Section 1. Spiritual Phenomena And Liberation Of Spirits
1. Good Spiritual World And Evil Spiritual World
The spiritual world is divided into two, Satanic world and God's world. If we can find the way to move from the evil to good world quickly, the earthly things will naturally fall into place. Do you understand? [Yes] How do we walk this path? This is possible if we possess the secret method through which we can go to the Satanic spiritual world and claim to the heavenly side entire Satanic individuals, families, tribes, and countries. Do you understand this?
Such a time is coming. You should know that when this time comes to the spiritual world, this will be reflected in the physical world, and things will roll into that world with a rapid transformation. (134-15)
What is the new movement we are developing? What kind of ideology is it? If God exists, it is the ideology conforming to God's will. Then what does this ideology seek? If God exists, there should also be spiritual world. Spiritual world is a storage house where all our ancestors, present human beings, and people of the future arrive at and stay.
In this spiritual world there must be good and evil worlds because the physical world is like that, and evil people will have to go to the evil spiritual world. If death is the end of existence, this is meaningless; if, however, human beings exist in some relationship with God, and spiritual world is where they gather, then this spiritual world is inevitably divided into two different kinds -- good and evil.
The question, then, is what the good kind and what the evil kind are. God must seek the ideal world of dual purpose, where good and evil spiritual worlds harmonize and human world harmonize, thereby bringing everything into oneness and fulfilling the individual and whole purposes; we human beings have dual purposes, individual and whole.
What, then, is the problem? What has the human history been seeking so far? What is goodness and what is evil? Why do we have to live in such a lamentation and bang against the thick wall? It is because the starting point, process, and final destiny are different. What is its content? If we analyze the content, it is quite simple. (126-83)
We cannot understand this clearly without seeing comprehensively how the spiritual world develops and makes a relationship with the physical world. The spiritual world can be divided into good and evil worlds. This is a world that really exists. Although the people on the earth do not realize, this world is real.
Now, good and evil spirits are struggling with one another in the spiritual world. The battle is that good spirits are trying to lead evil spirits to good places, while evil spirits are trying to prevent good spirits from going up to good places. You should know that evil spirits are connected centering on Satan, and people on the earth today are living under their dominion. Why is it? The good spirits are standing on the good side not because they are completely good from God's point of view, but because they have established some condition of separation on the earth.
In the progress towards the original world of ideals, an ideal realm of goodness where original human beings can go, good spirits are fighting their way towards it, and evil spirits are struggling to block the way. The evil spiritual world and evil physical world are in a constant communication. Good spirits are the ones who were opposed and persecuted in the sinful world. They are religious believers.
2. Spiritual Phenomena
If religions fight against one another in the final day, what would happen? Now is a time when such a phenomenon can easily occur. Unification Church has been born in order to prevent this. Unification Church is a preventive prescription against it. This is needed. So in the age of religious war, the body and spirit have to work together to protect,
The spiritual world dominates the physical world. There must be hundreds of billions of spirits in the spiritual world; Japanese population of one hundred million is no match at all; this is not even as big as a dust on tip of the toe. Billions and trillions of spirits are on the offensive in order to take over the physical world.
One example for this is neurosis. A little while later, perhaps after 1980's or year 2000, everyone may develop some spiritual sense and communication, either with good spirits or with evil spirits. We cannot but fight no matter how much we are told against wars. Such a time may come. The mission of the Unification Principle is to prevent this. A high antenna produces noises, and this is a phenomenon of neurosis.
What is the most fearful is just to have all the evil spirits attacking the physical world. The question is what would happen in this case. No matter how numerous people are to fill the world, they will all be struck by evil spirits. So God is making the preparation, expanding the foundation centering on good spirits. (55-30)
3. A Letter From The Spiritual World
Does spiritual world exist or not? [It does.] No. [It does] You rascals, no! [Yes] Then have you seen it? [We have] You found out through me, right? [Yes] What if it is a lie? [It is true] (laughter) Believe, if it is true and you want to believe it. I am not responsible if you go to hell later. Don't say, "Alas, I am in trouble because I was deceived by him." If it really exists as I said, would you not be exclaiming with joy, "Oh, what he said if really true"? [We would.] You will be extremely happy, with your eyes wide open and nose twisted.
These days, I heard that Dr. Sang Hun Lee's wife Han Sook sent him a letter from the spiritual world, and that Dr. Lee also replied to her. The letter said: "How wonderful the spiritual world is! I did not know that Blessing is so precious. It is like a dream that we are a part of the heavenly royal family. This is like a mystery. It is so nice here that I am sorry for coming here first. Please forgive me." In other words, she went to the spiritual world before the husband, and since she had followed the Unification Church, dream-like things happened to her. So this is why she was sorry, because it is too good.
We are smart people. Since we know the spiritual world well, we live our whole life in order to conform ourselves to its program, right? Since we come from the origin, we should go back to the origin. Aren't rivers created by water rising up from the sea and falling back down to the earth? So we should go back to the origin. Life continues through the movement of circulation. Without circulation, everything will dissolve back to the basic elements. Do you understand this? [Yes]
Who is God? You should know this. God is like the mind of the universe, do you see? Now you know who He is, right? As we come to understand it, He is like the mind of the universe. Can you see the mind? [We can't] Can you see the mind? [We can't] The spiritual world is a place where the mind is substantial in a certain form, and it transcends time and space. There you can eat whatever you want. You don't have to worry about food, drink, or clothes. It transcends all the need for the necessities of life, do you see? Do you need a car there? Do you think there is a car factory there or not? [Not] Would there be factories for food, clothes, or fabrics? [No] None of these are there. There, you can traverse millions of miles in a split second. With what power? Through the power of love; if you have a desire to see a beloved one, he appears before you in a second.
Speed of love is the fastest, and it passes in a straight line. This is not a worldly love but Godly love. What is Godly love? It is true love. When you are in the realm of true love, you can move at the highest speed on a straight line, so you can operate on the stage of universe, which is under the control of your thought. This is a truth that sounds like a lie. It is because I know such things that I did not complain even when going through the valley of sorrow all alone as a pioneer for seventy years and that I am still determined to walk this path straight until the time of death.
So if I die this way, there is a railroad in the spiritual world. The railroads in the physical and spiritual world are connected like train rails that go through a national border; they have to fit exactly, not too big or not too small. Only the Unification Church knows these things. No matter how proud Christianity is, they don't know it. In this age, which boasts late 20th century science and logic of structured progress, Unification Church is the only place where we can testify to God with a religious theory through a well-structured process. (210-225)
Now is not a time when Jesus is opposed. Now that the age has come when the entire Korea will praise Rev. Moon's name from the standpoint of global history, you should fulfill the mission of Tribal Messiah. Now, your tribes including far distant relatives will be restored at once. Restoring 120 families in six months is not a problem. We are in the position of elder brother. The whole heaven and earth will see the dawn.
A grandfather will become a grandchild, and a father will become a son. It is like when somebody becomes a king, his grandparents and parents will have to serve him. Messiah means kingship, right?
In that country, all the saints will return from the spiritual world and rule as kings in the name of the Christ. This is tribal kingship. Then this becomes a realm of liberation in which kingship can participate in the global domain. just go and see if this is empty words. Now we have a letter from Dr. Lee's wife in the spiritual world, Han Sook. She said, "Oh, when I came to the spiritual world. . . you can come here when you are Blessed. I did not know what royal family of heaven means until I came here. Sang Hun, I am sorry that I came here before you." It is this kind of place.
When such an immense and eternal world is unfolding for us in our hometown, I don't want you to be poor people who have a limited scope of operation and loose sense of direction. I am doing this in order to create a Clear, liberated realm in which we can travel freely to the highest heights of the great universe. What do you have to leave behind for the sake of the future generations? You should leave behind good things in the country for the sake of your descendants. Then people of the country will protect them, right?
So instead of money, power, or knowledge, leave behind patriotic accomplishments. This is the preparation. Without preparation, even I would have perished, right? Everyone wished for my downfall, and yet I made a thorough preparation against my downfall. So I cannot perish under any circumstances. (213-146)
4. Hope Of Spirits
Then what would people in the spiritual world desire? This is the problem. Food? In the spiritual world you can be supplied with all you need according to your situation. If I want something, it comes to me immediately. Do you understand? There is nothing that is impossible if you have the subjective ability to digest and move it. I don't talk about this so much because if I do, they say I am out of mind. If you want to give a party for one million people, it can be done very quickly because one million people will appear at once and all the preparations will be finished in a minute. Isn't it wonderful?
How miserable is the physical world at present? Considering the Korean situation, there are many jobless people, aren't there? This is the situation. What would move things forward and bring hopes? When atoms divide, it produces heat, and in the same way, when we start the division process of love, one spark will create chain explosions, "Ba ba ba bang!" Doesn't it look quite likely? (141-278)
The question is how the other world is connected. Those in the other world also hope that tomorrow is better than today, just as people in the physical world commonly desire that today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow is better than today. Everyone, whether Orientals or Westerners, or people of the past, present or future, all desire a better tomorrow. This never changes. All the spirits are the same. They want to have a better future and better life in the spiritual world than they had in the physical world. Then, the question is centering on why we desire a better future. (141-269)
The six-thousand years of history, so far, is a history of searching for one Adam, and a history of re-creating Adam. This is why you should follow me. Eve cannot be created without Adam. This is why God has to create one man, Adam. For this purpose, flesh and blood of the countless people who have appeared in the providence of restoration should be used as a material. The sorrows and hopes of the millions of spirits have to gather together and unite. When the substantial Adam figure finally appears, only then the martyrs, who have died under severe persecutions, feel that their lives were worthwhile. So spirits receive liberation themselves by connecting with living beings on the earth. This is how it works. This should not be just a vague concept. The question is how we can realize it deeply. (29-271)
We should move on no matter what others are doing on the side, whether they are eating or resting. In front of us, thousands are continuously going forward. If you struggle and make hard efforts to go, pulling the rope relentlessly, other people will also hold the rope for you. In the meantime, you will also feel that many people fall away from the rope. It is like a marathon competition. There will be first place and second place. History has been flowing this way. So far, countless spirits have been holding on to this rope for thousands of years. So if you take the first place, go to the other world, and take over the roller of the rope, then spiritual world and physical world will be restored. (32-145)
5. Liberation Of Spirits
Our Unification Church must complete the mission of three ages; saving the spirits, liberating the people living in the present sinful world, and liberating those who are to come in the future. So we are proposing the liberation of three ages. This is an incredible task. What would happen if such dream-like things come to pass in reality? Your eyes will open wide, your mouth won't be able to close, and your ears will rise up high, but you will have no choice but to bow down your head. (28-201)
Now, what is the Unification Church trying to do? It is trying to create peace and reconciliation. But to whom do you want to bring reconciliation? Jesus and the Holy Spirit have been engaged in this task -- giving birth. What Jesus and the Holy Spirit must do is to give birth to children. The Bible says that by giving birth we receive salvation. Nevertheless, Christianity says that women should not give birth. Then why did God create the organ for child birth? No. This tells us symbolically that women must give birth again as a representative of Eve.
The essential characteristics of the original mother failed to be incarnated in Eve's body and spirit, as Eve failed to establish the common base with the original subject partner, who was to receive and complete those characteristics; for this reason, God took it back. So in the time of Jesus, God sent these characteristics as the object partner to the subject partner. So it has no body. Jesus had a body, but the Holy Spirit had no body. This is why we say that the Holy Spirit is like fire, oil, or wind.
The Holy Spirit enters into human hearts, moves them, and cleanses the sins. This is like mother giving birth to a child and raising him up. just as mother needs father's protection for a child birth, for the rebirth, one should make a condition that he is reborn through the protection of Jesus. Now, have Jesus and the Holy Spirit been able to rest so far? No. Also, has Christianity been able to rest? No. Also, in trying to save the fallen men for six thousand years, has God been able to rest? No. Then, has Unification Church been able to rest? Has Rev. Moon been able to rest? Although I am over fifty years old, I am still running around like a scared deer.
What am I busy for? I am trying to bring reconciliation so that God can rest, Jesus and the Holy Spirit can rest, and all our ancestors can be at ease. God is an ancestor, isn't he? All the Christian saints who have been to the world are ancestors. All the religious leaders are the same. We must liberate these ancestors. We must resolve their sorrow. Such a problem remains now. (75-38)
I am thinking about this all the time, as soon as I wake up and even on the way to the bathroom. Asleep or awake, wherever I am, and whomever I meet, I am thinking about this. Do you understand this? This is why I am not indebted to you. How incapable a leader must be to live in debt! I am now fifty eight, coming close to sixty, and yet I always tell myself that I will not be beaten by young people. Even these days, I go to the boat every day. I am doing this because I know that in America those who have an interest in the sea will have a great economic power.
I am doing this in order to liberate the spirits who died in the sea. Sometimes, I go out to the sea even after hearing a storm warning. Why? Because there are many spirits who died in the storm. In 1975, I went to Cape Cod and liberated spirits. No one knows this in the world, not even the captain of the boat. My daughter and true mother are doing the same thing now. Then why are we doing it, when receiving persecution for this? For the sake of the liberation of the spiritual world. You understand, right? (93-96)
6. Unification Of Spiritual World
The physical world is Satan's stage of action, and spiritual world God's stage of action; as such the two worlds have been always in confrontation. When this surely remains as a sorrow in the age of restoration, we cannot let them be in opposition to each other. We should establish the realm of the mind centering on God and realm of body governed by God. You should know that the securing the foundation of unification depends on how you develop this in your daily life. (45-213)
In order to unify Unification Church, we should unify the spiritual world. Do you know spiritual world? [Yes] Our Unification folks should understand spiritual world and unify it. Do you think it is easy to unify it? Without unification of the spiritual world, there is no unification of physical world. You know that the fight in the physical world is hard, right? Then, do you think the fight in the spiritual world would be easier? [Harder] Considering this, our Unification members cannot speak about hardship, when I am going forward myself. (153-56)
In the search for an ideal, what makes the physical and spiritual affairs one? For the sake of the unification of the two worlds, things have to be switched around. If I hold on to my own, it will not work. I have to give everything, and the other side will come along here, and the other side has to give everything, and this side will go along there. We are moving on in order to find the lost place. (147-94)
In connecting the spiritual and physical worlds, we should first confirm and realize deeply our conviction for the world and the ideal of unification, after which we should gratefully take the suffering path in order to realize it worldwide. Then the spiritual and physical worlds will automatically become one, and unification will start from there. The direction of unification will be decided there. (29-285)
Can the Unification Church unify the physical world before unifying the spiritual world? [No] That is the principle. For this reason, in order to unify the spiritual world, I am driving the Unification members into a place of death mercilessly. Then spiritual world will have to help you. The more miserable place you go into, the more the spiritual world will be united. Do you see this? [Yes] When you go into a deep place, the realm of the heavenly kingdom will be open among the thirty million Korean people. Do you see this? This realm includes those who are in hell. (49-109)
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Section 2. Relationship Between People On Earth And Spirits
1. People On Earth And Spirit
This world is the world of devils. We must restore it. You don't know when you will die, right? Everybody dies. Heavenly kingdom on earth will not be established unless we prepare a foundation on the earth through which we can move between physical and spiritual worlds, beyond the limitation of death. Without the heavenly kingdom on earth, there will be no heavenly kingdom in spirit world. You should arrange things in such a way that after you go to the spiritual world, you can come back to the physical world at will. Only then can we live in the heavenly kingdom on earth, and create the heavenly kingdom in heaven.
After you go to the spiritual world, you should be able to come back. Without establishing the heavenly kingdom on earth, you cannot comeback there, however. This is not a vain thought. It just happens this way, OK? We should work on it in eternity. Ancestors, when they go to the spiritual world, are found guilty. Unable to find their way in the spiritual world, they come to the physical world and pay indemnity again. But you should not follow the same steps. If the Divine Principle is true, you are all blameworthy. What would you do? (146-223)
There is a high wall blocking the path of religion and way of the world. How can unbelievers harmonize themselves with the faithful, and how can believers find harmony among themselves in the last days? Without resolving this problem, mankind will be divided in two and fail to enter the new unified world. If the divided parts enter the unified world, this is not acceptable for the absolute God. So they cannot arrive at God's ideal world, which must be one. For this reason, the problem is not the complicated world affairs, but how I can find the self that can unify the mind and body and leap towards the goal. This problem remains, do you understand?
Considering that unification of religion and world must come from my self, the question is what the Unification Church is trying to do today. The Unification Church is not just working for religion. The Unification Church should achieve solidarity with the world, finding ways in which the religious foundation can cooperate with the social foundation, and also ways in which the world can seek the religious path, thereby bringing the two into oneness. There is a big wall here, though. In bringing religion and society together, the wall stands blocking individual, family, nation, country, world, and even spiritual world. You should know this.
So how can we demolish this wall? Where did the trouble start? Not from the world, but from the individual. What happened as a result of the individual going out of order? Mind and body came apart and pursued their own separate purposes. Then what is the problem here? It is how to converge different purposes into one, and then how to bring mind and body into one.
God and Satan are at work. God is leading the providence of salvation for the mankind, and Satan is working in opposition to God. God, on the side of goodness, is advancing daily towards the purpose of the ideal world, and Satan is opposing it and trying to turn it back. At one border line and wall, God says, "Do not go over the wall. Turn to the right.", and Satan says, "turn to the left". This is how we are divided. On the worldwide level, the rightward pursuit resulted in the Right Wing, and leftward movement the Left Wing. Now we are faced with the historical age of the Last Days for the Right Wing and Left Wing. Right and Left Wing represent the struggle of mind and body.
The question is how to bring this into one. Is it through the unity of world, country, tribe, family that the individual is united? The beginning should be made from an individual. So putting aside the world for a while, we should make a movement of uniting individuals. With religion and reality connected, we should discover the "self' that neither of them can deny.
The problem here, however, is that evil spirits are dominating the body. Evil spirits are rooted in my body, and good spirits are rooted in my mind. This way the division of materialism and idealism comes. As the time comes, sinners should confess their sins. Unity among people on earth is influenced by the confrontation of good and evil spirits. Good and evil spirits are fighting on the worldwide level, although we do not feel that we are a part of it.
2. The Position Of Spirits In The Spiritual World
Today, there are four billion people living on earth, and yet in the spiritual world there are hundreds of billions of souls. So the question is how the physical world and the subject spiritual world are connected. Are they connected through those which we consider valuable in the physical world, such as material, power structure, or knowledge? It cannot be so. It is because the other world transcends material and knowledge. It transcends time and space so that yesterday's joy can be that of today, and today's joy can be that of tomorrow.
Hence, we can see that the original world is not moved by what we need and the value of the physical human world. What is the center of value in the spiritual world? This is important. Each of the spirits belongs to societies of the spiritual world. Like the physical world, spiritual world also has families, tribes, countries, and world. Everyone, no matter who he is, will go to and live in the spiritual world. Think about it. All kinds of people are there, primitive or civilized, who have lived in human history.
If the human history has not been a history of peace, happiness, and ideal, what will happen when they go to the spiritual world? This is curious. How are they to be treated? One cannot change his lifestyle so quickly in the other world. There is a saying that the habit of a three year old continues until he turns eighty. Inborn personality is hard to change. So are spirits very different from the way we live? It cannot be so. The lifestyle on the earth is transferred to the other world. After all, those living in the spiritual world used to be souls of living individuals. So spiritual world is not so different from this world where we live. (141-268)
There are many kinds of histories in the spiritual world. But spirits cannot come here and work as they wish. They are blocked from it. Unless a bridge is built through religion, only few special people can return to the earth. Suppose that factions are created in Judaism, and the point of connection moves here and there, creating a confusion. Spirits are trying to come down from the spiritual world, but the connecting line is not straight; when different factions of Judaism make their own spiritual conditions, the line of connection moves here and there. From the spiritual world, only those who are connected through a straight line can come down for a returning resurrection. Those who are connected on the physical world will go to the spiritual world after one century. If he wants to come down, he has to follow the same principle, and yet only few special ones can come down.
This way, walls become more and more numerous in the spiritual world, and it becomes more and more complicated. Afterwards, the entire generation goes to the spiritual world, and walls become bigger and bigger. Now is a global age. Imagine how complicated it must be. Think how many times you must turn around and around in order to find this. So when the time comes, the walls must be brought down. In the spiritual world, let us create the main road, through which spirits can come down. Those who went this way cannot come here, do you understand? So this is what the Unification Church will do. (102-29)
Those who went to the spiritual world are all divided. . . . In the spiritual world there is no horizontal communication, but only certain vertical communication. (218-125)
3. Spirits Are More Numerous Than People On Earth
Ladies and gentlemen, do you know how big the spiritual world is? Have you ever imagined what the population of the spiritual world would be? According to a spiritualist, there are about 3320 spirits for each living person. (laughter) If this number is all on our side, will we win or lose the fight against the world? Do those spirits fear atomic bombs or cannons? [They do not.]
Likewise, if you do not fear bullets or atomic bombs, you will never lose. (laughter) You will surely win. You have to transcend it. When you oppose this, I will let you go. I will jump all the way to the back, and after you all go away, I will lock the door and claim the ownership. (laughter) After everyone leaves, I will lock the door. You should know that I have been fighting with such thought.
4. Wandering Spirits
Those who are more pitiful than starving people are those who deny God. For those who are starving are still not beyond the standard and will be granted a certain level in the other world, and yet those atheists have no standing because they deny spiritual world. They wander around in the spiritual world like clouds. They become wandering spirits. just as clouds gather up and produce rain, they get together and create evil influence. They all go to hell and inflict pains on the hell. Although I know all this clearly, I have to save them, and this is why I am doing this.
Next, those who die are a problem. Now, sixty thousand people in one day and twenty million people in one year die out of hunger around the world. When the parents, brothers and sisters, and children of the dying see them, their hearts are torn with pain and filled with tears. If so called True Parents do not sympathize with them and prepare for their rescue, they will be accused by their contemporaries.
So with these thoughts in mind, I am trying to pave the way of solving the problem of world hunger through fish and ocean businesses. Although we have to suffer over and over, the Unification Church wants to stay closest to the problem and find the way, and for this purpose we are making worldwide advertisements. This is why we made a TV center in Washington DC. We will also do fundraising for this.
Considering that people do not live longer than one hundred years, out of five billion people, fifty million go to the spiritual world each year -- to the hell. What can we do about this? God wants to harvest to His side what Satan has sewn, but the longer it takes. . . So far, for the last forty years, how many have gone to hell? Several billion. This is serious. When I go to the spiritual world, and they say, "When you were alive on earth, you did not do your responsibility for us, did you?" Then how am I supposed to reply to them? We should at least do it in thought. When we talk to the members at least in thought, and move on with the determination to take the responsibility for the future, they will say, "You are an amazing person. You had a concern for us." (213-355)
5. Discrimination Of Spirits Is Done By The Mind
Let me tell you one thing. No ordinary people in the world would know the taste of water which you drink after working with sweat with a serious heart. How is the taste? It cannot be even compared with cola or honey water. It has a different taste every time you drink it. Do you understand me? You should be able to discover such things; otherwise, you cannot develop spiritual sensitivity. If you can feel such things, your ears will become very sensitive and be able to hear what is being said from far away. You will be able to analyze things. Even with closed eyes, you will be able to perceive who is passing by and whether he is a good or bad person. Spiritual sense will come to you.
Without understanding this, you cannot discriminate between good and evil spirits. You should know this. You know not by seeing but through the mind. The mind's eyes are at a higher level than your physical eyes. Do you understand?
Why am I telling you this? It is because you have a long way ahead. You should know this. Do not be over-confident. This is why it says in the Bible, "Blessed are those whose hearts are poor, for they will receive all." It is the same principle; it all connects together. (96-170)
6. Value Of Life On The Earth
We know that for thousands of years countless people have been accusing Adam and Eve. Now you are becoming new ancestors. Will you be ancestors who will be accused by the descendants or ancestors of Blessing, who will be glorified? You are standing on the cross road between the two. Adam and Eve are accused because they failed to stand in the public position; surely, they would be free from accusation today if they had followed a sacrificial and more public path. You should know that you are standing in such a place. You should always be thinking that you are representing three ages.
For this reason, we should know that the spiritual world is in my hand and that your ancestors are at your mercy. When I follow, this happens. (father writes on the board) If we gather everything that is hanging here, put the two together, and lead it, they will come running. We should do the mission of past, present, and future. This is not just words but reality. So everything is in my hands; spiritual world, relatives, country, and even the task of setting the right tradition for the descendants. You should always keep this in mind. Whether you do it well or not will determine whether your ancestors and relatives will be liberated and whether your descendants can be decided as chosen people of liberation. (56-76)
God has been trying to hit the target for six thousand years, and yet without a success; after trying for tens of thousands of years, He finally hit the target. (applause) The time of the strike was when God was most tired and exhausted. At this moment, however, would God doze off or stay powerless? When God was so exhausted and sleepy, He perked up and shot again with a clear mind. After the shooting, would He fall down with fatigue? [He will be happy.] Forgetting about keeping up His reputation, God would exclaim "Wow" with joy. (cheering applause)
How amazed would spiritual world be? How amazed the angelic world be, saying, "Gee, the archangel's mistake put God in trouble, and now spiritual world has been wishing for the target to be hit for tens of thousands of years, and if this target is actually struck, what would they say? "Wow." Think about it, if things will happen like this or not.
If there is such a wonderful place, would people all over the world try to come in or not, even if the entrance fee may be ten thousand dollars? [They would.] Suppose all kinds of people have been coming in there without being able to see the moment of the strike, and finally a beggar comes in with begged and borrowed money and witnesses God striking the target. What would the beggar do? Would he start dancing there or not? [He will dance.]
Then, God would be excited and become proud. Wouldn't he say, "Oh, it is hit, it is hit. Is there anyone around?" When God sees this beggar then, would He say, "You, damn beggar", or dance around with him? So after the day of meeting, how would God walk? This way? (Father demonstrates and laughs) Would he say, "Why is this Fifth Avenue so narrow!" or "Oh, the road is quite wide"? Think about it. Would things happen like this or not? [They would.]
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Section 3 - Ancestors And Ourselves
1. Ancestors Are Looking Upon Us
When you go to the spiritual world, would your ancestors come to you or not? [They would.] They will say, "Wow, our grandchildren joined Unification Church and met Rev. Moon" There, the palace and royal family of the heaven will start. There has been no palace in heaven so far. Between the grandchildren who simple-mindedly do what I say and the grandchildren who try to be smart and evade me like eels, who would they praise? Would they praise those grandchildren who act like turtles or like rabbits? [Those who act like turtles.] They will praise those who act like turtles. Rabbits sleep on the way, saying, "Oh, I am already here." Rabbits urinate often. (laughter) I don't know about turtles. I have not seen them urinate. Rabbits urinate on the way after a short while and again after a short while. Why? In order to mark their own territories so that others cannot come in.
So we should be like turtles. Those who do what they are told to do and those who move on day and night and regardless of seasons will be welcomed everywhere. The ancestors in the other world are looking at your life. There is no place to hide. Your ancestors are all watching. When you go to the spiritual world, you can see through walls and even the entire earth. We should live in such a world eternally. We are created as God's objects of love, so as long as God is eternal, the object of love should also be eternal. So we are eternal as God is. Without being an object of love, there is no eternal life. You should know this clearly. Go and see if it is so or not.
In the other world, who goes to the highest place? Those who want to be born again tens of thousand of years, serving the humanity as God does and consoling God, goes nearest to God -- those who try to use for mankind whatever good things they have. Isn't it so? When grandparents come close to the time of death, they pass on all the good things to their children, don't they? In our life, we should say that we will leave something precious behind for mankind, just as grandparents give all they have worked on over to their descendants. (213-196)
2. We Should Be Better Than Our Ancestors
In this house, where our ancestors have lived and where my grandparents and I were born, if I leave behind here love that is even greater than that of my great grandparents, it produces the luster of love for heaven. Hundreds of millions of voltage of light will shine forth. And this light goes to the hometown. It goes up through the ancestors and to the spiritual world centering on God. This heaven is our original home, for isn't God our original Father?
Adam and Eve are God's body. Adam and Eve are horizontal parents, and God vertical parents; hence, when we throw away the horizontal body and vertically return home to heaven, we would serve them as eternal kings. Who is the king? If Adam and Eve had not fallen, they would have perfected themselves with God's body and connected direct and indirect dominions on the earth with love, thereby becoming kings of love. Then God would live in Adam's mind, and Adam's spirit would be God's body; they would be one body. They would share God's love and human love eternally and breathe it together. Thus, we should receive God's love, and try to come close to the original love of the ancestors Adam and Eve; this is the eternal spiritual path leading to the other world. (213-190)
3. We Should Visit Our Ancestors' Graves
Are your grandparents alive? [They are deceased.] Then, you should visit their graves and serve them as if God were buried in the grave. Korean people cry out loud in times of death. This is to repent for not having served the grandparents well when alive and to resolve the sorrow. When you follow me and realize the great principle of the heaven, you will understand these things. We should make the serving efforts until we are recognized by God, and our grandfather sends a message that it is now enough, OK?
At the time of harvest, you should not forget about your grandparents. You should visit and serve them earnestly in each of the four seasons. So try it. Then people will say that although you seemed to have became a monster after joining Unification Church, you have actually become a royal child.
You should serve your parents better than any king serving their parents. Don't you wish that your parents are kings? Your hearts desire that your parents are higher than kings. All this is allowed. You should keep the royal norms and serve your parents so that they are happier than any kings in the world; then you will qualify as royal children. Then, parents will praise their children whenever they open their mouths. Ancestors and descendants will all praise, so realm of unification will be realized centering on parents. Unification will occur centering on parents, centering on grandparents, and then for the whole -- grandchildren, children, parents, and the whole world. This becomes the foundation to thoroughly spread the seed of unification. It will be as if we were dreaming. (220-350)
Now Cain has been subjugated and elder sonship restored with regard to the three generations -- grandparents, parents, and elder brother; hence, a grand child will be served as an ancestor at the levels of elder sonship, parentship, and kingship. As this great upheaval and 180 degree's turn occurs, in which child is served as parent and younger brother is served as elder brother, the hell also turns around to the heavenly direction. You should know this.
So you should go to hometown and make the 160 families. From your hometown, bring them to speeches and have them sign the membership form. When the eldest descendant, who is the root of the lineage, recommends it, then all other descendants should follow. So gather all the 160 families and hold a party, where you can proclaim Unification Church. They should pledge to absolutely follow the royal children's command and inaugurate them at the ancestors' grave. You should say, "Through the True Parents, we have become ancestors to inherit new lineage and a tribe of liberation and blessing. Our tribe will be eternally unchanging descendants of God." Then, you will be eternally separated from Satan.
So Unification Church allows ancestor worship. Do you understand? [Yes] Does Christianity allow ancestors service? [No] Unification Church has to establish this tradition. This is not a secular tradition. This brings about a royal land where we can eternally serve heavenly ancestors, clan, and tribal messiahs in the mainstream of providence. It will be a land where we can serve the king and sing songs of peace eternally. Do you understand it? You and your tribe can go to the kingdom of heaven only after having lived in such a country. (220-222)
4. Ancestors We Can Meet
You should know what your house is like. Your house is exemplary for all the houses people live in their earthly life. Furthermore, it is exemplary for the spiritual world. Those who have lived in such a house can naturally go to the original homeland. There will be no conflict when meeting grandparents or anyone else. They will all say, "Hey, you came!" In that place, your ancestors of thousands of generations are all there. Will there be ancestors in the hell or not? They are staying at different levels. Those who lived for the sake of others go to the kingdom of heaven. So family harmony starts from me. If I serve and serve in the family, and if I can do this at least three times, grandparents will be able to realize their own shortcomings.
How many times did Moses try to serve in Egypt? Seven, eight, even more than twelve times he tried to serve. When you try to serve and yet they do not receive you, then Heaven will guide you. He brings fruition in other places what you have invested in one place through serving. So those who live a serving life like God, although they may be persecuted and opposed on the earth, will live in the original land of God, just as Israelites entered Canaan after the wilderness.
So have you served grandmothers with white hair? God is white. Snow gathers in high mountains, right? God is clean. So the head knows this. Also, did the grandmother serve her own parents-in-law? She should serve her parents-in-law in such a way that when they die, they will say, "I will prepare to receive you in the other world just as you have served me." (213-182)
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Section 4. The Coming Of The Spiritual New Age
1. Coming Of Age Of Extrasensory Perception
The age of extrasensory perception is coming, and then there will be no one who cannot communicate with the spiritual world. The time when people attack people is over, and spirits will be attacking the earth. Now, Satan and evil spirits are attacking, but there will be a time when good spirits will attack also. I am doing this in order to pave the way for that. When we think about parents' attitude towards children, it is so wonderful to have parents, who can serve children with loving hearts.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have come this far now. This path cannot be avoided no matter what kind of opposition we face. What if you have to walk the way alone? Where would you go when you are lost in the desolate spiritual world? Do you have a nationality? Where do people without nationality go? Do you have a house? Where do you go? The world becomes most fearful. There will be Satan and angels, yet when you are standing on Satan's side, angels will not come.
So when you wake up after death, you will find out that there is a spiritual world; but what if Satan drags you away? There will be great commotion, people pushing others to go first. So if you think about this, can you get any steep? It is an inevitable course. Rev. Moon is serious about such things. What will happen after death? When I go to the spiritual world, such and such people will come to me. I have made all the arrangements. Do you understand? I know the secrets of Confucius, Buddha, and Jesus. Understanding the miserable heart of Jesus, I say to him, "Didn't you die because of such and such?", and he says, "Surely. How do you, Rev. Moon of Unification Church, know it?" This is why I can be a friend of Jesus.
You or Christians may call Jesus, "Lord, Lord", but I don't; we are friends. They call me a heretic because I say this kind of thing. But wait and see who is a heretic. You should make the preparation before you go, do you understand? I am doing this because I know very well that when I go to the spiritual world there will be a big commotion. If you cannot believe this, pray and find out yourself. This is why I am following this path although it is hard. How about you? Where will you go? Are you ready? If you say to me at the time of death, "Alas, I ask for your favor, for I am now going to the spiritual world", then it is too late. Preparation cannot be made then, but only while you are on earth. (61-327)
2. We Entered A New Age Through The Declaration Of Day Of Heavenly Victory
When you consider Jesus, Jesus is formation, twelve disciples is growth, and seventy-two elders is completion -- it is three stages. If you cannot do this, you cannot go to the kingdom of heaven. Originally, you can receive the Blessing only after doing this. Then Jesus can be married. When your entire family joins our church, with grandparents, parents, and grandchildren competing to come along, even running on top of one another, then the three stages will be completed; namely, eighty four people.
When this happens, through restoring your parents, you can restore your entire ancestors of tens of thousands of generations at once. The age is coming when spiritual world can return to the earth. The organization on the earth can structure the organization in the spiritual world; they become one. Such an amazing phenomenon happens. Imagine how overjoyed the spiritual world will be. Hence, now the age of victory of religion and of spiritual world has come. (96-251, Jan. 22, 78)
Now you please pray. Your command will be honored: "In accordance with Father's words, on this Day of Heavenly Victory, October 4th (1996), you good spirits please come and lead the evil spirits on earth to heaven through your virtuous embrace." Such an age is coming. Why? We live in the age of Adam, and spirits live in the realm of angels, and they have to move because by the Principle, angels are to assist Adam. (89-113)
True, the spiritual and mental world is very much a realm of unification. If you say, "I miss so and so", and wait for twenty-four hours, this person comes. This is realized. When you focus, he appears. This is like sending electric waves. Then, because he has the mind that works like a receiver, for no reason he becomes curious about you and feels the desire to come.
3. Unification Ceremony And Spiritual Assistance
What is the significance of True Parents' birthday? On February first in the lunar calendar, I did the so-called Unification Ceremony. You or ordinary believers may not know what this ceremony is. Look. In the course of restoration, you should perfect the individual, family, tribe, and country, and they must be connected vertically. Do you understand this? I made accomplishments on earth at individual, family, tribal, national, and country levels, but it is not yet connected to the spiritual world. Nor is it connected to the families of the Unification Church. Although the road is paved, this road must be connected with the spiritual world and then to the physical world. Only then, will the Unification Ceremony start.
When does the Unification Ceremony start? Since Christianity is global, and has been developing mainly through democratic countries, unification is possible only when there is worldwide foundation; without such a foundation, the unification at one level cannot be connected to other levels. At this time, we can only aim at the global level from the national level, but we cannot decide it and fix it. Do you understand what I say? But now, through the foundation I made in America, we can make the connection. Now is the time when country and world are connected. And the global level is linked to the level of spiritual world.
In the spiritual world, Korean and Japanese spirits are not connected, for instance. Spirits with different nationalities are connected only to their own countries, and thus we cannot mobilize the whole as a unified force. Do you understand this? Until this is resolved on the earth, spiritual world will be in disorder. Furthermore, in the spiritual world, enemies fight and create troubles, Koreans and Japanese, and Japanese and Chinese, for instance. So we are trying to reconcile them.
For this reason, we have done a Ceremony for Entire Liberation on last March first, 1975, a ceremony to forgive and liberate the whole. This even opens the way to forgive Satan. Do you understand this? Through this ceremony, enemies cannot treat each other as enemies but must forgive them. For me, Satan is my enemy, and after forgiving Satan, there is no more enemy. For God does not consider him the enemy, either. Now is the time when this is unified. What will happen if physical world and spiritual world became one?
What is fall? It is a separation between physical and spiritual worlds and between God, on the one hand, and Adam and Eve, on the other. It is a breach of heart between Adam and Eve. Hence, with the spiritual and physical worlds unified, if the supranational structure of the Unification Church develops centering on family, tribe, nation, country, and world, this can form the worldwide realm of unification. Do you understand this? [Yes]
So it is not possible to do this in America because we have to solve those things. Korea is the central country; in Korea, through establishing foundations of individual, family, tribe, nation, and country, we advanced towards the world. This is why I came to Korea in such a hurry. So after the Unification Ceremony, I realize that my birthday this year is historic. Do you understand? [Yes] Why historic? Those spirits have never had a chance to attend True Parents' birthday, nor do they have a qualification to celebrate it. Also, all the people in the world are without the privilege to celebrate it. It is because spiritual and physical foundations are not joined.
Now, however, with such privilege being provided spiritually and physically, spiritual world moves to restore descendants. From the Principle standpoint, ancestors are in the archangel's position and descendants in Adam's position. As the archangel assisted in the creation of Adam, the spirits are united and assist in the creation of Adam on earth; the age of ancestral intervention is coming. You should understand the Principle. For those who hear this for the first time, it may sound like a dream.
For this reason, this day, when True Parents come to Korea to celebrate their birthday, is a day of opening another historic epoch. In other words, countless spirits in the other world come with the privilege to participate in the celebration. So we did the ceremony in headquarters, OK? [Yes] Through this, we move to the age in which ancestors as archangel can re-create their descendants who do not know Unification Church yet as Adam, just as God created Adam with archangel's assistance. With this logic, people all over the world can receive the privilege to celebrate True Parents' birthday. Do you understand? [Yes]
4. Ceremony Of One Heart And Assistance Of Ancestors
I have become the head of the Moon clan, not through a coercion but through their own desire to serve me. I have met this organization -- Association for Finding the Family Root -- for the first time. Through this meeting, heads of clans got together and presented me as a parent of Korea. In order to do such a thing, this ceremony is inevitable.
The position of True Parents is not just for Koreans but for the whole of mankind and all the ancestors. They should have gone to the spiritual world as descendants of True Parents but could not because of the fall. The earth is in Abel's position, and so by following Abels, as they work to restore elder sonship, spiritual world can receive liberation. Since the physical world has restored elder sonship, spiritual world has to support us. So be strong and courageous because the way of heaven is before us. So through Ceremony of One Heart we determine this clearly and announce it. Do you understand?
You don't know spiritual things, right? This way, your good ancestors can help us through heads of the tribes. This is connected to the earth. Physical world and spiritual world have different points of view, and in the fallen world, they take opposite courses. But how can this be overcome? Through true love. (190-314)
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Section 5. Returning Resurrection And Assistance Of Spirits
1. Position Of Past People In The Spiritual World
The one who experiences in his life God's shimjung, who is leading the providence with historical sorrow, will be unable to look at God without tears wherever he goes. When he understands God's Will and struggles to become His child, and when he finds collaborators of the same heart, God will come and shed tears. Then where does God's sorrow lie? It lies in this country, world, and all things, as well as in each of us. We should eradicate this and restore God's joy. The center of our life is the self who can experience God's sorrow.
Then the question is if I am able to move spirits to testify. The spiritual world also requests this. Since spiritual world knows God's heart, if such a person makes such an appeal, spirits are mobilized to help in order to realize the ideal of the heavenly kingdom. Why can't spirits come down to the earth? It is because the earth has become the wall of lamentation. (4-60)
The place where you are standing is not where Adam fell. It is beyond that hill. In other words, now is the time when Adam can communicate directly and go straight towards one purpose. From this point of view, the histories before and after the third seven year course will be radically different. Through the third seven year course, evil force will go down and good force will go up; thus, this course is the time when spiritual world and physical world cross. You should know this.
In the spiritual world, there are good, neutral, and evil spirits. In the three-stage development, after the third seven year course, good spirits will become able to communicate to the earth. It is inevitable. The formation and growth stages are under Satanic dominion, and thus evil spirits led the way and evil people controlled the world. From now, however, spirits start being exchanged. When the exchange occurs, spirit world comes down, with evil spirits first. Then come neutral and then good spirits. When it is turned around, good spirits and good people go up and evil spirits and evil people come down. So far, good and evil kept going up and down, intermingling with each other, but now we enter the age in which good and evil are separated completely. (75-193)
When you go to the spiritual world, you will find that some great figure in the New Testament, who was martyred, respected, and supposed to be in a lofty place, is actually in the most miserable place. Those who die with a thought that their death will bring them to kingdom of heaven cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven. The attitude of such people is like a mad man who killed himself for kingdom of heaven. But those who suffered and sacrificed, if not martyred, in order to send others to the Kingdom of Heaven, turn out to be the ones in the Kingdom of Heaven.
We should fix the fundamental root of faith. Christianity caused much disaster because of the wrong beliefs. Unification ideology is to remove this disaster. Although we do not destroy it, it is destined to perish. But why do we have to destroy it quickly? It is because we must destroy it and rescue it before it perishes on its own and becomes deserted by God. (64-110)
Among your ancestors, there are many who went to hell. We should liberate them all. Since this is the way of the parents, you must follow it; it is your destiny to follow it all the way to the end. Then spiritual world will help us, through individual, family, tribe, and national levels, thereby bringing unification. You should know this. If we unify the world, we can unify the spiritual world automatically. When spirits come down to the earth, evil spirits come down before good spirits. This is why there is a phenomenon of neurosis among people on earth. You don't know this, but now evil spirits are all down on earth, attacking the human world.
With the coming of the age of ideological confusion centering on democracy and communism, evil spirits come down and cause chaos of body and spirit. When good spirits come down to the earth, however, they expand and start occupying the evil spirits' areas on the earth. When good spirits occupy the earth, there is no place for evil spirits to go, and they will have to surrender. When Satan comes to the earth and surrenders, evil spirits also surrender. So in the Last Days, we should restore even Satan. (54-228)
2. Mobilization Of Spiritual World And Spiritual Assistance
In witnessing, you should witness even when it does not go well. Again and again. It is like throwing stones in the sea. You keep doing it until the stones fill the sea and form a mountain. What happens then? You grow in shimjung. Although the body does not change, shimjung grows. You get up early in the morning and pray in tears for the village for which you are responsible. This is the way of shimjung and of touching the spiritual world. You feel that when God looks upon this village, He cannot help shedding tears because they are all destined to hell, and you shed tears for God.
When you create a powerful resonance by shedding tears for God, the entire spiritual world will be mobilized. You should be able to inspire God with tears so that He thanks you and considers you better than Adam and Eve; otherwise you cannot touch the spiritual world. Only when God says in tears, "As betrayers' descendants, how can you be so good!", will the spiritual world come to your assistance. That is the point where spiritual world starts to open; anything below that standard absolutely will not work. This is the Principle. (96-262)
Ladies and gentlemen, do you like going to the spiritual world? Between your desire to go to the spiritual world and the desire of the spirits to return to the earth, which should be stronger? [spirits] From the standpoint of the Principle, which should be stronger? The spiritual world is the archangelic world, and this world is a world of Adam, Eve, and children. Should children be more eager or servants? Are you supposed to help the spiritual world or is the spiritual world supposed to help you? [Spiritual world should help] They are waiting to help, but why are they still waiting? Would they help you in building the heavenly kingdom on earth or in trying to live comfortably? [to build heavenly kingdom] (161-227)
As I say, spiritual world must be mobilized. Otherwise, how can we create the heavenly kingdom? [We cannot.] Heavenly kingdom is supposed to start from True Parents and not from fallen descendants. As the angelic world assisted at the time of Adam, spiritual world should return to earth and assist the earth with re-creation. Isn't this -the Principle of Resurrection? It will be considered true when it is realized in reality. (162-115)
Am I driving you into suffering because I hate you or because I want to save you? You should know that it is for the sake of saving you. Understanding that your suffering is for your own salvation, you should be grateful. Then the new world of heavenly shimjung will unfold before you. This is the right order. So once you possess the shimjung ties, you can fly anywhere and day and night according to heavenly commands. If you are determined to take responsibility and lead the world like a locomotive, then the spiritual world will help you. If you think this way, the spiritual world will surely help. (96-279)
When you undertake the responsibility for the nation, you should be able to say things such as the following: "In carrying out the individual, family, national, and country mission in the Unification Church, I Will faithfully stick with fortunes of this church. I am a branch of Unification Church that is growing with power of the church. Therefore, the word of the Unification Church is my word, the personality of the Unification Church is my personality, and shimjung of the Unification Church is my shimjung." Then, you will develop wherever you are as the Unification Church does. If you keep up the pace with the Unification Church through such a standard, good spirits and ancestors who used to move along with national fortune will work for you.
Your physical look may be ugly, but spiritual world sees you as princes. Especially, your ancestors within tenth generations from you are anxious, for history of restoration is realized centering on ten generations. But when evil descendants appear, ancestors within ten generations judge him lest he ruin them. For this reason, if someone here has good ancestors, he will be actively supported by them. When you fight and win every battle, spiritual world will rejoice. Then you will scare away evil spirits. Your ancestors will serve you as king. You should be able to feel such things. We should prepare our foundation with the heart that refuses to defile heavenly tradition and dignity. You should pray as to what kind of condition you will establish. Now is a blessed time. (34-20)
3. Spiritual World And Ancestors
When I see someone's face, I can usually tell if he has good or bad ancestors. Some people have good ancestors and receive blessing, whereas others have bad ancestors and suffer all the time. Such people will only suffer as well when they do witnessing in their mission places. (37-144)
When your personality has a certain shortcoming, then listen to the kind of testimony that can supplement your personality. Listen to many experiences. When you hear them, do not criticize, for criticizing means deciding between heavenly side and Satan's side. Do you understand? Criticizing is like a cancer in your development. Once you are on Satan's side, you cannot come to God's side, and once you are on God's side, you cannot go to Satan's side. In our life, we cannot go on a straight line but on zigzag path. I inherit elements from both good and evil ancestors, and these elements influence my actions. So criticism is dangerous. This is the reason why criticism is prohibited. (date unknown)
If you possess true love, you can join God's party any time. You can see thousands of ancestors and spirits because you can transcend time and space. Only those who have heart of true love can manage and transcend all this. The only way to inherit everything from God as God's equal is through love. If a man of true love just passes by, slightly touching me, I would be very happy. Everyone would welcome him. The other world is like this, so you should be trained here, do you understand?
Why am I teaching this? In order to create a person who can breathe in the heavenly world and follow its beats. You should be able to dance to the beat. I am going to spiritual world, right? Satan cannot follow me in the spiritual world. (147- )
We should be one by receiving true spirit from God. In order to achieve a complete unity, we should start with the original subject and then through this become able to move the body; otherwise, unity is not complete. For Unification members, spiritual world is a living reality because when they go astray on their own, for instance, spiritual world stops them and helps them put things in order. This is an amazing thing. A Unification member is connected to his good ancestors through mind and body; they prevent the body from going in the evil direction and push it in the good direction. (162-104)
If there were True Parents, who can govern everything, true family, true society, true country, and true world, how wonderful this world would be. But this is not such a world. Why has this world become like this? Because of the fall, right? From the standpoint of the Principle, it started with a wrong motivation and has continued thus far. The simplest way, then, would be to say, "I can simply get by, and what is the need for a regret? Then I don't need to have any kind of high purpose. It has been like this so far, and I would accept the way things are and live on. How long can I live, anyway? I may live for 70 or 80 years, and that will be it for me. So what's the need for the painful worries and toils?" If your life stops in this world, how simple it must be. If this life is all there is, then I would have also packed my bag and left. But man lives eternally. You don't have so much spiritual experience, but you can meet all the ancestors, including Adam, in the spiritual world. Grandparents, do you want to live long? [Why so long?] Do you want to live long or die quickly? [I want to die soon] Do you want to die soon? [Yes] Then if I strike you with a sword, would you say, "Oh, thank you"? [laughter, How can we die like this?] But you need this if you want to die quickly, don't you? [But I should die according to my destiny] Grandmother, you would run away instantly when a car drives at you on the road, right? (laughter) We have a protective instinct, which makes us act even without a thought.
Does mind get old or not? [Mind does not get old] How about the body? [The body gets old] Why does the body age when the mind does not? When you are treated like an old man, you are not happy. You are not treated as the same generation. How disappointed you must be? (159-277)
When you go to the spiritual world, you will meet countless saints and ancestors and talk with them. They will ask you where you came from and how you lived there, just as friends share their life stories. When your great ancestors ask you, "Hey, you, where did you come from?", then would you protest them for using rough language? Or are they entitled to use such languages because they are your great grandfathers? Christians bow down and pray until they hurt their forehead just to meet Jesus. Even when Jesus appears, however, would they be happy if Jesus keeps using rough language to them? (148-32 1)
4. Hope Of The Spirit
When our Unification Church members have a sincere, loving heart to make Parents happy at least once in their life, they can resonate with the other world. You all want to love me, right? How long have I been speaking? Almost for four hours. But has anyone at least prepared a bread for my lunch? Is there anyone who tries to offer at least spiritual bread, or one who prepared a bread with a thought that he will be grateful even if I throw it away to birds without eating it?
What would spirits think? Would they want to bring something to me everyday and see me eat something from it? Who would be more eager, you or spirits? Would spirits be more eager? [Yes] That is true. You do not know, but spirits know. They know what will happen in the future. You don't know anything, but the other world knows clearly. So they know how they can serve me. All the five senses feel the stimulating power from me. You have not been able to feel this so far, but now you will be able to feel this when you are connected with me. (207-98)
5. Returning Resurrection And Rebirth
1) Returning Resurrection
Just as spirits of good ancestors at the time of Jesus could rise from the form-spirit to the life-spirit-level spiritual world, your ancestors have a special privilege to return through you. Do you understand this? When you understand this and become victorious branches, you are in a position to form a living being; then, your ancestors will help you. This way, you should be a foundation through which your ancestors of thousands of generations can return. In the time of Jesus, spiritual world helped conditionally for the sake of life-spirit level resurrection, but now they help unconditionally for the sake of divine-spirit, level resurrection. So now is a time of great blessing. Do you understand it? In other words, spiritual world is helping. (14-2)
Our present church is too large. At the time of the Chung Pa Dong old headquarters church, when I kicked out someone through one door, he would enter through another door, hiding behind a chair until I went upstairs, and when I disappeared, he would come out and pray through the whole night. We have this kind of history, right? After this, he would come here like this to see my face before he left. It is surely crazy, right? Both you and me. Isn't this why we are famous in the world? [We are crazy together] No, I am not crazy, you rascals. (laughter) If both of us are crazy, then who can take out the feces and urine? What if both of us urinate? (laughter) You are crazy, but I am not. If I were crazy like you, then Unification Church would not have survived.
In such a chaos, I have been able to steer the way. How much did the world try to kill me and uproot the Unification Church ? It was because I was not crazy that we could steer our way through all this. I have tied a rope high up with God according to the way of the heaven. Petty folks, however, try to hook it within a narrow range only in vain. This created wars between churches and countries, bringing countries to ruin. The Unification Church victoriously overcame its war with Christian churches, political parties, democratic and communist worlds. How? From far away. When the rope is hanging from high up, they could not undo it with their own strength. Can they cut off Unification Church? Whether it is philosophy, religion, or spiritual world, no one can be our match.
In America, there is a spiritualist association, and its head is Arthur Ford. He heard about Rev. Moon from Asia. Our missionaries do not visit person by person. They bring Divine Principle books to people who have spiritual communication and tell them, "Please check what kind of book this is. I will come back in a week." When the missionaries go back in a week, they say, "Oh, master, please come." (208-195)
We should offer sacrifices to God with a theory and practical foundation that is enough to subjugate the spiritual world. This ceremony of sacrifice was today's pledge service (Nov. 17, 90), do you understand it? At Han Nam Dong house, I prayed that since the time has come, the current that has been flowing in reverse through heaven and earth now flow in the right way. Since heaven has restored the elder sonship, all the existing second sons and second sons to be born in the future are under God's rule. So after the restoration of elder sonship, the age of second son comes, and heavenly law cannot allow the devil's performing stage. This is a logical conclusion. Do you understand this?
All the spirits have abused Abel on earth, just as elder son murdered and sacrificed the second son; now that we have the elder sonship, however, we can control even the spiritual world. Now they must help us in order to receive the blessing; the more they oppose, the deeper they fall into a pit. The heavenly fortune is changing rapidly. Wait and see in the future. I do not like saying such things, but it is inevitable. For this reason, those who communicate with petty spirits spoke against going to Unification Church. But now Buddha, Jesus, Confucius, and Mohammed must teach people to go to the Unification Church; otherwise, they will be judged by the heavenly law. Why? It is because Rev. Moon's religion is the parents' religion. (208-154)
2) Questions and Answers about Principle of Rebirth
(Father answers questions: Mar 26, 1972, Essen church, Germany)
Question: Through what foundation did the Principle of Rebirth come into being in Asia?
The theory that is prevalent in Asia is not Principle of Rebirth but theory of reincarnation. Reincarnation is a Buddhist doctrine. It sees the phenomenon of resurrection only for one time rather than from the context of the whole. Spirits desire that they receive privilege through people on earth. This is the request of the spirits. The value of human beings before the fall is such that they can dominate the angelic world and cosmos. They fell down a few stages because of the fall, and thus they must go back up to the original place. In going up, however, they cannot go all at once but through a few stages; through the stages, they should restore individual, family, tribe, nation, country, world, and cosmos.
Originally, human beings should go to this world (Father points to what he wrote on the board) But there is no one-step road to this world; you must pioneer each stage and proceed through the stages of individual, family, tribe, and nation. (Father writes on the board) From this point of view, in God's providence, those spirits who died before the Old Testament era, which is a providential age of saving individuals, desire to enter this age and receive the privilege. Going through each stage inevitably requires indemnity. Here, indemnity must be paid as in the case of Cain and Abel.
In other words, suppose a spirit A has been helping through different ages up to now. In order to go to the next stage, however, he still cannot pass over freely, but only by making a condition of indemnity. It cannot be done in a day or two, but through some Principle number, for instance, Twelve years, 40 years, 70 years, or a few centuries. Thus, since this spirit, who has been helping here, (Father points to what he wrote on the board) cannot continue to go up before the period of indemnity is over, he goes back to the spiritual world. This spirit hopes that the first man he is working with can complete the foundation, but if he fails to complete the indemnity condition within the period and dies, this spirit chooses another man and tries to return to him.
For instance, if this spirit is Paul, in an attempt to go up through each stage, if the first man he returns to fails to complete the indemnity condition within the given period and dies, he returns to another man and helps him. Indemnity is necessary. According to the Principle, indemnity is not completed in a short time. For this reason, if the second man does not fulfill the indemnity, a third man is chosen for a returning resurrection. So finally, Paul returns to the third man. The second man will say that he is working with Paul's assistance. Likewise, the third man in the next age will also say that he is working with Paul's assistance and even that he is himself Paul. This way, it looks as if Paul's spirit appeared in the second man and again in third man. Looking at such a phenomenon, they come up with the theory of reincarnation; it is because they do not see the whole. This is the same in this age until the age of world and universe. (Father writes on the board)
Original man lives under God's direct dominion apart from Satan's rule, and yet they live in the fallen realm due to the fall. In order to get away from it, he must pay individual indemnity, family indemnity. . . Without this he cannot come out. Spirits appear in each age through the rule of returning resurrection, and so each stage looks like a phenomenon of reincarnation.
The same applies to you. If you have faith but die before marriage, you have to go through the stages of family, tribe, nation, country, and world. For this reason, you cannot tell how many hundreds of millions of years it will take. This is almost infinity. Jesus could not go beyond of limits of country, and so he has to come back and go up to the stage of country; only through this can he go to the kingdom of heaven. He is now in paradise, and same applies to him.
When Jesus comes to someone and guides him, he claims that he is Jesus. From this, it seems that Jesus is born again, which gives rise to theory of reincarnation. Do you understand this? (Yes) You should understand spiritual world clearly. Human beings, who are supposed to live in God's dominion of goodness, are living in the fallen realm, and they must come away from it. This is why such things happen. Jesus did it spiritually. Christianity has been doing it spiritually also, do you understand? Is there a question about this?
From this point of view, the Unification Principle of Resurrection conforms exactly to the spiritual facts. In other words, the Principle of Resurrection teaches you spiritual formula. So far, countless religious people have experienced such things but have not understood it clearly. When you hear this Principle, however, do not just learn it as a theory, but you must practice it in your own life and achieve victory; otherwise, I will not teach you this.
In other words, instead of stopping at learning about Noah's family, Abraham's family, Jacob's family, Moses, John the Baptist, and Jesus, we should try to pay indemnity for all these figures and establish a victorious foundation. I will teach you when such a foundation is established. In other words, we cannot carry out God's Will unless we turn our defeat to Satan into victory. The providential figures such as Noah, Abraham, Jacob, and Moses did not know this.
The returning Jesus, however, must indemnify the failures at individual, family, tribe, nation, and country levels. He is the representative who knows it all and can put it into effect until the ideal world is found. You should know that without doing, we cannot realize it. What will happen if you meet the Messiah and follow him? When you meet him at the time he is perfected through the ages of individual, family, tribe, nation, and country, you will also receive the benefits of individual, family, tribe, and national ages and continue up to the country level. When someone at the individual age wants to go up to the family age through the Messiah, he has to pay indemnity on earth, just as spirits do. Also, in order to go from family age to tribe age, he has to pay indemnity. This means that the longer one has stayed in Unification Church, the more indemnity he has paid; the longer he has been here, the closer he is to me.
The way up to the age of country is a vertical path, and the national system should be determined here. If you do not continue to go up in this process, however, you can fall away. It is because spiritual phenomenon is such that no matter how high you go up, the same phenomenon occurs because of indemnity. Indemnity blocks your way. This is why it is easy to fall away. When you fail here, you will lose everything. Although the Nation of Israel and Jewish Church waited for Jesus for four thousand years, all the foundation collapsed as Jesus died without accomplishing his mission. (Father writes on the board) For this reason, you should know that many people have made sacrifices in the up and down fluctuation.
This happens to the mainstream of God's providence, and yet it also happens to many nations around the world as side-streams. Through this, indemnity is paid throughout the world. In other words, as it goes up as the mainstream like this, other people around the world take either conforming position or opposing positions and pay indemnity.
(Father writes on the board) Things are organized through such an indemnity. You should know that for this reason many religions have made sacrifices in following the providential course.
How do spirits and religious people go beyond this level, which is the highest goodness? In other words, the question is how the country level can be transcended. This is the Messiah; Messiah seeks after this. (Father writes) Since Messiah knows the method of indemnity, when the people unite with him, their indemnity period will be short. When the country is established and settled with the Messiah, all the individuals will belong there. If a country paid indemnity, family, tribe, nation, and country will go up to the world level. Considering this, you should think how fast the world restoration will be if one country is found.
We can go beyond paradise only when we establish a country. Paradise is like a waiting room before going to the heavenly kingdom. If errors still remain that were committed by Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Jacob as they followed this course of restoration, they must all be indemnified. Without indemnity, horizontal development cannot happen. From this point of view, we can see how important a country is. If we have a country, we do not fall away. For instance, how much are foreigners cared for by German government? If they do something wrong, they are kicked out. When they have no nationality, however, where can they go? They have nowhere to go. When such people are killed, they still have no place to appeal.
It is the same in the Satanic world. In a Satanic country, we are people's enemies. Believers of God are their enemies, so how much do they hate and persecute us in their country? Furthermore, even if they kick us out or kill us, we have no place to appeal our case. Likewise, since country is important, God comes looking for a country.
For this reason, in finding a country, you should pay indemnity for individual, family, tribe, nation, and country. You should follow the individual, family, tribal, and national indemnity courses. Otherwise, there is no road to the world. Since the country is the center, each country must go through the central country. If you die without restoring a country, you can only return to the earth and support individual and family, unable to work with a proud authority. You are not qualified as a fighter for occupying Satanic world.
Thus, you can enter in only with a country. Have you entered in? Although you have entered into the Unification Church, you have not entered in God's unified country. Can you be a people without a country? No. Do you understand this? [Yes] Hence, all the spirits hope to assist people of this country. If only you are in this country, return resurrection will occur horizontally. Since it occurs horizontally, the foundation you work for will remain for you.
But before finding this country, however much indemnity you pay, you will lose it all if you make a mistake. You may build up from the bottom, and yet if you slip off on the way, everything will crumble down to nothing. When this is being done on a horizontal level, however, what you have worked for will remain eternally. In other words, during restoration, you will lose your investment through indemnity; when a country is found and we work horizontally, however, your efforts will remain as your accomplishment rather than disappearing as indemnity. (54-227)