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1. You represent the history of the resurrection of your ancestors. In a sense, you are their bodies and you wear their faces. How long is this history? Some say it is hundreds of thousands of years.
In the end, the purpose of the long, arduous course of history has been to give birth to one person, which is each of us. To create one such person from, say, the Kim family, countless ancestors came and went. Thus, we are the fruits of human history.
Do you think a fertile seed will come out of you?
Do you think that your next generation will surely become a heavenly fruit? Do you think that a well-ripened Unification Church will come out of your heart? Would it be acceptable for this fruit of six thousand years to fall to the ground without ripening, and become a fallen fruit?
Should you say, “Oh no, it looks as though I might fall from the branch? If the wind blows a bit more, I am going to fall. Father, please do not shake me; leave me be!”? There may be some people who are like that.
On the other hand, there may be others who say, “Even if Father strikes me with an axe and shakes the branches as much as he pleases unless the branches are torn off, this fruit will never fall.” Which group do you belong to? (46-155, 1971.08.13)
The fruits of our earthly life
2. As human beings, we are caught between the good God and His opposite, the evil Satan. That is why when you live your life in pursuit of goodness, the God of goodness is with you, and when you stand on the opposite side, the evil Satan is with you.
This is the fate of humanity at present. Therefore, what people need more than anything else is to live yearning for God and seeking goodness, leaving behind only goodness. By doing so, we can stand on the side of the God of goodness. Otherwise, we will end up on the side of evil.
Only when human beings believe in God, who exists centered on absolute goodness, and try to find the way by which we can become one with Him, can our fife's journey begin from goodness, go through the process of goodness, and bear the fruit of goodness.
After we have lived our fives to the end and weighed every good deed against every evil deed, if there are more evil deeds than good deeds, we will end up under the dominion of evil. But if there remains even one more good deed than evil deed, we will end up under the dominion of goodness. (57-013, 1972.05.21)
3. If we were to take away one good deed for every evil deed in our lives, each of us would hope that, in the end, what would remain would be good deeds. But our fife's journey is such that it is more likely that rather than good deeds, evil deeds would remain.
What if we were to add up all the people living in the same era, and we eliminated one good deed for every evil deed for each individual?
If we found that evil deeds remained rather than good deeds, then the conclusion we would reach is that the people living on earth during that period were on balance not good people but evil ones, and that this society was not a good society but an evil one. (57-012, 1972.05.21)
4. Good and evil are not determined in your thoughts. Rather, good and evil are determined through your life. Heaven and hell are determined not through the world of your thoughts but on the stage of your life. This is important.
When you get on a streetcar and take a look at the people around you, you should be able to tell at a glance which of them is in a bad mood and which in a good mood. Those in a bad mood have less spiritual power than others. But those in a good mood are elevated above the others.
If there is a person who has spiritual experiences, you should be able to discern that immediately. You should be able to know at a glance who such people are. Even animals know whether they will live or die.
How then can people, who are the lords of all creation, live without knowing about their lives? We become ignorant because we are engrossed in self-interest and selfish desire and turn our backs away from God, but once we come to live together with God, we will know and understand. (40-294, 1971.02.07)
5. Can you go to the spirit world with confidence or not? If you can go there with confidence, heaven will be waiting for you, but if you go there without confidence, hell will be waiting for you. In any case, you will go there. A well-ripened fruit will go to the storehouse of the kingdom of heaven, and an unripe fruit will go into a stinking trashcan.
Therefore, no matter how difficult it is, you need to reach perfection on earth before you go to the spirit world. Thus, you need to bear good fruit. You should say, “I will go to the hell of the eyes. I will go to the hell of the mouth. I will go to the hell of the ears.”
You need to go through the hell of the five sensory organs to be able to go to the kingdom of heaven. That is why, while you are on earth, you have to see what you do not want to see; you have to smell what you do not want to smell; you have to hear what you do not want to hear; and you have to say what you do not want to say.
Even though I know everything, there is to know about this vast world and even though I know everything clearly about the spirit world, the path I am walking is the path of hell. I am pioneering a path no one has ever walked before.
(292-263, 1998.04.26)
6. When God created all things, He did so through the Word. When He seeks us out, He does so through the Word. If you claim you come from God, then since He sowed the Word, you have the responsibility to reap that Word and reclaim it as our Father's.
The Last Days are a time when we must harvest the ideal and prepare for it to be substantialized. The substance is realized through the Word. Throughout history, God has been seeking the substance thus molded through the Word. That was the purpose of the coming of Jesus Christ to this earth.
God first showed fallen people the Word, not the substance because these two must be restored in reverse order. They need to be reclaimed in the order they were lost.
Though He desires the substance, He first has to sow the seeds of the Word in the heart of every fallen person. Then, based on the Word, we come to complete the substance and form it into a body of life. (5-146, 1959.01.11)
7. When Adam and Eve lost their faith, their substance, and their love, their lineage was also lost. Therefore, this process needs to be reversed.
When Nicodemus came before Jesus and asked what he should do to enter the kingdom of heaven, Jesus answered, "No one can see the kingdom of God without being born anew." Then Nicodemus asked, "How can these things be?" and Jesus replied, "Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?" (John 3:3-11)
Because Nicodemus was a teacher of the Jewish nation, Jesus spoke about the most important things as simple facts rather than speaking through symbols or analogies.
He essentially said, "You cannot enter the kingdom of God unless you are reborn."
And in being reborn, if you are inferior to Adam and Eve, you cannot enter the kingdom. When you are reborn, you need to be better than Adam and Eve. This is the Principle. Otherwise, you cannot ascend to the restored, original position.
(58-043, 1972.06.06)
8. The Fall is the breaking of the connection between the Word, the substance, and the heart. You therefore need to know the Word and practice it. In practicing the Word, you need to move forward with the heart of the parents.
Only those who have taken substantial action to accomplish restoration through indemnity can be blessed. This should not be done in words only. Speaking, by itself, is not enough.
Only by carrying out the Word will you become members of the tribe of heaven – in other words, the life spirits of the nation. Then you need to become divine spirits. You must do so and then be registered, thereby finding your way to your position. This is the course of restoration.
Therefore, you need to be registered. Once you are connected and registered as a divine spirit, you will not commit wrongs. You are adhering to a law more demanding than that of Satan's world.
Isn't that true in today's world as well? Can the citizens of one nation be punished according to the laws of another nation? That cannot happen because they are of a different nationality. When you enter such a realm, the laws of that realm apply to you.
This being the case, once you have risen above Satan's world, you are following a more stringent law. Since you have fulfilled the laws of Satan's world, the laws of this earth are no problem. This is because you have paid the necessary indemnity conditions. Thus, you will not go to hell. (150-311, 1961.04.15)
9. God the Creator is the plus and the creation is the minus. What is it that pulls them? They are pulled by love. Electricity flows between plus and minus on its own, doesn't it?
Human beings are also brought together through love. What happens when you go to the spirit world? You return to God. In the end, you return to God. When you go to the spirit world and call out, “God!” then from the center of the spirit world they answer, “Yes! Here I am,” will come.
And when you ask, “Where are You?” from the center of your mind, the answer, “I am here,” will come. This is how the conscience and the spirit world form a relationship. (192-268, 1989.07.09)
10. What began from God returns to God. If we say we have returned to God, will there be two bodies? There will be only one. One is the cause and one is the result. That which initiates and pushes something outward is love and that which pulls it back inward is also love.
There is nothing else. This is why it is said that the heart of love flows through history. History pushes it outward. Love returns to the beginning. There is no power apart from love that returns to the beginning. The life force comes about through the pulling power of love, the power that pulls in.
Centrifugal force and centripetal force are also brought about through the power of love. A man becomes a complete divine spirit when his life force is connected to that of a woman through love. For a man and a woman to become complete, the two have to become one. (192-269, 1989.07.09)
The secret to entering God's kingdom in heaven
11. What has to be done to return to the presence of God? Adam and Eve have to become one. Adam and Eve need to be restored. Unless the fallen Adam and Eve become one, there can be no liberation of sorrow and no salvation.
Only when the two are united can the parents be restored. Therefore, we need to restore them. That is how the Principle works. Why do they need to become one? It is to liberate God. This is the conclusion.
Brothers and sisters, you have to love one another, and you also have to love your enemy. Without loving your enemy, you cannot liberate God. To liberate God and the parents, you need to love your enemy. You cannot become one without loving your enemy.
Then what has to be done after we have loved our enemies? We have to restore the parents. After we restore the parents, we have to restore God. They have to be restored altogether.
The Fall meant that the siblings, the parents, and God were lost all at the same time through an unprincipled relationship of love with Satan. These also have to be restored all at the same time.
That is why without setting the condition of having staked your life and devoted it to love for the sake of overcoming this situation you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. (37-256, 1970.12.27)
12. What is the secret to going to the kingdom of heaven? It is to restore the four-position foundation. All sixty-six books of the Bible exist for this purpose. The hopes of six thousand years of history are also pinned on this. The liberation of humankind from sorrow depends on this.
The four-position foundation is absolute. You will be in serious trouble if you cannot fulfill it. You will not be able to enter the kingdom of heaven. If you cannot enter the kingdom, what will you do? In that case, your sons and daughters who receive the Blessing will lament for tens of thousands of years.
Will you let such a thing happen to them simply because you did not fulfill your responsibility? If that happens, they cannot be descendants who are completely restored. The spirit world we talk about in the Unification Church is like that. There is no getting around it. (27-261, 1969.12.14)
13. You can never enter the kingdom of heaven unless you establish the four-position foundation and pay indemnity. This is why Jesus has worked so hard until this day. This is why I too have labored to this moment.
I have toiled to sort this out. There is no other reason for my labors. It was for the realization of the four-position foundation. At the time of Jesus, the three disciples, Peter, John and James, were necessary as a foundation to establish that.
This being the case, from what position can you enter the kingdom of heaven? Since the kingdom of heaven was lost in Adam's family, it must be restored from within the family. Did Adam and Eve not fall through illicit love?
It was at that point that the kingdom of heaven was lost. To restore this, the lost positions of Cain, Abel, and Seth must be found and restored.
Without becoming the parents in place of Adam and Eve and establishing these three sons, the four-position foundation cannot be established. This is the formula.
(27-260, 1969.12.14)
14. This current day is the global era. The white, black, and yellow races are three brothers. When you think about this, you may wonder, “Can different races truly come together and live in happiness?” But there is no fighting in the kingdom of heaven.
The kingdom of heaven is a place where you go not according to your race but according to your achievements in love.
In chapter five of the Gospel of Matthew, it is written, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." (Matt. 5:9)
When you meet the son of God you feel joyful. But when you come face to face with the son of Satan, the longer your meeting lasts, the more fear and anxiety you feel. In this regard, your siblings are precious to you.
People who live for the sake of their siblings automatically go to the kingdom of heaven. Wherever they go, they will be welcomed and recommended. Those who live for their siblings become central figures.
How can you practice brotherly love that matches the standard of parents' love and the love of husband and wife? The answer to that question is the secret to realizing the kingdom of heaven on earth. In the end, this joyful giving and receiving is the key to entering the kingdom of heaven. (66-126, 1973.04.18)
15. How is the kingdom of heaven to be realized from now on? To realize the kingdom of heaven, we need to go beyond nationality and national boundaries and love the people of the world whom Jesus did not get a chance to love. We need to love the people of the world.
Transcending barriers of nation, race, and tribe, we need to love anyone and everyone, be they people from the deserts of Asia or the wilds of Africa as if they were our children.
If people have the heart to love like Jesus from the position of an elder sister or younger brother, then they are equal to Jesus, the Son of God. And the world where such practice is universal is the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Only when we go forward in such a way, again and again and again, can we enter the kingdom of heaven. Otherwise, it will be impossible. (41-256, 1971.02.16)
16. We need to enter the kingdom of heaven. You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven without going through the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, and cosmos. From the very beginning, there has been a path to the kingdom of heaven, but up to this point, not one person has entered.
This is because there has not been one person who could subjugate Satan at every stage, going through the way of the cross from the individual level to the levels of the family, tribe, people, nation, and world, thereby establishing the foundation of victory.
Because Jesus could not establish such a victorious foundation when he came to earth, he too was unable to enter the kingdom of heaven and until now, he has offered his prayers from paradise. (13-263, 1964.04.12)
Preparing a certificate with which to enter the kingdom of heaven
17. Since the Fall took place not in God's presence but with Satan as the subject, we need to subjugate Satan to free ourselves from the fallen realm. We have to be able to say, “Satan, you rogue! Since I am where I am now because I united with you, I will subjugate you and return to God!”
If you do not obtain the certificate that states that you subjugated Satan, you cannot receive God's love. Jesus too prevailed over the three great temptations. We cannot enter the kingdom of heaven without obtaining Satan's signature confirming that we were historically victorious.
No matter what it takes, we must obtain Satan's signature. When Jesus overcame Satan's three great temptations and triumphed, Satan acknowledged it in tears, right then and there, and said, “You are eternally different from me.”
(24-337, 1969.09.14)
18. Jesus inherited the heavenly kingdom, but he did not inherit the world. Then who inherited the world? Cain did; so the world is Cain's country. For this reason, Abel has to inherit the heavenly kingdom, and he should also receive a certificate issued and guaranteed by Cain's world. To go to the kingdom of heaven, you need to obtain a certificate from Satan. Fallen people are bound by these two principles.
Since they have not been resolved, history has been prolonged and repeated through the past six thousand years.
But now we have come to understand this. In the Bible it is written, "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." (John 8:32)
As we now know the truth, we have to love, even if we have to clench our teeth. To what extent must we love? We have to love even Cain who is our enemy.
(34-278, 1970.09.13)
19. Christianity has passed through a history of seeking the true olive tree while pioneering a miserable destiny with countless people throughout the ages. The true olive tree refers to the Son of God.
Once he comes, you need to receive his sap as well as a branch from him. You need to engraft yourself to that branch. When this takes place, all conditions tied up in history – all our ancestors throughout the ages who offered indemnity conditions but were caught by Satan – will be resolved.
You must receive the graft on a foundation not of fertile soil or in a warm nest, but in a stony field. This is because you have to receive a certificate from Satan confirming that you have restored the original nature that has never before existed in Satan's world and also confirming that you can become God's child.
This is not something God can do for you. If it had been up to God, He would have done everything six thousand years ago. (17-124, 1966.12.11)
20. It is not the judge who authorizes a release from prison. Then who can do it? It is the prosecutor who gives permission. Without obtaining the endorsement of the prosecutor's office, you cannot be released. In this court, the prosecutor is Satan.
Without Satan's approval, God cannot say, “You are my child, I will save you!” You have to get Satan's approval without fail. Have you received Satan's endorsement or not? You must get Satan's approval.
What does the Unification Church teach?
It teaches the way to obtain Satan's approval. This approval is not only spiritual. You need to receive it as a substantial being of both spirit and body.
(17-124, 1966.12.11)
21. Only when you do not go against heavenly law can you enter the kingdom of heaven. If you are barred from entry based on heavenly law, what will you do?
Even members of the Unification Church cannot enter the kingdom of heaven if they have disobeyed heavenly law.
All who do wrong are caught. You may dream you will go to the spirit world at the level of a divine spirit simply because you believe in the Unification Church, but that will come to nothing. Then what should you do?
There is a secret method to be found here. You, the members of the Unification Church, should lay down a victorious foundation. Only then can you stand in the position of the parents? (37-256, 1970.12.27)
22. Now the Unification Church will surmount the global peak. Now no one can destroy the Unification Church, and no one can send me to prison. You should not just be busy with married life and having children. Instead, you should be busy preparing a certificate that will let you enter the kingdom of heaven.
You do not know when you will die. You may be involved in a car accident and go to the spirit world at any moment. All kinds of things occur. You never know when and at what moment you will go to the spirit world.
If the blessed families neglect this matter and go to the spirit world after simply enjoying their lives by themselves, can they stand before Rev. Moon of the Unification Church?
Since blessed families are at the completion stage of the growth period, they have not yet reached the global level. Since they are in the completion stage of the growth period, they need to go beyond the world. Since there is such a process, they have to go through it. (146-338, 1986.08.10)
23. Are you busy getting married, busy managing your household, or busy making preparations to go to the spirit world? We should lead our lives to be in rhythm with the spirit world.
All people need to live in rhythm with the spirit world. When you members of the Unification Church go to the spirit world, you will find that the conditions I have taught you are inscribed on the gates, and you will be asked certain questions.
Everything I have taught you to this day is written there as the conditions of entry. If you cannot answer correctly, you will not be able to go in. You will have to wait somewhere in the intermediate level of the spirit world. In that place, you will have to wait for me to arrive in the spirit world. (146-340, 1986.08.10)
24. We need a nation. There are many nations, but the nation we are moving toward is a different one. It is God's nation. You cannot enter this heavenly nation without receiving a new certificate of citizenship in that nation. Satan cannot accuse those with such certified citizenship, no matter how hard he tries, through east, west, not,h and south or the past, present, and future. (148-288, 1986.10.25)