Preparation for the Spirit World

1. Though we live in this world, we know that the spirit world also exists. We also know that this world and the spirit world are not separate; they must be connected.

Where will we go when we leave the physical world?

We are on this earth while we live in the flesh, but we are proceeding toward the eternal world. People are born, go through the springtime of their life in their teens, twenties, and thirties, reach their prime, and go on to old age. Thus, their lives come to an end, like the setting sun.

However, those who know the existence of the spirit world know that a lifetime on earth is but a fleeting moment and the eternal world awaits them after death. Our lifetime is merely preparation for the world of eternity. (140-121, 1986.02.09)

The importance and purpose of our physical life on earth

2. At one time or another you will go before God. The path that leads to the presence of God, the path of your destiny is one you walk alone. Have you ever considered what you would do if, after traversing that path, you were not welcomed by God?

Would you wish to be born as an only child, or as the son or daughter of a person who owns nothing? Would you like to be born in such a pitiful situation? You would not.

Everyone would prefer to be born into an affluent environment, into a rich family and a rich nation. You would prefer the nation welcome you and usher you in from the moment of your birth. In light of this, into what situation would you want to be born when you enter the spirit world?

Your fate – whether you will be born into an affluent environment or welcomed anywhere in heaven or on earth – is determined by the short course of your life on earth. (22-318, 1969.05.11)

3. In the future, we will come face to face with the next world; that is our final destination. We must be born anew into that world. Whether you find yourself in about a lonely, only child or in an affluent environment where you are welcomed, is determined by how you walk your current path. (22-319, 1969.05.11)

4. Life on earth and eternal life in the spirit world are not separate; they are connected. They are both important, yet people who live on Earth today are unaware of the concept of eternal life.

They think that only life on earth is important. Even Unification Church members do not understand that the way we live on earth determines our eternal life. Eternal life begins in the present moment; thus you need to be constantly aware of it, about the kingdom of heaven.

If you do not understand this, you will go astray. Everything you do now determines your value in the spirit world. The two worlds move facing each other. If the physical world ascends, so does the spirit world, and if the physical world descends, the spirit world goes down too.

If one turns, the other does likewise. You have to realize this point during your life on earth and live in a way that enhances your eternal life. Eternal life and the present world are not separate. You cannot grasp this if you do not clearly distinguish between heaven and hell.

Therefore, you need to feel the importance of both eternal life and life on earth as you work. (217-085, 1991.04.16)

5. You should know how precious your physical life is. Only during this period in your physical body can you resurrect the universe and unify all the heaven and earth.

Not even God and all things combined could be exchanged for the physical world. God and the universe cannot be perfected without a human being in a physical body. Therefore, the entire cosmos could not be exchanged for a physical body.
(91-192, 1977.02.13)

6. Our time in this physical world is very short. Once you realize this, you will not want to waste time sleeping or eating. You will eat while you walk, sleep while you walk, and play while you walk.

The more you do so, the more blessings you will receive – blessings that no one has ever received before. Inheriting all of God's blessings is a historical thing. When you do this for the sake of the nation, your name will be remembered by that nation. (80-226, 1975.10.23)

7. People on earth have bodies, but they face limitations in their physical lives. Spirits, on the other hand, do not have physical bodies, but they live in a world without limits. People have bodies on earth, but the earth is not their eternal dwelling place.

Spirits do not have bodies, but they reside in their eternal dwelling place. If you were to list the points of contrast between earthly people and spirits, it could go on and on. And if we were to look at the aspects that earthly people and spirits have in common, we would see that life on earth and life in the spirit world each constitute one half of a whole, and only one half.

Then what do the body and spirit need to do to bear perfect fruit? You can bear perfect fruit only when you conclude your life on earth successfully before your physical and spiritual selves separate. On the other hand, when an unripe spirit goes to the spirit world, problems arise. (293-256, 1998.06.01)

8. How important is your life on earth? You live only once. It is a brief moment, and it comes only once. Compared with eternal life, earthly life is but a point. It is a mere instant.

You need to rise above your life in the flesh and prepare for the spirit world. Keeping this key point in mind at all times, you need to stand in the center and guide everything and conquer everything in your life. Otherwise, you cannot achieve the perfection of yourself. (207-100, 1990.11.01)

9. If something had gone wrong during your time in your mother's womb, your life on earth could have been wholly ruined. Similarly, if something were to go wrong in the physical world, your life in the spirit world, the world of love in which you live with the eternal Parent, would be ruined.

Therefore, you need to know how precious the earthly world is. This is where you need to love; you need to love during your life on earth by serving your parents, your siblings, and your nation. What kind of person can lead others and bring them into harmony in the earthly world?

The one who steps forward on behalf of the parents to care for others, and volunteers to do the difficult tasks, is the one who can become the central figure. Those who have fulfilled the responsibility of an older son or daughter go to a higher heaven in the spirit world. (306-220, 1998.09.23)

10. Things do not happen by chance. In preparing for the future, there is no easy way. However, in considering how to spend his or her life, the person who knows that youth is the time to prepare for adulthood has a bright future.

The prime of life is the time to prepare for old age and old age is the time to prepare to go to the spirit world. Our lifetime is a period of training and preparation, a course that disciplines us to acquire a great universal character. (147-188, 1986.09.21)

11. Your eternal life does not begin when you die. It begins the moment you learn about the Will of God. If there were a gap in your life, or you were stuck in one place, even for one instant, your path to eternity would stop.

Therefore, when you walk the path of faith in your life, you should not delay going that way and put it off until next year, or the following year. If you live in such a manner, you will die without having lived even one day in oneness with the Will. If you live like that you cannot go to the kingdom of heaven.

No matter how good your nation is, if you have not lived even one day victoriously, how can you go to the heavenly kingdom? If you have not had even one victorious year, how can you enter the eternal world? These are the questions we must address. (37-220, 1970.12.27)

Training for the kingdom of heaven

12. Life on earth is training to adjust yourself to your eternal homeland. This life on earth is not eternal. It is merely a period you pass through, like your school days. If you fail during this period, you are in serious trouble.

Do not become a failure. Instead, achieve success in your family, in the nation, and in the world. Once you gain success in the world, you can enter the kingdom of heaven on earth. Someone who has lived in heaven on earth, and was appreciated by everything there, will also be welcomed by everything in the kingdom of heaven in heaven.

Someone who has repeatedly invested for the sake of others with love, and has forgotten that investment, will be close to the throne of God on high. Since that person's nature is like God's, he or she will stand in the position of His child and will automatically be close to Him.

The spirit world is the world of the original homeland, the original home, where God dwells eternally. Since we began from that place, we will return there.
(257-052, 1994.03.13)

13. At the time of creation, God's mind was at peace in the heavenly kingdom because He had provided human beings with the formula for achieving equality in love. Therefore, God cannot be accused.

The same formula still applies. Who is the textbook of love? You should be model fathers, husbands, sons, and leaders. Therefore, I am training the mothers and fathers, then the family members, and then the nation.

You are being trained to live in the kingdom of heaven. This training connects the individual, family, society, nation, and world. (102-125, 1978.11.27)

14. You need to be trained to qualify to enter heaven in the next world, the spirit world, which is the original homeland. To qualify, an individual, a family, and a tribe must become a model of complete oneness, which seven generations of descendants can follow.

There should be no fighting among them. They should not struggle with one another over personal possessions. (310-110, 1999.06.15)

15. If there is a family, it should be a happy family and the nation should also be a happy one. There should be no concept of struggle, only harmony. In the heavenly kingdom in the spirit world, harmony reaches the highest standard, and you have to measure up to it.

The spirit world transcends time and space; as quickly as you think of it, you can travel from one end of the world to the other and back. You can't imagine how fast it is. Light travels 300. a million meters in a second.

If in your life on earth, you cannot keep up with the rhythm of that world, you will fall behind when you go there. From now on, those who do not know about the spirit world cannot become citizens of the heavenly kingdom when they go there. (519-213, 2006.03.04)

16. If you like to go to heaven, you need to qualify. You need a ticket to enter the kingdom of heaven. You cannot go in freely. In the spirit world, everything about your life is known immediately.

There is a computer in the spirit world. Manmade computers are wonderful, but the computers in the spirit world can show your entire life in a minute with the touch of a button. You cannot lie. Every detail of how you were born as someone's son or daughter and how you lived your life is revealed. (250-110, 1993.10.12)

17. Just as your conscience knows everything about your life, every detail of your life is recorded in a computer in the spirit world. When you go to the spirit world, just by entering your name into the computer, your whole life is revealed instantly.

Since the spirit world transcends time and space, you can instantly see the record of every detail of your life, right then and there. Thus, the conscience is the start button of the computer in the eternal world.

Entries are made based on what they know. All the deeds that have caused you pangs of conscience are entered just as they are. A life that has no such misgivings is recorded as a clean life.

Therefore, you cannot make excuses when you go to the spirit world. You will see clearly how you have lived your whole life. The earthly world is the training center where, with the knowledge that the spirit world exists, you prepare to go to that world and be ushered in. (256-250, 1994.03.14)

18. To go to the kingdom of heaven you should be able to say, “I am the representative of the Old Testament Age in which Adam failed; the representative of the era of Jesus, who is the center of the New Testament Age; and the representative of the Completed Testament Age, representing the era of completion.”

Once the realm of parents has been completed for each of these three ages, Satan can no longer remain. In such a place there will be no more obstacles. When these three ages are complete, the world will have no problems.

Satan will disappear and the gates to hell will be opened. A highway to the kingdom of heaven will be laid down. Then families will automatically be connected to the eternal kingdom of heaven. That will be a land of freedom.
(302-290, 1999.06.26)

19. If your mind and body are not united, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. Since you have come to know this principle, you need to subjugate your body, even if it means sitting on it and forcing it to do what the mind wants to do.

You must attain perfect dominion over yourself before attempting dominion over the universe. You have no idea how difficult that is. The body is strong, and so is Satan's world. I have fought this difficult battle. In that battle, you have to give up everything – your nation and your clan, your mother, and father, your husband or wife, even your body.

You must fall into the hell of imprisonment. If God tells you to go out and pioneer, you should go all the way to hell and start pioneering your way back up. Only then can you become a person needed by God. (412-307, 2003.07.02)

20. When you work hard witnessing and raising funds, why do people persecute and accuse you? It is to help you find the heart that you are lacking. It is to help you find love. It is to help you become people who can love others. Without undergoing such a course of training, you cannot become an avenue y person, no matter how much you try.

In other words, you should find love greater than that in Satan's world. Otherwise, you cannot go to the heavenly kingdom. Only those who become people of love can go to the kingdom of heaven.

At that time, God will be the Lord of Judgment, Jesus will be the Lord of Judgment, and I will be the Lord of Judgment. Therefore, you need to practice love. This is the task we face. It is the task and command issued by God's law.
(103-238, 1979.03.01)

21. You are subject to judgment by the Word. If you do not listen, you will be held accountable. So you need to actualize the Word. If you fail to take action to substantiate the Word, you will face the judgment of substance.

There is judgment of the Word, of substance and heart. You must face these three great processes. First, you will be judged by the Word of the Principle.
(103-236, 1979.03.01)

We must clear away our sins

22. The Unification Church says that the providence of salvation is the providence of restoration, but is there any way we can avoid that path? We cannot avoid it. We carry the burden of the fate of the Fall on our shoulders.

How big is that burden? It is as big as the world and the universe. Therefore, as you live your everyday life you should think, “After all, I will die one day.” When you were born, you did not think, “I will be born,” but you were born anyway.

Even when it comes to dying, whether you think about it or not, whether you want to die or not, if you try to die you may not die and if you try not to die you may still die. It is not something you can do as you please. That time will inevitably come – the final, fateful moment.

That cannot be changed. Therefore, if you have anything to indemnify you need to do it before you die. This is the challenge. Because the Fall happened one on that earth must be cleared up on Earth.

This issue needs to be restored on earth before we go to the spirit world. It will be impossible once we go to the spirit world. (165-061, 1987.05.20)

23. If God's purpose is our complete salvation, He should be able to cut off our rotten parts. Only then could He be a great God. What kind of God do you wish for? Do you wish for a God who would pat you on the back and say, “Poor body, born into this sinful world, you have suffered so much to remain here this long. You have done well”?

Or do you wish for a God who would deal with your body without pity? Which God would you prefer? In His heart, God wants to do away with our fallen bodies all at once. The body is an antenna through which we communicate with the fallen world. Original sin entered the human world through the body.

When you hear this, you may be offended. However, those who feel offended must atone for their sins. When the work of atonement takes place on earth, unity will be achieved automatically. Therefore, unity is not such a difficult thing. All that needs to be done is to chastise the body. (18-319, 1967.08.13)

24. Everything will be completely revealed in the spirit world. The bad things are revealed first. Only after you have cleared all that up can you enter heaven in the spirit world. Otherwise, you cannot enter.

Even if your eyes are closed, such things will be revealed and punishment is required. Consequently, until you have cleared up all the bad things, you must continue to be educated. You need to be trained. You need to undergo intense training. (287-204, 1997.10.30)

25. To triumph over your body you must completely uproot and overcome Satan. You can go to the kingdom of heaven only after you have overcome Satan. You cannot defeat Satan after casting off your physical body.

Since the physical Fall occurred on earth, you must correct it on earth, while you still have your physical body. If you fail to fulfill all that you need to do while on earth, you will go to hell for all eternity.

Thus, when you triumph on earth and stand in the position of goodness on Heaven's side, you will go to the kingdom of heaven for all eternity.
(65-294, 1973.01.01)

26. The twisted, sinful result brought about when our human ancestors failed to become true parents – the twisted sin committed through the failure to form a true people, a true nation, and a true world – remains before God and humanity.

Who can take responsibility for this sin? People who have gone to the spirit world cannot resolve the sins they committed on earth. Therefore, unless someone on earth takes responsibility, the people in the spirit world cannot be liberated.

All people living on earth must clear up the sins they have committed before they can go to the heavenly kingdom. Then who on earth, as a representative of history, can clear up the sin that corrupted everything?

This must be done by some person, some religion, or organization, but the religions and people living on this earth today do not know about this mission. Since only the Unification Church knows about this, we who know should take responsibility. (79-068, 1975.06.01)

27. The history of sin should be cleared up starting with ourselves. If you stand in a position that brings a minus to history, you will end up in hell, but if you stand in a position that brings a plus to history, you will end up in heaven.

When you compare the standards of this era to your own, if this era is greater than you, you will go to hell, but if you surpass this era, you will go to heaven. That is how it is. We who have merely followed the fortune of heaven and earth to this day should recover the day on which we take control of the fortune of heaven and earth.

God has continued to carry out His work for six thousand long years, yearning for that one day. Throughout the six-thousand-year course of the providence of restoration, God has wandered around searching for one hero, who can shake off the historical grief that has followed the fortune of heaven and earth, and take dominion over this fortune. (5-272, 1959.02.15)

28. Hell came about because of me, and the kingdom of heaven also exists because of me. The two are divided. Originally, if we had not fallen, such a state of separation would not exist.

The mind is on the right and the body is on the left. The people who follow the body go to hell and the people who follow the mind go to heaven. There are two paths. All our five senses have two tendencies. Then what do we need to do? We need to cut off one completely.

Our bodies contain Satan's blood, Satan's life, and Satan's love. How can we remove them? We need to extract all of them, which have been sown throughout history. Thereupon, we need to implant God's love, God's life, and God's lineage in ourselves once again.

Then our eternal life of hope and eternal happiness begins. There is no other way. These are not my words; this is how the Principle works. That is why we need True Parents.

True Parents are the root. From them spring the true trunk, tree branches, and true leaves, and from these, a forest is formed. There is no other way, and it is not easy. (207-023, 1990.10.21)

29. The kingdom of heaven begins in the heart. What kind of heart? It begins with the heart that has triumphed over the world. Even if the kingdom of heaven were all around me, if my heart were evil, and I could not picture the kingdom of heaven or be moved by it, then that kingdom would be useless to me.

The capacity to welcome the kingdom of heaven is not derived from my environment. Rather, it is within me. I, myself, am the problem.
(46-024, 1971.07.18)

30. Where is the support beam that can uphold the kingdom of heaven? It is in our environment, but more importantly, it is in our hearts. If you cannot describe the kingdom of heaven in your heart, you cannot be part of that kingdom, even if you are within its environment.

Without determination, we cannot take perfect action. Perfect action can arise only from perfect determination. The question is, therefore, how much does our mind yearn for goodness?

Our yearning is connected to historical goodness; no matter how bloody or tearful a situation we face, we must overcome it through the way of goodness. Even if we must struggle in a lonely situation after history, we will not try to avoid it but will fight our way through it.

The kingdom of heaven begins from our resolution and determination to pioneer an unchanging way and to create an environment in which our bodies unite with our minds.

In the kingdom of heaven, the mind and body do not act separately. We can advance toward that kingdom only when our minds and bodies are united.
(46-024, 1971.07.18)

31. It is very difficult to break a habit. This means that since we have been living in Satan's world until now, we have cherished the self-centered habit of thinking, “I should be superior to others.” This habit has become fixed. It is more deeply ingrained than your dietary habits. It is based on history.

Since the day of the emergence of the devil, our habits have become deeply rooted. So how do we eradicate them? If you tried to dig a pit and bury them all, it would never be big enough. This is a serious problem. To get to heaven, you need to have God-centered habits. (213-020, 1991.01.13)

32. If your insides were filled to the brim with water, would it be clean water or muddy water? It would contain dirt and rocks. If you look at water after a heavy rainfall, how dirty is the water? All kinds of filthy things are carried down rivers. The water in you would be dirtier than that.

Think about whether you are any different. Therefore, you need to be stirred up and filtered. You need to go through a filtration system. No matter how difficult it is, you need to look right and left and make your way out through the pieces of dirt.

Will this work if you are egotistical? If you are, you will get clogged up. If the water contains clumps of dirt, it will get clogged up and will no longer flow. (97-061, 1978.02.26)

Absolute obedience to True Parents

33. There is only one set of True Parents, on earth and in the spirit world. There cannot be two of something absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal; there is only one. They are the unique center of the entire universe. Everything is connected to that place.

Therefore, they are the center. You need absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience out of that center, which is the True Parents. Had the family of Adam reached perfection under God, it would have been the first perfected ancestors of all humanity.

Then, when the spirit world and the physical world were united, with the family of Adam at the center, that would have been the starting point for the True Parents. (344-307, 2001.05.01)

34. Why do you need to attend True Parents? It is because they represent the spirit world and God. Since the first parent, the second parent, and the third parent have formed bonds of heart and have been brought together in love, by attending True Parents you can gain the qualifications to take part in their victory in the realm of heart. Because of the Fall, everything was divided.

We have not become filial children to the Creator of the universe, to the parents who gave birth to us, and to the spirit world. Yet by attending True Parents, we can be recognized as having the qualifications of filial children. That is why you need to follow with perseverance. (105-113, 1997.09.30)

35. The only way to earn the privilege of inheriting everything from God is through the path of love. If a person of true love brushed past you, you would not be upset; instead, you would be delighted.

Everyone welcomes such a person. The reason I am teaching you these things is to make you people who can go to the heavenly world, people who can breathe with and match the rhythm of the heavenly world. Thus, you need to receive this kind of training while you are on Earth.

Only then will you be able to dance in the place you are meant to dance? Otherwise, you will be offbeat. I, too, will have to go to the spirit world at some point, will I not? Satan will not be able to follow. (147-117, 1986.08.31)

36. When you hear about the spirit world, you should pay immediate attention. You need to attend God and follow in the footsteps of True Parents, who have paved the way to attend God.

The path I have laid down was accomplished with great difficulty. I laid that foundation from the desperate position of a living offering. You have no idea how difficult it was for me to establish each foundation, one after another.

That is why God and the entire spirit world are telling you to obey me. I am not someone with whom just anyone on earth can form a connection. You have met me through a special grace. I am doing this to save the world. (329-264, 2000.08.11)

37. I have been consistent in everything I have done throughout my entire life of suffering. The words I spoke fifty years ago are the same as the words I am speaking today. What I am telling you about the spirit world today, I began speaking about fifty years ago.

Since then, I have continued to follow that formula. Therefore, those words will remain eternally in the next world. You need to focus on those words and pass over the summit of suffering. That is why I am telling you to practice absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.

In Satan's world, where can you find such a thing as absolute faith? Absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience are the promises I made to God. You need to hold on to me. Abandoning your nations and everything else, you need to cling to me. You need to practice absolute faith. (330-032, 2000.08.12)

38. God needs True Parents and you also need True Parents. We will enter the era of settlement at noon only after establishing a global realm of unified families who have the lineage of true love, as the center of the blessed tribe of the spirit world and the physical world.

We have to completely obliterate the place where Satan stands. We should live our lives without shadows twenty-four hours a day. If you live and die in such a manner for the ideal of creation, then even if you die somewhere far from home, a tower of God will be built in the place where you drop. (418-182, 2003.09.19)

Living with knowledge of the reality of the spirit world

39. We need to know about God, and next, we need to know about the spirit world. Through the lineage of God, we have to negate everything of Satan's lineage that has lasted until now.

We need to completely overturn it and create a different world. We need to live our lives with a clear understanding that, just as night and day are opposites, if the lineage of Satan's world is night, then the lineage of God is day. We mustn't be ignorant of God and the spirit world.

We need to understand that, as sons and daughters of God, we are all one, all part of one tree with one lineage. This is important. That is why we need to know all the facts about the spirit world.

We need to decide to which part of the spirit world we will go. If it is the higher part of the spirit world, we need to have expert knowledge about that part. Then we need to live our lives accordingly, matching the rhythm of that place.
(338-182, 2000.10.29)

40. We will all go to the spirit world in the future. Though life on earth lasts for only an instant, the spirit world is eternal and unchanging. Therefore, when you go to that unchanging world, you will not be proud of yourself if you are changeable.

Why is it that the Unification Church today teaches about the internal condition of all people from the viewpoint of a parental heart? It is because brotherly love or compatriots' love can change when the situation changes.

Only the heart of a parent is unchanging. That is why the unchanging heart of a parent can remain as the heart of the object partner when you go to the next world and can match the rhythm of that eternal world.

Moreover, if there is a natural environment that you have loved with such a heart, then that environment will also remain an unchanging object of your heart. If there were a place you could never forget in your life, it would not be a scenic spot, but rather a place that is connected to you in heart, with an unforgettable story behind it.

You would miss that place all your life, and you would remember it all your life. This is because the unchanging heart of genuine love is connected to that place. (23-204, 1969.05.25)

41. You must not be ignorant of the spirit world. Only when you know about the spirit world can you swim through the troubled waters of this world and survive. Heung Jin is in the position of elder brother to all members of the Unification Church, as well as to everyone in heaven and on earth.

Everything Heung Jin has given to the spirit world and the physical world as the mediator was made possible by Heung Jin and True Parents. Only when you adopt the words of True Parents and Heung Jin as the absolute standard by which to lead your lives can you become participants in the liberation of the heavenly world and the earthly world and thus become owners of Cheon II Guk.

If you do not believe the facts about the next world even after they have all been laid out before you, you have no excuse. Heung Jin sacrificed himself and went to the spirit world to take responsibility for fully mobilizing it to complete Cheon II Guk In the liberated kingdom of heaven on earth.

Therefore, you should attend to him as your elder brother and follow him in place of the parents, the king, and even God. Thus, you can come to know about the organization of the spirit world. If you do not believe it, you will encounter serious problems. (398-183, 2002.12.14)

42. The spirit world is our homeland. While on earth, you need to live by the standard by which you can return to the homeland and live eternally. You cannot live your lives on earth as you please, the way people have done until now, in ignorance of the spirit world.

By knowing about the spirit world and living accordingly, when you leave this world you can stand before God and connect to the kingdom of heaven. Otherwise, it will be impossible to do so. That is why you need to know all the facts about the spirit world. (295-122, 1998.03.05)

43. What will you do in your life? You should leave a legacy of love behind when you go. This is the conclusion. Even if you lived in the center of a tomb of love, you would have no regrets. No matter how dreary your life in that tomb, you would have no regrets if you had lived in love.

If we say, “Let us leave a legacy of love behind when we go!” our way of life will remain for eternity. If you die having lived this way, God will bless you, and in the spirit world, God will bring His sons and daughters to welcome you.

At that time, if there are no rings on your hand, God will put a diamond ring of the heavenly kingdom on your finger and if you are not well-dressed, God will dress you in the richest apparel worn by the royal family of the heavenly kingdom.
(97-169, 1978.03.12)

44. If you live with your spirit self and physical self as clear as crystal, you will have no problems when you go to the spirit world. You cannot enter heaven if there is any kind of flaw. Therefore, your life on earth is important.

When you go to the spirit world you will be just as you were when you lived on this earth. There are no exceptions. Your entire being will be transparent. That is why you have to do well during your earthly life.

You should offer devotions and engage in self-reflection many times a day, according to a principled standard, living twenty-four hours a day, from morning to evening, by heavenly law. (294-027, 1998.06.05)

45. The higher spirit world is a place where the people who have lived for the sake of God and the entire world can go. That place is the kingdom of heaven. The heretics of the spirit world are people who think only about themselves. For such people, there is no future. This is also true in this world.

If you think only about yourself today, can you find happiness tomorrow? To be successful, you need to overcome the pain in this hour of this day and prepare for tomorrow. Only those who practice and go through preparatory training today can seize tomorrow.

Those who are satisfied with living only for today have no future. From the perspective of the future, it is clear that those who will be honored tomorrow are not the ones who are merely enjoying themselves today. They are those who give of themselves here and now. (66-100, 1973.04.15)

46. The heavenly realms are where one lives in love for the sake of others; where one lives, not selfishly, but for the greater good. One who pursues only personal gains regards everyone else as an enemy; this is true even in the spirit world.

One who lives for a greater cause, for the sake of the greater good, can naturally go anywhere. One who lives for the sake of the world does not need to live for America. America is included in the world, as is Korea. All nations are included.

On our path, what direction can families go to be welcomed by everyone? It can only be the way of love walked for the sake of others.

Our way cannot be blocked even in Satan's world on earth; even that world has to accommodate us along the way. (215-175, 1991.02.17)

47. Why do we need to marry? It is to experience the love of a parent, the love of a couple, and the love of children. Why is this important? The spirit world is a place abundant with such types of love.

You need to marry and form a family to train yourselves to be in sync with the spirit world. What you have is not yours. It belongs to God. You need to raise your children thinking of them as the children of God and the children of the universe. A husband and wife do not exist only as two selves.

They represent heaven and earth. In that state, wherever you go, your sons and daughters will follow you, all things will follow you, and even God will follow you.

When you can say, “I have become a victorious person with nothing to be ashamed of before this universe,” God will reply, “Yes! Since you have triumphed, I will give you the gift of My love.” (92-182, 1977.04.03)

48. How can we go to heaven? We need to live immersed in the love of God. We need to love Him more than Adam and Eve did, and we need to love Jesus more than Peter, James, and John did.

Otherwise, we cannot restore the object realm of true love in which God can love us. Only when this is restored will all go well. Do not worry about not having money, and do not concern yourself about not having sons and daughters.

Just continue to follow this path for ten or twenty years. On the way, you will scale high and steep mountains. You may feel that you are gradually descending, going through nothing but hardships, but actually, you are gradually ascending. The Unification Church grows by receiving blows.

If ten people are living in a household, the one who endures again and again despite opposition from the others, and who lives for the sake of the public purpose, becomes the master of that family. In other words, that person will soon become the master of the heavenly nation. (142-289, 1986.03.13)

49. When you go out into today's world, you will find people who are like your grandfather and grandmother, your father and mother, and your brothers and sisters. So love all the people of the world with the same love you have for your family. They are not strangers.

Become people who can feed others when they are hungry and help them when they face difficulties. You are born into this world, and you need to prepare to live by the rhythm of love in the next world. (132-273, 1984.06.20)

50. Heaven is the place where unfallen people who have received the Blessing on earth in God's bosom of love had sons and daughters that God is fond of and grandchildren in whom God can rejoice, and have received His love, enter all together as a family.

The kingdom of heaven is not a place you can enter without your children. Paradise, on the other hand, is a place where everyone enters separately, regardless of the affection they share as a couple or even if they are parents and children. Paradise has nothing to do with the family.

Would such a place be heaven? Heaven is the place where the family attends to the parents and where all interaction is centered on God. Could parents live happily in heaven if their children were making an uproar in hell and screaming that they were about to die? Is such a place the kingdom of heaven?

This is not what the Unification Church teaches. It teaches the way to liberate hell. (19-105, 1967.12.31)

51. Your life of faith will be easier if you understand that God's providence is alive, moving along with the history of the earth to pave the path to eternity. Otherwise, it is difficult to bring the providence down to earth and make a foundation of faith in our lives.

By clearly understanding the limits of our time, we can bring down and settle our foundation of faith on earth. Since I am cooperating with God in this work on earth, the spirit world, where God's Will awaits fulfillment, can interact with us today, enabling us to grasp the concept of living eternally with God.

In our earthly lives, we are preparing for our eternal lives. They are directly connected. Unless they are connected, you cannot maintain your life of faith.
(198-008, 1990.01.20)

52. What kind of people are those who can enter the kingdom of heaven? Firstly, we should be people whose hearts are aligned with God's heart. If God yearns for the eternal ideal centered on His eternal purpose, our hearts must be one with His for eternity.

It is not enough if our hearts are aligned with Him for ten years but then lose that alignment. Our hearts must be eternally aligned with the eternal God. To achieve that, what must we do? We must become children God can be fond of for all eternity.

As such children, we should not appear as objects of sadness. Next, we must be in accord with God's body. Here, body means the direction we are heading. While our thoughts represent the central point of the four directions, our body is the expression of the direction we are heading. (47-257, 1971.08.29)

53. Before desiring heaven, we should desire God's heart, and before desiring God's heart, we should think about how we should conduct our lives. We first need a heart of attendance. Our original nature reveres and yearns for the sublime and the precious.

Even though we are fallen human beings, we were created with the original heart to attend to the sublime and precious heart of God. If we have not led a life of attendance based on heart, we have nothing to do with heaven. To live a life of attendance we need to make preparations.

After passing through a process of preparation, we need to practice a life of attendance. The place we go, after preparing for and practicing a life of attendance, is the kingdom of heaven.

The destination of people who have attended God in their hearts is the kingdom of heaven. Heaven is where one's life of attendance is praised and highly esteemed. It is our destiny to go there. (8-291, 1960.02.14)