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1. Based on the conditions that I have made, the era of restoration through indemnity will pass away. Now is the time to establish balance in the structure of the kingdom of heaven, based on the laws and principles of Cheon II Guk.
It is not the same as it was in the past. Since the family is the origin of the kingdom of heaven, we have to restructure everything based on the family.
(370-149, 2002.02.19)
Now we are in the era of the rule of heavenly law
2. I established the path, the heavenly way, by going through so many hardships, even gaining Satan's submission. If a tribe, a family, or an individual trifles with this way of heaven, it is unforgivable.
Heaven's nation needs its constitution and laws. We need to resolve God's bitter sorrow, which has built up for tens of thousands of years. This requires a nation. (323-147, 2000.06.01)
3. Once God's kingship is established, there will be no more room to tolerate injustice. When wrongdoing takes place, the punishment will be immediate.
Because the era of couples will come, centering on the constitution of the heavenly nation, the time of praying to God, to the Savior, and to the True Parents will pass.
I assume you know well how to reach individual perfection and how to attain unity within the family. If you say you are still not clear about it, it means you have not truly accepted what I have taught thus far. Be that as it may, when we establish a nation, set its constitution and laws, and form government departments handling different areas, ignorance of your responsibility will not exonerate you.
You must clearly understand that you cannot attain perfection based on the conditions you made during the providence of restoration; you can attain perfection only by abiding by the law.
Only by this can you reach perfection. In my eyes, there is no law of indemnity; nonetheless, you have to keep Heaven's laws for at least two generations to go over the peak to reach perfection.
Belief alone cannot take you there. You have to abide by these laws. Every relationship has its laws. The parent-child relationship has its laws; the relationship between husband and wife has its laws, and the relationship between brothers and sisters has its laws. You should examine yourself every day whether you are living up to them. (356-091, 2001.10.09)
4. For Heaven's nation to exist, it must have Heaven's constitution. If it takes the form of a nation-state, the constitution written for it will include provisions about sovereignty, land, and citizens. But in reality, can we find a territory today that God governs? What about God's sovereignty or God's citizens?
These are not to be found. Who, then, has been entrusted with the mission to bring these into being? God has entrusted this work to the returning Lord, the True Parents.
Since the first ancestors, who should have been the True Parents, lost the world-level foundation, I have to surpass that standard. I must establish the sovereignty of God's love and proclaim it. I have to proclaim a world united under God. (300-110, 1999.03.02)
5. The revolutionary task remains the task of shortening the period about everything over which God has been agonizing. It requires serious action based on True Parents' governing authority. You cannot imagine how complex it is.
That is why you need to know how to resolve the issues facing the nations on earth. We need to write a constitution that can govern Heaven's nation here on earth. We must set conditions to accomplish liberation on earth. (325-160, 2000.07.01)
6. What is humanity's hope? Fallen humanity's ultimate hope is to stand at the final global frontline. It is to usher in the day we can triumph on the frontline and, with the authority gained from that victory, return the world to God. Following this, our hope turns to welcoming the day when God will say, “Well done! Since you recovered it and realized it, it is yours!”
It is to see the day when we again receive it from Him, with His blessings and His love. When this happens, each person will regard the entire world as “my country and my land,” regard the people of the world as “my people,” and regard the sovereignty of the world as “my sovereignty.”
When everyone comes forward having this sovereignty, we will have the opportunity to form one law and one constitution and establish a new system of social life. Life in the kingdom of heaven can finally start from that point; it is there that we should live. (066-285, 1973.05.16)
7. Adam and Eve have to become one with God. Then, with love, they have to substantiate the start of the hometown of love. This hometown of love should be the foundation where new couples, united in God's love, give birth to new children and form families.
Next, these families should expand to tribes and then to a people. We need to form a people; then centering on that people we should complete the kingdom of heaven on earth that can be governed by the constitution of Heaven'nation. True love is the foundation for the constitution of God's kingdom. (164-250, 1987.05.17)
8. If God were to make a constitution, He would make one that protects and upholds love. Such will be the constitution of the heavenly kingdom. Politics will serve the purpose of putting its laws into practice for governing the kingdom. It will be simple and logical. (104-169, 1979.05.01)
9. The constitution of the heavenly kingdom must be composed to completely sustain the life of the individual as well as to enable families, societies, and nations to move forward and reach their fullest potential without being encroached upon.
It is to establish laws that protect and sustain the views of life of God's sons and daughters on the individual level, the family level, the national level, the world level, and the cosmic level. That will be the constitution of the heavenly kingdom that God desires to see. (065-195, 1972.11.19)
10. Among the heavenly constitution's laws, the very first is to love God more than you love yourself. The second is to love your brothers and sisters, whom God loves, more than you love yourself.
From the moment of your birth to wherever you go in the spirit world, if you are a person who stands in that position, no one can stop you. The Fall stained this foundation; therefore I have worked to repair it by striving to unite the world on the foundation of the mainstream Christian cultural sphere. (195-136, 1989.11.07)
11. The constitution of God's kingdom could not be presented because that kingdom did not exist. However, now that the era has arrived to usher in God's kingdom, we can establish its constitution and laws.
If we live by its constitution and laws while on earth, the gates will open before us without any problem when we go to the spirit world. Conversely, if we do not live by it, in the spirit world we will be blocked every step of the way.
(336-170, 2000.10.11)
12. The era of governance by the laws of the constitution of Heaven's nation has come. When Adam and Eve fell, they immediately plummeted into hell. Now, however, I have promulgated the three fundamental laws of Heaven's nation, which are the core of the constitution.
The time has come to live by Heaven's laws, not by the providence of salvation based on less-than-perfect love. Only when we abide by the laws of the kingdom of heaven can we attain perfection? (395-092, 2002.10.16)
13. God's love means that the individual sacrifices to find and establish a love for the family, the family sacrifices to find and establish a love for the tribe, the tribe sacrifices to find and establish a love for a people, the people sacrifices to find and establish a love for the world, and the world sacrifices to find and establish a love for the cosmos.
This principle of the cosmos, of heaven and earth, is systematic. It is through this way of love, of sacrifice extending throughout the cosmos, that we will liberate God. God's advancement must be based on this law, which is principled and logical, and so God instituted this way using His constitution.
(126-278, 1983.04.24)
14. Our goal is to institute the constitution of the heavenly kingdom. The constitution of the heavenly kingdom must also be apparent in the norms by which we live. It has to be instituted.
There must come a day when we can proclaim it to all nations and heaven and earth. Instituting this constitution will establish the laws and the system of individual life and society. (066-298, 1973.05.16)
15. I know how fearful Heaven's constitution and Heaven's laws can be. That is why I have gone on a straight path of indescribable ordeal to not run afoul of those laws. I did not walk that path because I was foolish or because I was not as smart as you. I chose to follow this path because I clearly understood what was at stake. (280-324, 1997.02.13)
16. Once we can establish God's nation on earth, everything will be governed by its constitution. Through the True Parents, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, God will present and enact the constitution of heaven and earth.
It will not consist of laws rooted in life on earth but of laws rooted in the heavenly kingdom in the ideal eternal world. We will be able to train ourselves by these laws while we are on earth. In a word, we cannot live a self-centered life.
(324-305, 2000.06.26)
17. God's nation does not yet exist on this planet Earth. However, as we continue marching on the way, once the variety of races love their enemies and thus the world becomes one, without fighting among tribes and peoples, we can complete the restoration of God's homeland.
The day that follows the restoration of God's homeland, when Heaven's constitution is proclaimed, will become the greatest day. It will be celebrated for eternity, and no other force will occupy us, ever. (107-026, 1980.02.21)
18. When you bring 160 families to unite with you, the era of registration will come. It is similar to the way it is now: your birth is registered, your marriage is registered, and your death is registered.
With the founding of God's nation, we have to formulate its constitution with a system of basic laws that govern it based on family registries. One qualification for registration in that nation is to know its mother tongue.
Accordingly, you have to assimilate True Parents' culture into your language, lifestyle, and home environment, and create a family of the form that represents the world of the culture of heart. Lacking this, you are not qualified to register in the kingdom of heaven. (276-218, 1996.02.24)
19. You need to abide by the laws of the heavenly kingdom and respect the protocols of the palace. From now, you need to prepare in every way for the world in which South and North Korea are unified. You still need more training because on that day, when the era of registration arrives, not everyone will have earned the right to enter.
When that day comes, registering in God's kingdom will be more demanding than the course to become a professor by graduating from college and earning a doctorate. To succeed, you have to organize, in your generation, all members of your tribe throughout history. The spirit world and physical world will appraise the degree to which you have done so. (210-370, 1990.12.27)
20. No existing laws will endure unless they align with Heaven's law. That is why I am trying to make laws based on Heaven's law. I am trying to uphold Heaven's law, not human law. I am trying to establish Heaven's rights, not the human rights that you think you need.
You ask for human rights, but I am not referring to human rights as in, for example, French rights in France and Korean rights in Korea, I am trying to establish human rights in the context of the Fourth Israel.
It is not where enemies fight, but where former enemies put their heads together and say, “Let's marry your daughter to my son, and my daughter to your son!”
Their ideas make each other joyful. Only such people can protect the sovereignty of the heavenly kingdom. (418-031, 2003.09.14)
Heaven's textbook for children
21. What is God's bitter grief? His first bitter grief is about not having created His textbook for children. His second bitter grief is about not having created His textbook for siblings.
His third bitter grief is about not having created His textbook for couples. His fourth bitter grief is about not having created His textbook for his parents. Not being able to create these textbooks, which can teach the four realms of heart to educate humanity, has been God's bitter grief.
If God had been able to teach us everything necessary to walk the path of life, today's misery would not have come about. God sees all this misery and laments not being able to take charge of Himself to educate humanity.
God has come all the way here to usher in the day He when He can teach us. We can form the new nation of God and become its citizens only when we have achieved a passing grade in these educational principles.
In other words, the new nation can be established only when we have become individuals and formed families, tribes, and countries that can liberate God's bitter grief. (225-215, 1992.01.20)
22. God could not set up His textbook for children, and this led Him to feel bitter grief. Therefore, I am now making a Heavens textbook for children. Then, in front of the Parent, what kind of thoughts should the children have? When Adam looks at Eve, he should not see only Eve.
Eve was created because of God. If Eve had become a true parent, she could have given birth to true sons and daughters. If Adam and Eve had become true parents, their children would have become true children. True children are born of the vertical God and horizontal true parents. (225-215, 1992.01.20)
23. You must guard well three kinds of love: your love for God, your love for true parents, and your love for your future spouse. Can you casually treat these relationships based on your whims?
If you strike any of these kinds of love and cause damage, you are damaging God and your parents; moreover, you are damaging your future love partner. You have to relate to your partners with great love. This is the teaching of the textbook and the formula of love that God's children need to keep.
Resenting your brother or sister is the same as resenting God and your parents. It is also an act of denying and destroying the realm of your future partner. It is the same as detaching yourself from love.
Hence, doing this is an offense against God and also against your parents and the entire creation. Anyone who does stands as an enemy to God, True Parents, and the entire creation.
God could not educate Adam and Eve to live according to this way. Yet, this is the standard of the principle within Heaven's textbook for children, which can liberate God's bitter grief. Thus, brothers and sisters ought to be good to one another. They should live this way in front of God and the creation, with the Parents at the center. (225-216, 1992.01.20)
24. In terms of the left and right sides, let's say we call the right side plus and the left side minus. Then the right side represents man and the left side represents woman. We can also say that heaven represents man and earth represents woman. In the context of front and back, the front represents man and the back represents woman.
Therefore, do not disregard the reciprocal conditions that accomplish the ideal of the sphere. If you disregard this relationship, not only God and other people will dislike you; even the creation will dislike you.
Therefore, we recognize the need for extensive education because troubles arise when we disregard our relationship with our partner.
God desires to teach us this content from His textbook. Eve has God the Parent with her and her love partner with her. Adam stands in a complementary position. Based upon these relationships, Adam and Eve give birth to children on behalf of God, their Parent.
The sons and daughters born from them are not only their children; they are children who represent the entire universe and who have the qualification to be its owners.
From this perspective, the first thing you as parents need to do is to thoroughly educate your children to center on the three kinds of love. (225-216, 1992.01.20)
25. Second, you should have more interest in the welfare of others than in your welfare. How can you carry this out in daily life? If you would rather not stain yourself and go to the wrong place, you should love your siblings and children more than yourself.
That is, you should devote your main attention to others and treat others better than you treat yourself. In the family, siblings tend to fight to get the best things, right? Younger siblings should wait for their older siblings to arrive.
Younger siblings should give the best portion to their older siblings and then choose their portion. The youngest among the siblings should wait and take the last.
From the time you carry your baby on your back singing lullabies, teach him or her lessons from the textbook about this order. Both father and mother have to teach their children to relate to one another in this manner. (225-217, 1992.01.20)
26. Third, you should cherish your children as most precious. This is because the experience of the ideal love starts with the children, not the parents. What you seek as love does not necessarily start with your spouse. A couple is one man and one woman born from different parents and brought together.
Then where does the experience of ideal love begin? It begins with your children. God created Adam and Eve as the object partners of love. Thus, in front of God, they were supposed to manifest the love of the object partner for each other and then give back to Him the fruit born of that love – children.
Thus, the experience of ideal love does not start with the parents, but from their children. To repeat, ideal love starts with your children. It is parental love that makes parents love their children. The motivation for initiating that love is not for themselves but for their children.
That is why anyone who loves should love all people just as they love their children. We arrive at this conclusion. A person who loves all people like that loves in the same manner as God. This means that he or she stands in a position representing the Heavenly Parent. (225-217, 1992.01.20)
Heaven's textbook for siblings
27. First, siblings should live for the sake of each other because they represent the horizontal world. True love starts from living for the sake of others. When two meet, a circular movement commences when one side gives to the other side and the other side reciprocates.
When circular movement occurs, an ideal realm is formed. Why should siblings cherish one another? The dynamics among siblings expand to the world, while the dynamics between parents and children are vertical.
Sibling relationships expand love horizontally, so loving siblings is the same as loving the world. The idea that all people are equal arises out of the ideal of love for all one's siblings. This is to take a global perspective. Sibling love starts from one axis and expands. (225-218, 1992.01.20)
28. The second point concerns the interconnection between my parents, my siblings, and me. When you call out, “Older brother!” you presuppose that your parents' love and your other siblings' love are included in his love.
Originally, older and younger siblings were meant to be undivided in love, and that love was meant to expand horizontally from older to younger. In other words, my older siblings stand in the position of pioneers for me. The path a man follows to expand his horizons is to unite with a woman in the future.
The path a woman follows, which leads her to become one with a man through love, expands his horizons further. This applies to both. Their paths on the left and the right serve to expand each other's scope of activity. When your siblings expand the scope of activities of their love, it is to your benefit.
Although what your older brother possesses may have nothing to do with you, if his scope expands, so will yours. That is why those who love their siblings will come to expand the scope of their activities. It is an old saying that a person's horizons widen if he or she has numerous siblings. In this way, sibling love can expand to the world.
This does not happen with children's love, but it does with sibling love. With sibling love, you can pioneer to the world level. You should treat your older siblings, who pioneer a path for you, as people who combine love for the future with the love of your parents and their sibling love. Sibling love is the path to pioneer love of ever-greater scope for the future. (225-219, 1992.01.20)
29. Third, when you live for the sake of others with siblings' love, you can engage in love on the world level. A reason to love your siblings is to expand the scope of your activities to the world level and recover the world. In addition, by expanding your horizontal foundation, you become a central person.
Upon this expansive horizontal foundation, in time you are to become a husband or wife. Then you and your spouse can unite with the vertical standard, God, and eventually embody that Central Being.
By oneness with the Central Being, the two of you enter a place where you can exist forever. In other words, by direct vertical oneness with God's world, you can advance to the realm of substantial oneness. (225-220, 1992.01.20)
Heaven's textbook for couples
30. First, to have conjugal love, you need to inherit the love of your parents and then go through the stages of filial love and sibling love. To become a true couple, the husband, and wife have to first experience these three stages of love. A person who does not pass through the stages of filial love and sibling love cannot succeed in loving as a couple.
Only after passing through these three stages of love, that is, only by inheriting your parents' love and then growing in filial love and sibling love can you achieve conjugal love as a true couple. Only after a man and woman have each fulfilled the duties of children and siblings can they join as a true couple.
Then they reach the stage of loving each other as husband and wife. After learning filial love and sibling love, they should become one in heart and body as husband and wife. This is marriage.
The purpose of marriage is for the woman to occupy the world of men, the man to occupy the world of women, and both to occupy the world of God. Why must we occupy God?
It is so we can stand in the position of creators in the Creator's stead. If we are to multiply God's children, there is no alternative but to occupy God. This teaching is based on the Principle of Creation. (225-220, 1992.01.20)
31. Second, through conjugal love, you can bring about the virtuous union of heaven and earth by uniting the east and west, above and below, and front and back. A couple manifests the union of East and West.
It represents the union of above and below, front and back, and heaven and earth. In other words, a couple establishes a virtuous union that harmonizes heaven and earth. From God's perspective, this is the foundation for realizing His wishes. (225-221, 1992.01.20)
32. Third, God, Adam, and Eve have to attain a virtuous union. God is vertical, while Adam and Eve are related horizontally. A settlement can be established only when the vertical God and horizontal Adam and Eve become one.
That is, God can fully settle only when, centering on His original internal character, Adam and Eve as His horizontal embodiments can come into union to manifest His original external form. That is when His settlement takes place. Yet as a result of the Fall, that did not happen.
The universe has no center today because it did not become one in accord with Heaven's textbook and did not settle in the ideal realm of perfect love. Hence, the new settlement of true love is needed. It will begin only after God, who is vertical, attains a virtuous union with Adam and Eve, who are horizontal.
(225-221, 1992.01.20)
33. Fourth, after a husband and wife settle in a virtuous union, they qualify to move to the position of parents, representing God. Through this settlement, they are no longer settlers but can emerge in the universe with the qualification of owners. (225-221, 1992.01.20)
Heaven's textbook for parents
34. First, by combining the love of parents, children, siblings, and husband and wife, parents advance to the position of second creators, multiply children, and inherit the kingship on earth, representing God.
The Fall disassociated the four kinds of love. Hence, once you as parents stand in the position of combining these four kinds of love, you can advance to the position, of second creators, who multiply children and inherit kingship on earth representing God.
You can establish the kingdom of God on earth, inheriting everything on earth based on the kingship of the heavenly kingdom. (225-222, 1992.01.20)
35. Second, as ideal families expand on earth, each becomes the ancestor of a tribe. By inheriting kingship and representing God on earth, the ideal family expands. Your family alone does not suffice; it has to expand.
Through expansion, you can become the ancestor of your tribe, in other words, a tribal messiah. (225-222, 1992.01.20)
36. Third, once you fulfill your responsibility as the ancestor of a tribe, you will establish kingship. How to fulfill this responsibility, and thereby establish kingship, is based on my teaching on tribal messiahship.
It explains how you can advance to a position of kingship or lordship based on your rights as the ancestor of your tribe. (225-222, 1992.01.20)
37. Fourth, you can establish kingship in the heavenly realm and kingship in the earthly realm through the virtuous union of heaven and earth.
Through this union of heaven and earth, we can form the kingdom of heaven on earth and the kingdom of heaven in heaven. Once the kingship in the heavenly realm and the kingship in the earthly realm begin, God's ideal for the creation of Adam will be complete. (225-223, 1992.01.20)
The Cheon II Guk Citizens' Covenant
38. Having been called citizens of Cheon II Guk, as we celebrate the Cheon Jeong Gung Entrance Ceremony and Coronation of the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and on Earth, we applaud the substantial launching of the era of the kingdom of the peaceful ideal world.
Honoring Heaven's mandate to the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, we pledge to complete, on Earth and in Heaven, the ideal world that God envisioned at the creation and solemnly swear: One, we pledge and swear that we will form a community that inherits Heaven's tradition.
For this, we will realize the culture of true heart and secure our identity as the people of Cheon II Guk by guiding, leading, and serving as models for our relatives and all people.
Two, we pledge and swear that we will form one sovereignty, one people, one land, and one culture centered on the victorious King and Queen of Peace, the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, and thereby establish the eternal kingdom of peace and prosperity.
Three, we pledge and swear that we will bring an end to the Era before the Coming of Heaven, stained with division and conflict, and become the vanguards who protect the new order and the peace of the Era after the Coming of Heaven, which God has opened, and thereby usher in the era of one global family.
Fourth, we pledge and swear that we will form one great cosmic family, God's ideal of creation, by attaining unity of body and mind, and thereby completing the eternal, ideal world of cosmic peace. (528-248, 2006.06.06)
Sun Myung Moon