Leaders' Conference - November 23, 1989

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
November 23, 1989

I actually started the world level dispensation at the age of 40. I was married at the age most of you are now--40. Thus the age of 40 is very significant.

All birds and animals live along with nature--so should you. All human beings, especially the blessed couples and their children should be able to get along like all the rest of creation. I feel the children born through the Blessing should never go hungry. Those children of parents who lived along with the dispensation will never starve or be abandoned. This has been described so vividly in Matthew 6:25-34, in which Jesus explains how the birds and animals are fed and clad by God. He asks his disciples why they worry about what they will eat the next day or what they are going to wear. Those problems were for the "Gentiles or the ungodly" to worry about. Those who live in God's Will do not worry but pursue the world of justice. Verse 33 explains: "But seek first the Kingdom and His righteousness, and those things shall be your as well." That Kingdom is not just anywhere, but Jesus was literally talking about God's country or nation.

God's most important objective is His nation. God always had a country in mind, selecting the people for that goal and educating them through the prophets. After the Fall, Satan had sovereignty over many nations but God could never take dominion. God has never had His own country.

God chose a family and a tribe, but never had a nation. God's chosen people didn't realize that God could never take a nation. Instead the ideal nation had to be created by the chosen people. God chose the people and the land but could never bless it as His own. Unification Church members are the third Israelites. But just having third Israelites is not the end God is seeking; through them, God is trying to establish His own country.

The Unification Church does not exist so that blessed couples may prosper and have a lot of children. That is not the end God is pursuing. The only thing God has in mind is a nation. God has selected many chosen people, families, clans and races; but, selection was not the purpose in and of itself. God selected them not for the sake of that particular person, family, clan or race--but for the sake of God's nation. We have so many Christian denominations and churches yet God cannot say, "This is my church."

God selected America and Protestantism has been prospering. But even this country has not turned out to be the country about which God can say, "This is my country." We must keep in mind that God selected America, blessed and nurtured it, not for America's own sake, but for the sake of the world. Through America, we can educate and lead the world back to God.

Whatever we may have acquired so far, God would give up as the price to gain His nation. If God can win His country, then He is ready to exchange or sacrifice anything for it. That's His feeling. For once we have that nation and can raise our families within that country, then we will prosper forever.

Many nationalities are represented here: from America, as well as from all over Europe and the Orient. But what is our wish as individual members and as a whole? What is our purpose in uniting like this? Every individual here desires to make their country God's country or to find God's country, and to follow True Parents. We discovered that God is our Parent. To do the Will of our Father and live with Him is our purpose of being here. We must establish the country where we can live with God, our Parent.

If you were God or God's person, which course would you take? Would you let the individual prosper, never sacrificing the individual's needs or would you sacrifice him in exchange for gaining a country? If you were God's person which would you do? (The second course of sacrifice.)

There are many different levels of sacrifice. There is the sacrifice of working hard or the sacrifice of giving up our life. Which level of sacrifice are we willing to offer? If we choose to sacrifice ourselves, could we sacrifice our entire family as well.

If one family were to sacrifice perfectly, could we gain our country? Not likely. What about the whole clan? Even that might not be enough. So we have to invest everything that we have--family, clan and race--to win the nation of God. We would even put the whole country of America into a sacrificial position in order to find the one country where we could all belong to God.

Each one of us feel, "Yes, I am living for the sake of God's Will." But the definition of God's Will varies from one person to the next. My concept is also different. What I am now saying is there can only be one concept of God's Will. For example, America is comprised of many different segments. One person's concept of patriotism and love of God is different from that of the next person. And what scholars or businessmen think may also be different. Each different level of society has its own concept of God's Will.

If God's ideal is so important, then isn't God's goal also important? Shouldn't we invest everything we've got into it? Is God's Will a full-time or part-time vocation? What about God Himself? What is God's full-time work? To accomplish His Will, which is to restore His country. If I took care of my family and myself the way everyone else does, do you think the Unification Church could have been led to this point? Could God have done His Will to this extent? No! Everyone knows that I geared everything to God's Will, not thinking about my life or anything else, except that.

If you are a state leader, should you say, "Yes, I am doing my job as a state leader; I have fulfilled my responsibility"? No! To fulfill the state leader's position perfectly means your ideas should always concern God's country. "I am doing the best work I can with the world-level goal always in mind." Barrytown Seminary students are studying very hard, but should they think, "Oh I have done my responsibility"? No, for the purpose of studying and teaching is to recover God's country and to save the world!

There are many problems encountered while reaching for that purpose. How can such difficulties be solved? You must have a fighting spirit, for without that kind of mind, you cannot become victorious. This is not a theoretical way, this is the way I have gone.

America cannot be thrust into that goal of recovering the world until you accomplish the first stage. What is the first stage? We have to be able to influence America in order for us to save America. We need the level of influence in America such that what we do causes America to listen. Or, if we do something wrong, America will criticize us. So the first thing we have to do is to influence America. Then I will be able to thrust this country forward to gain God's nation.

Our main purpose and course is clear. With that in mind, compare what we have now with that ideal. What level of influence do you have? This whole country may laugh at us which means that God may not be taken seriously. You must always connect everything you do with God's nation, no matter how hard you may have to work in the future. This concept must be clear. In view of that standard, our past standard has been somewhat shameful. We should repent for having such a low concept of God's Will. If the different levels of leadership and membership in the Unification Church of America were saturated with the feeling, "I must recover God's country," I would not have to do it single-handedly.

What I have been doing in America and the world is not just to educate you and help you to grow. You are not the final objective. No! I worked hard in Japan, Europe and America not for the sake of these nations only; I have had the world always in my mind. My purpose for gaining success here in America is to use that success for the world, which demands much more work than I already have now. Do you think my idea about God's Will is the correct one?

So have you every tried to wrestle with America to save it or cried for the sake of America? Look at me. Has America ever welcomed me? No, they always opposed me as an enemy. But I had to love America even though my "enemy" did not know I was its real friend. I gave all of my time and effort to love an enemy. Have we done the same for this country? Have American members ever pushed America so that I could go easier a little bit? No! You have been clinging to me, who am already old, asking me for more. Which should you say: "Father please continue to help us" or "Father, at this moment, now that we have grown up we will help you"? Unless you totally change and help me, America has no hope because no one is saving this country. The year of 1990 is very important, so I am now clearly proclaiming this fact.

Have I lived the way I have just explained? Yes, I did. When my own parents and family went against me, I didn't care. I only had God's country in my mind. I was working and thinking like crazy. Everyone else called me crazy because I didn't think about anything else except that nation. Because I was thinking like God, God helped. No one else understood how anxious God has been and still is. You never realized how difficult my situation is. Do we have God's country yet? No.

During the next 10 years, we have to resolve everything on the earth to a principled viewpoint. After this next decade, we will welcome the new century. What kind of concept do you have? God wants a unified world, His one nation. Who will fulfill this promise for Him? God cannot help you until you have set the precedent of working hard. There is no hope unless you think about indemnity conditions. Making difficult indemnity conditions is a hard way. Compare that with God Himself. He had to create all life--creatures and their environments. Down the 1,000-year path, God never had His ideal nation. God's project of one nation will be accomplished when all people of all nations have absolutely the same desire as True Parents--one nation under God!

There is nothing we can be proud of as Unification Church members because we don't have a country. That is what God is thinking. I have a sense of spiritual sovereignty over America. Do you have such a sense of sovereignty? If you did, then you would talk to the governor and then go together to meet the President. Have you done that? Do you have a sense of sovereignty?

Unless you wisely use the foundation I have made, God will hold a different opinion of America and its people, meaning you. I will also see American members quite differently than I see them now.

You are adults. Imagine a court judge clad in robes, saying very grave words. Even in the fallen world, the law is that strict. Do you think God's law could be less strict? We can only imagine that God's law is 100 times more strict. When I speak like this, could it be less important than when a judge speaks? In the past, I have predicted many things that came into being within a few years.

The day of our one chance to save the world is coming for the sake of the world itself and everyone in it--not just for America, nor the Unification Church, not even for me. When the world is recovered, then America becomes meaningful and the Unification Church becomes important. True Parents also become important and meaningful at that time. But before that, only a few people at best will take this seriously.

When you joined the Unification Church, you didn't understand that you were getting purified. But now you realize clearly you have been welcomed into the most precious place. Now you may think, "Oh, this is our time, I'm meeting top American leaders." You cannot be proud. To solve America's current situation greatly depends on the quality of the church leaders. You have to really change your way of thinking. Otherwise, there is no hope to make God's country here. This is the most fearful time for the judgment is coming. Do you understand what I have pointed out?

So for the next three years, we have to really get to it. Those who have never been pioneering, should go and pioneer for the next three years. Those who have never done fund raising, no matter how many children you may have, will go. In the next three years, we have to seriously work. In pioneering, our central figure is God and we will go straight forward with Him. You have gone through the 40-year period. Jericho is now beginning to fall. The significance of this 40-year period has been the formation of the world foundation. Jericho is waiting to fall down in front of us.

Imagine the Israelites after 40 years in the wilderness. They were so ragged with nothing to eat and nothing to wear. They looked like beggars. When they finally got into Canaan, they felt, "Prosperity is upon us." However, once they were in Canaan, there was a bigger task: to digest the tribes in Canaan. Unless they did that, their coming into Canaan would mean nothing. They did not know that. Compared to the Israelites, the Canaanites were rich men possessing many sheep, cattle and beautiful houses. So the Israelites looked like miserable beggar children.

The Israelites saw the Canaanites, envied them and lost their identity as the chosen people. By the second generation, the Israelites had completely lost their culture and their nation. You have to understand the significance of this clearly. I know you are in the same situation and face the same temptations. Like the Israelites, you are also the second generation or Abel generation of Unification Church members. The Israelites also faced high levels of wealthy people in the political and scholarly world. But remember, no matter how much power those people have, it cannot compare with our past 40 years. We have come to the end of "wandering in the wilderness" and are making a new family, new tribe and new nation from now.

In the next 10 years we have to think more toward the future. We are intended to be soldiers of the original world. What kind of soldiers? You don't have money, power, nor foundation--only debt. Our only permanent possession is our life. Those who want to die will live; those who want to live will die. This is what the Bible clearly said and it's so true. You have to know this now; that's why Father is pointing this out. Why haven't you practiced this in your position as leaders? We have to learn to go down, otherwise there is no hope to save this country.

Look at the vivid history of the Israelites. Only 2,000 years ago, if the Israelites had really fought for their lives in the following 10 years centering on Moses, becoming really unified in attaining God's Will, they would have occupied all of Canaan and the Middle East. If they had, the world would be quite different than what we see. But they didn't do that.

So after their failure, other powerful religions had to restore that situation. There was a chance for Mohammedism, even Christianity. But it became apparent that no one could do the task. Only when Father and the Unification Church appeared, did the people see some hope: "Oh yes, Reverend Moon can do that." My dispensational position is to have my brothers treat me as their enemy. Judaism, the elder brother, and Christianity as the younger brother, are fighting against me, not knowing that my goal is the same one they are trying to reach.

The really unfortunate thing is, the Israelites had no idea about God's desire for one world nation. They thought God was just for them, not even for another foreign country. They did not help God create His world, which was their mission, so they perished. Similarly, Christianity does not know God's ultimate purpose. They think saving Christianity was God's purpose. But we members of the Unification Church know God's Will lives in God's nation. It is living proof of God's incredible love for this goal, that He sacrificed the first Israelites and the second Israelites, only to raise up the third Israelites--us. We are in that kind of serious and important position to God.

God is thrusting the Unification Church into the world to recover His country. We should be ready to say, "God, I will gladly sacrifice myself if You can recover your country." Father's role is to teach us and we are to do it. Father's special mission is to eliminate Satan. With that accomplished, it is now up to us to recover God's country.

There is no persecution ahead of the Unification Church, unlike 10, or even 5 years ago. Satan is no longer there. Even if we don't do our mission, God's Will will eventually be done, but the important question is where will we be? Father has a certain idea of what it means to be a blessed couple, and you have your own concept. The purpose of blessing you is not just for your own selfish happiness, but to recover God's world and rejoice forever with God and all our brothers and sisters.

Father is now seventy, but is still only sleeping two hours a day and educating us. I am unifying the languages of the world. Blessed children from around the world are coming to Korea to study the Korean language while they are still young. I brought American ministers to Korea and Korean ministers to America to exchange environments and views. I have been doing many things to prepare for the future.

The world is invisibly becoming one. Each year there are less wars between nations. Look at how international we in the Unification Church have become. I have been reaching out to Russia, China, and all the communist countries to make one world without any segregation.

America persecuted me so much, but I sent enemy American journalists on fact-finding tours to Russia and China so they could wake up to the reality of communism and warn America. It was predicted that liberals and communists would take over America by the year 1984. But because of The Washington Times, we turned that situation around.

At the Washington Monument Rally in l976, Father said, "We will go to Moscow." I worked so hard for 12 years to make this happen. It didn't happen automatically. I worked to contact Russian scholars, tried to communicate with Russia through artistic channels, and even co-sponsored a religious conference in Moscow with the Russian Orthodox Church. I worked hard in the Russian media realm. These areas would never have developed by themselves.

Now, the Russian government realizes that Rev. Moon, the archenemy of communism, is getting to close to every aspect of Russian life. They can't get rid of these areas of life, so they are thinking, "How can we unite with Rev. Moon?"

The Soviet Union is in a very serious situation now. They are turning to a free-market solution for their economic ills. But America, with all her economic power, cannot save the Soviets because it is so corrupt. The Soviet Union knows this, because it has KGB agents everywhere. Now, they are looking toward South Korea as a model for them to follow. South Korea has developed so much in less than thirty years.

I must seem like such a mysterious guy to the Soviets. They see our shiny, clean cut, pure Unification Church members, and wonder what I teach. They are studying me, trying to get closer to me. Russian media people visited me in Korea last year, and wondered, "How could Korea develop so much in such a short time?" They want that kind of short-term economic development in Russia, too. They made a one-hour documentary of their visit to Korea and an interview with me, and it was broadcast on nation-wide television. Many positive articles have come out in the Soviet media.

American secular humanism and Soviet communism are now defeated, making room for Godism to save the world. God's thinking is absolute, so he only takes one way. All of our education at the seminary is to use toward the purpose of saving the world. The purpose of the Unification Church is for the whole world, to make one world nation.

I received persecution my whole life, giving everything for that same purpose: the coming of God's one nation. I am the number one patriot in history for God's nation. The patriot of the spiritual world is Rev. Moon, because of all the people in history, I lead the world in taking responsibility for god's nation.

I want to create a new kind of nation's sovereignty, so all the existing sovereignties of the world are persecuting me. I have been in a bloody battle my whole life to lay the foundation for God's country. You know how I live. I have taught you and you have a clear understanding of God's will. Actually, you have a clearer understanding than Father did 40 years ago.

I had faith when nothing was visible and all around me was the war. You see your present difficulties and lose faith. No matter how difficult my circumstances were, I always though, "Oh, our time is coming." Our future was shining so clearly in front of me--I could not deny it. The reality of the world was like a shadow around me, but my eyes were set on the vision of our future happiness. I always though, "We'll create such a time of happiness" so I could endure a lot of pain for the sake of this vision. I was proud that I was working for that and America could not break or shake my determination for that goal. You must understand this point: One future lies in the viewpoint and perspective of God. No matter how powerful America's situation is, it cannot compare with God's power and might.

Many times you have promised me and offered Manseis, but you didn't make any result. So from now on your mission is to testify to messiahship. I testify everywhere. Promise me no matter how strong the power opposing you, you will testify that you have the highest truth. When God looks down at such determination, His energy will come and surround you.

So please remember my secret. When my own family opposed me, when Sung Jin Nim's mother opposed me, all of the relatives opposed me, I steadfastly went forward for God's country. That was the only thing in my mind. I didn't care for my own glory, but went down and down from the position that God originally promised me. Satan came down too, but at a certain point he stopped, not wanting to go below. That is where I started and began to come up again. I still have this thinking.

If Korea had served Father, then I would never have had to come to America. But if America had received me, than I probably would not have had to go to Russia. So the course I am now taking is only the second and third best. Even if Russia does not welcome me, it doesn't matter, because I am ready to go down even lower. At that point Satan will see it is useless.

This is the way God has been treating me too. Every time God makes me suffer, He had a bigger prize in mind. I understood that after awhile. When I press American members and you work harder, I know there is a prize coming to us. Just like my own course, your course will be guaranteed in that way.

This is that crucial time when we all have to unite with Father and really march forward for this final culmination of this one sovereignty world. I am giving one of the last big pushes.

America is a big country. It is waiting to see what kind of seed will be sown. Each part of the American land is waiting for us to go there and plant the seed of ourselves in it. When that is sown and starts growing, then America won't need me so crucially as before. So I am proclaiming that we spread out and sow ourselves into this land.

The population of North and South America together is about 700 million. In China, it is more than one billion. In God's idea of salvation, which population would He prefer? In North and South America the population is mostly white and Hispanic, both very arrogant cultures. They say, "Nobody teaches us; we will teach you." Leading them is even more difficult. But in China, people are welcoming me as a famous teacher. China is asking me to come visit, as compared with America complaining about me being here. It will be no problem to lead the Chinese people. I came to America because this was the most hopeful way for God's will to be accomplished. But there is too much pride here.

Now, I have a high-level mechanical foundation in West Germany, a cultural foundation in France, and financial and electronic foundation in Japan. This is all for our work in China and Russia. We will have to work even harder now in China and Russia. Who is willing to follow me? What about Americans? It would be good if I could bring hundreds of Americans with me, but if not I will have to go alone. This is my situation. If God has nobody else to do it, I have to go alone. There are some good points to working in China, but many drawbacks as well. Communist countries may be more difficult to work in than in the more open Western countries. But I still have to go. We have had underground churches in communist countries sacrificing for many years. I am so moved by their sacrifice. If we don't sacrifice too, we will get punishment for Heaven.

After sending missionaries behind the Iron Curtain, I had to support them somehow financially. That is what many of our companies have been doing.

I have been provided with foundations prepared ahead of me by God. I was shocked and grateful to find out later. In the same way that I have been helped by God, I am making a foundation ahead of you without your knowledge. Future generations should be able to look back and say, "My parents sacrificed so much and yet were still grateful."

American woman have to change their attitudes and work even harder for the goal of recovering their country. No matter what their role historically has been, presently they are hurting this country. So I am turning to you American women and asking you to suffer more and work harder. All men are included in this as well. This is for your country of America and for your offspring as well. You are capable people but must align with God's goal. Who is the major cause for repeating marriage and divorce? It is the women. Unification Church women have a standard to uphold and demonstrate to the rest of America. If you have no make up but work hard for God's will, God will do the make-up for you.

I heard recently that a government agent was sent to Danbury to ask what it was like when I was there, and he was told that it was very peaceful. But one week after I left, fighting broke out all over. What about you? Are you influenced by me? How much of my value did you inherit? That is your asset in life. I exerted influence all over the world. Who is influenced more by me, non-members or you? Do you know how much the Korean retired military men or professors are moved in a 10 day tour of our church in America? They are ready to change their life and start in a new direction after only 10 days. What about you? You often feel matter-of-factly about hearing me speak. I give you a message from the bottom of my heart, but you have become accustomed to this. If I had invested as much in Korea as in you, Korea would be much more advanced.

So, I have said everything I need to you.. You don't need to hear me speak anymore.

Do you know the leader of England? He is Japanese. Japan inherited the Eve's position from England, therefore they are now sacrificing for England, so that it will not lose its position in the mission. In Germany, Father sent a Korean leader to work with the machine-factory development, to thank Germany because Korea inherited their technology. I have decided to open up a factory in china to help them develop. I want to give all of this technology to them free. The archangel country of the west would help the archangel country of the East. There is always a reason for what I do.

Now we are working with media people from Russia. We don't want to hurt the communists. The reason we oppose them is to save them. The KGB wanted to eradicate me. But did I hate them? No, I feel they must hate me before they turn around. I know the course they are going. I showed the Russian media people that I was not their enemy, and when they trusted me, I asked them to bring the same message to Kim Il Sung, that I only say things against him because of the dispensation: I don't' hate him.

The times have changed. The Berlin Wall has come down and all the satellite countries have turned toward democracy. Communism is on the verge of crumbling and therefore they pay no attention to me anymore.

So please take spiritual dominion in your states. You can proclaim spiritually to the government leaders, "I am the elder brother, you are the younger brother." Teach them what you have learned. I invited many congressmen and senators to come to conferences to be educated. Though they may not proclaim openly, many of them support me. Through the Washington Times, Insight magazine, and the world and I, I have been preparing the foundation for you to influence America.

I am building up a media center, including a television studio and a wire service. Why? Because I want to be rich? No--to educate Americans in God's truth. And who will be the future managers there? You. I created a new research department at the Segye Ilbo in Korea, and they are researching all affairs that have to do with the Unification Church throughout Korea. Through that, we can more know quickly about all situations affecting God's will and deal effectively with them. I don't have one country completely united with me, but I have influential organizations equal to one country's power.

So far, we have been persecuted in many countries but I have never fought back. Within a certain time, natural forces will spring up to stop them, because their actions are against the public benefit of their country. This is automatic subjugation, not by force. It is a rule; opposition never continues without limit. It will recede at some point. We are not as powerless as we may think. There is lots of potential, but it is only our responsibility which is a problem.

Don't you ever set your goal to become popular in your state. Set your goal to be a good problem maker. If you are persecuted and called names, then at night you can feel, "I have done my duty today. That way people will take notice of you. I became so famous within the last 15 years because I did what I had to do and was attacked. I was very audacious; I never worried about what people thought of me. I became famous around the world. Until now, I had such a bad image, but now it is the other way around. So create positive problems in your state. You may not be able to do that overnight, but even if you take 10 or 20 years, still you will be a good age.

We should start educating grammar school children now, because soon they will be high school students. I started teaching the very moment the 10-city tour began, to assist the American situation. I was always thinking like this. During this time, my name became well-known, and because of the bad publicity, I was associated with the exploitation of American young people. But I thought, there is nothing worse that I can expect from America, so I should go full-steam ahead. I decided, if I go to Danbury and stay in there for three years, when I finally come out America will recognize its mistake. "Why not?" I said, and submitted myself to this. And the result was just as I expected. Now people come and burst into tears for the mistake they committed.

What did I do in the midst of that miserable situation? I advised the creation of mobile teams, which went around America proclaiming the truth. We really stirred up the country. Why did we do that? Stir! Our purpose was not to evangelize them, it was to stir them up. After their complaints, they came to their senses and discovered that I was their friend and savior. They were astonished at the mistake they made. Looking at them, all my feelings of being persecuted are gone. Now, is there any barking against Rev. Moon? Now the same mouths that barked don't hesitate to say, "Rev. Moon is a great patriot.

When AFC was first introduced in America, Dr. Pak was concerned that it would be construed as political work. But I continued calmly and steadily, building up this educational organization. Before that, the American people were upset, saying, "Is Rev. Moon a minister or a politician?" Today, everyone recognizes me as a minister.

Today, the Washington Times has really accomplished a tremendous task. Millions of dollars was spent for the sake of America. Our members have tremendous organizing and teaching power. So here comes my conclusion. Stop following your own idea. My idea is far better, so believe it and follow it. Do you believe me now or know? (Know!) No or know?

From now on will you be able to understand me directly or through an interpreter? An interpreter sometimes changes the sequence. All of you must speak Koran better than I speak English. Think about my age. Memorizing English is not easy. I start studying after midnight.

You already know what my message is. You don't need my presence here all the time. Look back at my words, and now you can be a messiah on your own. My words are in 200 volumes, but are you going to read those through translation? Read them in the Korean language. Many scholars are now studying Korean. They are talking about making a contest someday. What if they ask you, "How did you study Rev. Moon's words?" Will you answer them, "I could only read the translated version"? You will have no authority. So, you have to study. I am planning to invite you to Korea and let you study Korean at some time. (Clapping) I will pick out the best, most obedient ones, and bring you to Korea. Did you hear about the Song Hwa University in Korea? Is has been given official permission to be a four-year institution. Wouldn't Dr. Durst love to go to Korea and teach American literature in that school? But he should be able to speak Korean to have authority. Otherwise, the students will speak behind his back and he won't understand?

I know that all of the Unification Church members are ambitious. Even if I were to chase you away with a baseball bat, no Unification Church member would leave by his own will. You have done the right thing to join, but don't waste your youth questioning whether you are right or wrong. This is very valuable time, both past and present, so spend your youth for the sake of God's country and the world. Don't you think that in the prime of my youth I had lots of dreams, wanting to travel, eat fancy food, and so on, much the same as we all want to do? But I gave all that up a long, long time ago. Why? Because I knew where the most value was. Whatever I do, people will still remember millions of years later. I did not lose my youth, but will revive it over and over again many times. So, why trade that kind of an opportunity for some small vocation.

Every day of my life is like a volcano. I wrote a diary in Danbury. Everybody who reads that, whether they be a prisoner, a journalist, a farmer, or a minister, will be reborn and their life will erupt once more. When they read about my experience in my own words, they will become on fire for God's will. I wrote a poem about Mother, the first poem I ever wrote to Mother, in Danbury. It is on Mother's wall, framed. It will be such a source of inspiration to millions and millions of women.

The Washington Times was created in Danbury, and Insight magazine. I signed the authorization while waiting in the court room. I tried to save America, my enemy, while I was in the dungeon of hell, Danbury prison. Six great organizations were created during my time in Danbury. All of America. The American staff members may not have realized that, but now do not forget it. This is the transition time from evil to good. So please use this the same way that I used Danbury, which was Father's transition time to a larger level. I created so many things during the Danbury time, and today we all see the result.

You too, work very hard now, during this unique time. Don't waste this transition time. There is no more valuable way for you than creating a foundation which you can leave for your offspring. They will cherish your name and deeds because of what you did during this transition time. They will be proud of their first brave ancestor, and your nation will be proud of you. So how can you waste this time?

So remember, have a strong commitment, do a lot of research, and take action. In the future you will the geniuses of your nation. Emulate me and leave a heavenly world-wide tradition behind. Live for your nation and for the world, and for the spiritual world and God.

Create God's Nation

Sun Myung Moon
November 23, 1989
Leaders' Conference
Translator: Sang Kil Han
East Garden

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I actually started the world level dispensation at the age of 40. I was married at the age most of you are now -- 40. Thus the age of 40 is very significant.

All birds and animals are sustained by the creation. Human beings, especially the blessed couples and their children, should be able to get along like all the rest of creation. Those children of parents who lived during the dispensation will never starve or be abandoned. This has been described so vividly in Matthew 6:25-34, in which Jesus explains how the birds and animals are fed and clad by God. He asks his disciples why they worry about what they will eat the next day or what they are going to wear. Those problems were for the "Gentiles or the ungodly" to worry about. Those who live in God's Will do not worry but pursue the world of justice. Verse 33 explains: "But seek first the Kingdom and His righteousness, and those things shall be yours as well." That Kingdom is not just anywhere, but Jesus was literally talking about God's country or nation.

God's most important objective is His nation. God always had a country in mind, selecting the people for that goal and educating them through the prophets. After the Fall, Satan had sovereignty over many nations but God never had His own country.

Even though God had chosen a family and a tribe, His chosen people didn't realize that He could never take a nation. Instead the ideal nation had to be created by the chosen people. God chose the people and the land but could never bless it as His own. Unification Church members are the third Israelites. But just having third Israelites is not the end God is seeking; through them, God is trying to establish His own country.

God's Historical Goal

The Unification Church does not exist so that blessed couples may prosper and have a lot of children. That is not the end God is pursuing. The only thing God has in mind is a nation. God has selected many chosen people, families, clans and races, but selection was not the purpose in and of itself. God selected them for the sake of God's nation. We have so many Christian denominations and churches yet God cannot say, "This is my church."

God selected America and Protestantism has been prospering. But even this country has not turned out to be the country about which God can say, "This is my country." We must keep in mind that God selected America, blessed and nurtured it, not for America's own sake, but for the sake of the world. Through America, we can educate and lead the world back to God.

Whatever we may have acquired so far, God would give it up as the price to gain His nation. If God can win His country, then He is ready to exchange or sacrifice anything for it. That's His feeling. Once we have that nation and can raise our families there, we will prosper forever.

Many nationalities are represented here: from America, as well as from all over Europe and the Orient. But what is our purpose in uniting like this? Every individual here desires to make their country God's country or to find God's country, and to follow True Parents. We discovered that God is our Parent. To do the Will of our Father and live with Him is our purpose in being here. We must establish the country where we can live with God, our Parent.

If you were God or God's person, which course would you take? Would you let the individual prosper, never sacrificing the individual's needs, or would you sacrifice him in exchange for gaining a country? If you were God's person what would you do? (The second course of sacrifice!)

There are many different levels of sacrifice. There is the sacrifice of working hard or the sacrifice of giving up our life. Which level of sacrifice are we willing to offer? If we choose to sacrifice ourselves, could we sacrifice our entire family as well?

If one family were to sacrifice perfectly, could we gain our country? Not likely. What about the whole clan? Even that might not be enough. So we have to invest everything that we have -- family, clan, race and your whole county -- to win the nation of God.

What Is God's Will?

Each one of us feels, "Yes, I am living for the sake of God's Will." But the definition of God's Will varies from one person to the next. My concept is also different. What I am now saying is there can be only one concept of God's Will. For example, America is comprised of many different segments. One person's concept of patriotism and love of God is different from that of the next person. And what scholars or businessmen think may also be different. Each different level of society has its own concept of God's Will.

If God's ideal is so important, then isn't God's goal also important? Shouldn't we invest everything we've got into it? Is God's Will a full-time or part-time vocation? What about God Himself? What is God's full-time work? To accomplish His Will, which is to restore His country. If I took care of my family and myself the way everyone else does, do you think the Unification Church could have been led to this point? Could God have done His Will to this extent? No! Everyone knows that I geared everything to God's Will, not thinking about my life or anything else, except that.

If you are a state leader, should you say, "Yes, I am doing my job as a state leader; I have fulfilled my responsibility"? No! To perfectly fulfill the state leader's position means your ideas should always concern God's country: "I am doing the best work I can with the world-level goal always in mind." Barrytown Seminary students are studying very hard, but should they think, "Oh I have done my responsibility"? No, for the purpose of studying and teaching is to recover God's country and save the world!

There are many problems encountered while reaching for that purpose. How can such difficulties be solved? You must have a fighting spirit, for without that kind of mind, you cannot become victorious. This is not a theoretical way, this is the way I have gone.

America cannot be thrust into that goal of recovering the world until you accomplish the first stage. What is the first stage? We have to be able to influence America in order for us to save America. We need the level of influence in America such that what we do causes America to listen. Or, if we do something wrong, America will criticize us. So the first thing we have to do is to influence America; then we will be able to thrust this country forward to gain God's nation.

Our main purpose and course is clear. With that in mind, compare what we have now with that ideal. What level of influence do you have? This whole country may laugh at our results, which means that God may not be taken seriously. You must always connect everything you do with God's nation, no matter how hard you may have to work in the future. This concept must be clear. In view of that standard, our past standard has been somewhat shameful. We should repent for having such a low concept of God's Will. If the different levels of leadership and membership in the Unification Church were saturated with the feeling, "I must recover God's country," I would not have to do it single-handedly.

Father, with Col. Sang Kil Han translating, addresses the American church leadership.

Father, with Col. Sang Kil Han translating, addresses the American church leadership.

Wrestle With America

What I have been doing in America and the world is not just to educate you and help you to grow. You are not the final objective. No! I worked hard in Japan, Europe and America not for the sake of these nations only; I have had the world always in my mind. My purpose for gaining success here in America is to use that success for the world. Do you think my idea about God's Will is the correct one?

So have you ever tried to wrestle with America to save it or cried for the sake of America? Look at me. Has America ever welcomed me? No, they always opposed me as an enemy. But I had to love America even though my "enemy" did not know I was its real friend. I gave all of my time and effort to love an enemy. Have you done the same for this country? Have American members ever pushed America so that I could go easier a little bit? No! You have been clinging to me, who am already old, asking me for more. Which should you say: "Father please continue to help us" or "Father, now that we have grown up, we will help you"? Unless you totally change and help me, America has no hope because no one else is saving this country. The year of 1990 is very important, so I am now clearly proclaiming this fact.

Have I lived the way I have just explained? Yes, I did. When my own parents and family went against me, I only had God's country in my mind. I was working and thinking like crazy. Everyone else called me crazy because I didn't think about anything else. Because I was thinking like God, God helped. No one else understood how anxious God has been and still is. You never realized how difficult my situation is. Do we have God's country yet? No.

During the next 10 years, we have to resolve everything on the earth to a principled viewpoint. After this next decade, we will welcome the new century. What kind of concept do you have? God wants a unified world, His one nation. Who will fulfill this promise for Him? God cannot help you until you have set the precedent of working hard. There is no hope unless you think about indemnity conditions. Making difficult indemnity conditions is a hard way. Compare that with God Himself. He had to create all life -- creatures and their environments. Down the 6,000-year path, God never had His ideal nation. God's project of one nation will be accomplished when all people of all nations have absolutely the same desire as True Parents -- one nation under God! God is thinking there is nothing we can be proud of as Unification Church members because we don't have a country.

Use My Foundation Wisely

I have a sense of spiritual sovereignty in America. Do you have such a sense of sovereignty? If you did, then you would talk to the governor and then go together to meet the President. Have you done that?

Unless you wisely use the foundation I have made, God will hold a different opinion of America and its people, meaning you. I will also see American members quite differently than I see them now.

You are adults. Imagine a court judge clad in robes, saying very grave words. Even in the fallen world, the law is that strict. Do you think God's law could be less strict? We can only imagine that God's law is 100 times stricter. When I speak like this, could it be less important than when a judge speaks? In the past, I have predicted many things that came into being within a few years.

The day of our one chance to save the world is coming for the sake of the world itself and everyone in it -- not just for America, nor the Unification Church, not even for me. When the world is recovered, then America becomes meaningful and the Unification Church becomes important. True Parents also become important and meaningful at that time. But before that, only a few people at best will take this seriously.

When you joined the Unification Church, you didn't understand that you were getting purified. But now you realize clearly you have been welcomed into the most precious place. You may think, "Oh, this is our time, I'm meeting top American leaders." But you cannot be proud. To solve America's current situation greatly depends on the quality of the church leaders. You have to really change your way of thinking. Otherwise, there is no hope to make God's country here.

So for the next three years, we have to really get to it. Those who have never been pioneering should go and pioneer for the next three years. Those who have never done fundraising, no matter how many children you may have, will go. In the next three years, we have to seriously work. In pioneering, our central figure is God and we will go straight forward with Him. You have gone through the 40-year period, whose significance has been the formation of the world foundation. Jericho is waiting to fall down in front of us.

The Failure of the Israelites

Imagine the Israelites after 40 years in the wilderness. They were so ragged with nothing to eat and nothing to wear. They looked like beggars. When they finally made it to Canaan, they felt, "Prosperity is upon us." However, once they were in Canaan, there was a bigger task: to digest the tribes in Canaan. They did not know that unless they accomplished that, their coming into Canaan would mean nothing. Compared to the Israelites, the Canaanites were rich men possessing many sheep, cattle and beautiful houses. So the Israelites looked like miserable beggar children. The Israelites envied the Canaanites and lost their identity as the chosen people. By the second generation, the Israelites had completely lost their culture and their nation. You have to understand the significance of this clearly. I know you are in the same situation and face the same temptations. Like the Israelites, you are also the second generation or Abel generation of Unification Church members. The Israelites also faced high levels of wealthy people in the political and scholarly world. But remember, no matter how much power those people have, it cannot compare with our past 40 years. We have come to the end of "wandering in the wilderness" and are making a new family, new tribe and new nation from now.

In the next 10 years we have to think more toward the future. We are intended to be soldiers of the original world. What kind of soldiers? We don't have money, power, or foundation -- only debt. Our only permanent possession is our life. Those who want to die will live; those who want to live will die. This is what the Bible clearly said and it's so true. Why haven't you practiced this in your position as leaders? We have to learn to go down, otherwise there is no hope to save this country.

Look at the vivid history of the Israelites. Only 2,000 years ago, if the Israelites had really fought for their lives in the following 10 years after entering Canaan, centering on Moses and becoming really unified in attaining God's Will, they would have occupied all of Canaan and the Middle East. If they had, the world would be quite different than what we see. But they didn't do that.

So after their failure, other powerful religions tried to restore that situation. But only when Father and the Unification Church appeared, did the people see some hope: "Oh yes, Reverend Moon can do that." My dispensational position is to have my brothers treat me as their enemy. Judaism, the elder brother, and established Christianity as the younger brother, are fighting against me, not knowing that my goal is the same one they are trying to reach.

The really unfortunate thing is, the Israelites had no idea about God's desire for one world nation. They thought God was just for them, not even for another foreign country. They did not help God create His world, which was their mission. Similarly, established Christianity does not know God's ultimate purpose. They think saving Christianity was God's purpose. But God's Will lives in God's nation. It is living proof of God's incredible love for this goal that He sacrificed the first Israelites and the second Israelites, only to raise up the third Israelites. We are in that kind of serious and important position to God.

God is thrusting the Unification Church into the world to recover His country. We should be ready to say, "God, I will gladly sacrifice myself if You can recover Your country."

My role is to teach you and you are to do it. My special mission is to eliminate Satan. With that accomplished, it is now up to you to recover God's country.

Church leaders from all over the United States gather at East Garden

Church leaders from all over the United States gather at East Garden

Preparing for the Future World

There is no persecution ahead of the Unification Church, unlike 10, or even 5 years ago. Satan is no longer there. Even if we don't do our mission, God's Will will eventually be done, but the important question is, where will we be?

I have a certain idea of what it means to be a blessed couple, and you have your own concept. The purpose of the Blessing is not just for your own selfish happiness, but to recover God's world and rejoice forever together with God and all our brothers and sisters.

I am now seventy, but am still only sleeping two hours a day and educating you. I am unifying the languages of the world. Blessed children from around the world are coming to Korea to study the Korean language while they are still young. I brought American ministers to Korea and Korean ministers to America to exchange environments and views. I have been doing many things to prepare for the future. The world is invisibly becoming one. Each year there are fewer wars between nations. Look at how international we in the Unification Church have become. I have been reaching out to Russia, China and all the communist countries to make one world without any segregation. America persecuted me so much, but I sent American journalists on fact-finding tours to Russia and China so they could wake up to the reality of communism and warn America. It was predicted that liberals and communists would take over America by the year 1984, but The Washington Times has turned that situation around.

At the Washington Monument Rally in 1976, I proclaimed, "We will go to Moscow." I worked so hard for 12 years to make this happen. It didn't happen automatically. We worked to contact Russian scholars, communicated with Russia through artistic channels, and even co-sponsored a religious conference in Moscow with the Russian Orthodox Church. I worked hard in the Russian media realm. These areas would never have developed by themselves.

Now, Russia realizes that Rev. Moon, the archenemy of communism, is getting close to every aspect of Russian life. They can't get rid of these areas of life, so they are thinking, "How can we unite with Rev. Moon?"

The Soviet Union is in a very serious situation now. They are turning to a free-market solution for their economic ills. The Soviet Union knows that America, with all her economic power, cannot save the Soviets because she is so corrupt. Now, they are looking toward South Korea as a model for them to follow. South Korea has developed incredibly in thirty years.

I must seem like such a mysterious man to the Soviets. They see our shiny, clean cut, pure Unification Church members, and wonder what I teach. They are studying me, trying to get closer to me. Russian media people visited me in Korea last year, and wondered, "How could Korea develop so much in such a short time?" They want that kind of short-term economic development in Russia, too. They made a one-hour documentary of their visit to Korea and their interview with me, which was broadcast on nation-wide television. Many positive articles have come out in the Soviet media.

American secular humanism and Soviet communism are now defeated, making room for Godism to save the world. All of our education at the seminary is to use for the purpose of saving the world. The purpose of the Unification Church is to make one world nation.

I received persecution my whole life, giving everything for that same purpose: the coming of God's one nation. I am the number one patriot in the spiritual world, because of all the people in history, I lead the world in taking responsibility for God's nation.

God's Ideal Strengthened Me

I want to create a new kind of sovereignty, so all the existing sovereignties of the world are persecuting me. My whole life has been a bloody battle to lay the foundation for God's country.

I have taught you to have a clear understanding of God's Will. Actually, you have a clearer understanding than I did 40 years ago. I had faith when nothing was visible and war was all around me. You see your present difficulties and lose faith. No matter how difficult my circumstances were, I always thought, "Oh, our time is coming." Our future was shining so clearly in front of me -- I could not deny it. The reality of the world was like a shadow around me, because my eyes were set on the vision of our future happiness. I could endure a lot of pain for the sake of this vision. I was proud of working for that and America could not shake my determination for that goal. You must understand this point: Our future lies in the viewpoint of God. No matter how powerful America's situation is, it cannot compare with God's power and might.

Many times you have offered me mansei cheers, but couldn't follow through on your promises. From now on your mission is to testify to the true messiahship. I testify everywhere. Promise me no matter how strong the power opposing you, you will testify that you have the highest truth. When God looks down at such determination, His energy will come and surround you.

So please remember my secret. When my own family and relatives opposed me after the liberation of Korea from Japan, I steadfastly went forward for God's country. That was the only thing in my mind. I didn't care for my own glory, but went down and down from the position that God originally promised me. Satan came down too, but at a certain point he stopped, not wanting to go below. That is where I started and began to come up again. I still have this thinking.

If Korea had united with me, then I would never have had to come to America. But if America had received me, then I probably would not have had to go to Russia. So the course I am now taking is only the second and third best. Even if Russia does not welcome me, it doesn't matter, because I am ready to go down even lower. At that point Satan will see it is useless to continue.

This is the way God has been treating me, too. Every time God made me suffer, He had a bigger goal in mind. I understood that after a while. When I press American members to work harder, I know there is a prize coming to us. Just like my own course, your course will be guaranteed in that way.

This is that crucial time when you all have to unite with me and really march forward to the final culmination of one world sovereignty. I am giving one of the last big pushes.

America is a big country. It is waiting to see what kind of seed will be sown. Each part of the American land is waiting for you to go there and plant your seed in it. When that is sown and starts growing, then America won't need me as crucially as before. So I am proclaiming that we spread out and sow ourselves into this land.

The Foundation Is Prepared

The population of North and South America together is about 700 million. In China, it is more than one billion. In God's idea of salvation, which population would He prefer? In North and South America the population is mostly white and Hispanic. They say, "Nobody teaches us; we will teach you." But in China, people are welcoming me as a famous teacher. China is asking me to come visit, as compared with America's complaints about me being here. It will be no problem to lead the Chinese people. I came to America because this was the most hopeful way for God's Will to be accomplished. But there is too much pride here.

Now, our movement has a high-level mechanical foundation in West Germany, a cultural foundation in France, and a financial and electronic foundation in Japan. This is all for our work in China and Russia. Who is willing to follow me there? What about Americans? It would be good if I could bring hundreds of Americans with me, but if not I will have to go alone. There are some good points to working in China, but many drawbacks as well. Communist countries may be more difficult to work in than the more open Western countries. But I still have to go. We have had underground churches in communist countries for many years. I am so moved by their sacrifice.

I have been provided with foundations prepared ahead of me by God. I was shocked and grateful to find out later. In the same way that I have been helped by God, I am making a foundation ahead of you without your knowledge. Future generations should be able to look back and say, "My parents sacrificed so much and yet were still grateful."

American women have to change their attitudes and work even harder for the goal of recovering their country. No matter what their role historically has been, presently they are hurting this country. So I am turning to you American women and asking you to suffer more and work harder. All men are included in this as well. This is for your country of America and for your offspring. You are capable people who must align with God's goal. Who is the major cause for repeating marriage and divorce? Unification Church women have a standard to uphold and demonstrate to the rest of America. If you have no make-up but work hard for God's Will, God will do the make-up for you.

I heard recently that a government agent was sent to Danbury to ask what it was like when I was there. He was told that it was very peaceful during that time, but one week after I left, fighting broke out all over. What about you? Are you influenced by me? How much of my value did you inherit? That is your asset in life. I exerted influence all over the world. Who is influenced more by me, non-members or you? Do you know how much the Korean retired military men or professors are moved in a 10-day tour of our church in America? They are ready to change their life and start in a new direction after only 10 days. What about you? I give you a message from the bottom of my heart, but you have become accustomed to this. If I had invested as much in the Korean people as in you, Korea would be much more advanced. So, I have said everything I need to you.

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Take Spiritual Dominion

There is always a reason for what I do. Do you know the church leader in England? He is Japanese. Japan inherited the Eve position from England, therefore Japan is now sacrificing for England so that it will not lose its position in the mission. A Korean leader is in Germany to work with the machine- factory development, to thank Germany because Korea inherited its technology. I have decided to open up a factory in China to help them develop. The archangel country of the West should help the archangel country of the East.

Now we are working with media people from Russia. We don't want to hurt the communists. The reason we oppose them is to save them. The KGB wanted to eradicate me, but did I hate them? No, I felt they must hate me before they could turn around. I know the course they are going. I showed the Russian media people that I was not their enemy. When they were able to trust me, I asked them to bring a message to Kim II Sung: I speak against him only because of the dispensation.

The times have changed. The Berlin Wall has come down and all the satellite countries have turned toward democracy. Communism is on the verge of crumbling.

So please take spiritual dominion in your states. You can proclaim spiritually to the government leaders, "I am the elder brother and you are the younger brother." Teach them what you have learned.

We are building up a media center, including a television studio and a wire service. Why? Because I want to be rich? No -- to educate Americans in God's Truth. And who will be the future managers there? You are. We created a new department at the Segye Ilbo in Korea which researches all affairs that have to do with the Unification Church throughout Korea. Now we can more know quickly about all situations affecting God's Will and deal effectively with them.

So far, we have been persecuted in many countries and I have never fought back. Within a certain time, natural forces will spring up to stop those people because their actions are against the public benefit of their country. This is automatic, not by force. Opposition never continues without limit; it will always recede at some point. You are not as powerless as you may think. 1 here is lots of potential, but the only problem is that it is your responsibility.

Winning Over Opposition

Don't ever set your goal to become popular in your state. Set your goal to be a good problem maker. If you are persecuted and called names, then at night you can feel, "I have done my duty today." That way people will take notice of you. I became so famous within the last 15 years because I did what I had to do and was attacked. I was very audacious; I never worried about what people thought of me. Until now, I had such a bad image, but now it is the other way around. So create positive problems in your state. You may not be al-le to do that overnight, but even if you take 10 or 20 years, you will still be a good age.

I started teaching the very moment the 10-city tour began in America. During this time, my name became well-known, and because of the bad publicity, I was associated with the exploitation of American young people. But I thought, "There is nothing worse that I can expect from America, so I should go full-steam ahead." I decided, if I go to Danbury and stay there for three years, when I come out America will finally recognize its mistake. So I submitted myself to this. And the result was just as I expected. Now people come and burst into tears for the mistake they committed.

What did I do in the midst of that miserable situation? I advised the creation of mobile teams, which travelled around America proclaiming the truth. We really stirred up the country. Why did we do that? Our purpose was not just to evangelize people, but to stir them up. After their complaints, they came to their senses and were astonished at the mistake they had made. Looking at them, all my feelings of being persecuted are gone. Is there any barking against Rev. Moon? Now the same mouths that once barked don't hesitate to say, "Rev. Moon is a great patriot."

Today, The Washington Times has really accomplished a tremendous task. Millions of dollars were spent for the sake of America. Our members have tremendous organizing and teaching power. So here comes my conclusion. Stop going your own way. My idea is far better, so believe it and follow it.

From now on will you be able to understand me directly or through an interpreter? An interpreter sometimes changes the sequence. All of you must speak Korean better than I speak English. Think about my age. Memorizing English is not easy, for I start studying after midnight.

You already know what my message is. You don't need my presence here all the time. Look back at my words, and now you can be a messiah on your own. My words are in 200 volumes, but are you going to read those through translation? Read them in the Korean language. Many scholars are now studying Korean. They are talking about making a contest someday. What if they ask you, "How did you study Rev. Moon's words?" Will you answer them, "I could only read the translated version"? You will have no authority. I am planning to invite you to Korea and let you study Korean at some time. (Clapping) Did you hear about the Song Hwa University in Korea? It has been given official permission to be a four-year institution.

Your Transition Time

I know that all of the Unification Church members are ambitious. Even if I were to chase you away with a baseball bat, no Unification Church member would leave by his own will. You have done the right thing to join, but don't waste your youth questioning whether you are right or wrong. This is very valuable time, both past and present, so spend your youth for the sake of God's country and the world. Don't you think that in the prime of my youth I had lots of dreams, wanting to travel, eat fancy food, and so on, much the same as you all want to do? But I gave all that up a long, long time ago. Why? Because I knew where the most value was. Whatever I do, people will still remember millions of years later. I did not lose my youth, but will revive it over and over again many times. So, why trade that kind of an opportunity for some lesser vocation?

Every day of my life is like a volcano. I wrote a diary while in Danbury. Everybody who reads that, whether they be a prisoner, a journalist, a farmer, or a minister, will be reborn and their life will erupt once more. When they read about my experience in my own words, they will become on fire for God's Will. I wrote a poem about Mother, the first poem I ever wrote to Mother, in Danbury. It is on Mother's wall, framed. It will be such a source of inspiration to millions and millions of women.

The Washington Times was created in Danbury, and Insight magazine. I tried to save America, my enemy, while I was in America's dungeon of hell. Six great organizations were created during my time in Danbury.

This is the transition time from evil to good. So please use this the same way that I used Danbury, which was my transition time to a larger level. I created so many things during the Danbury time, and today we all see the result. You too, work very hard now during this unique time. Don't waste this transition time. There is no more valuable way for you than creating a foundation which you can leave for your offspring. They will cherish your name and deeds because of what you did during this transition time. They will be proud of their first brave ancestor, and your nation will be proud of you.

So remember, have a strong commitment, do a lot of research, and take action. In the future you will be the geniuses of your nation. Emulate me and leave a heavenly worldwide tradition behind. Live for your nation, for the world, for the spiritual world and for God.

Prayer for Eastern Europe

Sun Myung Moon
November 19, 1989
After Sunday Pledge
European Leaders' Conference
Camberg, West Germany
Translator: Dong Moon Joo

Conference participants at the Forum Religion and Weltgestaltung in Jena, East Germany.

Conference participants at the Forum Religion and Weltgestaltung in Jena, East Germany.

Beloved Father! Today, please remember this training center here in Camberg, which is now the focus of the attention of heaven and earth. I know that You have connected the family members in Europe to the Unification Country to come and that you have already established the basis for Europe to become one. As Korea is divided between North and South, it is also divided between East and West.

The division of Adam's sons into Cain and Abel, which began the satanic history, has descended through history and brought about the painful division of Your children into the democratic world and the communist world. It has now finally been overcome after You have given the opportunity of a forty-year course of restoration through indemnity of the foundations lost through the failure of established Christianity and America after the liberation of Korea.

In view of your sufferings and pains, Father, I cannot but thank you again for having been able to contribute to this. A terrible course of indemnity, which nobody fully knows, had to be passed. There have been the horizontal stages of the individual, the family, the tribe, the race, the nation, the world, the universe and God; also the vertical children worldwide. Allow their hearts to be centered on the True Parents at all times and give them, and all those who are dedicating themselves for the fulfillment of Your providence, all Your grace, Your mercy and Your blessings. Also please let all the members of the Unification family unite their hearts in love with Yours.

Today the leaders of some twenty European countries have come to be here. Especially members who have worked in the satellite countries of the communist bloc have come here today. Please, let a new chapter in the history of the world be unfolded through this meeting and make it an important occasion for the turning around of the satanic history and the harvesting of the fruits of Your heavenly history. May all the events of this day be dominated by You and bless these few days in Europe so that they can serve as an advancement of Your will and become worthy of being cherished memories in the history of Your providence.

Please be with the children in Korea who are dedicating themselves in their prayers with their hearts turned toward the Parents here, and guide them to be able to fulfill their responsibilities and let all their actions be acceptable in Your eyes. I sincerely pray that Europe will fulfill the purpose for which You created it. Please allow it to completely unite with Your providence and become one country and one cultural sphere for You. I pray that this day may be a proud day in the history of Your providence and that all that is done today may be centered on Your will and offered as a victorious contribution.

I pray all this in the name of the True Parents. Amen. Amen. Amen.

East and West German participants share over lunch.

East and West German participants share over lunch.

A Cross Rising in the East
Ann Schaffner

Under the guidance of Liselotte Morgenthaler-Perrottet, IRF General Secretary, Germany, the ongoing "Forum Religion and Weltgestaltung (Forum of Religion and Society)" has taken a giant step eastward since the end of March of this year -- eastward from West Germany across the barbed wire and vacated buildings at the border into East Germany.

And it was to the second of such conferences that I was invited -- the first having taken place in Eisenach, East Germany under the theme of "The Role of Religion in the Future of Europe" on March 24-25. Its success prompted Liselotte to quickly organize another such meeting in Jena, specifically there due to the suggestion of an attendee in Eisenach. [Interestingly enough, Karl Marx was awarded his doctorate at the University of Jena!]

For me, merely the invitation to such an event was thrilling because it was my initial visit into this unknown land which I'd heard so much of. In a very special way, it was the answer to a vision I had following Pledge on March 18 -- the first time our fellow Germans went to the polls in over 40 years. On that morning as I finished praying I saw a large cross rising out of the East German earth, with one end at Rostock, the other at Dresden.

Needless to say, it was a massive structure, shining brightly as if just newly polished.

I often asked myself what was the meaning of this rising cross -- until I received a phone call from Liselotte asking me to attend the Jena meeting, slated for June 16-17.

The planning stages toward the conference itself were nearly as action- packed and thrilling as the actual event, since the conference center we initially booked later tripled its prices! After a suitable hall at the university was arranged, three days prior to the fixed date the conference was kicked out under pressure from the city government. This last minute change of plan was sparked by two undesirable articles in the local newspaper, urging anyone invited to boycott the Forum, and after intensively and pointedly questioning the city officials, it was understood that West German Protestant ministers, "experts" on new religious movements, had made their inroads into the Jena political arena.

Through God's Hand a hall was found, appropriate to accommodate the FRW, at 9 o'clock on the morning the meeting was scheduled to begin. We were able to use the former communist cultural center, located on the outskirts of Jena.

With the theme "Absolute Values in Today's Society" the conference was underway, moderated by Dr. Edmond Weber, professor of Protestant Theology at the University of Frankfurt. On Saturday, June 16, Dr. Rainer Stahl, lecturer in Old Testament Studies at the Leipzig Theological Seminary, presented an offering entitled "The Old Testament as a Source of Lasting Value." This complemented the topic presented by Professor Dr. Hans Schwarz, Protestant Theology Professor at the University of Regensburg, who spoke directly to the conference theme of absolute values in our present society. The final presentation for the day was given by Ulrich Tuente, European Director of the Unification Thought Institute, on the topic of "Absolute Values: Advancement or Withdrawal and Unification Philosophy Perspective,"

On Sunday morning, June 17, Siegfried Hollitzer, active with Christian-Jewish Dialogue in Leipzig, and Prof. Dr. Jorgen Redhardt, professor of Religious Psychology and Religious Education at the University of Glessen, related their talks to the question of truth and the concept of education toward a world orientation, respectively.

Intertwined between each talk were very lively discussions, where the concept of absolute values vis-a-vis the present political and socio-economic situation in East and West Germany was drawn more to the forefront.

However, for those participants from the West a unique opportunity was found in regards to the lodging -- we stayed in "Bed and Breakfasts" in small villages east of Jena, enabling us to talk with our hosts and their families over breakfast and to gain a deeper awareness of these East German brethren.

In addition, the restaurant in which we ate our meals was at one time the home of Martin Luther, interestingly enough located directly across the street from the university were Marx studied!

Concluding this account, I reflect back on my vision of the cross rising through the East German soil and pray that it will not slip back into quicksand. A primary force leading toward the destruction and dismantling of the Berlin Wall last November was the church, though the crowds of believers at the "Nikolaikirche" in Leipzig have become but a dim memory. A very strong sense of secular materialism has permeated this land to the point of suffocation. Yet all is not lost -- now is the time for our Unification movement, with its vast array of activities in the ecumenical arena, to stretch out its hand and save the people of Eastern Europe. Now, rather than later, when it may be too late! 

University Churches

Sun Myung Moon
November 18, 1989
European Leaders Conference
Camberg, West Germany
Translator: Dong Moon Joo

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In Korea we have recently formed University Churches, through which university students can be connected to our church organization. Before, our young church members in CARP were just doing

CARP activities without receiving an education in our church lifestyle. Therefore, when they graduated from the university they could not adapt to life in the church. Our original hope for these university graduates to become leaders of the church was impossible because they lacked church training. CARP is now being conducted more in the church style, so their time at the university becomes training which will enable the students to assume future leadership of the general church membership. This will solve another major problem in the past in Korea, for once they graduated from university, the CARP members had no one they could relate to in the church. Also, when CARP members were drafted into the Korean military, they would return three years later to the CARP center to find their old friends had graduated. They would lose contact with the movement.

Originally CARP's activity in Korea was separate from the general church because of its special mission to fight communist activists, present in great numbers on campuses at that time. But that has changed, thus CARP's mission is different. It no longer needs to be a fighting organization. In the past, CARP served very well by reacting speedily to the tactics of leftist radicals. It was a great advantage to have a separate CARP organization. But all university students who joined the church automatically went to CARP -- creating a serious vacuum in the local churches. I have created the University Church in Korea to solve this problem.

All of the university students in the church should be completely armed with the Divine Principle, Unification Thought and VOC theory and witness to the local people -- giving lectures in their colleges and local high schools where they live. They should visit all of the houses in a 3.6 kilometer radius and think of this area as their hometown. In this way they can bring new members to their University Center. The 3.6 kilometer radius is not an absolute limit, but only an approximate boundary.

When the CARP leader needs help for activities related to the university, he can ask for the mobilization of the general church membership. Similarly, the local church leader should focus witnessing efforts on the campus, involving the university students and teachers, for the best potential future leaders are in that area.

University Churches -- Greatest Outreach

There are many professors connected with our movement but there is no place where they can relate to the church. If they go to the general church services, there are few academics, whereas the CARP centers are completely focused on students. A church comprised of students and citizens from all walks of life, headed by a few eminent professors, could become a great church with a tremendous scope. In the new University Churches, professors could become connected with the church and be given a central responsibility. Then, in unity with the students and other members, the scope and potential outreach of such a church would increase enormously. Through the professors, the entire church activities can be lifted to a much higher level.

You have an active CARP and professors movement in Germany, but they have not effectively connected with the church as a whole. By uniting CARP and the church, they will naturally become connected. The church leaders and CARP leaders have to quickly unite and create a church environment that can move the professors. In this way the academic field can be reached, giving the church a more direct impact on society. For example, if a professor becomes the leader of a University Church he could promote a social reform movement in his community.

The key issue here is for the church leader and the CARP leader to unite and instill their same passion for the salvation of the nation and the world into the professors.

Assisted By Technology

Centered on the professors, the World and I was created. Now the professors consider it a great honor to publish an article in that magazine. Through Insight magazine and The Washington Times there is now finally a forum where eminent scholars can publish their philosophy, which has given the professors great hope.

We are now building a media center in Washington, DC whose facilities can be used by TV broadcasting stations from all over the world. Through the latest satellite technology we can provide a faster and less expensive wire and TV news service to newspapers and journalists all over the world.

Our technological developments are advancing so quickly that one day people will be able to study without going to school or the university. Professors and teachers will give their lectures over the satellite program while students listen and study at home. From now on professor s should have more input into the media, not just the journalists. The scholars and journalists have to unite and lead the field of information.

Therefore the conclusion is that we have to unite the CARP and general church activities centered on the professors. We have to find a way to make the scholars the "fathers" of the churches. All the past and present students of these professors listen to them and thus can be educated in the Divine Principle. There is so much nationalism in the world, but by uniting these professors we will create an institution to move and lead mankind into the ideal world. Great scholars with a world vision get inspired about my ideas. What about you, the Unification Church members?

Now the time has come for all of these things to happen. We already have so many newspapers all over the world, especially in Korea and America. What about Germany? Why is Germany so important? Germany has a providential role. That is why Germany, Japan, and the United States are in an economic leadership role in the world.

We are doing many projects in Germany, but what are the Germans doing? They are complaining. With this kind of attitude, can Germany fulfill its providential leading role in the world? Who is going to win this confrontation? I want to use technology for the sake of the world, but Germany wants to keep it for its own national benefit only. If there was a tug of war between Reverend Moon, America and Germany to determine who could pull the strongest concerning scientific technology, who would win? The German, Japanese and American scientists are now working for their own country's benefit. I am the only one who has established a record of enduring the persecution of America, Germany, and Japan, not only for the sake of those countries themselves but for the sake of the whole world. Therefore, they cannot help but follow me in the future. Eminent scholars see the people of their respective nations focused only on limited national interests. But the greatest people are following me because they are striving for the highest possible standard. These scholars realize that a united, peaceful world could be brought about in the best and fastest way if they unite with me. A peaceful world is our goal!

Karl Leonhardtsberger, National Leader of Germany, is offering True Father a piece of the Berlin Wall.

Karl Leonhardtsberger, National Leader of Germany, is offering True Father a piece of the Berlin Wall.

Cultures Preserved in Harmony

What am I doing? What is my job? "Unification" is something good, isn't it? Unification" in Korean is "tong-il," but the meaning of that word includes also the concept of subjectivity. People may hear the term "unification of the world" and worry that the German culture will disappear. But that is not our concept of unification. The German culture will be preserved in harmony with all other cultures to make a consolidated new world culture and so on. In the Unification Principle we can see the German culture as one individual truth body, as well as the English culture and so on. But besides their individual purpose they have the dual purpose of existing for the whole. This is a universal principle. So when the German members work hard day and night, they don't work for the salvation of Germany, or the English members for England, and so on; they all work hard for the salvation of the world. Up until now the existing concept of globalism wanted to crush individualism and different national cultures. In contrast, our concept of a unified world preserves all the individual differences.

You are only a few members in Europe, but I came here as fast as I could when I heard you were gathering on the 18th in the hope that you Unification Church members will grow great and strong, with well-organized activities that will move the 300 million Europeans and give Europe a leading position in the world. When the people of Europe see so many Unification Church members have inherited my philosophy and tradition, Euro, -e will be turned around quickly. Even if many Europeans gang up on one of our members, they could not separate the relationship between you and me.

Although the German government has opposed me, the time to oppose the Unification Church is over. Beginning from America a new era has come. Russia, China and all countries of the world are soon to accept Unification Thought.

Now you understand how CARP is supposed to work in the future. Focus first on scholars and teachers, then all the citizens connected with them can follow causing each country to adopt the providential point of view.

No matter how difficult it may be in Germany, you should always feel how close we are to the Unification World. Even if the government opposes us, or all of Europe opposes us, just push ahead with the firm confidence they will soon come around. Compare your situation today, with the foundation so clearly visible, with the time I pioneered this foundation. Absolutely nothing could be seen that could have encouraged me. Think of my situation 40 years ago when there was no support from anyone -- only the most severe persecution.

I took on all kinds of suffering without hesitation to build this worldwide victorious foundation for you. Examine your attitude now. What kind of people are you? Are you saying, "I have to make money for myself; I have to take care of my wife and children, and my career"? Forty years ago the Unification Church was only one man! Do you understand what I mean?

Forty-Year Foundation

Every day is important, there is no time to lose. I dedicated myself completely in my younger years so that this worldwide movement could grow. If I had concentrated on my family and my career, this would not have happened. You are the same, for you, too, have responsibilities; but if each of you doesn't become a person like myself, you will not succeed. When you joined the Unification Church you stepped onto the foundation that I had built with sweat and blood. So you should help and cooperate to build and add onto that foundation. You should at least have the attitude, "I will save Germany even if I have to give my life doing it" -- just as I am giving my life for the salvation of the world.

The lifestyle of the Unification Church members in Europe and the world needs a fundamental renewal. Now the time has come when countless people will join us. What will you do then? "The first will be the last and the last will be first." Look at this flower. Its petals must be the same to match together. It is the same between me and you: there has to be similarity for us to harmonize. Am I a tiger, a lion, or a cat? (Tiger) I like the tiger because both male and female hunt and fight for their survival. But a lion expects a female to do all the hunting and hard work for him. I don't like that. What about you? Are you lions or tigers? You have to become tigers. You have to be a tiger that can live on the top of the Himalayan Mountains. We have to become white tigers that can scratch their food even out of the ice and snow of Siberia. Wherever you go you have to be able to survive by yourself. Are you like that? But if a tiger cub is brought up by a man who feeds it and cares for it in a warm and comfortable room, it won't want to leave its comfortable environment once it is grown. Is that the natural way of life of a tiger? The spirit of the tiger should be, "I take care of not only myself but also the smaller animals." When the tiger kills its prey, he lets the smaller animals eat his leftovers. We should think, "I will feed Germany, I will feed England, I will feed Italy, Russia and the world." That scale of thinking is needed! I myself am going to put America on its feet, along with China and Russia. That is the way I am planning my life. You are Moonies, aren't you? Well, Moonies is an old word with negative connotation, so I'll say, "Unificationists." Are you real Unificationists?

Messianic Emissary

Having met me, you should think, "If Father had been like I am now, 40 years ago, what would have happened to the world?" As my emissary, please take on the messianic responsibility for your local area and country. You have to work in my place! Even if a hurricane is blowing in Europe, destroying everything it its path, become the bulwark to stop it. Those who are determined to do that, raise your hands! It is easier said than done. The questions are: How do I see myself, my position? How do I think about my children, my house, my career in the world? There is no greater career than this. Because I have gone this way, I am now respected in the world. It will be the same for you; your goals can be completely achieved in a few years.

Who among you has graduated from UTS? What are you doing now? You should be pioneers. Pioneering is the greatest training course to understand the difficult job of a church leader, to know what a difficult process God's providence of salvation has been and to gain the strength to overcome any difficulty. I have worked in every imaginable area, so I can accomplish God's mission no matter what difficulty is encountered.

I have trained myself to make charcoal in the mountains and sell it, or dig tunnels in a coalmine. At your age, you absolutely must have such experiences if you want to make your mark on history and not just let your life run through your fingers like water. Go to the sea and be a fisherman, go to the mountains and be a mountain man, go to the countryside and be a farmer. Go to the most difficult place and do the most difficult work; that is the best training! When you have no house, no money, no friends, and have to accomplish the providence of restoration by yourself, you will understand God's situation. So, I am recommending pioneering work for you.

We are beyond the peak of the world-level opposition against the Unification Church. Russia is not opposing us anymore, nor China. In America and the world our way is now cleared of any extreme persecution; there will be no martyrs. Remember how it was in 1975 when I sent out the missionaries from Germany, Japan and America to 120 countries? We received the most persecution at that time. Our strategy was to go out and be persecuted so the persecution would collapse in a short time.

Saving the Established Churches

Why did I create the Unification Theological Seminary? I never graduated from a seminary! I want you to save the established churches and your countries. You have to remember that purpose. Once you graduate from UTS, you should be leaders capable of leading your nation. So you should now all go to a pioneering mission, to make yourselves into people who can save your countries and the world. You must establish the right tradition for the thousands of descendants that will follow you.

Don't become examples of good eating and comfortable living, but become an example to the world even if it means suffering a lot. I am telling you this because through you the people of the world, especially the young generation, can be brought back from the road that leads to decadence and ruin to the road of new hope and revival. Your diary should record experiences of suffering, of how you could feel God's suffering heart.

Experiences of being disregarded and persecuted by the people to whom you are giving love will become important material. I lost precious years of my life in prison. But the fact that I went through this suffering is something that can make the young people of the world explode when they realize I underwent such hardship for their sake. When you read your own record of pioneering and how many tears you shed during that time, you will be able to shed even more tears and be more successful when you go to your next mission. This pioneering spirit is not just for seminarians; it is for all members. Get into that spirit! The way of a pioneer is a constant struggle. There are always strong storms blowing that you have to confront. You should be determined: "I will go to the most difficult place in all of Germany!"

Spirit of the Pioneer

The pioneering spirit can save the nation, the tribe, and the individual lite. If you succeed in making a family with a pioneer spirit, a society with a pioneer spirit, and patriots with that spirit, your country will flourish. Your family, tribe, society and country need a pattern that can teach them and awaken them.

So I am giving you all permission to become pioneers! Go the most difficult way. People who live comfortably never know the great feeling of a laborer who has worked hard all day and treats his tired body to a refreshing bath when he comes back home. Or the feeling of a man who went to prison and because of his endurance, the root of all animosity has been turned around when he comes out. What a great and wonderful feeling for that man!. You can deeply experience the real taste of life then. In that moment, when you utter a grateful, "Thank you" it feels like Heaven and earth are bursting. When you come out of the prison, you see the long- awaited outside, and the sunshine and sky of freedom. Those who were never imprisoned can never imagine that. When you are able to freely look at nature again, you become aware of what a wonderful and miraculous world this is. The experiences I had pioneering the vast unknown areas of the spiritual world alone cannot be compared to anything!

Will you become people who just follow others or will you become pioneers? (Pioneers!) Are you confident to take that difficult way? (Yes!) I believe you. 

The Sovereignty of God

Sun Myung Moon
November 17, 1989
European Leaders Conference
Camberg, West Germany
Translator: Dong Moon Joo
Transcriber: Han Woo Lee

European leaders welcome True Parents to Europe for the first time in nine years.

European leaders welcome True Parents to Europe for the first time in nine years.

True Parents visited Europe for ten days in the autumn of 1989, from November 17-26, travelling first to Germany and then to Greece and France. The last time True Parents were in Europe before this was in June 1981 when they performed the European matching in Camberg, West Germany.

There are many different countries here. What kind of language shall we use? That is a problem. Did you learn Korean? I said that in 1990 I won't use an interpreter! I am happy to see you. From President Kim I heard that members from Eastern Europe have come here and see me for the first time in their life. I am especially happy about that. To make this possible, especially that the Eastern European members could be here, spirit world has been working tremendously hard behind the scenes. This is a special event because people from so many countries have come together here in Europe. But we also have the problem of which language to use! Have you learned Korean?

In the original world there was to be no separation between the physical and the spiritual realms. The division happened through the fall. But now in the age of restoration, the two worlds are gradually approaching each other again. The purpose of both the spiritual and physical worlds is the same: unification of the individual, family, tribe, nation, world, and the unification of the universe. The time has come when the spiritual world will automatically bring about the unification of the divided aspects, starting with mind and body, if you have a definite and determined purpose.

The original world would also have no national distinctions, such as German, English, French, Japanese, or Korean -- there was to be only one worldwide nationality, and everyone would consider the whole world as "my country."

No one has ever known this concept of a one-world culture and nation. Now the Unification Church has the mission of deeply understanding, proclaiming, and demonstrating this ideal of a unified world with a common culture based on a common language.

The existence of many languages in the world today is an enormous barrier to the creation of a unified world. Originally one true world culture should have grown based on the one language of Adam and Eve, but the fall blocked this development. Still the world needs the first ancestors of the world language that can bring the world culture.

Many religions have come into existence, including Christianity, with this purpose to bring about one united world. In Christianity the first ancestor of a perfected language for all mankind is called the Messiah; we say True Parents. Jesus came for that purpose but because the people did not unite with him the Messiah has to come again. Thus at the time of the Second Advent it is very dear that we have to unite the language!

Do Germany or ancient cultures like China or India have the kind of language that can be the basis for the tradition of a true culture? Actually, nobody does, so starting now we have to create a tradition centered on God with one common language to be the basis for the world culture. The sovereignty of God must be the central vertical axis for a "cosmic heavenly kingdom." This will be the "palace of God."

Have you ever heard this terminology before? These expressions were used for the first time on September 1, 1989, when I created the term "Heavenly Parentism". There have been many other ideologies and "isms," but this is "Heavenly Parentism" -- the ideology that brings the tradition of heaven to mankind, the tradition of true love starting from the family and eventually embracing the whole world. Heavenly Parentism means that the whole world will become one through parental love.

But who can fulfill this mission? Unificationists! You are the heavenly soldiers for the liberation of the Kingdom of God! Our battleground is the entire universe. We have to liberate the hell in both the physical and spiritual worlds so that a universal unified world becomes possible. Then you will become members of a heavenly dynasty, a new heavenly race. We must acquire a new nationality centered on the Kingdom of Heaven. You can apply for this citizenship when the opposition forces to the establishment of God's will on the worldwide level disappear, and all powers work together in one direction.

The Necessity of Unification

The population of East and West Germany combined is 75 million; North and South Korea together total 60 million. No other countries really want to see either Germany or Korea reunited, not even the United States, and especially not Japan. But unification is absolutely necessary.

Is world unification easy or difficult? Who will have to do it? We do, centered on the system of thought that is most powerful because it reveals the will, personality, and love of God, and the purpose of God's creation. Because I have established this philosophy the unification of the world is not a big problem anymore, just as when a tree has a good root and a straight trunk, then naturally the branches will expand and other branches can be engrafted and benefit from it.

Would this chrysanthemum say: "Because I am born in Germany I am German"? No, it would say: "I am a citizen of the original country." The original country is that which should have been founded by the family of Adam and Eve with God in the center and with all the creation rejoicing in the presence of God's children. Because this country does not yet exist, "the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God" (Rom. 8:19), and man also is longing for a pure new world.

This world can only be created through love that transcends nationality and race, through marriages across national and racial barriers. Blessed couples don't know the incredible indemnity necessary to make the foundation for their Blessing. When somebody buys a house he gets the title in which all the previous owners are recorded, beginning with the person who first built the house. Whoever has this title, even if he is totally inept, has exactly the same right of ownership as the most outstanding person recorded in that document. That deed qualifies him fully as the rightful owner. The blessed families might be ignorant about what went into the Blessing historically and how hard it was to lay the foundation for their Blessing against the opposition of the satanic forces, but according to heavenly law they are nevertheless entitled to the benefits of ownership. What is the central content of this ownership? That you are the absolute owners of the love of God and True Parents. Would you exchange this ownership for the whole of England? Germany? Did you say no because you mean it or because I told you so? The Blessing is the most important event in human history. From the time of creation God has been waiting for this moment when the true history of man can begin. Are you going to use this ownership I've given you for the world and for God?

In a world without the fall do you think translators would have been needed? Imagine if you lived around True Parents and could not understand what they were saying without a translator? You would feel like a deaf-mute. To learn from True Parents through interpretation is really appalling. That's why I have said that from 1990 I will no longer use an interpreter, and I will not allow anyone to attend international conferences who doesn't speak Korean. That time has come when no nation can stand in the way of the Unification Church anymore. My coming here to Germany is a testimony to that.

The first thing I declared when I arrived was "Let's unite the language." Unification of language cannot be achieved by the government, not even by the most powerful dictatorship, because they don't have a theory for unification. But we have a perfect theory that is practical and based on realistic values. The language barriers came from the false parents of mankind. When the True Parents appear, their restoration indemnity will tear down all the language barriers, and mankind can learn one common language.

It is a fact that air is all around us. In the same way, what I am saying is truth. Just as you cannot survive without breathing the air, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven without adjusting yourself to this truth. Originally God, Adam, Eve and their children were supposed to use the same language. If we do not have one common language with True Parents we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

True Father visits the sculptures of Otto Waldner in Camberg.

True Father visits the sculptures of Otto Waldner in Camberg.

Confronting All Evil

So the nation that already speaks the parents' language is really blessed. The Korean language has been spoken for 5,000 years by a people who have endured the most tremendous suffering. Do you understand this background? I come from this Korean-speaking culture and through my course of confronting all evil, I broke down the barriers Satan created in the spiritual and physical worlds and prepared the way for the world to become one. Satan cannot erect any barriers or walls again, because Satan's position is that of servant and True Parents' position is that of master. Satan's evil forces are weakening and declining -- thus the Berlin Wall could come down and the communist world is opening up. Now is the time of a huge historical turning point.

In Eastern Europe and even in China the people are demanding to go in the direction of the free world. In Korea the young people want to go toward socialism. If the Unificationists demonstrate, they would want to go not left or right, but straight toward God. The satanic forces in the communist and free worlds know that if the Unificationists start demonstrating, their power will totally collapse.

How famous am I? I have been the most notorious man in many countries but now they are changing their minds. England, Italy, France, Japan, Russia and China were out to destroy the Unification Church. But they have seen that was impossible and have changed their attitude. Why am I so famous? I don't rule a country and am empty-handed. (Because of true love)

Though members of the Unification Church sometimes look very humble and have no special qualification, still any one of you can take on a thousand people and be victorious, because you are like me. In turn, I victoriously overcame all kinds of opposition from the billions of people in the world by being like Heavenly Father and by absolutely inheriting His tradition.

The Power of Godism

I am promoting Godism, the "Headwing" movement that goes beyond both the right wing movement and communism or socialism. The right, like the right hand, is more powerful than the left. That is why the communist world is coming toward the democratic world. For right and left to become one it is obvious that there needs to be a center. The Unification Church represents the center -- God -- so this ideology is "centrism." We have to connect to the origin, to the first root. Even now, the world is wondering why Reverend Moon and the Unification Church continue to grow in spite of all the persecution. If they study this in depth they will discover that it is because I have the ideology of Godism. The only power that can shake the world as both the communist and free world ideologies are degenerating is the Unification Movement. It will never fail because Godism is concerned with the well-being and prosperity of all mankind.

Until now in the satanic world all ideology was centered on how the individual could obtain a better condition for himself. But Godism is fundamentally different; it is directed toward others. If the Soviet Union was genuinely concerned with improving the situation of other countries rather than expanding their own power base, they would become more and more liked. If there were a movement that is completely embracing all others in love, would the world change?

Everyone knows I am the leader of the Unification Church, but who in your opinion sacrifices more for the church: the members or myself? Well, why don't the Unification Church members demonstrate to take over my position? Because those in the horizontal position know that a strong vertical center is absolutely necessary. If the horizontal denies the existence of the vertical, it actually denies itself. These two directions exist for each other. In the same way, the True Parents and their children, the members of the Unification Church, exist for each other. Can you argue away the existence of your physical parents? There is no power that can deny the parent/children relationship. If this is true in the fallen world then how much more is it true in the world of God? The spirit world knows this very well and therefore supports it. Your power depends upon how certain you are that you are the children of True Parents.

Among ten friends, the leader will be the one who is most concerned for the others and does the most for them. Having a Ph.D. or being a good speaker does not automatically qualify someone to be the leader. If these ten use their individual freedom in a self-centered way, the unity of the group will be destroyed. Individual freedom has to serve the whole, otherwise there can be no harmony. Individualism today creates many problems, and ultimately the self-centered person ends up very lonely.

People don't understand the real meaning of freedom and liberation. When husband and wife truly live for each other, then they have true liberation. Parents feel free because they are giving and living completely for their children. Only if they are self-centered do they feel oppressed.

Living for the sake of others is the qualification to be the leader of the world. If we can become totally dedicated to this way of life we can lead mankind into a new world centered on true love.

Keep True Love Growing

Then what is true love? It means to give and love and care and lay everything on the line for others -- and then forget that you ever did it. True love is such that the more you practice it the stronger it grows. In the fallen world the input is always stronger than the output, so the content becomes smaller and smaller. But with true love, the output is stronger than the input and keeps increasing.

What do you prefer: giving or receiving? (Giving) I don't know if I believe you. But if so, why do you believe that giving is better? It is because this is the way of God and you are made in His image. God is a true father and a true father has true love that gives and forgets. Forgetting that you gave makes room for new giving and then this love keeps growing.

I have worked all of my life according to this law. Have I become smaller or have I grown? Whenever I came out of prison did my foundation become weaker or stronger? (Stronger) Yes, whatever amount of true love you invest is bound to multiply.

I think this point of living for others is the most difficult concept for Western people to accept. "Why do I have to live for others?" But unless you live by this principle you will have no place in the Kingdom of God in the spiritual world. This is the Divine Principle.

Now, what is God like? If God self-centeredly put Himself in the top position with everything else far below, He would have no object to relate to. Does God want to be like a dictator, sitting on His high throne and from a distance laughing at the world? Do you think His omniscience and omnipotence or unlimited wealth will make Him happy? What then would make Him happy? You say love, but what kind of love? Love needs a partner. In true love the positions of subject and object constantly alternate, each wanting to lift the other partner higher than oneself. Even God desires to have an object that can also be His subject. Before the creation of the world God had this principle of wanting to love others more than Himself. God is absolute but He must obey the even more absolute principle of love, and true love is the most absolute aspect of God, the absolute root of God. If you can acquire this kind of love, you can occupy everything. However, self-serving, self-centered love does not lead anywhere, nor does it help unify. Unity won't happen if either the subject or the object wants the other to live for him or her.

Become a Saint

To whom are you looking for absolute love? Many people say that to be a child of filial piety is the greatest thing. Such a child lives centered on love eternally for the sake of his parents and brothers and sisters. Thus he can go to them anytime he wants and they will love it. He can put them into his pocket and they will love it. A greedy person might have a very large pocket, but they will still feel more comfortable in the small pocket of this son of filial piety.

Other people may say they want to follow in the path of a great patriot. A true patriot loves all the men, women, and children of his country as he would his own father and mother, brothers and sisters, no matter what their position may be. He loves his country more than his own family. A true patriot cannot sleep when he sees even one of the citizens of his country suffer. He will want to share that suffering. That is why everyone respects a true patriot and wants to come live with him. People with this kind of patriotism are necessary in order to build an eternal country. But that is only possible with true love.

Then, what is a saint? A saint sees no national boundaries. He loves all mankind like himself, and he gives again and again for the whole world and immediately forgets that he ever gave. People from all different nations and cultures would want to come and live with a person like that.

Happiness, peace, and the freedom of the Kingdom of God can result only on the foundation of the heavenly principle of love, of living for others. Being a saint, a holy son who is living for the sake of the world, is the ultimate development from a son of filial piety, a patriot, and a saint. Therefore all filial sons, or patriots, or even saints, however great they were, should come and learn from this saint. A holy son, or heavenly son in the position of parent, is the master of love for others and the hero of love for the world.

Without love and the concept of living for others there can be no child of filial piety, no man really loyal to his country, and no saint. What is Jesus? Jesus is called "Song Ja." To be a holy son he has to know and strictly obey the laws of heaven; he has to have the absolute ability to distinguish between good and evil and have the authority to judge the satanic world in the place of God. Our standard of judgment is very simple: How much have I loved the world like my own family, and how much have I loved and lived for others and forgotten it? If people really love each other they give their life for their love. Saints before were not able to say: Love your enemy. But Jesus said: Love your enemy like yourself, even love the offspring of your enemy like your own children! That was the greatest love.

Do you think you have lived your life loving your enemy? This is not limited to just one person -- it means loving your enemy country and the enemy world of Satan. If someone only loved his own children, what would happen to his descendants? If one loves only his family, he will collide with the universal law.

High technology, then, is not just for one nation but should serve the world. Unification Thought should not serve me; it should serve the world and God. That is why God protects and likes me. I want to give technology to those developing countries who will receive it in the right way. If we help to bring the standard of living of one billion Chinese up to the level of Germany or Japan or even higher, then the world will be much more prosperous. A world where the nations help each other as best they can will be a prosperous world, but if the nations are self-centered only, the living standard of the world will become more and more miserable. Whenever God gives a blessing to mankind, Satan is jealous and through satanic individualism moves people to try to keep that blessing for selfish purposes. Since God intended it for the whole, it will lead to ruin if it is used selfishly.

The Secret of Being One

How then can the world become united? God is the central figure of history and the center of all love for others, the one who has been loving the world and giving Himself completely for the world again and again. Then what about Adam and Eve? How do husband and wife become one? If the husband says: "Move over, you are smaller than me and inferior, God wants to love me!" or then the wife says: "What good are men for? God loves women much more, so you get out of the way," what will God feel? God loves the one who is living and caring for others and loves others more than himself. If we understand how the two become one in that situation we can understand the basic theory of all unification. If each one only thinks of him or herself they can never become one. To become one is very simple: Adam says, "Look, Eve, I am only trying to capture God's love first so that I can give it to you," and Eve then says, "Me, too; I want to get God's love first so I can love you more." Then both of them will say to each other, "Go ahead, hurry up and get it first!" A couple like that one will go to the Kingdom of Heaven and God will say, "I welcome you." Here we see the principle of how Heaven and earth and how all people and the whole universe can become one. Through this we can understand how God and man can unify. See the way a lily reaches out and projects its fragrance as a symbol of the giving of love for others, which is the only force that can unite man and woman, Heaven and earth, and God and man.

Then together with whom are you going to live? With God, the sovereign of the Kingdom to come in the spirit world, and True Parents in the physical world. We can only enter the Kingdom of Heaven as a member of the royal family. We have to understand that entering the Kingdom of Heaven can only be done with the unselfish loving and caring that will unite the world. Only after mastering this kind of love will we become members of the heavenly royal family.

When will you become "heavenly royal family"? I am holding mass weddings so that eventually my descendants and yours will be joined in the Blessing. Don't you want to be the first to capture my sons and daughters and marry them? I have married Kook Jin Nim with a 430 couple's daughter, so soon it will be the turn of the 777 and 1800 couples. But before thinking about being joined to my family, you have to be centered on my thought. The first people to be joined to my family will be those who have the most love for the world. You should have the firm conviction, "I will live like Father and love the world like him" -- and then do it.

Through this process of all of you becoming members of the heavenly royal family which will expand and eventually include all of mankind, all the world will unite and the Kingdom of Heaven in the spiritual world and the physical world will become completely established. The indemnity condition required is to continuously live a life for the sake of others.

Now blessed couples should concentrate on how they can connect to my family lineage. Otherwise, you cannot return to the original world. You have to learn Korean. I am teaching about the heavenly culture, not Korean culture. Those who will learn Korean and follow me, please raise your hands. Let us pray. 

Seonghwa University Leaps Into the World

Sun Myung Moon
November 3, 1989
Opening ceremony for Seonghwa University
Chonan, Korea

True Parents pose with faculty and staff of the university. Dr. Yoon is standing immediately to Father's right.

True Parents pose with faculty and staff of the university. Dr. Yoon is standing immediately to Father's right.

I would like to express my appreciation to all our honored guests for attending this dedication ceremony of Seunghwa University. I congratulate President Yoon Se Won, the teaching staff, parents, students and all those who put their effort and hard work into building this university and making today's ceremony possible.

Seonghwa University was established in Chonan land in Chung Chong Do province. "Chung Chong Do" means human beings should have loyal hearts toward heaven and live purely. In this place mankind can attend and comfort heaven's heart.

"Chonan" means "three-way junction." Our church members often sing a folk song containing these words. We can view the birth of Seonghwa University as the realization of our long cherished desire. Just as the song expresses, Seonghwa University will expand infinitely toward the world.

My understanding of a university's purpose is to teach the utmost truth. What is this truth? First, you have to know heaven and God, the center of heaven, deeply. Second, you have to understand the center of the world, mankind, in depth. Third, the ideal world of God and man must be established. When we think about such big and important goals, especially how to relate to each other, we can conclude that love is the only key. Therefore, I have decided the goal of education here is to "love heaven, love people and love country." I have taught that true education practices these goals and have formed professors' and students' associations around the world.

Foundation Principle -- Love Heaven, Love People, Love Country.

Foundation Principle -- Love Heaven, Love People, Love Country.

Right now Korea, as well as the whole world, is in a state of confusion due to the decline of individual moral values. To help solve this worldwide dilemma, I have advocated to world scholars absolute values centered on love. I have also proclaimed the Headwing ideology to correct the wrongs of left and right. Through this type of education, the world is being directed toward the new goal of a world with God- centered values.

Professors associated with PWPA and ICUS over the last ten years, as well as students in CARP, requested that a world university be built in our homeland of Korea to fulfill this educational ideology. Therefore I have been trying very hard to establish a university for more than 10 years. After much suffering, we have now obtained permission from the Korean government to expand to a four-year university.

Now Seonghwa University, established with the educational goal to "love heaven, love people, love country," will become a world level university to thoroughly educate its students in how to remedy the evils of the democratic world, to critique and overcome the fallacies in communist ideology and to cultivate world-level leaders.

Thus, our homeland of Korea will produce world leaders who can realize a world of unity and peace, creating Heaven on earth. In addition, the unification of our homeland centering on Godism will digest the cultural differences of East and West, rich and poor, and North and South. Centering on love, we will build one peaceful world family.

You all now stand in the forefront of this great goal with hope and determination. I pray that with such national encouragement and support, Seonghwa University will leap into the world.

May God bless your families. Thank you.


The Purpose of Seunghwa University
Se Won Yoon
President of Seonghwa University
February 9, 1990

True Father speaks to faculty, students and guests on the occasion of Seonghwa University's opening.

True Father speaks to faculty, students and guests on the occasion of Seonghwa University's opening.

We are so glad than you came to visit. For more than 10 years, Father has pursued the establishment of this school. But because of the special situation in Korea, especially opposition from the established Christian churches, we could begin to build this school only four years ago. Originally, we did not want this site for the school, but because of many circumstances, we needed to start building here. But after the school was started here, I realized that this is actually an excellent location. The name of the city here, Chonan, means place of heavenly peace. So, Father decided to establish a grand, international university here in Chonan and we bought a lot of land around this area.

Until now, we have accepted only 190 people each year for the theology department. But from next year, we will be able to receive 520 first-year students, 400 of whom will be in the field of science and engineering. We have plans for very rapid growth, expanding into 13 colleges with 60 departments, including Bachelor of Arts and science degrees. By the year 2,000, our goal is to have 20,000 graduates. Our hope is that half of them will be Korean students and half of them will be international students. We want to educate students from all over the world, through their studies and life here, to become people with an international consciousness and a vision for the future world. Through their experiencing international customs here, they will be qualified to become builders of the future world.

International University Model

We are now laying the groundwork for this international university. We are teaching the Korean students to open themselves to the world by offering intensive language courses in English, Japanese, Chinese and Spanish. We want to prepare the students so that they can listen to the lectures of, for example, Japanese professors who come here and teach in Japanese. Dr. Daniel Davies is here now, and he is teaching his classes in English. Two years ago, there were only two students who were able to listen to his lectures. But now, we have over a dozen students who are listening to and able to follow his lectures in English.

Our immediate project is to bring foreign students here and teach them an intensive Korean course so that within one year they can participate in the Korean study program, listening to lectures and doing their work in Korean. Students who come here to study the natural sciences will participate in a special Korean course so that in just six months they can follow Korean lectures. My own subject is physics, and my own experience was like that. I went to America knowing very little English, but after an extensive study course for six months, I was able to follow the lectures and do my physics studies in English.

We really want to make this into a model international university. Father has not only planned the international university here, but he already has a master plan for a worldwide university network, in Southeast Asia, Europe, America, Africa, South and Central America. So we will not only receive 10,000 students per year to study here, but we will also send out 10,000 Korean students to study at other campuses around the world. Then, no matter what campus they attend, they will have the same environment they enjoy here. I believe that when we create such an educational environment, then we are creating one unified world.

Because we are the model for this international chain of universities, we have to be very concerned with every aspect of our school here and go through a difficult course. I and the teaching staff are very much aware of this great mission that demands all of our attention, sacrifice and endeavor. So you can imagine how happy I am to see you here today. I feel your coming here is a milestone in the development of this university towards its goal as an international university.

Education Principle -- The relationship between God and man is the parent/child bond.

Education Principle -- The relationship between God and man is the parent/child bond.

Teaching Students to Know God

So when you go back to your countries, please send us good students. We will make our utmost effort to receive these people here and educate them well. Right now, we are in the pioneering stage, so there are still many uncomfortable inconveniences to be overcome. Ten church leaders from all over the world, mainly from Europe, have arrived here and are starting the intensive Korean language course. Their accommodations are pretty austere, but I told them I am sure they will never forget their experience here and the lifestyle they were able to live. I really want everyone who comes here to never be able to forget their experience here. So I'm sure all those who study here will gain a strong conviction of the existence of God. They will receive a strong faith that not only does God exist, but that God is with us -- that He is always at our side and that He is accompanying us in our lives.

I hope the students who come here, come with the purpose to experience the living God, just as True Father is teaching us to know Him and to inherit His ideals and put them into daily life. I think that the students will receive the confidence that they can sacrifice and work for the establishment of the future world -- the Kingdom of God on earth. I believe with this kind of sense of mission, people can become the soldiers of God.

If this kind of academy for the army of God is only here in Chonan, would that be enough? No! I believe in all these countries that I just mentioned that a school for God's champions has to be established. Of course, this does not mean that only faith is taught, but all areas of knowledge are taught.

We will become the builders of the 21st Century. This is the time when we can really participate in the creation of new history together with our True Parents -- during the time that they are living on the earth. We have to realize how great our mission is because we can live at the same time as Father. The people of the following generation will not have the same opportunity. People who live ages from now won't have that opportunity -- only those people living at this time receive this special grace.

We will have to establish this school for God's soldiers during Father's lifetime -- not only here but all over the world. You will become the seeds for the establishment of these universities. So I hope that you will go back to your countries and plant this seed so that soon growth can come. Let's all make a concerted effort to take root, to sprout and to grow into strong branches and leaves and bloom so that soon our work can bear fruit. Because you have come here now, you have become those seeds and I hope you will help and cooperate in the establishment of the international universities that will be the foundation for the international unified world of the future. God bless you.


History of Seonghwa University

April 4,1982: The establishment of Seonghwa Foundation authorized.

December 27, 1985: The establishment of a 4-year college-level institute authorized (Department of Theology, matriculation, 40).

January 28, 1986: Dr. Se Won Yoon inaugurated as President.

January 30, 1986: The first freshmen (36 students) admitted.

March 3, 1986: Opening and matriculation ceremony.

January 19, 1987: Ministry of Education approves the granting of a degree equivalent to a university degree to our school.

January 27, 1988: The number of matriculated students allowed by the Ministry of Education permitted in the Department of Theology is 90, in Foreign Missions, 50, and in Social Welfare, 50.

March 20, 1989: Korean Language Education Institute established.

June 5, 1989: The title of the Foundation renamed to the Sun Moon Foundation.

September 25, 1989: The main building brought to completion.

October 28, 1989: Officially raised to the status of a 4-year college, and renamed Seonghwa University; the establishment of the Departments of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering, Raw Materials Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

November 3, 1989: Father gives opening address for Seonghwa University.

God and I

Sun Myung Moon
October 15, 1989
Chungpadong Church, Seoul, Korea

True Parents lead a Mansei cheer in Korea on Foundation Day for the Nation of the Unified World October 3, 1989.

True Parents lead a Mansei cheer in Korea on Foundation Day for the Nation of the Unified World October 3, 1989.

My topic today is "God and I." When we look at the planet earth, we realize what a wonderful position it has in this great universe. Here alone are all the right conditions for us to exist -- water, air, soil, and so on. Is there another place in the universe where mankind can live? We are now in an era where mankind can explore the huge universe. The time when humanity's potential can be fully realized is approaching. Mankind is going to discover the most profound secrets of the universe in this age.

Those who have knowledge of the spiritual world are aware that the only possible place in the whole universe where man can be born is on earth. Only this place has all the conditions necessary for us to live.

All life is centered on the purpose of receiving a savior. Why does the earth need a savior? Throughout the history of mankind and creation, everything has been longing for the Messiah to come. What kind of liberation do we need for him to accomplish? All creation is waiting for the liberation of love. That is the most important thing.

If you ask people what is most important, they may feel it is their life. But where does life come from? Life comes from the relationship between parents and children. If we continue the chain of life upward, we eventually reach God. This means we finally come to the relationship "God and I." No one can exist as a sole entity. It is essential to human nature to have someone to lean on and communicate with -- someone to be the object of give and take. Man lives in relationship with woman. Emotionally and physically we all need someone to act as our support. Woman, man, parents and children all need that. It is the same with all existence. Everything needs an object to relate to. If you look at the seed of a plant, it has two halves. If it only has one half it is incomplete; it needs to exist with the other half.

One thing we see when we study the world is that movements are most perfect when they are round. When we examine perpendicular, centrifugal or centripetal forces we can see that circular movement is the most stable.

Everything wants to achieve a round, circular shape. In human society the most basic kind of pairing aspect is that between parents and children. National leaders and countrymen, the world and its people are examples of this parent- child relationship. If you look at the thousands of years of human history, one element that has never changed is the family. People have always been members of a family: first as infants, then as brothers or sisters, then husband or wife, then parents and finally as grandparents.

In the ideal world, grandparents would be in the position of God. Through their experience, they have acquired an overall picture of life. A child has no idea what life is, while grandparents have already experienced many things. They can teach what is true and right and what is the ideal way. Through this kind of ideal family structure, the ideal family tradition will be established and passed on. Tradition must be received through a vertical position. We receive life through our parents and grandparents. In order for a person to be born, what does he need? He needs parents: a man and a woman who are united by love. Love must be there first before life can be created. You can see how different men and women are. There is only one force that can make them unite: love! Love has a tremendous power that can bring everything into balance, even the most different elements.

Spherical Love Movement

What is the heart of a mother who is pregnant with her first baby? What a powerful experience it is when she feels the seed of new life growing inside of her! In the beginning of the pregnancy, a woman has morning sickness because her whole system is changing. As her belly is getting bigger with the growing baby, she is entering a new dimension of life. Through her a new life is being born which raises her own existence to a new level. It is difficult to describe the joy that is felt. When a baby is born into a family, that moment is very central to the life of family. When the first cry is heard, everyone is focused on asking about its health and whether it's a boy or girl. Everyone is so curious and interested in the little baby. Why is it so important in Eastern tradition to have a son? They are eager to have a son because the man carries the seed of life.

Every powerful force in the world needs the aspect of harmony or it cannot be effective. Strength will only destroy if it does not have the ability to harmonize. Only through harmony comes new creation. For example: Huge turbines have a central part where large amounts of energy are created. The pieces for this part of such a machine are made of soft metal, not hard steel. The strongest force always has the aspect of softness and harmonizing, not just straightforward strength.

It is interesting to see how beings have different aspects and stages. A man starts as a child and grows stronger. Then as he gets older, his hair becomes white and falls out; it is as if he was going to the peak of a mountain where there is always snow and no trees. A mountain always has one side in the sun and the other in the shade. Our human life is like that, too. The rays of the sun shine first on one side of the mountain and then go over the top to brighten up the other side. The different aspects of any one object describe a round shape.

Everything exists for the benefit of love. For example: Our two legs are symbolic of two partners in love. Man and woman discover each other and move together like two feet. They like each other, feel close, and unite to become two legs of one body. Husband and wife are walking up the steps of love. All of creation exemplifies these male and female aspects moving together. Even the earth has a North and South Pole, plus and minus.

So in all that exists you see these horizontal and vertical aspects. Basically the shape created through the interaction of these aspects is round. What is the force that can make this round shape? It must be the force that holds things together, giving them circular motion; it must have the power to expand things while holding them together at the same time. The movement of expansion or shrinking of a sphere always occurs simultaneously along perfectly straight and perpendicular axes.

Look at the shape of the human body. When artists paint a female nude, the round shapes are emphasized. When the naked male body is drawn, the muscles are emphasized, with the blood vessels protruding. This is because man's central function is to continue the blood lineage, so the protruding blood vessels are a sign of male beauty.

The ideal world is one where all things come into a circular shape centered on the relationships of their different aspects. Human families arrange themselves in a circular arrangement centered on love. In the family, the grandfather is passing on the tradition of love to children and grandchildren. He is teaching them about love. Their relationship becomes the 100% vertical axis for this family sphere.

Achieving Unification

All unification describes a round shape. If Korea unites, will it become long or wide? The ideal shape is to become round. Why is there now no unification in the world? It is because there is no horizontal and vertical love; this absence creates a lack of balance. In the world today, the vertical relationships are separated; parents and children are divided by a generation gap. There is also separation on the horizontal level. In order for the world to achieve the ideal spherical shape, there needs to be a force that can eliminate divisions on the vertical and horizontal axes, by uniting generations and uniting East and West. That power is the power of true love. Those who learn this kind of love have learned the greatest lesson in the world. If someone has graduated from Seoul University and earned degrees from 100 other universities as well, that is not as precious as what you can learn through this kind of love. A person who has acquired this kind of love can unite all things, restore kingship to the world and become the King of Kings.

Everything in existence, from the huge universe to a tiny cell, has an orderly organization centered on an axis. All movement, then, has an order. Love is the axis around which life can become orderly.

In a sphere there is a vertical and horizontal axis. In order to become perfect, the vertical axis must be absolutely vertical. The horizontal axis can be adjusted or may turn 360 degrees, but the vertical axis can only be in one place. So, in the family the vertical is stable and the horizontal can be adjusted. The relationship between parents and children and God and parents must be unchanging. God determines the vertical position in the universe. God is in one lace unable to move, until He can expand into the horizontal position. Once the vertical is 100 percent established, then the horizontal can move as it wills.

Where is God? In the East or the West? Everyone looks upward when they think of God. This shows that God is in the vertical. He is giving vertical love to man in a straight line. Love is really the shortest connection between two extremes. If husband and wife long for each other, then see each other at a distance, do they make a curved approach to each other? No, they go the straightest possible way.

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. What the West needs most is the sunshine from the East. That is the reason the West is now turning toward the East. Everything exists in this relationship of two aspects, such as East and West male and female. They turn toward each other in a circular motion, centered on love.

Wherever you are in the world, love makes you feel good. Look at God -- what does He have to be proud of? Sending good people to heaven and bad people to hell? To be proud of that would be crazy. God can be proud because He is the author of love. Love is not determined by external characteristics such as money, power or good looks. If a grandfather is ugly, he is still loved by his grandchildren. People are always longing for love. Even if they have only one meal a day, their greatest desire is for love.

When a new daughter-in-law comes into the family, does the family love her or not? They love her because they can experience love in a new way. I love to see my own daughters- in-law. Where Mother is round and a little fat, they are thin and small. It is fascinating to see the new kind of love that comes into the family with a new bride. God mad, love so that it can never be boring. Can you show me love? I think if you show your love to someone it starts with a smile, and becomes an embrace. Children come every day and embrace their parents.

Order of Love

What if God had a chance to find a bag of love? God would run around looking for it, even if He would lose His dignity. What does God live for? Ask a pastor of an established church this question and he might be shocked. What do people like? Money, power or ability?

President Chun Du Hwan had a lot of money, but what good is it to him now? His life in the Paekdam Temple is a living death. Why is he in such an unhappy situation? Because he was only concerned with money. If Chun Du Hwan had ruled with love, the people would have wanted him to continue to rule.

If I have a pocketful of love, when I give it out, people will be willing and want to give their money in exchange for this love. So, what kind of prince do you want to be: a prince of love or a prince of money? Even God cannot but smile if the prince of love is in front of Him. What do we sacrifice and pay indemnity for? For the Principle? No, for love!

What kind of savior does the world want and need? What needs to be liberated? We need the liberation of love! When God created man and woman, where did He start? He started with the genital organs. That is logical because this is the place where love, life and the blood lineage are concentrated. Therefore, are they precious or dirty? God thinks of them as precious. Just think of where He put the genitals on the body. It's the wisest choice and the best place for them. If God had put them in the palm of the hand, they could easily be hurt.

Why did God create Adam and Eve? So that vertical love could come to them and through their relationship, vertical love could be expanded horizontally creating a round shape. The one axis from which all creation can be harmonized is the central vertical axis of love. The person who lives for love or gives his life for love, is the one who comes closest to God. If someone becomes a master of true love, all other elements such as power or money come by themselves. The most central part of all knowledge is rooted in true love. Without the connection to this love, you have nothing. If you are connected to that true love, then you have the basis of all knowledge. Actually, the physical and spiritual worlds are completely connected and are organized in the same way. The axis is always love. For example, sometimes people suddenly die in a car accident so in the spiritual world they do not realize they have died. They don't know what is happening until their ancestors who are on a high spiritual level come and explain.

If someone goes into the spiritual world alone without a partner, say someone who has never married, it is difficult for that person. The spiritual world is organized according to a hierarchy of love. For example, parents- in-law of a woman are in a higher position than her own parents.

The love of parents for their children is the most absolute because it is the most vertical love. In comparison, the love of a couple is very changeable. Similar to having different weather every day, husband and wife go through many changes. Because it is a horizontal love there are 360 degrees of space available in which to move around. The relationship between husband and wife can change; they can even divorce. But parents' love for their children is unchangeable.

Why do we like God? Because of love. Even if God is far away and turns His back to us, our love can make Him turn around. Everything in the physical universe is oriented toward the sun, craving its light and warmth. Likewise in the spiritual world everything is oriented toward love; everything is trying to receive as much love as possible.

As I was doing my mission, I was persecuted from the physical and even the spiritual world. People were always criticizing me. Not many people have understood what I have been doing.

Some Christians do not like ancestor worship in Korea. They don't know that in the spirit world love in the family -- love towards elders, love of children to parents, love of wife to husband -- is what counts.

Vertical and Horizontal Axes

Our life on earth is a training ground for love. We are training in the different kinds of love we need to master. Who is the trainer of love? For the parents, the children are the trainers who teach them to love. The trainer for God was Adam and Eve. The vertical love wants to expand itself into the horizontal. Parents want children to love each other more than they love their parents. The more children love their brothers and sisters, the happier the parents are. Vertical love is satisfied when the horizontal love expands.

The horizontal love has to focus on the vertical love. When man and woman meet each other they have to meet at the center for vertical love to come down. When they come from east and west to meet at the very center, there is an explosion of love -- like plus and minus meeting producing sparks of electricity. When parents have a child they want that child to have brothers and sisters so that they e can be horizontal expansion.

Love is easy at a low level, just as in climbing a mountain you start on a gentle slope and the terrain gets steeper and requires greater effort as you approach the top. Love is something that has to include both high and low places. Without its strong root, a tree cannot be stable enough for leaves to crown the top. We have to look at the low end and the high end of love.

When you work hard your sweat is sad if you wipe it off too fast. The smell of your sweaty body after working hard is good. Man and woman's smell is very interesting. When people love each other, even the smell of the other is like perfume.

Let's come to a conclusion. What kind of God do we want and what kind of person do we want to become? We want a God of love and we want to become a person of love. Love is centered on the family, which is the training ground of love. Love makes us forget even the greatest suffering and pain. If your body is tired and in pain after a long day of work and later at home your wife wipes the sweat off your back with a wet towel, then all the hardship of the day is forgotten.

Who can go to the Kingdom of Heaven? Only a person who has realized love! This person has received the perfect training of love through relationships with a spouse, children and parents; he is in the position to be closest to God. We become parents through this training. Parents love their children more than their spouse because parental love is vertical love. If we come to love our parents more than our children, we can establish the perfect vertical line, for they represent God. To a person who has the strongest love for Heaven and loves his children more than his spouse, then every direction of the universe is open. So, the love that we have to learn is that of parents who love their children more than each other and who love their parents more than their children.

God is longing for mankind to be organized like a family. He is longing for a world where all races can live together as one family. Can you see how attractive other races are? International couples can show the beauty of racial harmony.

The relationship that we want with God is when God becomes "my God" and I become God's. In a family one member is not separate from the other. Through love a husband becomes "my husband" and a wife becomes "my wife," a daughter-in-law becomes "my daughter," a strange man becomes "my father-in-law." In the same way, God and I can become one through love. In the Unification Church we teach the God of love, while other Christian churches stress the God of omnipotence and omniscience. Which do you like better?

Family Training Ground

Who is the greater thief: one who steals a bag full of money or a bag full of love? Do you think I have a lot of money? All the money in the Unification Church cannot make me happy. Many think I am rich, but it is not my money. If one takes an- other's money, when the thief goes to the spiritual world he will be punished. All I have is love. The money in the Unification Church is used for the purpose of love. Still, when people come to Hannam-dong they usually want money -- not many come to receive just love.

Who is your trainer so that you can become the owners of love? For the husband, it is his wife; for parents, it is your child. Your spouse and children teach you how to embrace the world and be the sovereign over the universe. That is how precious you are to each other. If you say, "My husband is the most precious thing in the world," God will not feel offended. As a parent, He will love it if you love each other more than you love Him. Your partner and children can open the Kingdom of Heaven for you. In the spiritual world the only force by which you can move is the force of love. The more love you have, the more freedom of movement you can have. If you are one who has achieved the vertical and horizontal axes, then in spiritual world there are no limits. What will you do about the relationship between God and yourself? You can make God your God; in other words, you can own God.

The place where love can be connected and new' life can be created is the most precious place. If love is vertical, then life is horizontal and expanding. The unification of love and blood lineage takes place in procreation. Children resemble parents because all elements of parents have been united and given to the children. God is our vertical parent, whom we receive in our heart. Our parents are our horizontal parents whom we receive through our body.

If the relationships between husband, wife and children are correct, then all the relationships in the world can be right and the world order can become correct. If you establish this kind of tradition, then God and the universe become yours. The ideal is for your parents to be kings in relationship to you. Your ideal is for your vertical parents, God, and your horizontal parents to be kings. You can create the Kingdom of God by realizing the love of God within yourself and within your family. In the family the parents are king and queen and the children are the people. Tribe, nation, world, and king are all centered within the family.

In the Unification Church we have the True Parents and that means we have with us the true King and Queen of the world.

Let us pray. 

The End of the Cold War

Sun Myung Moon
October 12, 1989
Shilla Hotel, Seoul, Korea

True Children greet True Parents at their homecoming in East Garden, November 26, 1989. True Children, from left to right: Shin Myung Nim, Shin Won Nim, Shin Gil Nim and Jeung Jin Nim

True Children greet True Parents at their homecoming in East Garden, November 26, 1989. True Children, from left to right: Shin Myung Nim, Shin Won Nim, Shin Gil Nim and Jeung Jin Nim

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union has now reached the point where it can no longer continue. Events such as glasnost in the Soviet Union, the struggle for democratization in China, and the reforms in Hungary, Poland and other East European nations are similar to a revolution. It is proof that the communist system has reached its limits and that the East-West ideological confrontation is ending. In the economic field, the upcoming unification of Western Europe in 1992 is further indication of necessary changes taking place. How should Korea deal with these changes and which direction should it take?

Throughout history Korea has suffered a lot as a victim of superpower expansionism because of its crucial strategic position. The division of North and South in Korea has caused Korea to experience the global ideological confrontation within its own borders. Now that there is a movement towards pluralism and harmony in the world, it does not mean that the problems of the Korean people are automatically solved. The four major powers -- the United States, Japan, Soviet Union and China -- have interconnecting interests focused on the Korean peninsula.

Since such historical relationships and global problems are directly or indirectly connected with this peninsula, Korea is a microcosm of the world's problems. Therefore there is an inseparable relationship between the solution of the world's problems and the solution of Korea's problems. I believe that transforming divided Korea into a unified Fatherland has a direct bearing on the realization of world peace.

With the sun setting on the communist system and ideology, can we say that the Free World is in a position to offer a philosophical alternative? How will the paradoxes of the Western countries which adhere to free democracy be overcome? I have personally experienced the terrible fate of a divided people through the aftermath of the Korean War. I pledged before heaven to devote my life to the establishment of a philosophy that would lay the groundwork for North-South unification; I also pledged to prepare a worldwide foundation for it. For 40 years I have worked toward the fulfillment of these pledges.

Can it be an easy task for us to mobilize the support of the nations around the Korean peninsula for unification on the foundation of a strong philosophy of free democracy and thereby achieve peaceful unification? Would it not be fortunate if we could come up with a plan which would make Russia and China end their one-sided support for North Korea?

I have recently devoted my prayer life to Mainland China centering on the ideal of God's peace. In 1981, during the 10th International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, I revealed a plan for an international highway and have made this plan known to the leaders of 120 countries. The highway is designed to run from Japan under the Korean Straits to Seoul, Pyongyang and Beijing. Another road would be routed to Moscow and Western Europe -- all the way to London. The other would connect to the Middle East. In Japan, 1,500 scholars and businessmen organized a tunnel research association in 1982. They are conducting political, economic, technological and geographical research and have already dug a pilot tunnel. The Chinese government is showing great interest and is in the planning stage of the 1,000 kilometer section between Dandong, on the North Korean border, and Beijing.

Even at the time when exchange with Communist China was very difficult, the Unification Movement sent many people there to help them with modernization. I have established the Yonbyon Technical College in Manchuria where we send scientific equipment every year. I am helping with exchange professors and also arranging for Chinese students to study abroad.

We are helping China through relief activities and by sending American coaches to help the development of sports in China. Also, we are giving Chinese scholars the opportunity to research Unification Thought and thereby support them in their efforts to overcome their ideological difficulties. China still stubbornly insists on communism.

I have long advocated the equal distribution of technology. Technology is a blessing from God meant for the benefit of all mankind. It is a great evil that the advanced countries monopolize technological power and put less developed countries at a disadvantage. This trend is a seed of division and disharmony threatening world peace. Therefore I have for a long time invested considerable resources in order to accumulate technological power for helping the world.

In 1976, at a big rally in Washington, DC I proclaimed that I would hold a big meeting in Moscow. Through international-class scholars, religious figures, top journalists and artists, the foundation for this is now being laid. At my invitation, one of the top editors of the Novosti News Agency, together with four other leading Soviet journalists, are currently in Korea to see this country's development for themselves. Next week they will go to Japan and I asked them to pass by North Korea. I asked them to do that so they could give a fresh impression of South Korea to the North Korean leaders and in that way prevent miscalculation by the Northern regime.

In December, journalists will go to America as my guests. At the beginning of this month the director of the world famous Kirov ballet visited Seoul and promised to assume concurrently the position as director of the Washington, DC Universal Ballet Academy that I have established.

Also there will be a seminar in Moscow jointly sponsored by the Russian Orthodox Church and the International Religious Foundation on "Church Unity." Twenty religious scholars will attend the conference.

In 10 years we will enter a new century. We have to put the 20th century, marred by division and confrontation, behind us and enter an era of harmony and understanding where high morals and values are respected. The era of domination by the West, Russia and America, is ending and the Age of Asia is dawning. Considering the important role of the Korean peninsula and Asia as a whole for the establishment of world peace, no world leader can easily ignore this area anymore but has to at least partially participate in the development in this area. With this kind of historical consciousness I have promoted plans for the Pacific era. Through the foundation laid in America, China and Russia, I am already preparing an East Asia summit conference.

Mankind is faced with the task of overcoming philosophical differences. On the basis of restored morality, he must realize the ideal of a worldwide family of love through international cooperation. All of us have to go beyond just thinking of profit and loss. With a recognition of international relations, we have to use the power of national unity to play the major role in bringing about the Asia-Pacific era.