Unification of the Fatherland

Rev Sun Myung Moon
January, 1, 1987
Unofficial Notes

The motto for 1987 is Unification of the Fatherland.

"This can be done centering upon the True Love of God alone", Father proclaimed, "through absolute unity."

The following are some excerpts from the January 1st midnight speech.

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If there had been no fall, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth would have been established at the beginning, and we would be living in the Unified Fatherland on Earth.

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The Fall brought about separation, so there is no unified kingdom. There is separation white from black, west from east, both racial and cultural separation.

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There has been separation within the individual, in the family, clans, society, nations and within the world throughout history.

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The process of war is the process of separation where each entity competes with the other, and the dominant power takes over. History is a history of war and struggle between good and evil.

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After the fall, there was a change in the human character. Sometimes people are good and sometimes they are evil. But what God really needs is people of unchanging character. So the purpose of religion is to create soldiers on the good and holy side, to create people who are dependable and unchanging. So the religious life engenders characteristics of endurance, boldness and steadfastness.

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Essentially all the major religions are moving toward a common purpose and toward God. There will be one Fatherland of all religions. There is one God of all religions and ultimately there will be no need for religion.

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To bring history to an end it is most important for humanity to know the definition of good and evil.

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Good always maintains an unchanging character like God.

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Evil meanwhile is always changing and eventually diminishes.

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The original mind and body of the human being are completely communicable. The fall established a virtually unbreakable shield between the mind and body, so there is little or no communication. The carnal body is the stage of Satan and the mind is the stage of God.

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This is the common principle of religion is to deny the desire of the body and center upon the mind.

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The most perfect base for Satan in ourselves is selfishness.

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The definition of a good man is one who sacrifices themselves for the sake of others.

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An evil man is one who, centering upon himself, sacrifices others for his own gains.

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Saints are those who sacrifice themselves for the purpose of goodness, that is they sacrifice themselves for the sake of others, their nation and the world.

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The ultimate question is "How can we make unification possible?" There are only two ways: a) conquer the body by the will of the mind b) by the extraordinary power of the mind, give the body no room to move.

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Religion does two things: a) subjugates the body b) gives enormous spiritual strength to the mind such that the body has to follow the mind.

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Therefore the religious person, though physically weak or feeble, can gain spiritual inspiration or revelation. This then ignites and empowers the individual with new energy and power.

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Still, how can we unit the world? How did Satan come into being within me? We have to analyze this. Through Divine Principle we understand the human body is Satan's heir since we stem from the wrong root. Therefore we have to a) shock the body, and b) cleanse the body.

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The Principle of Unification is this: We must create absolute unity centering upon the True Love of God alone.

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Due to the fall, we are like the wild olive tree. Fallen humanity is like a forest. It is God's Will that there be one True Olive Tree.

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When you read the Bible with a sincere and serious heart you can understand that this is the same message Jesus taught. He said "You must drink my blood and eat of my flesh", that is, you must become as my flesh and blood, engrafted onto the new tree so there is no evil lineage remaining. If there is no evil lineage, there is no base for Satan to attack. So we are waiting for the new forest to emerge after the fall and winter of history.

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Unification of the Fatherland is not a simple statement. It is a profound statement. It cannot come into being without the unified individual, family, clan, society, nation and world. Without the unified individual, there is no substance to anything. It is God's Will and the destiny of humankind for this to happen. This is but an excerpt of the midnight speech. The following is a summary of Father's message for '87 that he built his God's Day speeches around:

I. Unification of the Individual: Kei Tongil

1. Unification between mind/heart and God

2. Unification of body and God

3. Union of mind, body and God

4. Individual (truth body) unity with God in love

5. Heaven and Earth and parents totally united in love.

II. Unification of the Family

1. Unity of love of parents

2. Unity of husband and wife in love

3. Unity of love between brothers and sisters

4. Physical experience of Holy True Love

5. Mutual responsibility of husband and wife in love

III. Unification of the Clan

1. Center the clan on the love of the chief of the clan

2. Equality of every individual family love

3. Practice the way of life in love, that is, love other families first

4. Practice the six directions, or universal service of neighbors

5. Practice the way of live of love and duty for the sake for the world

6. Practice the way of life of love with the highest standard of morals and ethics

IV. Unification of the Tribe

1. Inherit Heaven's Tradition through love.

2. Love and trust the tribe leader

3. Observe the order of society and unify the society in love

4. Practice brotherly love centering upon the family

5. Practice responsible and moral love for the well being of the world

6. Love the creation with ideal love

V. Unification of the Nation

1. Re-manifestation and recreation of the spirit and love of the ideal tribe

2. Love of the country proceeds the love of parents

3. Secure a Heavenly system and unselfish love through service

4. Experience unification of love with parents and Heaven and Earth

5. Inherit the Heavenly Kingdom through the realm of Heavenly love and trust

6. National unity in love and service

VI. Unification of the World

1. Inherit ideal love which transcends nationality and tribe

2. The foremost and most import thing in the universe is life centering upon the love of True Parents

3. Practice love that guarantees equality of all people and engenders a spirit of service to humanity

4. Practice sacrificial love for world peace

5. Practice faith, love and service for the inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven in Heaven

6. Unite into one through True Parent's love in Heaven and on Earth and brotherly love

VII. Unification of Both Heavens (Heaven in Heaven and Heaven on Earth)

1. Practice love during your earthly life (the workshop on earth), and so enter the Kingdom of Heaven in Heaven

2. Practice absolute love of humankind for the sake of others

3. Practice unselfish love for the sake of others for your entire life

4. Become a public person able to inherit historical tradition and treasure

5. Become a person who respects unchanging love6. Practice the way of life of adoration and attendance and longing for True Parents on earth and in heaven

7. Become a righteous person of peace through joy, service and love

8. Become a person of good character, favored and liked by all kinds of people

General Conclusion

On the road toward unification, there shall be Heavenly Will and support always.

Prayer at the Holy Wedding of Un Jin Moon and Jin Hun Park

Sun Myung Moon
April 11, 1986
Translated by Gilbert Starr

The engagement prayer for Jin Hun Nim and Un Jin Nim.

Loving Father!

Today, April 11, 1986, the historical True Parents are conducting the Holy Wedding Ceremony of Un Jin Moon and Jin Hun Park in this place. Today is a day of commemoration.

We are not the only ones gathered here. Centering on God and with His assistance, a multitude of heavenly angels, countless saints, successive generations of our good ancestors, and especially members of the Unification Church who passed away are celebrating with us. The entire heavenly world is with us together in harmony to commemorate this day. I think that those of us gathered on earth and those gathered in the spirit world should be of one accord, and become one, at this time. I hope that by celebrating all together we can fulfill Heaven's blessing on earth. Father, I offer thanks to You for allowing us to celebrate this day.

I pray that the Unification Church with all its supporting groups can reach all throughout Korea and be connected to this place. I pray that the Unification Church members can be united into one heart all around the world at this time and gratefully celebrate together everywhere. Today the spirit world is harmonized with the earthly world, successfully harmonizing the past and present, as well as the whole universe. I am thankful that all of us can prosper by celebrating this day obediently in front of You.

Many historical circumstances have been overcome in order to reach this day. Since the day of the fall of the first human ancestors, You have trod the path of restoration through indemnity with extraordinary sorrow. For the sake of restoration You established Judaism and promised to send the Messiah. Due to ignorance, how- ever, Judaism could not receive him. It was later, through the foundation of Christianity, that You could establish the central point for spiritual salvation. For the last 2,000 years the blood of numerous faithful people has been shed upon this earth, as Christians longed for the Lord to return once again.

Today that foundation for victory is centered upon the American Christian cultural sphere. Immediately after World War II, if Unification members and Korea had become one, the whole world could indeed have become one; the time was right. Due to ignorance again, mankind could not receive me. Therefore I was destined to go through a history of sorrow, suffering the 40-year course in the wilderness. I was driven from the individual to the family, clan, national, and world levels -- even to the spirit world, where all evil spirits opposed me. Even though I was in such a difficult position and had to go through such a severe fight, I am so thankful that You guided me, Father, and that I was not ruined. Every time I faced difficulty You watched over me closely and advised me. I became a sacrifice over and over again, and flow after 40 years You have given me everything.

True Parents give their daughter Un Jin Nim a kiss at her wedding.

Many people thought that Unification Church members were destined to be forsaken and thrown into the ditch in disrepute by society. Instead, we have accomplished the national and worldwide standard of indemnity and set up the condition for the whole world to be unified centering on the name of True Parents. We have come to this point in time.

All the powers of this world, both religious and political, have come to Korean soil. This nation can become one if we can change the opinion and position of the people, starting with the intellectuals living in Seoul and reaching out to every neighborhood in Korea. Through our IFVOC movement, which is restoring the world of Cain, the first-born, the way is already being prepared.

The goal to unite Korea can be accomplished on the foundation of every available church member doing his best, even for just 120 days. Without this preparation, mankind cannot become one. Amazingly, we have reached such a critical, historical turning point.

Father, You are leading us and we are ready to dash forward, giving our very lives for the fulfillment of Your will. I pray that from this time on the capital city of Seoul will be bound to return to You by virtue of the results of Unification Church members.

Because of all the accomplishments of True Parents and True Parents' family, this couple can now be joined by Heaven's divine Blessing, and through this Holy Wedding Ceremony the second generation of blessed families can be established. Father, I am so thankful that it is Heaven's divine will and our historical destiny that Your Blessing be bequeathed. Father, thank you for bestowing Your grace on this Holy Wedding Ceremony.

Not only should Unification Church members remember this place; all of Korea must remember it. Even if South and North Korea and the democratic and communist worlds don't know this place now, they will all come to remember it in the future. Heaven and hell will become one in remembering this place. Most of all God and True Parents will remember this place. Father, I want to thank You from the bottom of my heart for Your assistance.

I know You feel so much regret that no one knows how many blessings Heaven has bestowed upon this earth. Only Heaven's representatives can grow and harvest these blessings. Father, I have offered my dedication from the individual, family, and clan levels, and now I dedicate this nation to You. I feel it is my sacred duty today to dedicate everything totally to You. We should all feel that we must go this way.

Now, centering on this couple that is now receiving Your Blessing, a new foundation for the Blessing of the second generation is erected. We must rise to the standard of world unification. Until it is achieved, it is the destiny of the second generation as true sons and daughters to follow the tradition of loyalty and filial' piety which their parents leave behind. It is our historical and divine calling to run to fulfill the course of world restoration. Because of the Blessing today, future generations will not have to endure persecution.

Even though South and North Korea are still divided at this time, we must progress centering on God in order to establish a realm of unification. We must be able to step over all evil and jump to victory. Through this ceremony we and God have connected the heavenly and earthly worlds. Father, we give all glory, praise, and power to You. As heavenly soldiers we must march forward to achieve Your world. Father, I thank You for making this such a memorable day.

Through the Holy Wedding Ceremony this couple can become one. With their new title, a time of heavenly, historical duty worldwide comes to lie ahead of us. We must achieve the standard of the original family. I earnestly ask that You happily receive this Blessing of the third daughter of the True Parents' family. Please join this couple through the destiny of their eternal Blessing.

Father, please let Heaven's love and protection be upon this couple's life; please let them be central leaders on this earth so that You can receive joy through them and their descendants.

Father, I thank You for Your approval of this ceremony; thank You for blessing this place. I am forever thankful with Heaven's heart. All these words I pray in the name of True Parents.

Amen. 

Father's Guidance

Sun Myung Moon
March 1986
Seoul, Korea
From notes by Rev. C. H. Kwak

This is a synopsis of two speeches that Father gave one Sunday morning in March at Chung Pa Dong church in Seoul -- the first one to the general membership and the second to leaders. Father directed his message to all members around the world and especially to the American leaders.

Everybody who follows a leader, as well as the leader himself, should come to understand himself. What is the self? We must analyze it. Each of us is a result of history. We are not simply individuals. The most important historical fact is that we are the fruit of Satan's love. Many times even Unification Church members don't realize Satan's existence.

During our life of faith we gradually come to recognize the living God. We always focus on True Parents, who are the embodiment of the living God. But many times we forget about Satan. If we could look at ourselves with spiritual eyes, we would see that Satan is holding onto our necks, and that we are bound to our satanic lineage. Externally we only see a neck. But from the spiritual point of view our neck is Satan's hook. Through it he is trying to reach down into us and steal our love. It's a very serious matter.

Fallen man can either completely surrender to Satan and stay under Satan's dominion for eternity, or he can try to overcome it by jumping up and passing through historical difficulties, and thus stay on God's side. One serious and important point is that the rope of Satan's love can only be cut by true love. Nothing else will work! Only true love centering on God and True Parents can save us.

The Crossing Point of Life and Death

Fallen man can connect with true love only at the front line of life and death -- not at any other place. This is because it was at this point that man originally denied God and fell, thus losing everything. This crossing point of life and death is the only point through which fallen mankind can return to God.

As fallen men and women, we have to follow the way of restoration in the indirect dominion. The first son and first daughter must pass through the three stages of growth in the indirect dominion, so that others can follow. We lost this path, so on the way of restoration we must stand as elder son and elder daughter. We cannot go the path of growth under the title of younger son or younger daughter. Unfortunately, all fallen men and women, all Unification Church members, are not in the elder son's or elder daughter's position. Satan took over the elder son's and elder daughter's position and never gave them up.

Because of this, even a Unification Church member cannot pass through the indirect dominion period without first receiving the elder son's or elder daughter's title. This is the Principle. Abel has to overcome Cain, and not just in theory. On every level, Abel has to completely dominate Cain with love, and then go on to the next level. Leaders must be especially serious about this matter. We should always be serious about this.

Satan has two points of accusation. First, Satan accuses God: "Even though my present position is evil, You should love me at the level of an archangel. Without giving at least this level of love to me, you cannot judge me." Satan's accusation to man is: "You should love me as the owner. An angel is like a servant. Men and women are like the owners. So you should love me centering on God's love as an owner loves a servant." God never became the owner of the Heavenly Kingdom, and man himself never even entered the Heavenly Kingdom. For man, becoming the owner is not easy. For Heavenly Father this task is also not easy. Heavenly Father's love for Satan is really serious, because Satan is not an ordinary enemy. In front of Heavenly Father, Satan completely destroyed His ideal of a loving grandmother, a loving mother, a loving wife, a loving sister, and a loving daughter. Satan destroyed all this completely, and brought about fallen love. Because of this, God is very serious about loving Satan.

More and more now the Unification Church must bear the cross of the worldwide historical situation. What is the base of dispensational history? God's heart. God's heart is also the motivation of creation. Even though the Unification Church started from God's heart, the members themselves are not automatically related to Him. Therefore, Unification Church members should make indemnity conditions to relieve God's historical heart.

We Should Never Ignore Reality

I want to emphasize the meaning of faith and reality. We should never ignore reality, the circumstances around us. Regardless of what kind of difficult environment or circumstances I face, I accept the given conditions as reality one hundred percent. Then I try to lay indemnity conditions to ease God's historical heart of suffering. In this sense, before Heavenly Father's heart, complaint cannot exist. So don't forget to make indemnity conditions, not only for yourself, but to solve the agony of God.

Another area to focus on is the CAUSA seminars and also, for the future, Principle seminars. All leaders, when you preach or lecture, should prepare not only intellectually; you should pray three times as long as the length of your lecture. For a one-hour sermon, you should make a condition of three hours of prayer and spiritual preparation. What you are teaching is not merely my philosophy but my actual life testimony.

In your lectures or sermons, don't teach the Principle only with your tongue, but with the seed of life, which you must catch with your mind and digest within your heart. The Principle should always be taught through heartistically digested truth. The Principle is so powerful that if you, as lecturers, convey this message through the correct method -- through your heart -- you will achieve results. We should consider the reasons for our lack of increase in membership. Every leader should consider this.

Rev. Kwak explains:

When Father speaks in front of IFVOC leaders and professors, even in front of thousands, he doesn't speak from a written text or from notes. He feels that if he is well prepared spiritually, his teaching will be clear and true. But he said if he writes down his thoughts beforehand, he wonders whether God's word or human concepts are really coming through. Instead of writing, he prays. Through this kind of preparation, God's words can be conveyed, not merely human understanding. Father emphasized that we, as Unification Church leaders, should follow this advice. Since you already understand the Principle, if you pray enough and make enough spiritual preparation, your words will be very powerful and you will reach your audience.

I already mentioned to you that Father has been praying for mainland China for 30 years. Even though he prays a lot for China, he is not concerned about the result. He only focuses on his prayer. He wants to pray until he has prayed for China more than any of her patriots throughout her long history ever prayed for her. He said that the result of his prayer doesn't matter. If China accepts Father, God's blessing will come to China. If China denies Father, all the historical merit of the Chinese will come back to True Parents through another way. Father continues:

Father:
Only Love Will Bring Results

I want to emphasize the importance of spiritual preparation for all of our activities. All leaders and Unification Church members should follow the way of faith. Don't rely on your knowledge or external capabilities. Providential activities will never be accomplished this way. Only the way of love can bring results -- true love linked with prayer and a pure mind.

Especially to blessed couples, I want to say: All members of your family should understand and digest family law, and inherit and follow the True Parents' tradition. What is that tradition? It is this: With the heart of the Father, in the shoes of a servant, we should shed sweat for earth, tears for man, and blood for heaven. That is the main content of True Parents' tradition. God and True Parents expect blessed couples to know it and to fulfill it.

Sometimes I hear members complain, "Oh, I joined the church over 10 years ago. I dedicated my entire youth! Now I need to have something for myself." I have a very difficult time understanding this complaint. At present God Himself is under Satan's dominion. God could never realize His own dignity in front of Satan. Throughout the restoration providence, God always had to work quietly, under Satan's regime. All His children were under Satan's regime. God has always been searching for them in agonizing desperation. And then only at certain moments and under certain conditions could progress in restoration be made. Considering God's terrible circumstances, how can Unification Church leaders and blessed couples desire to have a position of dignity or comfort for themselves?

The public way of life is the most precious. The meaning of public life is to take responsibility, not only for the good things, but also for the bad things. I am always looking for this kind of standard. Whether you are a leader or a member doesn't matter. What kind attitude do you have? Can you take responsibility for the good things and the bad?

Someone whose position of responsibility is increasing more and more has less and less freedom. I am the person with the least amount of freedom in the whole world. My life is completely public. I am always serious. Some people may think that in my private life I am free and relaxed. On the contrary, when I am alone, or with an intimate guest, or with my own family in the late evening or early morning, I am the most serious. That means I have absolutely no freedom.

God Will Fully Support You

If God directs you to do something and you respond immediately to His call with enthusiasm and a positive attitude, God will fully support you. If you don't respond right away, it is difficult for Him to help you. Success and results come through God's support, not through your own plan or effort. Don't create a gap between the time you receive God's or True Parents' direction and the time you start acting on it.

We are standing on 6000 years of God's expectation. Each of us was called t, do God's will, not our own will, and not for the benefit our own situation or our own family or environment. We should be proud to follow God and we should carefully respond to God's will.

Rev. Kwak explains:

After Korea was liberated from Japanese occupation in 1945, North Korea established a communist government under Kim Il Sung by 1948. During the next few years Korea's overall economic development was fairly slow. However, Kim Il Sung focused on military progress and in less than two years he was completely prepared for attack against the South in the Korean War. In any country in the free world, this kind of development would be impossible.

In a similar way in the United States, infiltration by leftists has been amazingly swift. America and American leaders in particular, must understand Father's urgency and the importance of overcoming communism as soon as possible. Father is very confident that we can do this quickly.

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We should be very serious about our CAUSA activities. In the communist world, people believe and totally accept the words of their party leaders exactly the same way religious people believe in God's word. But how many Christians follow the content of the Bible and God's will and direction exactly? Unfortunately not many; perhaps most people have no idea about the living God. Many already discount the Bible because its content is so difficult. What is the degree of their belief in God compared with the communists' belief in their party? It is less. This is reality. The Unification Church members in the United States are the only hope for this country.

More Focus On The City Leaders

I would like to see a decentralized American CAUSA movement and more focus on the city centers. Whether church or CAUSA activities are involved doesn't matter. This will illustrate what I mean: Fruit doesn't grow from the root or the trunk or the main branches of a tree. It always grows from the tips of the tiny branches. First the leaves form, and from there the flower blossoms, and then the fruit emerges. Right now in the Unification movement, Heavenly Father and True Parents are not so much interested in the root, or the trunk, or the big branches, but in the tiny branches, the leaves, and the flowers, because they bring the fruits. The fruits are the ministers who are connecting to us in every city center.

Why was Israel's history so difficult? One of the main reasons was that the Israelites did not respect the tribe of Levi, who took care of the Ark of the Covenant, which symbolized the word of God. Because the main mission of the center members is to alleviate God's suffering through witnessing, the church leaders are the ones in the position of the Levites, leading the mainstream way of God. Of course, living in the mainstream is sometimes very hectic, but the mainstream never becomes bad or spoiled. Even though there are always problems of unity and a lot of struggling going on in the church centers, the mainstream never becomes stagnant or devious, while the peripheral areas of the movement, the areas of business or other external activities, may become spoiled. In the future, the position of center leader will be the most respected position in the Unification movement.

I want to remind you -- don't look for the easy or smooth way. We should expect an exciting life. Through living an adventurous life, we can link our own spiritual foundation with the True Parents' foundation. I always want to be in the place where the most difficult things are happening, for the sake of the country and the sake of the world. By going the smooth way, it is impossible to bring results. It would take more than 10,000 years. We shouldn't even dream about the easy and comfortable way. Sometimes we need to go a very unusual or suffering way, but for the sake of the country and the sake of the world, that is the normal way. 

Creating and Building the Kingdom of Heaven

Sun Myung Moon
February 1986
From Tong Il Sae Gae

Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han January 23, 2012

What is the Kingdom of Heaven?

What is the Kingdom of Heaven? It is a home where even wandering beggars want to come and sleep, where wandering dogs want to come and linger in front of the door, and where the birds in the sky want to come and dwell and leave their droppings. Are the homes of our blessed families like this? If not, they cannot be called the Kingdom of Heaven. If you cannot show a good example, you should at least not become troublemakers in your neighborhoods.

The Kingdom of Heaven is the world of original character.

What is the Kingdom of Heaven? It is the place where Satan cannot work, and where no satanic accusations can be made. You should expel Satan from your bodies. You should know that you cannot build the Kingdom of Heaven in the environment without first becoming people who can say that the Kingdom of Heaven exists in your minds and in your bodies.

What kind of place is the Kingdom of Heaven? It is the place where love dwells, where there is peace -- where we can rest. You should not enjoy even your rest by yourself. Your parents and children, your entire family, your clan, your people, and the whole world should enter in. You should not have any enemies.

The Kingdom of Heaven is a world that all people treat with deference, and a world that even God treats with deference.

The Kingdom of Heaven on earth is the place where you live together with your physical True Parents; the Kingdom of Heaven in the spiritual world is the place where you live together with your spiritual True Parents. You should know this.

Misguided Viewpoints of the Kingdom of Heaven

Our viewpoint of the Kingdom of Heaven is completely opposite from the traditional viewpoint. Most people expect to go to the Kingdom of Heaven after they die. We want to build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. We should complete the Kingdom of Heaven on earth before going on.

Do you think it is likely that the people who say, "I will be saved and go to the Kingdom of Heaven whether my nation and the world perish or not!" will actually go to the Kingdom of Heaven? No way. If you say that Jesus taught that, then you are making Jesus into the enemy of God and humankind. Nationalism, chauvinism, and sectarianism, to say nothing of individualism, do not work anymore.

What kind of people go to the Kingdom of Heaven? Those who hold their beliefs for the sake of God and all humankind can go to the Kingdom of Heaven, while those who hold beliefs for their own benefit cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven -- even though they may attend church until they become old enough to die.

It is a big mistake to think that the Kingdom of Heaven can be realized in midair without any effort on our part. Fundamental rules should be set up through which our emotions and behavior can be in complete accord with God, even from the very moment we sit down to eat every day.

Build and complete the visible, substantial Kingdom of Heaven before yearning for the invisible Kingdom of Heaven! This is what Jesus liked to emphasize.

Christianity will perish if Christians want to have their faith fulfilled through Jesus' words alone. They cannot avoid judgment. They can enter the Kingdom of Heaven only after they connect themselves with the heart of Jesus himself, who spoke in such a heartbreaking way, and after they settle accounts with everything that belongs to the secular world.

Many of you, especially leaders, seem to think that the Kingdom of Heaven will be realized in your own style. You should know that such an idea is not only quite mistaken, but dangerous.

You may believe that Jesus now resides in the Kingdom of Heaven, but actually he is in Paradise. He said that he would go and stay in Paradise. Paradise is the waiting room for the Kingdom of Heaven. The purpose for Jesus' coming to earth again is to liberate Paradise and open the door to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Being in Prison with Rev. Moon Was a Blessing from God

Hafez Farid
February 1986

Hafiz Farid is a writer who lives in East Orange, New Jersey, and participates in a cultural center in Newark. Since his release from Danbury he has maintained close contact with Mr. Kamiyama and other church members, often bringing his son with him on visits to the World Mission Center.

I met Rev. Moon the morning after he came to prison in Danbury. I won't forget it. It was a very warm sunny day. He and Mr. Kamiyama were sitting on two rocks, watching the young men play basketball. I was walking over to the basketball courts.

Of course by this time everyone knew that Rev. Moon was there. I remember the night he came in. There was lots of fanfare -- helicopters hovering overhead, news reporters outside. It was probably the most exciting thing that had ever happened in Danbury. When he came in that night it was about 11:30 and I didn't try to disturb him. I know the feeling of coming into a prison, leaving your family, leaving what you have, and coming into a situation like that. The clothes you have are taken away and you're given prison clothes, you're assigned a number, a mug shot is taken, and you're fingerprinted. One of the most negative experiences I remember was getting fingerprinted. A guard just grabs your hand and presses your fingers down, presses your thumbs down. That experience is something I will never forget. So knowing that he just went through all this, I didn't want to disturb him.

But I knew that I wanted to speak to him. Just being interested in him as a controversial figure was one thing, but my being a religious man was another. I am a student of theology. I am a Muslim and have been for about 15 years now I had heard of Rev. Moon. I had seen his posters while walking around New York.

But all I had heard was the propaganda, the slander, bow he takes people and seduces them into his cult, brainwashing them and all that. Now I didn't necessarily believe that hook, line, and sinker. I had a different perspective than most people in Danbury, because I had come from an organization that had also been persecuted, so my relationship with Rev. Moon was of a different nature, I think, than probably anybody else there.

First of all, the discrimination that I have known because of being black in America is very real. Rev. Moon said in court that if he had been a white man and Presbyterian his trial would never have taken place. So there was a kindred spirit between us. We bore a similar burden, so we could have a certain connection.

My Reason for Being in Prison Started to Unfold

And then I was one of the few people at Danbury who believed in God. I was the leader of the Muslim organization in the prison. I was called an imam. There were about 10 or 12 inmates in our organization; sometimes even as many as 20. Our religion has had similar propaganda, and has been vilified by the press, so I could understand very, very well. I had seen religious people, people like Martin Luther King Jr., go to prison. So was looking at Rev. Moon from a different point of view from most people. I now had a chance to meet Rev. Moon face to face and I knew that it was a magnificent opportunity, a great opportunity, and I recognized that my being in Danbury was a blessing from God. My reason for being in prison started to unfold.

I saw Rev. Moon sitting there and I took the opportunity to go over to see him. No one was talking to him at the time. I heard that the night before a couple of people had come down to speak with him, mostly out of curiosity. But I think I was the first person to actually come over and sit down and talk with him. I asked Mr. Kamiyama what his name was and I said my name was Hafiz Farid, and that I was glad to meet him. Mr. Kamiyama is a very warm, personable individual. Not that Rev. Moon is not also that way, but Rev. Moon, like all religious people, has a certain firmness and strength. One has to be very strong to be a true servant of God. One has to make sure in this world that one has high moral excellence, uncompromising standards, and no weakness. But on the other hand he has a loving aspect, a compassionate aspect. I'm sure his pictures convey this. He is a very loving man, and a very warm man, but he is also very stern, firm, and strong.

So Mr. Kamiyama and I started talking. I said I didn't know whether Rev. Moon spoke English at that time or how well. I had heard that Mr. Kamiyama was designated as his interpreter. I said I'd like to ask Rev. Moon a question. And then he kind of turned to Rev. Moon, and Rev. Moon said, "Not now' He referred to the fact that the guards were watching very closely so that he didn't preach to the inmates. But I said I just wanted to know what the basic tenets of Rev. Moon's church were.

Having been told not to preach, Rev. Moon and Mr. Kamiyama didn't want to start talking. It was their first day in prison and they were trying to comply. But I said, "Well, we're just talking!' Then I explained to him that I was the leader of a Muslim organization, and there was this immediate recognition. You know, religious people have a sort of affinity toward each other, a common bond that you just don't see among atheists. And my saying that kind of struck a warm chord, so I sat down. And Rev. Moon answered my question very briefly. He said, "Unification. Oneness. All religions should come together to fight Satan." Then he asked me a question. He said, "Do you think God likes to see Muslims killing Christians, Christians killing Muslims, Jews killing Christians, or Jews killing Muslims? God does not like that." I could find no reason not to accept that truth. It was basic to my own teachings and I think to all religious teaching.

I Started to See His Greatness

In Islam we believe there is one God, the father of all humanity. And the prophets are a line of messengers sent to preach to the people. The ultimate aim of all people is to return to God. So the historical and scriptural teachings of Islam are compatible with Unification thinking.

So because of what I believe in, I was immediately impressed by what Rev. Moon said. I didn't see any way-out, cultish type of ideology in anything he had said thus far. I automatically could understand, because we were speaking from a universal plane of consciousness.

We continued to talk, and Rev. Moon said that he had recently sponsored a world tour for young people to visit all the religious centers of the world. I was amazed. In our religion, in Islam, for a man to sponsor a trip to send people on a religious pilgrimage around the world would be one of the greatest acts of charity that could be done. To go yourself would be a great act of obedience, but to send other people at your expense would be an act of devotion that would please God immensely. I just thought about the greatness of a man who would do that. I started to see the greatness of Rev. Moon and his relationship with God.

At first Mr. Kamiyama would start to translate, but then Rev. Moon would break in and speak in English. Many people there never knew how well he could speak English or understand it. Rev. Moon has an aloofness, characteristic of his wisdom. He didn't make a display of his knowledge. I think it is characteristic of a person's wisdom not to talk too much.

People often ask me, "Did you have trouble talking with Rev. Moon? Was there a language barrier?" Most people don't know how well he speaks. Of course he has a heavy accent and his voice has a rather gruff quality. But even that aspect has a certain attractiveness to it. It is not the voice of a trained actor. Just a very real voice. When God called Moses, he said to God, "I can't speak very well." The passage implies that he may have had a speech impediment. So God said, "I will give you Aaron. Aaron can be your man, but you're my man" God is not looking for eloquence or articulateness but for pureness of heart and faith. And I have learned that. A lot of great men in history have had that same quality -- a commonness, a realness. Not phoniness, not eloquence, but an emphasis on truth and reality. When people asked me about the language barrier I would say that Rev. Moon's words weren't as hard for me to understand as his accent.

Rev. Moon's Terminology

The problem most people had was understanding his theological terminology. I would have had the same problem had I not applied my mind for years studying theology, religious terminology, the scriptures, and the words of the prophets. And being able to understand what he was talking about made me feel very good. Sometimes Rev. Moon would just be totally engrossed in a topic with me and someone would just barge in. Some people just don't have the proper manners or etiquette to excuse themselves; they just interrupt the conversation. They would come in thinking they were right in tune with what we were saying and try to get in on the conversation, but they would actually be totally out of tune. Rev. Moon would not become angry or refuse to respond to them or tell them to go away. But what would happen was, after sitting there listening for a minute, they would usually leave, because most of the time Rev. Moon's terminology would sound like a foreign language to them.

He used certain words, especially when he talked about God. Throughout all the scriptures -- the Bible, the Quran, the Torah -- allegories and parables are used. Rev. Moon would use those as well as scientific terminology. One time Rev. Moon was discussing God and creation and the relationship between object and subject, and it was hard for anyone else to come in on the conversation.

But sometimes he would talk about very simple truths. One very important thing he talked about was marriage. He said marriage has to be grounded in God's love. If it not based on God's love it cannot stand, it cannot last. One time I had a conversation with him about racism. We were talking about Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and their teachings about racism. Rev. Moon said that's not the way racism is going to be destroyed. Condemning racism just kind of fuels it. But what we have to do is come together in love and marry between different races and have children, end through the generations the differences in color will start to diminish. This is what God wants. He said, "I know many people in America hate me for saying this, but this is God's plan. If they don't want to go along with it they will have to go to the back of the liner

Most people there were misinformed and had some very negative misconceptions of Rev. Moon. Not only has racism permeated American society, but there is also an anti-foreign prejudice, too, that is very, very pervasive. This is starting to be broken down now. There is an upheaval, so to speak, the rising up of people who have traditionally been held down and looked upon as rejected people. You can see the rise of Japan as a technological giant, and the rise of Korea. Rev. Moon and I used to talk about this. Oriental culture is coming back again to be the great and glorious culture it once was. Rev. Moon would talk about the providential time, and how God works, actually causing this to come about now, finally bringing East and West together, and I find the relationship to be very, very beautiful.

His Life Is a Prayer

Every morning Rev. Moon could be seen with Mr. Kamiyama sitting outside at about 5 o'clock, meditating and reading. I would be up going to work and I would see them. I wouldn't interrupt them at that time. We Muslims have prayer in the very early morning hours also, the dawn prayer. Someone asked me once, one of his followers, "Is it true that Rev. Moon prays all the time and gets only two or three hours of sleep?" And so I said, "Well, I never watched Rev. Moon 24 hours a day. But I can tell you this: His entire lifestyle, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from what I and other people have seen, is an act If submission to God." Prayer is a ritual, and different religions have different rituals, but the real meaning of prayer is when you actually get up from the prayer how it reflects in your life, your will, your thoughts. In our attitude we have to be bowing every day.

So his life is a prayer. I've never seen him angry, I've never seen him complain. I never saw him speak harshly to another individual. I never saw him reject any individual's question, or refuse to answer him.

Rev. Moon was always reading. One thing that really impressed me about him was that he was a man of great knowledge, great wisdom. I knew that he had to have a lot of knowledge to be able to speak about the subject of God and theology and religion and withstand the attack of scholars and scientists. One has to have done his own work. And yet with all his wisdom, he was continually studying. And this made me understand that he is still open to new knowledge. He has not reached that point that some men reach where they think they know it all.

There wasn't anything special about the way he worked; he displayed a simple quality of humanness. Most of the prophets of God were men who went among the people: Jesus was a carpenter, Moses tended sheep. They simply went about their tasks with no feeling of arrogance or an attitude that they were too good for the job. Every person had to admire Rev. Moon, even if they didn't agree with him, for the fact that he was a man dealing with the reality of the situation with no complaints; he didn't ask for anything special. He didn't walk around acting different. That's admirable. There are so many famous people who clamor to be noticed, who clamor for the microphone. I think that's a litmus test for God's man, that he doesn't seek the praise of other people, but focuses on God.

There Weren't a Lot of People Around Him

Danbury was very picturesque. From the back, Danbury overlooked a beautiful lake. Rev. Moon would sit out on the hill, always in a cross-legged position. Most of the time he would be sitting there by himself. Later on Bill Sheppard became his companion and also a man named Tony. But Rev. Moon spent a lot of solitary hours; there weren't a lot of people around him.

There was a common feeling among most of the prisoners, a mentality common in America, that men really have to be macho. Most of the inmates had never been to prison before, so they came in with this arrogant feeling that you have to be tough or else other people will push you around. And along with that were the propaganda and the misconceptions about Rev. Moon, about his being a charlatan and a cult leader out to take people's money. That attitude pervaded the camp. So because of all those factors a lot of people didn't come to Rev. Moon, even though they might have wanted to know about him. They had an opportunity to have asked him questions face to face, but they missed it because of their attitude.

When I reached out to him that first day I knew there were going to be conversations about me but I didn't care. I just wanted to have the benefit of saying, "This is what he told me himself' It was an invaluable opportunity. But because of the inmates' misconceptions and their feeling that, "Well, I know where he's at; most of them wouldn't even go near him. They never told him directly what they thought about him; they would only whisper about him, because his whole demeanor is one of firmness. And a lot of people didn't approach him because they were afraid other people would laugh. But there were always some people who would come up to him, you know, people looking for jobs. They had heard about his wealth and so they thought he might help them out.

There was a little joke going around that if you were seen talking with him, someone would come up to you and say, "Well, I guess you'll be selling flowers soon" They started calling Kamiyama Half Moon, and another one of his companions Quarter Moon. I didn't have that problem. For one thing, Muslims have earned a respect in prison systems throughout America. Somewhat of a fear, but at least a certain respect because of our diligence and the discipline of our faith. I didn't have to worry about my image. Everyone there knew who I was within the Muslim community. I wasn't worried that someone might think I had been converted.

Rev. Moon and I had a healthy respect for each other. In our conversations we didn't argue about religious dogma. It was a dialogue, a sharing. We would talk about the will of God and the desire of God.

He Always Had Time to Talk with Me

During the quiet times of the day I would sometimes go out and sit down with Rev. Moon. I always had my pencil and pad because I am a writer. I'm going to write a book about this whole experience. One day Mr. Kamiyama suggested to me that I write a book. That's where I got the idea. So I thought of taking notes of our conversations.

At that time in the afternoon I would go over to Rev. Moon and he would usually be deeply engrossed in reading. I would apologize for interrupting him and say, "I'd like to talk with your Although I know that his study was very serious and intense, never once did he give me the feeling that he didn't have the time. And I would sit down right next to him and ask him a question, or we might talk about what could be included in the book. We would talk about comparative religions, God, Satan, Jesus, marriage, American politics, racism, everything.

I think there is no place where people are more observed than in a prison. You see each other sleeping, walking, talking, shaving, bathing. You see how people move, you notice their body language, their face language, you feel their vibrations. From that observation, you can tell if a person is serious about what he believes in. You can tell if he is a no-nonsense person, a person not to be played with. You have to admire that kind of person whether you agree with him or not. That's the kind of person Rev. Moon was. He was a person who demanded respect, who gave respect. Mr. Kamiyama was the same way. Kami had more interaction with people but Kami himself also was serious, sober-minded, rational, as well as warm and personable.

I left Danbury before Rev. Moon got out, on June 26. I'll never forget the day I left. I wanted to say goodbye to him. When I told him I was leaving that day he just smiled from ear to ear, with genuine happiness. Usually when someone is getting ready to leave you can feel the negative vibrations, the anger and jealousy among the other inmates. But I really felt Rev. Moon's warmth. He reached out and embraced me and he said, "We will connect on the outside And then he said, "Farid, we have had many, many talks about doctrine and scripture." He had given me some of his books while he was there and I had had my friends search and search throughout New York for a Quran to give to him. First we found a Chinese Quran and then we finally found him a Korean Quran.

He said, "Always remember one thing, Farid. God's love is greater than God's law." That very profound statement really kind of summed up all the conversations we had had. No matter what dogma you follow, no matter what particular faith you have, if you don't have love, God's love for humanity, for people, for creation, then the law doesn't mean very much. God's love is greater than God's law. 

The Day of Victory of Love Part 4 of 4

Sun Myung Moon
January 3, 1986
Excerpts
Seoul, Korea

Heung Jin Moon in 1982 at Hyo Jin Moon's wedding celebration at Belvedere.

From 1983 through 1985, Satan launched an all-out offensive against my family, which did not cease. Satan used every available tool to attack them. Hyo Jin strayed during this time because of satanic influence. One day he said he drove home from school but could not remember at all how he had driven home; to him those hours were a blank. Around the same time Hyo Jin had a vision: He saw a black car driven by a black driver speeding toward him. This vision came not once, but three times. Satan attacked in such ways as these.

Either that which remained to be indemnified historically or mistakes which blessed families had made allowed Satan to work. At that time, when we were connecting our worldwide progress with Korea, any indemnity for what had not been fulfilled on the national level had to be paid. Someone had to assume the position of enduring suffering centering on God's will to complete the indemnity. If nothing had happened to my family, then this nation would have been in tremendous danger.

The rally at Kwangju was the last phase of our national IFVOC campaign in December 1983. The rally was staged successfully despite government opposition. The auditorium was overcrowded, and more people were standing outside than inside. As the atmosphere at the rally grew more and more victorious, Satan could do nothing to stop it. He was perplexed and anguished, and as the rally drew to a rousing close, he struck Heung Jin.

Love at the Moment of Death

Heung Jin was driving down the highway [with the two sons of Mrs. Mal Sook Lee] when the accident happened. The usual response of any driver in an unexpected situation is a reflex action to save his own life. Heung Jin could have swerved to the left when the truck skidded across the median into his lane, but without panic he stayed spiritually centered and swerved to the right instead, letting the driver's side of the car collide with the truck. Why do you think Heung Jin risked his life? After thinking about his behavior, I could not help being deeply moved. I realized that he had saved the lives of Jin Bok and Jin Gil with great love and a sacrificial, altruistic spirit. People often talk about love and sacrifice, but at the moment of actually facing imminent death themselves, not many will sacrifice their lives and safeguard those they love; but Heung Jin did.

It was well known that Heung Jin especially loved the two Lee boys. He often studied and ate together with them. Heung Jin showed them a great deal of love because their father, who had faithfully followed God's will, had already gone to spirit world. In tears, both Jin Bok and Jin Gil testified to the love and sacrificial spirit that Heung Jin had showed at the moment of the accident. Now they are trying hard to inherit Heung Jin's heart and will so that they can make an important mark in history themselves.

I felt such joy and gratitude for Heung Jin's spirit of love at that moment of death. Heung Jin was not a loser; he was a great victor. The death he died on earth was not a death, but a Seunghwa toward the Kingdom of God. As his father I was deeply proud, and I congratulated his departure for the Kingdom of Heaven.

Satan did not know how deep Heung Jin's heart really was. He tested Heung Jin with death, thinking that he would only be concerned about himself. If Heung Jin had been saved instead of Jin Bok and Jin Gil, Satan would have attacked my family severely. Satan intended to accuse us, claiming that we were not qualified to be the central family of God's providence. After my absolute victory in Korea, however, Satan was baffled. He set the accident as a trap; it was his final, desperate tactic to invade.

My real problem was that the Unification Church and the rest of Christianity were not united. At that time Christianity was still opposed to me, and America was dragging me to court to hinder my activities. In order to totally indemnify the problems in America and Korea, my own family had to pay indemnity. Such indemnity was also needed for the spirit world.

Foundation of Heart

Up until now, those who have gone to the spirit world were not born of the lineage of True Parents. Today, we are in the age of worldwide restoration into Canaan, the completion stage of the providence, where the realm of the indirect dominion can become one with that of the direct dominion. Heung Jin is the only one who has gone to the spirit world on a foundation of heart that extends worldwide.

Heung Jin was born as the second son of the True Parents, on the heartistic foundation we established on earth. As Heung Jin grew, he became more and more deeply concerned about my security. Once he even said, "I don't know whether we should trust Father's security guards. I saw them sleeping during the Chicago ICUS. I will take responsibility myself to train blessed families for Father's security:' Some time later he said, "I will be just like a bulletproof wall for Father in case Satan tries to shoot him:' At the time I just laughed, but now I am deeply moved, remembering how he showed such great love and willingness to sacrifice himself.

My first son Hyo Jin is in Cain position; Heung Jin is in Abel position. The second son is always Satan's target. President Hyo Won Eu, the former president of the Korean Unification Church, was the second of the original three blessed couples. He was also attacked and went to spirit world. Satan attacked him because he thought President Eu was the one I loved best of all among the blessed couples.

Every event in the process of restoration through indemnity is not incidental but is based on providential necessity. Even Heung Jin's birth was extraordinarily difficult and painful for Mother; she was in labor for three days, and Heung Jin shared her birth pangs in the womb. Satan always tries to interfere with the second son, whom God loves. If Satan's accusations are strong and unceasing, even God has no choice but to allow the second son to be offered as a sacrifice.

By offering second sons to Satan, God has been paying indemnity throughout history. The year of 1984 was the second of the last three years in the 40-year wilderness course. In order to indemnify the wrongs of America, Christianity, the Unification Church, and the blessed families and their children, God did not stop Satan. Who could indemnify all those wrongs? You should know that even if all the blessed families had been sacrificed as indemnity, the payment would not have been enough. Only a member of my own family could pay the debt, and Heung Jin was offered.

My Promise to Heung Jin

When the doctor notified me of Heung Jin's passing, I made a promise to Heung Jin to hold the Unification Ceremony. If I had been an ordinary father I would have just lamented his sorrowful destiny. Instead, I held the ceremony to clear his way into the spirit world. I had to take responsibility to liquidate historical resentment for the wrongs which Judaism, Christianity, and Unificationism had committed.

The 40-day period after Heung Jin's passing corresponded to Jesus' resurrection period. The Holy Spirit came to earth 10 days after Jesus' ascension; therefore Heung Jin's wedding was held 10 days after his 40-day period was over. Through his spouse, Heung Jin can now relate perfectly with the earth, centering on the ideal of love. His ownership of conjugal love was established by and centered on parental love, so he can freely work on earth. All of this is according to the principle of creation.

Jesus walked the way of God's will, aiming to open the providence up from the national to the worldwide level. From the spirit world he could establish the foundation of tradition for the ownership of love, but he did not leave a physical foundation behind him on earth. Through Heung Jin, however, the foundation was laid for the entire earth to become one with the spirit world. Though he went to the spirit world, his ideal spouse is in the physical world; thus we can say that he is the first fully realized son of God to enter the spirit world.

Through Heung Jin's sacrifice, the original order of love between the elder brother and younger brother can be restored in front of God. Jesus, as God's substantial son who went to the spirit world before Heung Jin, should become one with him centering on love. Jesus is in the Cain position and Heung Jin is in the Abel position. Jesus can come to True Parents only by becoming one with Heung Jin.

On the foundation of their relationship a campaign has begun on earth for the rest of Christianity to become one with Unificationism. What was resolved in spirit world can now be resolved on earth. Therefore, other Christian ministers have begun to unite with the Unification Church. This foundation of unity must be connected at all levels, beginning with the individual, family, and clan levels; then we can march forward together into the national and worldwide realms.

Hoon Sook Nim with Father and Mother on an outing in the Korean mountains.

God-Centered Relationships

Now the nation of America can be influenced by the providence. Today the American Unification Church is in a position to influence American Christianity and all American citizens. Unificationists are standing on the front line, and Christian ministers are following them. Although the Unificationists are in the Abel position, they should put the Christian ministers before them in order for them to come to True Parents. The purpose of this is not so that they can make only a vertical connection to God; it is to open up the age of God-centered horizontal relationships among people.

Up until now, God's providence has focused on teaching people in both the Cain and Abel realms about their vertical relationship to God; it allowed them to stand on the spiritual foundation of others who devoted themselves to God's will. From now on, however, centering on True Parents, people must learn and establish a tradition of absolute obedience by developing a horizontal relationship with Heung Jin as Abel. Centering on him, past Christians, kings, loyal servants, exemplary wives, and good spirit people from our mission countries all around the globe should come back to earth for resurrection. The Principle is one -- unique and absolute in value both on earth and in the spirit world. But where should this Principle bring unity first? It must first bring unity on earth.

Jesus was able to return to earth only on the foundation of unity with the Holy Spirit, who has the power of ownership centering on love. Without the Holy Spirit, Jesus could not have a relationship with the visible substantial world, because he did not complete the heartistic foundation to gain such ownership while he was alive. Through whom do you think the qualification to gain the ownership of love will come today? It will come from God through Heung Jin. You should know that your own resurrection through the Second Coming is possible only when you set up the condition to receive substantial ownership of love through Heung Jin. These words that I speak about the providence are the Principle, and you should be able to go the right way by realizing the true meaning of my words.

What is the meaning of the Day of Victory of Love? Up until now the spirit world and the physical world have not been connected with each other centering on love. Instead, they have been disconnected, and Satan's dominion of death has prevailed. However, Heung Jin's sacrifice erected a tradition of love which spans both worlds, so that Satan can no longer freely dominate the experience of death. Now, since the Day of Victory of Love was established, a gate has been opened through which you can go directly to the Kingdom of Heaven rather than having to return to earth for resurrection. The foundation to create this unified realm centering on Jesus, Heung Jin, and True Parents was laid by virtue of the harmonized love of Heung Jin and Hoon Sook. The power of ownership centering on love was granted. By connecting with that unified realm, everyone can have a chance to go to heaven directly from earth. In other words, the realms of indirect and direct dominion have been completely unified.

Parental Love Can Overcome Death

Since a direct path from the earthly world to the heavenly world is now open, the age of the absolute realm of God can begin. Heung Jin went to open the door to the Kingdom of Heaven, so we should not be sorrowful about his departure. The three days following his death were a period of resurrection, and we had to be able to praise his victory; Mother should not have cried. Parental love should have a power which makes it possible to overcome even the death of a son. Through True Parents' unconditional love, all other providential requirements can be connected and the way can be opened for us to enter the Kingdom of Heaven freely.

Through Jesus' resurrection and return and the descent of the Holy Spirit, 120 apostles could be established on earth. Similarly, returning resurrection today is made possible by the fact that Heung Jin Nim was blessed during his own period of resurrection. Now that the substantial Holy Spirit is on earth, people of 120 nations in the spirit world who believed in Jesus while on earth can become one centering on Heung Jin. The restoration of Cain and Abel through the unity of Jesus and Heung Jin also makes returning resurrection possible. If the kings who ruled 120 nations while on earth come back to earth and become one in heart with the kings who are currently ruling in those nations, then the kings on earth will automatically come to be connected to the realm of True Parents' love. Therefore, the kings of every nation, their people, and other notable persons should be moved, even beyond their conscious intent, to join the Unification Church. Then all nations will be connected with each other centering on the king of kings.

Through the connection of all these nations to me, their historical responsibility and the worldwide course of indemnity will have been liquidated up to the completion stage. All conditions for Satan to accuse these kings and notable persons will have been indemnified, so they can be grafted to the absolute realm of love. The foundation for this was accomplished through my victory during the 120-day period after my release from Danbury. This means that we are already in the age in which there is nothing we cannot do centering on True Parents. Now the age of darkness has passed away, and the world is becoming bright. After the gray of dawn we will see the sun rising; the darkness will disappear, and a bright new world will come to us.

From now on, people of all nations will throng to the church. Due to the cooperation of spirit people, they will unwittingly be attracted to us. Centered especially on the second generation with their clean minds and personalities, a new history will unfold. From the moment the door of love between the spirit world and earth was opened, this historical movement could begin.

When Two Generations Unite

That door was blocked because up until now a relationship between you and a son of True Parents had not been established. In the substantial course, neither I as parent nor Heung Jin as son could open that door alone. It was when the two generations, parent and child, became one that the door could be opened. If John the Baptist had become one with Jesus, Jesus as Abel could have risen into the position of parent and the providence could have been fulfilled at that time.

Everything, including the wrongdoing of my children, was liquidated through my victory at Danbury. Now religious people in every corner of America are welcoming me. The flames of repentance from America are beginning to spread around the world.

I only speak to you after I have lived what I speak about. I do not speak any word without living it first. Whenever I have pushed you to do something, I have done so only after trying it myself and finding that it was possible. The words of God result in creation; when He speaks, there is already a predetermined result. Yet if human beings as His partners fail their responsibility, God Himself must take responsibility for them. Similarly, there is a predetermined result behind my words, but if my partners cannot fulfill, I must take responsibility.

You should know that I went to Danbury to also indemnify Hyo Jin's wrongdoing. Parents are responsible for the mistakes of their children. It is because I must indemnify wrong results that I am always concerned about Hyo Jin's behavior. Hyo Jin has not been healthy for several months. In order to get well, he must make a breakthrough in faith. There is no way to restore health without faith, and this law of indemnity also, of course, applies to Hyo Jin.

No one can ignore this law and avoid indemnity. That is the Principle. The Principle spares no one. Everyone must go through the process of indemnity, just as a student must complete all required courses in order to graduate.

You are in the Cain position and Hyo Jin, who is from the central family, is in the Abel position. My children have the birthright even though they were born later than you. Cain should recognize Abel as the eldest son in God's realm. From witnessing to Christians you know very well how difficult it is to subjugate people in the Cain position and bring them to God's side. Based on your understanding and experience you should become a good Cain who sincerely attends the central Abel on God's side. You should first become one with Heung Jin and through him become one with Hyo Jin. When the foundation of substance of the second generation is harmonized, all conditions to accuse the parents are liquidated. This is the natural and reasonable way to attain victory.

You Must Be Able To Say "I Won"

You should understand that the victorious foundation of the Unification Church today came from Heung Jin's costly sacrifice. Now you are in the age when you can establish unity within yourselves and with each other. From now on, you will not be persecuted; you will be able to receive all the benefits of the age if you just follow God's will and don't betray Him. In the Kingdom of Heaven there are already spaces reserved for you, and you are eagerly being awaited.

Your five percent dispensational responsibility was imposed upon you because the world has not yet become unified. Through home church you should gain the right of ownership centering on God's love, inherit all the indemnity conditions I have fulfilled during the 40-year wilderness course, and be recognized as victors. You must be able to say, "I won;' and have Satan as well as God notarize your proclamation.

Because you are able to know and attend your beloved True Parents, you can accomplish this. In order to inherit from them, however, you must be free of the nature of the false olive tree. You cannot just meet your own desires regardless of whether they are good or not. A person who behaves in this way has nothing to do with God but belongs to the satanic world.

Home church is the vehicle for you to be given the right to inherit all forms of love in the Kingdom of God. You, my children, and all of creation will be judged as to whether or not you qualify to own and be owned by God's love. Once everything in the universe comes to belong on God's side, the home church movement will no longer be necessary. Suppose 10,000 people in Korea do home church among 360 people each. Then each of the 360 people will not only be a home church member under his or her leader but a home church leader to 360 others at the same time. Eventually the whole world will be one home church.

If we fulfill the indemnity conditions to form this interlocking home church system, everyone can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Everything can be solved autonomously within the system itself; if a problem arises, it can be dealt with through discussion by the entire membership since everyone will be a co-leader. Everyone will be able to know, understand, love, share with, and be concerned about what happens to everyone else. Satan would never be able to affect such a community.

The Kingdom of Heaven will expand on the basis of home church, as home churches become one with each other centered on love. If home church grows from the family to the world level, then home church itself will be the Kingdom of God on earth. Therefore, the organization of home church is the alpha and the omega.

Establishing the Right of Ownership

The building of the Kingdom of Heaven horizontally will be based on the expansion of the right of, ownership centering on God's love. The realm on earth, where the alpha and the omega connect and God grants ownership, is the physical Kingdom of Heaven. That realm in spirit world is the spiritual Kingdom of Heaven. I have suffered all my life in order to establish the right of ownership centering on God's love worldwide. I believe I have finished everything by gaining victory over suffering in Danbury.

In the future there will be no persecution of the Unification Church. Now is the time for us to gain results according to the effort we put forth. Persecution is disappearing from Korea; it will completely disappear once our present three-year course is completed. From now on anyone who persecutes us will be subject to indemnity 10 or even 100 hundred times heavier than before. This is the age for restoration through indemnity on the horizontal level; therefore, everyone's actions are subject to immediate judgment.

Individuals and nations who persecuted me, as well as Christianity, will have to repent. The world is naturally supposed to come toward one point; it is now moving in one direction. You should understand the trend of this age exactly.

I established God's Day, Children's Day, and the Day of All Things to establish a standard for the ownership of love. You should be able to declare confidently before heaven and earth that you are God's son or daughter, centering on His love. You are not only the son or daughter of your physical parents: You belong to True Parents. You should remind yourselves of this unceasingly. You should call out True Parents' names, witness about them, and love them so eagerly that you forget about everything else. Otherwise the structure of your consciousness will not change and you will not truly be able to attend them.

The castle walls of Jericho collapsed when the people of Israel marched around the city, blowing their bugles, beating their drums, and shouting. Likewise you should shout, "I am a child of the True Parents! The granting of true ownership is at hand. Come quickly! Unless you listen to me, you will suffer great loss": When your cries reach beyond your neighborhood and all over your country, the walls of Jericho will collapse. Then the restoration of Korea and of all things will be fulfilled.

Never feel ashamed of working for God. I was not ashamed of myself in entering Danbury prison. I never cared that I was insulted by the jailers. I just did what I was supposed to do.

When I came to America I exerted myself day and night to fulfill my mission to witness. I have lived my whole life with the conviction that there was no on but me to witness to the truth about God. I traveled all around America to teach about God's heart and the Principle. You should know and inherit the tradition of God's love, Jesus' course, and my life course.

Heung Jin's Love Will Be a Light

Since the Day of Victory of Love was established through Heung Jin's sacrifice, you should think about him and love him. Now, on the foundation of his sacrifice, the second generation centering on Hyo Jin must stand up and go forward. This course of events was devised by the hidden work of God.

If Heung Jin had died in an accident as the son of fallen parents, he would have had no place to go in the spirit world. Through the Unification Ceremony, connecting the earth and the heavenly world, his life became eternal. This was possible because he was born of True Parents.

Before Heung Jin ceased breathing, I taught him how to reach his destination. I promised to hold a wedding ceremony for him and give him an adopted son. I asked him to go in comfort and happiness to the spirit world and assured him that his lineage would continue on earth eternally. I did not cry over Heung Jin's destiny, but I prepared every- thing so that he could live and be loved by the eternal God. So intense is the love between father and son.

Heung Jin thanked me for such great love, and departed. You should remember Heung Jin so that his love will be a light for you. You should do your best to fulfill your mission, firmly believing that even if you die in the process of following God's will in attendance to me, your blessings will be guaranteed. Go forward with a grateful heart, knowing that an eternal world is prepared for those who are sacrificed.

March forward following the model of my life. Never be disappointed in fighting Satan. Then you will surely win. I have never been disappointed in my own life course. When I was lonely or tired, I pushed myself to live aggressively for God without any shame so that God would not worry about me.

The way that Heung Jin left behind remains before you. Take responsibility to protect the True Parents. If you fulfill that responsibility, you will surely be connected to the realm of the ownership of love and become True Parents' inheritors. I hope that God's love and Heung Jin's love will be with you always on the path ahead.

The Day of Victory of Love Part 3 of 4

Sun Myung Moon
January 3, 1986
Excerpts
Seoul, Korea

Jeung Jin Nim, dressed in her finest, poses with Father and Mother after her sister Un Jin Nim's wedding.

What kind of promise do you think God made with me when I began to walk the way of His will in my youth? He told me His promise would unfold in one of two different ways: One was that I would build the Kingdom of God on the 2000-year foundation of Christianity without any suffering; the other was that I, like Jesus, would go through incredible suffering but then emerge victorious. The first promise foretold that if Christianity and America were to accept me, the Kingdom of God would be built automatically. If, as the victor of World War II, America had indeed united with Korean Christianity and accepted me, then the ideal of the unified world would have materialized in seven years. However, I foresaw early in my life that suffering was destined to follow me wherever I went. Therefore, I was well prepared internally before God ordered me to go to North Korea and, later, to America.

In North Korea I went to prison, to a place that even Satan couldn't stand. There I established a standard of love much higher than Satan's. I came out of that prison with a victorious proclamation that I would return to the North with a love that was far beyond the individual level, and win the final battle. Without such a standard of love, it is not possible to liberate humankind from Satan. Even individual liberation is not possible unless we belong to God, centering on love. After individual liberation is accomplished, we should go forward to liberate the family, the nation, and the world.

America Turned Her Face Away

When I went to America, carrying the mission to liberate humankind, no one welcomed me. America turned her face away. Try to think about what my sorrow was like at that time. White Americans especially just watched me suspiciously while I worked for the providence. Even the American members complained about my activities. I reminded myself of the persecution I had gone through in Korea and consoled myself that it was not so strange after all to be persecuted in America, since I had been persecuted even by my own parents, my wife and child, my hometown, and the government of Korea. If I had not been so bitterly persecuted in Korea, I would have gone back there as soon as I was persecuted in America. At first I thought that persecution by foreigners would be stronger than by Koreans, but I discovered that it was weaker. I told myself that I could not be angry, because I knew my way was destined to be the most rugged of all.

My suffering has been bigger and deeper than that of any patriot who ever longed for the liberation of his country. Because I never avoided suffering, but rather fought and overcame it directly, my life has been indescribably painful. I dedicated my youth to building the Kingdom of God and totally sacrificed my individual and family happiness. Right after I founded the Unification Church, the extensive persecution from Ehwa University began. From even before that time up until today, I have passed through a way of suffering more painful than treading on thorns with bare feet; it was heartbreaking.

You, who have walked together with me on this way since joining the church, should examine yourselves. If you have done anything which you feel is unforgivable, I believe you know what to do to repair it. In your minds, who am I? What do you feel about me? Please think about whom I have been dedicating my life for. I never lived for myself as an individual. Because I am in the position of a parent, I have dedicated my life for you and your children. I have been bearing the cross for all of you with joy.

I have fulfilled my responsibility towards the blessed families. The 36, 72, and 124 Couples always had at least the minimum standard of living necessary for their activities. I myself have lived in such a way that the blessed families could never accuse me. I provided homes, food, and clothes for blessed families, and they received money when they were in need.

Yet I could not even buy a handkerchief for my physical mother. I could not fulfill the dictates of filial piety toward my physical parents while they were on earth, but I have been fulfilling them for Heavenly Father. That is the more genuine, precious, sincere, and eternal filial piety. Thus I have set up conditions for my physical parents to be proud of their son in the spirit world. On earth they complained about me and were opposed to my ways; now in spirit world, knowing that I walked the way of the most dear and pious son of God, they can understand and feel gratitude.

In The Very Whirlpool of War

In the year I was born, an independence movement arose in Korea. From 1920 the Korean people suffered seven lean and hungry years and were ruthlessly exploited by the Japanese. They had a hard time both from within and from without. This difficult situation came as national indemnity for the sake of the birth of one baby sent by God, foreshadowing that his life on earth would be a miserable one. My life began in the very whirlpool of war, and I grew up experiencing the vicissitudes and painful events related to war. During the first 40 years of my life, human history faced sudden changes again and again, and in this body I have confronted and passed through many monumental events of this ever-changing age.

I was always hungry until I was over 30 years old, although this was not due to poverty. While I attended school in Seoul, I cooked for myself but I did not eat well. I strictly economized in all aspects of my life. I supported myself by pulling a hand wagon whenever I had time, and I helped my friends with the extra money I earned. During vacations many of my friends happily went back to their hometowns, but I did not go to mine. I kept working because I did not want my mother to worry about my tuition and fees.

In my school days I used to pray more than 15 times a day, even while studying. At that time I had to go outside to the well to wash. In the winter the water was very cold, and when I came back to my room, which was also terribly cold, I felt as if my whole body were freezing. Nevertheless I persevered and kept on praying. I used only a single-layer quilt for warmth. My youth and my diligent prayer life must have made it possible for me to endure those cold winters.

I also kept a diary, but I could not keep it for long. Since Korean students were often involved in independence movements, Japanese police would investigate our homes and arrest people on the slightest provocation. I could not write about many important things, so I committed them to memory instead.

I did not wear fine clothes and had no time to get dressed up or hang around on the streets. My clothes were always very simple. I could not go to the barber shop very often, so my beard would grow out. Still, I never forgot to attend church.

Father (far right) with a church group in Seoul; the minister is standing.

I Was Popular With the Children

As a Sunday school teacher I was very popular with the children. I used to tell them interesting Bible stories and fairy tales. Once I started, I wasn't likely to stop. Sometimes I spoke all day long! I loved the children very much, so they followed me happily. Whenever I visited the neighborhood churches, the parents as well as the children would surround me and listen to my stories. Some of the children I taught in Sunday school are now Unification Church members. They say that my story-telling was really interesting in those days! I worked hard because I considered that teaching in Sunday school was my preparation for establishing God's will on earth. From my school days, I was always concerned about how to realize Heavenly Father's will in this fallen world. I did not create goals for individual achievement, but I committed all my efforts to finding the original human world.

Since I have undertaken the way of God's will, there is no place I have not been. I know the customs of every corner of this country. Sometimes on my journeys I could not find any place to sleep, so I would spend the night at beggars' shelters, talking with the men until late into the night and praying for God's will to be fulfilled even through them. I worked on the mountainside together with the peasants who make charcoal, praying that God's will would one day rise just like those flames. Wherever I went my heart was given to God. I knew that I could not enter the realm of God's heart if I could not plant my own heart in the ground of God's will. I always lived single- mindedly so that I could represent God's inner situation at all times.

Later I went to Japan, where I continued to study and lead the same lifestyle. My life in Japan was miserable. I filled my days with nothing but study and manual labor. With the money from my jobs, I paid my tuition and fees and helped my friends to pay theirs, just as before. My life has been lived for God and for my neighbors in every way.

I am voluntarily walking on a rugged and sorrowful path. Do you know why I am going through such a difficult process? It is the unavoidable way of destiny. You are people who have pledged to follow me. You say that you love and respect me. If this is so, you have to consider what you have done for God, for me, and for yourselves, and how much you have really achieved in your mission to restore other people.

God tried to fulfill His will by sending the Messiah to the people of Israel, who helped prepared for his coming for 4,000 years. They should have believed in and attended Jesus as the son of God, and they should have realized the true meaning of all the historical events through which God had called them to lay the foundation of faith. They should have offered their wives, their children, and their belongings, as well as their own minds and bodies, to Jesus. They should have offered everything in obedience to God. If the family-level ownership of love centering on Jesus had been established in this way, the Kingdom of Heaven could have been built on earth automatically. Yet because Jesus was betrayed and nailed to the cross, this providence was delayed until the time of the Second Advent.

The Age of Completing God's Will

On the path of God's will I had an extremely difficult time until I was 40 years old. This was the time period in which I surmounted Jesus' individual course. When I married Mother at the age of 40, I took the next step to the family level. From there I was to build a stable worldwide foundation until I reached the age of 60. Forty years from my 60th birthday we will be in our third millennium, at which time the providence should be fulfilled completely. The original world of God's ideal should be built by that time. In this age of completing God's will, we have to pursue stable progress rather than adventure. The age of adventure has passed away.

Now nobody can exterminate the Unification Church in Korea or America with any kind of power. The communist world cannot do anything against us; we have a firm foundation for the church even in the communist bloc. Even after I go to the spirit world the Unification Church will continue to exist forever on the earth.

Now is the time when the final trial is being held. This is the most important moment for me to stand before you and give you God's message, although even if I don't speak to you, God's will is destined to be fulfilled. As parents, husbands and wives, and sons and daughters, you as well as all your belongings must be given the qualification by God to be the true owners of God's love. Without inheriting this qualification through the True Parents, there is no way you can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You will not be able to enter if you miss the deadline. Even though you may be billionaires, or even if billions of you want to enter, no one will show you the way. Only when you inherit true ownership centering on God's love can you enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

The purpose of establishing the Day of All Things was so that men and women could be given the qualification of true ownership. Restoration through indemnity is necessary because the fallen world still owns parental love and children's love. Without liquidating the love of the fallen world, you as individuals cannot enter into the realm of true ownership under God's love. In order to be individually recognized by God, you must relate to True Parents, the unfallen ancestors, in the direct dominion of God's love. You must be free from all fallen nature according to the standard of the Principle. You should ask yourselves, "Have I become absolutely one with God's love as a son or daughter in my motivation, my actions, and my life goals? Have I been given the qualification for ownership centering on the true love of God?" How can you freely eat or sleep without having fulfilled this requirement?

Before hoping to attain dominion over the universe, you must complete dominion over yourselves. The biggest obstacle to this is your habitualiszed fallen nature. Without removing your fallen nature, you can never perfect dominion over yourselves. Everyone wants to fulfill his or her desires. The desire for eating, for sleeping, and for sex are the main desires of people in the fallen world, and we should fight and overcome them at any cost in order to stand in front of God. These three desires are the most important targets of our struggle.

My Fight against Human Desires

In my school days in Japan, I considered the fight against these three desires to be of utmost importance in becoming free of fallen nature. In order to complete dominion over myself, I had to struggle incredibly. I had to consider beautiful women as stones or wooden objects. I could never touch any woman to quell the normal hot-blooded desires every young man has, nor could I fall into that sentimental kind of love which comes so easily to young people. School girls would often visit me in my room. I tried to think of them not as women but as sisters, and I advised them in the right way of life. As a foreigner, I also had to be cautious of entering into any liaisons with people.

Among the schoolgirls who visited me was the daughter of a very well-known rich man from Hwang Hae Do. She used to come to my room when I was out and leave money there. Normally in such a situation people would think me lucky to have a rich girlfriend, but I made it my goal to fight against any seduction by rich women. I never touched that money. Only after six months did I invite her to my room. Then I told her about my ideas and my historical position. I told her what we had to do for the sake of the future of Korea, and how diligently we should study in the face of ethnic discrimination.

After listening to me she said that never in her life had she known a man like me. She said that I possessed the true soul of Korea -- a genuine Korean spirit. She bowed to me and shed tears, asking me to forgive her for not understanding my deep purpose and expressing hope that she could attend me as a sister. From that time on I took the best care of her among all the Korean schoolgirls I knew in japan.

When I was young my only desire was to see God cry with gratitude and joy. I have been living to see the day when God could shed tears of love and tell me, "You have resolved all my historical resentment toward all countries and all peoples!" If God could shed such tears because of my effort, then I could say that the purpose of my life was fulfilled.

Living with this kind of heart, I never cried for myself, even as blood spurted out of my mouth when I was beaten in prison. In the same way, I never shed a single tear for Heung Jin until his Seunghwa ceremony was over. If I had cried to see my own beloved son dead, how would God feel? I would gladly make a sacrifice of one thousand or ten thousand sons if it could relieve God's heart of pain and resentment.

Only after Heung Jin's Seunghwa ceremony was over and I had fulfilled my responsibility as a parent did I shed any tears. First I had to clear away everything that remained to be solved before he died in confrontation with Satan. If I had not set up indemnity conditions, including the Unification Ceremony and the Day of Victory of Love, Heung Jin's death would have been meaningless.

The Day of Victory of Love Part 2 of 4

Sun Myung Moon
January 3, 1986
Seoul, Korea
Excerpts

Love is fundamental for human beings, but true love is never influenced by any environmental factors; it is not influenced by the seasons. If it were, human beings would not pursue it. How many people throughout history ever had such an absolute criterion for their love that they could not be influenced by environmental factors?

When an individual's mind is not perfect, the love in his or her mind also cannot be perfect. If a woman's mind changes more often than a man's, then a woman's love will be deemed less true than a man's. People say that a woman's mind is just like a reed, with roots that are not deeply planted; they say that a woman's love is not based on eternal value but on immediate reality. Human beings want unchangeable love because there is an unchangeable nature deep within their original mind.

You should think deeply about why I am talking so repeatedly about love today. Especially those in their adolescence need to seriously consider matters such as love and value. Inwardly they ask themselves many questions: Does God indeed exist? Where am I in the cycle of life? What is the meaning and value of my life? Why am I so affected whenever I see a beautiful young woman? The bigger the changes in your mind and body, the more vulnerable you are to the temptation of love. But you can control your sexual curiosity if you understand the value of love.

If you pursue love before successfully controlling your impulse to experience it, you will ruin yourself, the world, and finally the whole universe. There is a proper order and time for love. If you think that you own love and declare that your parents should not interfere with your experience of love, then you will destroy the social order built on God's ideal, and His world will come to an end.

Love Transcends Law

All living beings want to submit to love. Even all the laws of the cosmos want to submit to the realm of love. Love transcends law; in love we can even forgive the world's criminals. If the great order of love is firmly established, then there will be no more war and this world will be filled with freedom and happiness.

In all of history there has never been such a world, because human beings fell and lost true love. Because of the fall, the vertical line and the horizontal line of love could not meet perpendicularly. Instead, they came to run parallel to each other. [That is, Satan's realm, dominating the horizontal line, imitated and rivaled God's realm, centering on the vertical line.] The four position foundation of love was never established; thus, no three-dimensional sphere was formed, and no motion in the true sense was made possible. Therefore, the ideal of love could not be established. That is why all men and all creation are now running to find fulfillment in the Last Days.

The country of Denmark is famous for its high standard of living. Denmark's initial idea for a well-established welfare system was good, but in practice it is causing many problems. Danish law provides for the jobless to receive from the government as much money as any employed person earns. But after giving a lot of money to the jobless, the government cannot even pave the streets. How do the welfare recipients spend all their leisure time? Too much free time has resulted in decadence, and the ethical foundation of the nation is falling to pieces. A rich country is not necessarily a happy one.

People are happy to work when they feel loved, even if they can only eat one meal a day. Human beings can overcome hunger or any kind of hardship if they have love. There is nothing more beautiful or valuable than hope shared between two people who love each other. This wild and rugged world cannot destroy a tower of love built in such a way.

If your happiness is not proportionate to the amount of money you have, or if you earned money at the cost of love, can you say that you are happy? In a similar way, can a person who has lost the value of love really be helped by a college education? That person may receive a lot of knowledge, but he may turn into a materialistically minded individualist. Just like a rice cake, education must be placed in the offering bowl of love in order to fulfill its true purpose.

People Never Tire Of True Love

People who have tasted true love will never forget it and will never change their mind about it. We can easily get tired of fast food. If we can get love just as easily as we get fast food, then such love is probably not true love. Today there are many people who just cannot see any difference between instant love and instant food. This is a very great problem. Even a luxurious bubble bath will not deepen such a person's sense of love. The love between a couple living in the countryside who gratefully share a cold bath will be purer and deeper.

It is not natural for lovers to brush their teeth before they kiss each other. They want to smell each other's distinctive body odor. Do they want to taste love or toothpaste? Lovers who criticize each other's appearance and insist that their partner be dressed up all the time must have a self-centered motivation. Such artificial and egocentric demands make love false and deceptive. This kind of love, which is so prevalent, will cause this world to perish if it is not changed.

The primal cause of our existence is God, and the immediate cause is our own parents. These causes exist and interact through love. The universe has its own laws of existence and interaction, and without love, no one can adapt to them. For one thing, we survive physically under the protection of the universe. Without the appropriate atmospheric pressure, our bodies would burst into pieces and return to their original elements. More essentially, we need genuine love in order to exist and harmonize with the universe. Then the value of our existence will be recognized everywhere.

At the point where the true vertical relationship and the true horizontal relationship come together, a human standard centered on true love will arise which is one with the standard of the universe. Blessed members of the Unification Church stand on the line of true horizontal relationship through their position as husband and wife. They form the line of true vertical relationship through giving birth to children. All of the positions thus established are relative to God, who is at the top of the vertical line.

Children eventually grow up and arrive at the point where they have the same stature as their parents. This point of arrival is the crossing point of the vertical and horizontal lines. Young men and women who arrive at this point have no further place to go; it is the very last point they can reach on their own. After this point, they must make a new start by harmonizing with their spouse as well as with God; there will now be three parties. Through such continuous harmonizing, there will be eternal, revolving motion in the universe.

Preparation for Love Takes Time

Until adolescence everybody holds an ideal of, and a belief in, pure love. A young man should grow up with a mind to love the natural environment, his parents, and his country. Such a mind is clean and pure. When his mind and body come together, resonating with God's will, he has matured centering on the core of love. He has perfected himself. This means the time has come when he can play the role of a man.

Before a man's beard and moustache start to grow, his sperm have no ability to fertilize an egg. The growth of his facial and body hair is a signal that his sperm have matured and can bring forth life. You cannot find this information in any medical text, but it is true according to the Principle. Women are also fertile from the time that their underarm hair begins to grow. During this time they blush easily, and their hearts throb when they hear tender love stories. These are signs that their eggs have ripened and can bear the fruit of love. Men and women should wait until this time before meeting their partners in marriage. God gave the commandment, instructing minors to wait, because the preparation for love takes time.

As the Principle explains, the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil means the fruit of love between a man and a woman. If you think that because you are blessed, the fruit of your love does not carry the potential for evil any longer, you are mistaken. You were not blessed at the perfection stage, but at the top of the growth stage. You still have to go through a seven-year course to reach the perfection stage.

If our human ancestors had fulfilled their responsibility, God would have been able to deal with them directly. There would have been no fall. Their responsibility was to perfect the unity of their minds and bodies as individuals, and they should have become a true man and a true woman with ripened sperm and ova respectively. Then, with God's blessing, they could have become one in love, releasing the seed of life and bearing its fruit.

When a man and a woman are blessed and become one in love, they form a core of expansion through their children. Such a core is eternal and is connected to the love coming from God Himself. The core of human perfection has no way to connect to the original core of love unless human beings turn to God. In being tapped in to God, love becomes circular and eternal. When these cores are connected and united, human beings cannot get out of this revolving love -- nor can God Himself!

God Cannot Deal With Imperfect Love

Originally, the vertical love core of God and the horizontal love core of human beings should have come together at right angles and formed a base of universal love automatically. However, our ancestors fell and formed a false base centered on Satan's love. God cannot deal with such a false and distorted love base. It has no connection to the absolute reference point, and it causes confusion and conflict through its wayward motion. Its orbit is imperfect and irregular and has nothing to do with the original orbit of God.

If our ancestors had fulfilled their responsibility, their children could have been born from the one love of God and they could have inherited God's own divine nature and power as owners of God's creativity. Then God's ideal world of love could have expanded through the generations.

Adam and Eve should have perfected themselves and come back to God with the whole universe in their embrace; being blessed and establishing the four position foundation would have been a culmination as well as a new starting point. Because of the fall, human beings lost the awareness of their destination. Creation now has no core or axis of love for eternal and orderly revolving motion.

All created beings are centering on the false love of Satan; their axes do not merge with the original love axis. Thus, their motion throughout the' millions of years of history has not been joined to the original motion of God.

What is blessed marriage? Man and woman are the incarnation of God's original masculinity and original femininity. Through marriage, men and women should perfect themselves as the incarnation of God and start to fulfill the ideal of relationship, harmonizing with each other as representatives of polarity in the world centered upon God's love. All created beings are meant to be connected to each other through the relationship between a man and a woman.

Since the fall, marriage has lost its original meaning and value. In the process of recreation, marriage is a union of a man and a woman which can be established only through making indemnity conditions that will enable them to become engrafted to the son of God, the Messiah.

God wanted human beings to have children so that they could experience joy in the giving and receiving of love. However, since our ancestors bore children by abandoning their responsibility to God, babies born in this world have no connection to Him.

When a true man and woman share love and give birth to children, they cannot go through such a holy process without crying tears of joy. In their love, they whisper secret words to each other: "I cannot do anything without you. You are everything to me." Their union is based on trust and absolute love. The beginning of human life was supposed to be like this, but after the fall, human beings lost this absolute standard and went astray. Union between a man and woman is now made only with the physical body, not with absolute love. Couples cannot unite in the true sense, because the motive of each person is different.

Everything Evil Must Perish

When the responsibility of Adam and Eve was invaded, they came to have another parent -- Satan. In the ideal there should be no enemy before God. No such enemy should ever have existed. The orbit of love centered on God was supposed to be eternal; however, Satan invaded this orbit. It became the orbit of fallen love. The world was begun with the original motive, but was distorted by the fallen motive. Therefore, everything evil in this world cannot help but perish in the Last Days.

As the Last Days approach, people come to forget the original meaning of love. Relationships between men and women are not based on holy love but on carnal desire. Perverted forms of love between man and man and between woman and woman are prevalent and cause a lot of confusion. Women sell their love; men freely change partners; and partners often leave each other as soon as they are sexually gratified. Children ask their parents, "Why did you bear me? You bore me not for the sake of true love but for your own pleasure, didn't you?" Sometimes children don't even know who their father is, so they eventually leave their mother, also.

We cannot find the true order of love in the Western European countries or in America. America today is a hell of love. There are a lot of broken families, illegitimate children, and betrayed lovers, all resulting from the collapse of family order and ethics. As Unificationists we should change this situation. Neither money nor power but only God's love can work to create new relationships and expand them into a unified world of true love.

Up until now, God could not own anything in the created world. Since the rise of the Unification Church, however, God has begun to reclaim His ownership. Liberation will come through the True Parents by the formation of a unified realm centering on the love of God. When people meet me, they come to feel soaring happiness and joy r, suiting from the power of true love. Everywhere I have been, established Christian churches have come to unite, and different races have begun to harmonize.

When human beings fell, they fell into the position of servant; therefore, in God's providence of salvation all religious leaders and spiritualists have been men. [Editor's note: Father may be referring to the fact that the central figures of the Old and New Testaments were always men. He may mean here that because angels, who have been only male, were created to be servants of God, only men can restore Lucifer's position. This is only a suggested interpretation.] The age of the Unification Church will bring about the liberation of women centering upon men and the formation of true families. After this liberation, centered on His own love, God will be willing to be owned by human beings.

God Can Now Reclaim Ownership

This reclamation has been made possible through the True Parents. I entered the realm of common ownership together with God. Therefore, that realm is mine as well as His. My ownership is also Mother's ownership, since she and I are one centering on love. Our children can also claim common ownership when they are one with me and Mother in love. And once God can reclaim the ownership of His children and all things centered on His love, He will own them forever.

Love has unifying power. Therefore, no one dislikes love. Yet before marriage, no one can claim ownership of love. To claim ownership, you must become one with the realm of God's love; and to enter heaven, you, as couples, must be authorized as being owned by God through His love.

In the Kingdom of God, ownership is based on God's love. You should ask yourselves if you can belong to God in any situation. You should be able to assert that you belong to God in such a way that nobody can deny and everyone can recognize. You should also consider if your ownership of your children is based on God's love or not.

In order to return to God, you must start in the position of servant of servant, then go to the level of servant, then adopted son, and finally true son. You cannot belong to God fully unless you come to stand on the level of Adam who did not fall. The same is true for me, as well. It has taken my entire life to attain the level of the original Adam and to be accepted into the realm of God's ownership. Without going through this process, no one can enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

You must not forget that because of the fall you are false olive trees. As a false olive tree, you must be grafted onto the true olive tree; you must meet the Messiah and be saved. You must walk the path to become God's children according to His love and Principle. You can do this only by becoming one with the Messiah through belief and love. He will restore the love which was lost and bequeath it to you.

I have passed through suffering, persecution, and imprisonment in order to belong to God. I could endure suffering because I knew that the joy of belonging to the realm of God's love would be great enough to offset any difficulty or hardship. I was destined to gain recognition as one belonging to God on the individual, family, society, nation, and world levels. Therefore, I could not sleep when I was tired; I could not take a break. I could not even kill myself. I could only go one way. Now I have to teach to those do not yet know, how to belong to the realm of God's love.

Victory Has Not Been Won Easily

Ever since I started the Unification Church, the world has been trampling upon me as if my character were not worth one penny. Standing in the vanguard to save humankind and liberate God, I have passed through persecution in a position which attracted no sympathy. People have just pushed me and pulled me in all directions, and I have had to persevere through all kinds of pain. Through this bitter process I could be recognized as a son of God. When I received that recognition, God and I were so happy that we could not say even a single word. But it was a moment of sorrow and defeat for Satan.

As my recognition was sealed on the levels of the family, society, clan, and nation, God became happier and happier, while Satan was overcome with sorrow. As Satan tried harder and harder to maintain the dwindling sphere of his ownership, my path inevitably became increasingly difficult.

I started on the way of God's will in 1945. The year 1985 marked the fortieth anniversary of my beginning point. I asked the blessed couples to participate in mobile witnessing activities from 1983 on because I knew that all of the mistakes throughout the entire history of the universe could be indemnified during the last three years of this 40- year period. The purpose of having you offer yourselves in such a way on the altar of the True Parents was so that your entire families -- including your parents, your children, and even your belongings -- could be recognized as belonging to God.

You did not understand the meaning of this period, and only complained. Many of you, if not all of you, disobeyed and went your own way. I even heard that some of you behaved in a shameful way. What do you think about that? I never expressed my anger or resentment, and I pretended not to know. Now, after fulfilling my responsibility and freeing myself from all burdens, I want to teach you clearly: From now on you should realize what is right and what is wrong, what should be done first, and what should be done last. Since Korea is my country, I came back, and I am patiently telling you about the bitterness in God's heart. You should become the ones to resolve for me all the insults and the bitterness that I have suffered on the way of God's will.

Ever since I was called by God, my life has been a succession of one suffering experience after another. It has been a lonely fight to bring light into the world of darkness. In America I had to enter Danbury prison to establish a realm of victory on the worldwide level, and I even had to offer my beloved son, Heung Jin, to connect the victory on earth with the spirit world. His sacrifice was based on love, and is eternally valuable. It brought about a day of victory on earth. Thus the Day of Victory of Love could be declared.

The victorious foundation of the Unification Church has not been won easily; it has been won only through sacrificial love in the midst of persecution. But I have never shown my frustration or disappointment. Now you are responsible to create the Kingdom of Heaven by attending and protecting your True Parents. When you fulfill your responsibility, you will be connected to the true realm of ownership of parental love.