The road we members of the Unification Church walk is not a road we walk as individuals. Furthermore, although God alone administers the Providence of Restoration (복귀섭리), that will is a historical will.
We know that in the process of history there is a past, there is a present, and there is a future. Therefore, you must know that the road we walk is the road that had to exist in the past, the road that must exist in the present, and the road that must exist in the future. That road is not different from the past, not different from the present, and not different from the future. The past too is that road, the present too is that road, and the future too is that road. We must pass through that road.
Seen from this viewpoint, the question is whether the road we walk can indeed represent the past, the present, and the future. In other words, we know that the question is whether the course from the moment one is born as a life upon this earth, through living, and on to the spirit world is a course that can represent history, represent the age, and represent the future.
The mission of human beings seen from the origin of existence
Therefore, however small I am in the midst of the process of history, and however small we individual beings living within it may be, we do not end as a single individual being.
Originally, we human beings were not born by our own will. Nor were we born under a plan by which parents themselves decided to give birth to such and such a son or daughter. Thus, we were not born at the demand of our parents.
If we dig into the origin by which we came to exist, centering on the Providence of God, we cannot but see that we human beings were sent upon this earth as a life that is one with the origin of that Providence and that bears the grave responsibility of forming a relationship with the history that moves centering on that origin.
Then, when we consider that we human beings were born having formed a relationship with God’s providential will and God’s historical administration, we human beings must not remain as selves placed in the present reality. If you are a young person in your twenties, you must not remain as a young person in your twenties. We must feel the fact that we are, undoubtedly, substantial beings who can decide such a history and represent such a Providence.
Such a self—in other words, a self awakened to history and awakened to heavenly law, a self who centers on Heaven and knows Heaven and knows history, and not only that, but a self who can take responsibility for Heaven and take responsibility for history—is what countless prophets and righteous forebears longed for. The road that all the people who came and went in the ages of history longed for and sought was, undoubtedly, to find and establish a self who could represent history and represent Heaven’s administration and to pursue the victorious appearance of having fulfilled the mission before that history and having fulfilled the mission before the Providence.
In such a historical process, when we look today at one individual being—Kim so-and-so if he is Kim so-and-so, Park so-and-so if he is Park so-and-so—that individual is not a simple matter. If you pull out this one individual, his ancestors will come out attached to him. Not only that, the countless clans on this earth that have relationships of lineage will come out attached. If you pull them all out in this way, the ancestors of those clans will come out attached, and if you press further, one being comes out.
If the people of the Republic of Korea are the descendants of Dangun, then they will all come out attached, following Grandfather Dangun. If you go up a little further, the world can come out attached, and if you go up a little further, God can come out attached. Thus, centering on me alone, the clan is connected, the people are connected, and the humankind of the world is connected. Not only that, but even God, who created humankind and who is the origin of all existence, is connected.
When we consider the fact that I was born as the child of certain parents among some particular clan in the midst of God manifesting upon this earth, the humankind of the world manifesting, the countless prophets and righteous forebears who came and went in the past manifesting, our ancestors manifesting, and our people manifesting, then what mission does such a one as I bear?
Although I was born after history, I must become a person of before history. This means that fallen humankind bears the destiny of having to cross over this history and this age. And the person who can cross over that destiny is a person near the Last Days (끝날), and the more such a person he is, the graver his responsibility.
My position, which must win the final victory
Then what kind of person is such a band, such an individual, who can decide the final victory? There must be some particular people, but before there are particular people, there must be a particular clan.
Moreover, before there is a particular clan, there must be a particular family, and before there is a particular family, there must be a particular individual. It is an individual in this position. Therefore one cannot but be awakened to the fact that it is not an “I” that is hanging on the world, but an “I” that can embrace the world and go forward.
Seen through such a historical Providence and seen through the process of history, the one who can bring the final purpose of providential history to its conclusion is neither God nor the people of the past, but we of the present. The closer the Last Days approach, the more it will be crossed over through one person. When it is said that a gate through which human beings must pass is opened, that gate is not opened by many people but by one person. It is opened by a person representing a clan if it is a clan, by a person representing a people, a person representing a nation, a person representing the world, and further, by a person representing heaven and earth.
Yet whether he represents heaven and earth, or represents the world, or represents the nation, or represents the people, or represents the clan, or represents the family, or represents the individual, he must not be split in two. Standing upon one point of origin, the person who represents the world must be able to represent the nation, the person who represents the nation must be able to represent the people, the person who represents the people must be able to represent the clan, the person who represents the clan must be able to represent the family, and the person who represents the family must be able to represent the individual.
Conversely, the person who represents the individual must be able to represent the family, the clan, the people, the nation, and even the world. In this way, going down it must be that person, and going up it must be that person. You must know that this is the position of us individuals today.
From such an awakened position, the place where I say that I stand in this age, though outwardly it looks like a position representing humankind, representing all the environment, representing the Cosmos, and therefore an exceedingly peaceful, happy and hopeful position, cannot but rather be an exceedingly lonely, sorrowful and weary position. You must know that this is the present position.
Why is that? It is because the world has not yet become one in which I can take such an environment of freedom by my mind; because, seen centering on God’s will, the world has not yet become one in which the will can be accomplished; and because the foundation of hope that humankind can long for has not yet become a foundation that can be inherited and accomplished just as the natural environment we possess is.
When I, standing in the midst of this, come to stand in a position bearing the responsibility of having to lead my family and lead the people, the nation, and the world, this cannot but be a serious matter. It is I who can represent history; I who can represent the age; I who must prepare the origin of the future. Therefore, though my passing through one lifetime is nothing more than the lifetime of one individual, that person’s sensibility, all the emotions that person feels, or all the relationships of the living environment in which that person is placed are not limited to the individual but can represent that of the whole.
One must become one body with the formula of the Providence
Then how must that position be?
It must become a formula. It must become a formula-like position. A formula is not something that A and B can hold differently. When you solve a mathematics problem, you solve it through a formula. In the past, it was solved through that formula, and even after a thousand years have passed, it must be solved through that formula. In this, there is no objection.
Therefore, it is not a formula that can be guaranteed just because I say, “I went this way,” since I can do as I please. Doing as one pleases does not hold up. Only from a position resulting from putting the formula first is the value of that self revealed. The problem lies here.
Then what in the world is that one formula which humankind has been seeking through the ages of history — the one formula that can represent history, the one formula that, centering on the heart that seeks heavenly law or on the problem of the whole, can become the first origin, the factor of a beginning? Today we use the word “will.” The will is relative. Because I exist, the will exists. The will can be said to be the intention that pursues a purpose. Seen from that position, the problem is “I.”
Therefore, even though there is a formula, it must become one body with me, and I must harmonize with that formula and come to be an appearance that can represent that formula. Otherwise, it cannot become a formula. Therefore, every one of you must become such a self.
From this viewpoint, the one formula-like being who can represent history today, the formula-like being who can represent the age, and the formula-like being who can represent the future—that being does not exist separately, centering on the three ages. That formula is one. Who is that one? It is precisely I.
Therefore, when I stand in such a position, it becomes, “History is for the sake of becoming one with me.” Why? Because it is a formula. And it becomes, “This age too is for the sake of becoming one with me. The future too cannot set itself apart from me.” Why? Because it is a formula.
Then what is the self that can become a formula?
It is not something mathematical that can be indicated by letters. I must become one who can transcend that mathematical content. Then who will be such a historical formula-like being, an age-representing formula-like being, a future-representing formula-like being? Because everything begins from there, passes through it, and comes to resemble it, this becomes the center.
The formula-like central being rooted in love
Today, every religion without fail speaks of a messianic thought. There must be a central being called the savior, or the Savior of the world. If that central being is a being centered on some particular religion, then he is not a formula-like being.
If he is a representative limited to one century, if it is a century, to one age if it is an age, he cannot be a formula-like being. Or, in some historical process from now on, such a representative who can represent the historical age of Asia, if it is Asia, cannot be a formula-like being either. This formula is unchanging from the beginning through all eternity. If this formula were to change, the world that is accomplished through this formula could not but change as well.
If this were something anyone could deform, something human beings could move at will, then one future world could not be established. This formula cannot be moved by us individuals. History cannot move it. This present world cannot move it, and the future cannot move it either.
Moreover, this must become an immovable center. Because everything must be connected through such a center, the world today longs for this central being. It is today’s religion that longs for this as the center of their lives and their purpose and reveals it and proclaims it. And among religions, it is Christianity.
We are putting forward the formula-like center itself, but where has that self put down its roots? It has put down its roots in love. Then what kind of love is that love? It is not the love of man and woman that you speak of. It is God’s love. It has put down its roots in God’s love. It is not such a love as can connect the love of you and me. Because it has thus placed its relationship in God’s love, that relationship possesses a relationship of love together with history. It became a relationship upon such a foundation.
Therefore, that love does not center on me alone. It represents history; it is a love that has formed a relationship together with the age. It is God’s love, which becomes the standard of that beginning that continues eternally even into the future.
If that is so, what kind of road is our road?
Through a formula-like course, we must be able to express God’s historical love, reveal God’s love for the age, and act on behalf of the beginning of future love. Standing in such a position, we must become formula-like individuals who are not ashamed before heavenly law on behalf of the ages of history and formula-like individuals even when seen centering on love. Because it was said that the formula is the center, if there is an absolute being centered on love, we must become relative beings who can bring the result boldly before that absolute being and discuss the age with Him. We cannot but become such beings. Then what kind of position is that position? This is a position that has the relationship of parent and child with the absolute being.
The highest purpose human beings seek
What is the highest purpose that human beings seek today?
It may be to make one world and embrace it. But this is in every respect a relative purpose. However much one has embraced this world, the person who does not have within it a foundation of rest for his heart is unfortunate.
To give an example, suppose that on the day one person among the people of the Republic of Korea makes the world independent; he overcomes all the difficulties of the world himself, takes the world into his hand by his ability, and wins victory as heavenly law desires and achieves worldwide independence, and thus meets such a joyful day. Yet suppose that on that joyful day, at that hour, he lost the one person he loved beyond compare upon this earth—that is, in the very moment when he could rejoice at having found the world, he collided with the moment of losing the absolute object of love that his self requires. Let us consider the question of what would become of him.
When we think of that place, would he say, “I hoped to take dominion over this world as I wished, and the moment of that purpose for which I staked my life has come, so I need only this moment and I do not need the beloved object”? Would he say, “Only this is what I need”? That is not the problem — rather, if there were a way to prevent the person he loves from dying, he has a heart that wants to save the person he loves even at the cost of sacrificing this day of having found the world. Seen from this viewpoint, it is not the relative world that is the problem, but love, which can become the inner foundation of the heart (심정). You will be able to feel this in the daily life you live.
Suppose a certain person possessed gold, silver, and treasures that he could boast of in the world and gathered great wealth by sweating blood, and then his parents came to die. If he is a person who emphasizes and values the heart of loving his parents, then if there were a way for those parents to live, he would put in all the wealth he thinks precious for that. Would he not be able to cast away all the outward things he considers precious? And parents who love their child, too, if their child came into such a fate, to save that child would want to save him by putting in even their life, not to mention outward things.
Considering all these matters, the formula-like origin centering on oneself is God’s love. It was said that the relationship of God and us human beings is the relationship of parent and child, and this position of the parent-child relationship is a position beyond compare. Here no bargaining is demanded. It transcends content that can be calculated by setting up human conditions. It is a position that transcends the relative gap between you and me. God demands such a position of love.
Therefore, we must go from such a position, together with the God who has been seeking us through the ages of history. Rather, we who bear a destiny in which we cannot but go must discover the parent-child relationship in the midst of that road we walk. I must explore that world of heart reflected in the six thousand years of the Providence of Restoration that God has carried out. From the family of Adam, He came through the ages of Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, and passing through the two thousand years of Christian history from Jesus until now, countless prophets and righteous forebears were sacrificed. I must not fail to know the world of God’s blood-stained heart, which has groped its way through that process.
Jesus’ great awakening
Then what is there to worry about in this place?
It is that this has not been known until now. Did the family of Adam know the whole road they were to walk as the family of Adam? They did not know it. Noah, too, while building the ark for one hundred twenty years, left behind one aspect of a life of breaking through the adversity of suffering, but he did not know what providential response he had to bring about in that process and what relationship of historical conviction he had to pass through. It was the same with Abraham, and it was the same with Moses.
Nevertheless, the ignorance concerning the background of God’s heart throughout all the ages of history must be brought to light at some time. And it must not be left as merely a historical heart; it must be expressed as the emotion of the age and that historical sorrow must be connected to the present point of today. And so one must be able to take hold of God and comfort Him, not with the sorrow of bygone days but with today’s sorrow. God needs such a son.
A son who can do that must come upon the earth. Because God’s will can be connected to history and the age, and to the age and the future, such a total union of heart must come. A union that can pass through past, present, and future, centering on heart, must come. The one who must unite this is not many people but one person. Who was the person who bore such a mission? It was Jesus.
Jesus came upon this earth and introduced God to the countless multitudes who could not find their direction in this world, like darkness, in this ignorant universe. He spoke the words, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” It is not “The kingdom of heaven has come.” It is coming. Through whom? Through himself.
Then with what does the kingdom of heaven come? It comes together with him. It comes together with him, but with what of his does it come? It came together with his heart. That relationship of the heart is in a position where it must be reflected in history, reflected in the age, and reflected in the future.
Seen from this viewpoint, the one who appeared to possess the value of a central self that could accomplish the reflection of heart from the central position representing all the ages of history is Jesus. And so Jesus honored such a self of his own and made the value of his self certain and said that in loving God there was no one but himself who could love in that way. What he proclaimed out of such an awakening were the words, “I am the only begotten Son of God.” He qualified as the only begotten son. Centering on what were the words “only begotten son” spoken? They were spoken, centering on God’s heart.
Then would there be only a begotten son!
Who is the only begotten daughter?
There was none. Because there was no only begotten daughter, Jesus’ desolate road remained. For the only begotten son to select and take an only begotten daughter, the responsibility as an only begotten daughter must be fulfilled. Yet because the countless religions of the ages of history until now were for the sake of establishing one man, it was not women who took responsibility. Then, what is meant by the consummation of the history that can establish that one man? It is not the world becoming void and the world being judged that is the problem. It is the problem of one son being born who can inherit God’s heart.
Seen centering on God’s love centering on heart, there must be an awakened son who can represent the resurrection of history from an absolute position. It was in such a position that Jesus Christ said, “God is my Father.”
This is a great awakening. He said, “God is not only my Father, but He loves me alone. And that love is a love that no one until now has received. It is a love that has begun for the first time through me.” That is why he spoke the words “only begotten son.”
Then what would there be behind the heart of the only begotten son? Dwelling there is God’s heart, which has woven God’s lonely history more than his loneliness. And so he devoted his whole life to that heart. Therefore, to leave that age behind, God’s heart, which had labored until then, was reflected there, and he looked upon the reality of that time through that heart. He saw the present reality through God’s heart, which looks upon the future kingdom of heaven. That began through Jesus.
Jesus is the resurrected body of history, the unified body of the present, and the origin of the future
Such an awakened self is a self that can be the resurrected body of history, the unified body of the present, and the origin of the future. You must consider here whether the one who stands in a position of being able to reveal a formula-like self upon this universe is not the Messiah.
If Jesus goes east, God too follows, and history too follows. The countless spirit people who have passed through the history of bygone days and gone to that world, and of course even the sages and men of virtue, cannot but follow him. The countless multitudes on this earth cannot but follow, and the countless multitudes yet to come cannot but follow him.
Then what must one follow?
One must follow the life of Jesus’ mind. Why is that? Because that life of the mind is content related together with God, and that content related together with God’s will is connected to the world and to the future. You must know this. So the question is whether Jesus Christ was not the only one who could determine a formula-like self before humankind.
The history he looked upon was what the sages and wise men who came and went in the ages of history had eagerly awaited, but the age he looked upon was a time when the oppressed peoples within the Roman Empire were longing for liberation in the midst of dire distress. That is why Jesus had to determine a crossing point of a new dimension in a reality in which the crossroads of death of fallen humankind had not yet been concluded together with the whole world.
Therefore, if Jesus says “Go east,” one must go east, and if he says “Go west,” one must go west. It is absolute. This being absolute applies not only to the world. It is so with God, so with the spirit world, and so with the future. If he moves, one must move together with him; if he is still, one must be still together with him.
World unification is possible through a formula nation
What kind of place is our Unification Church today?
If I ask you what kind of place the Unification Church is, you say, “What does it do? It is a place that holds group weddings.” Is that so? Then for what purpose are group weddings held? What are they for? “What for? It is men and women meeting.” Is that so?
For what reason are group weddings held? If Jesus is one formula-like being representing men, then there must be a formula-like being representing women. Therefore, had there been a formula-like being of woman before that formula-like being of man, a formula-like origin of the family would have come about. Yet in the ages of history until now, a formula of the family has not appeared. That is why countless families wander about.
Because a formula of the family did not come forth, there is no formula of the clan. Because a formula of the clan did not come forth, there is no formula of the people. There is no formula of the people and no formula of the nation, and therefore the nations of the earth today are in a position of running this way and that, searching for such a nation. Where will these nations go, and where will the world composed of those nations go? The future world is dark. Therefore, on the day one nation appears that can say, “The world must be like this on behalf of history, must be like this on behalf of the age, and must be like this on behalf of the future,” the world will be unified and united through that nation, through that formula nation.
What is there in that nation?
In that nation, it is not I alone who exist. It is being together with God, who has labored together with history. The countless spirit people who have gone to the spirit world also become citizens of that nation. The people of the present world become citizens of that nation, and the people of the future become citizens of that nation. Yet what must those citizens do? They must inherit the tradition of that nation. That tradition is not in conflict in its relationships of front and back, left and right, above and below. It is united.
Considering such matters, what is the greatest problem here?
A formula nation is necessary. Yet for a formula nation to come forth, a formula people are indispensable. For a formula people to come forth, a formula clan is indispensable, and for a formula clan to come forth, a formula family is indispensable. Moreover, for a formula family to come forth, a formula individual is indispensable. Therefore, eventually, the problem is me.
The meaning and standard of the formula
Those selves called “man” and “woman” must become formula-like people. Upon the individual being called “I,” not only God but also everything is hanging. That is why the formula is strict and merciless. Whatever does not conform to it cannot be permitted at all.
What does the word “formula” mean?
A formula is a public method; “public” refers to the multitude, and “method” refers to a road. It refers to a direction. However small a standard it may be, if you look at it, there is no place it does not hold, whatever society you go to. That is what a formula is. When one unit comes to possess content that can hold through all the departments of the whole, that becomes a formula. Therefore, a formula has no conflict wherever you go.
Wherever you go, it is resolved according to reason. The world accomplished through that formula has it as its origin wherever you go. A being that rebels against it cannot exist. A being that goes against the formula must be expelled from the ranks of the formula. It must be removed from the ranks of the formula.
Therefore, if there is such a formula-like individual, wherever he goes in the spirit world, and wherever he goes in the world where people live, no one can block him.
Even if he enters the room where God’s beloved sons and daughters are, no one can block him. Wherever he goes on this earth, no one can block him. Moreover, wherever in the future he goes, no one can block him. This possesses a direction that can be guaranteed eternally. Therefore it becomes, “The world accomplished through this can become the origin of integration, and a being not brought about through this cannot subsist.”
Seen from this viewpoint, there must be a standard of that formula. What is that standard, of which it can be said that without it one cannot subsist? It is love. Then what kind of love is that love? It is not human love—that is, not the love of man and woman that you speak of—but God’s love. In this sense it can be said that Jesus Christ truly represented God’s great love. God’s love is a formula. It is an absolute formula. Therefore, there is nowhere God’s love cannot go; there is no conflict, and through that formula, there can be no point of error.
Because you were born as substantial beings responsive to the formula and were born with a relationship centering on the substance, your minds like God’s love. Whether man or woman, all demand that love.
That love is a love broad in scope: parental love, conjugal love, children’s love, sibling love, the love of the clan, the love of the people, the love of the nation, the love of the world. There is no way for us to live apart from this relationship of love. Therefore, apart from the formula, one cannot manifest one’s value. Why do we like love? To reveal our infinite value. This is the same for men and women alike.
Therefore, a person must work through love even in working and must eat through love even in eating. He must sleep through love even while sleeping. If touching and feeling—that is, all the sensations and even the intuitions that enter through the five senses of a human being—were entirely through love, how happy that would be! That can be happiness.
If there were such a place, everyone would seek it out. It can be guaranteed eternally. Love of humankind, of course, and love of nation, love of people, love of clan, and even love of the individual are the same.
If a person can feel a response of love through an exchange of heart in which that one method only becomes three-dimensional and broadens horizontally, nothing can be added to it or subtracted from it through the one origin — how happy would he be! Is this not the highest hope that human beings long for?
Have you today carried on such a formula-like love with this lump of flesh (the body)? You young people here—have you thought of such a love with a love like a rag rolling about? It is trifling. Will it do to have love inferior to a rag? If we speak of cloth, a rag too is cloth, and a tattered garment too is cloth. But among cloth, the question is what kind of cloth it is. The value of cloth differs according to its essence, that is, centering on the origin of its beginning.
When you receive grace, the world looks beautiful
Until now, you speak of what your ideal spouse is like. The words “ideal spouse” are truly fine. However fine the being who becomes your object may be, if you do not possess that foundation, you cannot discover that value. Do you understand what I mean? Where is that which can discover what is fine and what is poor? Unless one is oneself fine, one does not know that self.
Is it perfect when one stands in an immature position and says it is good? When kindergarten children say, “Our teacher is the best,” is that the best? Elementary school children too say, “Our teacher is the best.” But is that teacher the best? Can he be the best? Then where does the problem lie? Oneself is the problem. Because one is oneself good, the teacher looks the best.
If you receive grace, you cannot know how beautiful the world is. You probably have no such experience. The present Unification Church crowd will not do. Before receiving grace, one does not feel that the world is beautiful. But once one receives grace, the whole world looks beautiful. The world is beautiful, but at present you do not know the beauty. Do you understand what I mean? People do not all look like Satan, and even in walking, one feels like one is floating away above the clouds. When one enters the realm of grace, one experiences such things. Even in breathing, how stifling it would be to breathe alone inwardly. When you draw in a long breath, do you not want to draw in everything in the world? When I say I am breathing, everything tries to follow in. It feels as though everything in the world is being drawn in. It must be so with God as well.
If God drew in a breath, would heaven and earth disappear or remain?
They would disappear. And if, due to God drawing in a breath, all His sons and daughters were knocked over and struck dead, would He breathe out suddenly or slowly? It is the same with this world. Does it seem that God breathes or does not breathe? He breathes. Then have you thought about how He breathes? How would a broad flat fish like a skate or a ray breathe? Would it breathe by raising and lowering such a broad, flat body or by raising and lowering its tail?
How would God do it when He breathes?
What is the way for God to breathe with the least difficulty? He would breathe out and in through a round hole. Would it not be so? So if God is to breathe, there must be a hole. That is why the universe is spherical. There is no other way. And the universe must move. For that, all the workings must fit together.
That is why the origin of matter today is wave theory. A wave possessing particles—a wave. What is a wave? Is a wave something that goes up and down at fixed intervals like this? This wave is not that. (He drew on the board.) It is circular. It revolves toward a distance you cannot measure. Only by spherical motion does power come forth.
That is why everything resembles the circle. How fine it would be if things were flat. Are there not many times when something flat is needed? There are more occasions to use it than something round, are there not? How fine it would be if these were all square. Yet everything is round and round. This nose is said to be pointed, but if you look at the tip of the nose, it is rounded. Everything is made that way.
If you enter the world of grace, you can feel such things. Then what will that world be like in which one can feel such things? The sensation in that world must be supersensory. It must be a sensation that can reach the highest wavelength among sensations. Then what kind of sensation is the sensation that can feel the highest wavelength? Is it a place of earning money and rejoicing and dancing? Is it a place of drinking a glass of liquor and dancing because one feels good? No. That sensation starts from love welling up out of the mind. There is no wavelength beyond that.
Jesus, who created the greatest wave in history
Then, since heaven and earth came into being — though it is a fallen history — who is the person who created the greatest, most shocking wave in these ages of history?
It is Jesus Christ. He said, “Love God. Love your neighbor.” It is simple. That is why, when you look at the Bible, it says,
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (Matthew 22:37),”
It was said to be the first commandment. Next it says, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” What do these words mean? They mean to practice God’s love. If one loves in that way, one is connected with God’s love.
Therefore, considering the definition of love in the world, what is it that can connect the beginning and the end of that love? It is God’s love. What is that love like? It returns to human beings by whatever means.
Then where is that end at which God’s love can return and abide?
The end—of course, the son becomes the end. That son becomes the family.
Centering on that son, the family is the end. And what is the end of this world? It is Satanism. Therefore, the reverse side of Satan is the deepest valley if we speak of depth and the highest summit if we speak of height, to which God’s love can return.
Seen from this viewpoint, Jesus Christ discovered something great centering on love. And he practiced it. That is why he cast a great ripple into the ages of history. What he cast to a few people has, passing through thousands of years of history, founded today’s democratic world within the realm of that ripple. Is it not so? “Yes.” Then he cast a ripple, but what kind of ripple did he cast? He could cast no more than the ripple of the bridegroom and bride. He left behind the ripple of intending to become bridegroom and bride, but he could not leave behind the ripple of actually holding the feast and dancing. Did he leave that behind? “He could not leave it.”
It says,
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now (John 16:12).”
— What would those things to say be? Think about it. It would be one of two things: either a bad story or a good story. That thing one cannot bear: if it does not kill one, it makes one live, and if it is not bad, it is a good thing—what is it? What is it that can kill a person and can also make a person bad? It is love. There is nothing but love that can kill to strike one dead and also make one so good.
Then what trifling thing would Jesus have had so much to say about? He means that the kings of the world are all unnecessary. That the citizens too are all unnecessary. That sons and daughters too are all unnecessary. Before there are sons and daughters, there must first be a spouse. Does the beginning of love start from sons and daughters? That is vertical. Unless the horizontal standard comes forth first, the vertical standard is not connected.
Then what is that story?
Have you thought about what it means that he had many things to say but could not say them? There may be people who say, “Well, it must be a story about God.” What do you think it would be? It is the story of love. Then in what way is love? That is the problem. It would be the story, “Love has come to be thus and so, and therefore it must be done this way. Yet the world is barring the way, and Satan is barring the way.”
Know the labor that brought the Unification Church to where it is today
Today, who made it so that you of the Unification Church were brought and seated in such a place as this, fed when the time came, and able to sleep in comfort? Did you make it? To make this, the history of the Unification Church went up and down and tumbled over. Was it so or not?
There is a weight on a balance beam. When you place that weight on the beam, it goes way up and down. If this passes the standard by even a little, it topples. It goes up to ninety degrees, the very top, but if at 89.99 degrees there is an error the size of a speck of dust, it falls over this way. It is not arranged for you to be sitting here and remaining like this. The principle is that 89.9999 degrees becomes so. There it is neither two nor one. It seems not to exist, and it seems to exist. Yet unless everything corresponding to it is placed there, it catches. That is why it goes back and forth without crossing over.
When at your home they asked you where you were going, if you said, “I am going to the Unification Church to receive the Blessing of 700 Couples,” did your mother and father say they would hang themselves and die? Did they, or did they not? Has there been a time when some person came and made an uproar, saying, “Give back our daughter! What kind of business is this, that Moon so-and-so of the Unification Church steals other people’s daughters?” “No.” Have you witnessed such a thing? “We have not.” I have witnessed such things many times. (Laughter)
They cried, “Give back our father! Give back my husband! Give back my son! Give back my daughter!” but I drove them out, locked the door, and held the wedding. That wedding was the finest. Have you heard such news? “Yes.” Then is your time now better, or was that time better? “That time was better.” Then why was that time better? Because they tasted two worlds. If one just stays put, one does not know the taste. Because of whom? Did they taste two worlds, or not? A tongue that does not know these tastes—salty, sweet, sour, and bitter—is a dead tongue. So a person must taste the salty and be able to say, “So this is what salty is,” and must also be able to taste a saltiness that can be the standard of ninety degrees and say, “This is the standard.” A little further in, it is bitter. Up to here it is salty.”
If you go to some young men and women and do something so that they clap, do their eyes fly open or not? Why do they fly open? Probably, if people here have eaten their fill of rice and even meat and are full, then if someone says he will give them barley cake, they will not open their eyes. Even knowing that it is being handed out, they will not open their eyes. But if a table of food is brought in, can they keep from opening their eyes? A person who says he is confident he will not open his eyes is a person without feeling.
The cord that binds mind and body
So what did I say the problem is? Love is the problem. If you sift through all the words of the Bible, that is it. Several hundred people are in it, and ten thousand kinds of content are in it, but if you pair it up and lift it, does it lift or not? “It lifts.” Then this must be tied—there are two strands, are there not? It is bound together like this, and this binding is fascinating. The binding becomes like this (He wrote on the board and explained). Of course it comes out like this, but this tip and this tip come to stand in the same position. Then in tying, there is something that goes in the middle, is there not? Is this middle tied or not tied? Because it is not tied, God is in there.
Then are your body and your mind tied or not tied? Are they floating about like clouds? They must be in contact somewhere, must they not? “Yes.” Then think about how they are in contact. They must be attached somehow, must they not? Is the body hanging on the world and the mind is hanging on Heaven? Let us attach these and make the cord worldwide. On this everything is hanging. In the world, everything must be hanging, must it not? Is it not so? “Yes.” How is it hanging? It is this formula. (He wrote on the board.) There must be a formula, must there not? Here the world of all creation and here the spirit world will be connected.
Yet with what must this be bound? What is it that, even when bound, does not complain of being bothered but can be pleased? With what is it good to bind? It is love. And where is the essence of that love? It is inside a circle.
Love, even when it enters into the marrow of the bones, does not stay still but spins round and round until the mind grows dizzy. People like that. A love that makes the mind dizzy is made that way. And what happens after the mind grows dizzy? If it lasts long, one goes mad. It is the world that spins the most. There is no other way to express it. A mute who has eaten honey cannot explain, but he knows the taste of honey. Is it not so? Yet a person who has not tasted it does not know, even after a thousand years, the taste of the honey that Mute ate. But that mute who has eaten honey knows the taste of honey. It is exactly like that. Therefore, when we come into such a position, what shall we do? I analyzed all of that long ago.
Then what kind of world is the world that is said to come in the future? Is it a world for fighting? A world for making people suffer? It is a peaceful and unified world. Because I have taught you the strategy for establishing that world, you must fulfill that responsibility. That is the problem. Then what must one become first? Will you first become a parent? No. If you have come to know that there is a great one, you must become the son of that great one.
Then what do you do after becoming His son?
Because that great one has love, you must receive His love. You must be able to say of the only love, “It is mine.” You must represent the realm of existence of that great one. To represent that realm of existence, everything must be indemnified. Otherwise, one collapses.
Children who center on God and can receive God’s love, who can be filled to the full with that love for thousands and tens of thousands of years — that is the best. Human beings who can do that are needed. Seen from that viewpoint, in the Bible, what relationship did Jesus seek to form with the being who is the absolute center of the universe? A relationship of love. An academic relationship is trifling too. A relationship of authority is trifling too. Learning and authority alike are governed by love.
The person closer to the formula is the ideal spouse
I do not know well, but I have heard it said that Madam Yuk, President Park’s wife, went only as far as high school. Yet though there are university professors and the wives of ministers and doctors, do they bow their heads before that woman who receives the president’s love or not? “They bow.”
If they do not bow, a man’s neck may fall, and a woman’s neck may fall at that woman’s word. So then, is knowledge precious, or is love precious? “Love.” Is authority precious, or is love precious? “Love.” So you do know. Is it really so? “Yes.” Is it truly so? “Yes.” Is it absolutely so? “Yes.” Then will you seek it even at the cost of laying down your neck? “Yes.” One must give not a hundred but a thousand necks and seek it. Have you thought about such a thing? That is love.
Until now religions cry out about God’s love. Then we say, “What kind of love is that love? Show it to us.” Speaking of it a hundred times, a thousand times in words is of no use. Yet there is a certain road. That road of love is not one that goes about advertising itself.
Does a mother love her child while saying, “Hey, son! Come here, come here! I love you”? Love is not something done with advertisement. It is done quietly and stealthily. So if one were to speak there, there would be words that could take the whole world and have more besides. Is love not that which is filled to the full with nouns beyond the intent of loving? Whether man or woman, it is all that love. Even so, it is troublesome if one looks at it through glasses.
For what reason was it that Jesus said, “I have many things to say, and I am stifled, and something is thus and so…”? Here it was not the nation that was the problem, and not the world that was the problem. It was love, centering on himself — formula-like love, absolutely necessary wherever one goes in heaven and earth — that was the problem.
Now then, we spoke of an ideal spouse, but what in the world is an ideal spouse? The ideal spouse before you is a person who receives much of God’s love. Would it not be so? The person standing in a position of being able to be closer to the formula is the ideal spouse.
Who is the person who can be close to that formula?
He is a person close to the hope of the ages of history. He is a person close to the hope of the past, and a person close to the center that present society longs for. Moreover, if there is a beginning of the future, he is a person close to that beginning. One must seek such a person. Then, considering the question of where such a person is, his ancestors must be good. That is a formula. It is the formula for finding that person. Looking at the character of those people too, they must be able to receive God’s love. One can know that it is such a person.
The essence of love
Then what is love? What is the essence of love?
It is not a violation, not coercion, and not conquest. Then what must be made first? A horizontal line must be made. The beginning of love must first be a formula-like horizontal line. It starts from a horizontal line. From that horizontal line, a new wave surges in. Looking at your lifetime, when you are young, you pass through adolescence and rise like this. Around this point, does one rise or fall? “One rises.” One rises like this and then wavers—can one rise again? When it reaches saturation, does it become a horizontal line and then descend or ascend? “It descends.” It descends.
Then when is the time of the horizontal line in one’s lifetime?
When is that horizontal-line period in which one wants to commune with all creation and become friends and form relationships? It is the period of adolescence. When you watch young people of adolescence holding a marathon race, who takes first place in that marathon? Though one does not run, first place is oneself, is it not? Why is that? It is because, though one does not run directly, one sits watching that race and runs. Everyone wants to become a marathon runner. Is it not so? When one sees a rider who rides a horse well, one becomes the rider oneself. One is completely clear about it. Is it so or not? That is why the ideal is important even in the horizontal line. The horizontal line of a three-dimensional world must open up.
A woman, too, when she becomes a young lady of twenty, sees the leaves falling and sinks into sentiment, saying, “Ah!” What is this? A foundation that can absorb everything is being prepared. You must know that such an age comes, connecting the whole. That is the period of adolescence.
And so one draws a horizontal line in this world of space. In drawing a horizontal line, there must be something there where it descends, must there not? There would be some gateway, would there not? Is it good or not good to descend from the horizontal line? “It is not good.” Let those who say it is good raise their hands.
If there is one, may he be struck by lightning! Since there is no such person, let whoever would be struck by lightning be struck, whoever would die die, and whoever would perish perish. Well, do you want to descend? “We would rather not descend.” Then would it be all right to descend a little? “It will not do.” It will not do. How much will it not do? If it is ten, would it do to descend only nine? “Absolutely not.” It absolutely will not do.
Then God too will be thinking about how to maintain this. To maintain this, a man is necessary, and a woman is necessary. When a grandfather says to a grandmother, “My beloved one!” — Young people find it tiresome even to look at that grandmother’s appearance, yet that grandfather says, “My beloved one, hee hee…” like this. Does he, or does he not? “He does.” Have you lived it? You have not lived it, but does it seem so? Young people have the interest of that time. This is what is necessary. This is why a man needs a woman. That is what I think. When I look at it quietly, my thinking does not seem to be wrong.
Jesus, who needed a historical wife
What does one desire most in adolescence?
What is it that one desires absolutely? Whether men or women, looking even at yourselves, you desire what pertains to the opposite sex. And you play well. I do not know, but it seems so. Is it so with you, or not? The eyes of a demure young lady try to become Satan’s eyes. Is it so or not? Answer honestly. They try to become so, do they not? Looking at men, they are a little different from women.
Then do men try to become Satan in adolescence, or not? “They do.” Men act unbecomingly on that account. Really, that is how it is. And so, you men! I once went to a theater, and a soldier came, and since two young ladies were sitting there, he went and sat beside them and, tapping their knees, asked, “Where are you from?” Why is that? (Laughter) In such matters men have the aptitude of a man.
Now then, men and women, you came out to catch one another, did you not?
What sort of person will you catch? Did you come out to catch, or to be caught? Since there is no answer, I am put out of humor and cannot speak anymore. How is it? Did you come to catch, or to be caught? You came to catch, did you not? In catching, to what extent will you catch? This is of a thousand forms and ten thousand aspects. If it is, “If I miss this chance, it is a disaster. The chance comes only once. How will the women try to be caught? How would they like to be caught? At any rate, they will want to be caught somehow. Is it so, or not?
Then who is the most serious among serious people?
Among people who have gone mad, how serious would be a person who has gone mad because of love! You do not know, but as I walk along the road, I glance and see. I wonder why that person is like that. A person who has gone mad because of love behaves differently.
What in the world would be most serious for a person? Think about it. It is money, is it not? “No.” Then what would be serious? “Love.” There is a forty-year-old aging bachelor who is a millionaire. Could he say, “Oh, my money! Are you my beloved?” “He could not.” Setting aside all such bundles and becoming serious, what does he need in the end? He needs his spouse. So when such a person has a spouse, can one treat that person carelessly?
What are the words absolutely needed here?
The words that would testify are the words “I love you.” Yet there are many kinds of love. There is a love of the street, and there would also be a love that looks after another. But what kind of love is the love that can draw the interest of all human beings? It is absolute love. Does such absolute love come out of the love of men and women today? That is why God is necessary.
Jesus knew such an inner situation, yet he could not spread it upon this earth. But Jesus sought to determine his spouse upon a cosmic horizontal line. So although he was born in the family of Joseph, he did not think of seeking a spouse in that village centering on Joseph’s family. Because he was a historical son, he required a historical wife, one representing history, standing in a position accompanied by God’s heart. Because he was a historical man, he needed a historical wife.
Then where does a historical man come from?
He comes from the Garden of Eden before the fall. Where does a historical woman come from? She comes from the midst of fallen hell. Then, for a historical man to seek a historical woman, could he say to that woman who has gone into hell, “Come up. Come up?” To make her come up, one must ask her to come up when there is a possibility of her coming up. Why is that? Because she is bound fast in the satanic world.
How is she bound? That people and nation surround her as a fence, and next the citizenry is set up as a fence, and even the clan and the family form a fence and block her. Everything has been tied up tight with fences. So there is one nation, and a citizenry, and a clan, and a family, and within that family I am bound fast. I am bound like this. How must the fall be understood? Seen centering on God, what has become of us human beings? We are bound fast like this. (He explained while writing on the board.) What about the man? It is the same with the man.
God’s Providence for the earth
Then what must God do to release human beings who are bound fast like this?
When we think that there are God’s beloved sons and daughters bound fast in the midst of this world, in the midst of nations, God cannot but consider whom He will save first. And so, “Let us save them according to principle and the Principle” — this was the history for saving the man.
Then, concretely, what must be done to save that one man?
A fence like that nation must be made. It must be a fence of a nation that can welcome, not a fence that opposes the son. Is it not so? “Yes.” Next, a fence of the people, a fence of the clan, and a fence of the family must be made.
This is the nation of Israel. The nation of Israel is a nation established for the Messiah, saying, “Lord! Please come.” The people of Israel too were for the Messiah, and Judaism too was for the Messiah, and Joseph’s family too was for the Messiah, and Zechariah’s family too was for the Messiah. Only by making such fences can the work of history be done, is it not so?
To save what has been surrounded like this, liberation must occur. Centering on Jesus, my individual self must be liberated and the family must be liberated. Next, the clan must be liberated. Here, the clan refers to the Jewish believers. Next, the people must be liberated, and when the people are liberated, the nation must be liberated. Having liberated the nation, one must go here and save this. Is it not so? To save this, the nation must collide with nations. This must have people colliding with people. This has clan colliding with clan, and this has family colliding with family. Such battles remain. (He explained after writing on the board.) This is God’s Providence for the earth until now.
And so He sought the son and sent that son to this earth intending to carry out the Providence of Restoration, but Jesus ended up dying on the cross. What was accomplished by dying on the cross is that, by becoming a spiritual man, he could not perform the role of a man, but by sending the Holy Spirit, who is the spiritual Eve, he carried out the history of restoration. Carrying out the work in this way broadened it. It is Christianity that has been building up the realm of the bride that was lost here. Do you understand? “Yes.” It is simple.
Then is it enough to accomplish this only spiritually? It must be accomplished spiritually and physically. Then what must be done to accomplish it spiritually and physically? To accomplish this is the mission of the Unification Church. For that, there must be a relationship according to the Principle. It is arranged so.
Here, when you come to stand in a position where you can love spiritually and physically, what would be the thing most needed? A nation centering on spirit and body is needed. A nation that can welcome us who center on spirit and body is needed. Moreover, a citizenry centering on spirit and body is needed. The citizenry of the Republic of Korea is needed.
Next, a clan is needed, and next, a family is needed, and next, an individual is needed. Seen centering on the individual, everything is hanging on this. That is why today we are fighting with the problem of national restoration at stake. Do you understand? “Yes.” If that cannot be done, they cannot be saved. If you do not get this done, you cannot settle in place at all. You cannot settle even a family.
Then, in centering on God, what is the greatest problem?
It is that liberation must come about by passing through such a position. Yet from such a position, is the Unification Church today in a liberated position? (He spoke while writing on the board.) Seen centering on your parents, you have been liberated, have you not? Is it not so? In the old days there was an uproar of killing and saving, but now you have been liberated.
In the old days, if a Unification Church group wedding was to be held, did the parents forgive it? Yet with 36 Couples, 72 Couples… in this way, it has gradually developed toward the wider society. And so, how far has it come? Now it has risen a great deal. But that is spiritual. You must know that it is spiritual. It was done only within our church; it had no relation to the world.
For complete restoration, must there be relation with the world, or not? “There must be.” A relation is a simple thing. By carrying out such a strategy, centering on the sovereign of that nation, on the day the whole welcomes it, through this thought of the family system, the citizenry of that nation are drawn in altogether. Do you understand? “Yes.”
The Unification Church, which unfolds a movement for the liberation of conscience
Then is our group-wedding strategy, that is, the strategy of the group wedding of 700 Couples, a good strategy or a bad strategy? “It is a good strategy.” Centering on this, we will carry out a strategy of a group wedding of some 7,000 couples.
When it comes to about 7,000 couples, we will mobilize all the district leaders and those responsible throughout the country. If 700 couples are done in one nation, then with ten nations, how many couples is it? It is 7,000 couples, is it not? With a hundred nations, it is 70,000 couples.
Therefore, to make 70,000 couples, I tell you to go into a hundred nations and witness. If a hundred nations each do only 700 couples, it becomes 70,000 couples. If it is said that 70,000 couples were gathered from the world and a group wedding was held in the Republic of Korea, will this world come into our realm or not? “It will come in.” There all the variegated five-colored races take part. The white, the Black, the yellow, and so on—the variegated five-colored races are mixed at random, and this way is fine and that way is fine. Looking up is fine, looking down is fine, looking across is fine, and looking back behind is fine. Yet the world today is not arranged that way. When it comes to black and white, black is bad and white is good. It is not that; one must say, “White is fine and black is fine. Above is fine and below is fine.”
Today the communists speak of a liberation movement of laborers and farmers, but our Unification Church speaks of a movement for the liberation of conscience. Do you understand? “Yes.” And so, saying, “Persons of conscience, be mobilized,” we gather people with a “Heave ho! Heave ho!” and whoever does not join in the “Heave ho! Heave ho!” here is not a person of conscience. If we start such a movement in one corner of the Republic of Korea and only gain the recognition that it is better than any other ideology, the matter is great.
If people of conscience are mobilized, everyone will be mobilized. Not to be mobilized will come to mean that one is not a person of conscience. It means one cannot be counted in the ranks.
Therefore, a person of conscience transcends class. Among laborers too there are people of conscience, are there not? “Yes.” People of conscience are bound to be mobilized. The world in which people of conscience can hold sovereignty is the last. Do you understand? “Yes.” A world of sovereignty for laborers and farmers is not the last world. The age in which people of conscience can hold sovereignty is the last.
Then where are people of conscience?
Religious people are somewhat more conscientious than non-religious people. Among religious people too, a person who has tasted God’s love is more conscientious. Those who become God’s sons-in-law and become His sons and daughters are more conscientious people.
For what have you come here? What is the conclusion of your coming here?
It is to become people of conscience. Then where did I say people of conscience are? I said they are among religious people. And among them, the more conscientious people are the members of the Unification Church. And among these, they would be the people who feel God’s love. Such people are more conscientious.
Is a patriot who loves his nation conscientious or not? “He is conscientious.” Even being conscientious, mere conscience will not do. Only a conscientious person who stands with a heart of loving his nation is an absolute patriot. It is the same thing. Thus, a person who stands centering on God’s love is more conscientious.
The position that takes possession of God’s love
Then, within God’s love, what kind of position is the position that takes possession of that love? There is no position apart from that of God’s son-in-law and daughter-in-law and His son and daughter. Is it so or not? Answer. “It is so.”
Then let those among you who want to become God’s son-in-law raise their hands. I tell you all to become only that. Then again, will you become God’s son-in-law or His son? “I will become a son.” What will those who raised their hands to become sons-in-law do? Women, will you become God’s daughter-in-law, or His daughter? “I will become a daughter.” A daughter-in-law who is driven out has nowhere to go. Even God can do nothing about it.
Eve, who was driven out of the Garden of Eden, was driven out as a daughter, and she had nowhere to go. She was a daughter with nowhere to go. But even with nowhere to go, because she was a daughter, God comes seeking her.
If a daughter-in-law had been driven out, would He go seeking her or not? “He would not go seeking her.” And if a son-in-law had fallen and been driven out, would He go seeking him or not? “He would not go seeking him.”
If there were a rule of coming to seek a son-in-law, then when God goes to seek the son-in-law, the satans would say, “Come to me too.” But even if He goes to a son and daughter, the satans have no way to make a claim.
Seen from that point, the highest limit at which the history of restoration can be carried out must also be placed at the standard of son and daughter. If it were placed lower than that, then if the satans who went to hell protested, “Restore me too,” one would be caught helplessly.
Suppose there is a person who has become a traitor to the nation and is to be put to death. Would his mother have a heart of wanting to save her son even by breaking the law of the land, or not? “She would.” Then would that mother be a traitor to the nation? “No.” She wants to mobilize any means to save him, even in that way, and save him. Because it can be possible even doing so, she wants to save him. Do you understand what I mean? “Yes.”
Then where is that realm of possibility?
There is such a place. In that place the law of the world cannot strike. What is it? It is the law of love of the parent-child relationship. The love of the parent-child relationship — the inner circumstances of loving originally cannot be governed by the law of the land or the law of the world.
What did you say you would become?
Will you become God’s daughter-in-law or His daughter? “I will become a daughter.” Men, will you become sons-in-law or sons? “I will become a son.” Will you smash Satan and become a son? “Yes.” Try it once. If you have the courage that you can become one, you will.
The position of becoming a son of God
I, too, had such thoughts. What shall I become? I considered it all. When I set out on the road of the will, I had many personal experiences and also indulged in reveries. When spring came, I danced in the spring breeze, and when a spring day came, I ran about the village here and there because the flowers were so lovely. If a person takes an interest and tries to make the fragrance of flowers, he may be able to make it. Where it is spring here, there it can be winter, and it can be autumn. One cannot but think of this.
Will you become a son or a son-in-law? “I will become a son.” If there is a road by which one can become a son, what will you do? Will you go even resolved to die? “Yes.” What if you resolve on death once and then collapse? You must go again, must you not? “Yes.” And if you collapse again? “I must go again.” Then what if you collapse a hundred times, a thousand times? “Even so I will go.” Good. Are you confident you can go even if it takes passing through six thousand years? “Yes.” Have you ever conceived of it? “No.” Let those who have tried raise their hands.
Then let those who say they are doing it now raise their hands. My saying that I am doing it from the position of my thinking and your saying you are doing it are different. If it were a position of intending to do it, you would all raise your hands without even being asked. Because if you say you cannot do it, I will get angry. If you set your mind to do it, you will do it, will you not? “Yes.” Try it once. (Laughter)
Then, if you take the position where one can become a son-in-law, you want to know what in the world the position is where one can become a son, do you not? “Yes.” Shall I teach you what kind of position that position is where one can become a son and inherit? “Yes.” Jesus taught it all. He said that he who seeks to die shall live and he who seeks to live shall die. Do you understand what these words mean? He who seeks to live dies, and he who seeks to die lives… Where in the world are there such absurd words, one asks? There are no such words. Yet those words are fact.
Then why does one die in dying? What is the purpose of dying?
Is it to live? Even in living there is some purpose. Is it all right to live centering on my purpose? “No.” The purposes of human beings in living are all different. For the sake of what is it said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your nature”? “It is to become a son of God.” Do those words mean to lay down one’s neck to love God? How many necks are there? “One.” When there is only this one, how can one lay it down? You would rather not lay this down, would you? If one is a son of God, at a worldwide exhibition of laying down necks, should one take first place or last place? “One must take first place.”
If there is a worldwide exhibition of laying down necks, one must have the label of first place attached at that exhibition. When one could have such a label attached, one must not now go die at the very bottom. Where must one go and die? One must die in the highest place.
Even if you die for God, you must die in the highest position
Therefore, one must die centering on the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven is greater than any nation of the world, is it not? One dies in the kingdom of heaven, the only one in heaven and on earth. Then where does one die? This is the problem. There is a method even in dying. Let us die! Let us die!
Where does one die in dying?
One dies for the sake of one woman who is for the sake of the world. Do you understand? “Yes.” Why do you laugh? Do you laugh because you like it or because you dislike it? There is a place even in dying. This will not do with trifling Korean things. However much one dies with Korean things, it will not do.
One must die in the highest place, the highest place centering on God’s nation of heart, which has passed through heaven and earth. One must die in the very middle of the kingdom of heaven. That kingdom of heaven is the greatest. Then what will you do when the whole world opposes? Will it do to run away? No. One must stand firm and die in a place where all the world raises flags and welcomes.
When a loyal subject dies — as one example, when Yu Gwan Sun went out to court for the last time about the time of her death, if the Japanese had said, “You wench, what do you, senseless as you are, think you know that you act like this? Hereafter I will do anything for you and find you a fine bridegroom and marry you off, so do as I tell you,” would she have said, “Yes”? “No.” She would have said, “You scoundrels,” and the more they did so, the more she would have opposed. Only then does one become a loyal subject. Without possessing a spiritual attitude that, centered on that nation’s authority and the citizens’ thought, does not obscure that light but can shine through all generations, one cannot become a loyal subject. For that, one must first be worldwide. You must know this clearly.
You members of the Unification Church, if you are to become a champion, will you become the champion of the Republic of Korea, or the champion of the world? “The champion of the world.” The champion of the Republic of Korea is trifling. Suppose that in Korea, if one is the Korean wrestling champion, one is given a gold belt, and that for the world champion no belt is given in the world but a single scrap of paper is given — would you take the single scrap of paper, or the gold belt? “The scrap of paper.” Why? “Because of its value.” That value is worldwide value. If word gets out that one may take that scrap of paper, the people of the world will come and cling to it. But if it is said, “It is a thing of the Republic of Korea,” the people of the world will not even look at it.
If you set out the world champion’s scrap of paper and the Korean champion’s gold belt and say, “Ready! Go!” and ask them to take it, which way would they all go? “Toward the world champion.” Yet how many people are there who get the scrap of paper into their hands? “One person.” Only one person gets it into his hands, yet all 3.6 billion of humankind go that way. Who do you think will take it away? Since it has already all been decided, what is there to take? It can be that way.
Suppose there is a person who is the number-one wealthy man of the Republic of Korea and rides about in the finest car in the Republic of Korea, and a person who carries in his wallet a single scrap of paper of the world champion. The person who has that scrap of paper has no money either. He is a hungry person. Will you take that single scrap of paper of the world champion, or will you take what you say, “Well now, look at me,” with a high-class building, a modern house and a high-class Mercedes? Which will you take? It is the worldwide scrap of paper. Then does food come out of it, or what comes out of it? Food does not come out at once, but that is what is good.
If you just have that and present it in the relevant specialized field, food comes out and everything comes out. As long as that remains, whatever you like comes out. Now then, men, which will you take? “I will take the scrap of paper.” That is exactly it. That is what the Unification Church intends to have.
Only one who subjugates Satan is the true champion
The Unification Church intends to go about lightly, carrying only the world champion’s scrap of paper. The established churches and other organizations have the belt of their sect. Then, between the champion of the established churches and the champion of the Unification Church, which champion will you become? “The champion of the Unification Church.” Then one’s clothes are all torn so that one’s backside shows and only this is left. It is unsightly to look at. Then one would be pointed at, would one not? One might hear it said, “Look at that, that madman. Oh, it is a national disgrace. It would be better if he had not been born in the Republic of Korea.” Yet the scrap of paper one carries is what matters. Whether the backside shows or not, on the day when the time comes and one appears raising the flag, will they not applaud even though one is stark naked? (Laughter) Will they not welcome one even though one has a beggar’s bowl over one’s head? If they do not welcome one, their necks will be cut. It can be that way.
And so I thought such thoughts. Oppose me, oppose!
If you oppose, I will keep being driven to the mountaintop. Driven to the mountaintop, I will dig a cave in the very rugged Mount Baekdu, set up several hundred iron gates, and go in there and live. I will let no one but me come in. Yet on the day they come to know that this is there, what will happen? That place will become the capital (首都). It is not a water tap. Do you understand what I mean? What did I say that place becomes? It becomes the capital.
There are truly many contests in which one can become a world champion. Beginning with bicycle races, there are all sorts of contests, and among them, what contest would be the highest contest? Have you thought about that? The contest for becoming a son of God is the highest contest. It is the ideal, highest contest. I came to know this. Is that splendid? “Yes.”
If one were to hold that contest, would there be many people who follow, or few? “There will be many.” Even people like thieves will follow. Will it do for such people to follow? “It will not do.” Whether men or women, will they not all be mobilized? Then must they be shaken off, or not shaken off? To shake them off, one must not do work at a level they can follow. One must do work they cannot follow. Then what must be done? When they say they will go up, I must go down. I must leave alone what they say is good and do only what they say they dislike. Do you understand what I mean? “Yes.”
So the Unification Church does not do what others say is good. Then what does it do? “What others dislike.” If it is what others dislike, to what extent do they dislike it? It must be to the extent that they can say, “Ah, I am dying. I cannot do it.” We do only what makes people collapse. If one does it because there is a will, there is nothing one cannot do.
That is why the Unification Church says, “Suffer hardship. Suffer terrible hardship.” Even if the spine protrudes and one becomes a hunchback and pus comes out of the spine, we drive it out. It is, “Even if you die, go a few steps further and die.” When God comes and sees those who went and died in that way, who is first? The one who went even one step further and died even one inch further ahead is first. When a Unification Church member dies, he must go even one step further and die, and not die falling back.
And so, on the day when it is said, “He has become champion,” many people come out to meet him. When one goes out raising the champion’s flag, what will the crowd that followed behind do? Will they box? If the champion is a son of God, who is the one who follows behind that son? It is Satan. There, he must turn around and subjugate Satan, and only then does he become a true champion who can receive God’s love. If he cannot subjugate Satan, he cannot even become God’s son-in-law.
At present, I am in a position where I can be considered God’s son-in-law. This is the era of restoration. Cain can become God’s son-in-law and daughter-in-law. But he cannot become God’s son and daughter. Do you feel good or bad hearing that one can become a son-in-law and daughter-in-law but cannot become a son and daughter? “Bad.” In this, if the sons and daughters cannot fulfill their responsibility, the son-in-law and daughter-in-law can also stand in place of the sons and daughters. If one is more diligent than God’s beloved sons and daughters, one can become an adopted son. A son-in-law can become an adopted son, can he not? To become that, one must be better than the sons and daughters. Speaking in Unification Church terms, when I am a son of God, if one suffers more hardship than I do, one secures the position of an adopted son from the position of a son-in-law. He is an adopted son, yet if he takes more responsibility than the son, who becomes the better son? That is why I am teaching you the formula.
The adopted son, who must lay the outer foundation of the Providence of Restoration
Then, seen from the standpoint of the will, it means a strategy for making sons must be carried out, and the question is how sons are made. When that son forms a family, who makes the fence? It is the adopted son. Christianity is precisely the adopted son.
What is that?
It is Cain. This one is Adam, is it not? The adopted son is the archangel. Is it not so? The archangel must exist for Adam. For whom is he to eat and sleep? He must do it for Adam. Therefore, until Adam fulfills his responsibility, the archangel holds all that full authority.
In the history of restoration, who carries out the work of laying the outer foundation?
The adopted son must pay it. In that preparation, the clan is more laborious than the family. Having the adopted son do it is not to kill him, but to entrust him with a greater responsibility and have him complete it.
Why have I until now not appeared in public places in the Republic of Korea? Have you thought about why I have not appeared? It is to put you forward. If you receive more praise than I do from a public position, and if you stand in place of the position I have passed through in a place I have not passed through, then that position must be bequeathed to you. The position of the adopted son must be bequeathed. Bequeathing the position of the adopted son is deciding the standard of the Cain-Abel restoration. If the standard of the Cain-Abel restoration is decided, the position of the adopted son must be handed over. One enters the same position.
That is why the son absolutely does not appear in the fighting. Therefore, it is not the will of Jesus to come to this earth and stand at the head and lead. That is the Cain side. It is what the archangel does. Until the nation is found, it must be like this. When the nation is found in that way, then the son can boldly appear and carry out worldwide activity. That is why the Unification Church today is carrying out such a strategy.
Then, having done work that Satan cannot follow, where will the members of the Unification Church go?
Vietnam and the Viet Cong are now fighting, and the members of the Unification Church must be stronger than those people. And so there must be nowhere they cannot go. Kim Il Sung is stronger than the Viet Cong. After a little more time has passed, I will consult the government and have all the members of the Unification Church trained beyond the level of North Korea’s Unit 124 and have them strike into North Korea. Will you go or not go? “We will go.” Go and die, die! Didn't he who seeks to die live? Only when one goes to a pitch-dark world and is resurrected does the light shine. If one goes to a bright world and is resurrected, does that light shine? That is why resurrection starts from death.
Therefore, the most blessed course to the kingdom of heaven is to fall on an execution ground bound for North Korea. That is why I too went to North Korea and came back. So one goes resolved to die. One cannot but go and come back. A person in the Republic of Korea who says he cannot go and cannot carry it through is not of the Unification Church crowd. That person is a person who cannot love the Republic of Korea. A person who cannot love the Republic of Korea cannot become a son or daughter of God.
Then if it is the will of God to come seeking the Republic of Korea, must we not love even the lowliest citizen of the Republic of Korea? Who must lay that road on which one can love in that way? The sons and daughters must lay it. After the sons and daughters, the adopted son must lay it. So I tell you to lay it. I tell you to suffer hardship.
In some respects, the Unification Church crowd is told that we are more relentless than the communists. Some people may say, “Ah, that is offensive,” but I do not consider it offensive. In fact, I am more relentless than the communists. Even when I was tortured by the communists, I said, “Strike, you scoundrels.” Even if I add sevenfold and cut off their necks, I will not be caught. Do you understand what I mean? I laid out all such conditions.
If the communists come into our grasp, even if we cut off all their necks, we will not be caught by the law of Heaven. Until now I have been the one struck. It is the same with the Japanese scoundrels. I resolved, “Strike, you fellows. I suffer in your age, but in my age I will lock you up.” That is why I have had many interrogation records taken. At times I know completely what charge will come out. Since I know it all, after a few days it is they who become embarrassed. I have fought such a fight until now.
One’s true nature appears in a difficult position
In the Providence of Restoration, victory and defeat begin from prison; the road to Heaven begins from prison. You have not experienced prison life, have you? I will make you do it hereafter. Shall we try it once? “Yes.” Prison life—this is training. What is there to eat in prison? One cannot eat as one likes. I tell you to be hungry. There are no clothes either, so I tell you to shiver in the cold. I tell you to live like that without a house. Before long, such a time will actually come.
I intend to build the world’s foremost prison. Then whom will I confine? I intend to bring the members of the Unification Church and confine them. And then say, “Try starving.” I would like everyone to try it here once, formally, for about one year and eight months, just short of dying. In prison, human emotions appear most clearly. Without fail, one changes. Whether one truly lived for food or lived for the will comes out. Even so, let those who say they will go to prison raise their hands. Good.
When I see certain people, there are times when I act quite unbecomingly because of this and that. I act unbecomingly. Why is the teacher of the Unification Church like that? Yet they were the ones at fault; I do not fall for their strategy. One cannot know. And some fellow comes and makes threats and intimidation. At a first meeting… I have such a side to me. I do that in dealing with you to make you into a genuine Unification Church crowd. So I tell you to go. In a position of saying, “I die for the will!” one can live. If there is a fellow who says he will not die, he dies. I would like to try that once. Would you also like to try it once? “Yes.” Then get ready. If I do not do this work now, I will do it even after entering the spirit world.
Therefore, you must go for the sake of the nation and go for the sake of the world. For that, what must you become? You must become worldwide people. Whether man or woman, you must be able to live centering on God’s love from a worldwide position. Next, you must form a couple. Centering on the couple, that family must be able to represent the world. It is the same as Abraham offering a sacrifice. When asked, “Do you love the world, or do you love your son and daughter?” which will you love?
If Abraham had said he would give up the world and love his son and daughter, would God have carried out the history of restoration? Think about this unchanging history.
Be resolved to sacrifice for the world at any time
God’s history of restoration until now is a history that has proceeded by sacrificing the person nearest before God. Is that not certain? Beginning with the servant of servants, He established the family of the servant, the clan of the servant, the people of the servant, the nation of the servant, and sacrificed them before history. If there is a son, He sacrifices even the son. Until the nation is established and the world is made one, He sacrifices the son.
Then can you sacrifice your family for the sake of the world?
Can you, or can you not? Hereafter, when you have married, you may be told to requisition your wife. For what? “For the sake of the world.” For your wife? “For the sake of the world.” When it is said she is requisitioned for the sake of the world, must you say “OK!” or not? “We must.” Without fail, it must be so. Whoever opposes this will be struck by lightning. In requisitioning for the sake of the world, men must be able to bless even a person who may go and die in a deadly place, saying, “Go well and die.” Are you confident? “Yes.” The person doing the requisitioning must not do it for his greed. Then for whose greed? If one can make a requisition for the greed of the world, for the glory of the world centering on God, it is proper.
Then, when one is requisitioned and is to work, where will one go and do it? Will one do it at the front line or in the rear? “At the front line.” Why do it at the front line instead of in the rear? Let any husband raise his hand who, having his young wife requisitioned, hopes she will work at the front line until death so that her neck falls first. Those who raised their hands, is it certain? Furthermore, can you women here say, “Requisition my bridegroom and make him the commander in the place where necks fall first”? “Yes.” Is it certain? “Yes.” The sound of the answer is strange. (Laughter) The teacher of the Unification Church has done that business until now. Whether eating or starving, whether asleep or awake, I have not thought of living for myself.
In fact, I was tired this morning too. However tired I am, I cannot be worn out. There must be someone to whom I can speak. In fact, looking at you, it is not fitting that I should come here and speak. But I came out because it will not do unless it is me. When I think that there is a God who is for the world, I cannot be worn out. Today too, must be met centering on a splendid worldwide relationship. This is like a rubber band. When I am pulled along as this rubber band is stretched, it will snap off on the other side. The more it stretches like that, the tighter it becomes. I am living with such a heart and such a mood. Are you also like that? And as for the spirit world, if I now say, “I have no lingering attachment even to my family. I have fulfilled my responsibility,” then I go. Dying is not a difficult thing. For me, dying is not a difficult thing.
There is one thing I grieve over…. Because I must take responsibility for this will, I must bring it up to this limit while I am alive. Until then, I cannot die even if I try. That is why, even if you enter a deadly place, God pulls you along. So whether eating rice, whether asleep or awake, for the sake of the world…. My prayer too is like that. I have not labored centering on Asia or the Korean people. It has been about how to fulfill responsibility in the worldwide sphere. One must be able to die for that.
Thinking of such things, you must live and die for the sake of the world. As I said before, one must be worldwide. Then in what position must one die? Standing in a worldwide position, one must die embracing one’s beloved wife, embracing one’s family, embracing one’s clan, embracing the whole people. The Unification Church is now organizing clans and organizing the people. Therefore, in what position will the teacher of the Unification Church die? I will die for the sake of the world, embracing the whole people and even the Republic of Korea. Because when the Korean people become one and seek to die for the sake of the world, there will be a road by which they can live together with the world; I am going forward seeking that road.
In such a position, one must shed tears. It must be a wife found through shedding tears, a child found through shedding tears, a clan, a people, or a nation found through shedding tears. Not only tears, but even blood and sweat must be shed. My very marrow must melt and all my devotion must be invested. One must be able to say that one was born for this and lived for this. With confidence that no one can deny, one must step forward saying one will become an offering together with that nation before the world. If there are such people, three years is enough. At most it is seven years. And so how to walk this road up to the third seven-year course is our mission, which has received Heaven’s mandate. Now is the second seven-year course, and it is a process, is it not? “Yes.” Then how much of the third seven-year course remains? Even if you cannot go, I will walk that road. I am walking that road now.
In this way, one person must become an offering for the sake of God’s worldwide love. So our Unification Church does not go forward for the Unification Church alone. It goes forward for the sake of the Republic of Korea and for the sake of the world.
He who seeks to die shall live, and he who seeks to live shall die
Then what will be needed here?
Because Jesus said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your devotion,” an appearance of giving all one’s mind, an appearance of giving all one’s devotion, an appearance of giving all one’s heart is needed. There one must invest absolutely everything.
If some person, centering on God’s will and standing in a position for the sake of the world, died loving the world, must the world weep or not? “It must weep.” And if such a religion appears, that religion will become a worldwide and cosmic religion. And if there is such a people, other peoples must serve that people, who died loving heaven and earth, as they would Heaven. A nation centering on such a people is a priest nation. The priest slaughters the lamb and offers sacrifice, does he not? The priest is a person who slaughters the lamb and cuts the lamb’s neck and performs the business of offering his neck instead. Such a person is a priest.
Now think about the life you have lived until now. For whom did you live? Did you live for God? Let us speak honestly. For whom did you live? “I lived for myself.” What happens if one lives for oneself? One loses the world. One loses the people and the clan and all.
Moreover, can a person who lives for himself have a family?
He cannot even have a public family. Is it only a family he cannot have? In the end, he himself is ruined as well. He is entirely ruined. Since there is no nation and no clan, he is utterly ruined. Where did I say the band of the utterly ruined went? Hell—hell. Among the members of the Unification Church, too many people will go to hell. That is why one must not live for oneself. You must pray for this. Now one must not live for the individual. One must live for the whole.
As I said before, it was said that he who seeks to die shall live and he who seeks to live shall die. If one does not die, God cannot bear the fruit of resurrection. Why? Because human beings fell. Is it not so? That is, only when human beings die once can God resurrect us. We who go forward seeking such a realm of resurrection are to lay the road of love by which the nation can be resurrected, with a thought of loving the world beyond the nation. That is why I tell you to love the world. Do you understand?
The way of the saints among the ways of the saints
Think about saints and great men. Saints are few. But great men are many. Is Admiral Yi Sun Sin a great man or not a great man? “He is a great man.” Seen by us people of the Republic of Korea, he is a great man, but seen by the Japanese, he is not a great man. To the Japanese, he is the opposite. He is a traitor.
Numerically, saints are only one-third of great men. Do you understand what I mean? Great men who stood for their nation and passed away are many in every nation. A person who died for the sake of his nation is called a great man. Then what kind of person is a saint? He is a person who transcended the nation. Only a worldly person can become a saint. That is, only one who possesses a worldwide thought can become a saint. Is it not so? “Yes.” You, too, must be so.
What do saints teach? They without fail teach God. In other words, they are founders of religions who teach God. There is no religion that does not teach God. Moreover, without teaching God, one cannot become worldwide. That is why all saints are people who came about through God.
Jesus too is called a saint, and Confucius too is called a saint. They all taught God. Confucius too taught the words, “He who does good (爲善者), Heaven repays him with blessing (報之以福); he who does not do good (爲不善者), Heaven repays him with calamity (報之以禍).” The founders of religions all came forth, centering their national ideologies and everything on God.
Then what is the way of the saints among the ways of the saints? It is the way centering on the problem of God’s heart. This is the way of Christianity. Jesus said, “God is my Father, and I am His only begotten son,” and also, centering on God’s love, he spoke of bridegroom, bride, and brothers and sisters and thus taught about the family centering on God. It is Christianity that taught the way of the family centering on God.
Then why did Christianity become a worldwide religion? Because it expounded content of love that comes close, at least, to centering on God’s love, Christianity could not but become a worldwide religion. It represents it until the Last Days.
Then must we members of the Unification Church be inferior to the saints who came and went until now, or better? “We must be better.” We must become the fathers of saints and the teachers of saints. Then have you become the father of saints? Are you the father of saints?
What is it that the saints until now longed for?
They longed for an ideal family and came seeking such a family. Jesus too came seeking a bride, did he not? So I tell you also to live for the sake of the world. Do you understand? “Yes.”
An ideology that can unify the world
Looking at the democratic world and the communist world, there is a worldwide foundation with America, the central nation of the democratic world, at the head; and if that America, rather than being for the world, hopes for a world that is for America, America will perish. It is the same with the communist world.
If the Soviet Union, too, the central nation of the communist world, rather than being a Soviet Union for the world, hopes for a world that is for the Soviet Union, it will perish.
What is the ideology that hereafter can surpass the democratic world and the communist world and digest the world?
It is an ideal or a thought that seeks to save the world even by sacrificing its people. Such a thought can conquer the democratic world and the communist world. This thought is transnational. What must be done to accomplish this? Transcending peoples, a bond of heart must be formed. What can form this bond of heart is marriage. Therefore, hereafter, by transnational marriage, all the peoples of the world are to be mixed.
How are they mixed? If the Republic of Korea has thirty million, when they are married once to the Japanese, how many tens of millions is it? “Sixty million.” And twice? If it is done twice, everything is mixed. Is it not so? It is said that the population of China is a billion, but what happens if they marry three times to the Japanese? The population of Japan is about one hundred fifty million, and if all marry just once, it becomes three hundred million. If the three hundred million do it once more, it becomes six hundred million. If the six hundred million do it just once more, even China with its billion is entirely brought over.
If the billion marry once more, it becomes two billion, so with about two and a half times the world too can all be brought over. In this, how many times must it be done to unify the world? With six times, it is unified. How many years will that period take? I think it will be done within forty years. If we accomplish such an ideological responsibility well just once, the world will turn like a thunderbolt.
Then who is the pioneer who can do such work worldwide?
There is no one but Teacher Moon of the Unification Church. No one else can do it. Once one knows the Principle of the Unification Church, is one bound to do this work or not? “One is bound to do it.”
For an American to come here and go back requires about one million won. Since one million won is needed for one person to come and go, how much for two people? They pay two million won into the air and fly here to receive the Blessing. Even so, will they come or not? Now they are in Japan and active. Japan was our nation’s enemy, was it not? Yet we are now running about to save Japan. And in living, we said to live together. So because a commander is needed to live together there, I sent Kim Young Whi out yesterday. Saying, “You are the commander,” and driving him out before the world, he cannot but do it even if he would not. Here a new history unfolds.
The history of the Unification Church is different from the history of the world.
The work we do is different, the thinking we do is different, the actions we take are different. We go the opposite way from the people of the world, do we not? “Yes.” Going the opposite way, we do such work and, through it, cause the people of the world to follow. Once they begin to follow, we are the greatest. Is our Unification Church not like that now? When we first formed the children’s dance troupe, how much talk there was! There was much talk that we were even stripping children and making them dance, but now it has risen to the highest level in the Republic of Korea.
Looking at the Victory Over Communism Association (승공연합) too, it has risen to the highest standard. In the Republic of Korea, apart from the Unification Church’s Victory Over Communism Association, no one will oppose communism. That is how it is. Hereafter, a time will come when it is said that among all religions there is none but the Unification Church.
I spend the most money in the Republic of Korea on religious activity. Does it make you feel good or bad that I do such work even while going hungry? “Good.” Does it make you feel good that I do such work even while going hungry? Would it be all right even if I starved and died? Therefore, you must cooperate with me.
Everything a son of God does is worldwide. I did not even know that my mother was dying. This time too, when Sung Jin went to Japan, I told him, “Going to that country, do not do other things. Do this and this. Because you are different from the citizens of Japan, you must do well and uphold your father’s dignity.”
When he went to Japan, the first and most important matter was the matter concerning the church, the second was the matter concerning the nation, the third was the matter of being the teacher’s son, and the fourth was the matter of men and women; and I asked him not to move for his glory, centering on these matters. Education must be done that way.
Women, do not seek to be loved first; love first
Women have much jealousy. Korean women, from the very day after they marry into a family, expect their husbands to wait on them. Even among our Unification Church women, there are such improper women. Blinking their eyes, they say, “Buy me cosmetics. Buy me a one-piece dress, and a two-piece dress. Buy me a handbag,” and again go on about pointed shoes and this and that, asking their husbands to buy them. I tell husbands never to buy when their wives carry on like that. And when clothes have been bought for them, if they would rather not wear them, I tell them to take them off and throw them away.
Considering men and women, if we ask which is more pitiful, men are more pitiful than women. If there are clothes you want to wear, earn and buy and wear them. If there is something you want to eat, earn it yourself and buy and eat it.
If you want to receive your husband’s love, love him first. Will you love after being loved, or love first before receiving? A poor person is pleased in receiving, and a fine person is pleased in giving. Is giving better than receiving, or worse? You—will you love or be loved? “We will love.” How will you do it? You must love to the extent that the man cannot bear the love. Do you understand? Rather than asking to be loved by the man, you must say, “I will not receive your love. I will not receive your love, so taste my love a little. How pitiful you were, living alone until now!
How desolate and wretched it was for you, fulfilling the mission of a lonely pioneer who must pioneer this land! Since you have done this work amid your mother’s opposition and your elder sister’s opposition, your elder brother’s opposition and your younger sibling’s opposition, and the opposition of the whole village, now I will give you love in place of your mother, in place of your elder sister, in place of your younger sister.” And men must possess the qualification to receive that love. It will not do to throw a tantrum at one’s wife just because an elder brother has come and pleaded about something. (Laughter)
Yesterday, when our Hyo Jin’s elder brother was saying farewell because he was going to Japan and offered a handshake, he said he did not want to and would neither shake hands nor kiss. Watching him refuse to shake hands when his elder brother offered, I thought the younger brother was better than the elder. Why? Because just think of men embracing and kissing each other. How disagreeable it would be! When I have not shaved in the morning and give the children a kiss, they say, “Ah!” If I ask, “Does it feel good or bad?” the children say, “It does feel good, but there is something like saliva and it hurts.” And so, watching them among themselves, they like it very much when their elder sisters kiss them rather than their elder brother.
Even in such matters, seen from the relative position, men are pitiful. Just think how pitiful the men of the Unification Church are. Even searching their wallets, there is not a penny, let alone a scrap of paper. Having no handkerchief, they cut off a piece of a worn-out garment and carry it about in place of a handkerchief, and even that, when spread out, is full of holes. They live that miserably. And then, next, saying it is a grave will and this and that, they go about hunting, and cannot catch even one pheasant. And that not for a day or two but for one year, two years, three years…. So what would their dignity be?
Even among you, if I ask those who have children of faith to raise their hands, they raise their hands, but when I actually look for children of faith, there are none. Now I am not deceived. In the old days there were times when I went hunting far away and came back without catching even one pheasant. At that time I was able to feel the grief of a defeated soldier. I came in secretly, afraid someone might see. Will it do for you also to go out witnessing reluctantly and sit down somewhere calling, “Children of faith, children of faith”?
You do shoot, but not one shot hits. You have fired ten thousand rounds, but not one hits. Why is that? Because you have not received proper education. I, too, know that. Yet I tell you to keep firing away with a bang, day and night. Even so, when others pass by and see, they say, “He is firing a gun,” not “He is firing blanks.” Until now you have suffered hardship and fired many blank shots. You have fired many blanks, have you not? “Yes.” Then when will you fire a real shot? Until now you have fired blanks, but what is the purpose of firing blanks? It is to fire a real shot.
Then what is the highest real shot among real shots?
It is your spouse. So when, while doing such work, you have been granted to meet one woman, you must feel that you must not treat that woman carelessly. It is the same for women. Though there is no achievement within the will, going along saying one is walking the road of the will, one has met a man.
Still, we are not pitiful people. Having entered the Unification Church and gone on with a seven-year course and this and that until now, when would you have ever been loved by your mother or grandmother? That is why men will seek, through that woman, to receive the love they have not received from their mother until now.
Seen historically too, religion until now has been led by men. For thousands of years, men have gone on giving directions. Yet if you uncover a woman a little, she is one’s younger sister and one’s elder sister.
If you uncover a little more deeply, she is a person standing in place of one’s mother. Thus a woman stands in place of the mother, in place of the elder sister, in place of the younger sister, and then? She is the wife. That is how a woman is.
Then think about why the man must be sympathized with first. When Eve fell in the Garden of Eden, did she sympathize with the man or not? She did not sympathize; she quietly deceived him, did she not? Therefore, women must love men first. Our Unification Church women, who are these men here? They are not husbands but are in the position of sons. Do you understand? And you are not wives, but what? You are mothers.
The Lord of the Second Advent, who comes as the True Parents of humankind
Through the fall, what love was lost?
Parental love was lost, children’s love was lost, conjugal love was lost, and sibling love was lost. Therefore, all of this must be restored. Then what must be restored first? Parental love must be restored. Now look. In the Garden of Eden there was Adam, and there was Eve, and there was an angel. In other words, in the Garden of Eden there were an unfallen good man, a good woman, and the archangel.
Therefore, restoration too must be done from such a position. Even in setting up conditions of indemnity, the form is the same. Seen centering on the world, if you divide the world in two, there is a worldwide man and a worldwide woman. Next, there must be a worldwide archangel. The world does not know this. This is spiritual. That is why the spiritual phenomena corresponding to this angelic world today come forth, having formed a relationship with women. So who has revered religion the most? Women have done it the most.
Hereafter it becomes the age of worldwide indemnity and restoration. Spiritual phenomena too do not appear of themselves. Nor does anything that appears in this world appear all by itself. The people of the world do not know well that they are relatively in contact with the spirit world. But you know that well, do you not? Such things appear through the middle spirit world.
This world is a fallen world. It is a fallen world, is it not? “Yes.” Therefore, all are fallen men, fallen women, and a fallen angelic world. Then is there a man whom God can relate to, or not? Because there is none, a man who will save the fallen world must come. He is the Messiah. He is the Lord of the Second Advent that Christianity speaks of. This one is a man representing the world. Moreover, he is one representing the men of the world. Do you understand?
Then who is the husband of the fallen world?
Because he is a descendant of the archangel, he is the substance of the archangel. Therefore, he is not the original husband. That is why religion until now has advocated the celibate life.
Therefore, the original, unfallen man must come. Who is that man? He is the Lord of the Second Advent.
And who is that Lord of the Second Advent?
He is the true parent of humankind. The fall means having become false parents. Because, through falling, a start was made from false parents; humankind are the sons and daughters of false parents. Therefore, there must be sons and daughters of the True Parents.
According to the Principle of Creation, because the man was created first, the man must be sent to this earth first. In other words, centered on God’s love, a son of God comes upon this earth. That son must be born and must find Eve on this earth and receive her as his bride.
Why is that?
Because Adam was created, and then Eve was created modeled after Adam; one woman called Eve must be found through Adam, yet here the archangel intruded. Even now, such a relationship has unfolded worldwide. While a man and a woman are living together, out of nowhere another man appears. That is why there are hardly any husbands who like a wife who believes in Jesus or in some other religion.
If his wife believes in Jesus fervently, he opposes it. She should love only him—why does she love Jesus more than him? That is how it is happening. But who is the person who must pioneer that road? It is not the man who does it; the woman must do it. Therefore, religion is the religion of women who come forth to find the lost original husband.
Then whose side are the women of this world who come believing in that religion? They are on the side of the coming Lord. Then what are the men? “The archangel.” Because they are in that archangel position, they must not assert themselves. Therefore, I tell you to conduct yourselves properly.
Then what is this world?
It is the same as the spirit world. Therefore, you are the men of the angelic world, centering on spirit and body. Does that feel bad? There must be an angel in the Garden of Eden, must there not? Otherwise, restoration cannot be done. This angel must not stand in a position of opposing Adam. Nor must he oppose Eve. What the fall is is that the angel loved Eve and Adam in reverse. Because he thus caused the fall, to restore this, the reverse of that must be done. Therefore, the man, from the position of the archangel, must stand for Eve and stand for Adam. He must know how to regard a wife who believes in religion as more precious than himself. And when his wife offers devotion for the coming Lord centering on religion, he must cooperate with that and go together. This standard must be established.
Seen from this standard, what kind of person is the coming Lord?
He is a father. Is it not so? He comes in the position of the True Father. The True Father seeks the True Mother. And so the True Mother must give birth centering on the True Father. Originally, it must be like this.
To become True Father and True Mother
In the Garden of Eden, because Eve enticed Adam, she gave birth to death. To restore that, the woman must give birth to Adam, who is life. And after giving birth, what must be done? He must be raised. Therefore, as seen according to the original principle, in this heaven and earth there is no man who can receive the woman. Do you understand? That is why someone must give birth to the man God sends. Is it not so? Who must give birth?
And so Jesus was born through Mary. In giving birth, it is not a matter of simply giving birth as things are. It is giving birth after tying everything together and indemnifying and restoring it all, and after establishing all the order of the spiritual world. That is not shown in the Bible. That is what I am proclaiming. Having borne such a son, she became a mother, but what must she do to stand as the mother? She must fulfill the way of a mother.
Moreover, that mother, as the representative of women, must also teach him the way of a bride. She must teach the son, “Hereafter you must receive such a bride and educate her like this and guide her like this.” She must teach the method by which a bride can be raised, must she not? Is it not so? And the bride must be raised. Having educated and raised the bride, she must hand her over to the one who can become the ancestor of humankind.
Next, the ways of parents, of husband and wife, of children, and of brothers and sisters must all be taught. She must teach all the historical origins concerning the way of a mother, the way of a daughter, the way of a wife, and the way of a sibling. She must teach about sibling love — “You must love an elder sister like this, and love a younger sibling like this.” Why must it be so? Because through one woman’s fall, not only one man but everything was lost all at once.
Therefore, when a man relates to that woman, only after passing through a process of relating to her in place of his mother, in place of his elder sister, in place of his younger sister, can he relate to her as a wife. Do you understand? Likewise for the woman: when she relates to the man, only after relating to him in place of her father, in place of her elder brother, in place of her younger brother, can she relate to him as a husband. Without establishing a standard of having received all such love, one cannot become a True Father and a True Mother.
Then whose love must it start from? From the man, or from the woman?
It starts from the man’s love. It must start from the love of the coming Lord. Therefore, we must receive the vertical love of that coming Lord. Having received vertical love, that same love must extend into horizontal love between husband and wife. That is why vertical love is needed first.
Because in the old days I bestowed such vertical love, there were many people who followed me. Do you also like me? “Yes.” People who see the spirit world say that in the spirit world I cooperate like an elder brother, like a bridegroom, like a father. That is a formula. Therefore, when you look at men, you must look centered on me rather than on any man of the world.
If you look through the spirit world, you will feel it actually. Let those among you who meet me in prayer or in a revelation in a dream raise your hands. Among women who attend the Unification Church, one who says it is not so still has a long way to go as a Unification Church member.
The responsibility of a woman
Is there a husband for you in this heaven and earth?
There is none. Can a woman be a husband? Because there is none, the archangel was set up as the only recourse. The archangel was set up to cooperate with Adam. Therefore, you must cooperate with me. It must be done in this manner. Do you understand? And then, from there, the mother’s love must at last be carried through to the father’s love. The wife’s love must stand in place of the husband’s love, the elder sister’s love must stand in place of the elder brother’s love, and the younger sister’s love must stand in place of the younger brother’s love. When that is done, that love is carried through to the man, and then at last it appears as the father’s love, the elder brother’s love, the younger brother’s love and the husband’s love centering on the man. If that does not happen, there is no need to come to the Unification Church. Seen in that respect, the relationship between me and you is like the relationship of Adam and the archangel. Do you understand? “Yes.”
To restore this, it must be turned upside down. At the fall, the archangel did not give to Eve? Next, Eve gave to Adam. Originally Adam should have taken dominion over Eve with the authority of a son of God. And Eve should have given birth to the man from a position like that of a parent. Such an original heart, according to principle, must be restored.
Therefore, what did I say a woman is?
She is a mother. Seen according to the Principle, a husband must attend to his wife like a mother for three years. Unless one stands on the standard of having attended her like a mother for three years, one cannot even love. This is a strict Principle. Yet when, instead of doing so, you just try to make a great uproar as you please and carry on all sorts of business, you are thieves. Such a person is the wildest of goblins. The Principle is exactly so.
Seen centering on God, God has never loved a son. Among sons, He has never loved an elder son or a younger son, and next He has never loved a son who has become a bridegroom. Moreover, God has never, as a father, received a son’s love. Therefore, you must restore children’s love, conjugal love, and parental love. In restoring that, it must be done in the order of parental love, conjugal love, children’s love. It means restoring by loving in this reverse order.
Therefore, a woman must stand for a man from the position of a mother. So then, must women be loved, or must they love? “We must love.” If you do that, you receive more love than you gave. Yet women, as soon as they marry, only seek to be loved, saying, “Do you love me? If you love me, how much do you love me?” That is the instinct of women. Did our grandmothers of old ask such things when they married?
Therefore, our Unification Church women must love men. Like whom must they love them? They must love them like a father, like an elder brother. To you, I am in the position of a father, in the position of an elder brother, and also, spiritually, in the position of a bridegroom. I possess such a standard of heart. Therefore, I am in the position of a father, the position of an elder brother, and the position of a bridegroom. What the archangel fell spiritually must be restored, centering on this body. In this, it absolutely will not do if you do not listen to my words. Will you, or will you not? “We will.” It is by listening well to my words that you get married. So, do you want to get married or not? Everyone will want to get married. Then how much must you believe? Because Eve fell lacking belief, you must believe absolutely. Therefore, the women of the Unification Church must be mobilized for the sake of these people.
What I am teaching even these days is that I must be used by you. Is a father used by his daughter or not? Is an elder brother used by his younger sister, or not? Is a husband used by his wife or not? Until now, I have been used.
Absolute obedience before the one you love means being willing to be used. It means saying you will be used. Women loving their husbands absolutely means being used by their husbands. That is why education is necessary.
Our Unification Church women must not marry and then seek to be loved. Such women can never uphold a woman’s dignity. One must be dignified. Only then can the husband not come carelessly into his wife’s room like a thief. He must come in after receiving permission. He cannot enter as he pleases. When the time comes, I will teach in detail. This much should give you a general idea, should it not? “Yes.”
Therefore, when the two of you meet, the man must without fail pray first. Praying like this — “Father, today heaven and earth are moved and my heart is moved, so let the woman’s heart be moved as well” — bear sons and daughters and live. That household will not be bad. A man must do at least that much.
The road the Blessed Families of the Unification Church must walk
You need a heart of thinking of your wife as a mother. For that you must become a child, must you not? I tell you to become a child. It is not bad to become a child. Women like it when a man behaves winsomely like a child. Try it and see whether they like it or not. Try wheedling like a child to be fed your meal. Try acting like a little child. Even so, God will not call you a senseless fellow. Since it must be that way on the road of restoration, there is no other way. So if you say to your wife, “Mommy, give me food!” the woman is pleased and raises you, saying, “Oh my, our big baby has appeared!” It must be that way.
Unless you have a heart of restoring within your lifetime the love of woman that was lost through the fall, you cannot restore the standard of the original family. Do you understand? “Yes.”
It is God’s han (한) that He has not been able to do all three of these loves—parental love, conjugal love, and children’s love—in relating to one person. Therefore, only by standing in a position of inducing all such love in relating to one person is the kingdom of heaven of heart restored. So there is no problem but the problem of loving. Is it not so? In the end, love is the problem.
Seen from this viewpoint, is it what the Unification Church does worldwide or individually? (“It is worldwide.”) It is a work not found in history. It is not work done by rough guesswork. That is why the more one knows the Principle, the heavier that responsibility becomes. That is how it has been until now. And so our Unification Church is Cosmism (천주주의).
What kind of ju is the ju (宙) in Cosmism?
It is the ju that means "house." That is why the ju in Cosmism is vast. What kind of place is the Unification Church? It is a place that seeks to establish the family of the kingdom of heaven.
The kingdom of heaven that the Unification Church speaks of is not a kingdom of heaven one enters alone, but a kingdom of heaven the family enters together. Seen in the light of God’s ideal of creation, is the kingdom of heaven a place that man and woman enter separately? No. The kingdom of heaven is a place that the two enter. It means that the kingdom of heaven is a place where, if the father enters, the mother enters too, and if the parents enter, the children go together too. Mother and father must go to the kingdom of heaven together — if the father goes to the kingdom of heaven while the mother goes to hell, would that be the kingdom of heaven? From this position, our Unification Church is a historic religion.
Unless one becomes a family that loves the world, one cannot settle in place.
Therefore, loving the world is the road the family of our Unification Church must walk. A family that walks such a road is the family Jesus desired. It is also the family that has been desired for two thousand years until now. Then is this family better than Jesus, or not?
Are you better than Jesus?
Are you better than Jesus? Are you better than the bride who could become Jesus’ bride? You are better only in words, are you not? If you are better, in what are you better? You are better because you have met the True Parents and received the Blessing of those True Parents. Do you understand? “Yes.”
The Blessing cannot be received without standing in the position of having restored the standard of Cain and Abel. To return before the parents, Cain and Abel must become one. Otherwise, one cannot return to the parents. That is what restoration is. It is the principle that in the family of Adam, Cain and Abel become one, and thus restoration is done. Then your having received the Blessing means that you have crossed over the position of having restored Cain and Abel. Otherwise, one cannot become a son or daughter of God.
Well then, have you crossed over the position of having restored Cain and Abel?
Because you have not stood in such a position, even if you cannot love, you must settle matters once again and go forward to stand in such a position. You must take charge of that work and do it. The road you must walk from now on is that road. Yet the Blessing was given in advance. That is my prerogative.
Therefore, your receiving the Blessing is not your receiving it, but receiving it through my prerogative. It is in every respect mine. Do you understand? It is a Blessing by reservation.
Therefore, to put this into practice, the inner standard must be brought to completion. And so the inner and outer families stand in place of that position. That is, is there any way apart from that your family stands in the position of the Cain family before my family, which is the Abel family? Then, although your family has not attained that standard, centering on my family, it can attain it.
Are you now in a position to enter the kingdom of heaven?
Then, centering on your family, in the position of the son’s family in place of my family, you must find and establish a Cain family. To establish that family, you must carry out clan restoration. That is why you are told to become tribal messiahs. That position is the position where the brothers of Joseph’s family become one and the position where the brothers of Zechariah’s family become one. By restoring that position, you become the ancestors of the Cain-type family, and also become the family of the eldest lineage, and my family becomes the Abel family.
And so, restoring the family-level three-position foundation, my family becomes the center, and the Four Position Foundation is established. Only then does the center stand. This is a formula. When you cannot conform to this principle, you cannot go to the kingdom of heaven. Because after the human fall, in the family of Adam, Cain, Abel, and Seth all fell away separately, we have come down from a position of not having formed a family until now. That is why even now in the world, brothers do not live as one family. Therefore, restoration is to form a family and cross over, including even the family of the parents.
Then what are the stages for entering the kingdom of heaven? One must establish three children of faith and become completely one with one’s own family and go, attending the family of the parents. That is the method of entering the kingdom of heaven. It is arranged exactly so.
Well then, are you now arranged to enter the kingdom of heaven or arranged not to enter? “We are arranged not to enter.” That is why I tell you to make an effort. You will try, but you are not inclined to embrace your wife and love her.
I, too, crossed over that standard. Because the three major sects of the established churches, the representative denominations of the established churches, all opposed, I left my family and set out to lay an individual foundation. Then where did I go and find it? I went to the enemies in the North and found it. Do you understand? “Yes.” I went to the North and found the Four Position Foundation. I found one son and three women and came down. This is precisely that form.
Centering on all that foundation gained through struggle, and centering on those sons and daughters, I broadened the foundation of restoration. Seen from the standpoint of the Principle, without that one cannot make a new start. Jesus, too, because this foundation had not been laid, spent more than thirty years in a period of laying the foundation directly.
I, too, did that work for forty years. And so, having met the year 1960, when I turned a full forty years of age, because everything that had to be indemnified inwardly and outwardly was fully prepared, I at last made a historic new start. That is why this world too came to meet a worldwide turning point in 1960.
And what is the three-year period?
It is a period of driving out the people who received the Blessing. Just as I left Sung Jin’s mother and went out and laid that road, you too must walk such a road. There can be no personal circumstances there. There, I must not provide support. You must know clearly that this is the road we must pass through. Do you understand? “Yes.”
Become a family that establishes a norm before which all the world will bow
If married people leave the will and live and then come back in again, they must not be received. They cannot come in here again. If such a person is to receive the Blessing, he must keep himself chaste for seven years. What are seven years? Originally it must be done for twenty-one years. Not twenty-one years but a whole lifetime. Park Jeong Hwa! “Yes.” Now you are in trouble.
Because until now there was no one to fill in this pit, God labored for six thousand years and came through, paying countless sacrifices. Until now, no one knew this. I came forth and dug out everything, inside and out. And so I proclaimed the formula-like individual and the formula-like family centering on God’s formula-like love. Therefore, where that individual goes, the family goes too. That family is welcomed wherever it goes in the world. Therefore, my family must be welcomed wherever it goes in the world. Do you understand? “Yes.” When it becomes a unified world, it will be so, will it not?
I go into the inner room of that house and become the parent of that family and the master of love. Even if I go into one house and live there, they must all consider it their glory and must not consider it to be a cross. Do you understand?
Then, after I have blessed you, would it be all right for me to go and live at your house? “Yes.” After receiving the Blessing, you must live a life of attendance for three years. If you fail to live a life of attendance for three years upon this earth and go to that world, han remains through all ages.
You do not know all the rules of a life of attendance, do you?
This I am not yet teaching. Hereafter, when the time comes, I will teach it all. When you attend, you must attend with more devotion than any filial child of the world and than any loyal subject of history. You must know that the road the Unification Church walks is a road walked to make an origin of heart before which all the world can bow its head to the norm of such a family. You understand, do you not? “Yes.”
