The Path to the Settlement of Cheon Il Guk

Path to true love and peace

Love and peace have been constant topics for True Parents throughout their lives.

They have presented the vision that we achieve everlasting peace by making this world one family.

They began the process toward its fulfillment by initiating activities involving participants of all races, religions, and nations. Thus, they have removed the barriers that plague individuals, families, tribes, peoples, nations, and the entire world.

Once everyone follows the path of true love and peace that True Parents have walked, Cheon Il Guk, which God and all people desire, will be established.

1. I have walked the path of love for God. For love, I have stayed up all night. For love, I have wept. For love, I have traveled thousands of miles. For love, I have crossed oceans.

For love, I have been striving to embrace people of all races and colors. How difficult a road is that? You may think it is easy, but it is a really difficult path. I was often at a loss for words. Often I wanted to pack my bags and leave right away. I am doing this because if I do not do it, someone else will have to.
(108-288, 1980/10/16)

2. The path of true love is the path of pioneering, of personally opening away. Each of you must go the path that Mother and I have walked. Our vertical first ancestors should have walked the path that God followed hundreds of millions of years ago. That is the way of Principle.

The first human beings fell due to ignorance, and we had to search for the path of restoration. You do not know how much effort I had to make it discover the Principle and find that path.

You cannot imagine how much hardship and accusation we endured from individuals and families in Satan's world.

Nevertheless, I followed the path of the Principle, and so I overcame Satan's accusations against me on the individual level. In time, Satan's accusations could no longer touch me. I have been following the path of the Principle on the levels of the family, tribe, people, nation, world, and cosmos. (215-059, 1991/02/06)

3. True love begins with investing your life and forgetting that you invested. God is present in such a life.

That is the love of parents. Over and over you invest and forget. God has continued doing this since the Fall. He will do this until all human beings are saved. How miserable God is! In my life, I went to prison and people slandered me. But I never changed because I knew I had to attend such a God as my Parent.
(337-077, 2000/10/22)

4. After the first human ancestors fell, so many walls came to exist. Barriers appeared at the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, and cosmic levels. These barriers are blocking your path on seven levels. How can we tear them down?

The body is the basis of these walls. The body is always the problem. The walls of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, and cosmos all are attached to the body. The body cannot remove these countless walls. Remove one, and there is always another wall susceptible to Satan's influence. Can you deny that?

Because we True Parents know this reality, receiving persecution is not a problem for us. One cannot walk God's way in zigzags. The path of true love is direct, walked in a straight line. Therefore, we have received Satan's persecution throughout our entire lifetime. (239-261, 1992/12/06)

5. More action does not cause true love to diminish. In the natural world, the output is smaller than the input, but with true love, the output is greater than the input. Accordingly, True love can persist forever.

Throughout our lives, we True Parents have invested everything and never kept track. What will be the result of our love? The world will gather.

You will shed copious tears despite yourself when you remember that we made our way through history while enduring a lifetime of hardships, walking the public way as your representatives. What would move you to tears? True love has the power to inspire and encompass all people and the universe. (224-153, 1991/11/24)

6. True love lets us overcome any misery without complaint so that only completion, success, and achievements remain. We are intelligent people who fully understand this and follow accordingly. In this way, heaven shall open. While carrying out this work, we True Parents had to go through an environment of intense persecution at the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world.

Today, we stand at the summit of the worlds of government, religion, culture, and all other fields. We are carving out a victorious territory as individuals, as a family, tribe, people, a nation, and as the world. Although we received more persecution than anyone in history, despite all this, we alone stand at the highest position in history. (230-162, 1992/05/01)

7. Restoration is re-creation, but salvation is repair. A sick person needs to be cured. That is salvation. Recreation and restoration by indemnity are required due to the Fall. You cannot be saved as you are. You must go through a process of re-creation.

Therefore, you must trust True Parents. In the course of understanding God, I did not rely on my thoughts. I examined closely the fundamental principles, which must begin with a motive of true love. Because I understood true love, I investigated everything. True love proceeds along a direct path.

You do not know how much I struggled to find this Principle. I have gone through such an agonizing path. I soaked my thick cotton-padded winter trousers with my tears.

To save human beings as my children, I must go on, even while tearing off my skin, ripping off my flesh, chipping my bones, and extracting my bone marrow. Because I understand the heart of God, I am merciless with myself. I should not let the blood lineage of Satan remain. I must completely deny myself.
(423-226, 2003/10/30)

8. Love is mysterious and endless. Because it has no end, if you follow it continuously you arrive at its true, original place. The person who continues on this path will succeed. With that as one's motive, one can continue for hundreds, even millions of years. No matter how much you invest, you never become tired of it.

That's how I am. Throughout my life, I never slept the regular hours that others do. I did not have regular meals like others. I did not live comfortably like others. I am living an incredibly busy life, but I am not tired. A loving heart is always young.

The mind does not age. The more hardship I suffer in my lifetime based on love, the more explosive my power. Seen that way, it is only logical that God is the youngest, most handsome person, and next to Him will be Father.
(186-092, 1989/01/29)

9. In Danbury, I did not forget the way of love for even one minute. No matter how difficult my situation, I desired the path of greatest love. Just as our ancestors of faith did, and just as Jesus was ready to die, I am doing the same at the risk of my life. It is because love is more than life. Life begins from love.

Therefore, finding the way to love takes more than investing in one's life. Without investing more than your life, you cannot find the way to true love.

I chose the way of love even when it meant going the way of death. This is absolute. I lived like this. I put this kind of content into practice. For 40 years, despite all kinds of persecution and humiliation, I did not desert this way, even when facing certain death.

I understood the absolute treasure of true love. Since I lived like this, I have become famous globally. I was not motivated by glory or success, but since I survived even in the places where others said I would perish, a worldwide foundation was completed, even without my noticing it. (135-171, 1985/11/12)

10. Religion and politics are not separate endeavors. A peaceful world cannot be realized when religion and politics are divided; a peaceful world is one. The ideal world is not divided.

Because it is one, we should gather and move in one direction. No one besides True Parents can gather the representatives of the religions and the nations of the world as one. Therefore, if you follow us, you can go on the fastest way to a peaceful world. We are now looking forward to the new ideal world, a unified world. No one else understands the path that can bring the communist world and the democratic world together into an ideal world of oneness. (229-056, 1992/04/09)

Path of a filial child, patriot, saint, and divine son or daughter

True Parents emphasized loyalty and filial piety as the basic precepts of human morality. They said that filial piety is the cardinal virtue for children. It means to attend one's parents in the family, and then expand that sphere of love to all parents in the world.

At the same time, they stressed that the person who goes beyond the nation to love the world is a saint, and if that person's love goes beyond the world and reaches God, he or she is a divine child.

Jesus walked the way of a divine son, and 2,000 years later, True Parents showed humankind the life of a divine son and daughter by inheriting the way Jesus walked. While fulfilling the way of filial children, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters attending God as the center, True Parents received God's testimony that they are 'bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh and heart of my heart.'

While passing through the thorny path of indescribable suffering and concluding the providence of salvation, they received the title, of divine son and daughter.

11. We must become filial sons, loyal patriots, and virtuous women of fidelity. Filial sons emerge amid difficulties. In the same way, loyal patriots do not emerge in times of peace, stability, and national prosperity.

When a nation confronts a dire crisis, when all are facing suffering and death, patriots are those who invest and risk their lives to change the national destiny. It is because of their investment during hard times that patriots, filial children, and women of virtue are recorded in history. (151-245, 1962/12/15)

12. To become a part of God's royal family, you must become a filial child, patriot, saint, and divine son or daughter. The training ground for this is the family. When perfected families expand, they become the ideal kingdom. Always, the family is the center.

Therefore, the issue is two people, a man and a woman. If an ideal man and woman become husband and wife and form a family, all is completed. If ideal families are extended, they become a country and the world. Just as you become a filial son by serving your parents at home, if you live for and serve the king of your country, you become a patriot, and if you live for the sake of all people, you become a saint.

However, a divine child is different. A divine child lives fully by the laws of the kingdom of heaven in heaven and on earth. No one can accuse such a person who fulfills perfectly the laws of the spirit world. It is not a problem for them to govern the spirit world. It is not a problem for them to govern this world.

Every country welcomes such a person. There is no obstacle. There is freedom. That kind of person is a divine child. (293-211, 1998/05/26)

13. A righteous person is willing to die in a miserable position as a servant of servants for the sake of the nation. A patriot is a person who willingly gives his or her life for the country. The person who gratefully serves and thanks, his or her parents even in the position of servant of servants is called a filial child.

This is the core of human morality. Being a servant who lives a public life for God is the way to become a righteous person, and being a servant more zealous than any other servant for the sake of the nation is the path to becoming a patriot. Sacrificing from the position of servant for the parents is the way to become a filial son. (088-295, 1976/10/03)

14. A patriot is always a filial child in the sense that even if he did not live as a filial child, when he became a patriot for the sake of the nation, he was by that deed caring for his parents.

The Patriots are great, but they are not at the level of the Saints. A saint does not live just for his or her nation. He or she lives for all people, even trying to love the enemy nation. Thus, a saint has authority over a patriot.

In the Unification Church, we say there is one more stage, that of the divine child. A divine child knows the laws of heaven as a child of God. He or she must observe not only the laws of the human world but the palace laws of heaven's nation.

Saints do not know the palace laws of heaven's nation. In that sense, when you advance to the position of a divine child you will have authority over the saints. (196-125, 1989/12/31)

15. It is necessary for each human being to fulfill the duties of a filial child, loyal patriot, saint, and divine child. You must not focus on yourself. First, you must be proud of your mother and father. You must be proud of the leader of your nation, and you must be proud of God. It is not good if your focus is on yourself.

This is why all citizens with families want to be near the king or president of their nation, of whom they are proud. The whole family wants to go. For the same reason they all want to appear before God, where they will possess absolute love, the eternal love of God. If they possess the love of God, they can have eternal life.

Because God is vertical, He needs the family, the nation, and the world. Thereafter, He needs the kingdom of heaven. If, despite all of this, you emphasize yourself, everything will be blocked.

By loving your parents, you become the embodiment of your parents' love. By loving the nation, you embody the nation with a status and authority equal to its leader. You focus on heaven, become the object of heaven's love, and become one with heaven to become the embodiment of heaven, become the one who represents heaven.

In this way, through you, all of God's authority in relationships can be connected from heaven to the world, the nation, and finally to the family. That is the path human beings need to complete during their lifetime. That is the road to perfection. (285-092, 1997/04/21)

16. The person who loves his or her parents is called a filial child. For that person, the beginning, process, and conclusion is love. Therefore, at the core of the family is the duty of filial piety.

The nation can exist only on the foundation of the family. At the core of a country are loyal patriots who love the country. Patriots of a nation must follow the way of saints. A saint is a person who loves the world.

Divine children are sons and daughters of God. These four, the filial child, patriot, saint, and divine child, are the core because love is the basis of their commitment. Human beings did not grasp this fully but had only some vague ideas.

In the Last Days, the point of stability where human life can be put in order can only be the place of love.

Therefore, only husbands and wives who love each other can be recognized as filial children. After becoming a filial child, you become a patriot. After becoming a patriot, you become a saint.

After becoming a saint, you become a divine child. After becoming a divine child, you possess the right to all that God wants to bequeath to you.
(206-176, 1990/10/07)

17. True divine children, God's sons and daughters, are people who live for the sake of all that belongs to God, just as they live for the sake of God. I am a person who is walking the path of that kind of divine child. I love God, and I also love humankind. Accordingly, God says, 'My son!'

Just as the person to whom God says 'You are my son' lives for the sake of God, that person also lives for the sake of humanity. That person is the Son of God. Because God forgets Himself and lives for the sake of humanity, the filial child also forgets himself and lives for the sake of humanity.

Next, we seek the path of a patriot and the path of a divine child. If people go the way of a filial child, then the way of a patriot, finally completing the way of a divine child, their nation will be the kingdom of heaven on earth. This can be transferred as it is to the kingdom of heaven in heaven. This transfer was always envisioned in God's ideal of creation. (133-243, 1984/07/19)

18. Nobody can equal the path True Parents walk. If I compare it to mountains, it is the peak of Mt.

Everest in the Himalayas. From the beginning, I walked the way of the filial son, patriot, saint, and divine child, each connected to the heart of God. Other than Parents, there has been no one able to perfect God's love.

Only when God sheds tears of gratitude and says, 'Even though I lost everything, you whom I have found have a value hundreds of times greater than everything in the world,' can you liberate God from the nails that have been driven into His heart. This is a tremendously profound and serious conviction to have.
(308-149, 1998/11/29)

19. There is no country whose loyal patriots and virtuous women have gone beyond the lineal relations of Satan's world. All have been blocked. You are walking on the road where God and True Parents, centered on God's true love flowing from His heart, have worked hard for the providence of restoration.

You can inherit the tradition only by becoming someone who fulfills the duties of a filial child, patriot, sain,t and divine son or daughter based on the heart of the Parents of Heaven and Earth. God taught filial piety, and those who became the filial children of God are called True Parents.

Because I walked as a patriot, and after that as a substantial saint, and then as a substantial divine son, God says that all of this is established as our tradition.
(312-261, 1999/11/07)

20. Conscience takes precedence over parents teachers, the ruler of the nation, and even over the entire universe. This is because it is the home base of love that God desires. God is the Parent of parents, Teacher of teachers, and King of kings.

The person who is always mindful of his or her precious conscience shall become a righteous person, saint, and divine child. If you deviate from that mindset, there is no way to become a filial son, patriot, saint, and divine child.

After all my suffering I found that the conclusion is simple: It all exists in me. I felt ashamed before God.

After realizing this, I felt emptiness. If you know how hard I worked to find that place, you too must find your original self where you cannot but shed tears. You must become husbands and wives who can face each other with tears and become patriots who face your people with tears. Please know that we cannot walk the path of restoration without tears. (295-020, 1998/08/16)

21. I have taken a lonely path until now. Even now, I am still lonely. It is not because I have not met people I love. I have a wife and children. I have companions like you. However, until I can love God fully and liberate Him, until I have fully accomplished my dutiful way as a filial son and patriot, I cannot but go this lonely way. I am still going that way. What if the road remains after my life is over? I still have to go.

If you follow the path until you become old and still have not fulfilled the mission, and then you die, you still have to keep going. Since it is the path for the sake of the world, it goes on eternally. God is everlasting; therefore, the path of the Will centered on God has no end.

Even after death, still, you should keep going. The spirit world transcends time and space, and 1,000 years is like one day in the spirit world. Therefore, I must go on, thinking that accomplishing a work over 1,000 years in this world is the same as accomplishing it in one year. That is the road to true love. (034-358, 1970/09/20)

22. If you want to become a victor in heaven and on earth, you must liberate God. We must liberate God.

Therefore, we must not pray to God based on our wishes. I never pray for the sake of my will. I pray for the sake of God's Will. God does not want my salvation; He wants only liberation. Only after accomplishing God's liberation will the way of my salvation open up. This is the fundamental issue. (227-326, 1992/02/16)

23. I lived my life for the liberation of the Will. The Messiah is born for the liberation of the Will, goes through life founded on the Will, and after completing the Will must achieve the realm of liberation.

The realm of liberation means the liberation of the kingdom of heaven and at the same time the liberation of God. Next, he must liberate humanity from the prison of Satan's world. We became prisoners because we inherited the lineage of Satan from our fallen parents. Then he must also liberate all the creation that is lamenting in grief.

I fished in the Pantanal. I walked through the mountains. It was to make a bond of heart with nature. I have reached this point centering on the Will. Here, after binding everything to the destination point with a heart that loves God, loves humanity, and loves creation, I have to complete the historical indemnity and economic restoration. (302-239, 1999/06/14)

A world that attends God

Were there scrolls as wide as the skies and ink as vast as the oceans, they could not record all the teachings and life achievements of True Parents. True Parents found the new expression of the Word, the Divine Principle, and prepared the start of the providence before their Holy Wedding.

After their Holy Wedding, they worked to complete the way of restoration before the Cheon Il Guk Foundation Day; Finally, they were able to restore and return to God all that had been lost since the Fall at the beginning of human history. After entering the Era After the Coming of Heaven, on the occasion of the Foundation Day of Cheon Il Guk, they proclaimed a new heaven and earth.

Overcoming suffering beyond description, they perfected, concluded, and completed the providence of restoration.

Since Foundation Day, True Father in the heavenly world and True Mother on Earth have been working hard to bring about the settlement of Cheon Il Guk on this earth through activities such as compiling the Cheon Il Guk scriptures, enacting the Cheon Il Guk Constitution, raising globally equipped leaders, and calling forth new tribal messiah activities.

The achievements and vision of peace that True Parents established are the foundation stones for one world of peace beyond nations. The words of truth that they bequeathed to humanity trace the path of new life that clarifies the way of God, humanity, and the cosmos.

The course of true love that they showed during their lives is the model for filial children, loyal patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters. As the bright sun and moon of Cheon Il Guk, True Parents cast eternal light upon the ideal world of creation that attends God.

24. With absolute faith, you blessed children of the global Unificationist family must receive instruction on the traditions that the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind lived, and then fulfill the tribal messiah mission. After completing this responsibility in the tribe, the society, the nation, and the world, you will embrace all humanity as the people of Cheon Il Guk.

This is the hope of the Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind. This is the way that you who are living in this age will be able to stand, without shame, in the position of ancestors to future generations.

After 6,000 years, our Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind completed, concluded and consummated the providential history of restoration through indemnity and opened a new era and new history of Cheon Il Guk. The founding of Cheon Il Guk, which has been the hope of the Heavenly Parent and the desire of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, has been accomplished.

How will you thank and welcome our Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind? Do you understand the great significance that God places upon you by installing you as the ancestors of Cheon Il Guk? You have the responsibility to testify to True Parents.

You have to make this nation and all the people of the world understand that True Parents have come to this earth, proclaimed the words of life, and opened Cheon Il Guk. You must promise that without fail you will open the kingdom of heaven on earth and the kingdom of heaven in front of the Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.

The mission and responsibility of those living in the present age is to invest all we have to advance along this road without stopping, keeping an attitude of life-or-death determination. (True Mother, 2013/05/05)

25. Our pride, joy, and happiness are meaningless without True Parents. The hope of blessed families is the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth, where we live together with and attend to God and our True Parents.

If we cannot do that at our age, then our descendants will have to do it. It is the responsibility of we who are parents to make sure that day will come with certainty to this earth. The Unification movement must accomplish the Will together with True Parents.

Accordingly, I sincerely hope that we and our families become the ones in whom future generations will take pride. We already stepped forward and pledged our hearts. We must work to completely realize, in this age, the Will of heaven that Father worked to accomplish. (True Mother, 1983/03/13)

26. Even if Father goes to bed late, he rises early in the morning and prays seriously. Even if the wind is blowing or if it is raining, night and day he is praying for you, the children of the Unification Church.

When I see the face of Father meditating deeply on how to fulfill God's Will, I think he is someone whom God cannot help but love. I hope that you empower yourselves as much as you can with the Divine Principle.

I hope that you can be unchanging in a world of heart that is firmly connected, not in a master-servant relationship, but in a father-son relationship. When you are suffering, please think about True Father. (True Mother, 1967/08/03)

27. Since the start of human history, all human beings have sought a world of peace and happiness.

However, that ideal world was never realized. The True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind discovered and resolved the fundamental problems in providential history. For his 90 years of life, Father held on to heaven's providence and worked globally.

The True Father designated the 13th day of the first month in 2013 as Foundation Day, and for the 12 years before his Holy Ascension, he completely invested himself in this case. Firstly, he established the position of Heavenly Parent.

True Father became a beacon of hope for a world that is still wandering through a miserable history of suffering and war. To accomplish this on the spiritual level, he led a religious group through God's spirit and truth, and externally, he developed many activities as expressions of love. (True Mother, 2013/02/20)

28. My life has been like an ocean. The ocean can generously embrace and unite with the sky and resemble its color. It is in the lowest place, where it accepts all the water of the world. The ocean embraces everything and conceives all life. In the ocean, all varieties of living things are born and raised in abundance.

Its tides ebb and flow in response to the pull of the moon and the changing seasons. It responds to the rays of the sun, creates water vapor, and influences the weather. A calm ocean is peaceful on the surface, but deep inside enormous currents that move the ocean are constantly surging. When waves of a tsunami rage, they can swallow everything.

People cannot see the whirlpool beneath the surface, heaven's providence has surged like a typhoon, and my life has unfolded in the midst of it. There are so many circumstances that cannot be spoken of, which only I understand from the center of the providence.

Crossing over that whirlpool, not allowing it to pull me down, I joined Father in the work to complete the providential history of restoration.
(True Mother, 2013/12/06)

29. Heavenly Parent, You raised me as your only-begotten Daughter, and You protected me throughout countless adversities and hardships until I came to the position of True Parent. You are the only one who knows and remembers the circumstances and countless challenges that I had to overcome at each twist and turn of this historic course as a True Parent. Heavenly Parent, I am grateful.

For the sake of accomplishing the ideal of creation that You originally hoped for, we know how difficult, lonely, and painful Your course was as You sought the True Parents. We offer infinite gratitude to You, our Heavenly Parent who endured until Cheon Il Guk could be proclaimed on earth.
(True Mother, 2014/09/12)