The True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind

1. The True Parents are the Parents of Heaven and Earth while God is the Parents of the Cosmos. The Parents of Heaven and Earth are on the earth for one generation. Their life ends after one generation.

The cosmos is God's home; it is eternal. The Chinese characters for cosmos (天宙) include a home (宙) and two (ニ) people (人). The character representing the top knot (宀) signifies being comfortable. Since it is in the character for home (宙), it signifies a house where two people can live freely.

So the cosmos is a house where two people can live together freely. That is why we say that the cosmos-centered ideology is Godism. From now on, you have to understand the difference between the Parents of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth.

When we say “Parents of Heaven and Earth” we are referring to the two perfected people who represent God in substantial form and who stand in the central position for all matters of this world. (403-030, 2003.01.19)

The Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth

2. The Parent of the Cosmos is God. The cosmos here refers to God's home. The spirit world is God's home, and the earth is also God's home. The Parents of Heaven and Earth stand on this earth in the position to be the True Parents of this fallen world.

With the Holy Wedding Ceremony of the Parents of Heaven and Earth and the Holy Wedding Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos, both have joined in virtuous union.

This ushers in the time when the two worlds, the spirit world, and the earthly world, come together as one and can be offered as a fruit to Heaven at the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth. (402-269, 2003.01.16)

3. What is the difference between God and True Parents? God is the deity, and True Parents are human beings. When the deity and these human beings unite, together they become the nucleus and the center of a world where fountains of love flow unceasingly like a mountain spring and the sun shines for eternity.

When such a world comes, the spirit world and the earthly world will be liberated, and in unity, they will form one ideal kingdom. (561-194, 2007.04.24)

4. The Parents of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth bear fruit in human beings. Even God cannot achieve the purpose of love on His own. Being incorporeal, there is no way for God to bring His sons and daughters, who live in the world of substance, to the kingdom of heaven and make them its citizens. Without assuming a form, He cannot do it. (422-266, 2003.10.25) 5.

We call our Heavenly Parent the Parent of the Cosmos, and we call True Parents on Earth the Parents of Heaven and Earth. Everything could have been completed in Adam's family if the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth had become one at that time.

Then all could have been joined in ties of true love, true life, and true lineage and all would have settled in Adam's family. Adams's family was supposed to have been the beginning point of the world and the starting point of God's blessing for the world.

That one family was to be the owner that would have opened the gate to God's nation, which is the kingdom of heaven. By inheriting the tradition of that family, people would have become sons and daughters within the realm of the royal family and would have gone directly to the kingdom.

They would not have needed religion, the Savior, the Messiah, the Lord at his Second Advent, or the True Parents. They would already have been able to serve the Heavenly Parent in the palace of the heavenly kingdom. (404-167, 2003.01.31)

The Era after the Coming of Heaven and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind

6. The most important words in the Unification Church are the Parent of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.

God's ideal is not to become the Parent of the Cosmos or the Parents of Heaven and Earth; it is to manifest as the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind. That has been the ideal and hope of God's creation.

Among these parents, we require the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth, but we require the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind even more.

Yet until now, no one has ever known such parents. Because Adam and Eve could not attain perfection as human beings, they were unable to perfect God, nor could they perfect themselves as the Parents of Heaven and Earth. Even God cannot find love on His own.

Likewise, the Parents of Heaven and Earth cannot experience love without having partners of love. However, with God standing in the position of the mind and True Parents standing in the position of the body, you stand in the position of God's grandchildren, the third generation.

Hence, these two sets of parents bear fruit in you, and you become the seeds that can be harvested and stored in the heavenly kingdom. Therefore, the Parents of Heaven, Ear, and Humankind are the most precious. (422-257, 2003.10.25)

7. Had human beings not fallen, God would have become manifest in the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind. God would have entered directly into the people's hearts. He would have become embodied in them； and then when the two people loved each other as husband and wife and had children, God would have become the real Parent of that family.

Until now, people have not had the opportunity to attend God as their Parent in this way. Nevertheless, the ideal of creation is that God would be embodied in His children, create a family with them, and then expand that family into a people, nation, world, and cosmos.

Yet, due to the human Fall, God was unable to become embodied, and He was unable to bear children and bequeath everything to them. Being unable to give birth to children in the flesh, He could not become the Parent with form.
(423-009, 2003.10.25)

8. In the end, everything must be perfected on the earth. Both God and True Parents have to reach perfection on earth. Had that occurred in the beginning, the individuals of that original family on earth would have represented the world.

Likewise, this family had to expand to a tribe, a people,e and a nation that would represent the world, and so on up to the cosmos. These needed to emerge on earth. With the fulfillment of all these, everyone would have entered the kingdom of heaven, to abide therein.

This is the viewpoint from the ideal of creation. However, that world never came into existence. God, who is the Parent of the Cosmos, and human beings, who were supposed to become the Parents of Heaven and Earth, were split apart. Still, eventually, they have to unite and become the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.

That is the ultimate hope. God attains perfection on earth, not in the spirit world. The incorporeal God has to attain perfection in a substantial body. (425-039, 2003.11.08)

9. The Old Testament Age was the time for recovering all the lost things of creation, based on offering sacrifices. The New Testament Age was the time for bringing all people, Cain and Abel, together.

The era of the Second Coming is the time when the Heavenly Father and the earthly Father and Mother become one as the Parents of Heaven and Earth.

Thus, the era of the Second Coming is the time for receiving in your families the lineage of the Parent of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.

It is the era of the new heaven and new earth, when, under these Parents' authority, there is no room whatsoever for Satan to accuse or invade. This means that the age is changing from the Era before the Coming of Heaven to the Era after the Coming of Heaven. I have come to this overall conclusion, through which everything is made clear. (467-041, 2004.09.02)

10. For the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind to arise, one man and one woman, each with mind-body unity, must become one and settle as a family. When the time comes that they do this, then the era of liberation is at hand. It will be the era of complete freedom when God's lineage can be spread throughout the world.

Now, with True Parents having reached the top of the world level, even the era of complete freedom has been established. Hence, a new heaven and new earth is upon us, as the Era before the Coming of Heaven comes to a close and the Era after the Coming of Heaven begins. With the arrival of a new heaven and a new earth centered on God, we see the emergence of the King of Peace.
(467-104, 2004.09.02)

11. The Era before the Coming of Heaven has passed, and the Era after the Coming of Heaven is approaching. Therefore, we need to recover not only the Day of the Victory of the Number Ten Combining Two Halves (Ssang Hab Shib Seung II) but also the year of victory.

Satan willfully took possession of not only the day but also the year and controlled them. But with the power of the Parent of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, I did what the incorporeal God was unable to do and what Jesus was prevented from doing during his time in the flesh.

Using the physical body, I have enabled God's sons and daughters to be brought into the world – the children of the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind. The families that have received the Blessing are the beginning point of this. Without blessed families, God cannot have His tribe, nation, or the world.
(455-309, 2004.06.26)

12. You are no longer sinners. You have been freed from the sin of the Fall, and you have even come to the liberated nation, Cheon II Guk. But even in the nation of Cheon II, Guk some are still convicts on death row.

I have to liberate even those who are serving life sentences, people who would otherwise be in hell for eternity. That is why I proclaimed the age of complete freedom. The Day of the Victory of the Number Ten Combining Two Halves was the turning point between the Era before the Coming of Heaven and the Era after the Coming of Heaven.

It signaled the time when a new heaven and new earth could begin. Based on that day, God could recover all that He had lost, including the day and the year. He opened up days and years in which all the wealth of the world, all material things and all people, everything that had been lost in past days and years, could be recovered in the new era of the new heaven and new earth. (456-215, 2004.06.29)

13. God Himself needs to live in the family, embodied in people who have sons and daughters. That is the kingdom of heaven.

Centering on the family in which God dwells, the kingdom of heaven on earth and the kingdom of heaven in the spirit world are one world, not two.

Anything that is not of the kingdom will fade away. It will be repulsed. These elements must be eradicated. Once that is done, everything will be governed by a new law.

Therefore, we need to remove everything that is of the Era before the Coming of Heaven and make things new for the Era after the Coming of Heaven.

That single family of unity will expand to a people, and that people will create a newly restructured nation in heaven. It will be God's nation and our original homeland. (461-123, 2004.07.20)

14. With the coming of the True Parents, we have entered an era that transcends religion, and history. It is the era when True Parents take dominion. Their dominion connects the Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age, and the Completed Testament Age; moreover, it unites heaven and earth.

This is how the Parents of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth will govern in this era. Earth was far distant from the high spiritual realm of heaven, and no relationship could be built between them. They could not even form a relationship with each other. But today is the time when that relationship can be built.

That is what made possible the starting point of the True Parent of the Cosmos and the True Parents of Heaven and Earth as the King and Queen of the Blessed Families of Peace and Unity. (417-280, 2003.09.11)

The Responsibility of the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind

15. Human beings are meant to be the embodiment of God. Becoming one in spirit and body, they are to live in the kingdom of love on earth and then pass on to the heavenly world where they will live as members of the household of the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.

Such is the eternal kingdom of heaven. The most wondrous of God's creations occur when, as the Parent of the Cosmos, He becomes one body not only with the Parents of Heaven and Earth but also with the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind. A straight line between heaven and earth does not produce the wonders of God's creation.

They come into being at the meeting of three points – Heaven, earth, and human beings. Can they be produced by the Parent of the Cosmos alone? Can they be produced by the Parents of Heaven and Earth alone?

They require the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind. That is why to establish the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, the Parents had to go through three resurrections.

They needed to go over the three mountain passes, resurrecting to the level of a form spirit, the level of a life spirit, and the level of a divine spirit the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind to land on the Earth.

In terms of celestial bodies, they should not merely be moons; they must be stars, emitting light. (436-139, 2004.02.07)

16. You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven without attaining the qualification to become parents of heaven, earth, and humankind. As parents of heaven, earth, and humankind, you will be in the position of the third creator.

You will give the Blessing to your sons and daughters. They are the sons and daughters of God, the incorporeal Parent of Adam and Eve who are God in substance. They are the sons and daughters of the True Parents, the substantial Adam and Eve.

If I am considered the first generation, then you are the second generation and your sons and daughters are the third generation. You have to unite these three generations together on the horizontal plane. If you do not make this happen, it is a problem, and you will not be able to arrive at the position of a parent of heaven, earth, and humankind.

After the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth come the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind. Finally, at that point, even God becomes a person. The Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind settle in love based on the perfection of man and woman. (429-137, 2003.12.25)

17. The Unification Church teaches about the Parents of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind. Through these three stages, sons, and daughters are born through the physical bodies of human beings of good character, who are the substance in the flesh of these three sets of Parents.

The incorporeal God, who is the Parent of the Cosmos and the being with both genders in harmony, cannot give birth to sons and daughters. Hence, God and the Parents of Heaven and Earth need to become one, and then convey their oneness to those in the position of the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.

Then they can rightly give birth to children and have a family. In light of this, whoever among you does not raise their sons and daughters to go to the kingdom of heaven, also cannot enter the kingdom. (475-060, 2004.11.07)

18. The incorporeal God, the God of the Cosmos, and the corporeal God, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, together make the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.

This must occur so that you can receive the inheritance on earth through the lineage they bequeath to you. They are the Ancestors of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, and you are in the position of their representative.

Unless you receive that inheritance, you cannot become parents of heaven, earth, and humankind. Once you become those parents, the place you enter together with your sons and daughters is the kingdom of heaven. (436-138, 2004.02.07)

19. The Parent of the Cosmos, as a deity who has no form, is the Lord of the incorporeal world, and the Parents of Heaven and Earth, the perfected Adam and Eve, are the Lords of the Earth.

However, neither the Parents of the Cosmos nor the Parents of Heaven and Earth have yet been able to settle on the Earth. This is the task of human beings to connect the Heavenly Parent with the Earthly Parents so that they may settle as Lords.

Only then can the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind settle on the earth. Yet because the parents of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth were unable to settle, it was not done. God can settle only when He enters the body of Adam, enters the body of Eve, and gives birth to sons and daughters through these Parents, who embody God in substance.

Until God thus establishes three generations, He cannot be present on the earth. God can settle only when the Lord of the Second Advent has secured the positions of three generations of Fathers, representing the person of God the Father, the Father of human beings, and the Father of the spirit world and the physical world. (447-056, 2004.04.30)

20. The titles Parent of the Cosmos, Parents of Heaven and Earth, and Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind signify the conclusion of history. If you do not serve the Parents of Heaven, Ear, and Humankind, then you are serving neither the Parent of the body nor the Parent of the mind, who is God.

However much you say there are people in the spirit world and Jesus is in paradise unless they attend the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, who are united with the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth, have nothing to do with the world of the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind. The words “Second Coming” refer to this. (455-214, 2004.06.24)