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1. Ladies and gentlemen, please look at the world today. Among the current leaders of the world, can we find anyone who is genuinely concerned with the future of humankind and who is making the sacrifices, beyond religion and nationality, necessary to bring harmony and peace to humanity?
Human beings have become like children who have lost their parents, misdirected youths who do not recognize their teacher, and sheep who have lost their shepherd. Human beings are spiritually blind, unable to see what lies even one inch ahead.
2. There are now some two hundred nations in the world, and aren't many of these nations engaged in fierce conflict, directly or indirectly? Aren't they all intent on promoting their interests? Even the United Nations, founded with the noble ideal of protecting the welfare and peace of humankind, has met its limitations.
Watching helplessly without a solution to the global crises of war, starvation, and disease, isn't the United Nations an organization that exists more in name than in substance? Thinking of ourselves as lords of creation, we human beings have forged our history.
Although humanity has endured terrible massacres and suffered natural disasters, humanity has survived and continues to multiply to this day. We continue to seek a bright and happy world, albeit with only a vague concept of what that might be. Why is it that humanity is still unable to escape from the mire of sin and disease?
The three great subject partners' principle
3. On the occasion of the opening ceremony of the Peace Palace and the coronation of the King and Queen of Peace on June 13, 2006, I proclaimed the basic duties and mission, based on the heavenly way, that all citizens of the kingdom of God, Cheon II Guk, should understand and fulfill.
I did so to fulfill God's calling, to bring humankind to live as one global family in a sacred reign of peace under God, by overcoming the tragic reality that human beings are facing.
Today, I would like to address you on the theme, “The Three Great Subject Partners Principle from the Viewpoint of God's Providence.” This message is Heaven's blessing. It will serve as an important teaching to guide humanity's future. Please open your heart and listen to these words so that you may be secure in your eternal life.
4. God endowed human beings with the three great subject partners principle at the time of creation. The first great subject partner is a true parent, and you are to become one. God created us as His children.
We were to become true children by perfecting our character after going through a period of spiritual growth, autonomously, based on the Principle God established. We were then to become a true couple, have our children, and attain the position of true parents.
In this way, we were to perfect ourselves by practicing and embodying the true love that God bestowed upon us when He created us. In reality, however, moral values in our world today are deteriorating rapidly. Society has rejected the moral laws governing the relationship between parents and children.
We are discarding marital fidelity as an old-fashioned idea of previous generations. Familial love among siblings has become rare, buried in a swamp of selfish individualism.
For these reasons, our most important task is to establish true families based on true love. This means we need to build families in which three generations live together in true love, with true parents at the center.
5. The second great subject partner is a true teacher, and you are to become one. Although the world is full of evil influences, one way or another, a person enters relationships in life where he or she is in a position either to teach or to learn. Our parents are our first teachers.
They should be our first and greatest teachers. As true teachers, the parents' primary responsibility is to raise true children. Children who are brought up by true parents through a true and good family education progress easily through their school education, which is the next stage.
School provides an institutionalized education, but even within that framework, teachers have the responsibility to guide and educate their students with the heart of true parents, to become true children.
By this, I mean that they need to conduct horizontal academic education on the foundation of vertical character education. A teacher's first qualification is thus to possess the heart of a true parent.
6. The third great subject partner is a true owner, and you are to become one. God, the Creator of the universe, is the True Owner and Lord of all creation. God's creation is the fruit of His complete investment, carried out based on absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.
From his example, we can gain the wisdom that enables us to become true owners and lords. The secret is to invest true love based on that absolute standard. The prerequisite for this is to possess the heart of a true parent.
The organic interrelationship within the three great subject partners principle
7. The three great subject partners principle expresses an organic interrelationship that is mutual, absolute, and indivisible. This is because a true parent, true teacher, and true owner can stand in the position of either a subject partner or an object partner with the other two.
In other words, once you attain the position of a true parent, the qualities of a true teacher and true owner emerge. Once you reach the position of a true teacher, the qualities of a true parent and true owner naturally develop.
Similarly, when you attain the position of a true owner, you will immediately become a true parent and true teacher as well. From the outset, human beings were born to inherit and embody God's complete three great subject partners principle.
Therefore, as we become people of character, perfecting this principle, we become like God Himself. We need a heart that is like God's to love other people and all creation just as He does, based on His absolute standard.
In other words, we are to attain a state of loving oneness with God, wherein we can love the creation. At that point, the true parent, true teacher, and true owner converge.
8. The world operates through the harmony of various systems and relationships. In this complex and diverse world, the principle of becoming a true owner naturally applies to the relationships between people, but it also applies to the relationship between human beings and the creation.
The question is, upon what basis can one be called a true owner? Someone who lives for others, caring for and sacrificing to serve others – in other words, a person who practices true love in daily life can be called a true owner. Only someone who cares for the creation with true love, protecting and nurturing it, can become a true owner of all creation.
In light of this, it is not your position or worldly status that makes you a true owner. It is determined by your character and capacity to love. The president of a company who loves and cares for all his employees with a parental heart is the true owner of that company. A nation's president can be the true owner of that nation only if he or she loves its citizens as a parent and shares the sorrows and joys of life with them.
Our conscience is our true parent, true teacher a and true owner
9. Ladies and gentlemen, God's creation is truly mysterious and profound. God created us as His children to be the lords of creation. To this end, He gave each of us the highest and greatest gift: a conscience.
We receive this special gift of a conscience as a compass to guide us through life in this earthly world. We can say that our lifespan may be one hundred years.
Regardless of who we are, from the moment of our birth to the moment we die, we cannot escape the influence of our conscience.
The most elevated function of the conscience is its role as our true parent, true teacher, and true owner. Our conscience acts as a true parent, true teacher, and true owner on behalf of God, guiding our life and educating us from the moment of birth.
Our conscience functions as a guide, keeping watch over our every action at every moment. It's awareness of our every word, thought, and deed precedes that of our parents, our teachers, and even God. God infused into the conscience the function of guiding and supervising life.
10. Before our parents or teachers know, and even before God knows, the conscience knows everything that we do, say, and think. It is because God bequeathed to us the conscience with the original function to guide and watch over our lives.
However, the conscience, which should be clear as crystal, has been clouded due to the Fall. Amid all manner of sin and spiritual sickness, it is now unable to fulfill its original function fully.
Knowing this, please become people who can listen to the voice of your conscience. You should cry out for liberation, for freedom from this evil world that is under Satan's dominion.
11. There is no way for fallen people to restore the original function of the conscience by their own power. This is because they have not established a direct vertical relationship with God.
The 6.5 billion people in the world today are all off-center, many living with the illusion that their way of life is the best.
However, until someone achieves a direct relationship with God by the absolute standard of a ninety-degree angle, no one will be able to find the path to salvation.
12. Beloved leaders from around the world, there is but one person who holds the keys to free humanity from Satan's bondage and lead them to heaven. He is the first and probably the last in history to hold such a position.
That person is the one standing before you today. I never wished for or sought this position, but God anointed me and placed me in the position of the Savior, Messiah, returning Lord, and True Parents of humankind.
It is a position that is free of the influence of Satan's realm. It is indeed I, Rev. Moon, whom God has charged to practice and demonstrate personally a life based on the truth and submission to the conscience.
The path of a True Parent, True Teacher, and True Owner I am walking will allow the people of the world, who are going 6.5 billion separate ways, to reconnect to God at a ninety-degree angle.
13. Billions of absolute good spirits in the spirit world are testifying in unison to this fact. The founders of the great religions, principally Jesus, as well as great philosophers and thinkers, and even some communist leaders, are shedding tears of gratitude for this wonderful truth. The grace of the Blessing from the True Parents can even save the people in the spirit world, and in fact, there is no other way.
14. Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for humanity to fulfill the heavenly decree of creating one family under God through the international and cross-cultural Blessing.
My teachings as the True Parents are here for you to receive now. How can the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven be created other than by becoming one family under God?
What other way is there to create the ideal world that God envisioned at the time of the creation, the world in which all people are united beyond the barriers of race, culture, religion, and nationality, and where war and conflict are no more?
Without your being aware of it, the True Parents have proclaimed the opening of the Era after the Coming of Heaven, which allows all humanity to be liberated. Even God will be liberated, and His heart set completely free. The True Parents are now taking this revolutionary truth that we all have to become true parents, true teachers, and true owners, to the ends of the earth.
15. Ladies and gentlemen, the fundamental spirit of the 2007 World Culture and Sports Festival is that of fulfilling the sacred task of bringing all people together as one family.
Please remember that our mission, as people of religious, cultural, and athletic prowess, is to come together as one and bring the era beginning a new universal civilization of peace into fruition. Religious people, in particular, have to become the leaders of this sacred revolution of true love. Rev. Moon has completed in advance all the preparations necessary for this.
16. All you have to do now is trust in and follow the True Parents. With your conscience as your compass, attain the status of a true parent, true teacher, and true owner. Manifest true love in your daily life, thus shaping your eternal life in heaven. Heavenly fortune will speed you on your path, and your good ancestors who have received the marriage Blessing will actively assist you in your activities. Have courage, and strive to go forward!
I pray that you may attain the true family ideal, based on the three great subject partners principle, so that you can shout three cheers for the advent of the era of the kingdom of peace under the sacred reign of peace.
Sun Myung Moon