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1. Everyone recognizes that the universe exists. For it to exist, energy is required. The question is whether energy or existence comes first. Without energy, there is no existence. But energy cannot exist without interaction.
Before energy, there has to be action. To initiate such action, the prerequisite condition is that there must be a subject and object partner. The undeniable truth is that energy is generated through the interaction between a subject entity and its object partner. (052-316, 1972.02.03)
All entities in the universe are in subject-object relationships
2. When we look at the world of creation, we see that the animal and plant kingdoms and even the insentient mineral world function in subject-object relationships, according to the principle of yin and yang.
Molecules have yang (plus) particles and yin (minus) particles. Scholars of this world believe that the universe is made of energy, but they state this obscurely, without an explanation of where energy comes from.
Did energy just appear all at once? Does it exist first, or does action precede energy? This is the same question as whether the chicken or the egg comes first.
Energy derives from action and manifests through a step-by-step process. Electricity does not generate energy by itself; only when positive and negative charges interact does an electric current flow. Such interaction produces power. (240-167, 1992.12.13)
3. The universe comprises energy, but before there is energy there has to be actioned. You need interaction between positive and negative charges to occur if you like to create electrical energy. We convert such energy into the light that we use by channeling it within an electric light bulb.
So, before energy there is action, and before any action, there is a relationship between subject and object entities. God created the world as an environment for human beings. In any environment, there must be subject and object partners.
Such is the law of existence, without adherence to which there would be no existence. We know there are neutrons, but even neutrons have their object partners. Although shadows disappear at noontime, they still exist. My shadow stays within the space I occupy. Everything consists of reciprocal relationships. (252-067, 1993.11.14)
4. Which do you think came first during the formation of the universe, energy, or action? Action had to be first. But nothing acts alone, so to generate action, a mutual relationship between two distinct entities is needed Give and receive action cannot begin if one side expects to lose energy.
Even though a subject partner sees it will benefit because it will be good and will add to the environment, it must give; Thus, the relationship between subject and object partners is formed. What; then, is the subject partner?
It is the one that gives first. It is responsible to protect and nurture the object partner in the relationship. That is why we must recognize that relationships between subject entities and their object partners precede any action.
(207-249, 1990.11.11)
5. What is the most mysterious thing on earth? When God began His creation, what was His first concept? It was love. Because God created with the concept of love, He created the universe so that all beings need to have an object partner of love.
That's why nothing in our environment exists without a partner. To exist, everything must be in a relationship of subject and object partners. Subject-object partnerships always connect with a larger realm; for us, this does not stay within the family level: it expands to the tribe, nation, and world.
When any entity stands as a subject partner, a corresponding object partner will appear. If one side takes a certain stance, the other side will take a supporting role. This is how the universe avoids conflict and maintains peaceful interaction and harmonious movement. (218-325, 1991.08.22)
6. Interaction produces the fundamental energy of the universe; this is like loving relationships of giving and receiving in the physical world. Thus, all entities without exception exist in subject-object partnerships – otherwise, this universe could not exist.
Since the most precious thing is love, if you cannot give or receive love when you want to, that is the saddest thing. Why did God create the universe? The simple conclusion is that He needed love. Therefore, we are born in love, live in love, and pass on in love.
From where does the supreme love come? It comes from perfect unity between subject and object partners. When no force can separate the two eternally, that is the time when the supreme love appears. Because of love, unification can occur; because of love, all life is connected; because of love, we can realize the ideal.
(048-009, 1971.08.31)
7. Power cannot force subject and object partners to interact, nor can money or knowledge. Only something that both partners appreciate can unite them; that is why we need the concept of love.
Why did God make the mineral kingdom with ions of positive and negative charges? It is so that they can interact based on love. In the plant kingdom, there are stamen and pistils.
What we didn't know is that before the flower of a plant comes to be, there is the concept of subject and object pairs. Likewise in the animal kingdom, we see male and female counterparts in species from the largest to the smallest.
(276-237, 1996.02.24)
8. Within the relationship between subject and object partners, where would God, the king of wisdom and the center of everything, place the origin of true love, true ideals, true happiness, and true peace?
This raises a serious question. Given the existence of subject partners and object partners, the issue for God the Creator is whether to base His ideal on the path of living for the subject partner or living for the object partner. Upon which would God base the ideal origin of true ideals, true love, and true peace?
Would He fix it so that the subject partner lives for the object partner or so that the object partner lives for the subject partner? If God's original ideal were such that God told His object partner to serve Him as its subject partner, then anyone in the position of a subject partner would tell their object partner to do the same. This would block the way to their unity. (075-318, 1975.01.16)
9. The world of nature has a principle of development through cycles. Let's look at this natural law, which has been existing for hundreds of millions of years. Everything exists in pairs. For example, human beings exist as men and women.
The mineral and plant kingdoms are also like this, while in the animal kingdom, there are males and females. Male and female animals have existed like this for hundreds of millions of years. Within this system is the concept of love, although it exists in different dimensions.
Such is the central principle in the world of nature, which ensures the continuation of the bloodline based on love. In the same way, human beings exist as men and women.
The unchanging law is that through love they can leave descendants who are better than them. This is an unchangeable principle. No one can invade it. No one can change it. (189-256, 1989.05.01)
The pair system is a principle of existence in the universe
10. All things of creation, including the mineral and plant kingdoms, came into existence through a relationship between a subject partner and an object partner based on love.
Thus, love is the ideal common denominator in relationships. Since all things of creation are resultant beings, they cannot come to exist without a cause. We call the causal being “God.” In the realm of love where God is the center, everything exists within the pair system.
Even in the mineral world, everything exists through relationships of subject and object partners. This is the same in the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms and the human world. (173-036, 1988.02.01)
11. The whole universe consists of plus and minus. For example, molecules are made of positive and negative particles that, like everything else, exist in complementary relationships. Atoms contain protons and electrons. Reciprocity of this type is fundamental to the composition of the universe.
Within the plant kingdom, there are relationships between stamen and pistil, while the animal kingdom has male and female animals and people relate as men and women; everything is accomplished with a reciprocal partner.
Because all things were created to have a partner, everything eventually should form one united system. Since God is the subject partner of the universe, everything should function with God at the center.
Unless the realm of reciprocal relationships achieves oneness with God's purpose of creation, God cannot experience joy. (247-184, 1993.05.09)
12. God created all beings in the universe for the perfection of human beings. To create such perfect beings, He created everything – including each cell – to exist in pairs. Because everything contains and supplies nutritional elements to the bodies of men and women, it is all necessary; it is all medicinal.
Just because there are a lot of them, we shouldn't disdain dandelions growing along the road. Since they are individual embodiments of truth in their own right, dandelions will spread their families for tens of millions of years for their purpose without their species ever-changing. No matter what changes may occur in human history, dandelions will continue to exist and spread, unchanged, as dandelions. (381-224, 2002.06.14)
13. All the world of creation is connected in a pair system. The mineral world and everything else function in plus and minus relationships. On Earth, we can see the plus-minus action of a magnet, which is stronger than Earth's gravity. All elements function in the same way.
The movement of consciousness occurs through the current that flows due to the interaction between plus and minus. At the center of this pair system is an axis that connects the partners and protects them; that axis is nothing apart from love.
So the elements in the mineral world unite with their counterparts of their accord. If they had no common standard, there would be no way for them to unite, even if God ordered them to.
Without such counterpart relationships, even if some scientist spent a thousand years in a laboratory ordering entities to unite, they would not listen to him.
(197-165, 1990.01.13)
14. You need to create your environmental realm. God created the sun, earth, air, and water as components of the environment. There always needs to be subject and object partners within that environment.
This is the formula. Since all created beings exist within a pair system, this is true for environments within the mineral, animal, and human worlds. Why are they made up of subject and object partners?
It is for the perfection of true love. Without a subject partner, we cannot reach perfection based on love. This is the formula. Not knowing it, none of our ancestors attained perfection. (293-225, 1998.05.26)
15. Look at this world and the universe. In the mineral world, there are positive and negative particles; the plant environment includes relationships between stamen and pistil, while the animal kingdom has male and female animals. We now have evidence of male and female bacteria.
Everything in creation is meant to reach unity on its level, based on love. Through observation, we know that the universe is based on the pair system. Thus, when the ideal love of man and woman, who represent heaven and earth, comes together, the rest of the creation can connect and unite.
Just as the foundation needs to be laid before a house can be built, God created everything within the pair system for the sake of humankind. You may have noticed that among animals when the male and female are roaming around together and the female is attacked, the male will protect her to death.
After giving birth, the pair will risk their lives for their young. Such is the way of love. It is because this is the nature of the original root. (222-123, 1991.10.27)
16. When you enter the deepest level of true love, you can communicate with all the creation. You can communicate even with the rocks and the plants. In the world of true love, all things can communicate with one another.
This is because everything that was created according to the pair system lives for the sake of uniting under God's love, and such true love resonates. When you are within the realm of true love, you can experience God's internal and external worlds.
As such, you can naturally get to know, without being taught, about the spirit world and God, and about how to attend to your parents and your nation's king during your earthly life. Love does not choose its avenues carelessly. It has its formula. There is, but one path love takes, and no other. (238-031, 1992.11.19)
17. Who teaches about love? The natural world is our teacher. The animals that run about in the hills are male and female, as are the butterflies; everything exists in a system of pairs.
When the flowers bloom, the twittering and chirping of birds can be heard in the beautiful hills. For what purpose do the male and female birds sing? There are three reasons they do so.
One is to express hunger, another is to express love and the last is to call to their young. They are singing because of love. (208-253, 1990.11.20)
18. On the path of true love, everything becomes one automatically. All entities in creation, no matter how small, are made in pairs. Even after thousands of years, the pair system will remain unchanged. No created being can change the design concept of the pair system. It is eternal.
All the phenomena surrounding us teach this. The original, unfallen creation teaches us this fact. Trees, for instance, never stop growing they never rest. All living things grow continuously, day and night, throughout the four seasons. All things of the created world follow that original path. (386-179, 2002.07.17)
Aspects of existence and the principles of action and interaction
19. Why is it that the act of giving leads to prosperity and growth? It is because this act is in line with the original principle of God's creation. God created not by taking but by giving.
When we give, everything increases. When we change our attitude to one of giving, then everything will increase. When we receive it again and again, we are diminished.
Why is this? It is because when we go along with the principles of God's creation, the universe supports us. The whole universe supports us!(183-324, 1988.11.09)
20. Everything in the universe needs energy to exist. However, energy doesn't arise by itself. For energy to exist there has to be constant action. Only constant action creates energy. In other words, for energy to exist, action is required.
And if this energy comes into existence through action, then how is this action maintained? Since nothing acts on its own, there must be subject and object partners; this is an ironclad principle.
Subject and object partners don't interact to remain as they are; rather they interact to advance to a higher level. This is the principle. (055-253 1972.05.09)
21. All things must have a dual structure to exist. When God creates, He acts for the sake of others based on His deep love, and invests again and again, forgetting how much He has invested. This reveals the core of our great universe.
For example, the solar system and the countless heavenly bodies in the universe are round Everything moves about a central nucleus. Love is the same. Love for humankind emanates from the realm of God's heart and serves as the axis of the entire universe.
It has moved history continuously toward God's perfection and the completion of His ideal of creation. You will see that it is the same in the spirit world. All existence consists of subject-object partnerships in an atmosphere of love.
(218-266, 1991.08.19)
22. To develop, we always have to seek to reach a position better than our present one. The action occurs only when something can be added; if the result detracts, the action doesn't occur. Only when two become one does development ensue. When there is no unity, there is no development.
This is an ironclad principle of the universe. Unity comes only when both partners find that their value will increase. If it were a principle that interaction leading to a minus brought unity, this world would disappear.
If the principles of logic were based on a rule that things unite by becoming smaller, the whole world would regress. If there were such a principle in the world, even if one side of the world were to develop, the other side would decline. There is no such law. (055-252, 1972.05.09)
23. Subject and object partners interact only when their action will lead to something better; otherwise, they will not interact. This is an ironclad principle of the universe. In a chemistry lab, you can never force certain elements to bind with certain others.
If you tried it, the result would be negative. The elements know that their interaction would detract from both, so they do not interact. God will not even let them relate with one another. That is a principle. There are some elements, however, that naturally relate to one another without hesitation.
They know that their interaction will always form something bigger and better. They engage with one another because they are in a position to add something. So, no matter how much you try to prevent it, they will interact. This is the principle according to which this universe was created. (055-254, 1972.05.09)
24. In atoms, electrons surround the protons. Protons and electrons interact because their purposes harmonize in forming an atom. Their purposes cause them to unite. God too is an existent being, albeit on a higher level.
Existence means that He also has to be a real being of substance. To exist eternally, He too must have internal subject partner and object partner characteristics with dual purposes perfectly harmonized. What does this mean?
Overall, it means that God exists as the harmonization of the characteristics of a subject partner and an object partner. (052-317, 1972.02.03)
25. If all subject and object partners are completely united in eternal love, the universe is responsible for protecting them eternally. If any third force tries to destroy them, the force of the universe will remove it.
This represents the principle of existence of the entire visible world The principle is the same everywhere, including the world of love, the spirit world, and the current reality of our world on earth.
This universal principle functions everywhere. This is why we have to live according to the Principle. (139-193, 1986.01.31)
26. It is difficult for the created begins to harmonize on a straight horizontal line. A line is something that connects two points. There is no harmony in a straight line because, on a straight line, the farther things move, the farther apart they become. They will never come back together.
That is why the starting point of this world and the universe was not a straight line. It is great to have three starting points; When you go around three points, you create a sphere. From the status of moving along a straight line, how could entities have found the three-point basis for a sphere?
Moving in one line, they cannot do this. We have to acknowledge a third power's intervention. Thus, we find the logic behind the existence of God. The origin of creation surely must have begun with either giving or receiving action.
Which one do you think came first? If at first, God's action had been to receive, the whole universe would have come to attach itself to God. There would have been nothing but God. If He had intended just to receive, nothing else ever would have existed. (240-298, 1992.12.13)
27. How did motion begin in the universe? There can be no motion in a straight line. A straight line connects two points but brings nothing into harmony. The harmony of creation begins with a third point.
From that third point, a curve is formed through which a circle is created. When circular motion begins, going through these three points, they are connected. Does this movement begin with a pushing or pulling action?
Unless you resolve this question, you cannot resolve the fundamental questions of the universe. The movement begins with pushing. Which is easier? Pushing is easier. Pulling requires twice the energy, so it would not make sense to start there. Therefore, investment begins with us pushing. (239-059, 1992.11.23)
28. The world is round. The moon and the sun are round. The atomic world and the molecular world both have rounded features, but they could not have become that way on their own. Nothing certainly rounds off itself.
The interaction between any subject and object partner demonstrates real and smooth harmony and has to be circular. All existing beings need this realm of the ideal. Because they try to interact and create a relationship, they naturally become rounded. What kind of people are well-rounded?
They are people who do not collide with anything, regardless of which direction they take. No matter how much they are pushed down, they do not resist but pop up somewhere else without altering their essential character. (164-077, 1987.04.26)
29. In the universe, even the air wants to embrace something round, not something with corners. Nature embraces that which is round. This is the ideal shape, which wastes nothing. What is the original reason for this?
The rounder something is, the longer it lasts. The less rounded something is, the more friction and waste occur. That is why people appreciate that which is round.
When we say something harmonious, it means it does not have sharp edges but is spherical. It is the same with our eyes, nose, mouth, and every part of our body; they are all rounded. (145-184, 1986.05.04)
30. When we look at the world, we see that everything follows the principle of revolving. If energy moves in a straight line, it is constantly dissipated. The first principle God employed to create the world was to utilize the energy emitted in a straight line and make it revolve.
Therefore, the principle of the world is the principle of revolving. At the same time, it's the principle of motion. When you study chemistry, you research and analyze materials and observe the phenomena of their motion and action.
You come to know that nothing goes against the principle of revolving. Everything is turning 360 degrees. The universe revolves, society revolves, and our mind also revolves.
If anyone knew how to revolve around the heart of God, who is the center of the universe, that person naturally would revolve when God revolves. As long as God revolves, the universe will revolve. When God revolves, we revolve and all creation revolves as well. (005-028, 1958.11.09)
Sun Myung Moon