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1. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were supposed to become one body with God, in both spirit and flesh.
However, because Adam and Eve could not become one body with God and lost the position of True Parents, people have to be born again through the body of the True Parents, with God as the center.
In the Bible, Jesus told Nicodemus, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above." Then Nicodemus asked, "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?" (John 3:3-4)
People must be born again. You have to deny your old self and be born again. So to be born again, you must deny your old self. If you do not deny yourself, you cannot prepare the motivation within yourself to be born again. (24-326, 1969.09.14)
Rebirth and change of lineage
2. Fallen people were unable to be born with a direct blood relationship with God. If we do not acknowledge this, make a new relationship with God, and return to our original position, we cannot advance to the position of receiving the Blessing.
In other words, because we were born in the fallen world of death, for us to return to a God-centered life, we have no choice but to be reborn. We have to be born again. (30-165, 1970.03.22)
3. To be reborn, you need to love Jesus more than anyone else. There is no way to connect to God unless your love, centered on God, is greater than the love established in the shadow of satanic love in the fallen realm and surpasses the love in Satan's world.
This is the path of suffering, the difficult path that religious people must follow. Christians long for Jesus every day and are waiting impatiently for him to come again. For two thousand years they cried out to Heaven, “Jesus, our bridegroom, please come quickly!”
When they reach the point at which their bodies are ready to burst, their hearts are being torn, their bones are melting, and they do not know whether their spirit is inside their body or outside—the point at which only God or Jesus can be present—then the Holy Spirit will enter them and bring them spiritual rebirth as spiritual babies. (114-028, 1981.05.14)
4. What is the ultimate purpose of the Blessing? It is to realize a true family. This is the greatest purpose sought by fallen people. For this true family to form, there must first be a true person. That true person should be none other than a true man.
This true man will seek a true woman, and they will have their Holy Wedding with God as the center. Then, for the first time, a true family can emerge. Because of the Fall, this did not come to pass, and so we must deny all families that have been created until now.
Following God's providential Will, we must move beyond that fallen family standard. From a Divine Principle standpoint, if fallen people cannot achieve this, they will not be able to return to the original world.
It must be clearly understood that fallen people, regardless of who they are, cannot stand before God if they do not fulfill this formula, of course. (35-214, 1970.10.19)
5. You do not connect to God's heart through theory. You can be connected only through the lineage. Did you inherit the lineage of God's heart? Up to this point you have not understood.
That is why, before you receive the Blessing, there is a ceremony for the change of lineage. At that time, you must enter into a state of selflessness in which you are nothing.
You must assume the position of someone without a body of his or her own and have the conviction that enables you to say, “I am the starting point from which all my descendants will inherit the flesh and blood of the True Parents.”
(180-159, 1988.08.22)
6. God takes people living in the realm of Satan's false love and gives them rebirth through His greater love. People are born to parents of false love; they are born from ancestors of false love into a lineage of false love.
They can become God's children and God's people only after being born again through parents of true love, ancestors of true love, and a lineage of true love. Human beings must be born again. This is the path of destiny for fallen humans.
No matter what kind of difficulties we may face, we must take this course. God's work of salvation is His work of giving rebirth, thereby grafting His lineage into us.
Therefore, I must completely deny all the things that are part of me from my past—in other words, my concept of possession, my tradition, my consciousness—all of these things.
Things we already have inside us cannot be recognized by God as they are now.
When we graft a tree, we cut everything but the root portion, then graft on the new shoot. Similarly, we have to first cancel everything, get rid of it all, and then be reborn. (135-013, 1985.08.20)
7. All people desire to attend True Parents. Although six thousand years ago Adam and Eve should have been blessed in holy marriage and humankind should have become God's descendants, the Fall made people Satan's descendants.
Therefore, on this earth, we must re-establish the True Parents, who are on the side of Heaven and who were lost six thousand years ago. We must be reborn by connecting with our True Parents' love. Only then can we become citizens of the kingdom of heaven. (19-203, 1968.01.07)
8. The Fall occurred through the wrongful marriage in the Garden of Eden. Now the time has come for True Parents to overturn this by marrying people in the right way. By cleaning up the terrible things that false parents have perpetrated, the True Parents are eliminating hell and giving the Blessing to the millions and billions of ancestors in the spirit world. They are recovering the proper true love, true life, and true lineage to actualize the true father-son relationship.
(316-244, 2000.02.13)
9. As for an adopted son, he should receive engrafting by a true son. The wild olive tree must be cut off, and then the shoot of the true olive tree can be engrafted onto it. We have to take part in a movement to convert all wild olive trees into true olive trees. To be reborn, you need to inherit the lineage of True Parents.
That is why Jesus and the Holy Spirit yearned to consummate the marriage feast of the Lamb and why the whole of humanity hopes for True Parents.
(19-164, 1968.01.01)
10. The Messiah separates you from Satan's lineage, but you must take the steps that permit Satan's lineage to be removed. In that position, you have to unite with the Messiah and be selfless in front of him. Unless we establish this standard, we cannot be saved.
You have to pass through the place of life and death. For the evil lineage to be removed, we have to go through that adversity. We have to enter a state where life and death meet each other. We have to grope through that state of death on our path. (35-160, 1970.10.13)
11. Throughout history, no one could change the fallen lineage, but I have succeeded. That is why I have borne a tearful cross of the heart. Because I have that holy standard, you received the Blessing without having any merit. You received a new lineage through the Blessing.
The victorious right to change lineage was achieved through my life of labor in the physical world, based on God's thousands of years of travail. You are the people who stood on that, using God and me as a stepping-stone.
To receive the Blessing is to be cut off from the lineage of evil and to be newly grafted. When you are engrafted, your lineage is changed. (35-179, 1970.10.13)
12. Why do you need True Parents? It is so you can put down your roots in the realm of heart. At this point, your root is different. Due to the Fall, your trunk and branches are not what they should be.
The Unification Church is putting down new roots starting from the True Parents, and a trunk and branches are appearing and are then grafted Branches of True Parents are cut and grafted onto you so that the Unification Church will become the central mainstream of the universe. We must cut off everything that is of Satan's world. (164-156, 1987.05.10)
Ceremonies to change the lineage
13. First there is the matching ceremony, then the holy wine ceremony, followed by the marriage ceremony. The matching ceremony, the holy wine ceremony, and the marriage ceremony are unprecedented among all ceremonies of the past. That is because they symbolically represent and indemnify every aspect of the Fall.
(35-215, 1970.10.19)
14. Fallen people cannot receive the Blessing unless they repudiate all their past loves defiled with the false love of Satan's world. They cannot participate unless they become resurrected beings who can multiply the love of True Parents based on the love of God.
On that basis, the holy wine ceremony promises the achievement of a standard of new life by opening the gates of True Parents' love. (35-217, 1970.10.19)
15. The holy wine ceremony is carried out in the reverse order of the Fall of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were still in a state of engagement when they fell. Before you can marry, there must be an engagement ceremony, and then a holy wine ceremony.
Only then can you attend the wedding ceremony. Because you have fallen, you have been unable to become God's sons and daughters. Through the engagement ceremony, however, you present yourselves before God and True Parents, who have been trying to reclaim their children, and you say, “I became an Adam or Eve who is better than a fallen child.” (120-184, 1982.10.13)
16. Because we received Satan's blood, we must have a ceremony to cut it off. That ceremony is the holy wine ceremony. From a principled viewpoint, we can't receive the Blessing from God if we allow any stains from the blood of Satan's world to remain in us.
Not only must we eliminate all the blood that we received from Satan's world but also all the sins that occurred up until now. There are many kinds of sin, such as hereditary, historical, and individual sins, but the one thing that makes a condition to settle all of them is the holy wine ceremony.
The holy wine includes twenty-one different substances. Each of them has been sanctified. Each of them was established through victorious conditions set during my confrontations with the spirit world, with Satan, and with God.
It may seem that drinking a cup of holy wine is a trivial gesture, but that is not the case. On the day you drink that cup with faith, you will stand on the foundation of True Parents' victorious conditions, cut off from the blood of Satan's world and cut off from all the ties you have with the sins of your ancestors and from all the tangled connections your ancestors wove. (113-300, 1981.05.10)
Sun Myung Moon