There is only one origin. There cannot be two origins. So since we came from one origin, we must also go back to that same origin to be born again.
We all know why it is necessary to be restored: it is because of the fall of mankind. Then what was the fall?
What is the fall?
What was that fall that brought to mankind such an incredible amount of suffering, such indescribable misery?
What could have brought all the catastrophes to mankind?
No one could have known the consequences of the rather simple act of the fall, but those consequences to human history were staggering. Now we all know that all the sadness and misery were the consequence.
Then one could have imagined that at some time the results of the act of the fall would be realized for everyone to see those results. Now is the time. We can see the consequences of the fall.
Then what is that manifestation today?
What kind of country is it? That country in which all the typical manifestations of the fall are very obvious is the United States of America. Americans do not know; the world does not know, but America is the example. They see, but they do not understand. It is coming down, plummeting downward to degradation.
This morning, if all the American people here were seated together and I asked you, “Are you happy? Are you secure?” I wonder what your answer would be. Are you answering firmly “yes,” or is that a firm “no”? When the answer is no, we may not yet know how much more miserable it will continue to be.
Maybe you Americans think, “Well, we have the magnificent Empire State Building, we have the White House, and we have the most sophisticated weaponry and jet planes.
What do we have to worry about?
We will be all right.” Yet, deep inside, there is no one, including the President of the United States, who can deny that there is something very wrong with this country. They feel that the country is sick and is getting worse, not better.
We might ask this question of the president: “Do you see a clear future for yourself, or do you have the viewpoint of the world?” The answer would have to be, “I do not know what tomorrow will be.”
Suppose we asked, “Do you possess the value that represents the entire country?
In other words, is your value equal to that of all individual Americans? Are you confident that you are one citizen of this country who can lead the nations and people of the world and inherit that tradition and continue to foster that tradition?” Then he would have to admit, “No, wherever Americans go in the world today, they are not seen that way. Americans are always told to go back home, that America has nothing to offer them.”
Signs of decay
The formidable illness of AIDS started in this country and has since spread all over the world. People do not welcome that.
What about free sex?
What kind of idea is that? Is free sex something that God would welcome and say, “Oh, yes, do more of that.”
Would a man of character, as opposed to a decadent man, value free sex?
(No.) Is it the human wish to see a baby born to a woman who doesn't even know who the father is? This happens to many children. This doesn't happen frequently, even in the animal world.
We can go on and on citing examples of the things that are greatly wrong with this society. Therefore, we say that such an America should perish. Can anyone who seriously looks at the moral degradation in this country disagree with that conclusion?
This country used to be great, but now it has no concept of the world. The people should have much awareness of the world, but now they are not even thinking about the country. They have been reduced to mere individualism. The ultimate future of extreme individualism is for a person to try to kill himself. Suicide. Choosing to die.
Why do you think Reverend Moon has to come to America?
What am I trying to do here? Why do you suppose I don't just get out of here, as so many others have done?
As you know, Reverend Moon came here to protect Christianity from falling into the decadence that is all around. To revive Christianity. Unless we revive Christianity, there is no way for America to get back on track.
When we speak of Christianity, people have different ideas about it. But we are speaking of Christianity, which is concerned with reform, Christianity that is more alive, Christianity closer to the true spirit of Christ himself, the rational Christianity.
A religion of people who have firm beliefs, who can spell out clearly what they believe in, very consistently. All these qualities are needed in Christianity today; in short, a new breed of Christianity.
Furthermore, this world needs Christians who have knowledge, Christians who have reason and spirit adequate to lead the world, even to save the world. That kind of Christianity. All of these qualities, which Reverend Moon has enumerated, are qualities that Reverend Moon possesses.
What is the value of Reverend Moon?
From God's perspective, Reverend Moon is so valuable that He would not trade him for even 240 million Americans. Not even for the 5 billion people of the world.
I know these things; I clearly understand my value. Since Reverend Moon came here to America, how much persecution has come from America and the rest of the free world?
This country has truly put itself in the position of an enemy country to me.
America has done such a disservice to the world and mankind as well because it has led Christianity into degradation and decline.
If Christianity were washed down the drain, where would God be? God would lose His foundation.
Knowing this, Reverend Moon came here and received tremendous persecution. But he has loved Christianity because God loves Christianity. Ironically, it is traditional Christians who have most strongly opposed Reverend Moon.
Still, as Christianity has tried to support itself and looks all around to where the social power might be, they see no one except Reverend Moon for their hope, even though they don't like it.
You know about the activities of the USA project, United to Serve America, don't you? Through that activity, traditional Christians as well as the rest of the people of America are coming to realize, “Oh, this is the true spirit of Christianity. This is the true nature of Christ's teaching.”
Since the Moonies are representing the teachings of Reverend Moon, other people are watching them and trying to assess and judge them. They want to know what we are all about, and they are watching carefully. They conclude, “They are a different breed. They are not like us. They are better.”
We may not realize this, for whatever reason. Maybe we are too humble, or too indifferent, or don't care to think we are better than other people, but other people look at us and say that we are different, that we are better.
They do not understand
This is a country that truly has no attraction for Reverend Moon, since whenever I go through the immigration offices at the airport, the officials look at me with squinted eyes and say, “Oh, so you are Reverend Moon.”
That kind of unpleasant treatment by officials toward the person who is bringing new life to this country. Those men belittle me.
According to the traditions of this world, anyone who is belittled like that would turn and land a big punch on them. They look at Reverend Moon as the worst person who exists on earth. You must understand how the world is treating Reverend Moon.
How would you feel if they picked you out of the line at the Immigration Gate, allowed one hundred people to go through first, and finally, you were the last guy allowed through?
That is how they treat Reverend Moon. How miserably this country is treating me. You have to understand. The average person would simply refuse to have anything to do with this country.
What can Reverend Moon do about such situations?
I can only persevere, pretending I don't notice, just trying to forget and do more. I feel that I have more to do in this country, more to give, and more foundation to make, so day by day, I go on without thinking about those kinds of things.
What would that mean?
Don't you see that when Reverend Moon, one way or another, leaves this country, all God's dispensation and blessing around the dispensation will follow and go with me?
It will not remain in this country, although the American people don't realize that. They don't understand the way God's blessing works.
If Reverend Moon leaves this country, the consequences would be unthinkable. All the blessings will flow away, like the tide ebbing. It is the responsibility of the Unificationists to hold Reverend Moon here, despite all the injustices done to him.
You say, “Father, we know America is doing terrible things to you, but please do not leave this country.”
Korean Festival
The festival last month in Korea was more than just a blessing. It also included the Summit meeting, the Junior Olympics, and a total of eight major events.
Top-level leaders from the political world, economic world, scientific world, media, and academia. They all gathered for that festival. There were more than 12,000 people in the gathering when Reverend Moon proclaimed Messiahship, telling them they must follow the True Parents.
I told them, “Different religions such as Confucianism, Islam, or Christianity have different leaders and therefore different messiahs, but there is only one, absolutely one set of True Parents in the world.”
For some, my statements were truly shocking. They felt they were hit in the head and had a concussion; they were so flabbergasted. It took some people 24 hours to recompose themselves.
The following day, the Blessing of more than 30,000 couples took place. They saw it. How is it possible that Reverend Moon could match so many people, and by photograph, moreover? And not one couple opposed his decision.
Observers wondered, “What kind of man is Reverend Moon?” Such a thing is unheard of.
In fact, Reverend Moon is the first and only person to do such a thing on the face of the earth. Then all the visitors saw the event and heard me saying, “Next time, we will bless more than 300,000.”
How many of those 300,000 couples will come from America? If we drew America as one individual, it would have a considerable head with big bulging eyes, because that is the way individualism looks.
Calculating people always look at things from that perspective. They would conclude, “Oh, I can never do that.” But they cannot dismiss the words they heard in Korea: Savior, Messiah, and True Parents. The two most awesome words for even the most individualistic American people are: true parents.
Bad root
What is it to be restored by origin?
What is the restoration by origin, by root?
Because of the fall, we are in a different place from where we are supposed to be, from where we originally were. To achieve that means to be born again.
In other words, if you change the expression “because we were born of fallen parents” to “to be born again or to be restored to our original state means we are born from the parents who have not fallen,” is that necessary or just sort of necessary? (Absolutely.)
Then how can you believe, how can you prove that mankind has fallen?
Many people do not believe that mankind has fallen. They say, “This is the way mankind has always been. This is the way God meant the world and man to be.”
Really, only the Christians have the strong notion that mankind has fallen. Other religions are not so keen about that. In Christianity, the fall is primary. To other religions, it is a secondary consideration. They don't care. But care or not care, this is a serious matter of importance.
How do you believe?
You have to believe because you have no idea. You have to begin to believe. Why have they fallen?
What is the cause of the fall?
The Bible teaches that it was the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The Bible is necessary, and the Bible we have to abide by, really, but more importantly, what does the Bible say?
That's the main thing. If we misunderstand the Bible, then the Bible itself becomes unusable. So what did the Bible mean by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
That means mankind contracted an illness, whatever that is, a fall illness. But the origin of the illness, the cause of illness, is the eating of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil. To cure that, we have to have an antidote.
Now, do Christians know what “fruit of the knowledge of good and evil” means?
Does any Christian know what that means?
Ask any Ph.D. or double Ph.D., or a hundred times Ph.D. You ask that question. What is that fruit? What serious wrong did they do that made God, such a loving parent, chase that son and daughter away from His own home? What is it? The magnitude of that means it must have been a very, very valuable fruit?
More than apple, more than orange?
We see, according to the Bible, that they ate with their hands. So the hand and mouth in that story were the only parts of the body that were used in that crime. Or sin.
Then what did they cover after they ate?
They covered up the lower parts of their bodies. We can see it today in children. Whenever a child does something wrong, they express it; they show it. They are naturally honest.
So if their mother says, “Don't eat that,” and the child eats it anyway, and then the mother comes and confronts the child.
What does the child do automatically?
He hides his hands, doesn't he? He doesn't hide his lower parts or other parts. Have you ever seen a child, by reflex, hide his lower parts when he has eaten something he shouldn't have? They don't do that. That is simple enough and easy to understand.
Again, another proof. It must have been the lineage that was involved, so God panted, puffed, and suffered for thousands of years to correct that. If it were merely the eating of a certain substance, then God could have found a remedy for that easily. It would not have taken so long.
So no matter how much you try to correct yourself, no matter how hard you work to correct this and that weakness and stop doing certain sins, and let's assume you could work hard enough to correct flaws in your character, you could never change your blood lineage. You cannot do anything about the blood that flows inside you. It just cannot be denied.
You could cut off your arm, but so long as that bad blood is flowing in your body, another part of you will sin. Another bad thing will be done by your body. By the same token, you have to go to the origin of that growing evil, evil after evil. We have to know where the origin comes from.
Now we know, so we can quickly conclude that it was bad lineage, wrong blood lineage. So the blood flowing in all mankind, all individuals, is bad blood. We cannot say it is perfect, God's blood. It is Satan's blood, in other words. We inherited Satan's blood. That means your body is Satan's.
We can imagine that if the ancestors of mankind had not fallen, God's blood would have been flowing through you and through everyone who is around us today. That is imaginable, is it not? When that happened, then everything belonged to God.
There would have been no such thing as “bad,” and there would have been no Satan. God originally owned that central root. [in English] That kind of content connects to every human being. Branches automatically connect with the trunk… Fruit is not the same size as the branch.
With the perspective of all mankind as one big human being, which is, we are actually a part of that big human being.
If you compare that to a tree, we are the branches, the small branch, the slightly bigger branch, and so forth. We are all branches of that tree, but not God's tree. It is Satan's tree.
What kind of fruit is borne by Satan's tree?
Satan's fruit. We must clearly understand this. This is why we all agree that mankind needs to be saved.
What does it mean to be saved?
To be saved means to go backwards from the root of having done something wrong, going backward, and being brought back to the position where he didn't fall. Before he fell.
Just as it was planted, it will be harvested. Satan gave rise to these offspring by satanic love; therefore, we reap it by satanic love, too. This is what we are seeing.
We can see the characteristics of those fruits of Satan, and that is what we see today: free sex, promiscuity. This means lack of order, chaos. Satan's actions destroyed God's order. Because Satan's goal was to satisfy himself and disregard God's order, chaos was the result.
Today, we see rampant chaos, which is the fruit. Order of love is God's utmost quality. That's where God's utmost value comes from. Orderliness of parents, then the next generation, and the next, and so on.
Wrong order
But since Satan did not respect that order, after all these years, we see the confusion and chaos everywhere. Satan's actions gave rise to these offspring. I have been getting reports of so many terrible things as a result of this disorder.
Like in one family, incest. Just incredible. That just cannot be thinkable in terms of God. If you know God.
This is the result of the fall.
Wherever their ancestors committed a sin and crime originally, the result is showing here in America. Without reason. This is something we see; we cannot deny it. Whatever the reason may be.
So this result must be all joined and burned up in the furnace, and let all mankind and even God forget about that. That's the only way we can do it.
Those who advocate free sex must be happy, right?
Because they have many things they can do, they can do whatever they want. But that is not the case. The more they do and pursue free sex, the more they want to do, and the more miserable they become.
If the parents in a family are like that, what about the children?
Who do children learn from? When the husband deceives and cheats on the wife, and the wife does the same thing, where do they go? Even as an individual, where do they go? And the parents, too.
Is there any righteousness or trust there?
No righteousness, no trusting. Satan is the only one who is satisfied with such things. Perhaps he is happy because he has his kingdom, but he's the only one.
It looks like netted fish, small and large. Hundreds of thousands of fish are desperately moving about, caught up in Satan's big nets. That's what mankind is today.
As if that weren't enough, they use drugs. When this happens, it really doubles the misery to an impossible degree. Nothing is to be called part of God anymore. God and godly people simply want nothing to do with them and walk away.
This is where we are today. Satan will say, “Don't you see? God, it will no longer be possible for you to restore them. Your restoration effort is now beyond hope. Forget about saving mankind. How could you save them?”
Now God brought all of you in here, not from clean and pure roots, but whatever God had in mind, you all came here. You were hippies, yippies, fruits of extreme individualism. You all joined here. I have been chipping away at the evil elements in you, allowing only the good to remain.
Only Reverend Moon and the Unification Church have the power to cut out all the evil in you. And once Satan saw that and how effective we were, he became more and more afraid. He said, “Don't come near, Reverend Moon! This is my territory.”
Those who were inspired by Satan said, “What have you got to do with us here?
You should go back to where you belong; go home!” Satan tried every possible way to destroy this one man, Reverend Moon. However, Satan was not successful.
Strong foundation
So Reverend Moon laid the foundation to proclaim. No matter how many people may oppose, opposition will no longer interfere because the foundation is strong enough now.
Now opposition cannot touch us. We are in a secure zone. With that foundation done, Father has nothing to fear. Whether they understand or not, there is bound to be somebody who understands.
So Father can proclaim to the world, “Follow the Messiah!” Imagine Jesus' life.
Jesus wanted to be able to do that. At some point in his life, he should have been able to do that, but with so much opposition, including the well-armed Roman soldiers and the ignorant Jewish rabbis and leaders, Jesus could not do it. He knew that it would not work, and he could not get to that point.
The Russians are thinking very effectively because they don't have any junk in them. Here in America, they are too complicated. For the average American to believe in something, to achieve something, they have to take care of many problems within themselves. This is not the case in Russia. They were well-educated in the communist way, just one way. There was just one button to push in Russia; in America, there are a thousand to push! How complicated.
How much simpler in Russia. Who is more effective? And whom do you think will be the probable winner?
The one who follows a complicated process or the one who follows the simple process?
Yes, you answered that clearly: “Simple process.” That is the convenient way. America is an inconvenient way. God doesn't like this.
Russians could understand clearly that Reverend Moon's teaching was full of value. Izvestia, along with Tass, has been a compelling media outlet, comparable to the New York Times in America. Izvestia translated Reverend Moon's teaching, the Divine Principle, not only in the newspaper but also as a complete book and disseminated it all over Russia.
Would the New York Times do that? Why not? Why can't the editorial chief himself decide, “This is valuable information? We print everything fit to print, and this is certainly fit to print.”
They were so moved, and they brought me a report. They said, “We twenty-odd elite members who are the heads of the organization, clearly understand the teaching.
We already decided that is where our direction of leadership will come from. This is the direction we will go.
Please be confident and count on us. We will lead the nation in the right direction.” Here in America, how can the media and others so confidently dismiss Reverend Moon's teachings lightly? Especially now that Russia is taking it more seriously?
America
Was this country properly obtained, or was it confiscated, taken at gunpoint? Even though this was God's will, we must still understand it correctly and repent. Such repentance is so important in this country.
Or else, whatever was done will also be returned to them. There will be a lot of bloodshed in this country. So to prevent this, repentance is necessary.
They say that millions of Indians died because of the plague. But nobody believes that today. People may say, “Why talk about the past now? It's over.” But the point is that whatever we sow is what we will reap. Therefore, this is inevitable.
Even if Reverend Moon doesn't say anything about this, it will still happen. Therefore, it is far wiser to get the remedy and not to wait until the inevitable result comes about.
Are the American Indians more like white people or Oriental people?
Yes, they are descendants of Oriental people, so they are like cousins to Reverend Moon. Therefore, looking at it from the original settlers in this country, Reverend Moon is entitled to be here because his cousins were the first Americans.
How ironic it is because Reverend Moon knows very well what this country will be like in 20 or 30 years.
The so-called minorities today, such as the Hispanic people, Black people, and Oriental people, will gain superiority in every area over the white people, who will then be in the minority. We can already see what the consequences will be, how the white people will behave.
Reverend Moon is trying to prevent the head-on crash of the races in this country by bringing people from all different backgrounds together. White people may be alarmed by this, but they have the wrong understanding. Reverend Moon is helping bring about the future peace between different races.
Thereafter, racial discrimination would not occur. Therefore, I am clearly helping every race, the white race as well as the Black, Hispanic, and Asian.
In God's eyes, there is no white and black. Racial discrimination is based on people. The purpose of the mass weddings of the Unification Church is to surmount these differences.
If something isn't done now, racial differences will grow and become more and more of a problem in the world. But with the Unification Church marriages, there is no difference when a Black marries a White. Thereafter, racial differences stop right in that generation. Isn't that true?
Mass weddings cut straight through Satan's lineage because we don't recognize any of Satan's divisions, such as race and nationality. So many world problems are solved through this method. This time, several hundred Japanese and white people were married to Africans. Especially to the third-world countries.
When that number goes over one million, the world will cruise automatically toward peace. One way of blood lineage. To Satan's side, this is very fearful. To God's side, it is a great victory.
In your family, should international marriage be encouraged or discouraged?
Imagine someone with 12 children, and each marries someone of 12 different nationalities. Then you have 13 different nationalities represented within one family.
If they all lived in harmony within one household, how wonderful this would be! Therefore, Reverend Moon is becoming the king of peace!
Of course, we would like to reassure step by step, but there is a long way to go to Father's conclusion here. So we know that the True Parents are necessary? (Yes)
Sow and reap
Just as you sow, you shall harvest. That is a law, even though it is not always obvious. Therefore, the world with its widespread promiscuity is the fruit of whatever mankind has sown in the past.
Satan's most effective weapons are alcohol, drugs, free sex, and dancing around like a snake. Those are Satan's armaments.
How can we follow that?
If you have any sense, how can you follow any part of that tradition?
Unificationists are the only ones who can perfectly guard themselves against these things because you are the only ones who understand the truth.
Your mind knows which way to go. If you get hooked up to those satanic habits, then immediately you get down to the dungeon of hell.
Do you like hell?
You must deeply understand that the fall was sexual misbehavior. Number one, you must understand that the fall indeed took place, and number two, you must understand that the fall was sexual misbehavior.
Number three, Satan is covering the entire world with his armament. These are three points you must deeply understand. How can we take over this world? This is the mission of the believers, the men of faith. It is our mission.
Today, most Christians do not pay so much attention to the fall. That's because they don't understand it. They say, “Oh, it's great to get married. That's what the Bible says; that's what Jesus said.
So we will do that, and we will automatically go to Heaven.” Not so, as we know.
In the Bible, what were the consequences of the fall of Adam and Eve?
Whatever they did, even if it was just the act of eating a fruit, were Adam and Eve given just a reprimand and let go? No, they were chased out of God's own house. It was that serious! That was God's original reaction.
So the fruit of the fall meant that they could not remain in God's kingdom. Not just once but many times if necessary. Adam and Eve made just one mistake at one time and brought down such serious consequences.
Now, in the last days, people are doing the same thing many times, and it is just inconceivable.
Christians commit the fallen act, and then afterward they come and pray, “God, please accept me. I want to go to Heaven.” Can God accept them into Heaven? If so, then He is a crazy God and totally without principles if He allows such people to come to Heaven. Even a human being could not allow such a thing.
How much more offended will God be?
So if these things we have established today are correct, then would Christian ministers be included within this rule?
No matter how famous or rich they may be, such as Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell, can they be exempt from this? No. They may claim, “Don't listen to Reverend Moon because he's a heretic and I'm an orthodox, traditional Christian.”
Does God care about tradition or orthodoxy?
You watch God's face when He hears people complaining against Reverend Moon for being a heretic. Within the orthodox churches, there are all kinds of promiscuity, and even fallen mankind frowns upon it.
The Christians themselves are now moving toward accepting gay and lesbian ministers. They say that smoking and drinking are okay.
Can't they see that they are already in hell, sinking deeper and deeper every year?
Even through the churches?
What can God do?
Can he perform a miracle? The only thing He will do is to leave and find hope somewhere else. Do we want that to happen? Americans like to say, “Mind your own business.” They don't want other people to tell them what to do. But this is minding our business. This is the truth, and it is our duty to say that. We can't say, “Oh, you are doing just fine. Keep on doing what you are doing.” We can't say that, can we?
If somebody is sick, they may have to take a terrible, bitter-tasting medicine. The patient may not even want to open his mouth, so somebody may have to hold open his mouth in order for somebody else to put in the medicine. Isn't that true?
You would rather not open your mouth because it's bitter. That's what Father is doing now. I am making you open your mouth by making you admit the painful truth. Then I can put in the medicine. That's the only way to get the medicine into your body.
Let's talk about orthodox Christianity and criticize it a little. Christians believe that Adam and Eve fell, and they will say that they do. But if you ask them, “Do you know what the fall was about?” they will answer, “I don't know.” Then ask, “Do you know if Adam and Eve were chased out of the Garden of Eden before giving birth to their first child or after?” Then ask, “Do you believe in the fall?” They will answer, “Oh, yes, I do believe in the fall.”
What is your answer?
Were Adam and Eve chased out of the Garden before or after the birth of their child? Yes, before. That is absolutely true. All Christians understand that. Before. Okay, but after being chased out, did they give birth to children or not?
Yes, they gave birth to children. Having children one after another, does that mean they were living a married life or a life of celibacy?
Yes, it is clear to everyone who reads the Bible that Adam and Eve lived a married life after leaving the Garden. No Christian can deny that point.
Let's say a child was born approximately one year later. Then did God go after Adam and Eve and give His blessing over their marriage or not? Absolutely not. God did not bless their marriage. Then, upon whom was their marriage ceremony centered? (Satan.) Who? I don't know. Yes, you are correct. It was Satan.
It was not God. So there is no way of denying Satan's love, Satan's life, and Satan's blood lineage. Therefore, Adam and Eve were connected by Satan, not God. That is the correct answer. Isn't it, or not? Yes or no? Absolutely yes? Yes.
So we know that Satan's love started Satan's life and Satan's lineage, and it extends all the way to the present. But this was not the way mankind was destined to go. Mankind was clearly created to begin with God's love, God's life, and God's lineage.
So we see those two opposing directions. If mankind had not fallen, if Adam and Eve had married with God's blessing, then God's love, life, and lineage would have come about, and mankind would have lived forever. They would not die spiritually. They would never be dead like people today. They would have passed into eternal life without having to be saved.
From whom did each of you receive the seed of life?
Was it from God, or was it from Satan?
Unmistakably, it was from Satan. After the fall, every human being inherited Satan's life seed from the beginning. No one can deny that. But man's original mind has a different expectation. Human beings wanted God's original love, God's original life, and God's original lineage. Even though mankind has a bad lineage, each person covets deep in his mind God's love and lineage.
From this, we can clearly see that man has two different aspects. Within each individual, two opposing elements are struggling. The body represents everything that has to do with Satan.
The mind represents everything man has coveted and yearned for from God. So these two aspects within each individual are fighting.
Where is peace
We talk a lot about world peace, but this point is precisely where world peace originates and nowhere else. The origin of world peace is the unity of the mind and body of each individual centered on God. Without that, there cannot be true world peace. Upon that foundation, we find freedom. There we find happiness.
There we find hope. Otherwise, there is no way. People in the past have struggled solely on the horizontal level to achieve world peace, but they can never achieve true freedom or happiness or hope, nor will they find peace.
Unless we come into a united mind and body, there will be no peace, no happiness, and therefore no prosperity.
The Unification Church is not just a haphazard activity. This is the greatest activity with the greatest meaning: unification. What communism did not realize, nor do the liberal people here in America realize, is a critical point about freedom.
Unless there is a foundation of unification, freedom is impossible. Because they never understood that, they still struggle between mind and body.
I remind you that no teacher, no saint throughout history, including Jesus Christ, has ever taught mankind to unite their mind and body and why they are disunited.
Reverend Moon is the first person to have brought this teaching. The body has already become the performing stage, the arena of Satan. Evil can do whatever it wants through the bodies of men and women. Meanwhile, God can have hope and can only do things in a limited way through the minds of individuals.
But if mankind had not fallen, these two elements would have never been separated, and there would never have been the need to worry about uniting mind and body.
Someone may ask, “Where is Satan? I want to see Satan.”
Nobody was willing to admit, “Satan is in me. Satan is in my body.”
The overall purpose of all religion is to raise the spirit above the body. That means the mind becomes stronger than the body and can subjugate and subdue the flesh, the body. This is what all religions have in common.
We have identified where Satan's working ground is. We are trying to subdue and control that and eventually try to chase Satan entirely away through uniting our mind and body, centered on the mind, not the body.
All right, when individuals get together and get married, suppose they fight with one another. Is that an aspect of Satan or of God?
Is that Satan's attribute or God's attribute?
Were husband and wife supposed to struggle and fight from the very origin of mankind? No, never.
So if a family is composed of four members, we can see struggling and fighting in four ways, or eight ways, including each person's mind and body. There is more division than unity.
That's why Satan is saying, “Look, it doesn't work. No matter what you teach, it doesn't work. Give me one example of where your teaching is working.”
However, God's ideal is still there. Now here is the secret of all secrets, which Father taught so many times, but people usually didn't get: If you want unity between yourself and another, you be the sacrifice; you be more humble.
Don't try to win him; just say, “Yes, yes, you are the winner. You are the more righteous one.” That is the only way. In other words, live for the sake of the other.
If everybody did that, then everybody would be a winner. Very soon, people would recognize that this way of relationship works and it is the only way that works. Therefore, more and more people would follow.
Which position in the world is America now wanting?
America wants to stand on top of the world, or does America want the world to stand above it? First or second? (First.) Is that right or wrong? (Wrong.)
Why is that wrong?
It is wrong because of one foremost principle, which I have been teaching you: the individual exists for the sake of the family. That means he can sacrifice himself, if necessary, for the sake of the family.
Furthermore, the family exists for the sake of society. The society for the nation, the nation for the world, the world for the cosmos, the cosmos for God. All these are the consistent steps and the direction in which they must serve.
Why have I emphasized this so much?
We are valuable, aren't we? Each individual is very valuable, and he or she always wants to be at the top of everyone else, correct?
This is undeniable. But is there only one such person in each family?
No, each person in each family is like that, right? So there are four in each family of two parents and two children who want to be the most important of all the family members. That means you alone have the value of one unit, while the three other members of your family have the value of three.
Which should you uphold: your value of one unit or the value of the others, which is equal to three? It is clear which is more valuable, the larger value. Always, the larger value is more important than the smaller.
Suppose you say, “Well, I want all the others to obey me so that I can stay on top. I want those who represent the value of three to come below me, who represents the value of one.” But that is very difficult to maintain.
Do you have the guarantee?
Can you be sure that if you stood on top of everybody, everybody would be happy? No. They would not be happy. They would turn against you.
Because you are righteous and intelligent, you listen to my teaching because you recognize it is important to follow this principle.
So you follow and you serve for the sake of the other three or four people in your family. Thereafter, the others will recognize, “Good things have happened because he or she is sacrificing for our sake.” They will appreciate you. In that case, whether you seek it or not, you will become the center of those three or four others.
Automatically. Does this formula work or not? This is a basic formula, but nobody has known it before. Nobody believed it was possible to fulfill.
Will they follow?
Suppose you have 20 friends within your circle of friendship, and you were always asserting your position: “I am a member of the Unification Church, and I know more than you do. Therefore, you all have to follow me and learn from me.”
Do you think they will do that?
No, they will never follow such a person. They will go off in twenty different directions. But if you subdue your ego, becoming inconspicuous, and try to listen to them until they have no idea what they are doing. Then you show them. This is the way.
What happens is that one friend will bring another friend, saying, “I have this wonderful friend I want you to meet,” and your circle of friends will increase because of you. The steady center causes the circle to increase. That's the secret of peace and how you become the center.
Everybody wants to become the center, but how can you become the center? That's the question for which nobody knows the answer. Is it by putting yourself above the others? No.
Even in the schools, maybe not in American schools but certainly in Korean schools and Japanese schools, the teachers always say, “Serve other people. Be nice to other people.”
This is taught to the children from the very first day they go to school. Most people can't explain why this is; only a few people understand why.
So, individual, family, clan—when it comes to clan, there may be hundreds of families, correct? And each family has one unit of value. The same principle applies here.
Who would be the central family of your clan?
It would be the family who serves the most, who thinks of others the most, who prays for others, makes peace, and loves everyone. The race of many, many clans…
Can you see this simple, basic form or type?
By the same token, there are hundreds of countries in the world, and America is only one of those countries. If America wants to stand up on top of all the rest of the countries, asserting itself and so forth, do you think they will listen?
America may try and try to make this work, but it will never work. Why should they do something that doesn't work?
The whole mistaken way grew out of one small mistaken idea. America thinks that the wealth they have been blessed with is its to keep. But that is not so.
Reverend Moon says that, and so do many other people. The wealth and abundance that God has given to America were for the sake of the whole world, not just for America alone.
America has said, “Only America can make peace in the world.” Do you think that will work?
Would all the rest of the world's nations be glad to be under the dominion of America?
Now we see George W. Bush and other presidential candidates talking about formulas for peace in the world, promising this and that. But none of those formulas will work. The only way for America to prosper is to understand this basic notion: America should serve the rest of the countries of the world.