Because it is the Teacher’s plan to cross beyond the standard the Teacher desires by 1972, I must drive you out once again. What will you do? Must you sit still just as you are and dawdle, or must you embrace this and dance with it? If by chance one cannot do this, a bloody road of suffering will remain for your children. Moreover, the road ahead of your families too will be blocked.
If, despite God’s driving us out before the nation and the world for the sake of the Will, we cannot embrace this and dance with it and thus lose the time, who will greet that time? Yet if one embraces this well and dances with it, a time will come when one can step forth with dignity before the nation and the world. So must one take part here and be active, or must one not? (“We must.”)
The other day at the district leaders’ meeting too I said, “Have your wives too carry on witnessing activity for at least three years.” Your babies are all lovely to you, are they not? Are they lovely or not?
Why Have the Abels Until Now Been Persecuted and Suffered Without a Word
Now let us talk a little about the Principle. Are you Abel, or are you Cain? (“We are Abel.”) Those who think they are Abel, raise your hands. Until now the Principle has not clearly set forth what Abel is, but hereafter it will be clearly set forth.
All of you, why do Christians who believe in Jesus suffer so wretchedly? Speaking in Unification Church terminology, saying “indemnity” and Restoration and so on, one cannot even throw a punch at the enemies and cannot even curse once. What is that? Is that not unpleasant? The Teacher too has had many times of anger while walking this road until now.
How hot-tempered is the Teacher’s character?
It has not been once or twice that, if there had been a knife, I would have wished to cut off a neck at a stroke. Yet one lives as though dead. Why does one live so? Why do you live so? Let us consider why it must be so.
The Teacher has the confidence to cultivate a foundation inferior to no one wherever he goes. Yet why does he live so? I mean, why does he stay still even while being cursed and undergoing every sort of thing? And why does he tell you, who have suffered until now, to suffer again? Won't the words come out? Where is there such a person? Is that not strange? It means that you are saying, “When will this end? The Unification Church—oh dear, the Unification Church…. Have you not thought such thoughts? Is it a Unification Church with a bad head?
What is it that the Unification Church seeks to do?
The Unification Church is a church that seeks to live according to Principle-ism. It means that the Unification Church seeks to live following the principle of heavenly reason. Then one perhaps says, “Is living according to the principle of heavenly reason suffering? Having sacrificed and suffered so wretchedly and been so despised until now, is that not enough? What is this now? Having received the Blessing because it was said that all is good if one receives the Blessing, I thought I would now live well; and having borne babies and accomplished the Four Position Foundation, saying, “Four Position Foundation, Four Position Foundation,” now they say one must bear the Four Position Foundation and go out and suffer again; what Blessing is this? Have you no such complaints? Have you complained or not? (“We have not.”) Because you have no content, you probably do not even know how to complain.
Let us think of Jesus. Was Jesus excellent or unexcellent? (“He was excellent.”) Before God he was excellent, but before the world there was nothing excellent about him. It means that before the world there was nothing excellent. If one seeks to be excellent on both sides, it is easy to become neither this nor that. You must know that. It means that Jesus was excellent before God but unexcellent before the world. If it is asked how unexcellent, it means that he was unexcellent enough to die. So he died.
If it is asked how unexcellent Jesus was when he was dragged out to Pilate’s court, however much they said this and that, he could not speak one word. Whether he had ears or not, however much they said this and that, he said nothing before them. Even though he was to die, did he ever shout out once clearly, “You wretched fellows”? Is not having been able to shout excellent? It means that he died because he was unexcellent. Jesus was excellent before God and unexcellent before the world. If he had been excellent before the world, too, nothing would have come about.
Just why was Jesus unexcellent? Was he unexcellent because he did unexcellent things? No. He was born excellent, but because he was too excellent, he was no match for them, and so it came to be counted as having done an unexcellent thing. It is not that he did an unexcellent thing because he was unexcellent, but that, because he was no match for them, it came to be counted as having done an unexcellent thing. Such a thing one will not find even if one looks in the Principle.
The Reason One Must Love Cain (the Enemy)
Before God made Adam, He loved the archangel. Yet after He made Adam, He loved the archangel more. You must clearly know why Christianity teaches one to love one’s enemy. Why did Jesus, at the moment when he shed blood upon the cross and expired, say, “Father, forgive their sin, for they know not what they do”? What do those words mean? I mean, just what sort of words are they?
God loved the archangel. Yet has man ever loved the archangel? I mean, has there been a person who loved the archangel as God loves the archangel? Has there been such a person? (“There has not.”)
To receive an inheritance from parents, one must be made one with the parents in heart. Next, one’s actions must be made one with theirs. If it is asked what sort of child in a household can receive the parents’ love most, it is a child who suits the parents’ mind. And it is a child who has occupied the parents’ love.
Next, it is a child who, in living, keeps step with the parents’ actions, a child who shares the same will with the parents, and a child who has the same hope as the parents. However many sons there may be, it means that the child who is a hundred percent close to such a standard receives the inheritance from the parents. Is it not so?
Has man ever loved the angel whom God loves?
It means that he has not. Then who is Adam? He is God’s son. He is in the relationship of father and son with God. So it means that father and son must be of one mind and become one. Therefore, it means that if the father loves the angel, the son too must love him.
Then in what position did man fall?
He fell into a position of not having loved the angel as an angel deserves. That is why this must be restored. Why would God have received accusations for six thousand years from the archangel, who is the chief of evil? Is such a God excellent? It would have been enough to kick him away, saying, “You wicked fellow,” so why would He have received Satan’s accusation, saying, “That is so”? Are your words right? It is because there is a principle that one must love the angel and because a condition must be set up so that a son of God came forth and loved the angel. Until then, one cannot say that God and man have fulfilled their responsibility. Because such a standard remains, God too cannot but love Satan, and man too cannot but love Satan. That is why the being called Cain is the one who stands in the archangel’s stead, and the being called Abel is the one who stands in God’s stead.
Then, it was said to love the archangel, that is, the enemy. Why is that?
It is because fallen man cannot return before God, that is, to the original world, without loving the archangel. Seen in terms of God’s Providence, the archangel is Satan and an enemy, but to set that Satan right according to his origin, just as God loves him, God’s son too must love him. Because there is such a principle, one cannot but love him. It means that otherwise one cannot inherit everything from God.
To say it again, it means that unless there is oneness of heart with the Father, oneness of living, and oneness of longing, one cannot inherit everything from the Father. It means that without being the same as the Father, one cannot receive the inheritance. Because one cannot receive the inheritance unless the son also loves the archangel whom the father loved, one must love him even though the archangel became Satan. It means that otherwise one cannot return to the position of original man, and so the conclusion comes out that Abel, who is in Adam’s position, cannot but love the Cains, who are in the archangel’s position.
Yet if it is asked who is the archangel whom man must love, it must not be an archangel who follows God’s Will and serves Adam and Eve, but an archangel who betrays God’s Will and seeks to beat Adam to death. That is because one cannot return without loving even such a Satan. Such a road is the road of Restoration.
That Jesus prayed for his enemies too is because God’s principle of heavenly reason is so. Just as God, standing upon this principle, loved the archangel, Adam and Eve too ought to have stood in such a position and loved the archangel, but they could not love him. Therefore, Jesus had to set up at some time the standard of having loved the archangel. Because otherwise one cannot take hold of the road of returning to the original place, Jesus prayed that those enemies be forgiven, to set up the condition of having loved the enemy even while dying upon the cross, and pass over.
You must know the fact that the content of praying for the enemy came about in this way. Do you understand what I mean?
If One Would Become Abel
A complete son of God is a son who has not fallen. He is a son who receives God’s love and loves God. Then whom must that son love after loving God? He must love the archangel. Only then does he become a complete son of God.
We who are in the age of Restoration—what must we become?
We must become Abel. Then what must one do to go the course of Restoration, returning to God’s world following Abel’s road?
One must receive God’s love and love God. If it becomes so, one becomes one body with God. Centering on this, how does one become one body? One becomes one body centering upon God’s love. This is the place where Abel is to stand.
The fall of Adam and Eve was that they could not enter the place of giving and receiving love centering upon God. So it means that without entering that place, without becoming one with God, one cannot love the archangel whom God loved. Seen in this way, centering upon love, the conclusion comes out that Adam and Eve fell in their age of immaturity.
What must Abel do?
First, he must become one body with God, and second, he must love the archangel. And so one must be able to be acknowledged by the archangel, who is Satan, saying, “Because you are God’s son, you are the unmistakable heir.” At this time the person who is in the archangel’s position is Cain, and the person who is in Adam’s position becomes Abel. You must clearly know this.
Then are you Abel or Cain? (“We are Abel.”) Have you become Abel?
To become Abel, one cannot but receive God’s love; are you receiving God’s love? Do you see that you are receiving it? Looking at your hand, have you ever said, “Ah, this hand is a hand that receives God’s love. Oh, how lovely?” Have you ever felt, “My four limbs and hundred members are a body that God loves”? Have you felt, “In my blood and flesh there is God’s blood and flesh, and in my love the element of God’s living spirit is throbbing”? One must be able to receive such a feeling. Yet it means that you are not all so. Do you understand?
What did I say one must do first? It will not do if one does not clearly know this. It means that first one must receive God’s love, and second one must love the archangel. It will not do if one cannot do these two things.
Because man fell, false parents came forth. That is why one divides into Cain and Abel and carries out the history of Restoration. That is, it means that one sets up Abel in Adam’s stead and Cain in the archangel’s stead and carries out the history of Restoration.
Then what must one do to become Abel?
I said that first one must become one in heart with God. If one becomes one in heart and suits God’s mind, it means that God cannot but love one. Moreover, if one becomes one in heart, because one becomes God’s son, He comes to give directions concerning matters of living in the manner of: “Now, live like this. Do it like that. Then must one do as directed, or must one not? (“One must.”) One must do as directed and accomplish God’s purpose for Him. By doing so, oneness of heart appears as outward oneness. You must clearly know such a principle and go forward.
Because the Abel of that time was made one in heart with God and became one, God said, “Now, Abel, do this.” Moreover, Abel prepared an offering before such a standard of God’s saying, “Do it.” In preparing the offering, he prepared it with devotion. Because God loved me and came seeking to give me a cosmic inheritance, a mind arose, wishing to offer devotion in heart before that God.
This is to make mind and action one. Therefore, one must offer devotion. And so, when action becomes one centering upon oneness of mind, he becomes one in heart and one in action centering upon God. That is, it means that mind and body become one centering upon God.
Thus, upon the foundation of a life in which mind and body have become one centering upon God, what bears one fruition as a token of the mind, a token of the body, a token of action and thereby presents a condition of indemnity is the offering. Do you understand? This offering is an offering of the mind and an offering of the body. It means that here the highest devotion, the devotion of loving God, has gone in, and the heart has gone in. It is in this way that one offers an offering.
The Right Attitude Abel Must Take Toward Cain
Cain too offered an offering before God. Then why would Cain have sought to beat Abel to death? Would he have beaten him to death for no reason?
Let us think about it once. He had offered an offering with devotion before God without regard to his younger brother, and if only Abel’s offering had been received, that ought to have been that; what was so infuriating and so galling? That Cain was infuriated and galled means that Cain too had offered that much devotion. It means that to return before God, he had offered devotion not inferior to Abel’s. If one looks at that centering upon our Unification Church today, Christians are in Cain’s position toward Unification Church members. Is it not so? They, too, offer devotion. It means that it is the same.
Then did Cain not know God?
It means that he knew that God is precious. That is why it means that Cain’s offering as an offering the grain he had tended with devotion for a year, and Abel’s offering as an offering a lamb he had slaughtered with devotion, are the same.
When God received only Abel’s offering, if Abel had thought with gratitude that his offering had been received and said to his elder brother, “Elder brother, I am sorry,” would the elder brother have beaten him to death? Abel was unmistakably a fellow like Jacob. I think so. Abel would have been elated and boasted, “I am better than my elder brother.” When he said, “What is my elder brother? God did not receive my elder brother’s offering but received only mine.” Would an infuriated mind have risen in Cain, or would it not? Would he not have said there, “What is this wretched fellow saying?” If by chance Abel had held a mind that could be gentle and humble and obedient and submissive, Restoration would have come about at that time. It means that here Abel could not fulfill his responsibility.
Abel ought to have sympathized with Cain and comforted him, holding a mind of loving Cain and a mind of compassion. Yet Abel would unmistakably have been glad that God received only his offering. If by chance Abel had regarded with compassion God’s not having received Cain’s offering and shed tears and sympathized and said, “What I have inherited I have all received for my elder brother’s sake, so receive it instead,” what would have become of it? Because giving his precious love, his only precious gift, entirely to Cain would have been standing in a position of having loved the archangel more than anyone, it would automatically have been restored. That this could not be done is a han. That is why all religions tell one to be obedient and gentle and humble. Do you understand?
All of you, consider it. Does it seem Abel would have boasted before Cain, or not? If Abel had not been so, would Cain have flushed and beaten him to death for no reason? It is not so.
Likewise, in the Unification Church today, receiving opposition from the established churches, which are in Cain’s position, we too have a responsibility. It means that we shouted out, saying, “Ah, the pastors of the established churches—they do not even know the Principle that I know; what are they?” Did you do so, or did you not? (“We did.”)
Since you did so, it means that you must receive opposition. Since you went seeking them, saying, “Let us see how the pastor comes out,” and were impudent and cocky, saying, “Do you know the theory of the Fall? What is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?” Would they not oppose? (Laughter.)
Seen with the positions exchanged, would you not oppose?
If someone came charging in calling himself Abel and did so, even you would have a mind wishing to oppose. When a fellow who in former days followed about saying, “Pastor, Pastor,” comes after listening to the words of the Unification Church for a few days and says, “What do you know?” I mean, would they not oppose? In this way, many people have been slaughtered. It means that they are butchers who slaughter people.
Have You Been Made One With the Principle of Cain and Abel
Likewise, it means that because it went against the principle, Cain killed Abel. Then how did it go against the principle? Abel ought to have loved Cain, but he did not stand in a position where he could love him and rather stood in a position of making Cain’s anger explode. So he could not but meet with calamity.
That is why, if one clamors carelessly, one is beaten. One dies. In Jesus’ time too, if it is asked who clamored so, it means that the disciples clamored. Jesus sought to be quiet, but the disciples went about in a crowd and, not doing what they were asked to do, went about doing only what they were asked not to do. Because what they were asked to do was not visible to their eyes and what they were asked not to do was visible, and because if one spoke of what was invisible, they did not understand, they went about talking of only what was visible.
Clamoring, saying what Judaism is like and so forth, and going about here and there stirring people up, they ruined it all, and that is why Jesus even fled to Nazareth. Was it so from the beginning? No. It became so because the disciples ruined it all.
In the end, Jesus came to be tried before Pilate. Rome is an enemy nation occupying the nation of Judea. Yet Jesus, standing before Pilate, the governor of that enemy nation, with a natural and composed face and not an angry face, thought, “Say all you wish to say. I am not caught by a condition of indemnity. Here I absolutely obey Heaven’s Will and love you and can die for you. The principled foundation of heavenly reason will unfold here,” silently received and passed over that whole environment.
“I will resolve the han of all those trials in which Cain struck Abel in the hand-filled historical ages. Republish (재판, 再版) all that the Cains presented in the historical ages. Even so, I will go standing in a position of gathering all of that—from such a position, he silently crossed that environment and went as far as the place of the cross. Jesus was one who went forward holding such a mind. It means that that mind is the problem. To say it again, I, the son, love the archangel….
That is why, when Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane, he said, “Not as I will, but as thou wilt.” That means that Jesus is one with the Father, not one with the people of Israel. It means that I am not a person who can defend Judaism, nor a person who can defend the people of Israel. It means that he is a son on Heaven’s side. So it means that he became one body with the Father. Did he become one body or not? To the very end, he became one body with the Father.
Since it became so, he came to be able to set up the standard of having loved his enemy even until the moment of dying upon the cross. The fact that Jesus prayed for his enemies even while dying is the planting of a great signpost of victory such as has not been in history. Because Jesus, standing on God’s side, set up the condition of having loved centering upon the Will that Adam could not do, Christian history came to set out anew from here. You must clearly know this.
In following such a principle, what Teacher Moon of the Unification Church must do becomes the problem. Would there be a Cain before the Teacher, or would there not? I said that to become Abel, one must first become God’s son and next love the archangel, that is, Cain. Being in a position of fighting with Cain, one cannot become Abel. In what position did I say one must stand? One must stand in a position of loving Cain. Only then can one stand in Abel’s place. You must clearly know in a Principled way what sort of position Abel’s position is.
You have until now said, “I am Abel. Because I am one of the 36 Couples, the 72 Couples must listen to my words. The 124 Couples and the 430 Couples too must listen to my words.” Yet have you become so? Is the play you have carried on until now a play of the Will, or a worldly play? It is a wretched and detestable worldly play. Well, are the 36 Couples an Abel family? Have they been made one with God? I mean, have they become an Abel family? Have they been made one with such a principle?
To What Degree Must One Love Cain
Before Abel, Cain is either the enemy or the enemy’s son. It means that it is now so. Then Abel would be either God or God’s son, would he not? So it means that our enemy is either Satan or Satan’s son. Yet just because they are the sons and daughters of a person who opposes us, one must not say, “That fellow’s father opposed us, so let me use him and then cut off his neck.” One must love that son and make that son stand in a Cain-type position before oneself. And so one must make that principal person himself stand in a Cain-type position.
God’s Providence of Restoration is to take away the sons and daughters whom Satan loves most. In taking away those sons and daughters, one does not take them away by throttling. One takes them away by loving them more than Satan.
Otherwise, one cannot take them away. This is the principle. Do you understand?
Because Satan fell, he could not receive Adam’s love. Therefore, we must love even that Satan, that enemy. It means that one must shed tears and blood and sweat and love him more than one’s own sons and daughters. Then to what degree must one love him? One must love him more than one’s own sons and daughters. That is precisely the standard. Only by standing at such a standard does one become a son who can return before God.
Then, seeing the centering upon God, how much must God love Satan’s sons and daughters?
Must He love them more than Jesus or less?
He must love them more. That is why God gave Jesus up as an offering. It means that He would save the enemy’s children even at the cost of letting Jesus die. Even if He thus kills God’s son and takes Satan’s children to Heaven’s side, Satan cannot accuse. Here one divides from Satan. It means that here the dividing line unfolds. Today you must clearly know this. Do you understand? (“Yes.”)
You will know from going out to witness too, but if it is asked what sort of people oppose it, it is the parents. It means that the mother and father who loved their son intensely oppose it. Is there anyone who says, “Oh, our son goes to the Unification Church? How good! Where is there such a church?
When you went out witnessing, was there such a parent?
It means that those who oppose tenaciously and become enemies are that mother and father who loved with every devotion. Those mother and father are so arranged as to oppose without fail. It means that this is the Principle. This is for the sake of restoration through indemnity. Do you understand what I mean? It means that if this is extended, it goes as far as three generations. That is why this indemnity is the problem. You must clearly know this principle. From this perspective, however much you yourselves may now receive God’s love, if there is no Cain before you, you cannot become Abel.
The Place Where Cain and Abel Are Determined
Then in what sort of place are Cain and Abel determined?
This becomes the problem. Cain and Abel are not determined to be in a comfortable and good place.
For what are Cain and Abel needed?
Consider it. It is needed to restore full indemnity. Is it not so? Then what must one do to restore full indemnity? One must become an offering.
My body and mind become one, and the next one becomes one with God, and the next one becomes one with the offering. There, one must have Satan present and reach a verdict. It means that one settles the matter. If that cannot be done, what does one do? One must decide centering upon the Principle and its principles.
First, it is decided by whether one offers the offering to love God or offers it to receive blessings oneself. Today there are many people who offer offerings with the thought of receiving blessings themselves.
If one does so, that blessing will all flow away to the satanic world. Moreover, an offering offered in order that the nation may receive blessings too flows away if the nation perishes. Only when one offers an offering, shedding tears solely for God’s sake, does it become an Abel-type offering.
To offer an offering for God’s sake, one must first separate Satan. It means that otherwise Satan, without fail, accuses. Yet in separating this Satan, there must be Cain.
Then who must offer the offering?
Who must offer it first? Abel must offer it first. And one must make Cain follow. It means that one must carry on the play of having Cain also offer an offering so that Cain too may receive a blessing.
What it means to offer an offering is to offer your devotion. Therefore, it is not offered in a place of eating and sleeping.
One must first be for the nation and for the people and pray staking the nation if it be the nation, and pray staking the village if it be the village, and pray for one’s partner if it be one’s partner, and offer the offering from a place where minds have become one.
Yet can one offer an offering without having an offering?
One cannot. Then what must become the offering? Solely one’s own body must become the offering. In order for the body to become an offering, it must be clean. That is, it means that one must be a person sanctified from the world. That is why people leave the family and make a clean body and mind. If one cannot become a clean body, one cannot become an offering.
If one cannot become a clean body, one must go out to the front line. And the Teacher’s sending you to the front line of the satanic world and having you do such work is to make a Cain for you.
It means that if a son of God who has gone out to the satanic world is opposed by a hundred people, God too gives that son that much love correspondingly. It means that if a thousand people oppose, God too can love you as much as a thousand people opposed.
When the altar one has built with every devotion is opposed and torn down, without fail the son of the person who opposed is broken. It means that the sons and daughters of the one who struck are without fail offered as an offering.
If Satan invades God’s sons and daughters, as the price of that, God takes away Satan’s sons and daughters. And so one passes through a process of offering devotion.
Are the sons and daughters of faith Cain or Abel?
Did they offer an offering? One becomes Cain, centering on Abel.
Abel’s Responsibility and Cain’s Responsibility
Since God has passed through a historical process until now to save this earth, presently you must, in God’s stead, hold such a heart of God and go forward.
Then what will you do holding that Father’s heart?
One must carry out the work of drawing up the children of the servant. It means that one must carry out such work in the Father’s stead. It means that one must carry out the work of re-creation. For that, one must shed tears and blood and sweat.
God has passed through a history of suffering for your sake until now. Now you must, in God’s stead, pour out every devotion before the children of the servant, centering upon the sorrow of that history. It means that one must set up the condition of having loved the servant’s sons and daughters more than one’s own sons and daughters. The standard by which Abel loves Cain must be higher than the standard by which God loved Adam before the Fall. One must love with all the devotion one has. At this time, it is not Cain and Abel as brothers. In this place, one draws Cain up. Therefore, here it is a vertical relationship going up. At this time it is not yet a horizontal relationship.
In order for Cain to become like Abel upon that foundation, their living must be the same, and their hearts must be the same. And their longing too must be made one. For that, Abel must raise Cain to that standard.
I said that with God there must be oneness of heart, oneness of living, oneness of longing. For that, it means that Abel must raise Cain to a place where he can be made one in that way.
If by chance Cain has not become so with Abel, one cannot know when he will run away. Therefore, it means that Abel must love Cain, saying, “Resemble me. Resemble me,” so that the affection of the same flesh and blood can pass between them.
And so one must go forward as far as a place where one can say, “You and I are on Heaven’s side even though we die. Even though the road of death lies across it, we cannot but go.” One must be able to say, “Where you go, I too go, and if you are in a place of dying, I will die instead.” It means that when Cain is in a place of dying, Abel must be able to say he will die instead, and when Abel is in a place of dying, Cain must be able to say he will die instead.
Moreover, one must be able to say, “Your purpose and your longing and everything you hold are mine.” Only then, it means, does one inherit everything. One must become a son who has risen to a standard where he can say, “All that heart you have inherited from God is mine too, and everything you know is mine too.” Only then do Abel and Cain become one there and at last greet the parents. This is precisely the history of the Restoration of Cain and Abel.
Then from where is the horizontal foundation cultivated?
Only when Cain and Abel become one and return before God is the horizontal foundation cultivated.
Yet what must one do to return before God?
One must go through the True Parents. The history that has dragged on thus, centering upon that completely united place, until the True Parents, who are the Lord, come, is Christian. It means that it is spiritual Christian history.
Christianity must, centering upon a physical foundation, bind together the bond of brothers. Upon the foundation of the same brotherhood, having a unified heart and unified action and unified longing, one must stand in a place where one can say, “Even though I die, I will die first; Abel must not be killed”—a place where one can stand in another’s stead with one’s life. Only then can one at last return before God.
Then how long is the period in which Abel rears Cain? It means that it is seven years.
If it is asked what Christian history until now has been, it has been a history of coming forth seeking a worldwide Abel-type son. That is, it means that it has been a history of coming forth seeking the Messiah. It means that Christian history until now is the course of coming forth seeking God’s Abel-type son.
The Lord at the Second Advent Is a Completed Worldwide Abel
Then what sort of One is the Lord at the Second Advent?
He is a worldwide son. He is a worldwide son, but not a spiritual son; it means that he is a worldwide son embracing both spirit and body. The Jesus of two thousand years ago was a national son. Yet now it must be a worldwide son. That is why now the worldwide time has come. Is it not so?
Then what is the center of this world? It is God’s love. Centering upon that love of God, what will one do? It is to act together with God. Next, it is to bear God’s Will and accomplish that Will.
The Lord who comes comes as a worldwide son and comes to fulfill the mission of a worldwide center, and moreover, comes to save the world. It means that the One who comes to present one direction before the human beings of the world of death, who until now have had no purpose and no hope, and to act together with them and enter together into one world of purpose is the Lord at the Second Advent.
Then, having come as a son, what must he do?
As a son, he must love this world. And so he must set up the condition of having loved the satanic world. Without setting up a tradition of having loved the world, and loved the nation, and loved the people, and loved the tribe, and loved the family, and loved the individual, the worldwide course of Restoration cannot be established. Do you understand what I mean?
That is why it means that the road the Teacher goes to is so. The question is whether one has, individually, loved all peoples and, in a family way, loved all families and loved the whole tribe and people. Yet can one alone gather the whole of the world’s humanity and love them? It means that one cannot.
If one considers this world today, one can also see this world as being made up of one man and one woman. Is it not so? The three billion of humanity all enter into one man and one woman. Still more, if one looks at humanity from a standard of the Will, from a conditional position, it is one man and one woman.
The Women, Who Until Now Could Not Stand in the Position of Cain and Abel
Then can one man and one woman become Cain and Abel?
Have you thought about whether a woman can stand in the Cain-type and Abel-type position? That cannot be. Only men can stand in it.
Today, coming to the age of our Unification Church, Cain and Abel have been determined, centering upon women, and this is possible because a foundation of the heavenly order has been cultivated. In the old days, it could not be so. For women, there was not even any broth.
If a man was set up, the woman simply had to follow. Then can a man and a woman become Cain and Abel? It means that it becomes a condition in the symbolic aspect or the image aspect, but does not become a condition of Restoration. You must know this.
I said that in carrying out the history of Restoration, the Teacher must love all peoples; whom does that mean one must love? It means that one must love men. Having loved men, then the archangel…. Yet, is the archangel a woman or a man? (“A man.”) And can a woman stand in Cain’s place, or can she not? (“She cannot.”)
If it is asked what the han of women has been until now, it is that they could not stand even in the position of Cain among the positions of a son who receives God’s love. Women could not take part even in Cain’s position. It means that Cain and Abel are only male brothers.
Then who must there be before the Teacher? There must be a Cain who represents worldwide manhood. It means that there must be such a person centering upon Christianity. It is such a work that is being carried on.
What position must the Teacher become while cultivating this road?
He must become an individually completed Abel. Then, if it is asked what an individually completed Abel must be equipped with, it is to become one in heart with God.
Thereafter, one must love the archangel. One must be able to bless even Satan. It means that one cannot help but be equipped with such actual achievements. Is it not so? Even though a hundred million Satanic forces strike spiritually, one must be able not to hate them but to love them. It means that one must overcome spiritual trial and agony. Do you understand?
If One Would Become a Complete Son of God
Even though a hundred million Satanic forces of the world oppose, one must overcome that and pass over. It is not passing over by treating them as enemies but overcoming the trials they present and passing over. One goes up while receiving countless sufferings. One goes up while receiving the opposition of countless spirit worlds, beginning with the miscellaneous spirit world. If one goes all the way up in this way, there will be a highest faction.
If one fights with every sort of Satan and brings them to submission and goes up, the next one receives the test of the intermediate spirit world. There are also several thousand and several tens of thousands of intermediate spirit worlds, and one receives the test of all their heads (장, 長). One goes up having received the test.
Not only the test of the worldwide chief of Satan, but also countless men of the Way and the heads of all the groups in the intermediate spirit world come to test one. It means that Satan’s work unfolds. It means that they test one, saying, “What are you, you trifling thing?” One must pass through all of that. At the very last, it means that Jesus too does so. Even Jesus opposes. One must cross over all such conditions.
It means that in order for an individual to stand as Abel, one must stand at a standard of action that accomplishes oneness with God. Because God is not caught by any condition of accusation anywhere in heaven and on earth, to become God’s son, he too must not be caught by a condition of accusation. Because He is a God whom even the satanic world cannot accuse, His son too must have no content that is caught, whatever condition of accusation the satanic world may present. Because He is a God who is not caught by it even if Satan accuses, His son too must likewise stand in a position of not being caught by that accusation. Thus, from the miscellaneous spirit world, even Jesus comes to be accused, and one must overcome this.
If one cannot do so, it means that before God’s Providence, which seeks to restore the world, one cannot stand in a position of having loved the archangel as God’s son. Do you understand?
One must be victorious spiritually and victorious physically too. Becoming one with God in heart is easy, but one must be victorious substantially too. Can one become a son by setting up conditions of victory only spiritually? It is not so. Then what must one do? In the substantial world, one must face substantial Satan and be victorious.
If it becomes so, it means that one becomes a victorious son centering upon spirit and body, that is, a son who leaves no condition of accusation centering upon spirit and body.
If it becomes so, it means that even if they bring out all the conditions that were conditions of accusation in the historical ages, one is not caught. What has thus set up expedient content so as not to be caught by conditions of accusation is the road of Restoration.
Upon the foundation of spiritual victory, one must not be caught by conditions of accusation physically either. Because one seeks not to be caught by conditions of accusation, opposition unfolds in the world.
If by chance Christianity, before that spiritual standard, had become a substantial physical Cain and held a heart by which it could become one, from there a worldwide Cain-Abel restoration embracing both spirit and body would have been accomplished.
Yet because this was broken, one had to once again, centering upon the whole nation and people and centering upon substance, set up the condition of having loved Satan even while receiving the arrows of opposition. That is why a struggle centering upon substance unfolded in Korea. That is why we continued to receive persecution until the 1960s. Yet one must not repay an enemy as an enemy. One goes up centering upon the standard of having loved the enemy.
Because you today have crossed beyond such a standard, and because a representative Heaven-side Cain has been set up and the condition of indemnity of Cain and Abel has been set up, you have at last been able to receive the Blessing. It is because an Abel-type standard embracing both spirit and body was set up and because a standard of Abel’s having brought Cain to submission was set up that one has at last been able to return. Then where does one return to? One returns to the family. It means that one returns to the heavenly family. At that time, one at last crosses beyond the position of brother and rises to the position of parent.
Jesus had to fulfill both the mission of a son and the mission of parents. What is that? It means that Abel has his mission and the mission of restoring Adam. Is it not so? Adam is restored through Abel, is he not? Therefore, it means that one must do the mission of a son and the mission of a father, that is, these two missions. This is the course of Restoration. Now do you clearly understand?
The Unification Church, Which Set Out From Prison
To become a spiritual Abel, to become a worldwide Abel, one must not be caught by the accusations of the countless spirit individuals of the spirit world and must love them and must set up the standard of not hating but loving them even though all the nations of the substantial world be mobilized and oppose and pass over.
Otherwise, one cannot set up the standard of individual victory as Abel, nor, of course, the standard of national victory. And one cannot be determined to be an Abel-type being who can set out into the world.
That is why until the 1960s we stood in a position of being cursed and opposed by the whole nation. Then from where did we set out? We set out from prison. We have run from prison. We have come forth, passing through such a process.
Abel must stand in a position where he can die for Cain, where he can offer his whole life. Otherwise Cain does not submit before Abel. Only by standing in a position where one can die in Cain’s stead can one return. Do you understand?
That is why among Jesus’ teachings there is the word that he who would die shall live and he who would live shall die. These words are words that apply to Abel and words that apply to Cain too. If Abel were to save Cain, he must not spare his life. Can one save Cain otherwise? One cannot. Moreover, if Cain were to follow Abel, he must resolve on death. Can one follow otherwise? One cannot. It is the same for both. From this perspective, he who would die shall live, and he who would live shall die.
Therefore, it means that if one dies for the Will in this world, that is, at the very bottom of hell, one lives. It is the opposite of the world. If one dies happily in this world, one falls to the very end of hell, and if one dies at the bottom of this world, one goes up from that place. It is thus that one goes to the Kingdom of Heaven. Do you understand? That is why a person who would go to the Kingdom of Heaven must break through hell and pass over. One must overcome the environment of hell and go. One must tread upon death and pass over. Therefore, where must one die when one dies? One must die in hell.
If one goes to hell, they all hate one another and curse one another. It means that they are all saying, “That fellow has gone. That fellow has come.” Even if a doctor of learning enters, it means that they strike at him at once, saying, “You fellow, what were you living off?” This is truly strange. Yet concerning a person who died while being there for others, they make a great fuss over favoring him. Liberation unfolds there.
The Teacher too entered prison and made the people who were there his disciples and guided them. When I came down to the land of South Korea too, I came out having set up one person whom I met in prison. Now he fell away and has barely come back in….
Now, where did I say one must die? (“In hell.”) People say, “Oh dear, I do not wish to die alone. It would be good if I died together with someone,” but can one die together with one’s wife? (“One cannot.”) If one is to die anyway, one must die not for oneself but for others. In the satanic world, for what does one die? One lives and dies for oneself, to fill one’s own greed. It means that one dies while being only for oneself, saying, “I must earn money, and I must do this or that. Yet the road that goes to Heaven is a road of dying for others. The Kingdom of Heaven and hell divide here.
Cain, Who Needs a Period of Training
In the 1960s, the Teacher beat and drove you out, telling you to suffer. At that time, you ate barley rice and shed blood and sweat. Was that well done or badly done? (“It was well done.”) What was one to do by doing so? It was to become a son of God by doing so and return. Is it not so? At that time you listened well to the Teacher’s words, did you not? When you went out witnessing, there were truly many occasions when you wept out of wishing to see the Teacher, were there not? When the Teacher went anywhere, you would eagerly go about seeking the Teacher. You offered every devotion centering upon the Teacher. Why did it have to be so? It was for the sake of Cain-Abel restoration. Since the Teacher walked the road of suffering for the world’s sake and stood in an Abel-type position before the whole of humanity….
Being equipped with God’s love is what is important. God, if possible, desires that Abel bring Cain to natural submission and make him absolutely obey and thereby share God’s love. Because the Teacher too has come forth suffering centering upon such a Will, if you regard the Teacher’s suffering as your suffering and shed tears and offer devotion for the Will, you too come to enter within the sphere of God’s love. It means that it is so.
When the Teacher speaks of the story of his suffering, you must be able to feel it as though you yourself had undergone it, and your breast must ache, and you must be sorrowful, and tears must come, and you must feel aggrieved and infuriated, and thus be able to sympathize. The material for making you sympathize with the Teacher is the Teacher’s suffering.
Though the Teacher suffered in the historical age, it means that it is something one can feel together in reality today. So it means that when you come to feel the Teacher’s pain as your pain, you can be determined as Cain before the Teacher. It means that that becomes evidence that the Teacher and you have loved and become one. There, one receives God’s love. To what degree must this continue? It must continue eternally. God has carried out the history of Restoration until now, passing through such a process. That is why a period of rearing you is necessary.
The Significance of the First Seven-Year Course
Seen centering upon the Teacher himself, the Teacher, as an individual, Abel, must not be caught by conditions of accusation spiritually or physically. That is why the Teacher must love the spiritual world and the physical world. And so, from a position of loving the citizens of that nation more than the responsible person of that nation and loving them more than their parents, he has come forth until now, holding the sense of responsibility that if not me, no one can do it. Our Unification Church has come forth from such a position through the era of the Liberal Party, the era of the Democratic Party, and the era of the revolutionary government.
The Liberal Party government is the Adam type, the Democratic Party government is the Eve type, and the revolutionary government is the archangel type. Originally this ought to have been done all at once. Yet it was not done all at once and came forth, passing through three ages. And that is why in the era of the Liberal Party too they sought to seize and kill the Teacher, and in the era of the Democratic Party too they sought to seize and kill the Teacher, and in the era of the revolutionary government too they sought to seize and kill the Teacher. They did so to do away with the Unification Church. Must it be so, or must it not? They are all enemies. Yet even in such a position, one came through without being caught. Whatever we may undergo, we must hold a mind of loving the enemy. The Teacher has suffered until now with such a mind.
Then who is the enemy among enemies until now?
It is neither the people who criticized me nor the people of the established churches who opposed me. There is no enemy beyond a person who, knowing the Will, staked life and death and pledged and followed and then betrayed. Do you understand what I mean? And if it is asked what pains the breast most, it is being persecuted by those born of the same blood, who have the bond of brothers. Yet we must love them too. The road of Restoration is to go to love even this enemy who ought to be cast away.
The Teacher fought such a difficult fight and became an individual Abel, but it must not end with that. If one has become an individual Abel, one must become a family Abel. It means that Jesus became an individual Abel but could not stand in the position of a family Abel.
That is why—what is the First Seven-Year Course?
It was a period of preparation for seeking and establishing an individual Abel centering upon the Teacher himself and for becoming a family Abel. Because the Teacher was victorious as an individual Abel, he could have a family as a son of God. It means that centering upon the standard of Cain-Abel restoration, he could at last be determined as a relative standard before Heaven. One rises one stage.
So Satan cannot accuse centering upon Mother and the Teacher’s family. The Teacher’s family must not be the same as a family of the satanic world. The family itself must become Abel. Yet if the family itself would become Abel, there must be a Cain-type family.
Yet has there until now been a family that said, “Let our family become a Cain-type family and become an offering for the sake of the Teacher’s family”? You hear of the 36 Couples and the 72 Couples; consider it. Was there a family that lived holding such a mind? It means that there was no family that said, “Let this family bear all the difficulties of the heavenly family.” That is why one has come forth, raising a Cain family. The period of gathering a family-level Cain is the seven years I spoke of just now. During this period, one has come forth, rearing a family-level Cain. And so the Teacher’s family must become an Abel-type central family. The First Seven-Year Course was a period for the Teacher, without looking after your families, to make the Teacher’s family an Abel-type family.
Blessed Families, Who Must Reflect
Yet the 36 Couples too could not take responsibility, and the 72 Couples too could not take responsibility. All could. Because of that, Hye Jin and Hee Jin were sacrificed in the Teacher’s family. The Teacher, while sacrificing his sons and daughters, was for Heaven and for the Cain family. You of the 36 Couples and the 72 Couples, consider it.
Did you too live holding such a mind?
To show what a heavenly family must be, the Teacher sought not to leave a condition of accusation, whatever price he had to pay. And yet, if by chance this had remained, what price would one have to pay? One must walk another seven-year course. Yet by walking the First Seven-Year Course one was able to dissolve the condition of accusation centering upon a family-level standard.
If it is asked what sort of day God’s Day is, it is a day that signifies having entered within God’s realm of direct dominion. Moreover, Parents’ Day is a day that signifies having risen from fallen parents to the position before the Fall. And we have sought and established not only God’s Day and Parents’ Day but Children’s Day and the Day of All Things too.
You are the sons and daughters of fallen sin. You must cross beyond this standard. Only by passing through the Day of All Things, Children’s Day, Parents’ Day, and God’s Day does one rise to the position of a son of God. That is why, passing through the seven-year course, God’s Day was sought and established in 1968.
As a son of God, one must become completely one with God, and next one must set up the condition of having established one representative Abel family that can restore the Cain family. Only then does one pass over. Do you understand what I mean? The First Seven-Year Course is thus for establishing the foundation of an Abel-type family, and this seven-year course is a course the Teacher must go in a family way.
What must one do for that?
One must spread out horizontally the vertical stages of formation, growth, and completion. Centering upon such a mission, one must cross beyond this standard.
For that, all the Blessed Families must become one centering upon the Abel-type family. That is why the work by which one can now become one is being carried on.
Because, in carrying out the work of indemnifying vertical history horizontally, one must cultivate a foundation of restoration through indemnity; the 36 Couples and the 72 Couples and the 120 Couples were established. Among them, the 36 Couples are a miniature of the thirty-six vertical generations of forebears. Next, the Cain-Abel type with one generation removed is the 72 Couples. And the 120 Couples are families representing the 120 nations of the world. They must fit exactly with the 120 member nations of the United Nations. And in fact, they fit exactly.
One must set up a worldwide representative type and widen it in all four directions. One must set up conditions centering upon nations. Do you understand? And to make this setting up of conditions worldwide in substance, it means that one must establish mission departments in 120 nations. Such problems unfold. We have thus cultivated the history of Restoration while setting up conditional standards.
The Reason the Wives of Blessed Families Were Mobilized
If you and the Teacher become one, because an outward planar foundation is conditionally established, a substantial Abel family is established. Jesus sought the world by establishing the twelve tribes and the seventy disciples centering upon the people of Israel, but he failed.
So Jesus came seeking spirituality and sought and established representatives to restore this and set out anew. Likewise, did not the Teacher too set out from the nation to the world only after seeking and establishing a substantial family centering upon spirit and body? One must go forward being equipped with such conditions.
Our having established God’s Day means that a complete Abel family has been determined. It is from this family that one at last enters a new historical age. That is why, having come to the three years of 1968, 1969, and 1970, that is, the third year of the Second Seven-Year Course, your families are being set forth again. If it is asked why that is, it is because your families could not take responsibility. It means that your families could not become one with the Teacher’s family. Cain and Abel must become one, must they not?
Have the Teacher’s family and the 36 Couples become completely one?
They have not become one. The 72 Couples have not become one centering upon the 36 Couples, and the 120 Couples have not become one centering upon the 72 Couples. Thus, though the whole must become one centering upon the Teacher’s family, because it has not become so, one must set up a condition for becoming one with the Teacher’s family.
In setting up that condition, the husbands will not do it. Originally, when the Teacher gave the Blessing, one ought to have become completely one, centering upon the bridegroom and accomplishing the Four Position Foundation and working in the Teacher’s stead. Yet because the men could not fulfill that responsibility, the man cannot stand before God. The woman too cannot stand before God. Neither can stand. Yet to gather this up again, one sets up the woman.
The Providence of Restoration is the restoration of the Four Position Foundation, is it not?
For that, one must have the cooperation of mother and child, must one not? It means that before a horizontal standard, one must have the cooperation of mother and child. In the present age, one must have not only the cooperation of mother and son but even the cooperation of mother and daughter. That is why this time all the women are being sent out.
The Teacher stands in the stead of your husbands. So one must listen to the Teacher’s command and go out. You must take hold of the foundation of the cooperation of mother and child. Motherhood that cannot take hold of that foundation will die. Is it not so?
Because a foundation was established upon which one can accomplish the Four Position Foundation centering upon God and have the cooperation of mother and child, the women were mobilized. Because your husbands are of the archangel restoration type, the command to mobilize was not given to them. This is the reason only the women came to be mobilized.
Then what is the Second Seven-Year Course?
It is a period in which your families must become Abel families. Because it is a course for determining this, in order for your families to fulfill their responsibility as Abel families, you must restore a Cain family.
If an Abel family thus restores a Cain family, what becomes of it? It becomes a tribe. You must become Tribal Messiahs. The 430 Couples correspond to this Tribal Messiah. This bears a worldwide character. Everything must fit the conditions in this way.
During the Second Seven-Year Course, what you must do is to stand in a position that stands in the stead of an Abel family. For that, one must bless a Cain family.
Then what sort of family is a Cain family?
It is a family that you yourselves can bless, just as the Teacher blesses your families. Only when one has made such a family can you go forward before God. This is a formula.
Three Crosses Must Be Indemnified in One Family
Then, seen centering upon the Unification Church now, is there a Cain family?
If the established churches do not oppose and stand upon a tribal foundation, then, seen centering upon the tribal sphere, Christianity becomes the Cain tribe. Because such a time is drawing near, the Teacher is preparing the interdenominational movement. Hereafter, if you go out and witness and draw Christians in, you can make a Cain family. Because an age is coming in which one can thus cross over all conditions of indemnity easily and horizontally, one comes to receive the benefit of the age.
There is a time when one must cultivate the foundation of an individual Abel, and a time when one must cultivate the foundation of a family Abel, and a time when one must cultivate the foundation of a tribal Abel. Even setting yourselves before us, there is an age of individual Abel. This is an age centering upon the Teacher as an individual. Next there is an age of family, Abel. Here husband and wife must become one. In a husband and wife becoming completely one, one must set up a standard at which the husbands and wives of the satanic world can absolutely believe and absolutely follow. It will not do if one does not set up that standard. Otherwise, Cain does not submit.
Next are children. Centering upon children, one must become Abel as a parent. That is why the individual cross, the family cross, and next the cross concerning children—these three crosses must be indemnified in one family. Do you understand what I mean?
It is only that the scope is narrow; you too are the same. It means that the Teacher is worldwide. Individually, one must indemnify such a standard, and next, centering upon the Teacher’s family, one must indemnify what the Blessed Families did wrong. What the families of the world did wrong, all that has become a patchwork of rags, what the women did wrong, and what the men did wrong—one must sweep it all away. Ought it not to be so? What has caused women to go to hell and men to go to hell? One must set up conditions of indemnity for all of it and mend that patchwork of rags entirely and set up a condition by which one can go not to hell but to the Kingdom of Heaven. To say it again, it means that unless one becomes a family equipped with a historical tradition and content of the age that Satan cannot accuse, one cannot become an Abel family. So great a cross it is! And one must bear the cross concerning children.
Seen from this perspective, the Teacher bears the representative cross and goes. For you it is only husbands and sons and daughters, but for the Teacher it is complicated. Even seen in a family way, because Seong Jin’s mother did not stand up for the Will, it came to be extended to three generations. That is why Seong Jin is the Adam type, Hee Jin is the Jesus type, and Hyo Jin is the Lord at the Second Advent type. That is, it is formation, growth, and completion.
The second is the Jesus type, and because Jesus was born outside and died outside, Hee Jin too was born in a strange place and died in a strange place. In any case, Providence is so arranged as to become so. The history of indemnity is unavoidable. This year the President of the Association too was in a position of having to shed blood. He simply died while undergoing an operation, but as the second family, he had to become so. Even though he died, it means that our church absolutely suffers no loss. The law of indemnity is something one cannot help.
Seen centering upon the sons, since they are sons representing three ages, is it easy for them to become one? Even seeing about the mothers, since the mothers of three ages have gathered, would that be easy?
One must gather all this up. It is an appalling matter. Moreover, seen centering upon the sons, they are all so arranged as to be stabbed with a knife. It means that it is a position in which one can be smashed to pieces.
Yet one must make that place, which could become the very den of dens of hell, into a Kingdom of Heaven, and make a good family in which God can rest without anxiety and can live for a thousand years and ten thousand years. It means that, otherwise, one cannot conquer the world. Despite this, one must not, not knowing such things, say this and that about the Teacher’s family.
What One Must Do Upon Going Out to the Witnessing Field
For yourselves it is easy. Why? Because the Teacher has done it all; you need only go in one direction. Centering upon the family, you need only fit yourselves to the center of the west if it be the west, or the east if it be the east and go from a position centering upon God, centering upon the standard of one foundation among the Four Position Foundations, of one tribe among the twelve tribes. That is why it means that it is easy for you.
You must go from individual Abel to family Abel and next as far as the age of tribal Abel. Centering upon your families at present, a tribe has not been made. The Blessed Families must become one. If only the Blessed Families become one, the established churches will too, and all will become one. What is this?
Because Jesus could not become one centered upon a tribe, he lost Judaism and lost the nation of Israel too. It means that because he could not gather a tribe centering upon the family, Jesus lost the nation and lost the world. To restore this, in the Unification Church, too, you and the Teacher must become completely one, centering upon the family and taking the tribe as the standard. One must become completely one in the positions of Cain and Abel.
In the past, you and the Teacher passed through the course of Restoration in the position of brothers. Yet, seeing it centered upon the relationship of father and son, you must have a Cain family. At first Abel submits to Cain, and next the parents submit to Abel. Is it not so? For the sake of Restoration it is so. To restore, the parents submit to Abel and give, do they not? Then Abel gives to Cain, does he not? Then, having given completely, one must receive, must one not? One must receive it back. It is a give-and-take action. Is it not so? Seen centering upon you, this is a planar standard of formation, growth, and completion. So centering upon this one carries out the three-stage history of Restoration.
If you yourselves would cultivate a tribal foundation, you must have a Cain family and an Abel family centering upon your family. For that, you must witness. You yourselves must become a model as a family.
First, you must not receive accusations from the members and must not receive the accusations of the spirit world and must not receive Satan’s accusations. Are you living in that way? Is such a family a heavenly family?
From this perspective, you must know that the reason the wives of Blessed Families must be mobilized again lies here. It is to have you take responsibility again for what you could not take responsibility for. When Jesus ascended, God sent the Holy Spirit, a female deity, to the earth and had her carry out the work of resurrection, did He not? It is the same as that work.
That is why, in this period, your conjugal life is not the issue. It means that one must discern and go the road one must go and must carry on a movement to become one centered upon the family Heaven has established. The family members must be completely united.
And centering upon that united family, you must go seeking the people you witnessed to in former days. Do you understand? Why must one go seeking the people one witnessed to in former days? It is because you sought and reared sons and daughters of faith and then stopped.
If, centering upon those sons and daughters of faith, their mother and father become completely one and that family follows, that becomes a condition by which one can recover a Cain family. You must know that in order thus to leave a form of Cain-sphere families before a national standard, one cannot but send you out again. Do you understand?
It means that one must do that. One must love and become one even with the family of a son of faith, even with his mother and father. If one goes about setting up such conditions and if a foundation is cultivated by which you and that family can never be parted, that family comes to stand as a Cain-type family before God.
Next, you must without fail carry on the play of becoming one, centering upon your parents. It means that the Cain-type family is formation, and your parents are growth, and your family is completion. In that sense, one must restore the outward Cain family and must restore one’s own family. You must gather this up.
That is why, when you go out to the witnessing field and succeed, you go to your hometown. Going to your hometown, one restores one’s own mother and father. If that cannot be done, one must restore one’s uncle or relatives. Even among relatives, if possible, one goes seeking an elder brother or an elder sister who has married out and so on, one’s brothers and sisters, and restores them.
Since one would restore according to such Principle and principles, one cannot but go seeking places where there is a bond. Do you understand? Because families are connected by bonds, you must know that to make you go seeking these, we have dispatched you again to the place where you went witnessing. For what is this? It is to make a tribal Abel. Do you understand?
If a tribal Cain and Abel become one, the Unification Church becomes Abel denominationally, and the established churches become Cain denominationally. Yet the Unification Church must stand in a position of having loved the established churches to restore them. That is why the Teacher has, from before the First Seven-Year Course ended until now, loved the individual and loved the family and loved the tribe, the people, the nation. Centering upon the individual, the family, and the tribe to cultivate a tribal foundation, he has unfolded a movement of loving the established churches and a movement of loving and saving the nation. All such things are connected with the family.
Because that is connected with Jesus’ family too, to cross that limit line, the First Seven-Year Course was walked in that way. Christianity can become a Cain-type family and tribal foundation. If Christianity stands in such a place, it comes to submit before Heaven’s Will. Now, too, one goes out to witness and do that.
Because one must thus do it centering upon religion, one goes forward centering upon the interdenominational movement and the movement of a federation of religions. When this cannot be done, one must do it centering upon the nation. One must set up a line of defense centering upon the nation. That is why the Teacher seeks to connect with the nation centering upon the Victory Over Communism Association.
First one gropes out the road of connecting with the nation, and next the road of connecting trans-religiously with countless religions, and next the road of connecting with Christianity. Seen in reverse, this is formation, growth, and completion. Yet when one looks, it means that the formation standard is bigger. It means that the growth standard too is so.
Then how must the Unification Church, which is the completion standard, be?
In fact, the Unification Church ought to be bigger and exert influence so that it can embrace and dance, but it means that this has been turned upside down. That is why one must reinforce this. As a measure of reinforcement, the families must go a road of suffering, a road that the family crosses. Because this is the Principle and its principles, you are being driven forth.
Upon the Road of Restoration Through Indemnity, One Must Be Able to Step Forth Even Forsaking the Family
The Teacher left for North Korea, leaving behind Seong Jin’s mother and Seong Jin. He carried on the play of dividing. And centering upon this divided standard, he came forth, setting up conditions of indemnity until he could find them again. It is the same as the history of the Second Advent. North Korea is like paradise in the spirit world. There, praying to greet a new time, I dreamed of coming down to South Korea, which is the new foundation. Having come to South Korea, I sought to cultivate a new foundation again, but at that time the Teacher’s family was not in a position where it could become one. That is why complicated problems have unfolded until now.
To go this road, the Teacher, too goes, forsaking the family. You, too, have not yet taken hold of a complete place where you can find the family. It means that it is the same position.
So it means: do not resent your husbands from a position of being able to step forth, forsaking the family. One must not resent but must uphold them with a grateful mind and go forward. It means that one must not resent because your family is being set forth upon a road of suffering for the Will’s sake. One must do so just as the Teacher did. Since the Teacher too did such a thing centering upon the family, you too must do such a thing centering upon the family. Must one do it, or must one not?
The Teacher faced the communist world and the satanic world north of the thirty-eighth parallel, but because you face inside and outside centering upon the Teacher in this South Korea, it means that you are happy even so. It means that if in such an environment you cannot step forth forsaking the family, restoration through indemnity does not come about. Do you understand what I mean?
I met Seong Jin’s mother after seven years. Therefore, even though you are made to suffer for seven years, you must go, giving thanks to the end. If you do not give thanks to your husbands, that family cannot be restored. That is why, when one cannot take responsibility, the history of indemnity remains.
If by chance you cannot fulfill that responsibility, even your sons and daughters are caught up in it. If it becomes so, your sons and daughters must fulfill that responsibility.
Seen in this light, the history of restoration through indemnity is unavoidable. So one cannot but indemnify even while undergoing every sort of interrogation.
Because this is the mission you must do in this age and the course you must go, you must know that today you cannot but offer everything and make a general advance for this. Can you do so? (“Yes.”)
Do you know what suffering Seong Jin’s mother underwent taking Seong Jin with her? She had to go alone, taking Seong Jin. She had to fight alone and go seeking Heaven. She had to cross the thirty-eighth parallel and go forward holding a mind by which she could serve for the Will’s sake. You, too, are the same.
You must know that you are now placed in such a destiny, and know that these people and the world hang upon you, and go knowing too that the last road of suffering of the cross for tribal restoration is drawing near before us. This is the Second Seven-Year Course, and what decides life and death is the Second Seven-Year Course.
You, too, are the same. If the Teacher is in the position of parents, in the position of God, you are in the position of a son. Is it not so? You must know such things.
Therefore, it means that you have an important responsibility to accomplish, centering upon these people, the foundation of tribal restoration. Originally, this was a mission Jesus had to do.
Jesus had to restore the family of Joseph and the family of Zechariah. He had to carry out a family-level restoration of Cain and Abel and thereby prepare a tribal framework. Yet it means that that was not done. Because individually Jesus and John the Baptist became Cain and Abel, and in a family way the family of Joseph and the family of Zechariah became Cain and Abel, one could restore all at once.
Had that been so, the tribal Abel standard would have been determined. Had that been so, Judaism would have stood before Heaven, and if Judaism stood before Heaven, the nation too would have stood before Heaven. It means that restoration comes about. The problem is that, in a family way, the family of Joseph and the family of Zechariah could not become one. You must know that that is why Jesus came to die.
Seen centering upon yourselves, you yourselves are in a messianic position. It means that it is a position of the Messiah. Toward your husbands, it is the position of a maiden. That is, it means that it is the same as the position of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, who are placed in a position of having to come again. So one must pass through a period in which one can meet again on the day of the Second Advent, and this is the Second Seven-Year Course. It means that it is your course of Restoration. By going this road, one can go to the Third Seven-Year Course without difficulty. That is because it makes national restoration possible.
During this period, the communists in North Korea will say something about invading the South and so forth. That is why the five years from now until 1974, until the Second Seven-Year Course ends, are a period of crisis. On the day when South Korea hereafter stands before the Will, Kim Il-sung of North Korea will automatically be taken away by Heaven. When Cain and Abel are thus restored, a time comes when the Parents of the heavenly kingdom can be seated. One must go forward as far as that standard.
Ask Yourselves Whether You Love This Nation More Than Your Child and Husband.
Now the nation too, and the church too, and the family too, and the individual too are corrupt. So one must restore all of this. One must restore the individual-level Cain and Abel, and restore the family-level Cain and Abel, and restore the tribal-level Cain and Abel, and restore the people-level Cain and Abel, and restore the national-level Cain and Abel. Only when even one Abel nation comes forth in this way does an Eve nation come forth.
The Eve nation is Japan. Fitting for that time, Japan has been established until now. Without an Abel-type national standard being set up, an Eve nation cannot come forth. Only when a national foundation comes forth that has restored the original standard and completely removed the Satan of the satanic world can an Adam nation and an Eve nation come forth. Then where is the archangel nation? It is China. In Asia, China and Japan and Korea become the archangel nation, respectively, the Eve nation, and the Adam nation.
If one looks at China, those who rule China are the sons of Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Ching-kuo took responsibility for the political field and Chiang Wei-kuo for the military field. Thus, these two brothers are leading China, and these two brothers are the problem. In Japan too, Prime Minister Sato and Prime Minister Kishi are brothers. Is it not so? Why is that? It is so because the time has come.
If it is asked how Korea is arranged, Korea too is arranged as Cain and Abel. Therefore, the inner center and the outer center must become one. It means that the present government and the Unification Church must become one.
If it becomes so, because a standard at which one can become completely one at the third stage has not yet been set up, the Cain world, the Cain nation, the Cain family all enter. Do you understand? The Abel family, the Abel nation, the Abel world all enter and are restored, and Asia too naturally comes to stand before Heaven’s Will. If Asia becomes so and an Abel-type standard is set up, what comes next? The next one must do so, centering upon Europe.
If Asia is of the Adam rank, who is the partner?
It is of the Eve rank. Precisely, America is of the Eve rank. Then Germany becomes of the archangel rank. If it is only restored in this way, the world becomes one. It means that this is unavoidable. It is Heaven’s Will that one must pass through such a process.
Seen from this perspective, these three nations, America, Germany, and Japan, are caught on one hook. Why is that? It is because, on the day when a master who can lead the world comes forth and appears upon the world stage, they must be equipped with environmental conditions by which all can be drawn along.
Today, the communists too are not ruling the world, and the democratic camp too is not ruling the world. It means that all are falling away. Because one can rule this world only by being equipped with a thought centering upon the Way of Heaven, it means that one must be equipped with an inner foundation that can be so. Then the outer satanic world collapses.
If one looks these days, the families of the world have all collapsed.
When one looks at a nation like America, is there a family?
It means that the mother does not recognize the child and the child does not recognize the mother. Even between parent and child, if one eats a meal, one pays money and goes. It means that it is the same as strangers. The family too and the nation too, centering upon individualism, have all collapsed.
So now there is nowhere to go, even if one wanted to. Shall one follow the family or follow the nation? Because there is no road to go on, one stands about blankly. One man and one woman meet and simply go on like that…. Because they know there is no road to go but that, confusion unfolds. At this time, if Satan strikes, all fall.
That is why we are the people who, at this present point when the fruit is ripening, must settle accounts with this and set up a new historical tradition. It is we Blessed Families who must set up an individual historical tradition and set up a family historical tradition and set up a people-level, national, and worldwide tradition.
Knowing that this is the moment at which one must cross over with such problems before oneself, your families must become one and be completely made one and cross over. Moreover, one must overcome this three-year course from 1970 to 1972. You must know that a family-level three-year course lies across the way. Do you understand? (“Yes.”)
You must pray for this. It means each time you give the baby milk, ask yourself in return, “Do I love this nation and this people more than this baby?” And it means, ask yourself, “Have I loved these people more than I like and love my husband?”
Moreover, it means letting the husbands also ask themselves whether they love this nation and this people more than their wife and children. Without doing so, one cannot go to the heavenly kingdom.
Since one would set up such a traditional thought and such conditions, it means that one must forsake the family and go seeking the nation’s sake and must go for the world’s sake. You must know this.
