The Front Line of Restoration

Former Headquarters Church, Korea

We human beings, in living out our lives, cannot but pass through an environment of competition, struggle, or fighting. The greater the purpose a person sets up to succeed, the more he must possess the subjective power to prevail over the environment of hardship proportional to it.

What Is Necessary to Attain a Purpose

If it is one university student here, for that student, to hold a great purpose and pioneer the path of success, he must make ceaseless effort. On that path to success, only by paying a price proportional to the purpose can he bring the result of the purpose’s accomplishment. This is the same in attaining the purpose of one family.

If it is one family, in order for that family to be equipped with the substance of a family centered on the people and the nation—that is, for the whole family to unite and attain the family’s purpose—it must, without fail, cross beyond the relations of time and distance; and the farther that distance, the more one must pay the corresponding price of trial. We know this well.

Seen centering on one nation, that proportional price becomes greater. If it is the Republic of Korea, in order for the Republic of Korea itself to attain some great aspiration and purpose, it must bear a national fate. Seen about one nation, unless that people unite and overcome, centering on at least a unit of a hundred years, it cannot bring a national success that can be manifested before the world.

If we look at a nation like America, a place like San Francisco too was, a hundred and twenty years ago, grassland and desert. But America, over the passing of a hundred years, invested many human and material resources to pioneer that place. It pioneered it not with that alone; a tenacious national character that could overcome it was the backing, and as a result of continuing to pay the price for it, today’s San Francisco was developed. We know this fact well.

Not only San Francisco, but America itself is so. Though America has a history of nearly two hundred years, seen centering on that historical background, until America formed today’s worldwide cultural sphere, it paid an untold human price and material price. And, centering on faith, it paid much price even in the unseen spiritual field. Because the result of paying such a price appeared only in the present age, America has now come to stand in a position where it can lead the world. You must know that fact.

From this viewpoint, seen about God’s providence of Restoration, God has continued the providence over the long span of six thousand years, and the result of it will be the Christianity spread across the whole world today and the countless religions in a collateral position. Therefore, if today’s religion, the result for which God toiled, cannot contribute before the world and cannot equip a plus form in attaining the world’s purpose, then all the merit of God’s fighting over the long span of six thousand years until now cannot but end here.

If it comes to this, what will happen?

God’s providence must accompany history and must cross age after age, but if it is interrupted and the direction of the providence goes astray, He will suffer that much affliction and cannot but unfold a second strategy.

To that end, again He must invest new human resources here, must input new material resources, and must invest new spiritual resources. Think once of such a position of God. Seen about such a grave problem centered on the providence of Restoration, the serious problem is what kind of posture we ourselves, the Unification Church members of today, hold.

The Unification Church, Which Must Devote the Most Sincerity

The happiness that anyone in the world can hold lies at an extremely near distance. Suppose a starting point at which a man can draw happiness is the family; then that family must inevitably be an official environment. It is likewise when a nation draws happiness. The official form does not change.

The standard of happiness a nation desires is only more complicated because it is broader and larger in scope than the standard of happiness an individual desires. Therefore, unless one passes through complicated content and holds a national character by which various ties can be fitted and blended here and directed toward one purpose, the purpose of that nation cannot be attained. You know such a fact.

The providence of Restoration is not to remain within some regional bounded realm. It must cross the regional bounded realm into the national realm, and from the national realm into the world realm, and from the world realm it is in a position where it must widen and accomplish it even to the Cosmos of which we speak today—this vast and immense scope. To that end, material resources must be input here, human resources must be input, and spiritual resources must be input.

Then, seen centering on such a problem on this front line of Restoration, the issue becomes how much of these three sides—the spiritual side, the human side, and the material side—an individual, if an individual, or a clan, if a clan, has input here.

In the world, there are countless clans. Then which of those clans, centering on that field, has input on how much of these three sides is the important issue? And there, even if it is input in the same form, seen about sincerity, there are differences of ten thousand kinds.

If it is a hundred people, the form of all hundred differs, and their hearts all differ, so the standard of sincerity they devote all differs.

Today in the whole world there are nearly one billion Christians calling upon God, and when we examine behind that Christianity, whether our Unification Church can, on this front line of Restoration, stand in a position surpassing any religion in the world in inputting the spiritual side or the material side or the human side—seen from the present position, it cannot. Looking at the external environment, needless to say, it cannot.

Then, seen centering on this problem inwardly—is it so from the inner position? If there is no confidence to say it is so, and no achievement by which one can say it is so, then the direction of the providence of Restoration has not yet faced the normal place.

Seen this way, fallen human beings today must know, in their own way, in what position they are. Whether it is A or, further, each one of the three billion, humankind must know his position. Their forms and the environments they are placed in are of ten thousand kinds, but in their direction they are all engaged on the front line of Restoration.

Among people, there is one who stands at the head on the spiritual side, one who stands at the head on the material side, and one who stands at the head on the human side. Centering on such a standard, each nation, if a nation, is engaged in some field fitting that national standard, and each people, if a people, and each individual, if an individual, is engaged in his field by that standard. Seen this way, this front line of Restoration is a racing ground, if a racing ground, and a negotiating table that decides life and death, if a negotiating table.

But this front line of Restoration is not a front that can be pushed forward according to the plan we plan. Here there is a historically great front line that, even after passing through a wretched struggle until now, has not been resolved. We must know the fact that it remains within our environment.

To Break Through the Front Line of Restoration

Then how strong is the enemy that remains?

How strong is the enemy’s last-ditch formation?

How concentrated is the strength of the enemy attacking us? Seen about such problems, unless the standard of resolve of each of the warriors of unification engaged there surpasses theirs, it is impossible to break through this front line without difficulty.

Seen this way, it is a sound assertion that only when one can, in any respect, surpass the enemy’s standard in mental posture and living posture, or in the degree of resolve, can one bring the result of victory on that front line. So to dream of victory from a position where some field is lacking is nothing but delusion, and to be confident and insist that one can win is something that cannot but be judged as mere recklessness. Thinking from such a position, though speaking of ranks, there would be ten million ranks; each of you is engaged on the front line of Restoration according to your rank. You must know that fact.

Then is it only us today who are so?

The countless spirit individuals who have gone to the spirit world are also engaged on the front line of Restoration until now. Even if some person set up a single standard called individual character and, striving to complete that character, went to the spirit world, that standard of character is not automatically completed.

Because every human being holds a fundamental tie with the Fall, one must, without fail, break the iron bars Satan has set up and cut the shackles and cross beyond that tie. But from there again, to conform to the standard specification of individual character completion, one must pass through a corresponding process of overcoming or victory. The struggle and bloody fight for it, without fail, remain.

This is not confined to the individual alone. Not only is the individual besieged by such a fence, but the family, the nation, and the world are too. When one considers this phenomenon of being besieged layer upon layer by the enemy’s fence, the important issue cannot but be: in what position must I advance today, and in what position must I break through this fence?

Then in which direction of this front line of Restoration must each one center?

One must center on all four directions. Wherever and at whatever distance one is—the South Pole if the South Pole, the North Pole if the North Pole—one must be equipped with a rank of ten thousand kinds, if a rank, and a stage, if a stage? When one individual sets down one century, if one century, and struggles, the result of whether a loser or a victor surely appears.

Fallen human beings who betrayed God—that is, the three billion humankind—cannot avoid the fate of surely being judged, centering on the present average standard of character, in a conclusive position of yea if yea, nay if nay, right if right. You must know that fact. That fate surely comes, whether vertically or horizontally. That is because there has not yet been a day when one could break through the vertical problem and the horizontal problem and praise the one day of victory. Seen in this regard, the problem is serious.

Until now countless people came and went, but there was not one person who, on this front line, bore the banner of victory, completed the character-completion he aimed at as a human being, and brought Satan to submission. But seen concerning the countless spirit individuals in the spirit world, or the present world’s humankind born as descendants of those who were so, this fight is ceaselessly continuing.

You are in a stationary state, but the fight that ceaselessly digs into your living environment and seeks to wind up even the course of your life is continuing. You must know that fact.

Then in what state is this front line of Restoration now?

Is it in a lull or in a hot war state? If it is a hot war, are there warriors who can respond to the hot war? The more it is a hot war, the more urgent it is, to the degree of swaying a worldwide issue.

When the lull passes, a hot-war state will surely come, so you must equip yourselves with a character that can respond to it of itself, that can reinforce inner preparation of itself, and you must, without fail, equip the qualifications a soldier must equip himself with. Even in preparation for when war breaks out, unless you make inner preparation of yourselves and equip a national foundation and a worldwide foundation, it will not do.

Now, you have already stepped forth barefoot as members of this front line of Restoration. You have already stepped forth, staking your life. So you, who, standing under the immense banner of Cosmos-ism, face head-on the great enemy called Satan, must advance as valiant warriors.

That front line is not a front line where men alone fight. Until now, when it was said “army,” it was known as something only men went to, but now it is not so. Men and women alike are placed in a common fate of having to become soldiers.

If you are warriors who cannot grasp the environment of where your body is placed—the North if the North, the South if the South, the West if the West, the East if the East—you will not escape the sorrow of a loser.

In waging war, when one must aim one’s gun at the enemy and make a full-scale charge—when one must attack toward the heart of the enemy’s camp—if one does not know that position and direction and acts in one’s own way, it is of no help in gaining victory in that war. You must know this.

We Are Warriors Called as Frontline Soldiers of the Front Line of Restoration

Then in today’s worldwide providential course, seen from the position that this noun “unification” can lead the whole—that is, in working the providence worldwide centering on the Unification front, in other words, the Unification Church—it is not simple from our position today.

This fight will not end in our generation. Even if the Republic of Korea becomes an excellent cultural people that can boast its sovereignty to all the nations of the world and holds the authority to govern the world, this fight will continue riding on that people’s spirit. This fight will continue, swaying the direction of that society and the fate of that nation.

But this fight does not end at the nation alone. Centering on the present world situation, where left and right collide, it will ceaselessly advance toward the coming age of history.

If the soldiers who took part here seek to turn back in their own way, the battle results will grow ever more unfavorable. So you must become warriors who pass through all the gateways of that fight.

A warrior is not a person who avoids the enemy before him, but a person who, resolving on his sacrifice, charges toward the enemy.

That is, it means a person who fights the enemy general more bravely than anyone and who, when a hard situation collides head-on, stands in a decisive place where, with a grave posture, he can tread over and pass beyond that hard situation.

Then where is our front line of Restoration today?

Asia if Asia, Europe if Europe—seen centering on the five oceans and six continents, we cannot but always think of the front line of God’s providence of Restoration. How the front line of Restoration is faring—the front line that has formed the ground of the merit for which God toiled behind history for six thousand years—cannot but be a grave problem.

Then can a worldwide front line of Restoration be unfolded, centering on present-day Christianity?

These are already stragglers exhausted from fighting, a throng close to defeated remnants. Can God gather these again and give a second command? He cannot. Because the wounds they have suffered from colliding, inwardly and outwardly, are too great to gather them up, God, who knows this, cannot but unfold the front line of Restoration, centering on a new throng rather than these.

From this position, when we gaze at the front line of Restoration, which must decide victory or defeat in the six-thousand-year providence of Restoration centered on the world stage, God is in a position where He cannot but reorganize the front line of Restoration. Then, through where will He reorganize the front line of Restoration? Seen concerning the Republic of Korea, or the phenomenon of worldwide Christianity or the religious world, is it not the throng of the Unification Church? As our name teaches, is that front line not the Unification front?

If the sovereignty that God too seeks to establish, standing in for the national position and the worldwide position, were powerfully united under a powerful system, He would wish to input it into the front line of the Restoration of the Last Days. Is this not God’s wish, given the worldwide situation of a full-scale war?

From such a position, you are people conscripted as frontline soldiers. Since you are called soldiers, you must completely equip the equipment a soldier must equip.

That equipment is not equipment in Heaven but equipment on this earth. Because the issue is not the spirit individuals in Heaven or the saints and martyrs who came and went until now, but we ourselves who remain as their descendants today. The issue is we who lodge our bodies in the actual position. Therefore, we have the responsibility to inherit all the fights in which the saints and sages bore the sorrow of every historical loser and left countless han, set them in order, and render the decision of victory. How immense a thing this is!

Become an Offering for Heaven’s Victory

Then where must your mind go?

It must go centering on the front line of Restoration. Where must your body go? It must advance toward the front line of Restoration. And, concentrating the equipment or weapons or firepower you have equipped, you must smash the enemy. You must concentrate on one target. All four directions must unite as one heart and smash the enemy. To that end, you must become participants who can take part in that work, hearing with the same ear and feeling with the same cells. You must know that without this you cannot take part in the authority of victory centered on God.

If there is a soldier who merely watches that fight, that soldier becomes a traitor to the nation. One who, on the front line, seeks to avoid the front line by embracing his life is a straggler. He gnaws at the morale of the soldiers and is an obstruction on the path the soldiers go.

The charge toward the front line of Restoration must, without fail, be. It must, without fail, be. From this position, seen behind the providence of Restoration that weaves this world, we can know that God has concentrated such a time in every age.

Seen centering on Jesus too, we can know that God concentrated the front line of the providence of Restoration, over four thousand years, into one. He put the whole ranks of the people and set up Jesus as the supreme commander who could lead here, so all the people of Israel had to unite, centering on his strategy and attacking toward the enemy camp. Thereby they had to win a victory unseen in history and, bearing that placard of victory, advance to the whole world. But because the people of Israel did not stand in such a place, they historically suffered the untold sorrow of a loser.

Here, that one nation perishing is all right. That one person, Israel, perishing is not the issue. But because that one nation, sought and set up to construct a worldwide front line of Restoration, perished, it brought a fatal, crushing sorrow to the world. You must know the fact that it brought a loss so broad that, even paying the price across history, one cannot pay it.

To sustain one nation, there must be an offering that is sacrificed there without words, without reason. Without that, a nation cannot sustain its sovereignty. Even seen centering on America, if America, on the final front line, there were victims by the unseen providence of Restoration—that is, seen centering on the worldwide front line, there were countless unseen victims. You must know that even now victims are appearing, succeeding.

When I went to Washington, America, I once visited the FBI, and when I watched an important official there explain at length, I learned that, though the bustling society of America continues in all its actual forms and is displayed just so, for that to keep being maintained, an immense economic power is put behind it, and countless nameless warriors become offerings without words. Without that, the nation called America cannot be sustained. This is the same even in a time of peace.

Today America, centering on its sovereignty, is exerting influence on the world. If there is a nation that can surpass America and be set against America’s -ism or ideology, that nation, to sustain that position, must ceaselessly confront and continue the fight until the very day the nation’s fate continues. There must be people who, with a resolve and grave determination beyond wartime, fall without words, without names, and become offerings to take responsibility for it. Only then can that nation’s sovereignty be maintained.

Our Victory-Over-Communism Movement, Stirring Ripples Across Asia

Today, because the North is strengthening its espionage activity against the South, the South is always in a position of being attacked. If one comes to stand in the position of a loser in the espionage war, one becomes a loser even in a full-scale war. Therefore, you must, in all inner resolve and ideology, be equipped with a thoroughgoing ideology that can respond to North Korea.

However strong an ideology the Republic of Korea holds, when, on the practical side, an action it cannot overcome is presented by the enemy, unless it holds some concrete alternative that can overcome it, it will, without fail, receive the enemy’s attack. Then, at some time, it will, without fail, have to pay an immense price for it; and even if it pays that price, that it is a loser cannot be denied. You must clearly know that.

You must know that today, even as our Unification Church walks on, behind it a sacrifice no one knows is ceaselessly continuing. For the Unification Church, on this front line of Restoration, to sustain the tie behind it, it must—swaying not the sovereignty of one nation but a worldwide issue—behind the scenes confront the enemy without words, pay them a price, and then present an advancing tactic and active condition by which it can surpass them. Otherwise, one automatically enters the enemy’s realm of encirclement.

Therefore, you must hold the subjective authority to confront them, break the encirclement, and connect the battle situation with action by which you can push them out. Thereby, in any age, in any environment, you must actively break through the enemy. Without that, you cannot bring victory on the front line of Restoration. The victory on the front line of Restoration that we yearn for cannot be gained.

Until now our tactic was guerrilla war. The activity we are now unfolding nationwide is also guerrilla war. Now in Japan a victory-over-communism activity is being carried out; communism, over fifty years, has exerted an immense influence on nations close to a third—no, close to half—of the world. It is exerting influence even into American society. Toward such a communist party with a worldwide sphere, that a small throng has stepped forth bearing the title “victory over communism” may, seen from one side, be called the action of foolish people who do not know the world, but that is a mistaken view.

As reported on Japanese broadcasts, in Japan a nationwide victory-over-communism citizens’ rally was held on the 27th at Hibiya Park in Tokyo, where they say some five thousand people attended and welcomed it with applause.

The communist party has until now believed that Japan would, without fail, be communized according to their intent. So they have tried, actively day and night, to communize it. But the fact that our small throng of unification stepped forth, raising a flag of resistance before them, became an issue for the Japanese Communist Party and became an issue for the Japanese government too. The whole citizenry came to stand in a position where they could criticize themselves from a new angle and re-examine the future. Though our action was slight, seeing that there was such content, this became a result of stirring one ripple in Japan, and this ripple became an event that can reach the whole region of Asia.

Then shall we end with that?

To overcome the communist party, one must first use guerrilla tactics, but after that, one must input a great force and unfold a full-scale fight.

Then why must one take such an adventure?

In the actual state where no ideology or organization in the world today can confront the communist party, it is to plant, tacitly, in the popular masses the conviction that, by our unfolding such a movement, one can confront the communist party. So if our victory-over-communism theory and the citizens’ conviction only become one, we can come to defeat the communist party.

If one is a person with such conviction, even if only a small number remain, one can surpass the communist party and occupy a field beyond the communist party’s historical foundation so that in the end, through that throng, the communist party comes to perish. To do so, one must pay an immense sacrifice and price. That is why the throng of unification is now being sacrificed.

The Teacher told the Japanese Unification Church family members centered on Chairman Kuboki to be resolved. He asked them to settle things with God from an earnest position and cross over. He told them, when engaging in a hard fight, absolutely never to engage alone. The more fierce this fight grows, the more one must know that countless enemy arrows are aimed at me, and countless enemy guns and blades are aimed at me. That being so, unless we rely on this solemn and subjective authority of God and stand in a position of receiving His directions and acting in all respects, it will not do.

To that end, one must pray much. Any person in charge, to stand before a great throng when holding a large rally, must devote more sincerity than anyone. If one does so, evil cannot invade. So however strong the enemy, if we become one and devote sincerity beyond that, Satan cannot invade that place. However fierce a battle unfolds, it cannot take away one’s life.

The Victory-Over-Communism Movement Cannot Be Done by Words Alone

Seen in such a problem, today we are already unfolding a fight in Asia. Today the Republic of Korea is not our enemy. Japan is not our enemy. Today communism is not our enemy. The originator who manipulates communism and, behind it, seeks to break down the heavenly providence—that is, the one we commonly call Satan—is our enemy.

Unification Church members consider this word Satan to be a habitual word, like little children asking for rice, but this Satan is the subjective being who, over six thousand years, has made the Creator—that is, God, the infinite subject who created all things of Heaven and earth, the omnipresent One holding infinite power and authority—drink the bitter cup in the position of a loser until now.

Then what must be done?

Because we human beings are hooked by Satan, we cannot break free of Satan until we pull out that hook we are caught on. Then who pulls it out? God cannot. We human beings must. In pulling out the hook, one must not have pity. Even at the cost of being torn, one must yank it out. One must have the strength to yank it out even at the cost of one part becoming a cripple. Then in whom is that strength? That strength is in God.

What history has God carried out until now?

He has been yanking you and your families out. The force by which God yanks is stronger than the force by which you pull from your family. Thus God is pulling human beings with infinite force. But when one does not keep pace here, one becomes a cripple.

Seen from such a position, you of the Unification Church must know it. Victory over communism is not all accomplished by words alone. Today America’s espionage network is spread across the world fighting the Communist Party, but the Communist Party rather came into America. The Soviet Union’s espionage network is tremendous. Toward such a communist party, we stepped forth without a sword, without weapons, with only two fists. This has become an issue.

We have joined the ranks of revolution. The revolutionary front is not something that ends with a thousand-mile march or a ten-thousand-mile march. That march will continue over several generations, staking one’s life; and the front line to come hereafter will be fiercer than the front now on the march. Keeping pace with that fierceness, the resolve one vows should be redoubled—but if it decreases, what will happen? Defeat is only natural. One is besieged by oneself. We are now unfolding a fight in such a state of affairs.

We cannot re-sheathe the sword already drawn in Japan. Our victory-over-communism activity in Japan until now was published in the Japanese Communist Party’s organ, the Red Flag (Akahata), and went into all the communist nations of the world. This newspaper is sent to Moscow, of course, and to Communist China too. Seen this way, the activity of the Unification Church is known more in the communist world than in the democratic world.

Let Us Unfold Our Victory-Over-Communism Movement Worldwide

We must present conditions to the communist party from a new angle. The communist party is in a position like the ruling party, and we are in a position like the opposition party, and a time will come when the communist party, caught by our accusation, must itself explain. This has not existed in the history of the Communist Party until now.

Communism has until now stood in a position of receiving the protection of the masses and speaking for the position of the masses. But now it is placed in a fate of having to explain, just as the ruling party must explain, receiving the rebuttal of the opposition party. This is a thing that has appeared for the first time in the providence. Therefore, this movement must be unfolded not only as one movement but as a movement that crosses the great ocean and leads the world.

That is the issue. Seen centering on the problem of how to bring such rapid results, the leaders, or individuals in charge standing at the front of the Unification front, must think seriously about this problem.

The individuals in charge must, in taking responsibility for the Asian front hereafter, become elite members and, standing at the head, lead the masses. And in setting up strategy and tactics as a leader, one must have experience, so, seeing this, you must clearly know that the experience of engaging in actual combat until now becomes a motive that can sway victory or defeat.

Our front line of Restoration has already become a worldwide front line. Then will this be maintained with only my remaining strength? This is not something done at the level of running errands in preparing a feast at some village feast house. Here one must input my life.

If it cannot be done in one generation, one must do it with a solemn resolve to advance, injecting that ideology, even across tens of millions of generations, until one receives a letter of surrender. The Teacher has, until now, gone straight along that one path alone. He has walked not many paths but only one path until now. Now one must make a final decision.

Even if a nation has perished, God, without fail, brings the time when that nation can become independent. If there is a tie between Heaven and earth of God, who created human beings on the principle of loving human beings, then God, however much a person has failed, opens a path by which he can reflect on himself behind it and succeed. It does not end because one has failed. Even having failed, when one treads over that failure and rises, one can achieve a greater success. Only then is there a path by which one can succeed even having failed, and even in the place where one has succeeded, one can prepare a second departure.

You acknowledge yourselves that each of you failed in the First Seven-Year Course. But even if you did not devote loyalty before Heaven in the Seven-Year Course, it will not end with that itself. There must be a new resolve of one’s own that, because it did not work coming out this way, one must go in the opposite direction. There is a need for a conviction by which one can become a figure who can remove the failure of the first and gather things up again.

There is a need for a resolve, before putting it into practice, such as: “In the past it did not work because I went this way. Now I must go this way. In the past I ended up this way because I criticized from a human viewpoint, so now I must do it this way.” Then, taking the right direction, one must push on with action. Here, unless one grasps a body that has fallen with strength drained, gropes for a path in a new direction, and steps forth powerfully toward a second purpose in a way that shows results, one cannot appear as a hero who took part in the second front. Such a serious problem is before us.

We Who Must Follow Heaven’s Command

Now, all of you, this slogan “full-scale charge” will continue for several years. Next year too, the slogan is the same.

If God issued to you gathered here today a special command that He would send you as espionage agents north of the 38th parallel—if you yourself received such a secret order—what would you do? You must know this. When one, as a citizen of a nation, comes to face an emergency state in which one must bear that nation’s fate and block the nation’s misfortune, you must hold a posture by which you can regard it as a clan’s glory that you were set in the position of an offering for that nation.

If there is a person who, representing the thirty million people, stands at the head, becomes an offering-being that the thirty million longed for, solemnly carries out his responsibility, and, embracing Heaven, writhes centering on the problem of how to bring the decision of victory, then Heaven’s fortune is with him.

If it comes to that, however wretched the path he goes, by that one individual going a wretched path, his nation comes to pioneer a new path of light. You must know this fact.

We must make a full-scale charge, and here much effort must be put in. When the Teacher, stepping forth on this path, crossed the 38th parallel, he was resolved on death. And when he was dragged off by the communist party, it was not once or twice that he made a final resolve. So you too must have such a resolve here.

Our Will does not end at some one time. Hereafter too, at some necessary and fitting time, Heaven will issue the command of a total charge, “full-scale charge,” and demand that we follow. The issue is what posture we will hold before that command then and what training and defense to fit the environment we will do. That work is drawing near before our eyes.

You must consider whether you can offer as an offering your beloved sons and daughters, your beloved wife, and all your beloved family. Rather than thinking that wretchedly, you must consider the problem of whether you must offer as an offering that which is near to me or wretchedly offer the enemy as an offering.

Must I give my nearest all and make it an offering? Or must I offer the enemy as an offering? You must consider this.

As long as the enemy remains, the process of offering an offering, without fail, remains. This has been done across history. Over a year, or over ten years, one has connected it by offering such an offering of sacrifice. But because the history of cutting off, centering on one’s near ties, was done in units of long periods, people came to be indifferent to that work.

Seeing this, you must, centering on your beloved children, make a showdown with the great enemy.

If one fails to make a showdown, you die by the enemy’s sword. If it comes to that, one cannot become a loyal subject before Heaven either. Rather, one is driven out as a traitor of the evil world and ends up leaving in a condition of sorrow before God. So you must know that one must make the showdown before such a time comes.

One Who Centers on Himself Cannot Remain to the End

You must know that, by one action of yours, a nation’s fate goes back and forth. The head of a nation has many serious moments. If he makes one decision wrongly, he will be criticized forever in history, and if he does well, he will be praised forever.

When, centering on world history, we compare, in the history of each nation, the people who held patriotic thought with the throng of unification, with what content did each resolve?

Considered concerning whether they resolved with world-historical content or resolved with national content, the throng of unification, leaping beyond a national fate, holds world-historical content. Right now it seems like nothing, but this content is surely world-historical. It is presenting a world-historical problem. And it does not end merely with presenting; it holds a foundation equipped with sufficient content to create a continuous environment. That is why this movement cannot but become a worldwide movement.

There is no need to be disheartened because the Republic of Korea rejects us. There is no need to be disheartened because Asia rejects us. Each must hold a posture by which he can be needed anytime, anywhere, and remain. One must remain to the very end of history. Then, when a necessary and fitting environment sweeps in nationally, the nation will bow its head before that remaining throng. This is the thought of Christianity.

Jesus hung on the cross and fell, but Jesus rose again from within that. He came back to life. The Roman Empire persecuted countless Christians and made them shed blood. But, as said a moment ago, the one who made them shed blood is set, in the end, to kneel before the one who shed blood.

The Teacher does not wish for large numbers. Some say the number of Unification Church members is not large, but that is a word of one who does not know. Numbers do not govern history. The center is not placed in numbers. The center is one. It seems there is none and seems there is one. The center is freely self-mastering. It seems like this and seems like that; it is there, but seems neither this nor that. Yet the mother body that can connect the two sides is only one.

The greatest issue for you is yourself. People are living out lives of ten thousand kinds. So each passes by holding one profile. In some environments, he will come as such a person and pass by as another person. Or the person A will live and go, holding only his desire to seek his profit. Then how long will such a person remain? One who is for himself cannot remain long. Such people are all set to fall in the course of following the Will.

Trial That, Rightly Understood, Is a Blessing

You are facing the Teacher this morning too. But will you all remain even ten years later, or remain even twenty years later? Or, when you come to face a pressing fate of vanishing like the morning dew, can you take part there and remain? This is the issue.

Among people who had no relation to us, or a throng we did not even think of, there may be such a person. Therefore, you must not disregard a newly entering person as one who is nothing. It is not only the important person who is needed.

You must know that Jesus loved the people of Israel who thrust a sword into him. The people of Israel were already a throng within an environmental realm in which they could do so. Over eighty percent were so. Therefore, who was the subject who could attend to God, follow God’s Will, and govern even the noun of loving God, the noun of calling Him Father? You must know that it was not the majority of people, but the three close disciples.

People who do great work must, without fail, cross beyond some boundary line. To cross such a boundary line, one must, without fail, undergo trial. One must train oneself that way. The greater the standard God desires, the larger, in proportion, the stage of that trial grows. To make one prevail over that trial, He will pour a trial of a standard of a hundred upon a person of a size of ten. To pour a trial of a hundred upon a place of ten is not to make it perish. It is a strategy to pour a trial of a hundred and thereby give it the ability of ninety-nine.

Seeing this, the trial poured here becomes not a condition of lament but a blessed condition by which one can embrace Heaven’s fortune. Once it has passed, it is all so. Until one enters a realm where one can offer one’s life, saying, “Now this is the last,” and decides to go as intended by making a final decision, a stage of immense trial besieges our rear. There, there are only two methods: whether one goes into the ground or rises into Heaven. One must not become one who goes into the ground. Jesus could have fled without going into the ground, but because he knew that, rather than that path, laying down his life toward Heaven and dying was the wise method, he was crucified and died.

Do you too wish to do great work? Do you wish to become a great ancestor? Unless one passes through the realm of going back and forth over the crossroads of life and death, one cannot hear the word “great.”

Seen from this position, you must redouble your training. The stronger the enemy’s siege, the more, without retreating, how to concentrate a strong subjective force that can push them out is the issue. When the enemy is a thousand, and we are one thousand one hundred, if we fight one to one, only a hundred remain; how can the world be governed with that hundred? For that, you must redouble your training.

That the Unification Church today holds the subjective force that can sway the heavenly fortune is not by its will but by Heaven’s fortune. So the issue is how to establish that heaven-fortuned force and subjective authority.

The problem of how much one totalizes the core content that can push through all the conditions and environments hindering the Republic of Korea’s future advancement becomes the wellspring that can sway the revival of the Republic of Korea.

Likewise, for us on the front line of Restoration, how to reinforce the influence that can bring victory is a grave problem.

Seen centering on such a problem, the nation’s fate too perishes when I go to the left and prospers when I go to the right. The world too is likewise: it perishes if I go to the left and prospers if I go to the right. That is why we have been waging the decisive fight through every one of our gestures and every word and deed until now. By one word, evil and good are decided. According to how one acts, evil or good is decided. Whether Satan’s side or Heaven’s side is decided. Therefore, one must become one of the two. One must not become a being that is neither this nor that.

Such a person cannot become a member who can carry out the mission of receiving the command to charge totally toward one front line centered on one purpose.

The Commander’s Responsibility and the Right Attitude a Soldier Must Take

You must consider this. According to your action, the fate of the Unification Church is swayed, and the Teacher’s life-or-death problem is swayed. So how important is your action? This must become your philosophy of life and must become an active driving force that, steeped in conviction, can maximize the ideology.

So if I perish, God too perishes, and later generations perish, and in the vertical relationship, Heaven and earth perish. Furthermore, in the horizontal relationship, the people perish, and in the fore-and-aft relationship, my relatives perish. That is why it is enjoined to smash the satanic force that has driven me into the midst of such misfortune and besieges me. But since my strength is lacking, Heaven’s fortune is needed.

Thinking this way, where is the wellspring of the force that can supply the final troops? Where is such a strategy? In being anxious for the tomorrow of this nation and the tomorrow of this world, how many earthly members are there who can embrace Heaven and plead its whole circumstance?

The important issue is how many of Heaven’s elite soldiers one can advance before the enemy and how much of a result of victory one can bring.

If there is a commander who must face one great war, that commander, the mightier the enemy, must in proportion set up a strategy without fail, inside and out. He must prepare well. To that end, strategy is needed. One must send espionage soldiers too. And the issue becomes how strong the soldier standing at the very cutting edge is. When seen one-on-one, our soldier can face ten; then, centering on that standard, even an enemy ten times as strong can be dragged into a long war.

The Teacher has until now devoted more sincerity before God than the countless Christians in Korea. A person of heart is set to develop. He is set to develop and grasp through experience from an individual heart to a family heart, a national heart, and a worldwide heart. Therefore, when there is a person who devotes ever more sincerity to holding a heart, God grasps that person. God cannot work His strategy by grasping a person who is not so. The greatest issue of all is how one leads one’s own position in faith, standing in the position of having received the command to defend the Kingdom of Heaven.

If one acts wrongly in one action of one’s own, history is swayed, so one later receives historical judgment. That is why one must carry out one’s whole life—sleeping, eating, and clothing—centering on faith.

Then how large is the main force centered on the Unification Church?

If it is the Republic of Korea, there is a great army of six hundred thousand in the Republic of Korea, and all of them must become the main force. Then who is the commander who can lead that main force? Seen from this viewpoint, in waging a full-scale war in all directions, you must clearly know what front line you are holding in each field. The larger this war, the more the battle situation will be aggravated in various fields, and when one cannot reach the aggravated field, one must make rapid reinforcement, so there must be preparation that can prepare for it.

From this viewpoint, to become a mighty army, each of you must take responsibility for the fate of the Republic of Korea. Rather than the commander taking responsibility for the Republic of Korea, the soldier must take responsibility for the Republic of Korea.

The soldiers themselves can sway the fate of the Republic of Korea. Seen this way, if I do well, this nation and these people prosper, and if I do ill, this nation and these people perish. This heavenly fortune will grow beyond the Republic of Korea into the world.

However deep a valley and however high a ridge there is in the path of going beyond the Republic of Korea, it will overcome that without difficulty and grow into the world. It will grow to the summit of the world.

On the Battlefield, He Who Seeks to Die Lives

If each of you holds the conviction that you can take responsibility for the fate of the Republic of Korea and decide it for the sake of the world, then when a worldwide ideal world appears, these people will lead the world.

If, in a fight with the enemy, the commander is killed in action, the division commander must carry out that mission in his stead. And if the division commander is killed, the regiment commander; if the regiment commander is killed, the battalion commander; if the battalion commander is killed, the company commander; if the company commander is killed, the platoon commander must carry it on, succeeding. Thus, you must make a full-scale charge centering on one leader. Here, when facing an unfavorable battle situation, the greatest issue is how many there are of the throng who can endure this storm and step forth, rather than the throng who seek to protect their lives.

On the battlefield, the throng that seeks to die lives. You must know the fact that even a small throng, if it is such a throng, can well cut down a numerous enemy and win. A true patriot steps forth saying, “I will die for the sake of the thirty million. I will die for the sake of this nation and these people.”

If you yourselves take responsibility, inside and out, for this complex, many-stranded providence of Restoration, how many days will you writhe…? This is a problem to be deeply considered. If you took responsibility for this worldwide providence of Restoration from God’s position, how complicated would it be?

When countless peoples all pray, each centering on himself, to fill his desire or his nation’s desire, whose prayer must be answered? Think once.

Seen from this position, you must devote the sincerity of prayer centering on God. What prayer to center on to establish a victorious heartistic standard before engaging in actual combat is the position of the Unification Church today. Think once.

How do you pray?

You pray, centering on yourself, do you not?

You attend church too, centering on yourself. But that cannot be helped. Because the principle of creation by which human beings were made is so, it cannot be helped. Even though fallen, because that standard is ever unchanging, the manifestation of that desire is unavoidable. In the midst of that, when one prays to God, one must know how God will sort out the sounds that come in all at once, like the sounds of radios broadcast from every part of the world, and which sound God most wishes to hear among those sounds. The North Korean broadcast is always loudly broadcasting how Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung is such and how Park Chung-hee’s clique is such, but no matter how much they clamor that way, they fall to the ground first, like a fallen leaf.

Moreover, you must become members based on the anti-communist front of the Republic of Korea. If one merely goes back and forth, one is rather done in by them.

Think once. Even if all the world’s humankind were eroded into Christianity, God would be challenged. If it came to that, to pull out this world’s humankind, God would seek to do a movement greater than war. He would stop the war and seek to do a movement greater than that.

To hold a national athletic meet, does it take several months?

To hold a national athletic meet, first one selects athletes at the county, sends the county representatives to the province, selects at the province, and then the provincial representatives come out to the center to be selected—it takes several months. Even in a small nation with a population of only thirty million, to hold a national athletic meet once takes several months even with countless personnel mobilized, and God has spread the sphere of the providence of Restoration wide open worldwide.

In that process, some people who have climbed to the top, disliking to climb higher, come down saying, “Oh dear, I cannot climb any higher, so I will go down.” There will be all kinds of people. There will be people who, saying, “Oh dear, it is hard, I cannot go,” fall while climbing. If one marked each of those climbing and descending with a line, it would be so complicated that all kinds of lines would not suffice.

The Preliminary Contest of the Providence of Restoration

Then when will God hold the preliminary contest in working the providence of Restoration? Have you ever thought about it once?

Have you heard it said when God held the preliminary contest to select His sons and daughters in the course of the providence of Restoration? That preliminary contest ground is precisely religion. Buddhism is Buddhism, Confucianism is Confucianism, and Christianity is Christianity—each holds its context in its own way. Thus they have held their contests, each in their own way, but because that sphere is so large, in some places the contest ended ten years ago, while in some places it will begin only ten years later. The doctrine of religion is so set.

So there is a religion that departed ten years ago, while there is a religion that has not even departed ten years later; seeing that, how stifled must God be? Yet God is not in a position to take a microphone and give commands. Think once how wretched and stifling that figure must be. In any case, must He not hold a preliminary contest?

Then in which nation is the Olympics held?

It is held in a particular nation. The people of the nation that hosts the contest receive much benefit. In holding the games, there is no external hindrance for that host nation. People of other nations must play the games, where they must bear expenses, and the land is different, the climate is different, and all conditions differ, so it is that much harder. And the people of that nation, even in running, do not run alone. There is the cheering of that nation’s citizens. When a person of another nation pulls ahead, the countless crowd jeers, “Hey, you rascal! Break your leg while you run.” You all hold such a mind. Doing so, one becomes a full cousin of Satan.

I sometimes have such a thought too. At the last world championship decisive match, when I watched the wrestler Kim Il struggling underneath his opponent, I just felt a sudden urge to climb to the top and kick with my foot…. But though I calmed my mind, saying, “Oh, this will not do,” that is human instinct. The direction of desire too is set that way. Apart from oneself, one cannot surpass a second object. This is a fact God too acknowledges.

Then how is the preliminary contest of Restoration held?

Does the host nation do it too, or not? Before greeting the contest, one must hold a preliminary contest even at home. It will not do for the home country to only watch. That nation too must hold a preliminary contest. Only when the preliminary ends does the main contest begin.

Then when did the religious world hold the preliminary contest today?

To pass that preliminary and become the champion, what must one do? One must strike into that nation. One must strike into the world. To strike into the world, one must drive in and strike. One must pour it in all at once.

Before, the throng of the Unification Church was only a few. And at that time the Presbyterians and Methodists and all were mobilized, and even the groups bearing the name “heretic” called us heretics. All thirty million struck the Unification Church. That striking was not for a day or two. This much of the preliminary contest is tedious. Why tedious? Because the rain comes and the rainy season sets in and the typhoon blows, the athletes all grow exhausted midway. You, too, are exhausted from that game. When the preliminary ends, there will be the main contest. Then where is the main contest held? Jesus too could not take part in the main contest. Is that not so?

Today countless peoples are crying out for freedom. Democracy has come out and is asserting freedom of association, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and so on. It says let anyone do as he asserts once. It says let those who claim to be gifted do it. You, too, are people who came here to be told to do it all.

But it turns out there is only one path. Running that path, one finds there is a river, and when there is a rotted bridge over that river, what does one do? If one covets first place, one must cross the rotted bridge, whether one dies or lives. The issue is whether it collapses before I cross, collapses while I am crossing, or collapses after I have crossed. At such a time, if one passes with rapid, arrow-swift steps before it collapses, saying, “Collapse if you will collapse,” it does not collapse.

Since there is only one path, if one goes by another path, one is caught by the judge. If it comes to that, one must hold the contest again. Such a thing can happen. That is why, at such a time, crossing hastily and quickly is the Unification Church way. The Unification Church way is so. Such a thing—one never knows when it will come while one is just staying still. Like the proverb “a mallet in the dead of night,” it can come suddenly.

The Unification Church remained through the preliminary contest. Now one must go out to the world contest.

If One Appears Who Can Do Better Than Jesus

Then, seen centering on God, at what time did He hold the preliminary examination for becoming God’s sons and daughters?

Through the course of history until now, was there a person gazing at one person who devoted the utmost energy centered on heart in seeking sons and daughters, over whom God was on tenterhooks, thinking, “If only that one would not perish, not die, and only cross this…”? If so, who would that person be? That person is precisely the Messiah. So He should have kept him from dying, but because He killed him, all that was hoped for was cut short. That is why, even after several thousand years, one cannot forget that person.

Then now, a person must become such a Lord at the Second Advent?

This is a worldwide task. In the past, Jesus’ mind was God’s mind. The mind that wished he would not die. Is that not so?

If there were a man who held out for ten thousand years, saying he could not die without living having greeted the world’s foremost beauty, what would one do? If there were such a person, God would truly be challenged. And if one speaks of a woman—if there were a woman who held out over several thousand years, saying she could not die without greeting the world’s great one and bearing his successor—God would likewise be challenged.

Have you thought about it?

If they held out for tens of thousands of years, day and night, God would truly be challenged. If He cannot even grant one person’s wish, how would He grant the wish of a nation, the wish of the world?

The mind of a man and the mind of a woman are originally so. A human being originally has such a desire. But whether there is a flower that can bloom forever—there is not. So you must, rather than being that kind of person, become a man and a woman who can uphold God, centering on the infinite value of God. Without doing that, one cannot depart for national Restoration. If one sits at ease, the providence of Restoration of God is challenged. Do you understand what I mean?

Then in the course of history, when countless men and women hold a preliminary contest, seen centering on the problem of the heart, who is first? When, before a man who goes forth facing such a heart, there appear the foremost women in the Republic of Korea and a woman whose nose is crooked but whose heart fits—when one must choose one of the two, whom would you choose? To choose the woman with the crooked nose is the normal thing. Do you understand what I mean? The better thing must remain.

What the word “normal” means is that the better thing must remain to the last. It means the less good is set in order, and the better remains. This is the heavenly law.

God, in holding this contest over the six-thousand-year providential course, has until now set up Jesus. From now on, before the main contest to come hereafter, if in the preliminary contest one appears who can do better than Jesus, He will hand over to him the mission of Jesus. Is it not appropriate to do so?

When one bears a firstborn son, one loves that son alone entirely, but if that firstborn son were to die, what would you do?

If, though the next-born son is similar in face and superior to the firstborn in every respect, one thinks only of that dead firstborn and says, “I do not know you,” that makes no sense. Seen from this viewpoint, within God’s providence of Restoration, seen centering on the Teacher and Jesus, whom would God call first? I have had such a thought. It is unfortunate, but if He calls Jesus first, I would feel bad. Only when one thinks this way does one become a great person before God. If the Teacher’s words are wrong, speak up once.

Jesus had to do great work, but he spent his time busily with miracles and signs and such. But what use is that?

What was he so busy doing?

He made a tactical error. Why could he not cajole even Joseph, the one stepfather? Had it been me then, I would have called out even at night, “Father, are you there?” I would have set it up so that he answered not once, saying, “Why do you ask?” but three times. But Jesus could not do that. I regard that as a tactical mistake. In this sense, it was ill done. You must clearly know that.

Trial Is for Selection, So One Must Not Complain

In the course of the providence of Restoration, while God has held such a selection contest until now, you must not complain, “Why only fights?” Rather, you must pray beyond that.

Jesus, from the position of the Messiah, said, “Abba, Father, if it be possible, spare me this bitter cup,” but I am not so. In a victorious place welcomed by all people, before the glory of Heaven, He will set me forth as a son of God. Then what will God do? Thinking of such a problem, it is serious. Seen from this viewpoint, we can know that there was a preliminary contest in the past course of history.

It is the same in the spirit world too. At one time, the whole spirit world was mobilized and attached the label “A certain Moon is a traitor of Heaven.” It means a wild rebel was born out of nowhere. It means one true pear was born in a field of wild pears. All of them rose that way.

Thus, one who stands against must appear. In that respect, the communist party came out well. Otherwise America would have shouldered its bundle and taken down its signboard, saying, “Such is my lot.”

The age of America’s independent authority of being the only first is all past. Since it is saying, “Leave Asia to Asians. We got involved and are retreating; even if one spits in its face and says, “You rascals,” America can do nothing. If it would quit midway, it should not have laid a hand on it in the first place; what is that? Now watch America’s future. Watch Nixon too. He is built like a plausible man, but watch what becomes of him hereafter. From here, America will go down. It will go down uncontrollably. But while this is the responsibility of the Nixon administration, there is a problem in all of America’s public opinion too. Furthermore, here the communist party has given much indirect support until now.

Seen in this and that problem, the great issue is which nation will stand as a candidate before God, centering on the world, as the vanguard. Just as, in the UN General Assembly, the authority of the Secretary-General does important work regarding all voting rights, the nation in which the central being is placed receives blessing.

The Unification Church Way of Strategy

From this viewpoint, God’s Will is done through the Unification Church of Korea. The established churches will feel bad, but it cannot be helped. If they will perish, let them perish. Rendering the verdict is what God does.

Until now, because the spirit world was insufficiently done, they administered stings in reverse. That is why the phrase “the Unification Church way” came out.

What I like is the Unification Church way. There is also a phrase, “the communist party way,” is there not? What is opposed to it is the Unification Church way. The communist party way is that, if one has a rival, one cuts off the opponent’s neck and treads over and rises above him; but the Unification Church way is that I first become a servant and make the opponent bow his head and submit. The strategy is truly splendid. So the Unification Church does not perish. From this viewpoint, the front line of Restoration is centered on the spirit world, and the earth has already been formed.

Therefore, you must know that what I, as the person in charge here now, must break through and press forward is a critical problem in carrying out the full-scale charge. Until now you have followed the Teacher, but you have always opposed, saying that what the Teacher does does not fit reality. The Jeongdo-sul (정도술) masters have come here too, but people whispered, asking why Jeongdo-sul is being taught when the Unification Church members cannot even eat barley rice. Why is that being taught? Though I did not explain with what purpose I teach it, watch hereafter. Until then, it will take time.

Then is this Jeongdo-sul the Jeongdo-sul only of the Republic of Korea, if the Republic of Korea, or of the Unification Church, if the Unification Church? No. This is not the Jeongdo-sul of the Republic of Korea or the Unification Church alone. Is the Unification Church the Unification Church of the Republic of Korea alone? At the least, it may as well be the Unification Church of Asia; it is not the Unification Church of the Republic of Korea alone.

In supporting this, one must prepare for at least seven or eight years. One must go this path looking ahead more than three years, more than five years, more than seven years. That is why it does not keep pace with you.

If the villains make an underworld, the intent is to make a street of the good camp. If the good camp uses fists, that is faster than some good-willed verdict in a courtroom, in the verdict of the Will. Is that not so? Therefore, it is needed. When the opponent comes out with fists, words do not get through. At such a time, resisting with fists becomes a direct-hit bullet at Satan. So it is needed. Hereafter I intend to teach this to our sons and daughters too.

So I intend to issue a special order to the master, “Lay out all the secrets you hold within a few days.” But cunningly he holds all the secrets only to himself. This is the cause by which the nation has been ruined until now and, though an excellent people, has not developed worldwide. Sweeping all this away, one must actively join, in a short time, the spiritual functions and artistic aspects of the nation and people and carry out one purpose.

In that sense, in extracting all the marrow of the people in a short time and carrying out one purpose, in gathering things up comprehensively under the signboard called the Unification Church Principle, the one with the fastest experience is I alone. Moreover, among the young rascals these days, I have not once seen a rascal with the spirit to say, “Teacher, let us do it this way!” Following that way, one cannot catch up even over six thousand years. One must take an adventure. An adventure.

These days the Japanese Communist Party, on the theoretical side, has risen to a higher overall standard in Asia than Communist China or the Soviet Union. When I said that, facing such a communist party, we must gather about five hundred young people of the Japanese Unification Church and do an anti-communist movement, they, in their own way, must have had all kinds of thoughts, thinking the Teacher was mad. But I said, “Nevertheless, let us do it!” Had we not done anti-communist activity in Japan, the Unification Church’s standing would not have stood.

It was the same in Korea too. When we first did it, I gathered the district leaders across the country and told them to prepare, saying that within six months we must do anti-communist activity. To ask them to prepare that vast communist theory within six months and become lecturers must have been a bolt from the blue. I had them hold their nerve to take responsibility for doing anti-communist activity nationwide within six months and had them do it, memorizing it as if playing a recorded tape.

Let Us Be Resolved to Die

So how hard it must have been to do that! For a new figure to arise, there is such a hard process. Thus, learning by engaging in actual combat is the fastest. Rather than doing it after graduating university, learning by engaging directly in actual combat oneself is far faster. When one enters a necessary and fitting environment, even a mere hint becomes all one’s own. They entered such a pressing environment.

You are now speaking of how God is such, and the heart of Restoration is such and so on, but does that heart of Restoration have a taste? However much one tells an old maid the taste of being loved by a husband, having married in her youth, she does not know it.

Likewise, there is a difference between the Teacher and you. My saying “Father!” and your saying “Father!” differ. The word Father is the same, but the content is of ten thousand kinds. Speaking this way, there would be no end.

Even in praying, centering on God, it cannot be the same. Even for Christians alone it is so, and since countless religions cannot detach that which centers on themselves and have carried it until now, think how complicated God’s heart and mind must be. You could not stay in such a place even for one hour. Within ten minutes, you would all go out of your minds.

Even wild geese, when they migrate, have one leader and fly in orderly fashion, do they not? The farther the distance flown, the more they must form a formation.

Even in running a marathon, at first it is complicated as they all vie and run at once, but the farther the distance, and about the time of returning, the order is automatically set. Is that not so? When about a hundred fifty people run a marathon, do they run forming an orderly formation in sequence? That can neither be commanded nor should it be commanded. Likewise, the providence of Restoration is impossible with a short-term strategy. In the end, a long-term strategy is needed.

That is why I think six thousand years is short. But because the Unification Church came out and seeks to restore six thousand years of history in a short time, it is busy. Compared to six thousand years of history, the Unification Church’s history is too short. The process of trial is too short. You are athletes who should confront for about a thousand years, but if, at about seven years, you say, “Now we have come a little way,” you perish. And there are many such people. It is enjoined not to blame reality. Think that I was born to do this work. Think that you were born for the sake of all people. It is enjoined not to boast that you came in first.

If one makes an effort without rest, a thousand miles is no problem, and ten thousand miles is no problem.

In the days of Japanese rule, in our village there lived an old man who was a bit lacking. At that time, when the Japanese detectives came and took away those who would cry Mansei at the time of the March First Movement, those Japanese police came to arrest people in the evening.

So this old man said, “Ah, why do these people come in the evening? Come in broad daylight and arrest. Arrest me, arrest me.” But they ignored him and took away all the others, and when they questioned them, they pinned the blame, saying that the old man was the ringleader.

So that old man became the chief instigator. But looking closely, the old man pinned as the ringleader was the ancient man who had come in the daytime saying, “Arrest me.” And that old man, having been arrested, kept saying, “Mansei even if I die! Mansei even if I live!” So, thinking that taking such an old man to the courtroom would only bring embarrassment, they just threw him out.

The Teacher thinks, “That old man truly had a long life.” To cry Mansei, one must cry it that way, even at the cost of death. If one cries Mansei to live, rather, one dies. One must be able to say, “Whether I live or die, do as You please, God.” One must build such a foundation.

The One Who Serves Loyally at the Cost of His Life Is the Loyal Subject

Whom would God trust and send to the very front of the front line of Restoration?

If there is a stranger who charges forth saying he will die first when there is dying to be done, God is truly challenged. He wishes to send someone centering on a person with ancestral merit, but a lowborn like a butcher’s son with no merit whatsoever, seen worldly, appears out of nowhere and says he will stand at the head of the path of dying for Heaven—this is a difficulty. But a person who can satisfy God’s mind is needed. Is that not so? God naturally desires such a person. God too dislikes the person who is not so. That is why, when it is unavoidable, even a traitor’s son must be used if he can do it. To settle an emergency, if it is a person with such nerve, even a traitor’s son is used.

In a pressing position, whom would God trust?

When a traitor’s son says he will stand at the head of the path of death, can He say, “Your father is a traitor, so you will not do”? Even from a traitor’s house, from among a traitor’s sons, a loyal subject comes.

This is the same even in a nation. Even a death-row convict who committed a crime against the nation and received a death sentence, if he goes into the enemy camp, establishes merit, and returns, has a condition by which he can be spared.

Seeing this, we can know that, in stepping forth and staking one’s life, the loyal subject and the traitor can be overturned instantly. Is that not so? Since the principle of the providence of Restoration is so, it cannot be helped.

Seen centering on the Unification Church too, if there is a person who does work above that of the Association president, he can become the Association president’s successor.

If a misfortune befalls him in which the Association president dies or lies ill in bed, he can already have the qualification to decide for himself. Why do I say such things? Because a warrior of faith who will go out to the front line of Restoration hereafter must appear.

Then, bearing what signboard, must one step forth?

Whether a private, if a private, or a sergeant, if a sergeant, one must attach something and step forth, must one not? Then, attaching what must one engage in the decisive battle? One must engage bearing the signboard “warrior of life.” By what is the warrior of life decided? For the warrior of life, the purpose of his action lies in crossing the death line and smashing the enemy camp. For such a warrior, the chosen people's ground on which he can do so is the issue.

Until now, the Republic of Korea has opposed our Unification Church, and we must compete here. We are competing without firing shells, without using guns and blades. You must know that.

The established church now cannot hold up its lower body. Now they will flock. When I hook and yank, they will flock instantly. Now one moment’s strategic plan remains. I am now advancing for that.

You must become true warriors in that rank, so you must not be indifferent. You must know how the battle situation is turning. You must know how deeply the front line that sways the nation’s fate, when the nation faces an emergency, is tied to the whole citizenry’s patriotic thought. The greater the concern, the nearer that citizenry’s victory comes.

We Who Are on the Final Road

Likewise, even from the position the Unification Church goes forth today, the issue is how much of your whole daily life, day by day, you can totalize and unfold with real feeling within that time-realm. When we compare that depth or height with the time Christianity departed, if we become greater, we will make rapid development and rapid victory.

And, as I said before too, one must taste the sorrow of a loser. One must feel shame to the degree that one cannot lift one’s face and must suffer disgrace too. The Teacher too had such times. When I stood in court before going to Seodaemun Prison, a person who used to follow the Teacher in the past said, “Having done prison time in the North and now doing prison time here too, I see he still has not dropped that habit.” I have not forgotten those words until now.

I have waged a fight going in and out of prison all my life. But the time will come. If one goes gathering all these grudges, a time will come when one can resolve all those grudges and have more than enough left over. That is why I cannot grow weary, however I try.

However my lips blister, and my body is unwell, I will go until I tread with both feet over the back of the gloating enemy and pass beyond. I will fight to the end, facing Satan. So it is enjoined not to think the Teacher excessive. Do you understand? Do you understand or not? (We understand.) Think about it deeply, deeply.

All of you, there is another thing to consider. It is the problem of whether the Unification Church is true or not. Do not believe carelessly. You must clearly know whether this is fact or not, or true or false, and believe. The Unification Church’s motive is not human thought. The Unification Church has Heaven itself as its motive. Therefore, one must form a relationship with Heaven. Therefore, one must inquire of the spirit world and believe. Among the family members who have entered our Unification Church, there will be such people. I do not like careless believing.

I am not a person who likes to grab someone met on the street, drag him along, calling him a friend, drink crock-bowl makgeolli, and dance. You must know that we are now on the final road, embracing a sword to avenge the enemy and taking our measure. If we go wrong here, we are dragged off before the enemy. If we go wrong, a grave matter unfolds. It is a choice of one of two. We are going down such a path.

In the age of Japanese rule, I received all manner of torture, but I resolved, “Beat me. Strike me, strike me through every political organization. I will cross the boundary line of death.” I am a person who crossed the ridge of death several times. Even while tortured for seven or eight hours, I did not speak. I absolutely would not do a thing that would make fellow countrymen shed blood. With one word I could have cleared my charge, but I did not. I could not make the people shed blood, and comrades shed blood so that I might live. Overcoming all trials, I held out at this remaining ridge, asking whether I could yield. I held out, saying, “Strike me. Strike me again.” I have waged such a fight.

So the Teacher is a person who has a grudge even against the Japanese emperor. But it is not that I, seeking to take revenge, can enter the palace of the Japanese emperor, strike down the emperor with one blow, and thereby avenge the whole grudge of the past. He is already a loser.

Heaven does not strike again the one who has fallen. Toward the one who, among the fallen, confesses his sin and repents, Heaven deals with compassion. Because there is such a Heaven, if one raises a blade again and strikes the loser, the descendants of the striker perish. That is why one devotes sincerity and leads such people from a place closer than a friend. It must be so toward the Communist Party too.

I Cannot Yet Grow Weary

There is another unforgettable thing. When I entered Seodaemun Prison, I could not forget a word said by the detention process of that prison. So one must grit one’s teeth and wait until one resolves such a grudge. Even if I receive the opposition of the thirty million in the Republic of Korea, I do not perish. I have not acted carelessly. That is why, even while receiving rejection until now, I have developed worldwide.

Now, even if I die, because I have crossed the ridge, the Unification Church develops. Going forward, one must take more adventures. I intend to take an adventure centering on this Republic of Korea. I intend to take an adventure centering on Asia and, further, centering on the world. I will become the Mister Moon of the Unification Church who presents the greatest problem centering on America.

When I think of such things, I cannot yet grow weary. On the day I die, there is too much work I must come back to this earth and do. And when I come then and do the work, how many times will the toil go in? It may go in many times more than now. So one does not know how precious one hour is. I am a person for whom one hour is busy. The Teacher’s life is so. My sleeping time does not exceed four hours on average. Fatigue is continuous.

That is why there is an exercise method I researched myself. When fatigued, if I do that exercise and draw sweat down my spine, the fatigue is relieved. Such an exercise method I will hereafter teach to all the Unification Church family.

Accordingly, the Unification Church family must put in more time than others for the sake of the Will.

In praying, one must pray to the degree that one’s back is bent and calluses form on the knees. On the Teacher’s knees, the calluses formed while praying long ago remain. Prayer must be done on the wooden floor. One must shed tears too. The Teacher is a person who has crossed several ridges of shedding tears to the degree that the tear stains shed while praying do not dry. He is not a man who, like a drifting fellow, merely meets women in the street and dances to the beat.

If you have taken part as warriors of life on the front line of Restoration thus far, you must keep a normal pace before the nation’s vital energy and the heavenly fortune. The issue is how many there are who say they will go, resolved even on the path of death, for the sake of the Will. Anyone must do such work. At some time, unless one has someone sift things out, it will not do.

The Unification Church folk must feel that one must offer one’s life for the sake of the Will. Hereafter, there will be times the Teacher sets you to such work seamlessly.

Do Not Oppose the Unification Church Rashly

At Heungnam Prison, tying up sacks of fertilizer, the Teacher thought that place was the final front line.

So even if I become a prisoner of war hereafter, I am justified regarding this history of misfortune. I do not resent it. It is not the issue that the North, centering on the North, would make the Republic of Korea rise in total revolt, and it is not the issue whether the North has 450,000 soldiers or 1,200,000 soldiers.

If one injects our ideology into the thirty million and drives it, Asia is not the issue. But I do not propagate; I stay still. Staying still, I carry out an encirclement operation. Just watch for a few more years. I will, without fail, carry out that strategy.

I do not meet the people in somewhat high positions in the Republic of Korea. I do not appear in public seats either. Why? Because if I get the chance to appear, there are too many places to go.

If I meet someone once, I must meet him twice, and if I eat lunch together, I must eat dinner together too, and doing so, I must become a friend and a colleague.

Even if I become a friend, there is a vast difference between my view of friends and their view of friends. Because I know that, if I meet them, we will in any case part within a few times, and there are many conditions by which we cannot join, I do not do such a thing. But I do the thing of first taking something and sharing it.

In Japan too, it is likewise. Having spread our strategic net across all of Japan, I am moving young people at will. This is becoming a great issue in Japan. So hereafter certain notable figures of Japan will come to Cheongpa-dong and say they wish to see the Teacher, and even if told not to report it in the newspaper, they will follow, seeking to report it in the newspaper. In the not-distant future, such a time will come.

Because you are people of the same household, you probably do not know each other well. The people of a household do not know well whether their father is excellent, do they? The president’s son calls his father Papa; he does not call him President.

The Papa who eats rice is the same in the old days and now; he has not sprouted any special lump, and his face is just as it was in the old days, with nothing changed at all. So it does not even occur to the son in dreams that his Papa goes abroad bearing the signboard of president, representing the thirty million people. When he is embraced in his arms, since he is just Papa, he is embraced because he likes it. That is why he does not know. You too, because you think of the Teacher just as a father, do not know well what I am.

Do Not Oppose the Unification Church Rashly

Already several hours have passed since I began the Message today. Since I keep doing this, you may think this is a habit, but that is utterly wrong. I speak quite skillfully to the point.

If I spoke only the main points, what would take three hours I could do in fifteen minutes. Even so, I say this, and that is because, when I look at your faces, the circumstances differ, the positions differ, and the worlds you have lived in all differ. Saying a word from this person’s standard and a word from that person’s standard takes much time. It is the same as in handing out rice cakes: if there are few people, it is handed out at once, but if there are many people, it takes much time.

From this viewpoint, you must study the Teacher again. The Teacher, if unfeeling, is a very unfeeling person. Look at the Teacher’s eyes. Through your eyes, I see even into the mind. And look at the ears.

How well are they attached?

He absolutely does not listen to anyone. On one hand, it seems he listens well, but I am a person who goes by my plan. I am not a person who has lived until now receiving anyone’s guidance. Even going to school and studying, from elementary school until now, even facing a teacher, I thought that though you are a teacher, you merely learned a few years before me, and character-wise you are not a teacher who can teach me. Even when greeting, I absolutely did not bow my head. I just did it like this. I am such a person.

Even wrestling, even with a person several years older than me, only when I won without fail was my mind at ease. Even going to school, I am a person who studied after catching some fault and asking a question and giving them a hard time and setting things up so that when I said something, everyone would listen. And I am a person who absolutely does not believe what someone teaches. I absolutely do not believe it just so. Only after doing it myself and setting up a standard that I have done it do I believe. It is the same with literary books; though there are many good words, I am a person who absolutely does not follow them. I was a person who thought, “He said first what I was going to say. Why did he do it without my consent?”

Even fighting in the village, I did not fight with little children. I fought with children three or four grades above and, by some means, gave them a hard time. I fought until things were settled, no matter what. If the opponent fled home, I clung to the end for a day or two.

If the opponent fled home, I clung to the end for a day or two. Even if the opponent’s parents tried to stop it, it did not do anything. In the end, in a fight between children, I even made his mother and father surrender. So I am a person with a history of receiving surrender even from parents.

So it is enjoined not to oppose the Unification Church rashly.

If you would, cut off the neck of the Unification Church’s Teacher Moon and then oppose. Do you understand what I mean? As long as I am alive, however much you oppose, there is no abnormality. I am such a person. Do not think carelessly. When I talk together with you, I know what mind you hold. I am a person who has lived facing the heart-world of many people until now. With one blink of the eye, I know all that that person is thinking. But when I ask, “You are thinking this now, are you not?” they say no. Though thinking so, they say no. Then I say, “Ah, you are thinking this, so do not think useless thoughts.” This is the method of catching a person quickly.

If one does this just a few times, the strategy succeeds. The Teacher has waged such a strategy until now.

In My Sight There Is Nothing but Victory

Muddling-through-ism or convention-ism will not do. One must go tightening one’s belt. The young people here probably came thinking, “Let me try going to church once today.” For what did you come here? To do what did you come? Did you come to do business? Did you come to be fed? There must be a purpose. There must be the nerve to say, “I will become such a person; I will surely become this.” The Teacher is a person who goes forth, centering on such nerve. But you, without even this, follow along, so if you run just a little, you are exhausted. Now one must totally mobilize, but does it do only to kick with the foot? Would you like being kicked?

In my sight, there is nothing but victory. So is there time to distinguish an old person and a young person? At such a time, an old person becomes a hindrance. That is why this work is a strategy of centering on young people, since I cannot kill them, striking them so that they understand even at the cost of a bruise. Young people like it even if their bones break. To do this work, as a matter of strategy, I had ordinary people kept from being called in.

You are warriors of unification.

When it is said “warrior,” what character is the “sa”? Is it the character “death” (死)?

Is it the character “scholar” (士)?

The character “scholar” is better than the character “death,” is it not? Then is one who just sits still a scholar? One who overturns Heaven and earth is a scholar. That is why, when I came to face the Germans, I thought, “You—well met. How hard it was for God, seeking over six thousand years, until He met you.” It was the same going to Japan. When I got off the plane and landed at Haneda Airport in Japan, I had such a thought. In the age of Japanese imperialism, when the emperor made his procession and returned, did he not return with all the officials welcoming him?

The Teacher wishes to work centering on the people of our nation more than any other nation. Even when traveling, people wait among themselves, saying, “The Teacher is coming, the Teacher is coming,” and when I go, they think it is a dream. They think the Teacher flits about the world flying. Even knowing that I ride in a car, they think that way.

So it is difficult to keep pace with that. The Teacher saw that first on the second world tour course too. The foreign family members are champions in loyalty. How can I so easily say I will go before them, who stand at the world standard in loyalty? That is the issue. So one must pray from the very bottom. And that too must be done to the end; one must not grow weary. It is enjoined to pray to the end.

Hereafter, to speak going abroad, one must set up an interpreter. But there must be a person who says he will interpret. There is no one to interpret, and interpreting must be done, so what does one do? I must speak and interpret myself, so what does one do? So one must go to Japan. Twenty-one years later, I once stood on a platform in Japan and lectured in Japanese. When I speak Japanese, I speak twice as fast as an old-time Japanese. Thinking there would come a time to use it, I had learned it beforehand.

I now speak slowly, but when I speak fast, my tongue hurts. At first I spoke very slowly. But when I would lose even speaking ten words while others speak one, if I could not even speak half a word while others speak one, how could I win over people of other worlds? At first, when this Pyongan Province person came to the land of Seoul, the speech was so fast that however fast I spoke, I could not keep up with others’ speech. But to keep pace with people’s talk, I too had to speak fast.

There was a landlady, and that landlady was short in height, and her speech was so fast that when she rose early and began to chatter, one was dazed. Listening, one felt bad from the morning.

It was to the degree that, by the time I said, “Please give me some rice,” that landlady had already finished eating rice and even digested it. It felt terrible. So for six months I went into a small back room and practiced pronunciation all over again, from giyeok and nieun to ga and gya. I trained until I grasped all the pronunciation. That is why my speech became fast. One can even correct one’s manner of speech.

The Mission of a Unification Warrior

The Teacher, because he must convey a vast Message within a limited time, cannot speak while maintaining some dignity. Doing so, one cannot say all one must say. That is why what the Teacher speaks in one hour is the same as what another speaks in five hours. When busy, one presses on. Keep your wits, is the point. Because I did so, the front line of Restoration has come on until now without perishing, has it not? Because I did so, the Teacher has dragged the providence of Restoration on without perishing.

Even though the Republic of Korea opposed and the whole world opposed, all were caught by the Teacher and crossed over. Just as the spirit world was so, since Korea opposed, one must wage a fight to restore all that was opposed up to the world standard. That is why one must rally all the family members abroad too.

The Teacher has passed through this and that process. So you must not know the Teacher merely as a shabby Unification Church teacher. The Teacher is a person who weighs the times. Like Jiang Taigong fishing in the blue waters of the Yangtze River, he is a person who plays such a game. Hereafter, a time will come when you must bear a grave mission.

So, to travel all over Asia, you must have the nerve to go even to the Mongolian continent and the Siberian continent with one bundle in hand. The Teacher has waged such a strategy from birth. Even now, in a way you do not know, he is waging a serious battle.

In which field of the front line of Restoration must one fulfill one’s mission?

One must become a signal soldier, or an artilleryman, or an infantryman. You must know that becoming a throng that can remain as personnel of history in some field of the providential front line is the inevitable mission of the Unification warriors.

Seeing all the events unfolding externally, there are truly many sorrowful times on one hand. Think how much the Unification Church would have leaped had it not been opposed. Had it not been opposed and only a few people heeded the Teacher’s words well, today the Unification Church would have become a worldwide church, and Heaven’s fate too would have leaped together with the Unification Church’s fate. You must take responsibility as the head before the nation and people. Even in daily life, you must stand at the head in loving the nation and people.

You must know that you are people who must, as those in charge of the inner mission, as those in charge of the Abel mission, carry out the whole mission before the nation.

The Foundations We Are Laying

In our Unification Church coming this far, I have crossed countless ridges until now. Crossing such ridges, where did I meet you? It was on a hillside. So you do not know what kind of work I did until I came to the hillside. I do not know what directions I may issue to gather each one of you individually. Therefore, you must prepare yourselves. Do you understand? These words are given to you for reference. Hereafter, for the Unification Church to act actively in Asia, one must make a path by which one can come and go even without receiving the approval of the government of every nation in Asia. Do you understand? In this complicated situation, when would one issue a visa and travel? Even without a visa, when something unfolds, must one not be able to ride a plane and rush over and go and come back even in one night? The Teacher is even thinking of such things.

Hereafter, to go forth centering on Asia toward the world, to make the foundation of all such business fields, the Teacher has until now been preparing regarding the matter of information. That is why hereafter our Unification Church must be able to report the Soviet military situation or all their information about the world. It will come to be that it cannot be done but by us.

Even now perhaps there is such work. Our missionary has entered Czechoslovakia. He has entered Communist China too and entered the Soviet Union too. We are laying the foundation the Republic of Korea cannot lay. For the future of the Republic of Korea, for the future of this world, we are preparing, without words, a breakthrough by which we can dig into the Soviet Union. We are carrying out an encirclement operation.

Transcending the people, a German if a German, a French person if a French person, an English person if an English person, a Czech if a Czech, is doing that work. Does such a thing seem possible with money? Here, if I only command, they are set to report even transcending life and death.

The gun muzzle of the Japanese Communist Party is aimed at the Republic of Korea’s Unification Church Teacher Moon. It is not once that they wrote it up in large letters across an entire front page of their organ. In the top organ of the Japanese Communist Party, there was such a thing, and it was published in about 1,300,000 to 1,500,000 copies. They made an issue of it, and a fight unfolded.

On such a front line, even if the Teacher, who will push out the enemy, falls, who will be the one who can push this forward?

Of course, one does not know how the situation will turn out, but who will be the one who will carry on God’s heart just as it is? The problem is serious. The Teacher is a priest centered on this land. You are worldwide offerings.

So you must hereafter make a worldwide economic organization centered on the Teacher. Only then can your descendants and the Republic of Korea live hereafter. And making a worldwide organization, one must realize this movement at a supranational standard.

So hereafter I intend to have many international marriages done. The Japanese and first-generation Korean-resident economic personnel of our Unification Church will tie with Koreans. This is not done by force. What can inspire, centering on the thirty million people of the Republic of Korea, if the Republic of Korea lacks a higher national thought that they lack—the glory of the ideal world, so to speak—is the thought of the Unification Church.

President Park is holding a people-unification rally centering on the Republic of Korea, but the inner problem is not solved, centering on some people. It cannot be done that way. It cannot be done even with authority. It cannot be done even with politics. Neither America’s President Johnson nor President Nixon is the issue. Only when we hold the subjective authority in doing this work can we stand before Heaven.

The Unification Church, Which Needs Talented People

Though our Unification Church members in Japan are so few, if they commence nationwide activity, it will become a great issue for the Japanese Communist Party.

Hereafter, the mother body that can move the world is the Republic of Korea, and among that, the Unification Church’s Cheongpa-dong Headquarters Church. Hereafter, even if one says to pay a thousand dollars each to sleep one night on this wooden floor, people will vie to sleep. To show that we lived this way here, we have even taken photographs. We must make it so that, when we say, “We lived this way; would you like to come see it once?” they say, “It is my wish to see it once before I die.”

We must make our Unification Church members love Korea more than the Muslims love their holy land. We must make them think of Korea more than the Christians think of the holy land of Jerusalem. Korea has many points to boast of compared to Jerusalem. Its natural resources are excellent.

When I went to Pyongyang and worked, how much did Heaven prepare?

To the degree that, twenty years before meeting me, it made a person in that house know beforehand that he would meet such a one and hear the Message.

Since the Teacher went to the North at twenty-seven, Heaven worked from when the Teacher was seven years old. At that time even the Teacher did not know. Could the world believe that? So many people have watched the Teacher from several decades ago. Such people are now testifying on earth. Those people, on the Teacher’s path ahead, are doing a witnessing mission from the position of the archangel.

From the very time God planned the creation of human beings, the angel must uphold human beings, must he not?

In creating human beings, did God take one day, or several hundred years, or several thousand years? Have you thought about this? Is a human being one who came out at God’s one word, “Come out, human being,” as Christianity says? It means it took several hundred years, several thousand years. Until then, the angel could not but cooperate.

Seen centering on the principle of the providence of Restoration, and seen from the principled viewpoint, before the Teacher came out, the Teacher had to practice the Way of the ideal. So the spirit individuals who would attend the Teacher had to cooperate with this earth in the age of substance from several centuries before so that the ground for going out to the earthly satanic world could be laid. Such spirits had to attend the Teacher from several hundred years before.

What is God’s purpose of creation?

The final purpose is to wear a body. To govern the substantial world, since the formless God will not do so, He must appear wearing a body as the Father and Mother of all people. To stand as a subject and object that can feel stimulation through sensory organs, He must wear a body.

When witnessing was in full swing, there were many who saw the Teacher spiritually. It is so even now. Therefore, the Unification Church does not perish. All of you, do not grow weary. The Unification Church, the more you grow weary and collapse, will quicken its steps all the more. The Teacher intends to send you abroad quickly, quickly.

If one goes even slightly wrong, it is easy to fail one’s responsibility. If, struggling abroad, one does not die but remains, by that merit one can stand in a place where one can be revered before countless people of the Way; but if one dithers, all perish.

Seen now, the rascals who claim to have worked all live off tearing at the Teacher and living off the Teacher. Can one go before Heaven that way? All of you, the Unification Church now needs talented people. That is why many people are not needed. Knowing, centering on such achievement, that the Unification front is being unfolded worldwide, you, since you are in the position of the archangel, must uphold Heaven, devote sincerity, attend rightly, and go forth. Only then does it become fulfilling one’s responsibility, and such a ground can be laid.

That the Teacher climbs the high place called Shinseon Peak in Cheongpyeong is not to do any hunting. It is to be trained to become a soldier of Heaven. It is not that the Teacher climbs such a place lacking anything to do. It is because there must be something by which one can have a settled view even on such overall problems and can broaden one’s outlook.

Hereafter, I intend to make a Unification Church sports team. When it is made, those team members must not come in having lost to anyone. If they come having lost, wail aloud. One must, feeling the sorrow of a loser more bone-achingly than anyone in history, wail aloud.