the Fall.
The Practice of a Life of the Principle
Because the bond by which the archangel did wrong before Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden remains even to later generations, until one gently raises the sons and daughters of faith and marries them off, one cannot sleep in peace. Why? Because there is the possibility of falling.
Only after raising the sons and daughters of faith well and having them receive the Blessing are you recorded as sons and daughters in God’s genealogy and enrolled in the Kingdom of Heaven.
You must know that there is such a principle. Restoration within the womb—this is absolute. That is why the brothers Cain and Abel fought, and Esau and Jacob fought from within the womb. Thereby one goes seeking into the womb.
You must attend in the reverse of fighting. Cain must attend to Abel. Unless one finds such a standard of attending, one cannot make complete restoration. Because there is such a principle, God too has carried out the Providence for six thousand years.
What, “believe and go to heaven”?
That is a saying spoken from a wrong understanding of heaven. Only by resolving such principled problems can you too be liberated from the satanic world. To become sons and daughters who lead the world, one must not deviate from this principle. One must cultivate this foundation. That is why anyone who is a Unification believer must know from what standpoint he is.
That you realize the Principle through a principled life is more important than anything.
Then what is the realization of the Principle?
It is that all other principles disappear and only the Principle of Creation remains.
Because the human being has a conscience, one can be unified, centered on the Principle of Creation.
If one acts only as the conscience finds good, unification is achieved automatically, I say. Accordingly, if one takes hold of the conscience and teaches oneself daily to do only what the conscience likes, unification is achieved automatically.
The conscience always accuses the human being going in a bad direction.
Furthermore, the conscience plays the role of restraining what is bad. The conscience works in everyone.
Then for what reason is the conscience doing such a thing?
That, until now, is unknown. This conscience knows only the two things—that the bad is bad and the good is good. It rejoices when one does well and grieves when one does wrong. The conscience is the same as a natural action.
Unless a subject and an object are working with each other, no power arises. Power does not come out alone. Power arises only when there is, without fail, a subject and an object. When I am the object, there must be a subject even when I feel something is bad in my mind, and there must be a subject that can say it is good even when I feel it is good. That is why in the Principle of our Unification Church there is the phrase dual characteristics (이성성상).
In what kind of place must a person live?
One must live in an utterly happy place. One must live in an utterly ideal world.
What kind of world is that world?
It is a place where one laughs, dances, and sings. That is, it is a world where one lives intoxicated in a good wind.
If one fails to feel this in the Unification Church, it is a problem. A person who has not felt that even the cells laugh becomes a small-minded fellow even upon going to that world.
Our subject is God. That is why one must rejoice together with God, sing together with God, and dance together with God. How good that would be! Therefore, our purpose too is God. And our road of life too, what is it, a road of going to seek? It is a road of going to seek God. That God is a realistic God.
The Public Is the Gateway That Communicates with Heaven
Returning to the original standpoint, consider why the mind becomes sorrowful and becomes joyful. Unification believers must know that.
If there is a subject, there must without fail be an object, and only by completing the Four Position Foundation is the purpose of creation achieved.
Therefore, you must hold subject-consciousness. A Unification believer must hold subject-consciousness, I say. That is, anyone who is a person must hold a thorough and complete thought, and that is precisely to hold subject-consciousness. When that subject-consciousness works for the sake of the people and loves the people, it becomes a standard by which one can govern the people.
This subject-consciousness must without fail equip itself with the form of the positive (양성). And in equipping itself with the form of the positive too, it must not be isolated; it must be set up from a nationwide standpoint. It must not be a private form but, without fail, a public one. That is why a person who is loyal to the nation must part from private circumstances.
Centered on the family, if the family, the people, and the nation, one must stand from a public standpoint. Standing on a public standard, one must become the subject. One must exercise subjectivity from a public standpoint and do so from an absolute standpoint.
The public standpoint is spoken of with the heavenly order in view. The reason a public standard is demanded is that the public is the gateway that communes with Heaven. It is what the thirty million people and all humankind like. If one holds it as a principle, even if one cannot practice it, they like it.
In holding subject-consciousness, one must hold an absolute subject-consciousness. And the subject of all of it—the absolute person, absolute righteousness, absolute goodness, and absolute love—is God.
Therefore, your body and mind must become one with God, and your mind must become the subject and become one with the body. Thereby my body, my very self, must become a single subject. That is, the woman must become one with the man, become like a single cell, and become a public subject.
When standing in a public standpoint, one must without fail equip oneself with the standpoint of husband and wife. Thereby, becoming one with the public God, becoming one with everything worldwide beyond the nation, and, as a complete object before a complete subject, becoming completely one, the earthly Kingdom of Heaven is achieved.
Hereafter, how must Unification believers practice the Principle in living?
Wherever Unification believers go, they must stand in a complete subject standpoint. Then everything they face becomes a complete object, and one must think of and treat all of it like one’s own wife. That is, only by becoming a second Teacher and passing through the standard of completely giving and receiving and becoming one can one become a complete son of God. When one becomes so, one achieves a complete Four Position Foundation and achieves the purpose of creation.
Everything in this world can exist only through the law of the Four Position Foundation. The universe too exists centered on the law of the Four Position Foundation of giving and receiving.
Everything exists and develops centered on this law of the Four Position Foundation. The heavenly order is so, and the power of the universe is so generated and turns, I say.
The Cause of Becoming Joyful and Becoming Sorrowful
Then where does the human being receive pangs of conscience?
It is because, though the mind does not want it, the body moves. It is because the body, which is the object, does not follow the mind, which is the subject, and so the mind is alienated from the body. When it becomes so, the standard of value decreases and grows smaller and smaller.
Then where does joy come from?
It arises when the body responds to the demand of the mind. When mind and body become a complete subject and object and form the Four Position Foundation, the body moves as the mind wishes.
From such a standpoint, joy comes. Because heavenly fortune, the principle of the universe, shields one, the distance at which one can meet God grows shorter and nearer, so joy arises.
But when one does a thing that pangs the conscience, and there is no reciprocal element for the mind, in the end even that subject disappears. This principle of the universe is set up so that, if there is only a subject, even if the object does not oppose, a force that drives it out without fail appears. That appears as sorrow. Accordingly, joy and sorrow arise with me as the cause.
This universe began with the law of motion, the principle of the working of force. That is why everything goes, fitting the law of heavenly fortune that matches the beat of the universe.
What it is that goes matching that law of heavenly fortune is the law of the Four Position Foundation. So we must conform ourselves to this law of the Four Position Foundation and shield the law of the Four Position Foundation. But if the result is defective, one becomes a failed candidate.
In other words, however well husband and wife give and receive, if there is no child, who is the resultant being? It is unfortunate. Why? Because, while the law and principle of the universe turn centered on the Four Position Foundation, if one can form only a three-position foundation (삼위기대), one is placed at odds with the eternally turning law of the Four Position Foundation. When it becomes so, one grows distant from God, so one naturally becomes sorrowful.
God is eternal. The reason we must hold subject-consciousness is that God is eternal. Eternity is what receives no interference of any kind. It is not within the limit-sphere of the world of existence; it is beyond the limit-sphere. We go on seeking and setting up the value of existence to cross over into that stage.
So only by holding the authority to cross over the limit-sphere of this world of existence can we become one with God. Only then can we receive the dominion of God, who is the subject.
For all things created by God to become one with God, they must equip themselves with a standard of thought and heart that God can govern. When it becomes so, because one becomes a complete object before God, the complete subject who governs this universe, one will without fail develop and be able to rule the world. But for you to be connected with God eternally, it will not do with force alone.
If, centered on God’s vertical working force, that is, God’s love, one becomes completely one, one becomes unable to be separated, try as one might, and unable to be shaken off, try as one might.
That is why we must, centered on God, fight to bind ourselves to God’s love. That is, you must clearly know that one must, staking one’s whole life on a conscientious life, go the road of the fight. To do so, one must realize a principled attitude of living.
One must, without fail, clearly distinguish good and evil and absolutely live a principled life.
The Dividing Point of Good and Evil, the Dividing Point of Rise and Fall
Considered centered on the conscience, if there is even the slightest addition to some standard of the conscience, one is joyful, and if there is even the slightest minus, one is sorrowful. Because the conscience moves following the law of the heavenly order, it always commands one to be good.
Unification believers today must absolutely not do anything that pangs the conscience. The conscience forms a more direct relationship with you yourself than with God.
To say that one cannot go the road of the purpose because of someone makes no sense. In fact, one’s own road to go is busy, so as for a person one dislikes to see, the heavenly law puts him in order. Just go your road diligently, I say. Satan supports the law of perishing, and God supports the law of flourishing. That is the dividing point of good and evil and the dividing point of rise and fall.
So we must, centered on the law of the Four Position Foundation, always be able to treat whatever we face like our sons and daughters. Only with such a mindset does one become a foundation upon the earth on which God can operate. Such a standard must be achieved from the family. The minds of husband and wife must become one.
If the man is the subject, the woman must become the object, and they must completely give and receive. Passing one day, ten years, or a hundred years, so, finishing one’s life and going to that world, a person who lived amid sorrow is bound for hell, and a person who had much joy is bound for heaven. Thus, within our minds, Satan’s front line and God’s front line are together.
Even in the philosophical circles of the world, when the Unification Principle reaches the highest summit, no political organization of the world can but take a religious standpoint.
Furthermore, considered in terms of restoration through indemnity, politics, learning, and anything at all, it cannot but take a religious standpoint. That is why many fields of learning today come forth equipped with the form of religion.
Taking the form of religion is climbing from the very bottom. The Unification Church too, walking a step bearing the destiny of a sorrowful history, has come forth taking the form of religion until now. Then, having taken the form called religion, what must one do?
One must break open and develop the political problems, social problems, and academic problems of the whole world. It is for that purpose that we carry out the church-federation movement.
And the reason we cry out victory over communism is that, because communism today is a great worldwide problem, we intend to overthrow that communism.
So, with our family members as the driving force, we launched the Victory Over Communism Federation, and it has raised things up to the highest standard before our people today. And now in the universities, the Principle-research movement is unfolding actively. Therefore, we must make the total advance.
We must strengthen victory-over-communism activity all the more. To defeat the Communist Party, one must attack. That is, one must take the offensive. Centered on victory-over-communism activity, one must make a nationwide and worldwide advance.
In Every Direction, Only Advance
Activity in the universities takes responsibility for later generations, and victory-over-communism activity is to take responsibility for the present age. And religion takes responsibility for eternity. Therefore, we must, in every direction, only advance. And within the church, we must establish a family tradition, a religious tradition, and an economic tradition and cultivate a firm foundation. Until 1970, we must make the total advance.
If the nation perishes, do you think your bodies and property will remain?
We are all in a public standpoint. Considered from a more valuable aspect, the individual must be sacrificed for the family, the family for the tribe, the tribe for the people, the people for the nation, and the nation for the world. Because there remains an urgent course of having to tread such a public course and go to God, the Teacher is busy.
Even if you as individuals and everything else perish, the nation must by no means perish.
Even if the nation perishes, the world must not perish. Even if this earth perishes, Heaven must not perish. Therefore, anyone who does not conform to the teaching that, for the sake of the more public, the small must become an offering and be sacrificed, is entirely a traitor.
In the Second Seven-Year Course too, the three years are the issue. Therefore, we must go forth bowing our heads with an even more humble attitude. A person who, having eaten a bad thing, eats a good thing is happy, but a person who, having eaten a good thing, eats a bad thing is unhappy. A person who takes the former standpoint can be happy forever.
We must go on cultivating a foundation that can always leave behind the good.
Moreover, since this year is a year of total advance, the family members of the Unification Church must establish the tradition of the church all the more firmly. And we must strengthen Principle-research activity all the more.
Unless one, keeping step with this, strives and carries out activity in each field, each in his own way, one cannot become a Unification believer.
You must all be mobilized and, preparing for the crisis of Asia of 1970, fulfill the heavenly mission. Realizing that this is an urgent problem, unless you offer every devotion to making full preparation, you cannot stand before God.
Realizing that you bear the leading role in founding a new history, you must make a new resolve and determination.