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1. When God created heaven and earth, He did so with absolute faith and absolute love, based on the absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal ideal. As God spoke, everything came into being. It was all by what God said. Everything was one with God based on absolute faith.
The reason God created was to find the partners whom He desired. The invisible God, the God without form, wanted partners of love who would be His visible manifestations, and having form they would be His representatives in the world of form. God would have become embodied in them.
This was God's first purpose of creation. It is the same about the spirit world. Although God is incorporeal, God can become the Father and King in the spirit world as well, once His ideal of creation is fulfilled through human beings with form, Adam and Eve.
That will occur when Adam and Eve, who have bodies, and their sons and daughters, who have bodies, come to the spirit world. It would be impossible for God to do this without assuming form.
Then, what form would that be? God's face will be none other than the faces of Adam and Eve, who will have reached perfection and become one in conjugal union after receiving God's Blessing. Adam and Eve are the partners of God's love. (286-015, 1997.07.01)
The creation of human beings as the object partners of God's joy
2. God's purpose of creation is joy. He created human beings and the world so He could feel joy.
Yet joy is not something you can feel alone. To experience joy, you need an object partner; there must be a pair. When beings establish a reciprocal base and then begin giving and receiving as subject and object partners, they can feel joy.
The greatest joy comes from a reciprocal relationship based on love. That is why God created human beings to become His object partners. He wanted to feel eternal joy by giving and receiving love endlessly with them as His object partners. That was His purpose of creation.
To realize this purpose of creation, God created Adam and Eve. Suppose Adam and Eve had become God's perfect object partners with whom He could rejoice in a reciprocal relationship of love, and then had multiplied children of goodness. They would have made a family of goodness and then expanded into a society of goodness.
That society would have developed into a nation of goodness, and that nation would have developed into a world of goodness populated with Adam's family and relatives. It would have been a world of joy, where God's goodness and love were fulfilled. (100-241, 1978.10.19)
3. God can work as Father and Mother after He enters into the dwelling place of Adam and Eve, which He can do because He does not have form. Thus, the reason God created heaven and earth is to love, through human beings as His incarnations. God had three purposes for creating human beings.
The first was to experience love. The second was to assume a body. The third was to become the Father of humankind. (102-189, 1978.12.24)
4. God created all things of creation in the cosmos and put human beings in the position to have dominion over them. This gave Him great hope. He looked upon Adam and Eve as the personifications of that hope, based on His purpose for the creation.
After Adam and Eve had grown to maturity, God intended to dwell within them. He wanted to enter their minds. Not only that, He wanted to establish residence in the deepest part of their hearts. His purpose in creating human beings was to plant His heart in the deepest part of their hearts. (11-090, 1961.02.12)
5. Originally, the first human ancestors should have become completely one with God based on His heart and love. God created the cosmos to complete His purpose of heart. Hence, centering on love, He has to bequeath all the creation to the objects of His heart – His beloved son and daughter, Adam and Eve.
God created all the things of creation not for Himself but for Adam and Eve. Thus, His joy arises not from Himself but through Adam and Eve. Parents in the world rejoice when they see that their children are happy. In the same way, God's joy would arise from the joy of His object partners. (15-244, 1965.10.17)
6. God did not create Adam and Eve just to look at them. He wanted to experience joy.
Experiencing joy comes from love. So the starting point of creation is love. The starting point of all existence is love. It is from God's love that human beings came into existence; not only human beings but also all animals came into existence from God's love.
All living things were given life because of God's love. If human beings have nothing with which to reciprocate with God, if they do not enthusiastically chime in and jump on board, they cannot be true partners of love with the absolute God. (48-220, 1971.09.19)
7. God is the First Cause of the universe and the Creator of everything under the sun. He is also the beloved Father of humankind. He made everything in the creation to fulfill His special Will and purpose, the realization of love.
God is the origin of true love. Yet despite God's omnipotence, He cannot feel the joy of love by Himself. He needs an objective partner to love and wants to receive love freely in return. That would be from His partners, and for this, He created man and woman in the highest position.
This is the reason our lives have a purpose. That purpose requires us to attain maturity and establish a relationship of eternal true love with God. This is the fundamental Principle, through which we can find peace with God.
(166-131, 1972.06.01)
8. In whom is the purpose of creation fulfilled, and through whom does God's Will bear fruit? It is surely through perfected human beings – perfected Adam and Eve – and the mutual relationship they would have with God. Hence, the purpose of creation is realized when Adam and Eve reach perfection.
When Adam and Eve reach perfection, the four-position foundation can be realized. That is the Principle. The purpose of creation is fulfilled when God, Adam, and Eve complete the four-position foundation.
Hence, God's Will is not only for God Himself; human beings need it as well. In the end, everything depends on Adam and Eve and whether they perfect themselves according to God's Will.
The fulfillment of the Will starts there. Hence, the Will cannot be separated from human beings perfecting themselves as individuals. (091-268, 1977.02.27)
9. The ideal world of creation is the ideal loving family. In that family, there is oneness between God and His son and daughter, Adam and Eve, and when Adam and Eve become parents, there is oneness between them and their children – all centered on God's love.
Therefore, in the ideal world of creation, firstly, there should be God. Then there should be true sons and daughters who are centered on God's love. Next, there should be true husbands and wives. Finally, there should emerge true parents who bear true sons and daughters.
We need to recover all these different types of love relationships to enter the ideal world of creation. Otherwise, we cannot enter there. We ought to be born amid God's love, perfect ourselves amid God's love, and become husband and wife amid God's love. Thereafter, we ought to have sons and daughters amid God's love.
(80-269, 1975.11.02)
Loyalty and filial piety as duties to God
10. There is no one on earth, from the individual to all humankind, who does not desire to be good. That is why people throughout history and to this day have been aspiring to goodness. Educators and people of faith have endeavored to establish the standard of goodness.
Therefore, when we are born, we should be born for goodness, when we live we should live for goodness, and when we die we should die for goodness. This is the purpose of our life. It is not only the purpose of our life; it is also the purpose of history, which is entwined with the life of every human being. (24-013, 1969.06.22)
11. It may be important to live in affluence and to become somebody significant. However, more than anything else, we need to fulfill our duty of filial piety and loyalty to our vertical Heavenly Parent.
We need to surpass the saints in our devotion to God. This is how human beings can begin to fulfill their original purpose. Further, God created us so that He could meet such people. We have such a purpose to fulfill.
After fulfilling it, we should become filial children to our natural parents. We have to become one with them and live with them. (58-231, 1972.06.11)
12. When people feel good, they want to share their joy with their parents, siblings, and relatives.
Feeling good is happiness. Happiness is eternal, and what makes it eternal is the heart of love. The center of the universe is the Parent-child relationship between God and me. God is my Father and I am His son.
My ultimate purpose in life is to feel the infinite joy that comes from finding our Father and forming an inseparable relationship with Him. (12-104, 1962.12.16)
13. What is the greatest hope of humankind?
The biblical passage that states, "And now, faith, hope, and love abide, but the greatest of these is love," is so true. (I Cor. 13:13)
Yet people do not fully understand the content of this message. You need to understand clearly that the universe protects and nurtures what is good, and that freedom, liberation,n and peace abide there. That is because where there is devotion, it creates the power of attraction. (16-133, 1966.01.02)
14. What should be our purpose as human beings? Rather than pursuing one's purpose as an individual, the purpose of one's family or social organization, the purpose of one's nation or of the world, or even that of heaven and earth, we should move forward toward God and the goal and purpose we share in common with Him. What is the purpose that will remain in the end?
Purposes that are merely for the individual, family, society, nation, or world will surely pass away. At the very end, after everything else is gone, what will endure is the purpose pursued jointly by God and humankind. Only such a purpose can remain until the final chapter of history. (41-323, 1971.02.18)
15. What is your heart's final destination, where it can settle? Even when you have found God and made Him yours, your heart would not want to rest there. Your heart's final destination is where you possess not only God but also His love.
If you fail to possess His love, everything will be in vain. What is the final purpose of life? The issue is not whether we can meet God, the center of heaven; it is whether we can live together with Him.
In what kind of place can we meet Him and live with Him? That core place is the place of His love. Therefore, the greatest aspiration of the human conscience is to follow heavenly fortune, become one with God, and possess His love.
(24-017, 1969.06.22)
16. Looking at yourselves, none of you wants to live your life alone and die alone. Every person has a different appearance, but human beings have, deep in their hearts, the aspiration to become global citizens, people whom the world pays attention to.
This is the course of life that all human beings should follow. It is quite normal to have such an aspiration and pursue it. This is because the ultimate human desire is to become an object partner of love to the greatest being. This greatest One is God, our Father. (65-046, 1972.11.13)
The three blessings and the perfect beings of true love
17. When God created Adam and Eve, He gave them the three blessings: “Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth, and have dominion over every living thing.” (Gen. 1:28)
The first blessing, “be fruitful,” means that human beings should grow and perfect their characters, with God as their center.
The second blessing is that a perfected man and woman should become a true husband and wife, have children, and realize an ideal family, thus fulfilling their duty as true parents.
The third blessing is that human beings should create the kingdom of heaven on earth, where they would not experience any inconvenience or lack amid the environment that God bestowed upon them. God, who is the Original Being of true love, created human beings as His object partners of true love.
He wanted them to become perfected beings of true love, realize the ideal of true love as husband and wife, and create the environment of the kingdom of heaven. (234-270, 1992.08.26)
18. The first hope of human beings is to reach individual perfection. Nevertheless, because they fell, they have to be born anew centered on a resurrected individual. Their second hope is to fulfill a life-long partnership; human beings are born to be blessed in marriage.
Their third hope is to multiply good children. Although we may have many good days in our lives, each of us has certain special days. They are the day we were born, the day we married our life partner, and the days when our children were born.
Not experiencing all of these special days can make us unhappy. The same is true for God. The most joyful day for God was the day when Adam was born. That is because it was the day He became the Parent God in the physical world.
That is to say, the day that Adam was born was also the first day that God could begin His existence as the God of cosmic value in the substantial world.
(19-320, 1968.03.29)
19. How can we go to the kingdom of heaven? As it is the place where God resides, we need certain qualifications to enter there.
The qualifications are realizing the three blessings: "Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth, and have dominion over every living thing." (Gen. 1:28)
This is because the kingdom of heaven is the place where loving couples go, together with their children. (12-111, 1962.12.17)
20. The children of blessed families are citizens of the kingdom of heaven. They are citizens of the eternal world. In that world, the number of children you give birth to can be a source of pride.
They are precious assets you can be most proud of. Your spiritual children are also your assets when you go to the kingdom of heaven. When your Abel children and Cain children become one, you will meet the ideal standard for restoring the fallen world.
Their oneness brings expansion. That is why Adam has to fulfill the positions of a son, an elder brother, and a husband, and Eve has to fulfill the positions of a daughter, an elder sister,r and a wife.
Their courses were set up in this way. Adam and Eve had already begun these courses; they had no way to escape. Even if they wanted to extend these courses, they could not. Your courses are the same. When we analyze this process carefully, we see that men and women are meant to seek each other. That is why you are required to marry. (246-253, 1993.04.18)
21. God created human beings and gave them the blessing to have dominion over all things. He also said, “Multiply and fill the earth.” Once human beings perfected themselves and fulfilled the words of these blessings, God intended to take direct dominion over them. This was His original ideal of creation.
However, human beings have not been able to accomplish this. Therefore, we have not been able to govern the earth, we have not been able to multiply in the world of true love, and we have not been able to receive God's true love.
This is our sorrow. In these circumstances, we are destined to constantly fall and become Satan's prey. Although we human beings are in this situation, God will raise us again. He has us accumulate merit to clear away all the evil things that are intertwined with fallen humankind.
He seeks to unite us and transform us into children of His lineage. All of this is to enable us to have dominion over the earth.
This is the purpose that humankind has sought to fulfill throughout history. It is the ultimate hope that all people, in their hearts, aspire to realize.
(5-314, 1959.03.01)
Sun Myung Moon