Sun Myung Moon
October 14, 2006
Fifth World Assembly of the Mongolian Peoples Federation for World Peace
Cheon Jeong Gung, Korea
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Leaders from all around the world who are working hard for the development of the Mongolian Peoples Federation for World Peace, and of the Universal Peace Federation, which was established under Heaven’s providential call, and which is now living up to its position as the Abel UN.
As the True Parent of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, and together with all the members of my family, I personally welcome all of you to this meaningful event. Thank you for attending despite your busy schedules.
Ladies and gentlemen, this assembly has great and profound significance within the providence of God. This is the fifth world assembly since the founding of the Mongolian Peoples Federation for World Peace. It is also a world-level event to welcome Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, who represents the true family in its original form, and who has returned after successfully completing the third of three world peace tours that have taken place since the Universal Peace Federation was founded one year ago.
A victory for the three generations of the True Family
After inaugurating the Universal Peace Federation in New York on September 12,2005, my wife Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon and I went on to complete a global tour of one hundred twenty nations with the purpose of conveying my inaugural message. Carrying the baton on this foundation of True Parents’ victory, my wife undertook a second world tour this spring, during which she held rallies to declare a message of peace to one hundred eighty nations. It was a tremendous victory, in which two generations of the True Family, True Parents and True Children, worked together to declare this message of peace.
This victory, in which the children of the Cain-type realm and Abel-type realm were brought together on a universal level and offered to True Parents, enabled the providential realm of ownership to be returned to God.
On the basis of this victory, on June 13 of this year, heaven and earth were united. God and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind were firmly established in their rightful positions through the entrance ceremony into the Cheon Jeong Gung Peace Palace and through the coronation of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind as the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and Earth. These events were a tremendous victory unprecedented in history. It was a day on which we could liberate and completely emancipate God, who had walked the providential course for countless years alone, behind the scenes of history, in bitter sorrow and tears, and firmly settle Him into His position as the King and Master of Heaven and Earth.
The victory of God and True Parents, who have entered the Cheon Jeong Gung, is linked to an outpouring of tremendous grace through which the 6.5 billion people of the world could return to dwell within Heaven’s household. On August 31, the True Parents, True Children and True Grandchildren assembled for a third world tour to convey the Word and the Blessing, a tour that I personally launched here in Korea. The three generations of the True Family have gone to forty nations to bestow the Blessing. They have returned on this happy day, victorious through their long journey. This recent world tour was all the more special because it involved the active participation of three generations of the family of the True Parents.
It was like the advance of the cosmic peace kingdom corps, an army that was restoring a nation each day with the truth and Blessing it was conveying. As the Word and Blessing were proclaimed simultaneously each day in twelve major cities of each nation, it brought the greatest joy to all humanity. The mobilization of the three generations of the True Family is an event that will be recorded in history for eternity. It is something that no saint in history could ever have dreamed of, and it is a miracle that will be praised forevermore as a victorious liberation for Heaven.
In addition to this, today represents yet another day of historic victory that I will never forget. It is the anniversary of the day when I was liberated by the United Nations’ forces. I became a free man after spending two years and eight months in a North Korean prison. I had been unjustly imprisoned for conveying Heaven’s message. I was ministering to the people who were living under the communists, who had taken over North Korea shortly after the independence and liberation of my country. October 14, 1950 was a perilous moment, and Heaven was compelled to perform a miracle. It was on this day that I, the person with the seal of the True Parent of humankind, was to be led off for execution. There was no way that Heaven could ignore such an incident.
I declare that this day, which bears such great providential significance, is an historic day of victory through which I offer glory and respect to Heaven and blessings and love to the earth as the True Parent of humankind under the protection of God.
The Universal Peace Federation and the Mongolian Peoples Federation
Leaders of the world! Please remember our mission to elevate the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), now only one year old, to the position of the Abel-type UN. Heaven is instructing us to develop the UPF as a new international peace organization. At the same time, we are to reform the United Nations, which stands as a Cain-type institution, by establishing in it a peace council free from Satan’s influence and of the same rank as the current Security Council. This council would be a legislative body composed of religious leaders from around the globe under the protection of God.
I am saying that we have to establish a peace council that will speak for the interests of all nations, unlike the current United Nations representatives, and which will truly work for the welfare and peace of humanity from an inter-religious and universal perspective.
The concept of the Universal Peace Federation, which was launched according to God’s ideal purpose and goal of creation, could not have emerged from the wisdom of one human being. It is the greatest and utmost blessing Heaven has given to humanity and it is ushering in the new millennium. Thus, it is my hope that the Mongolian Peoples Federation will also fulfill its duty as a partner of the Universal Peace Federation in achieving its noble goals bestowed by Heaven.
Toward that end, I would once again like to impart to you today a revelation from God that is absolutely essential to all 6.5 billion people of the world. It is entitled “The True Owners in Establishing the Kingdom of Peace and Unity in Heaven and on Earth.” This is the message I gave at the third Assembly of the Mongolian Peoples Federation for World Peace. I hope you will all be wise leaders who open your minds to listen to the voice of Heaven.
Leaders of the world! God, the Creator of all things under the sun, is the True Parent of all humanity. He is not a parent in the parochial sense, existing only for a certain religion or race, or the residents of a certain region. You may call Him by any name, be it Jehovah, Allah, or any other. What is important is that He positively exists, lives as the True Parent of all people, and is carrying on the great work of creation in accordance with the principles and the laws of nature that He set up at the beginning of time. He governs everything in the universe and He has carried out His providence through history.
The existence of the spirit world
Ladies and gentlemen, each person has a mind and body, and a spirit self that is more elevated than the mind. God resides in the world in which we live with our physical bodies, and also in the spirit world where our spirits are destined to live. Therefore, only when we have become completely one with God in true love are we complete. Such a perfected person, even if physically small, would represent all of history and all potential future relationships, and so could be said to possess infinite value. Once we are aware of this cosmic value, we realize that we must let our minds take the lead in our lives. To aid this, God created your conscience to know and perceive every action you take and every thought you entertain. Your conscience is aware of these things before your teachers, parents and even God are. Hence, if you were to live in absolute obedience to the commands of your conscience, which is your teacher for eternity, you would be absolutely guaranteed to have eternal life. Such is the way of God’s creation.
When viewing the structure of a human being from a different angle, we can recognize that God created us as beings with dual characteristics. He created our physical bodies as miniatures of the corporeal, tangible world and our spiritual bodies as representatives of and lords of the incorporeal world. Accordingly, a human being is intended to live for a hundred years or so in the corporeal, physical world and, once the physical body ceases functioning, to pass on naturally and automatically into the incorporeal, spirit world. In this way, though it cannot be perceived physically, the spirit world is the automatic and inevitable extension of our lives on earth, humankind’s eternal, original homeland, created by God.
The spirit world actually does exist. It is not a world that someone fantasized or imagined into existence. We do not have the right of choice concerning it. It is not a world we can go to if we please or refuse to go to if we would rather not. Just as God is eternal and unchanging, the spirit world He created is also eternal and unchanging. Just as we live in the physical world in our physical bodies and form all sorts of relationships with the existing world, even in the spirit world we are destined to go on living in our spiritual bodies, forming and maintaining close relationships with all phenomena of the spirit world.
In the relationship between the spirit and the physical body of a human being, the spirit is the more important of the two. The physical body lasts for about a hundred years before it stops functioning. However, the spirit lasts eternally, transcending time and space. Isn’t even a person who dresses and fares extremely well in the physical world bound to die? Therefore, before you pass on to the next world, you need to achieve unity between your physical and spiritual bodies by living your earthly life in such a way that you meet the standards of both the physical and spirit worlds.
In other words, you have the responsibility to mature your spirit within your physical body based on the finite life you live in the tangible, physical world. This does not mean, however, that the maturing of a spirit self happens automatically. Your spirit self fully matures only on the basis of complete unity between your mind and body during your earthly life, which you achieve by expressing true love through actions.
Ladies and gentlemen, in order for fruit to ripen and be put into storage in autumn, it needs first to pass through the growing process of spring and summer and be provided with the nutrients supplied by nature and the tender, loving care of its owner. Fruit grown in an orchard by a lazy or ignorant owner will be afflicted with diseases and vulnerable to foul weather. Eventually it will fall from the tree before it is ripe, or be worm-infested. Though it is still fruit, it is different from other fruit since it will never be good enough to sell in the market. Fruit that has fully matured on the tree, however, will naturally go into the owner’s storehouse.
Similarly, only when the spirit of a person has reached its full maturation during his or her life in the physical world, which can be likened to the tree, can it automatically enter the kingdom of heaven in the incorporeal spirit world. In other words, a person will enter the kingdom of God in heaven automatically only when he or she has qualified for and enjoyed the kingdom of heaven on earth by reaching the heavenly standard of maturity while living in the physical body.
During your life on earth your every action and movement, without exception, is recorded on your spirit self and measured against the public laws of Heaven. Accordingly, when your spirit self enters the spirit world, which has recorded your life on earth with one hundred percent accuracy, your spirit will show plainly whether you have led a ripe life of goodness, or a wormy, rotten life of sinfulness. What this means is that God will not judge you; you will be your own judge.
If we were all aware of this astonishing rule from Heaven, would any of us spend the days of our lives on earth in selfishness and immorality, succumbing to temptations of Satan and pursuing nothing other than pleasure? No! Rather, we would abstain from injuring and scarring our spirit bodies, even at the risk of our earthly lives. Please bear this truth in mind: You determine whether you are bound for heaven or for hell by your thoughts, speech and behavior in each moment.
This does not imply, though, that the spirit self leads a life of its own, or that it can act by itself to express true love. Your spirit self grows, matures, and is finally perfected only within your physical body, through a life of having actualized true love on earth, which brings your mind and body into a smooth relationship of giving and receiving. And yet, your outer self and inner self are in a constant relationship of conflict and struggle. How much longer will you allow this fighting to continue? Ten years? A hundred years?
In contrast to the human condition, there is undeniably a proper order that all forms of existence in the universe exemplify. God created us to participate in this order, not to live in this state of conflicted disorder. You need to know that it is your duty and responsibility as a human being to dispel all temptations directed at your outer self, your physical body, and to achieve victory in life by following the way of your inner self, your conscience. Heavenly fortune will be with those who live in this way. They will accomplish the perfection of the spirit self.
Ladies and gentlemen, what kind of places are heaven and hell? What people enter heaven? If it really does exist, where would it be? Would it be outside the galaxy, on the other side of the sky? If it does not exist, is it a product of our imagination? These are questions that everyone has pondered at least once.
In brief, heaven is a world overflowing with God’s true love and established with true love as its axis. It is a world where true love is the external form as well as the internal content of every environment. It is a world where true love is present at the beginning and end of life. It is a world filled with people who were born through true love, live in the embrace of true love, and follow the path of true love as they pass on into the next world, the spirit world.
Consequently, antagonism and jealousy are not to be found in that world, because it is a world where each person naturally lives for the sake of the other. It is not a world governed by money, glory or power. It is a world wherein the whole succeeds with the success of each person, the whole appreciates what each person appreciates, and the whole feels joyful through the joy of each person.
Heaven is a world filled with the air of true love, where all breathe true love. It is a world where life throbs with love everywhere at every moment. It is a world whose constituent members are all connected to the true God through family ties. It is a place where the whole world and all people are linked together in a network of inseparable relationships, similar to that of the cells in our bodies. It is a world that is governed by true love alone, the love that is God’s essence. Accordingly, God also exists for true love.
What love is true love? The essence of true love is not to have others serve you; it is you giving and serving others. True love gives and forgets that it has given and continues to give endlessly. This is a love that feels pleasure in giving. It is the heart of pleasure. It is the love of a mother holding her baby to her bosom and breastfeeding it. It is expressed through sacrifice, as when, with pleasure, a child acts out of filial piety toward his or her parents. It is the love that God expressed when creating human beings, an act of absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal love that gives without any condition or expectation of receiving anything in return.
A life of true love
Ladies and gentlemen, true love brings about the order, peace and happiness that support the common good. True love is love that determines the source, center and owner of the universe. True love is the root and symbol of the will and power of God. Therefore, when bound in true love, it is enough just to be together eternally, for it is a love that attracts the universe, even God. The value of true love lies in its power, which is strong enough to eradicate the national, racial and religious barriers fallen human beings created. That is why a life that has been lived for the sake of others, that is, a life of true love, is the absolute condition necessary to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Yet, look at the world we are currently living in. The people of the world are caught in the trap of extreme selfishness, clamoring for material gain. They have lost all sense of values and have fallen into the depths of self-gratification and degradation. The world is filled with alcoholics and drug addicts. As if free sex were not enough, there are even those who commit incest and still hold their heads up high. This world has become one wherein beasts with human faces roam freely, even after violating women, including grandmothers, mothers, wives and daughters. This world has become polluted by acts such as wife swapping. These represent the lowest ebb, the very worst of fallen acts, and the destruction of morality. This world has become hell on earth, where the perfected world, embodying the ideal God envisioned at the Creation, cannot even be imagined.
We have come to know that all these problems are rooted in the Fall of Adam and Eve, our first ancestors. Adam and Eve, who were at the perfection stage of the growth period, had a sexual relationship before their rightful time, due to the temptation of Satan. An impermissible sexual union of man and woman constituted the human Fall. This is why, for thousands of years, people have continued to perpetrate all manner of sexual aberrations, traitorous acts that drive a sharp spike into the heart of God. Human beings have been unable to escape from the realm of the fallen lineage.
Ladies and gentlemen, a man or woman alone can only be one half of the whole. That is how God created us. For that reason, He has interchanged the owners of the reproductive organs, the love organs. The owner of a wife’s reproductive organ is her husband, and the owner of a husband’s is his wife. The position of mutual ownership is achieved only when each is rooted in true love for the sake of the other. In other words, regardless of their external status, no one can be complete, rather than half, until they have secured the position of an owner through marriage.
The human reproductive organ is sacred. It is the palace of life where the seed of life is sown, the palace of love where the flower of love is made to bloom, and the palace of lineage where the fruit of lineage is borne. We bring forth absolute lineage, absolute love and absolute life, as well as absolute harmony, absolute unity, absolute liberation and absolute tranquility, through this absolute reproductive organ.
Now we know the reason we need to restore the position of the owner of the reproductive organ. It is because we can possess God’s love from that position. He is the subject partner of three great loves. As the Owner of the universe, He is the True Teacher, True Owner and loving True Parent. These form the basis for the original, “three great subjects” system of thought. All these teachings and truths are created through the life of a true, model family. With the expansion of the true family into the society, the nation, the world and even the universe, all of these will be transformed into the peace kingdom founded upon the model, ideal family.
True Parents’ mission
However, because of the Fall the first man, Adam, lost the original, true lineage and consequently was unable to form the original couple and the original family. Adam, who was to have become the True Teacher, True Parent and True King, inherited instead the lineage of Satan and degraded himself to the position of a false teacher, false parent and false king.
When we come to think of it, the purpose for which Jesus came to earth did not lie elsewhere. It was to restore the Fall. If Jesus, who came as the second Adam, had not been crucified, he would have restored the original lineage of God, free from the Fall. He would have reversed the mistake of the first Adam, established a true family as the Savior of human beings, and founded on earth the original homeland. This would have been the kingdom that embodied the ideal of peace, the kingdom of heaven on earth. However, the disciples, the religious leaders and the leaders of the nation were not able to recognize the Christ, and their disbelief brought Jesus’ life to an end in a wretched and tragic way.
Has anyone really known the grieving heart of Jesus, whose passing from the earth was so untimely, and who left no descendants? Though two thousand years of Christian history have passed, has there been any Christian who truly understood Jesus’ sorrowful circumstances? Jesus left suddenly, leaving behind him few traces beyond his promise to return. His physical body was buried and is no longer with us.
Finally the will that God tried to fulfill through him is in the process of completion at this time, at the conclusion of history. This is through the True Parents, who have now appeared on earth and have received the seal of Heaven. However, the life of Rev. Moon, whose task it is to complete the mission of the True Parents, has been one of sorrow, marked by inexpressible suffering and persecution.
The third Adam, the True Parent, must indemnify and completely reverse all the mistakes of the first and second Adams. I have to complete the mission of the Savior, Messiah, and Lord at his second coming, and also the mission of all the major figures on whom religions are based. My life, like the process of God’s creation of the universe, constitutes the great work of recreating humanity. Not even the smallest error is permitted. It has been a lonely course that no one can fully comprehend. It has taken me down thorny paths through the wilderness, often utterly alone. Not even God could acknowledge me. Hovering many times between life and death, even vomiting blood, I still had to rise again like a phoenix to remain true to my promise to God.
Though I was innocent, I had to endure unjust imprisonment six times. I was wrongfully imprisoned for working in the underground independence movement as a student in Japan, for propagating the Will of God in Pyongyang that was under communist rule immediately after Korea’s independence, and during the Syngman Rhee administration after Korea had been reborn as a free nation. Furthermore, even in the United States, which proudly presents itself to the world as a model of democracy, I was unfairly accused by the government and was unjustly imprisoned.
Who on earth can understand the life of Rev. Moon? It has been a life of misery, which I had to endure by biting my tongue, in order to comfort God, and for the salvation of the fallen people of the world who are suffering in the realm of death. Even now, if one person were to look into my heart and speak a word of sympathy, I would burst into tears and my tears would flow like a waterfall.
Ladies and gentlemen, the sinful era of restoration through indemnity, the Era before the Coming of Heaven, has passed, and the era of the constitutional government, an era ruled by heavenly law, is upon us. This is the Era after the Coming of Heaven. You are now living in an era of grace in which, after receiving the marriage Blessing from True Parents, completing the change of lineage, and leading a life that is vertically aligned with Heaven, such that no shadow is cast, you can automatically enter the kingdom of heaven. That is to say, if you establish a true family on earth and lead a heavenly life, when you die, your life will be connected to the kingdom of God in heaven, and you will enjoy eternal life.
Therefore, in the framework of the family, you have to serve God as the Parent in the highest position. All of you are to become His children, entering into a parent-child relationship with Him and perfecting yourselves through living together, closely linked as if by kinship. In short, you need to unite and live in the realm of a true love relationship with God.
The kingdom of heaven must first be achieved on earth. What this means is that the kingdom of heaven being established in the physical world is the prerequisite for establishing the kingdom of heaven in the spirit world. Therefore, Heaven is not a world found in outer space on the other side of the galaxy, nor is it the by-product of imagination, existing only in the human mind. It refers to the substantial kingdom of heaven on earth, which can only be created when you have led lives expressive of true love. When you leave the physical world on that foundation, you automatically enter the incorporeal kingdom of heaven. This means that only after you have led a heavenly life on earth can you also lead such a life in heaven.
Only the fruit that has fully ripened on the tree can be classified as a product of the best quality. Thus your lives must not be like fruit that is devoured by insects on the tree, bound for hell. You always must remember that you yourselves, through your life on earth, determine whether you go to heaven or to hell.
A family of three generations living in harmony
Ladies and gentlemen, the family sets the pattern for living together in harmony. The home wherein parents and children love and respect each other, husband and wife are grounded in mutual fidelity and love, and brothers and sisters trust and rely on each other, and all live together as one, is the model, ideal family. This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love.
In such a family, the root of history is alive, and the root of the kingdom of heaven extends into it. In other words, the kingdom of heaven on earth takes root in this family rooted in God’s love. Such a family is also where the everlasting root of kingship is firmly planted and where the grandparents, parents and grandchildren represent the roots of the past, present and future. The root of the past represents the spirit world, the root of the present is the palace representing the world today, and the root of the future establishes grandsons and granddaughters as princes and princesses. The family thus erects the palace of peace representing the two worlds, the spirit world and the physical world. In such a manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents and grandchildren live together as one family, serving the eternally living God. You need to know that to seek and establish such a family of Cheon Il Guk, God’s kingdom, is the responsibility of tribal messiahs, the mission of the ambassadors for peace and the desire of God.
The movement to realize a society of mutual existence, prosperity and benefit, by making humanity into one great family through breaking down the walls in our hearts and eliminating the barriers between nations, begins from each family. Therefore, we must keep in mind that to form and establish true families is our providential calling, the calling to advance the establishment of the cosmic peace kingdom on earth.
You need to form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away. You have to raise families to which He can come freely as the Parent visiting His children. That is what it means to live in service to God. In such a family, God becomes the subject partner of our conscience, acting vertically. Following that vertical subject partner, your mind stands in the position of the vertical subject partner of your body, and brings your mind and body into unity. This family is where parental love, conjugal love, children’s love, and siblings’ love are completely realized. In other words, this is where the four realms of love or the four realms of heart are perfected. Only in such a family can the upper and lower, the front and back, and the left and right be connected in one dynamic of spherical motion.
If the world were filled with such true families, that world would be one governed by the heavenly way and heavenly laws, with no need for lawyers, prosecutors or even judges. Ponder this for a moment. Who would be most fully aware of your good and bad deeds? It would be your grandparents, your parents, your spouse and your children.
Is there anything that cannot be resolved within the family? When parents and children, husband and wife, and older siblings and younger siblings live for the sake of one another, how could they do anything unforgivable? How could they ever commit crimes? A world governed by the heavenly way and the heavenly laws is a natural world, an unobstructed world of truth and pure reason. It is a world at the “high noon” of absolute values, devoid of shadows.
Esteemed representatives of the Mongolian Peoples Federation, all of us must return gratitude and glory to God and True Parents for enlightening us about the incredible providential age in which we are living. The mission of the Mongolian Peoples Federation has now become clear. Serving the Universal Peace Federation as its vertical Abel, and the religious realm and national realm of the world as its horizontal Abel, it is in the position of Cain, working as the central figure in establishing the global kingdom of the peace ideal.
You are now advancing into the era of liberation and complete inner freedom, which is the providential era of the realm of the heart of the fourth Adam. In other words, it is the Era after the Coming of Heaven. This is the time when, metaphorically speaking, the sun is directly overhead and no shadow is cast. This signifies that the Era before the Coming of Heaven, including the Old, New and Completed Testament ages, has been surmounted.
These eras have required immeasurable restitution and atonement for the sake of re-creating the ideal. The present time, however, corresponds to the era prior to Adam’s Fall, the time of building the original ideal world. It refers to the era of true love that is all encompassing, all-powerful and has overall authority. It is the realm of heart in which the spirit world and the physical world are bound together as a united realm centered on the True Parents, the King and Queen of Peace. In other words, it is the era of the kingdom of peace and unity in heaven and on earth.
Please become true princes and princesses who can attend and live together with God, the eternal Peace King and True Parent of humanity. Let us develop the Mongolian Peoples Federation and establish a Mongolian Shared Lineage Federation by receiving the marriage Blessing of the True Parents and completing the change of our lineage. Please take to heart that this is the task God has assigned you, and become true owners in establishing the kingdom of peace and unity in heaven and on earth.
May God’s grace be upon you, your family and your nation.
Thank you.