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1. The Family Pledge is the greatest blessing of all the blessings that Heaven has bestowed on humanity. We received it on the occasion of the inauguration of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification on May 1, 1994.
This was possible based on the declaration of the Completed Testament Age, the age that concludes and completes the Old Testament Age and the New Testament Age.
Once that beacon pierced the darkness of the Era before the Coming of Heaven, the Family Pledge was given. It is a guidepost for us amid the significant changes in heaven and earth that have been occurring in this new era, as we open the new heaven and new earth, the Kingdom of Cosmic Peace and Unity.
(565-302, 2007.06.13)
2. True Parents personally fought and gained victory during the forty-year course of indemnity that began with the founding of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in 1954. On this foundation, we no longer recite My Pledge, on the individual level, but recite the Family Pledge instead.
The Family Pledge is the pledge that a true family, the basic unit that enters the kingdom of heaven, should proclaim and practice together. It is the pledge imbued with the bitter sorrow of Heaven and True Parents, and hence it cannot be recited without tears.
It sets forth the standard for liberated people and will prevail forever. It will be recited long after traditional religions, which arose because of the Fall, have been discarded. Families who recite this pledge will be the basic unit that enters the kingdom of heaven. (565-302, 2007.06.13)
The background of the Family Pledge
3. From God's perspective, the era of the providence of restoration has come to an end. With the end of that era, we are moving toward the original ideal of creation.
This means that the fallen world under Satan's authority has ended, and we are moving into the age when God directly governs both the physical and the heavenly worlds. Because this time has come, I proclaimed the Family Pledge of the Unification Church.
Not just anyone is ready to recite the Family Pledge. Each of the eight verses in the Family Pledge contains the phrase, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges…by centering on true love.” People who make this pledge stand on the foundation that transcends Satan's world.
Due to the Fall, people have been connected to false life and false lineage through false love. To overcome this, we have to abide in true love, true life, and true lineage. Otherwise, we cannot overcome their false counterparts.
Why do we make true love a premise of the Family Pledge? It is so that we can proclaim that we are entering the original world, as if the Fall in the Garden of Eden had never occurred. (263-194, 1994.10.04)
4. In a family that is restored to God, individuals must be united in mind and body, husband and wife must be united, and parents and children must be united. The family must learn the Family Pledge by heart. You should not recite the Family Pledge when your mind and body conflict or when husband and wife are fighting.
Furthermore, you should not recite it if you do not yet have children. You are to recite the Family Pledge after forming a realm of unity in true love. This is because to enter the kingdom of heaven, you must be true children who have achieved unity of mind and body, unity between husband and wife, and unity between parents and children. It is a place where families fulfill the maxim, “Where there is harmony in the family, everything goes well.” (264-340, 1994.11.20)
5. The Family Pledge endows you with the full authority of an original family. You of the fallen Lineage, we must return to the original position before the Fall, before you can recite the Family Pledge. In addition, you must work to build Heaven's tribe, people, nation, and world.
This will establish the kingdom of heaven on earth. Individuals whose mind and body are not united should not recite the Family Pledge. Unless husband and wife are united, they should not recite it. Unless parents and children are united, they should not recite it either. If you do not understand this, the whole point of the Family Pledge loses its significance. (264-340, 1994.11.20)
6. The Family Pledge contains the meaning that we should wipe all things clean. The third pledge of The Family Pledge teaches us that we are to perfect the four great realms of the heart, the three great kingships, and the Realm of the Royal Family.
So, who can recite the Family Pledge?
Those who have inherited false love and false life from the false parents are not supposed to recite it. Those who recite the Family Pledge have to be united with God and True Parents, who have no relationship with the Fall, and return to the original world.
They also have to be united in mind and body. Husbands and wives have to be united, and parents and children as well, in true love. Only those who stand on this foundation have the right to recite the Family Pledge. (264-213, 1994.11.03)
7. The Family Pledge is composed of content drawn from the Principle that is essential to the establishment of true families. That is why you should recite it before you pray.
First, you need to check your internal state and that of your family members. If you find something amiss, you must correct it. You must put the Family Pledge into practice. (260-308, 1994.05.19)
The future national pledge and world pledge
8. The Family Pledge is the absolute standard for establishing the Kingdom of Cosmic Peace and Unity that lies beyond the Completed Testament Age. It is like a constitution. Families that rise to the position to lead the world must be true, model families that all people can recognize and respect.
These families are Heaven's greatest and supreme blessing. Yet in reality, creating such a family is a most fearsome task. The family is the cornerstone for building Cheon Il Guk. Hence, building a true family is the way to becoming a citizen of Cheon Il Guk. (565-303, 2007.06.13)
9. The Family Pledge is evidence of True Parents' complete victory. It bestows the teachings of the Completed Testament Age, the age of justification by attendance. The Family Pledge connects your lives to God, with true love as its bones and true families as its heart.
It is a nuclear bomb of true love that can encompass even God. The energy and wisdom of the Family Pledge trigger an eternal spherical motion, with true love at its core, which connects vertical and horizontal, north and south, and front and back.
The Family Pledge is the key that opens the gates to the kingdom of heaven. Even keys made of gold or silver cannot open the gates to the kingdom of heaven. Only a true family perfected in true love has the key to open them. (565-304, 2007.06.13)
10. The Family Pledge is the creed of the Unification Church. It is like the bones. Fulfilling even one pledge of the Family Pledge is more than enough to make you a citizen of the kingdom of heaven.
For instance, the eighth pledge states that the kingdom of God on earth and the kingdom of God in heaven will be liberated when we are united with God in love through absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. Neither God alone nor the Savior alone can liberate the heavenly realm.
That liberation can be completed only when God and the Savior join together and all members of the Unification Church join with them to give the Blessing to all people of every nation. (388-050, 2002.07.29)
11. The teaching of the Family Pledge takes a universal perspective, not an individualistic one. You should not try to avoid the various difficulties the real world presents. You must be valiant to break through that reality and gain victory.
Your weapon for this is the family armed with the tradition of the Family Pledge. I am not talking about the family centered only on the first generation, you and your spouse. You need to establish Heaven's firm and unwavering tradition through a family of at least three generations.
Hence, your mission is to establish your household as a family where the true lineage of the chosen people flows from generation to generation.
(565-318, 2007.06.13)
12. God is now the Parent of the substantial world, having assumed the physical bodies of the True Parents. The entire process of accomplishing this is finally finished. The victory that True Parents have achieved is the foundation that brings order to heaven and on earth, where everything had been in disarray.
True Parents are then setting up God's kingdom and opening the way for us to register our marriages and report the births of our children. This is analogous to resurrecting three generations for the building of His kingdom.
You have inherited the full authority to do that, and it is why the phrase “owner of Cheon Il Guk” appears in the Family Pledge. (407-042, 2003.05.11)
13. You participated in True Parents' Holy Wedding ceremony. You received the Blessing together with us, you participated in the event where we, the True Parents, recorded your marriages and births. Now all of you, as our successors whose marriages and births are recorded, will enter the kingdom of heaven together with us.
This is something amazing. You are not entering the kingdom of heaven as individual members of Adam's family; instead, you are climbing the hill to the place where heaven and earth become one, to uphold Cheon Il Guk.
You are going beyond this point together with True Parents. You stand with us, having the right of equal position. That is why you can say, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk…” It is a privilege. (409-151, 2003.06.23)
14. Cheon Il Guk's citizens represent heaven and earth. Therefore, wherever you are, you should always live for the sake of the entire planet. If there is a problem at the North Pole, all of you should be concerned about how to resolve it.
You should view any problem as your responsibility, whether it is at the South Pole, in the East, or in the West. When you say, “owner of Cheon Il Guk, " remember that there is a crucial difference between a leader and an owner. The person in the leader's position may change occasionally, but the owner's position is eternal.
You cannot be the owner of your family as an individual; your ownership should be as husband and wife. Even that is not enough; you need to complete the four-position foundation and become owners through three generations.
Your grandfather and grandmother, your father and mother, you and your spouse, and your children make four generations, but in terms of stages, they are reckoned as three. This is how you can become the owners of Cheon Il Guk.
(400-011, 2002.12.25)
15. On April 10, 1992, I declared the liberation of women. When Cheon Il Guk reaches its twelfth, it will be twenty years since that proclamation. That was the day that my wife made her public appearance on earth. It corresponds to the time when Adam would have been twenty-one years old and ready to receive the Blessing.
Until then, there was no foundation for True Mother to stand with me as my partner. Hence, the kingdom had not yet come into existence. From the time of proclaiming the liberation of women to the twelfth year of Cheon Il Guk, all blessed families are in the position that Adam and Eve would have been in had they passed the age of twenty and prepared themselves to receive the Blessing at the age of twenty-one and then created the heavenly kingdom. It is on that basis that the phrase “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk” could appear in the Family Pledge. (443-123, 2004.03.22)
16. The wedding ceremony of True Parents that took place sixty years ago was at the level of Adam's family within Satan's realm. Thereafter, True Parents went beyond the tribe, people, nation, and world to establish the victorious foundation for the emergence of God's homeland.
That is why they could hold the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God on January 13, 2001. In February 2003, on the day True Mother turned sixty, a Holy Wedding took place in God's homeland by which God and True Parents became one in body.
On that foundation, on July 13, 2003, the central authority of the universe was changed from Satan to God. That was the day when the history of restoration through indemnity shifted, and God could take His place at the center. It is on this basis that you and your spouse are called the “owners of Cheon Il Guk” in the Family Pledge. (437-306, 2004.02.13)
The first pledge of the Family Pledge
17. The first pledge of the Family Pledge is, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to seek our original homeland and build the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, the original ideal of creation, by centering on true love.”
You do not know how great it is that you can recite the Family Pledge; it is the gospel of all gospels in history. Here, “the ideal of creation” refers to the ideal of creation centered on God. God's ideal of creation was to bring about the kingdom of God on earth and the kingdom of God in heaven.
The Fall prevented this; hence, we now have to restore it. This means we have to build the kingdom of God on earth and the kingdom of God in heaven, which is the ideal of creation centered on the original homeland. (565-305, 2007.06.13)
18. True love unfolds when a person achieves oneness in mind and body, when a couple attains oneness in their marriage, and when parents and their children are one. Unless you practice this level of love, you surely will be in trouble when you go to the spirit world.
The Family Pledge is that serious. You have to live by the Family Pledge, always. In your family, if the father violates even one point of the Family Pledge, the mother has to take responsibility for that along with him, and the children also have to take responsibility.
The family cannot help but share the responsibility. This is the lesson we take from the fact that because Adam did not take responsibility for Eve's fall, his whole family fell. (565-307, 2007.06.13)
19. The phrase, “Our family…by centering on true love,” implies that because people are fallen, they end up not having true love and are unable to form true families. Originally, a person without true love cannot have a family in the presence of God.
True love is that which stands in relationship to God. It is not centered on oneself, the habits of the secular world, or a people's customs and traditions. It can only be based on God. Due to the Fall, human relationships have been connected to Satan's love.
This is true in the family, the tribe, the people, the nation, the world, throughout heaven and earth. If you are to encounter God's love, you must completely deny the habits and traditions that are based on self-centered love.
(274-196, 1995.11.03)
20. True love begins in the place where you invest everything, even your life, and then are ready to invest more. It is where you give and give again and forget how much you've given. True love penetrates heaven and earth.
It pierces through even the world of death and ascends. It can penetrate and travel anywhere. There is nowhere love cannot go. Love can enter even secret places. (256-179, 1994.03.13)
21. The original homeland is where we all want to go, what we all want to see, and where we all want to be to live. It is where both our minds and our bodies want to go. Thus, we must find this original homeland, for which our minds and bodies yearn. It is where we can settle for eternity.
It is the foundation for our happiness, a place in which we can take pride. Throughout history, so many people have longed for this original homeland. They sought it and revered it, yet they passed away without seeing it.
Many people of deep faith and great wisdom have made tremendous efforts to find this original homeland, even to this day. That is why the original homeland will surely emerge. (023-074, 1969.05.11)
22. The original garden is the ideal garden. It is where the spirit world and the physical world connect to each other, and where the feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood reaches every corner of the universe.
It is not like today's world, where people make an issue over differences of belief or ideology and where they dispute over ethnicity and national sovereignty. It is not a world where people quarrel with one another over differences of economic circumstances or culture.
Rather, it is a world where people would discuss all matters with the heart of God, which enables people and nations to transcend their differences.
(007-038, 1959.07.05)
23. If our ancestors had not fallen, there is no doubt that the original hometown would have been in the Garden of Eden – a village among the mountains and rivers where Adam and Eve lived.
Today, when fallen people speak of their original hometown, they immediately think of their place of birth. They do not even think of the ideal hometown for which all humanity is seeking and longing. Even if they do, they think it is something beyond their reach, and that any effort to find it will be in vain.
Today, however, the Unification Church must go out to seek and recover the lost original hometown. It is where our Heavenly Parent, our brothers and sisters, and all our relatives reside.
When we get there, they will welcome us, not in sadness but in eternal joy and happiness. Their joy will not be short-lived but will endure forever. We must find that original hometown. (023-074, 1969.05.11)
24. We miss the hometown of our birth, where we can see our parents, siblings, and relatives, who are closer to us than anyone else and who guide us and welcome us with an unchanging heart. They greet us joyfully whenever we go to see them; they sympathize with us and comfort us whenever we are challenged.
If you were to find no one like that in the hometown of your birth, your feelings of deep yearning would dissipate. That place, which you fervently yearned for, hoping to find them, would instead give you cause for grief. When you come to the hometown of your birth, there should be people who will welcome you there.
(023-080, 1969.05.11)
25. If God could come down to a family on earth and live with them, that family would represent all humankind. Then that place would be the starting point of God's life with human beings, the base for the original hometown of all humanity.
However, because of the Fall, we failed to make it to that starting point, where God would have been at the center. The family could not become such a place. That is why there has been no original hometown. That starting point was created only after I came and established the foundation whereupon God and True Parents could settle on earth, through unity in true love.
That place of settlement can become the original hometown and homeland for all humanity. Although it is restored, it has the same form as the original starting place, where God wanted all people to share God's love.
As the base of true love, it can become the original hometown and homeland for all humankind. (289-142, 1998.01.01)
26. Where is the homeland that God desires? Where is the original hometown of humankind? That historic, universal, and global original hometown is the place where True Parents were born.
You need to inherit these ancestors' worldview and traditions; otherwise, you will be treated as stepchildren. At this time in history, the Korean people are called to become the chosen people. For this to happen, I have to turn things inside out.
If Korea is truly to be the original homeland, the original fatherland, then all civilizations of the world will have to bear fruit in Korea. Further, if we are to make Korea into the original homeland, we must resolve to become offerings of loyalty, devotion, love, and sacrifice.
Otherwise, Korea will lose the qualification to be the original homeland. It requires action to create something good. We must accomplish it, even at the cost of our blood, sweat, and tears. (015-284, 1965.11.02)
27. The first pledge of the Family Pledge, in speaking about the original homeland, mentions the restoration of all things. We are to restore through indemnity everything that was lost in the Garden of Eden.
Some religions encourage their followers to leave their homes and to live celibate lives. Yet, the Unification Church, unlike those religions, instructs us to return to our hometowns or our nations.
This is a wonderful thing, and it is happening throughout the world. For the world of religion, there is no greater news than this. (269-105, 1995.04.09)
28. After finding our original homeland, our next task is to build the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven. We, each one of us, must create it. Because it was lost, we must re-create it entirely.
Because it was stolen, we must reclaim it and rebuild it, even if it takes thousands of years. That is why in the Unification Church we speak about returning to our hometowns. (288-324, 1998.01.01)
29. We must build God's kingdom on earth and in heaven, which is the original ideal of creation. Because the family was lost, we must form families. Then our families, with true love and based on the original homeland, should build God's kingdom on earth and in heaven.
The original homeland is based on the family, not on the nation. That is why you and your families need to return to your hometowns and substantiate God's kingdom on earth and in heaven there, with your families.
Once you have recovered your hometowns, your nation, and the whole world will unite automatically. Do not worry. If you fulfill this, God's kingdom on earth and in heaven will come. It all begins from within the family. (260-157, 1994.05.01)
30. “Our family pledges…to build the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, the original ideal of creation.” I used the word “build” with the meaning that we have to make it. It will not come about by itself; we must create it.
Since it was people who turned this world into hell on earth and in the spirit world, it is people, not God, who must re-create it and make it into the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God on earth and in heaven emerges within the individual and then must be substantiated in the family.
Since we must create this kingdom in our families, our families need the Family Pledge. Our families have to build the kingdom. We are the ones who must do it. (260-304, 1994.05.19)
The second pledge of the Family Pledge
31. The second pledge is, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to represent and become central to heaven and earth by attending the Heavenly Parent and True Parents; we pledge to perfect the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters in our family, patriots in our nation, saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and on earth, by centering on true love.”
(565-306, 2007.06.13)
32. We have to attend to God and True Parents. However, because Adam and Eve fell, God and True Parents were driven out of the family. Even now, God's Will cannot be fulfilled unless we attend to God and True Parents.
God is the vertical Parent, and perfected Adam and Eve are the horizontal parents. Based on the foundation where they – the vertical Parent and the horizontal parents – have become one, we can achieve unity as couples comprised of two individuals, and through that unity, God and His kingdom are connected to us.
This means, first, that without attending God and True Parents we can accomplish nothing, and second, that our position as a family representing heaven and earth is higher than that of Adam and Eve before the Fall. (260-189, 1994.05.08)
33. Adams' position is the very first, representing the past and the present of all humanity. He is the very first in the line of all the ancestors going back hundreds of millions of years. Originally, there was only that one position, and Adam and Eve should have married at that summit.
Then, after their family had settled as the central family on earth, it was time to expand out into the world. From that position, they should have fulfilled the duty of filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters in the heavenly kingdom. But Adam and Eve could not accomplish this.
(264-188, 1994.10.09)
34. In absolute attendance to God, with true love, Adam and Eve were to have advanced straight from the family to the nation, to the world, and to heaven. No ideology thus far in history reflects this understanding; they all propose that progress occurred by a series of zigzags.
But we should follow the ideal of expanding the family as one body, based on thousands of years of unbreakable love. The model of the family does not change. The model is the central family that represents all families. (283-076, 1997.04.08)
35. Adam and Eve are the center of everything in heaven and on earth. The family that they are to build is the central family representing all people of the world. Everything develops from this point, the central family. The world becomes centered on the axis of this family.
Because each individual represents this family axis, each person stands in a unique and special position in the world. That is why everyone wants to become a prince or princess. By becoming the best partner to God that we can be as a man or as a woman, we can make God our own, and at the same time, everything that God created can become ours. Love brings everything into oneness and determines the right of ownership. (273-283, 1995.10.29)
36. What is a representative family? In the Garden of Eden, God created only two human beings, Adam and Eve. Along with God, there were just the two of them. They were to hold the supreme position as God's representatives in heaven and on earth.
Through their marriage in that position, they were to settle on earth to multiply sons and daughters. Then their family, which represented God, would become the central family. A family consists of two people: not two men, not two women; it is a man and a woman as a couple.
That one man and one woman stand in front of God in a position to represent Him. Then, just as the Adams family is a seed, your families are also seeds. For instance, pine tree seeds have the same everlasting value wherever they go.
They carry the same value, equal value. Wherever you plant the seed, a pine tree will grow. It is the same for your families. (273-049, 1995.10.21)
37. The family of True Parents is the seed. Because it is a perfect seed, all families that multiply from that seed have the same value, even though there may be billions of them. Their value is the same.
After the passage of thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of millions of generations, the families in which God settles will all be recognized as having the same value.
This means the seeds from which they multiplied each have the same value. That is why your families represent God and True Parents. Furthermore, as Korean blessed families, you represent the Republic of Korea. (282-320, 1997.04.07)
38. Filial sons and daughters are people who readily sacrifice mind and body for their parents, wanting only to love their parents. Patriots are people who do not worry about their interests; they sacrifice and invest everything they have for their country, even forgetting that they have done so.
If one patriot invests tenfold in the nation, forgetting what he gave, and another invests elevenfold and forgets what he gave, the first one will yield the subject partner position to the one who invested and forgot eleven times.
Everything can be settled peacefully by following this principle. There is no way to achieve peace other than by living for the sake of others. (255-191, 1994.03.10)
39. God wants divine sons and daughters. The world wants saints. Nations want loyal subjects and patriots, and families want filial children. Whatever the level, they are all on the straight and genuine path of truth. No true parents would tell their child, “Since you have become a filial child, do not become a patriot; do not follow that path.”
Rather, they would teach their filial child by saying, “Even if you have to sacrifice our family, you should follow the path of a patriot and serve the nation; even if you have to sacrifice the nation, you should fulfill the duties of a saint; even if you have to sacrifice the world, you should go the way of a divine son or daughter as Heaven desires; and even if you have to sacrifice heaven and earth, you should seek to fulfill God's Will.”
Until this day, no one even knew that such a concept existed. We have to invest and make sacrifices. Otherwise, we can never realize the one united world, the one kingdom. (285-219, 1997.05.19)
40. The person who lives continuously for the sake of others becomes the central person. This is a certainty. The filial son or daughter in the family is the one who lives continuously for the sake of the parents.
This bestows upon that son or daughter the central position in the family and the right of inheritance. Patriots are the same. Those who live in service to the nation, who invest and sacrifice again and again, are recognized as the nation's leaders.
They will surely become its central figures. For this reason, I am teaching you to be filial sons and daughters in the family, patriots in the nation, saints in the world, and to go the way of divine sons and daughters in heaven and on earth.
(275-039, 1995.10.30)
41. Filial children do not become indebted to their parents. Rather, they make their parents indebted to them. Patriots do not become indebted to their nation; rather, they make the nation indebted to them. Saints do not become indebted to the world; they make the world indebted to them.
Our families should represent Heaven and work to bring peace, happiness, and freedom to the earth. Therefore, we must always be aligned with the situation and desires of heaven and earth. If we are thus attuned to God, our families should be able to bring Heaven's fortune to our surroundings.
This is how our families can represent Heavenly Parent and True Parents and establish a realm of unity with God's heart. By doing so, today can be the beginning of a world based on the culture of the heart.
People in Satan's world have upheld the duties of filial children, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters. But now we must uphold the duties of filial children, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters centered on the heavenly kingdom. This is what we have to establish. (266-103, 1994.12.18)
The third pledge of the Family Pledge
42. The third pledge of the Family Pledge reads, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships and the Realm of the Royal Family, by centering on true love.”
The four great realms of the heart and the three great kingships refer to the perfection of unfallen Adam and Eve. Had they not fallen, Adam and Eve would have perfected the four great realms of the heart and the three great kingships to form the royal family.
This pledge speaks about how blessed families should live; in speaking about establishing the royal family, it also addresses the blessed families' mission to restore fallen humanity. (565-308, 2007.06.13)
43. The third pledge of the Family Pledge refers to the original world with no Fall. It speaks about returning to the original world, growing from infancy to the point of becoming a couple, and then reaching the position of parents.
It is the path that leads to the state where we are one body with God. Each of us needs to walk that path and pursue the perfection of the four great realms of the heart. (283-080, 1997.04.08)
44. Human beings exist as children, siblings, couples, and parents. All human beings, whoever they are, are supposed to pass through these stages. Each of us is born as someone's son or daughter, and each of us becomes someone's brother or sister. Then we transition from being a sibling to being a father or mother.
Adam and Eve were siblings who were meant to become husband and wife and then parents. Each of us walks the same path. Before a woman becomes a man's wife, she is in the position of his younger sister, just as Eve was the younger sister of Adam. Before a man becomes her husband, he is in the position of her older brother.
Still, in front of God, they stand as a son and a daughter. As God's son, the man has a path to take as a man, and as God's daughter, the woman has a path to take as a woman. When a man fulfills his duty and a woman fulfills her duty, they come to resemble their parents. Then, just as their parents married, they too go on to marry. (263-058, 1994.08.16)
45. The third pledge of the Family Pledge is a textbook for the heavenly kingdom. Adam and Eve were supposed to perfect their positions as son and daughter and as brother and sister. After reaching perfection as the son and daughter of God and as brother and sister to each other, the culminating point would have been their marriage.
Through their married life, they were to perfect themselves as a couple and as parents, and to give birth to divine sons and daughters. They would be their fruit. For this reason, parents' love never changes.
Therefore, your couple who received the Blessing of marriage are in a wonderful position. You are in the place where the hope you had when you were a brother or a sister blossoms. It is where your hope as husband and wife blossoms.
Furthermore, it is where the hope of all humanity throughout the ages blossoms. (263-149, 1994.08.21)
46. From the perspective of the four great realms of the heart, each partner in a couple is the absolute life companion who perfects the other as his or her object partner. In receiving her husband, a wife receives God's ideal son. In him, she receives her heaven-sent older brother, husband, and father.
The wife stands in a similar position to her husband. When that couple has given birth to children, they feel joy as they watch them grow, and they experience once again what it was like when they were growing up.
It is just like God, who felt happiness when He created His children and related with them as they grew. (259-045, 1994.03.27)
47. When are the four great realms of the heart perfected? When do sons and daughters attain perfection? When do brothers and sisters attain perfection?
When do husband and wife attain perfection? Perfection comes with marriage. When the marriage is consummated, three realms of love – children's love, siblings' love, and the love between husband and wife – bear fruit.
The couple becomes parents who stand on the foundation of these three realms of love. This is why you need to have children; you must give birth to your descendants. Just as God created Adam and Eve, you become second creators when you make children.
Hence, parents represent Heaven, while children, siblings, and husband and wife represent the earth. When the husband and wife become one with each other, they become one with the vertical standard.
That is how the perfection of Adam and Eve would have become the perfection of God's ideal of creation. Everything that God hoped for, about the ideal of creation, would have been completed. (263-058, 1994.08.16)
48. Now that we have entered the era of the kingdom of heaven on earth, our family becomes part of the royal family. That being so, how exemplary should we be? Can a king live as he pleases?
The king, the queen, the princes, and the princesses ought to abide by the laws of their kingdom. Moreover, they have to observe the protocols of the royal court. (232-326, 1992.07.10)
49. It is the direct children of God's love who can enter God's kingdom in heaven. As the royal offspring of God's kingdom on earth, they pass through its gates as princes and princesses in the presence of God.
The kingdom of heaven in heaven is the place where the children of royal lineage go and where the royal family goes. On this earth, we all should become the children of God's direct lineage or subsequent lineage by exemplifying the standard of true brotherly love and unity.
We need to build a model clan and nation; having done so, we can manifest the honor and dignity of the royal family. If we live this way during our earthly life, we will move on with that same stature to the next world after death. That will be the kingdom of heaven in heaven. (236-204, 1992.11.08)
50. All of you should now become part of the royal family centered on true love. If we look at Adam and Eve as the children of God's direct lineage, all humanity belongs to God's subsequent lineage.
Under God as Heavenly Parent, we are brothers and sisters of Adam and Eve and are meant to be citizens of God's kingdom. From this perspective, you are endowed with the love of princes and princesses of the heavenly kingdom.
You must embody the dignity and honor of that position with pride and confidently preserve this dignity throughout your entire lives. Then, having lived this way, you can enter the kingdom of heaven, our original homeland.
(220-219, 1991.10.19)
51. We can finally realize the family ideal, the ideal of God's creation, by actually attaining the four great realms of the heart, the three great kingships, and the realm of the royal family. For this, we need to be part of the royal family, which unites around the King as its center.
The kingdom of heaven in heaven is the place you go after having lived on earth within the realm of the royal family. After you have done that, you simply move on to the kingdom of heaven. (244-048, 1993.01.29)
52. The people of the heavenly kingdom, its tribes and its citizens, emerge from the royal family. Therefore, unless we experience the royal family's realm of the heart, which is based on the true love of the heavenly kingdom, we cannot enter there. God has lived in bitter sorrow because this has not been accomplished because He could not have His prince and princess and love them.
Moreover, God could not have royal offspring from them. Adam and Eve were the prince and princess; because they fell, they were unable to love in such a way that would give rise to the royal lineage.
Furthermore, God has lived in sorrow because, once Adam and Eve, who were still in the growing period, in the realm of indirect dominion where dominion is based on principled results, fell, they could not become the object partners with whom God could directly discuss His concerns.
God, their Father, wanted to consult them regarding the great works of creation in heaven and earth, but He could not. (220-048, 1991.10.14)
53. Had the first human beings not fallen, they would have become God's direct children with the right of kingship in heaven and earth, the right of the parents of heaven and earth, and the right of the first son and daughter of heaven and earth.
They would have become God's royal palaces on earth and in heaven. Furthermore, they would have passed on this vertical, royal tradition horizontally to all brothers and sisters born of this lineage, and all those who became one with this royal tradition would have entered the kingdom of heaven.
Family members and relatives who practice this royal tradition founded on love will surely enter and abide in the kingdom of heaven after their earthly life. Therefore, we conclude that this royal tradition, which is based on love, should become the way of life for all families. (218-222, 1991.07.29)
The fourth pledge of the Family Pledge
54. The fourth pledge of the Family Pledge reads, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to build the universal family encompassing heaven and earth, which is the Heavenly Parent's ideal of creation, and perfect the world of freedom, peace, unity, and happiness, by centering on true love.”
God's ideal is that the world becomes one family, one household. If people who have perfected the four great realms of the heart and the three great kingships recite the Family Pledge, they will form one family, not two. The great universal family encompassing heaven and earth is one family under God.
(565-309, 2007.06.13)
55. God's ideal of creation is the perfection of the four-position foundation centered on Adam and Eve. From the perspective of God's purpose of creation, this would have been the fulfillment of the Will.
The completion of the four-position foundation would have required the perfection of Adam and Eve. Had they then married and had children who also reached perfection, their family would have achieved the family level four-position foundation centered on God and become the perfect embodiment of the ideal of creation, realizing the realm of perfection. This would have fulfilled God's ideal of creation. (164-009, 1987.05.03)
56. Had Adam and Eve become the True Parents, their descendants would have formed one great family within the Adamic cultural sphere. It would have been a world of peace. Accordingly, the history of restoration is the path to recover that family, the true family centered on True Parents and true love.
Everything God intended unfolds from there. The true family is the center; it is the hope of humanity and the hope of God. The true family will serve as the source of true love and true life, and be the starting point of humanity's peace and happiness. (294-067, 1998.06.11)
57. All the people of the world are brothers and sisters. We are of one lineage. We have to protect our lineage as God would protect it. Hence, even when we are sitting in God's royal palace, we have to be thinking of our mission to build one great family encompassing heaven and earth.
We need to build that universal family and perfect the world of freedom, peace, unity, and happiness. I am an advocate of the universal family. I am here to plant freedom, peace, unity, and happiness. Those ideals are the core of my lifelong work. (280-037, 1996.10.13)
58. We seek to establish the family that meets the standard of heaven and earth, the family that God is striving for. Therefore, we need models for the grandfather and grandmother, the father and mother, the couple, and the children.
Traditionally, Korea followed the extended family system. In that historical tradition, seven families would live in the same house. We should establish a family system that builds on that. It is wonderful how well it fits with the goal of tribal messiahship in the Unification Church. (276-180, 1996.02.19)
59. The people of the fallen world are in the position of the younger brother, and you are in the position of their older brother. You need to educate them properly in the heavenly tradition.
This is the only way to restore people on Satan's side to the realm of God's royal family. To save them, we must restore the right of the first son who was lost. When we establish them as second-born princes, we can enter the heavenly kingdom with the right of the crown prince.
They enter the kingdom with us, and thus the realm of the royal family is restored. Otherwise, neither the right of the first son nor God's royal family is restored. (264-201, 1994.10.09)
60. When we pledge “to build the universal family encompassing heaven and earth, which is the Heavenly Parent's ideal of creation, " we are pledging to create one great family conforming to God's Will.
How can you proclaim your kingship as long as the kingship of the Adams family is not yet secured? We must secure that kingship, untainted by the Fall. We must bring everyone back from Satan's world as an extended family that dwells in the place of freedom, peace, unity, and happiness. Our ideal is peace and unity.
(267-152, 1995.01.04)
61. There can be no peace without unity. Without this oneness, ideals such as peace, happiness, and even freedom are just empty words. Can there be peace when husband and wife are fighting? Peace comes where there is oneness. The same is true of freedom.
Where a man and a woman clash, do they have freedom? Where there is conflict, we experience neither peace nor freedom. Without the foundation of unity, we cannot find freedom. (229-229, 1992.04.12)
62. Where there is oneness, there is freedom. Even your eyes feel good when they are focused on one point. You feel uncomfortable when your nose is congested, but when the congestion clears, you feel free.
The same applies to the freedom of your ears, your hands, and other parts of your body. So, without oneness, there is no freedom, there is no peace, and there is no happiness. The perfection of all creation lies in balance, on a level plane. Perfection does not reside in a point. (267-312, 1995.02.05)
The fifth pledge of the Family Pledge
63. The fifth pledge of the Family Pledge reads, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to Strive every day to advance the unification of the spirit world and the physical world as subject and object partners, by centering on true love.”
You need first to think about the spirit world, which is in the subject partner position. Think about the demographics of humanity: are there more people currently living in the physical world or the spirit world?
The number of people living in the spirit world far exceeds the Earth's population. The spirit world stands in the position of subject partner. Likewise, the mind stands in the position of subject partner to the body, in the position of plus.
(565-311, 2007.06.13)
64. The body represents the physical world, and the mind represents the spirit world. The mind is like a plus and the body a minus. Accordingly, if you live your life ignoring the mind, the subject partner, and the spirit world, the world of the mind, you will end up in hell. Now is the time to change your life.
Instead of allowing your body to lead your mind, practice abstinence and have your mind subjugate your body. Live your daily life with the constant awareness that the spirit world stands in the position of subject partner.
You will not be able to establish the foundation of perfection in the spirit world unless, in your daily life on earth, you can shape yourself as a perfect object partner to the heavenly realms of the spirit world as your subject partner.
You need to work on bringing the two together every day, every year, and throughout your life. When you ascend to the spirit world, you will find it is your home and the final stage of life, where you can live freely. (565-311, 2007.06.13)
65. The spirit world stands in the position of subject partner. It includes countless tribes and peoples. The physical world should take the highest-level spirit world as its standard and move in unison with it.
To achieve unity between the spirit world as the subject partner and the physical world as the object partner, you must overcome any division between the two. In your daily life, you need to experience the profound love that comes from connecting with the heavenly realms. Then your daily life will be filled with profound experiences of God's sorrow and joy. (266-150, 1994.12.22)
66. The spirit world and the physical world can unite, centering on people. This is why you ought to strive every day to advance your unity. You cannot backslide. Every day, you need to strive for incremental progress.
While in this world, do not restrict your life to one particular region; try to build relationships in various places and engage in activities so that you can make an impact on the whole world.
Just as there are four seasons – spring, summer, autumn, and winter – and just as the earth provides us room to travel in four directions – north, south, east, and west – you should not live only in one country. Just as the world is uniting as one and national borders are dissolving, during your life, you need to travel freely around the world. (266-151, 1994.12.22)
67. Until now, you have not conducted your daily life with the knowledge that the spirit world stands in the position of subject partner. The notion did not occur to you even once a month, yet it is something you should be aware of every day.
In your daily life on earth, you need to reach the level of a perfect counterpart to the spirit world in the position of subject partner; otherwise, you cannot establish your foundation as a perfect existence in the spirit world.
The relationship between the two should be direct, and you have to forge it every day, every year, for your entire life. Then, when you go to the other world, you will find a new dwelling place and a realm where you can act freely.
(260-307, 1994.05.19)
68. What can link the spirit world and the physical world? It cannot be something temporary; it must be the same today as yesterday and still the same tomorrow, transcending time and space. It has to be something that no one will reject or deny, but that everyone will welcome in his or her daily life.
It has to be something that we treasure night and day, and without which we would not be happy. That is love. Money cannot give us happiness. Knowledge cannot give us happiness.
These are merely one-dimensional. The same is true of power. If we as individuals are to expand our influence to the national level, we need love to serve as a bridge. (233-128, 1992.08.01)
69. The spirit world and physical world will unite centered on God. However, this is possible only because True Parents planted the flag of unity here on earth. In the beginning, when God created, He acted with absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.
Now He expects us to do the same, standing on the foundation of His immanence, transcendence, supreme authority, and omnipotence. Further, to return to the original state of creation and find a partner of love there, we should invest and forget all that we have given, with absolute faith and a heart of absolute love and absolute obedience.
As God did when He created the world, we too should recover the entire creation on His behalf by practicing absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience toward this world. (303-154, 1999.08.17)
70. “To strive every day to advance” means we never stop moving forward. We must keep moving forward and developing ourselves. As we advance, we ought to develop in all directions – east, west, north, and south. I did not proclaim the Family Pledge for no reason.
If you are not united in mind and body, or if your couple is fighting, you should not recite it. If no unity exists between you and your children, you should not recite it. You need to realize how precious your blessed family is.
The fact that we have the Family Pledge causes the spirit world to watch us and make our ancestors who have gone to the spirit world envious.
(271-290, 1995.08.28)
71. Strive every day to advance! You need to strive to advance every day. This is an important point. The earth is the object partner to heaven, which is the subject partner. Therefore, even though the scope of our living environment on earth is smaller than that in the spirit world, it is here that we have to establish a foundation that conforms to the standard of the heavenly realm.
Then we can bring that foundation with us when we go to the other world. I am not speaking just casually; this is a requirement. This is the path we all must go, and it is the path of Heaven. It is the path that integrates everything in heaven and on earth. Therefore, I included it in the Family Pledge. (274-115, 1995.10.29)
72. We have to advance every day. To stop is to die. Hence, we must not stop. Each day we have to advance, even if only a single step. Each of us needs to pledge to do this.
Henceforth, we must advance, without deviating in the slightest, so that we may achieve in the physical world everything required for our life in the spirit world. (260-307, 1994.05.19)
The sixth pledge of the Family Pledge
73. The sixth pledge of the Family Pledge reads, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to become a family that moves heavenly fortune by embodying the Heavenly Parent and True Parents, and to perfect a family that conveys Heaven's blessing to our community, by centering on true love.”
Since you each pledged to become a family that embodies the Heavenly Parent and True Parents, your families represent the family of the Heavenly Parent and True Parents. Families that embody the Heavenly Parent and True Parents are families that move heavenly fortune. (565-312, 2007.06.13)
74. We are to become families that embody God and True Parents. We have to become true families that move the cosmos. We cannot keep God's blessings only to ourselves; we have to perfect families that extend blessings to the community.
What I am saying is that we must move heaven and earth to share God's blessings. If there are people in your community who do not know about the Divine Principle, you need to share it with them and gradually expand the sphere of Heaven's blessings. Do not live by yourselves and for yourselves.
(266-151, 1994.12.22)
75. Families that embody God and True Parents are those that mobilize heavenly fortune. For this reason, after receiving blessings, you should not remain self-satisfied and just enjoy your life. You should eventually become part of God's royal family and make all humankind into God's people. (260-195, 1994.05.08)
76. You have to know how heavenly fortune comes to you. Heavenly fortune is always circulating. The path along which it travels is eternal, revolving in a circular motion by the unchanging, eternal law. It goes around and around, moving attuned to destiny through the ups and downs of history. The question is how we, standing here, align with it. (149-153, 1986.11.21)
77. The fortune of natural law does not move randomly. It moves in a lawful and orderly fashion, following its orbit. Every being that is aligned with heavenly fortune exists to live for the sake of others. (233-082, 1992.07.30)
78. Heavenly fortune never perishes. We are sometimes sidetracked by circumstances, but heavenly fortune never changes its course. Because it follows God's orbit, it is eternal.
Just as the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter succeed each other in their immutable cycle, heavenly fortune leads individuals, families, tribes, peoples, nations, and the world as it moves along its unchanging orbit. Yet human beings are oblivious to this. (204-058, 1990.07.01)
79. Heavenly fortune supplies everything that a good person needs. So don't be greedy with desire; Don't seek to hoard everything for yourself. You have to choose one of two ways: either to reach the top and then go down, or to go to the bottom and then come up. If you go to a humble place, heavenly fortune will naturally supply you with everything. (237-115, 1992.11.13)
80. If you wish to ride heavenly fortune, first you had better know the path that it follows. Its path is not one that everyone likes; it is not the path of pleasure, eating, and drinking. It is a path that everyone loathes to go.
It is the path where you have to always be grateful, always fulfill your responsibility, and always return glory to God. Those who walk this path can ride heavenly fortune. (019-145, 1968.01.01)
81. You did not receive blessings so that you alone would be successful in life. Since you were called first, before others. You have to strive to transform the families of your brothers and sisters around the world so that they resemble your family.
You blessed families need to propagate heavenly fortune by transforming other families to become like yours. Heavenly fortune has no place for selfish motivation. To ride it, you should bring peace and harmony within your family, and then unite all other families by bringing peace and harmony to them. (260-308, 1994.05.19)
82. Your family must embody True Parents; then you can mobilize heavenly fortune. Wherever you go, everyone will follow you to realize the ideal of creation. Accordingly, you need to convey Heaven's blessing to your community.
When you do this, you will be able to launch the world of the culture of the heart. The question is how you can leave behind in history a lineage that will not be defiled in later generations that span the millennia.
This matter will determine whether you become a meritorious citizen of the heavenly kingdom, the kingdom blessed by God in the spirit world. This is the formula. (292-109, 1998.03.28)
83. Your ancestors in the spirit world will make you pay indemnity if you do not spread God's blessing to your communities now. They will resist you. They will keep blocking your way and interfering with you.
They will say, “How is it that your actions do not conform to the content in the Family Pledge?” This is why I am telling you to share the blessing with everyone. If you do not, you will be in trouble in the spirit world. The Family Pledge is an important covenant in writing. (266-152, 1994.12.22)
The seventh pledge of the Family Pledge
84. The seventh pledge of the Family Pledge reads, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges, through living for the sake of others, to perfect the world based on the culture of heart, which is rooted in the original lineage, by centering on true love.”
The most important thing in keeping to the path of the Unification faith is that, regardless of what happens, you must not stain the original lineage.
(565-313, 2007.06.13)
85. The seventh pledge of the Family Pledge is important. We have to root our families in the original lineage that is based on true love. If we are to perfect the world based on the culture of the heart, we must inherit the original lineage, which has nothing to do with the Fall.
Our world is based on the culture of the heart. It is one united extended family centered upon the one love of God. As such, the five races will live as one great family, in which no one is above or below anyone else. Such a time is coming.
(261-093, 1994.05.22)
86. Once we inherit the original God-centered lineage, the original culture of God's heart begins to unfold. As long as the original lineage remains lost, the culture of God's heart cannot emerge. Culture continues through history.
Furthermore, culture is based on the family, and from there it propagates to the society, nation, and world. Therefore, to propagate the culture of the heart requires that we leave behind a pure lineage.
Without that, we will be cut off from the world of the culture of the heart. Keeping a pure lineage is the way we must center our lives in the realm of the culture of the heart. (260-308, 1994.05.19)
87. The original lineage has not fallen. To return our lineage to its original state, we need to sever ourselves from Satan's lineage and restore our lineage through indemnity. For this, we need to be engrafted.
When our fallen root is pulled out, and we are engrafted, the seeds of the original lineage will emerge after three generations. These seeds, from the fruit of the engrafted tree, should be planted and grow into original true olive trees.
This takes three generations to complete. Only after the third generation has passed will the seeds that are collected and then planted become true olive trees. It is like passing through three ages. (301-085, 1999.04.16)
88. The original lineage is the God-centered lineage. When we are rooted in that original lineage, we want to live for the sake of others, and then we can build the world based on the culture of the heart.
Our calling is to pass on a pure lineage that will last for thousands of generations. The Fall, which a man and woman committed in one careless moment, created a world that no one desired in both the spiritual and physical realms.
(292-321, 1998.04.27)
89. You should be able to exercise dominion over love. You should not act carelessly. Our task is to build a world based on the culture of the heart, where people live for the sake of others.
The culture of the heart is based on God's love. We are pursuing the world of original culture. In this world, nothing is disconnected from true love.
(304-274, 1999.11.09)
90. People who live for the sake of others will not perish. Moreover, people who live for the sake of others are continually coached from the spirit world. The spirit world constantly connects them to new things. Since they connect to new things, they inevitably gain fame and become known throughout the world.
(292-028, 1998.03.27)
91. What is the way to unite and become the starting point of peace? It is by living for the sake of others. God established this principle, not only for Himself but also for true people.
By living for the sake of others, true love can emerge; by living for the sake of others, the true ideal, true peace, and true happiness can also emerge. They cannot be found apart from that. This principle is the root of the creation of heaven and earth, but people have been unaware of this. (075-318, 1975.01.16)
92. The world based on the culture of the heart is the world of God's original culture and Adam's original culture, had he reached perfection without falling.
There are not two such cultures; there is only one. It is the world of unity where there is but one language, one set of customs, one set of habits, and one tradition. Only in such a world can God live with individuals and live in their families.
(261-095, 1994.05.22)
93. Our ideal is a world based on the culture of the heart. That culture is only one culture, not two. The fallen world, however, overflows with various cultures, each with its complexity.
Since it is not a world based on the culture of the heart, individuals, families, tribes, nations, the world, and the universe cannot deeply connect.
They are all at cross purposes. Until now, the world has moved up and down in a zigzag. This is why, even after thousands of years, it has not reached its final destination. But the world based on the culture of the heart can reach its destination straight away. This is possible because of true love.
(260-196, 1994.05.08)
94. We should perfect the world based on the culture of the heart, which is rooted in the original lineage. It requires that Adam and Eve create a lineage centered on God's pure, true love, with no relationship whatsoever to the Fall.
Having that lineage, we should form a cultural sphere wherein Satan cannot survive and God can rejoice. We can build this world based on the culture of the heart.
The traditions of the peoples and nations of the world, based on the culture of the heart and centered on true love, fit together perfectly and move in one direction. There is only one culture, not two. (266-153, 1994.12.22)
95. The world based on the culture of the heart that is rooted in the original lineage is a world where true Love comes to the surface. We have already entered the age when the heart manifests globally, and we can foresee the coming of the world of the culture of the heart, where everything is one.
In that world, cultures will be united. It will be one world, free from war and strife, the veritable kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. Once we establish the world based on the culture of the heart, everything will be fulfilled.
Everything will be set up so that your families can enter straightaway into the realm of the royal family in the heavenly kingdom, just the way they are. By living in the culture of heart on earth, they will have prepared themselves, both internally and externally, to live in that kingdom.
I determined the content of the Family Pledge with the hope that by uniting with it, you will bring all this to pass.. (264-202, 1994.10.09)
The eighth pledge of the Family Pledge
96. The eighth pledge of the Family Pledge reads, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges, Having entered the Era of Cheon Il Guk, to achieve the ideal of God and human beings united in love through absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience, and to perfect the realm of liberation and complete freedom in the kingdom of God on earth and heaven, by centering on true love.”
Based on this pledge, we have to form couples who are united in mind and body and who can constitute the royal family. This is the completion of the Completed Testament Age and the beginning of the new family that will realize God's ideal of creation. (565-314, 2007.06.13)
97. The Completed Testament Age refers to a new age that has begun. It is a time when we can establish a world of peace through the unity of families, tribes, peoples, nations, and the world.
This will be the fulfillment of everything. By uniting the world and going even beyond that, we enter the Completed Testament Age. After uniting the present world through new families based on the four great realms of the heart and the three great kingships, we will establish a world that befits the Completed Testament Age and finally see one world of peace. (243-262, 1993.01.17)
98. God created the universe based on absolute faith; that is why everything God speaks comes to pass and nothing He commands fails to materialize. Moreover, He created the universe to make His partners of love. He did it all with absolute love, having no doubts; that is, He did it with a single mind.
Finally, He created with absolute obedience. Currently, of absolute obedience, even God is not conscious of Himself. Obedience is different from compliance. In obedience, there is no self-will, while compliance means following while protecting one's own will.
God invested everything in the position of obedience, where He had no consciousness of self. Then, just as God created Adam and Eve with absolute obedience, they also needed to practice absolute love and absolute obedience based on absolute faith. (274-201, 1995.11.03)
99. God began creating all things based on absolute faith. He did so for His object partners of absolute love. God also created with absolute obedience. Absolute obedience means that there is no concept of self. It is the state where the self is an absolute zero.
Returning to nothingness naturally initiates a circular movement. By giving everything so that nothing remains, God on high descends to the bottom. Through this motion, God originated the movement of the universe. In the same way, all things exert themselves completely and descend in preparation to rise once again. (282-068, 1997.03.10)
100. Within the realm of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience, everything can be realized. God Himself had absolute faith when He created His partners of love. He created them after proclaiming, “This is what I will do, " and then He completely gave of Himself with absolute faith, love, and obedience to achieve the result.
Absolute faith stands on the foundation of absolute love, which is the foundation for absolute obedience. This is the mainstream thought in the eternal spirit world. It is also the mainstream thought on Earth.
Thus, it is the mainstream thought in both the kingdom of heaven on earth and the kingdom of heaven in heaven. Accordingly, you too should understand this concept. If you understand it and live by it, you can go anywhere.
(292-272, 1998.04.27)
101. Blessed families have a value equal to that of the world and the cosmos. They are the same as sons and daughters of my direct lineage, and they can act on my behalf. I gave you the Blessing with the hope that you will follow in my footsteps and become even better than me.
Once you have the heart of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience, you can do the things that I have done. This was also God's heart when He began His work of creation. God, the subject partner, thought, “As I speak, let My substantial object partners of love appear.”
God created with absolute faith that they would become His partners of absolute love. To be the owner of love, it is indispensable that one has partners of love. That is why even God Himself is obedient to love. Practicing absolute obedience gives rise to a circular movement. (301-074, 1999.04.16)
102. God, the subject of true love, created us as His partners of true love. His ideal of love can be perfected only through us. When we are united in love with God, His purpose of creation, a world that fulfills the ideal of absolute love, can be realized. We were created as the best and highest object partners of God's love.
That is because, among all created beings, human beings are the only ones that were created as His substantial embodiments. In the presence of God, who is incorporeal, we were born as His visible bodies.
When we are perfected, we become His temples, substantial beings to whom God can freely come and in whom He can peacefully dwell at any time. And it is only through forming a vertical parent-child relationship with Him that God's absolute ideal of true love for all is realized and fulfilled. (277-198, 1996.04.16)
103. God is the root of love, life, and lineage, and the root of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. On the day of Adam and Eve's wedding, God enters their minds and inspires them with love that will bring them together as one. Originally, God was the vertical True Parent, and Adam and Eve were to be our horizontal True Parents.
At the time of our birth, we would be given flesh and blood from both our vertical and horizontal parents. Hence, our mind would be our vertical self, and the body our horizontal self.
Then, upon our marriage, we would create a realm where we are united with God in love. When we attain mind-body unity with God as loving couples, God's sons and daughters are born. (254-107, 1994.02.01)
104. True Parents give the Blessing to all people in the physical world, irrespective of their religious, national, or cultural backgrounds. They are linking them all on earth, thereby realizing the realms of liberation of the individual, family, tribe, people, and nation. This is also possible in the spirit world.
On earth, we link people together into a nation that loves the heavenly kingdom and the cosmos, our heavenly home. The spirit world and physical world have to be made one, and every issue within those worlds has to be resolved, centering on the True Parents on earth.
To achieve this, the Blessing must be given at all levels, to individuals, families, tribes, peoples, nations, and the world, up to the cosmos. As the realm of the oneness of blessed families unfolds in the spirit world and physical world, it sets the foundation for the ideal kingdom with unfallen Adam at its center.
On that foundation, all families since the beginning of history will be in a position of equal value. The kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven will emerge, and God will come and dwell there. (303-258, 1999.09.09)
105. Now we are entering the era when groups of different nationalities and ethnicities can join forces. Nations, tribes, best, and families on earth will join together and move into the realm of unity. As they transition, the world will rapidly change.
Even Satan's followers will harass those who stand against this trend. Form,erly Satan tried to take people to hell, but now he will try to bring them to the kingdom of heaven. As Satan and his followers cooperate in this way, and people's ancestors strive to bring their descendants to the kingdom of heaven, no one will try to block their way.
Thus, it is only a matter of time before the realm of liberation will be realized. Humankind will rapidly transition into the future era of globalization.
(298-222, 1999.01.08)
106. In my lifetime, I inaugurated the era when everything can be liberated; thus, all things are in a position to be liberated. The value of this is truly indescribable. The realm of liberation was established based on the merit built up as a result of God's efforts to separate good from evil, repeated over and over again throughout history.
In the course of those efforts, numerous ancestors accumulated merits. Your blessed families represent the realm where all are liberated, you stand as sacrificial offerings. You are in the position to represent all the things of creation that are glorious and have been separated from all those that are impure. That is why you stand in the position of sacrificial offerings. (280-292, 1997.02.13)
107. The realm of liberation here refers to the universe. It refers to the universe that is billions of times the size of the solar system. Complete freedom occurs within the realm of liberation. Satan does not dwell there; we can live freely as we desire without obstacles.
Even past sins will not obstruct us. We were imprisoned, but now we have shaken off everything from the past and have left the prison by the front gate. We are newly returned to the status of citizens.
God has become our Father, and we are becoming one with the Owner, the One who protects our family and our nation. Thus, we are entering the eternal realm of complete freedom, which has nothing to do with Satan. In time, we will enter the kingdom of heaven and dwell there. (445-255, 2004.04.18)
Sun Myung Moon