Former Headquarters Church, Korea
At present, our missionaries have gone out to some 27 states of America. The matter of dispatching missionaries to all of America (50 states) this year will be the responsibility of the Eastern Church in Washington. And the Western Church, centered on San Francisco, has promised to dispatch missionaries throughout all of South America, where missionaries have not been dispatched. I think that if this is not all done by the end of this year, it will without fail be carried out by April of next year.
The Time-Sensitive Matter of Missionary Work in America
Of course we must quickly do worldwide missionary work, but first we must quickly do missionary work centered on America. When one looks around the world, whatever anyone may say, one can see that at present America cannot but be the center of the world. Whether seen from the economic side, the political side, or the military side, America is the center in every respect. Of course, Europe fulfilled a pioneering mission in Western civilization, but at present it is yielding the leading role to America.
Going to England and taking hold of the young people and asking them, one can see that they yearn considerably for America. The English people have a conservative national character, and though they boast of something about their country, they too envy America, which is developing from a new standpoint. They all want to go to America.
That is so in Germany too, and likewise in France. When one goes straight to France, one can glimpse the phenomenon of a people struggling in the throes of the question of whether, after the Second World War, it has not lost the authority of a second-rank advanced nation and fallen to a third-rank nation and of how to take its present position. From this viewpoint, people of all classes, but also the ordinary young people, are growing more and more concerned with how to follow America.
In this way, when one sees the people of all the Western nations yearning for America, that America is fulfilling the leading role appears as a demonstrated conclusion. Then the problem is how America carries out this leading role.
And because this nation called America is such an enormous nation, no people at all can enter America and digest America. Just as in the old East, there was the saying that when certain people entered China, at first they talked big, but after three years or ten years passed, they in the end became Chinese, so it is with this nation called America. Because it is a national system furnished with such a social order in which the whole vast region is unified, centering on modern civilization, it is impossible for any individual, any -ism, or any ideology to digest America and drive the whole in the direction it asserts.
Moreover, as to the economic problem, the political problem, or the technical problem, it is absolutely impossible.
Missionary Work in America Is Not Entirely Impossible
Yet there is one possible thing: because America has not gotten a footing on the spiritual side, on this side it is possible. That the American people are at present in spiritual poverty is because, in emphasizing that freedom is important, in the end they all split apart into individualism. People are originally of ten thousand forms. As each one’s character differs, each one’s individuality differs, and as the individuality differs, the feelings each one feels differ.
So, emphasizing an individual view of purpose and emphasizing an individual thought of freedom, they all became people centered on themselves.
Amid that, since they are living within the most highly advanced material civilization, they have nothing to envy outwardly. Yet the one thing they lack—that is, what these enormous 180 million American people wish for—is a spiritual theory.
However much Christianity or Catholicism, which has moved the spiritual world of America until now, may insist that in its own way it has formed the spiritual side, at present it is supplying no spiritual food whatever to the American people. They are spiritually isolated.
The greatest problem for America henceforth is how to gather the spiritual problem. Material and bodily freedom has been achieved, but spiritual freedom has not been achieved. They are being bound. Into America countless peoples have come and are proclaiming countless ideologies and -isms. It is split this way and split that way. For all Americans in such a position, the greatest problem is how to be supplied with spiritual food and how to make that enormous nation into a nation that can be governed by that spiritual power. This will be one great problem America must solve henceforth.
The University of California is a famous American university. On its faculty, there are several dozen professors who have won the Nobel Prize. The number of students is close to fifty thousand, and when one looks straight into that school, it is bizarre beyond words. There are all sorts of strange people.
If such people strolled along Jongno or Myeongdong in Seoul, it would be quite a spectacle. The young students in their late teens and early twenties, and many of the professors too, are unrestrained. There are many people of the type one could go around watching for an hour or so. Speaking this way, you can guess how they were. It was quite worth watching. The young women wearing miniskirts were the milder case. Many female students were going around wearing only swimming trunks. There were all sorts of fellows. And the hair too was of all sorts of shapes. If you would see a hair emporium, go to that place. Some fellows went around tied up with just a single string. (the recording was briefly interrupted)
Improve the Constitution and Set Out Anew
How much money has each district spent per month until now?
It spent 300,000 to 350,000 won. It has spent an amount of money you cannot imagine. So the eight districts spent over two million, close to three million won. And besides that, what has been allotted to other regions until now comes to over five million won a month. Henceforth we must not incur such large expenses.
If a religious body forges money and equips its system of activity, it perishes. The Teacher knows that well. In a position where material and ideology go together, religion cannot develop.
When God created human beings, He first molded the human form and breathed in the spirit. Therefore, on the road of restoration, we ought to restore the material completely and then breathe in the spirit, but at present that is not being done.
Looking at this nation too at present, it is struggling to escape from an economically difficult position, but because the environment for that has not come about, it is impossible.
Then how does one lay a firm economic foundation?
First, one must economize. That is why I tell you to economize. However much I emphasize it, it is not being done. If here, even in an environment where we can freely give and receive material, we fail in responsibility and are driven into a corner, the Unification Church must walk a second road of suffering.
To prevent such a position beforehand, we cannot but devise a new measure. That is why the eight districts have been reorganized into 34 districts. And because it would not do to give not a single penny to the districts that used to spend so much, to Suwon, the center of Gyeonggi Province—that is, to the places where the old district headquarters were—I will give 20,000 won each. Daegu and Busan too, 20,000 won; in this way I will pay out about 300,000 won in all. We must improve our constitution. Therefore, more than 15,000 won is difficult. Henceforth, the form of living will all be about the same.
I know that because of this problem there have been many side effects until now. That such-and-such person at headquarters, or such-and-such district leader, came to appear tacitly as a privileged class is because, in their living environment, they used much money centered on themselves. Even if they used it not for themselves but for public purposes, because they did not report everything every day, the word “privileged class” came to circulate as a voice of general criticism. The only secret method by which this can be broken is the improvement of the system. There is no method, apart from such a reorganization of the system, to make the district leaders suffer hardship.
The existing district leaders must conform to the standard of living of the newly appointed district leaders. Those who complain about this and that do not know the Will.
If those people continue to go on that way, there will be no place for them to stand within the Unification Church system. Here, a strong measure will without fail be taken.
A Multitude Must Come Forth That Will Fulfill the Mission This Age Demands
From now on we must walk the pioneering course. The young men and women throughout the nation must again be driven out as in the 1960s. Where is there anyone who does not wish to live at home attending mother and father, and where is there anyone who does not wish to sleep holding his child in his bosom?
And where is there anyone who does not wish, in such a position, to attend God? All are so. The Teacher too wishes to do so. But because the Will is not accomplished by doing so, he has come forth passing through a miserable road. I tell you to go that road.
When your child walks a difficult road, you must be able to think that the Teacher too walked such a road; and when your parents walk a difficult road, you must be able to keep deeply in mind that the Teacher walked such a road.
That the Teacher walked such a road was not for the sake of myself. It was to establish the Will of the Heavenly Way. It was to establish the tradition. Because there was such a responsibility, even if a flaw came upon my body, my face grew haggard, or I stood in such a wretched position as to be spat upon by others, that was not the problem. The only problem was how, before this body dies, to leave the tradition behind upon this earth. It would not do otherwise.
However fierce the storm that raged in the environment I was placed in, however pitiable a beggar-like position I was placed in, however much the words “traitor to the nation” were placed upon me so that I became a body confined (囹圄), that could not be a problem. The life of the Teacher until now has been solely to leave behind the unchanging tradition of Heaven.
Even though you today are the ones who must inherit such a solemn sense of mission as your own goal of living, there is no one who has inherited it and can take my place in the fight. Thinking this grievous, a multitude must come forth that can pledge, “Before the mission this age demands, I alone will take responsibility.”
The Teacher said something this time to the newly appointed district leaders. I said, “When you go as newly appointed district leaders and see the various complicated matters, be prudent.
The more difficult a problem is, since it cannot be solved with mere expedients, offer devotion. Yet however much devotion you offer, it will take several months to overcome that difficulty. But there is one good method: there is the summer witnessing, so during this period run harder than the district leaders you have attended until now.
Even if you go without sleeping at night and without eating, run beyond them. If you do so, concern for you will increase.” That is what I said.
We, Who Stand in the Central Position That Must Gather the Whole
When one asks where the direction of your mind is now, it is all split off in three or four directions.
If the Teacher were dead and gone, when you, working centering on the ideology of unification, came to die, could you become a person who would not be ashamed to leave the flag of unification upon his grave? That is the problem.
Now, because the Teacher directly leads you, it is all right, but what will happen when the Teacher is gone? While the Teacher is alive, it is not a problem, but you must know that after he dies, how to develop this tradition and how to lay the footing by which this historical work can be unfolded to the world as something victorious becomes the problem.
From this point, today we do not stand in a position where everything is limited to myself alone, but stand in the central position that must gather the whole. Especially the responsibility of you who are in Seoul, if it be Seoul, at the headquarters is heavy. When you fail such a responsibility, the relationship between you and the Teacher grows distant. If I were to speak on this from the standpoint of the Principle, there would be much to say.
First, beginning with you who are at the headquarters, you must make a resolve. Henceforth, the Teacher will strike out and drive off everyone who does not move. And he will forbid them even to come to this headquarters church. Then here only the young people newly come in will remain. When that happens, the Teacher must again take hold of these and drive them out.
We must again rear the colts and make them into horses that can be ridden. To ride the horses reared until now—these have all become cripples, all become lame, all become nearly dead. Therefore, these must be sent to the rear, and the second front must be strengthened. Therefore, henceforth, you must know that a person who does not concur with and respond to this cannot become a headquarters staff member. Do you understand? A member of the Principle Research Association, too, if he is a Unification Church member, goes out on pioneer witnessing. On the day he does not go out, he becomes pitiable.
Why must this be so? It is simple. If you savor the word “Restoration” in “restoration through indemnity,” you can understand. What must be restored? This world must be restored. To restore the world, there must be a nation; to restore the nation, there must be a people. And to restore the people, there must be a tribe; to restore the tribe, there must be a family; and to restore the family, there must be a husband and wife. And to restore husband and wife, there must be a true individual—that is, a true man and a true woman.
Then why is the term Restoration needed?
Because there was the Fall. Because there was the Fall, it is needed. Accordingly, what kind of position is the position where the term Restoration is not needed? It is the position of Adam and Eve before the Fall.
Then what is the purpose of faith?
It is not first to be loyal for the sake of the world, but to furnish all the incomplete parts of Adam and Eve before the Fall and set up the standard of having completed it.
How must one restore what was mistaken in the old days?
One must do the opposite of what was mistaken. In doing Restoration, what must one do first? The first is the Word, the second is character, and the third is heart (심정).
Why was character shattered and the Word lost?
Because God’s love was lost. The Fall was centering on the heart (심정), that God and man could not become one; centering on love, that they could not become one.
This is precisely the reason the Unification Church has come to discuss the world of heart (심정) and the reason it wishes to found the world of heart. Yet however much one discusses the world of the heart, if one does not oneself hold such a heart, one has no relation whatsoever to that world.
This is the reason that in the Last Days there are the three great judgments—the judgment of the Word, the judgment of character, and the judgment of heart.
A True Person of Character and Complete Truth
What is the Word? It is the truth. Human history until now has come forth seeking this one thing, truth, but has not found it. Truth means the true road the world must go in common, and what has presented this, even vaguely, is thought. But thought must furnish a systematic logical form that is connected from the individual to society, nation, and world. It must not be individual. It must furnish an ideological system with common content that transcends any people and any historicity. Only then does it gain a firm place as a worldwide thought.
To decide the highest standard of thought, there must be truth. And without truth, character does not come forth. What is the standard of that person of character of whom one can say, “That person is a person of character”? A person who does business can be a person of character in the field of business. And a family man can be a person of character in the family. And a family man can be a person of character in the family.
Yet a true person of character who can accomplish the common goal of humanity cannot be one by the standard by which one is called a person of character within the limits of the family.
You must become a person of character who, through the family, can represent the tribe; through the tribe, can represent the people; through the people, can represent the nation; through the nation, can represent the world or the Cosmos; and, further, can represent God.
Only then can one obtain the noun “son or daughter of God.” It is from such a viewpoint that true truth has been sought until now. And when true truth comes forth, one must not become two, centering on that truth. A person’s word must be expressed through the unified feeling of body and mind.
Our human ancestors transgressed God’s Word, destroyed the character God had established, and shattered the love God had established; and in restoring these, the most important is the restoration of the Word—that is, the restoration of truth.
Until now, no sage upon the earth has expounded complete truth. They taught the righteousness a person ought to furnish, or the rules of propriety, or human ethics and morality, but such things are flat. But this universe in which we live is not a flat universe. Therefore, those things cannot be a theory of this world furnished with three-dimensionality.
What is thought?
Thought is not material. It is not something visible, but thinking. The -ism comes forth because of that thought. Therefore, in materialism, the noun “thought” cannot be established. Therefore, a thought that can replace this must come forth. To say it again, a thought based on complete truth must come forth.
This must be able to fit together, bind together, and integrate human ethics and the ideologies of religion.
That truth must be able to transcend history and the age. And that truth must fit exactly with what the prophets or heroes and martyrs of the past pursued. It must fit exactly with the standard that religious people pursue. It must fit exactly with the standard that religious people pursue. It must be able to reach the same conclusion. Without that, one cannot achieve a single unified world.
Until now, outwardly such a form has been furnished, but the truth that can inwardly gather it up has not appeared. From this viewpoint, the greatest problem is the Word.
The Characteristics of Unification Thought
The Word of the Unification Church will become a worldwide issue. In this moment when, having entered the latter half of the twentieth century, left and right fight and, growing weary, are gasping, it is already too late for any thought to break through and cry out to rise again. This age has tried asserting all such things. It asserted its own way but did not solve the problem. Therefore, these things are declining like the setting sun of the Last Days.
If it tilts just a little more, the sun will set. When that twilight hour is hastened, within this world communism too will pass away, and democracy too will vanish.
What is the standard of communism and democracy?
Both draw their conclusion centering on material. Democracy speaks of a free economic system, and communism speaks of a system of common ownership of material. In the end, they conclude with material. Man is not centered on material. Thought is not something that flows out of any material. Yet because until now they have not had a standard that draws its conclusion centering on something higher than material, they must without fail go a second course. Such a task remains. And what has come forth for that is Unification Thought.
This must not ignore historicity. And it must pursue futurity—that is, it must pursue the character of the age. What that means is that it must be able to draw the past, present, and future to a consistent conclusion. Because the Unification Principle holds such content, even the academic world has entered the stage where it can gradually take note of it.
Where is the person of character embodied—that is, made into a body—centering on such truth?
History awaited that embodied substance; Heaven awaited it, the age awaited it, and the future too will demand it as the origin of a new start. The thought that comes forth pursuing the substance in which the Word is embodied is the thought of the Second Advent. Centering on God’s Word, one is embodied, forms character, and through that substance, the Word comes forth.
Where body and mind are split and where body and mind are in opposing particles, because of the contradiction dwelling in the two worlds, ruin unfolds. But the character in which the Word is embodied unites heaven and earth. To connect God and the created being, there must be a person who can furnish embodied character and stand forth.
Who would that person have been?
Had Adam and Eve, created beyond the ideal of creation, not fallen but crossed the completion stage, they would have become such individuals. Then would they not have become Adam and Eve, who could be held within the realm of God’s love?
Because such a person and such a Word have not yet come forth, the world could not cross this gate. The communist world and the democratic world too could not cross this gate. But today our Unification Church has broken through one ridge here.
However much a person may say he has received communist ideological education, he cannot, with that ideology, raise a new revolution of embodiment (體化). However much democracy has set up a materialist view centered on democratic thought, it cannot change people’s character.
Therefore, in the Unification Church, to give the ability to cross over confidently even while ignoring material, the command of a one-week fast was issued. A person who received this one-week fast command and put the fast into practice transcends the phobia of living. People who live today with the democratic world as their stage of living may feel the terror of living, but for those who have done a one-week fast, living is no problem. It is because they have done the training by which they can slough this off. You must set up truth centering on this standard.
The Person Embodied in the Word Is the Protagonist of Unification
When it is said, “The Word of the Unification Church is good, but the person is bad,” one perishes. One perishes.
Did Mr. Moon of the Unification Church only speak the Word before you?
He did not only speak the Word. What the Teacher is now teaching you is what the Teacher has entirely put into practice and then teaches. Therefore, this has no error. The Teacher makes an ideological system with no contradiction and no conflict, whether on the intellectual side or the practical side, and teaches it. Concerning that, no one at all can speak. Satan too will publicly recognize it, and God too will publicly recognize it.
In what position are you?
You are in a position that has not yet passed the stage of embodiment. Without embodiment, one cannot be restored. One is not restored with the Word alone. A person who is united with the Word and embodied is not a person dragged along by the Word, but a person who digests that Word. One must be able to be restored by actively practicing the Word. That is why you must know well that I am urging witnessing upon you.
You must create a second being. Satan too, though it is not creation, is multiplying by the word of evil. For a person who lives centering on Heaven, there must be something active that seeks to restore the word of creation.
The Word this Unification Church conveys today is a Word that has never existed in history. This countless seekers of the Way are testifying to. Though you do not know it, among the people around who are conversant with the spirit world and prophesy concerning the age, many wish to meet the Teacher. These people are offering devotion without the Unification Church members knowing. When the time comes hereafter, and you find out, there will be nothing more shameful than this. They are staying up through the night praying for Mr. Moon of the Unification Church now. They are praying for the future of the Unification Church. There are people offering devotion beyond what the Unification Church members can even dream.
Why is this so?
Because Heaven is in a position of having to embody all people, Heaven has broadened the foundation of such preparation through all the people who prepare the surrounding environment. To broaden that foundation, Heaven could not but pioneer through such people. Therefore, that such a result has been brought about is an inevitable matter.
Whether One Is Restored or Not Is a Matter for Oneself to Decide
There is an old saying that the crippled child does the child’s duty. You seem like fine sons and daughters, but since you do not do the child’s duty, the time will come when crippled children do the child’s duty. It is the same in the world of the Way. Such a time will without fail come.
How does one do embodiment?
First, one must embody Heaven. Next, one must embody Satan, and thereafter, one must embody man. What does this mean?
Everyone, what is the Fall?
It is that God and man could not become one. So God and man must become one and be able to move Satan. Originally, Satan is not an enemy. He is a necessary being who can, in our entering the realm of embodiment with God, work for us and take our side. One must go all the way to such a position. To do so cannot be done by striking with the fist. One must broaden the foundation by which one can make him submit to himself. To achieve that cannot be done without shedding blood, sweat, and tears. You must know that.
Because Adam did not obey the Word, his character was shattered, and because his character was shattered, his heart (심정) was shattered. The problem of restoring these has remained. Because these were shattered by the Fall, Restoration must begin with these.
When one comes to know the Word of the Unification Church, the view of purpose one must go toward becomes distinct. At the same time as the view of purpose becomes distinct, the view of heart (심정) is settled. This, seen from the aspect of principle and rule, is an inevitable phenomenon. Therefore, when one enters the Unification Church, one comes to hold a new heart. Then at what time is such a standard of character decided? This is the problem.
The Fall was not done by oneself alone. Because Adam and Eve did it centering on the archangel, Satan, Restoration cannot be done by oneself alone. That it must be decided in a position where you yourself, God, and Satan—the three parties—face one another is an inevitable destiny.
Then can it be decided in a position where God is pleased and Satan is pleased? No. It must be decided in that serious place where God and Satan fight. That is, it must be decided in the position that is at once Satan’s front line and God’s front line. Then who makes the decision? This is what Satan cannot decide, and what God cannot decide. It is I who must decide. Here one must choose one and remove the other.
Everyone, at the time of the prisoner exchange near the end of the June 25th war, you know that those who supported the North went to the North, and those who supported the South went to the South? At that time, who decided this? This is what the government of the Republic of Korea could not do, and what Kim Il-sung of the North could not do either. Who? The prisoner himself did it.
That such phenomena appeared in the historical process showed that, on this road of restoration today too, the road of destiny our individual selves must go is one we ourselves must judge. Because such a pressing historical course remains, you must know the fact that such a matter unfolded even in Korea. The decision I must make. Removing Satan too I must do, and attending God too I must do.
For the Sake of the Will, One Must Be Firm as Iron and Stone
What kind of one is God?
God absolutely cannot take up such a thing as Satan handled and played with. If one takes what Satan held and delighted in and offers it, God absolutely does not delight in it. It must be something better than Satan’s. That is why He said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy will, and with all thy nature.” Jesus too said that unless one loves me more than anyone, one cannot become my disciple. He said to love me more than anyone. It is because, without furnishing the condition of loving more, one cannot decide that position.
Where is the decisive standard of value, or its content, decided?
It is decided in the position where one can love more than what Satan loves. Now, Satan, while saying he has loved the Republic of Korea, or has loved Asia, or has loved the world, has trampled upon this earthly nature.
You must know that, unless one carries out a movement of loving more than Satan loved, this earthly nature that Satan has trampled upon until now under the pretext of love, one cannot build a new kingdom of heaven. Who must do this? One must do it.
Some people follow even when the husband goes to a place of death, even when the husband goes to a place of betraying Heaven. There are such things as these who, though one ought not to go even if a knife is thrust into one’s belly, follow along.
Do you follow because your wife goes? There are such fellows as these. For the sake of the Will, one must be firm as iron and stone. The principle and rule are so.
Because human beings fell through an illicit love, one cannot occupy the satanic world without seeking that root and setting up true love. Who does that? You must do it.
Seen historically, where was the place that set up such true love?
It was the place centering on Abel, the place centering on Noah, the place centering on Abraham, the place centering on Moses. And it was the place centering on Jesus. That is, Noah, in building the ark, had to go that road alone even in a position where society opposed, the family opposed, and all people opposed. He had to love God more than his beloved wife and love God more than his beloved children. He had to say he would die for the sake of God. He had to do God’s work more diligently than working for himself, more than working for his wife. He had to fulfill the way of loyalty toward God.
Yet you today are all rotten. With a foundation of living that has not firmly grasped its ground, one cannot contribute to building the kingdom of heaven.
Today we are people who, holding conviction in fighting Satan, must go while laughing at the comfortable position, humming a tune, however difficult the matter. This is the obligatory course the sons and daughters of Heaven must go on.
That, holding the conviction to build the kingdom of heaven, however difficult the matter, one must go forward, is the attitude of the Unification Church members. And yet, when I look at you, I am dumbfounded. There are many times when I think, “Why on earth did I meet such ones as these?” A person who, having set up such a standard, cannot step over it on that foundation cannot get a footing.
Earthly Life Is Important and Serious
The other day, old Song died, and though he does not say on what matter he was caught, the Teacher knows it all. Having gone to the spirit world, he is now stuck fast because of a certain matter.
So he came to the Teacher and made a request. But it is different from the old days. In the old days, speaking even flatly, circumstances could be accommodated, and one could deal with him, but now it is different. The place he has gone is the spiritual world, and the Teacher is a person upon the earth.
Considering God’s principle of creation, one cannot give priority to the circumstances of the spirit world and grant them. That is because one must regard the circumstances of the earth as more important.
So the Teacher said to him this: “You will know that I have a mind to cooperate with you. But now I must offer more devotion for the sake of this country and these people. To grant your individual request, I cannot turn back to the spirit world the mind that must offer devotion for the sake of the people.” So the Teacher told him to wait until I go.
Going to the spirit world, it turns out that if the Teacher says just one word, he would be liberated. But here he did not know that. Yet to a person who has not fulfilled responsibility, the Teacher cannot speak. A person who has borne public responsibility cannot, setting up some private standard, look at circumstances from a one-to-one position and resolve them.
If the Teacher looked at his circumstances, the problem of Jesus and all the problems of the successive ancestors would all be dragged in. One cannot but judge from a public position. Therefore, I said no. I asked him to hold it in reserve until I go.
You, too, are the same. Unification Church members today think that, because they have received the marriage Blessing, everything is done, but is everything done there? Far from it. The Teacher even now is fighting and going forward night and day. In this time of carrying on an unresting life within such a fierce course of struggle, just watch the person who takes naps and lives an easygoing life. I tell him to try dying.
If you have lived such a life for one year, that will become a condition by which one can hold han for a thousand years in the spirit world, and it will become a factor of lamentation from which one cannot escape in the eternal historical process. You must know that. So how precious is this moment? How precious a moment is it?
One must love Heaven more. I must attend to God and must ward off Satan’s offensive.
What is the Fall?
It is that one betrayed God and became one with Satan. This must be settled. To achieve that, one must attend to God alone here and love God more than anything. Therefore, on the road of going out to witness, one must be truly single-hearted. That place is a place more serious than the moment when a condemned criminal goes to the execution ground to receive his sentence. One must not try to cross over by telling convenient lies and using means and methods.
If one sets one foot wrongly, one’s neck falls, and one collapses holding the han of a thousand years. To go such a road is the road of faith. If the Teacher until now had tried to do it in a convenient way, he would not have undergone this hardship.
To Be Decided on Heaven’s Side, Go to the Front Line
On the road of faith, the more important a problem is, who decides it?
I decide it. It is not another member who does it for me, nor is it the president of the Unification Church Association who does it for me. Overall, it is I who must do it. And one must decide it in the position of the very front line.
Just as, for Jesus too, the Garden of Gethsemane or the summit of Calvary was the very front line where he had to decide, so you yourselves too must decide at the front line. Therefore, the summer witnessing came about.
Why is the summer witnessing period needed?
It is to set up for you a position where you can decide. That is, it is so that you, who are between Satan and God, may be decided into the position of Heaven’s side. Fallen man must become a true person and be able to surpass Satan. Thereby, at the same time as recovering the authority of the original human being, one must indemnify the standard of heart (심정) that gave a wound before Heaven.
In this way one must decide, in one’s living environment, the standard by which one can again attend the Parent of Heaven. Without that, one cannot become a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. This is a heavenly law.
Jesus too spent his thirty-year life to set up this standard. But because he could not completely accomplish that, a history of han has been piled up for two thousand years until now. And the Teacher too, you must know, has until now devoted his life and come forth fighting for this. Because the Teacher knows that he himself must do it, he does not pray about it. The Teacher does not pray, over an important matter, “God, help me with this.” Because he knows it is the road he must go, he seeks to decide it himself.
I must decide. I must not receive the help of anyone. Night and day I must toil. Even if I stand in a position of having to receive help, I must think more than others and strive more than others. One must exhaust all one’s strength, and, when one thinks one can do no more than this, inquire before Heaven and go forward. You must know that this is the road of Restoration.
In this way, one must found the history of unification (統一史) centering on Unification Thought. This is your mission. Seen from this viewpoint, one does not know how important a period this summer vacation is.
The 40-Day Witnessing and the Three Children of Faith
Then why was 40 days fixed?
Because the ridge of 40 is the problem. To do indemnity, what must you do? First, there must be a central figure; second, there must be a period; and third, a conditional object is needed. In this way, the period is absolutely necessary.
Among the things set up as periods of indemnity to indemnify the four thousand years of history from Adam to Jesus, and the four thousand years of history from Abraham until now, the representative one is this 40-day witnessing period. One must cross such a ridge, and the road of going is only one.
However broad and great and thousands of li long the road, the fastest road is only one. The road of indemnity too is the same. There is a four-thousand-year course, or a forty-year course, but they are all periods centering on the number 40. To cross this ridge, one must pave a shortcut. The representative such period is the 40-day witnessing period.
Then what must there be next?
There must be a conditional object. The condition I must seek and set up is the three sons and daughters of faith. It is precisely in this 40-day period that they must be sought and set up. To achieve that, one must pour out all devotion in this period. Seeking the three sons and daughters of faith is the problem.
It is to connect this to the history of Restoration that there is the seven-year course. Within these seven years, one must accomplish individual restoration, family restoration, tribal restoration, national restoration, and the restoration of the nation. On the foundation of the 40 days, one must accomplish even national restoration. That is why the Teacher has spoken of having to tie the knot of the national tie when this seven-year course ends. Therefore, you must know that I drove you out under the proposition that you must accomplish national restoration, even at the sacrifice of everything in your life.
Centering on this seven-year course, one must participate in the 40-day witnessing and decide the three children of faith. In doing such a work, I tell you not to do it in a trifling and shabby way. In the historical process today, you must love those sons and daughters of faith more than you love your sons and daughters, who were born of Satan’s lineage. To become a parent, one must become a parent beyond that. Without seeking and setting up this standard of heart (심정), it is impossible to restore the children of faith.
This is because, through man’s holding a mistaken heart (심정), Satan entered, and because on the side of the heart, man betrayed God. Accordingly, one must, by heart, drive out Satan and attend to God. This is the precondition of Restoration.
That one cannot face God except by a standard higher than the love toward Satan is a principle of the Heavenly Way. One must offer devotion beyond the devotion offered within Satan’s realm. One must love God more than one’s own husband and love God more than one’s own daughter, more than one's own son. A person who cannot do this cannot go to the kingdom of heaven. One cannot go. Only when one does so do Satan’s children become Heaven’s children.
Do Not Defile the Tradition the Teacher Has Established
Restoration is not done within one’s own household. At the Fall too, it was not done within one’s own household; one went out and fell. Therefore, restoration too is not done within one’s own household or within the Unification Church; one must go out and do Restoration. The Principle is so. That is why you must be driven out into the wilderness.
You must know that it is for this reason that the Unification Church pioneering course was established. Until now you have known the Unification Church merely in an offhand way. You must not know it that way.
Mr. Moon of the Unification Church loves God more than anyone in the satanic world. He has shed more tears than anyone in this world, this nation. He has shed the utmost tears. You must know that the Teacher, even in such a wretched and pressing position of being attacked all at once by all the people of the world, staking his life, has kept guard over this battlefield to establish the Heavenly Way.
Even though such a traditional standard has been left behind, some people defile it. On the contrary, the longtime members become a lot who cannot move unless someone else holds them up.
In a position of righteousness, one is never used. Being used is suffering in a position of unrighteousness. To suffer hardship in a position of righteousness is not to be used.
Who makes the decision? I make it. Seen that way, must one go seeking the arena where one can decide, that stage of trial, or not? (We must go.) You young women here, will you go, or will you not go? What have you done until now? We have set up the principle that Unification Church members must do it this way, and when this principle is not followed, one is placed in the serious situation of having to deny this principle. That is why such a resolute measure has been devised. Because this standard must be set up again, this time we have furnished this reform system.
Henceforth, all your living reports will be able to be totaled within this system. If you do not witness for a month, that report all comes up here. There is a card here recording it, on which the content of the living of each of you individually—that is, everything you have walked—is recorded. That becomes an absolute condition deciding the matter of life and death when you go to the eternal world. You must know that now private circumstances do not get one through. Without this, the Teacher cannot leave you and go with peace of mind.
A person who does not listen here will be reorganized out. Such a person cannot come to the Unification Church. Why does such a person try to follow along with the Unification Church? I tell him rather to go out to the established church.
If he really wishes to follow, I tell him not to become a burden. Even if he cannot be of help to others, why does he become a burden? How worthless must a person be to try to become a burden to others? A person who forgets self-reliance and tries to become a burden perishes.
Since We Sowed in God’s Name, Let Us Reap in God’s Name
In 1960, when the whole of the Republic of Korea opposed, the Teacher fought even while a report was being drawn up at the court. To win this fight, we gave the Blessing to everyone in the 1960s. Yet many people sent accusatory letters to the court. It was in such a situation that the fight was fought. Such a fight has been fought until now. The Teacher did not retreat from that battle stage but came forth saying, “Whether you are broken or I am broken, let us try it once.” Because he knew that the law of the Heavenly Way must be established, he resolutely did it.
A certain mother made a great fuss, resentful that her daughter was married off without consultation. But the Teacher did not treat that as a problem. It was because he knew how history would sort out the Will of the Heavenly Way. That one person, two people come seeking, is not the problem. A person who agrees becomes a historical great figure, becomes a person who can take part in the historical position of glory. But a person who opposes comes to enter a historically miserable position. After doing such work for three years, was there any other outcome? The person who opposed came around, did he not?
The three-year course or seven-year course you go out on now is too smooth a road. There is no fight. There is no enemy. Wherever you go, the environment in which the enemies’ arrows could aim at you has all passed. Now, in such an environment, will you still not go?
If you will not go, do not even appear here. I would rather not see you. Go and sit in that corner. Why do you come here? Henceforth, from morning until 12 o’clock at night, you must offer devotion for the sake of the church, thinking you will die doing so, and dedicate the whole day before Heaven. If I have you do this for about a year, few will remain.
Where has the head of the culture department here gone?
This morning, when the Teacher was about to speak, the head of the culture department said, “Teacher, you ought to sleep a little in the morning.” But for the Teacher, conveying the Word is more urgent than sleeping.
If you cannot do this, I tell you not to come. The Teacher says this not because he dislikes you, but because he loves you. I love you more than anyone. And because I love the Republic of Korea more than anyone, I have come forth struggling and shedding blood for the sake of this country, this people, more than anyone. In ten years you will be able to know it.
A certain seeker of the Way says that the reason he offers devotion for the Unification Church is that if the Teacher perishes, he too perishes, and that he does so because Heaven drives him to. If you knew that, I would tell you to try praying too.
What is it that you do?
If you sowed in God’s name, you must reap in God’s name. Since you offered the red devotion of labor and waged a blood-soaked struggle, you ought to reap it carefully to forget that wound—yet have you not arranged it so that the thieves reap it all? Should it be that way? You only do the witnessing and then pay no attention.
Let Us Love God All the More
Therefore, I tell you plainly. Henceforth I cannot treat you amicably. The time is coming when I must handle you by law. According to whether your conduct conforms to the presented conditions, the standard of treatment will differ. You must know this. Now I must gradually tighten the screws.
Knowing that such a time is coming, if you would love the country and the world, I tell you to straighten the road you go. Without knowing this, without doing this, you say you are for the sake of the country? When you pray, I tell you not to say this and that for the sake of the Unification Church. If you would become a person who can do so, I tell you to come forth.
Now, according to the degree of movement, many strata will come about. Having made some 30 or 40 courses, even the department heads of the headquarters here, if they do not go when the Teacher tells them to go, will all be replaced. It absolutely cannot be tolerated. Henceforth I plan not even to let them attend church events.
Some say, “I am of the 36 Couples,” and so on, but the Teacher knows no such thing. The 36 Couples exist after knowing the Will; it is not that the Will exists after knowing the 36 Couples. The 72 Couples too must in the end be reorganized. You must know the heart (심정) of God, who is in such a position.
Henceforth you must inherit this Will, but if you cannot, foreigners will receive it. To make you inherit God’s heart (심정), the Teacher intends to give the Blessing this time. Because there is such content, I intend to give the Blessing this time. This is something I ought not to say, but I say it because you must keep your wits sharply about you. Such a time will without fail come.
This Unification Church is not arranged so that you can enter and hear the Word as you please. For you to enter here, you must receive a spiritual examination from at least twelve or more spirit individuals. Only then can you enter. This is neither a bluff nor a threat.
You who must go for the sake of such a time must love God more. You must be able to love God more than Satan. You must keenly realize that, whether in living or on the road of faith in facing society and the nation, without setting up this standard of heart (심정), one cannot be restored. I will dispatch Pastor Lee here to the Seongbuk District.