The Dual Structure of Human Beings

1. Human beings were created with a dual structure. This dual structure consists of spirit and flesh, mind and body. When do they become one? You cannot fully unite the two as one merely by cultivating your mind and offering prayers, no matter how spiritually awakened you become.

The body has five major senses. The mind, including the spirit and the conscience, also has five senses. There is only one power that can bring the cells of these five external, physical senses and five internal, spiritual senses into oneness so that they resonate completely and are filled to the point of exploding.

That is God's love, which is the common denominator of everything in the universe. Without that love, unity between the mind and body is impossible.
(137-067, 1985.12.18)

2. In the relationship between our spirit and body, the spirit is the more important. The physical body continues for about a hundred years, and then it dies, but the spirit lives eternally, transcending time and space.

Regardless of how well people dress and how luxuriously they live on Earth, eventually, everyone dies. Accordingly, before passing into the spirit world we need to successfully harmonize the spiritual and physical standards and achieve, through our lifestyle, a perfect union of the spirit and the flesh.

That is, during our life in the limited earthly world, we have the responsibility to perfect our spirit within our body. (524-103, 2006.04.10)

3. Each of us has a spiritual self and a physical self. In the Unification Church, we refer to these as the spirit and the body. Originally, the spirit and the body are supposed to become one.

Ultimately, they have to become one. And at what place do they become one? At a place of resonance. This is like the vibration of a tuning fork. When you strike one prong, it produces a tone that resonates perfectly with the other. Like a tuning fork, our spirit and body also achieve unity through resonance.
(226-074, 1992.02.02)

4. When do the spirit self and the physical body become one? This is the question. When God's love comes into our hearts, our body automatically and actively reacts. It is not God's wisdom, ability,y or power but only His love that can bring us into a realm where our body and mind resonate in complete unity.

What is the one focus, the ideal standard, desired by your five physical sensory organs, such as your eyes and nose, as well as by your five spiritual sensory organs? It is neither God's power nor His wisdom. It is His love, the center, and the standard point of everything! (138-255, 1986.01.24)

5. When our spiritual and physical selves harmonize and resonate with each other in God's love, the spiritual cells and physical cells interact perfectly. When we open our eyes, and they are working perfectly, we can see everything throughout heaven and earth for the first time.

When we use a highly efficient microphone, our voice will ring out fully everywhere. Similarly, once our physical and spiritual selves become one and attain an explosive state through the power of love, that complete union emits light on the same wavelength as the heavenly world, the earthly world, and even God Himself. (171-103, 1987.12.13)

6. All created beings in this world exist in pairs based on the ideal of reciprocity. That is why the number two is so necessary, from the smallest being to the greatest. In human beings, an individual's mind and body must become one.

Then husband and wife have to become one, and then the spirit world and the physical world have to become one. From the beginning, these entities were meant to be united. (374-143, 2002.04.08)

7. Between the body and the spirit, the more important is the spirit. Our flesh lives for one hundred years within the limited realm of time and space before disappearing into nothing, but our spiritual body has the power to transcend both time and space.

Accordingly, our essential purpose is to recognize our historic responsibility and fulfill it. Regardless of how well you may live physically, eventually, you will die. Then which is more significant, spiritual standards or physical standards? We do not live based on physical standards.

The flesh exists for the spirit and not vice versa. You should not cling to the lifestyle that secular people follow. You should find a more worthwhile basis for existence, with your physical body and spiritual body united substantially. This will serve to strengthen your physical body as well. (020-326, 1968.07.14)

8. From God's viewpoint, is there any difference between a young person, a middle-aged person,n and an elderly person? God looks only at the spirit self. He can see if a spirit self is young and active and has a self-disciplined character. He does not see the outer shell. Furthermore, he sees what will be left from inside after the outer shell has been cast off. (121-211, 1982.10.27)

9. What happens when we go to the spirit world? We become God's body. A person becomes the body of God.

It is recorded in the Gospel of John and 1 Corinthians, "Do you not know that you are the temple of God?" (1 Cor. 3:16; cf. John 17:21)

Human beings are thus the temple, the house where God can dwell. Then how can you come to resemble God? When you reach the completion stage of your portion of responsibility, God dwells within you.

Oneness is created between you and God and through that love, unity of life is achieved. Your life is assimilated into God's. When a man and a woman become husband and wife and have a family, their love brings them into unity. In the same way, the power of that love brings them to God. (130-022, 1983.12.11)

10. Human beings have both a mind and a body. Above our mind is our spirit and above our spirit is God. This is why we can become perfect when we become completely one with God.

Though a person is only one small entity because he or she represents all the history and all future relationships, he or she possesses cosmic value.
(4-268, 1958.08.03)

11. Would you like to live eternally on earth, or would you prefer to live eternally in a substantial world of incorporeal love? You would say that you prefer to live eternally in the world that has become the substance of incorporeal love.

So when God tells you that He wants to show you the spirit world, would you be able to follow Him with your physical body? That is why you need a spirit. This is not a delusion but a fact.

If we assume that God exists as the center of the invisible mind and that He requires an object partner, wouldn't He wish to take human beings with Him, show them every part of the eternal ideal realm He created, and give them all of it?
(111-112, 1981.02.02)

12. We can see the incorporeal body through our spiritual eyes. In the center of that incorporeal body is the spirit, and that part corresponds to the human mind. That is the place where you can meet with God happily, without other people learning about what you are doing.

If God and you love each other in such a place, no one can take that love away from you. That place is the final destination of vertical love and the starting point of horizontal love. (52-260, 1972.01.02)

13. The spirit mind is the union of mind and spirit, and it moves toward a single goal. As such, with our conscience centered upon God, it can motivate us to achieve ideal personhood based on the unity of our spirit and flesh.

Our conclusion can only be that if we did not have a spirit mind, we would be unable to search for the origin that can connect us to the spirit world and true love. When the spirit mind comes into us, our body rejoices and everything follows it. The two become one automatically. Until now, our biggest problem has been the separation of our mind and body.

When God's spiritual power comes into us as the origin of our spirit mind, our mind and body become one naturally. Unless a revolution occurs at this fundamental level, unless we discover the origin that can govern everything that comes from the root, we have no path to the ideal. Only through strong motivation can results come. (91-143, 1977.02.06)

14. The mind is vertical, and the body is horizontal. The mind is the vertical “I” and the body is the horizontal “I.” There are the two. The vertical “I” is the mind and the horizontal “I” is the body.

Their structure is the same. Everything in creation shares this. If one goes up, another comes down. Consider the example of a tree. The roots absorb nutrients and the leaves also produce nutrients. The leaves receive sunlight and their chlorophyll creates and supplies nutrients.

The roots also absorb nutrients from the ground. These nutrients interact with each other. In Principle terms, they are the vitality element and the life element, ever giving and receiving in a relationship similar to that of mind and body.
(216-162, 1991.03.10)

15. We need to eat spiritual food. When you are hungry, which should taste better, physical food or spiritual food? To survive and stand on God's side, you should enjoy the taste of spiritual food more than physical food.

The flavor of a life centered on spiritual power should far exceed that of a life based on physical might. (131-211, 1984.05.04)