Assessing Our Society

Kevin McCarthy's Sermon 
Washington DC, Unification Church 
Sunday November 8, 1992

Following the Presidential Election, Rev. Kevin McCarthy Delivered this sermon to the Washington DC community.

Wednesday morning. How did you all feel? One thing that we should all feel is an added sense of responsibility for the direction of the nation because we know God's will for the nation. But if you say that publicly, people are really afraid of such statements. However in the beginning of our nation, ascertaining the will of God for the nation was common practice, it was the bedrock of the founding of this country, so we shouldn't be embarrassed or reluctant to feel such a mandate that God is depending on such people as us to really lead this nation. And that means it is up to us to educate Mr. Clinton, don't you think? Ultimately from God's point of view it is our responsibility - we who know the will of God to educate the leaders of our nation. For this reason Father has founded many organizations that end in "WP" - World Peace. I think it is important that we have an understanding of what that vision is, that purpose, and what is really our role as we enter this new era in American history.

I felt personally, on Wednesday morning, that my value had just skyrocketed. And you should feel likewise that your value, the value of all our "WP" organizations is now at a premium.

For me, Wednesday morning was a day of declaration: No More Illusions! - We truly are the only hope! That may sound a little presumptuous, a little arrogant, but let's consider this.

To say we are the hope of the nation sounds good, but actually it is a blessing and a curse. It means we are responsible for the nation, and if the nation goes down, then we have to bear that responsibility, so we must be very serious about what constitutes that hope.

What is the Heart of Reviving America?

Our founder spoke very clearly when he said "Revive Christianity!" What a bold statement people may think. If we have to revive Christianity that means Christianity is dead!

We have to understand the meaning of the Revival of Christianity. Father said Christianity is the root of western civilization, and the root of Christianity is the Bible, so the fundamental core of western culture is in the Bible, the DNA. Therefore understanding the deepest aspects of that DNA, the hidden dimension of the Bible, is the key to resurrecting Christianity.

In his speech to the professors and scholars of the IFWP, Father made a very important statement which I would like to share with you.

"To develop the necessary solutions, we need to look to the deeper; origins of such problems. Our task should be a fundamental re-assessment of all the institutions and lifestyles of our contemporary world. Such a re-assessment will enable us to identify those aspects of our world that can be considered suitable and fitting by an enlightened and awakened humanity possessing a renewed consciousness"

Ultimately I believe that is the fundamental mission of all "WP" organizations that Father is now founding. A re-assessment of ALL the institutions and lifestyles -- that is our fundamental mission. Let me read further: Father said:

"In order to make the Ideal World of Peace come about, the IFWP will provide the Ideal and Philosophy and will educate the worlds's populations. "WP" will assist spiritually, mentally and financially the neediest nations. It will set the highest moral standard and be the locomotive of world change."

People long for peace but they have had no true philosophy or meaning of peace. And without these, there can be no true methodology for achieving peace.

These are like fundamental mission statements related to the work of the IFWP, IRFWP, the WFWP, and USA-FWP.

When we attended Mother's speech 'Women's Role in World Peace' we found the context to be very challenging didn't we? Certainly it is a part of our responsibility to bring people to a point where they can understand what Mother is saying. We need to understand that this is the heart, the fundamental philosophy out of which will emerge the true methodology to bring world peace!

To bring about an assessment of our society we need a perspective, we need a standard by which to assess, and what should that word be? It has to be a word that provides an insight into the fundamental meaning of the Bible. When we realize that, then at that moment we should realize why we are standing in the central position for the revival of this country! Why it is us who represent the hope for America! It's not because we are handsome, or intelligent or wise, but it is simply because of what we know and what we are striving to be, who we know, and that we are striving to emulate who we know! That's s what makes us the hope for the nation. That hope should burn bright and shine right through the channels of the various "WP" organizations! That should be the burning bright hope of our home which is the "Home of Now Unification for World Peace" We can understand from this perspective that to renew the traditional values is not enough! When I hear others say that we have to go back to the way things were, we have to re-establish those good values upon which the nation was built, I', thinking that's a good idea, I hope we can do at LEAST that. But if that is all that we can do, then it means that we are just postponing the present day struggle that we find ourselves in. We're just postponing it for another 100, maybe another 200 years!

The Clash of 2 Cultures.

This struggle that we see in our world is a clash of two cultures - one is a body-affirming material-exulting, flesh-centered culture, and the other is a culture that finds its root in the sacrifice of Jesus' body. The clash of these two cultures have been going on throughout Western history and this war has intensified in our age. Do you see this war in your community? As a matter of fact, we can even see this war within ourselves, which is the heart and soul of the meaning of Romans - 21 through 17 - 23, that this conflict begins WITHIN the individual and manifests as two cultures, one affirming the flesh, exalting the body, and the other rooted in the sacrifice of Jesus' body on Calvary.

It is the seeming decline of influence of the culture of Jesus which should cause serious concern in the hearts of all Christian people. The influence of the body-centered culture seems to be rising, and getting stronger and stronger encroaching on the territory of Jesus. Is that your assessment?

If we understand that one role of religion is to establish, protect and maintain the public virtue, then - if we are serious about saving the nation - our assessment must move into that area that has previously been taboo, previously been sacred! And that means we must assess Christianity itself. And that is not easily done. Already I've had a little experience at the ICC Conferences where 7000 Christian ministers studied the tool of assessment, which is the Divine Principle. I want you to know that even though this is not easy, unless it is done, unless the light can be shone into that area of our civilization then the prospects for America's resurrection do not look good.

Ultimately we must assess the institution of Christianity itself. The point here is that there is something within the so-called traditional values that led themselves to be dominated by the body-centered culture.

It isn't enough to say the body-centered culture is wrong; we must also examine what it is within our traditional values that is leading to their demise. We must discover that which is leading to the decline of the Culture of Jesus in the United States of America.

That is the real assessment, and who can do this? Only men and women who have a deeper insight into the very root and heart of Christianity - and that is you and me and all of us! This is our fundamental role. When Mother comes to the podium to speak this is the role she is taking - she is assessing the heart of Christian culture, providing clarification and a new direction. Father never says "let's restore traditional values" - he's talking about new values - values that have never been accomplished in the past.

New Values

We need new values - values ;that originate in the heart of God, values that pertain to the original purpose and will of God. This is what we are talking about - values that are the reflection of the Original Intent and purpose of creation, the values that reflect the deepest motive of God and his primary will for creating. And this is what we know!

When we say we know God's will, God's deepest desire is to incarnate in Parents. To incarnate in First Parents, called True Parents. Adam and Eve were to be those parents - in the ;beginning God wanted to incarnate in those parents, and then to expand from the family, to the society, nation and world. Jesus said, 'As you see me you see the Father' but the hidden dimension that the world could never know until now is that Jesus wanted also to proclaim 'And as you see the Family you see God as you see the society you see God, as you see the society, you see God, as you see the nation and the world, you see God! Jesus came to establish the pattern for the visible manifestation of God from the individual to the world level. But there is one element necessary to that expansion. What do you think this is?

The one very important human event that must take place for the expansion of the manifestation of God is the God-centered sexual union between a true man and true woman. To talk about the sexual union in church seems very strange and out of place. The satanic world degrades it. How lost our society is - on one hand the body-centered culture degrades sexuality immensely, and on the other hand the Jesus-centered culture doesn't talk about it! Christian society has some sense of shame, a feeling that something's not right, something's not complete, something's not fulfilled. So either sex is degrading or it's something less than Godly right? It is taught that Jesus was born sinless owing to the sexless nature of his conception. Jesus never engaged in sexual union. Paul recommended very strongly that if you can overcome the desire for fornication , it is better to be like him - single. But if you cannot overcome this desire then get married. That's basically the ceiling of vision for marriage! These things lie at the heart of the decline of Western civilization, brothers and sisters!

These misconceptions are at the root of the present decline of our nation, and unless we can talk about them, we cannot resolve them! The fundamental problem, as I see it, is the total ignorance of Jesus' Primary Mission.

Jesus' Primary Mission

Even the concept that Jesus had a Mission other than to sacrifice his body is scandalous in most Christian circles. Sharing this point with the 7000 Christian ministers at the ICC was like a time bomb! Without understanding this primary mission of Jesus, we cannot understand the primary purpose for which God created him, nor can we understand why he must return. So it is not a coincidence that on the one hand the Christian World is ignorant of the Primary Mission of Jesus, is likewise confused and divided about the nature of his return, and what he comes to do!

The more Christian influences declines as Christianity continues to divide, the more the concept of God's will for the nation will become more and more vague!

The first two years of Jesus' ministry, he never talked about the cross - It wasn't until the last year of his ministry, in Matthew 16:21 from that time Jesus began to talk about his suffering to come. In the final year, he began to speak differently, and the reaction of his apostles in Luke 18:34 shows they did not understand a word of it. Until today it has not been known what that primary mission was - it was to fulfill the mission of Adam! And to restore the position of Bride, the position of Eve, and thus to be the first point where God incarnates in parents. And with the incarnation of God in Parents, from that point would come the substantial expansion from the individual Jesus, to the nation and culture of Jesus, to the world and cosmos of Jesus! And that would be a very good world.

The fundamental understanding of salvation is that through the blood lineage, we inherit a historical condition of claim - Satan's claim over our lineage - owing to our ancestral link to the dead Adam! That is the heart and soul of Christian Doctrine. Owing to this ancestral link, we are born into a state of sin; into a state where we desperately need to transfer from one lineage of a dead Adam to a new and living Adam. So if Jesus produces a living lineage, if Jesus and his spouse can stand in a position of True Parents, does Satan have any claim over that union? Satan would have no claim over that sexual union, over that substantial lineage, and that's why this would be the lineage that could become the expansion of the manifestation of God! That is the meaning of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth! ln his analogies of the Kingdom being like a little yeast, a mustard seed, Jesus is alluding to his own blood lineage. The victory of the cross is that it atoned for sin, but the tragedy of the cross is that the substantial expansion of God through the lineage of Jesus could not take place. This is why Christ must return. It is also why even though we may be born again, we may be saved on a personal level however - there are no 'True Parents' within Christianity.

The meaning of 'True Parents' is that we pass on the Godly heritage from ourselves to our descendants. Even though Christian mother and father may be saved personally, they give birth to a child that is still in desperate need of rebirth! That child must grow up and be born again, and is ultimately the reason that the subtle pang of conscience is there when husband and wife in the tradition culture of Jesus come together and engage in the sexual union. The pangs of conscience of the original mind is there! The original mind knows that something is lacking and that's why endemic to the Christian faith is a hope for a coming fulfillment, a glorification to come, which is the redemption of our bodies.

It is under this condition - that we promise to unite with that glory when it comes, that the culture of Jesus has been able to dominate the body-centered, body-exalting culture. But when this day arrives, for the body to be redeemed, and the Christian world closes their eyes, denying that fulfillment, then the condition is gone! And Christianity will have lost its power and ability to dominate the body-centered culture. That is the present state of affairs that we see in this country, and that is why truly the hope for world peace is that men and women understand the value of the Holy Blessing!

The understand the need for Blessing! It is under the Blessing of True Parents that men and women can cone together, that God can claim and affirm the sexual union of a man and a woman under an absolute and eternal commitment to each other. And it is the fruit of that union that will indeed be a son and daughter who is true who is not in need of rebirth. One birth is enough!

The age of God's Blessing has come to us and it is the dissemination of that Blessing that is the ultimate methodology for world peace! And therefore for men and women to come to a point to understanding the value of that Blessing, and to develop the willingness to safeguard and to preserve that blessing - that must be the true groundwork for bringing world peace.

Unification News 1993 Greeting

by Dr. James A. Baughman

Dr. Baughman is the President of the Unification Church in America

First of all, I would like to extend a warm greeting to members and friends of our Unification Church family throughout this potentially great nation of America. As we have now entered not only a new year, but also a new era for women, our church and our world, there is much for us about which to be grateful and to contemplate.

Given the many changes which we will all face this year as individuals, families, church and nation, the most important is the change which must first transpire within ourselves as faithful and filial children of God and our True Parents. This change is not only necessary for our own personal growth, but also for the sake of the success and blessing of our efforts throughout the coming year.

Although the change about which I speak takes on unique qualities and meaning for each specific individual, there is a common denominator which defines the direction of this change for all of us without exception. That fundamental quality is a renewed commitment to an actionized faith concomitant with consistancy in word and deed.

At the outset I qualified our nation as potentially great. In a similar vein, Mother has stated in her WFWP address that the "moral foundations of this great nation are still alive." What makes it possible for a nation to transform its potential greatness into something true and tangible? As Alexis de Tocqueville once observed many years ago, this greatness will not be defined by innovations in architecture, economic strength, political platforms or advances in technology, but rather by the religious and moral strength of the people.

Perhaps more than any other time in recent American history, many are questioning the moral direction of our nation. However, before we can contribute answers to these questions, we must first demonstrate with our lives an alternative standard so that people might have something concrete with which to compare. One means to characterize this alternative derives from a common theme implied in the inspirational guidance given to us by Father and Mother Moon over the last couple of years for us to become mature sons and daughters of faith and action.

First of all, we must rededicate ourselves to renewed faith in the living God, our Heavenly Parent. We must make more effort to pray and mobilize the spiritual world for protection and guidance so that our personal efforts will be more likely to succeed. We must remember that our human actions alone are not enough to solve the complex problems which we are now facing within our families, church and nation. God has often reminded His people of this timeless fact as evidenced throughout history, for example, in the lives of Gideon, Joshua, King David, George Washington and Douglas McArthur.

Likewise, however, we will never solve our problems by merely believing or hoping that God or anyone else will do it all for us. This is the attitude which infant children have towards their parents. It is essential for us to actionize our faith and behave as adult sons and daughters by taking on the work of our parents and proving our worth for having received so much from them. Too often religious people have put the burden entirely upon God, Allah or Jesus. How often do we expect True Parents to solve our problems or wait for them to instruct us before we decide to take initiative on our own?

In this time of Tribal Messiah, Hometown Providence, the Women's Federation for World Peace and United to Serve America, we are being called to be faithful, mature sons and daughters who are willing to take initiative on the foundation of what we have learned from our True Parents. 1993 is the first year of the second seven-year course of our True Parents since the "40-year wilderness period." This marks the beginning of the growth period for our movement worldwide. It is a time to step forward and prove our worth in terms of faith and action. It is a time for us to finally shoulder the burden of this nation and do what is needed to save it.

I am often reminded of the guidance offered by St. Theresa of Avila:

Pray as if everything depends upon God, and work as if everything depends upon me.

By making this our operational motto for the new year, we are certain to come closer to making this nation truly great as mature, responsible sons and daughters of God and True Parents. My personal wish is for each brother and sister within our church family to find prosperity and blessing in all you do, and that you will be able to contribute the best you have to this noble and holy task.

The Strange Case Of Thirty Thousand Cases

by Paul Johnson

When I arrived in Korea last week for a brief visit, I found Kimpo airport at Seoul teaming with an enormous number of young men. They appeared to come from all over the East and most of them were foreigners, Long queues stretched in front of the immigration desks. This annoyed me but it did not seem to disturb the young men, who were laughing and chattering. They were clearly pleased with life. When I finally got through, I remarked on the phenomenon of the young men to the people who met me. 'Oh', they said, 'if you had been here earlier in the day you would have found the airport crammed with young women.' The fact is I had stumbled upon the gathering of what was described as 30,000 pure young men and women from 120 countries who had come to Seoul to be married in a giant wedding ceremony in the Olympic Stadium.

This event had been organized by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, and he conducted the ceremony which took place on Tuesday. I received an invitation to it in exquisite Korean script and I regret I could not be there. The Rev. Moon is a strenuous campaigner for world peace, and one way he believes it can be furthered is by encouraging young people to marry across national, racial and color divides. This is a radical attitude anywhere but more so in the East than in the West, for many oriental societies are still endogamous. Neighboring peoples, such as Koreans and Japanese for instance, are highly suspicious of each other, what we would call "racist". So encouraging them to inter-marry may well be a step in the right direction. However, I don't intend to argue the point either way. What aroused my interest was being told that many of the 30,000 brides and grooms had never really actually met, though they had corresponded and exchanged photographs. They had been matched up as it were, by the Rev. Moon personally or by his organization.

Most people in the West find this outrageous but we are in the minority, if a growing one. The Far Eastern Economic Review tells us, in the current issue, that when the population peak is reached, the population of China will be 1,890 million, Pakistan 520 million, Bangladesh 295 million, Indonesia 370 million and Vietnam 165 million. That is 5,115 million from just six countries, making all our western societies together look puny. And the likelihood is that most of the marriages generated by this huge mass will be arranged by parents of families in one way or another, as they always have been. But parents and families are often motivated by unworthy considerations, usually financial. So it may be that matching by a disinterested outsider, concerned only with decorum and compatibility (and, in Mr. Moon's case, internationalism) would be an improvement. That, interestingly enough was Dr. Johnson's view. Even in England, he thought, 'Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.'

His own marriage with a widow, Tetty, entered into from love, was far from happy; a failure indeed. Surveying the multitude of his friends and acquaintances, he saw that unions produced by mutual choice often worked badly. The notion that a man can find bliss only with one special woman, still widely held today, he thought rubbish. When Boswell asked him: 'Pray Sir, do you not suppose that there are fifty women in the world, with any of whom a man, may be as happy as with any woman in particular?' Johnson replied, 'Ay, Sir, fifty thousand.' This is a harsh, shocking doctrine to us. We find it hard to credit that the 4th Duke of Norfolk, who lost his head for conspiring to marry Mary Queen of Scots, had no contest with her except by letter. 'For other eyeliking hath not passed between them', as Washington put it. We are brought up on the romantic notion of a coupde foudre, a flash of recognition of mutual need, which only personal contact can produce.

Yet, Hollywood, the place where the ideology of romance is pursued most relentlessly both in theory and in practice, is notorious for the multiplicity of it's failed marriages. Henry VIII, the unhappy prototype of the much-married man, as Antonia Fraser's new book reminds us, made the disastrous error of mixing reasons of state, which were naturally predominant, with personal romance. He wanted male heirs and supposed a girl with flashing eyes more likely to produce them. If anyone ever did, he illustrated Johnson's maxim that to marry again is "the triumph of hope over experience".

It seems to be that our present royal family has now tested the theory of romantic marriage to destruction. Traditionally, most royal unions had been arranged. When Princess Margaret fell in love with Group-Captain Townsend, she was argued out of her desire to marry him. But that was the turning-point. Thereafter, the palace, egged on by the media and the approval of public opinion, foolishly scrapped its prohibitions and allowed its young people to marry anyone within reason whom they fancied. The result has been a series of much publicized disasters, with possibly more to come. Having failed to stick to its principles, the monarchy now finds itself in real trouble, with the media in full cry and public opinion increasingly following. It should ignore both and go back to the well-tried old methods, risking being called stuffy. But it is probably too late for that.

Meanwhile, young people who study royal behavior carefully, are in danger of drawing the wrong conclusions from the breakdowns and scandals. Instead of reacting in favor of more prudential marriages, putting sense before sensibility, they are turning against formal marriages altogether. It matters not that informal arrangements, such as that between Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, are still more likely to end in anguish and recrimination, as a growing body of evidence proves. To many emancipated young women - and it is the women who decide, in most cases, whether marriages occur or not - it now seems a shrewder bet not to marry at all. That is the road to misery and economic disaster, both for individuals and society. So I am glad that someone, albeit in distant Korea, is trying out another alternative, and I shall look with interest to see whether the statistics confirm the wisdom of these new-style arranged unions. The Lord Chancellor, a canny Scot doubtless anxious for fresh business, ought to keep an eye on them too.

The Little Angels Tour Returns to the United States

The Little Angels Children's Folk Ballet will perform again in the United States. Other than a few performances in New York and Florida last year, The Little Angels haven't performed in the US for over eighteen years.

The Little Angels 1993 10-city tour begins January 12, when the group arrives in Chicago. Performances include a stop at the Centre East Theater in Chicago (Skokie) on January 22.

They will dance at the world famous Carnegie Hall in New York on Saturday, January 30, and, finally the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC on February 1. They will give 14 performances in 23 days.

Founded in 1962, The Little Angels have been touring for over 25 years. The group is dedicated to promoting Korean traditions. Their repertoire is based on ancient legends and folkloric songs and dances some 2,000 years old.

The company, composed of young women between the ages of 7-15, has done eighteen world tours in over forty countries. They have performed for such dignitaries as President Mikhail Gorbachev, former Prime Ministers Gandhi and Nakasone, Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford and were the first Asian company to give a Royal Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II.

Special Little Angel souvenirs, video tapes and program books will be on sale during the performances, so come prepared.

Sponsored by Northwest Airlines, The Washington Times, Radison Hotel Lincolnwood, Sae Gae Times, The Little Angels, Korea's cultural emissaries to the world, are a must see during their 1993 USA Tour.

Tour Schedule

Kohler, WI The Kohler Center Jan. 14 (414) 458-1972 
Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater Jan. 16 (414) 278-3663 
Green Bay, WI Weidner Center for the Arts Jan. 17 (414) 465-2217 
East Lansing, MI Wharton Center Jan. 20 (517) 336-2000 
Chicago (Skokie) Center East Theater Jan. 22 (708) 673-6300 
Ann Arbor, MI Power Center Theater Jan. 24 (313) 763-3333 
Indianapolis, IN Clowes Memorial Hall Jan. 26 (317) 921-6444 
New York City Carnegie Hall Jan. 30 (212) 247-7800 
Washington DC Kennedy Center for Performing Arts Feb. 1 (202) 467-4600

Modern Science Links Space, Time and Mind

by Richard L. Lewis

Do you recall reading this: What is the destiny of science? Until now, scientific research has not embraced the internal world of cause, but only the external world of result; not the world of essence, but only the world of phenomena. Today science is entering a higher dimension; it is no longer concerned exclusively with the external world of result and phenomena, but has begun to examine the internal world of cause and essence as well. (Divine Principle, 5th ed, 1977. p. 18)

One day, I am confident, this will be recognized as a prophecy of the first rank. You see, the remarkable thing is, that while the work of figuring out Quantum Mechanics was completed by the fifties, its meaning was buried in a multitude of detail and the esoterica of matrix mechanics and complex vector-spaces. It is only now, decades later, that the real import of quantum mechanics is beginning to emerge yet the Introduction to the Principle confidently asserted that it was already examining "the internal world of cause and essence." It had, to be sure, but no one on the physical plane at least realized back then.

What is only now emerging is that the conceptual framework developed by the quantum physicists, put simply, links the external world of space and time with the internal world of mind.

As is always true, such a development has not occurred in a vacuum, it is based on the work of many over a period of many years.

In fact. a good case can be made that the story starts thousands of years ago in the mud of the annual flood of the Nile. The dilemma this imposed on the Ancient Egyptians was how to figure out whose bit-of-land was whose, after the waters had subsided leaving everything covered with a layer of concealing ooze.

Space

Fighting was the solution at first, but eventually the priestly class came up with a much better way using large triangles measured from fixed features such as a pyramid or mountain. They found particularly useful a remarkable triangle with sides in the ratio of 3, 4 and 5 which always contained a perfect right angle which was helpful in giving everyone their fair-squares of land back after the flood.

The next step along from this modest beginning happened just across the Mediterranean in Greece where, just about twenty five hundred years ago, an inquiring mind became socially acceptable and the Egyptian observation was explained by a philosopher from the island of Samos.

Using pure logic, he found that the 3-4-5 triangle was just one of an infinite number of different triangles, all described by the theorem that has engraved the name "Pythagoras" into the minds of countless school children down the millennia:

In any right-angle triangle, the square of the side opposite the right angle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

This is what mathematicians generalize as the relationship between the size of an object, s, and its projections as height, width and breadth; x, y and z. This relationship is simply expressed algebraically (a convenience not available to Pythagoras, of course) as s2 = x2 + y2 + z2.

Now, while the size of a 2-by-4 piece of wood, say, does not change just because you twirl it around; the rotation alters its projection from being a tall and narrow post to that of a short and wide beam.

In a somewhat grandiose manner, science states that size remains "invariant" under the operation of rotation.

The simple Pythagorean relationship was clearly significant which is why it was passed down to us through the dark ages but no one thought to say why it was so significant until, almost 2000 years later, when in renaissance France, Descartes, one of the philosophical founders of our modern age, decided that spatial extension must be what distinguished matter from mind.

The things of the mind realm the Res Cogitans as he called them were characterized by what they didn't have and what they didn't have was spatial extension. In a nutshell, they didn't have size, they didn't follow the Pythagorean relationship. On the other hand, he said, things in the matter realm did.

The historical consequence of this separation of mind from body Cartesian Dualism, as his explanation came to be called was spectacular, to say the least.

You see, before Descartes, people, such as Aristotle had mind-things and matter-things all mixed up. The tree falls because of its desire to go to the earth, was how Aristotle explained things, and he must have made a lot of sense because no one disagreed with him for over two thousand years and Descartes' freeing matter-stuff to be examined without reference to mind-stuff.

Within a century, Sir Isaac Newton had abolished the barrier between the heavens and the earth. He found that with his description of gravity he could explain how the apple fell from the tree as well as what moved the moon and the planets through the heavens.

In a moment of quite uncharacteristic modesty he acknowledged those, such as Decorates, who had opened the way by declaring that, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

It is widely recognized that the birth of Western science can be traced back to the foundation established by Newton's work.

Space and Time

It took another genius to substantial enlarge the foundation created by Newton.

Einstein, just this century, found that it was not really the spatial extension that was invariant, but rather the extension in time-and-space that was the real invariant.

He found that something as simple as a lighted match, with a length of two inches and a duration of one minute, would look very different if you were moving very, very quickly past it would be one inch long but last for two minutes.

It is the same match and its objective reality, which he called its worldline, w, is related to the spatial and temporal extensions s and t in a simple extension of the Pythagorean relationship: w2 = s2 + t2.

The worldline is the invariant but, just as the width and height of an object seem to change with rotation, the spatial and temporal extensions seem to change with linear motion. Or, putting it another way, the worldline is invariant under the operation of linear motion. The only reason we don't usually notice this is because we habitually travel around at speeds significantly slower than that of light.

Einstein later told a friend that he was horrified by the "everything's relative" social misuse of his work and wished that he'd used the much more accurate "Principle of Invariance" instead.

"Everything's invariant, man!"

This change in perspective continued stimulated by the highly sophisticated development of the impulse of every child to pull things apart to see what they are made of.

It was found that when such smashing was taken to the extreme, everything turned out to be made up of various combinations of just two so-called fundamental particles the electron and the quark. And, as quarks live a convent-like confined life in the atomic nucleus and play little part in everyday life, almost everything could be understood if we understand the electron.

So scientists took a close look at the electron.

They fully expected the electron, of course, to behave just the way things made of electrons behave basically they expected electrons to conduct themselves just like tiny pool balls.

It seems obvious, but the important thing about pool balls, to both the punter and the scientist, is that you know where they are when you start and you can know, through either the laws of mechanics or shooting a lot of pool, just where the balls are going to end up.

Scientists, therefore, expected that they would be able to pinpoint the electron and that, once they had figured out the appropriate laws, they would be able to predict what the electrons would do.

So you can imagine their surprise when it turned out that the electron doesn't play pool at all, rather it plays the subatomic equivalent of roulette.

It turned out that was impossible, in principle, to know where an electron is and where it is going with certainty. Just like roulette, all you can know about the electron is the probability of finding it in a particular state.

Such behavior is not-at-all common sense but, when common sense conflicted with probability, probability won every time. In some set ups, for example, the electron might sometimes be found at one spot and sometimes at another but never anywhere in between. This "tunneling", as it is called, occurs because the electron has a probability of being in one place and the other but no probability of being anywhere in between.

The only reason, it turns out, why things made of electrons such as you and me don't teleport with ease long a possibility in the creative imaginations of science fiction writers is that this tendency cancels out and things tend, instead, to stay in the same place.

Space, Time and Mind

The explanation for such non-pool ball behavior, it turned out, does not involve the time-and-space extension of the electron, rather, it involved an aspect of the electron that had never been noticed in matter before, an extension that physicists called the wave function usually labeled with the Greek letter sigh, y and its projection as sigh-squared, y2.

In non-technical terms, sigh can be thought of as a measure of the tendency to follow a particular history.

It turned out that the worldline of Einstein only dealt with the past of an object where it was and what it did while the future history was a combination of this worldline extension and the sigh extension.

When there is a choice of future paths, all the factors involved which, for a simple system such as an electron, are described by the action equation' of the electron combine to create the sigh extension which you will not go very-far-wrong in thinking of as an arrow: big sigh, big arrow; little sigh, little arrow.

The key insight in the development of quantum physics was the realization that the probability of a particular history being followed was simply sigh-squared, that the probability of following a particular path was just the projection of the tendency, the probability was sigh-squared, Y2.

So the invariant is not the worldline, rather it is something we can call the world graph of an object.

In the illustration, at time zero the future opens up with all its possibilities each of which has its associated probability (indicated by the width of the gray line. This graph-in-gray is an extension in time-and-space but is a potential extension, not an actual one. A little later, time 1, one of these paths was followed, a probable one here, and the worldline is now an actual extension in space-time. A little later still, the worldline has progressed further still, at one point following a less-probable path which occasionally happens. You will see, however, that the world net is unchanged, all the other ramifications becoming might-have-beens.

The connection between the worldgraph, symbolized by the Greek letter W, and the time, space and sigh extensions is just the Pythagorean one again: W2 = s2 + t2 + y2. Succinctly, quantum physics has that the worldgraph of an object is invariant under the operation of movement through time. That, believe it or not, is the simple essence of quantum physics though you'll probably need to go to graduate school to fill in all the details.

So, to summarize, the size of an object is invariant under the operation of rotation; the worldline of an object is invariant under the operation of linear motion; and the worldgraph of an object is invariant under the operation of movement through time.

It is the worldgraph that is the real object of scientific study, it is this that is created by the natural laws. It is the worldgraph that underlies all phenomena. What actually happens is history, what particular branch of the graph was followed. While modern physics has an excellent understanding of both aspects the principles that govern the sigh extension of particles (expressed as the action equation, remember) as well as the actual history, their creation in the Big Bang modern biology is almost wholly constrained to the historical description of what actually happened and has little understanding of the underlying principles.

It is this worldgraph that theologians are speaking of when they say that, "God Knows Everything!" It is the worldline that theologians are speaking of when they say that the universe is autonomous, it runs without God tinkering to keep it moving. Most theologians agree that, while God knows what you can do, He does not know what you will do. Quantum mechanics makes this apply to everything: while God knows what path an electron can follow, and the probability of each path; He does not know which path the electron will follow.

Mind?

Now I am sure there is least one question left unanswered if the sigh extension of the wave function is not pointing in the spatial dimensions, and its not pointing in the temporal dimension, then just where is it pointing?

Our current level of scientific understanding answers this question but only in a fashion with the explanation that the wave function extension is internal, it is pointing not in an external dimension, such as space and time, but in an internal dimension.

Well, you might ask at little exasperatedly, just what is an internal dimension, where is this internal space? Ahh, the scientist will answer with a wry shake of the head, we don't know the answer to that question, but then we don't know what the external dimensions of time and space are either!

Now I have a confession to make. I have sort of hinted that modern science explains the mind. Well, that is a bit of a come on since science does not understand the human mind at all, it does not even have a handle on the mind of plants and animals or even cells for that matter.

But the internal extension of the electron, the sigh-wave-function aspect, is what a non-scientist might call the mind of the electron, the invisible, intangible, internal aspect that determines its future, its inherent directive nature.

And what electrons have we can confidently expect things made of electrons to have as well.

Classical physics (which includes Einstein's worldline) was puzzled by the "arrow of time" as all the laws of nature were thought to work on the external extension and be reversible in time. There were, to be sure, the thermodynamic arrow (things get disordered technically entropy increases and broken crockery doesn't spontaneously reassemble), the cosmological arrow (the universe is expanding) and the physiological arrow (we remember the past but not the future) but how were they connected to each other.

The new physics connects them all: the tendency of things to be in the most probable states (the disordered, unfortunately) is directly related to the sigh extension of things; the tendency of the universe to expand (at the start when it was most crucial) can be calculated and was highly probable; and memory involves the worldline not the worldgraph. The arrows of time are all connected to the sigh extension and its expression as the worldline.

One thing emerges, though, Descartes got it wrong the difference between mind and body is not that matter has extension while mind does not the difference is actually that of an extension in an internal space and an extension in an external space.

There you have it, as predicted, the way that modern science "is no longer concerned exclusively with the external world of result and phenomena, but has begun to examine the internal world of cause and essence as well."

Hark, You'll Hear The Father Weep

Richard L. Lewis, 1992, to the tune of "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing"

1.
Hark, you'll hear the Father weep,
For His son in Bethlehem.
Born to be the Priest Most High,
Spurned, he lies in unclean hay.
Liz'beth take your cousin in,
Mary needs her kith and kin;
Jesus teamed with your son, John,
One day, Israel will redeem.
Do not leave him all alone;
Or the cross will be his throne.

2.
Stay! you'll hear the Father cry,
To the three kings from the East.
Don't just leave your gold and myrhh,
Then from Herod's malice flee.
Be brave, wise men, listen well,
He can lead mankind from hell.
Raise him up, Oh kingly three,
As a prince with dignity.
Who'll a carpenter believe;
Tis his childhood if you leave.

3.
Wake! you'll hear the Father begging,
While the chosen people sleep.
Long millennia you suffered,
For the promise He now keeps.
Glorious day, the Lord Messiah,
Shield him, Satan wants him dead.
If he's killed, the future's grim,
Suff'ring will salvation bring.
Do not make two thousand years,
Pass before Christ comes again.

Former Missionary Finds UTS Provides Essential Skills, Broadens Faith

Unification Theological Seminary: Personal Testimony 
Seminary Seen as Way to Break Through in U.S. 
by Michael Kiely

As True Father looks to American members to shoulder increasing responsibility in the United States, the Unification Theological Seminary offers training in the essentail leadership skills and in-depth understanding of The Divine Principle to fulfill that trust. A former missionary and 1800 couple shares his life-transforming experience at the Seminary.

Maria and I recently had to make a tough family decision. We were at a crossroads in our spiritual and professional life and had to decide: should we continue in the news media, go to Home Town in California, or move overseas, say, to Russia? I had worked at the New York City Tribune for ten years before it closed, but there were no appropriate openings for me in UC media. Because we had been missionaries in Africa for seven years and had worked recently in both the CIS and Kenya, an overseas mission, perhaps in the CIS, was a serious option for us. But because True Father had repeatedly urged us all to go to Home Town, that was our most attractive alternative.

Our last and most unlikely option was that I attend UTS "unlikely" because at my age (then 47) I thought I should be actively bearing fruit for the providence, not studying. Also, I knew the rumors about students losing their faith at UTS and about others, as one leader put it, "becoming intellectually strong and spiritually weak." I had heard that there was "too much freedom" at UTS and that UTS graduates were arrogant, couldn't teach the DP and didn't unite with their CFs. These criticisms made us cautious until my spiritual father, himself a graduate, encouraged me to take the UTS possibility seriously. "You will still have plenty of years to bear fruit," he told me, "and your fruit will be more abundant." He said his UTS experience had helped him substantially as the head of one of Father's major organizations.

In the end we did take him seriously, and I have just completed my first term at UTS. The price has been high Maria is working full time for an autocratic and insensitive lawyer to support our family; our three children are "latch key kids," coming home from school each afternoon to an empty house; my family and I are separated five days a week, and we need to deal with some $7,900 a year in UTS tuition and expenses (partly through a non-UC scholarship) beyond our family expenses. But my experience at UTS so far is, we believe, making the sacrifice worthwhile and has put to rest all those rumors that had made us hesitate initially.

Perhaps most importantly, UTS has proved an inspiring place to pray, possibly because Father himself used to visit the campus almost daily to pray, make fishnets and create a foundation for UTS to train future leaders. I take long walks to pray and meditate along the back road out to the fields where True Family love to hike. Or meander along the gravel road lined with gnarled trees out toward the old wood barn beside the red-brick silo. Or traverse a green mowed field toward Father's trail that winds down among the trees to the lagoon. Or pray early in the morning in the high-roofed chapel lined with European stained-glass scenes of the lives of Jesus and St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle. Heaven seems to come down close at these moments, and, frankly, the tears often flow. The only other places I've felt this way are Belvedere, East Garden and the holy ground in our mission country.

Far from being a dry, intellectual experience, I am discovering that the heart of God is not only waiting for me on the front line, but in my books and in deep discussions about the ideas we at UTS are absorbing. I am being shown that behind each drop of blood True Parents shed to bring us the Principle is a history of suffering and yearning for God. St. Justin de Martyr longing for martyrdom in order to be one with Jesus. St. Patrick returning to bring the Gospel to the bitter land where he once was enslaved. St. Maximus the Confessor choosing to have his tongue ripped out and his right hand severed rather than compromise his faith. Behind each new idea I sense there is a soul searching at its limits to know God. For Jeremiah, God's word was "a fire shut up in my bones" that drove him to witness in spite of himself.

It is evident to me that these people didn't simply address their ages eloquently and die. What they said and wrote is speaking down the centuries to me about MY providential work and driving me out to MY front line. I have struggled to live and teach the Principle for years, but UTS is broadening and deepening my understanding of it and guiding me to experience the heart with which it came to me. During the next two or three years while I will always sense a measure of impatience to be getting on about my providential work, I can't help feeling that what is happening here to me is good and right for me at this time.

It is true, there is freedom here, enough freedom for us to begin to take responsibility for our faith and make it our own, enough to attend not simply in obedience to a CF but out of an illuminated and expanding heart which, like Jeremiah, responds of its very "fire" by expressing the truth. Of course, with that freedom comes a risk a necessary one I think that some seed planted in shallow soil will wither and die here. Some will turn that freedom into license and abuse it in arrogance or any other vice. I confess the temptation is also real for me. In fact, how easy it is to become arrogant with the knowledge and ability we are acquiring here.

In specific ways, I am blossoming. I throw myself into each activity with abandon, joining the Junior debate team (we lost in the finals, but we gave them a run for their money!), speaking up in class even when I don't know the answer ("fool for God"), looking for every opportunity to practice expressing the new knowledge I am acquiring. I will certainly enter the speech and the DP lecture contests this winter and jump into any other experience that pushes me to the limits of my creativity and expression. Such opportunities abound here. Even at meal time around the large round tables in the dining hall there are often spontaneous, animated discussions about some idea or issue, and I dive right into them. At UTS I am discovering new personal abilities I had never sensed and delighting in the experience of my mind becoming keener and more creative. There is a thrill in generating new ideas, bouncing them off others, developing them and expressing them, say, in a term paper or oral presentation.

And those around me experiencing the same thing themselves, support that process in me (and I in them). So, we are a community of mutual learning, growing, stretching ourselves and each other beyond our old limits, and of becoming solid members who can speak to outside VIPs on their own level and represent Father with competence, dignity and, yes, power and, of course, love. It is like giving birth to a new self. One can see that the seniors (2nd year) and Divinity Seniors (third year) are further along in that birthing process than we juniors (first year) are. They express themselves more articulately and with more confidence. They often seem to know more about True Family, True Parents and the providence than we do. One can also sense in many of them a real dedication to our True Parents that is an example for us. It is clear to me that the UTS experience has made a powerful and good difference in their lives.

It is true that this new knowledge and ability can lead to arrogance and independence if I ignore its source. Also, a creative and expressive mind may seem and may actually be threatening to a CF who has not had the UTS experience. The risk is that I may forget that what I am becoming is not from me but from heaven and that I am simply the soil True Parents are planting and cultivating good seed in. I may forget to be grateful for the foundation our TP have laid here, for the two-thirds of my tuition others pay for me with considerable perspiration, for the professors and staff working at sacrificial salaries they need to supplement by fund raising so that I may thrive here.

But it is precisely in grappling with temptations like arrogance in an atmosphere of freedom that my faith may become my own and not simply that of my CF and that I come to attend not out of servility but with "fire" in my bones and heart. Such temptations allow me to work at undoing Eve's and Adam's abuse of freedom and to take increasing responsibility for my faith and mission. I see such risk as inevitable and potentially growthful on the road from servanthood to sonhood or daughterhood. UTS provides the freedom and support I need to confront these temptations.

After some twenty years in the providential trenches I find the rich intellectual and spiritual soil at UTS, the academic freedom, the solid indemnity foundation that brings heaven down close, and the sheer and abundant beauty outside the Seminary buildings are like a womb that is gestating a new Michael, son-to-be of True Parents. I feel that UTS is opening the doors of a future for me rich in vision and more competent filial attendance.

My regret is that I did not know earlier TF's clear and repeated direction that all members attend UTS and that I waited till now to enroll. My prayer is that others will let no obstacle prevent them from acquiring the "pearl of great value" that is waiting for us all in Barrytown.

Michael & Maria Kiely are an international 1800 couple and former foreign missionaries in Africa where their three children were born. Michael worked with the New York City Tribune for 14 years, was chairman of the board of a private school in Manhattan and Chairman of the 1800 Blessed Family Association. Maria works full-time in Manhattan to support their family and Michael's attendance at UTS and is actively involved in the Women's Federation for World Peace. The Kiely's live in Chestnut Ridge, NY, where Inmay, 15, Yung, 14, and Kotun, 12, attend school.