1 Corinthians 3:16
Today I will speak with the title “The Betrayer and Heaven.”
Judgment of Good and Bad in General Society and in the World of Faith
In our daily living, the concept of good and bad exists for anyone. Even what I call good can be thought of differently from various viewpoints.
Depending on the kind of business, there are good and bad aspects to advancing it, and even when looking at the nation, there can be good and bad.
Moreover, centering on the being called I, there will be matters of ten thousand forms in external relations. The nation and the world are all included there. Seen externally, there can be good and bad within the reciprocal world centering on me; and on the other hand, we can know that when we look at our conscience internally from a subject position, there is good and bad there as well.
In the reciprocal world, among the things I face, there are many cases in which good and bad are determined by a result discerned through some process after colliding without fail. Whatever business one does, we often see that although one began hoping it would be good, the result appears bad.
In your individual life as well, when you begin a day thinking you must do such and such, or when you have some purpose and, centering on that purpose, all the things that happen while passing the time until evening do not turn out as intended, we without fail feel that it is bad. In this way, the result that appears has become the axis that determines good and bad.
Next, it is so even when we think centering on our conscience. You will feel this a great deal. People who lead a special life of faith or who pursue a spiritual life feel it at once. When one faces a certain person, though it is one’s first meeting with that person, on facing him, one can know that this person is good or bad. It means that when one faces a person centering on the conscience rather than looking at some matter, one feels it without passing through a process. Although it is the first time one faces that person, one can know the result of good or bad. You too, while leading a life of faith, will often grasp such things through experience (체휼). People who have had spiritual experiences have such a thing.
In this way, what can determine good and bad most quickly, more than any matter, is human relations. Between person and person, good and bad are judged quickly.
Thus, what determines the result of good and evil is not necessarily brought about by centering on some natural thing or on external worldly matters. This is determined by the mind in the relation between person and person. But general society determines good and bad from the result, not internally but externally, and not from the subject but from the position of the object. This means that good and bad are determined according to the result that appears after passing without fail through a process.
Of course, here even people who have had spiritual experiences cannot foresee that result. It is not made to form such a serious and responsible relationship.
The Supreme Standard Human Beings Pursue
A person without fail has internal relations and external relations. Now, what kind of relation is the internal relation? It is the relation with human beings, and the external relation is the relation with the world. It is people who form such relations.
Why is that? It is because a human being is a being of dual characteristics. Seen by our Principle of Creation, a human being has external relations, that is, relations with the world of all things and relations concerning what should be done about the nation or what should be done about the world, and internal relations, that is, relations with human beings. These two go in different directions. Therefore, we come to know that in determining the question of good and bad as well, there are external relations and internal relations.
Then what is an enemy, and how does one come about? What blocks one’s wish and totally wrecks the work one would without fail accomplish appears without fail as an enemy. This is so in external relations and so in internal relations as well.
Because we are created beings who resemble God, who exists in dual characteristics, we ourselves are equipped with what is inner in nature and what is outer in form. That is, we exist in the midst of giving and receiving between what is inner in nature and what is outer in form.
Now, what is it that all people yearn for?
They yearn for a person of character. And they hope to succeed. It means they hope for success. Yet just because a person has succeeded, his mind does not become especially broad. Nor does it become especially large. Even if his authority becomes greater, or his environment of glory becomes broader, and he earns a great deal of money and becomes the foremost rich man of Korea, the bundle of himself has not become larger. It means that the mind itself does not become larger. It has become larger, but what has become larger? It has merely become larger externally; that person himself has not fundamentally become larger.
Then what is it that our individual selves pursue?
We pursue a person of character. What is the supreme standard of that person of character? It is to make the very summit the standard, centering on the conscience. Then what is the very summit of the conscience? The conscience without fail pursues goodness, and as one climbs seeking that supreme subject deity who pursues that goodness, that One equipped with a personal aspect and equipped with the ideal form necessary to us human beings, the concept of God arises.
Seen from a position that holds such a way of thinking, in which we pursue character, when we climb toward that supreme standard, we are not satisfied with human beings alone, with character alone. It means we are made unable to be satisfied with the feelings that come from plain relations in daily living. It means that one feels satisfaction not in a plane world but in a three-dimensional world. When one receives the stimulus of a three-dimensional world in which one climbs seeking the very summit centering on character, one feels happiness there.
Happiness comes from combining the content of character that is more than life.
Therefore, the supreme standard by which a human being pursues character is not plain. Because one transcends that and comes seeking character on a three-dimensional standard, the concepts of philosophy and religion arose.
That is why the question concerning the existence or nonexistence of God arose, and we must know that the human beings of reality stand on a road of destiny in which, though the history humankind has walked may be denied, God cannot be denied. In this way we human beings pursue the supreme standard. Next we pursue the ideal. Then where is the summit and the end of pursuing that ideal? It is pursuing one world. In the end, the supreme standard human beings pursue is God.
The Base at Which Betrayer and Victor Are Divided
Here the concept of God comes forth. Human beings have come pursuing God. In passing through six thousand years of history, they have not become separated from God but have come nearer. Here one must become plus, and one must become minus. Plus, plus must not meet. Nor must minus and minus meet. It means they must have a plus and minus relationship.
That is why the words “heaven” and “earth” are necessary. The words “up and down,” “front and back,” and “left and right” are necessary. Then, centering on whom are the words “heaven” and “earth” spoken? It is a word centering on me. And the words “up and down,” “left and right,” and “front and back” are all spoken, centering on me. In the end, everything is made centering on me. In this way, pursuing the supreme standard of character and pursuing one world is not something God pursues but something I pursue.
So the human being becomes the center of the universe. That is why God and the human being become one body, and at the same time, the wish of God and the wish of the human being become one body. God too has a wish. What is this wish? It is one base. Overall, it is the same. That is why we speak of heaven, earth, and humanity (天地人). A human being must, without fail, go this road. Here there come to be betrayers and victors.
Then what kind of person is a betrayer?
Am I a betrayer because I have a little money? However much money I may have, that money remains in the Republic of Korea. Even if one has betrayed, that money remains in the Republic of Korea. Seen thus, who owns the money? It is not me. The Republic of Korea is the owner. I am only a person who manages it and borrows it for a while and then departs.
If I were born in the Republic of Korea, I would live upon the land of the Republic of Korea and depart; it is not that I brought this land and lived and departed. So it is not that things begin from oneself; in every respect, everything is borrowed.
In borrowing and using, the question is whether the person who borrows and uses it uses it for himself or uses it for the Republic of Korea. If I borrowed money for myself and someone took it away, saying he would use it for the Republic of Korea, is that person a betrayer? What do you think? Here, a difference opens up according to one’s way of thinking and one’s concepts.
So what is it that a human being desires?
He desires and demands supreme character and one world. That is, everyone pursues these two sides: an absolute person of character and an absolute world.
Therefore, you live relying upon people. You do not live relying upon a workplace. Man relies upon woman and woman upon man; they live relying upon each other, upon people. So each individual stands as a representative living in reliance upon the people of the world. That those two live relying upon each other manifests the people of the world living relying upon each other. Here, according to how far one forms relationships with the people scattered throughout the world, success is determined. Within such a fundamental, the words “betrayer” and “benefactor” come forth.
Do Not Become a Betrayer of Heart
Seen from this viewpoint, there are two kinds of betrayers as well. Is that not so? A betrayer of the world that appears externally and a betrayer of the world that appears internally; there are these two kinds of betrayers. Now, the affairs of the external world divide into a thousand strands and ten thousand strands.
Looking at the Republic of Korea, there are administrative departments, and beneath them organizations, enterprises, and so on, divided into many strands. The people who bear responsibility in such departments are also betrayed in their own way as they carry out their work. But that is because the responsible person is ignorant. So the question is by what method it must be handled. Hence the question arises whether that person who betrayed is really a betrayer. Such is the betrayer in the external reciprocal world.
But as for the betrayer in the world of the mind, there is no way at all to deal with it. What is called a betrayer within the mind is a betrayer by conditions of heart (심정) or conditions of life, not by material conditions. As for what Heaven has asserted until now, He has been asserting it, centering on conditions of heart and conditions of life.
Even though one has given with all one’s mind for the sake of some person, when that is not acknowledged, one can become a betrayer with a single word.
In the material world, it is not so. In working with several million won, several tens of millions of won, and several hundreds of millions of won, one cannot brand a person a betrayer over a matter involving a few hundred thousand won.
But in the spiritual world, in the relationship of life, it is time-sensitive. A single word can cut off entirely the relationship with a person who was close until now, and one can easily be called a betrayer. This is serious. In the end, the degree of seriousness of what is inner is broader, deeper, and higher.
Then, considering the two kinds of betrayers, in which aspect must we not become betrayers? We must not become betrayers in the world of heart (심정). Even if one has been branded an external betrayer, if one is one in the world of the mind, the content of being a worldly betrayer, which pursues the external world, can be crossed over any number of times.
If only one shares a heart, one cannot become a betrayer for having wrecked one business worth several million or several tens of millions of won. It means that even if one plays the beggar from the same position, one cannot become a betrayer.
Here, what is external is not serious. That is not the problem. The problem is the relationship among true people who are connected by inner heart (심정). If, while people who believe pursue absolute character centering on the heart, things go wrong one day, they part eternally. Without preparing spiritual content beyond that, content of heart beyond that, and content of life beyond that, they cannot meet.
Even a filial son so devoted to his parents that a gate of filial piety would be erected for him, if he speaks a single irreverent word to his parents, leaves an eternal nail mark in the breast of parents who knew him as a son who could never be so. They are astonished more than if heaven and earth were overturned, saying, “Ah! I did not know.” In the world of the mind, it is so.
The Fundamental Cause by Which Human Beings Became God’s Enemy
In your life of faith too, what is the problem?
It is what pertains to life and to heart (심정). Accordingly, what is most precious to a person? Speaking conclusively, it is not the external world. It is one’s own life and heart. From here the words “filial piety,” “loyalty,” and “joy” come forth. The joy of receiving the resurrection of life, the joy of welcoming one day of the delight of life, the joy of discovering something higher and more precious on the side of the heart; such happiness, such delight, is better than any joy of the external world. This is the road on which the original posture of a human being must be prepared.
What is called a person’s enemy is truly ambiguous. Is that not so? Even among millionaires doing business together, there are many cases of confronting one another and taking one another’s lives. Even looking at the history of most nations, a history of fighting in which they kill and kill one another has been woven down to us. Seen from the external side, it is a fight to seize land, but on the inner side, it is a fight to seize love. We must know that these two fights have woven history.
From where do the feelings of sorrow and joy come? They come from these two forms of fighting.
If one says he has been ruined, in what respect was he ruined? Though it is said he was ruined, when he stands stately and says, “I hold the hope of tomorrow and can do greater work. Taking this as one stimulus and one occasion, I can become a victor full of hope tomorrow.” Is he a ruined person? He has not been ruined. That rather becomes a new motive and a new departure. It amounts to no more than one stimulus that makes one independent. That is, it amounts to no more than one process for a new departure. He has not been ruined. Accordingly, the person who sees it as ruin is ruined, and the person who does not see it so can be called a person who has not been ruined. History has flowed in this way.
Then in such a society, where must we go? The question of life and the spiritual question are serious.
From where did God and the human being become enemies? Was it the eating of one material thing called the fruit of good and evil that became the origin of enmity?
If a rich man of the Republic of Korea holding several tens of millions or hundreds of millions of won were to lose all the property he holds at once and become a penniless beggar, it could still be passed over. If one prepares inner content, it can be passed over. That loss does not become a problem, and one can cross over it.
But in the relationship between God and the human being, the han of the betrayer was knotted; from where did that han arise? It arose from a relation of the heart. It was not through a fruit that one could see and eat that the origin of the betrayal, which could divide heaven and earth, came about. Then what was it?
Then, from a subject position, what is it that God hopes for?
It is what is newer, and more joyful, and more longed for, and more lovable. God requires a human being who can be so. Such a person must, in every respect, hold some content in the matter of life or on the spiritual side. External material things do not hold such content.
The human being collided with God on the matter of heart (심정). It was the first collision in history. Although, as a human being created by God, it was a position that could not be so even in a dream and a position that could not even be thought of, he betrayed it. But did they do so because they wished to collide? These things happened although they never dreamed of it. Therefore, we must go seeking this.
Seen from this viewpoint, was not the Fall a going wrong on the side of heart (심정), just as our Unification Church says! This is so seen inductively, and it is made so when we look at social phenomena as well.
Is Spirit First, or Is Matter First?
Then which is this world now seeking, the inner world or the outer world?
The outer world and the inner world must gradually form one world. All the problems of the outer world and the inner world must be bound to the human being and resolved. This is a matter of heaven and a matter of earth. So heaven and earth must become one and form one outer world, and thus meet one inner character and at last prepare the figure of the original world God pursued. It was God’s wish to find in the human world an inner personal being prepared with the original figure, unwounded, which He had hoped for before creating Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
From this viewpoint, what must we do?
Here the problem of a person of faith living in society comes forth. It means that what is important is not to regard success as important but to hold a way of thinking that one will possess the ultimate Will.
The world hereafter depends upon the young people. The people who have entered the Unification Church all seem to know well, but when the Teacher asks, there is much they do not know. Some may say, “Is there any need to make such a fuss?” but it is not so.
Your world of the mind began before you were born. And your external world too began before you were born. Then does this universe mean that it simply came into being without any thought? No. Even for this piano here to come into being, it came into being because there was content that could make it so. We do not know how it came into being, but it is certain that it came into being because some harmonizing power acted. That is, it appeared as a result because some power acted. Accordingly, an object is not a cause but a result.
When you were born, was the origin of the mind first, or was the material origin first? When I was born and looked, this world existed, and my mind existed. Then which is first? It means that saying matter is first cannot be.
Inner Betrayal Is Greater Than Outer Betrayal
Centering on such a problem, forming the two great currents of thought and philosophy, they assert each their rightness, saying, “Spirit is first” and “Matter is first.”
Then can you, without spirit, say, “I am going”? You cannot. One thinks first and then acts. It is made so. Is that not so? Even in eating rice, can one simply say, “I am eating”? One eats after thinking that one must eat. Seeing this, which is first? What is inner, that is, thinking, is first.
Then is your body’s desire greater, or is your mind’s desire greater?
The body’s desire has a limit, just as one is filled by eating one more bowl of rice. But the mind’s desire has no limit. Then which is greater? Does the mind’s desire have a limit? Material desire, that is, the body’s desire, has a boundary line. But what demands go beyond that boundary line is the mind’s desire. This can be clearly known within your living.
Seen from this viewpoint, we cannot deny the fact that what makes the animal's physiological functions work is not the external material world but a being of a higher origin that can make it work, that is, a formless being. The fundamental problem of life too is resolved when seen in this way.
Then, having been born, what do I like?
Of course I like eating too. When a baby is born, it likes to drink its mother’s milk. But it does not like only drinking its mother’s milk. It likes drinking its mother’s milk, but it looks at its mother and likes her. Overall, it drinks the milk to look at its mother and like her. That is why the mother too does not begrudge giving the milk, because the baby looks at her and likes her. The relationship is made so.
For the mother, because she has given infinitely, she wants to see the child. Because she has poured out her life and her sincerity, she faces that baby in an absolute relationship in which she expects it to follow her as much as she has poured out. Seen from the perspective of the baby, it seems the relationship was formed by material conditions, but seen from the mother's perspective, it is the opposite. Then which side is the subject? The mother is the subject. Because it is the mother who is in a position of being able to give even material things, the mother is the subject. Everything is made so. Therefore, a human being must go the road of life, centering on the desire that is in the higher realm among the two working desires.
The desire of the external world is not a true desire. The desire of the inner world is the true desire. The desire of the external world is to be more comfortable. What cuts through this by one stage and crosses over is the desire of the inner world. The desire of the external world is in every respect factional. The desire of the inner world is total. It is the whole thing, the whole thing. Is that not so? All of you, do people not say, “All of it is my love”? This is desire centering on God. Because God is the center of the whole.
Therefore, as for the betrayer too, is not the betrayer from an inner position a greater betrayer than the betrayer from an external position? Then where did the human being sin? It was not from an external position. As Christianity understands it, eating a fruit made of matter called the fruit of good and evil is not the sin. Would that have continued until now? It began with the problem of life and the spiritual problem. You, too, will not be able to deny this.
All of you, for a man or for a woman, the foremost enemy threatens one’s own life. Is that not so? Then who is the enemy of the Republic of Korea? Those who threaten the life-and-death question, the life of the Republic of Korea. And what next? Next are those who would seize away the desire of the Republic of Korea. Those who would block it from going with the desire to save the world are enemies. And those who block what the Republic of Korea loves most. Then who is the enemy of the Republic of Korea? All of you, what is it that they propagandize in the North? They say the South exploits. But what is it that the Republic of Korea seeks to do? It seeks to love the people. But because they do not seek to love the people but seek to exploit them, they are our enemy.
Likewise, looking at us as individuals, who is my enemy?
One who threatens my life is an enemy. Next is one who snatches away what I like. But is that a lump of gold? It is, in every respect, a person. Suppose one has ornaments a mother brought when she was married, or ornaments handed down from ancestors several generations back, and one’s child is about to die and must be hospitalized at once, and all that is left is that one ornament; is there anyone who says, “It is all right if my son dies. Must I keep this ornament”? At such a time, that ornament is no problem at all. In this way, for a human being, the question of life and the question of love work more greatly.
What Kind of Being Is Satan?
If a human being is so, what will God be like? Whom does God resemble?
If we human beings are God’s sons and daughters, does it not follow in the end that God resembles us human beings? Then what kind of being is God’s enemy? A being who threatens the real existence of God and at the same time threatens the life of the sons and daughters God loves is God’s enemy.
What is Satan?
A being who threatens the life of a person who ought to enter heaven to drag him to hell and, at the same time, confines a free person in prison and threatens his life is precisely Satan. Furthermore, Satan is a being who threatens the beloved sons and daughters of God. This is what an enemy is. The enemy is these two things. Would it be so? Would it not?
Since God is the Absolute Being, His life cannot be threatened; but if there is one who threatens the life of the sons and daughters of that Absolute Being and threatens the love of those sons and daughters, that becomes God’s enemy. Is that not so? The enemy of the sons and daughters is the enemy of the parents, and the enemy of the parents is the enemy of the sons and daughters. There are cases in which a mother or father, while dying, leaves as a testament to the children, “When I die, avenge me,” are there not?
If there is an enemy who has killed a son, the father avenges him. All of this becomes a problem in the threatening of life and the threatening of love. When we look at all such things, we come to feel that it became so for that reason.
Then who is God’s betrayer? Satan. So one must know this Satan. Then who is the next betrayer? The human being. You do not feel good, do you? Why did the human being become God’s enemy? As I said a moment ago, it is because the human being failed to form a relationship with God on the matter of the heart (심정) and formed a relationship with Satan and was born as Satan’s child. It means he could not become God’s son or daughter but became Satan’s child.
I will speak by way of example. All of you, do you know what a minmyeoneuri (민며느리) is? In a household that is not well off financially, there is one son, and since they are in no position to marry him off as they wish, they bring in a maiden from a poor household from her childhood and raise her within their fence, and when the time comes, they match her with their son; such a daughter-in-law is a minmyeoneuri. But if, having raised her well as a prospective minmyeoneuri, when the time came to join the two, she abandoned that man and took up with another young man of the village and ran away, would she become an enemy or not? It means she becomes an enemy.
Likewise, it became so with God as well. It means that the partner who was to become one with God’s son disappeared. Centering on God, there was only one woman who was to become the ancestor of humankind. Here, Eve was in the position of a minmyeoneuri, and the archangel Lucifer took away Eve, the minmyeoneuri. As for Adam, he is God’s body.
Just as it says in 1 Corinthians 3:16,
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
Our body is God’s house. When Adam matures and reaches the time when he can fathom the world, that is, when God’s house is fully built, God comes to enter that house. Then God and Adam become one body. Within the house of heaven and earth that God built, that is.
The Position Where Creator and Created Can Become One
God created the earth, created the reciprocal world, and created human beings as well. Then what is our wish? It is to become the supreme person, is it not? And it is to achieve the supreme world, is it not? And whose wish is that? It is God’s wish. To put it another way, whose wish is the standard of supreme character we desire? It is God’s wish; and is not the world we desire the wish of God, who created all things of heaven and earth? Because we are original human beings who ought to be born receiving such things, we too hold the purpose of perfecting the character of the human being God desired, that is, of Adam and Eve, and so we pursue supreme character.
Furthermore, because it is the world of all things that was created as a reciprocal world centering on that character, we must have dominion over the world of all things. That is God’s wish.
But if God enters within Adam, do God’s wish and Adam’s wish become two or become one? “They become one.” It becomes so. It becomes Adam’s wish and, at the same time, God’s wish. God wishes to become one with the supreme personal being and to have dominion over this created world, that is, to embrace all things in His own bosom. Therefore, we human beings too become one with the supreme person of character and become one with the supreme world. When one enters such a subject position where one can become one, the reciprocal world is achieved.
Here the words joining of heaven and earth come forth. The joining of heaven and earth; there is no other position where Creator and created can become one. To become one in this way, all the properties inside and out must match to become one, must they not? Inside and out must match to become one.
If the shapes are similar but one side is even slightly thicker, can they be together eternally? Even if these join and are together, one is heavy and falls away. It is made to be pressed down and fall away, not to rise together. But in movement, if the two are the same, they take a parallel course.
Therefore, if He created human beings with the intent of becoming one, then, because God is the Absolute Being, a person born wearing the body of the Absolute Being must establish a reciprocal standard that can sustain God, the Absolute Being. What can be so is the mind of a person. The mind of a person can carry God upon its back. It means that the mind of a person has such ability. It means one can attend God about with him any number of times.
Is your mind narrow or broad?
You yourselves do not know well the shape of the mind, but the mind is infinitely great. Then how good is that mind? It is the mind that, having given several tens of billions of won to each one of the three billion of humankind of the world, wants to give again. Is that so, or not? The mind is such a splendid thing.
That is why a human being can bloom as a flower of infinite love and infinite hope. Why is that? Because he resembles the infinite nature of God. When we look at mind and body, the mind is great, but the body is small. In this way, mind and body are always forming a reciprocal relationship. Only then do they give stimulus to each other. That is why I feel joy or sorrow. Therefore, it is made so that one cannot but form a reciprocal relationship.
The Road a Pure Religious Person Must Go
What did Eve the minmyeoneuri become, you say?
She formed a relationship with a servant. This is the Fall. It means she formed a relationship with a servant. We, the descendants of fallen human beings, received Satan’s blood. It is appalling.
Therefore, who is the betrayer before God today?
It is Satan and, at the same time, the descendants of Satan. Then what must be done if one is to avenge oneself from God’s position? Must one not cut off the enemy’s head? Must it not be so?
Then whose head must be cut off first? “Satan's.” Having cut off Satan’s head, the next one must cut off the human being’s head, must one not? If one cannot cut off the heads of the enemy Satan and the human being, then rather God has been ruined, so one must cut off the head, must one not?
But from God’s position, must one actually avenge oneself, or must one not? This is the worry. It means the situation has unfolded like this.
From here, the road a pure religious person must go comes forth. Then what is the road a pure religious person must go? How must a religious person go? Must one avenge oneself on the enemy and go, or must one forgive the enemy and go? This is the question. God is squarely up against such a position.
God created the universe with all sincerity, dreaming of a hopeful great enterprise; and when all the conditions of that great enterprise and of life and of ideology were wrecked at once and came to ruin, heaven and earth were pitch dark. What appeared here as the enemy was the archangel Lucifer.
Must this Lucifer be struck down, or must he not?
Lucifer made his own sons and daughters out of the sons and daughters whom God loved most, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Must the head of such an enemy be cut off, or must he be left as he is? The one who agonized over such a question for the first time since history began is God.
The enemies of the human world today, such as those who threaten life and threaten the love centering on themselves, are not the problem. Who is the first being who underwent such sorrow for the first time in history and underwent suffering and, while undergoing the wretchedness of that history, writhed to break open this environment? It is God. God stands at a crossroads of whether to take up the sword or to choose the law of forgiveness. Is that not so?
If He takes up the sword and kills, afterward a bitter grievance of hundreds of millions of years remains. If He does so, it eventually becomes that I kill my sons and daughters. Though they received the enemy’s blood, they are different from the children of the world. The father raised that daughter carefully from childhood, cherishing her to make her his daughter-in-law, and then out of nowhere she formed a relationship with a hoodlum. And that daughter says she is dying of delight and is carrying on in all sorts of ways. God is all the more mortified at this.
They are His first sons and daughters and His own body. Adam and Eve are God’s body. He created them as future deities to achieve the substantial world. God does not achieve that world alone by Himself.
Are you glad when you are alone?
Well, does a person’s mind become glad if it sits still alone? And if a man is alone as a man, does he become glad? There must be a partner. Why did God create heaven and earth? He created it to obtain a partner. Neither the established churches nor any religion can answer this. In the end, God created heaven and earth to live a life of joy.
Therefore, Adam is God’s body. Then who is Eve? Because she is Adam’s wife, she is God’s object. Therefore, Adam and Eve become the origin of the whole of creation and the origin of the whole of life. So one must avenge oneself upon Satan, the very one who threatened this.
This Satan is the foremost betrayer. He is a betrayer among betrayers, a betrayer running in the first rank. This Satan has until now been doing as he pleased with the world. And until this enmity is avenged, he will do as he pleases.
The sons and daughters of God changed and became the sons and daughters of the enemy. In this way, if one forms the relationship of love wrongly, the bloodline without fail becomes different. Before inheriting God’s bloodline, they inherited Satan’s bloodline. It became so. Therefore, we were born as the children of the enemy.
The Reason God Has Conducted the Providence Centering on the Thought of the Second Advent
Our original mind originally did not wish to form a relationship with Satan. It wished to form a relationship with God. But the body escaped from this. So the body came to be paired with Satan, and the mind seeks to be paired with God. The human being is placed on these two forked roads. It means one is placed on the 38th Parallel, that is, on the boundary line. And of the force working at that boundary line, two-thirds is the body and one-third is the mind. So when mind and body fight, the body wins every time.
Why is that? Because the mind has not yet formed love centering on God. That is, because the mind has not obtained a partner centering on God. Do you understand? Why is the body stronger? Because, though one sought to form the love of the mind with God, one could not, and formed the love of the body first. Therefore, the body is stronger than the mind. Until now the love of the mind has not been formed.
Thus, what has come seeking to form the love of the mind is God’s providential history and the history of religion.
Religion has come to present to history the love of the mind of bridegroom and bride, the origin of the love of the mind of a new bridegroom and bride. So unless one man appears who is completely settled centering on the love of the mind, one complete woman cannot appear. That is why God has come seeking such a man until now. History until now has been a history of coming to seek one man who could find the love of the mind with God, that is, the relationship of the love of the original mind, and form a complete relationship with it and be connected to the absolute standard. This is the thought of the awaiting of the Messiah (메시아 대망사상).
In Christianity, they say the Lord at the Second Advent will come, and in Buddhism, they say the Maitreya Bodhisattva will come, and in Confucianism, they say the True Man (진인) will come; higher religions have the thought of the Second Advent. Is that not strange?
God has been conducting the providence centering on such content. Even when we look at it theoretically in this way, we can know that human history is a history in which God has come seeking such a man of His.
The Man God Has Been Seeking
All the cultural spheres of the world have thus been formed with the goal of an ideal sphere of thought by one ideal man. In other words, they come forth centering on one absolute sphere of thought. In the end, thought comes forth, centering on one absolute sphere of ideology. That thought comes forth from one man. History until now has been carried on by men. Women were not even considered. Is that not so? In this way, history is a history of coming to seek one man.
Then who is that man?
He is the first person who forms a relationship of love with God, centering on the love of the original mind. But because this was not achieved, one cannot have the love of the mind without sacrificing the love of the body. Because Adam and Eve were dragged away by Satan, centering on self-contradictory content, the love of the mind was pressed down by the love of the body. The body ought to have received love through the love of the mind, but on the contrary, the love of the mind was pressed down, centering on the love of the body.
A person in such a position has two-thirds belonging to the satanic world and one-third belonging to the heavenly world and must add the power of the mind and drag out the body that is occupying the two-thirds. The mind must without fail strike down the body. One must strike down the enemy. Carrying on this fight, six thousand years of history have continued. Therefore, unless a center of the love of the mind comes forth, this fight cannot end.
The love of the body is stronger than the love of the mind. It means that the partner of the love of the body is stronger than the partner of the love of the mind. Do you understand what this means? In short, people do not know that the partner of the love of the mind is God. It means that the wish or hope of the body is stronger than the wish or hope of the mind. But if one clearly comes to know the partner of the love of the mind, the love of the body becomes no problem. Therefore, God is re-creating centering on the love of the mind, which can clearly present this.
Although He created Adam and Eve, because they fell, He regards them as nonexistent and makes them again and gathers them up. So God has been coming, seeking a man who represents the subject of the love of the mind. Who is that historical representative, you say? The Messiah.
The Messiah becomes the standard of the love of the mind centering on life and of supreme character centering on life. Taking this one as a model, one must bury all the convictions and the sensibility of love inherited from the satanic world until now and reduce them to a state of nothingness. And thus one must find a partner of the body who can harmonize a hundred percent centering on the love of the mind, which is the original nature, like the body of the unfallen Adam. And thus one must become one man who has bound the original love of the mind to the substantial body and escaped the relationship of the Fall, and must become one man who can achieve God’s body, that is, the inner temple, and become one with God and appear. Such a man is the Messiah.
What is the Messiah?
He is the ancestor of love, born for the first time in humankind, centering on God’s love. Therefore, Jesus, or the Lord who comes again, becomes the father of the world of love centering on the original mind, the father of the love of the universe. My body and mind cannot be separated from each other. The body must receive the love of the mind. A human being who has not stood in the position where mind and body have become one must establish the condition of standing in such a position and receive grafting from God.
In receiving the grafting, one must cut the trunk and receive the grafting. Because the Messiah and fallen human beings are of different seeds, one must cut the trunk and receive the grafting. This is the path of the Providence of Restoration until now.
Forgive Your Enemy and Love Him
What has God come seeking?
He has come seeking one man. God has thought that creation is not finished and has been re-creating until now. What has become of the human being that it must be so? The ideal of creation ought to be completed, but because it is still at an incomplete stage, it must be so to gather this up again.
Since it is at an incomplete stage, one must establish conditions for climbing toward completion. To climb, treading the process of re-creation without violating the principle of creation, is the course of the providence of salvation until now. Do you understand?
Now then, let us think again. Must God take up the sword, or must He forgive? Is forgiving an easy thing? All of you, think about it once. Is forgiving easy? This is an implacable enemy. What would the mind that faces such an enemy be like? If you were to face such an enemy, what would your mind be like? Would words come out, or would they not? It means the breast is choked. He is the fellow who caught and killed all one’s sons and daughters and made the world inside and out into a complete ruin. Yet the One who is in a position of having to face even such an enemy as though no such thing had happened is God. Without facing him so, one cannot carry out the history of Restoration. Without thinking as though there had never been any enmity, one cannot carry out the history of salvation. Without facing him as though he were not an enemy, one cannot stand in the position of having forgiven.
From such a position, the words “Love your enemy” came forth. It means love your enemy. Do you understand? At last a new norm that had not existed in history came forth.
Then what kind of mind must we hold?
We must hold a mind as though there had never been any enmity. We must do what even God, who says to love the enemy, cannot do. Do you understand? Because Satan knows that God loves him even though he himself is an enemy before God, he comes to submit before God. From here the thought of the Savior comes forth.
And so, under such a condition as, “The road Thou goest is the principle of heavenly reason, and Thou art One who cannot receive even though I would offer everything, and because it is Thy situation that it cannot be resolved unless one follows this principle, I will follow Thee according to that principle. When a person appears who can go seeking Thy principle of heavenly reason, I will offer myself...” The history of Restoration is set out. Do you understand? Otherwise, there is no road to return to the original world. Could one return by any other way?
In forgiving the enemy, with what does one forgive?
Can one forgive with a sword? One cannot. When we think from this viewpoint, with what shall we forgive that enemy whom we call an enemy? God forgave Satan, who dug into the process of creation and would wreck at once the tens of millions of beings of the whole universe. Though he was an enemy such as could not be conceived even in a dream, He forgave him. Not only that, one must love him; and to what degree must one love him? It means one must love him more than one loved when he had not become an enemy.
The mind with which God loved Adam and Eve, the mind of love with which He faced Adam and Eve in the old days, is not enough to restore. Is that not so? They have become the children of the enemy; can one save them with the mind with which one loved Adam and Eve before the Fall? With that, one cannot save them. It means one must prepare a motive by which one can love the enemy more than one loved Adam and Eve and love the children of the enemy with a mind greater than for one’s own children.
Then, if one is a son of God, what kind of figure must one become?
No one in history knew that one must live centering on such content. No sage or wise man said, “Forgive your enemy.” But thankfully there was one single person who knew it. That person is precisely Jesus. Jesus, while expiring upon the cross, said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not the sin they have committed.”
Praying, “Forgive them their sin,” he raised one banner, saying he would love his enemy, and entered a position where his life and his wish were completely blocked. Because even in such a position he died with a mind of saving all people and loving his enemy going before him, that mind and the mind of God, who had to love His enemy, were connected as one. And Jesus became the Son of God. We must know the fact that from there a new culture set out, and Christianity could not but become a worldwide religion. Would it not be so? “Yes.”
Without loving one’s enemy, one cannot go to the heavenly kingdom. To become a son or daughter of God, one must cross such a crisis and become a companion in that world of the mind, and that mind must become a spokesman standing in place of God and fight centering on truth and the Will and leave achievements. A person who cannot do so cannot go to God’s kingdom.
The Iron Rule of the Course of Restoration
There was no such person upon this earth. Only one man who could be such came forth upon this earth, but because one woman did not come forth, he passed away.
If there had been one woman who could love the enemy from the same position as God, he and that woman would have become one and become the parents of a new history in heaven and earth, the parents of the world of the mind, and could have restored heaven and earth into a new world. But before Jesus, who came as one man, there was not one woman. There was a man who stood in place of the people of Israel, but there was no woman who stood in place of the people of Israel. He longed for one woman who could know the relationship of heavenly nature with her original mind and attend him, but there was no such woman. All of them were people centering on themselves, centering on their wishes. They were people centering on their will, their wishes, and their desires, rather than on the ideology of the heavenly kingdom centered on heavenly law (천륜).
Since that desire, together with worldliness, had not escaped the desire of already fallen human beings, they could not form a relationship with God.
One must set out again by the original law. One must set out again from Mary. When the crowd surrounding Jesus asked him, “Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee,” Jesus said, “Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? Whosoever shall do the will of my Father, which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.” Then does that mean they did as God willed? It means they could not. You must know that.
Then what is God’s Will?
Before Jesus, who had to pave the road of saving the enemies of the world, was there anyone who helped Jesus, holding a faith by which one could love God’s enemy and cross over, and holding such a resolve, and becoming one who attended God and embraced God’s heart (심정) and situation? Was there a man or a woman who writhed, saying he would love the people of Israel? There was not. Rather, they slighted the Will of Heaven and drove out the man who had come bearing that Will. They drove Jesus out to the cross.
How is it that Jesus came to die?
Then what will Teacher Moon of the Unification Church do today?
If I say this, you may think it strange, but I have many enemies. Without subjugating Cain, one cannot go to the heavenly kingdom. Therefore, one must subjugate at least three persons. That is why Jesus too chose the three disciples Peter, John, and James. Of the twelve disciples, and among them Peter, John, and James, they had to cross the line of life first, before Jesus died. Jesus and the disciples are in the relationship of father and son. Therefore, the son must step forth, saying he will die first, before the father dies.
If Adam and Eve had sought to establish that Will before the anxious God, even though it cost them their lives, would they not have avoided falling? What stands out in such a relationship is Jesus and the disciples. That is, Jesus is in the position of father, and the disciples are in the position of sons.
That Adam, who was in the position of son, betrayed God, who was the parent, is the Fall. To restore this, because one must pass through the reverse course, the child must step forth saying he will die first on the road where the parent cannot but die. This is the iron rule of the course of Restoration. Yet, leaving Jesus in the position of death, the three disciples sought their own way of living. But in the end, they all died.
If One Would Capture God
In following this road, did God take up a sword? No. When Peter cut off the ear of Malchus, what did Jesus say? It was not to avenge himself upon the enemy.
Though in such a wretched, foul, and mortifying position, colliding with the position of foul villains like tares, many circumstances made heaven and earth go dim when one thought of them, yet for God the circumstance of how to find the original person and how to restore fallen human beings as original sons and daughters weighed more heavily than the circumstance of the world perishing at once. Because Jesus, grounded in such a circumstance, kept step with God and prepared a reciprocal relationship and passed away, you must know the fact that from here a new ideology of history set out.
Then what kind of road is the road the Unification Church goes down?
Before the road the Unification Church goes down, there are many enemies. There is the enemy of the individual, the enemy of the family, the enemy of the clan, the enemy of the people, the enemy of the nation, and the enemy of the world. Before the road I go, all of them were enemies. I am a person who has both the spirit and the courage to be able to make use of Heaven. But seen over a life span of hundreds of millions of years, that is unthinkable.
If I pray for my enemy to be avenged, that person is caught. Right now I hold a mind more mortified than anyone, and if there were heavenly fire, I could take it and burn them up. So if God were to see such a thing, He would have no mind to bestow blessing.
That is why Heaven’s side conducts a strategy of taking blows and seizing away. He sows a mind of love and reaps a harvest of love. Sowing the seed of love deep in that mind, whether a cold wind blows or a storm rages, He offered up all the flesh and blood of His life and has until now writhed in the effort to love the enemy and has been together with us with an anguished heart (심정) in which His very marrow melts away. Because He has come holding to the iron rule of love for the enemies in such a direction, until now the two worlds have been gradually unified into one world. Do you understand? “Yes.”
From this viewpoint, when I look at the members of the Unification Church, I wonder how many are members God desires. And when I look at the grandmothers here or the people of long standing, each is anxious about what will become of himself. It means each thinks only he himself is precious.
There will be people who say, “For the Unification Church to do well, I must do well. Even if the Teacher suffers, I must be comfortable.” Well, just watch and see whether that person does well. That person’s face may grow better and better, but that person’s mind goes lower and lower. It means it goes down into the ground.
The road religion goes, and the road the world goes, are different. That is why Christianity until now has taken blows and been seized away. It means it has walked the road of sacrifice, the road of martyrdom. It has conducted a strategy of taking blows and seizing away. Satan conducts a strategy of striking and seizing away, but God conducts a strategy of taking blows and seizing away. Then who wins? In the end, the one who takes blows and seizes away is made to win.
Why is that? When we look in our families, there is a younger sibling who, though he seems immature and weak, thinks of his brothers and sisters. Yet he is always driven into difficulty by his brothers and sisters. Then who stands on his side? Here the parents come to stand. In this way the parents are captured. Likewise, God too is captured.
The purpose toward which we advance is not to capture the world but to capture God. Only by capturing God can one capture this world and capture the spiritual world as well. To enter such a standard is to capture God. All the affairs of the world are not the problem. To capture God, one must stand in a position that can draw the marrow of God’s mind. What is that? It is sacrifice and service. Then what is that strategy? It is to forgive infinitely. There is no road but to forgive infinitely and to establish the norm of loving Satan. A person who lives in this way does not perish.
Even a person said to be conscientious and gentle in the village, if driven into an unjust position many times, will explode. When it becomes so, all the people of the village stand on that person’s side. If that person is unjustly beaten, all the people of the village stand on his side. It means the original mind is such. Here even Satan cannot budge. Why is that? Because the way of Heaven is made so, and because God too has been conducting the providence in that way.
What Must the Road We Go Be Like?
I say repay the enemy of your mind with forgiveness.
If one is a person of Heaven, when the enemy has died, one will not have the mind to say one will avenge oneself but will hold a mind of saying, “I must not avenge myself upon your descendants.” But if one says, “It served him right to die; he deserved it; I knew it would be so,” can one become a son or daughter of God? Therefore, if in this world full of enemies you hold a mind of forgiving as you face the enemy, that enemy comes to bear witness to you. Therefore, rather than coming forth with a sword to avenge yourself upon the enemy, love your enemy.
What is great about Christian thought is precisely this. Holding neither sword nor anything else, stark naked, beaten and shedding blood, on the very road of dying, it says to love the enemy. Only then does God have dominion over the world. It means that you of the Unification Church too must likewise do so.
All of you, think about it. God was betrayed by Satan and by human beings. Human beings betrayed even more than Satan.
How many times have they betrayed God until now?
They betrayed far more than Satan did. Satan betrayed once, in an environment where he could do so. But human beings, seen through history, were betrayed again and again from Adam’s family through Noah’s family and Abraham’s family and on until now, passing through six thousand years of history. They failed to recognize God’s heart (심정).
Yet God conducts the providence with a heart (심정) of love, and though He was so pierced with bitter resentment toward the people of Israel who drove Jesus, whom He had sent to the cross, He forgets even that and says He will make human beings into sons and daughters who love. Put yourselves in that position and think. Could you do so? Yet God says He will make such sons and daughters, however worthless they may be.
Having come to know that He is such a God, what must the road we go be like? In going that road, is money the problem? Or does honor become the problem?
External things do not become a problem. Nothing at all in the world can become a problem. It is an inner problem. In preparing a foundation of peace regarding life and regarding one’s own heart (심정), one cannot resolve it with external things. Only by embracing God can one resolve it. Would it not be so?
Then how shall we break open this boundary line, the boundary line between betrayer and Heaven, and cross over?
One must love the enemy. Yet how pitiful is Jesus, who, even in a position where he could not love the enemy, writhed for the sake of a love that could cross over the deep circumstance of having to love God’s enemy and the anguished and mortifying and infuriating circumstances! Think about it. How pitiful is he!
That is why in our Unification Church we say that to become Abel, one must restore Cain. Since the world has become God’s enemy, it means that, standing in God’s position, to find the sons and daughters of hope, we do not strike down the enemy but love the enemy. Without standing in such a position, one cannot restore.
But when we look at Cain and Abel, we members of the Unification Church, from the position of having become Abel, must resolve the han of the people of the world who are in the position of Cain, and by loving them must make it so that they can follow.
If, instead of that, one regards oneself as a hero because one entered first, one perishes. It means that if one holds such a mind, one comes to perish.
I am the Teacher of the Unification Church, but I have not thought in that way. Until now I have not told you to attend me. Yet the people of the world all say that Teacher Moon of the Unification Church is a dictator. Does the Teacher play the dictator because he wants to? Do you attend me because the Teacher commanded it? It is your minds that sought to do so. When did I tell you to do so? And did you come here because you were told to gather? You did not come because someone told you to come; you came because you yourselves kept wanting to come. The reason is that a person’s mind is wise. A person’s mind is seeking the place where love is. It is so, even though no one says anything.
Why is that?
Because the mind is like life, and a new bud of love sprouts centering on God. When spring comes, and the sunlight grows warm, the icy mountain casts off its relationship with the cold winter and welcomes spring. It means it betrays the cold winter. Therefore, there is no need for anyone to tell you to come or go. That is why I say, “You all oppose me, but your second generation will become my servants.” How can I speak with such confidence? Because I am not alone. Why? Because although Satan is before me, it is the principle that God restores their second generation, and so I can be that way. It means that that formula applies to me as well.
Therefore, I will not starve to death. The reason is that if I go hungry, you are made unable to eat. And a person who still eats well is not a member of the Unification Church. It means it is made so. And that too is not because I told you to do so; it is because your minds are that way. That is why it becomes a problem.
The Road the Teacher Has Walked
You do not know well the motive by which it became so. As I said yesterday too, the Teacher is truly a good person, but he is also a fearsome person. People who opposed me individually were ruined, and people who opposed me as families were ruined. Furthermore, organizations that opposed were ruined, and did not regimes that opposed also fall? And is not this world too going to be ruined like this?
If one does not become one, one perishes. It is made so formulaically. I am an extremely lonely person with no friends. God is a lonely being and the king of solitude. So a person who pursues God must become a prince of solitude.
In any case, we must love the people more than anyone and wage a struggle of blood and tears for the world. When you step forth before Heaven, that is, when you enter the Unification Church, if the world stepped forth and the thirty million people stepped forth, would you follow Teacher Moon of the Unification Church? One does not know how much God works there. He has done all sorts of work. He asked them to go, striking them if they did not; and He has done works of chastisement as well. Did I entice you, who did not want to come, to come? You followed like that because you were carried away with the mountain wind. It was your minds that did so.
When a spring day comes, flowers bloom, and when flowers bloom and fragrance arises, butterflies are bound to fly in. The harmony of heaven and earth is made so. It has come like this until now. However much the world opposes, I will not perish. Even if they confine me in prison, they cannot confine my mind and my ideology. I say strike me.
If they strike, it connects with the road I have walked before God until now and the road God has paved.
So I say, appraise how strong a mind is that can love its enemy. Strike if you will strike! Do I hate you, or do I not? Taking blows and vomiting blood, if one says, “Ah! I was well struck. I was struck in place of all the humankind of historical bitter resentment. I will be struck and forget it, and I will not remember this,” and says, “O God! Forgive these people.” How splendid is that! One must pass through that position. For that, one must be set in a position of being killed. Then it is simple.
In the time of Japanese rule, there was a time when I received torture for nearly twelve hours and vomited blood, and I also received a torture that drives a person mad in fifteen minutes, one I can never forget in my whole life. I received this for twelve hours and yet came out alive by a miracle. Even while being struck, falling over backward again and again, and while being beaten until dead blood poured out in a stream, I endured, saying, “Strike away! Let us see whether that club breaks or my bones break.” That was one great trial.
Yet I did not treat them as enemies. Because there remained upon me the responsibility of blessing them and going, I studied what I might see in them for which to bless them. I agonized and studied it in that cell. But because a person has a conscience, in the morning, after everyone else had gone out, he apologizes so that no one knows. That is what a person is. Seeing that, all human beings are the same. It means that they too cannot deceive the conscience.
How Much Have You Touched God’s Heart?
From there the work begins. It means that if one tramples upon such a road and reviles it, one perishes. Even to keep me from perishing, God at certain times does not give love. In that respect the Teacher, when he is good, is boundlessly good, but when he is fearsome, he is a boundlessly fearsome person.
When the Teacher looks quietly, at certain times a thought arises about some famous person that this will not do. When the thought arises that this is truly too much, that person dies before seven months have passed. The Teacher has walked such a road. Therefore, it means that I must not hate anyone. I am living in this way.
Among the members of the Unification Church, there may be those who think the Teacher leads a comfortable life, but it is not so. Today too I rose at half past two in the morning. Even when I sleep, after about an hour I wake up. I am a person who cannot live while in debt. If one lives this life, the Unification Church absolutely will not perish. Even if the world should perish, the Unification Church will not perish.
Even if the providence is prolonged here and drags on, it is one strategy for accomplishing it all at once. I know it as one strategy for not inflicting much damage; I doubt that the Unification Church cannot develop. Because I do not perish, I do not think of perishing.
I do not incur a debt of life; rather, I put others in debt and live. Since you have incurred a debt of life to the Teacher, you are in a position of having to repay the debt. From that viewpoint, when we ask how many people in the world today have died for God, there is nothing to say but the words Elijah spoke, “I only am left.” The place in all heaven and earth that has broadened the foundation of salvation of the fallen world, centering on such a mind of the Father, is this wretched and shabby Unification Church at 71-3 Cheongpa-dong 1-ga. How pitiful is God, who has come forth gazing upon this place, saying He will resolve the han of six thousand years!
When I look into such a self of mine, tears well up. When you enter such a state in a position more gloomy than God, tears pour out. The question is how much you have touched such a heart (심정). It is whether, in a Unification Church of feeling, you can offer such a heart and face God. It means that until now you have not even been able to think of it. Not knowing about Heaven, which must cross beyond the position of contempt and fulfill the wish and give rest, and only gazing at that pass, have you not thought all sorts of thoughts centering on yourselves and committed all sorts of rash behavior? And such as you have become the sons and daughters of Heaven.
From that viewpoint, you must know how many acts of betrayal you have committed before God. You must consider how lowly and how pitiful a deed it was to seek to drag Heaven along, centering on myself, in opposition to the standard God desired.
All the Things Undergone Because of Going the Road of the Will
That is why it became a han to have been born a descendant of the betrayers of history. Even though we are the descendants of a betrayer, God has labored to bring us liberation, longing for that one figure whom He could embrace as sons and daughters of hope.
So must I not writhe, saying I will become a son or daughter who can cross over the boundary line of the enemy Thou desirest, to become a self that can avenge God’s enmity? You must know this well. Do you understand what this means? “Yes.”
That is why many enemies appear toward you. Just try entering the Unification Church. If one tries to go to the Unification Church, something without fail arises to prevent it. A young woman or young man acquires a sweetheart, or even an old man who has been carrying on outside comes home the day before church and prevents her from going. It is without fail so. This is a formula. But one must love the enemy and go. Do you understand?
The Teacher these days has bought a little land at Cheongpyeong and is trying to do something with it, but the person blocking it is a Moon. The first person with whom the Teacher had a fight in South Korea was also a Moon. Many people with the surname Moon must appear. It must become so. If it does not become so, it is a lie. Jesus too was opposed like that and passed away.
Between God and His sons and daughters, who is the enemy?
The sons and daughters are not the enemy. When one would tread upon the last footing and rise and judge and cross over, the enemy must step forth. That is why many people threatened their sons and daughters with a knife for going to the Unification Church. Do you think no one was cut by a knife by his father? So it was ordinary for wives to be seized by the hair by their husbands. It was ordinary for bones to be broken. I have seen with my own eyes their doing all sorts of things, dragging them about like dogs. It was mortifying. If I used force, I could block them all with one hand. It means I have such strength as no one else has.
Go anywhere! If you would seize the world, try it until the end. But on the day this crosses a certain pass, the world becomes my side. I will avenge myself upon the enemy more than sevenfold for what I underwent. Even if I take revenge more than sevenfold, they cannot protest. I have known what heavenly law is and have done this work until now. One must overcome until the time comes. Until then, one must not avoid hardship.
The Teacher has undergone mortifying things, has undergone wretched things, and has endured things challenging to endure. At times there were many difficulties in which I had to kick my way out of a stifling state, shut inside the casting mold of a foundry. I was a man who at times had to pass through a road where no hole could be found by which to get out. It means that God too had many such times. Accordingly, you must know that this is the Teacher of the Unification Church who has paved such a road.
What is the right posture in which you must keep this road and go?
If it is a fact that one must go such a road, you must go that road in a pure position before the Will. That is why, when one sees the Teacher through the spiritual world, he is a pitiful person. But even if no one in the world acknowledges me, God acknowledges me. I lost the whole world and lost even my mother and father and wife and children, but on the inner standard, God was with me.
Things We Must Know
Although the Teacher lives on Korean soil, people who hear the report and communicate with the spiritual world, if they pray, come to know that the Teacher holds such and such circumstances.
Do you know that, or do you not know it?
Those who know, raise your hands. You, too, will know it well. This is the problem. It means this is tremendous content. Although dreamlike facts are unfolding, you are people who, because this has become commonplace, do not regard it as such.
What relation does this have to you?
How much has God labored to form that relationship? It means, how much has He labored to endure and cross over the crisis road of the enemy and pave a foundation on which He can give such commands through one person? Although the han of hundreds of millions of ages centered on the Will of the resolution of han and its accomplishment dwells here, you regard it as ordinary.
Among people with strong patriotism, there are very many who have formed a relationship with the Unification Church. The Teacher can know entirely what kind of spiritual world such a person is related to. They follow and do what I have done until now.
Now, because we must restore the world, we must embrace all who have spiritual communication. To do so, one cannot get by with mere technique. When he is earnest, I must be more earnest than he. I have been carrying on this fight until now. When you see a person who is said to have spiritual communication, you simply melt away, but that will not do. It means the mind must not be so. Spiritual communication (영통) is a simple thing.
From this viewpoint, we must go forward, centering on the worldwide Will. How much has God prepared for us who go to the front line of Restoration in place of such people? You must know how He has writhed to love the children of the enemy. If one knows this value and becomes a son who is concerned about God’s noble labor of sacrifice, however difficult it may be, one cannot complain.
Jesus knew how much God must have labored behind the people of Israel who betrayed Him, centering on four thousand years of history, and how much He must have labored to support them thus far, and because He knew that His wish toward Himself was great, from the position of a son, He could not complain.
Overall, it means he was in a position of asking, on the Father’s side, that they be forgiven. That is why Jesus was a filial son. There was no such man but Jesus. It means there was not one such woman. So Jesus must come again and find one such woman. Such a conclusion is drawn.
Therefore, in the midst of God and the human mind being bound by the relationship of love, substantial new sons and daughters appear. From there, God’s world, centering on the original love of creation, is achieved. That is why it says to love the enemy. Have you loved your enemy? And can you like him, or can you not?
To Make the Betrayer True
That is why Jesus sought and established three disciples, sought and established twelve disciples, established the people of Israel, and sought to govern the children of the enemy with the power of love. Only then does the name betrayer disappear from this earth. A place without betrayers is the heavenly kingdom. Therefore, the question is whether you will always, before a good mind, unravel the road of evil or expel evil. We must save the evil person.
That is why Jesus said,
“I came to save the sick, not to save the healthy. I came not to save the righteous but to save sinners.”
Without holding a mind that can sympathize with the position of a sinner, how can we love the children of the enemy? Therefore, it means one must always think standing in the other’s position.
Jesus too had to think from such a position. So how appalling it must have been! “Was not the Son of Man the son of God? Originally, ought I not to be in the position of God’s child? Then why has it become like this? Was I not originally the son of God? Then why has it become like this?”
Jesus had to examine that again. Although you ought to know how much Jesus lamented, knowing that he had lost such a world, you do not even know that. Since you do not know it, it means the responsibility of teaching you lies with me.
If one betrays after having been taught everything, one is a betrayer; but if one betrays from a position of not knowing because one was not taught, that is not betrayal. So not teaching is a sin.
That the Republic of Korea betrays too can be so because it does not know the Principle. Therefore, one must teach and then say they betray. But one must not teach wrongly. If one betrays, although one was taught clearly, one comes to receive judgment. One must love until one teaches. One must love more than oneself. God has been conducting such a providential history even at the cost of Himself.
Because Jesus died through Israel, he comes again seeking the wretched Israel.
Because the Israel that God stood on the side of and led went wrong, Jesus cannot but come again to Israel. That is, it means there remains a foundation on which he can come again, centering on Christianity, the Second Israel. If he had cast away everything of this earth and departed, he could not come.
Accordingly, because you know such content, which is the hope of humankind, we absolutely will not perish. If God withdrew the Will of providence, we would perish, but because He does not do so, we absolutely will not perish. Therefore, one must be concerned a hundred percent, standing in the other’s position. It means there is a reason for everything the other does.
When I was in prison, I was together with prisoners who had received the death sentence. When one talks with them, all of them say they did so from their own wretched positions. It can be so. Looking at the human being itself, it can be so. But the direction was different. If one only clarifies the position in which the direction became different, one can turn around.
Knowing such content, to make the betrayer true, you must become people who, holding within your minds the heart (심정) of True Parents standing in a position of love, can understand the other’s position from the position of a true son. You must know that by doing so, one can escape the position of the betrayer, and hereafter you must go on devoting sincerity in that respect.
Loving the enemy is for you the greatest fight. Even in witnessing, one must do it holding such a mind. A person who has crossed over that absolutely will not perish. If one were to make such a person go hungry, that village perishes. On the other hand, where such a person goes, an enemy without fail appears. It means he is tested to see whether he is really such a person. When he passes that test, it is made clear that he is a good person.
When one enters the Unification Church, there are enemies of the individual, enemies of the family, enemies of the clan, and enemies of the people. And these days the world is the enemy. In the American administration, the Teacher is now an issue. He has become an issue worldwide. It means that Japan and every country in the world are all making an issue of me. The Teacher has become a man of controversy. Externally, this may catch up with them, but internally it does not catch up.
However much they treat the world as the result that appears externally as an enemy, that flows away. However much they may say this and that, in the world of the heart (심정), it is they who perish, not I.
Move from the Satanic World to the Heavenly World
Because this is without error, the Teacher prayed before the White House in that sense. Do you understand what this means? I cannot tell you the content of that prayer, but it was not a prayer that America should perish.
If you would go this road, the question is how you must set yourselves in order. You must gather your minds once again and go forward fighting.
If one is to move house, one puts one’s things in order and then packs the bundles and moves, does one not? Likewise, it means one must put everything in order and move. A person who lives in the world of death perishes. So one must move. Where must one move to? One must go from the satanic world to the heavenly world. And into God’s kingdom, one must cast away all the trivial things and take only the good things.
I'm going to be married; would it do to take things the husband dislikes?
It means one must take what the husband likes. Likewise, when moving house too, one must take only good things. Only then does the time come when one can leave behind the history of the betrayer and go to the heavenly kingdom and live very joyfully.