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1. The providence of salvation is the providence of re-creation; that is the process of creation to purify all things and all people, their lineage, and their love, according to the Principle of God's creation.
The establishment of pure things, pure people, and pure love in a pure land is the ideal and purpose of creation. To achieve this, you need self-mastery. To recover the purity of your body, which until now has served as the foundation for Satan, you must drive Satan out by striking your body.
By doing so, you will free yourself from Satan's world by uniting your pure mind and body, as spirit and substance. Thereafter, you will pass through a three-year engagement period.
Then you can form a blessed family in the realm of perfection. From the viewpoint of the Principle, this process elevates you to the position where you can complete the human portion of responsibility. You need to understand this course of restoration through indemnity; this is the only for you to rise.
(268-115, 1995.03.31)
2. Maintaining the undefiled pure lineage is an absolute necessity. God banished the fallen Adam and Eve. So if you defile your lineage, you have to deny yourself completely. To do so, you have to go to the back of the line of fallen humanity, turn around, and come back to God.
In the future, only those who have safeguarded their purity can become leaders. Such people should take responsibility for inheriting and carrying forward the mainline tradition and teaching. Those who fall after the Blessing should not expect to be forgiven again. (268-111, 1995.03.31)
3. In Korea, upon returning home, the tradition is to greet your parents first. The practice of filial piety is emphasized, particularly for women. Why do we have the folktale Shim Chung? It is because, at the outset of history, it was a woman who proved unfilial.
To indemnify world history, one woman must become the world's most devoted daughter. This is the very first provision in the law of indemnity by which to build the restored kingdom of heaven. For this reason, women should take pride in becoming daughters who establish the tradition of filial piety, practice chastity, and maintain purity. (286-105, 1997.08.09)
4. Each of you has to become a filial son or daughter and then a devout saint. On the foundation of a family from a pure lineage that embodies pure love, you should begin by becoming a devoted child in front of God. This does not pertain to you alone; your whole family must embody filial piety.
Yours should be the family of loyal, filial children, the family of saints, and the family of divine sons and daughters. From that position, you become an exemplary representative, owner, and prince or princess who can inherit the sovereignty of the heavenly kingdom from the level of the individual to that of the cosmos. We always have to go through this training. This is the meaning of being an owner of Cheon Il Guk. (406-316, 2003.03.12)
5. Before you can call God our Father, you blessed families of pure lineage and pure love should become devoted children on every level: the family, nation, world, and cosmos. Everything inside and outside your mind, your body, and even your cells should resemble God and unite and harmonize with Him in one heart, one body, and one mindset.
Yet, He has had no partner who could do so. In a state of unity and harmony, you have to invest in love. By investing in love, you continually rise, starting from the level of all things. Thus, you eventually reach God. When God is happy, heaven and earth will also rejoice. From that point begins the perfect and complete liberation of the original ideal of creation. That is the level you have to reach.
(406-322, 2003.03.12)
6. Had Adam and Eve fulfilled their responsibility before God, He would have held a Blessing ceremony for them. This Blessing would have been the starting point of goodness. Unity with the truth, the substance, and the heart would have been attained. Unity with the truth means that when God says, “Do this!” we answer Yes, and follow through to fulfill what He commands. From the perspective of God's Will, Adam, and Eve in essence were not two separate beings.
Lured by Eve, Adam broke Heaven's law. Thus, they became separated, but originally, they were one. After attaining unity with God's truth and with God's substance, they would have attained unity with God's heart. When this happened, they would have become totally one with God. God has come this far hoping for that day. (015-263, 1965.10.17)
7. You and I are in the same position when it comes to oneness in the heart between husband and wife, and parents and children. We cannot achieve oneness of heart and mind if one insists on standing above and putting the other below. If parents are always above and their children are always below, they are not of one heart.
Only when they are in an equal position on the horizontal plane can they be of one heart? In other words, only when they relate internally and externally on a line on the horizontal plane can they be of one heart. This holds for a couple as well.
They can be of one heart in their horizontal relationship only where they can relate internally and externally, front and back. This can never happen in a relationship where one is above and one below. (041-030, 1971.02.12)
8. What is the primary condition we uphold in the Unification Church? It is mind and body unity. When God created heaven and earth, He did so with absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.
Thus, if you speak, the substance of what you believe will emerge. If it does not, you need greater investment to actualize your words. No matter how great your command is, it will be fulfilled if your investment is even greater than the intensity of your wish. (400-203, 2003.01.01)
9. When we speak of one heart, one body, and one mindset, we are referring to mind and body unity centered on God. Attaining mind-body unity is to love Heaven. What I am saying is that you should love Heaven. Having one body corresponds to loving humanity, and having one mindset corresponds to loving your nation. The nation is an extension of the family.
Thus, I am telling you to love the family. The core desire of all men and women should be to achieve the teaching of one heart, one body, and one mindset. When we speak of the cosmos, we are referring to God's house, which contains all things of creation in heaven and on earth.
This is the core teaching of the people of heaven and earth. One mind, one body, and one mindset are the core teachings of God, and of a cosmic person.
(381-106, 2002.06.11)
10. The term il hwa (一和) consists of the Chinese characters for il (一和), meaning one, and hwa (和 ), meaning harmony. It is not the other Chinese character for hwa (化), which means “to become.”
As it stands, the character Hwawa, meaning to harmonize, contains the meaning that people of different personalities should become one even though their characters differ and, similarly, peoples and nations with different characteristics should join together as one. (068-232, 1973.08.03)
Sun Myung Moon