Sun Myung Moon
December 2, 2004
Second International Conference of the Mongolian Peoples Federation for World Peace
Yongpyeong Resort, Gangwon Province, Korea
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Honorable guests from home and abroad, ladies and gentlemen:
I would like to extend my gratitude to all of you who have graced us with your fellowship and have come to participate in the development of the Mongolian Peoples Federation for World Peace.
This federation that I have founded does not aim at establishing another nation in the world. Nor is it the beginning of a new nationalist movement. It is a movement of harmony and unity to do away with all walls and barriers between nations and to bring together the 6.5 billion people of the world through rallying the interrelated people of Mongolian descent.
Therefore, on this day I would like to pass on to you words of truth specially given by God to all people, who are still living in a world of complete darkness, unable to see ahead. It is my hope that you will receive these words with an open heart and become the chosen people in this era of confusion and chaos. The topic I will speak on this evening is “True Parents Are the Hope of God and Humankind.”
The Messiah as True Parents
Ladies and gentlemen, originally, in relation to human beings, God was to have been the Teacher of teachers, Owner of owners, King of kings and Parent of parents. In other words, He was to have been the True Parent. However, through the Fall of our first ancestors, Adam and Eve, we lost God, and we have lived for thousands of years not knowing we are orphans. The history of human beings has been one of grief. We lost the True Teacher, through whom we were to learn; we lost the True Lord, whom we were to serve and honor; we lost the True King, to whom we were to be loyal; and we lost the True Parent, from whom we were to inherit the eternal and true blood lineage.
This is why the desire of fallen people is to meet the true Son of God, who is not of the fallen race and whom Satan cannot accuse. He comes as the original Adam, with the true love, true life and true lineage of Heaven. He comes as the Savior, representing the realm of the son on the national level. His coming is nothing less than the advent of the Messiah.
The Messiah comes as the perfected Adam, so he must first choose a true bride whom God can love according to the absolute standard. God then raises them to be a true husband and wife. In that position, the ideal of the original husband and wife, through which God’s ideal of creation can be achieved, is completed. On that foundation, the true husband and wife can give birth to true children who have inherited the pure lineage of Heaven. These children will then begin the eternal lineage of goodness and never walk the path trod by the descendants of the Fall.
True love and the true family principle
However, the mission of the Messiah does not end there. He has to rise to the position of the True Parent and establish an absolute and true family. Based on this true family, the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven can be established, in which God’s ideal of creation is perfected. To achieve this goal, the 6.5 billion fallen people of the world without exception have to be engrafted into the true family of the Messiah. Not only must their hearts be engrafted but also their lineage.
How can they be engrafted? All of you are wild olive trees, born with fallen nature. Even if you waited hundreds or thousands of years, no miracle or mutation that can transform wild olive trees into true olive trees would occur. Everyone would remain wild olive trees forever. What this means is that unless the lineage itself is transformed, you cannot escape from being wild olive trees. Therefore, the six-thousandyear- old wild olive tree must be completely cut at its base, and a shoot from the true olive tree must be engrafted to it. The engrafted shoot will grow into a tree, and when it matures it will bear the fruit of a true olive tree.
In the same way, fallen people must sever their connection with Satan’s sinful world, and receive the Blessing through which True Parents, the true olive tree, can engraft true olive shoots to them and begin a true lineage. The true lineage begun in this way will produce true children who are the fruit of the true olive tree. This is the way fallen people can be reborn through the love of the True Parents and can inherit true life, true love and true lineage.
True parents come into existence through the birth of their true children, and thus naturally establish true families. This is the basis of the true family principle, the principle that God’s purpose of creation is realized by the establishment of true families.
This true family principle is based on the principles of God’s true love, by which subject and object partners give to each other and live for the sake of each other, transcending nationality and all other superficialities. This true love of God is love that gives and then forgets having given, and serves the other endlessly. It is love that builds up as time goes on. When the receiver returns more than he or she has given, the relationship continues endlessly.
When such a relationship of true love, which is sacrificial and sublime, continues and spreads throughout the world, humankind will develop into a true tribe, a true race, a true nation and one true world. Further development will bring about a true spirit world as the true physical world’s counterpart. In other words, the establishment of a true cosmos will finally be achieved.
The power of true love, as can be seen, is a great and boundless power, capable of re-creating the universe. In the end, only the power of true love can establish the world God envisioned at the time of the Creation, which is the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven.
An ideal world is not one in which people wield power and dictate to others. It is a world where all people are brothers and sisters, a world in which our hearts are automatically moved to respond to God’s love in harmony. What else would the world we all desire be like?
Ladies and gentlemen: Even God reached perfection after passing through a period of growth. Because we resemble God, we also need to go through a growth period.
Let us consider the true family principle in more detail in the context of the first family, for the family is the base for spiritual growth. In the Garden of Eden, the family of Adam was to have been the model of a true family as envisioned by God. The invisible form of God was to have materialized in visible form through the four-position foundation that God intended. God created us to be the object partners to Him as the subject partner. Children, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, and parents had existed only as entities in His heart. He desired to perfect them in substantial form. Starting with the family of Adam, God wanted to feel infinite joy by achieving the perfection of the true love He had envisioned, with substantial children, substantial brothers and sisters, substantial husbands and wives, and substantial parents.
The four great realms of heart and the three great kingships
Therefore, the core of the true family principle lies in the perfection of four great realms of heart and three great kingships. These constitute the fundamental framework for human relationships, and are absolutely necessary to true families. The four great realms of heart refers to the realms of the heart of a child toward their parents, of siblings for each other, of a husband and wife toward one another, and of parents for their children.
Everyone is born as someone’s child. As we grow up, we form sibling relationships; we marry, enter a conjugal relationship and bear children, thereby becoming parents. This is the process we all must pass through. The perfection of the four great realms of heart and the three great kingships is achieved within the framework of the family.
Then, first of all, what do we mean by the perfection of the realm of the heart of a child? We are born as children of our parents; we have no choice in this. We cannot choose whom we are born to, whether we are born as the son of a president or the daughter of the greatest beauty in the world. Nevertheless, from the moment of our birth, we are destined to grow and develop under the protection of our parents. We live with and serve our parents. As we grow up in such circumstances, we learn about and nurture our heart of love and filial piety toward our parents as their children. We finally reach the point of being ready to give our lives for them.
Our parents do not teach us these things, and neither do schoolteachers. The heart of a child develops as children see their parents living lives of sacrifice and true love for their sake. As children grow and mature, they perfect their hearts. In other words, they are perfecting a standard of life in which they are willing to give everything they have for their parents and serve them forever. It is a life in which children can often read the minds of their parents before they even open their lips, and then serve them in the way they need. It is a life in which the child can know what the parents are feeling just by looking into their eyes. The child thus fulfills the duties of a true child. It is a life in which a child offers a heart that has reached an absolute standard not only toward his parents on the horizontal level but also to God, the True Parent on the vertical axis. This is the perfection of the realm of the heart of a child.
Second, perfection of the realm of the heart of a brother or sister also involves the family. It is the realm of the heart and of true love that is perfected by brothers and sisters living together in harmony, learning from and understanding the lives of their parents. It is the realm of heart in which the children learn to be like their mother and father. When you consider this from the viewpoint of human relationships, it is a relationship of front and back. If the older sibling is in the position of the subject partner, the younger is positioned as the object partner. The younger, object partner is the person who gives the older one the position of the subject partner of absolute value.
This is the perfection of a beautiful realm of heart in which the younger siblings serve and honor the older brother like a father and trust and rely on the older sister like a mother. This is the practice of true love, with the older sibling taking care of the younger as a parent would a beloved child, and the younger serving and honoring his or her elders as he would his or her parents. It is the perfection of true love between brothers and sisters, in which each makes up for what is lacking in the other, and in which each fosters good points in the other. It is the realm of heart and love between brothers and sisters who are of the same lineage and whom nothing can separate.
Those people who have perfected the realm of heart of true children and of brothers and sisters within the context of a true family will lead lives that shine brightly like the sun, even after they leave the family home. They will become people loved by all. When they meet elders, they will serve and honor them as they would their own parents, and when they meet people who are younger, they will love them as they would their own brothers and sisters. Wherever they go, whatever they do, and whomever they meet, these children will be respected as the possessors of true love and heart, under all circumstances giving more than others, working harder and longer than others, and thinking about others and sacrificing for them before thinking about themselves. Though they may be young, they will become central figures trusted and relied upon by everyone, regardless of gender and age. In this way, the perfection of the realm of heart of brothers and sisters achieved within the embrace of a family mil promote absolute values for eternal life.
Recovering the realm of heart between husband and wife
Next, how do we achieve the perfection of the realm of heart of a husband and wife? Unlike the relationship between parents and children and between brothers and sisters, the relationship between husband and wife is not an absolute one, in that they are not related by blood from the beginning. In fact, the coming together of a man and a woman from different backgrounds and families to create a new life together involves a truly revolutionary decision and vow. However, the relationship of husband and wife, once they become one in mind and body through true love, transforms into an absolute relationship, stronger even than the ties of blood. In fact, endless and boundless treasures can be found in the relationship between husband and wife. Once you become husband and wife centering on Heaven, you are in an absolute relationship, and you can never be separated from your spouse.
When we look at the family of Adam, we see that, although Adam and Eve were created as the son and daughter of God, Eve began in the position of the younger sister of Adam, and Adam was the older brother of Eve. When they grew up, they became husband and wife. In the same way, the relationship between husband and wife must begin from the level of a brother and sister who are related by blood. What this means is that everyone is born with God as his or her True Parent, and they are destined to serve Him forever.
Considering these points, how can people in a marriage relationship fall victim to divorce? How can someone even consider forsaking his or her spouse of eternal joy and happiness, when they know that the eyes of Heaven are on them and the blade of their conscience is ready to pierce them at the slightest mistake?
In the same way as the love of God is absolute, unique, eternal and unchanging, the love between husband and wife is also absolute, unique, eternal and unchanging. This is how God’s principles of creation, or laws of nature, work. A husband and wife who are one in mind and body and who have perfected the realm of conjugal heart are the joy of God and the hope of the cosmos. The perfection of the realm of husband and wife is absolutely necessary to perfect the realm of heart of parents. It is the foundation, upon which the true family of absolute value and standards can be established, that will perfect the one body of God and humankind in love. Therefore, the positions of the husband and wife are also the positions through which God and the children come together, the brothers and sisters come together, and the parents come together. They are also in the position of the absolute subject partner of the four great realms of heart, and each is also in the position of an object partner. To the wife, the husband occupies the absolute position through which she receives the ideal son of Heaven, the older brother of Heaven, the husband of Heaven, and the father of Heaven. It is the same for the husband; to him, his wife also occupies those absolute positions.
However, due to the Fall of the first ancestors, the framework of these sacred relationships was shattered. What you must understand is that the heart of God, who is the origin of all principles and fundamental laws, is filled with grief because He has to restore His fallen children without deviating from the principles and fundamental laws He established. The moment the true husband and wife are born through the Holy Marriage Blessing, carried out based on the true love of God and conducted by the True Parents who have come to earth as the Savior of humanity and the Messiah, is the moment of liberation and freedom. It is the moment in which the grief harbored by God for the past six thousand years starts to be resolved. It is also the point of a new beginning at which family happiness is promised.
True Parents and the true olive tree
Then what is the perfection of the realm of the heart of parents, and how can it be achieved? Even the greatest and most precious husband and wife become parents only when they give birth to children. The husband and wife are elevated to the position of parents only at the first cry of their firstborn child. I have already mentioned that God created us to be the object partners of His joy. In the same way, a couple’s giving birth to and raising children is a work of creation in itself, in that through their children a husband and wife can feel the same eternal joy as God. Parents have to give birth to children and, from the position of the visible God, raise their children as the children of Heaven. Only by doing so can they experience and inherit that realm of heart of true parents experienced by the invisible God as He created and raised Adam and Eve. By raising their own sons and daughters, parents can experience our invisible God’s work of creation. They are given the honor of becoming second creators.
Nonetheless, after God created Adam and Eve as second creators, it became His eternal grief that they did not produce for Him His granddaughters and grandsons, whom He had intended would occupy the position of the third creators. Through the Fall, their lineage was changed to that of Satan, and their children became Satan’s children. Thus, they could not carry on God’s true lineage.
Therefore all people, born as wild olive trees, have to be engrafted to the true olive tree through the grace of True Parents, the Messiah. Through the Holy Marriage Blessing that changes the lineage, all people have to produce children of goodness. Please realize that this act -- in other words, offering a third generation, God’s grandchildren, into His embrace -- is a great act of filial piety in God’s providence. This act is the appearance in history of the third creators. In this manner, in each family, the paradigm desired by God as His ideal of creation is perfected. This perfected true family can then expand throughout the globe in true tribes, true peoples, true nations and a true world and finally result in the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven.
Parents are the center of families because they represent heaven. The children, on the other hand, represent earth. Heaven is in the position of the subject partner, whereas earth is positioned as the object partner. Therefore, the parents, who are the subject partner, are responsible to raise their children according to the Will of Heaven and bless them to a loving spouse. They have the responsibility to preserve the pure and good lineage that Satan can never accuse, and to prepare the ground on which this lineage of Heaven can be passed down from generation to generation. This is the only way the original parent’s position, lost at the time of the Fall, can be restored, and the only way the realm of the parent’s heart can be perfected.
The three great kingships and the true family principle
Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think I mean by the three great kingships?
Simply put, if the four great realms of heart are perfected centering on husband and wife becoming one flesh, then the three great kingships are perfected when Adam and Eve produce good and sinless children. God is the first generation, Adam and Eve are the second generation and their children are the third generation. When you look at your own family, the grandparents are the first generation and so represent God; the parents are the second generation; and the children are the third generation. The grandparents are the king and queen representing the past, the parents are the king and queen representing the present, and the children are the princes and princesses representing the future world. In other words, the realms of these three eras can all be established in your own family.
In this manner, the process of creation, involving origin-division-union action, unfolds in the realm of one family. The grandparents are in the position of the origin, the parents are in the position of division into two, and the children are in the position of the union of the two. By loving and serving our grandparents, we can learn about and inherit the past. By loving and serving our parents, we can learn about and become familiar with the present. And through love for our children, we can feel hope for the future.
If Adam and Eve had become perfect, Adam would have been the perfected Father and King of the kingdom of heaven, and Eve the perfected Mother and Queen. They would have become the lords of the family, and the kingship of the family, race, nation and world would have been established. God would have become the King of the kingdom of heaven in heaven, and Adam and Eve as the visible God would have become the King and Queen of the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Therefore, when you look at your family, the grandparents can be said to be the ambassadors plenipotentiary of Heaven, sent by God. This is why you need to serve and honor your grandparents as you would God. Moreover, the parents who serve Heaven are the king and queen of the family, embracing the 6.5 billion people in the world as one family. The children responsible for the future need to adhere to the traditions of Heaven and inherit the kingship of goodness by being devoted and loyal to their parents, the king and queen.
The manifestation of the true family principle begins when the three great kingships of Heaven are perfected in one family on the horizontal level. In this way the original family becomes the model for the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven, as originally intended in God’s purpose of creation. In other words, the family that has perfected the four great realms of heart and the three great kingships becomes the foundation upon which the peace kingdom desired by all humanity can be established here on earth.
The family is therefore the palace of Heaven. All members of this family are the royalty of Heaven. But if grandparents, parents and children do not complete oneness in true love, neither the three great kingships nor the four great realms of heart are perfected.
Respected leaders, in the Bible there is a verse that says, “But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.” (Luke 5:38) Even without you realizing it, the Era before the Coming of Heaven, the old wineskin, has passed away. Already the Era after the Coming of Heaven, the new wineskin, has opened its gates to us. With the advent of the True Parents, heavenly fortune has arrived here on earth. With the beginning of the twenty-first century, we are actively advancing the predestined, absolute providence to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth, which is God’s ideal of creation. For all of you who have received Heaven’s call, there is only one path to follow and only one task to perform in order to establish the peace kingdom here on earth.
The spirit world has its gates wide open, and the four great saints, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad, and millions of good ancestors also are pouring down like a great storm. They are coming to watch over everything you do and are eager to break down the thousands of barriers and limitations in the world. They are coming to establish God’s kingdom of Cheon Il Guk, as we say in Korean, the era of liberation of the true heart. All of you reborn as true olive trees have to receive your good ancestors with new eyes, new ears and new hearts, and become front-runners in the practice of the true family principle.
The hope of the ages and the arrival of Heaven’s Blessing
Ladies and gentlemen, I clearly understand the Will of Heaven as having placed me in the position of the True Parent, as ordained by providence. As the Savior, True Parents have to fulfill their responsibility to save the world. As the Messiah, they must fulfill the responsibility of cleansing human beings of all sin. Through the Holy Marriage Blessing centered on true love, True Parents have to overfill the world with true families who will be the new true olive trees. This fortune and destiny given me by Heaven is now being fulfilled at revolutionary speed. This is clearly visible in the work being done for the establishment of God’s kingdom of Cheon Il Guk by tens of thousands of blessed families, international couples flying high the flag of the Inter-religious and International Federation for World Peace or the banner of the Mongolian Peoples Federation for World Peace. They are truly the vanguard of Heaven, risking their lives for the work of God.
Now, no force on earth can extinguish this beacon of the revolution of true love. Who can stop this typhoon of the establishment of a new heaven and a new earth, when heavenly fortune is with us and the entire spirit world is working together with us? Just welcome the heavenly fortune with a humble attitude as it flows toward you like a great rising of the seas. We are now living in the era of the family. No one will get away with selfish, individualistic or unethical actions that destroy morality and go against heavenly fortune. Please establish true families that have returned to the realm of God’s ideal envisioned at the Creation. Become true parents yourselves! God will reside in your family. Eternal peace and happiness will overflow in your family.
The Inter-religious and International Federation and the Mongolian Peoples Federation have already become the pillars of cloud and of fire guiding humanity. From now on, your motto must be absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. Please become the vanguard establishing God’s fatherland and the homeland for humanity here on earth. Let us transform the Mongolian spot into a “true-love birthmark!” I urge you to put on the helmet and armor of true love and be brave warriors freeing this world from evil forces.
It is my expectation that you will accept Heaven’s decree I have passed on to you today. From now on, no matter when it is, where we are or what we are doing, we are all members of one family centered on Heaven. I hope you will remember at all times that God works miracles through your conscience.
May God’s blessing be with you and the true family you establish for eternity.
Thank you.