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1. True Parents are the center of each blessed family. In the Garden of Eden, there was never a family that lived with True Parents. It is for you to resolve this. To do so, you must follow the commands of True Parents. You cannot insist on your opinion in front of True Parents.
Only when your concepts disappear can True Parents settle within your family. If this does not come to pass, you cannot realize ideal families. This is not an idea I came up with; it is God's original concept of creation. (277-250, 1996.04.18)
2. Through the fallen Adam and Eve, the eight members of Adam's family, including Cain, Abel, Seth, and their spouses, all fell. Therefore, we must proceed toward the completion stage by setting conditions of indemnity. This you must do while feeling your parents' love.
Our lives originate in our parents' love. Only when you go through experiences that lead you to respect this value in life, more than anything else in the world, can you proceed to the new path? (35-234, 1970.10.18)
3. Individual perfection today is not the absolute and complete perfection of the individual but is a conditional perfection. You must understand that during the process of restoration, perfection is conditional. Even though people stand in the position of parents, they do not know the realm of God's heart.
Husband and wife have not experienced the power of loving each other so much that they would never trade each other even for the entire universe. Families who have received the Blessing must bear in mind that until they cross over from this fallen realm, they are not in the realm of the perfected kingdom of heaven but the realm of conditional perfection.
Once they pass into the spirit world, and therefore, they need to go through certain formalities. Only after they pass through these formalities and are approved as having reached perfection can they receive their passports and enter the kingdom of heaven. (100-145, 1978.10.09)
4. The true freedom that God gave us comes with the precondition of responsibility. How much chaos and destruction would occur if people were to insist on and practice the freedom of love only as individuals, without fulfilling their responsibility?
The perfection of human beings, who are destined to realize the lofty ideal of love, is possible only when they take responsibility for love. That responsibility has three components. The first responsibility is to become the master of the freedom of true love, know how to cultivate and control oneself and be truly grateful to God for granting the freedom to love.
This responsibility for a love relationship should not be undertaken merely because of law or social convention. Instead, a person should take responsibility through self-control, self-determination,n and life in a vertical relationship with God. The second responsibility is toward one's object partner.
By nature, people would rather not share the love of their partner with anyone else. The horizontal relationship between husband and wife is different from the vertical relationship between parents and children.
When it is divided, its perfection is destroyed. This is because of the Principle of Creation, which is based on the absolute oneness of love between couples. People have the responsibility to love their partner. The third responsibility is to love one's children.
Parental love is the foundation of a child's pride and happiness. Children receive life from their parents, who have created harmonious oneness through true love, and they want to be raised in such love.
The most precious responsibility toward children is not only to raise them externally but also to provide the life elements of true love that will complete their spirituality. This is the reason the family is important.
The heart of a true child, true brother and sister, true husband and wife, and true parents can be experienced only in such true family life. (277-201, 1996.04.16)
5. If you use your reproductive organs in an aimless and directionless way, you will go to hell. But if you use it the opposite way, by God's absolute love, you will go to the high kingdom of heaven.
This is a clear conclusion. Now we have a serious problem with youth. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve fell through illicit love in their youth and planted the seed of free sex. In the Last Days, which is the time of harvest, the phenomenon of free sex among adolescents will be an expanding trend.
(279-257, 1996.09.15)
6. If you use your love organ recklessly, you will be punished. Your love organ is the royal palace of love, the ancestral garden of love. Love, life, and even history begin from there. It is the origin of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in the spirit world.
The origin of God's happiness and the basis for Him to laugh are found there. It is the very place where God can find love and dance with joy. You have to search for and find that place. (256-200, 1994.03.13)
7. Without a nation, there can be no nationality, no foundation upon which you can be registered. We need to create a people and register anew. We have to establish the kingdom of God on earth and, as its citizens, love that kingdom and its people.
Furthermore, we are to live on earth together with our tribes and family members as the victorious sons and daughters who have inherited the true lineage of the Parents of goodness. Only after doing so can we enter the kingdom of heaven in the spirit world. This is all according to the Principle. (058-145, 1972.05.22)
8. Once a woman is married, her name is entered into her husband's family register and removed from the register of her birth family. Everyone on earth has a hometown.
When you are born, your birth is immediately registered in your hometown. You have proof that you are the child of a certain family and the citizen of a certain nation.
As long as that nation exists, and as long as the child's parents are recorded, a child who is registered cannot be uprooted and sent away. (177-302, 1988.05.22)
9. A time will come when you will need to be registered. The era of registration is coming in which you will connect to the family of True Father, the royal family. However, even when the era of registration arrives, those who have been unable to restore their tribes will not be able to register.
It is similar to the twelve tribes of Israel. You cannot register before you have restored your tribe. Once people come to understand the need for the restoration of tribes, they will swarm to the Unification Church to become members. What then will happen at the time of registration?
Until this time, nothing has belonged to God — neither people nor any of the things of creation. The True Father, who has fulfilled God's Will, must rescue all that Satan, through selfish love, came to possess.
He must rescue God's sons and daughters and all things of creation. I do not have a nation at present. The nation therefore must be found. (208-339, 1990.11.21)
10. The time will come when you must be registered. Receiving the Blessing is not the same as being registered. The Blessing is only a symbolic registration. That is why we are seeking to recover the nation in which we can be registered.
What kind of nation would it be? It would consist of a trinity: sovereignty representing parents, citizens representing children, and land representing all things of creation.
For a nation to be established there must be sovereignty, citizenry, and territory. The same principle is true for religion. (35-282, 1970.10.25)
11. Because of the Fall of the family of Adam and Eve, everything was registered in the name of Satan. Now, based on your families, your nations, and everything in the world must be returned to God and registered in His name.
This completely follows the Principle. The Fall occurred in the family. This must be indemnified. Since this principle exists, if there were a world president, he could bring his nations before God to be registered. On the day of registration, every nation would be saved. (184-096, 1988.12.20)
12. We have to be registered in the position of sons and daughters who can be loved eternally by God and True Parents. The registration will begin from this time forward. You will be registered in the Book of Life of the Kingdom of God. A new form of registration has to take place centered on the new True Parentism and Godism.
At the same time, the organization of tribes should take place. Corresponding to the twelve apostles of Jesus and the twelve tribes of Israel, we need to organize ourselves into tribes. (146-230, 1986.07.01)
13. The Blessing of the Unification Church is a church-level Blessing, not a national one. There are three stages to pass through to arrive at the world-level Blessing.
After passing through the era of the church-level Blessing, the reunification of Korea brings about one nation, giving way to the era of the national-level Blessing centered on God's nation. After this comes the era of Blessing in which the physical and spiritual realms are united.
We need to pass through these three eras of the Blessing. Originally, these three should have been accomplished in the generation of Adam, but this did not occur, and it has been postponed until the era of the returning Lord.
This must be accomplished in True Father's time. By the year 2000, I must give a global Blessing to everyone at once. That is how registration will be accomplished on a grand scale. (290-254, 1998.03.02)
14. The Blessing in the Unification Church goes through three stages: the church, national and world levels. That is why the blessed families of today must go beyond their current position. Originally, liberated people should receive the Blessing without any indemnity conditions.
However, we are caught by the need to offer indemnity conditions. Our church must face the nation, that is persecuting us, and beyond that, the world. We must overcome them all.
Only after we overcome persecution and lead our families into the place of liberation, which is the unified world, can God bestow upon us the right of inheritance originally destined for Adam's family.
Only then can there be true liberation. On that basis, there will be the realms of the church, the nation, and the world. We must go beyond the realm of the restoration of worldwide kingship, leave the realm of Satan's accusation, and liberate the physical and spiritual realms. After we have risen to that position, we have to receive the Blessing. (285-236, 1997.06.05)
15. You cannot find the path of salvation through the ordinary, habitual lifestyle you have pursued up to this point. You must walk the path of complete indemnity. The providence of salvation is the providence of restoration, and the providence of restoration is the providence of re-creation.
To be re-created you must attain the original position untainted by the Fall—the zero point. At the original position, our concepts, and habits, our surnames like Kim or Lee, will not exist.
You must go to such a zero point. Viewed from God's original standard of creation, every created being begins from the zero point. (213-098, 1991.01.16)
16. Every one of you should stand in the position of practicing absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. The families in the Garden of Eden have nothing they can claim as their own.
When they become true sons and daughters, standing in oneness with God and His absolute love, everything in the whole universe will belong to them. Once you have become one in love, everything will become yours. (300-304, 1999.04.11)
17. After receiving the Blessing you absolutely must not fall. What would happen if you fell? There would be no way to be saved, even by True Parents. Blessing means changing your lineage and inheriting the right of kingship that represents the ancestors of three ages.
This blessed lineage must never be defiled for thousands and tens of thousands of years to come. We must not pass on the stained bloodline. You must keep your purity. This is an earnest matter.
You will no longer be able to ask for forgiveness, saying, “Please forgive us in the name of True Parents.” You must pass on a pure lineage. (332-292, 2000.09.24)
Sun Myung Moon