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1. Where did I begin? I began with a title, True Parents, which is truly wonderful in itself. I am pursuing God's Will. True Parents are the standard representing the ideal purpose and the point of its realization.
When Adam and Eve realize the ideal of love and stand as the Parents in God's direct dominion, God's Will is fulfilled and the ideal of creation is completed.
Please understand how remarkable it is that I have come to the earth and established the name, True Parents. For fallen people, the name True Parents is the most blessed among names.
This discovery has greater value than recovering a lost nation or gaining the world itself. This name has a value greater than anything in heaven or on earth.
(127-221, 1983.05.08)
The meaning of the title “True Parents”
2. For God's Will, to be realized, Parents need to come – not fallen parents, but True Parents. You cannot just accidentally stumble upon the words True Parents. This is something that did not emerge in history until now. Its impact will be far beyond that of a revolution. It is a momentous event, akin to a miracle.
The reason we can use the title True Parents, especially the word “true” is because they emerged possessing a love that surpasses the love of the countless parents that have come and gone, a love that has never before seen expression. This is the standard they represent, and that is why we can use the name True Parents.
(067-225, 1973.06.27)
3. Our Unification Church members habitually speak the words “True Parents.” These are simple words but truly amazing words. In all history, no book has contained these words.
This is a term that we Unification Church members alone know and use. Christians have known throughout their history of two thousand years that the first ancestors fell. Given this, they should have known from the outset that fallen parents are bad and false parents and that parents who have not fallen are good and true parents.
And yet Christian doctrine has not clarified this issue. This is because humankind has had to wait for this time when this insight could be revealed. Even if, in the past, some thought of the term True Parents, they would have had no basis to understand what was behind it.
That comes only through understanding the vast and profound contents of the Unification Principle. Therefore, no one else has authentically been able to utter the simple words “True Parents.” (201-060, 1990.03.01)
4. That which is true reaches the whole world; it is absolute throughout history. It encompasses the past, present, and future. Therefore, that which is true is the fruit of history, the center of the current age, and the starting point of the future.
That is the significance of the True Parents, who have emerged in the Unification Church. They are the Parents of humankind. They have emerged by God's Will. A true family is a family that has inherited the will of the True Parents and a true tribe is a tribe that makes the True Parents its center.
Knowing this, please become true people. A true person loves the nation, loves the world, and loves God. (35-342, 1970.11.01)
5. God can give you the best gift in the world. It is to make each of you an ancestor of humankind, a true mother or true father. There is nothing higher. Even being a cabinet minister or the president of a nation does not match that. This is the greatest gift God can give you.
When there are True Parents, there will naturally emerge true children, true families, true tribes, true nations, and a true world. This is the importance of the name True Parents. (125-117, 1983.03.14)
6. What can we clearly understand from the term True Parents? The Fall of the first human ancestors occurred as a result of an illicit sexual relationship; this resulted in our lineage having nothing to do with God or the True Parents, through whom God intended to manifest the ideal of creation.
That is, we inherited the wrong bloodline. For this reason, the term True Parents signifies two things about God's Will. First, all people in history, including our first ancestors, will separate from the false lineage.
Second, a new love, life, and lineage will begin, connected with God and based on a new original root. (201-061, 1990.03.01)
7. Everything begins with the True Parents: the ideal history, a new culture, love, life, family, nation, and world – in other words, the heavenly kingdom of God's love.
The name True Parents is not just something you can casually talk about based on your understanding. It represents a position that countless people sacrificed as offerings through their blood are crying out to reach.
(67-227, 1973.06.27)
8. Both God and Satan fear the name True Parents. True Parents know that their words will judge their followers who, like all human beings, are in the fallen realm. Why does Satan fear the name True Parents? It is because when people believe and follow the True Parent's words, everything Satan has will come to destruction.
Therefore, Satan constantly tries to block the way of the True Parents and hopes they will come to grief and ruin. (65-277, 1973.01.01)
9. We can achieve oneness with God in our hearts only through True Parents. Through True Parents, the original lineage and original character will begin, language will return to its original starting point, our daily lives will return to their original form, the original nation will be established, and the original world will be realized.
True Parents are the core encapsulation of everything. True Parents are the ones who can determine everything. This is why we need to inherit their thought in its entirety. We will have to inherit everything from them: their heart, character, and their views on life, on the nation, and the world. Otherwise, we cannot stand in the central position. (28-248, 1970.01.22)
10. If we had had unfallen parents, we could have attended God as our Father-He would have been our vertical Father in true love. This is a great discovery. About God, who is the vertical Parent, Adam and Eve were supposed to stand at a perfect ninety-degree angle.
They were to have become the True Parents of humankind by attaining perfection centered on original true love. When the horizontal parents' love, life, and lineage are united with God's love, life, and lineage, then heaven and earth are united in virtue. This harmonious union gives birth to each one of us. (198-303, 1990.02.05)
11. God assumed the form of Adam and Eve because He needed a body through which He could become the ancestor of humankind. Adam and Eve were created with an inner mind, a spirit self, and an external body. The mind and the body have to unite. How can they unite?
The mind is vertical, and the Creator, God, is the True Parent based on vertical true love. Adam and Eve, who are like the Creator's body, are the True Parents based on horizontal true love. The vertical True Parent, the Creator, becomes one with the horizontal True Parents, Adam and Eve, based on love.
(223-237, 1991.11.10)
12. True love between the vertical True Parent and the horizontal True Parents always takes the shortest route at the highest speed. Thus, God's true love descends to earth vertically, over the shortest distance.
Love between a man and woman, likewise, moves in a horizontal line, traveling the shortest distance. When vertical true love meets horizontal true love, that intersecting point inevitably forms a ninety-degree angle. Those two lines of love cannot intersect without creating a ninety-degree angle.
Since God is our vertical True Parent based on true love, He is very close to each one of us. Thus, once we welcome the perfected human ancestors, namely Adam and Eve, as our True Parents, we meet at the intersecting point between God's vertical true love and the True Parent's horizontal love, which creates a ninety-degree angle. (201-212, 1990.04.09)
The past, the present, and the future
13. When you pray you say, “We are the fruit of six thousand years of history;” but how are you the fruit of six thousand years? You are simply your parent's children. Yet, since you are connected to True Parents, you can be a fruit of history and a starting point for the future.
Thus, your hope is not in the future, but in the True Parents. The world will become one based on everyone's unity with the True Parents.
(30-237, 1970.03.23)
14. When you unite with True Parents, the nation, the tribe, and the family can emerge. True Parents embody in substance all the glory and values of heaven and earth. Would you exchange True Parents for all the money in the world? Can you purchase them with your life? You are now living in a different time.
Wherever you go, you should attend True Parents. Beginning with your sons and daughters, your descendants should do the same in the generations to come. (30-237, 1970.03.23)
15. True Parents are the core, the center, who can determine the standard of value of all that is in motion in heaven and on earth. I am saying that they are the measure of value that is the hope of all beings.
This is true because God is such a being. He is the origin of the Principle, the center of all ages and eras, and the owner of the future. He seeks to harvest the fruit of history. True Parents are the central headquarters in which God dwells. (30-237, 1970.03.23)
16. What will be at the core of history, the present era, and the future? It is the true man and true woman. They should be the center of global teaching that bears the fruit of history concerning history, connects this age to all ages concerning the present, and creates the forthcoming era concerning the future.
The viewpoint and motivation of that true man and woman would be to live a meaningful life for the sake of the world. Their loving each other would also be for the sake of the world, and their having sons and daughters would spur them to love the world more. (25-147, 1969.10.03)
17. True Parents are the central figures who judge history, govern the present time, and pioneer the future. To receive True Parents has been the desire of all people throughout history. True Parents come to this earth to represent God's Will. Then what is it that they are meant to accomplish?
They fight against Satan's world and attain dominion over all things. They destroy Satan, who governs the human world, and they attain an absolute position from which they govern even the myriads in the spirit world.
This is the mission of the True Parents. That is why God has been paving the way by which He can send them to earth and restore a world wherein all things of creation, humankind, and Heaven are united. (13-281, 1964.04.12)
18. Due to the Fall of our first ancestors, we lost our hometown, the nation, and the world. Furthermore, we lost God and even God's love. True Parents are the starting point to regain all these essential and magnificent things.
What is the purpose and desire of God, who has led His providence throughout history to this day? It is to find the True Parents, and thus He has been leading the history of indemnity since the Fall. It is for this same purpose that countless Christians have been longing in hope, waiting for the day of the Second Coming.
For this purpose,e many religions are also longing for this day. Thinking of this, True Parents' birth on earth is a fearsome yet marvelous event.
(67-227, 1973.06.27)
19. A study of the providential ages leads us to understand that the providence of restoration is completed in the Last Days. As the Last Days approach, religions move closer to realizing their purpose, which is the coming of the Parents – not any parents, but the True Parents.
As the Divine Principle teaches, True Parents are those who have realized the ideal of oneness based on God's love. They have fulfilled their responsibility by passing through the realm of indirect dominion based on their accomplishments according to the Principle, and into the realm of direct dominion.
They are the first parents in history to establish the ideal of oneness in love between God and humankind. God's ideal of love finally begins to settle on earth through the True Parents' family. (143-076, 1986.03.16)
20. What was God's ultimate purpose in guiding the history of restoration? It was the advent of the True Parents. True Parents are required to represent a true family. A true family is required to represent a true tribe, a true tribe to represent a true people, a true people to represent a true nation, and a true nation to represent a true world. In this way, history will advance.
If we look at this process the other way around, a nation should be sacrificed to represent the world, a people should be sacrificed to represent the nation, a tribe to represent the people, a family to represent the tribe, and a representative person should be sacrificed for the family. This process culminates with the True Parents. (25-017, 1969.09.21)
21. We are living a life fraught with struggle between good and evil. Then, when will this fleet, temporary life transform into a permanent, eternal life? At what point will this transformation occur on the national and world levels? Where do these issues originate?
All problems came about due to the Fall of Adam and Eve, who became the false parents. Consequently, concerns of the heart, of lineage, of character, of language, and the concerns of daily life arose, as well as issues affecting nations and the world.
Then how can we fulfill our desire to resolve these accumulated issues all at once? It requires a true standard. But this is not to be found within the tribe, society nation, or even within the world. Because the origin of all issues is the false parents, only a connection with the True Parents can lead us to a solution. (28-247, 1970.01.22)
22. Even if all the parents of the billions of human beings were to resurrect this instant, not one of them would manifest the glory of True Parents. Even if all the ancestors of millions of generations were to come back to life and sing praises over the glory of their resurrection, the song, and the glory still would not be free from the fallen realm.
What of the name True Parents, which we use in the Unification Church? Although your current situation may be miserable, you can be proud of these words. Their value exceeds your value, and even that of hundreds of millions of ancestors bringing victory throughout the earth, proclaiming liberation for all people, singing songs of praise, and shouting of glory.
Meeting the True Parents will start you on the path to meeting God, and meeting the Unification Church will start you on the path to God's kingdom, the homeland that the True Parents desire to see shortly. (138-106, 1986.01.19)
True Parents are the Savior and returning Lord
23. The Messiah is in the position of Adam who has perfected God's love. He comes with the qualifications of the original Father. Therefore, he will choose a woman in the position of the Mother, and based on the foundation of God's original love, they will secure the rights of ownership for the individual, family, tribe, people, and nation.
Centering on true love, the Messiah claims the right of ownership from individuals, families, tribes, citizens, and nations, and then returns it to nations, citizens, families, and individuals. (129-194, 1983.11.05)
24. If the original love of the Messiah had been established from the individual to the nation, and if it had spread to Rome and the world, there would be no need today for the concept of the returning Lord.
But no country on earth has passed through such a course. Even the countless Christian churches do not belong to the realm of ownership according to God's principles of love.
In short, the heavenly kingdom does not exist on earth. When we consider this, how great is the name True Parents? It is only through them that we can lay the foundation, pierce through the fallen domain of Satan's world, and go up from there. (129-194, 1983.11.05)
25. What is the purpose of the Second Advent? It is the coming of the True Parents. The returning Lord and his bride are the True Parents. The Messiah means the True Parents, who are the final destination of human history.
One united world can come about only when all people, who are wandering about like orphans without a nation, come to the True Parents. That is how the world becomes one home. In this world of True Parents, there is no devil. This is the viewpoint of the Principle.
When the True Parents appear, Satan will ultimately have to withdraw. God wants the True Parents to appear on earth and defeat Satan. God wants to lay that foundation. (202-348, 1990.05.27)
26. True Parents must emerge in history. The one who carries out this historic mission is the Savior and the Messiah. What does he save? Not our physical bodies by making them last forever. Rather, he enables us to fulfill our hope for ideal love. To achieve this, the Messiah must come as the True Parents.
Christianity teaches that Jesus is the Messiah and Savior. What does he need to do to become the True Parents? We know he cannot do it alone. He comes as a man representing the True Father.
This is why Jesus said that he was the only-begotten Son of God. When the only-begotten Son comes, it will not suffice if he is alone. There has to be the only-begotten Daughter. The only-begotten Son and Daughter would love and marry each other, at the place where all can rejoice with God.
Upon their marriage, God, the vertical Parent, would rejoice, and the only-begotten Son and Daughter would rejoice as the bride and bridegroom. Then, as the horizontal Parents, they would give birth to children on earth.
(58-218, 1972.06.11)
27. The returning Lord of whom Christians speak is he who comes with the hope of establishing the most victorious of all families. Then, where is his beginning point in life? It is not based in the family but in all the heaven and earth.
Wherever he goes, that place will represent heaven and earth; everything he does will have historic value. All his footsteps, from the smallest to the greatest, will bear value higher than anything else in history and will remain eternally. Even something as small as a piece of paper that he used will remain as a historic artifact. Everything related to him will have the value of the world and the cosmos. (027-015, 1969.11.15)
28. A study of the world's religions reveals archangel-type religions and Eve-type religions. But Adam must emerge before Eve. In Christianity, he is called the returning Lord. Who is the returning Lord?
Jesus Christ was the second Adam, who came due to the failure of the first Adam; the returning Lord comes as the third Adam. Adam is the man who was supposed to become the true ancestor of humankind. Yet as a result of the Fall, the first Adam became our false ancestor instead.
Jesus came in place of Adam, as the new ancestor, but could not completely fulfill that purpose. Christianity is the fruit of that incomplete ancestry. Because a clear ancestral line did not emerge because Jesus was unable to establish the bond between the bridegroom and the bride on earth, the Parents did not come.
Without establishing the position of Parents, how could Jesus become the ancestor of humankind? Lacking any alternative, Jesus became the Parent in a spiritual sense. (50-060, 1971.10.31)
Sun Myung Moon