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The existence of the spirit world
True Parents have continuously invested sincere devotion for the sake of clarifying the reality and structure of the spirit world and for liberating those in the spirit world. During 43 days of battling in the spirit world, True Father resolved many issues to do with the truth and his mission.
Once he received the God's Divine Seal, he led the providence both in heaven and on earth toward the unification and salvation of the earthly world and spirit world.
1. Religion starts from God. This principle applies to the Unification Church as well. The Unification Church was not built up by evangelism. I did not attract this many people through evangelism. It happened because people of high spiritual sensitivity came. They came because the spirit world guided them.
People who were guided in this way cannot deny God's existence. People who have not had such experiences do not acknowledge that God exists. Many people experience the reality of God while living a life of faith for a long time.
Such people cannot even dream of denying God's existence. The ones with the keenest antennae know that place of oneness. They know the center. After those kinds of people spontaneously gathered at the center, they started the Unification Church. The Unification Church started from a direct relationship with God.
(250-012, 1993/10/11)
2. You absolutely cannot deny the existence of the eternal world, in other words, the spirit world. If you ask why, it is because you can experience it easily by making a little effort. If you make only a little effort, experiencing it is not difficult.
The people who have been in the Unification Church for a long time have all experienced it. Without such experiences, who would believe in the Unification Church amid the opposition and persecution it receives?
Nonetheless, if you do not believe after having had such experiences, you will receive tormenting attacks from the spirit world. That is why you keep believing.
For that reason, you cannot deny that the spirit world exists. (024-329, 1969/09/14)
3. I have a background that you cannot imagine. In my background is the essence of the world's history. I have experienced the world of the spirit, and however much someone explains that neither God nor the spirit world exists, I have limitless evidentiary material that they cannot explain otherwise.
This material did not emerge from connections in the context of daily life, where you have been carrying out your routine existence until now. It emerged from days on my knees with my face to the ground in prayerful devotion.
As I felt our Father's tormented heart, I cried in utter desperation, begging to know how I could save our beloved Father, God, from His unbearable suffering. During those times, I shed more tears than anyone in history. (026-015, 1969/10/14)
4. I do not discuss certain aspects of the spirit world even though I know them well. I seem like a person who does not know. I am composed when I consider the problems in my path.
Because I am able to choose my direction and ruthlessly stick to it, I can overcome all the spiritual insanity of this chaotic age. The storms of life do not deter me from following the right path.
I have passed through the age of chaos on the personal level, family level and national level, and I am now advancing to the worldwide level. Let us be the standard-bearers on this course to rescue the entire chaotic world.
(071-050, 1974/04/28)
5. Those whose personal nature coincides with the spiritual aspect of the divine are curious about spiritual things. I was born this way. I find it very intriguing to talk about God. I enjoy hearing about God 24 hours a day, forgetting to eat.
One should not speak about such things in a one-sided way, but reinforce it by truth. You have to give both spirit and truth. Each person knows his or her own personal character and nature.
So, each of us must make the effort to develop both aspects as a complementary pair. You must research the truth of the divine and experience the spirit of the divine. You must devote yourself to prayer and study.
The spiritual person must strengthen his or her foundation to confirm through truth what he or she already feels spiritual, and an intellectual person must strengthen his or her experiential foundation by spiritually supplementing the intellectual side.
If you do that, you will have a basis to develop an eternal foundation at the core of who you are. Because it is difficult to do this alone, make friends with those who have characteristics complementary to yours and cooperate, or learn from a teacher. This is the correct path. (076-141, 1975/02/02)
6. After going to the spirit world, you must act in such a way that even God acknowledges you. If you study the Divine Principle, you will come to understand everything.
You must discover everything about the spirit world, including the system by which it operates. I have done that and have taught it to you. No one until now has been able to deal with this gigantic world.
After thoroughly unpacking history's bundle of tattered clothes, you must be able to organize that vast world to the degree that the king can select from your wardrobe, get dressed, and take delight in His visit.
Accordingly, you must act so that God will be able to say, “Since the beginning of history, you are the first person who is better than I.” After doing that, you will receive God's seal of approval proclaiming that the only victorious person is you. (203-299, 1990/06/27)
7. You must find the spiritual state where you can hear the voice of your mind. That is different from a conversation with God through prayer. If you enter that place, you will discuss the content of a meeting that will take place in a couple of days or more.
You do not sleep at night; instead, you attend the meeting deep inside your mind. A mother understands that. You end up talking to yourself even when riding on a train. It is like that when you go into that spiritual state.
Just as if you are listening to a radio broadcast, a voice emerges from the root of your mind that resonates with the great universe. Other sounds are not audible. You have to maintain that frequency, that wavelength. (558-126, 2007/03/06)
8. There was a time when I fought with many in the spirit world over 43 days. Even Jesus and his 12 apostles would not recognize me. The people in the spirit world thought that I was attempting to destroy the spirit world.
The fight to clarify what was true and what was false lasted 43 days. At that time, God did not judge. God took the position that the truth would emerge through the fight. Neither those in the spirit world nor I gave in.
Since it looked as if the fight would continue for thousands of years, God took the position where He had to pass judgment. God adjudicated based on heavenly law. I was victorious in that fight. Accordingly, numerous people there eventually listened to what I was saying.
I am now able to influence the spirit world. Because I fulfilled the condition to unite the spirit world, I am now working for unification on earth.
(019-154, 1968/01/01)
Dominion over the spirit world
As True Parents have stated in their public talks, they are the champions in terms of knowledge about the spirit world. Truly they are the supreme experts on this subject.
Through interchange with the spirit world, they delved into every nook and cranny of the bitter sorrow of God and humankind since the Fall of the human ancestors. Based on that, True Parents have led the way to the liberation of God and have taught how human beings must live on earth in preparation for eternal life.
9. You may not understand the spirit world very well, but I am an expert. The record remains that says, “Reverend Moon is the founder who, after opening the gates of the spirit world, shed light on the theoretical foundation and systematic teachings that explain that world.”
I am called the True Parent, and make no mistake, the words “True Parents” are fearful ones. If there are True Parents, they must take care of a true family. If there is a clan attached to that family, it must be a true clan.
When this is expanded to a people, True Parents must take care of that true people, and when expanded to the nation and the world, they must take care of the nation and even the world.
When expanded to the spiritual world and the physical world, that is, heaven and earth, True Parents must be able to take care of them as well.
(203-325, 1990/06/28)
10. The world needs True Parents. This applies not only to the earthly world but also to the spirit world. A palace of love in the spirit world will have to be built, but no person can do that.
Neither God nor spirit individuals can make the palace in the spirit world. True Parents must make it. The palace of love in the spirit world will start with True Parents. After we go to the spirit world, we will proclaim, “We are creating a palace here.”
Based on that proclamation, all those in the spirit world will gather there. Because that responsibility remains, I am necessary even in the spirit world. (205-257, 1990/09/09)
11. After you go to the spirit world, if you call, “Father!” you can meet me immediately, anywhere. Do not worry about it. If you agree with the heart of love, you are entitled to participate together, to live together, and to hold the same position in love. If you call me, you can meet me immediately. I will give such a person a tour of the entire spirit world. (229-165, 1992/04/11)
12. Father knows of the enormous theater of activity in the land after death, where you can travel hundreds of millions of miles instantly without an airplane. The power of love boasts the highest speed.
If you call someone you are longing for with a heart of love, that person will appear immediately. The vast distances are no problem. If you go to the spirit world, wherever you go is filled with flowers and with laughter and dancing.
The flowers also make music as they greet you, presenting various shapes that express the standard of your love's perfection.
At that point, you may realize the greatness of the love Father taught and wonder why you did not recognize it earlier. You will understand that you have realized this too late. You need to be trained so that you can pass that world's examination, agree with its frequency, and achieve harmony there. (227-100, 1992/02/10)
13. What I am proud of is that I understand God. I understand more than those in the spirit world do.
Because I understand the heart of God, God loves me the most. Because of this, God wants to follow me around everywhere I go. Because God wants to follow me, all people in the spirit world want to follow me.
If I go to the spirit world, I will sit at its summit. Even if I would rather not sit there and instead go to a low place, I will be pulled back to the summit. For you to be here today listening to words like these is a historic event. (146-334, 1986/08/10)
14. I am a person who understands the moment. For that reason, I have ventured to do what no one else in the world could do. How do I know about the moment? I have an antenna that you do not have.
For that reason, those who communicate with the spirit world and experience all three dimensions cannot ignore me. This is because I am an expert. Even if you say just one word, I already know the entire situation that ten words would be needed to describe.
You do not understand such things. The ones who do not know must follow and receive guidance from the one who knows. That is the only way you can survive. (071-328, 1974/05/05)
15. Science starts with a hypothesis. If, after experimentation, the results confirm the hypothesis, the hypothesis is said to be scientifically validated. The conclusions of the Unification Church are more trustworthy than that.
They are not based on a hypothesis. We have contents based on substantial reality, and results because the Unification Church is a religion that takes action. I start by understanding with certainty the path that I have to take, and then I go. I even understand what is about to happen in the world.
I can deal with any kind of philosophical or theoretical matter. I am well-versed regarding even the mystical world. I am called an expert in the spirit world. This is why the Unification Church, following its name, can unite churches and religions. (079-347, 1975/09/28)
16. There are numerous spirits connected to each person on earth. Those spirit people will come down to this world to help in the future. Those spirit people are being fully mobilized for my sake.
Write the three characters of my name and give them to a person who communicates with the highest level of the spirit world and tell him, “Try praying about this person.” While praying, that person will exclaim, “Wow!” and bow. That is how it is. Being an expert, I understand this very well.
Without bringing unity to the spirit world, the earth cannot be unified. I, the person who is standing here in front of you, can unify the spirit world. It is not only that I have the ability, I am already working on it. That is why spirits are cooperating with me.
Once a Buddhist came to me and bowed to me, saying that the Buddha had appeared to him and instructed him to pray for me for 24 hours. This is an indication that the spirit world is cooperating with me. (082-308, 1976/02/01)
17. You have to create children and all things of creation on behalf of God. And one step further, you must create the position of a parent. That path of destiny is the path of restoration, the path of re-creation.
If a product you just bought breaks, you can take, it back to the shop for repair or replacement. The same principle applies here. Did you think that God would say, “Ah! I will have a feast in the air and achieve my Will,” as Christians believe?
That is a fantasy. That absolutely will not happen. I met both Jesus and God. I am someone who knows every nook and cranny of the spirit world.
(092-179, 1977/04/03)
18. some people say, “When I die, I will know whether the spirit world and the kingdom of heaven exist.” When you die, you definitely will know that the spirit world exists.
You may not know what the spirit world is at this time because you have not experienced it. But I received a special grace from heaven and became an expert concerning the spirit world. Whenever a spiritualist came to me, that person surrendered.
Having become an expert on the spirit world, I established the Unification Church, and now I am threading my way through the world.
The spirit world certainly exists. Having received that special grace and while delving into that world, I was interested in the organization of the kingdom of heaven.
When I penetrated and searched that world thoroughly, I found that it has a simple organization. The kingdom of heaven is the place where only people who have lived for the sake of others can enter and dwell. (077-325, 1975/04/30)
19. I have taken the lead in destroying all the secret weapons of Satan. Satan and the evil spirits have devastated this world, but I have investigated all of that thoroughly. I am the champion of mending every place that Satan has been.
Not only that, the entire spirit world has been in chaos until now, but I have gone through it all and woven it together. Furthermore, I met with those who call themselves leaders in the spirit world and triumphed over them in battles centered on the Principle. (100-025, 1978/10/04)
20. Those who have met me on earth, lived with me, and loved and respected me more than anyone else have been the ones who will be near me when they go to the spirit world. Accordingly, if a family that once had been faithful opposes me, I must gather them together even though they have fallen away.
Because the heart of true love is eternal, I must call and liberate even those people. I seek and liberate even murderers. Did the archangel not at first love Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? Because my mind is to recover that, I liberate both murderers and saints and Cain and Abel, in one place.
This is because there is a standard from which they departed. That standard exists based on the ideal of the family, which would establish positions of equal value, like a husband and a wife.
Therefore, I have to love Satan and Cain. Only with true love can everything be liberated, and without true love, the providence of salvation cannot be accomplished. (314-307, 2000/01/14)
Unity of the Heaven and Earth
True Parents opened the age in which the physical world and the spiritual world are one united entity. By this act of unification, we have come to the age of the direct dominion of God and True Parents.
Accordingly, True Parents have said that we can enlist the cooperation of the spiritual world and the physical world if we invest much sincere devotion. Descendants by teaching them clearly about the spirit world.
This is the time when the spiritual world and the physical world will become one, and your responsibility is to mobilize and guide your ancestors, creating an environment where your ancestors are guiding people spiritually to you so that you can bring them into oneness with True Parents.
21. If the spirit world is not united, we will not be able to unify Earth. Until now, the spirit world has been assisting in the background as I followed this path. For that reason, all religions testify to me.
Immediately after World War II, if the Christian cultural sphere throughout the world had united with me, from that time on, the spiritual and the physical could have attained oneness.
That did not take place, so I again have done the work of building a unified foundation through a 40-year course. That work is now complete. By unifying the standard on earth with that in heaven, the interchange between the spiritual world and the physical world, which had been blocked until now, is finally commencing. (260-106, 1994/04/28)
22. You have to mobilize the spirit world. If you are going to mobilize the spirit world, you have to stand in front and invest more sincere devotion than any of your ancestors did.
You have to be more than a devoted son or daughter and a loyal subject. By representing three generations, you have to become one with your ancestors and your parents. Thereupon, you need to educate your (275-190, 1995/12/08)
23. The most memorable thing I experienced while living a prison life was the deprivation. The more I embraced that life in which we were given so little, the more I could see the spiritual realm of resonance in my mind become increasingly acute.
I did heavy labor that normal people could not endure, and although my body labored, my mind did not labor. Such an ordeal opens one up to spiritual experiences, which free the physical body from fatigue.
Certainly, you need to experience this. If you do not have this experience, after you go to the spirit world, you will not become a resonating being. You must work so that you have such experiences. If you do that, you will meet me more frequently, while you are in a state between sleeping and waking.
The harder you labor, the more your spiritual interior will widen. While you take a nap, you will be aware of what I am doing. Even if you are five at home, you will enter a realm of life where you are attending True Parents. If you exert effort, the spirit world will automatically open.
This is not an illusion; it is real. Provided you do that and stay active, the spirit world will freely cooperate, and the work you are doing will expand horizontally. (102-049, 1978/11/19)
24. Religions until now have developed through forming relationships in the physical world after the founder went to the spiritual world. However, the Unification Church has connected the world to God's Will while True Parents are alive. On this point, we are different.
When Jesus and other religious founders entered the spirit world, spirit people came to earth to cooperate with the followers, but they were different.
True Parents are alive and are spreading the Will both through people who have already gone to the spirit world and through you. The Unification Church can attain its goal by having substantial people on earth who move the spirit world.
That is because of our father-son relationship with God. To establish a father-son relationship, we have to share our living environment and respond to each other. If we do not, we cannot relate as father and son because the father-son relationship means living together in the realm of daily life, where we all have the same feelings and the same environment.
You must pray to have such an intimate relationship in the realm of your daily life. Our church members who attend True Parents personally say that it is as if they are living in the kingdom of heaven.
In reality, all of you should advance to this position. Currently, many Unification Church family members follow this way. To do so, they pray hard and offer sincere devotion. (021-238, 1968/11/24)
25. Work without complaint and with a grateful mind. When you pray like this after returning home from work, surely True Parents will appear in your dreams to teach you. Your spiritual eyes will open. If you do that, what kinds of phenomena will occur?
Because you will be eager to see True Parents, you will even forget to eat. Furthermore, because you want to see them, the sound of their voices calling you from within your mind will be audible. It will manifest to the degree that you cannot eat or sleep. Your sincerity opens your spiritual eyes.
When you pass through that state of mind, True Parents will live together with you. Such phenomena are occurring. At that time, you do not need to envy anyone, not even millionaires and billionaires. This is real.
This is why I am teaching 365 days a year. I do this work because I understand these things. I understand everything, even inferring what kind of person I will meet tomorrow, and preparing for that. That kind of world exists.
Therefore, the world becomes like that, not only by your hoping for it but more importantly by your investing in your sincerity. You have to invest your sincerity in that world as True Parents have done. You should invest your sincere devotion earnestly. Everything you invest in will bear fruit in your life. (090-266, 1977/01/03)
26. Love is eternal. Because love is eternal, the teaching that those who possess God's love have eternal life is a logical and natural conclusion. Since God is eternal, those who form an eternal first love will live eternally with God.
If Adam and Eve live eternally, their sons and daughters will attach to the root of eternal love and also will live eternally. This is logical, and the Unification Church invests this power in you.
The closer you get to the root, the more you earnestly think of True Parents and the more you will be taught by the spirit world.
Even if we live separately from one another, at opposite ends of the world, if you long for us to the extent that you cannot sleep and forget to eat, we will communicate with you through the spirit world. You will see everything we are doing. (283-273, 1997/04/13)
27. You must truly long for True Parents. If you do, you will be able to meet us in dreams and through revelations. Such phenomena have never before taken place in the world. True Parents are directing the environment beyond time and space. How is that happening? We are doing so with the help of God.
Among all antennae, God's antenna is the highest. A high antenna can beam a signal anywhere in the world.
God informs you through the spirit world. God teaches missionaries thoroughly. Without exception, God teaches amid persecution. If someone comes to persecute you, God will teach you how to answer.
A person who has had such experiences, even while dying, cannot conceive that God does not exist. A person who has experienced that within the substantial realm can live together with God to his or her very core. (257-306, 1994/03/16)
Sun Myung Moon