True Parents And The Realm Of Liberation

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
April 6, 1989
World Mission Center
Translator - Bo Hi Pak

The base of the Unification Church is the True Parents. When you say "parents," that automatically involves children. The parents and children are related by blood lineage. That is a special, fundamental relationship. When you say True Parents, the word true denotes that there is another type of parents-false parents. The basic consequence of the fall of man is that it prevented God's lineage from coming directly from God to the first parents, Adam and Eve, and then to all of humanity. Because of this Satan's lineage started, making salvation and restoration necessary.

Christianity has several descriptions of Satan: Satan is the false lord or father of mankind; he is the master of humanity; he governs the world. All of these descriptions in the Bible are based in truth.

All beings of the universe, from the most minute creations to the supreme creation of human beings, exist in a pair system. That means there is a subject/object relationship on every level. The whole creation is made to participate in the love of God. They want to unite with that love and have it continue throughout posterity. But God's lineage was disrupted by the fall.

God is almighty and omnipresent. But what is the one thing that is essential to almighty God? God needs a love relationship with the creation in order to feel joy and stimulation. No matter how almighty He is, God cannot feel joy by Himself. In order to accomplish that goal, He created all things.

God created men and women as His direct objects with whom he can have give and take of love. Each man and woman aspires to be number one. This is the God-given nature of man as God intended men and women to compete in acquiring the love of God.

The power of love is amazing. Once a love relationship is established, you immediately enjoy equality of participation, equality of dignity, and the right of inheritance.

Human ambition is not without limit. Many people think that ambition has no end. But actually human ambition has an ultimate goal to acquire God's love to the fullest extent, so that you can participate equally at God's level in His joy and all that He possesses. Once you acquire the love of God, you can go no further. Once you establish this love relationship with God, no power under the sun can separate you from His love. We will be resonant beings of the love of God, vibrating together on the wavelength of the love of God, echoing and acting according to the love of God. Our ultimate purpose is to have our mind and body totally united with the love of God.

If you are a good member of the Unification Church, you know God is the vertical parent centered upon true love. Also we have horizontal, or physical parents, centered upon true love, who are supposed to be the ancestors of all mankind.

The Christian world today commonly describes God as sacred, high, and holy, while creation is low, filthy, unholy, and secular. Yet people call God "Father"; it is a contradiction. For the most high, holy being to be called Father by the lowliest secular being doesn't make sense unless there is some special relationship between God and people. A handkerchief is probably worth less than one dollar; but it has a special meaning if given to you by your lover-it becomes a precious treasure. Unless there is a blood lineage connecting parents and children, there is no real meaning to that relationship.

Love has certain characteristics: for instance, it always travels the shortest distance at the fastest possible speed because it wants to find fulfillment very quickly. Since God is above us in heaven, the shortest possible distance for His love to travel to us on earth is by a vertical line.

When God's love comes down in a vertical line, and crosses with true horizontal love, that juncture should be at a 90 degree angle. It must be 90 degrees. Men represent east and women represent west, therefore, they must meet in the center.

Babies are born with no cognizance their only interest is the milk bottle. However, as they grow up, they discover their immediate environment, mom and dad, their family and their home. As the children grow up, they see insects, birds, and little animals, and soon discover that there are males and females. Next, they learn that male and female are there to love each other, and that through the love among the animals multiplication occurs. God created nature as the textbook of love for men and women. As they become teenagers, men suddenly realize they are supposed to have a subject-object relationship with women. Women also realize, "The most priceless thing under the sun is men." Up until that point, parents and brothers and sisters are the most important, but then men and women come to the realization that they were born for the sake of each other. The time from birth to maturity as men and women is called the growth period. It was during this growth period of the original man and woman that the tragedy of the fall of man occurred. What is more precious, power or love? Would you want to swap true love for money, power, or knowledge? Why do you like true love so much? It is the only thing that can bring harmony between mind and body, men and women. The five senses of man are focused on only one thing-detecting true love. True love alone can excite every cell in your body. All other powers just keep your cells dormant. The power of true love unifies spiritual body cells and physical body cells. Every creature strives toward the attainment of true love.

Which is more precious God or true love? Will true love chase after God or will God chase after true love? Absolute value is a lonely place; happiness and peace come when you have a partner.

Suppose there is a grandfather and a grandchild. The young child is not very conscious of the grandfather, but the grandfather wants to touch the child's face and lets the child play with his nose and ears. It seems that he loses his dignity. The grandfather doesn't ask the child to bow down to him. When the grandchild gets a little bigger, he becomes a rascal and climbs over the back of the grandfather, pulling his ears and biting his nose. Do you think the grandfather should say, "You, Satan, get behind me"? On the contrary, when the little child is climbing up the back of the grandfather, the grandfather would support his legs so that the grandchild can climb all the way up to the top of his head, because the grandfather enjoys it. It is the same with God who is truly the greatest grandfather. In terms of love, he doesn't care about his dignity or his position.

In one way, true love is very confusing for it seems to have no discipline or order. Yet, there really is order and joy. True love has unifying power.

Is your search for true love or for God? Ask God the same question: "God, are you looking for God or are you looking for true love?" God would say, "I want to find true love, of course." After you have obtained true love, you feel that is everything. True love has harmonizing power, perfection power, every power. Therefore, God without true love could not be God. You might hit God once, and that could be forgiven; but for those who violate true love, there is no forgiveness.

Why do men and women get together and love each other? Many of you have been blessed. and there are also those who are the candidates to be blessed. Why do you want to have the Blessing? The Blessing entitles you to receive and consummate true love, which is the purpose of life. God has within Himself dual essentialities, so the creation manifests God in the two separate entities of plus and minus. Men and women are separate beings, but each represents one aspect of God. Men and women are the supreme creation, and all other things of creation are in the exact image of men and women. Men need women and women need men because God deliberately divided Himself into two parts so that the power of love has the chance to act. God created this universe to become one by the power of love.

Only true love can make a 90 degree angle because it is perfectly pure, God-centered love. True love brings the entire universe into one. When men and women unite in true love, God becomes a super plus, and men and women together are a super minus. Then they unite and become one. Marriage is bringing the divided universe into one by the power of love. It is a horizontal oneness which becomes a total object to God.

Let us say that true love is hiding behind the bush and God is looking for it, searching desperately. When God finds that true love, He will say, "True love, you give me a pain in the neck!" God would lose His dignity for true love.

We marry so that the entire universe becomes one with us. Today we are living in a world of false love . This worldly love has nothing to do with true love. In the Unification Church we use the word true: True Parents, True Children, true husband, true wife. Those are the entities united by the true love glue.

Men and women meet at the center point, approaching from both sides at the same speed. When they get very near, they see God's true love right there. As the men and women approach the center, God is also approaching from the top. The moment men and women hit, God's love hits. It is like thunder and lightning exploding. Why does the explosion have to occur? Because without an explosion, the two would never separate again. Some power has to separate them so that they will come back together again.

When you are in love your are sweating. Without liquid, life cannot be germinated. The universe symbolically represents this phenomenon through rain during thunderstorms.

True love has four distinct seasons: the love of spring is very warm, embracing, and blossoming; the love of summer is hot, intensive, passionate; the love of autumn, a little bit cool with each other, but still in love; in winter, still in love but a little severe; then spring comes again. God expressed a beautiful sense of humor in his creation. When the husband is treated a little bit cool by his wife, then he says "Uh oh, winter love is coming." When the husband is approaching like a tiger, then the passionate, summer love is coming. When the wife is a little cool, then you know that spring love will come next. When winter love comes, don't be too pessimistic, because spring is coming.

I have emphasized that most important of all is the 90 degrees intersection, so that love is always the same everywhere you go-east, west, north, and south. This creates 360 degrees. The most ideal place for true love to meet is in a circle, centered on a 90 degrees angle. Every circle has a core. Every energy line, in order to travel, has to go through the very center of the circle.

Humanity started out from this crossing juncture of true love. This is where new life, creation begins. True lineage should have multiplied from that point. When you expand that lineage vertically, it becomes man's eternal spirit.

Within you there are two selves: the mind is your vertical self and the body is your horizontal self. Mind is vertical self, body is horizontal self. Those two are supposed to be united in true love to create one whole, eternal being. However, in order to bring unity between mind and body, they must cross at a perfect 90 degree angle for only at this 90 degree angle do subject and object resonate with the same vibration. This is the status of original man. God's lineage comes through your bloodstream. The first thing is love, the second is life, and the third is lineage. Out of the unity and love of father and mother, life is germinated, and from this life, a lineage is begun.

When God created the whole universe, He invested every ounce of His energy, sparing nothing. Because of this tradition, all of creation must live for each other. As much as God invested every ounce for the sake of creation, we must live for the sake of each other as a true family

God does not want to have love for His own happiness. God wants to give love so He can feel joy. This is the essential principle behind the true love theory. Unification cannot be made centering on ourselves-we must live for the sake of others. God made this concept because He knew how complicated society would be in the future. Working for the sake of others brings harmony and unity. What is the difference between God and Satan? Satan is always self-centered. God centers upon His object; therefore, God is sacrificial and unselfish.

Today, American young people are greatly confused about the truth. They are trying to take more and more things for themselves; but it will all be lost. If you try to exploit people, they will run away and you will be alone. But when you constantly serve people, without them knowing, you will be supported by people and never left alone. That is the difference.

If you live for the sake of others you will become a central figure. People will follow you because they will be confident that you will protect them; they will want to come under your dominion. Jesus' central teaching was to "Love your enemy." If you practice this particular principle in an enemy realm, you will become their central figure. It may take time, but it will happen Jesus, by practicing this principle, eventually subjugated his enemy, the Roman Empire. This is my simple secret I am teaching you.

When I came to America, I was persecuted and criticized. Why do I not only survive, but also prosper? Because I practice this principle. I do not live even one day in America for my own sake, but always for the sake of America. America, on the other hand, is only trying to look after her own interests, so she will decline. By following God's principle, I will always prosper.

In modern history there have been three world wars. In the first and second world wars the attackers lost in the end. In the third world war, the Soviet Union and the communist world are the ideological aggressors so they will lose. Compared with Judaism and Christianity, the Unification Church is the youngest brother. The older brothers are trying to persecute the youngest brother. Those who have power and establishment are declining while the Unification Church, which is always attacked, is prospering. Persecution is the greatest blessing that God has given to us. By this strategy we can deprive Satan of his blessings-they must be transferred to God's side.

Throughout history major religions have always prospered under persecution. The founders of the major religions of the world, Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed, were all persecuted. All who were persecuted for goodness' sake prospered. I am the only one who was persecuted by the entire world. This means that God has a strategy to turn over all of Satan's blessings to God's side.

America persecuted me to the ultimate degree, even putting me in prison. Normally people who are pushed into prison would like revenge. Instead, I loved this country even more, creating The Washington Times during the trial, with Insight and the World & I created while I was in prison. I created ICC to save America. I have absolute confidence that this principle works everywhere. I am the victor.

At the tenth World Media Conference in Washington DC, journalists from the Soviet Union and Red China were invited. Now they are becoming my ardent defenders. Those people from the Soviet Union asked the same question everywhere: how did Rev. Moon become so successful under such persecution? Now, the Soviet Union, Red China, and the United States are all trying to pull Rev. Moon to their side.

The minorities in this country, such as the Blacks, Hispanics, and Orientals, often feel persecuted and mistreated. They shouldn't worry about the Anglo-Saxons. Whoever practices this principle shall become the central figures of America.

I knew this principle when I came to the United States 15 years ago. I made good result without complaint in a very difficult atmosphere. Now you know the secret of how to become successful. There is an example to follow. Any one of you can say, "Yes, Father, I am going to beat you. I will be persecuted, but I will work harder for the sake of others." Those who will make the determination to follow Father's pattern successfully, raise your hands!

My message today is very important. Because of the fall, we cannot detect the vertical line of God's love. The horizontal line was also invaded by Satan. If Adam and Eve could have reached perfection, there could have been no fall.

The conscience is supposed to be the dwelling place of God, the temple where God can dwell. But this was invaded by Satan. We struggle with our body because we have two minds. One is the original, God-given mind and the other is our Satan-given mind. The vertical line always belongs to God, so Satan invaded the horizontal line.

Why can't God multiply Himself? He is vertical, and multiplication always comes through horizontal parents. God's children were supposed to multiply and fill the earth. If Adam and Eve did not fall, perfected Adam and Eve would be like the physical body of God. When you pray really hard, "Where are you, God?" he answers internally, "I am here inside of you. You are my temple." The throne of God is in the deepest part of your mind.

This visible, substantial world has fallen into the hands of Satan. An original, perfected Adam and Eve would have created a true olive tree orchard, but instead we find only wild olive trees. In the satanic world there has been a Cain and Abel struggle. Cain has been growing through the eight different levels. Abel also is trying to go through eight stages of development in order to occupy half of the satanic world. Abel has become the right wing, and Cain has become the left wing. Evil, which has occupied the dominant portion, is declining steadily while goodness is moving up to the point of a crossing juncture. From that point Abel will prosper and Cain will decline rapidly.

I already described the strategy for how Abel must win Cain-not by attacking, but by being persecuted and then winning. More and more, the Abel realm has been expanding. Cain is God-denying materialism, and Abel is God-accepting theism. Satan's world is centered upon a false parenthood, wanting to prosper under that principle. The Abel world has always recognized the existence of God. Materialism prospered together with humanism, which also claims that humans are just material.

The theistic Christian culture is becoming worldwide. Satan started the claim that there is no God, so anyone who definitely accepts this statement will be on Satan's side.

This can also be classified as the struggle between the democratic world and communist world. The communist world became very powerful, occupying up to even 75 percent of the entire world mass and population. However, God will never allow Satan to get 100 percent of the world. The Soviet Union and Red China have reached a peak without conquering the entire world, so they are now declining.

Satan knows very well that the time for the Lord of the Second Advent is approaching. The Christian culture is the central culture of the free world, and its main hope is the return of Christ. The first Messiah should have been the original Adam and Eve, but that didn't happen because of the fall. That ideal was supposed to happen at the time of Jesus, but it did not. This time the second coming of the Messiah is fulfilling this ideal that was lost in the Garden of Eden. God has made three attempts to restore the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, centering upon true love. So the third Adam is what we are talking about when we say the return of Christ.

The Christian world today knows about the words "Messiah," and "Second Coming." But they don't know about the most important term "True Parents." Adam and Eve were supposed to be the True Parents of mankind. Then, Jesus was to become the True Parent, but that was not done. So the third Adam must install the True Parents' position.

You heard in my March 19 speech that the worldwide dispensation must be fulfilled on the national level; there are three nations representing Cain, Abel, and Eve, and then the Adam nation can be installed. A satanic and a heavenly lineup must compete with each other. At the conclusion of that speech, I elevated each one of you to the tribal messiahship position.

If there had been no crucifixion at the time of Jesus, the Roman Empire would have followed and served Jesus in his lifetime. Christianity would have moved, not to the West, but to the East to the Asian continent. The Asian continent would have become the center of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Jesus lost his body in Asia leaving only spiritual salvation accomplished. For that reason, history and Christian culture moved to the West, completely one circle around the globe, trying to return to Asia. Jesus was to win the Roman Empire in his lifetime and thereby move very easily to the worldwide level. Asia would have been the center, with Rome included. This was not accomplished, so such a time must be recreated. Now the golden age of history is heading toward Asia

After World War II, there was an opportunity for worldwide Christianity to be united and receive the messiah centered upon the United States as the chosen Christian nation. After World War II, the United Nations came into being for the purpose of creating one world nation. This concept was God-centered but the United Nations never fulfilled this ideal because it was invaded by Satan.

If the Christian world had accepted Father at that time, we wouldn't have had to worry about the rise of communism, nor the drug culture. People who now take drugs for an artificial high, could have been truly high with the love of God.

The World War II lineup was England, America, and France, against Japan, Germany, and Italy.

History always reaps what was sown. History was sown as Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel. Because of the fall, there are two sets of these four; one is the Abel-type, heavenly set and the other is the Cain type, satanic set. These must eventually confront each other on a national level, as in World War II. The seed that was sown individually would be harvested on a national and worldwide level.

England was in Eve's position, America in Abel's position, and France in Cain's position. On the satanic side, Japan was in Eve's position, Germany in Abel's position, and Italy in the Cain position. When these two teams fought in World War II the Axis powers lost. Hitler's and Mussolini's ambitions were to conquer the world. Japan was also very aggressive, trying to conquer the world. Those powers represented satanic greed and were destroyed during the war.

The mother power, which was England, united France and America as her sons, and then together searched after the Adam nation. Satan knew which country would become the Adam nation. Therefore, Satan let Japan, as the Satanic mother, conquer the Adam nation of Korea, occupying it for 40 years.

Ultimately, we must reap the historical harvest as it was sown. The Adam nation must be a peninsula nation because Christendom became centered on the Roman Empire, a peninsula nation. Jesus lost his body in Asia so his body must now be found in a peninsula nation in Asia. The Allied powers should have searched after the peninsula Adam nation in Asia. Christendom moved from the peninsula nation of the Roman Empire to the island nation of England, then to the continent of the United States. From that point, history has been repeated. Culture moved then across the Pacific and found an island nation, which is Japan. From that island nation, it had to move on to a peninsula, comparable to the Italian peninsula, so that it comes back full circle.

After the victory of World War II, England, the United States, and France should have looked to Asia to find the Adam nation, which was the Korean peninsula. If established Christianity had united with me and the Principle, then there would be nothing more to do.

However, the United States as a Christian nation, failed its mission to accept the second coming of the Messiah. So all of God's foundation had to be reindemnified 1,300 years had to be indemnified in 43 years. Actually, 430 years is needed to indemnify 4,300 years of history, but you cannot fit 430 years into one man's lifetime, so God allowed it to be indemnified in 43 years.

Because of the failure of the United States at the end of World War II, four major elements were lost: Korea, the United States, England, and France. Communism, the satanic version of messiahship, emerged. Through the principle you learn that falsehood always appears first, trying to imitate God's side. Communism proclaimed the proletariat's kingdom of heaven on earth. Stalin represented the personification of Satan's messiah. Because of the failure of established Christianity, the nations of England, the United States, and France became prey to aggressive communism. The United States played a key role in this failure.

According to the Principle, once a person or nation fails a mission, God never uses that nation or that person again. This time God is continuing to use this nation because the United States is in the son's position. Before the installment of the True Parents, the sons, Cain and Abel, and the mother, have to create the foundation.

After the failure of the United States and established Christianity, the lineup changed. Instead of England, Japan became the Eve nation. Instead of Italy, Father chose Germany as the archangel nation. Satan took the very best part of the heavenly side, so I wanted to claim the very best part of Satan's side.

Why has America been chosen? Actually you must be very grateful to hear this, because America has been chosen again as the archangel's position. Without Christianity as the foundation, the third Israel could not be born. Therefore, I have chosen America as the second Israel and have come to America to restore its position as a chosen nation.

The former lineup of England, America, and France was demolished after the failure of World War II. During the 43 year indemnity period, I regained a heavenly lineup: the father country, which is Korea; the Eve country, Japan; the Abel country, America; and the Cain country, Germany. These four countries must unite into one and return to God.

Citizens from these four enemy nations have worked for God's dispensation in America. Now enemies are brothers. They have worked together for the sake of America more than they worked for their own country. After the fulfillment of this mission, these brothers and sisters should work in the Adam nation.

During this 43-year indemnity period, I underwent incredible persecution. Japan did not even give a visa to Father. Germany did not want to give a visa to me, and in England, the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church united together against me. But after 43 years, which ended in 1988, I was victorious. These four enemy nations became brothers united under the True Parents. Now, all these people can come to one final destination: God and the Adam nation.

I can concentrate on Asia now because I set the condition of loving my enemies, instead of seeking revenge. I loved America more than I loved Korea. Japanese people came to love America more than they love Japan. The same with Germans. American Moonies, even though you are persecuted, you love American Christianity more than you love your own family. Through these conditions I can now work in my homeland. This is the reason I had a beautiful and glorious homecoming.

However, there is one condition remaining to be fulfilled in America. When America sent me to prison, it was equivalent to the crucifixion of Jesus. Therefore, this nation must repent and indemnify this in order to ultimately receive God's blessing.

When we sent missionaries to 120 nations in 1975, teams were selected with three members, one each from Japan, the United States, and Germany. These three countries had been enemies, so by uniting they could set the highest possible example. There was so much persecution to the missionaries that they had to unite in order to survive. Plus, there was often only one room, so they had to eat meals together, sleep together, do everything together.

Through these missionaries, the seed of these four providential nations was planted all over the globe. Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel planted the seed which multiplied into fallen humanity. We planted a new seed and it is growing up.

When I went to jail at Danbury, Satan said, "We won! We kicked Rev. Moon out of the Western world!" But without Moonies, the Western world cannot be saved.

Because of America's failure, communism came into being. When I had my homecoming in South Korea during the 1988 Olympics, the second generation of the world came to Korea, including young people from communist countries. The Olympics helped bring about a most incredible victory for heaven and True Parents. The best young people from both Cain and Abel sides came to Korea and united under one common parent. It was just like Jacob meeting Esau, his elder brother, and embracing him in love. When these young communist athletes came to Korea, our missionaries gave them tons of McCol to drink every day, as well as other gifts and the most incredible care. They felt completely embraced by True Parents.

God's ideal was lost on a peninsula, therefore, it will be restored on a new peninsula. This is the time for the consummation. When the Korean peninsula was divided, communism appeared. This time, when the Korean peninsula stands as a winner, communism will diminish automatically.

Kim II Sung and Rev. Moon are now confronting each other in an amazing showdown. Korea is a divided nation. North Korea is the most brutal communist country. South Korea is becoming more and more democratic. Rev. Moon is called "Father" and Kim I1 Sung is also called "Father." But one is false and one is true. However, my message is always the natural subjugation of Satan, never by violent confrontation. Since my victorious homecoming, the communist world is declining every day. The natural subjugation of Kim I1 Sung is just a matter of time.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Parents' Day. This is such an important Parents' Day, but in the year 2000, we are going to celebrate the 40th Parents' Day. Thank God, by then the Kingdom of God shall be on earth.

I disclosed too many secrets today-now you have to inherit them all. God's ideal was not realized at the time of the first and second Adams. Now is the time to restore everything. All debts have been paid, for the faithlessness of the chosen people at Jesus' time and for all the failures of the United States and established Christianity. What about the 5 billion people in the world united with God's dispensation? How long would it take to build the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth?

The only thing that needs to happen now is for God, Satan, and Father to sit down together and sign the papers for the transferal of the ownership of humanity. Satan will surrender his claim, and true love will have won. Then one nation after another will unite with True Parents and follow the principle.

True Parents and true love have won the individual, tribal, national, worldwide, and universal victory. For the first time in history a true love bridge is being made between God and humanity. As long as we are on the bridge, we are safe from Satan's invasion. Furthermore, this bridge will be a 10 lane highway where you can drive at 100 miles per hour.

Even if you don't like this bridge, going in the Parents' steps, it is nevertheless the principled way. You must follow my course, and then my victory will become your victory.

The three nations of the Soviet Union, China, and the United States represent the three archangels. They are the so-called superpowers, but they have to love True Parents: the Adam nation and the Eve nation.

As the universal Messiah, I have the power to anoint you as tribal messiahs. Therefore, you must inherit my messiahship. How can you do that? All you have to do is rectify the situations of the first and the second Adam by setting indemnity conditions. The failure of the first Adam is that he could not receive the second blessing. You were blessed, so your position is greater than Adam's. I am like the trunk of a big tree. Each one of us must become a part of the tree by grafting ourselves into it. If you are grafted into the tree, then you already paid the indemnity for the failure of the first Adam. Jesus also did not receive the blessing. By uniting with the third Adam level, you can become a national messiah.

You are walking the path now as the family level and tribal level messiah. I am working up from the national messiahship to the worldwide messiahship. You are following my footsteps; Satan can have no accusation toward you. All you have to do is graft into this third Adams' root. All of humanity will have one root.

God's lineage will go on, bequeathing the tradition from one generation to the next. The condition is that you must love True Parents more than anybody else under the sun. Otherwise you would not become one with True Parents. When you go to you. hometown or you. home church in the tribal messiah's role, there will be no more persecution, because I paid the debt. Follow my footsteps, gather the harvest.

Where is my hometown? North Korea is my ultimate hometown; it is your hometown, too. Now is the time for reorganization. The first, second, and third Adam are all consummated in True Parents. Therefore, I need to have 12 restored disciples, and then 72, 120, and 430 disciples. When you accomplish your homecoming, an organization of 12 tribes shall be made. You will eventually belong to a certain tribe of heaven. Your race, color, and nationality has no meaning. What has meaning is how much you can receive the support of spiritual world and truly create your own spiritual tribe.

Ultimately all of us will create the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. That is our home on earth. The Kingdom of Heaven in spiritual world is our home for eternity. How can we return to those homes, on earth and in heaven? First, through True Parents; second, through citizenship; and third through homecoming. These are the three most important things for you to acquire.

My topic today is True Parents and the Realm of Liberation. You must have True Parents in your heart. True Parents includes all three Adams' positions. The three Adams' sons are all of humanity, spread out all over the world. So all people must be connected to True Parents' name, as one family of man. You have found the True Parents, right? How about the true citizenship of Heaven? Homecoming remains our final job.

Liberation means to liberate God from His suffering, liberate the True Parents from their suffering, liberate all the ancestors in the spirit world, and liberate our posterity from sin. My responsibility is done, and your responsibility remains. There are 21,000 blessed couples in the world now, and soon there will be more. Those people will carry on the True Parents' mission. They will move around the entire world being noisy, good troublemakers.

We are truly marching forward. My plan is that every city will be divided into 50 state names. Each blessed couples will belong to one section. We must be noisier than anybody else noisier than the Mafia, gangsters, drug pushers, and all evildoers. This is how to save the world. Can you do it? This time, let's raise not just two hands but two feet, also. Let us pray.

True Parents and the Realm of Liberation

Sun Myung Moon
April 6, 1989
Parents' Day
World Mission Center

Father and Mother cut the holiday cake on Parents' Day, April 6, 1989

Father and Mother cut the holiday cake on Parents' Day, April 6, 1989

The base of the Unification Church is the True Parents. When you say "parents," that automatically involves children. The parents and children are related by blood lineage. That is a special, fundamental relationship. When you say True Parents, the word "true" denotes that there is another type of parents -- false parents. The basic consequence of the fall of man is that it prevented God's lineage from coming directly from God to the first parents, Adam and Eve, and then to all of humanity. Because of this, Satan's lineage started, making salvation and restoration necessary.

Christianity has several descriptions of Satan: Satan is the false lord or father of mankind; he is the master of humanity; he governs the world. All of these descriptions in the Bible are based in truth.

All beings of the universe, from the most minute creations to the supreme creation of human beings, exist in a pair system. That means there is a subject/object relationship on every level. The whole creation is made to participate in the love of God. They want to unite with that love and have it continue throughout posterity. But God's lineage was disrupted by the fall.

God is almighty and omnipresent. But what is the one thing that is essential to almighty God? God needs a love relationship with the creation in order to feel joy and stimulation. No matter how almighty He is, God cannot feel joy by Himself. In order to accomplish that goal, He created all things.

God created men and women as His direct objects with whom He can have give and take of love. Each man and woman aspires to be number one. This is the God-given nature of man, as God intended men and women to compete in acquiring the love of God.

The power of love is amazing. Once a love relationship is established, you immediately enjoy equality of participation, equality of dignity, and the right of inheritance.

Human ambition is not without limit. Many people think that ambition has no end. But actually human ambition has an ultimate goal to acquire God's love to the fullest extent, so that you can participate equally at God's level in His joy and all that He possesses. Once you acquire the love of God, you can go no further. Once you establish this love relationship with God, no power under the sun can separate you from His love. We will be resonant beings of the love of God, vibrating together on the wavelength of the love of God, and echoing and acting according to His love. Our ultimate purpose is to have our mind and body totally united with the love of God.

If you are a good member of the Unification Church, you know God is the vertical parent centered upon true love. Also we have horizontal, or physical parents, centered upon true love, who are supposed to be the ancestors of all mankind.

The Christian world today commonly describes God as sacred, high, and holy, while creation is low, filthy, unholy, and secular. Yet people call God "Father"; it is a contradiction. For the most high, holy being to Ix called Father by the lowliest secular being doesn't make sense unless there is some special relationship between God and people. A handkerchief is probably worth less than one dollar; but it has a special meaning if given to you by your lover -- it becomes a precious treasure. Unless there is a blood lineage connecting parents and children, there is no real meaning to that relationship.

Love has certain characteristics: for instance, it always travels the shortest distance at the fastest possible speed because it wants to find fulfillment very quickly. Since God is above us in heaven, the shortest possible distance for His love to travel to us on earth is by a vertical line.

When God's love comes down in a vertical line, and crosses with true horizontal love, that juncture should be at a 90 degree angle. It must be 90 degree s. Men represent east and women represent west, therefore, they must meet in the center.

Realization of Love

Babies are born with no cognizance -- their only interest is the milk bottle. However, as they grow up, they discover their immediate environment, mom and dad, their family and their home. As children grow up, they see insects, birds, and little animals, and soon discover that there are males and females. Next, they learn that male and female are there to love each other, and that through the love among animals multiplication occurs. God created nature as the textbook of love for men and women. As they become teenagers, men suddenly realize they are supposed to have a subject-object relationship with women. Women also realize, "The most priceless thing under the sun is men." Up until that point, parents and brothers and sisters are the most important, but then men and women come to the realization that they were born for the sake of each other. The time from birth to maturity as men and women is called the growth period. It was during this growth period of the original man and woman that the tragedy of the fall of man occurred.

What is more precious, power or love? Would you want to swap true love for money, power, or knowledge? Why do you like true love so much? It is the only thing that can bring harmony between mind and body, men and women. The five senses of man are focused on only one thing -- detecting true love. True love alone can excite every cell in your body. All other powers just leave your cells dormant. The power of true love unifies spiritual body cells and physical body cells. Every creature strives toward the attainment of true love.

Which is more precious, God or true love? Will true love chase after God or will God chase after true love? Absolute value is a lonely place; happiness and peace come when you have a partner.

Suppose there are a grandfather and a grandchild. The young child is not very conscious of the grandfather, but the grandfather wants to touch the child's face and lets the child play with his nose and ears. It seems that he loses his dignity. The grandfather doesn't ask the child to bow down to him. When the grandchild gets a little bigger, he becomes a rascal and climbs over the back of the grandfather, pulling his ears and biting his nose. Do you think the grandfather should say, "You, Satan, get behind me"? On the contrary, when the little child is climbing up the back of the grandfather, the grandfather would support his legs so that the grandchild can climb all the way up to the top of his head, because the grandfather enjoys it. It is the same with God who is truly the greatest grandfather. In terms of love, he doesn't care about his dignity or his position.

In one way, true love is very confusing for it seems to have no discipline or order. Yet, there really is order and joy. True love has unifying power.

True Parents partake of a specially prepared meal from the Parents' Day offering table.

True Parents partake of a specially prepared meal from the Parents' Day offering table.

Why are We Blessed?

Is your search for true love or for God? Ask God the same question: "God, are you looking for God or are you looking for true love?" God would say, "I want to find true love, of course." After you have obtained true love, you feel that is everything. True love has harmonizing power, perfection power, every power. Therefore, God without true love could not be God. You might hit God once, and that could be forgiven; but for those who violate true love, there is no forgiveness.

Why do men and women get together and love each other?

Many of you have been blessed, and there are also those who are candidates to be blessed. Why do you want to have the Blessing? The Blessing entitles you to receive and consummate true love, which is the purpose of life. God has within Himself dual essentialities, so the creation manifests God in the two separate entities of plus and minus. Men and women are separate beings, but each represents one aspect of God. Men and women are the supreme creation, and all other things of creation are in the exact image of men and women. Men need women and women need men because God deliberately divided Himself into two parts so that the power of love has the chance to act. God created this universe to become one by the power of love.

Only true love can make a 90 degree angle because it is perfectly pure, God-centered love. True love brings the entire universe into one. When men and women unite in true love, God becomes a super plus, and men and women together are a super minus. Then they unite and become one. Marriage brings the divided universe into one by the power of love. It is a horizontal oneness which becomes a total object to God.

Let us say that true love is hiding behind a bush and God is looking for it, searching desperately. When God finds that true love, He will say, "True love, you are a pain in the neck!" God would lose His dignity for true love.

We marry so that the entire universe becomes one with us. Today we are living in a world of false love. This worldly love has nothing to do with true love. In the Unification Church we use the word "true": True Parents, True Children, true husband, true wife. Those entities are united by true love glue.

Men and women meet at the center point, approaching from both sides at the same speed. When they get very near, they see God's true love right there. As men and women approach the center, God is also approaching from the top. The moment they hit, God's love hits. It is like thunder and lightning exploding. Why does the explosion have to occur? Because without an explosion, the two would never separate again. Some power has to separate them so that they will come back together again.

When you are in love you are sweating. Life is germinated in water. The universe symbolically represents this phenomenon through rain during thunderstorms, which makes land fertile.

True love has four distinct seasons: the love of spring is very warm, embracing, and blossoming; the love of summer is hot, intensive, passionate; the love of autumn, a little bit cool with each other, but still in love; in winter, still in love but a little severe; then spring comes again. God expressed a beautiful sense of humor in his creation. When the husband is treated a little bit cool by his wife, he says "Uh oh, winter love is coming." When winter love comes, don't be too pessimistic, because spring is coming. When the husband is approaching like a tiger, then passionate, summer love is coming.

I have emphasized that most important of all is the 90 degrees intersection, so that love is always the same everywhere you go -- east, west, north, and south. This encompasses 360 degrees. The most ideal place for true love to meet is in a circle, centered on a 90 degrees angle. Every circle has a core. Every energy line, in order to travel, has to go through the very center of the circle.

Crossing Juncture of True Love

Humanity started out from this crossing juncture of true love. This is where new life begins. True lineage should have multiplied from that point. When you expand that lineage vertically, it becomes man's eternal spirit.

Within you there are two selves: the mind is your vertical self and the body is your horizontal self. Those two are supposed to be united in true love to create one whole, eternal being. However, in order to bring unity between mind and body, they must cross at a perfect 90 degree angle for only at this 90 degree angle do subject and object resonate with the same vibration. This is the status of original man.

God's lineage comes through your bloodstream. The first thing is love, the second is life, and the third is lineage. Out of the unity and love of father and mother, life is germinated, and from this life, a lineage is begun.

When God created the whole universe, He invested every ounce of His energy, sparing nothing. Because of this tradition, all of creation must live for each other. As much as God invested every ounce for the sake of creation, we must live for the sake of each other as a true family.

God does not want to have love for His own happiness. God wants to give love so He can feel joy. This is the essential principle behind the true love theory. Unification cannot be made centering on ourselves -- we must live for the sake of others. God made this concept because He knew how complicated society would be in the future. Working for the sake of others brings harmony and unity. What is the difference between God and Satan? Satan is always self-centered. God centers upon His object; therefore, God is sacrificial and unselfish.

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The Secret of Success

Today, American young people are greatly confused about the truth. They are trying to take more and more things for themselves; but it will all be lost. If you try to exploit people, they will run away and you will be alone. But when you constantly serve people, without them knowing, you will be supported by people and never left alone. That is the difference.

If you live for the sake of others you will become a central figure. People will follow you because they will be confident that you will protect them; they will want to come under your dominion. Jesus' central teaching was to "Love your enemy." If you practice this particular principle in an enemy realm, you will become their central figure. It may take time, but it will happen. Jesus, by practicing this principle, eventually subjugated his enemy, the Roman Empire. I am teaching you my simple secret.

When I came to America, I was persecuted and criticized. Why do I not only survive, but also prosper? Because I practice this principle. I do not live even one day in America for my own sake, but always for the sake America. America, on the other hand, is only trying to look after her own interests, so she will decline. By following God's principle, I will always prosper.

In modern history there have been three world wars. In the First and Second World Wars the attackers lost in the end. In the Third World War, the Soviet Union and the communist world are the ideological aggressors so they will lose. Compared with Judaism and Christianity, the Unification Church is the youngest brother. The older brothers are trying to persecute the youngest brother. Those who have power and establishment are declining while the Unification Church, which is always attacked, is prospering. Persecution is the greatest blessing that God has given to us. By this strategy we can deprive Satan of his blessings -- they must be transferred to God's side.

Throughout history major religions have always prospered under persecution. The founders of the major religions of the world, Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed, were all persecuted. All who were persecuted for goodness' sake prospered. I am the only one who was persecuted by the entire world. This must mean that God has a strategy to turn over all of Satan's blessings to God's side.

America persecuted me to the ultimate degree, even putting me in prison. Normally people who are pushed into prison would like revenge. Instead, I loved this country even more, creating The Washington Times during the trial, with Insight and the World and I created while I was in prison. I created ICC to save America. I have absolute confidence that this principle works everywhere.

At the tenth World Media Conference in Washington, DC, journalists from the Soviet Union and Red China were invited. Now they are becoming my ardent defenders. Those people from the Soviet Union asked the same question everywhere: how did Rev. Moon become so successful under such persecution?

The minorities in this country, such as the Blacks, Hispanics, and Orientals, often feel persecuted and mistreated. They shouldn't worry about the Anglo-Saxons. Whoever practices this principle shall become the central figure of America.

I knew this principle when I came to the United States 15 years ago. I made good result without complaint in a very difficult atmosphere. Now you know the secret of how to become successful. There is an example to follow. Any one of you can say, "Yes, Father, I am going to beat you. I will be persecuted, but I will work harder for the sake of others." Those who will make the determination to follow Father's pattern successfully, raise your hands!

Where Does God Dwell?

My message today is very important. Because of the fall, we cannot detect the vertical line of God's love. The horizontal line was also invaded by Satan. If Adam and Eve could have reached perfection, there could have been no fall.

The conscience is supposed to be the dwelling place of God, the temple where God can dwell. But this was invaded by Satan. We struggle with our body because we have two minds. One is the original, God-given mind and the other is our Satan-given mind. The vertical line always belongs to God, so Satan invaded the horizontal line.

Why can't God multiply Himself? He is vertical, and multiplication always comes through horizontal parents. God's children were supposed to multiply and fill the earth. If Adam and Eve did not fall, perfected Adam and Eve would be like the physical body of God. When you pray really hard, "Where are you, God?", He answers internally, "I am here inside of you. You are my temple." The throne of God is in the deepest part of your mind.

This visible, substantial world has fallen into the hands of Satan. An original, perfected Adam and Eve would have created a true olive tree orchard, but instead we find only wild olive trees. In the satanic world there has been a Cain and Abel struggle. Cain has been growing through the eight different levels. Abel also is trying to go through eight stages of development in order to occupy half of the satanic world. Abel has become the right wing, and Cain has become the left wing. Evil, which has occupied the dominant portion, is declining steadily while goodness is moving up. After the point of their crossing juncture, Abel will prosper and Cain will decline rapidly.

I already described the strategy for how Abel must win Cain -- not by attacking, but by being persecuted and then winning. More and more, the Abel realm has been expanding. Cain is God-denying materialism, and Abel is God-accepting theism. Satan's world is centered upon a false parenthood, wanting to prosper under that principle. The Abel world has always recognized the existence of God. Materialism prospered together with humanism, which also claims that humans are just material beings.

The theistic Christian culture is becoming a worldwide culture. Satan started the claim that there is no God, so anyone who definitely accepts this statement will be on Satan's side. This can also be classified as the struggle between the democratic world and communist world. The communist world became very powerful, occupying up to even 75 percent of the entire world's area and population. However, God will never allow Satan to get 100 percent of the world. The Soviet Union and Red China have reached a peak without conquering the entire world; they are now declining.

Satan knows very well that the time of the Lord of the Second Advent is approaching. The Christian culture is the central culture of the free world, and its main hope is the return of Christ. The first Messiah should have been the original Adam and Eve, but that didn't happen because of the fall. That ideal was supposed to happen at the time of Jesus, but it did not. This time the second coming of the Messiah is fulfilling this ideal that was lost in the Garden of Eden. God has made three attempts to restore the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, centering upon true love. So the third Adam is what we are talking about when we say the return of Christ.

The Christian world today knows about the words "Messiah," and "Second Coming." But they don't know about the most important term "True Parents." Adam and Eve were supposed to be the True Parents of mankind. Then, Jesus was to become the True Parent, but that was not done. So the third Adam must install the True Parents' position.

You heard in my March 19 speech that the worldwide dispensation must be fulfilled on the national level; there are three nations representing Cain, Abel, and Eve, and then the Adam nation can be installed. A satanic and a heavenly lineup must compete with each other. At the conclusion of that speech, I elevated each one of you to the tribal messiahship position.

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History is Reaped as it Was Sown

If there had been no crucifixion at the time of Jesus, the Roman Empire would have followed and served Jesus in his lifetime. Christianity would have moved, not to the West, but to the East to the Asian continent. The Asian continent would have become the center of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Jesus lost his body in Asia leaving only spiritual salvation accomplished. For that reason, history and Christian culture moved to the West, completing one circle around the globe, trying to return to Asia. Jesus was to win the Roman Empire in his lifetime and thereby move very easily to the worldwide level. Asia would have been the center, with Rome included. This was not accomplished, so such a time must be recreated. Now the golden age of history is heading toward Asia. After World War II, there was an opportunity for worldwide Christianity to be united and receive the Messiah centered upon the United States as the chosen Christian nation. After World War II, the United Nations came into being for the purpose of creating one world nation. This concept was God-centered but the United Nations never fulfilled this ideal because it was invaded by Satan.

If the Christian world had accepted Father at that time, we wouldn't have had to worry about the rise of communism, nor the drug culture. People who now take drugs for an artificial high, could have been truly high with the love of God.

The World War II lineup was England, America, and France, against Japan, Germany, and Italy. History always reaps what was sown. History was sown as Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel. Because of the fall, there are two sets of these four; one is the Abel-type, heavenly set and the other is the Cain- type, satanic set. These must eventually confront each other on a national level, as in World War II. The seed that was sown individually was harvested on a national and worldwide level.

England was in Eve's position, America in Abel's position, and France in Cain's position. On the satanic side, Japan was in Eve's position, Germany in Abel's position, and Italy in the Cain position. When these two teams fought in World War II the Axis powers lost. Hitler's and Mussolini's ambitions were to conquer the world. Japan was also very aggressive, trying to conquer the world. Those powers represented satanic greed and were destroyed during the war.

The mother power, which was England, should have united with France and America as her sons, and then together searched after the Adam nation. Satan knew which country would become the Adam nation. Therefore, Satan let Japan, as the satanic mother, conquer the Adam nation of Korea, occupying it for 40 years.

Movement of Civilizations

Ultimately, we must reap the historical harvest as it was sown. The Adam nation must be a peninsula nation because Christendom became centered on the Roman Empire, a peninsula nation. Jesus lost his body in Asia so his body must now be found in a peninsula nation in Asia. The Allied powers should have searched after the peninsula Adam nation in Asia. Christendom moved from the peninsula nation of the Roman Empire to the island nation of England, then to the continent of the United States. From that point, history has been repeated. Culture then moved across the Pacific and found an island nation, which is Japan. From that island nation, it had to move on to a peninsula, comparable to the Italian peninsula, so that it could come back full circle.

After the victory of World War II, England, the United States, and France should have looked to Asia to find the Adam nation, which was the Korean peninsula. If established Christianity had united with m and the Principle, then there would have been nothing more to do.

However, the United States, as a Christian nation, failed its mission to accept the second coming of the Messiah. So all of God's foundation had to be reindemnified -- 4,300 years had to be indemnified in 43 years. Actually, 430 years is needed to indemnify 4,300 years of history, but you cannot fit 430 years into one man's lifetime, so God allowed it to be indemnified in 43 years.

Because of the failure of the United States at the end of World War II, four major elements were lost: Korea, the United States, England, and France. Communism, the satanic version of messiahship, emerged. Through the principle you learn that falsehood always appears first, trying to imitate God's side. Communism proclaimed the proletariat's Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Stalin represented the personification of Satan's messiah. Because of the failure of established Christianity, the nations of England, the United States, and France became prey to aggressive communism. The United States played a key role in this failure.

According to the Principle, once a person or nation fails a mission, God never uses that nation or that person again. This time God is continuing to use this nation because the United States is in the son's position. Before the installment of True Parents, the sons, Cain and Abel, and the mother, have to create the foundation.

After the failure of the United States and established Christianity, the lineup changed. Instead of England, Japan became the Eve nation. Instead of Italy, Father chose Germany as the archangel nation. Satan took the very best part of the heavenly side, so I wanted to claim the very best part of Satan's side.

Why has America been chosen? Actually you must be very grateful to hear this, because America has been rechosen as the archangel's position. Without Christianity as the foundation, the third Israel could not be born. Therefore, I have chosen America as the second Israel and have come to America to restore its position as a chosen nation.

A moving farewell after Parents' Day evening entertainment.

A moving farewell after Parents' Day evening entertainment.

Unity of Enemy Nations

The former lineup of England, America, and France was demolished after the failure of World War II. During the 43 year indemnity period, I regained a heavenly lineup: the father country, which is Korea; the Eve country, Japan; the Abel country, America; and the Cain country, Germany. These four countries must unite into one and return to God.

Citizens from these four enemy nations have worked for God's dispensation in America. Now enemies are brothers. They have worked together for the sake of America more than they worked for their own countries. After the fulfillment of this mission, these brothers and sisters should work in the Adam nation.

During this 43-year indemnity period, I underwent incredible persecution. Japan did not even give a visa to Father. Germany did not want to give a visa to me, and in England, the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church united together against me. But after 43 years, which ended in 1988, I was victorious. These four enemy nations became brothers, united under the True Parents. Now, all these people can come to one final destination: God and the Adam nation.

I can concentrate on Asia now because I set the condition of loving my enemies, instead of seeking revenge. I loved America more than I loved Korea. Japanese people came to love America more than they love Japan. The same with Germans. American Moonies, even though you are persecuted, you love American Christianity more than you love your own family. Through these conditions I can now work in my homeland. This is the reason I had a beautiful and glorious homecoming in Korea.

However, there is one condition remaining to be fulfilled in America. When America sent me to prison, it was equivalent to the crucifixion of Jesus. Therefore, this nation must repent and indemnify this in order to ultimately receive God's blessing.

When we sent missionaries to 120 nations in 1975, teams were selected with three members, one each from Japan, the United States, and Germany. These three countries had been enemies, so by uniting they could set the highest possible example. There was so much persecution to the missionaries that they had to unite in order to survive. Plus, there was often only one room, so they had to eat meals together, sleep together, do everything together.

Through these missionaries, the seed of these four providential nations was planted all over the globe. Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel planted the seed which multiplied into fallen humanity. We planted a new seed and it is growing up.

When I went to jail at Danbury, Satan said, "We won! We kicked Rev. Moon out of the Western world!" But without Moonies, the Western world cannot be saved.

Because of America's failure, communism came into being. When I had my homecoming in South Korea during the 1988 Olympics, the second generation of the world came to Korea, including young people from communist countries. The Olympics helped bring about a most incredible victory for heaven and True Parents. The best young people from both Cain and Abel sides came to Korea and united under one common parent. It was just like Jacob meeting Esau, his elder brother, and embracing him in love. When these young communist athletes came to Korea, our missionaries gave them tons of McCol to drink every day, as well as other gifts and the most incredible care. They felt completely embraced by True Parents.

Unification of the Fatherland

God's ideal was lost on a peninsula, therefore, it will be restored on a new peninsula. This is the time for the consummation. When the Korean peninsula was divided, communism appeared. This time, when the Korean peninsula stands as a winner, communism will diminish automatically.

Kim Il Sung and Rev. Moon are now confronting each other in an amazing showdown. Korea is a divided nation. North Korea is the most brutal communist country. South Korea is becoming more and more democratic. Rev. Moon is called "Father" and Kim Il Sung is also called "Father." But one is true and one is false. However, my message is always the natural subjugation of Satan, never by violent confrontation. Since my victorious homecoming, the communist world is declining every day. The natural subjugation of Kim Il Sung is just a matter of time.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Parents' Day. This is such an important Parents' Day, but in the year 2,000 we are going to celebrate the 40th Parents' Day. Thank God, by then the Kingdom of God shall be on earth.

I disclosed too many secrets today -- now you have to inherit them all. God's ideal was not realized at the time of the first and second Adams. Now is the time to restore everything. All debts have been paid, for the faithlessness of the chosen people at Jesus' time and for all the failures of the United States and established Christianity. What if the five billion people in the world united with God's dispensation? How long would it take to build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth?

The only thing that needs to happen now is for God, Satan, and Father to sit down together and sign the papers for the transferal of the ownership of humanity. Satan will surrender his claim, and true love will have won. Then one nation after another will unite with True Parents and follow the Principle.

True Parents and true love have won the individual, tribal, national, worldwide, and universal victories. For the first time in history a true love bridge is being made between God and humanity. As long as we are on the bridge, we are safe from Satan's invasion. Furthermore, this bridge will be a 10- lane highway where you can drive at 100 miles per hour.

Even if you don't like this bridge, going in the Parents' steps, it is nevertheless the principled way. You must follow my course, and then my victory will become your victory.

The three nations of the Soviet Union, China, and the United States represent the three archangels. They are the so- called superpowers, but they have to love True Parents: the Adam nation and the Eve nation.

Homecoming and Tribal Messiahship

As the universal Messiah, I have the power to anoint you as tribal messiahs. Therefore, you must inherit my messiahship. How can you do that? All you have to do is rectify the situations of the first and the second Adam by setting indemnity conditions. The failure of the first Adam is that he could not receive the second blessing. You were blessed, so your position is greater than Adam's. I am like the trunk of a big tree. Each one of us must become a part of the tree by grafting ourselves into it. If you are grafted into the tree, then you already paid the indemnity for the failure of the first Adam. Jesus also did not receive the Blessing. By uniting with the third Adam level, you can become a national messiah.

You are walking the path now as the family and tribal level messiah. I am working up from the national messiahship to the worldwide messiahship. You are following my footsteps; Satan can have no accusation toward you. All you have to do is graft into this third Adams' root. Soon all of humanity will have one root.

God's lineage will go on, bequeathing the tradition from one generation to the next. The condition is that you must love True Parents more than anybody else under the sun. Otherwise you will not become one with True Parents. When you go to your hometown or your home church in the tribal messiah's role, there will be no more persecution, because I paid the debt. Follow my footsteps and gather the harvest.

Where is my hometown? North Korea is my ultimate hometown; it is your hometown, too. Now is the time for reorganization. The first, second, and third Adam are all consummated in True Parents. Therefore, I need to have 12 restored disciples, and then 72, 120, and 430 disciples. When you accomplish your homecoming, an organization of 12 tribes shall be made. You will eventually belong to a certain tribe of heaven. Your race, color, and nationality has no meaning. What has meaning is how much you can receive the support of spiritual world and truly create your own spiritual tribe.

Ultimately all of us will create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. That is our home on earth. The Kingdom of Heaven in spiritual world is our home for eternity. How can we return to those homes, on earth and in heaven? First, through True Parents; second, through citizenship; and third, through homecoming. These are the three most important things for you to acquire.

My topic today is True Parents and the Realm of Liberation. You must have True Parents in your heart. True Parents includes all three Adams' positions. The three Adams' sons are all of humanity, spread out all over the world. So all people must be connected to True Parents' name, as one family of man. You have found the True Parents, right? How about the true citizenship of Heaven? Homecoming remains our final job.

Liberation means to liberate God from His suffering, liberate the True Parents from their suffering, liberate all the ancestors in the spirit world, and liberate our posterity from sin. My responsibility is done, and your responsibility remains. There are 21,000 blessed couples in the world now, and soon there will be more. Those people will carry on the True Parents' mission. They will move around the entire world being noisy, good troublemakers.

We are truly marching forward. My plan is that every city will be divided into 50 state names. Each blessed couple will belong to one section. We must be noisier than anybody else -- noisier than the Mafia, gangsters, drug pushers, and all evildoers. This is how to save the world. Can you do it? This time, let's raise not just two hands but two feet, also. Let us pray.

Let Us Live Well

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Belvedere, Tarrytown, NY USA
April 2, 1989
Translated by Col. Han
Unofficial Notes

Father has written the title for this morning's talk, it translates to "let us live well" or "let us live happily together". Within the word "us", we can include man and woman as a family and that family as a center of the society, that society as a center of the nation, that nation as a center of the world, and the world as a center of the universe. Is this simple or complicated? When we hear the word "us", the first thing that comes into our mind is "me". For example, a woman centered on herself wants to live well. That woman will try to collect diamonds, or she will try to find a nice man that other women will envy. She wants to be thought of as being smart. That is her idea of living well!

What about a woman who wants to serve God? Would she want to live on top of God or at his feet? A beautiful woman and an ugly woman both want to live well. Which do you think would wear more makeup? According to reason the beautiful woman would only need to put on some lipstick while the ugly woman needs a lot more, but actually we find that it is the other way around. So what does it mean; to live well?

Does air live well? Yes it does. But what is your definition of living well in order for you to say that? If there is a big hole in the ground, would air refuse to go inside it, wanting to live higher up in the atmosphere instead? Would the air near the hole say, "The air from up in the clouds should go in the hole, so I can move higher up"? No, air fights to get into the hole first. The two biggest life supporting elements are air and water. Water flows down to the lowest point. Is it better to exist in the mainstream or the side of the river? In the mainstream the water has to really struggle. The water on the top moves along quickly and easily. Compare that to a man who lives under the "mainstream" of society. How many scars and struggles he must have had all his life! Does the water underneath want to be on top? Water just flows, filling in all the gaps quickly. It does not try to fight it's way back or try to keep other water from coming in.

The character of water is that it fills in everything. In a crevice it can go up too, a capillary action. This is an ideal characteristic. This is why water is able to support life. This precious element water can say, "I occupy a glorious position in the universe, also the hardest, most misunderstood position."

We wash with water. Does water mind washing away dirty things? It is capable of cleansing anything without complaint. It can evaporate into a cloud and travel around. It does the hardest, dirtiest work at times and then becomes a cloud and travels around the world sightseeing. We can cherish clouds thinking they do so many good things for me. We like the top of the mountain, but animals living in that area will prefer the valley. Even the insects will live down below and the birds will build their nests there. All the sediments wash down into the valley where it is smelly. All the bad stuff flows down into the valley. But with that as fertilizer all the big trees grow there instead of on the mountain. This is the phenomena of the creation. Without exception all things form subject and object relationship with no struggle. When we see this we feel good.

We all have minds, right? Where does the mind want to go and live forever? Would the mind want to live in the country, in the universe or where? The mind would say to go to the castle or the top of the mountain. Even to God if it can. It wants to live in the nicest place. What about the body? The body wants to live in the valley where all things are, the lower place. Your mind and body cannot separate though, so for the body to go up we have to build a ladder. The body never wants to be tired.

If Father gives out money, his mind will feel good. Even if he gives out $10 million his mind will not want to stop there, but it will want to keep giving out, doing more and more good. How could you manage yourself like that? The idea of one living well is that one is capable of giving. Is it just giving and giving with no end? Is that living well? Giving and giving is very tiring. If it is tiring then it cannot be living well. So the body applies a brake on the mind. Other wise it will just continue to go. There is a very important point here. Everything has two sides like a coin. One force goes this way and the other force goes that way to create a balance.

Men and women are quite different. Their shape is distinctly different. Women are indented and men are protruding. How do women laugh? They laugh from high to low. Men laugh low to high [Father then demonstrates]

Which sex is greater? If you say man is, then should men just live together? How about Mr. Universe and the second place Mr. Universe, would they look beautiful together? Which is a better combination, the two Mr. Universes or Mr. Universe and the ugliest woman? Of course you know the answer.

Between men and women, which is more stable? Is an indented shape more stable or a protruding shape? Women have no problem moving all over when they walk, but men have something to protect, they walk straight. It is true! Sometimes you have to think about these things seriously. Women have nothing to worry about, but a man always has something to be concerned about. But what does he protect this precious thing for? For a woman. When a woman gets married, what is the most important thing in her husband? A nice face? You may not be conscious of it, but at the end of your life look back and see!

To have an ugly goiter is bad because it is unusual. No one likes to be unusual. But if there is a princess who insists on marrying a man with a nice goiter, then all the world would like a man with a goiter! This is life. Sometimes things that are unhappy become happy. The man who thinks he is ugly need not worry about it. He may be an ugly man, but there is a woman who loved her father who looked like this ugly man. So she will love him too. That woman will insist on marrying that man, even if he is ugly. This is a true example. So we should not complain about the way we look or the way we are. These things can bring you unexpected love. It happens all the time.

All of these things are points of living well. What kind of idea do you have? Do you want to live in one place or move all around? If something goes around it is always in motion. If we go straight, there is always a limit. You can go so far and then no more. But if you move around there is no limit. In the future do you need a house or not? How nice if you could have a house like a rubber balloon and it could move from place to place. You can get tired of even the nicest house. It is nice to move around to different houses. Women like to live in all different colors and kinds of houses. Today many things are manufactured out of plastic, umbrellas, etc. What about a house? Father thinks that in time there will be plastic houses. There are new types of insulation available now for homes and clothes so we never have to feel cold even while outside. We can even have a portable house! Father thinks that these kinds of things will exist in the future.

Think of East Garden, it is a big stone house. Which is more convenient, East Garden or a portable house? For less trouble, which is easier? A smaller, portable house. It is all relative. If we say that moving from place to place is best, then we do not want a big house. You cannot build big houses everywhere you go. Kwon Jin Nim prefers to live in a tent. He likes them much better than the house, even if it is only a small tent. Father watches him and wonders what makes him prefer that? He would live in a tent if Father would let him. So even at East Garden, Kwon Jin Nim's idea of living well is life in a tent. That is where he is most comfortable. Recently we have been entertaining people at East Garden. Kwon Jin Nim was served nice bulgogi a few days in a row. Then he wants to go out and eat hamburgers. Father cannot understand him!

We can conclude that living well is bringing the best of everything in the world and then harmonizing with it. From all four directions, bring everything good into one area and harmonize with it.

Two days ago Father went to a shopping mall where members have a business. It was a nice mall. In one corner there was a house made out of tin, decorated with tin cans. Father wondered about the kind of variety that people like. Americans like antiques, old beat up things. In Korea people do not like old things because everything is old! Here in America everything is new, so people cherish things over a hundred years old. They even make things to look like they are 1000 years old! That is an important point of living well. Have something old and something new, something from all four corners of the world. Then harmonize and live together with it.

Let's say that your face decided it wants to live well. The eyes are open but the ears are tired so they close. Is this ideal for the face? But when the eyes are open and the ears stay open each one is competing with the other to provide information. Everything should come together to focus on the same point. That is living well. When the mouth wants to taste something, the eyes see it and the hand grabs it. All parts work together. That's what dancing is all about-- everything moving together in harmony. That is living well.

What is necessary in order for a religion to live well? Should just one church or sect get together to do something excluding everyone else? Is that the best idea? No. Should they embrace everybody? Yes, but to unite is the most difficult thing. Which is the most complicated religion? Unification.

Which is the better church, the one that has good fund raisers or bad? You get up early in the morning and go out fund raising. The cold air greets you but you can say, "Soon it will be warm." For the sake of the goal, work hard and fund raise all day. You might ask, "Why does the air have to be so cold? God wants to rough me up and help me to overcome complaining." Comfortable and not comfortable will harmonize and make a good life.

Do we all like Father? Yes, when he speaks to us sweetly! When he speaks to us sweetly, our branches are growing. When he speaks to us strongly our roots are growing. Everyone likes branches because they can see them, but the root is most important. How beautiful roots are!

Is it good for us to be opposed by other churches? You can become a wonderful harmonizer by embracing those who oppose you. This can be a beautiful accident.

Father is a great man. Did he grow through welcome or by being rejected? He has grown through being opposed and rejected. No one can take that away. That will always belong to Reverend Moon. And to us if we can go through it. In this perspective which is living well? It is better to be persecuted and grow.

If someone slaps you on the face you immediately start thinking, "Why did they do that?" We need some room inside ourselves to think about it. Others have no room, they will hit back or yell. We have to understand this. Sometimes we might meet someone who treats us harshly, but if we can love them back, we can win their respect. Sometimes you receive so much pain it is like a needle in your heart, but you can become greater through that experience. We must think like this and we can live well.

Let's say we there is a couple. The man is a dull person and the wife is a hysterical half crazy woman. If the man becomes hysterical he cannot live. One is extremely sensitive and hysterical and the other extremely insensitive and dull. They cannot stand each other. But eventually after twenty or thirty years they will come to love each other. This is living well.

People have different ideas of what living well is. If you want to see saw which is better, a little movement or a lot? A lot of action is best.

Father has taken one hour to level the ground. That is his introduction, but you know the conclusion already.

Is God a high and lofty Being or a low one? Man has a desire to become higher. Do you think that God would be excited by even the smallest man who wants to become like Him? He is very excited! Especially when we are low we want to be higher all the more. That is the way the universe is. If you are high, you have to come down. If your are low, you have to move up. God is up high but He wants to come down sometimes. The balancing point goes around and around in eternal motion. If God comes down, He is happy we are going up.

Women cannot be happy in a mediocre situation. They want excitement. This is not a laughing matter. If there is a woman who gives birth to many children and they all come to express their love at the same time, she can get very dizzy. But it is happy. Love is there. How can you handle it all at the same time? How about money? Do you think it is good to have a lot of money? Would you prefer to be the best mother or a bad mother? The best! Who is the best mother? The one with ten children or 100 children? The mother with 100 children is the best. How about 1,000? It is the same principle. She would have regret because she cannot love them all. That is the most precious mind. Is it better to have many or a few children?

Father recently found out why American women are so hysterical (not historical, hysterical!). They do not have an anchor. They are drifting without direction. Each child is an anchor line to make her stable. Hysterical women give birth to inferior children. God desires us to have more than three children. With a small amount of children, you only come to know one season. Mother has so many children. They are a textbook of herself--she represents all seasons. She can relate to all people because of the base she has through her children. She has a complete reference through them. If she meets someone new they will remind her of one of her children who is similar. A mother who has reared many children has no bad in her.

Handling even one child is so difficult. You are always tired. There is no time to rest your mind or your body. Do you think this is happy though? The smile of such a mother reflects twelve different worlds. It is very rich. A woman who never married may smile, but compared to a mother with twelve children their smiles are as different as heaven and earth.

Can you imagine a black person with all black eyes? Even a black person has a flash of white. Father has always been fascinated by this. You cannot find it in the white or oriental world. It is very beautiful. Black absorbs all shades and colors. After absorbing them, it can emanate them so strongly. This is fantastic! White people are reflecting, but always kind of fuzzy. Black and yellow are always sharp. In talking about attractiveness everyone is equal. No one is inferior.

White women have a lot of hair on their arms. Orientals call this chicken skin. Oriental women have no hair. Even if they are big and fat their skin is smooth. A brother in Alaska who has a Korean wife was boasting to all his brothers who are married to only American women. He told them how it is to be married to an oriental woman. She has the softest touch in the world.

Where would you prefer to live? Just white people living all together? Let's all live together, all colors equal. How wonderful to live a life digesting and harmonizing all difficulty. It is painful but at the end we can laugh and smile. Even the man who does not have money but lives with this heart is so much happier than the rich person who does not have this understanding. Where does happiness lie? It is everywhere, but it all depends on how we respond. It depends on us.

Before we can become kings and queens we have to accept all children and admire them. It is a big job, a hard job, but a good job. It is not easy to become the king of kings.

Father is greatly concerned about how to lead the second and third generations. After ten generations he does not have to worry . But for the next three generations, Father is thinking about how he can let them go over the hill. In the future even if two white people make up a couple they will still have black in them from a few generations back. Until then there is still all different blood.

Whites need help. They cannot help themselves. They need blacks. The Puritans met the Indians who saved them. If the Indians had treated them harshly they would have had no chance of survival. America is really on the verge of perishing and they cannot help themselves. So Father has come to save the white people.

Inside America whites are fighting each other. Now Reverend Moon is here helping. American whites think they are living well., but we suffer to help them and we think we are living well. From a universal point of view we are. Because we are going over difficulty, harmonizing and digesting them.

What do you think God is like? God does not express so much. He is not hysterical. [Father used a Korean word "chu yong".] This means right in the middle with no extreme.

Things can be good sometimes and bad sometimes. Things are not always the same. You should always leave something in reserve. Father's purse is always hungry. Is being in debt good or bad? Father owes a lot of money for the sake of heaven and earth. That is the only way for the universe to be preserved. So debt is not always bad.

Today Father spent time with the True Children speaking about living well. Everything is following after Reverend Moon so you know he must be living well. America is like the day. Father came and introduced night. Nobody likes night. But only by harmonizing day and night can things go on. Is America rich or poor? Should America should help the world or should the world help America? Should America help Reverend Moon or should Reverend Moon help America? America should help Father. [Father hops across the stage] That is one way of moving, but walking with both feet moving is better. That way you can move a heavy load.

Can unhappy people help happy people? It sounds absurd, but that is what we are doing. This is the ideal of living well. When you are struggling look down and you will see that there is always somebody worse off than you. Living life only looking up at what you want you will never learn. We have to try every way to become better.

Is Reverend Moon successful? [Yes!] How can you prove it? [By his result.] What kind of result? He came to America from a country that is not even known and substantially helped people.

Do you like short rivers or long rivers? The river of Reverend Moon has such a long history and he is preparing to go to the ocean. The ocean is spirit world and the river is ancestors. True Parents are the true ancestors, the parents of truth. The Unification Church is from all origins. There are a lot of geniuses and men of talent in the Unification Church. Father is talking about you! When Father goes on to pioneer a way, he is bound to draw the same kind of talented people to follow him.

Father does everything. It is very difficult to find something Father does not do. If God wanted to be a terrorist or in the Mafia, Father would be the champion of it.

Many people pray "Help me, help me" to God. Instead we should pray, "I will help You. God, please come closer to me so I can help you." For the first time in history God would hear a voice calling out to help Him.

Father's faith is that he would believe in Satan's words like they were Gods words. Through following with his whole effort Father can use even Satan's words for the sake of restoration. Father would say, "God, no matter what you do to me, I will believe in You. Satan, no matter what you do or show me I will digest it. I will not go away." Through this Father learned Satan's secret. He also came to know the character of God.

Father is always watching things with great interest. When Father thinks about free sex he hates it. But Father sees there must be some meaning behind what these people are trying to do. They desire something that is 180 degrees different from what they are doing now. Hells Angels can become Heavens Angels. He sees so much wrong in the United States, but he knows there must be something good behind it. Good and evil are not so different. [Father drew a circle representing good. It had a beginning point and went around to that same point joining the circle. The circle representing evil was not complete. The line did not return to the starting point to close it.] Evil does not finish at the same point. There also has to be a stable axis for goodness to occur. The law is a kind of axis. If you accept it, you can follow goodness. If the earth's axis wobbles, things would change and life would not be able to exist. It is the same in our life. Our axis should not change.

Father thought the topic this morning would be especially good for American women. American women are extreme, they extend too much. You have to learn about silence. Those who do not speak much will control those who do. Also, those who laugh sparingly will control those who laugh too much. Silent people are formidable. You have to learn that. God is also quiet, waiting on the mountain top. He is patient. Why should He be frantic when He has absolute power?

The time is truly changing. Soviet and Chinese journalists attended the media conference and sincerely from their heart applauded Father.

Father's forty three year course from 1945 to 1988 was such a painful and long time. But still it was not much to do to restore 4300 years of history. No matter what happens Father decided he cannot complain. Fathers life is never unorganized. It is so complicated in many different ways. In forty three years of life he had to solve everything that had been attempted in the bible, which had failed. This included Adam's family, Abraham's family and all the other failures. If Moses came spiritually right now and stood here on the stage, who would we revere more? Moses or Father? [Father!] What if Jesus came? [Father!] We would revere Father more because of this forty three years of effort he has made. We read in the bible about the great works of Jesus and the disciples on the mountain, but have you ever thought that the time Father speaks here at Belvedere is more valuable? This is serious. You must consider it.

When restoration is done by the son, God cannot teach him anything because he is still in the indirect dominion. The son's role is to reach the direct dominion. Do you think it was simple? The only logical way for Father to accomplish was for him to be more serious and go through more difficulty than God. After a while Satan gave up. He tried to block Father's way, but it was too difficult to tag along.

Who is taking responsibility for history? The people who are capable of taking responsibility are those who are willing to go through more difficulty than what has already occurred in history.

Do not pass the prostitutes on 38th street thinking that they have nothing to do with you. You should be thinking that in ten years you will dominate that area and change those people. Teach them Divine Principle. Think of them as your younger sister or daughter and educate them. Later that woman will say, "Yes, I will become a true daughter (or true sister) to you" and she will teach the Principle to others. We need to live a committed, serious life during these ten years. But this is the serious, well lived life.

Living to make other people happy is better than seeking a happy life for yourself. It is an intensely difficult life. The more intense it is, the better the life we are living. Father has a dream of one American woman pledging to live under the most severe mother in law. That woman's life will become great. It will be a textbook for others to learn from.

Also, volunteer for the worst man to be your husband, then you can re-create him. Reverend Moon has pledged himself to reform Christianity and to solve the youth problem in the United States. You are the ones he has saved. Those who are willing to join in this fight and take responsibility for this country, please raise your hands.

Let Us Live Well

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
April 2, 1989
Belvedere
Translator - Sang Kil Han

When we say let us live well together, within "us" are included many elements. It involves man and woman as the center of the family, the family as the center of the country, the country as the center of the world, and so on, all the way to the cosmos. Everything is contained there, so is "us" a small, simple word or a complicated one?

There are many different concepts about living well. For instance, one woman might want to live well for her own selfish purposes. She might feel that living well means being able to accumulate beautiful things. Seeing an expensive gem such as a diamond, she will want to possess it in order to show it off to her friends. When she meets a handsome man, she would want him as her boyfriend in order to make other women jealous. That is her idea of living well.

What about a woman who wants to be close to God? Would she seek to serve God at His feet, or at His head? Would she want to live at the top or at the foot of God? Yes, she would want to be at the top.

Both a beautiful woman and a homely one will try to live well. Which would be more likely to wear cosmetics and make herself up? Actually, if you think according to their purpose, cosmetics are hardly needed by a beautiful woman. Perhaps she might need a little lipstick but not much more. The homely woman, on the other hand, needs to work a lot harder to make herself attractive. However, the reality is that the more attractive woman tends to wear more makeup. That is an example of confusion about living well.

What is it, really, to live well? Let us consider the air we breathe. Does the air live well? Imagine if air molecules were floating around and came to a big hole somewhere and said, "I don't want to go in there. I've been oppressed and pushed around all my life. I can't stand it! I want to go up, not down." That, of course, is impossible. The air goes wherever it is possible to go. If there is a hole or vacuum somewhere, air rushes in to fill it up.

The two major life-supporting elements are air and water. Without them, we could not survive. Water naturally flows downward and accumulates to form a main stream. In a deep river, the water underneath pushes forward, while the water on the top seems to be just riding along. Suppose one water molecule on the bottom decided, Y want to go up to the top where it is easier to live. I'm tired of being weighed down by all the other molecules." Of course, that is not the way water behaves. Water molecules just flow freely together, pouring down, filling in all the gaps that they encounter along the way. Water molecules never fight among themselves to gain the best position.

Let's compare water to people. One man is like the water molecules in the surging mainstream area. How much struggle and difficulty such a man must have had. The property and characteristic of water is to fill in everything and go wherever it is needed, whether that is downward or upward. Like in the capillaries of the body, fluid can be absorbed in any direction. This is why water has the ability to support life, which is most complicated and precious.

If water could speak to us, it would say, "I occupy the most glorious positions in the world and also the most lowly and miserable places." When we need to clean something, what do we wash it with? Water. Does water resist washing dirty things? It is capable of cleansing anything without resistance or complaint. That noble element even evaporates and travels around as a cloud. It does the hardest and dirtiest work at times, but it can also become a cloud and travel high above the rest of the world, seeing everything from the best vantage point. It has that lofty position as well. We should look at the clouds from this perspective. They do so many good things for us, and thus we should appreciate them.

People may enjoy the top of the mountain, but the animals there appreciate the lowest point in the valley as well. That is where their roots are. The lowest point of the valley is where everything gathers-insects, birds' nests, animal dens and so forth. Sediment and mud settle there and it is more smelly. Isn't it true that the bad, rotten elements will flow down, rather than up? Yet all the creatures want to live in that fertile area. The largest trees can grow there, and not at the higher levels. This phenomenon is true all over the world.

When subject and object come into a relationship of harmony, it is good. We recognize the goodness of that harmony. We all possess a mind, correct? If we follow our mind's lead, where does it take us? Does your mind want to stay within one country, or does it want to expand all the way to the cosmic level? The mind wants to go everywhere, from a castle on top of a mountain to the greatest, most exalted places. What about the body? It is drawn to the lower areas, as we mentioned before. Can we let our mind go one place and our body another? No, we need to live as one person, mind and body united, whether it is up high or down low. For the body to go to the loftier areas, we need a ladder. As we know, the body always prefers to avoid tiredness and difficulty.

I have occasion to meet with many people in different places. Imagine if I could give each person I meet a thousand dollars. Perhaps I would give away ten million dollars after a short time. How would my mind feel? It would say, "That is a good thing," and it would be happy, but it wouldn't want to stop at that point. My mind naturally wants to keep giving to all the people in the country, even to all the people in the world. The mind doesn't want to stop giving. When you do something good, your mind doesn't tell you, "That's enough." Instead, you want to do more and more goodness.

What is the standard for living well? Is a person who is capable of giving more and more, without end, someone who is living well? But giving without end becomes tiring, doesn't it? That can't be all there is to living well. So the body puts the brakes on the mind. The mind is always looking to give out and not stop, but the body says, "That's enough, now." The body is the control on the mind, so to speak. We notice a very important point here. Everything has two sides. There is the outgoing force and the pulling in force, and both are needed for balance.

Compare man and woman. They are very different in shape and character. A woman is indented, while a man protrudes at a certain point. When a woman laughs, what does she look like? She usually laughs from the head and bends downward. A man, on the other hand, starts laughing in the belly and that laugh moves upward to his head. Even in laughter, woman is saying, "I want to go lower" and man says, "I want to go up."

Can a man be happy living just among other men? Or can a woman dwell only with other women and be happy? Suppose the two most beautiful women in the world could live together? Suppose the winner of the Mr. Universe contest and the first runner-up were to live together. Which is the better combination-for the two most handsome men in the world to live together, or for Mr. Universe and the ugliest woman in the world to live together? Which is the better pair?

Some women may envy men for their freedom, particularly because men don't have monthly periods. Perhaps a woman wishes that men also had to go through that experience every month and had such limits on their freedom. But which is more secure, the indented shape or the protruding shape? Certainly the indented areas are more secure. A woman can walk about freely, swinging her hands and looking at the scenery. But a man, on the other hand, has to be more cautious. His protruding part has to be protected all the time. When you think about this, you men might envy women for their once-a-month inconvenience.

For whom must you men protect your precious area? It is not for yourself but for your wife. When a woman marries, what is the most important aspect of her husband? Is it his handsome face? Although you may not think about it, after you have lived together all your life, look back and see. We can laugh, but this is a serious matter.

Some people have large goiters on their neck or the side of their face. A goiter is undesirable because it is unusual; people don't want to look different. But imagine this situation: A princess insists that she will only marry a man with a big goiter. At that time, everybody in the country will envy the man with the largest goiter. He would be the champion. This illustrates an important point about life. Many times we decide what happiness or unhappiness means based on shifting standards. Sometimes what makes us happy can make us unhappy a little later on, and vice-versa.

The man who feels he is ugly need not worry about it. Perhaps a lovely woman will come along whose father resembled that man. Because she loved her father so much, she will want to marry the ugly man who reminds her of her father. That sort of thing actually happens. Does anyone doubt it? Therefore, you shouldn't complain about the way you look. That so-called defect can be the very thing to bring you unexpected joy and good luck.

All of these points have to do with living well. Is your idea of living well to live just within set limits, or to travel in many different places? Why do you say traveling around? If you move around, you will not encounter limits because it involves circular motion. If we just follow a straight line, however, there will be always be a limit to how far we can go.

Do you need a house to live in? Even the nicest, finest house can be boring to look at after a while. It would be nice to move around and live in a different area, to see different colors and furnishings and so forth. Many household items are made of plastic these days, such as umbrellas, shopping bags, and so forth. What about houses? How about a plastic, collapsible house which you can fold up and take with you. Perhaps that will come soon. If you want to live with the least amount of trouble, would you prefer a big stone house which needs lots of maintenance, or a small portable one?

If our idea of living well is to be able to move about to many different places, then we don't need a big house which is difficult to maintain. You can't build a big house everywhere you go. Kwon Jin Nim once said that he would like to live in a tent. I wondered what made him say that. He would live in a tent right now if Mother would let him. Thus even at East Garden, the idea of living well might be to live in a tent.

Recently there have been many guests at East Garden, so Kwon Jin has eaten bulgogi for dinner several days in a row. Now he is saying he wants to go out and eat a hamburger for a change. I just can't understand why he wants to go to some restaurant where you have to smell cigarette smoke and endure all that inconvenience, so I asked him if he was sure about that. He said emphatically, ayes!"

We can sum up living well as experiencing all the best things in the world in harmony in all four directions cast, west, north and south.

Two days ago, I visited a shopping mall to buy some gifts. It was a very beautiful mall. At one corner, some artist had erected a sculpture of painted tin cans, the sort one finds at a garbage dump. I realized that people enjoy the variety of the expensive items for sale at the mall and the decorated cans from the garbage dump.

Americans enjoy collecting antiques, don't they? In Korea, on the other hand, people don't like old things because everything there is old. New things are most precious and valuable. In America everything is relatively new, so anything which is 100 or 200 years old is very rare and precious. That is an interesting aspect of the human mind: if you don't have it, you want it. That is a very important part of living well, too, isn't it? To have something old, something new, something from east, west, north and south, and to live in harmony with all these things. Do you like to harmonize?

Can you imagine someone's face having to struggle to live in harmony? The eyes might be wide open but the ears might say, "We're tired, so we're going to close up and rest." Is that the ideal of living well for our face? When the eyes are wide open, the ears are open as well and the nose is also ready to receive smells. Each facial feature is eager to experience more things. Isn't that the way of living well for our face?

All the body parts cooperate to fulfill a specific need. When the mouth wants to taste something, the hands reach for it and guide the food to the mouth. Here we can see clearly that when one part wants to do something, every other part wants to participate. How sophisticated that process is! The more complicated the process, the more beautiful and satisfying the harmony. That is living well.

What is required for a religion to live well? Is it enough for one denomination to achieve something all by itself, excluding every other denomination? No, that is not really good enough. It is much better for them to embrace everybody else. But how complicated and difficult that is-to embrace all the different religions is the most complicated thing in the world. In that sense, what is the most complicated religion? It is the Unification Church. No matter how complicated the process, however, our goal is simple: unity.

Which is usually the more successful church, the one which does poor fund raising or the one which is good at fund raising? For the sake of the goal, Unification Church fund raisers work all day. You have to get up early in the morning and go out into the cold air. Pretty soon the sun comes out and warms you up. You might feel like complaining against the bitter cold morning air, but then you can think, "God wants to toughen me up with this. He wants to correct my complaining nature." Learning to control complaint is a great lesson. Opposite situations create harmony. Going from comfort to discomfort helps a person to be harmonized.

Do you all like me? You like me when I speak sweetly to you, but when I speak harshly, you don't like me, do you? Sweet words are good; they nourish the branches that are growing out from your tree. When I speak harshly, however, that nourishes the root which is coming down from your tree. Everybody appreciates the branches, but most people don't appreciate the root. Yet all the beautiful blossoms and branches come from the root.

Is it good for the Unification Church to encounter opposition from other churches? You have the opportunity to create a beautiful example of harmony when others persecute and hate you. When you feel no resentment in your heart and say, "You only do that because you don't understand. I still care for you and I do not hate you," that is a wonderful harmonizing action for you. For one man to hate and the other to love him in return is a beautiful historical incident. Do you understand?

The person who embraces and loves those who reject him will flourish; he will never perish. How have I become such a successful man? Was it by being welcomed and embraced, or by being opposed and rejected? Being rejected, opposed and persecuted and then becoming great is an accomplishment which no one can ever take away. The things I achieve will always be secure for this reason. From this perspective, what is the better way of life to live well by being persecuted, or by being welcomed? Be persecuted and grow; that is the better way of living.

Suppose someone walks up and slaps your face. Rather than striking back, you should think to yourself, "I wonder why he did that." You must have that kind of spacious mind. Just as Jesus taught, "When someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the left cheek." Ordinary people say, "If someone slaps me, I'll belt him." It's a reflex; people don't have any room to accommodate and think about such a thing. You must understand that when someone treats you harshly, you should treat him with the opposite attitude. When you do that, he will one day regard you as great.

Sometimes you feel so much pain from others' mistreatment, it is like a prickly needle in your heart. But by that experience, you feel something you never felt before and therefore you become a greater person. This is the way we must think all the time. Others may live well but never have this sort of thinking. Who is actually living better in that case? It is those who think in this manner. Isn't that true?

If a dull, plodding man marries a nervous, hysteria-prone woman, he has to maintain equilibrium. If he also became nervous, he could not survive. One person dwells at one extreme, and the other at the other extreme. It seems they could never tolerate each other's company. Yet suppose they manage to live together as man and wife for 20 or 30 years. By this coming together of extremes, they truly embody the ideal of living well together. A lot of people have different ideas of living well, depending upon what they enjoy doing.

I have been speaking for one hour and that was just the introduction! Now you can figure out the conclusion yourself.

Is God a lofty Being or a low one? Yes, He is the loftiest. God knows that all people, His children, have the desire to become high and lofty, just as He Himself is. God gave us this quality. Don't you think God feels inspired to see even a humble, poor man yearning to become great? When God sees us striving for greatness, He is excited. When we are in a low place, we have an even stronger desire to be higher. Isn't that the way people think?

That is the way the universe is-when one element reaches the apex, it has to go low again. Then when it reaches the lowest point, it naturally starts going up again. God is so mighty and high, yet He doesn't want to stay up high all alone. Sometimes He wants to come down to the lowest places. When there is a balance like this, the motion is eternal. When God comes down and we go up, God enjoys seeing that.

If a woman and a man have the same kind of thinking, it cannot be exciting for them. That is a mediocre way of life. If you women look at your husband and he is always the same, day after day, is that exciting? What is your idea of a happy life with your husband-to live in a mediocre, boring way, or for exciting things to happen all the time? It's really great to have a great man.

When a woman has a lot of children and raises them well, they are constantly coming to her and trying to talk to her, telling her how much they love her and competing for her attention. That is actually quite difficult for the mother. You can imagine such a crowd constantly pulling on your attention. You would get dizzy. Yet, isn't that the ultimate happiness?

If you are going to be a mother, do you want to be the worst or the best mother in the world? Certainly, you want to be the best. Therefore, which is better: to be the mother of ten or one hundred? What about a thousand? The more the better. The mother of a thousand children will feel sorrow and regret because she will not be able to take care of all of them all the time. That attitude reflects the most precious mind.

So which is better-to have a large number or a small number of children? You American women especially, please answer me. I recently discovered why many American women are prone to nervousness. It is because they don't have enough of an anchor line. They just drift one way and the next. They don't know where they are supposed to go. But when a woman has a lot of children, they are her anchor lines holding her and making her stable. The hysterical woman can't maintain a relationship with a man because she doesn't adjust herself to him. That kind of woman will give birth to inferior children. A woman needs to be round-minded.

God wishes for all the Unification Church couples to have more than three children. Each child represents a season of the year which lasts for three months. If you only have one child, that is like living always in one season. How sad for the mother to have only one season in the family. Jesus had twelve disciples to represent all the months and seasons. In that respect, the mother who can have twelve or more children can become the greatest queen by rearing all those children. They are like the textbook of life for the mother. She learns from each of them. Each child is a base for understanding the rest of humanity. When the mother meets someone, she can think, "He is like my third son, so I know how to relate with him." She has her own "reference library" at home by which to study and understand the human race. The mother who has reared many children well can have no evil within her.

Of course, that is not an easy task. Even handling one child is difficult, so having twelve or more is exhausting. Mind and body are always pulled and tired, you are always solving problems, offering consolation, constantly being pushed and pulled. But do you think this is a happy life? The smile of such a mother reflects twelve different directions. That smile is the richest, most beautiful smile. By contrast, another woman who never married may smile, too, but the difference between those smiles is like the difference between heaven and earth. Do you understand?

How would you prefer to live, with each race clustered together, excluding the other races? Or would you prefer to live all together, including everyone and every race? The second way is certainly the better way of living. Is that true? Are you sure? How fantastic it is to live with many different people and elements all together in harmony. The process of attaining harmony is difficult and painful, but in the end we can smile and laugh with joy.

I have always been inspired by the contrast in the face of a black man or woman. They have dark skin, dark eyes, but when they open their eyes widely they show off a flash of white. It would not be beautiful if the whites of their eyes were also dark. I have been fascinated by the beauty of that flash of white in an otherwise completely dark human body. That is a form of beauty possessed by no other race. Only in black people.

Black absorbs all the colors of the spectrum, while white reflects all the colors. When the colors are absorbed, they can then be projected. How beautiful and fantastic are black people. White people also have their beauty, but since they are reflecting the light they have a fuzzier outline, so to speak. Black and yellow, on the other hand, have a sharp clear outline. Therefore, every race and individual is attractive. No one is inferior.

The person who lives this kind of harmonized life may not have a lot of money, but his face will be crinkled with joyful smiles. How wonderful is this harmonizing way of life! Even though a man may not be able to eat breakfast, as long as his mind is joyful and focused on this way of harmony, he is far better off than some well-fed rich person whose life is miserable.

Where does happiness lie? It is everywhere, but it is up to us to find it by responding properly to life's situations. Let's have a show of hands of all the women here who wouldn't like to have a queen's position. Likewise, all you men who don't want to be a king, raise your hands. No one raises his hand in this case. But before we can become queens or kings, what do we have to do? We have to accept and admire all the children. Is that an easy or a hard job? It is not easy.

Do you all love me? Why? You all look different- white, black, Hispanic, and so forth-and you all think differently, which is even harder to deal with. For me to harmonize with all of you is very difficult, a very complicated situation. Sometimes I feel a lot of concern about how to lead this complicated, mixed-up generation into the future. These next three generations have to be led over the hill, so to speak, and that is the challenge. After ten generations, your descendants will be much more harmonized. At that point, it won't be so important to mix races and cultures together. White and white can marry then and, after ten generations of mixing, they might give birth to dark-skinned children, since the blood of the previous ten generations will have been mixed. You only have to think about these things, but I am seriously dealing with them. How complicated it is!

White and black are the two extremes. At this time, the white race needs help in order to be turned around and saved. They cannot help themselves or save themselves. When the Pilgrims came to this continent, whom did they encounter here? It was the Indians, the native Americans. Those Indians helped them very much and even saved them. If they had treated those newcomers harshly, the white people would have had no chance of survival. Think about how outnumbered they were by the Indians. Now in the present time, this nation is on the verge of perishing. White America could not solve the problems and therefore this Oriental man came and taught them how to change.

White people have rejected and oppressed all the colored peoples of the world-black, Hispanic, Oriental-yet those colored people are all helping the white people now. Reverend Moon and his followers came from the outside to help. The white people may seem to have all the wealth and positions, and they may be considered as living well. But we who are suffering and helping them are the ones who are actually living well, according to the universal, eternal viewpoint. Why is that? It is because we are going over all the difficulties, digesting them, and harmonizing with everything.

Within God are all the characteristics we see in human beings, but do you think God is more like the hysterical, nervous person or the slow, steady, person? Even when He hears something exciting, He doesn't just immediately spring out in response. He is very steady and even stolid. God's way is not so quick and immediate as human beings. This is also the greatness of the Oriental philosophy, the attitude called "chung yong," which is not really translatable. Basically it means taking the middle course. Right in the middle, no extreme.

Here in the United States, it is not unusual for someone to take a job and then to quit it as soon as he feels like it. Not only that, he may not even say good-bye to his employer. In Korea or the rest of the Orient, this is a terrible offense. People will always say good-bye and depart from a job with respect. This is another example of the way of the middle.

Do we need both hands or just one? We need both, but why? Without two, there can be no harmony; one hand cannot function properly. What is good can turn around and be bad sometimes, and vice-versa. That understanding influences the way of life of Orientals. Even when they laugh, Orientals never lose control and guffaw at the top of their voice. They always reserve something, so it is like a halfway expression. Even if an Oriental man has a lot of money, he will tell himself he only has a little. He is storing his money for the sake of the country.

Do I have a lot of money, or not? My pocket is always hungry, always in need of more, because the money I have belongs to all the world. Is it a good thing to be in debt? It is not good, but I owe a lot of money. For whose sake? It is for the sake of heaven and earth, for people and all things. I always accumulate as much money as I can so that I can spend it for the public purpose. So when you go into debt for that purpose, is it good or bad? Why is it good? That is the only way for the universe to be preserved. This is why the universe wants to preserve Reverend Moon now. This morning I spent some time talking with my children about this point.

Once again we ask who is living well. Suppose someone as rich as Mr. Rockefeller is persecuting Reverend Moon and hating him, while Reverend Moon is loving that person. Who is living well in that case? When you observe everything and everyone following Reverend Moon, you can conclude, "He must be living well."

You might say that America was living in perpetual sunlight when I came to this country and introduced the night time. Yet only by harmonizing night and day can this country be preserved and endure successfully. Is America a rich or poor country? Should the world help America, or should this country help the world? Certainly, this rich country should help the world. By the same token, should America help or oppose Reverend Moon? This country has been opposing me, but even now, I am holding tightly onto the United States and preventing it from perishing. It is not yet obvious to everyone what I am doing, but in the future people will recognize it. It will become much more clear.

What are we doing? We are suffering people working for the happiness of those who are not suffering. Unhappy people helping happy people. It sounds absurd, but that is the way of living well. When you encounter difficulty, always look down and not up. Then you will see those with even greater difficulties. When you look upward and see those with all the things you lack, you can't learn. But you can learn from those who are lower and more miserable than you. Look at the oppressed and poor people of the world and recognize, "I am much better off than they." You can have the confidence that you will one day be able to live as well as anyone, even though your present situation is difficult.

Therefore, you black people should not be sad or complain against your difficult situation. Instead, watch the white people and how full of complaint they are in spite of their comfortable situation. Say to yourself, "I am worse off than they, but because I can live without complaint, I am actually living better." Sometimes the black people are not motivated enough, but you black people in the Unification movement must be very diligent. There are many ways to become better, to improve.

Is Reverend Moon a man of success or failure? You say success, but how do you prove it? What is the greatest result? You can see that I am successful because I came from a tiny country and worked here to help this gigantic nation. Now there are people of every race in this nation following my teaching. How many of you here ever wept because you missed seeing me? You have done that because of love.

Love is not clean and easy, is it? The United States has everything, including great religious leaders like Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham. Those leaders certainly speak better English than I! Yet you are all here with me. Why? Which river is greater, a long river or a short one? I came here from a remote area and traveled a long road. Do you suppose my journey was a happy one, or was it filled with difficulties? The river of Reverend Moon's life has a lot of history and a lot of sections in it. After traveling so long, I am preparing to go to the ocean, which is the spirit world.

This river, which we call the True Parents, is the true ancestor of all those to follow. After you came to this river, you learned about history. You know what to expect in the future, you have learned about your present situation. But other religions, like short rivers, get stuck and then stop. The Unification Church is composed of people with great talent and genius from all different origins and backgrounds. That's you! You people of talent have joined with me because I, too, am a man of talent. It is natural.

Are there more things which I do, or more things which I don't do? Ask yourself, is there anything that Reverend Moon doesn't do? I can do any sort of occupation. What if God decided to change my mode of life? You don't know what God might do or what He might require of me. What is the strongest whiskey available in this country? Suppose I started drinking such strong alcohol, taking swigs from one bottle and then another, and became totally drunk. Then while I was drinking so many liquids, I would naturally have to relieve myself Would you say, "Well, he used to be good, but I don't think he is anymore." How many of you would still follow me if I was drinking? If that were the only way to open the golden heavenly gates wide so that everyone in the world could come in, it would have to be done. Certainly, God would command such drastic things to be done if that happened to be the only way to open up heaven. Well, it's possible. In God, anything is possible.

By just looking at each of you, I can discern what you are thinking. Do I like exciting or mediocre things? Even when a person is old, does he still like excitement? When I get very old and weak, I may not be able to walk upright, but still I want to have an exciting life. Regardless of how old I may get, do you think I will be old or young? That is my problem! Even now I am working very hard. I have been standing up here and talking for almost three hours, not even thinking about the time passing. Nevertheless, don't you think my legs hurt?

People follow many different paths and ways of life, but the greatest way of life is to adjust to all the different people and situations in the world. Harmonizing and digesting all this and then living well is the greatest life.

Let's consider God. Is God living well now? People are constantly crying out to Him, "Oh, help me, please help me!" Does God enjoy hearing that all the time? What does God feel, however, when He hears someone praying strongly, "I will help You, Father. Please let me do whatever I can for You." God is so consoled by that kind of prayer. It is the first time in human history that God has heard such prayers.

Many theologians have been claiming that God is dead. Now it is time for us to stand up and shout, "What are you talking about? God is alive and well!" We must push that God-is-dead theology into the ocean. God will say, "Go ahead and correct that theologian, but please don't push him into the ocean." Suppose you accidentally hurt that wrong-thinking person. God would say, "It was an accident, so you are not to blame."

If you feel that you are an unhappy person, please raise your hand. You mean you are all happy people? In spite of all the hardships you endure and all the harsh treatment I give to you, are you still happy? That is true faith.

I have this attitude toward God: "No matter what You do to me, I will believe in You. No matter what kind of treatment Satan inflicts upon me, I will accept it and digest it. I won't refuse anything." Through that way of thinking, I came to know Satan's secret and his characteristics. Also, I came to know the character of God.

I watch everything with great interest. There is nothing that does not interest me. I see the things which are really bad in this country and I always tell myself, "There has to be something good behind that." When I see people indulging in free sex, I feel outraged and it is such an impossible thing to deal with. Yet, I know that there is some meaning and reason for people doing that. Then I realize that they are looking for true sex. That is 180 degrees different from free sex. So even though free sex is so bad, the right, good way is exactly behind it.

Look at those people called Hell's Angels. Whoever behaves 180 degrees opposite from them must be Heaven's Angels. They will be the ones to sweep away Hell's Angels.

Good and evil are not so different at their starting point. Goodness begins at one point, moves in a circular motion and completes the circle at the beginning point. Evil, on the other hand, starts at the same point but becomes twisted and turns and does not move in a circle. For goodness to happen, there must be a stable axis. Law is that axis. If your actions are in accordance with the law, then you are accepted, but if you deviate from the law, you are not accepted. If that axis which moves things in the universe is in the wrong position, the universe could not exist. Do you follow? That axis never changes.

We see this in reality. When an emergency arises in a country, such as a war, particularly desperate action needs to be taken, so desperate people have to be recruited for that. Some convicted murderer may be chosen from prison to take on a special mission for the country. There have been movies, such as "Dirty Dozen" and "Guns of Navarrone," about this point. Do you understand?

Getting back to our topic, when we see a person who can dwell harmoniously in any sort of society, we say he is living well. Whether he is in white or black society, he lives with harmony and acceptance.

You white people are sitting here on this cold floor without any chairs. Is that what you call living well? Isn't that living poorly? Why not? It is good because it trains you to adapt to the Oriental way of life. I have observed many Westerners sitting on the floor in front of me, and sometimes they extend their legs. Just one leg is not so bad, but both legs is considered a total breach of etiquette in the Orient. Anyone who does that in Korea is almost considered less than human. The master of the house in which such an offense occurs will tell his own children later, "Don't you ever do that!" You are learning how to digest and harmonize with the Oriental way, so that is living well.

If you learn to control your temper, striving to be considerate to everyone, you will become the center of the society in which you dwell. This is good advice, particularly for you American women. That is because you don't understand how to follow the middle path. You so often tend to be extreme, expressing everything you feel. If a woman claims herself too much, she becomes isolated. But when you are the kind of person who listens to others, the talkative people will come and bow down to you in humility. Be a listener rather than a talker. Those who are more silent will have dominion over those who talk too much.

Also, those who laugh immoderately are going to be controlled by others who are more reserved. Remember the middle path. Have you ever observed an Oriental woman being chastised by her husband? Even though he yells at her, she pretends she is not listening. You might wonder how she can do that. But what happens? Eventually, that woman has control over her husband. Those who can keep silent are formidable persons.

What do you think? Is God a talkative, immoderate type, or a silent, formidable person? Then would God be moving around all the time, or is He stable and unmoving?

Which wild animal sleeps without worrying about being attacked by other animals? It is the lion. The lion can even sleep stretched out on his back on high ground, unafraid of any other creatures who might approach him. If a rabbit sat on high ground like that, he wouldn't last long, particularly in broad daylight. The lion sleeps all day long, but then at night he wakes up hungry and growls. He wakes up the whole countryside with his roar, and when he moves, he moves very swiftly. If lions are like that, what about God? God is the Being of absolute power, so why should He be nervous or in a hurry? For God, one thousand years can pass without His saying even one word.

During the 43 years in my lifetime from 1945 to 1988, everything was progressing very slowly. How tedious and difficult it was. Those were very long years. This year at the World Media Conference there were journalists from China, Russia, and many other nations. Their applause for my work was truly from their heart. Did that momentous event come about easily? Has the time changed, and has a new time arrived? Yes, but how many years have I worked, how much have I waited for this time?

To you, 43 years might seem an impossible time to persevere, but when I look at God's eternity, even those bitter 43 years is as nothing. My ordeal will always be less than God's, and that is always how I look at it. Ten times 43 equals 430 years; ten times that is 4300. To fulfill the indemnity for 430 years in just 43 means that those years must be ten times more saturated with suffering. It has taken God 4300 providential years and still He has not been able to completely achieve the victory. Because I have only one life, I had to do it within 43 years. Otherwise, I could not have done it. Could I do it within my life span? That was the question.

No matter what happened, I decided I would never complain. If I had, I would not have been able to continue. Whatever happened, I had to persevere. So my life is never monotonous, never simple. It has been very complicated in many different ways. During that 43-year period of my life, I had to resolve all the conditions that were never resolved during human history, including the basic problems of Adam's family. That means my family had to relive those problems and solve them according to God's will. Likewise, Abraham's family and situation had to be resolved. I had to relive each biblical indemnity point and succeed where perhaps 100 people had failed before.

Since I successfully represented all those biblical families, I could truly represent human history in front of God. Therefore, the conclusion is that to God, Reverend Moon's value is unique in history. But have any of you really treated me that way? Suppose Moses were to appear from spirit world, with his beard and stern demeanor, and stood next to me. You are so accustomed to seeing and hearing me. Which of us would you respect more?

When you read Jesus' sermon on the mount or the lessons he taught his disciples, you feel awe. Yet, have you ever really considered the fact that you are here? Have you ever been awestruck by this circumstance? Have you truly felt more valuable because of your historic position? That is a very serious question. Are you aware of the sacredness and seriousness of your anointed mission?

If you were in my position, would you want your disciples to be more serious or less serious than you? The teacher wants serious disciples. When I spoke last time, I stated that if the United States did not fulfill its responsibility, then Korea and the other nations in the line would be called upon, up to five countries. Failure by the United States, England, France, and Adam's country gave rise to communistic countries. God could not take back His territory by Himself. His son had to come and reclaim it and dedicate it to God. What God loses can only be restored by His son. It was Abel's responsibility to restore Cain. To totally indemnify 4300 years of failure of relationship within 43 years could never be easy or simple. Do you understand?

When this restoration by the son is done, God cannot tell him what to do, or teach him point by point how to do it. That is because it is the area of indirect dominion, so God cannot dominate directly. Do you think it was easy or simple to find the way and to actually go that way, bringing other people around? How difficult it is. The only logical conclusion is that I have to become more serious than God and be willing to embrace more difficulty than God to be able to achieve that. The way was so difficult that, after a point, Satan didn't bother with me any more. He went around and tried to block my way, but he never came close to me; he couldn't tag along because it was so difficult.

Now we come to the conclusion. Somebody has to take responsibility for history. The people who can do that are those who are willing to do more difficult things than anyone else in history. To be responsible for America means taking care, not of the good things but of the bad, ugly, deepest problems. That is what we have to take responsibility for if we want to take responsibility for America.

When you see some evil in this country, such as the prostitutes who congregate on 38th Street, don't pass by and say, "That has nothing to do with me." Rather you should think, "I am going to have enough influence to clean up those people and restore them within ten years." That means you have to be able to teach those prostitutes the Divine Principle. Suppose you invited one of those women to a lecture, and you and she were the only people in the room. Don't you suppose she would try to seduce you? Are you strong enough to resist such temptation? You must think of her as your sister or your daughter and have the heart to educate her. Because of that heart, you would be able to change such a woman. Then someday she, too, will want to go out and teach others as you taught her.

If you pledge to clean up those dirty areas of New York within ten years, what sort of life must you lead during that time? It must be a most committed, serious life. Every single day you have to do something to fulfill that pledge. But those difficult days are the elements of a well-lived life. Do you understand?

That is my conclusion. Better than living a happy life ourselves, we must live to make other people happy. That is truly living well. When we are living this way, the more intensely difficult our life is, the better we are living. I have a dream that one American woman someday will make this commitment: Y want to live under the most severe mother-in-law." Then that woman's life will be great; she will be the eternal textbook for other women who have difficulty with their mothers-in-law. How does that sound? Is that woman living well or miserably? By the same token, a woman might volunteer, "Give me the worst man as my husband, and I will restore him to the best person." By spending her whole life doing that, she will have lived well.

Reverend Moon came to America and pledged, "I will reform Christianity here. I will solve the youth problem. I will take care of eliminating communism in the world." Those formidable problems were beyond any government or agency to solve. Did I provide the solutions or not? As a result of my work, young people who were living according to the free sex philosophy have changed and are now responsible persons. We can now have absolute confidence to win over communism. Likewise, you young people here are confident to reach out to Christians and liberate them from decline. Therefore, you are all part of the textbook which Reverend Moon has written here.

You know that following me and my teaching will bring about liberation for you and the rest of the world. That is why you are able to spread this message to others. But it was not an easy path. Do you say, "Well, Father is Father so it was easy for him"? No, I have lived a very difficult life, but I have lived very well.

Not only members of the Unification Church but also other people in the United States have seen Reverend Moon's textbook and they are following it. That is the only way for them to live. Therefore, did Reverend Moon do well, or not? But behind that victory, how many bitter experiences did I have to live through? The meaning of doing well is handling difficulties. History is evolving and we have to live accordingly. That is living well, too.

Those who will say, "For the rest of my life, I will follow the pattern which Father has taught in order to live well," please raise your hands. I don't need to explain any more to you today about why you should live well. Let us pray.

This Is The Time Of Change

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Belvedere
April 1, 1989
Translator - Peter H. Y. Kim

Do you see any difference in the world now and when I went back to Korea last time? What changes do you see?

We are not aware of the exact turning point between one season into another. No one can discern the precise moment when spring changes into summer, for instance. Within a single day, unless we are looking at a watch, we don't notice the one second's difference between morning and afternoon. By the same token, people are not aware of the change of the dispensational time period, but we are living in a different time now.

The most highly developed religions of the past usually were centered on men, and women were more or less left out. Women were not responsible to run any religious organizations. Why was that the case? It is because history has been looking for the central person, the Messiah, from the individual level to the family, tribal, society, national, and worldwide level. The Messiah should come as a man.

Because of the fall of man, Satan has been the owner of this world. History could never find the perfected man. In other words, no man could ever reach the original plus position. That means man couldn't take rightful dominion over this world. The world is divided into the plus and minus sides. All creatures exist within the pair system, including the mineral, plant, and animal worlds. When Adam and Eve fell, the pair system was broken in the human world. That means the proper plus and minus relationship was destroyed. God's providence became that of re-creation, and it was centered upon restoring Adam. God was starting over to make the true plus person for the first time.

The fallen world has never had a person who represents the true plus. Such a person is necessary for the restoration and salvation of the world. We call that true plus person the Messiah. What is the mission of the Messiah? He has to create the condition for a true minus to come into being. All the fallen men and women living in this world right now are the result of a failure. Does that include the president of the United States? No matter how famous or successful any kings or presidents may be, they are all results of a failure.

As history progressed, God raised up various types of plus persons within different cultures and religious backgrounds. That is why we have seen lots of different religions in the world. When people followed low-level religions such as shamanism, they believed in horizontal spirits, or gods. They didn't have any vertical relationship with the one, true God. That's why those religions didn't have a straight moral standard. In other words, they didn't have any connection to the vertical standard of God, so they were controlled by Satan. From that, we can see clearly how important the true vertical standard is. Without it, there is no true concept of man and woman, plus and minus. That is why people could live like animals and experience so much confusion. We see so much moral confusion now at the last days: free sex, the "gay rights" movement, and so forth. All these activities are being led by Satan and evil spirits.

In the animal world, certain types of male animals will fight fiercely to win the best females. The females don't fight among themselves because the male is subject. But in the world of human beings, you don't find any true champion of man. That true champion should be the Messiah.

As you know from the Bible, woman was created from Adam's rib. That means woman was copied from man, so to speak. Many American women try to control their husbands and sons, but that is not the vertical way. The husband or father represents the vertical connection. The elder son represents the right side, and the mother's place is the left side. That means she cannot control the vertical and she cannot control the elder son. These are not my words, this is the original Principle viewpoint. You American women need to know this point.

According to Oriental tradition, if a woman isn't able to produce children, she may be kicked out of the family. The first priority for a married woman is to bear children. Woman is like a field to receive the seed. That's why you are biologically different from man. Are those differences for your own sake, or for your children? Women's physical characteristics allow her to bear and nurse children.

By raising children, a woman is able to understand God. When a woman understands the significance and value of her husband and then they have a child, their relationship establishes the vertical relationship. On the other hand, a man is supposed to love his wife and daughters, just as he loves God and his own father. In that way the power of love can be circulated in your family.

Because women themselves do not have seeds, they have to receive them from the man. When a wife receives the seed from her husband, a miracle takes place there: either a son or a daughter. The mother provides the flesh of a child, and the father provides the bones. Each person's basic shape is determined by his bone structure, which is from the father.

As females grow up, they start thinking about having children. On the other hand, when males grow up, they tend to think about the world and the universe. This is because man represents God, who is seen as our father, while the earth is represented as a mother. Women have a tendency to desire material goods; they yearn for beautiful and colorful things. Instead of looking upward toward God, they tend to look down to the earth. A man, on the other hand, has the tendency to look up for something bigger and greater.

When you look at something, do your eyes work together or do they go in separate directions? Why don't they move separately? It is because they are internally united. The eyes represent God. Therefore, when you look into somebody's eyes, you can see whether he has a good conscience or not. You need your ears, nose, and mouth, but your eyes are the center point of the face. The mouth, with its horizontal opening, represents earth. The nose represents Adam and Eve, who connect heaven and earth. That's why as a child grows, his nose is the last thing to develop on the face. This is more obvious on the face of young Orientals because their face is more flat.

You should have good-looking eyes, mouth and nose. When you look at somebody's face, you should be able to draw a good, solid triangle between the two eyes and the mouth. The nose needs to be proportioned properly to create good balance on the face. Suppose your nose was wider at the bridge than at the bottom. What a funny, unbalanced face that would be! Even with all this balance, suppose you had hair in the wrong places, covering a portion of the forehead.

Particularly for a woman, having a big mouth and thin lips is a problem. She tends to be a troublemaker who talks fast, like a machine gun. Your face shape usually represents your character. If you didn't have a nose, your eyes would look down at your mouth every time you spoke. In order to prevent the eyes from being constantly distracted by the mouth, God placed the nose in between as a buffer, high enough to block the view. Even if your eyes try to look down at the shape of the mouth, all they can see is the tip of the nose. Think about it. How busy your eyes would be if you didn't have a nose! It's no accident. God's scientific calculations were behind the way all things were created.

You should have nicely-shaped ears. If a child has large earlobes, which signify his relationship to the physical world, it shows that his childhood and his life will be pretty smooth. In the animal world, the weaker creatures usually have big ears because they need to be able to listen well and avoid their predators. People with big ears are often involved in the arts, such as music, and they may be able to run fast. Deer and rabbits can run fast. They have big ears and long legs. Their body structure is balanced for their purpose of life.

When you look at black people, usually they have wider and shorter noses because of the hot weather their ancestors lived in. When hot air comes in, there is no need for a long nostril to warm it up. On the other hand, white people have narrower and longer nostrils for the opposite reason. Their ancestors were living in the colder climates, and they needed to heat up the air as it came into their nose. Therefore, nobody should have racist attitudes because of such bodily distinctions. They are all because of natural law.

When you look at animals, you don't find very many snow white ones. Most animals have a brownish color. That is because the color of the earth is brown. In order to protect themselves, the animals blend in with the earth by taking on a brown coloration. Do you think brown is closer to white or black? Certainly it is closer to black. That's why, in order to adjust to nature, animals and all those people who lived in the hot climates have a tendency to be darker colored. They had more sunshine. Is lots of sunshine good for you? Sunshine is healthy. White people didn't receive as much sunshine as the black people.

In terms of health differences, who are stronger and generally healthier? If black people and white people live together in the same conditions for a long time, blacks will be stronger than whites. Just look at the top athletes in this country.

Look at the distribution of life on the planet earth. Do you find more animals at the North Pole or in the tropical areas? More dwell in the tropical areas because there are no restrictions. Animals can move around there for 24 hours of the day. The animals who are constantly moving around can run faster than others. Black people have hips shaped a certain way, which is different from white people and Orientals. Many black people are able to run faster than other people because of this aspect of their body shape. That is because their ancestors used to run a lot and needed a body shaped that way. The black people in the tropics used to take the fruit from the trees, just as the monkeys and other animals do.

White people originated from the North Pole, so white people have the tendency to kill and eat animals. The white cultures have killed a lot of people. What about the black cultures? Black people who lived in the tropical areas used mostly fruits as their food.

White people generally eat a lot of meat, seeds and nuts. When you crack open a nut, it has a white color. This is due to the great amount of oil and fat within. One of the reasons Caucasians have pale skin is that they eat a lot of oily, whitish foods such as nuts. In the tropics, there is an abundance of fruit, but you don't see many nuts growing there. The black people usually eat the entire tropical fruit-the skin and every part of it.

Oriental people mostly eat grains and vegetables. That is why they are built differently from Western people. Westerners tend to have broad, well-developed upper bodies and narrow lower bodies, while Orientals are built more like a straight tree trunk. They have rather short legs in proportion to the rest of their body.

Nowadays people are able to dwell in virtually any kind of climate or weather, thanks to technological advancements. Even so, people generally do not dwell in the coldest or hottest climates. Most people are concentrated in the temperate zones of the earth, which represent the spring or autumn-type areas. Spring and autumn share many similarities-mild temperatures, windy days, and so forth-but the fact is that they are opposite from one another. Why do people prefer spring or autumn? In spring you see everything in bloom; in autumn you harvest.

What about the north and south poles? They are the points of axis. Great variations of temperature and a moderate climate do not exist there. While civilizations and cultures have expanded in the east-west direction, the south and north areas have not prospered as much. The tropical areas of the southern hemisphere and the north, represented by Russia, are becoming poorer and poorer, while east and west are becoming richer. The ideal situation would be for the distance between north and south, east and west to be about the same. Both should enjoy circular give and take. But now there is a big, fat east and west, and a small, weak north and south. This disparity in wealth and development is a major world problem.

Between east and west, where is the original point? The east represents the giving culture, while the west is the receiving culture. Although the east has been providing spiritual food to the west, the materialistic west has dominated the east. The wealth-centered, materialistic culture has used deductive reasoning to understand its causes-going from result back to cause. But the Eastern culture is opposite, with its inductive reasoning: it starts from the origin and expands from there.

When do you think east and west can become one? Western culture has come to the point of virtually denying the existence of God. That's why they only see the physical bodies of man and woman, and they don't see the ideal for human beings. Western culture can't come up with the ideal character through its deductive reasoning, but with the inductive method, you have to acknowledge God as the origin.

How do you think man should live? Should we be centered on material things or spiritual values? What is the next step? Is spiritual value enough? The spirit represents the center, like the bones of the body which determine your shape. Our hands have their particular shape because of their bone structure. Why do we have lines in our palms? It is because of the movement of the hands, which is determined by our bones. If you lose some of your skin or flesh, it can grow back, but once a bone is lost, it is lost. That's why spirit alone is not complete. Bones need the flesh to cover them.

God divided this world between east and west, representing bones and flesh. The west said, "Let's just keep our flesh," while the east said, "Our bones are sufficient." Now a God-centered religion has emerged out of the eastern, spiritual culture and is trying to dominate the western world which is centered on the flesh and ruled by Satan. As we attack and push Satan aside, we develop and increase the power of religion.

Traditionally, the highest religions have called upon their most devout followers to abandon material wealth in favor of a spiritual life. Eastern culture has tended to neglect material wealth in favor of spiritual values. But the western religion, Christianity, has been accumulating material wealth and now they are living more comfortably. The message of Jesus Christ grew and prospered first in the European area, then it traveled to the American continent and the Pacific Ocean, eventually coming to the Far East. So Christianity received the entire wealth of the world and has been carrying it to the East.

God's desire is for man to unite mind and body into one. The Unification Church is the only religion in history to advocate bringing together material wealth and spiritual values; we value and emphasize both, not abandoning one for the other. In reality, America, centered on Christianity, should have been able to bring together material wealth and also the Eastern spiritual culture and values. However, Christianity in America failed to do that. That is why Reverend Moon came here with the Unification Church and introduced Unification theology, which teaches the value of both the material and the spiritual. I have been working to recreate this country.

The world should unite into one harmonious family. In order to do that, we form interracial, international marriages centered on the love of God. That's why we see in the Unification Church that western people have a tendency to prefer eastern spouses, and vice-versa. The trend in the rest of the world is for western people to go to the east.

You can see that the functions and characteristics of bone and flesh are very different. Therefore, western people who represent material wealth, or the flesh, should start to focus on a life of faith, whereas eastern people who represent the bone, or the spiritual life, should appreciate the material world more. East and west are meeting now. West should provide material to the east, while the east brings spiritual value to the west.

The Unification Church in Korea has been suffering both materially and spiritually. Western wealth should come and help Korea now. Eastern and western culture are both in the harvesting time.

Only those people who can deal with 12 distinctive characters and personalities will be able to join the True Parents' family as in-laws. Jesus Christ tried to deal with 12 different characters and types of people through his disciples. He was constantly serving them. At the Last Supper, Jesus knelt and washed the feet of his disciples. Twelve disciples times six equals 72 disciples. As a Unification Church member, you should be able to harmonize with all twelve of the distinct kinds of characters. At the same time, each member should gain twelve spiritual children by going back to our hometown. Six represents the number of Satan. Since we lost that number, we have to restore it in order to make 72. And 12 times six equals 72. Twelve plus 72 equals 84. We have to restore this number.

To be qualified to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, you should be welcomed by at least 84 blessed couples, no matter what circumstances you may be in. Only then can you go where Jesus Christ dwells now. Do you follow? Another way to derive 84 is to multiply the 12 months of a year by the 7 years' course.

All the numbers from one to ten must belong to God and no longer to Satan. We must restore number seven by offering ourselves entirely to God through this missionary work. No complaints, no personal opinions should be injected. The Israelites lost their country in 700 AD, representing the loss of the number seven. Once we restore number seven, it expands to the level of 70, 700, and 7,000, representing all of human history. Do you follow?

God is giving you the great privilege that, instead of spending 70 years to fulfill your conditions, you can do it in seven years. If you had to go through all 70 years living the restricted life which is the standard of the Unification Church, you couldn't even marry. How could we ever produce children? In the past, the highest religions practiced celibacy, such as Buddhist monks and Catholic priests, but this is the time when True Parents have come with the Blessing. Just by going through the seven years' course, we can indemnify 70, 700 and the entire 7,000 years.

Do you understand why this seven years' course was given to you? Without fulfilling it, when you go to the spirit world, you will be told, "You did not succeed!" You leaders here, do you understand the meaning of the seven years' course? What do we have to do in the seven years? We have to restore the material which was lost to Satan. You should devote the first 3 1/2 years to the restoration of the material world. You also have to restore yourself spiritually, pulling yourself out of Satan's dominion, so that you can belong to God. That's the meaning of the second half of the course. You have to focus on witnessing for 3 1/2 years in order to restore yourself. To begin with, you need three spiritual children and then 12. The three represent the archangels, and the 12 represent Jacob's children, the twelve tribes. Jesus had three main disciples out of the twelve.

Do you understand the meaning of the seven years' course? Have you overcome Satan? Are your mind and body united and centered upon God now? In order to deny Satan, you must deny yourself

100%. The best way is by enduring hardship willingly. Start from the servant of servants' level and then go up. There are eight different divisions both horizontally and vertically. From the servant of servants, to servant, then adopted son, stepson, son, mother, father. Eight levels all the way up to God. Horizontally, it is individual, family, tribe, and BO on. We must go through that and overcome it. That's the Principle way.

No matter how famous or successful you may be, you still have to go through this course. That is the only way you can be admitted into Heaven. Do you understand? Have you been in the position of servant of servants, like a beggar on the street? You go out to the street and raise funds while enduring persecution and mistreatment, and then you must return that money to the church. You can get back what you need from the church, but you shouldn't keep it for yourself.

This message is given for the first time to mankind. You can't find it in any library in the world. Who can explain the relationship between east and west in such a way? God and True Parents and also Satan know this truth. Are you Western brothers and sisters willing to sell your own house and car and marry some poor Oriental and live together in harmony? What about you people with Ph.D.s? Are you men willing to marry a poor, uneducated Oriental woman and live with her happily? No matter the circumstances, the west must follow the east. If you deny this trend, your life will become miserable. Wait and see. Instead of a seven years' course, your descendants may have to spend 700 years.

There is a cultural gap between east and west, as well as a great material gap between north and south. Because of that, I am embracing all twelve different human characters. At East Garden, the staff consists of more than twelve different nationalities. I never criticize or scold any individuals at East Garden. I could spend 24 hours a day pointing out things and explaining to the staff how they could improve, but I never say anything. I feel that if they stick with me for three years, copying what I am doing and trying to reach my standard, they will eventually be revived. I ask you East Garden staff members here, was anyone called personally by me and scolded? Even though I could criticize, I don't. In that way, I am the most likable person in the world but, at the same time, the most feared.

I do not lead and teach people primarily by speaking to them but rather by showing them the way. This has been true throughout my life and I will continue this way. Think about it. The people at East Garden are rather constricted in their lifestyle. They don't dance, sing, or do lots of things they might like. Your life is the same.

Within three generations, your descendants should be married to all three races. That is why, when I selected a spouse for Kook Jin Nim, it wasn't from the 36 blessed couples, 72, or 120, but rather from the 436 couples. As you know, at the last Blessing, thousands of Koreans and Japanese were matched to one another. Soon you will see that many thousands of Orientals and Westerners in the secular world will be marrying.

Since the chief enemies of America during World War II were Germany and Japan, perhaps Americans should only marry Germans and Japanese now. Wouldn't that be logical in order to secure an east/west relationship centered on God? In the future, within three generations 12 different nationalities and tribes will be living together. What language will your family use? Suppose the grandfather speaks English, the father speaks German, and the child Japanese. How could they all communicate? That would be a problem. How complicated it might be!

You might solve the problem by having 12 different language libraries. Is that ideal? How can we combine into one language? Who can do this, the British grandfather or the German father? Nobody can do this but the True Parents because they are the original ancestors. That's why you must study Korean. If you don't do that now, your descendants will have to pay the price. If each generation gives birth to ten or twelve children, after ten generations, the descendants would number one billion! Then what will be the model for your descendants? Which is more traditional? It is the central root and branch. So you've got to be centered on the main, central branch and root. That is the original ancestors and their direct descendants. Isn't that true? The central branch is True Parents' straight lineage. That's the way your families and life will develop.

Why did the True Parents come from Korea? As you heard in my speech last time, the fallen Eve country dominated the Adam country for 40 years. In regard to the vertical relationship, that of father and son, Korea is the only country which is divided between north and south. On the other hand, you can see that Germany is divided between east and west, representing the horizontal, side-by-side relationship. If these two countries-Germany and Korea-become united, then the entire world will become unified.

West Germany, the democratic society, represents Adam who belongs to God. East Germany represents Soviet Russia, Satan's side. They should unite and become one nation. Adam on Heaven's side is represented by the country of Korea, whereas Adam on Satan's side is represented by Germany. The satanic Adam country is divided into east and west, while the heavenly Adam country is divided vertically between north and south. The heavenly Adam country has the responsibility to help the satanic Adam country become unified. Therefore, South Korea should be connected to West Germany and North Korea to East Germany. Then the entire world will be divided between north and south, east and west. Eventually the world will be unified.

The key is the reunification of north and south Korea. You can see the similarities. In North Korea, there is one person, Kim Il Sung, who is considered the "father" of the people. Kim Il Sung recently tried to pass on his position to his son, instead of following communist laws and having an election. This is a reflection of Satan's side trying to mimic the heavenly way in advance of God's side.

This is the time of great change in the world. You have to understand what is happening. At any given time in the past, one central figure was solely responsible, but now it is a different time. This is the time that the family as a unit is responsible. The returning Messiah has to establish a family and expand it to the tribal, national and worldwide levels. By the same token, this is the time that each individual must work within the family unit and expand it to the nation and world. The family foundation was lost at Jesus' time because of opposition and persecution, but now you are not facing that sort of difficulty. Now we can restore the family foundation. In order to do that as a family unit, we go back to teach our relatives and in-laws, eventually claiming the tribal level messiahship.

That's why you have gone out as a family to fulfill the mission of tribal messiah. You are not working as individual leaders but as fathers and mothers with families. Twelve people will belong to your family. You will be restoring 20 years of Adam and Eve through the formation, growth and perfection years. When you gain 40 members, 20 men and 20 women, that will represent ten couples. Number 10 is the perfection level. When your membership increases to 40, then divide. Four represents the four directions. Those who fulfill this tribal messiahship by expanding numbers like that will be the ones who will become the leaders of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

The world will turn around quickly now. People equipped with Unification ideology will certainly become the leaders of the coming world. The concept of nationality-American, Japanese, and so forth-doesn't count anymore. Those concepts only exist before you are married and engrafted. Once you are engrafted, you all live on the same root, the same tree. After you are blessed, you must learn the language of your in-laws. If you don't, you will go through hardship.

Now, again, this is the turning point from the traditional time period. I have already established the foundation by paying a tremendous amount of indemnity on my own for your sake. Now you have to fulfill your own responsibility.

On the ideological level, Unification Thought is number one. No other ideology will be able to compete. Once our own nation is restored, no other nation will be able to compete with us. Our tribes will be the best. Korean people are outstanding. That's why they are always making trouble, in a good sense, for people elsewhere. Until 10 or 15 years ago, there were not many Koreans in other countries; only about 130,000 lived in the United States. But now there are over 300,000 Koreans in the New York area alone. Some sections along Broadway and Fifth Avenue, and parts of Flushing, Queens, have been virtually taken over by Koreans. Korean billboards and store signs are everywhere. This kind of thing is happening even in South America. Koreans have become a problem!

Koreans are troublemakers, but not for evil; they make trouble for a good purpose. Koreans are causing problems in an external way in this country, while internally and spiritually, Reverend Moon has become a huge controversy. Yet I look back and see that more and more people are following me every day. It's a strange thing! Who made that happen? I didn't do it. God did it.

In this time of restoration, interracial and international marriage is very important. When your children and grandchildren are black, white and yellow, how could you ever criticize anyone on the basis of their race? God wants to see that time

come, so I am working to make that happen. Without such mixing, there is no way to unify the entire world. Regardless of your skin color, do you prefer to choose your own spouse, or do you want me to choose? That means the unified world will be created if you will just be patient for a couple of generations. You are young now, but once you are 70 or so, you may see that happening.

Do you see any other religious movement in the world which advocates and emphasizes marriage and family the way we do? The Unification Church is the strongest in that respect. Therefore, we must go out and take responsibility to fulfill and expand the messiahship. Once you restore the tribal messiahship, you will be able to inherit the vertical True Parents' and the horizontal True Parents' accomplishments. Otherwise, there is no way.

You might imagine Jesus Christ living in this time. He would first restore his family and then go out and restore his tribe, the Israelites. That is the responsibility you are given now. You are in that position. Do you understand? You are indemnifying Jesus Christ's inability to stand as the tribal messiah. I have already paid enough indemnity to restore the worldwide level messiahship, so you can automatically inherit that, once you restore the tribal messiahship. In other words, you are now restoring what Jesus Christ couldn't, the tribal messiahship, and at the same time inheriting what the Second Coming has accomplished during the last 40 years. You can inherit that cosmic level.

In order to do that, the persecution and suffering of Jesus have to be indemnified, as well as the past 40 years of persecution. Just as Jacob's path was supposed to be restored by the Israelites, and Jesus' path was supposed to be restored by Christianity, my 40-year course has to be restored by the Unification Church membership. Once you restore the tribal messiahship, I am ready to bequeath everything I have to you. There will be no opposition or blockage to that. Do you understand?

No obstacles lie in your path now. As you put your effort into it, you will naturally be able to establish your family, tribe and so on, prospering all the way to the cosmic level. Once the messiahship is connected with True Parents, there is a natural expansion.

We can see now that the trend in the world is for communism to become more capitalistic and for the free world to become more socialistic. It is a crossing point. For example, the United States is taxing the income of some people by as much as 70 or 80 percent. That is close to socialism. The second generation of both the communist and free world are claiming that they can't trust their elders-the government leaders and their parents. They see the way the elder generation has been living; it is lower than the animal world. They want new leaders.

The crime of incest has become prevalent in this country. Grandparents rape grandchildren, elder brothers molest younger sisters, and so on. All sorts of sexual abuse is taking place, and thus we see social disorders and mental illnesses. The younger generation has come to despise the elder generation. When you can't trust your grandparents, teachers, elder brothers and so forth, where can you turn? You are like a floating leaf with no root. Your mind is seeking some place, someone to trust.

This kind of separation takes place according to God's plan. It is the time when God can replace the parents, teachers, and elder brothers with His own people. That is how God can shorten this restoration time period. Therefore, we should become bright elder brothers and sisters, God-centered parents and grandparents, hopeful teachers for the young people. We have to do this. Do you follow? This is the time.

Again, I am telling you clearly that this is no longer the time for following individual leadership, but rather that of the parents, the family unit. That is why I declared that the blessed couples should return to their home towns and restore them. Unless you go back and restore your tribes and people, you are not eligible to register in the Kingdom of Heaven. The basic unit to enter the Kingdom of Heaven is the family, not the individual.

When we speak of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, the family level is the foundation, and everything expands from there. We lost the Kingdom of Heaven on earth because Adam and Eve lost the family foundation. From that point, they lost the tribe, nation, world and cosmos-everything. In this time, everything is being restored beginning in the family. When we make that kind of foundation, we will be protected by God. Satan can't attack us. Please understand that this is the way we build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

Now is not the time for you blessed couples to just enjoy your family life. If you pursue that path, you will be lost. We must focus on restoring Canaan as a family unit. Without having that family and tribal foundation, we can't expand to the national and worldwide level. When the Israelites entered Canaan, they had to face seven enemy races. But now there are no such tribes of enemies because I have already established the foundation here. You will be welcomed wherever you go because you are the center. The time is different.

The right side is now coming to the left, and the left is moving to the right. As we said, the communist world and the free world are changing places in so many ways. Why is this happening? It is because enough indemnity has been paid and the internal foundation has been established to create these external circumstances. The spirit world and the physical world are spinning around the center. I directed 220 different nationalities in the spirit world to come down and work with their own people.

In the future, even those people in the spirit world who were Mafia members will have to come down and bring the current Mafia people into alignment with God's will. That is the only way we can unify the entire world. Even Satan has to serve True Parents now. God is making amazing things happen on the earth. These are changing times.

I am warning you not to neglect gathering together for prayer service on the first day of each month. We have to pray and work hard. Don't just sleep while other people are awake and working. You are supposed to be working harder and praying even more than I. That is the way you can receive great blessing, like Jacob. Thank you.

Media Standards and Journalistic Accountability

Sun Myung Moon
March 22, 1989
Founder's Address
Tenth World Media Conference
Washington DC

Father and Mother with several of the True Children during the 10th World Media Conference in Washington DC

Father and Mother with several of the True Children during the 10th World Media Conference in Washington DC

Distinguished Chairman, Esteemed Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is my great pleasure to welcome all of you to the 10th World Media Conference in Washington DC.

It was reported to me that the participants this year, as well as the speaker selection, are by far the most distinguished in the history of the conference. I am delighted to meet you all, many of you for the first time. I hope you are as happy to see me as I am to see you.

As you all know, I am primarily a religious leader. And yet my work has not been limited to the field of religion. I have a tremendous interest in the media. Since 1975, I have created many newspapers and publishing enterprises in different parts of the world. I established a daily newspaper, Sekai Nippo, in Tokyo. In 1976, I founded the New York City Tribune, in New York. I have started Spanish- language dailies, called Noticias del Mundo, in several major cities of the United States. In 1981, I began the daily Ultimas Noticias in Montevideo, Uruguay. In the Middle East, I started the Middle East Times.

But I am most well-known as the person who provided the alternative voice in Washington, D.C., the nation's capital. After the demise of the 128-year-old Washington Star, the city was left with only one newspaper.

Most Quoted Newspaper

The Washington Times, in less than 7 years, has become a respected newspaper and won many awards for design and editorial content. It is recognized by the Associated Press as one of the three most-quoted newspapers in the United States. The Washington Times Corporation also publishes a weekly news magazine, Insight, and a monthly academic journal, The World and I. Furthermore, I have just returned from Korea, where we launched a new major daily newspaper, the Segye Times, which has achieved a circulation in excess of one million in less than two months. In addition to these publications, in 1978 I founded the World Media Association to explore issues related to media ethics and responsibility.

The question arises, why should a religious leader expend so much effort and resources in media enterprises? My reason is quite simple. It is because I recognize the power of the media. The latter half of the Twentieth Century is an age dominated by communication. The electronic and print media are the most powerful and influential means of communication the world has ever known.

In a world of conflict and differing ideologies, the media plays a large role in determining whether we live in peace or war. My ultimate goal and desire is to achieve lasting world peace -- a peace based upon a system of true values. The achievement of this goal is far more likely to be determined by the work of the media than by military might. So perhaps it is accurate to say that this room contains the most powerful people on the face of the earth -- those who have the power to shape, for better or worse, the future of mankind.

In spite of the media's great power, in contrast to the great majority of professions in the world, most free nations have very few laws governing the conduct of the media. Given this situation, when one considers the tremendous power wielded by the free press, it is clear that media professionals must continuously exercise their own powers of self-examination. The World Media Association was created as a forum for that self-examination. Our purpose is to promote the free press wherever freedom of expression does not exist and to promote responsible use of the media where the free press is already established.

The reception line at the 10th World Media Conference. Left to right: Ambassador Francis and Kay Dale, Dr. Ron and Alice Godwin, Ambassador Douglas MacArthur, II, Mother and Father, Dr. Bo Hi Pak, Mr. Larry Moffitt.

The reception line at the 10th World Media Conference. Left to right: Ambassador Francis and Kay Dale, Dr. Ron and Alice Godwin, Ambassador Douglas MacArthur, II, Mother and Father, Dr. Bo Hi Pak, Mr. Larry Moffitt.

The Gift of Freedom

Freedom is one of the most precious gifts from God to man. Man is created to be free, and also to be responsible for how he uses his freedom. To use freedom properly requires self- discipline and self-control, based on a fundamental understanding of right and wrong. When asked to define right and wrong, the answer is often given that anything is acceptable as long as it causes no one any harm. But clearly, even to determine what "harm" is requires an absolute standard -- a standard which must derive from the purpose of life itself.

God, being the Creator, has already determined the purpose of human life. Man's spiritual well-being is realized as he accomplishes his life's purpose in accordance with the moral laws established by God. When he violates these principles, he invites self-destruction, just as he does when he violates the laws of nature. I say this because, before one is a journalist, or a scholar, or a clergyman, or even a husband or wife -- each person is a child of God. We are the sons and daughters of our Creator. This is where our sacred nature and unique human dignity originate. The first responsibility of a human being is to exercise freedom to preserve our God-given value. In order to do this, we must live in accord with basic moral principles given by God.

America is a nation which has put a high value on individual liberties. Americans, and anyone living in America, may worship as they wish, assemble at will and may print or speak just about anything. At the same time, the American founding fathers stressed the concept of self-government. In America today, we find an abundance of freedom, but a shortage of self-government.

Certainly the media must be free, and must be self- governing. And a self-governing media must also be a moral media. What do we mean by a moral media? A moral media uses its freedom to protect, preserve and promote God-given human rights and dignity. The preservation of human rights and human dignity must be the standard of all ethics and morality.

Therefore, the media must stand at the very forefront in the defense of human dignity and freedom and the crusade against all forms of injustice. Doing this is the best possible way to ensure world peace. The media must lead the fight against all forms of oppression. Furthermore, in the service of morality, the media must oppose corruption and racism and vindicate the unjustly accused. A moral media must lead the fight against drug abuse, pornography and many other destructive vices of our society. Thus, the media must become the conscience of society.

At this year's conference, for the first time, we have a delegation of journalists from the Soviet Union and also from the People's Republic of China. We are very pleased to welcome you. The communist world is rapidly changing. I encourage the new policies of "glasnost" and "perestroika" in the Soviet Union, and the reforms being enacted in China. The media of both countries is playing a leading role in these changes. The World Media Association, in its commitment to free and open discussion, is happy to serve as a forum for your participation.

The Search for Solutions

Both the democratic and communist worlds are searching for solutions to the problems of corruption, greed and exploitation. And both worlds are still far from achieving the ideal. As I see it, there are fundamental problems with both societies. They are both excluding God from their search for solutions. God has been forgotten.

The forsaking of God is the most serious problem of this century. When you forsake God, either in the name of totalitarianism or atheistic secularism, the result will be the same: self-destruction. Both East and West are struggling with this fundamental question.

As I said, I founded the World Media Association to promote free expression in the media wherever it is oppressed, and to encourage a responsible media wherever freedom of the press already exists. Furthermore, I founded this important organization to promote the spirit of truth so that all media professionals can become uncompromising champions of truth. We have held this conference almost annually and have organized numerous fact-finding tours with media professionals all over the world, including the Soviet Union, China, South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, Cambodia and Central America.

These tours are searches for truth, giving journalists an opportunity to experience the world firsthand. As a very good old saying goes, "seeing is believing." Journalists must always have their hands on the pulse of the world in order to report accurately. The work which we will undertake in these next few days is important -- an examination of the performance of free and moral media.

Finally, I am sure you have seen many stories about me on television and in your own newspapers. You might even agree that some of the more exciting stories about Reverend Moon have helped sell more newspapers or bring a bigger audience to your newscasts. So, since I have helped you all these years, I would now like to ask you for one favor: find out what I am teaching and what kind of life I am living. Conduct your own open-minded and thorough investigation, and draw your own conclusions. This conference is a good place to begin.

I hope you will enjoy your stay in Washington and will enjoy the conference. Thank you for coming and may God bless you.


Tenth World Media Conference
Journalists Examine Moral and Professional Challenges
Guest Delegations from USSR and PRC Greeted by Rev. and Mrs. Moon
Erin Bouma

Mrs. Portia Scott receiving the Media Ethics Award for her family the founders of the Atlanta Daily World, first black-owned newspaper in America (1928).

Mrs. Portia Scott receiving the Media Ethics Award for her family the founders of the Atlanta Daily World, first black-owned newspaper in America (1928).

The number ten means a return to God. On the foundation of 12 years expanding work, and nine previous assemblies, the Tenth World Media Conference in Washington DC, March 22-25, was a resounding victory. The event was attended by 400 media professionals and opinion leaders from nearly 20 nations. It was partially filmed and carried live across America by C-Span network. C-Span fully covered the Opening Session, Theme Session, and Session II; Father's Opening Message was carried, in part, as a full page in The Washington Times and Washington Post on March 24.

As a result, the spiritual impact of the Media Conference reverberated throughout the United States, with inquiries coming from Oregon, Florida, Massachusetts and West Virginia.

The historic World Media gathering drew True Parents to America, since a 12-man delegation of Soviet journalists sponsored by Novosti press agency attended, and two groups from the People's Republic of China also attended (one from the Xinhua news agency and one from the China Association for International Friendly Contacts). Father warmly welcomed them in his Founder's Address, saying he encourages the new policies of "glasnost" and "perestroika" in the USSR and reforms in China. He called attention to the fact that "the media in both countries is playing a leading role in these changes."

In the opening reception at the Omni-Shoreham Hotel in Washington, March 22, the final two groups to enter the Blue Room and pass the receiving line (of Larry Moffitt, Dr. Pak, Rev. and Mrs. Moon, Amb. Douglas MacArthur, II, Dr. and Mrs. Godwin) were, in order, the Soviet and Chinese delegations.

The 1989 WMA Ethics Award for Journalism honored the Atlanta Daily World, America's first black-owned daily newspaper, which cost its founder W. A. Scott his life at 32. Since then, his brother, Cornelius Scott, has headed the publication and maintained an independent voice of integrity for the past 54 years. Also recognized for their "courage, sacrifice and devotion to public service and truth that are the special obligation of the communication media" were journalists who lost their lives covering the War in Afghanistan. Posthumously, the award went to Lee Shapiro and Jim Lindelof, as representatives of the estimated dozen correspondents and photojournalists who sacrificed their lives in Afghanistan to record the truth.

The keynote speaker for the Conference was William Rusher, former publisher of the National Review and author of The Coming Battle for the Media. He spoke of the opportunities the World Media Conferences offer journalists from all over the world to gather together and discover "the things that you believe and the principles you espouse and the things you are dedicated to are shared with many other journalists in many other countries." He pointed out that the visitors from the Soviet Union and Mainland China might be surprised to learn of the "inveterate hostility" of the American media to the executive branch of our government. Rusher joked, "They don't have that particular problem." He went on to discuss the too powerful, too liberal, elite media that often controls "air superiority over the beachhead."

"What can be done?," he then asks. Mr. Rusher believes there is a case to be made for the Fairness Doctrine. Secondly, there is a place for something like the British Press Council, which could be a professional forum for correcting present imbalances in the media. Thirdly, young conservative journalists are emerging which will serve to redress the overwhelming political bias of current media professionals.

Finally, there is one thing "that can be done and has been done. And I am proud to pay my tribute to it. There is one man who has felt that even in Washington DC it was better to light one small candle than simply curse the darkness. Thanks to Reverend Moon, The Washington Times has stepped onto the stage of this great and vital city and has a place here now from which it will not be shaken. I am proud beyond words to be on his Editorial Advisory Board and immensely grateful that its here."

Oliver North listens intently to WMC speaker.

Oliver North listens intently to WMC speaker.

Oliver North electrified the room, drew the national media, and testified to The Washington Times as he spoke after dinner on Thursday night with humor and honesty. He said that he had learned from the media what Oscar Wilde meant when he said that in the olden days we had the rack; now we have the press." North believes that the major issues of the past nine years are the economic recovery of America, the policy of peace through strength and growing support for freedom fighters throughout the world. He called the "daily drama of freedom" the God-given birthright of everyone and the most newsworthy story of all.

North emphasized that the one quality we must never forsake is faithfulness to God, our families, community and fellow countrymen. Finally, he said, "journalism has to be an act not of discouragement and pessimism, but one of encouragement."

An astute analysis of broadcast and print media limitations was drawn by Ambassador Alan Keyes, who presented a luncheon address on Friday. Keyes, who has a diplomatic background and ran for Senate in Maryland this past election, has identified several key contradictions with broadcast reportage and the commercial interests of networks and stations. He is concerned about the future of political life being so shaped by commercial media and encourages citizen education and participation.

Editor-in-Chief of The Washington Times, Arnaud de Borchgrave, gave an assessment of global developments and recognized significant developments in the Soviet Union. He called "perestroika" evidence of the "bankruptcy of a political, social and economic system" in urgent need of a total overhaul. On the concept of final assistance, de Borchgrave insisted we must extract quid pro quo in some "important geopolitical trade-offs." "Liberal democracies," he believes, "keep pushing for what is basically good and what is basically right."

Other guest speakers included Ambassador Guido Fernandez, WMA Board Chairman and Minister of Information, Republic of Costa Rica, who spoke on the Arias Peace Plan, and Ding Yangyan, Director of the Foreign Affairs Department of Xinhua press agency, P. R. C., who outlined the democratic achievements and challenges facing China today.

"Media Standards and Journalistic Accountability" was the title of the Conference which presented five journalistic self-examination panels. The Theme Session, "Assessing the Media on Civil Rights," was chaired by Rev. John Nettles, National Vice President of the SCLC and on the WMA Board of Chairmen. From a Black activist perspective the session explored coverage of both the original Civil Rights movement, and current civil rights and racial issues today. Several fresh new voices included: Rev. James Bevel (former strategist for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), James Meredith (first Black to enroll in and graduate from 'Ole Miss), Jim Martin (Founding member, SNCC, and board member of CORE) and Roy Innis (National Director, Congress for Racial Equality). The large national response to this C-Span telecast session has been enthusiastic and eager to know more about the work of the World Media Association.

Luncheon meeting at The Washington Times building.

Luncheon meeting at The Washington Times building.

On Friday, concurrent sessions met both morning and afternoon to take up the topics, "Journalist as Historian," "The Role of Media in the U.S. Electoral Process," and "Passage to a Human World." The moods of the sessions were, in turn, reflective, heated and informative as each offered a distinguished panel of experts with a variety of perspectives, leading to lively exchanges.

Looking at the issue of "Journalist as Historian" were noted journalists/writers Georgie Ann Geyer and P. J. O'Rourke, and historians Robert Conquest (The Great Terror, Harvest of Sorrow, Scholar at Hoover Institution, Stanford University), Paul Johnson (Intellectuals, Modern Times), and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (The Imperial Presidency, American history professor, Harvard University).

In Session II, "The Role of Media in the U.S. Electoral Process" the battle of the 1988 presidential race was refought. Chairing the two sessions were Stanley Rothman, co-author of The Media Elite and Martin Nolan, Editorial Page Editor, The Boston Globe. The morning session brought together Susan Estrich (Campaign Manager, Michael Dukakis campaign); Reed Irvine (Chairman, Accuracy in Media); and Christopher Matthews (Washington Bureau Chief, San Francisco Examiner). Roger Ailes (Senior Media Advisor for the George Bush campaign); James Kilpatrick, (political columnist and TV panelist); and Paul Taylor (Washington Post reporter covering the political campaign) explored the topic in the afternoon.

Max Singer, President of The Potomac Organization, chaired the "Passage to a Human World: How Well Does the Media Understand the Path of Economic Development, World Population Growth, Resources and Environment?" session based on his recent book, Passage to a Human World. Morning speakers included Zeng Yi (Deputy Director, Institute of Population Research); Marion Clawson (Senior Fellow Emeritus, Resources for the Future); and Donnella Meadows, (Director, International Network of Resource Information Centers). Luncheon speakers were Michael Ledeen (Consultant to the Dept. of Defense on terrorism); Gloria Feliciano (President of the University of the Philippines Communication Research and Development Foundation); and Luther Carter (former writer for Science magazine and author of Nuclear Imperatives and Public Trust).

Closing plenary session chaired by Larry Moffitt and including speakers from Pakistan, Egypt, USSR and America.

Closing plenary session chaired by Larry Moffitt and including speakers from Pakistan, Egypt, USSR and America.

The Closing Plenary Session, "Communications and the Rise of International Democracy" was chaired by Larry Moffitt (Executive Director, World Media Association). The conferees heard from Abdullah Schleifer (Director, the Adham Center for Television Journalism, Cairo); Nayyar Zaidi (Washington Bureau Chief, Jang Newspaper Group, Pakistan); Vitaly Kobash, Political analyst, Izvestia (Moscow) and John Dunlop (Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University).

Vitaly Kobash, during the question and answer period, revealed that the Soviet Union of Journalists has established a special commission to investigate "deliberate disinformation." Such disinformation may have led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, which he described as "one of the greatest disasters." He went on to explain that the investigation would also look into relationships between press correspondents and the Soviet government during the Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras (1927-1982). Participant Arnold Beichman wrote the front-page "scoop" of this story from the World Media Conference offices for publication in The Washington Times on Monday, March 27.

Saturday afternoon, participants toured The Washington Times, Insight, and World and I offices.

The conference closed on Saturday night with a farewell banquet hosted by Father and Mother. The hall was packed with 400 guests who enjoyed the jokes, antics and skill of juggler/humorist Michael Davis. Shelia Vaughn and Jeff Benson sang four lovely and moving pieces as a prelude to Father's Closing Remarks. Dr. Ron Godwin, Senior Vice President of The Washington Times Corporation, then introduced Rev. Moon by describing the figure he first met in Danbury Prison with an undeniable commitment to standing by The Washington Times and its mission.

Father and Mother pose with several conference dignitaries.

Father and Mother pose with several conference dignitaries.

Father, in the spirit of good humor, told the receptive audience that if they had any trouble with his Korean- accented English, he would simply ask them to "read my lips." This opening, understandably, totally broke the ice.

He graciously thanked the participants and panelists for their work during the conference and commented on the spirit of cooperation which is emerging with the Soviets and Chinese as a result of their visit. He proclaimed that "I really have the spirit of a journalist in my blood. But I am not an ordinary journalist. I see evil and injustice in society, and I fight against it with all my heart and soul. In fact, I am a crusader by nature. If I were a reporter, I would be just as controversial a reporter as I am a religious leader. I always advocate being a good trouble-maker."

The conference ended on a high note for everyone. Father testified to the conference victory before Washington DC members Easter Sunday at the Columbia Road Church.

Immediately following the conference, Larry Moffitt and John Robbins, WMA Special Projects Director, flew west to Montana and then on to Seattle accompanying the visiting Soviets on a "working" tour of America. The first journalistic exchange between the World Media Association and Novosti press agency culminated in a small farewell banquet in New York City on April 4, 1989.


Opening of the Segye Times
David Hose

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It has been several years since the inauguration of The Washington Times. I recall that the prognosis by those in places of political power at the time was something to the effect of, "Let's see how many months Rev. Moon's paper can last." Recently, one former member of the early Reagan administration even admitted that a memo was circulated at the time of the paper's kickoff reception at the Corcoran Gallery, stating that administration members shouldn't attend. Then Reagan got hold of a copy of the newspaper -- the rest is well-known history. The Washington Times has become one of the Western world's most influential journalistic voices -- and in just seven years!

I preface this piece about the inauguration of the Segye Times with the above because one can definitely sense history being replayed here in 1989, in the Korean Republic. Though it is another time, place, and set of circumstances, the inaugural of the Segye Times has been attended by the same penetrating sense of providential priority.

There isn't any doubt that Korea is a nation of hungry newspaper readers, with a daily diet of 8 or 9 major dailies blanketing the country. But this upstart, the Segye Times, given approval to publish with the coming of Korean democratization, offers a more international menu. With journalists and stringers in over 120 nations, the Times' vision is to deepen its readership's awareness of the development, dynamics, and problems of the international community; and, importantly, Korea's place and responsibilities in that community.

As a footnote, it isn't hard to observe in everyday living here, the real need for an expanded, more articulated comprehension of the world outside of the national borders, and what makes it run. Historically much to blame is a general weakness on the part of the daily papers to address that need effectively. Most papers have an international page but it is usually just a jumble of streamlined wire-service pieces.

There was definitely some history in the air on February 1, as Father stepped up to the huge console of the Times' bright blue Hamada main press and pushed a deceptively ordinary looking red button. As the press rolled over into life, a very large group of executives, writers, and engineers breathed a sigh of relief, probably feeling like the climber taking one step up Mt. Everest. Those first few days were like climbing mountains, with every day's edition carefully monitored by the entire company staff from President Kwak on down. In fact, President Kwak spent much of the paper's first month of life "camping out" in the office each night -- making regular trips to the pressroom throughout the wee-small hours to make sure that all was well.

Father addressing Korea's leading citizens.

Father addressing Korea's leading citizens.

The public "birth celebration" of the Segye Times was held February 22 at Seoul's Shilla Hotel. At this lavish reception, attended by more than 1500 of Korea's leading citizens, one could feel the impact and significance of the Times. In attendance were the prime minister of the Republic, the speaker of the house for the national assembly, leaders of the governing l arty and the three major opposition parties, plus many government, business, and educational leaders.

Usually this kind of reception will drone noisily on as speakers try to make a dent in the attention of the participants; but on this occasion, people really took note, particularly of Father's Founder's Address. Former Nevada senator Paul Laxalt and The Washington Times editor Arnaud De Borchgrave also spoke to the assemblage.

At present, the Times has a 16-page format and prints 1,000,000 copies a day. Over 800 employees (55% of them non-Unificationists) work in the company complex in the Yongsan district of Seoul, not far from the Han River. An average printing day begins with the press run beginning at 4 p.m. in the afternoon, and ending at 4 a.m. From early morning, papers are delivered, both to Kimpo International Airport for flights to the southern tip of the peninsula, including Cheju Island, and by truck and train to the more immediate parts of the peninsula.

Currently, several thousand Korean and international members are working throughout the country delivering, during the first three months of publication, the Segye Times free to potential subscribers, and even lacing through pedestrian traffic at rush hour to see who's reading the Times. This nationwide "the Segye Times Team" has become well- known, with its bright blue jackets with orange sleeves.

Certainly, every day presents its own problems to our Segye staff. But with each day, I can sense more substantially the awesome investment that Father is making in Korea, and the world, through this paper. We are the "new kid on the block" among the Korean dailies, but there is no doubt that we will be here with a powerful presence as Korea takes its critical steps in the coming months and years.

Particularly in the area of the Republic's democratization process, and national re-unification, this nation is embroiled in countless arguments and issues too numerous to mention. One thing is clear though -- the definite need for a unifying vision. There is no easy way to instill this kind of perspective; but the Segye Times represents a great hope for the nation, and for God's work in the Fatherland.


The Media in God's Service

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Some of the letters and phone requests flowing into the World Media Association offices at the National Press Building, Washington DC include requests for tapes, the Divine Principle, and three inspiring personal letters to Rev. Moon. They are being reprinted here anonymously:

Dear Rev. Sun Myung Moon:

I heard your excellent talk on CSpan recently and also noted the summary page in my favorite newspaper, The Washington Times. We also subscribe to Insight and your newer publication, The World and I.

In our county, we have just one monopoly newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times... We very much need an alternative newspaper in St. Petersburg as many people dislike the newspaper, which gives almost no publicity to any conservative issues.

I am entertaining a small hope that your organization might be interested in establishing a newspaper here. It is much needed.

So many thanks go your way for your fine efforts in establishing a responsible media.

Dear Reverend Moon:

Having not had the pleasure of meeting you, I nevertheless take the liberty of writing you personally after reading your message in The Washington Times about the media and its power.

Although I cannot claim to be a journalist, I am a conscientious person well aware of the power of the media and the harm that distortion of the facts, as well as misinformation, can do and how it can manipulate the minds of people. What is even more harmful, the media can also induce politicians to make decisions or take steps which can jeopardize a country or create chaos. And that is what is happening to my country, Lebanon!

A few years ago, I read Arnaud de Borchgrave's book, The Spike. For the first time a journalist of fame and high standards spoke openly a truth so well-hidden by the media. I do so wish the gentlemen of the press could be more impartial and report the facts as they really are, exposing both sides of the story and not what readers would like to hear just for the sake of selling their papers. Is it too much to ask nowadays?

Honorable Rev. Sun Myung Moon:

I am a Chinese visiting fellow at a well-known U.S. university. I was a journalist and worked in Beijing as a director of the National Press Club of the All-China Journalists' Association.

I read the excerpt from your address at the 10th World Media Conference with great interest. Your speech struck me with its great power of truth. In all these years, I have been thinking and searching for the identity of the Chinese media, its current reform and its future. I'm fascinated at the tremendous work you have been doing in promoting the free press and exploring issues related to media ethics and responsibility. I appreciate very much the special remark you made on the changing world -- "glasnost" in the Soviet Union and reform in China.

I, as one of China's "Red Guard Generation," have gone through much disillusionment and frustration. Our world outlook has been shaped by the great social changes that have been taking place in China in the last two decades. I believe in God. I am committed to the cause of building world peace based upon a system of true value. Your interest and devotion to build a moral media has given me great encouragement. I wish to work with you and join the World Media Association. In my capacity as a Chinese woman journalist I have participated in managing the media affairs at the national level in Beijing. With my knowledge of the Chinese language, understanding of Chinese society and social changes, I can make my contribution in promoting the spirit of truth in China. I have such strong feeling within myself that I want and I can do so many things in your association.

With my highest respect and admiration. 

Questions and Answers at the Leaders Conference

Sun Myung Moon
March 21, 1988
Excerpts
East Garden
Translator: Bo Hi Pak

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Dr. Pak: This is a good opportunity for anyone who has ever said, "Well, I always wanted to meet Father privately somewhere and ask this one particular question"; go ahead, ask that question now.

Question: Does the geography in the spirit world correspond to the geography in the physical world?

Father: What you have here as geography you will see in the spirit world. However, the spirit world is of a finer dimension and is the place where you can realize any ideal harbored in your heart. In this physical world, you may have certain ideals, but you never expect that they can be realized.

Another big difference is that the make-up of the spirit world is love. Those who have experienced the highest possible level of love here on earth have no restriction in the spirit world. Absolute freedom, creativity, enjoyment, and beauty -- everything belongs to you! But for those who do not understand love and have not developed an ability to love, the spirit world is like a prison; it is what we call hell. People who cannot love cannot make things happen according to their own wishes because in the spirit world only beings with the quality of love have freedom.

I like people who sit in the front rows. Does any person in the front have a question?

Question: I can't understand how you can keep all of the things that you are doing organized without a secretary, or a notebook. I would really like to know your secret of organization!

Father: I have a special custom-made computer in my brain!

Actually, when you are completely selfless and your conscience is alive and clear, then you don't have to worry about what to do and how to do it because you are always in harmony with the rest of the universe; its vibration is always communicating with you. Therefore you are never a stranger in any circumstance, and immediate decisions are possible. A conscientious person harmonizes horizontally, vertically, and rectangularly -- every way possible.

Would you like to have such organizational skill for yourself? You have to become totally selfless and God-centered, only concerned about the well-being of Heavenly Father, with an absolutely clear conscience. Then you will be a most organized person. Your closest teacher is not even God. It is your mind, or your conscience. Therefore you must love your mind. This sounds strange, but it's true. If you love your mind, your mind will love your body and harmony will be created; the universe will love you. When you and the universe, plus and minus, are totally united and harmonious, then automatically God will come in. You become a center for God.

That's why when I walk into a situation, the vibration tells me before you even open your mouth what you are going to say or what kind of state of mind you are in. Thus I know what to say to you because I am aware of and in harmony with the circumstances of the universe surrounding you. However, I do not want to be absolutely judgmental -- "All right, you belong in hell," or "You belong in heaven" -- because then you would be very fearful of me. So I try to be very casual, but in that casual conversation, there is always deep meaning that a clever person can catch.

Also I know certain things can or cannot be accomplished; in other words, I can forecast the outcome. This is why I am concerned that you listen and obey with an absolute standard.

Then success will come. The problem is I instruct you, but then everybody wants to interpret my words their own way. In many cases, I do not even want to talk to anybody; I do it myself.

God works exactly like you. He is mind and body, sung sang and hyung sang, pursuing love in the direction of goodness, and always trying to communicate that message to His body. When His hyung sang questions His mind, His sung sang of true, pure, selfless love answers, so it is the right direction. Your original mind also is always following the road of love directed to goodness, like a compass. Before you are talking to God, you are talking to your mind. When you ask your mind a certain question casually, the mind may not respond. Depending upon how much you desire the direction of goodness, your mind responds. Sometimes your mind is totally numb, doing nothing. But when you very seriously ask your mind what to do, the mind will answer you. That is prayer. Actually in prayer, your body is absolutely subjugated by your mind.

Many times the mind may try to communicate with your body, but the body may say, "No, I don't want to go in that direction." That's the problem. Therefore, prayer alone is not enough. Do good things and in the meantime, pray. Good action combined with good prayer should be your daily discipline. For those who pray and both nurture and center upon the original mind, the first impression in a situation is most important because even before reasoning, the original mind catches or feels something that can provide accurate guidance. It is not 'easy, but it can be done.

So the best way to be restored is to follow your own original mind or conscience. Becoming a good man has nothing to do with going to school or getting a university degree. Follow your original mind; follow your conscience.

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Question: I'm originally from Poland, and I am wondering what is going to happen there.

Father: Poland's destiny will be determined by the fate of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is weakening. Gorbachev has a problem: His new peace offensive, known as glasnost, meaning openness or open society, was technically successful and was very good in terms of winning popularity in the free world. But now everybody in the Eastern bloc wants openness, too. Gorbachev does not have a plan to deal with such a situation.

But it's not just the Soviet Union and Red China that are in trouble; the United States is in trouble, too, because it is basically under humanistic and atheistic humanism, secularism, and has forgotten the basic values centered upon God. Americans are more interested in carnal pleasure. Therefore America's difficulty is not any less than that of the Soviet Union.

In China the most important problem is hunger. When you are hungry, nothing else matters. But what about the American people? In America, one thousand people have one thousand different desires. But generally speaking, the American mind is seeking fun. "Where can I have a fun time?" Some may prefer the disco, or drinking, or taking drugs, many different directions, but basically all are pursuing fun. Thus God sees 1.2 billion people in China whose most important goal in life is to put something into their stomach, and then He sees 240 million people in the United States who have ample food, and are thinking about nothing except fun. Where does more of God's attention go? God wants to help the Chinese put something into their stomachs. The Chinese people have been suffering from hunger for a long time; therefore they have developed a character of absolute patience. They know how to endure. Even the most powerful armies and nations who conquered the Chinese temporarily never digested China. The Chinese people said to them, "I want to see how long you last! We will swallow you -- not you swallow us." That's the Chinese character.

Those who are seeking after carnal desires and fun lack such endurance. They just move around randomly looking for a good time. Every responsibility becomes a burden -- their family, wife, children -- they don't want to care. The Chinese way of life is like the roots of the tree way down deep, hidden, and secure. But the American way of life is like the branches and leaves, shaky all the time. Leaves have absolutely no understanding about roots.

The technological advancement of the United States isn't worth a dime by itself. You have all sorts of appliances, exercise machines, scientifically designed diets, and so forth. You want convenience -- to do everything by just pushing a button. The American way of life makes everything so convenient. But actually in the long run, those people who can endure suffering and hardship live longer than people who have all kinds of conveniences. When the suffering, backward Chinese people come to America, the very next day they can use a refrigerator and all the electric gadgets no problem. They catch up to your standard instantly. But American people who go to China can't deal with the Chinese way of life. They may even run away saying, "I couldn't stand China!" So they are defeated. The long-enduring racer wins.

If America were to control the entire world, and the Chinese said, "Let's go to America and live according to America's standard," then they would come and take over America. America would be shaken in a couple of months, but if a country like China controls the world, it'll last hundreds of years. China doesn't really care whether the rest of the world would live well or not -- they would stay powerful.

To strike the balance, people with a highly developed standard of living should learn to endure a more primitive way of life. At the same time, people with a less developed way of life can be elevated at least to enjoy a certain level of cultural advantage. Common sense tells us that if one comes down a little bit and the other comes up, none are really losers.

So who shall control the world? It is those flexible, disciplined people who can live on the highest level but also are capable of going down to the lowest level. People can be trained to have this kind of discipline. But today the world does not offer such training. Everybody only wants to move forward to something better. Yet in the future, there will be incredible contradiction; people accustomed to a highly technological society will become completely sick and tired of it and want to go down to a more primitive level, while the poorer people desperately want to go up.

Instead of distinguishing one area as China and another as the United States, let's just think this is one family of man; both Americans and Chinese are members of one family. The parents of this family would say, "You brothers, don't fight, don't be egotistical and selfish! Share with each other and be harmonious."

Harmony and cooperation as one family of man are the beautiful virtues necessary in this case. Everybody is saying, "God, come to our home and dwell with us." But God cannot go to the American home or to the Chinese home. He will say, "I'm going somewhere in the middle in order to be fair to both."

In the last days God knows what each country needs. China needs physical food, America needs spiritual food, and God wants to provide both. Americans should share food with the Chinese. Then what can the Chinese share with the Americans? Their spiritual traditions. The Chinese have a particular sense of dignity and moral value, even if their stomach is empty, but American people don't care to receive these things: "I don't need them. I'm happy. I'm wealthy." Because of this attitude, America is spiritually poverty-stricken even though it is so rich materially.

This is God's and my headache. America is in one way very full, but ultimately is so empty. You have no treasure that you can hold onto beyond your physical life. You have nothing about which you can say, "This is more important than my life." In the end the world will be controlled by the people who have that value or treasure they would not trade for anything under the sun. What is that treasure? God? Yes, but God alone is not sufficient. However there is something God has that is unique yet can be shared with everyone and satisfy them all. Its value will always be unchanging. That is God's true love, which is almost more precious than God Himself.

If the love of God was the backbone of American culture, would you swap it for material wealth? No, you'd say, "God and His love are more important! Even if I have to give up my life, I cannot give up God and His love." That is what America is missing.

Who will govern the world? Anybody or any country that holds onto true love will not want anything else. If that kind of treasure is found way down in the bottom of the Chinese culture, then people should go down for it, shouldn't they? We must devise a way American people can have the desire and power to even go down to the very bottom of the Chines(society, obtain the treasure, and come up again. Otherwise, this country will decline. I came to America willing to suffer hardship in order to save it from doom and to teach you to be able to live at the lowest level, to work hard, and to endure suffering. I want you to be able to follow me anywhere, even to the bottom of the Chinese culture, so that America will never be doomed. That's the kind of America I want to leave behind.

When you visit China, would you want everybody to persecute you and kick you out, or would you like to be welcomed? How can you be welcomed? If they feel indebted to you, then they will welcome you and give you their very best.

If I come to visit your home, would you want me to sit down outside your house or in the very center? Because I gave you the most precious things -- the eternal blessing and the true love of God -- you always want me in the center of your home.

When the Chinese come to America, they too want to be welcomed in your house, so they have to give you some service. You need somebody who will feed you spiritual food; that is the best gift anybody can give. But the problem is that the American people don't feel that spiritual hunger.

What is the greatness of Rev. Moon? I am trying to bring enemies together. Forty years ago, Korea and Japan were enemies. Japan and the United States were fighting and killing each other; Germany and the United States were killing each other, too. I am bringing together into harmonious brotherhood all those who were enemies. Korea and Japan have been historical enemies, but the United States is not an enemy of Korea, so which unification with me is actually easier? You must not think that since Koreans and Japanese are both Oriental, they would be closer and unification between myself and the Japanese would be easier. That's not true. Which would be stronger: Rev. Moon united with the German people, Rev. Moon united with the American people, or the Americans and Germans united with each other? You said that even though the Japanese have been the enemy of Koreans, perhaps they can come closer to each other sooner since they are both Oriental; by the same principle, you may think that since both Germans and Americans are Caucasian, they would be closer even though they also once were enemies.

Actually, Americans will bring the Japanese to Korea, and the Japanese will bring the Germans to Korea. From the Principle point of view, the United States must bring the German people, and then follow Japan, which is the Eve country.

You have to go to your enemy country, Germany, and bring the German people and then unite with Japan. You cannot come directly or bypass this requirement. However the Americans so far say, "Oh, we don't need Korean leaders, we don't need Japanese, and we certainly don't need the Germans!" The Korean, Japanese, American, and German people are the four most problematic races in the world.

The Korean people are not easy people; they are tough -- that small peninsular country hung in there without losing its identity for 5,000 years. The Korean people are adventurous; they love risk. If there is an opportunity, they grab it.

I have created an oneness and unity among Japanese, Americans, and Germans, haven't I? I would like to create condominiums that always have four units: one each occupied by a Korean family, a Japanese family, a German family, and an American family. They should live together at least two or three years, training, and then branch out to the world. According to the Principle, the Koreans should be the central figure, followed by the Japanese, Americans, and Germans.

Have you ever thought about whether our ultimate ancestors, Adam and Eve, were Oriental or Caucasian? Palestine in the Middle East is supposed to be the site of the ancient Garden of Eden, but do you think God created Adam and Eve in the desert? I think God created the first men and women in the most beautiful land with mountains and rivers, full of fruits, flowers, and fragrance, as on the Paekdu Mountain on the border between Korea and Manchuria.

The Oriental race is the elder son or "Shem" race; they always stayed nearby the parents. But now Ham, Japheth, and all the younger brothers have to go back to the original home -- Asia. That's why True Parents had to come out of Asia. Restoration has to be conducted in the same place. 

The End of the World and Our Age

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
World Mission Center, New York, NY USA
March 19, 1989
Translated by Dr. Bo Hi Pak
Unofficial Notes from 6:00 am Speech

As you know nowadays there is much talk about the end of the world. The talk is that the end is here. Where individual life is concerned, the moment of physical death is the end of that person. Furthermore, one nation will emerge and live out it's destiny, then it comes to an end. Throughout history a certain type of world will emerge, for example the communist world, eventually that world will come to an end also. We know that all descriptions of "the end of the world" depend on man's view and which man's view is at the center of that description. What about bringing God into the picture? People in history have talked about many Gods. They come, live their life and then they are out of the picture.

All true men and women desire a lasting, permanent, eternal God and that kind of everlasting relationship with Him. That is our hope. If there is an everlasting, unchangeable, absolute God, then whichever men and women engage in His business, those people will go on and remain forever.

There is a history of many different cultures. From the civilization of the world, cultures come and go, centered on different religions. We cannot deny that. Therefore the history of religion is important--dealing with the individual, family, society, nation and world. Eventually one religion will remain forever. In order for that to happen that religion has to be related to the one almighty God. We believe and know there is an eternal, almighty God. Any religion having give and take with Him will be almighty and will remain forever, having lasting impact.

The great philosophies come and go. Philosophy and religion are different. In philosophy there is a lot of talk, thinking and books guiding people to God. But religion consists of deeds, action and an actual encounter with God. That is the difference. All great philosophers relate to religion searching for the cause of the universe, an understanding of death, etc. When they find God or a true religion they have to relate to Him and make some impact with their lives. Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Christianity are all based on prophets chosen by God. We come to the conclusion that ultimately man must encounter God. We have to put God at the center.

This morning I want to talk about Christianity. What is Christianity? Certain religions resemble the east, some the west, north or south because of certain entities they have. Where does Christianity fit? It is very interesting (and no coincidence) to find that surrounding Israel, other religions emerged ages before in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, etc. All were around, with Israel at the center. There must have been a providential will to have these civilizations surrounding Israel where God eventually sent His central religion and His son. This is no coincidence. This is the plan of God.

When you stand in Israel and look north, to the right is China and India. On the left is the hedonistic Roman civilization. In the middle is Hindu. In the center of this, Christianity should have prospered. All these cultures in the providential point of view were centered on one purpose the ideal encounter between God and man. That is the ideal, providential goal.

Right now the number of civilizations have been consolidated into four major spheres. It is further consolidating centered on Christianity, to the left and right into two major spheres today. Consolidation took place into four, but why now into two conflicting worlds? When you place yourself in Rome, you see two civilizations. One is Greek, the other is Egyptian culture. Rome was the world at the time. God's side is the same. A similar thing is occurring today. Four cultural spheres still remain, but the world is being pulled in two extreme ways. Christianity belongs to the east. Christianity centered upon, not Britain, but the United States which from Europe's point of view is the east. America is the symbol of Christian civilization. Within America, right and left are confronting each other. That situation exists.

If we look at the communist world, they have left and right as well. The communist world has to deal with religion. For example, China was under Confucianism for a long time and there are many Muslims within the Soviet empire. They have to deal with it. They cannot avoid a conflict with Christianity.

History is moving toward Asia. Why? Because Asia represents the completion of a full circle of the world's situation. History started in Asia, moved across Europe, then across to America and is now returning back to Asia. God will prosper in Asia. That is history's destiny. During the times of Jesus, if the people would have united, they would have absorbed the Muslims, India and China cultures, without having to wait another two thousand years. Christianity would not have moved to Rome, but would have united with the Greek civilization and Egyptian and Asian civilizations. It would have moved west then instead of east.

Among all religions, Christianity is the ultimate. God engendered Christianity with the ultimate ideal encounter between man and God. This ideal encounter would have been accomplished in the days of Christ. However the crucifixion of Jesus brought entirely opposite circumstances. Christianity moved west waging incredible battle with the most hedonistic empire---Rome. For four hundred years there was severe sacrificial confrontation with the Roman empire. On that foundation Roman Catholicism was built. Judaism's failure caused war, conflict and turmoil for four hundred years for Christians. Satan governed for that four hundred years. He was rampant and victorious after Jesus' death.

How can we then bring all diverse religions into unification? Is there a wonderful way to do it?

At the time of the crucifixion Jesus' body was given away. The world was still there, but Jesus only has a spirit remaining. Jesus' body was lost in Asia Minor. His spirit moved to the Satanic center, the Roman empire to struggle and win it back, also dealing with the Greek and India cultures. It was an uphill battle for Christians all the way through.

Christianity's first victory was in Rome. It was a peninsular victory. Peninsulas have since become the meeting ground of different elements of cultures. Lets say the body represents the globe. There are land and water portions. These elements also occur within the human body. Considering the body as the world, the peninsula represents the male sex organ. All universal phenomena is a symbolic expression of the human body and behavior. For example, the Roman city is on a peninsula representing the male sex organ. The Mediterranean Sea represents the female sex organ. Through the intercourse of these two meeting, human civilization began. It could be born in this area.

Look at Israel and the Roman empire as representing east and west and Rome and Egypt representing north and south. All four directions were covered. Gods will was intended to be fulfilled on a peninsula. God's plan was to embrace all the surrounding cultures to bring the realization of the Christian ideal. There was also another opportunity. After four hundred years, if the Christians truly fulfilled God's will, they could have united with the Indian cultures, but instead the providence moved toward Britain. Culture moved toward the island culture, then to a new continent, the United States, then over the Pacific towards the east. Asia is the ultimate destination, the terminating point of God's movement. Asia signifies a vast ocean of people and huge land masses. China alone has 1.3 billion people. All countries including America have failed to digest China. For that reason America could never be a world power.

2000 years ago was the time for unification which would have allowed the Messiah to unite all cultures centered on God. We have had to wait 2000 years going an entire circle around the world for this chance to come again. Now again there is the possibility of one world, it is feasible now. It is the time for the Lords return.

There is another way of measuring the end of the world. When we see western culture weakening and looking forward to making harmony with eastern culture, you know the end of the world is at hand. The coming of Christ is the time of the ultimate Cain-Abel struggle. They ultimately have to unite and come to an end. Christ has to appear and consummate that unity.

Christian culture is centered on the United States today. In order to secure that fulfillment we must go to Asia. Because the body of Christ was lost there, we have to return to restore that. You also know through Divine Principle that before truth comes, Satan will imitate truth first with a facade of truth. Which is representative of such a nation? America represents Christianity. This nation must move toward the east--Asia. So can we just jump on a plane and fly to China to begin our work? No. It is not easy to return until every single debt is paid off. We have to look back at history, at Europe. We have to indemnify all the past failures in Europe, then we can be ready to move forward. Otherwise you are not qualified to return. Here is a broad stroke of human history. You reap as you have sown. The harvest time is coming.

How was human history sown? Find out exactly. In the very beginning the intention of God was not fulfilled. What happened? Some accident occurred that caused the separation of God and man. How could it happen? Once one person reaches perfection, it is all you need. No power can separate them. Find a common element to bring God and man together. After birth each man and woman is looking for some destination. Are they looking for power or authority? No, they are looking for true love. The ultimate goal is to accomplish and fulfill true love. Since man has fallen, love has become dirty.

The opposite of true love is bad love. In simplest terms, bad love interacts with Satan while true love has God at the center. This is the simplest definition of the difference. Only because we are a fallen generation do we have anxiety and longing for true love. If we were pure, true love would be automatic. There would only be that one kind. There is only one God. What kind of feeling does He have? Loneliness. What does God really want? You answer true love, but God has always had true love within Himself. He needed an object to have give and take with in order to express that love. Only with an object can the power of love be manifested. God is a giant plus. Man and woman come together and create a giant minus. Together they all meet to create and experience true love. This is the eternal common denominator between God, man and woman. God had a glorious plan. Satan looked at this enviously, thinking, "Can I steal it? Can I infiltrate it?" Satan had greed and selfish ambition. Satan had time while God was waiting for His children to grow and mature. Satan wanted to take over and make this love his. Satan successfully plundered God's plan stealing man and woman. They should have been centered on love, but man and woman have become victims of satanic love.

If there had been no fall, man and woman would have grown in purity and love and would have dwelt completely as God's temple with God in the center. [Father drew a diagram with a vertical line representing Gods love intersecting a horizontal line representing man on the left and woman on the right.] There is only one absolute vertical line. It travels the shortest distance. Love travels the shortest, most direct distance to quickly reach its destination. Anything other than a vertical line is longer and not true.

Man and woman are born as babies, knowing nothing. They grow to be teenagers and begin to mature. They find that they need each other. They want to go the shortest distance. Where do they rendezvous? In the meantime God already knew that man and woman cannot stay away from each other, so He was already coming down. Just as man and woman come together, God comes down between them. They form a core. Adam and Eve, left and right, come together. God is the heart, Adam and Eve as the body, together all form the core of love.

When true man and woman come together it is a heavenly collision. Cars crash, but men and women do not crash, rather they are eternally circling each other. In conclusion when we speak of true love, God's position is that of man's mind, while Adam and Eve are in the body's position. Only true love can unify everything.

All creation wants to reach true love. This is the core of the universe. The core has been lost. Man and woman have been wandering in this world. All universal bodies are turning on an unmovable, unchanging axis. What about man, the most important creation of God, do we have an axis? Even in the fallen world, the mind is our axis. However there is a conflict between our mind and body because there has been no absolute vertical discipline or subject. There should be no compromise with that. Therefore the body has to be united with the mind.

The mind is the core, the axis of man and woman. The mind and body must meet in a vertical line. The problem today is that there is no vertical line, not even a horizontal line, only all kinds of confusion. The body is the prey of Satan. God governs the mind and Satan governs the body. There are two pluses where there should be plus and minus. That is why throughout history religion has been trying to knock the body down through fasting, long prayer conditions and sacrifice. All to push the body down to become a minus. A minus, not as a servant, but as a recipient. The mind is in control and the body obeys. This is the entire purpose of religion. Today's Christianity lacks truth, people are ignorant. They worship God, but they do not know the purpose of creation. When we say, "God is my Father, I am His son", it means you are His direct descendant, inheriting His blood. If we tell someone that they are a child of God, it is the most important statement. Christians do not understand how God is their Father.

God is the creator, the vertical, true love parent. Who are Adam and Eve? They are horizontal, true love parents. How do vertical and horizontal parents relate? [Father draws the same diagram again.] This represents the perfect relationship between God and man. This is the shortest distance, a straight line. What about man and woman? Is your love meandering? You should travel the shortest distance too. When two lines meet, this angle has to be ninety degrees. Man and woman meet God at absolutely ninety degrees. You say, "Give me a break, meet me at 89.999 degrees." God will not be there. No deviation is allowed. Otherwise you will feel uncertain and anxiety will set in.

From this meeting point, the fruits of love emerge. Your children must not just be receiving the love of the physical mother and the physical father, but they must be born under God's blood lineage. God's lineage does not come in a material sense, but in a heartistic, spiritual sense. With the parents' body and God's mind, then God is truly your Father. Your mind is from God, your body is from your parents-- that is complete unity. The problem today and all through history is that none were born under these circumstances. Possibly some were born at 89.999, but that is still no good.

How do we know that we have not accomplished? We know within ourselves of the struggle going on between our minds and bodies. Anything other than a vertical line is a satanic line with bad influence. Many people do not even realize that they have a mind. Your vertical self is your mind. That mind must come from God. Your body is your horizontal self. Unite the two. Make yourself. This is conscience. The conscience is yours, but it is not working for you. It belongs to God, so it is trying to lead you on the right way.

The Messiah is coming to heal this situation, bringing true love as his weapon. The messiah's goal is to bring this ninety degree crossing which will create healing and salvation. People today resemble an orchard of wild olive trees. The messiah comes as the true olive tree. From one branch we can convert all to becoming true olive trees. The branch from the true olive tree has a tiny bud on it. This tiny bud contains all the proper ingredients of a ninety degree direction. This branch will grow into a true love relationship. Once you are engrafted, you will become a true olive tree, there is no question about it.

The wild olive tree is giant. In appearance it looks the same as the true olive tree. But inside the wild olive tree there is no vertical crossing, no ninety degree angle. The Bible talks about engrafting. We have to cut the big root of the wild olive tree and graft a tiny little bud from the true olive tree onto it. This will bring incredible commotion. "Such a big, productive tree and you want to cut it down and graft on that tiny little thing? I do not want it." This cutting of the wild olive tree represents denial. Denial of all existence, especially the self. It is new birth. All major religions start from self denial. This is what the Unification Church is up to. We are igniting a revolution of man. Not a violent revolution, but one of self denial, so that man can be engrafted to God.

We are now in a time where evil which has been prevalent is going down and good which has been behind is going up. We are at that crossing point of love. From this point on, God will gain the upper hand. All cultures and religions teach that you should love your parents, love your fellow man, etc. This has all been preparation for this time.

Satan is always saying "Do not worry about it. Go ahead, take for yourself. You love me." The world is full of people stepping on others, but put yourself in a sacrificial position. Father's teaching is to put others first. How many of us here are real Unification Church members? [ No one raised their hand.] There is a big crowd here, how many are real members? Are your mind and body united into one? Satan is the king at the center of everything in all eight stages. He thinks, "Everything is for my benefit, it all exists for me." To challenge this is not an easy battle, nothing short of revolution can accomplish it. Jesus said, "Those who seek to save their life will lose it, but those who seek to lose their life for my sake shall find it." What about doing things for honor, money or respect? Is it proper? No. The first commandment of Christ is to love God with your mind, heart and soul. What is Father's version of that? Father says to stick your neck out and be willing to die for the love of God.

Satan is clever, he sees through our mind clearly. Satan will retreat when he sees someone so desperate to do God's will, sticking his neck out and ready to die. As for the other person who says, "Let me take care of my family first, then I will love God", Satan will never leave them alone.

Please welcome the ministers in the back. [Members all applauded for them. Then Father spoke briefly in English to them.] Are you true ministers? This is a very serious question. You have to ask, "Reverend Moon, how did you find the truth?" This is serious. You have to know that! On every level there is a battle, on each of the eight stages that Satan controls at this time. When you give yourself up to love the world, Satan has to surrender. When you return to the center it is a glorious day. Even Satan will bow down, lining your path with palm branches along the way. When you become victorious, becoming one with God and the true lineage, Satan has no claim over you. This is ultimately what God asks you to do. By having faith what did Christians get? They did not know anything. You cannot become perfect with ignorance. Know this clearly.

Inside myself I make a ninety degree angle. Look at this room and this building. All the angles are ninety degrees. If any corner is violated the building will fall. Every angle must be ninety degrees. A ninety degree angle lasts and is permanent. This is another way of teaching the cross. Jesus' crucifixion was ninety degrees. This is fundamentally what Father's teaching is all about.

As Father said, we reap what we sow. If you sow the see of bad love, it has to be rectified. Bad love phenomenon has become rampant in our world today and most rampant in the United States. The so called "free world" and "advanced nations" have become the tools of Satan. They are like hell, covered by illicit love. Externally, they are abundant and rich. Internally, they are spiritually poor. The young people do not like their parents. They chase after illusion and carnal pleasure seeking comfort in drugs. Today it is apparent that illicit love is prospering in the United States. This is also a sign that the end of the world is here.

When Jesus was crucified there were two thieves. That is what the world is reaping, we see the same circumstance today. There is a big cross, on the left are communists who say "God is dead." The thief on the right supported Jesus and defended him. Where are the Christian churches today? In America? The right side has no advocate today. It is the world's tragedy. This is the work that Reverend Moon is doing, teaching "God is alive! He is our Father!" Furthermore, Father teaches about bad love and that it must be replaced with good love. Freedom is not given to follow carnal desire, but to restore what is God's. The Unification Church is working to symbolize God and True Parents and to bring about true families. This is what the mass weddings are all about. Wherever you go there is always opposition. Cain and Abel still need to be united, this is a simple fact. Reverend Moon came with nothing, just his own empty hands. He has defended Christ and defended God and has gone over the global level. All opposition comes against him, all kinds of persecution. Now even that is dissipating. Even the enemies have raised their hands. No matter what happens, Reverend Moon is determined to cover eight stages as fast as possible. No one understands, not even his own family. They always ask "Why does Father run so fast? Father, why can't you sleep more than just two or three hours a day?" He is so busy, he has no time. Father is most anxious to reach the heavenly dominion. Father wants to wave the victorious banner and torch in the name of God and true love.

6,000 years ago humanity lost true parents. When Reverend Moon goes all the way to the heavenly dominion and comes back, he has paid the debt of all historical evil. The end of the world has become the beginning of the new world.

Adam and Eve were to become the first true parents. Because of their failure Jesus came to fulfill that position but he was hampered by the crucifixion. The messiah is the third Adam, returning in the position of the true parent. Adam means True Parent. Reverend Moon is the one totally commissioned to wipe out Satan from top to bottom and clean up everything. Satan sowed evil seeds and Reverend Moon is uprooting them all. This one man versus the world (it is a Satanic world). He is the target of the entire world. Reverend Moon is the turning point of the new era. Father is winning the battle on every level. The lines of evil and good are crossing at the junction where Reverend Moon stands. His mission is to bring harmony and unification between left and right and up and down. That means creating the headwing. Father is not just a religious leader, he is at the eye of the hurricane, involved in everything because all those things belong to God.

At the time of the fall things went upside down, now Father is bringing everything right side up. Things seem confused and there is a lot of scrambling going on, but the movement is back to normal. Reverend Moon is mobilizing the individual power, family power and tribal power to move forward. True love is at the center of all this activity. One man's wrongdoing brought the entire downfall.

Restoration does not come on the individual level alone, so now the Adam nation and Eve nation come together in a Holy Wedding to turn the world around. On October 30th, 1988, Korea and Japan, who have hated each other created one family. Father uses the second generation. This is incredible restoration. This blessing signifies Adam and Eve on the national level united and restored. These are enemies that have come together, creating harmonious, God centered families. Is there anything harder to do? If this is possible, anything is possible. It is more testimony that the end of the world is near. All the bad seeds sown in history are being restored on the global level. Reverend Moon's solution is global, it applies to all of us. What is the future? The end of the world is also the beginning of a new world, the headwing, centered on Godism. The Kingdom of God on earth will become a reality. The foundation has been built by God through the world's religions. History has made a lot of contribution and preparation. All we have to do is replace satanic love with God's love. Once this tradition is set it will continue on, never breaking. There is an Abel world tradition engendering love as the highest value. At the same time the satanic world has been trying to destroy everything. Christians say, "If you don't believe in Jesus, you will end up in hell." This is not true. There are many saints and righteous men who shed blood for God. They were not always Christians, but they still exist in a good spirit world. It is not heaven, but it is a good place.

The end of the world is not a time for despair, but a time for hope. The final question is how can we bring unification? It is a simple question. We need the unification of Cain and Abel, external and internal.

Mind and body have been separated on the individual, family, national and every other level. All must be unified and come together in harmony. Division is a satanic weapon. Unity is God's tool. We need to embrace the communist world, that is why the headwing is important. Even if communists love their country, if you demonstrate more love, they will follow you. On both the right and the left side there is upper and lower echelons. Within the communist world there is also Cain and Abel. The satanic Abel is the worst because they are Abel to Satan! They are the worst communists. Satanic Abel is always on the offensive and attacks others. On God's side, Abel is an absolute servant to God. Abel is always being attacked and conquered.

Abel must naturally subjugate Cain on each level and then move on. There should be a repetition of this formula on each stage. Abel has to subjugate naturally, by love. Along the way Abel has to win the birthright from the elder son. At the final level, the elder son must save himself. Abel has to save himself and save Cain. Together then they restore the mother. These three come together and ultimately restore the father's position.

At the time of the fall, all these positions, father, mother, and children became enemies. The end of the world is evidenced by this occurring on a worldwide level, not as a struggle, but as restoration. Throughout history the mother played the primary role. She nurtured the son in order to raise a man of filial piety and patriotism. This role of mother has been crucial. The father's position has been irrelevant, while the mother's position was key. When the mother is righteous for God, Satan utilizes the father's side. This is a classic formula in history. Love is always the key problem. Ultimately at the end of the world there is a God's side mother, God's side elder and younger son. These two sons must come completely under control of the mother. This has to be in evidence at the time of the end of the world.

On the satanic side there will be an evil mother and evil first and second son. There will be confrontation between these two teams. This was sown in history on an individual level. Now it will be repeated on the worldwide level. This was present in World War II. On God's side Great Britain was in Eve's position, the United States was in the elder son's position and France was in the second son's position. On the satanic side Japan was in Eve's position, Italy was in the elder son's position and Germany was in the second son's position.

History began on a continent. Jesus' body was lost in Asia Minor. Christianity began in Rome which is on a peninsula. Civilization moved toward an island culture which was Great Britain, then to another continent, the United States. Now it is moving from the United States back to the island, Japan, then returning to the peninsula, Korea and ultimately returning to the continent Asia. Korea is parallel to Italy where the Roman empire was dominant. The peninsula acts like a bridge to the continent. This is why the Korean situation is a global situation.

This was actually all a battle between Christian nations and non -Christian nations. Korea was reserved for the sake of the second coming. This is the dispensational view. What was the contribution of World War II? It restored and liberated the Adam nation, Korea.

The two sons, Cain and Abel must unite together, then by joining together in unity with the mother, they can install the father to the right position. All together, everyone goes to God. Until all this is restored there is absolutely no way to return to the Kingdom of God. After World War II, many things happened that had never happened before. The victors gave independence to occupied countries. That was because the appearance of the True Parents was near. All men had to be united. The position of brotherhood had to be restored. The formation of the United Nations was so important at this point. The United States should have fulfilled the central, Abel role in the United Nations. There was only one opportunity for all these things to take place. After World War II, the entire world could have been united under Christianity.

All of humanity is desiring and hoping for True Parents. Ultimately all humanity has to go to the hometown, the fatherland, not the motherland. All three countries want to return to the Adam nation. That fatherland is Korea. The United States/United Nations dispensation did not work. In the future one option might remain for restoration of this. For example, the Senate can bring representatives from all other nations to America. There are 100 Senatorial seats, an additional 120 representative seats could be provided for other countries. The United States represents God's country and the entire world.

Satan did not want to let the Adam country go, that is why Korea has a long history of many nations occupying it. Japan, China, the USSR and the United States all want to occupy Korea. Now the nation is divided. Korea will suffer until Adam comes.

If Christianity had fulfilled, communism would never have been born. The failure of the United States brought a blossoming of communism. Stalin was the most evil of all people.

As long as Korea is not in peace, you know the entire world is still suffering.

From 1868 until 1988, Japan has enjoyed a golden age. Three emperors reigned during the period of the last 120 years. It is a parallel, symbolizing the time of King Saul, David and Solomon, on the satanic side. The death of the emperor in the end of January 1988 was the end of this period for Japan.

Who is Adam? The lord of the second advent. No nation has any idea of their position. Only Father knows the entire historical world view. People think that he created this to justify himself, but it would be impossible to create all these dates and parallels so exactly.

The United States failed, Great Britain, France and Japan all failed. What can we do then? The failure of these countries created a situation almost parallel to a second fall. Only communism is flourishing. Satan said, "Let me have just a part of the Adam nation." The United States was not strong enough. The Allied power did not do enough to keep Korea united. In 1950, they invaded trying to claim the entire Korean nation. Finally the United States decided not to let that happen. McArthur landed at Inchon and pushed communism back, but again the United States stopped short and drew the line at the 38th parallel. Truman in Korean means "failed again". Eisenhower brought armistice. Eisenhower in Korean is similar to the sound meaning a powerful lamentation or regret, "Why didn't you push harder?"

By persecuting Father, Christian nations and churches have come to a cliff, one more step and they will go over the edge. Only God and Reverend Moon are left alone. The world has become the stage of Stalin, the communist empire. You must know the truth, the truth will set you free. Father is absolutely alone. All those supposed allies, the United States, Christian churches, etc. are not even in sight. The consequences of those failures include: the Adam nation lost; the United States, Great Britain and France lost; and the emergence of the USSR

For forty years the world has been a wilderness. All kinds of suffering has resulted from these failures. An emergency has developed. This is an individual, family, social, national, world and cosmic emergency. All the solutions depended on one individual, Reverend Moon.

Christianity is wandering. No one is close to a solution, especially without God. For the last forty three years (representing the 4300 years of Old Testament and New Testament history) Father has been living the life of indemnity and restoration for all history. All 4300 years of entangled sin had to be restored in forty three years--one generation. The ultimate solution is to find the father's country and mother's country. Without that there is no solution to our problem.

The two brothers uniting with the mother to install the father is the only way to indemnify. Who can restore? True Adam will. He is the champion of God. Adam has to pull Eve, the sons and the world to restoration. According to the law of indemnity we need a heavenly Eve nation, that is restored Japan. The elder son is the United States, and the younger son is Germany. This is the dispensational heavenly lineup. During World War II, all these nations fought each other. The lineup is still hostile, but someone has to make unity. Why does the United States represent an archangel nation? The United States represents the second Israel, the chosen Christian nation. But somebody has to pay the price for the earlier failure of the United States. Father has decided he will do that. That is why Father has been fighting and laboring in this country, even accepting a prison term. People from enemy nations come to the United States at Fathers command and then work together to lift up this nation. This has been Fathers work for the last fifteen years. [Father spoke in English about America's situation.] American leaders say we have everything we need, our country is the best. There is no need for Orientals or Europeans, that makes everything too complicated. You have to repent for this. You have to gain some dignity for your country.

The four countries in these providential positions must absolutely and freely unite. The unification of Korea the fatherland, is completely focused on Father. In the past, the four different cultural spheres all had the goal to meet Christ.

At this time the three other countries all need Korea, not for colonization purposes but for spiritual truth. Korea is the Adam nation, Japan is Eve, and China, the United States and the USSR are the three archangel nations. All four of the male nations are looking at Japan, the female nation. Japan needs to make a major decision here, "Which nation will I choose to be my husband?" A rich, handsome, blue eyed nation? What about Korea? It is empty handed and humble looking. In the Garden of Eden Eve proposed and took Adam in the wrong direction. This time Adam acted first sending secret missionaries to Japan. 2500 second generation Japanese went to Korea and accepted marriage to Koreans. Satan could not make any claim against that. Japan can only go to the Adam nation. Even in Korea, there are four political parties fighting. They represent all the different powers of the world. It is a unanimous decision that no one can unite this country. No one but one man, Reverend Moon. In the next four years the entire situation will be rectified. Father predicts and announces to the world that Korea will completely unite under God within the next few years. The three archangel nations will naturally follow when Adam and Eve are completely united.

Four hours have passed since Father began this morning. In just four hours Father has concentrated a bird's eye view of the dispensation for us.

Homecoming is the agenda for the future. There will be a great march of humanity--all five colors will march forward into the Kingdom of Heaven. That is why the Peace Highway is so important.

Human history has been pitch dark. Father has been the struggling pioneer on all eight stages. No one will be left in the dark, the rays of God's light will reach everywhere. We need a modern day Moses and you have found one--Reverend Moon!

Father has already stated that we need to cleanse history. Children denied the parents three times in history, at the times of the first Adam, Jesus and Father. Father has indemnified all history. All you have to do is unite with Father. Indemnify Father's forty three years of history. [Father speaks in English.] You have to follow even serious words. Otherwise you cannot become Canaanites.

During the Olympics, each country sent their best youth. Father embraced them as children, regardless of their country or color. Father embraced even the Soviets, even the KGB who traveled with the athletes! They all received Father's gifts. The Soviets were very surprised to get gifts from Sun Myung Moon. At home they are taught that he is the worst enemy against communism.

Before the XXIV Olympiad closed, Father announced the heavenly Olympics, the World Culture Olympics in 1990. Father set the most incredible condition for the youth of the world during the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Upon this foundation he set conditions of loving the entire youth of the world. Fathers future plan is that all youth of the world will come to Father for blessing. There are three levels of blessing. One, is the married couple blessing, two is the second generation blessing, which is the one that includes most of you and the third is the blessed children's blessing. They represent the formation, growth and completion stages. In 1990 Father would like to conduct one giant ceremony with all three levels at one time. Father will cover the entire globe.

Who is Father? Our True Father. He gives us eternal connection. How? Through the Holy Wine, it is a change of blood lineage. The blessing is the most precious thing for us. Why? Because our children will truly become the children of God and will be directly connected to God's lineage.

We still have our job to do. If we are Abel families, we are surrounded by Cain. Unite with them, serve them. True Parents are coming to our families now. You are not disconnected. You have to become tribal messiah's and restore Cain's family. The homecoming has occurred, it has begun.

The blessed couples stand in the Abel position to save their relatives. Subjugate them naturally. Father can use this in his work to reach the world. This is the last mission. True Parents are the global messiah. Blessed couples are the tribal messiah. Father already set this condition. If we link ourselves to this condition we will truly link ourselves to the global messiah.

Since Father returned home to Korea, President Roh united with him and the communist world is now beginning to crumble. China is watching Father. Twelve Soviet journalists are attending the media conference this year. The communist world is not just hostile now, but they are trying to get help from Reverend Moon. All we have to do to destroy communism is to give them new life. The free world's problem is individualism. We have to educate people to the fact that the best benefit for the individual well being is to live for the sake of others. We need to dedicate ourselves until we gain the unification of the world. The prescription for that is to become a tribal messiah.

We need to follow the formula for restoration. Unite your mind and body into one, free from satanic accusation. Then you can work step by step on the individual, family, tribe levels, all the way up to the liberation of God Himself. We want to create the true love position on every level up to the cosmos.

There is a formula for multiplication. How can you multiply yourself? If one can become two it is easy to become four. We go through many different things in our lives and finally become a blessed couple. Father has made bridges all the way up to the level of blessed couple. Then we have to go the next step to become tribal messiahs. In Korea there is a new tradition called the tribal revival. Korea has 274 tribes (the Kim tribe, the Park tribe, the Chun tribe, etc.), and 3435 branches within those tribes. All of these tribes are recorded in Korea. The genealogical study is very complete. Father was asked to be the leader of those tribes. This position is like the internal president of Korea. Every political leader in Korea has realized that they have to go through Reverend Moon. Father said it will be possible but only on one condition, that they all learn Divine Principle.

Father is bringing this victorious foundation back to the United States. Would you like to hear Father's direction? [Yes!] What about the American way? Do you want to discuss it and take a vote? [No!] Father's direction is the restoration of Cain and Abel. The work of tribal messiahship should extend across all fifty states. You are all tribal messiahs. All blessed couples, that is the most proud position. Expand it out to your tribe. Your tribe will accept you and respect you. How can anyone oppose you when they see the way you live with your wife and wonderful children? Satan is in trouble, he has declared an emergency. Father laid an incredible foundation under incredible opposition. Can we even move our tribe? It is impossible not to do it. [Father then had all the blessed couples stand up and pledge to take responsibility to become tribal messiahs. He then called up UTS graduates and former state leaders to create fifty tribal messiah leaders.]

Does Father have just one job or a variety of jobs? Father has created over forty companies alone. Americans want just one job and one focus, but we have to become like Father and be able to do many things.

Until now Father's dispensation has focused on the individual. From this day on Father raises the dispensation level to the family.

Would you like to see the New Yorker made into a commercial hotel? Father wants to make a full scale restoration. Then we can support 500 to 700 members working and living here. Only husbands and wives can stay at our hotel. If some man and woman try to come in just to have a good time, we will throw them out the window! We can have special pure virgin discount rates. Do you think that is a good idea? We will be famous around the world for such a thing. We can create a hotel with the most heavenly atmosphere in the middle of Manhattan, can you imagine that? How many members live in the New Yorker. [Many raised their hands.] How many do not want to move out? [No one raised their hand.] So we can do that. You all agreed, is that correct? [Father went on to divide all members present into teams under the fifty leaders. Each team will work in an area of New York representing tribal messiah work in each of the fifty states.]