When we set out the historical process, when the current of history advanced in a dark direction, the people who stood in a position of creating that history became the guides of that age, in terms of the age or in terms of history. But until one becomes such a guide, one must without fail go forth bearing the responsibility of a pioneer.
History and the Pioneer
A pioneer, in heading toward some purpose, cannot but be stronger than anyone. That is because, in going seeking a new world by oneself, a struggle in which one must stake one’s faith and even one’s life amid hard labor is accompanied.
Accordingly, we must know the fact that the more difficult the road a pioneer goes, the more adventure, without fail, increases proportionally .
Therefore, a pioneer must become a responsible person who breaks through difficulties no one at all knows toward the destination. Without becoming a victor who has overcome such a difficult course, one cannot be equipped with the standing of a pioneer. That is why desiring a pioneer is the same as a student needing a guide like a teacher.
Even at this point when the nation today gropes for a new road, a leader who plays a guiding role is without fail necessary. It is likewise the same when we look at every work that was pushed forward historically in history. In this way, to pursue a new historical purpose and attain that purpose, one cannot but stand in the position of a pioneer shouldering a difficult mission. We can know well, even from looking at environmental conditions, the fact that without standing in the position of a pioneer, one cannot play the role of a guide.
Seen from this viewpoint, on the course of the Providence of Restoration that saves humankind too, a guide centering on God’s Will is likewise necessary. When we set out the long six-thousand-year course of history, the Will has developed from the individual to the family, clan, people, nation, and worldwide providential age.
To develop one stage from the individual providential age to the family providential age, one must break through the individual providential age and cross over. Here, the more that stage rises one stage at a time from the family providential age to the people, national, and worldwide providential ages, the more a pioneer proportionate to it is without fail necessary, and a guide too is without fail necessary.
In Adam’s family too, only after Abel carried out the mission of a pioneer in restoring the family of that age could he carry out the mission of a guide. To carry out the mission of a pioneer, even when one stands in an abnormal rather than a normal position, one must not be pushed back by an environment that presses in unfavorably; one must break through that environment and, standing in a leading position, seek a new course. To put it another way, without standing in a position of saying one must make things accord with the direction in which the purpose can be brought to accomplishment, one cannot carry out the mission of a pioneer.
The Road of a Pioneer
From this viewpoint, only when one accomplishes the mission of a pioneer does one at last take charge of the mission of a guide. And the one who guides must without fail set the direction for the followers.
When that direction goes astray, or the view of purpose is mistaken, one must play the role in between of setting it right. Here, when the followers seek to deny this and go forth, one cannot even properly determine the destination one must go to.
A pioneer must, in pursuing a new purpose, be able to overcome, from a subject position, many difficult environmental conditions. Otherwise, one cannot be regarded as having become a pioneer. Therefore, only by going the road of a guide from a position of having completed the mission of a pioneer can one become a proper guide.
When we look at Noah’s course, Noah too, representing the age in which he lived, came to take charge of Heaven’s guiding role only after passing through the mission of a pioneer. Abraham likewise, only after passing through the mission of a pioneer, was at last equipped with relative authority in that and came to take charge of Heaven’s guiding role toward the individual, or an individual toward society, if society. Moses too is likewise the same. In this way, without passing through the course of a pioneer, one cannot carry out the responsibility of a guide. In going toward a new destination, one must without fail explore it oneself. It means one must actually undergo pioneering content. We know such a fact well through history.
Jesus himself, too, to bring the two worlds divided into heaven and earth to a conclusion as the world of purpose God wishes, cannot but pass through a process of carrying out the mission of a pioneer. Therefore, unless one passes through the adventurous process that can accompany it and is equipped with the relative authority that can break through every problem, one cannot integrate the two worlds and prepare one's foundation and set up the deciding authority by which one can be victorious. Otherwise, one comes to be unable to take charge of a historic, worldwide, universal guiding role.
Therefore, it can be said that being completely equipped with the position of a guide and attaining the purpose from a position of representing and bearing responsibility for the whole is the proper road of life. When it becomes so, at last the lifetime of a true leader is settled. In this way, what is called a leader is not settled in one moment. Only when one comes to stand in a position of unraveling historic circumstances, being equipped with the whole content centering on humankind, can one at last be settled as a leader fitting before God.
Seen from this viewpoint, it is a fact that historic leaders, representing their age, have explored a difficult experiential course that no one at all could do. But when we look at a thousand years of history, a person who can present the direction of history has not yet appeared.
We today know that we are placed in such a reality. It means that the Republic of Korea, if the Republic of Korea is so, and Asia, if Asia is so, and the world, if the world is itself, are placed in a position of not knowing the purpose or direction it must go hereafter.
Then the question is how one shall break through the direction in which the world hereafter must advance, within a breathless reality in which one cannot even know the direction. This cannot but be a grave task that not only the nation but also the whole of the world’s humankind must bear. Seen thus, we can draw the conclusion that at the present point there must, without fail, be one pioneer who achieves a new world.
The Person Who Will Become the Pioneer of This Age
Then who will become the pioneer of this world?
Though there have been countless prophets and noble forebears and sages and wise men who came and went in history until now, when we gaze upon the world of that result, we can know, even inferring by common sense, that it is impossible to believe in people like them who stand in a position representing the human world, or in a person centered on the human being and break through a course of pioneering aiming at the purpose of a new world. That is why a pioneering movement that can break through the conditions of history and present hope to humankind must without fail arise upon this globe.
If there be a person who will come with the mission of a pioneer, that person must come holding not content centered on the human being but worldwide content centered on a new ideal. But a person who can come holding such great content cannot come out from among the people presently living. That person must be a cosmic person. He must not be a plain human being of the actual historical world living upon the globe but one who has crossed beyond this. To put it another way, it means that without being equipped with the content of the spiritual world, one cannot present a new view of purpose to the human world of today. This is a fact that can be known even by a common-sense view.
That humankind today does not desire a world of disappointment groping in the dark in such a world of results as the present is an unmistakable fact. That is why God, who would pursue a new purpose and achieve a new world, at the terminal point of the historical age without fail unfolds the work of preparing upon the globe an environment in which He can send a person of character who can lead this world. Seen from this viewpoint, we can know that whatever religion it may be, it welcomes the Last Days, leaving behind the thought of the Second Advent. The more we pursue the question of how this world can hold such conditions of results, the more we come to know indirectly the fact that here God, the Absolute Being, without fail comes forth, preparing an inner process of preparation to connect one starting point of the happiness and ideal world that humankind pursues. This is the thought of the Second Advent.
When one comes who will carry out such a mission in place of this world, what must he do first?
He must carry out the mission of a pioneer for achieving the world of purpose that is wished for, the highest pioneer such as has not existed in history. He must carry out the mission of a pioneer centering on the spiritual world and a pioneer centering on the physical world.
You must clearly know the fact that the more complicated the content of that world, the more one cannot complete the mission of a pioneer without passing through an adventurous course of living proportionate to it.
Then how complicated will the environment behind, which must be broken through and crossed over, be? This is the problem. When you handle a single day’s living, in its content you yourselves are not completely absorbed. But a pioneer must inwardly gather tremendous and tremendous problems and build a foundation that can bind together the providential position. It goes without saying that, otherwise, one cannot become a complete pioneer. Therefore, it means that without passing through an adventurous course of living that can correspond to it, one cannot find a road that can be bound in a relationship with a new world.
Then in finding that road, shall one center on oneself?
Absolutely, it must not be so. If there is a spiritual world, only after bearing the course for the sake of the spiritual world can one at last present the road one is to go oneself. Doing so, when one crosses beyond the road the human being is groping for and the road the spiritual world is groping for and comes to stand in a position where one can be equipped in all four directions with all the inner and outer content and bear responsibility and bring it to conclusion, one can at last carry out the responsibility of a guide.
You must know the fact that without carrying out such responsibility as a guide, even though there be a spiritual world, one cannot become one central figure holding historicity as the leader of that world.
Then what is the point of the conclusion the Unification Church must come to today?
It must not become a Unification Church that drifts within a passing sphere of history in the Republic of Korea. It means it must not become a Unification Church that simply flows away together with history. It must become a Unification Church that can stand before the nation bearing the mission of a pioneer, or a Unification Church that can open a new historical age by overcoming and breaking through every difficulty and trial regarding the purpose that Asia, if Asia pursues it.
One must stand in a position where one can bear the mission of a pioneer before one nation, or in all of Asia, or toward the world. Without standing in such a position, to attain the tremendous purpose of a new family, a new clan, and further, a new world, a new Cosmos centering on the Unification Church is out of the question. That goes without saying. Seen from this viewpoint, you must know that God too is gazing upon the Unification Church from a rigorous position.
If One Would Complete the Mission of a Pioneer
Then what kind of difficulty follows in doing that work?
To make today’s world into a new world, tremendous force will be expended here.
Just as force beyond that is necessary even in settling a war, it means that to guide the whole universe, enormous force must be invested. But when we ask whether the force thus invested can be left just as it is to the body then, or to the historical age, it means it is not so.
You must know that every result achieved while adventuring and struggling and pioneering appears not only proportionally to the force expended but can appear in inverse proportion. It means that if one expended a hundred, one does not without fail bring back a hundred but may bring back ten, or one, or may bring back not even one gain.
In this way, the life of a pioneer is a fight like a war of attrition. But it is not that the road of a pioneer is broken through by a simple war of attrition. You must know that until one reaches one's starting point of purpose, it is a continuation of expended time, a continuation of expended living. But a person who is discouraged because the recompense for the effort expended does not appear cannot take part in the ranks of pioneers.
Today the Unification Church stands at a new point in time of stepping forth equipped with a normal figure. This does not mean merely coming forth, taking a new religion or a new age as its standard. You must know that going forth, taking salvation centered on the family as its standard, is the principled law of the Unification Church. Because Adam and Eve fell centering on the family, to restore this, one must restore the family.
Until now, countless religions came forth centering on the individual, holding the purpose of saving the individual’s life. By saving one man and one woman, they came forth, achieving an authority that could join them and form a nation. That is, until now religion came forth seeking one woman, centering on one man, but coming to this day, it is precisely the Unification Church that has stepped forth, raising the banner of a new liberation centering on the family.
That the Unification Church today made a new departure in history was in the 1960s. You must know that taking these sixties as the starting point, we have drawn near to a new historical age.
Then if there are trials and tribulations this family must overcome, what would they be?
There have been many people who have fought until now on the course of faith, setting out the problem of salvation in the historical age. We know too that on the six-thousand-year course of restoration, countless prophets and noble forebears came bearing responsibility for age after age and failed time after time, unable to bear the responsibility entrusted to them. In this way, even in an individual’s bearing one mission, there was historic content of repeated victory and defeat for achieving a decisive foundation of victory.
Inferring from such a fact, when it is this hard even to save one individual, you must know how excessive our mission is today of having to drag along the burden called "the family.
Until one builds a foundation of a happy family, a family of peace grounded in a new world, roads of suffering are bound to be piled up. To cross over such a road of suffering, one must struggle. One must fight a war of attrition. Such a course is the destiny of our individual selves today, and needless to say, the unification body must go.
Seen from this viewpoint, the Blessed Families today are more precious beings than any particular individual whom God needed in the historical age. Even seen externally, it means they hold concrete content. This is Heaven’s family that can represent the historical age and the family Jesus came seeking and the family countless forebears hoped for. All fought to build this one foundation. Setting out such a fact, you must know that God is gazing upon Blessed Families from a high-dimensional position.
Therefore, the higher the dimension of the course this family must go, the more trials and adventures proportionate to it follow, and a mission like that of a pioneer follows. You must know the fact that through that one comes to reveal a high-dimensional value.
The Blessed Family’s Responsibility Toward This People
Now at this point of welcoming the seventies, you must reflect upon the sixties. It means one must reflect upon whether one truly carried out the position of a subject family grounded in the standard God wishes for, gazing upon God.
When we set out the question of whether one has completed one’s responsibility from a family position as a pioneer whom God seeks, we cannot but draw the conclusion that the majority of you have not completed your responsibility.
Your families must bear worldwide responsibility and must without fail organize a clan in place of the people and nation. There is a responsibility and mission to organize a clan centering on each surname, such as Kim, Park, Lee, Cho. That is why God exhorted you to carry out the responsibility of a tribal messiah centering on yourselves.
Then what kind of family is a family that fulfills its responsibility as such a tribal messiah? We know the fact that several thousand years of history flowed by while Jesus and the Holy Spirit, centering on God, groped for one family as a trinity. We know too that in the historical process countless people were sacrificed and have gone to the spiritual world. Those who are in the spiritual world, before wishing for the resolution of their own han and its accomplishment, first hope for one family that can resolve their han and accomplish it centering on themselves. Seen thus, we can know that we must achieve the family that history wishes for.
Rather than becoming a family centered on me, such as our family, my husband, my wife, we must be equipped with the posture of a central family bearing responsibility for bearing world-historical content. It means we must be equipped with an attitude of mind that can bear the wish of God or the wishes that all the forebears of the past historical age require.
Seen from this viewpoint, you today must not end with being satisfied with yourselves in a habitual living environment. Always criticizing yourselves from a responsible position, you must realize that you yourselves are standing on a road of destiny of choosing between two, at which one must settle on the position of victor or defeated.
You have your own pioneering course. If it be the Gimhae Kim clan, there will be several families of Blessed Families representing Heaven as the Gimhae Kim. There must be one family representing these several families; that is, a family bearing the mission of pioneering. This family must bear the mission of representing the Gimhae Kims and breaking through the unknown world called the Republic of Korea and connecting its clan even to the national standard.
For that, one must hold a subjecthood that can make each clan take part in the ranks of the people. One must stand in a position where one can inject a new gospel before the people and present a new purpose.
And thus, only when one becomes a clan that the people require and a clan that all people can welcome can one be said to have completed one’s responsibility as a Blessed Family representing that Kim clan.
Seen from this viewpoint, to become a pioneer, one must bear the responsibility of a priest who leads one’s whole clan, whether Kim or Park. There will be countless individuals there and countless families. But such individuals and families are not in a position where they can face God with the bond of “you and I” in a normal environment together with God.
It means that a pioneer can stand before God, but other people cannot stand in a position where they can face God. If one were to stand before God, the principle of indemnity must be involved there.
Then who can present the content of indemnity?
Not just anyone can present the content of indemnity. Only a Blessed Family that has without fail passed through a course of adventure and struggle and holds a decisive foundation of victory can present it.
Therefore, you must know that Blessed Families cannot but play a guiding role that can make the content of indemnity, which they do not know, be presented. If an individual, one must play a guiding role as an individual; if a family, one must play a guiding role as a family.
For that, in this environment in which countless enemies gaze while raising guns and swords, one must day by day build a course by which one can cross over without receiving a surprise attack from a pioneer’s position. And thus, one must be able to play the role of a guide who can present to the countless families and individuals who will come hereafter the content of indemnity they must pass through and guide them on the unknown course of indemnity.
When from such a guiding position one has restored one's family into a complete family that God wishes for, one can be said to have completed a guiding role as a true family.
Furthermore, when one has restored an individual into an individual whom God wishes for, one can at last be said to have completed the role of a guide as a true individual in God’s place. Only after this guiding role has ended does one at last make a departure as the new people God purposed, and there a new order is established.
The Road of Faith: Cain and Abel Must Go
The fallen world today is in every respect a world of process. Here there is only pioneering, and only struggle remains. In whatever age, a foundation of ease, the higher its fortress, and the greater its foundation of culture, amounts to nothing more than strengthening the degree to which the enemies can attack and cannot but remain as a walled city that is at all times invaded. Therefore, such a process must be passed quickly.
You must know the fact that one who seeks to settle down there cannot escape the destiny of a dropout, and one who dreams of ease there cannot avoid the destiny of perishing.
That you must carry out such a grave mission of a pioneer is the road for you who have become Blessed Families. How good it would be if you alone could all go on this road? But this road is a road that must not be gone down by you alone, and also a road that does not need you alone.
When we look centering on Adam’s family, what kind of being is Abel?
He is a being who cannot welcome the Parents without helping Cain. Therefore, if the elder brother and the younger brother had become one and stood in a position where, in place of the Parents, they could say, “O God, since we ask with one mind and one will that Thou wilt forgive our parents’ mistake, be together with everything in place of our parents, and work so that we may gaze upon the same goal and advance toward God,” they could have welcomed the Parents who are the brothers’ hope. This was the work Cain ought to have accomplished.
In order for Cain to carry out the mission of a pioneer, he must, as the elder brother, stand in place of the Parents and in God’s place and teach the direction by which they can become one. Here, even though suffering comes connected to it and heavenly reason goes awry, one must push this work forward from a principled position even in an environment that is contrary and not conformable to reason; so it means that though that living itself be a contradictory living, a destructive living, a constraining living, to break through it and cross over one cannot but accept adventure proportionate to it.
The partner who can directly receive the offense must be struck and go forth.
Who is that partner? It is Cain. Cain’s desire and Abel’s desire are utterly different. Then where must that desire itself be brought to conclusion? Cain’s desire is not concluded directly in Cain. It must be concluded in Abel. And Abel is made to transfer it to Cain. This is not a simple matter in the satanic world. That is because one must pass through the difficult course of the elder brother’s having to submit to the younger brother.
In thus passing through the course of indemnity, one must not go as one individual but must without fail go seeking a family grounded in the principles and rules that are equipped with content by which one can indemnify. Only when Cain and Abel are joined can one attend Heaven’s family. This is the teaching of the Principle.
The families of the Unification Church are families of the Abel-type position, but with that one family, one cannot go the course of indemnity. One must find Cain and return. One must find not one family only but three or more Cain-type families. This is to resolve the han of the three ages.
Finding and establishing the three sons and daughters of faith that our church presents today too is something we cannot but resolve as a matter of destiny and cross over. That is not achieved from a position of conforming to the environment.
You must know the fact that until one forms a national sphere, one can play a guiding role only by without fail passing through a pioneer’s course in which struggle and suffering are compounded.
Then what must one do to attend the heavenly Parents and welcome one day of glory? It must not end as one tribe called the unification tribe. One cannot but be equipped with some form of tribe standing in a Cain-type position that can accompany here.
The Cross Those Who Stand in Abel’s Position Must Bear
Then of whom does one speak when one says a tribe is standing in such a Cain-type position?
Who indeed is the band in a position like an elder brother who can be close to the Unification Church today? It means they are none other than the members of the established churches. It means it is not Christianity, which in the historical process until now has borne the mission of struggle and borne the responsibility of a sacrificial priest or has scattered blood and become a sacrificial offering in the Cain-type position.
Therefore, we who are in the Abel-type position cannot go by ourselves alone. To go on being equipped as a body, or a denomination, that God wishes for, one cannot go without bringing the Cain-type denomination to a conclusion in the Abel-type position. For that, one must present the content of indemnity; they must cross over and teach them the method of setting up those conditions. Such a responsibility lies with the Unification Church.
We who stand in the Abel-type position must set them in a relative position and, by making the Cain-type denomination come forth into the Abel-type position, sustain for them a position where they can be recognized before God. For that, one must do the work of presenting conditions of indemnity to the Cain-type denomination, which does not recognize the Abel-type denomination.
You must know the fact that without doing this work, one cannot block even one of the Cain-type denominations. This is precisely the wretchedness of those who stand in the Abel-type position charged with the history of restoration, and their grief, and their solitude, and their sorrow.
Jesus too, with the people and nation of Israel before him, could not but stand in a position of groping for a road by which he could find and establish that Cain-type nation and Cain-type world as an Abel-type nation and world. For that, he first had to have an Abel-type family from an Abel-type individual and had to have an Abel-type clan from an Abel-type family and had to have an Abel-type nation from an Abel-type clan. You must know what Jesus’ heart (심정) must have been as he had to gaze upon the Cain-type nation and world while thinking of such things.
What was it that Jesus, who from such a position clearly felt that the Cain-type world was necessary, wished for even while being wretchedly nailed to the cross by the enemy?
It was to connect the people of Israel before God in the Abel-type position. You must know the heart (심정) of Jesus, who could not but pray such a prayer, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). This is the course of the cross borne by those who stand in Abel’s position, who are anxious for the world.
Then what is the work the Unification Church must do at the present point in time today?
Since the Unification Church as one denomination has stood in the position of an Abel-type denomination, it is the work of gathering the Cain-type denomination and becoming one. One must await it thus: “O God! Now let our two brothers accomplish the wish we have awaited.
Let God be present upon this earth and achieve liberation for all people. Achieve goodness upon this earth and behold one day of happiness, and achieve the heavenly kingdom on earth.” This is the Father’s wish, who has conducted the providence with His Will set upon Christianity until now.
This wish is not achieved by Christianity alone. One must without fail pass through an Abel-type individual, an Abel-type family, an Abel-type body, an Abel-type denomination, and an Abel-type nation. For that we must welcome One who will come shouldering the mission of Abel representative in history. This is the Messiah thought. Because through this Messiah the Cain-type world can be connected to a new Abel-type world, countless peoples have come forth awaiting the Messiah until today.
The Abel-type world has a great responsibility of having to turn over and liberate the Cain-type world that lies behind. To put it another way, it means that unless the person who knows the road he must go indemnifies for them, there is no way to restore to the original road. It is impossible to say that one restores oneself through indemnity from a position of not knowing. That is because at the same time as Satan’s noose is placed upon one, one is entangled in chains, so there is no way to extricate oneself.
From this position, you must know the fact that today the Abel-type denomination or the Abel-type nation must present a liberation movement toward the Cain-type denomination and nation.
Unless such a thing unfolds, crossing beyond the national sphere, even though hundreds of millions of ages pass, one cannot welcome one day of victory in the history of restoration.
If One Would Become a Family, God Can Bless
Seen from this viewpoint, if there be a Blessed Family called by Heaven before such a mission today, where is the place this family must make its stage? It is not the environment in which one is presently placed or the family of a regional leader of some region in the nation. It must not end as a family that has taken over that region but must stand as a family that can represent the Republic of Korea is the minimum crisis road an Abel-type family must cross over.
You must know that if you cannot prepare a starting point of a family that can stand upon a national foundation, a heavenly misfortune dwells in which one cannot restore the worldwide Cain nations.
We must not be discouraged upon gazing at the inner and outer wretchedness unfolding worldwide. Night and day we must think about how we shall break through our wretchedness and the road of suffering in which we are driven and chased. We must pledge an inner resolve and prepare to fit the time. Only then can God, too, hold expectations, and can one stand in a position of hope.
When we reflect upon ourselves, who have come seeking from the sixties until this place today, setting out such a standard, and look back upon our position as heads of households, ourselves cannot but be a figure so shameful that you do not know where to put yourselves. It means, as a Blessed Family, have husband and wife stood in a position, centering on love for each other, of pursuing the family’s responsibility grounded in the Will as a family of hope that God awaited for six thousand years? When it is not so, one must coolly criticize oneself. And thus, one must discover one’s own self that has lost the framework of the family and gather the original framework of the family that one must hold. That is the responsibility a Blessed Family must carry out.
Today we are planning new work upon welcoming the year 1970. What must be newly established from now on is not something centered on some particular individual. You must know that what must be commended in the new historical age is not the individual but the family. It means a family that can represent history, a family that can represent the age. That family must be a family of which God can say it is properly worthy of love even if one sets it forth before countless clans and countless peoples and countless nations.
You must know clearly that God’s blessing is upon such a family, a family in which one husband and wife together can guide their children in a proper position.
But such a family cannot be achieved alone. That is an inevitable fact. Even though one acknowledges oneself as an Abel-type family, without leading Cain-type children, one cannot attend the Parents in an eternal resting place. That is the teaching of the Principle. To put it another way, it means that by Abel’s restoring Cain, the two brothers must become a figure that can attend to the Parents from the same position and be equipped with a bond of loyalty and filial piety centering on those Parents. It is the Principle that without standing in such a position, one cannot restore Adam and Eve.
Whom did you lose in the historical age? You lost Adam and lost Jesus, and just as the physical environment was invaded in Jesus’ age, you lost the external field.
Because you lost the final historic Cain type, you must stand in a position where you can meet them again and say you will let them receive the Blessing not from an individual position but from a family position. Only by becoming such an individual is Abel as an individual settled, and only by becoming such a family is an Abel-type family settled.
Thinking that this problem is a grave starting point and grave content that can settle your life and death, you must once again reflect seriously. A road followed only in words, a truth accepted only in thought, has no relation whatever to God.
What Remains Now Is Only Action
If we ask what world the spiritual world is like, it is like the world of the mind. It is a world into which the facts of the mind are transferred just as they are. Because it is such a world, if one is pricked in conscience, one is made to be caught exactly in the spiritual world. There is no way to unravel it. Because those relative requisites are bound through us and the starting point of the cause lies with oneself, it means there is no way to unravel it.
All of you! Is there anyone who, while being loyal to the Will in mind, agonizes because he cannot be loyal in actual action?
You must know that for the Will, rather than agonizing so, transferring this into one’s own action, even at the cost of collapsing and dying in the street, is rather the road to life and the road by which one can be liberated.
Until today, the bands that followed the Unification Church have been countless. They said, “Whatever happens, I at least will not betray the Unification Church.” But even though one is a Unification Church member, it will not do with the mind alone. The Unification Church does not desire a person who believes only in the mind. Why? The world of the mind is a world that has existed from long ago. In the mind, God is already present as the center without your knowing it. It has become a problem not because there has been no center of mind until now, but because one has not formed a foundation on which substantial content can be brought to fruition.
To restore this, the price of every misfortune has been paid in the course of history, and this was precisely the providential history of restoration through offerings of indemnity. That is why it absolutely will not do with mind alone. Action is necessary before the mind.
Then why could God, who is charged with the history of restoration, not teach the resultant facts in teaching countless forebears centering on the Bible?
It is not because He did not know. It is not because He could not think of it. Though He thought of it ten million times and knew it ten million times, He could not teach it because the human being was not at a standard where that could be. If this is settled, transferring what is settled into action becomes the factor that brings the Providence of Restoration to accomplishment. But you must know the fact that until now the Bible leaves this as an unknown fact.
Now only action remains. If an individual, there remains action one must do as an individual; if a family, there remains action one must do as a family. Then where is the starting point that action can support? It is not a place where an individual or a family can rest. It is a position of making a settling point for the people, a position of coming forth, making a place where the people can settle. Here, even though one pays the greatest price of sacrifice, even though one's family is sacrificed, the question is how one forms one's Abel-type people and nation that can settle within the world sphere.
Let Us Reflect upon Past Days and Fulfill Our Historic Responsibility
If one becomes a citizen of a nation with sovereignty, one can receive protection of life and property from other nations. But a people without a nation becomes a pitiful people that cannot even receive protection.
We must save the people who have lost the original nation. When we gaze upon the world today, the road we must go is only the one road of having to return to the original nation. For that, one must first hold a will toward the original nation and must hold patriotism toward the original nation.
To enter the original nation, one must go seeking the land of the original home. Before finding the land of the original home, one cannot find the nation of the original home.
If one were in a position of going seeking the original home, one must long for the Parents who are in the original home and must become a filial son. A person who lives in harmony among brothers is a person who is filial before the parents. Among Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, there are the words, “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”
One cannot return alone to the land of the original home. Even supposing one returned alone, one must not become like the elder brother who welcomed the prodigal son in the Bible.
If one cannot hold a mind that can return every blessing to the younger brother who returns, with a value beyond that of the elder brother, one cannot become a filial son who can remain eternally before the parents’ minds. It means that the elder brother, who lived at home together with the parents, must in the true sense fulfill Abel’s responsibility.
When we think from such a position, we are a citizenry without a nation. We are a citizenry that has not trodden the land of its hometown. We are a band of wanderers (집시) who, when the west grows dark, go toward the brightly dawning east, and when the east grows dark, go toward the west. It means we are not the band of wanderers who cannot escape such a course of misfortune, having to decide matters according to the environment, precisely the band of the Unification Church?
But that the bands of the Unification Church, who were like wanderers, have today dropped anchor upon the three-thousand-li peninsula and come to have one family is a departure for welcoming the day of glory.
How much must God have awaited for this framework of the family to be widened and one clan organized?
The fact that this work goes on being accomplished through us who are bound in relationship with God cannot but be a tremendous and serious matter. You must know that this position is a position where a solemnity and a delight greater than the misfortune of the cross on which Jesus died and greater than God’s joy at gazing upon Jesus’ resurrection can intersect.
How much have you lived while forgetting that your selves hold such infinite value? It means, how much have you forgotten that your selves must become the framework of God’s hope and become the specimen of history, and become the standard of resurrection and carry out the mission of a forerunner of the age? We must be pierced with regret over having lived such a life. And thus we must be equipped with an explosive power that can collide once again, holding indignation over the fact that we forgot. By devoting sincerity to denying one’s own self of the past and establishing an affirmative self toward tomorrow, one must be able to fulfill loyalty toward the nation and fulfill filial piety toward the Parents.
You must know the fact that we cannot but bear a historic responsibility of having to stimulate the world while crying out toward the thirty million people and the confused world that this road is the only road by which one can be resurrected. The responsibility of having to lead the nation in a new direction lies with us. But it will not do if it ends with merely knowing. You will know that better.
Then what is the concluding word that must be urged upon you from now on? It is that one must once again carry out the mission of a pioneer as a forerunner. You must know the fact that here, because suffering is proportionate to that mission, without confidence and conviction that can overcome it, one cannot bear this road.
When the Apostle Paul went about witnessing throughout the region of Asia Minor, many problems accompanied by death collided with him. His clan threatened him, and the Gentiles threatened him, and the enemies threatened him, but the Apostle Paul went forward knowing that danger was the responsibility of a forerunner and the mission of a pioneer that he ought properly to receive. In his short course of life, he walked a pioneering course under the single thought of welcoming every historic course of suffering and rallying and indemnifying it.
When we think that through him a framework was prepared by which Christianity was established, you are not in a position that can be compared with the Apostle Paul.
The Apostle Paul did not know what the Blessing is. He did not know either what becoming Heaven’s blood kin is. He was not in a position of knowing the overall content we know. He came forth doing so for one single thing, for his own individual salvation.
But you today have beloved children and a beloved wife. You have already been established in such a tremendous position where, in a restored world in which you can liberate them and they can rest, you can prepare an eternal and unchanging framework of happiness while attending God.
Furthermore, you have been established in a position where you can go that road, and you already know the road you go. While being in such a position, if you fail to bear responsibility, to whom will you make excuses, and where can you flee? You must think about such a problem.
When we think from the position of the district leaders or regional leaders gathered here, it is not that one bears responsibility as one individual as a district leader or regional leader, but that one must bear responsibility as a family. The age of individual responsibility ended with the close of the sixties. From now on, as the age of family responsibility, one must bear the responsibility of finding and establishing Cain-type families centering on an Abel-type family. You must know clearly the fact that, otherwise, the family cannot be restored.
Then when we look centering on the Teacher, what kind of family must your family become together with the Teacher’s family? Such a problem cannot help but be a problem that must be gathered from now on.
One Must Become One with the Teacher’s Family and Establish the Tradition
What is it the Teacher prays before God today?
Setting out the problem of the seven-hundred-couple blessings, there is something the Teacher must resolve and cross over, and that is the problem of settling accounts for what the Blessed Families until now have done wrong. Before the road of unification a family must go, one must settle the blemishes left by the 36 Families if the 36 Families. That became a history of Heaven’s misfortune. I must repent of that before the Father.
Furthermore, one must repent more than for those who, as the 72 Families and the 124 Families, wrecked the bond of Heaven’s Blessing and left a blemish in history, or who defiled the holy name of the Blessing proclaimed before heaven and earth by joining the Teacher’s sincerity and Heaven’s fortune.
Even though there were many who passed through the Unification Church, who fell away, or who made mistakes, that responsibility must be borne by me. That is because, if one were to go this road, it would not do with such a figure.
What is God’s wish?
It is that we, welcoming the seventies, achieve an eternal family. It is to establish the law of Blessed Families and set that form right. You must know that now is the time.
Moreover, the 36 Families, 72 Families, and 124 Families, as families that must bear a vertical bond, hold content over which many families cannot but repent before God.
You have until now lived from a position of forgetting the Teacher, centering only on your families. It means you have formed no relationship whatever with the Teacher’s family. But now one must settle accounts cleanly with all such past affairs and stand in a position where one can go ahead anew into the seventies.
If the people who are in the positions of Cain and Abel had become one, what the Teacher pursues would have been equipped with an Abel-type family from an automatic rather than a compulsory position. But the question is how many Abel-type families equipped with such a form there are.
The Teacher is going down a road of sacrifice at the family level, having set you up. If among the Blessed Families until now only three or more such families remain, one can bring the history of indemnity to a conclusion. The Teacher has fought until now with such a purpose.
Then when will you attend the Teacher’s family as an Abel-type family and become one, and at the same time your sons and daughters be able to become one with the Teacher’s children? This cannot but be a problem.
For that, one must give Heaven’s education. In teaching, you must first become a model. It means one must first become a filial son. Only when you yourselves first become filial sons and filial daughters according to Heaven’s law is the traditional bond of Heaven’s filial piety established from there.
You must, from that position, teach your sons and daughters the duty by which they can become loyal subjects before the Will for the heavenly kingdom. If it be the Republic of Korea, when the sons and daughters weep for the Republic of Korea, one must become a parent who can take them by the hand and, holding back tears, teach them that you are a citizenry without a nation, that this Republic of Korea in which you live is not your true nation, that there is one nation that must be attended to again. It means one must educate from a position where one can shed tears while feeling Heaven’s anxiety together, just as one feels the breathing of a baby held in one’s bosom. Only then will the breadth of education increase as a parent who has left han behind.
One must teach that just as the father is filial in the family, you too must be filial, and just as the father has woven a history of struggle while being driven for that nation, you too must become a loyal subject. I have made it my lifelong goal until now to consider how I shall leave this before you.
That is, though among you there may be people who criticize the Teacher about this and that, you will have felt deeply that God too will acknowledge as a filial son the Teacher, who lives for the Will. What you have felt must be established intact as a traditional thought. And thus, one must set up a standard by which one can stand in the position of a loyal subject for that nation.
The Road We Must Go Is the Only Road
But I well know the fact that if, while admiring that thought, one cannot set up a goal individually in one’s own family and cannot stand in the position of a loyal subject before the nation and cannot stand in the position of filial piety before Heaven, the history of restoration cannot advance. That is why you must know that the teacher whom you follow forth cannot lead an individual life.
You cannot but pray a decisive prayer before Heaven centering on filial piety. You must become people who go forth bearing responsibility for such a position.
You who are connected centering on Heaven’s bond ought properly to become one subject, and must be in a sphere of destiny in which, if one side hurts, one hurts together, and if one is grieved, one grieves together, and if one is glad, one is glad together. Then do you think that you and I have indeed become companions in the aspect of heart (심정) transcending any environment or age?
All of you, now it is not that we need the Republic of Korea, but that the Republic of Korea will need us. Then what is it that the nation we hope for hereafter will need? First, one must gather Cain and gather the Cain-type family and must gather the Cain-type denomination, the Cain-type nation, the Cain-type world.
This has remained an unknown course until now. Knowing that the mission of pioneering this lies with you, you must fight on, staking your lives and offering up your lifetime to fulfill this mission.
You must know the fact that if perhaps this cannot be done in one’s own generation, unless one has it settled by leaving it even as an inheritance and crosses over, one cannot stand in a position of saying one has resolved the han and accomplished it. The road we must go on is only this one road.
What would be a sorrowful thing?
It is not something to grieve over because one’s wife has died. If it be for saving a collapsing nation, one must be able to set one’s own wife in a place of death. One must be able to sacrifice even one’s own husband and one’s own child. This is serving. It means the forerunners who came forth establishing the Will in the long course of history served in that way.
They came forth, taking the lead in this way, holding the goal of “individual salvation.” So it means that we, who hold “family salvation” as our goal, cannot go this road without holding a mind that can give thanks even though one bears the cross several tens of times. You must know that.
In carrying out the responsibility entrusted to you as one individual being, needless to say, the responsibility is toward the people, but one must first carry out the responsibility toward the family. When we see at this point that our Unification Church today has prepared a firm framework representing the family and achieved a privileged authority, the conviction that one will go on achieving people-level liberation with this family as the ground cannot but be goodness among goodnesses.
Then how shall one achieve the family’s victory?
As an Abel-type family, one must fulfill responsibility toward the Cain-type family. And thus, when the Cain-type families come to feel the fact that they were saved from a place of death (사지 死地), the Cain-type families can at last be eternally bound before the Abel-type family. Through their standing in a liberated position through us, God can, according to the providential principle, settle the form of a restored people, a restored nation.
Now we, in forming a unified people from a unified tribe, must go on achieving inwardly and outwardly the work of restoring the Cain-type denomination and forming one religious form in the Republic of Korea. From the position of an Abel-type denomination, or from the position of an Abel-type brother, one must restore the thirty million people who are the national Cain. And thus, on the day this ends, one must be equipped with a direction worldwide and stand in a position of leading the world. You must know that this is the road we must go on today.
Because such a road has not yet been equipped, there remains for you a mission that must be completed as a family, and there remains a grave mission that must be completed as a clan.
Even though you failed to carry out family-level responsibility, if you take part within the sphere of clan-level responsibility, family restoration is automatically achieved together with clan liberation.
Even though you failed in clan responsibility, when you carry out the mission of a pioneer for people-level liberation, a foundation will be established on which the clan sphere can be restored. Therefore, you must, as quickly as possible, lead these people and step forth onto the world stage to achieve world liberation.
Fulfill Your Mission for the Liberation of the Nation and the World
Today such a mission of ours must be connected all the way to the individual, family, clan, people, nation, and world. Vertical history is concentrated horizontally within this sphere of the age.
If there be a course an individual must indemnify, if that individual goes a course of indemnity for the sake of the family, even though the family perishes, that individual remains; and if that family steps forth on a worldwide course of thorns, even though the nation perishes, the family remains. From such a viewpoint, you must hold a mind that says you will bear responsibility for a higher-dimensional problem and invest everything of yourselves and bear the mission of a pioneer.
That is why you must not think from your position. Walking too must be from a position of walking for the nation and the world, and living too, and sleeping too, and investing for the family too must be thought of as being for the liberation of the nation and the people and the world. It means that on the day one goes forth with such a resolve, the liberation of the Cosmos is a matter of time.
You must go for the nation. One must go until the nation comes seeking you. Even though it takes ten years until then, or a lifetime, or passes through several tens of generations, one must go for the nation.
If one goes from such a position, there is no doubt that that nation will be resurrected in the historical age. It means that if you sacrifice and carry out the mission of a forerunner, you can without fail go on creating a new nation.
That is why you must lead the family and go for the nation and the world. One must, having passed through the individual age, the family age, the clan age, the people age, and the national age in the Republic of Korea, take charge of a guiding role by which one can present a direction before the peoples and nations of the world upon the foundation of that experience.
Only by completing the guiding role and being able to attend to God from a position inseparable from each other can the spiritual world and the physical world become a unified world of peace.
Only then does that guide at last take his place as an eternal leader of the historical age and receive the glorious commendation of Heaven’s world. You must clearly know that this being so is an unmistakable fact.
That is why we must first carry out the mission of a pioneer. You must, even by adventuring, play a guiding role and become one with those you have guided and stand in the position of a leader in setting the standard for forming Heaven’s family and Heaven’s nation. And thus you must clearly know the fact that only by standing in a position of appearing as a patriot and meritorious subject of that nation does the history of a new world develop from there.
