The Unity and Complete Settlement of the Parents of Heaven and Earth

Sun Myung Moon
June 21, 2002
Rally to Proclaim the Unity and Complete Settlement of the Parents of Heaven and Earth
Jamshil Indoor Gymnasium, Seoul, Korea

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Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters of my beloved homeland, and the seventy million people around the world who are watching this historic rally:

I offer my sincere gratitude to all who are attending this meaningful “Rally for the Unity and Complete Settlement of the Parents of Heaven and Earth.” We have finally entered a truly historic and providential era worthy of great proclamation. For six thousand years, human beings have worked with unceasing effort to bring about a world of peace yearned for by heaven and earth. The heavenly fortune of the present era supports our forming it at last. In the end, however, everything will be resolved through a dear understanding of God’s providence and His heart.

How does a world of peace come about?

Today people talk about a world of peace, about one world, yet the real question is whether we can find peace within ourselves. God knows this reality; thus He needs a person of firm resolve, a great person, who strives to bring unity within him or herself.

We often speak of loving, serving and sacrificing for each other. That is admirable. Loving one another means fervently giving to and sacrificing for another person, rather than taking or requesting love. The basis of peace emerges in an environment where people serve one another. Flames of revival blaze when people sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others. Flowers bloom and spread their fragrance when people serve one another. Just as the negative pole of a magnet always attracts a positive pole, we can perceive and understand God through the power of our conscience. The more we approach God, following our conscientious minds, the more we can feel peace, happiness and fulfillment within our hearts. If we follow God’s love, which is the womb of peace, our internal organs will receive stimulation and vibrate with emotion. After living our lives in this way, we will end them gloriously and with confidence. Even until death, we must pray desperately as we pledge our commitment to fulfill all our responsibilities within our lifetime.

An old man’s grave will not be left untended if he has prayed for the salvation of the world, defended his country and tried to prepare a foundation of happiness for humankind. His face may be furrowed with age, but the wrinkles on his forehead represent his efforts to bring peace. Although his posture may be stooped, he represents a beacon of hope.

We must overcome the sorrowful situation whereby, as selfish people, we become friends with evil and offer evil a foothold to expand. We are destined to strengthen the foundation of goodness throughout our lives. Therefore we must measure our lives against that standard. We must realize that everyone has an evil self within, which pursues only selfish interests. Unless you separate from and stand strongly against this evil being, it will expand its influence with each passing day. Please recognize that you are on the pressing path of destiny and must increase your foundation of goodness yet a little more before you pass away. You must therefore constantly busy yourself, without rest.

In my lifetime I have shouldered the cross of imprisonment six times. I have been vilified in countries not my own as the leader of a heretical group, and have faced intense opposition. Yet the path of sincere devotion I am walking has been so that people of different races can receive this teaching as their mainstream philosophy, kneel in adoration in front of God and work side by side with each other. I have taught this way throughout my life no matter where I went.

Keep in mind that God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the saints will rejoice only when we become the elite cohort of heaven and gain success. Then a time of peace can arise.

Conflict within the individual turns into conflict within families, conflict within families into conflict within clans, conflict within clans into conflict within society, conflict within society into conflict within the nation, and conflict within the nation into global conflict. There also will arise conflict between the spirit world and the earthly world. Only when the battle between God and the countless evil spirits of Satan’s world is over will the era of peace come to our universe.

You must understand that God is working through such a process, according to heavenly principles. The age of cosmic peace will arise only when, after clashing with Satan, God resolves all problems. Until the moment the core of God’s sorrowful heart is healed, humankind will never find peace and the truth of heaven will never come to fruition in this world.

If a true individual were to appear, capable of liberating our Heavenly Parent and this world from sorrow and bringing the principle to build a nation of peace in heaven and on earth, that individual would have to pass through every conceivable difficulty. He or she would experience every level of desperation and sorrow, through personal tribulations and onward to face all the tribulations of humankind. He or she would have to delve into the sorrowful and desperate heart of God in order to find a way to comfort Him. Without this person, humankind will not be able to put aside its sorrowful and miserable history and build a world of peace and happiness, a garden of freedom inviolable by sorrow.

Become eternal leaders for the heavenly kingdom

If you become a representative of the philosophy of the universal kingdom of heaven, expanding the movement of God’s truth, true love and true lineage, then a peaceful world can arise. In such a world, your own parents are not the only parents, your own siblings are not the only siblings and your own children are not the only children. If you can regard all people as your parents, siblings or children, then when you look upon the many who are suffering in this world of death, you will be unable to relate with them without tears. When you look at your siblings, or younger people, you will feel a strong sense of responsibility to take care of them, and with tears you will make every effort to do so. If you truly become such a person, like God, then the kingdom of heaven on earth will be built around you.

God’s strategy is to receive the first blow from Satan, do everything for his sake, love him, and later receive everything from him. God does not use force to take from Satan’s world, yet first freely gives love, sacrifices Himself, accepts blows and is even willing to lose His life. You must understand that God cannot sow the seeds of world peace if He does not apply this strategy.

You have to lead your family and live for your nation and the world. Spanning the ages of the individual, family, clan, tribe, people and nation, you are to fulfill the role of leading the world’s peoples and nations in the right direction, through your own experience. Having fulfilled this, you must serve God from a position in which neither of you can separate from the other. Only then will the spirit world and the physical world become a united realm of peace.

You have to become guides who can direct others, as eternal leaders of the age when the heavenly kingdom is established; then you will be awarded glorious official commendations from the heavenly realm. A person who fights and bleeds profusely in the harsh process of building a new kingdom of peace, a heaven of freedom, will not perish. The blood he or she sheds is not the blood of death; it becomes the power of life. What is achieved in this manner is the foundation we have to reach, embody in our lives, and bequeath to our future generations.

“Oh, Heavenly Father! Rooted in the ideal of creation, your divine Will, in which you have always wanted to take pride, has reached fruition. The man you appointed has achieved unity within his heart, something in which you have eternally wanted to take pride since before the creation of the world.” You have to pray like this before heaven and long for the day when you can move into the heavenly kingdom of freedom and peace where God can rejoice.

A new model course centered on God

Who is the owner of Korea? He is the one who loves and values that nation more than anyone else. Therefore, if you cherish and love Korea more than anyone else, you will become the leader of its people, even if you do not ask to be in that position. Only then will the age of peace that God desires arrive.

We have to liberate God by dissolving His resentment. Any young person who takes responsibility to remove even a tiny obstacle blocking God from freely governing the nation, and who has the heart to serve God as the majestic and absolute Being who can govern all nations as the heavenly kingdom of freedom and peace, will become a truly great person. The world will take a new direction in the future because of this young person. If you vow to be like him or her, no matter how ragged you may look, you will not appear ugly. Infinite hope dwells there. That person will become the foundation for God’s hope and happiness.

We are in a position to be harvested, like ripened grain. We have to be able to digest our feelings and experiences in order to produce happiness. As long as our spirits do not deviate from unity with God, is it not true that the peaceful heaven will be connected to this world as we expand this foundation to the nation and the world?

Where does the restoration of heaven begin? It begins from prison. Have you ever experienced being in prison and humming a song of gratitude, as Jesus did, with an independent and peaceful heart, a heart reflecting the original standard in the subject position?

When the apostles went through that same woeful ordeal, did God not give them the authority to open prison doors and move freely, so that their situation could be transformed into a heavenly one? God wants all of you to become people in whom God can have hope and expectation greater than He did for those apostles.

In the Last Days, there will be no way to survive if the direction of history is not reversed. At all costs we must find a new direction for history. This is the new direction of unity. Since history has come to its conclusion through the sacrifices of others, peace cannot come to this world if men and women do things in the same way they have done until now.

How can we overcome the way of the cross? We have to put the good of the nation before that of our spouse and our self, the good of the world before that of the nation, and the good of heaven and earth before that of the world. If we go this way step by step, naturally and without hesitation, the way of the cross along which all our enemies are waiting will disappear completely. We will reach a level highway, and attain liberation and freedom. Finally, we will realize the kingdom of peace in heaven and on earth, the ideal world desired by God.

A world of peace, unity and true love

We have to look for God-centered patterns in that world too. The parental duty of loving children is the moral obligation of humankind. How do we implement the standard of the ideal, original way, which God designed and the Unification Church teaches? It is grounded in parental, conjugal and filial ties, and the principle of the four-position foundation. As we dream of world peace and unity, this fundamental question remains. If it is not resolved, a world of unity cannot come.

Please realize that growing out of the pattern of the individual male and female, a world of unity will emerge where the family pattern is established. Even if you, your family and your nation become a sacrifice, the gateway to a new history will open up before our very eyes, based on the thought system that imparts new values to benefit all nations of the world. This is as certain as the law of gravity. Please realize that, although this world is a world of sin and evil, by following a single direction toward deliverance from sin, the time will come when we can build a victorious heaven within the evil world.

We are to love our enemies. This is the secret method of breaking Satan’s walls that surround us. The realm of equality has never existed in this world. The way to create this is to make those who strike us surrender by sacrificing for them, loving them and praying for them. By giving them the same blessings that we have, a realm of total equality will come into being.

Since we have set the stage for the final showdown with the enemy in this way, we can secure the concept of a nation of peace for the first time. An ideal model of world peace and unity will start from here. To shorten the way to Heaven, the Messiah, a specific individual, and a specific people had to take responsibility through self-sacrifice. Many saints have given up their lives for this cause. As a result, the rise and fall of many nations has leveled the hills and valleys, bringing balance.

The degree of equilibrium we see in the world today came about in this manner. Equality is peace. Originally, Adam and Eve, after perfecting themselves based on God’s love and then becoming one, could have come to stand within a God-centered structure of relationships. In the Unification Church, this structure is called the four-position foundation. Because we lost the means to complete the four-position foundation, there has been no way to bring peace, utopia or an ideal world in any of the historical ages.

An ideal country can never arise if we deny or try to break away from the Principle. Christianity developed in a vortex of untold pressures for two thousand years, starting with persecution under the Roman Empire. Eventually Christianity absorbed Rome. Why has it declined and fallen away from God in only a few decades in freedom-loving, modern-day America? This is a puzzle. Judaism taught belief in God and all Jews loved

God, yet they have suffered so much. This is a deep mystery. The answer to both questions is that these religions did not go the way they were originally intended to go. In the Last Days, if the central people do not align with God’s original true love, Satan will inevitably break them apart.

So, to reorganize the world, where can we focus? There are so many historians and intellectuals who pronounce on this matter today, but what we need is someone who can lead the world. Then how would such a person guide us? What would he teach? There are plenty of people qualified to teach how to live based on politics or political power. It is not because of a lack of money or imperfections in their political systems that they can’t lead us properly. It is because they do not explain the order of love that can connect to God and His ideal. If we find the truth that can explain the order of original love and expand it throughout the world, there for the first time we will find the origin of peace, the place where our hearts can rest, and the beginning point of God’s wonderful ideal.

With true love, the beginning and the end must be the same. In heaven and earth, what is needed is someone who can connect to God’s heart through true love. Peace comes from a heart of true love. If our minds are truly joyful, the cosmos becomes our friend. If we have this true heart, when we encounter the cosmos, its vast expanse will play out within our minds.

In what manner will the ideal world come to humankind in the future? The world is doomed to perish if we do not make clear the proper use of our reproductive organs. We will never discover a world of peace. Look at Rome and America. The degeneration of the United States is not due to a lack of money. Until now, Americans have not been able to recognize the origin, creation and ownership of the reproductive organ. They have not known these things because of Satan. To clarify this, and to clear up all the chaos caused by the vicious and treacherous Satan on the cosmic level, I came, hoisted my banner and went forth in the name of True Parents.

When the wintry wind blows from a frigid zone into a temperate zone, the trees stand bare, stripped of their foliage and fruit. In winter, all fruit falls from the trees. Yet no matter how harsh the wind’s blast, it cannot suppress the seeds that bear life. When these very seeds that demonstrate such endurance and strength germinate, a new spring garden of peace for humankind will be found. As the spring garden of liberation and hope is found, as seeds of new life are sown in the earth in this new age of humankind, let us move into the temperate zone of liberation where there is no winter. This is a perfect metaphor for the teaching of the Unification Church.

To improve ourselves, we have to go the way of hardship. Is North-South unification easy? Is unity within oneself easy? We may be able to achieve external unification between North and South, yet still be unable to achieve internal unity within ourselves. Even if we achieve outward peace in the world, we may still be unable to achieve inner peace ourselves.

If the world moves forward in one direction, aligning the past, present and future and uniting internally and externally, the opportunity for unity can come at any time. When we examine the past and the present, we see that they must be moving in one direction, toward one purpose. That purpose is peace and unity. It is one peace, not two. Then when can we ourselves attain internal unity? Are we qualified to govern a united world without first uniting ourselves? Logically speaking, we are not qualified.

If we seek to identify the most fundamental problem, it is the serious issue of unity. This is the historical problem of the universe. If a nation perishes, it is not such a problem. There were no nations in Adam’s world. Managing just his own family would have sufficed. It would have been enough if the family had been intact. In the end, what matters is unity between the conscience and the physical body, and unity within the family. The issue of unity between couples, between men and women, is a global problem. If that can be achieved, the world can become a place of peace. If they are handled with true love, the world’s problems will not seem difficult. Everything is resolved if there is unity between our minds and bodies, between parents and children, between husbands and wives, and between siblings.

In this evil and belligerent world, everything is in a state of struggle. This is because the mind struggles with the body. The battle of the sexes has become an accepted norm. Where in the world is the foundation for peace? It is not in Korea, not in Japan, not in the world, not in heaven; it is within oneself. If we do not bring peace between the mind and body that are at war, there will never be world peace.

Peace begins with me

How, then, will the world of peace come? What is the fundamental condition? We must discover the root of unity. If we cannot locate this, we will remain forever estranged from a world of unity.

Before attempting to unite your family, you must ask yourself whether you are united in mind and body; you will find that you are not. There is a struggle between body and mind, isn’t there? When a man and woman fight each other, there is no happiness, peace or hope. In the end, with their minds and bodies divided, a couple splits into four parts, two minds and two bodies, and there is conflict among them all.

The Unification Church equips you with a logical, organized system that no religion or philosophy can imitate. It teaches you to live for others based on internal integrity and motivated by God’s true love. This can become the basis of world peace, the basis of peace for individuals, couples, families, tribes, peoples, nations, the world and, ultimately, the cosmos. The ideal of True Parents brings people into unity with God in true love, thus creating a peaceful, happy and hopeful world where heaven and earth are one. No one opposes these ideas. Everyone welcomes them.

What will become of the world in the future? Regardless of age or gender, all people living in the world today are longing for global unity. It is not a world of war they wish for; it is a world of peace and freedom without national boundaries, racial strife or cultural barriers. The world’s people are yearning for one world of peace and freedom with a culture of true love.

A world of peace is a world of unity. In aiming for a world of peace there is only one way, not two. The world of hope and peace for which men and women, young and old, are craving, is a world of unity. Even within single nations, we see various organizations, each with its unique thought, methodology and objectives. Surveying the political landscape of Korea, the ruling and opposition parties each seek to run their own party in their own way. How many different directions will there be? Problems stem from this.

Since the dawn of history, a great number of people have worked for world peace. However the number of those capable of leading humankind with hope into the sublime, united world of tomorrow is steadily dwindling.

Where can we begin to determine the structure of such a society, going beyond all studies, research and conventional practices? The starting point must be the True God. From the beginning, the True God made man and woman through a process. If the True God cannot rediscover the path to the destination, we cannot establish the ideal of creation, the realization of the ideal world of peace.

The world of peace is a world of unity. If men and women move in a direction different from that of God, a united world of peace cannot come. The conclusion is that the two directions inevitably have to become one.

If we do not go beyond the humanistic world toward a true God-centered world, we cannot discover the way to the united world of peace. In the world of mind and body, setting up a standard of peace is the most essential thing in life.

The mind is battling against the body. In relation to this problem, where is the standard of peace? Not in the world, in the nation or in a religion. To be religious leaders, you must have absolute integrity of mind and body to establish the standard of peace within yourselves. The purpose of all education and all training and all human thought is for the realization of oneness between mind and body.

You can believe in any religious teaching, you may be a wonderful religious leader, or a great saint reigning over the world; however, as long as you are in this fallen realm, you will not be able to achieve integrity of mind and body on the same level as the eternal God.

God’s true love, true life and true lineage and world peace

The problem is that unless the root of peace and true love is settled in the individual realm of the heart, an ideal religion and heaven are just a dream. The source of unity is found in God, in the united realm of the True God’s children. God’s body and mind don’t struggle.

Then why do the human mind and body struggle? The Father, the King of peace, and the son must unite in order to unite the mind and body. The origin of peace lies in the relationship of father and son, united in God’s true love, true life and true lineage. True love, true life and true lineage must be united where father and son become one.

We, the fallen lineage of humankind, must clearly come to know the original God and the ideal environment of the realm of heaven. The way to heaven will surely be found if we make a great effort to unite with God. This is the how the world of peace begins and spreads to every level, from the individual all the way to heaven, where the father and son live in unity and joy.

Therefore, the True Parents, who are Christ at the Second Advent, will illuminate everything in heaven and bring it into unity with the world on the earth. They will realize heaven on earth and in the spirit world.

It is through the True Parents on earth that true love, true life and true lineage are taught. All the saints and sages and all people in the spirit world want this, yet it must be accomplished through people learning the realm of oneness with True Parents on earth. Then heaven on earth and in the spirit world will be established.

Beloved people of my homeland, and all those who are observing this rally from around the world! You are truly blessed people. You are welcoming the age in which the True Parents of humankind have come, the age when the Korean Peninsula can be united through true love and truth instead of by guns and swords. It is the age when all religions can be united under True Parents’ teaching, and the historical and providential age when the saints and our ancestors can descend from the spirit world and communicate with us directly.

I would like to introduce the messages of Jesus Christ and the saints in the spirit world, urging us to go beyond the barriers of race, philosophy and nationality, and build a world of peace. Please study this content in its entirety through the books that will be distributed.

I hope you will live happily and peacefully with the Parents of Heaven and Earth in the eternal heaven, both on the earth and in the spirit world, where everyone lives as one great family of true love.

May God’s boundless blessings fill your family, nation and the world!

Thank you.