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1. It is important for you to understand the spirit world. What happens when you learn about what your ancestors from thousands of years ago are doing in the spirit world? By understanding clearly that you will inevitably face the same fate, you can transcend difficult problems on this earth.
Because I know all this, I do not despair, regardless of what persecution I receive. Because I know much more than this because I know where the highest value lies, I can ignore and overcome all difficulties. (320-245, 2000.04.16)
World of the light of love
2. The spirit world is the original garden of God's eternal ideal. How wonderful is the original garden? It is beyond description. Even if you were to gaze at just one of the secrets in the palace of the heavenly kingdom you would not tire of the sight even after ten thousand years.
Your lifetime on earth is a mere instant. The spirit world, on the other hand, is eternal. Compared to your life in the spirit world, your life on earth is shorter than a breath. (69-341, 1974.01.03)
3. The spirit world exists for this world. And this world exists for the eternal world. It is wrong to say that the spirit world does not exist. I am doing this providential work because the spirit world does exist.
You may say, “Where in this world is God, and where is the spirit world? I don't know” But the spirit world is the place where you find God. What does God exist as? God is true love. His hopes can only be realized through love.
(117-307, 1982.04.11)
4. In the spirit world there are no shadows. It overflows with the sunlight of eternal morning. The white light is so bright that it changes to purple and takes on silver and golden hues. The light produced by electricity is similar to the light of love. An electric light illuminates when a positive charge interacts with a negative charge.
In the same way, God's internal nature and external form come together and manifest as something similar to lightning. It is the light of eternal true love. That is the essence of eternal life. You need to arrive at that final destination.
(292-266, 1998.04.26)
5. The spirit world is an eternal place that seeks eternal elements. A spirit person who has experienced love on earth will unfailingly and automatically be drawn into that world.
That person gravitates to the part of the spirit world that has as much love as he felt here on earth. Then what kind of place is the spirit world? It is a world of harmony brimming with love, where everything is imbued with love. It is not wrong to assert that this entire universe is put in motion by a single press of the button of love.
Accordingly, the place where all light bulbs of love light up is the kingdom of heaven on earth. And the kingdom of heaven in the spirit world is where love light bulbs can fully light up with greater intensity. That is why, when you harbor love in your heart and pull on the rope of love, everything will be pulled toward you.
(112-017, 1981.03.15)
6. The spirit world is a world of intuition where within a week you can surpass the knowledge of any scholar, however distinguished or great. By seeing things through the light of your heart, you will automatically understand the world and all its related interconnections.
This is because from the viewpoint of the heart they are in a certain relationship with you as your subject partner or counterpart. (210-312, 1990.12.27)
7. Once we dwell in the spirit world, through the power of true love we can meet people, however distant, in the twinkling of an eye. And no matter how far away people are, if they are visiting for love, they can travel back to their hometown instantly.
The spirit world is limitlessly expansive, but it is also a world in which we can go back and forth instantaneously over infinite distances because of love. Love travels at the highest speed.
But if you do not have the foundation of unified love in your mind and body, you will have nothing to do with that world. Accordingly, the origin of unification is not something that just happens in the external world; it is something that you initiate. (216-192, 1991.03.31)
8. In the spirit world you will fly. You will fly around so fast you will not even be seen. Since true love has the highest speed, God, who possesses true love, can leap across the vast universe in one bound and work in different places at once. You will all be able to do the same.
In the spirit world, the entire universe, no matter how vast, will be the stage for your activities. There are many dream mines in the spirit world, with an endless supply of gold, silver, and precious stones.
And when it comes to flowers, when someone they like or someone they love approaches, even if the flowers have been sleeping, they will open their eyes and mouths wide and welcome that person. (213-277, 1991.01.21)
The hierarchy in the spirit world
9. When you consider the spirit world, what kind of structure does it have? It has the same structure as that of God and His object partner, humankind. The spirit world was created in the form of an object partner to God, similar to a human being.
This is why all people, created with the same external form as God, become one person resembling Him. Up to this point, God has continued to create human beings, people of character representing the universe.
They include the yellow, white,e and black people. But they are all in a sense one person. Each of you is like a cell that constitutes a part of God. This design of God is similar to the cells composing our body.
To God, we are people who exist as the individual cells of His body. He is our Father, and we are like His flesh. This is why God wants to make people. The structure of the spirit world is also like this. (072-190, 1974.06.16)
10. When you go to the spirit world, you will notice that it resembles a person. As such, it can become one with God, its subject partner. Then the boundary between the entire spirit world and the entire physical world becomes fuzzy.
When God jumps, the earth will jump, and when God laughs, so will the earth. That is how it is. Once you go to the spirit world, you will see that it is structured like a person. (91-280, 1977.02.27)
11. What is the structure of the spirit world? Because the spirit world evolved not through True Parents, but through false parents after the Fall, it is not as it should be.
Only a spirit world untouched by the Fall should exist. The spirit world will return to its original state only when God's providential Will for salvation is fulfilled. The coming Lord of the Second Advent must reorganize it after completing the Will on earth. The spirit world needs to be restored. (293-090, 1998.05.24)
12. Paradise, the middle realm and all the religious realms exist in the spirit world. Hell is connected to those realms of the spirit world. In the spirit world that is connected to hell, married life is not permitted.
All such things are forbidden, although spirits may hide in corners of hell and perpetrate fallen acts. Even those who belong to the realm of paradise live by themselves. (314-144, 2000.01.02)
13. The spirit world should be a world that is aligned with the vertical “noontime,” without shadows, bathed in bright sunlight. Instead, it is a mixture of good and bad. It consists of the highest spirit world, the first spirit world, the second spirit world, and the third spirit world.
Moreover, different animals live in each of these divisions. In the highest spirit world, animals praise their masters. They are all friends. (565-239, 2007.06.12)
14. You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven by yourself. Our original ancestors should first have grown to maturity, established the true ideal of God-centered love, lived as such people on earth, become parents, left behind the seeds of true love,e and then entered the kingdom of heaven.
To this day, however, there have been no God-centered parents who were able to leave the seeds of love on this earth. Because the foundation to leave such descendants could not be established, the kingdom of heaven remains empty to this day. (140-046, 1986.02.01)
15. What is the structure of the spirit world where God dwells, of the kingdom of heaven where He resides? Its organizational structure is elementary. The people who can go to the kingdom of heaven and paradise are not those who live only for themselves.
Such people are not permitted to go there. The kingdom of heaven is a place where only those who were born for the whole and lived for the whole can go.
(77-189, 1975.04.06)
The kingdoms of heaven and hell in the spirit world
16. Through the Fall of Adam and Eve, this planet Earth came to be under the rule of Satan, and hell was created in the spirit world. Therefore, the territory in which Satan can rule extends to the realm of hell on earth and the realm of hell in the spirit world. This is why they need to be liberated.
If there had been no Fall, hell on earth and hell in the spirit world would never have existed and only the ideal kingdom of heaven would have been established on earth and in the spirit world as a single, continuous reality.
However, because of the Fall, two worlds that could be ruled by Satan came into being. Satan's dominion over these worlds therefore needs to be nullified.
(168-303, 1987.10.01)
17. If the body and mind are not united, that realm of disunity becomes Satan's territory. Neither hell nor heaven exists separately from you. They are both within you.
Only when centered on love, you can work to discipline your body, transcend your life, and love and serve others beyond your lineage, can you bring a complete end to this evil, profane world.
Through such heavenly teachings, when God's ethics are established in the family, the tribe, the people, the nation, and the world, this will become the kingdom of heaven on earth. The people who live in the kingdom of heaven on earth will transition, just as they are, to the kingdom of heaven in the spirit world.
(196-328, 1990.01.12)
18. The original palace of true love is the reproductive organs. True love is absolute. Because true love is unique and unchanging, it is absolute. That is why, when we study past generations, we can see that when love is disordered it leads to the breakdown of the family, the society, and the nation.
In the case of Sodom and Gomorrah, the family, the society, and the nation broke down because the order of love was destroyed. The result is nothing but destruction. It is hell.
Consequently, heaven and hell do not exist separately. That is why, even if you live in a hellish environment, it does not mean you will go to hell. Whether you go to heaven or hell depends on you.
The basis for the corruption of true love is you and only you. The only place where true life and true lineage can be violated is the reproductive organs. By no means should they be defiled. (224-130, 1991.11.24)
19. What kind of place is the kingdom of heaven on earth? If there is a place on earth where people do their best not to become indebted but instead try hard to help each other rid themselves of debt, that place is the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Then what kind of place is the kingdom of heaven in the spirit world? The kingdom of heaven is not a place for people with debts. The kingdom of heaven I know does not have people like that. Those who, during their life on earth, worked to get rid of their nation's debts, humanity's debts, and all debts in front of God are the ones who can go to the kingdom of heaven.
On the other hand, those who become indebted to their nation, to others, and to God end up not in heaven but in hell. The position of a person who has striven to get rid of debts is always a victorious one.
Such a person was victorious in the past, is victorious today, and will be victorious in the future. The kingdom of heaven is a place you can go with the authority of having triumphed in getting rid of debts. (085-133, 1976.03.02)
20. If you are fifty years old, and you have lived more than twenty-five of those years for the sake of the universe by heavenly principle and heavenly law, then you will go to the kingdom of heaven.
If you have lived in such a manner you can traverse the boundaries to dwell in the good spirit world. But if you have lived your life of fifty years putting yourself first more often than not, you should realize, even though it may be disappointing, you will go not to the original homeland of goodness but to the homeland of evil, that is, hell.
If you have lived for yourself more often than not in the past, you should end that life and disavow it, endeavoring to make the rest of your life one in which you live for the nation, the world, heaven, earth, and God. If you do this, from this point on you will go toward the ideal world of heaven. (78-119, 1975.05.06)
21. It is written in the Bible that “the kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:21) This means the kingdom of heaven is the place that is in oneness with God's love, and that love should be in your heart.
The words, "You are in me and I am in you," are also not an abstraction. (John 17:21)
These words are possible when they are rooted in love. Fallen human beings are finding their way toward that day in which God's love can be manifested through their body and mind.
The explosive love of God will shine forth. And the body, which has been twisted out of shape over thousands of years, will be able to become one with God. That day is a day of fear and revolution in Satan's world and a day of ecstasy and victory in Heaven's world.
When you stand in that position, you will know God's love. It will be so wonderful that your cells will tingle. You will feel all your bones and flesh harmonize and bond together. You will feel as though all your five senses have become one.
(94-268, 1977.10.01)
22. Blessed families should all be able to become sacrificial offerings for the nation. This is the starting point to determine whether you will go to heaven or hell. Going to heaven or hell is not determined by how well you know the Bible or how well you can speak.
What matters are your actual results for God and your heart. In the end, the boundary between heaven and hell is a boundary of heart and a boundary of actual results. (32-231, 1970.07.19)
23. You should liberate your conscience. Your mind is the checkpoint of heaven and your body is the checkpoint of hell. Does your body drag your mind around or does your mind have true dominion over your body?
For those who follow a religion, their minds give clear direction to their bodies, and for those who do not follow a religion – in ten cases out of ten – their bodies drag their minds around. The latter live consumed by themselves.
That is the difference. Each of you is the starting point of hell, therefore, and also the starting point of heaven. If you live according to your mind you will go to heaven and if you live according to your body you will go to hell. If you live for the sake of others you will go to heaven and if you insist on living for your own sake you will go to hell. (252-257, 1994.01.01)
24. There is no marriage in the spirit world. Think for a moment about how serious a problem that is. By comparison, missing an arm or a leg is not a problem. That being the case, should you complain or not? You cannot complain.
You should rejoice. Even while shedding tears, you should go forward, rejoicing and happy. You yourself determine whether you go to heaven or hell. That decision does not lie with me, and it does not lie with God; you are the one who decides that.
When you habitually complain, you end up in hell; yet when you go forward with gratitude for situations you could easily be complaining about, you end up in heaven. (96-122, 1978.01.02)
25. What about the spirit world? Since confused people go to the spirit world and gather there, that realm is certainly chaotic. People who develop the habit of stealing will always end up stealing something.
Thus, people who stole on earth will naturally want to get something for nothing in the spirit world. Because it was difficult to handle such people in the spirit world, hell originated. God did not make hell; it came into being through people.
Do people first prepare a trashcan, and then start building their house? It is only after building and living in the house that one comes to need the trashcan. The existence of hell is similar to that. (148-028, 1986.10.04)
26. To commit suicide is the worst of sins. Because suicide is an atrocity that destroys parts of the universe, such a person should go to the lowest level of hell. Once you know this fact, you cannot commit suicide. You are the being who connects your parents' lives.
In other words, you are the union of the two lives of your father and mother. They are connected to you. And you are also a participant in your parents' love. You are one in body with your parents' love. You are one in love.
(107-036, 1980.01.20)
27. Hell is such a place that, once you are trapped there, you can never get out by yourself. You do not truly realize the fact that your mother, father, and relatives are going to hell. You just say, “Things will work out somehow,” and that is it. But try to realize that your beloved parents are going to hell.
Human affection is such that, if you found out that your parents were going to prison on earth, you would cry your heart out and try to liberate them by doing anything and everything.
How much more, then, would the sons and daughters who are connected to their kin through heavenly love try to do if they learned that their parents, relatives, and brothers and sisters were going to a prison from which they would never be able to escape? You do not know anything yet.
You do not know whether there is a hell or not, and even if you have an idea that hell exists, you do not know what kind of place it is. It is undoubtedly a vague idea for you. However, you will know when you die. You will know all at once when you die, but then it will be too late. (34-267, 1970.09.13)
28. When the Lord of the Second Advent arrives, he will create a new ideal realm in paradise, which is not heaven, and at the bottom of hell. Cain and Abel will be restored to the bottommost pit of hell and the new realm of God's family will be created.
Through the realization of the new realm of God's tribe – the new realm of God's people, nation, and world – everybody on earth has to be restored through indemnity. Cain and Abel need to be restored through indemnity. People have to absorb and digest everything and build a unified world, then organize the empty realms of the spirit world from the earthly world.
Without a major upheaval in the spirit world, there will be no way for God to release His sorrow and realize His cherished Will to build the heavenly kingdom.
That is why Jesus said, "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." (Matt. 18:18)
The kingdom of heaven will not be established in the spirit world without first being established on earth. The astonishing reality is that without establishing the sovereignty of the heavenly nation on earth, good sovereignty cannot be recovered in the spirit world. (143-030, 1986.03.15)
29. The path to the kingdom of heaven does not appear in the place where you are thinking only about yourself. When you realize that you are far away from Heaven, you need to smash that self to pieces.
Only when you overthrow that self will a direct path to heaven, or even an indirect path, open up. However, those who promote themselves and try to make those in the object partner's position adapt to them, or who place themselves in a subject partner's position and try to push their way through the realm of the object partner's position, will be unable to relate to the kingdom of heaven.
The realization of the kingdom of heaven begins with each person. Even if the kingdom of heaven were completely built, if you have not become someone who can respond when the kingdom of heaven calls, you will have nothing to do with it. The kingdom of heaven is a place where we have overcome Satan, not only overcome ourselves.
The kingdom of heaven cannot exist in the social environment of the fallen world or in the place where we pursue our fallen habits and customs. As Satan persistently controls our habits and environment, the kingdom of heaven can arrive only after we have overcome the circumstances wherein Satan has taken up residence. (46-075, 1971.07.25)
30. The kingdom of heaven is realized in the place that contradicts Satan's world. Otherwise, it could not be the kingdom of heaven. Even if a place in Satan's world bore the name of heaven, it would be nothing but a deception to fool people.
The concept of heaven can be established from the position of subjugating Satan, of denying and indeed eliminating everything to which he can relate. Heaven is affirmed based on having denied and removed Satan's negative historical legacy and all the contents of a satanic lifestyle. While these are still in place, we cannot introduce the contents of heaven. (46-075, 1971.07.25)
31. What kind of people should you Unification Church members become? Ideally, they should become people who know how to enter the internal world, how to go out into the external world, how to come in after going out, and how to be able to travel north, south, east, and west.
We are trying to create people who can establish the internal world as the subject and then take dominion over the external world. The external world was invaded by evil, so if you go to that world you are present in hell. But if you go to the internal world, you are present in the good spirit world, that is, the kingdom of heaven.
If you can freely travel to and from the internal and external worlds, you will have the freedom to go to hell as well as heaven. Since I know this fact, I am asserting that we should try to become people who will be welcomed wherever we go. That is also what God wants. (116-178, 1982.01.01)
The spirit world and physical world are one and are perfected on earth.
32. Knowledge of the spirit world and God includes knowing about the environment. That environment is similar to the environment of human life on Earth. Even when you die and go to the spirit world, you may not know you have died.
You may simply think you have come to a different place. For instance, if you had been living at the North Pole, in the middle of an ice field, and then traveled to a tropical place, you would suddenly find that it is hot all year round; the trees are always green and their leaves and other things differ from what you have known.
In the same way, when you die, you may feel just like that; you may not realize you have died. You may think like this because the two worlds are so closely interwoven. (338-273, 2000.11.30)
33. We all ultimately have to go to the spirit world. We call that place the world after death, but it is not just that. Why is it not just the world after death? Because it is a world connected to true love.
Since it was begun based on true love, when you stand in the position of true love, you are directly connected to the spirit world. That is why true love is so great. Then what is the spirit world?
It is the place where, once you have filled in all the gaps between the heavenly world and the earthly world, you can experience a realm of life where the two worlds share the same values. From this place, you can tour the world after death. (290-051, 1998.02.02)
34. If the substantial spirit world is the sun, then our relationship to it is like the moon, a reflector. Our individual selves are like mirrors. The truth is the spirit world is connected to the earth both internally and externally.
Thus, the spirit world and the physical world are one. If you do not know this, you cannot pass the test in the next world. This is important. The Completed Testament Age is not about the individual; it is the age in which you need to realize the God-centered family. (310-034, 1999.05.28)
35. The Blessing in the Unification Church turns the spirit world and the physical world upside down. By overturning them, we bring about the turning point from which the unification of the spirit world and the physical world can take place.
This is the age of transition through which the spirit world and the physical world are connected and transformed. When these two are turned upside down, Satan is exiled, all evil ways on earth are brought to an end, and we cross over into the age in which God can have direct dominion over us.
We therefore need to clearly understand the nature of the spirit world. If you do not understand the spirit world, you cannot fulfill the foundation of the family. Only when you know about the spirit world can you bring everything to its fullest realization? (310-035, 1999.05.28)
36. The spirit world and the physical world are united through true love. Because of the Fall, there was no true love, and so the spirit world and the physical world could not be united. Because there was no true love, the minds, and bodies of individuals became divided and religion and politics branched off.
Everything should be united under true love. Only then can the individual, family, society, nation, world, and cosmos all be interconnected. We need to bring this about with our hands.
Otherwise, we cannot inherit the original kingdom of heaven in the spirit world and the kingdom of heaven on earth. (216-106, 1991.03.09)
37. In the spirit world, you cannot eat if you do not have God's love. You are not entitled to eat. Hell is a place where you cannot eat even though you can see the food, and you cannot act even though you know what to do.
Unless you have found the precious center where the spirit world and physical world are united based on God's love, and you have united your spirit and body to live your life in the kingdom of heaven on earth, you cannot possess the eternal ideal world and own the heavenly kingdom. (91-173, 1977.02.06)
38. The spirit world is the internal world and the physical world is the external world. The world of the mind is the internal world and the world of the body is the external world. That is where the boundary is. It is so deep it appears black. The distance between your mind and body is equal to the distance between God and this world.
The providence of restoration has been carried out for six thousand years to unite the worlds of your body and mind. The more the body and mind are united, the more the boundary can be eliminated on earth and what has been sown on earth can be reaped.
In this way, a cosmos in which the spirit world and the physical world are united and centered on God is brought about. That is why the arena where God seeks us out, and we seek God is not in the world; it is within us. Our body and mind are the base for that. (072-158, 1974.06.09)
39. It is a principle that a perfect minus automatically gives rise to a perfect plus and that a perfect plus automatically generates a perfect minus. This is a principle of the creation of the universe and a law of existence.
If we live properly on earth according to this principle, then the spirit world becomes connected. The problem is that this is the first time in history that this has happened. Spiritual problems are only resolved when they are dealt with on earth. However, each time this happens, indemnity must be paid.
You do not understand what this historical time is or how to deal with this global era, but I know, and I have taken responsibility for the way of indemnity alone, in front of history and the universe and before the spirit world and the physical world.
Because I know when indemnity is required, I also know clearly what happens in the spirit world and on earth when the indemnification process breaks down.
(131-226, 1984.05.04)
40. One hundred years on earth is just a moment. The fallen people living in this world live their lives believing that this world is the best there is. They do not know anything. They are like an unborn baby in the womb.
When you come to know God, you should live your life in such a way that when you go from the earthly world to the spirit world you will become a cell of love and one with the activity of love. (519-215, 2006.03.04)
41. Life on earth is for the sake of the perfection of the spirit world. The spirit world is the place where our spirit selves will eventually live. If our spirit self fails to accomplish a model standard in the flesh on earth, and if our spirit and flesh cannot experience love on earth, we will not be able to breathe when we go to that world.
On this earth, our mother breastfeeds us, and we receive love from her. We are loved by our parents and our siblings. It is similar in the spirit world. Our spirit selves are meant to go there and be embraced in the bosom of God, our original Parent, receive love from Him, and live at the center of His love.
To do so, we first need to be able to experience love through the five sensory organs of our physical body during our life on Earth. We live our life on earth for the sake of our complete maturation and so that we can enjoy total fulfillment in the spirit world. (308-125, 1998.11.21)
42. The spirit world is our homeland. It is our original homeland. This earth is the original homeland of our bodies and the spirit world is the original homeland of our minds. The place we will go after this is the spirit world.
That is why we need to train ourselves to be able to live there while we are still on earth. Only then will we encounter no difficulties when we go there to live?
(207-072, 1990.11.01)
43. The earth, not the spirit world, is the place to achieve perfection. It is possible to reach perfection on earth, with true love as the center. It is not possible in the spirit world. This is why you need to have children.
They are the ones who will become the citizens of the kingdom of heaven. They will become the citizens of the ideal heavenly kingdom. So you need to have many sons and daughters. The original ideal necessitated twelve directions. Therefore, I want the ideal of twelve directions. (217-130, 1991.05.12)
44. Love is something you cannot forget. As the very root of life, love is always with you, even when you are working and whether you are asleep or awake. In living your life, you need to think about God and True Parents.
By doing so, your mind and body can stand in a realm of peace, stability, and satisfaction. A person who has led such a life will continue to do so even after going to the spirit world. On the hearth, you expand your internal life. That expanded internal life comes to the surface when you go to the spirit world.
Because love is internalized, it is as if we and God are cells of the same body. The spirit world is a world in which you become one of those cells. When you attain such a level, God will come into your mind. It is a world where you live together with God. (218-128, 1991.07.14)
Sun Myung Moon