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1. If there were a dream common to all people regardless of gender, age, time, or place, what would it be? Through all ages, human beings have yearned and waited for the realization of an ideal of world peace.
However, we have never achieved the everlasting peace that brings joy to Heaven. This fact remains as our historical sorrow and anguish. What went wrong?
What brought about humanity's descent into ignorance of the ideal that God had for His creation? You can try for ten thousand years, but you will never reach perfection if you remain in ignorance.
The hope of humanity
2. How did human beings, created as the children of the omnipotent and omnipresent God, descend into such a state of ignorance? The first ancestors, Adam and Eve, followed the false parent, Satan, along the path of the Fall.
Indeed, this was the first tragedy and the most mortifying and lamentable shame of human history. God cannot forsake humankind. Within His grand ideal of creation, we were created to be His children, His absolute counterparts in true love.
Thus, he has endured the long years of history with a heart full of bitter pain, grief, and anguish. God is the eternal True Parent of humanity, who has had to persevere through virtual imprisonment in the shadows of history. No one has known this reality.
3. God's creation is indeed profound. Everything He prepared was to create an environment for the perfection and happiness of human beings, whom He created as His children and partners in love.
Consider a flower; it is one of the masterpieces of God's creation. Hidden within a flower – even a nameless wildflower blooming in a field – we can easily discover the Creator's Will and purpose. To see a flower alive and growing to perfection is truly to witness a miracle.
4. Flowers display beautiful colors and the harmony of yin and yang. Even human beings, the lords of creation, cannot fully replicate their beauty. Flowers continuously give off fragrances and display dazzling colors that captivate the bees and butterflies.
Flowers can absorb the powerful, brilliant rays of the sun that people cannot bear to gaze upon. They diffuse this light into natural rays of harmony and peace and utilize it to create and preserve life. Flowers also do not neglect their duty to provide nectar to the bees and butterflies that busily fly to and fro and help them reproduce.
5. The miracle of God's creation is infinite, transcending and defying any human description. Even a picture drawn by the greatest artist in the world cannot compare to a cluster of living wildflowers.
Even in making a single insignificant flower, God created it to harmonize with and contribute to the prosperity of the whole of creation. Given that this is so, how great is the stature of human beings, whom God created as His children, His eternal partners of love, and they're and His heirs?
6. Every one of the millions of different kinds of flowers in full bloom stands in dignity as an individual embodiment of truth, according to the Principle of Creation. Each brings harmony to Mother Nature and abides by the laws of interdependence and mutual prosperity.
Likewise, every human being has Heaven's blessing and grace to seek harmony, peace, freedom, and happiness, and to pursue eternal life. Heaven has bestowed on each person a unique life and characteristics.
That is to say, every human being is born with rights and privileges as an individual embodiment of truth. Every person, regardless of age, sex, rank, or status, has the right and privilege to follow a destined course of life that is uniquely his or her own and that reflects his or her nature.
The value of human beings as individual embodiments of truth
7. Ladies and gentlemen, can you find anyone who resembles you one hundred percent? Think about it. Is there anyone else with the same individual qualities as you? Would the lives of identical twins be the same, though they were born on the same day, even if they died at the same time?
No person can take another's individuality. One man being the world's most handsome man does not at all diminish the unique embodiment of truth within the world's least handsome man. As the king of wisdom, God continually creates eternal, individual embodiments of truth through the process of origin-division-union action, by the Principle of Creation.
8. In this, we discover the standard of absolute value that makes a human being human. As with the interdependent and harmonious relationship between flowers and butterflies, people are created to live for one another and share true love.
This means that we establish our standard of absolute value only within a life of true love, through which the relationship between subject and object partners blossoms in harmony.
9. Flowers and butterflies relate to each other as subject and object partners. They depend on one another and prosper through their give-and-take action. In the same way, the Principle of Creation defines and predicts the course of relationships between humanity and nature, between people, and between God and people.
Mother Nature is the combined body of all the individual embodiments of truth in creation, harmoniously bound together. Mother Nature stands as an absolute object partner to us, her subject partners. Her ordained role is to enable us to realize our absolute value.
10. People establish families of three generations and live within that basic framework. That is where they learn and familiarize themselves with the vertical and horizontal relationships of above and below, left and right, and front and back.
This means that each individual seeks a life of harmony and love through give-and-receive action within subject and object partner relationships. These relationships enable each family member to attain his or her absolute value as an individual embodiment of truth.
11. What about the relationship between God and human beings? As the Creator, God's nature is absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal. However, according to the Principle of Creation, God stands in the subject position when He engages in reciprocal relationships with His creation.
That is because, although we consider God to be the Absolute Being, He cannot feel joy outside give-and-receive relationships with His object partners.
12. Had the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, not fallen but instead had perfected themselves as individual embodiments of truth according to the Principle of Creation, people today would manifest absolute value.
We would serve God above as our Lord with absolute obedience, and we would relate with the creation, the natural world, as our object partner, rejoicing in God's eternal kingdom of peace. We would live as the citizens of the eternal kingdom of heaven, not only on earth but also in the spirit world.
The path of the people of Cheon II Guk
13. Citizens of the kingdom of heaven, this is a precious and blessed day of victory and glory. Now, as the King of Peace in Heaven and Earth, I shall declare, on this thirteenth day of June in the sixth year of Cheon II Guk, the fundamental duties and mission that every Cheon II Guk citizen should understand and practice as they walk the way of Heaven.
14. First, as God is the vertical True Parent and you are true children of God, you will establish the realm of three generations in your family, perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart, and attend God on the vertical axis for eternity.
Further, you will inscribe in your heart the responsibility to attend the King of Peace in Heaven and Earth, who is the horizontal True Parent, and to live with absolute obedience on the horizontal axis for eternity as a citizen of Cheon II Guk.
You will make the practice of true love, which is living for the sake of others, the standard for your life. You will establish a true family and raise true children who are sinless and pure, thus protecting God's lineage and bequeathing it intact from generation to generation.
15. Second, regardless of the situation, you will live with your mind and body united. In my case, as well, from the day I first determined to follow Heaven's path, I resolved to keep this as my motto: “Before you seek to master the universe, you must first gain mastery over yourself.”
God has given you your conscience as your guide in accomplishing this objective. Your conscience knows everything about you. It has complete knowledge of every action and step you take; it even knows your thoughts. Your conscience knows everything about you before your teacher or pastor knows.
It knows before your parents know. It knows them even better than God knows. So place your conscience in God's position over your life, and go the way of absolute obedience, of “noon settlement” whereby your life casts no shadows. Then it is certain that your mind and body will resonate and perfect a harmonious unity.
16. Third, citizens of Cheon II Guk, we have completed the unification of the spirit world. The issue is, how are the 6.5 billion people are Now, living on earth today?
They struggle in agony amid sin and suffering, yet they are your brothers and sisters. Your third mission is to educate them and bring them home as people of Cheon II Guk. You should educate everyone to understand that all human beings, without exception?
They are descended from the Fall, and they're their issue to change their blood lineage by receiving the holy marriage Blessing from the True Parents. You have to continue engrafting people onto the true olive tree by having them participate in the grace of cross-cultural marriage, until the day all humankind, numbering in the billions of souls, is restored to God's lineage.
17. Fourth, you are created to spend ten months in the womb, perhaps one hundred years on earth breathing air, and then all eternity in the spirit world. You should understand that, just as proper preparation in the womb is required for a healthy life after birth, you have to devote your earthly life to proper preparation for a healthy life in the spirit world.
Never forget that, regardless of what you are doing, at all times and places, your ancestors in the spirit world are with you. Be ever mindful to live harmonizing with the spirit world. Communicate in prayer with the heavenly world, with sincerity and dedication, so that you may perfect your spirit self while you are living on the earth.
18. Fifth, your talent and abilities are required for the management and governance of Cheon II Guk. Therefore, you must cut away and cast off your mask of selfish individualism. It is but a remnant of the Era before the Coming of Heaven.
To belong to Heaven, you must participate in the Ceremony of Returning Ownership, offering God everything you own and then receiving it back from Him. In addition, all citizens of Cheon II Guk will provide funds for the well-being and peace of humanity, not by taxation but by voluntary contributions.
They will practice the model of offering the first three-tenths of their income for public purposes. This cannot be an imposed tax; it has to be a gift that citizens offer willingly to Heaven with joyful hearts.
19. Sixth, beloved citizens of Cheon II Guk, in the Era after the Coming of Heaven, it is possible to recover the ideal world of creation that was lost as a result of the Fall.
God created all things in the universe, our natural environment, which is, necessary for human prosperity. People are meant to harmonize with nature; we as the subject partners of love and nature as the object partner, thriving under our management and perfected in beauty by our creativity.
Let us not destroy nature and pollute the environment. As citizens of Cheon II Guk, please have the wisdom to protect and love nature. Return to nature and enjoy a life of liberation and complete inner freedom. To love nature is to love God and humanity.
When human life resonates with nature, human character can blossom in perfection. The flowers of a true culture of the heart, a true artistic world, will bloom. It will be the Garden of Eden, the original ideal where God, people, and all creation live in complete harmony and express their original nature.
If you practice such true love in your daily life, how can God do anything but bestow great blessings upon you? You will live for all eternity in blessing and happiness.
20. Seventh, God and True Parents have opened the Era after the Coming of Heaven, a time of dramatic change. As registered citizens of Cheon II Guk, you have the mission to make this era blossom and bear fruit in blessing and glory.
Therefore, please become Heaven's emissaries, fulfilling dual missions as the peace kingdom police force and peace kingdom corps. Serve humanity under the banner of the Universal Peace Federation, which is working to establish the Abel-type United Nations. Worthy compatriots, if not you, then who will nurture and protect the blessed families and this blessed planet Earth that God has given us?
Please become true princes and princesses who live in attendance to God as your vertical True Parent, the Peace King of the multitudes. Let us build the everlasting peace kingdom by attending the King of Peace in heaven and on earth, and fulfill the way of a true filial child, a patriot, a saint, and a member of the family of God's sons and daughters.
God has been searching for the True Parents
21. Citizens of God's kingdom of Cheon II Guk who love peace as True Parents do! This is truly a precious and joyful day. Let us celebrate without reserve this historic and providential day and sing praises to God, our eternal True Parent, for His glory and nobility. On this solemn occasion, hundreds of billions of those living in the spirit world have descended and are here with us to congratulate and celebrate this blessed day.
22. This is the day for which God has yearned ever since He created the universe. For tens of thousands of years, since the day Adam and Eve, whom He created as His children, stained the heavenly lineage and concealed themselves in the dark, God has waited while enduring inexpressible pain and sorrow.
He has waited eagerly for the day He could ascend the throne as the King of kings, embrace His lost children and the creation, and live in joy for all eternity in the sacred reign of peace in the peace kingdom.
23. God is and has always been the King of kings, even before He initiated the creation. The heavenly way, however, dictates that after completing all aspects of the creation, God has to manifest substantially as the King of kings who reigns over the world of physical phenomena, the sphere of the object partners of God's love.
That is why, motivated by true love, God sought and found the True Parents of the substantial, physical world, who were to become His representatives and heirs.
24. Although we are overwhelmed by the grace of having received Heaven's seal, my wife and I truly feel joy at being able to stand here today as God's direct representatives and hold this coronation of the King of kings, and our golden wedding anniversary.
At the same time, I am deeply sorry before Heaven. I have reached my ninetieth year of life, yet I have been unable to fully restore to God the 6.5 billion people of the world.
The new era of heavenly law
25. Citizens of Cheon II Guk who truly love God! Time is running out. Heaven will no longer wait for us. God is working with His authority as the King of kings through His representatives, the earthly True Parents, to establish a new heavenly law and restore the world.
It is time to accelerate this true love revolution. Therefore, on this solemn occasion, I will proclaim to all the heaven and earth an outline of the new heavenly law, by which humankind and all the creation will regain their rightful position to govern.
26. First, this era, which is taking us gradually toward the year 3000, will be the era of revolutionary change after the coming of heaven. In this new era, God will no longer be captive to the principles of restoration through indemnity. The King of kings will rule the spiritual and physical worlds with His rightful authority.
It will be the era of providential protection, during which the earth will return to its original state, with the realm of the Pacific Rim serving as a central axis. People will no longer evade the influence of the era of the new way of Heaven and the new heavenly law. Therefore, you need to lead a transparent life, with every action as clear as crystal.
27. Second, we have to accomplish a revolution in education, for all people to value absolute sex, that is, the constitution of Heaven, with God as their vertical, absolute axis. This is the only way to pass on the true, good lineage to all humankind.
That is the path to achieving God's ideal of true families. From now on, sexual purity, purity of lineage, and purity of love will be the essence of the philosophy of education for the true human race.
28. Third, we will place the Peace King's anointed representatives bombingg-wang), ambassadors for peace, and the Parent UN at the forefront of the efforts to eliminate Satan's barriers and fortresses. Multiple layers of these barricades bind the earth, and their elimination will reinstate harmony and peace among political parties, religions, races, cultures, and nations.
The existing United Nations, in the position of the Cain-type UN, and the Abel-type UN should become one and ascend to a higher dimension, becoming the True Parent UN. This will be a True Peace World UN. This central union will resolve evils confronting Satan's world, including war, disease, and hunger.
This is surely the direction all people must go. They will have no doubts because God in heaven and True Parents will be with them. We will end individualistic and collective self-centeredness. Conscience and natural reason will govern the world, and satanic power will no longer influence elections.
29. Fourth, the cross-cultural, international marriage Blessing is the optimal method of establishing the peace kingdom by building true families that will give rebirth to the lineage of the fallen human race. In the end, reconciliation and peace all come about through lineage.
When blacks and whites, Eastern peoples and Western peoples, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, and Muslims intermarry and carry on the blessed marriage tradition that True Parents have established, this naturally will form the realm of one family that establishes God's homeland and hometown.
An ideal heavenly kingdom based on the ideal of one family under God will appear. As we beat our swords into plowshares, a new world of peace will open up before us.
30. Fifth, God created us as His counterparts in love, and He prepared the natural world as a gift for us, His children. God would not leave His children in a barren desert devoid of any relief.
That is why people must preserve and love the natural world as God does. I am saying that you should develop your human nature to the point that you experience resonance even with a cluster of wild flowers, as if you were sharing a heartfelt conversation with them. This is as it was originally meant to be. That is a shortcut to restoring humanity to God.
31. Ladies and gentlemen chosen by Heaven! You have truly received a heavenly blessing. You are participating in the ceremony to launch the providential undertakings governed by the King of kings. You are witnessing with your own eyes the whirlwind of this historic transition point.
You received an invitation to attend the coronation, golden anniversary, and celebration of the autobiography of the True Parent, the King of kings, on the horizontal level, who will govern all the creation as the physical representative of God, the King of kings, on the vertical axis.
Will you ever again in your lifetime have the chance to attend such a historic and significant occasion? Your ancestors and your descendants, numbering in the billions throughout the cosmos, will dance, cheer, and live in joy and delight over this time, shaking the very axis of the earth.
I pray that you will open your mind and engrave this extraordinary and historical moment on your soul. When else during your life will you be able to witness a day of blessing and glory such as today? I hope you can heed the words of Heaven that I have shared with you today and let them be a guide for your life as you advance.
32. Humankind is now entering a new providential era wherein a new heavenly way and new heavenly law will govern the earth directly. It is the new providential era of the realm of the fourth original Adam, where one can enter the newly established kingdom of heaven by inheriting God's new standard of heart based on His original nature.
Through True Parents' providential coronation, golden wedding anniversary, publication celebration, and the commemoration of the fifty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Holy Spirit Association in this new era, I pray that you may form new and wise families as citizens in God's kingdom, Cheon II Guk.
I pray that you will distinguish clearly between Cain and Abel and integrate them into a new Abel realm of goodness, to restore the realm of the Old, New, and Completed Testament ages and the three generations of my family. I am asking you to form and live as new true families based on original human nature.
Then the new true grandparents, true parents, and true grandchildren can enter, hand in hand, into the new kingdom of heaven. Please engrave in your hearts this gathering's meaning, the establishment of the truly peaceful world of the True Parent UN. This we celebrate today.
Sun Myung Moon