Distinguished guests, ambassadors for peace, and blessed members from many parts of the world. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all of you for coming thousands of miles amid your busy schedules to take part in this banquet to make the Universal Peace Federation a model UN-type organization and build the kingdom of a peaceful, ideal world by establishing the Cheon Il Guk House for Peace and Unification through the concerted efforts of all nations of the world. As you may know, this year marks the eighty-seventh birthday of my husband, Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
As the co-founder of the Universal Peace Federation, which is to open wide the era after the coming of heaven, I would like to convey to you on this remarkable occasion the essence of the truth of heaven that my husband and I have been teaching throughout our lives, which is entitled “God’s Model Ideal Family and Nation and the Peace Kingdom.”
Ladies and gentlemen, looking back, my husband’s life has indeed been like a dream. At the young age of sixteen, with nothing but the buoyant spirit and aspirations of youth, he was called by Heaven and began to live for the will of God.
This left no room in his heart for any worldly ambitions he may have cherished. It has never been an easy path, but he has followed it for more than eighty years of his life, looking nowhere but straight ahead.
He has endured great self-sacrifice and walked a thorny path of dreadful suffering.
It is a life he was fated to lead, with no choice but to shake off the hands of his beloved parents and of his brothers and sisters, who clung to him, wanting him to stay with them.
It has been a journey through the wilderness that not one among the six billion people living on earth will ever fathom. Even when he persevered through the hardships of prison life six times, he never let go of the key to the providence; such has been the life of Rev. Moon.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
This was all because he came to know only too well how anguished, aggrieved, and full of bitter sorrow the heart of God was as He waited for thousands of years to find us. It was because he realized that if God, who is the origin of billions of people and the Creator of everything in the universe, were not relieved of His sorrow, human life would remain completely without value.
Then, when where, and how did God come to carry such agonizing sorrow in His heart? Who on earth could inflict this grief upon Him, the absolute and omnipotent being?
This is because the parent-child relationship is the highest and most important of all relationships. The vertical relationship between parent and child is the only way through which His lineage can be bequeathed and made to last forever. However, this parent-child relationship, more precious than life itself, was severed by the Fall, committed by Adam and Eve.
As God’s flesh and blood, and as His eternal, only-begotten son and daughter, Adam and Eve formed a relationship of blood with His enemy, Satan, and became Satan’s children instead. In the face of this, God’s heart was crushed and wounded with grief and sorrow.
Throughout history, this remained the most mortifying and harrowing anguish, which no one in history could know or resolve.
Thus, the ideal God envisaged at the time of the Creation, a true family established through Adam and Eve, a family through which His lineage could exist eternally, was frustrated in that first generation.
The only way to relieve His sorrow is to restore and establish a true family unrelated to the lineage of Satan. Herein lies the reason each of us needs to establish a true family, which was God’s ideal at the Creation. Herein also lies the fundamental objective and purpose of the founding of the Universal Peace Federation.
Genesis 1:27, in the Old Testament, tells us, “So God created man in His image; male and female He created them.” From this passage of the Bible, we can conclude that God consists of the essence of one man and one woman.
Having the attributes of love, God could not enjoy a solitary life. He created the universe as His object partner; that is, He created all things in the universe in the position of an object partner in the image, and in the midst of the creation He created human beings as His object partners in substance.
In this manner, the first masculine representative created by God as His object partner in substance was Adam, and the feminine representative He created was Eve. What was the objective God had in mind when He created human beings as separate beings, one man and one woman?
First, God, who exists as an incorporeal being though He is the subject being with dual characteristics in harmony needed to assume a physical form through which He might relate with the world of substance. Not only in the body of the man or that of the woman, but from within the bodies of both Adam and Eve He intended to communicate and work freely within the world of substance.
This is because the incorporeal God, without a physical body, comes up against certain limits in dealing with the corporeal world of substance. Therefore, if Adam and Eve had attended God in their hearts and become one and then had married because of having perfected themselves and had children, they would have become the external and horizontal true parents in substance, while God would have been the internal and vertical true parent in substance.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
If this had come to pass, Adam and Eve would have resembled God one hundred percent, both in their inner nature and outer form. Conversely, if Adam and Eve, in perfect resemblance to God, had become the true parents of humankind, human beings would have lived perceiving the true reality of God through them.
Second, it was for the fulfillment of love. He intended Adam and Eve to reach perfection and to become the embodiments of love in complete union. On that basis, He would have come and dwelt with them and become the parent of true love for all humanity.
Adam and Eve, standing in the position of the parents of substance in the image of God, would have established an ideal family, and consequently an ideal world, by having their children and multiplying. If this had come to be, the spirit world and the earthly world would have been linked through human beings.
We can conclude that God created us with the purpose of our being the connecting point between the spiritual and physical worlds.
By coming to dwell in Adam and Eve, based on true love, God could remain the true parent, the parent in substance, to humankind. Moreover, when the time came for them to end their lives on earth and pass on into the spiritual world, even in that world He could put on the spirit bodies of Adam and Eve and manifest as the true parent through their forms.
However, due to the Fall of Adam and Eve, God has not seen that dream fulfilled.
God does not need money, knowledge, or power. Since He is the absolute, almighty being, He does not need such things.
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
Modern science may be accomplishing spectacular advances, but these are no more than part of the process of discovering new facts and truths about the realm of God’s creation. The vast expanse of the universe operates by laws following an order that cannot be fathomed by human thinking or science. In this sense, God is also the absolute scientist.
What, then, would have been the ideal that God hoped to achieve through the creation of humankind?
It was to fulfill the four-position foundation.
This four-position foundation signifies Adam and Eve in a state of complete union with God. This leaves no possibility that they would depart from God’s realm of love, or even dream of it. In other words, it refers to the foundation of a family with God as its center, established when husband and wife have achieved complete oneness not only with each other but also with God, and when they have become an ideal husband and wife and have given birth to ideal children.
When the family four-position foundation is completed, that family becomes a family reflecting the ideal God desired at the Creation. Generally speaking, a family is formed through the coming together of parents and children, and of husband and wife, and at the center of that family group there must be God’s love. At this point, the husband represents heaven and the wife earth.
Mrs. Gil Ja Sa Eu
Although they are two separate beings, when a husband and wife have become one, horizontally speaking, their union symbolizes the unity of heaven and earth.
Simply put, when a husband and wife are in unity based on God’s love, the way to bring unity in the universe opens up.
Ladies and gentlemen, God created the world to eventually receive joy from it. Since even the absolute being, God, cannot feel joy while alone, He needed a partner with whom He could share the giving and receiving of love. This is because joy cannot be learned but can only be experienced through a partner.
To put it another way, God created the world to feel joy from seeing humankind and all the creation become one through His love and form a harmonious and peaceful world of love.
On such a basis, human beings were meant to create true conjugal relationships centered on His love and to establish families, tribes, peoples, nations, and a world of true love. God created the world to observe this and to feel joy from it.
As can be concluded, humankind is essential to perfect God’s ideal love. In light of this, the concept that absolute value is derived from an absolute partner can be better understood. God as the Father and humankind as His children were to create a vertical axis, and this was the purpose for the creation of human beings.
If this axis had been connected perfectly, that is, if a relationship that united humankind and God as one through true love had been established, that relationship would have been an inseparable one, which no force in the universe could break apart. How could anyone who has been bound to the original love of God and who has tasted that love ever be separated from it?
With the coming of spring, honeybees wake up from their long slumber and develop a taste for the fresh nectar of blooming flowers. Try pulling on a honeybee’s abdomen when it is lost to all else but sucking on that nectar. You will see that it cannot tear itself from the nectar, even if its abdomen is pulled off.
How about you?
Once you get to know the taste of God’s true love, you won’t wander far from it before you come back and cling to it once again. This goes to show that the power of the vertical true love that connects us to Him is greater than the power of life.
Ladies and gentlemen, the reason we miss the family we have left behind is because at home there is love for one another. It is where the love of mother and father, the love of elder brothers and sisters and younger siblings, and the love of one’s spouse and children and close neighbors are all deeply embedded. It is a place of mutual affection, where all relationships and kinship are brought together through mutual love. This makes you want to cherish each member of your family.
It is the yearning and desire of every wanderer who has left his family behind him to boldly appear before his family once again as a liberated man, and to embrace mountains, streams, and trees, love his kith and kin, and sing songs of ecstasy.
However, the lot of humankind descended from the Fall, has been different banished from their hometown and destined to wander forever in isolation and defeat, human beings are unable ever to go back, no matter how much they miss their families, for they have lost the root at the heart of their original homeland.
Nevertheless, with the ushering in of the era of a new heaven and a new earth after the corning of heaven, human beings have been pulled out of the marsh that was sucking them down. The way has been opened for them to return to their hometowns that they could not forget even for a moment and to reconnect with their families.
Could there ever be a day of greater blessing for humanity?
The time of heavenly power and fortune has now come, allowing us to reestablish the original family that was lost through the Fall.
When seeking the lost original family, you should set out from the position of the perfected Adam, the position of the perfected Jesus, and the position representing the Second Corning of the Lord. God will dwell in such a family.
That family would be composed of three generations grandparents, parents, and children living in harmony. You need to live in service to and attend to the grandfather as the historical root of your ancestors.
The family sets the pattern for living together in harmony. The home wherein parents and children love and respect each other, husband, and wife are grounded in mutual trust and love, and brothers and sisters trust and rely on each other, with all living together as one, is the model ideal family. This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love.
In such a family, the root of history is alive, and the root of the kingdom of heaven extends into it. It is in such a family that the kingdom of heaven on earth takes root. It is also where the everlasting root of kingship is firmly planted.
In such a manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents, and grandchildren should live together as one family, serving the eternally existent God. You should know that to seek and establish such a family of Cheon II Guk, God’s kingdom, is the responsibility of tribal messiahs, the mission of ambassadors for peace, and the desire of God.
You should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away. You should raise families to which He can come freely as a parent visiting His children. That is living in service to God. In such a family, God becomes the subject of our conscience, acting vertically. Following that vertical subject, your mind is in the position of the vertical subject to yourself and brings your entire being into unity.
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
That is where parental love, conjugal love, children’s love, and siblings’ love in short, the four realms of love or the four realms of heart are perfected. Only in such a family can the upper and lower, front and back, and left and right be connected as one, and continue circular motion. This leads to the everlasting model ideal family and nation of God and the peaceful kingdom.
Ladies and gentlemen, why should we get married?
It is to seek the position of an owner. A man or woman alone can only be one-half of the whole. That is how God created us. For that reason, He has interchanged ownership of the reproductive organs, the love organs. The owner of a wife’s reproductive organ is her husband, and the owner of a husband’s is his wife. Only when each is rooted in love for the other, can each stand in the position of the owner of his or her spouse. We get married to secure this owner’s position.
Then, what are we trying to achieve by obtaining the position of an owner?
We are trying to conquer God’s love from that position. God is the subject of the “three great loves.” As the owner of the universe, He is the teacher, owner, and parent of true love.
This is the genuine “Three Great Subjective Ideologies.” All such teachings and truths are created based on the life of true, model families, and once they expand, the society, nation, world, and even heaven and earth can be transformed into the peaceful kingdom of the model ideal family.
Distinguished leaders, you are now living in the most blessed and exalted time in history. I now proclaim the launch of the era of a new heaven and earth after the time of the coming of heaven, long-awaited and yearned for by billions of your ancestors in the spiritual world, who have come and gone in history. This is the era of the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.
Not only the four great religious founders but also billions of good ancestors have come down to earth to guide you to the heavenly path. The age in which irrationality and corruption have wrought havoc, allowing those who are evil to live better than others, is passing away.
Rev. Moon, who received the seal of heaven, has come as the True Parent of humanity and the king of peace. He will be true to his promise to heaven. He will make the era of the kingdom the peaceful, ideal world without fail.
Therefore, please bear in mind that all of you here today are central figures in establishing the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world on earth, in attendance to the True Parents, the king, and queen of peace.
Let us sweep away the absurdities and the evil of the world under the banner of the Abel-type UN. Let us become the proud elite peace forces of the Universal Peace Federation, and protect the blessed families of the world. Let us fulfill our roles as sentinels watching over this blessed land that is our planet.
I hope and pray that the blessings and grace of God may be with all of you who are gathered here today as leaders in various fields.
At the same time, I would like to ask you to devote your best efforts, as True Parents have, to the development and success of the Universal Peace Federation, and toward creating God’s ideal family, ideal nation, and the peace kingdom.
Please become true princes and princesses who can attend and live with God, the eternal king of peace, as the true parent of humanity. Let us live up to the standard of a true, devoted child, a patriot, a saint, and a member of the family of a divine son and daughter of God in creating a peaceful kingdom for all eternity.
May God’s blessings be with you, your family, and your nation! Thank you very much.
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
