The Meaning of the Creation of All Things

1. God did not create all things of heaven and earth on a whim. He did not create them without a purpose or direction or without a specific philosophy. Rather, He created them with a great purpose, based on a magnificent universal philosophy.

Therefore, the philosophy inherent in God's heart is present in all existing things, from the tiniest creature to the incredibly vast universe. With such a philosophy then, for what purpose did God create all this?

Beyond any doubt, His deep purpose was to see an ideal world based on His love, that is, a world of true love in which we communicate with love, is joyful in love, live in love, and die in love. (009-164, 1960.05.08)

2. Why did God create heaven and earth? It is because even though He is the Absolute Subject Being, a subject partner alone cannot experience joy. One cannot produce joy alone. Rather, it comes about only through mutual relationships.

Peace also comes about through mutual relationships. Therefore, even God cannot play the role of God when He is alone. (058-210, 1972.06.11)

The purpose for which God created all things

3. We understand God as the subject being of dual characteristics. But God needs an objective partner for love, which is why He created everything in heaven and earth.

That is why, for example, the atomic world has electrons surrounding the nucleus, the world of chemical compounds has positive and negative ions, the plant world has stamen and pistil, and the animal world includes males and females.

Everything exists in pairs. Because of the nature of love, God made them in pairs. Everything in creation is born in love, lives for love, and must complete the purpose of love. (223-300, 1991.11.17)

4. When God saw everything He had created over six days, His joy was infinite. When God said, “It is good, it is good” over and over again with such a joyful heart, to whom was He speaking? He was speaking to all the things of creation. He was talking about all things with such an eager heart.

However, all created things lost their original value that God had praised as good in the garden of Eden. To this day, God has not been able to realize His Will and take pride in His creation. When we think of this sad reality, God's originally joyful words, “It is good to behold,” became instead words of sorrow.
(005-238, 1959.02.08)

5. Why did God create heaven and earth? Although He is the Absolute Being, He cannot feel joy alone. No matter how much it is said that God is happy if He is alone, He cannot be truly stimulated, and so He can't feel joy.

No matter how much the Absolute Being may declare, “I am the Absolute Being, the master of love and master of life,” if He is all alone, he cannot feel the stimulation of love.

By Himself and completely alone, God cannot feel all the heaven and earth stimulating life within His own body. (038-152, 1971.01.03)

6. How could God create the universe and human beings? He could do so because He possesses a heart. Life can arise only where there is the heart. Where there is life, movement, and development can take place.

The work of creation must have a purpose, as it is the nature of the heart to aim toward the realization of the original purpose. Therefore, it follows that the purpose of creation is to bring joy that will satisfy God's heart.

This joy is derived from the creation, especially from human beings when they resemble Him. (065-258, 1972.11.26)

7. When God created the world, He was joyful. After the Creation, He said, “It is good to behold.” God felt joy. What is joy? It is what you feel when you accomplish a certain purpose.

God felt joyful over all the things He had created because His sense of purpose was embedded in them. So what kind of world is the restored world?

Simply stated, it is a world where people live with multidimensional connections of heart through which they can praise God as they behold each entity in the universe. (009-168, 1960.05.08)

8. Before the Fall, our ancestors should have become the proud and glorious substance of the original heart by bringing all creation to a glorious condition in front of God. They should have made all things into symbolic object partners of joy, object partners of beauty, and object partners that could stimulate God's external and internal nature.

That this never happened became God's deep sorrow. You would be the happiest of people if you could live in the garden of Eden – harmonizing with God's heart, harmonizing with goodness, and by God's ideal, and if you could feel the stimulation of goodness from everything around you, and if you could experience even one hour of glory in which you could call God your Father. (006-337, 1959.06.28)

9. This entire created world came into being for whom? It is for me. It is to bring us joy. Therefore, We should take the initiative to create an environment in which we can feel happy through the results of our efforts.

God intends to develop a high ideal of love. When we love all things and, as a result, all things return beauty to us, we will become the center of harmony. The life that you intend or wish for is not the important thing. What is important is the center.

You must find the center of your current life. But how can you find the center? How can we have fallen people, who lost the center of harmony, rediscover that place? You are not required to be bigger than all creations to become the subject partner. Rather, you need to be confident, thinking, “I must become the subject partner.” In other words, “Through the authority of love, I should stand above you.” You need that kind of confidence.

A subject partner must be absolute. The universe must unite and be harmonizing with the one Absolute Subject Partner. You need to be in that place. You need to stand in a place where you can integrate all things. (029-133, 1970.02.26)

10. How can we feel the joyful heart of God when He created all things? You must all experience that heart. Whether you like it or not is not the issue. If you like to feel that heart, you had better meditate in a garden from morning to sunset. You need to lose yourself in the realm in which you are unaware of the passage of time.

Then, when you breathe in, the air of the cosmos will flow into you with the power of life. You should live like this, infused with the cosmic power of life. If you live like this, when you breathe out, all beings on earth will awaken.

When you sleep, all beings will harmonize with the rhythm of your sleep as your responsive object partners. This is the position of the Absolute Being who governs the entire cosmos. In that place, you stand harmonizing with all things.

When you breathe out, all things will receive your breath; when you breathe in, all things will give to you. When you have this kind of relationship of love with all things, you are giving and receiving on a cosmic level.

However, you should not stop experiencing this kind of relationship. Rather, you need to continue until you become a central being of harmony.
(029-134, 1970.02.26)

11. The universe is so awe-inspiring. How wonderful is our world when you understand that God created the universe for us, that He did not create it just for His entertainment or fun, but through devoting Himself out of profound love for us!

We should be deeply grateful in realizing that our Father created the entire cosmos just for us. With that heart, we need to walk through the garden looking at flowers, grass, and trees, listening to and appreciating the chirping of birds, admiring the flowing water and the gentle breeze. Looking at all this, you cannot but realize in your heart how wonderful this world is! (087-320, 1976.06.27)

The world created through absolute faith and love

12. Absolute faith, absolute love, absolute obedience! This was God's attitude before He began His creation. God created all things with absolute faith, thinking, “This shall be as I say!” This is absolute faith.

The things He created were the object partners of His love. God created everything, from the tiniest insect to everything in the plant and animal kingdoms, as the object partners of His absolute love. His sons and daughters were supposed to eat the object partners of God's absolute love and grow.

We owe our lives to the earth, to the things of creation, to the air and the sun.

Nothing is ours. There is nothing we can boast of. Since we have to live by eating the things that were created as the object partners of His absolute love in absolute faith, then not only must we treat them with absolute faith and absolute love, but also, standing as owners, we have the responsibility to digest these created things only after investing our lives for them. (373-148, 2002.03.31)

13. When God was creating this world, even when He created a single flower, He imagined this as a beautiful object partner of His love in the future and created it with absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute investment –and then forgot about how much He had invested.

He invested everything, holding back nothing because even the tiniest thing would become the flesh and blood of His beloved sons and daughters and therefore would be His flesh and blood and body. So absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience are not vague terms.

That is to say, before creating, God knew that even a single grain of sand could become a nutrient to form the flesh, blood, bone, and bone marrow of human beings, the substantial incarnations of His love. So God created even a single grain of sand with absolute faith, love, and obedience. (458-197, 2004.07.09)

14. In the creation of all things, God sought to make the world His object partner. So He invested and invested without ceasing, and forgot how much He had invested. In this way, the great universe was born.

When God invested endlessly with divine love that embraced everything, the original substance of His creation possessed unlimited power. That is to say when the creation becomes an absolute infinite minus, absolute infinite power appears. Movement begins.

Absolute minus creates a vacuum-like realm, and this causes a typhoon. When an absolute minus appears, it descends vertically. Once it descends, the whole universe turns upside down. The top becomes the bottom, the bottom becomes the top, and everything is mixed up completely.

Because this infinite, eternal movement occurs endlessly, this universe exists forever. (307-295, 1998.11.21)

15. God created all things based on absolute faith. Because God created all things existing in the universe as inherently precious, if people attack one another without faith in the inherent value of all things, then these people should feel ashamed in front of the creation.

Such faithlessness is shameful in front of the flowing rivers; it is shameful in front of the flying birds. Even grasshoppers and other insects must be regarded as being better than fallen people. Even insects lead their lives with original faith and trust.

When we think that all things, created in absolute faith, have that kind of value, it is shameful that we human beings fell and could not find faith and trust.

This is shameful in front of God and front of the plants and trees and insects in the fields. Even in front of microbes, we are shameful beings. Even microbes lead their lives faithfully. God became God because He set up absolute faith and acted with absolute love. (284-040, 1997.04.15)

16. Have you ever seen the things of creation muttering and complaining to God? No, because they Have absolute faith and obedience. They never complain, even though they sacrifice everything.

Minerals do not complain when plants absorb them. It is the same when plants offer themselves to animals, and animals to people. And it should be the same when people offer themselves to God. The same.

We need to offer our lives to God. Because God created everything with the tradition of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience, if we remain self-centered, we cannot return to God. (467-180, 2004.09.04)

17. There is not a single being in all creation that exists entirely alone. Rather, all things exist in subject-object partner relationships. They were all created as part of a pair system. The concept of absolute faith derives from the fact that the universe was created according to a pair system, for the sake of love.

That is why, based on absolute faith, you can connect to the way of love. Based on absolute faith, the seed of true love can be planted. It is the same for the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom, and the human world, Adam and Eve should have reached perfection where they represented the full value of creation, in the place where true love could be planted.

You need to be a substantial being of love, as God has been, with absolute faith. In front of God, you need to have absolute faith and absolute love.
(298-011, 1998.12.31)

18. God created all things in Eden with absolute faith. This was similar to farming – creating all the things His beloved sons and daughters would eat. For God, this meant absolute investment.

God forgot His prestigious position while He was creating at the zero point. Since the movement of the universe is spherical, when you keep pushing it, it turns. The universe has to be the perfect entity that fulfills the ideal of love. Once everything is interconnected, God will come to unite with it, and the worlds of heaven and earth, the worlds of mind and body, will move as one based on true love.

The family, tribe, people, nation, world, and heaven and earth will be united. The spirit world and physical world will rotate eternally for one purpose. This is the kingdom of heaven on earth and the kingdom of heaven in heaven.
(300-241, 1999.03.23)

19. The Principle of Creation predetermines certain relationships between human beings and all things of creation, among human beings themselves, and between human beings and heaven.

First, nature is the synthesis of all things, all individual embodiments of truth, which are to exist in harmony and unity. The absolute role of nature is to enable people to realize their absolute value as subject partners, exercising a dominion of love over all creation in the position of absolute object partner.

Second, when we consider relationships among people, we have three generations within the family. This is where we learn the personal relationships between up and down, right and left, and front and back, as well as between vertical and horizontal.

Each person, as an individual embodiment of truth, is to substantiate his or her absolute value and pursue a life of harmony and love through the interaction between the subject partner and object partner.

Third, what about the relationship between people and God? God, as the Creator with an absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal nature, is in the subject-partner position over all creation, which is His overall object partner. He continuously interacts with all things in the realm of His Principle of Creation.

This is because, even though He is the Absolute Being, without a relationship of giving and receiving with His most essential object partner – human beings – He cannot feel joy. (547-261, 2006.12.08)

The environment God created for human beings

20. Before God created heaven and earth, He must have spent some time thinking about His creation, And He must have spent some time in preparation. That is to say, before He finalized His plan for creation, He must have thought about it first.

Then He would have gone through a process of preparation before executing His plan. This is how He created heaven and earth. Heaven and earth are like this, and that means that God Himself must be such a being.

For God, there is a time of thinking, a time of preparation, and a time of execution. Through that process, He created all the heaven and earth. (013-107, 1963.11.08)

21. From the point of view of the Word, and compared to the Word itself, the creation of substance represents a more developed form. Only when substance appears can joy spring forth.

When joy flows, the harmonious work of creation blossoms. When a substance reaches a certain level of development, finally love is added. This is the method of God's creation of all things. So first there is thought, to which the Word takes a plus position and forms substance, and finally love is added.

Through this process of creation, all things came into being. When God moved from the thinking stage to the systematic stage of the Word, that is, from the stage of abstract thinking to the stage of concrete and logical formation inherent in the Word, He felt incredible joy. (029-315, 1970.03.13)

22. When a writer sees her idea expressed in her completed work, she feels joy Furthermore, if her work is made into a movie or a play, she feels even more joy. When her thought is developed into a more systematic theory and then formed into something substantial that many people can relate to and feel joy from, her work gains yet greater value.

Looking at human beings about God's idea for the creation of heaven and earth, we can discern that He invested limitless devotion in their creation. God carefully considered the process and the forms He would use in creating us.
(029-315, 1970.03.13)

23. God created human beings through the Word. Before He created them, He searched for the right shape and, on that basis, He set up the connections they would have with all other substantial, created beings.

When these substantial human beings stood as the central beings of the entire creation, wasn't God so joyful? He would have been ecstatic to see the value of His creation being established right there.

Once Adam stood in that position, God created Eve on that foundation. From there, love came forth for the first time. Love will assuredly come when the value of the counterpart in love is realized on the horizontal plane. (029-315, 1970.03.13)

24. When God created all things, what did He make first? He created the spirit world, then all things, and finally human beings. He created human beings to become one with Him in love.

First, He made the spirit world; second, all things of creation; third, human beings and, finally, love. Through love, God and human beings were to unite. In the process of re-creation, unless we fulfill the condition to reverse and indemnify this failure of love, we cannot find the path back to God. (141-186, 1986.02.22)

25. What does God need? Since He needs true love, when He created the universe He had to create the best environment. So God created the best environment first and then made the subject and object partners that He could feel the greatest joy with – a man and a woman.

The ideal of creation centers on true love where that man and woman become one, which actualizes the vertical love axis with God based on their true love. All people should be harmonizing with this. Every individual needs to participate in this and move agreeing with the environment in a counterpart or object-partner position.

Otherwise, it is like dancing with a right foot but no left foot, or having only a right leg and no left leg. It is like being disabled in love. This is not what God wants. (173-024, 1988.02.01)

26. When God created all things, He did not begin with human beings. First, He made the environment, and in that environment, He began to work with the idea of subject and object partners.

In this environment, God unfolded all creation in pairs with relationships as counterparts: in the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, and in everything, including high and low, positive and negative, male and female, and man and woman.

Even in the mineral kingdom, plus and minus become linked, existing in unity. The same form of unification exists among plants, animals, and throughout the world. (218-213, 1991.07.29)

27. When we consider the principles God used in the creation of heaven and earth, we see that He did not first make the central beings and then the environment for them. Rather, before creating human beings, God prepared an environment based on relationships.

To create human beings, He first made soil, for example. He established the internal based on the external. This is the principle by which heaven and earth were created.

Things that existed at an earlier stage have become the basis for greater things at a later stage, and things with lesser value have become the foundation for things of greater value. This is the principle underlying the creation of heaven and earth. In creating human beings, God first made the human body and then the spirit.
(152-319, 1963.08.18)

All created beings resemble God's dual characteristics

28. If we observe the universe, it shows us that everything exists through a reciprocal relationship formed between the dual characteristics of positivity and negativity.

This principle applies in every case, beginning at the level of minerals. A molecule is made of atoms held together through positive and negative charges. In the case of many plants, reproduction depends on the union of their male and female parts from the stamen and pistil.

These dual characteristics are more pronounced in the case of animals. Animals, including fish, birds, and mammals, exist in male and female forms. Furthermore, God's greatest creation, human beings, can be divided into men and women.
(201-204, 1990.04.09)

29. God is the subject partner with harmonized dual characteristics. On what is His position as the subject partner based? It is based on love, and that is why a horizontal foundation is necessary.

God's desire to have a stimulating foundation that would be spread out in many directions led to the expansion and development of the created world. God created everything so He could always stand in the position of experiencing joy. God works through the vertical relationship, but when there is no horizontal foundation there is no connection.

So without a horizontal foundation in the object partner position, human beings cannot come under the dominion of God's love. (193-218, 1989.10.04)

30. The created world resembles God's characteristics. All created things exist as the divided forms of His dual characteristics, and they are connected to their counterparts as subject partner and object partner, as well as being in reciprocal relationships of up and down, front and back, and left and right.

What is the purpose underlying all these relationships within this kind of environmental system? The answer is that the world of creation moves with love as its purpose. (106-057, 1979.12.09)

31. Everything in the created universe exists in pairs and belongs to the realm of reciprocal relationships. Since God is the incorporeal subject partner, He needs a corporeal, substantial object partner.

God also has dual characteristics, so He can manifest His invisible character in substantial form as He creates. When we consider the created universe from this perspective, we can see that even the mineral kingdom functions through the relationship between subject and object partners. In the case of the molecule, positive ions and negative ions are in a subject-object relationship, as are protons and electrons in the case of the atom. (228-140, 1992.03.27)

32. When we look at the universe, we can see that everything in the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms exists in pairs. There is nothing in creation that is without a partner. Then why is everything in heaven and earth in pairs? It is not simply to produce offspring. Rather, it is to realize love.

That is why male and female, plus and minus electric charges and positive and negative ions all attract each other. The dimensions are different but, in the final analysis, they all unite based on love. There is nothing in the universe that doesn't thrill to love. (195-137, 1989.11.07)

33. When we look at nature, we see that nothing in creation exists and survives completely by itself. Everything has reciprocity, existing and surviving for its object partner. Even the tiniest entities in the mineral and animal kingdoms provided they pursue reciprocal relationships, receive energy, and maintain their functions.

Everyone recognizes that existence requires energy. The entire universe is composed of energy. Then, what is energy composed of? Energy cannot be generated without action.

So what needs to happen if you like to take action?

Action cannot begin of its accord. In the scientific world, this can be confirmed through experimentation in a chemistry lab. Furthermore, in experimenting, no matter how hard you try to manipulate elements to initiate a certain action, you cannot make it happen by human energy alone. Elements do not behave like that. (059-075, 1972.07.09)

34. We can think that even God breathes. He breathes with an invisible breath. Because the earth resembles God, it also breathes. Then what is breath? On Earth, there are magnetic fields. If you place a magnet next to another magnet, it turns around according to a certain pattern, as if it were alive.

This is because it resembles God. The earth also resembles a human being. On the earth's surface, trees are like human hair, the soil is like our skin, with rocks underneath, like our bones, and lava flowing, like our bone marrow. Thus, everything symbolizes human beings. (085-153, 1976.03.03)

35. The universe is the manifestation of God Himself. In other words, that which God imagines is manifested and realized in all things of creation. Therefore, the universe must resemble God.

God's character can be found in everything we see. When we look at the universe, we can see that it was created by God, but when we look at it as a whole, we realize that it is an object partner of God. (085-154, 1976.03.03)

36. In our family we live our lives sometimes centered on our father, on our mother, according to basic principles. The same patterns of relationship appear in the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms, which also follow these basic principles.

Our bodies are also made to function through systems based on our five senses.

When we consider the fundamental principles governing all these things, we inevitably discover the concepts of subject-object partner relationships and dual characteristics. (125-072, 1983.03.13)