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1. The ceremony to change the lineage is the ritual that brings together the lives of the Mother and the Father. By going through this process, you are separated from Satan's world.
You must be born again through True Parents; otherwise, you can't receive the marriage Blessing from True Parents. You cannot be given the marriage Blessing unless you are reborn and affirm your rebirth by standing before God as a mature man or woman who has inherited His realm of heart and received the right of inheritance. (183-089, 1988.10.29)
Let us follow and emulate True Parents
2. We do not walk this path for our own sake, but because Heavenly Father went this way. We must follow His path and strive to be like Him. He has been laying the vertical foundation in history, upon which to set the standard of history horizontally. We should do the same.
We have to recover the Will so that God will be able to govern the world centering on the family. Hence, with a heart of concern, a heart to take responsibility and to act, we have to indemnify in our time the mistakes our ancestors made and bring the day of victory.
We must return everything to the Father and the True Parents and proclaim that it is theirs. After we return everything to the Father and True Parents, the day will come when True Parents can say to us, “This is yours,” and give everything back to us. Only then will we complete the entire providence.
That will be the final day of glorious victory in heaven and on earth. With this clear understanding, you must go forward, with a feeling of concern and a sense of responsibility, and fight in God's stead until you fulfill His Will.
(152-196, 1963.05.10)
3. God is the perfect subject partner. He created human beings to be His object partners of absolute value, and we are to become His perfect object partners. The way to do this is by emulating True Parents, who already stand in that position.
Then we can become the owners of love in true ideal families. Thereupon God, in His absolute position, can secure us as His absolute partners and be liberated. This is our responsibility. (461-167, 2004.07.21)
4. God is our Father, whose vertical love, life, and lineage center on true love. Simply speaking, He is the Father of true love. He is the vertical Father. If human beings had not fallen, we would have been the partners of love to our vertical Parent.
Our horizontal true love, true life, and true lineage would have been united totally with God at a ninety-degree angle. Then we would have reached the position of parents in total union with God.
Thus, from the vertical and horizontal harmony between God's life, love, and lineage and Adam and Eve's love, life, and lineage, we would have been born amid utmost joy and happiness.
If that had happened, our minds would be eternally in the vertical position, like God, and our bodies would be aligned, like those of Adam and Eve, by their tradition, True Parents' standard, in a ninety-degree relationship. We would be resonating with God. (197-176, 1990.01.13)
5. What is the conscience? It is the internal self, which originated from the God of vertical true love and resembles Him. That is why we say the conscience is upright. It is vertical. It dwells in the inner place where we inherit God's love, life, and lineage.
On the other hand, the body is our external self, which we inherited from the bodies of our horizontal true parents. Within us is the internal and external harmony of original love, original life, and original lineage. (197-176, 1990.01.13)
6. The human body resembles Adam and Eve, the parents of humankind, and is of their lineage. The human mind resembles the vertical Parent and is of His lineage. Yet, the two of them fight. Why do they fight? It is because something went wrong with their roots.
For the mind and body to be in harmony, we need absolute faith in God. Before you pray, declare to Heaven, “God is my vertical Father.” Live or die, you have to arrive at the perpendicular position that is centered on God's love. When you have secured that position, there are no shadows.
There is no need for you to pursue the way of spiritual discipline. The reason we need to cultivate our spirituality is that we have shadows within us.
(199-282, 1990.02.20)
7. We must resemble God. We must be God-like. Once we are in that state, since God and we are alike, the plus and the minus will unite automatically and explode in all directions. Suppose you had been born from the unified love of the vertical Parent and the horizontal parents.
Your mind would have completely inherited God's love and life, and your flesh and blood would also have been infused with that love. Furthermore, you would have inherited the love, life, and lineage of True Parents, who are the perfect, ideal partners of God.
The internal God and the external God would have been united within you. True love unites God's mind and body. Likewise, had we been born at the standard of oneness between the internal, vertical True Parent and the external, horizontal true parents of true love, our mind, and body would have become one. They would have become one because we would have been in the realm of absolute true love. (201-048, 1990.02.28)
8. The True Parents are the Messiah. As their true children, we are to resemble the Messiah. As tribal messiahs, you should lead your life centering on me, True Father. If you do not, it will be a big problem for you.
In the spirit world, I will be the standard by which God will render His judgment. If I score 100, you must also score 100. It is a principle that parents want their children to be better than them, so you should do at least this much.
(244-190, 1993.02.07)
9. I am not to be the only True Parent; you must become true parents as well. You all must do this. If I am a big tree, you must be like the cells of that tree. To resemble Father, who is a big tree, you must become the seeds. You have to resemble the root. (259-319, 1994.04.24)
10. Each of us as an individual has to resemble God. Thus, we have to re-create ourselves. This requires that we walk a path amid a sea of suffering. We need to go through the war zones of history, where the mind and body have no time to rest. It is the path our ancestors had to take and which our descendants, who are linked to the future, will have to take.
We may have thought we knew this way of resentment, born of bitter suffering, but we never really knew it. Nonetheless, now that we have come to know it, we must go this way. Human beings lost our authority as the lords of creation, by which we were to have governed the archangel.
The one who comes to recover our authority and our original position is the Savior, Messiah, and True Parent.
The True Parents gather all families and all nations throughout the world and pave the way for us to reach that same position by conducting the Blessing ceremony, through which we all become blessed families. (284-102, 1997.04.16)
Representatives of True Parents
11. We are the representatives of True Parents. Every man is Father's second self and every woman is Mother's second self. In other words, since God exists as the harmonious subject partner with the dual characteristics of masculinity and femininity, men are born representing the masculinity of God, and women are born representing the femininity of God.
Reflecting the original duality, as individuals we are branches of True Parents' body from the moment of our birth.
Jesus said, "I am the vine, you are the branches," (John. 15:5) meaning that men are branches of Father's body and women are branches of Mother's body.
Therefore, as a couple, if you can become Father's second self and Mother's second self from God's viewpoint, then, no matter how far apart you may be, you will be one in God's love. A person who lives understanding God's circumstances and following God's Will is naturally connected to God's heart. (11-063, 1961.01.01)
12. If you take responsibility on behalf of God, who is the Creator, Father, and True Owner, then wherever you go, heaven and earth will help you. Hence, you should carry your burden on behalf of the Absolute Being, Father, and Owner.
If you go forward taking such responsibility, you will never be forsaken. Today, people are looking for those who can take responsibility for their actions, their lives, and their hearts. A society with such responsible people would be an ideal society.
Hence, if you take responsibility and go forward at the risk of your life, many companions will come to you. Again I am telling you, that when you go out to your mission area, you should be willing to shoulder three responsibilities: that of the Creator who gave us life, that of the Parent, and that of the Owner.
If you do not, you can never become a representative of the Absolute Being, True Parent, and True Owner. You will be an outcast, dwelling apart from the world. So if you cannot take that responsibility, you should at least serve and attend to God with absolute faith. (11-139, 1961.04.07)
13. We have no time to rest. You have to understand how the structure of restoration will expand centered on me and my family. You must follow that formula and go through resurrection on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, and so on, up to the world level.
This will encompass the world to the summit of restoration. You have to follow this formula just as I have. If you do so, not only will you be my representative, that of True Parents and God, but you will also be a representative ideal couple in the ideal world. (52-292, 1972.01.09)
14. The Unification Church calls its members' family members and says they are sons and daughters who attend True Parents. But as soon as they are brought together as husbands and wives, I separate them and send them out into the world.
Right after they are married, they are separated and dispatched to the four corners of the earth – east, west, north, and south. If they love God more than their spouse through all of this, they will end up heroes and heroines of true love in their hearts. Suppose you could not see your beloved one again on earth.
Then you would be able to find your beloved in the spirit world. How amazing this is! There, your spouse will attend to you. Your parents as well as your sons and daughters will attend you, giving you even greater love than you would have experienced while living on Earth.
If you are such a person, you will become the subject partner of true love. You will become God's perfect representative, embodying His very ideal.
(104-062, 1979.03.28)
15. To appear as True Parents' representative, you have to become True Father's second self or True Mother's second self and become someone who can substantiate the Heavenly Father's situation and heart. You have come as the substance of Heavenly Father's hope, circumstances, and heart, the heart that He has carried for six thousand years.
Hence, you have to make His hope your hope, His circumstances your circumstances, and His heart your heart. About heaven, you need to walk the path to become a sacrificial offering on earth in front of your Father. You must take responsibility for this. (150-209, 1961.01.09)
16. What is the hope of human beings? It is to become true parents who can raise children who are free from the persecution of Satan's world and able to go directly to the kingdom of heaven.
However, that has not been fulfilled. Hence, we hope to become True Parents' representatives and then give birth to true sons and daughters who can go directly to the kingdom of heaven.
You all would like to give birth to good children, right? You probably want to give birth to the best children in the world. So far, you have been unable to realize that. The question is how to make that happen. Another problem is that the archangel failed to raise Adam and Eve in a way befitting God's son and daughter.
Hence, the question is how we can educate God's sons and daughters as people who are needed by God. Furthermore, all of you want to work hard and become a president who can represent your country, or at least his representative, or the head of a government administration office, or the CEO of a company. That is, you want to become a true owner.
This is also one of the three great hopes. The first of these is to be a true parent; the next is to be a true teacher, and then a true owner. You want to be successful and become a state governor or even the President of the United States.
However, you first have to become the owner of your own home. You have to stand in the position of an owner who can pass on the tradition to your family, and thus represent your ancestors and even God. (205-020, 1990.07.15)
Sun Myung Moon