The Corporeal World and the Incorporeal World Section

Beloved Heavenly Father, I thank You for the grace by which You have protected me since childhood, as I fought to prevent the possibility that Heaven might suffer the shame of humiliation.

Among all the good things on this earth, nothing can be more precious than connecting to your original heart. We must yearn infinitely for that relationship.

We must realize that those who experience Your love will find themselves in a place where they could forfeit everything else in this world without feeling any regret. We must prepare today on earth for the day of our birth as liberated children who are endowed with the right to be free in our third life.

Loving Father, to greet the new spring, we know that we must be completely absorbed in our destined relationship with You, and we must attain perfect harmony with You in our lives.

Only thus can we greet spring and bloom as beautiful blossoms. We must not become pitiful souls who, when asked whether we ever greeted a spring in our lives, are unable to reply in the affirmative.

Father, help us to understand that those who lack the heart to attend You and bow down humbly to You will be unable to have a connection to You in that eternal world.

Let us open the doors of our hearts to feel Your heart; let us today hear Your voice welling up from the depths of our hearts so that we may regain our lost selves. Help us to appreciate Your historical course of toil and trouble to find each one of us, that we may humbly bow our heads before You.

Understanding death

On Earth, we have parents, teachers, and relatives. We have ways to establish such relationships on the earth, but not in the spirit world. In the spirit world, everyone lives for the whole, with God at the center.

All positions are differentiated. Thus, those in a higher position cannot descend to a lower position, and it is difficult for those in lower positions to go to higher positions.

Originally, we were to have gone to the spirit world only after becoming perfected while on earth. Once we enter that world, there is no returning to the physical world. Everyone is destined to die.

Our life course is too short. Life is too short. Even a life span of eighty years is too short. It is not even eight hours in spirit world time. In terms of the concept of time in the eternal world, it’s not even eight hours.

That is why the power of true love is great. True love transcends time and space and moves at a speed that is beyond our comprehension.

There is no doubt that the spirit world exists. It surely exists, and since we were born from the spirit world, we must return there. There is an interesting phrase in Korean, toraganda (meaning “to go back” and also meaning “to die”).

Where do we go back?

Going to a cemetery cannot be considered going back. We go back to our place of origin. We didn’t start in a cemetery. The phrase implies that we go back beyond the most distant origins of history. It means to return across the vast expanses of history, even beyond its origin.

For a person to “go back” does not mean that if he is born as a Korean, he then goes back as a Korean. Although you may be Korean when you die, the place you go back to is the original world of our human ancestors.

What does this mean?

It means that, if there is a Creator, we will go back to the place where this Creator resides. That is where we came from, so that is where we return.

The universe is engaged in circular motion. When the snow on the mountains melts, it flows down through narrow valleys and many streams and rivers into the ocean.

Once it is in the ocean, it evaporates and returns to the air to complete its cycle. Everything circulates. Similarly, when we go back, where do we return? We go back to a place where we can be higher, a place where we can be happier. No one wants to become smaller.

All the laws of motion of the natural world, however, dictate that things diminish through work. Wherever there is work, things diminish. When we roll something, it will not keep rolling forever. It starts fast and then slows down and finally stops.

We live in this world, yet it is not the only world that exists. There is also the spirit world. This earthly world and the spirit world are not two completely separate worlds. They are connected as one world.

Then, where is the place where we are to go, the place where we are to live?

Of course, we are on earth now, living in our physical bodies; however, we are moving toward the eternal world. We are born into this world; we pass through our teens, twenties, thirties, middle age, and then old age.

When we pass the time of our youth and enter middle age, we pass over one hill, and then eventually we go into old age. Finally, we end our lives just like the setting sun.

People who know the existence of the spirit world, however, realize that a lifetime is only a fleeting moment, and that an eternal world awaits us after death. For this reason, they live their lives on earth in such a way as to prepare themselves for that world of eternity.

The word “death” invites understanding of the meaning of life. Who knows the value of life well? Those who seek to live do not.

The true value of life can be known only by someone who has risked his life to stand at the crossroads of life and death and, while clinging to Heaven, has desperately implored to be shown the value of life.

That being the case, would people welcome death or not?

They would welcome it. If you are about to die, and someone asks you what you are dying for, you would be able to answer: “I am dying for the sake of God’s true love.” We discard our physical bodies to participate in the realm of activity of God’s infinite love and for the sake of God’s world of love.

To die physically is to be born in God’s love. That is why we hear people in this physical world sometimes saying in exaggeration, “Oh, I believe I will die.” Death is meant to be a moment of joy; it is the moment when we go from a realm of limited love to a realm of infinite love. Therefore, the moment of death is the moment of our second birth.

Would God be more joyful on the day of your birth into your physical body, or on the day you are born as a child who is to act for the sake of love in the second, infinite world? You might wonder why I talk about such things.

It is because we cannot establish a relationship with God without liberating ourselves from the fear of death.

The three stages of our lives

People go through the stages of formation, growth, and completion during their lives. We go through the realm of water in our mother’s womb, then the realm of the earthly world on planet Earth, and finally the aerial realm in heaven.

In other words, people go through three periods: the period of water in the womb, the period of being born and living a hundred years on this earth, and then the period of flying in the aerial world.

People are born in the depths of water. The period in the womb is the period of existence in water. When the fetus is inside the mother’s womb, it is floating in fluid. It has to breathe in and exhale the fluid, and it lives by way of a hose connected to its mother’s womb. How is a fetus supplied with nutrients? It is supplied through the navel.

The navel functions as its mouth. So we must not be disdainful of our navel. Pat your navel and say, “Belly button, thanks for your hard work a long time ago.” Pat your navel often; it will be good for your health. Do it as an exercise. If you exercise this way often, it will make you healthier.

Even when you sleep in a cold room, if you cover your navel, you won’t get diarrhea. In the womb, your navel is your mouth. At the time of birth, your breathing organ moves upward from the navel.

What’s the next month?

It is the mouth that you use for eating. It has moved upward.

Eventually, what do we do with the umbilical cord attached to the navel? We cut it off. Similarly, during our life on earth, the spirit is attached to the physical body, like the embryo in the womb, and feeds off the physical body.

When the physical body grows old, the spirit discards the physical body and goes out on its own. By fundamental principles and laws, the spirit must be reborn as a person who can relate to the eternal God, its spiritual Parent. After being born into the earthly world, a baby becomes friends with its father and mother.

We are born into the earthly world, where we can share love with our fathers and mothers. Similarly, we eventually must be born again into the spirit world, where we can share love with God, our Parent, who connects us to the world of spirit that has no bounds.

What do we need after coming out of the womb? It is not just air, food, and water; it is love. We need to receive elements of love. We cannot be fed only food. If food is the only thing you take in, you will start to die.

You need to prepare for the next stage of your life. So, what do you need to fill yourself with during your life on earth? You must form a new character by filling yourself with love during this period.

What you need on earth is love. Why do you call a child who lives without the love of a father and mother an “orphan?” It is because the child does not receive parental love during their lifetime that they can connect him or her eternally to the spirit world. This is also the reason we feel pity for people who live alone without marrying.

After our physical death, which is the destruction of the body that has been breathing air on earth, the second breathing we begin breathing elements of love. Love is invisible. While we are on earth, our internal self, our spirit, grows through the love we receive from our parents and our spouse.

That is why, just as an embryo develops in the womb by God’s law so that it grows to become a healthy baby, our spirit must develop within our physical body in this earthly world as by he was the heavenly principle.

Dragonflies begin their lives by swimming in water during their larval stage, then come up to the surface and crawl about for a while. Finally, they can fly around and prey on bugs they never would have imagined eating when they were crawling on the ground. They flutter about freely, thinking the whole universe is their stage.

Many insects go through these three stages of life. In general, insects have wings. They go through their lives living in the water, on land, and in the air. Yet do human beings, who are called the lords of creation, have wings?

We have a set of wings that are of a higher dimension. Death is the blessed gateway to our second birth. What is the meaning of death? Earthly life, the time of living in air, parallels the time of swimming in the womb.

We are living in a wrapping cloth of air. Death is nothing special; it is only our rebirth into the third life. That moment of transition is what we call death.

The central point between the two worlds

I imagine you must be very curious about the spirit world. There are many religions in the world; their purpose is to guide us to the world of eternal life, where we can live together with God.

That eternal spirit world is the destination of religion. However, what has become of religion today? It is on the decline. We have entered an era in which people are concluding that religion is a man-made moral idea, appealing only to the weak and unnecessary for everyone else.

Even Christianity, the central religion, has declined. America represents all the Christian nations of the world, yet many people who grew up in American Christian homes have lost their faith and are living according to their ways.

Why are even Christians abandoning their religion, which idealizes Heaven, the dwelling place of God, who is the center of the world and all ideals?

There are three reasons. First, we do not clearly understand the existence of the spirit world. We have the innate capacity of comparison, and we naturally seek to abandon a bad situation in favor of a better one.

If we understood the higher-dimensional realms of greater value in the spirit world, we would seek them out. This is original human nature.

Second, we do not know God. Our connection with God was severed as a result of the Fall, and we have been living as orphans.

Third, we do not grasp the central importance of love, which binds us to both God and the spirit world. We do not know these three points. Even those who know of God and the spirit world do not fully understand that it is a world centered on love.

In a place of love, you are happy to go up or down and even to stay in the middle. Does a wife dislike her husband if he has a higher position in society than she does? Does a husband dislike his wife if her social standing is lower than his?

When you are one with each other, you can go anywhere, from below to above, from above to below; you can even stay in the middle. There are no restraints. This is the reason that many people in the world are saying, “This world needs to become one. It ought to be united. It must become a world of peace.”

It is the same for both the spirit world and the earthly world, and spiritual and physical beings. God and His love are central to both worlds. But fallen people do not recognize this.

We have a mind and a body, and there are differences between these two. They exist in different dimensions. The mind differs from the spirit world. We speak of the spirit and earthly worlds in terms of God’s love. Accordingly, for these two to create oneness, God must be involved. Without God’s love, the spirit world cannot exist. It is linked to God.

People may be confused and think that the mind is the spirit. The mind is not a part of the spirit world. Due to the Fall, the mind does not have a relationship with the spirit world. It may be easier for you to understand if you think of the mind of fallen human beings as a person who has no bones in their body.

The mind of a fallen person has a form like a human body that has no bones. The spirit has a body-like element and a mind-like element. The part that is like the mind of the spirit is immersed in the spirit world. It always maintains a relationship with God.

The mind-like element of the spirit does not come into being without a relationship with God. It is important to understand that spirit and mind are two different things.

The fallen mind has no relationship with God. He has departed from it. God can neither relate to the fallen mind nor exercise His direct dominion over it. Your mind changes, going one way and then another, but spirit beings are not like this, nor is the spirit world.

They have one eternal goal, toward goodness, and move steadily in that direction. Why is this so? It is because spiritually mature beings stand on God’s side. The mind that resides within us as fallen human beings vacillates.

What is the spirit mind?

I am sure you know this from the Divine Principle.

It is the union of mind and spirit, and it is moving toward a new goal. It is a motivational mind, which makes it possible for us to become our ideal selves by uniting with our conscience, centered on God. Without a spirit mind, we would be unable to connect to the spirit world or true love.

When the spirit mind sprouts up in us, our body is happy to unite with it. Everything automatically begins to unite. The biggest problem for people until now has been the separation of our mind and body.

However, when spiritual energy dwells within us and engenders the awakening of our spirit, our mind, and body naturally unite. Unless this type of revolution occurs, unless we discover the origin that can rectify everything from the root, we have no way to find the ideal.

There is no result without a motivating cause. The purpose of religion is to implant a spiritual mind within us. There are many religions centered on the spirit mind. These appear in all sorts of different forms.

God is a majestic being, central to both the spiritual and earthly worlds, which are meant to become as one. Because true love was never manifested, the spirit world and physical world could not become as one body. This caused the separation between the human mind and body.

Furthermore, because true love was never established, there is a separation between religion and politics. Everything comes together as one when true love is at the center.

Everything – the individual, family, society, nation, world, and cosmos – is linked. We have to make it so with our hands. Otherwise, we cannot inherit God’s original kingdom in heaven and on earth.

How do we bring about harmony between the spirit and earthly worlds?

We have to unite them with true love. Eighty percent of the world’s population does not know about the spirit world. Even some religious believers are not sure whether there is a spirit world or if God exists.

However, the spirit world does exist. If there were a wealthy man who was willing to invest his entire fortune in creating a place of happiness for himself, we can imagine what a wonderful garden he would build.

Then what kind of place would God, the Creator of heaven and earth, create as His dwelling place?

The spirit world is a world of beauty beyond our imagination. You could stare at just one part of it for a thousand years and never grow tired of it. The world’s most prized possessions are nothing in comparison to the spirit world.

Therefore, I would rather not own things on this earth. If you were to force me to say which I would prefer, I would say this earthly world does not conform to my purpose, and I would rather go to the spirit world.

Most people do not think about the spirit world. They were born, so they live with their parents and take care of their families. They think they will just go on living the life they were born to.

What is at the center of such lives?

It is all about eating and supporting themselves. People consider food, shelter, and clothing to be the most important things in life.

How to support themselves, how to feed themselves, how to clothe themselves – these are the central issues for most people. Of course, human relationships include aspects of morality that enable people to improve, develop and find satisfaction together.

The standard of that morality varies, however, among different races and nations. Moral standards and social systems all vary by the world’s diverse cultural backgrounds.

From this perspective, we see that there is a huge difference between the original vision and the standard that God wants us to attain, and the standard of ethics and morality that people today set for themselves.

This must be corrected. Where are we supposed to go after being born and living our lives here, based on the original standard? People are not clear about this; they do not know whether there is a spirit world and whether God exists.

However, people who have studied the Principle know that the spirit world exists. They do not just believe it; they know it. Why is this? They know it through countless spiritual experiences.

The global foundation of the Unification Church was built through a process that included many spiritual experiences. People who know the Principle are in a position where they cannot say that the spirit world does not exist.

Once we know the Principle, what path do we follow? We must follow the path that God desires for us, the path of His Will.

But what is God’s Will?

There is a path for an individual and a path for a family. There are also paths for the society, nation, world, and spirit world. I am the expert on this. The spirit world exists.

Why is it important that we know of the existence of God and the spirit world?

Some people may think that, even if God exists, they have nothing to do with Him, but they are mistaken.

To say, “Even if there is a spirit world, it has nothing to do with me,” would be like a person claiming he is a member of a family, but does not need his country or the world.

If there were a greater God and a bigger spirit world, we would surely want to have a relationship with those greater entities. But just having a relationship is not enough. What would we do once we had a relationship? We would have to unite and move together toward the same goal.

The Apostle Paul’s experience of seeing the third heaven of the spirit world became the driving force empowering him in his missionary activities for fourteen years. Do you understand this? You need to have such experiences. The same is true for me.

I do not fear death.

What made me this way?

Love did. No matter how many times I am put in jail, I can digest all that, just as I have digested and overcome all the opposition that has surrounded me. I am overcoming all this with my hands.

How the spirit world was created

The spirit world is equivalent to the angelic world. About the spirit world, our world today is in the same position as at the time of Adam and Eve. God created the spirit world before creating Adam and Eve.

Since Satan’s world came to exist because the spirit world went against God’s Will, that world will be restored only after it welcomes God’s Will. Furthermore, the Lord cannot come to the earthly world until the spirit world is subjugated.

That is why members of the Unification Church have worked tirelessly until today to end the discord with the spirit world, and, consequently, the spirit world has been helping the Unification Church.

Where is the spirit world?

It is in your bodies. You go around carrying the spirit world on your shoulders, attending to it. There is no escaping it.

The spirit world certainly exists. It exists for this physical world, and this world exists for the sake of the eternal world. People may ask, “Where in the world is God? Can there be a God in this world?

Where is the spirit world?” God’s dwelling place is the spirit world.

If, after seventy or eighty years on earth, that were the end of our life, we really would have nothing to worry about. But since we will be living eternally, it is a different story.

So, if we agree that the spirit world exists and that we will go there after death, what will we take along when we go there? Those who have not practiced true love in their lifetimes will not adjust well in the spirit world.

The spirit world is vast. You may not know this, but it is a vast world without boundaries. The contemporary interest in electricity and space exploration will open people’s minds to the idea of an ideal world of love.

The vast spirit world is filled with the electricity of love. With the electricity of love, there is nothing we cannot do. Hence, we can say that the spirit world is a realm we are meant to govern through our thoughts and feelings.

Then what is the spirit world? It is a place made up of that which is eternal. It is the world of harmony, where everything is filled with love. Thus, this universe goes into operation just by the push of a love button.

What is God’s kingdom on earth?

It is the place where all the valves of love can be opened. Then what about the kingdom of God in heaven? It is the place where all the valves of true love can be opened.

All you have to do is maintain a loving heart and tug on the rope of love, and everything will come to you. When you push it back, it goes backward; when you pull it sideways, it moves sideways. You can steer it any way you like. It does not resist; it moves automatically.

So we arrive at the concept that the spirit world is a place filled with the air of love. If the God of love wants to feed all humanity at once and to make us happy, says, “Let there be food,” then food will appear. You eat the food of love in the spirit world.

People look at each other with eyes of love. There are no words to express the mystery of the spirit world. The more you hear, the more you want to hear. There is no concept of being sleepy or tired.

The spirit world is a place filled with the electricity of love. People today try to link everything to love. Why is that? This is to be in rhythm with the spirit world. Since the spirit world operates in this way, existing beings naturally respond to it. They cannot abandon that position.

When you see me in your dreams, I appear to you through the waves of God’s love.

For that to happen, there can be no self. You need to create a vacuum and then a realm of resonance.

You become like pure gold, which has low resistance. Why do we consider gold to be treasure? Gold is up, it does not contain any other elements, and it has a low level of resistance. You need to become pure gold.