Sun Myung Moon
January 1, 1974
I wish you a happy new year. As I announced, the years 1972, 1973, and 1974 are the most crucial and most historical years in the providence of God. In 1972 and 1973, we mobilized only a handful of people, but we have done quite a lot of things in the significance of God's providence. Centered upon this land of America, we are going to develop the providence of God with our own efforts. God has been preparing this nation for that purpose. But we now see clearly that this nation is stagnated, with no opening to the everlasting future. The rest of the nations in the world are also stagnated, in a sense.
But can we find a breakthrough, or a nation where we can actualize the providence of God, other than the United States? We can safely say, "No." But within this nation, there doesn't seem to be any breakthrough; there doesn't seem to be anyone who can lead this nation through this dead end. We know too well that in the material sense, this nation is blessed. But otherwise, in spirit, there is nothing in this nation excelling others.
We can expect only religious groups to restore this nation. Among all religions, we expect Christianity to do the job. But in this nation, the Christian leaders lack the hope of doing the job, and we have to look for another. Christian society is now faced with corruption and decay. There is no denomination or religious sect that can carry out the job. There is no group that will save this nation, and eventually the whole world. In this reality, if there is any such group at all, it is going to be our group. We have already proclaimed that we are going to save this nation and the nations of the whole world, and not only this world, but the spirit world. We are going to liberate the whole cosmos from satanic bondage, and liberate God and have Him take His Sabbath.
Beginning from the year 1972, our motto for two years was the same: "Let us safeguard the Unified Front." When we said this, we did not mean ourselves as individuals, or as a nation, but the whole world. When we say, "Let us safeguard the Unified Front," it means we will protect ourselves, our nation as a whole, and the whole world from satanic invasion.
Safeguard by advancing forward
Seen from that viewpoint, you must realize how important and how vital we, the individuals in our family are. We are in the position to take the responsibility over the population of the whole world. We must again realize that God is relying upon us to carry out the mission of saving the whole world. Then would God want you to stop right where you are, or advance forward? Can we safeguard our unified front just stopping where we are? No. Only by advancing forward can we safeguard the unified front. We are the starting point of God's hope, the fruition of His hope, and the realization of His ideal. Whether or not you will bring failure to God's project or success to His providence will rest solely on you. We want to have God be happy and say, "You have done a good job."
I think God is looking at the United States right now. If our group was not here, God would be a disappointed God. But He has hope, and we must realize again how important our mission is. We must cling to this nation and not let go until we realize our mission here. We must make the whole world great in the project of God. If you are firmly re solved to make this nation the leading one of the democratic world, God will work ahead of us, paving the way for us to go. If we carry out the mission in this nation, God will rely on us and will pave the way for the rest of the nations too.
We must have God indebted to us
Up to now, religious sects have fought for only individual salvation. We cannot follow their example. Instead of being indebted to anyone, even to God, we must have God indebted to us. We must be newly resolved to save not only this nation, but the other nations of the whole world. And in doing that, we must advance forward. Day and night, asleep or awake, whatever you do or wherever you go, you must bear in mind that you are responsible for the salvation of this nation. If there is a God, wouldn't He want you to do that?
In safeguarding the Unified Front, what are you going to do? You must never even think that the United States exists solely for you, but that you exist for the United States. You cannot expect this nation to safeguard you, so you are going to safeguard this nation. We are pioneering this nation to save this nation. So we cannot expect others to help us, but we must be ready to help this nation.
We have mind and body. Our mind should be associated with God, but now it separated from God. So we must unite God and our mind. Without making it possible, we are not qualified enough to safeguard the Unified Front. Our minds must be one with God's will. God's will is to save the United States and the whole world. So our will also must be to save the whole world.
We must be attentive to follow God
God advances forward, going straight ahead, without vacillating. Then we must be attentive to follow God, going straight ahead on the front. My mind and God's mind must become one; and God's will and our will must become one in unity. So without any vacillation we must be strongly resolved to be one with God. With our mind united with God, our body must become one with that kind of mind. Our mind is plus in relation to our body, but our mind must be one with God. God's mind and our mind put together must play the role of plus, attracting our body in the position of minus. Then our body must be positioned with God. Our body has five senses. Its five physical senses must function in accordance with God's will. In our every action we must go steadily on towards the goal set before us by God. In that case, God will abide in us, directing us towards the goal.
The Unified Front begins right here. If there is disunity, between our mind and God's mind, in proportion to the rupture or disunion, our way to advance is blocked. If our mind is separated from God and our body separated from our mind, there are two gaps to be breached. Then it is difficult for us to fill up the gaps. Darkness is liable to infiltrate. Satan can encroach there. We must safeguard ourselves right there.
Unified Front: our mind unified with God
By Unified Front, we mean that our mind is unified with God. Unity between the three-God, our mind, and our body- is most important. If these three are in harmonious unity, give and take between the three will multiply, and the four positions will be established (God, mind, body, oneness). From this viewpoint, we can say that when we safeguard the Unified Front, first of all we must unify our mind with God and our body with our mind, making those three one.
If you are asked whether you have created that base, what will be your answer? Have those three elements become one in yourself? If you are still in disunity, God will be disappointed, and God will be a sad God. Then He must work hard to encourage us to do the job. You will find yourself not quite helping God, for God will still be helping you, trying hard to create within you a unity with Him. Then we conclude that we do not safeguard the Unified Front at all; rather God Himself does that and will do that for us.
When we think of that, we have no time to lose; we cannot afford to think of ourselves. We must be able to use our five senses at any moment for the will of God. When you analyze and criticize yourself, you know how qualified you are for the job, and you cannot relax. You know too well that God has been putting out His whole effort to locate persons like Jesus, or the Messiah, who will accomplish the unity between his mind and God's mind, and then bring his mind and body together. But in us He cannot find any such unity. So you must realize that you are making God a sad God. God who was disappointed all those thousands of years is relying on us. He finds the possibility of unity among ourselves and the salvation of the world through our efforts.
God's will demands sacrifice of us
Then are you qualified for that, and are you confident for the job? Are your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, functioning for the will of God alone? God's will demands sacrifice of us, and if you seek after the pleasure of your eyes, nose, and mouth- that's not the right way. When you think of that, you must always shrink back, saying you are not satisfactory in God's sight, you have to do more and more. Even though you cannot make your mind and body one with God, by your own efforts, you must pray to God to create that unity in you.
You must become a handful of clay out of which God can create another self. No other way is possible. If you go by your own will, God cannot re-create you. That's why Jesus truly said, "Whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matt. 16:25). Your eyes, nose, mouth, and all your five senses, including your body, have satanic elements. We must remove from ourselves the inherent satanic elements. We must leave everything in God's hands. If He pushes us, we will go forward; if He pulls us backward, we will go that way; and in every direction, we will be led by God. If you leave yourselves alone, you will be distracted and go astray.
God has been working hard for us
The most fearful thing in the whole world is you yourself, because you are the abode of Satan. You are easily dragged away by Satan; you have walked in accordance with satanic will. We have been proclaiming, "Let us safeguard the Unified Front." But we find that we have not been safeguarding the Unified Front; we have been safeguarded by someone above. We must realize that God has been working hard for us, and we are indebted to Him greatly. We must be strongly resolved that from this moment, when the year 1974 is dawning, we refuse to let God help us and safeguard us any longer. We will do the job by ourselves. We must do the job, and then, in the subjective position, save our brothers and sisters, save our nation, and save other nations around us.
Suppose there is a man whose mind is entirely one with God. With those two united, his body, which is in the objective position, will become one with them in harmonious unity. So he is a perfected man. He cannot stand all by himself however, he needs his mate. So there must be a woman in the same position, with her mind one with God and her body one with those two. In other words, after having realized the unity in yourself, then you must locate a spouse with whom to be united into one. If every individual accomplishes unity between these three elements, and if that kind of individual is multiplied, there will be no need for safeguarding the Unified Front, because the unity is already created there.
Well, what about the couples? Are you in perfect unity like that? If you have not realized that much, it means that you are not safeguarding the Unified Front, and God still has to safeguard you through toil and effort. In a couple, if either one has realized that unity, the other must be in utter obedience to him or her. In a family if the husband and wife are one with each other, then the husband (the subject) and the wife (the object) become one and play the role of plus towards their children, in the position of minus. If parents and children become one with each other, then the whole unit will become the plus, influencing other families.
Branches must cling to the trunk
If unity is not created in your family, you are not safeguarding the Unified Front in your family, but you are having God safeguarding your family. If so, it will create great trouble for the rest of the world. If any such family in harmonious unity is created, then that family must play the role of plus to the other families in its clan, and with all the families in its clan united in the role of plus, then other clans must be influenced and absorbed to that clan in the position of objects. There is only one trunk. If there are many branches, can the branches go in accordance with their own will? If they go astray, it means they are broken and lose their lives. They must cling from the trunk and get the nutrition from the root through the trunk.
We as individuals must stand on the base of three stages together. Everything comes in the number three: the division of your fingers; your two eyes, which must be focused on one point; the two nostrils, sensing one point; the upper lip and lower lip, fixed on one purpose, etc. Realization or perfection will be brought about after the number three. When you hold something, you put your two hands on the object-this becomes the number three. That is why the Divine Principle teaches us that everything created is based on the number three. We say we have our body and mind, but in our mind, there is the core part or seed, where God can abide. Those three must be one.
God must always be one with the leader
So suppose there is a leader of a state, a state representative; he must first of all become one with God. And then he with God, playing the role of plus, must be able to lead and absorb the group as his object. If that is created in your state, then your state will see prosperity. If God's will and the will of our members all over the world become one with God, then it is easy for us to carry out our mission. Because of the human fall, however, there is disunity and disharmony. But if our mind is firmly one with God, that strong plus or subjectivity can manipulate the rest of the body, and with the body can manipulate the rest of the people. Then, even if your body is willing to go astray, some force will pull you back to the right direction.
When there is unity between mind and body, then it equals God, and naturally is a perfect object to God as the ultimate subject. For at least three years, concentrate your efforts to make your mind and body into one, and you will experience God abiding in you, and working through you. The Bible teaches us, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God" (Matt. 5: 9). "Peacemaker" means to make the people united into one. Then the principle of safeguarding the Unified Front is here.
If a unified family can absorb other families in its clan in the objective position, and become one with them, then that clan can influence other clans. And in this way the whole nation will become one with each individual, and then God will abide there, and the nation will be the strongest nation in the whole world.
You cannot deceive yourself
By being dishonest and telling lies, you cannot realize God's will. You must know that; you cannot deceive yourself, for then you cannot put your mind and body into one. We must leave everything in God's hands; unless we do that, we cannot have God working through us. Wherever a leader is posted, the members under him must try to become one with him, and he in turn must become one with God.
If you hold a job, if you are harmonious with your boss and able to please him, and doing whatever you are told, you are apt to be elevated or promoted. If you serve your leader and are utterly obedient to him, if he cannot carry out his mission, he is doomed to be fired from the position. Then you may even be elevated to his position. If there is a leader who is not qualified enough for the job but is temporarily stationed there, you should be utterly obedient and work hard under him. That may go on one year, two years, or three years; at the end of three years at least, the boss will not be able to stand in that position and you will be promoted to his position.
So it is safer for you to be followers instead of being the leaders, so don't complain about the leaders. By being followers, you pave your own way and practice whatever things are coming to you. In practicing in that field, you can get more experience for the qualification as a future leader. If you are obedient even to a leader who is not qualified to be boss over you, the people around you will become more and more aware of the fact and will recognize your ability.
Don't complain while other people around you are complaining; don't retreat while other people are retreating. And if your boss, your leader is harsh on you, just don't be bitter, and just go ahead and be obedient to him. If he dies, you be resolved to decorate his tomb with flowers.
Are you with me?
The chosen nation of the Israelites was doomed to peril because they could not become one with Jesus the Messiah, the son of God. If Christianity does not become one with Jesus and one with their own leaders, they are doomed to ruin. Whether or not our Unification Church will prosper or fail will solely depend on whether or not we will become one with each other. Are you one with me? In turn, I must be one with God.
Then do we have a nation in the will of God? We must be able to restore a whole nation as a unit before God. Would you rather choose a small African country, because it is easier to restore the whole nation, or the United States, which has been leading in the democratic world up to the present moment? Why do we choose the United States?
It is because there are many Christians in the United States, many God-loving people. Also this nation is the melting pot of many nations and many races, and the nation has already set the example of unity, in a sense, to a certain extent. For instance, there are many Germans who can readily return to their own country to save the nation.
In order to save America, I have mobilized so many members from so many nationalities. If you work in your respective countries-for instance, if the British people take the responsibility over the salvation of Britain, it will take a lifetime or more to restore Britain-it is going to be an endless job. But if we mobilize all the powers from all the countries where we have our missionaries, and then save this nation, then we can restore other nations by mobilizing their people.
Think of how to save the people
So many millions of people are living in your state. Day and night, asleep or awake, if you think of how to reach out your hands to save those people, struggling hard, then God will be there working through. Your project will be a success. So don't try hard to get help from God, but ask Him to go ahead and prepare the minds of the people to receive you. And if you are strongly one with God, and advance forward without retreating, without stopping half the way, then it will be easier for you to carry out your mission.
We have learned through the Principle that where there is a perfect plus, a perfect minus is sure to be created. When I was imprisoned, without even speaking a word, I could witness to so many people. The God who has so far been helping me is ready to help you, and is helping you already. But if you are without faith in Him, He cannot do anything; and even though He may help, the fruition will not be brought about.
Let us come to the conclusion. To safeguard the Unified Front is for you to ask our Father, God, to reach out to the people, going beyond you, and preparing the soil of their hearts to receive you. And you take the initiative to become one with God. Wherever you go, you go with Him; whatever you speak, you speak with Him. When you sleep, when you work, when you eat, you must feel that you are doing those things with God. If you go on doing things that way, then you will feel the presence of God, and even feel the hearts of the people.
God will be present in you
If someone is a sad man, when I look at him, I immediately feel sad. In that way we are feeling the sentiment of God. Suppose you are visiting a village, and you will immediately know the exact nature of that village. If you visit a town, before entering the town you go up to the highest mountain and pray for the whole place. Someone there must be attracted to you, and you will find him coming up the hill to meet you. Where there is a perfect plus, perfect minus is sure to be created. I know you have experienced many such things. If you go on the street ready to witness to the people, your legs will lead you to the right person. If you have such experiences, you cannot deny the existence of God. That's the natural way. If you pray hard and are ready to receive God's guidance, God will be present in you and work through you.
In safeguarding the Unified Front in this last year of the three crucial years, you must invest your whole being and concentrate your efforts, and focus your attention on the job. And in doing that, don't rely on God; but let Him prepare your way, going ahead of you.