Historical Children's Day

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
October 28, 1981
World Mission Center
Translator - Bo Hi Pak

We are celebrating the 22nd Children's Day today. We have several major celebrations in Unification Church, Parents' Day, Children's Day, Day of All Things, and God's Day, but the world does not have these days, or know the significance of them. Our Church is founded on God's dispensational purpose, and as a religious institution the Church installed these days. They have meaning not only to us, but to God and to religion itself.

What is the purpose that religion has to fulfill in God's sight? When we say that the purpose of God is fulfilled, we mean that God's kingdom is established, and God's family has been erected. The Kingdom of God begins from the heavenly family of men. What makes up that God-centered family? It consists of God-centered men and women, the essence which makes up the family, society, and the center of all things that God created. That perfection must reign at the level of men and women, as the foundation of all.

Each of us belongs to one of those poles, either man or woman. We must realize that the standard of men and women who can create the Kingdom of God on earth shall be unchanging, in either the past, present or future, and will go on for eternity. Ask yourself whether you are a man of God who is entitled to the heavenly kingdom; if you can say yes, then you are on the right track.

We also must realize that men and women in the world today are separated from the original standard that God established. In God's sight the most heartbreaking thing is the fall of man, when the heavenly standard was lost. But the tragic thing is that mankind does not realize how far they have fallen, or know the anguish of the fall. All religions talk about the fall of man, but there is no real seriousness about it in religious circles. Even here you speak more meaningfully about it, but still the meaning of the fall has not penetrated to your very bones.

We are here thousands of years after the fall; should we be more serious about the fall than Adam and Eve? You may say that we should be more serious, about it, but how much do you really feel the pain of it in your heart? Here we recognize that there is a gap between God's pain and man's pain. The purpose of religion is to close that gap. Through religion God was constantly raising up champions and messengers to educate the people on earth, to close the gap so that men and God could feel the same joy and pain. For this purpose God has paid a great price and made many sacrifices of men and women and families and peoples and religions.

What is the price that religious people are paying? The general thinking of religious people today is quite self-centered; they join a religion because they want to receive some benefit, and they expect God to lift them directly up to heaven just as they are. Who, then, will eradicate the historical gap between God and man?

People today are like patients who don't know they have cancer, trying to live life normally, not knowing they are being destroyed from inside. Which has more severe consequences-cancer, or sin from the fall of man? Even Almighty God is helpless to eradicate the problem of the fall by Himself. We must realize that truly a serious problem is at hand. No one really can claim that they are God's people or nation.

In the course of restoration, the first step must be to properly diagnose what went wrong, and what kind of disease we have. The first consequence of the fall was the emergence of the self in the central place. After the fall, all mankind became self-centered. Isn't it true that each and every one of you have been infiltrated by the essence of self-centeredness? Second, through the fall everyone wants to control and dominate things for themselves, being greedy for power.

A third consequence of the fall is the establishment of the false lineage on earth. We are born in the lineage of our enemy. The blood of our enemy flows in us, so his self-centered feeling and greediness permeates our bodies. Man's insides are contaminated by the satanic blood and selfishness; mankind is like a facade, a front for Satan. Our job is to remove that satanic element from our bloodstream. How can that be done?

It is a poignant moment when young people experience first love as they enter adolescence. Is there some power great enough to eradicate that love? The problem in America is that boys and girls become mature too quickly. Even at the age of twelve they want to date. The question is whether within ourselves there is a power than can overcome that sensation. Is there such a brake?

I'm sure there are blessed couples here; can they say that they have eradicated their first experience of love? It's easy to say yes, but when we truly analyze ourselves, it's not that simple. Each person is living in the bondage of satanic love. Satanic love is binding every facet of your life. Do you have a greater power to resist such love? If you know you are pulled every moment by that love, can you have any moment of relaxation? It is as though every day you were being pulled by a winch, and each day just one more pull will yank you over the cliff. Have you ever thought about that vivid illustration?

God is moving forward with the work of restoration, trying to cut the satanic lines that hold you and completely set you free. It is a natural law that to unwind something you have to reverse the procedure. You have to do the reverse of what Satan wants. Satan has hooks in you, but what power is there to pull you the other way? If you stand still in the center of those two forces, you will be split into pieces. With all your heart and soul you have to hold onto the salvation wire to avoid being split apart.

Your grip on God's wire begins in your mind, with your conscious thinking that you must follow God's teaching. Then your body will follow your thinking. Have you felt that within you there is a battle going on every day? The same eye can work in two directions; so can the rest of your senses. Satan is a world-renowned tempter and deceiver, with all kinds of techniques.

The battle we are in is exactly like tuna fishing. To catch a tuna you have to bend over backwards to please that fish, tempting him with all kinds of bait, unconditionally giving it tasty food. Maybe some of you are like the tuna that thinks it is too smart to be hooked by the bait, but is convinced that it will just have a little sniff! Then after smelling around, it thinks it will have just one bite and then go away, but with that one bite it is finished.

Is the religious way of life difficult or easy? Every day we are just one step short of our own deaths; religious life is that intensely difficult. When you are walking the streets and see a stunningly handsome man or beautiful woman, do you have some interest or surging reaction? I'm sure you have some feeling that you wish such a person could be your husband or wife. In your thinking you associate with that person' right? You can see how dangerous an atmosphere is created by the world we live in, offering all kinds of bait.

Suppose you are on a trip, in your hotel room and suddenly the world's beauty queen walks in, the most glamorous movie star, offering to be your companion. What would you do? Sometimes the idea of witnessing to him would be a convenient excuse to continue talking with him or her! But you could pull out a little knife in front of your tempter, sharpening as you talk.

Our worst enemy always presents himself in the most favorable form, being very attractive and charming to melt your heart. The second kind appeals to your greediness by offering money or material temptation. even leaving it while you are away, anonymous!, What would human instinct do? One part of you says "Boy, I want that!" As soon as you lift up that gift however, you know it is hooked to Satan.

The third weakness is the temptation to receive praise from other people and have them bow down to you. This is an inclination to the me-first philosophy There is a built-in arrogance in the fallen world Americans look down on the short, foreign Japanese and Korean leaders, for instance. Each time you fee that way, you are hooked by your eyes, ears and mouth. Even though people don't express it, the, have many of these things in their subconscious.

Satan is throwing his hooks at you, and it is a very serious matter. Are you totally slippery, or do you have many places where he can grab you? We know it is not easy to escape, since even after thousands of years God Himself has not been able to change the situation. Are we more susceptible to the satanic element or heavenly element? The heavenly and satanic elements are exactly opposite.

Do you think I am saying that in your first love you should be enthralled by the ugliest person? In the world today, the people who really love God look like human trash. Even if you are an elite person, to follow religious teaching means you must become an outcast element in society. Such an attractive person who wants to follow God should study how to make himself unattractive so that he will not attract temptation. In God's sight, the mind is everything. Sometimes, in order to be truly faithful you might not wash your underwear for several days. Then people won't touch you! Instead of lovely manicures, you might have dirty, ragged nails. We live in the enemy's world, so we want to create our own sanctuary where all temptation will be chased away. That is the best protection. Perhaps someone will insist on giving you diamonds to replace your plain, simple earrings. You should be able to say, "Don't worry about my ears. These earrings are the best. My ears are allergic to diamonds."

In the world everyone worries about himself, but we are worrying about other people, and in the meantime we have been kicked around by society. Each person is a target in the cosmic competition, for both Satan and God are throwing hooks at us. Depending on what kind of niches you have, either Satan or God can snag you. People today have the free-sex niche, so will Satan or God be more likely to get them? Is disco dancing a niche for God? What kind of reward do people expect from disco dancing? Most people are trying to hook a glamorous man or woman.

No matter how giant a tuna you are, if Satan gets a hook in you, you are finished. We have to smooth over the satanic niches and create niches where God can hook us. My rule for that is to live for others, not myself. I want to use my things to make other people happy. Then I elevate my goal, so that I not only make other people happy, but other nations happy, and the entire world happy. In the meantime I take the sacrificial position. That attitude is completely opposite the satanic position. Thus, only heavenly hooks can grab me.

When you create lots of heavenly pockets and God can hook you, even if you want to go in the other direction, God can pull you back. Then there is no way you can end up in the satanic camp! There is a struggle inside of us. Our mind is more susceptible to God's hooks, while the body is more vulnerable to Satan's hooks; there is a contradiction within us.

I don't know why, but Unification Church women are all beautiful, and you undoubtedly have a desire to have some handsome man hold your hands. But your hand should be ready to feel more joy in holding the hand of an old grandfather to comfort him. If you really feel joy in helping old people and in helping people of your parents' age, then when you are firmly holding their hands and you meet a handsome young man, he will already respect you. Without holding his hand you have won him already.

To make it more extreme, the white sisters should hold the hands of black grandparents. Then when Satan tries to hook you, your body is as slippery as an eel and you elude him. When you are totally immune to satanic elements, God allows you to go anywhere in the world, with complete freedom. Am I an exception to this? There is no exception to this rule.

Many people think I am a millionaire, and now they are saying I am billionaire. But on the contrary, I am penniless. Nothing belongs to me; there is nothing I can personally claim. I don't really know what a personal checkbook or savings account looks like. For you, I wore a decent suit today, but only for official occasions do I pay attention to what I wear. I don't feel that I must always be dignified in my dress.

I can be arrogant and tough-minded, but only with Satan. When I meet people, I never ask if they can help me. Instead I always check how I can help them. I am determined to help you; I can help you in the most fundamental thing-your life. Do you believe that? I can help you with true love. Why should I worry about your blessing? I could easily tell you to find love on your own, but I am concerned with your life and love; that is the most supreme help I could give. If some people are having difficulty with their fiancés, they may think that I misjudged in choosing their mate. But you see only the horizontal element; I see the entire vertical element of your family tree and your ancestors. You don't know that person yet, so you haven't experienced the true value of your fiancé.

A poplar should marry a poplar, and a pine should marry a pine. If you put a poplar and pine together, however, you have disaster. A pine tree is green for all four seasons, while a poplar should shed its leaves in the fall. Can a poplar go against nature and insist on keeping its leaves all year? In the same way, I see your vertical nature. I may not give you a handsome husband, or a person with whom life is easy, but I give the gift of true love.

The Bible teachings are full of dilemmas for us. Jesus said that the person who would lose his life for Jesus' sake would live; it seems contradictory. But the Bible teachings are meant to make you immune to Satan's hooks. You think you are independent people. but I see many wires and hooks attached to you. Are they all heavenly hooks?

Our job is to declare a war of the self, and the outcome all depends on you. In leading a public life for the dispensation, I set forth a cardinal credo-before desiring dominion of the universe, let me gain dominion over myself. I declared war on myself: against misuse of love, against material greediness, and against arrogance. This is how I conquered myself.

When you Westerners look at me through your blue eyes, how do you see me? Am I strange and foreign, or am I dynamic and handsome? I never decided about myself, but in my life I have received many proposals from outstanding women of the world! I have experienced many odd events. Some women wrote me letters of love with their own blood. Some women have burst into my room at night to try to win me. Do you think I passed the test?

In my high school and college days I made a conscious effort to look like a beggar, letting my hair become shaggy, and dressing in old clothes from a thrift shop. Instead of dressing nicely for events, I dressed comfortably at home, but wore rags when I went out. I seldom spoke to people outside. That was how I lived when I was young. You could not have figured that out unless I told you this morning.

I went to the Harlems of Japan and Korea, mingling with poor people. I never mixed with the elite. I worked hard at manual labor to pay tuition for people who were my friends. I know the mentality of the satanic world. No one can deceive me.

There was one rich girl who was infatuated with me. She got much money from her parents, and one day she snuck into my room and left that money in my drawer. I took that packet of money back to her, unopened, and told her that she should learn what life should be like, that she couldn't buy my mind with money. The world doesn't know what kind of experiences I have passed through in order to come this far.

It is not easy to be recognized by God, to win His acknowledgment that you love Him most. I prayed very much, but never for revenge against my enemies. I prayed for their forgiveness and to know what indemnity I could pay so that my enemy could overcome his sin. This is my way of life. I don't know whether God loves me or not, but certainly I have prospered in going God's way. It is amazing to see that followers come to me from all six continents. Do you think that is a sign of God's love?

I never said that you should follow me. I never forced one person to do that. But what happens is that you feel in your hearts that following me is the right thing to do. You have no idea how important and fearful it is that you are sitting here today. To enable you to sit here today, God and historical people ha paid with much sacrifice and pain.

At the rally on October 22 I declared I would create a minority alliance for civil rights. Do you think that is needed? Do you think I am doing that elevate us and make us wealthy? On the contrary, we will take the road of sacrifice, but out of that sacrifice needy and oppressed people can live.

I am launching this minority alliance in actuality Soon we will have a public announcement. Our movement will be a spearhead in the crusade to he the disregarded people in America. When you real look at your lives, what do you crave? Our purpose to transform the satanic world into heaven, so only for that purpose do we need knowledge, money and power. Then your life can come alive.

Truly I have not lived my life for myself at al What do I get for it in America? Indictment! It's an enormous joke. Sometimes the expenses of our movement in one day total $8 million, and they accuse me of not declaring $112,000 to the government!

I fear nothing; I will not be threatened. Even if die, my tradition and my goal shall be achieved, an God will march by our side. I am very strict about money spent for my family. Even when Mother wan' to buy something for the family, I check it careful! beforehand. But I tell her that if she sees any need Church members, she should even borrow money if necessary to get them what they need. As recently a three years ago, Mother had no freedom at all to spend any money. Only recently have I given he freedom. I am abiding by the heavenly tradition in m family to prevent their being caught by Satan.

The base of the heavenly kingdom is erection of the heavenly family. The same laws apply to the family as a unit, for they may also have niches for Satan to hook. Is it easy to prevent that? You might think the if you have children then one hook for Satan could be overlooked. If there is just one hook in one family member, however, the entire family will suffer. Do you have confidence that you can create the heavenly family? The answer is easy, but the deed is difficult.

I could say many things to those who are already blessed. There are many things I could say about the blessed children also. When the parents hear my word, they can evaluate where they are. Can we meet the heavenly standard by following the individualistic American way, with parents going separately their own ways, and children pursuing only their interests? It is incredibly difficult truly to live up to the standard of God's family. However difficult it is, though, we must pass the test, one way or the other. Do you think my job of leading the entire Church into the Kingdom of Heaven is easy or difficult? But someone has to do it, even if it takes eternity.

Here there are people of all different races and nations and ancestries, and I am trying to mold them according to one heavenly standard. There are so many things dividing us that we have to be glued together with the love of God. On top of that, my job is even more difficult because every time you go out the door you confront temptations from the satanic world, and you are still influenced by your habits from your old way of life. Once you are hooked by habits like marijuana, free sex and disco dancing, it is a painful problem to overcome them. But each person is still an individual truth body, and you can't just be melted down into nothing and then rebuilt from scratch.

Your mouth is your enemy sometimes, multiplying evil through complaint. Morning to night there is complaint going on. Do you still think unification is an easy word? From this point of view I want you to realize how strongly your behavior affects the person next to you; you cannot think that you are isolated individuals. Within our movement we must feel concern for each other. If someone is hurt or sick, you should forget your own meals and sit with him.

Have you ever really thought about caring for your brothers and sisters? We have to think about creating a good atmosphere in which only healthy things grow, where ungodly things cannot survive. When you consider all these things, you realize that the job I have undertaken is not easy.

Do you miss me when I am away for many months? My teaching to you today is that as much as you miss me and Mother, you should miss each other, caring for and loving each other. Why? Because we want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven collectively. When the Jews came out of Egypt, instead of complaining about what Moses did they should have been concerned about each other, and then they would not have been destroyed in the wilderness. The same is true today.

God sees you as His hand-picked champions whom He has pulled together to create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. What an overwhelming task that is for Him! Even when you go to spirit world, it is difficult to forget your first love experiences. Therefore, God is sending His representative to earth so that everyone can remake themselves in love by loving the Messiah so deeply that all their past experiences can be melted away. By loving the man sent by God more than you love anything else, you shall be liberated from the iniquities of your past. God must be able to recognize that you have met His central figure and loved him so fervently that you forget everything else. Then your past can be cleaned as white as snow.

Can you be proud before God if you bring your husband or wife along with you to heaven in spirit world? Or would you say instead that your whole life together on earth was centered on loving God, and that you both love your spouse in order to love God more? That will bring great joy to God. Even when you love your husband or wife, it is for the sake of God. But if you love your spouse with the attitude that you can get more goodies from God, that is no good.

Is it easy to be God? God is almighty, but even after His efforts for thousands of years the world has remained sinful. In order to achieve His goal, God gives you the rule that you should love your brothers and sisters as much as Him. Each of you should be God to each other; treat each other as you treat God.

If you live in that tradition and thousands of you come forward to God, He will embrace you as His true children. Your level of heartistic achievement in spirit world will be determined by such intensity of love. There have been many people in history who said they loved God, but they mistreated and hated their own brothers. Now God really wants us to love each other and come forward to Him together.

Did you pray that I would come to America? Or did you pray that I would achieve my goal and then come, bringing the whole world with me? Would America welcome my bringing people of all races back to this country? In that case your portion of food would have to be shared by many other people; do you still agree? Maybe you would have to share your room with ten people, or take turns wearing your clothes. If you would welcome that, then you are crazy! There is no one in the world who would welcome that.

Who would cook for everyone and serve the food and wash the dishes? You would be the hosts; maybe once or twice you would joyfully do these things, but after one year wouldn't you want all those people to go away? Americans are very pragmatic and they always calculate the benefits of some action, right? Bringing America into the Kingdom of Heaven is the most difficult task.

Be honest and confess whether you are happy you met me! If you say you are truly happy to meet me, then you are greater than I am. Sometimes I regret meeting God; it has been like grabbing a tiger by the tail. I never let go, but sometimes I wish I hadn't met God! There is no way I could let go, so I am just hanging on to the end. In hanging on there is not even time to let go with one hand to clean yourself when you go to the bathroom!

Today is Historical Children's Day. What does that mean? God cannot erect His Kingdom alone. God needs a champion, an assistant to act as mediator. Should God's children or His servant be the mediator? Would He prefer being served by a servant, or by His children? There must a unified effort from four directions of north, east, south and west, and we shall be the unifying factor. So far it has been the unification tradition to follow an Abel figure, but how much did we really give the same kind of fidelity to our brothers and sisters?

I tell you that running after Dr. Durst will not lead you to the Kingdom of Heaven. The important thing is that you must unite among yourselves centered on him, and then you will enter. Divine Principle says that Cain and Abel must unite before any restoration takes place. If the central figure only wants you to unite around him instead of with each other, he is a false central figure.

In the Sermon on the Mount there is an important phrase-the peacemakers shall be called the sons and daughters of God. The Bible didn't say that only those who obey commands will enter heaven. With how many people have you made harmony? Loving each other means loving the world because here in Unification Church we have a small world; what you are doing here is actually being done on the world level.

Those who can harmonize with other people will rise higher and higher, and ultimately become great leaders. If a blessed couple only worries about their own family, they're in the wrong. They should worry about others before they worry about themselves. They should give themselves to the brothers and sisters first; those true blessed couples shall be admitted to heaven.

The Cain-Abel theory in Unification Church is very strong, and sometimes I worry that it is understood incorrectly. Leaders who are given responsibility sometimes have the mistaken idea that they have sole authority, but I tell you that Abel is only Abel when he saves Cain. Divine Principle teaches that you must love and embrace Cain, and then bring him to the mother. If you sometimes don't get along with your leader but you take care of brothers and sisters, that leader will still look for you because without you he cannot be successful.

This is why the Bible says that when two or more gather to pray then God will be in their midst. Your prayer is not powerful when you pray singly; but only when you pray together. Brothers and sisters must truly unite so they can share life together. Today I am declaring a new beginning: the leader-centered movement is over, and the member-centered movement is going to begin. Why should it be like that? If the head of the family thinks only about himself, the family is unhappy. Only if he worries about the whole family can they be successful and happy together.

The Unification Church is one family. I am concerned and worried about each one of you, and you should be concerned with each other as brothers and sisters, and together come to parents. What we need now is an environmental Kingdom of Heaven. If you only move in one direction, that is no good. You must move in 360 degrees, in all directions.

My teaching today is this: as much as you love God and True Parents, you should love the world and unite with it. Don't shy away from adverse conditions, or from smelly or ugly brothers and sisters. They are the ones who need you. Willingly participate in the dirty places and make them fragrant. Don't run away from problems, but face them and conquer them. God feels greater joy when He sees that you love each other more than you love Him. Parents want to see their children loving each other more than they love their parents. The 36 couples are the elders of our Church, and this rule applies to them as well unless they love the true children and the members more than their own families, they are the enemies of our movement.

Our ultimate goal is Canaan. While we are marching toward Canaan, our supreme duty is to follow orders, but once we enter Canaan we don't live by commands but by love. This is that time. We are arriving now, and we must live in a God-like way. The second three seven-year courses have been announced. In the first 21 years we marched toward Canaan, and in these 21 years we shall live by love.

I am teaching you that you should love one another as much you love God and True Parents. Then the dwelling of God is with you, and Mother and I shall be with you. Because this day marks the beginning of that new era, I called this the Historical Children's Day. Those who have not been blessed should make unity with each other first.

There are four directions and four seasons, with three months in each season. When you arrive at heaven in spirit world you will see twelve pearl gates. Your relationship with your leader is important, but it is more important to unite with twelve types of people on earth. Even Jesus practiced this way of life by serving his twelve apostles. Rebellion occurred, however, and they sold Jesus. The most sacred act Jesus performed was washing his disciples' feet and saying that he did not come to be served but to serve. That was the supreme expression of love. By doing so he became the central figure around which twelve people joined. When people are linked in unity they cannot be separated.

There are three categories of people: married people, engaged people-or people living together without having had a formal ceremony-and virgin men and women. These three have providential meaning. Married people represent Adam's family, where husband and wife joined out of their own will. Engaged people represent Jesus, who came to look for his bride, but could not achieve that goal. The virgin men and women represent the Second Advent, in which they are matched by heaven. The entire world is a mixture of these kinds of people.

Twelve of each of these types were chosen for representation in the 36 couples; that's why this number of couples was chosen to be the ancestors of mankind. not twelve couples. Their mandate is to unite all 36 types of people. If the 36 can be united, it represents harmonizing all three levels of twelve personalities, thus bringing everyone into the Kingdom of Heaven. I have been serving those couples, those tough individuals-matching them, providing them with homes, sending them to travel. When they come to America, Mother and I shop for them, getting clothes and furniture.

Some people think the 36 couples are masters of the Unification Church, seeing that I shop for them and listen to them, but that is wrong! I have been setting the example of the servant. If I gave the order, they would immediately go to the jungles of Africa. After you serve twelve types of people and 36 couples, serving one God and one set of True Parents is an easy task!

The heavenly dispensation is like a relay game, with each person carrying the baton in turn, back and forth, down through the 36 couples. Some people think that they don't even want to look at the 36 couples, who are all Korean. But I am telling you that you need them. Without them there is no foundation, no backbone for Unification Church. The backbone carries the central nervous system, so it is linked to every tissue. Jesus wanted to consummate his service to twelve people, but three of them betrayed him.

Spring, summer, autumn and winter make one grand circle, and when you complete one dispensational circuit, you start in the opposite direction. Through the fall of man, however, the same circle was continued.

Would you want to be eligible to go through only one gate to heaven, or through all twelve? If you can only enter one gate, you can only move back and forth in one direction. But if you can enter all twelve gates then you have total freedom of movement.

You get the pass to enter all twelve gates by serving 36 people. Then you can enter both heaven and hell. Would you want to be limited in spirit world as though you were in a prison cell or do you want total freedom ? Look at each person as one gate. A soft person is the spring gate; a tough person is a winter gate. There are twelve different styles. Look at each person as another gate to God, and think that you will melt his heart and win him.

Black and white are like north and south; there is no center. When there is a center everything can come alive, but there has been no center so far. My mandate to you is to unite among yourselves. Where you can do that, the dwelling of God shall be with you. Can you do it?

During the exodus it is a virtue to focus on following the leader, but when you enter Canaan you live by the give and take with brothers and sisters. From today on our membership around the world shall perfect that way of life. Even if I am not here, it should not matter. You already know the secret of going to heaven-loving each other. At night you should think that you are a parent to someone; pick someone to care about the next day, and the following day pick another person. It doesn't matter whether he is younger or older. The cardinal rule is to forget yourself.

You will turn the three satanic elements into heavenly elements. You will give sacrificial love and talk about "our position," not "my position." Satan is arrogant, but you will go the lowest place to lift the people up. Satan is throwing all kinds of hooks around you, but when Satan tries to pull them in, nothing should move. Then he will cast his hooks again, but when nothing ever moves he will say good-bye to you forever.

Have a love competition among yourselves. It doesn't matter whom Mother or I love most, but who is the king of loving brothers and sisters. Who loves me? I know your love is real, so now pledge to me that you will love your brothers and sisters more than you love me. That will please me more than your love for me.

Who says that they can only love me and love God? That is baloney; there is no substance to that love. Who says that they know the truth, and from now on they shall open the Kingdom of Heaven on earth? Amen!

The Things We Want To Be Proud Of

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
October 25, 1981
Belvedere
Translator - Sang Kil Han

Everyone has a name, and everyone wants to be proud of his name. Each person also wants to be proud of all the parts of his body-his limbs, his eyes, and all his faculties. Someone who doesn't think he is attractive wants to find something which he thinks will make him more attractive. A woman might wear accessories, like earrings, rings, necklaces, for instance, to make herself look more beautiful.

People want to extend their sense of pride to include their parents, wanting to be proud of the way they look and behave. They count their merits by the ways in which they are good or not so good. They also want to be proud of their brothers and sisters and other relatives.

After that, we want to be proud of the things we own, such as our home or automobile. We also want to be proud of our country. Most people stop right there at the level of the country; they don't know how to think beyond that level. Today many people feel they cannot think about anything other than themselves, not even their parents, and certainly not their country. But if the world is one, then that world should be their country. In that case, Americans would not only be proud of Niagara Falls, but would also take pride in the great falls in South America and Africa, which are even grander than Niagara. Americans could be proud of the Himalayas, as well as the Rocky Mountains.

The greater a person is, the longer is the list of things in which he takes pride. A person of narrow vision cannot see far away, no matter how much he may want to. Naturally he will have to find a source of pride close at hand. But when a person has broad vision, he can look out to far distances and can have more things to be proud of.

What kind of people can we be proud of in history? No matter how great or how unimportant people may be, the basic pattern of life is about the same for everyone: we eat three meals a day, we sleep so many hours, we get married and have children. Great or small, people all live according to these same basic patterns. Then how do we decide who is the great person and who is the lesser person?

Comparing a person who lives for his country with a person who lives for the world, which can we say is the greater person? Even though we do the same work side by side with each other, if one person is thinking about a larger purpose then he is certainly greater than the others.

People can be proud of things higher and greater, or wider and deeper than themselves. People talk about the Rocky Mountains as the highest part of America, and of Death Valley as the lowest point. Someone who hasn't been there might imagine that it is some extraordinarily deep gorge, but it is not very impressive when you actually see it. This is one example of how people want to be proud of something which is high and deep, or wide and great, something which lasts a long time.

What is it that you would like to have pride in as Americans? Perhaps you are proud that America is such a big country, but bigness has very little value when you realize that here many people are fighting each other. Families fight amongst themselves, communities are divided according to income, and black and white people don't trust each other. When you find these things, then the size of the country really doesn't matter. What kind of people are living in America, then-big people or small people? Are the majority of Americans only concerned with trifling things?

Before you speak of any person as being great, you have to think about the meaning of greatness. Of all the people throughout history, we can speak of only four greatest saints, Jesus, Mohammed, Confucius, and Buddha. Did they have big, fancy houses and lots of possessions? No, all of them were persecuted and despised in their own time. Jesus said, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have their nests, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head." Is that characteristic of a great man? During his time Confucius was like a "nameless dog" as he put it, the way people pushed him around. He didn't have a regular job, but chose to beg for his food and to travel, teaching and learning. Buddha was born into a palace as a great prince, but he gave up all that and embraced hardship instead. He went to the mountains to pray and discover spiritual truth. No one really wants to live a difficult life, but these four men chose such a life, and today everyone considers them great.

Does the definition of greatness change according to the times? Is it guaranteed that the criterion for greatness will never change simply because Americans vouch for it? Who is the central figure, the master of America? If it were God, would America be as it is today? It must be someone other than God! Maybe you say that the media is the master of America, but does anyone want to live for the sake of the media? Is money the master? Even the almighty dollar goes up and down in value. Do you want a master which changes morning and evening?

It would be good if the master of America was its tradition of great thinking, and everyone who wanted to live according to that great thought or vision would be the central figures of this country. When I ask who should be the central figure of America, I will agree with you if you reply that it should be someone who lives according to the great thought of America, and who wants to broaden it to include living for the world. When we ask the same question of the world, people will perhaps answer in the same way, regardless of whether they are good or bad.

Would you answer my question by replying that you can't speak for the world because you are not that big? Perhaps all you care about is your husband or wife and your family. Are you like a woman whose vision is so small that she nags her husband if he merely steps outside her boundary? When I see women in New York walking their dogs on the streets, I wonder why they love their dogs so much. I have concluded it is because the dogs listen to them! Some of them have dogs so big that they could pull the women along behind; would they love their dogs so much if they didn't obey them? I doubt it.

Typically a man wants to ride a horse that can jump high and run fast, but a woman wants a dog who will follow her around. Mother also worries when one of the children wants to ride a motorcycle or a horse, or shoot a gun, worrying that he will get hurt. But I feel they should do those things if they want to. If you have to arrest a gangster, you must be able to ride a motorcycle to catch him. It's not worth the risk if you are just going to show off, but if you are working for the country or the world, you can't avoid doing those things. Do you women want husbands who tremble at the sound of a motorcycle, or who will jump on and take off? It's great to do those things for the sake of the world, but not for oneself.

Everyone could agree that a great man is the one with a thought and vision so big that it is admired by all the best minds. The person who embodies the greatness of all the saints would be the greatest person of all. If such a person appears, not only philosophers but also scientists and laborers and miners would be proud of him. Would you travel a great distance to find and follow him, even leaving your country and family behind? Even if your husband or wife threatened you with a gun for leaving? What if your parents and teachers also criticized you for doing that? Even though Americans are often bad, at least you have a spirit that directs you toward greatness.

Come to think of it, everywhere I have been in the world when I saw people walking in a funny way, they always turned out to be Americans! Usually they also looked disorderly in appearance. The fact that you laugh at hearing this shows you agree with me! A Japanese would rather die than behave that way. In that respect Americans are great-as long as they have confidence in what they are doing, they don't mind what other people think. But unfortunately, not everyone who dresses and walks in a funny way is great. The key point is for whom we are doing something. Even if he is wrong, if a person is confident that he is working for the sake of the world then there is hope that he will be a great person.

If people fall in love everywhere they go, living loosely, can we call them great Americans? If Americans went around the world teaching others to live for themselves, we could not approve. Americans revolt against taking good advice that they don't like; instead they say, "I have my own way. You can do what you like." Such people don't want to find the right way, but only want to go their own way.

When I came to America I was asked, "Why don't you do things the American way?" The only reason we don't smoke or drink or go to disco dances is that we know it won't help America. The American way is easier than the way we are taking; we deliberately chose a different way because we knew that the other road only led to decline. As soon as Americans see some benefit in going a different way, they won't mind getting their long hair cut, for instance. In itself that is a small thing, but it could be enough of a change to show there is hope for America. Young people of the world will also follow if they see hope there, and then cutting one's hair will have great meaning.

People have accused me of sending good young people out fund raising for my own gain, but the truth is exactly the opposite. I have not received benefit from America; America has received benefit from me. How long will it take Americans to realize this simple fact? I only endure persecution because I know that teaching you these things is the way you will be elevated and give benefit to the world. We have broader thinking and higher ideals than other people, and we will endure, determined to do this for the rest of our lives. Here we find the elements of greatness.

One of my children was delighted when he found the word "Moonie" in the dictionary; it said that Moonies are followers of Reverend Moon. How many of you have regretted being a Moonie from time to time? Let's get everything out in the open! Don't just hold your hands up a little, but thrust them up high! Maybe the consciences of those people who didn't raise their hands are not clear. Even I have to raise my hand! Sometimes I have wished I wasn't a Moonie. The only reason I never thought about leaving the Unification Church is that I knew without me the world could not find the right way. It is normal to find a hard life regrettable, but I think seriously about the world and spirit world. On the other hand, you care more about yourself and your family than about the world and God. I could have refused to come back to America to face this indictment, but that would have meant forsaking America, and thus the entire free world. I couldn't turn my back on the center of God's providence, through which He wants to lead all mankind. Instead, I have to fight this case and win and show people the right way. That is why I came back. Later on people will understand what I did and say I was great for acting this way.

Americans feel that this country is the greatest, but I disagree; the world is greater and more righteous. Some members resist going to our Unification Seminary, feeling that they don't want to study theories for two or three years. But if during those years they realize that they must work for the world and not just America, then that is good enough reason to go. Too often, Americans only want to do something they are good at, which can bring tangible results for themselves and their family; they see no reason to worry about the world. After graduating from the seminary and knowing the reasons why you should work for the sake of the world, you can return and do the things you wanted to do, but with an entirely new purpose. The same actions in life can be great or not great, depending upon the person's motivation. No one likes to fight, including me, but if fighting communism is necessary for the sake of the world, we must do it. In the beginning people will not understand and will criticize, but when they understand they will deeply thank us.

I always followed this ideal, regardless of what people thought of me. I only cared about what was right and great. I don't think of myself as a great man, but everywhere I go there are cameras clicking and people asking for my comments. Even when I was changing planes in Tokyo a CBS camera crew was there, insisting I make a statement. Why do people care so much about what I do? It is one thing to have a great thought and ideal but people can't believe that someone can really carry it out.

How many of you American members would have gone to jail at some time if you had not joined Unification Church? I think hundreds, even thousands of you would have!

Now America must truly answer the question, "Who is that Reverend Moon?" You especially must know more precisely who I am. The words "Unification Church" are great words. Out of thousands of churches, there is only one Unification Church. I urge you never to be ashamed of that name. I pledged to ensure that this name was never a shameful one, so I was always on the front line, out in front of everyone else.

I created CARP and ocean church, developing the pattern and theory of fighting communism. I have created an industrial foundation from scratch. All by myself I made the plan for leading the world to God in every area. Many people have been treated unjustly by the New York Times, but I am the first one to organize a newspaper to outdo that famous publication. Do I get a salary for doing all these things? I forego any salary and work instead for the world, 24 hours a day.

Scholars around the world have their own ways, but I am showing them the need for unified effort. Theologians study one God but can do nothing to unite the hundreds of religious factions, while I am spending much money to gather them together in harmony. Would members of other churches ever imagine spending their own money on such things? The amazing thing is that even when we were being criticized the most, scholarly people still came to hear Divine Principle lectures.

Who is in the more difficult situation-I who am working for the world, or the leader who is working for the nation? Then why is it that the leader comes to me for help, instead of my going to him for help? We have to save everything in all directions. No one is self-sufficient now; everyone needs my help at this time.

Why does a religious leader have to worry about economic things and affairs of scholars? It is not for my sake or for the Unification Church. It is only for the sake of the world, to leave a tradition for coming generations. Can you be proud of what I am doing, whether or not people understand?

Am I a champion in catching tuna? I could give a seminar on the best way to catch tuna, and many people would come, since I have standardized a method and set the record. The Department of Fisheries has stated that Americans must find better ways of catching fish, but it will take them four or five more years to discover the method I have found. Our ship-building yard was persecuted, but now the government depends on us for enlarging the ship-building industry, and wants to use the boats I designed for off-shore patrolling.

You may think you can be proud of me, historically speaking, but I don't think that way. If I felt proud of myself then I would walk arrogantly and boast, but instead I don't even know when it is time to go to bed or to eat. Mother is always trying to educate me to think about my health and my age. When she calls me to lunch, however, I deliberately spend ten more minutes at what I am doing, and when she calls again I deliberately sneak away to do something else. When she asks me to come to eat on time, I tell her, "Yes, yes," but I never keep that promise, and my conscience never bothers me!

Of course I have to take care of myself, but there is no such thing as doing too much for others. Women of the fallen world would never like that kind of husband, would they? Should the husband follow that kind of wife, or be the leader in his family? Which husband is greater-the one who always listens to his wife, or the one who goes God's way? At some time the women have to learn how to give themselves up. American Unification Church women must be different from ordinary women, but still have all the charms of women. It might be difficult, but our wives eventually go along with their independent-minded husbands, while ordinary American women get a divorce and go off on their own. I don't want to see our men shedding tears and begging their wives to stay with them.

Why do I bring up this topic? I have observed you since the matching, and you constantly wonder when the Blessing will take place. Is it the right attitude for proud Unification Church members to constantly be thinking of marriage and family when there is still so much to be done? What will you be proud of in the future? What about having pride in not being able to get together even six or seven years after being engaged, and working hard in the meantime? When people see you come together and then go your separate ways, not knowing when you will see each other again, they will be astounded. In the secular world people kiss and act intimate in public, but you just shake hands and go your way, with no appointment to meet again. You don't doubt each other and worry about who your mate will meet.

Are you women confident to educate and raise your men to be great? Through Divine Principle the Unification Church is making that kind of dream husband for you. If for one moment you feel that you like your fiancée but you don't like the Divine Principle or our Unification Church life, then what kind of thief are you? You are trying to take something which does not belong to you. Now do you realize that such thinking is wrong?

You must realize the greatness of what you are doing. Imagine that God wants to give prizes to the exemplary husbands and wives in the world, from number one to one thousand. How many prizes will go to the Unification Church members? Not one couple outside Unification Church will qualify. You must realize how great this life is. All through history, no one could lift the heavy burdens of restoration, but now you are following me and together we are lifting them up.

One day recently in Korea I was inspired to hear about a certain man of important position. Ten years ago he came to the church and heard me talking about my plans for working in the world, never dwelling on all the problems I faced in Korea. He thought then that I was impractical, that my ideal was too high, but after ten years everything I said is proving to be true; and now he sees that he too should have been thinking that way. He sees that in only ten years I have moved quite high up, and my work will be everlasting.

Why don't I take life easy now that I have an economic foundation and public recognition, instead of working even harder than when I was young? I don't want to be proud of myself or admired by Americans or Japanese, or even the world. I want history to be proud of me as it moves toward God's goal. History changes and develops, but follows a certain goal, so if I am doing something which history will be proud of then I will persevere. No matter how much white people recognize a white person, if colored people do not admire him then that person is not great enough yet. Whatever color a person is, he is great only if people of all races can be proud of him. What the Unification Church is doing is a source of pride for all mankind.

Each race will rise and fall in history, but I want to be the one person everyone can admire even as they go through profound changes. Whatever belongs to such a person will eventually be kept in a museum and will inspire people. Each part of the world will compete to have something that belonged to him. Do you have some small thing which could be displayed in that museum? Each of you will want to have at least one such thing which will be worthy of display.

What will your descendants feel as they look at your letter, or photo, or whatever you have there? Naturally they will come first to your portrait before they go to see paintings by famous artists. Am I too ambitious to feel this way? I am desperate to find even one small thing in you which you can leave behind. Maybe you feel I am your enemy for pushing you for this reason. However, we need something like that to leave for the education of future generations.

I have told you many times that the best teacher is the one with a strict standard which he never relaxes. Even when you do well I will never praise you, but will just push you to do more. In order to win the first prize here you have to compete with 200 million Americans; that is not easy. In just a few years you have to win the victory. You have to have a strategy to win over everyone at one time. There's no such thing as suffering more than necessary in order to win the first prize.

God should be proud of you, on behalf of the entire spirit world. But before God can approve, everyone on earth should agree about you. What is it that history, all mankind and God can be proud of in you? It can only be your thoughts, your deeds in life and your true love. What is true love? For true love we first have to go beyond our personal and family level and think about the nation and world. Of course, one must love his own wife and children, but he must be able to go beyond that love when he thinks of his country and the world. Seminary graduates, raise your hands. If you want to live whatever lifestyle you choose and if you don't want the Church to have much to say about your family life, is that true love? If you want to even go beyond the standard of the church for the sake of the world, that is true love. This formula applies to everyone, on every level.

According to this standard, am I a true leader or not? I am ready to dedicate our church for the sake of America; such a person has to be a true leader. The president can be a true president of America if he is willing to sacrifice America for the sake of the world. The true president of the world would be willing to dedicate everyone on earth for the sake of the billions and billions of people in spirit world. The person who wants to free God from all His fetters will receive God's true inheritance. That is my concept in all things.

I practice this in my own family life, even though I know it is difficult for Mother and the children. It is not easy for my wife and children to keep pace with me; each has to try hard in his own way. But the primary principle is that the parent should do this first, before expecting it of the rest of the family. That requires being ruthless with oneself before others. This standard applies even to God, so as long as you maintain it yourself you don't have to worry.

Whether your spouse is handsome or beautiful is not the question; the criterion is what standard he meets, not some romantic feeling. Even after marriage, the husband must first love his wife as a daughter and younger sister and mother, and then after those stages as his wife. That is the natural sequence of growth in an individual. A woman is first a baby daughter, then a younger sister, then she grows up to become a mother. She is a small branch of True Mother, so she must receive respect accordingly. Only then is she ready to be taken as a wife. The relationship cannot be forced in any other direction. First the man must cherish her as everything other than his own wife.

Do you brides-to-be feel this way? Do you have confidence and trust in your fiancées as in your own elder brothers and fathers? Do you men have such a heart toward your fiancées? Or do you only think of them as your wives in a physical way? This is how animals behave, having no sentiment or feeling. Are you more idealistic or animalistic? Until you meet this criterion, you cannot feel worthy of kissing or embracing your mate. You know in yourself which standard you meet. When you consider this standard, your conscience will make you bow your head. The same standard applies to women. Can you women think of your fiancées as your husbands before thinking of them as your younger brothers, sons and fathers? You must love and protect your spouse with your whole life. Knowing that your mate is the result of hard work and suffering, you can embrace him or her. He or she is the fruit of a great thought and effort, of sacrificial life. With that heart you can go even to the throne of God and no one can challenge you.

Realistically speaking, this is how we go to heaven, sacrificing our individual and family life for the higher goal. History and mankind and God are proud of Unification Church for teaching this, and only eternal love remains after that. Then everything necessary is accomplished. All of you must determine to reach that goal. Do you realize that the place you are sitting now, early on this Sunday morning, is where you will want to come and sit for two or three days in the future, shedding tears here?

I know that many Americans will visit the building where my trial is to be held and shed tears. When I went to the courtroom I had that kind of thinking. I want to do something for you and not be indebted to you; I want you to be in a much better place since joining Unification Church than before. Therefore, I am always thinking I must do more for Americans.

Do you like home church? Do you want to do it alone, or together? Can two become great at the same time? There is only one greatest person, not two, so should you go alone or together? You know it is difficult to become the greatest. Is it greater to work for the world, or for the nation? Would you then choose to work in America, or in another country? Would you go to a desert or to the jungle? Would you rather go to the part of Africa where white people are persecuted or where they are welcomed?

How much training do you need here to meet that challenge? You know what I will say to you even before you come; I keep telling you to suffer more and work harder, even if you feel it is impossible. Should you ignore or welcome that kind of teacher, even if it is painful? You feel like you are dying now, don't you?

I am always pondering what I can leave behind in your minds, so that you can make new resolution. I want you to be convinced that you will not stop even if the world opposes you, knowing that someone will take over afterward. That's the only thing we have to be proud of. I do not intend to give up, and you do not intend to give up, so we can be close. Everyone has his own cross to bear, which he cannot ask anyone else to take up. You have to solve that situation yourself and then help other people. Because of this thinking and way of life, everyone can be proud of Reverend Moon, and proud of you for resembling me. If you keep going in this direction, Americans will have to follow eventually, for it is the only way to survive and bring liberation to God.

God bless you.

Father Valiant in Face of Tax Charges

Sun Myung Moon
October 22, 1981

As more than 5,000 supporters rallied outside the Federal courthouse in New York City, Father entered a plea of not guilty to charges of income tax evasion and was released on personal bail.

A lengthy Federal grand jury investigation resulted in an indictment on October 15 against Father and Mr. Kamiyama for failure to pay personal income tax on church funds in the early 1970's. Father returned from Korea to the United States on October 21 and appeared in court October 22 for a brief arraignment. No date has been set for the trial. According to previous agreement between the government and the defense lawyers, Father was released on a personal bail bond of $250,000 and Mr. Kamiyama on a $100,000 bond. The agreement stipulated that Father remain in the country, except for one trip to a conference in Korea in November.

According to a fairly sympathetic New York Times story the following day, Father "smiled broadly, raised his arms in a gesture of greeting to the spectators and walked across the room to greet the prosecutor's hand and then waved a finger at him, as if admonishing a naughty child."

Many friends of our church have spoken out in Father's behalf. Upon leaving court, Father addressed a rally, protesting that the charges are a result of religious and racial bigotry. The text of his speech follows:

Father's Public Speech on October 22

My dear friends, I am deeply moved and touched by your support. As soon as I heard the news in Seoul, Korea, I flew back to New York, half way around the world, to face this historical trial. I must tell you that I am innocent. I have nothing to hide. My life is an open book.

I am not afraid of the trial; on the contrary, I welcome it. I know that through this judicial process, justice will be done and the truth will prevail. I shall vindicate not only myself but also the millions of people who are suffering because of this unfair government persecution.

I have respect for and confidence in the United States judicial system. I have confidence in the judge and jury who will work on this case. America is still the best country in the world to let justice be done. I look forward to facing my adversary, my accusers face to face. My conscience is clear. God is my vindicator. However, I forgive my adversaries if God finds them to be guilty instead of me. I also have full confidence and respect for the American system of a free press. I trust that they will convey the unbiased truth to the world. The American media will not be fooled but will see this case as the baseless charge which it is.

As I have often said, I love America as I love my own country. Many years ago, on a Korean mountainside I began to beg God to allow this nation to fulfill her providential destiny. Years ago, when I came to America for the first time, I stood on majestic Fifth Avenue. I literally burst into tears. I reflected on the first weary handful of Pilgrims who stood on the shore of the Atlantic and dedicated this land to God. I wept when I saw what had become of that dream. On that very day I resolved to strive to bring America back to God. God Almighty is my judge that for ten years I have given my heart and soul, my blood and sweat for this great nation.

The Unification Church called upon our people around the world to contribute millions and millions of dollars to this end. In 1972 we began a costly evangelical campaign from state to state, culminating in the Washington Monument Rally of 300,000 people on September 18, 1976. In the case of the Unification Church, America was a recipient, not a giver. In spite of severe financial hardships, our worldwide membership persevered to support that crusade in America. They did so only because they loved this country and view America as the chosen nation with a providential destiny.

Today I stand before you, accused by this nation. I gave my all to America. I took nothing away from this country. I misused not one penny, in the tradition of Jesus, who taught the way of first thinking of others. If that is a crime, I would welcome the verdict. That was the same burden that Jesus Christ had to bear. He loved the people of Israel, he loved the people of the world, he loved God with all his heart. For this he was condemned, and for this he was nailed to the cross. If loving America and serving people with all my heart is a crime, then I will really have picked up my cross.

Today I came back to America not just for my own vindication. I came back as a representative of all those who have suffered government injustice, racial prejudice and religious bigotry. These are the real enemies of America. Today I declare a war against these enemies. I will fight till my last breath for religious liberty and the rights of minorities and the oppressed. We must win together, so that our children can live in a land of true freedom and true equality, what Dr. Martin Luther King called the Promised Land.

I would not be standing here today if my skin were white and my religion Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism. God is color blind. White, black and yellow are beautiful brothers. All religions of the world today reflect only different faces of the same God, our Father.

Do you know that we, the Unification Church, are the only church in America which has been forced to pay taxes on church property? We are paying eight million dollars in New York State alone. This unjust burden breaks our church's back. On the other hand, other churches pay not a penny. Why are we singled out? Simply because our name is Unification Church and the founder happens to be Korean.

President Reagan said in a campaign speech, "When the basic rights of any group are threatened, it is not only one religious group that suffers, it is the entire nation."

My dear brothers and my dear friends, today we prepare to meet any challenge. Let us make this day a day of unity, a day of new commitment. In this fight we are not alone, God Almighty is with us, millions and millions of people around the world are with us. The Unification Church is an oppressed minority in America, but with God on our side we are a majority. This is a new day for minorities. We are beginning a new fight. Today I am not sad or unhappy or even tired. Today I am creating a new minority alliance for civil rights. Our zeal moves the heart of God. Let my determination and conviction to win this struggle become a beacon to the whole world. I thank Almighty God that He gave me the opportunity to fight this great battle and champion this cause.

Dr. Durst's October 15 Statement to the Press

The assassination of President Sadat, the attempted assassination of President Reagan and the Pope, and now the attempted assassination of Reverend Moon and the three million members of the Unification Church! The indictment issued today, having no merit and no substance whatsoever, is a direct attack on the Unification Church, which with the Catholic Church, is the latest religious group to be singled out by the government for harassment and vilification. Who is next?

Every lawyer we have consulted with emphasizes that false charges have been made against Reverend Moon only because he is a controversial religious figure. Lawyers pursuing this indictment are looking for cheap headlines, not justice. The United States has often abused its religious and racial minorities, and this abuse has continued and culminated against the Unification Church.

Reverend Moon is being charged with failing to pay income taxes on monies held in his name on behalf of the Unification Church. His holding title to church property in this manner is no different than the procedure followed by other religions, for example, the Catholic Church.

The very same bank account in Reverend Moon's name, now being charged as a source of taxable income to him, was described by the Securities and Exchange Commission in their previous investigation as: "a depository for a Church fund" belonging to the international Unification Church movement. This description by the Securities and Exchange Commission is accurate, and is inconsistent with the charge that Reverend Moon owed personal taxes on the interest earned by this money.

Reverend Moon, in holding this money and in all of his other activities, acts on behalf of our Church. Not one penny was used for Reverend Moon's personal purpose. Just as some in the community seek to discredit the Unification Church as a religion, the charges now made by the government disregard Reverend Moon's status as our spiritual leader.

The money and property in his name was ours, the interest which the money earned was ours, and the indictment of Reverend Moon is therefore an indictment of us. We look forward to the opportunity to vindicate ourselves in the face of this latest government attack.

Ronald Reagan spoke about getting the government off our backs; he didn't tell us he was going to put it around our necks. This is no attack against Reverend Moon, it is not even an attack against the Unification Church, it is a fundamental attack on all religions in America. We will fight this indictment with all of our strength and with all of our allies, and we will continue to speak up loudly against injustice. 

Core Love And Indemnity

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
October 22, 1981
World Mission Center
Translator - Bo Hi Pak

As you know, I have successfully completed three seven-year courses, and in 1981 I declared the beginning of the second three seven-year courses. Here in Unification Church we have many new terms, such as indemnity, seven-year course, and man's 5 per cent responsibility. Where did this new terminology come from and what is its foundation? First of all, it is universal terminology, not limited to one nation or area, and it applies universally, timelessly. Furthermore, these words will not be spoken by just one group of people, but by people of all ages throughout history. In other words, we are talking about the path everyone must walk, without exception. These words were born in Unification Church, but they belong to all people. Even though I proclaimed these words, they don't belong only to me.

"Restoration by indemnity" has a profound meaning. We have about 2,000 people gathered here. When all of us talk about indemnity, do we all have the same thing in mind? It is easy to say that we mean the same thing, but each of you was born for your own special kind of indemnity, and so everyone interprets indemnity according to his own unique circumstance. The various races and professions, for example, understand indemnity differently.

The problem is whether there are many people who can truly digest and fully understand the word indemnity. No one wants to pay indemnity, which means that everyone does his best to avoid it. The fact that you laugh at this remark shows you identify with it! Shall indemnity remain forever as one concrete, eternal standard? No. Historically everyone's indemnity has been floating around somewhere, but now it is settled on earth, and we know what has to be done. Everyone cheered when I arrived, but as soon as we talk about indemnity we have to become serious!

Sometimes indemnity seems bearable, but sometimes it seems insurmountable. There are many fluctuations in our feeling about it. Do you think there is one standard format to follow in indemnity? Do you want to know what the criterion is? Once you know what it is, you can't make excuses, so do you still want to know?

Let's ask another question. Why hasn't the will of God been completely fulfilled? It is because no one has established a clear format for indemnity. Imagine that you are accustomed to eating bread and butter, and indemnity took the form of eating kochee chong and kimchee. We all have a different cultural background, so do you think we can find one form of indemnity that will be welcomed by everyone around the world? It wouldn't be easy to do.

One nation might set a standard of indemnity in the form of walking straight, while others would want to walk in other ways. In the same way, sometimes members feel that because I am Korean I am forcing them into some Oriental or Korean way, and they feel they shouldn't have to go that way. Westerners and Orientals sleep different ways, wear different clothes, and use different utensils, so how can they follow the same formula? This is not an easy problem.

You have sky blue eyes, while mine are brown, but it is hard to see my eyes because they are so narrow. How can we follow the same formula? What should be the foundation of it? You say the foundation should be True Parents, but what are they all about?

True Parents have their own indemnity to pay and you have you own indemnity. We cannot set the formula according to skin color, or eye color, or any physical thing. The indemnity formula should be broad enough to include everything, but at the same time we should be able to narrow it down to one precise point. Do you think you can find something like that?

Apart from this physical body everyone also has a mind. Have you seen your mind? Then how do you know you have one? What is the rail along which indemnity should run? What is the most precious thing for men? First love, and then what? The two most essential things are love and life. Should love be in love with life, or should life be in love with love? Which comes first? You seem to be evenly divided about this.

When we examine all these matters, we conclude that the universal rail of indemnity cannot be based on external appearance, but only on something no one can escape. Should it be based on love or life? Is God in subject position because of love or life? Another point is that love cannot make any sense until there is a relationship between subject and object, so how can we link these two things'?

Did Adam and Eve have life before the fall? When was love meant to emerge, then? What is the essential qualification to enter the direct dominion of God? Perfection of love brings you into that direct dominion; that means your love has become united with God's love.

How were you born? You were born through your parents' love. Did your life start at the moment your parents were loving each other, or prior to that? The cause of your life was present within the bodies of your father and mother; both were needed for life to be sparked. Biologically speaking, that cause of life in the mother lives for three days, so it is very difficult to determine whether love or life comes first. We can universally agree, however, that life emerges when there is love between the two parents. It takes three elements to make one life -- the father and mother, and the life essences within them. We can conclude that each life is the extension of the parents' lives. Love is the motivation for creating new life. Thus, we can say that you participated in the love of your parents.

Why do parents love their children? There is no complicated explanation; they simply see their children as extensions of themselves. We know how we came into being, so how was God initiated, and when? For something new to emerge, interaction is needed. What in this universe can interact eternally, without end? What causes eternal action? In what kind of action can people do anything, whether embracing or kicking each other, and still feel good?

The universe is a love house in which we all participate, and in which everything is accepted, is exciting and joyful. Action and reaction bring harmony. Why? Certain things in the universe repel each other, in which they are saying, "Go elsewhere to find your subject or object." That is not necessarily destructive; you are merely sending something away which does not belong to you, to find its own mate. Do plus and plus pull or repel each other? How about minus and minus? Men and men, or women and women? But one man and woman pull each other together.

The universe is a big house in which this law has been eternally practiced, with give and take action as well as repelling action. There must be some central powerhouse which plans and operates the universe such that everything can interact joyfully; someone must be concerned with the universal scale, creating a sphere which everyone wants to belong to. If God is omnipotent, He must be able to devise a law in which everything can be harmonized.

What kind of essence must the universal subject have, plus or minus? If He is the plus essence. does He need a plus or minus? If He is the subject then He definitely needs an object to interact with. Where does He look for that object? In the created universe. What creature in the created world could become closest to that subject? Why man? What's wrong with monkeys? A monkey doesn't have the capability of understanding the perfection of eternal love; man alone has that capability. Maybe sometimes monkeys look more handsome than some men, but they do not have the equipment to reach God. On the other hand, if you don't understand the value and perfection of the love of God, you aren't a human, but belong with the monkeys. Only men can reach that perfection, for they have been given that capability.

If man could reach perfection, but then could separate from God, would God feel lonely? Would men? Once perfection is reached, there shall be no more possibility of separation, even if it is desired. A union of love shall be so intense that the two participants can enter the very valley of life, and can completely melt together for eternity.

When two people come together, they penetrate deep inside each other. Love is the central uniting force pulling everything in the universe to that point. When two lovers meet after a long separation, they come together so tightly that they melt inside each other. Not only do they hug each other, but they want to move around together, faster and faster. They are so united that for eternity there is no chance to be separated.

How can we create the core of life of men and women? Only with the power of love. Once you are captured by this core power, even if you get irritated and stalk out, you have to come back. Even if you say you are leaving to go to school or to shop, you find yourself coming back again. Once two are joined in true love, there is no way for them to be separated, even for eternity. Amen!

Why am I spending so much time and energy explaining this? Because now you can know what is the acceptable standard of indemnity; it should be based on something that is both the first and last choice. Where do we place our standard of indemnity? In core love, in focused love. If you have that focused, core love as your purpose then when you achieve your standard of indemnity your work is completed. Once you meet that standard, you have passed your final examination.

Unless you fight your battle in the core battlefield, the battles that you win are trivial and you still have to fight again. When you fire a gun at a target, you need to hit the bulls eye, not scatter many shots all around. Strictly speaking, you only need one round to hit the bulls eye. We are decided that we want to pay indemnity in order to finish once and for all. Does that sound easy? It is forever very difficult! It is so difficult that never in human history has anyone solved it, or even come close.

The Unification Church is declaring decisive indemnity for the first time in history, so what should be our focus and aim? Core love. This is heartistic, heartfelt indemnity. The element of heart is the ultimate, deciding factor in indemnity. You were excited to see me, but you aren't excited to hear about indemnity, so maybe you think this is a good place to end the sermon!

What kind of tug-of-war should you win in order to defeat Satan permanently? Core love is the essence of God Himself. You know that Satan cannot pull on God Himself, so even if he tugs at core love, ultimately Satan has to release it. Once Satan is defeated and lets go of the rope, he will fall into a bottomless pit.

We can compare core love to a rubber band which can be stretched. The interesting point is that when the elastic of core love is stretched so far that it breaks, it always snaps back to God's side. The important thing is how much you can endure, how far you can be stretched. Can you stretch from here to Florida? Can God's love only cover that distance? How far can it stretch? How many times can it circle the world? Once it is released, it will whip around the world and snap back to its origin.

How elastic are you? If I ask you to go to Germany or Korea, would your love stretch that far? Would you break if you didn't have good food and nice clothes? The things which are true can go anywhere, even to the farthest, deepest, or dirtiest place. Wherever truth goes, it can recreate the situation. If you are a rubber band which can stretch around the world, how far would you go, just once around, or around so many times that you cover the world? How many times would you have to stretch around a chimney to stop smoke coming out?

Indemnity is not an easy word. The worst enemy of God is indemnity. God is almighty, but throughout history indemnity has given God more pain than anything else because still it is not finished. God is the almighty plus, and all He wants is an almighty minus. For this reason Jesus said that whoever would lose his life for Jesus' sake would find it. Have you thought of yourselves in that way? Is it acceptable to tell God that you are almost a complete minus, yet ask Him to allow you one little spot of indulgence? That little indulgence creates some distance between you and God.

Your goal is to become an absolute minus without compromise. Every day some force pushes you down to become even more minus, like a nail being driven into wood. When you reach the bottom and can't be driven down any more, then you are an almighty minus. Is there even one American woman here who can say she is such a minus? Is it easy to find one such woman even out of roughly 110 million women in America? If God cannot find even one minus in America, He has to look elsewhere. American women are already almighty in many ways. They talk almighty! But when we think about the essence of it, this is a serious thing.

I see some national leaders over there; maybe they think they have been in Unification Church a long time and paid enough indemnity. Is there anyone who can truthfully say that? You may think you know Divine Principle and Unification Church, but until you know the depths of indemnity you don't completely know.

In order to pay indemnity, a plus should go down to the minus. That's the simple formula of indemnity. You may be a big plus, but when you try to come underneath a minus, every part of you rebels. There's a lot of pain in doing that, particularly for American women, who are very subjective indeed! You have to get rid of yourself to do that, virtually becoming zero. The Bible says that we must be meek and humble, which means being like water, which can adjust itself to any container.

What is the simplest way to get to the bottom? Through service and sacrifice you get rid of yourself. Some members calculate according to the calendar that they can give three years of service because they expect the blessing to come. Is that real service? If there is a "myself" anywhere in your thinking, there will always be a gap between you and God. What is the easiest way to reach the noble standard? In order to find true love, you must be able unconditionally to give yourself up, to any degree.

How can God know you have reached the standard? Could God believe you if you made an announcement to Him? God always uses Satan as His examiner to test you. To the woman who thinks she is beautiful God will send a distinguished looking man, seeing whether she will detour in his direction. But even if that man touches and kisses her, she should be unmoved, like a rock. That is a sign of her true love. Are you such women? If so then you are perfected and don't need my sermon any more!

When we see the high standard of restoration of indemnity, we can easily realize that no one has measured up to that law yet. Without knowing the standard, you have lived each day. Why am I spending so much time explaining this? This is the essence of the Divine Principle and Unification Church. No matter how much you cheer me today, until you meet the indemnity law and the standard of love, everything will be in vain. I don't want to see that happen. For this reason God is giving man ample time, waiting patiently, even though restoration history has been prolonged thousands of years.

Are you individualistic or not? Examine yourself. To what degree are you altruistic? Some people think they can give 30% of themselves to God, but should that kind of person even apply for the indemnity test? Even if you say you live 100% for God, we will never know until you are tested. We want to be people who are above indemnity, who have passed the test.

What is the difference between God and man, who are on either side of the indemnity line? Is God always looking up at the blue sky, or down at humanity? Where are men looking'? God is looking down at the earth 24 hours a day, directing His entire attention toward man; thus, God is not thinking of Himself at all. In the Unification Church there are many motivations; some people join because they want to be blessed, which shows they are focused on themselves. Are they identical to God'? No, God's entire attention is focused on man, so He has no private thought. If that is God's standard, He will tell you to forget about yourself and think of your fellow man if you want to become like Him.

The natural conclusion is that we should be like God and live for others, not ourselves. Anyone on earth who teaches this principle must be God's messenger. Anyone who represents God, and any organization which is true in the sight of God must be practicing this principle. Don't sweat for your own sake. Sometimes members are disgruntled that their central figure doesn't recognize how hard they worked. However, God is sweating every day, yet does He complain that no one recognizes Him?

Many people have felt that my standard is so high and absolute that they could never meet it even if they tried their whole life, and so they would rather quit. How many of you have never complained about your road in Unification Church? No one can raise his hand? Now you know how lonely God is in looking for one person He can immediately embrace.

How much do you need the love of God? Even if you chop off one leg to show God how much you want His love, can you receive it then? Actually I am a very serious man. If giving up one eye could guarantee that you could receive the love of God, most people would be willing to turn in one eye. The difference between you and God is that all these years God never thought about Himself. If at least the Almighty plus can have some small seed of an almighty minus, then He can have hope.

Why should we become absolute minuses? For the perfection of God's love. We conclude that for the person who sets such a goal there is nothing he cannot dare to do, or anything that will make him retreat. Even at hearing that resolve being made, God will instantly be alert to find that person. All these thousands of years God has been tirelessly working for the attainment of core love. If God is not yet tired, then it is our responsibility to show Him that we will go on for our entire lives for the attainment of that love also.

That is an attainable goal, so we have to measure how far we have each come. I tell you one simple fact: as long as your self is strong within you, you have no hope of getting there, for self-centeredness is not God's quality. Since hearing this sermon you have become new creatures. Your "self" is your own enemy; your whole effort is needed to quell that self. You did not realize that Satan is not in some distant place, but has a sanctuary in your body. Maybe when you go fund raising you want to go in a "civilized" way so you can be accepted. Does it work?

Always true love should be your goal. Whenever your "sell" is master, your whole effort is spoiled. If you practice what I am teaching you today, you will definitely attain perfection of the love of God. You need to breathe air to continue living so that you can attain true love. You need your body so you can attain true love. Once you are grafted to true love, you are a new creature and everything will be perfected at once. Then even if you are just standing still, the entire universe will have fellowship with you in ecstatic joy. Then any activity is a joy. That is what God's world should be like.

Our motto is to be like God. God's demand is for you to become an absolute minus, and to do that you have to get rid of yourself. You can't be proud any more of being a wealthy American in this land of technology. Many people are proud of their position or prestige, but even if you possessed the entire planet, you could not exchange it for the love of God.

True love sets the noblest and highest standard. It solves every problem. Someone might say they have found an easier way to obtain the perfection of love, but I am sorry -- there is no easier way. Even when you are asleep you might be jolted awake by this poignant realization. You really have no time for makeup and manicures. You might even forget mealtimes, and not notice the time of day. Have you been that concentrated on finding God's love?

You are your best tester. You know how much your arms are doing for the sake of God, and what percentage of your talking belongs to God or to yourself. You know what percentage of your vision belongs to God. Life is actually the repetition of several things -- coming and going, working and sleeping, eating and playing, sometimes good or bad, sad or happy. You can analyze what proportion of your life is owned by God and by yourself.

The person who puts himself out front is retreating backward. But when you think of the world and mankind then you are stepping forward every day. Where are your eyes focused as you listen to me? What is the difference between me and you? I have brown eyes; some of you have blue eyes, and seeing them is really refreshing for me, like seeing a little lake in the mountains. God must feel the same way.

There are many beautiful white hands here, but mine are thick, like a carpenter's. God must think those hands and eyes are more attractive than mine. But those things are not central. The real criterion of beauty is to whom those eyes and hands belong.

I am sure you know where you stand. Are you here as a thief trying to steal God's love, or are you here trying to earn it? What have you been doing so far? You may have very practical advice, and you might hope I will heed your advice instead. Until you heard me today you might have thought I talked about indemnity so that I could push you. Maybe you think you have been working hard enough.

I have been here in America for ten years, and in that time many of you have not heard a compliment from me. Instead, I talked about indemnity and hard work. Why didn't I give you a holiday in all that time? Inside you might feel I am pushing you too much. But whether you want to hear this or not, I keep saying it. Many people say they can't handle so much hard work, but the person who simply trusts what I say and decides to go the uncompromising way will feel amazing power coming to him, and he can go forward very quickly.

Without your knowing it, there has been a great distance between me and you. I am a poor father who has been indicted by the American government -- do you still like me? I wish you could say yes with the perfection of the love of God.

I never had such a meeting as this when I was in Germany, and many of the members never saw me, even though they often asked for me to meet with them. Why do members want to meet me, wherever I go? Simply because there is a different relationship between me and God. You can't see it but you know it.

You know the road and goal of indemnity, and how we can be victorious: it is heartfelt restoration, heartlistic restoration. How wonderful it would be if you could just get in a jumbo jet to reach true love. Unfortunately, it is not that simple, and there are eight stages to go through. Have you ever thought about that? We are always talking about the Unification Church tradition. Tradition means the actual fulfillment of the indemnity course. Do you have tradition? Our tradition is to follow God's method, to receive that tradition and follow it. Then it becomes our own tradition.

The fall of man means departure from the original place. We know from Divine Principle of the indirect and direct dominion of God's love. The indirect dominion is the growth period, when men and women are growing in purity. During this time your parents pour their love upon you, and you receive love of your brothers and sisters. Adam and Eve received God's love while they were growing, and they loved each other. The fall was nothing else but departure from God's love, and men and women became adversaries instead of brother and sister. By falling, they made unity with the enemy. There was no truth in that, for each deceived and took advantage of the other. That is the opposite of God's nature.

No matter how great American civilization is, individualism in this country only destines people to hell. That is an obvious conclusion. Such people would sell out their own families and nation, thinking that they don't need other people or their government. They think they can be happier that way, but instead they lose everything. The more individualistic you are, the more you lose. The universal law is such that whoever claims things for himself has no place to stand in the universe and becomes completely isolated.

The American who follows this way of life ends up with an animalistic kind of life, satisfying only his physical desires. Animals don't talk about eternity; when animals part they never write letters or have farewell banquets. There is no love, but only material instinct in that world. If men go that road, eventually they will be written off by the universe.

Has God been looking for lots of food, free sex, and drugs? God has been looking for something eternal, unchanging and unique. He doesn't need food, power or money; He only needs true love. Would you be prouder of a giant diamond, or of true love? Once you obtain true love, God will come without formality to you, even in His pajamas, wanting to dwell with you.

God can make anything He thinks He needs, overnight. He can make food so wonderful that you could eat it forever, but God doesn't need that. God's love is so sweet that you would eagerly pursue it for eternity. Once you are connected to true love, there is no room for any other desire.

When you have such intense give and take with someone, the two of you become one so completely that you can't be distinguished from each other. You are inseparable. Even God with His power could not separate you, and He would say it was His destiny to stay with you forever. To obtain that love of God you have to cut yourself off from this world where people take advantage of each other.

Because of the fall, man lives in a realm that God cannot control. In such a world, how can you reach God? We have a wonderful method, however, which can show even an impossible man how to recreate himself and the world. In order to join the Godly realm, you cannot apply any of the assets you acquire in the fallen world, for they won't work. When you walk back and forth, is it for yourself or others? If truly it is for other, then God will see hope in you. How long have you been doing it for others? The standard is to do it for eternity.

Maybe you are counting the days until you have been in Unification Church a certain number of years, but I am sorry -- God doesn't calculate that way. You want to obtain unchanging love eternally, not for just a few years. True love is unchanging, so you must become unchanging people. Some people shop for a religion, sampling many churches. The only criterion is to reach the place where you can find God's true love; the truth is there.

If you could get true love simply by living for yourself, then God wouldn't have had to wait thousands of years for it. For true love to be stable it must be deep down within you, where no one can take it away. The man of true love lives his whole life for that one purpose -- walking, eating, sleeping and working for that purpose. Your two hands should work for others, and your mind always be thinking for someone else. If you meet that criterion then, simply speaking, you are a man of God. Then where ever you go, conscientious people will be drawn to you. Wherever you walk, love will be in motion around you, and the Kingdom of Heaven is in that place. Do you really understand?

Have you sisters asked yourselves for whom you so carefully put on your makeup in the morning? Do you say to yourself, "I know men will be attracted to me now"? I am not anti-lipstick; the point is whether you want to be pretty in the sight of the world, or to attract people for God. The key point is your motivation. If you are sleeping so that you can continue to work the next day, then you are not sleeping for yourself.

I have always thought about what God's worst headache is. Without question, it is the force of worldwide communism, which teaches that matter is the essence of the universe. The next problem is the decline of religion. If God's forces are being corrupted, I want the burden of restoring them. The entire world is becoming morally degraded, so I want to solve that problem for God. I want to take up the responsibility for all those things.

Recently in Germany 280,000 people gathered in the capitol. I told our several hundred members to march against that rally, and that disrupted the entire demonstration. Our CARP members are marching against the communist demonstrations for the sake of God and humanity. Communists might think they are demonstrating for the sake of Europe, but we are demonstrating for the sake of the entire world. Some people say they are great American patriots, but I tell them that I am doing things for the sake of the entire past, present and future.

I am struggling to protect the love of God so that it can be given to the entire world. In God's sight that makes me the number one champion. No determination can be stronger than this one, so the others will be pushed out eventually because God is with me. No power under the sun can defeat me. I know that even though God is almighty, by Himself he cannot restore the world. God needs a champion on earth to fulfill His will.

I would be happy to see deprogrammers come and test all of you. Your parents think they are saving their children when they kidnap you for themselves, but if you are here to restore the world, which cause is greater? If you are thinking in that way, could you be deprogrammed? I have been in prison several times, and each time I walked in with dignity, feeling it was the roadway to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Now you know how to defeat Satan. The greater cause always wins out over the trivial cause. Restoration will not come without indemnity. We must clearly learn the tradition of God. Satan is not qualified to be master, even of the fallen world. Even in this world a master must be fair with the servants, but Satan is the enemy of mankind because he is using this world as his slave.

What is the secret to make this enemy surrender? First, love God. It is impossible for Satan to do that. In Satan's world the pattern is for love to flow down from the top. In following the road of restoration, you have to go opposite the way of the satanic world. Knowing this principle, God goes down low underneath the worst misery of men. Even Satan cannot go that low because he is always self-centered, and such a person can go only so far. But God is unlimited.

If you go lower down than Satan, that extra distance becomes the amount by which you can push yourself up higher. When you pay more indemnity by going deeper, you can go up higher. God is using Unification Church as a tool to give you a tougher indemnity course so you can go up higher. We do that because of Satan, who is so arrogant that he can't learn the virtue of meekness. When you go down low then Satan cannot follow.

The pattern of my whole life is one of suffering and persecution. The American media felt I wouldn't last six months, and they tried everything to hinder me, but instead I am soaring up. I could do that because I know how to conquer Satan. Everyone has tried to hit me, but it was my antagonists who were shattered instead.

With this understanding do you want me to compliment you and give you an easy life? Now do you mind being pushed hard? Whenever the Dursts came to Germany to report to me, I gave them only harsh words and maybe they were apprehensive about coming again. But they knew the secret: even though I scolded them, it was their asset and they didn't mind my harsh words. If you can tell God He can do anything with you, then you are really advancing.

Another couple I have tested is the Ormes. I have purposely treated them harshly. I didn't want them to feel they were no good any more, but to feel grateful instead. Then they could reach a new level. In Germany I did things the members there didn't expect. I have such a clear vision for them, and even though they have a different vision, I just go the other way and wait for them. Then when they arrive at that point, they always feel I am ahead of them.

When you live life like that, you truly experience the living God, the powerful, loving God. This indictment is a good example. You know I have done nothing wrong, but I was accused anyway. I was in Korea preparing for the Science Conference when I heard the news. I could have ignored the American court and just focused on the job at hand, but that was not my thinking. Even if I am convicted and sentenced to jail, what matters is the life and death of America -- that's why I returned. I know clearly that what I am doing here is selfless. I am here for God and His providence, and I know the time will come when this nation and government will bow in respect and admiration. That is how Principle works.

Do you want me to push you to work hard, or do you want an easy way? If you really want to go the hard way, do you think this country will prosper or fail? If you really want to take God's heaviest burden, no principality on earth can stop you. God is the king of kings in the practice of indemnity, which means that God has suffered most. A son of filial piety thinks the way his parents think, and wants to take their burden, not just their joy. An untrustworthy son doesn't care about his parents' concerns, but only wants to take advantage of them. In this congregation there are two types of people -- loyal and disloyal children. It is easy to say you are loyal, but doing it is not easy. Disloyalty is the easy way out. Patriotism is a hard way of life. Loyalty to God can be categorized in the same way.

Which road did I have to choose? From beginning to end, I wanted only to be a loyal son, no matter how hard the road might be. I never thought it was difficult to do, or even for one moment complained to God. Once a tough problem was overcome, I looked for a bigger problem. When it was finished, I looked for a tougher problem. I never had a daily schedule, but just continued 24 hours a day. It is unmistakably clear that this is the only way to be a son or daughter of God.

The number one person is the universe is God, so for His sake I want to bear His burdens. If this is your attitude, then you have to be considered His number one son or daughter. Make a list of the difficulties God has, and number them in priority, and then pick the toughest one. This is how you become a loyal son. I never asked for God's recognition or praise because I am very busy in this chaotic world where there is much more restoration to do. There is no time to think about getting credit for myself.

If God is the king of kings of indemnity, then at least I want to be the king of indemnity on earth. A long time ago I made up my mind that I would suffer more than anyone else on earth, in either the past, present or future. In comparison, death is a rather simple way to fulfill. The pioneer climbs up first, setting the rope behind him so that everyone else can climb. It would be much easier if I were the only one climbing to the top of the mountain, but I want to leave the path behind so everyone else can come. In order to do that I had to leave a foundation at every stage, and at every stage more indemnity was required of me. To make the foundation in this secular world God had to come down to suffer in the worst part. That is the simple principle I have been living.

These steps should have been trod by the elder son -- by Adam if there had been no fall -- in the indirect dominion. But after the fall there was no elder son for heaven, since Cain became the elder son on the side of Satan. As the second son, Abel has no right to pioneer the road to perfection, so in order to go that road he has to go first to the satanic world and work hard to receive the birthright of elder son.

Satan holds the birthright, and Cain is the elder brother, so it won't be easy to claim the birthright. God's way of winning the birthright is to get Satan to surrender it willingly -- that is the only strategy acceptable to God. You can imagine the degree of suffering involved: Satan's hardened heart and mind must be melted so that he admits that you deserve the birthright instead of him.

In the satanic world you struggle with Cain, the elder brother. On the way in, Cain goes first as the eldest. Next, Satan must willingly surrender to Abel, and then on the way back Abel is in front and Cain behind as younger brother. This sequence must be repeated at each stage, going out to the satanic world and then back again each time. You start out as servant of servant, then servant, then adopted son, stepson, then true son; next you restore Eve, then Adam, and finally you become united with God in the eighth stage. Number eight represents a new beginning.

No religion has known this secret. Most religious people have tried to go directly to the top, for they didn't know they had to encircle the satanic world, pay indemnity, and win the heart of Cain. You have to tread the way of God's tradition, which means going to the satanic battlefield, starting at the bottom as servant of servants. How many stages have you covered? How much have you been following the law of indemnity, and how much do you have left to pay?

It took God thousands of years to cover each step. Where would you go to restore the birthright? To the satanic world. I came to America to win the birthright. Only after restoring it can I move forward another step. I am elder brother to you, right? According to Unification Church tradition, then, when I assign someone to be a leader I am not giving him authority to command, but a commission to go down to the world to show an example of hard work.

Would you rather side with Satan, who accuses you, or with those who support you? If someone is really Abel to you, uniting with him is the key to get the blessing; it is not good if you against him. Among Dr. Durst, Mr. Kamiyama, and Reverend Kim, Rev. Kim is the eldest. If Dr. Durst is getting a hard time from the other two, then still he should not be in a position to complain. Actually they are all in the same Abel group, but Dr. Durst is in the position of youngest. For him the wisest way is to follow the elder brothers' tradition.

If ever Dr. Durst feels that America is primarily his responsibility and territory, and that he has a better way with Americans, it will only bring him more suffering. Before I assigned him to president here, his two elder brothers were already fulfilling key positions for many years. When Dr. Durst is following the tradition of Mr. Kamiyama and Reverend Kim, he will receive blessing when they do, so that is a wise strategy. Otherwise, he has to start from scratch. But in my way he can cover quickly the territory they have already opened. It comes to him freely.

This is very important in setting the Unification Church tradition. America is not a separate territory, but one portion of God's world. God sees one world and one people, not many nations. There is no other formula for the road of indemnity. You have no idea how many millions of people paid the price for the dispensation to take one step.

If your scalp is split open in a fight, you have no place to appeal when you are servant of servant, for you have no right to see the master. In communist countries there is no place to appeal when inhumane things are done; that is just like the servant of servant's position. God first put Himself in that position and did not complain. Maybe some American leaders think they have acquired great authority in Unification

Church, but in God's sight they are still bound by this law of indemnity by heart. On my recent brief visit to Korea I brought a greater whirlwind than any other time. I pushed out all the elder couples, from 36 through 430 couples, who all thought they were established and settled, and sent them to frontline missions. Could they complain? They are very honored to be pushed out by me. Are you just walking back and forth, or are you ready for the opportune time to jump over? That's how history is moving forward.

Eve gave life to two brothers, Cain and Abel. They each breast fed from her, so they should have unity and harmonious give and take at her bosom. The elder should tell the youngest to nurse first, and the younger insist that the elder go first. The only way you can win the birthright is if you are better than your brother.

Among two twins, how can we distinguish which is Cain and Abel? The one who becomes the elder brother must be doing something unique. This applies to the members also; it is the person who serves more and is more dedicated whom we regard as the elder brother. Through that sacrificial son the dispensation of God will progress. That is the deepest part of the valley, through which the river of dispensation will flow.

Dr. Durst is officially the president of the American Unification Church, but if one of you has a more serving and sacrificial attitude, then his blessing will flow through you. It is not title but state of heart that matters. If Dr. Durst cannot fulfill his responsibility, someone who is rich in heart will become leader of America instead.

Even in the future there will be no denominations in Unification Church because we know about Cain and Abel. If two brothers are struggling for power, the one who sacrifices more will win; that shall be the mainstream. Parents always want to see their children love each other. They would rejoice to see their younger son loving his elder brother more than he loves them. You don't have to worry about getting recognition. If you make yourself a deeper valley then the water will automatically flow toward you. God wants to dwell in the deepest valley, where the water makes a lake. Your wealth will consist of tribulation and suffering, not of an easy and clever way of living. Now you know clearly all my secrets for getting to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Eve will hold her two sons, moving toward Adam; that is her road. Will the children protest that he is not their father? If so then their family will be shattered and Eve's mission is a failure. Her mission is education of the children in the father's tradition of following God, explaining why their father is living in a certain way. She will teach them every point of what their father looks like, and how he acts. When the children see other people, they will recognize and apply some of the points taught them by their mother and understand more about their father.

In the Western world today the Cain and Abel nations are America and West Germany. Which is the Eve country? Japan. Japanese members came to America and Germany to feed members here by educating them. Any good mother makes sacrifices for her children, and our Japanese members have given much to nurture both America and Germany. Even if Japanese members become thin and pale from overwork, they have no way to complain because theirs is the mother's role. You have wondered why Japanese members are so short. Now you know. It is because they have given mother's milk to all the big American and German members, and they have no strength to grow bigger themselves.

The Japanese members are not allowed to complain even once about the role they are playing. Japan has one more important role. It must look for Adam and teach the children what kind of father they will have. The two babies happen to be tall Westerners, and they look alike, with blue eyes and a big nose, but the face of their mommy is very different! The children are accustomed to certain kinds of food like bread and cheese, but the mother eats rice and miso soup. They wonder, "How can she be my mother?" And then when the children meet their father, they see he is a Korean, and he eats hot ko-chi-chong and kimchee!

When the children look at their history, they see that at one time America and Germany were enemies. Here we have four impossible elements, Korean, Japanese, American, and German, but we have to make them one, uniting them into one culture. Once they are united, they must move up one more step to unite with God, but that final step will be the easiest. Do you think I made this up just in order to push you I more? No, this is the principle of restoration and I cannot deviate from it at all.

What kind of program do I need to unite these nations? One cardinal rule for the training program I have devised is that there is no room for complaint. Even with great perseverance, however, it is still difficult to become one. But without such unity, there is no hope for the Kingdom of Heaven. Do you think I had an easy time bringing you this far?

You are clever people and no one can deceive you. Only the most heartistic truth can convince you. Furthermore, I went the path ahead of you. You know my experience and accomplishment, so you trust me. Great blunders were made over and over in history because no one knew the secret of indemnity.

Religion should be persecuted; if any religion is welcome from its beginning, stay away from it. Look instead for the religion which receives the worst persecution. The Unification Church has grown to the worldwide level under persecution. I could have spoken only nice words about America, but I spoke the truth, and sometimes the truth is painful. In this nation all the Cain groups have been against me, and they hit me very hard, but still I am winning. You follow because you find more righteousness here. You have hope to gain more here.

I know the psychology of parents. Your parents gave you love and food and education so that you could become great in society and take care of them later. Then I showed up, and they think I took you away. But in reality you came to me. I never forced you anywhere; you simply followed. The Washington Monument rally was a controversial event. I could have said nice things about President Carter, but I came to America as a judge and prophet to tell the truth to the nation and leaders.

I proclaimed that our next rally would be in Moscow. At first many communists thought it was a joke, but I meant it, and in many ways I am preparing for it. Many American young people today live the lazy grasshopper way of life, but in the Unification Church we are like the ant that works diligently all day. The ant has a very thin waist because it works hard all the time.

The territory of America's mission is worldwide. This nation has had the role of leader and elder brother, but in many cases it took advantage of other nations. Now it must go out to give to others. The younger brother nations have been economically and spiritually poor, so America must give everything to them and lift them up. You have a lifestyle of plenty, so this nation can build wonderful homes for Africans, Asians, and South Americans. Americans think this nation's wealth belongs to them, but if they don't use it for God's mission then it will all slip away, no matter what they do. No white man or black man can say this; only a yellow man can say this.

Without the unity of four cultures, there is no way you can attain true love. We simply have to do it. Those who were in the garden of Eden all turned against each other, and you can know that the last days are at hand when the prophecy is fulfilled that the members of your own family are your enemy. America is fulfilling that prophecy now. Parents have become enemies to themselves and their children, and brothers and sisters have become enemies. If America cannot come out of that situation, it shall be destroyed.

I came to America with the solution which enables families to make loving relationships. Divine Principle is the unifying principle, especially for the family. Even divorced parents can be restored back to each other. If America will receive this word from me, this nation will be blessed. But restoring family unity is nowhere as difficult as restoration of unity among four nations. In our movement we are in a position to unite four cultures, so uniting your own family is an easier task in comparison.

No matter how much difficulty you may encounter, you must restore. the four position foundation in your family. I want you to have confidence; once you truly know Divine Principle in your heart, restoring your family is an easy goal compared to what we must fulfill in the Church.

Unity of the four nations is our next challenge. The easiest way would be to bring people of all four nations within your bosom to receive your milk, uniting them in one family. If your brother-in-law is German, your uncle Japanese, your sister-in-law Korean, and you are American, then you have four nations in one family.

Whether you like it or not, you cannot decline, and you must accept the challenge. Since I am already thinking this way, many of you ask for international marriage. God knows this is the best way to unite the four nations. You know this, even if you can't explain it too well. If you can't do this then you can't say you have fulfilled the goal of heartistic restoration, and you can't dream of entering God's direct dominion.

Now the second three seven-year courses are beginning, and I must give you clear direction. God has been following this tradition and principle, so I am no exception. For the last 21 years I have done exactly what I am explaining to you today, indemnifying 2,000 years of Christian history. Even though I faced persecution the whole time, I created a ladder through the eight stages to the direct dominion of God's love.

It took me sixty years to create this ladder, covering 6,000 years of history. How long will you take? Your job is easier because the pioneering work has already been done. God wants your share to be done quickly because He is anxious to restore the Kingdom of Heaven, so He wants you to get your job done in six years and six months. I am teaching you exactly how to do that. This mission still has eight distinct stages, so I want to give you the condition of doing the whole course in microcosm. If you really accept and welcome this course, it doesn't have to take even six years, but only six months, because the foundation I have laid is so powerful. In time the whole world will accept me, and then that job won't even take six months.

Today we had a big rally, and the press was there as early as eight o'clock because they wanted to see me. I didn't speak until noon, so that meant they waited for four hours. Their attention is different now, for they want to know about me. If they stand for three hours among you, they have to be affected by your sincerity because they have heard so many evil things about our Church.

If the two major papers, the New York Times and Washington Post, realize the harm they have done and declare it to the world, then the world can turn around overnight. The heavenly force is pushing them, so they have to repent at one time or another. You worry that I have been indicted, but I never thought about it; I only thought about the universal dispensation, and God has given this opportunity to seize the world's attention.

The microcosm of restoration can be fulfilled in home church. Home church is your universe, and without fulfilling there you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The job is easy from now on because we don't recognize national boundaries, and wherever we go we do home church. Among home church people there shall be one family, even among people of enemy nations. Later home church champions will be wanted everywhere, and people will even smuggle them into hostile nations, for that is the only way the nations can be saved. That time will come.

Your 360 homes represent 360 degrees, meaning all four directions, north, east, south and west; a year also has about 360 days. True Parents have accomplished their victory, and by setting this small condition of home church you are entitled to inherit what they have won. Restore three generations: restore Adam's failure plus Jesus' unfulfilled mission, and inherit True Parents' era, paying indemnity for Christian opposition by doing home church. You have that responsibility. My victory was not won for my sake, but for you. Now I am waiting for each of you to fulfill this miniature condition. Then I can gladly give the entire victory to you as your inheritance.

Jesus Christ bore the cross because a certain number was not fulfilled. He needed twelve disciples, then 72 disciples. There were ten generations between Adam and Noah, and in addition Cain and Abel made twelve generations. The ten generations after Noah until Abraham, plus Shem and Ham make twelve generations. At the time of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were two vertical generations. In Jacob's time the number twelve was extended horizontally.

In Unification Church the indemnification of all these generations is done through the 36 couples. Consummating the vertical history on earth, Jacob defeated the angel, won the heart of his elder brother, and had twelve children. Twelve is a central number because it is a vertical number. In each tribe there are six members, and twelve times six makes 72. The Bible says Jesus had 70 disciples, but to be exact it was 72. Twelve would become the forefather's position, and 72 would become the children's position. Jesus was crucified because he did not have 72 or 84. If three generations has been set up in Jesus' time, Jesus, children, and grandchildren, then Jesus would not have been crucified. Certainly if Judaism had accepted him, Jesus could have had three generations.

The two major families at Jesus' time were Joseph's family and Zechariah's family, which was the Cain family from which John the Baptist came. These two families were meant to work together, but when they failed to unite, they were shattered. Within your home church Joseph and Zechariah's families are expressed as Cain and Abel.

You have two types of home church, the Cain type is in your 360 homes, and after that is restored, you will do Abel-type home church in your own family. When both are completed, you are elevated to the parent's position, the Messiah's position, and then you are in heaven. In this miniature dispensation I have made your job practical and easy.

People in this world can be classified into three categories: first are married couples, representing Adam's family; second are couples who live together without marriage, plus the realm of engagement, representing Jesus' position; the third realm is men and women who are still looking forward to engagement and marriage; this represents the Second Advent. You will find all of these types opposing you in home church. Your job is to make them willing to capitulate; this is not a militant goal, but a heartistic, loving goal. Would you welcome me to your home, to every room in the house? Your goal is to be welcomed as openly as that in your home church area. If you really know the formula, you can bring your people to understand the importance of home church in one week and they will join with you.

Dr. Durst, do you understand the importance of home church? You are trying to work out some pragmatic way to get quick results, but since home church comes out of Principle, each person has to walk the Principle way. Without this road can you enter heaven?

Home church is like a launching pad. The fuel of your rocket is true love, and then your rocket can fly. When you reach the moon, God will come down and recharge you with His love. Next you will land at the sun. God knew my mission, and He had a reason to give me my name. Going up is moon-sun, and going down is sun-moon.

You don't like indemnity; I don't like indemnity either, but we cannot bypass indemnity. No matter what leadership position you have in our Church, without going through home church you cannot reach that moon. In Korea I pushed out all the older couples to do home church. Even if they were leaders of businesses, they still had to do home church. Not a single one of them opposed my plan.

As soon as I got to Korea I called all of them together and told them to write their resignations as company presidents, and in one hour I had them all. Then I gave them the home church mission. Does only a backward country like Korea need home church, and not a civilized country like America? If I did that in Korea, do you think I could do it here? If I pushed you like I have the elder members in Korea, it would be a social scandal, wouldn't it? All the newspapers would call me a racist.

I have many continents to visit and I may not be here in America in three years. Who can say I should stay here? America is only one nation. Have you experienced forty days of pioneering in the summer? We have only been doing that here for two years. In Korea it was started in 1957. If your attitude is that you are obliged to do it as a condition, and you just look over your area as though it were a summer vacation, is that evangelism? I have taught you everything you need to know, so just go ahead and see what you can do.

Actually, home church was initiated here in America, in the last part of 1977. The home church dispensation has existed for less than five years. Since I have given this formula for home church for the restoration of all people around the world, my mission is all done; that is what God has been wishing for 6,000 years, what I have wished for sixty years, and is what you can do in six months or six years.

In 21 years I have completed all the spiritual foundation for restoration. Now it is your time, your children's course. I have made a spiritual foundation, and now I want to create a worldwide economic foundation in the next seven years. That is why I went to Germany. I have been a controversial figure in the religious field, and now maybe I will be controversial in the economic and business fields. When that foundation is completed in seven years, the foundation for the Moscow rally will be done.

Now it is your turn. Do not lose this golden opportunity I have given you to meet the condition in seven years. Attack it and fulfill in seven years. This is a new era and now you are in my role. If you don't do well in seven years, your course will be expanded to 21 years, and I know you don't want that. We are marching toward the final goal.

Make a determination to take off as servant of servant. In order to fulfill that role a person must be willing to give his life at least three times, but people in the free world are not quite ready to do the things that God wants them to do. You will be going to the satanic world seven times at the risk of your life, then moving to another stage. That's why Jesus said that the person who was ready to lose his life for Jesus' sake would find it. Jesus also taught that the members of your own family are your enemy if they block the way.

Have you ever heard in all history of parents kidnapping their own children? That has happened to the Unification Church, however. Jesus' supreme teaching was to love your enemy, meaning not just someone in your family who doesn't like you, but any person trying to attack and kill you. You are working to pass the examination on the family and national levels, and then you should move on to the worldwide level.

To go through all the stages, you must be prepared to risk your life 21 times. This is a serious business, but unless you go through it you are not entitled to receive heavenly blessing. What is the price tag of all this? Actually human history has lasted 800,000 years, not 6,000. For 80,000,000 years the world evolved and the population of the earth has been in the billions. During this time God and mankind together could not raise up even one perfected Adam. How much sacrifice was paid during that time? You have no idea.

God had to restore one Adam; Adam had to restore one Eve, and Eve had to restore Cain and Abel, who then must restore all the tribes of the world. Could they ever figure out how to do it without knowing the Divine Principle? Finally in the 20th century one man was born through whom God has accomplished restoration of all history, and also given the course of home church so that everyone has a way to get to heaven. All this was done in one short lifetime. This is an incredible victory! This is so valuable that you couldn't exchange it for the whole planet.

What price tag can you put on that victory? If one person dissents and says he doesn't want to go that route, would the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven be shaken? Never. If each member has 360 homes, less than two million members could reach all mankind. Later on when people can't find 360 homes nearby, there will be a great movement as they look for an area for themselves. It is such an incredible story that it is hard to believe; you can believe it if you want to, but whether you say yes or no, or good or bad, it doesn't count any more.

Shall we do home church? I have given you everything you need to know, so actually I don't need to meet you frequently. You know how you can defeat Satan, how to pay indemnity. In your heart you know what my position is. Do you want the easy way out or the hard way? The luxurious way, or the sacrificial way? Do you want to go to a friend's home, or an enemy's home?

I have given sixty years of my life in obtaining this victorious foundation, and now you can inherit the entire thing in six years. What a bargain! Do you think you can do it? After you know this truth, all you have to do is pack your bag with Divine Principle and a videocassette and go to your home church. You don't need Dr. Durst, or Rev. Moon. Just dig down in your home church.

I want to chase you out now! That is my concept. Amen means number, one man. Now you know the tradition: restoration by indemnity for the sake of restoration of heart. Heartlistic restoration by indemnity is the tradition. The starting point is the servant of servant's position, then the position of servant. A servant has a master, and I know you expect the worst master. When you become an adopted son, your adopted parents will be the worst animals to you. Your stepparents will be the worst in the world. When you become a son, your loving parent will train you to be a great man of God by giving you harsh tasks. If you think about yourself and complain all the time, do you think you can win?

When you visit 360 homes, you will be kicked 360 times, but still you must go. You have to shed blood, but even if you die at home church you will still be better off. We can thank God by telling Him that by being a servant of servants we know His heart and the ordeal He has been through. No matter how difficult your life is, don't ask God to comfort you. To be a son of filial piety means to comfort God when you are in the worst position. When you are suffering, God already knows it. You should rather plunge yourself to the place of death before praying to God to take away your suffering. Even if you die in fulfilling your mission, God will resurrect you.

Without that kind of foundation you cannot expand, or grow new branches and leaves. The root is God and the True Parents are the trunk, and their essence is coming through you as the branches. The leaves are consuming energy, so you have to pull energy from God. If you say you don't want to do your responsibility, you cannot pull energy from the root. You are persecuted and treated badly, but still you must be ready to comfort God and go on.

Many people thought that when I came I would set the date of their blessing, but instead you have been given a bigger blessing today! There is a much hotter issue at hand. Today in the name God and True Parents I am giving you this mission. Truly the Kingdom of Heaven is yours, and God and True Parents are becoming one with you. Amen!

Father's Explanation of Home Church

Sun Myung Moon
Compiled September 1981

You may have an old idea of Home Church, but throw it away like winter clothing and have a bright new Home Church idea, knowing the relationship between yourself, God and the dispensation. (4/6/80)

Providential Aspects of Home Church

Images of Home Church

Home Church is the altar where everything can connect. The offering you make on that altar must be done correctly. Home Church is like an extract of the essence of the world. (2/26/78)

Home Church is the formula by which we can find our homeland, home nation, home world and home heaven. Home Church is like a diamond; the more you polish it, the brighter it gets. (9/23/78)

There are no barriers between you and the Home Church mission -- neither racial, national, spiritual or physical. Jesus gave the key to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, and today I give you the key to Home Church, because that is the key to the Kingdom of Heaven. With one turn of that key, the door will open for the salvation of one tribe.

Home Church is not a dream or fantasy; this is the real blueprint of God. We have arrived at the final terminal. Home Church is one small world representing all mankind and the entire earth; it is a microcosm of the whole earth. Home Church is the alphabet of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Love God more than anything else. God is the root, and Home Church is the fruit and harvest of His love. When you come to the throne of God, can you proudly say, God, I loved my tribe and the world, representing You, and now I have come back to You? You are going to the Home Church as one atom of love, saying to the people, Become like me. You can cause other atoms to split, and they in turn will stimulate more splitting.

Our movement exists to duplicate ourselves and multiply. We will create a chain reaction of love throughout the world, and then the world will be converted by the atomic bomb of love. Home Church is the battleground where you are going to explode your love. Where can you get more supplies for your atomic bomb? God is the reservoir. All you have to do is tell God you are firing your atomic bomb, and He will supply you with more. God's supply depot is a 24-hour operation; you can bring a request at any hour, and God will always say yes, because His supply never runs out. (1/7/79)

Home Church is the bridge to unite the spiritual and physical worlds. (1/14/79.

Home Church is the greatest gift God and True Parents can give mankind. It has never existed before and will never recur in the future. When you make this gift your own by fulfilling it, you will definitely become a son or daughter of God. For the entire 60 years of my life, I have been preparing this precious gift for you, and now I freely give it to you. You can make it yours in six months. This is an incredible opportunity. (4/15/79)

Your Home Church members will see visions of me and also of you. When they are open like that, then they will realize they are to live as one family. Love will open their eyes. When you link that love to one Home Church and it connects it to another and so on, it will form an unbreakable chain of love which no one, not even God, can cut. This link will be sustained directly by the spirit world. The Home Church course is the miracle of miracles. The fact that I could announce the providence of Home Church within 24 years is a miracle; compare that to the little that Christians have achieved in 2,000 years. All the providential events are culminated in Home Church, the center of the dispensation. (5/1/79)

Home Church is a very precious blessing for you, because through it I am giving you a condition to go beyond the fall of man. You are an invincible force, advancing like a tidal wave to cleanse your Home Church, undeterred by any opposition. Your certification as a man or woman of God will be signed by the hostile people you meet in Home Church. You should feel that Home Church is a cause for gratitude, not a burden. Home Church is a short-cut to the Kingdom of Heaven. (5/27/79)

When I say that Home Church is the base of the Kingdom of Heaven, I mean that it is a launching pad like the pads at Cape Kennedy. Each of you is building a rocket; to construct the engine on the base is the most difficult task, and then you can build your way up and up to the capsule, where you can stay. Once you have finished constructing it, all you have to do is push the button and lift off. (1/1/80)

Home Church is the arena where we will go through all things God has said and done and through which He wants us to inherit His broken heart. (4/6/80)

Once every several thousand years, the rope passes overhead. The Unification Church is that rope and we are the ones who grabbed it. It is a once-in-a-million opportunity, so would you just casually grab it with one hand? You are winding it around not only your body but around your 360 homes. The rope will come down and take root; this is Home Church.

You should think of Home Church as your lover and love the people there more than you have ever loved anyone in the past. (5/18/80)

Historic perspective Home Church is truly our gospel, an a, crazing blessing from God. Through Home Church you can find and restore everything. In Home Church you meet God, the Messiah, Cain and Abel, and all the historical missions of the providence. It is a world of wonder. (5/27/79)

In Home Church, you will indemnify everything that was lost in history -- all the things of creation, all the love and heart that was lost, and all of God's personality, which has been lost. (4/14/79)

Home Church was supposed to have begun in the Garden of Eden, with the home as the place of worshipping God. God should have been the main beam of the home, with His children dwelling there in His love. The original concept of God's creation began with one man and one woman, who were supposed to form one family, one nation and finally one world. Thus, as their family grew, their Home Church would have become national church and eventually world church. This was God's ideal.

Our way of life is like Jacob's. Initially, his elder brother wanted to kill him, just as the Christian world tried to kill the Unification Church. But when Jacob finally returned home, Esau's heart was changed and he repented. Jacob loved Esau, gave him presents and embraced him, and the two brothers became one. In the same way, the world will finally come to embrace you, when you gain the victory in Home Church. (1/1/79)

Home Church has become the Unification Church trademark and a word with a very special meaning to us. Do you feel deep within your hearts that Home Church is a necessity? Many believers and religious people in history have talked vaguely about heaven without truly knowing how it could be developed. Jesus announced that the Kingdom of Heaven was dwelling in the midst of the people, but even he could not say that it was here on earth. I would like you to know clearly that the pronouncement of Home Church as a means of establishing the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth is truly an historic event. (1/7/79)

Through Home Church, your position is to restore the mission which Jesus was unable to fulfill in his lifetime. You are bringing his unfinished task to perfection. In one sense, Jesus was crucified because two homes failed to unite: Zechariah's home and Joseph's home (the Cain home and the Abel home). The unity of two families would have been the center of a restored tribe. Since this ideal was not fulfilled at the time of Jesus, we have to make the messianic mission a reality and restore also two types of Home Churches: one representing Joseph's family and one representing Zechariah's family. (12/11/78)

When you move into your Home Church area, God moves in with you and Jesus in the spirit world as well dwell there with you. (11/20/79)

God has tasted many failures in history, but by your victory in your Home Church, He will be able to forget them all. (12/24/78)

The entire world was my stage, and now that I am finished, I am asking you to imitate me in your small world of Home Church. You should re-enact my course and my victory in your Home Church; as my children in this children's era, you should repeat the victory of your parents. As soon as you unite with this spirit, I will be there with you; my victorious pattern and tradition will be your asset. There is no easier way to go. (1/1/79.

Home Church champion

I am looking for one person, the champion of Home Church. Whoever consummates the Home Church dispensation shall truly be recognized as the tribal messiah and will issue invitations to Mother and me to come to the first completed Home Church on earth. Winning the Olympic marathon is trivial compared to winning the Home Church race. I would like to keep a record in my notebook of successful Home Church numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. How many numbers would you like to see? Although you will never be able to look at that notebook here on earth, as soon as you arrive in spirit world you will. When you find it, if you see that you are number one, then all your ancestors will shout and dance. (1/1/80)

I am driving you all out to Home Church so severely that no one can stand it, and mist of you want to give up. But among you there might be one miserable man or woman who keeps on pursuing Home Church. That person will become the Home Church king or queen, and all the blessing of the Home Church will go to that person. There God's history will be written. That chapter will say that on such a year and such a month and such a day, all the Moonies tried their best, but being unable to sustain the pace, they gave up. Still, one crippled person remained on until the last, determined to die if necessary, for the sake of Home Church. God will build His eternal Home Church upon that faith, just as Jesus built his church on Peter, the rock. This kind of trial will reveal the true man and true woman. The men and women who remain shall be the rock of Home Church. (1/14/79)

Worldwide level

Your Home Church is one small world representing all mankind and the entire earth; it is a microcosm of the whole world, and it makes no difference where you live or travel. No matter where you go on earth, still you must do your Home Church mission. Even if you went to spirit world now, you would have to return to finish that mission, because unless you go through that gate, you can never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. (1/1/79)

Because the messiah has already made the condition of sacrificing himself by giving his life to restore the world, then his followers can condense a lifetime into a mere seven years in which they can follow the Principle and gain success in their own Home Church area. That will be considered the same as having fulfilled the responsibility of restoring the whole world. The whole world is represented in your Home Church area. By restoring your Home Church area, God will give you the same credit as if you had restored or re-created the entire world. (3/29/79)

If you do well in Home Church, then during the next seven years you can affect the events throughout the entire world. Your area is your world. If you win there, you can win the world. (4/16/80)

The number 360 in your Home Church stands for all of history; 360 represents time and space: the lunar calendar has 360 days, a circle has 360 degrees. Furthermore, the number 360 is divisible by all the significant providential numbers: 3, 4, 12, 72, 120, etc. Your 360 homes symbolize the annual rings of history, your 360 closest ancestors, all the individuals scattered over all the globe, and a living altar representing the entire world. Ideally, you should find at least 12 different nationalities living in your 360 homes; thus, your Home Church becomes the cultural sphere which can unite God's providence, centering on Christianity and synthesizing all races. Therefore, Home Church is the final gathering place. (9/23/80)

The ideal world

When you accomplish Home Church, there will be no more need for churches, for every home will be a church. You won't have to go to church or pray, just live by the heavenly law, the law of the heavenly country. When we finish Home Church, God will have His own nation, and its citizens will only have to observe its laws. When we love everyone as an extension of our own family, that in itself will be heaven. If this does not become reality, then the Divine Principle is just another ideology that does not work. (10/5/80)

The Significance of Home Church to You

It's your destiny

Home Church is the last providence which we must fulfill. This is the last restoration. (3/29/79)

Home Church is not a witnessing method; it is our destiny, the final terminal and the fulfillment of the providence. Fallen man must walk this road. More than a man is destined to marry, he is destined to fulfill the Home Church mission, either on earth or in the spirit world. It is impossible to erect the Kingdom of Heaven on earth without fulfilling the Home Church mission.

This is no dream or fantasy; it is the real blueprint of God. It is our great fortune to see the Home Church mission in our lifetime and install it as the pattern and tradition for history. A hundred times a day you repeat the alphabet in conversation; in the same way, Home Church is the alphabet of the Kingdom of Heaven; it should be an intimate part of you. If each one of you clearly realized that Home Church is the destiny of our movement, you would give your life for it, and my presence in this country would be irrelevant. (1/1/79)

All of you long for a destiny with God, but I want you to know that God has already set the appointment with you; He is waiting for you in your Home Church area. Jesus is there with Him, and the Kingdom of Heaven is there as well. Everything you have been craving is in Home Church. Don't just come to Belvedere to hear me speak; you will find me as well in Home Church. (1/7/79)

Suppose God and the spirit world hand-picked you and gave you this chance to do the Home Church providence. Now I am hand-picking you to do the Home Church providence. Don't you feel honored? You should be very grateful. You should repeat to yourself, Yes, God hand-picked me. How precious it is! (4/16/80)

If you are victorious in everything else but not in Home Church, your life will be a failure. (4/14/79)

Without doing Home Church, no one can go to heaven. You must understand this. Jesus left behind the key to heaven, namely Home Church, but even Jesus was not successful in Home Church, so there was no way he could make heaven on earth. Don't ever be casual about this; you must be determined to fulfill your Home Church destiny. (1/1/79)

When you go to the spirit world, you should have 12 disciples and 72 followers, because spit it world is organized according to this pattern. Without winning 12, 72 and finally 84 people, it is impossible for you to indemnify Jesus' mission. You must have 84 spiritual children as your individual foundation; you can even work up to the number 120, the number of Jesus' followers gathered after the resurrection. (10/5/80)

How seriously you have taken your Home Church responsibility will determine your position in history. (4/14/79)

It's your means of salvation

In order to find salvation, we must:

(1) Pass through the judgment by words, judgment of character and judgment of heart. All of you understand that we cannot go to heaven without passing through these three types of judgment.

(2) Become a True Parent.

(3) Become a central figure in heaven and on earth.

(4) Help others reach salvation. How many people have you helped to attend the two-day workshop, the 21-day workshop, and so on up to the 70-day workshop? The number of people you have helped to go through these courses is related to your personal salvation.

(5) Gain 84 disciples. Everyone should begin his course of witnessing, with the primary objective of gaining 84 spiritual children. The number 84 represents the 12 disciples and 72 elders at Jesus' time, which added together make 84. In addition, those 12 disciples include the three disciples, representing the three stages of growth. (2/3/79)

It brings you great benefit

Home Church is the greatest gift God and True Parents can give mankind. It has never existed before and will never recur in the future. When you make this gift your own by fulfilling it, you will definitely become a son or daughter of God. For the entire 60 years of my life, I have been preparing this precious gift for you, and now I freely give it to you; you can make it yours in six months. This is an incredible opportunity. (4/15/79)

Home Church is a very precious blessing for you, because through it I am giving you a condition to go beyond the fall of man. (5/27/79)

The extent to which you carry out the Home Church providence determines your level of personal maturity. Perhaps two thirds of your spiritual growth will take place through Home Church and perhaps the other third will come through other activities. When you follow Father's instructions here absolutely and become successful in your Home Church, you will inherit four things: material, man, spirit world and God. (3/29/79)

Home Church is the place where you can receive the worldwide inheritance; you will receive the individual inheritance, family inheritance, clan inheritance, tribal inheritance and national inheritance. Through the Home Church providence you will also receive liberation from satanic accusation. (2/25/80)

What you have in Home Church is a microcosm of the world, and by practicing there what I have accomplished on the worldwide scale, you are entitled to receive what I have inherited from God. (5/26/79)

When you become completely victorious, your 360 homes will become your home. All 360 people will say, You have been hungry for so long -- please come to our house for supper; you have lost so much sleep -- please take this bed as your own and rest. When they see how hard you have worked, they will all say, "Sit down and take life easy; let me do your job for you." If people really see God in you, they will surely say this to you. (1/7/79)

... is there than to look forward to the day when the people in your Home Church area welcome you? When you go around knocking all the walls down, you will eventually find the 12 gates open to you, and you will finally arrive at the central point you should occupy. Then you will become a successful 13. At that moment you will have finished the historical indemnity centering on yourself. You will have achieved something no one ever dreamed of achieving, and you will occupy the central position with God's approval. (1/13/80)

The best things that happen in your life should happen in your Home Church area. When you become old and look back, you will say those were your happiest days, and you will have a foundation for eternal happiness. (2/25/80)

Until your Home Church people shed tears and sweat for you, you must keep going. When that happens, you will be liberated and can then shed tears of hope and happiness. Then God will say, Amen. You have done it, and you are truly my son. You might die in the process of shedding tears and sweat, but don't worry; you will not lose, but will go to the highest heaven. In such a case, you can make your own second coming. Jesus was crucified as a tribal messiah and was not able to complete the entire dispensation, so he came once again. In the same way, if as a tribal messiah you are martyred, your second coming is guaranteed, and on earth the people who inherit your mission will continue Home Church. There is no way you can lose. (4/27/80)

Through Home Church you can win assets of eternal value. One day, after we finish our task here on earth, we will have a great assembly in spirit world. At that time, you will come to me in thanks for sending you out to Home Church, making it possible for you to go to the highest possible heaven. You will be comforted, and there will be a celebration lasting for eternity. However, if you come to me saying, "Please have mercy on me. I cannot come to your realm because I did not do my Home Church mission, I will reply, I don't know you; depart from me." (1/1/79).

Lay a good individual foundation

I want you to know that in order to build the base of the Kingdom of Heaven eternally, you must first build a base of the Kingdom of Heaven within yourselves. (1/1/80)

Before we can talk about Home Church, we need to win the individual war. Do you think that the person who is defeated in his individual struggle will have much success in Home Church? Someone defeated as an individual is like a mortally wounded soldier. If he gets up and tries to go to Home Church, he will only become an obstacle there. In order to go to Home Church, you need to have won the individual battle; you need to become strong, healthy, disciplined and absolutely determined. Only in this way can you bring results. (1/7/79)

Be motivated by love

You should think of Home Church as your lover and love the people there more than you have ever loved anyone in the past. (5/18/80)

If you do Home Church out of duty alone, you will never survive; but if you become a person burning with love, then people cannot help but welcome you and invite you to stay longer with them. You will become a magnet that pulls people. You must experience such a deep fellowship that you don't want it to end, even when it becomes 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. It should be an experience that people wish could last forever. (1/8/78)

No matter how loudly you may shout out your slogan, if you do Home Church out of duty, you will never succeed. Only when you act from the intoxication of love will you succeed. The Home Church arena is where you obtain the kingship of love. Put everything inside Home Church and put Home Church everywhere, so that wherever anyone touches you, they will feel Home Church. (1/14/79)

If your beloved parent or child were in jail, you wouldn't go to see him out of duty, but out of love. The people in your Home Church area are like prisoners in jail, and as God's representative, you should go there with a parental heart. You have to penetrate people's trust one level at a time, gradually winning their hearts. It takes real effort and love to do so. I want you to have concern and pity for those who fiercely reject you, because they are the ones whose hearts have been hurt deeply and cannot trust. You must understand that they need more love than anyone else. (1/28/79)

Love God more than anything else. God is the root, and Home Church is the fruit and harvest of His love. When you come to the throne of God, can you proudly say, God, I loved my tribe and the world, representing You, and now I have come back to You?

Home Church is the battleground where you are going to explode your love. You are going to Home Church to wage the battle of love, aiming the gun of love at each person. At the finish of that battle, God will be triumphant, as well as True Parents and all your Home Church people. If you win the battle of love in your Home Church, you will be as God to your people. Because God is invisible, He will manifest Himself to them through you as His representative. I would like to hear Home Church people say that when you enter their home, God enters through you. (1/7/79)

Love will open their eyes. When you link that love to one Home Church and it connects it to another and so on, it will form an unbreakable chain of love which no one, not even God, can cut. This link will be directly sustained by the spirit world. (5/1/79)

Set the condition that you love your Home Church more than your wife or husband, your children or parents. With all your heart, soul and mind, love your Home Church. Jesus said that whoever loved his husband or wife or family more than he would not be worthy of the kingdom of God. Likewise, if you love husband, wife or family more than Home Church and God, you are unworthy of the heavenly kingdom. (1/1/79)

Are you going out with the messiah's heart? Do you look for someone to help you and give you something, or do you feel that you are the messiah who will bring whatever your 360 homes need? (1/28/79)

The only way you can go out to Home Church is with great expectation of finding a treasure of a person, your lost relatives. The person who is successful in Home Church is the one who recovers the lost people, the lost country and the lost spirit world. Everything that was lost will be recovered by the successful Home Church workers. (2/25/79)

In the small world of Home Church, you are going to demonstrate that you love the people in your area more than anyone else in history. You must be superior in heart to everyone -- past, present and future -- in loving that small world. Then God will say, My son, you have fulfilled the qualification. Come and receive my inheritance. (12/24/78)

Make it the focus of your devotion

Have you felt that the mission God gave you is so exciting and wonderful that you forget about eating and sleeping? Are you knocking on the doors of Home Church with that passion? If not, then you are defeated. (2/21/80)

You should be so anxious to go to Home Church that no one could keep you in your room. (4/14/79)

Everything you see should be connected to Home Church. (5/7/78)

When you come home all worn out from working and collapse on your bed, should your central figure sympathize with you and let you sleep, or should he challenge you with the question, What about your Home Church? Even exhausted, your last words should be reporting on Home Church.

Maybe you run into a friend you have not seen for a long time, and he invites you out to dinner. Then you should think, What about my Home Church? If you go to Home Church immediately after eating, the food will be pleased: but if you wander off somewhere else, the food you ate will be disappointed.

If you and your fiance have a long-standing date to visit the Statue of Liberty and you buy a coke to drink there, the coke will protest, You think you are enjoying this, but it would be better to enjoy plain water in your Home Church.

Wherever you go, the things around you will ask why you came there instead of going to Home Church. The bench in the park will blame you for not being in Home Church. If you stop for a quick lunch at a restaurant, it will protest that you should eat just leftovers in Home Church. Ask each bench, each bathroom, each drink and meal if they have their mission, and they will reply, Yes we do, but we have no connection with you aside from your Home Church.

And when you go to bed, tell it, I know I should be sleeping in my Home Church, but please forgive me this one time. Tomorrow when I wake up, I will accomplish twice as much.

If you go out to enjoy nature, all creation will feel that you are not a good person if you are not in your Home Church. It's like people finding a ten-year-old playing hooky from school. Spiritually, all nature knows that you should be in Home Church.

After hearing this, you will feel the creation protesting against you everywhere you go. If that makes you feel more connected to Home Church and less free than before, because all your surroundings remind you of your destiny, so much the better. (10/5/80)

How much you devote yourself to Home Church shall determine the distance between you and God and the intensity of love God can give to you. Set the condition that you love your Home Church more than your wife or husband, your children or parents. With all your heart, soul and mind, love your Home Church. Jesus said that whoever loved his husband or wife or family more than he would not be worthy of the kingdom of God. Likewise, if you love husband, wife or family more than Home Church and God, you are unworthy of the heavenly kingdom. (1/1/79)

Your suffering will bring victory

Home Church is your ground for paying indemnity. You pay off your debt through Home Church. Home Church is located on the other side of the crucifixion, on the Mount of Calvary. It is located beyond the hill of the crucifixion. Home Church is located beyond the 2,000 years of Christian history. Home Church is also beyond Father's suffering life. (4/16/80)

In the future, whenever you hear the phrase Home Church, you will remember that you suffered for it, but also that this is where you fulfilled your destiny and won your victory. Thus Home Church will be your place of hosannas. Since you suffered, the shining glory you receive at the end will have greater value. The love you attain is yours forever; no one can ever take it away, because you earned every bit of it through your suffering. (1/7/79)

The value of persecution

If you live in your Home Church area 24 hours a day and every moment of the day everybody comes and kicks you, hits you, knocks you down and curses Rev. Moon, and yet you still love them and pray for them, you will be able to be proud of your record of enduring and overcoming record-breaking persecution. If you are crazy about Abel's mission and if you are crazy about Home Church, trying to win Cain, crying to receive persecution every minute of the day, then you just cannot be anything except a true Abel. (2/25/80)

Do you know who is going to sign your certificate as a child of God? Not me, but the hostile people in your Home Church area should be the ones to uphold you as a man of God. If you sisters meet a terrible man in your area who gives you a hard time, you must think that he is your husband. If there is an unbearable woman in your area, you brothers can think she is your wife. If you brothers meet such a man, think of him as your brother Cain who wants to kill you; then reflect on your duty to him and your responsibility to win him to your side. Think that unless you can win him to your side you are not ready to go on to any higher blessing. (5/27/79)

The Impact of Home Church On Others

Become people's tribal messiah

Each of us needs to assume the responsibility of leader of a clan and eventually the messiah of a clan. You must have the ability to feed all the inhabitants of your 360-Home Church area and take responsibility for them. Within your Home Church area, you must be the messiah, teaching, guiding and even marrying the people. (3/29/79)

Your Home Church people will have photo albums, and since you have testified to them about True Parents, they will put our picture on the front page. Right next to it they will put your picture and say, This person is my messiah. This will happen automatically, not because you tell them to, but because they desire to do so. (1/28/79)

You should want to go to Home Church to bring liberation. You should become an ancestor, a forefather of mankind and a forefather of Home Church. (4/16/80)

Your 360 homes are your tribe. If your name happens to be Smith, those 360 homes are the Smith tribe. You can say, I came and I am going to build homes for all of my tribe. And then you will reflect further, I know who built these homes; God built them for me to give to my tribe, and He used Satan as labor. I claim ownership of this place and as the tribal messiah I shall lead my tribe into the modern-day Canaan. (1/1/80)

Your position is like Jesus' -- that of a tribal messiah crying in the wilderness. Just as God prepared John the Baptist to testify to Jesus, God will also send a John the Baptist ahead of you to testify about you. It is hidden now, but in your area, there are people prepared, just as God prepared the nation of Israel. (4/27/80)

Your goal is to become a tribal messiah to your Home Church. You are independent messiahs, and whatever you do is your responsibility. You are to bring the Kingdom of Heaven in Home Church. (4/15/80)

Home Church is surrounded by a spiritual foundation. The messiah is the person who brings the spiritual victory and spiritual heaven down to earth, creating here on earth the physical heaven. Since you are a middleman or bridge to transmit the messiah's work to your Home Church, you are his ambassador; therefore, when you fulfill your mission you become the messiah to your own tribe. (1/1/79)

In Home Church, you are actually creating a tribe, and once you obtain it, you can go all the way of heaven. (5/26/79)

If you have 360 homes assigned to you but you are not working in them, people will come to accuse you and ask you to release them. They will tell you that they don't need that kind of messiahship. They will tell you that they need an active messiah. (4/16/80)

In the second seven-year course, all the people of one tribe will be assigned a joint Home Church area, which will be the tribal Home Church. A hundred Smiths will have 100 Home Church areas, and they will cooperate as one tribe, going from one place to another, sponsoring events and encouraging people. Once the process of organization is done and Home Church succeeds here in America, particularly once tribal organization is accomplished, a link will be made to the entire world, because America is a microcosm of the universe. After Home Church, you can do tribe church, nation church, world church -- whatever you want; but Home Church is the minimum. (5/18/80)

You should organize your rosters and lists in preparation for the registration of heaven. In other words, you are given a sort of birth certificate and you are organized into certain tribes. You know that eternally you will belong to a certain tribe. Seven years from now, everything will be decided by family registration. (4/16/80)

Become people's parents

Home Church will not make you merely a messiah to your people, but also their true parent. That is God's goal. (1/14/79)

Act, think and feel like a parent to your 360 homes. Think, I am holding these 360 homes; because of me, they cannot leave God; because of me, they will receive the blessing. This is parental heart. (4/14/79)

With a parental heart, you should pray for your Home Church people, loving them as your children who are struggling in hell. Your heart as a parent must be grieved and filled with longing to save them. If you do not have this real love, push yourself until you do. No one has to teach a parent to love his children. If you feel like a parent to your Home Church, then your love will have that quality; without anyone having to teach you, you will then know how to give it. (4/15/79)

You have to supply your Home Church with the essential elements for their particular stage of growth, just as though they were in their mother's womb. Those who are already born spiritually have to be given much love. You have to be exemplary in showing this life to those who follow and have confidence that if they follow you, then one day they will go to the bosom of God's love. You have to be confident that you are doing as God does, supplying all the elements they need. (1/20/80)

At first, Home Church people will not welcome you, but soon they will say that unless you come to visit them, they cannot sleep well. Eventually, they will think, This Moonie loves me more than God and Jesus do. He is like my parent; I could have no better parent than he. (1/1/79)

If your Home Church members are really grateful and willing to sacrifice for kingdom-building, then expansion to the home country is possible. Through Home Church, you shall be superior to any past saint, servant of God or patriot of history (1/14/79)

Educate the people

Why do you go to Home Church? First, you want to educate the people. This education has the goal to awaken the people and bring them to the heavenly side. This education will give them birth. Once they see the vision of the truth and the ideal, they will no longer live in darkness.

The Home Church mission is accomplished by people who take up the divine position as educators of mankind, teaching people how to love God and liberate the rest of mankind. We are going to teach the world these things: liberation of God and sacrificial love for mankind. We will sacrifice ourselves to educate the people and love them. If you do that, then without question God will dwell with you and will lead your Home Church, working with you day after day. (1/1/79)

Mobilize spirit world

Home Church is the bridge to unite the spiritual and physical worlds. (1/14/79)

1981 is the final year of the third seven-year course, and between then and the year 2000, the entire world will be organized into Home Church. That will complete 40 years since True Parents were installed in 1960. The more work we do here in the physical world, the greater the spiritual phenomena affecting the earth. Spiritual assistance will be equally strong, because that realm is like the angelic realm; its position is to serve the victorious Adam and Eve. In your Home Church, you will exercise your authority to direct the spirit world to assist you. (5/27/79)

Home Church can easily be surrounded and protected by the spiritual victory I have won; there is no possibility for it to fail. The spiritual power we can employ for the Home Church is many thousands of times greater than anything the satanic world can mobilize. All you have to do is unite with Parents' spirit and intent. Make controversy; go ahead and create good trouble. The world is plagued with evil trouble, so let us become makers of good trouble.

On November 2, 1978, two important ceremonies were held at Chung Pyung Lake, Korea. One ceremony was to unite all religions around one central religion -- not just on earth but, more basically, in the spirit world. The other ceremony was to unite all races around one central race or representative of God. The basic purpose of these ceremonies was to form one totally unified world, to remove racial and religious barriers. Walls that have separated the ages are now crumbling. Before, if some ancestor wanted to descend and help us, he would have to go through so much processing; but now the ancestors know the meaning of Home Church and can even help prevent persecution. In your Home Church area, if you witness to one person. his ancestors can all come down at one time. The whole clan-level spirit world can pour down and give you support. (11/28/78)

All good men of conscience in the entire spirit world and here on earth must come forward to participate in kingdom-building. You can pray, asking for their support. You can also petition God as your Father to send down a regiment of angels to work with you, since you are doing Home Church work as His representative, and God will listen to that prayer. Until now, the angelic world could not come to give you much help, because you belong to the fallen generation. But by doing Home Church work, you can become the true children of God, so you can request the help of legions of angels. (1/1/79)

Through Home Church, God can have dominion, and spirit world can have a free pass to come and help you. It used to be that when spirit world descended, it would have to ascend again; but now when we have a Home Church, it can stay with us; through Home Church, spirit world has no limitation in helping us. (12/11/78)

Home Church is infinitely precious; it's almost like landing on the final terminal of God's dispensation. When Armstrong landed on the moon, four billion people on the earth watched him; but when you land in Home Church, all the billions of people in spirit world will observe and applaud. Before this, you were nobody special, but by encountering me and the Divine Principle, you have become a person of historical significance. (1/14/79)

If you cannot bear to leave your area, and you stay there, remaining awake all night, then spirit world will visit those 360 homes for you, showing them a vision of you standing in the neighborhood and not going back home because you miss them so much. After such a vision, they will open up their door and you will be standing there. (2/25/79)

Your Home Church members will see visions of me and of you also. When they are open like that, then they will live eternally in the same spirit world and realize that they are to live in the same family. Love will open their eyes. When you link that love to one Home Church and it connects it to another and so on, it will form an unbreakable chain of love which no one, not even God. can cut. This link will be directly sustained by the spirit world. (5/1/79)

Those of you who are engaged should determine to receive the inheritance from your own True Parents and walk on their foundation. How do you prove you are worthy? Through Home Church. No one who retreats from doing Home Church is qualified for the Blessing. In some cases, your fiance or wife or husband may be hesitant to do Home Church, but you should push him or her out.

If you can give anything for your Home Church, how much more could you do for your mate? Now that you have a fiance, a new loved one, you can love your people more. Do you wish you had more time to spend with your fiance instead of Home Church? Your antenna should be directed towards Home Church. When you meet with your fiance, put your heads together and decide that you will each go out to win the victory in Home Church and then come back and ask me to bless you. I would like to see you practically worshipped in your Home Church area, so that when you bring your fiance, everyone will say that they have a king or queen as well. By winning this qualification, you can truly enter the hall of Blessing for the wedding march.

The process of restoring the fallen world involves three major relationships: that of Cain and Abel, that of husband and wife, and that of parents and children. Now we are bringing these three together for the first time. Home Church is the process of uniting the brothers, Cain and Abel. Eventually, your Home Church and your spouse's Home Church will come together, and you will be able to live together as a couple after receiving accolades from your Home Church. That will be your foundation for living as husband and wife. (5/27/79)

Prepare for your husband or wife

I want you to feel that Home Church is a training ground for your future married life and that all who oppose you are merely doing so to train you to live with your future spouse and in-laws. (5/27/79)

Home Church is the basis for loving everything, even your wife and husband. Think that in going to your Home Church, you are going to your wife's or husband's house. You must go to that place and love them, and find your husband or wife and your parents there. (1/7/79)

There should actually be no Blessing before Home Church is completed. From this time on, no one is automatically eligible for the Blessing simply because he has been a member for a certain number of years. Only those who succeed in Home Church and restore spiritual children are qualified for the Blessing. Jesus first restored his three major disciples, and then the group of 12. Those 12 plus his 72 followers established the number 84. Thus, 84 spiritual children is an important number for us to fulfill, and it must be done within seven years, bringing one person per month. After Jesus had 84 people completely united with him, he could have had the holy wedding. (1/1/79)

Prepare for your children

Only upon the victorious foundation of Home Church can you bear sinless children, just as perfected Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden would have borne sinless children. No one shall be able to stand against that pure child. You must fulfill all the conditions of Home Church before God's Blessing comes to you to be husband and wife.

When you are united as husband and wife upon this Home Church foundation and give birth to your children, then you will rise to the parental level. Your children will be born upon the foundation of your success in Home Church, and all your labor there will be reaped by them. In that case, you will truly have a foundation upon which to receive God's abundant blessing. Then, because the Cain and Abel separation has already been resolved in your Home Church, no stain will remain to affect your children, so God will gladly embrace you and your children. Unless you stand victorious in Home Church, however, you will pass on that duty and responsibility to your children, who will then have to undergo that tribulation themselves. (5/27/79)

Home Church people will give the true blessing and honor to your children. We know your father and mother very well, they will say, and they are true saints. We saw God through your parents. Then they will embrace and love and cherish your children. Just as you cherish my children, your Home Church people will pray for blessing for your children as well. (6/1/79)

If you fail in Home Church, your children will ask you why. Your children will ask how many times you shed tears for Home Church. They will say, Even if you had to neglect me and couldn't feed me, even if you abandoned me, you should have followed God's instruction, God's way of life and True Father's instructions. Why didn't you? When your children accuse you in that way, what will you say? There will be no answer. (4/16/80)

Cain and Abel Home Church

Before you can go back to your home town, you must digest 360 houses, fulfilling your responsibility in Cain's plane. When you do it, everyone will welcome you, just as I have received a welcome in Korea after fulfilling my mission. When I say you have to work in Cain's sphere, I am referring to the Cain-type archangel, the fallen archangel. The archangel tempted Adam and Eve, so to surpass the level of the fall and build the Kingdom of Heaven, we must get the support of the archangelic world, through Home Church.

The Christian realm is that of Cain, so you have to go to that realm and organize a certain group there -- win 360 homes. At the time of the second advent, if the Abel-type people cannot subjugate the Cain-type sphere, there is no way for individuals, families, clans, tribes, nations or the whole world to return to God. So we must build up a substantial world like the sphere of the unfallen archangel, in order to put an end to the fallen world and win the support and obedience of the Cain-type sphere. This you must accomplish through your Cain-type Home Church.

If you can make 360 homes unite with you, then you can go back to your home town, back to Eden, and do your Abel-type Home Church. As the second son, you had made yourself a sacrifice in order to serve Cain. When you go back home after gaining the victory in the Cain-type Home Church, your position changes from that of second son to that of first son. Then, as a consequence, the angelic world, as Cain, must become the sacrifice and support you as Abel. Thus, the spiritual world should come and support you when you gain the victory in Home Church. The early Christians were persecuted and killed, but nobody persecutes someone who invests himself desperately to serve 360 homes.

Only through Home Church can you return home. As adopted sons, you are still children of the archangel; therefore, you must subjugate the Cain-type archangel in your 360-home Home Church; then you can return to your home town, to the sphere of the original archangel. When win over the home town archangel, then you can restore your parents, your brothers and sisters and your relatives. Only when the Cain-type archangel (your 360 homes) and the original archangel (your home town) unite, can parents be restored.

The unified soldier has a mission to return to his home town and build a holy temple in the Kingdom of Heaven. Thus, your 360 houses are your Cain-type Home Church and your home town will be your Abel-type Home Church.

In the future, our organization will become completely Home Church. National leaders, center leaders -- everyone -- will do Home Church work. Thus, Satan will lose all his ground and have to leave the earth completely. Thus, the era of mobile activity will draw to a close, and everyone will settle down.

You left your home and your relatives have persecuted you. But in a few years you can go back to them and serve them better than any son or daughter has ever done in the past. Soon you can write a letter home saying, Forgive me, Daddy and Mommy, for my absence. Now I can come home and become more obedient to you than the most dutiful son or daughter that ever lived in this country. In a few years, you can pack your bags and go home. Then in one night, you can explain the Principle to your parents, and they will cry tears of repentance when they understand what you have done. When you die, your relatives will erect a tomb in honor of you who died for the sake of your parents. (9/23/78)

When you get all your Home Church people united, don't you think they would all want to help you do Home Church work with your family? They will do the witnessing for you. When your relatives come and see your members serving them and you so sincerely, they will be deeply moved. This is the normal pattern: Cain and Abel are meant to love each other and live together harmoniously. The Bible says your worst enemy is your family (even without looking it up in the Bible, you know that from experience!). But if you succeed in your Cain-type Home Church, then you won't even have to fight your worst enemy.

After the completion of Home Church in the Cain world, you can build one more Home Church: your Abel-type Home Church in your home town. Then you can invite your father and mother and your whole family to join you, and together with them you can enter the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God accepts only families, not just individuals -- and families of three generations, at that. By physically creating our tribal messiah- ship, we can open the door for national and worldwide messiahship. (1/1/79) 

Address to the French Family

Sun Myung Moon
June 1981

Centered around God's heart, we are gathered here. Are you happy to see your Father, even though he is an oriental man? It does not make any difference, because we love each other, with a heart of love that comes from God.

All of you gathered here want to save the world and save your country France; you are heavenly soldiers gathered together here. If your Father is a great general, then you must be great soldiers, right? But traditionally, the French people have more of a feminine nature; they don't like things which are too big or too strong, they seek beauty. What about you? Do you like big things or small things?

Actually, we are living in an age of great and violent struggles. If you are a heavenly army, you should know whether this is the time for training or the time for fighting; also, you should know whether your enemy is strong or weak.

If you want to understand the history of the Unification Church, you should first understand the history of our Father. We call him our Master, but what kind of person is he and what has he done? He is working to save the world and create the Kingdom of Heaven. The simplest thing that can be said is that he is the one who is accomplishing the will of God.

God had an ideal for the family and for the world. But we are imperfect, tainted by sin and surrounded by fallen mankind. Let's make an analogy to someone in danger of drowning; some people are still desperately trying to stay on the surface of the water; others have swallowed much water and are at the point of death. There are many different situations. We in the Unification Church have to throw the lifeline out to these people; the water, however, is not always calm, sometimes it flows very rapidly.

Lines connecting you to heaven

You want to be saved and go to heaven. So God has many lines tied to you and is going to pull you up to heaven. If He pulls all the lines simultaneously, you will have perfect equilibrium, but if He yanks the one tied to your feet, you may be pulled to heaven upside down!

There are just two ways of reaching heaven. One is to climb to heaven by your own power and the other is to hang on the line God throws down and beg Him to pull you up. You may be very heavy, but you would cling desperately to the cord, hoping to be pulled up. But when you beg God to pull you up, He will ask who you are. "I'm Your son (or daughter)," you will cry out, but He will reply, "I don't know you; I'm just searching for Adam and Eve. There are a lot of people down there suffering in the fallen zone, go and save them!" You are still tied up, but you reach out and try to save people, even though you are bruised and bleeding. Maybe you don't like that kind of life; you want to be free. But our Father tells us, "This is the only way I can save you."

Then your parents come and say you are crazy; they try to slash the lines connected to you. When they find out Reverend Moon got you to do this, they become angry at him and say he is a dictator.

But the Unification Church has many lines by which you can be saved. One of these is fundraising, another witnessing, another is the standard of purity before marriage, etc.

Not all the members of the Unification Church will be pulled to heaven together, but rather one after another. Furthermore, the longer we throw out the lines, the more people we can connect to us. As long as you are connected to a line, you will not drown.

Father is a good swimmer, swimming in the sea of the fallen world to save countless people. He insists that God hold his arm and not let him go. That is why he came to France, to throw out more lines to save fallen man. Do you think our Father can literally save every fallen human being in the world? He is really busy, so you are going to do it for him. The line must be strong enough to pull those wrapped in skins of the serpent, and those who are drawn by it will discover that it is the Tree of Life.

Now Henri Blanchard has returned from the 120-day training in the United States, and our Father is visiting France for the first time in a long while. So should you throw out a lot of lines or just a few? Father has observed that you don't like it when someone opposes you, but if you just sit around calmly, you cannot be saved. This is the time to put forth all your efforts.

Working to save France

In the time of battle, even the weakest sister may be stronger than satanic men. You are familiar with Joan of Arc; she was a woman. Will Unification Church members be weaker than Joan of Arc? During the period of restoration, women should work harder; they must establish the tradition of the Divine Principle, and men should follow Eve. The women are daughters of God and the men are in the position of the archangel, or the son of Cain. Who then is closer to the Kingdom -- men or women? Men must work still harder in order to come near to the kingdom.

Do you want to save France first and then get married, or do you want to get married first? Until now you have probably thought a lot about loving your ideal fiance. But without your country, you cannot approach your fiance. The true fiance is the one who devotes himself or herself for the country. Those who will devote yourselves to saving France, please lift your hands. Father sees you.

Our goal is to save France, not to work for the Unification Church. We will sacrifice ourselves for this goal; it is your privilege to save France all by yourselves. Once you have saved your country, you can work for the salvation of Europe, and after that the whole world. Do you like sacrificing yourself? Afterwards, you will be in a central position; you will be sons and daughters of filial piety towards your parents, because you have sacrificed yourselves for them. You will be patriots who have sacrificed themselves for their country. You will be the saints who sacrificed themselves for the salvation of the world. Until we become the children of God, we must work for heaven and for God, forgetting ourselves. God wants an individual to sacrifice himself for his country more than for his family, and to sacrifice himself more for the world for than his country. These are different levels, like kindergarten, high school and university.

If you work hard, one thing is sure; you will become the center of the environment.

International unity

Father has not come to give you gold and diamonds, but if you listen to his words, you will find them far more precious treasures. Father is telling you to go out and suffer and sacrifice yourself for the salvation of the world. If you cherish him and really do that, Father knows that you will become the center of the world of the future, without the slightest doubt.

Father matched many French and Germans together; he knows that these will be good matches because from the children you give birth to will raise a new Europe. The children born from such couples will have no enemies; just as they study the history of Germany, they will also study the history of France. As the children grow up, they will think, "Even if my mother and my father do not speak the same language, they were married for the sake of God. My parents are truly extraordinary parents."

If your son decides to work for France and for Germany, with the hope of uniting them, you can truly be proud of him. When Orientals marry Europeans or Americans, regardless of the differences of language and culture, their children will truly be ties uniting the world. You can teach your children that despite the differences of language and culture, you agreed to marry your spouse for the sake of God and for humanity and the world. You must transmit this tradition, never forget it. If you educate your children, they will be exemplary children, and we will accomplish unity in Europe without fighting, just with love.

Unity among men is what history hoped to achieve and is the goal of all religions. Napoleon wanted to bring about European unity, but he tried to do it by force and bloodshed. Hitler attempted the same thing. But these two failed because they used force and did not hesitate to shed blood. But by love and centered on love, Europe should come into unity; this is what God has hoped to accomplish centered on Reverend Moon.

In our work, we have to restore what Jesus lost. This is the heritage our Father is giving us through Home Church; before this, no one could do Home Church. If Jesus had been able to gather 120 disciples, representing the world, he would not have had to die. So we should work to fulfill what was left unaccomplished at the time of Jesus.

We have worked hard while the whole world has persecuted us. But the day will come when people will say, "Even though they are members of the Unification Church, they are not different from others." Later they will confess, "They are better Frenchmen than we are." Eventually, people will admit that they cannot find anything to reproach in Reverend Moon.

The way of suffering

You will experience a time of persecution and a time of welcome, but in which time would you prefer to work to bring about God's goal?

According to the Principle, the one who works under persecution becomes the center. Reverend Moon is actually the most persecuted person in the Unification Church, and therefore he is the center.

The worst punishment which people could inflict on you would be to tell you to lead an easy life. If Father decided to hold a great banquet but told you to go out and suffer, would you rather go out and suffer or stay and enjoy the banquet? There are always two kinds of people, those who want to go outside and work and those who would rather stay inside where it is warm. Our spirit tells us to go outside and work, but our body doesn't want to. Which would you choose?

Our Father wants you to be pure sons and daughters of God, nothing less. In time of suffering, even if your body has not had a bath for a long time, God will search you out and come and caress you. When our Father was in the most miserable circumstances, God would come in his sleep to console and embrace him. God would tell him, "If no one wants to be your friend, I will be your friend; I will be your father." What greater happiness could one find? When God comes to visit you, you will be so happy, for He will tell you, "I will be your friend, I will be your father." If you obey our Father now, you will experience the same things he has. And if you work hard, our Father will give you blessing after blessing. Even if this is the first time you have heard Father speak, you love him because he is the center of love for all mankind, especially for our members.

Throughout history, those who have suffered have become the central figures for mankind. The only means of subjugating Satan is by suffering. If you are arrogant, you are offering Satan a condition to use, but if you are kind and humble, God will recognize you. Do you then want to become an offering for God or for Satan?

The best way to become liberated is to be persecuted.

It took 6,000 years for God to accomplish just the perfection of Adam and Eve, but our Father, during the course of his own life, laid the conditions of indemnity in 21 years; he achieved the perfection of the individual, the family, the tribe, the country and the world. Of course, not everything is completely fulfilled, but the conditions have already been set, and now it is just a question of time.

The ideal of God is not just individual salvation. Someone must lay the foundation to save the family. In this world, there are millions and millions of families, just waiting to be saved by someone. But Father has set not only the foundation for restoring the family, but also for the clan; this is Home Church. Once Home Church is accomplished, there will be no more problems; even if the country is large, it will follow the example of Home Church.

In our Pledge, we say we are proud of the one sovereignty, proud of the one land, proud of the one people, proud of the one language and culture centered on God, proud of becoming the child of the one True Parent, etc. In other words, we are proud of this ideal and we will fight throughout our whole life in order to accomplish it. Isn't that our Pledge? We want to see God's country and God's world. Satan will try to impede you, but you have a hydrogen bomb of love which is more powerful than whatever weapon anyone may try to oppose you with. With the weapon of love, we can change the world forever.

Pioneer witnessing

Beginning July 1, you will go out as pioneers, throughout 120 towns in France, for 40 days. During this time, each member should bring three or more spiritual children who can attend the 21-day workshop. If you bring more than three people during that time Father will invite you to New York. Those of you who are working in businesses will go out to witness after 5:00 p.m. Also, you should witness to your parents and brothers and sisters; they can join after attending two and seven-day workshops.

This 40-day pioneer witnessing applies not just to the French family, but also to Korea, Japan and all the other countries in which we are working. For many years now, Father has been asking the Korean members to do the same thing, set out for a pioneer mission, taking no money other than enough to buy a bus ticket. Members find some kind of work or get some support from the people they meet. The summer season is the warmest time of the year, so you can sleep anywhere. If you are hungry, you can invite yourself into someone's house to eat. If you have a fishing rod, you can catch some fish and cook them. You should learn how to do everything while you are young. Learn to identify the different plants in the woods, recognize edible mushrooms, etc. Never stop learning.

When Father used to go out witnessing, he would look for middle-aged women and think of some way to make a good impression on them, by speaking well, singing, etc. You should be capable of fascinating people to the point where they will invite you to eat every time you need a place to eat. This is a good way to learn to know people.

This kind of training is similar to what you gain by fundraising. By fundraising you eventually learn to know people; you know in advance who will buy and who will not buy. You can determine, for instance, that you will sell your product to eight out of ten people, and if they persecute you, you will follow them until in the end they buy your product.

Father can adapt to whatever situation he is in and wants you to be the same; nothing should embarrass you while you are young; you should be able to make friends wherever you go. Father has never seen so many French people before, but during this trip he feels completely at ease. Even if Father appears to be a stranger to other people, he considers every person like a member of his family.

To aid you in your pioneer witnessing, you will need some itinerary workers, seven older members who can give advice and guide activities. Focus on those who oppose you; go to see them and demand why they are against you. Don't hide the fact that you are a Moonie, but let it be known from the beginning that you are members of the Unification Church. There is no reason why the people should think we are bad. We are working for the good of France, so why should people constantly oppose us?

Our Father himself is very proud of being Reverend Moon and the leader of our church; so why should you be ashamed of being a Moonie? Have confidence in yourselves and what you are doing. 

The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity

Sun Myung Moon
May 1, 1981
Seoul, Korea

Prayer

Dear loving Father, please forgive us that we could not end Your suffering. Mankind is still ignorant of Your great will, and no country on earth has ever been able to follow or understand You. I am very grateful from the bottom of my heart that this small Unification group, which has nothing to display externally, could become the ones who could understand and feel Your holy will, which is to establish Your victory in this universe by ushering in the day of victory for all people.

I know we need to transcend any individual or national position and represent all people of the earth. At the same time, we have to realize that we shoulder Your great providential will to establish the realm of perfection as representatives of the whole earth.

Heavenly Father, today is May 1, 1981. Today the Unification Church welcomes the 27th anniversary of its founding on earth. We want to offer all our gratitude for the privilege of welcoming this day as a new anniversary day. When we reflect on our past, a panorama of events passes through our minds.

As we reflect upon what has happened, we want this to become a time of historical import, a time to make a determination for tomorrow's victory as well as a time to celebrate our joy. Also, please guide us so we can become deeply aware of our calling to be truly great and dutiful sons and daughters who can return eternal joy to You. Heavenly Father, please be with us during this time.

We are so grateful that You have been guiding this church with Your deep, precious love and protection. This church was nearly wiped out, but was not destroyed. This church swayed, but did not collapse. This church could never have been born without the chance You gave us. We really ask that You continue to guide our future path.

Father, we thank You for everything. Please bless us with Your joy to represent the future victory. We ask that Your abundant blessing be given at this time.

All members of the Unification Church in the world are celebrating this day and are longing for the True Parents who are here in Korea at this moment. We pray that Your deep love and life energy will be given to each of Your children throughout the world. Bless all of them that they will not feel depressed in the face of tomorrow's battle but will confront the enemy as heavenly soldiers. Let them embody Your love and resurrection of life. And bless them so they can practice Your will in reality.

Let all Your blessing and love be upon Your children.

I pray these things in the name of True Parents. Amen.

The 27th Anniversary of the Unification Church

Today we welcomed the 27th anniversary of the Unification Church. I could speak so much about the situations of the past years. Needless to say, our organization was founded not to accomplish certain personal goals, but to fulfill God's will.

Then, what is the whole content of God's will? First, to restore Adam through the process of the history of recreation. Next, to restore Eve on the victorious foundation of Adam. Then, to create a perfect family and perfect children on the foundation of the perfected Adam and Eve. To help children to attain perfection, a people or tribe should be formed.

Numerous saints and sages have worked as representatives of God. What have they accomplished? They gave rise to various religions. Chronologically, there are four types: religion of servant, adopted son, son, and parents. Geographically, religions have moved in different directions: North, South, East and West. Furthermore, the various stages of religion have geographic variations: there are East, West, North, and South types of religions of son, for instance. To accommodate local needs, religions of servant, adopted-son, and son appeared in various regions. Also, the essence of even a religion of servant corresponds to the content of religions of adopted son, son and parents. Whatever the religion may be, its goal is to fulfill God's will, and it follows a path toward the perfection of God's ideal of creation. That is the case even with a religion of servant. The religion of adopted son appears on the foundation of the religion of servant, but in a higher dimension. The same applies to the religions of son and parents.

This development is the center of the providence of salvation, and the main current of history flowing toward the completion of the providence of salvation.

What is an adopted son? He is not in the direct lineage of God, but he can substitute for the true son. A true son can inherit and understand all of God's situations and His heart; an adopted son can become a successor in the case of the parents' absence. The adopted son is higher than a servant and prepares for the true son.

A true-son religion enables people to know their parents clearly. "To know" means not only recognizing the title, but also creating the realm of heartistic unity. Neither the servant period nor the adopted son period could set the standard of heart of the true son.

A qualified son who can represent the parent (God) stands in the parental position for mankind. As a son, he can also represent the whole of mankind before God. The appearance of the true son establishes for the first time God's center on earth. There can be only one center. The delivery of His son is the great moment of fulfillment for God. What a joy to embrace him for the first time! That was God's ideal and longing from the start of the creation.

Numerous Historical Courses

There have been numerous historical courses. The Jewish religion and then Christianity have been the mainstream of religion. The period through Jacob's family established the moral responsibility of servant. Then the Old Testament period built the foundation for the adopted-son position. Jesus came as the Messiah, the son who can receive God's love. The Bible says that Jesus is the only son of God, meaning that he is the first son to be born centered on God's love. With such a background, Christianity became the central thread of world history, eventually forming the democratic world which is preeminent in the civilization of the 20th century.

Now people say these are the "Last Days." Jesus was to go on to the mission of parents after fulfilling that of messianic son. Christianity promises the bridegroom and bride as the fulfillment of the Last Days. Bridegroom and bride symbolize the religion of parents.

Then what are the Last Days? The end of the period of sons and daughters and the dawn of a new era of parents. What is the desire of sons and daughters? To see the parents whom they had never met and to receive parental love from them. In the Last Days their deepest desire is fulfilled.

The Last Days is not the time for almighty God literally to set the world on fire and to condemn people to destruction, as today's Christians believe. It is the time to fulfill the purpose of children, that is to complete salvation on the earth through the appearance of the True Parents. It is the time to build the society, nation and world centered on God's heart, God's family and heavenly moral virtue. It is the time to be completely educated in all these points by the parents and to manifest the ideal horizontally, so the world can be united around God's love and parents' love. With such an education, society can progress toward that goal. The Last Days is the cosmic turning point.

Uniting World Christianity

What is the Unification Church? The Unification Church emphasizes True Father and Mother, and True Children. This is the most distinctive aspect of our church. Religions have had one person as a central core of faith. The Unification Church promotes the religion of both father and mother. The significant aspect of religious history today is that parents became the central core of religion for the first time.

What kind of parents are they? They stand in the position of historical ancestors who embody the fundamental parental tradition of God-centered people. These parents represent not only today's generation; they recreate this world by transforming impure children into God's true children. They teach unqualified children and guide them to become true children by engrafting them upon True Parents, persevering in this task until the fallen world completely passes away. This is the teaching of the Unification Church.

What will happen to other religions? The religions of servant, adopted son and son will link up with the religion of parents to create a new world: the unified world of providence.

The Unification religion is the religion of son, in a sense. It has the responsibility to march forward, united with all traditional Christianity, to a new world level, the new realm which human history has longed for. Therefore, the ideology of the Unification Church must unite world Christianity.

So why the term, "Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity"? Someone once asked me, "Reverend Moon, why. did you use the term 'Unification of World Christianity?' Because of so much persecution, why don't you remove that term?" If I removed that term, who would be opposed to the Unification Church? Christian ministers and elders have said, "The Unification of World Christianity? I don't believe it." It might be acceptable if Reverend Moon were like the pope, who has a foundation in many nations of the world. But when a marginal man such as Reverend Moon is attempting to unite world Christianity, everybody always feels uncomfortable. They cannot even sleep well.

Christianity has been fragmented into hundreds of denominations in the process of its 2,000 years of struggle and development. Then I attempt to unite them! People wonder what means I will use to unite them. Bayonets? Force? Dictatorial methods? All kinds of rumors have spread.

By what means can I unite Christianity throughout the world? By the Holy Spirit. Hence the name Holy Spirit Association. Do you understand? Not by fists or bayonets, but by the Holy Spirit. We cannot unite by human power, but by the power of the Holy Spirit, by the mobilization of the spirit world. It is more difficult to mobilize the spirit world than to mobilize human beings.

You can unite Christianity if you set aside the elements that cause disunity and preserve the core around which all Christians can unite. It sounds simple, doesn't it? Thus, we need to form a new system of truth, namely, a new view of the central truth of the Bible as it developed through the Old and New Testaments and points to the future. Such a view should be God's view and the view of the spirit world. Christianity has not been able to discover this central core. Before the spirit world can cooperate with man, God must give a hand and offer His cooperation, for God is the king of the spirit world. If the king rejects something, no matter how anxious His soldiers in the spirit world may be to cooperate with it, they may not. Only when God the king becomes excited and approves something may His soldiers, the people in the spirit world, help us out. Therefore, when the Unification Church selects the central points from the Old and New Testaments, they must impress God enough for Him to say, "That is true! The Unification Church is quite good."

In order to move the spirit world, our teaching must not only be endorsed by God but also accord with the desires and hopes of the many saints and religious leaders who lived and worked on earth. It must explain the core of what Gautama Buddha wanted to propose, what Confucius wanted to carry out, what Jesus wanted to preach -- and even the content of things yet unknown. All these people must give their seal of approval.

The problem is how to connect the religions of servant and adopted son to the religion of son, which is their center and vehicle for reaching the religion of parents. Only then can a system endorsed by the heavenly spirit world and God emerge.

So, do you think we can naturally unite Christianity throughout the world? [Yes!] You may still prefer the name "Unification Association," but it remains the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. We are confident that we can make it a reality. Unification Church members are funny, crazy people, but not crazy in a bad way. They are crazy for the attainment of a purpose. What is the purpose? To fulfill the contents of the Old and New Testaments and, with all the spirit men in the spirit world, to build a world centered upon God's purpose. The goal of our movement is to attain the will of God. In the Unification Church, therefore, we are continuing the work of the Holy Spirit. Not that Jesus appears from the spirit world, and teaches, but that the True Parents do the teaching.

True Parents mean not only the Lord, the bridegroom, but the bridegroom and bride together, in a horizontal, reciprocal relationship. The father-son relationship is a vertical realm of heart, different from the horizontal, reciprocal relationship. Therefore, someone in the position of parent, with a substantial, physical body on earth, can teach you through spiritual phenomena, just as Jesus did. Do you understand?

I can channel into the physical world the work of people in the spirit world. Many Unification Church members have gone abroad as missionaries. Some were imprisoned; others were expelled from their countries, but returned again and again, undaunted. They did so because I appeared to them spiritually and directed them. They returned eagerly because I asked them to.

In Japan and the United States, members work more than 18 hours a day, not because they are forced to, but because they see spiritually True Parents working on the forefront, leading them. That is possible in the Unification Church.

Saints and sages of the past had to spend more than 40 years working with the utmost sincerity, in order to connect with the spirit world. In the Unification Church, members can attain that through working just 40 days with utmost sincerity.

Go to the Lord

Today is the age of the space shuttle. A marathon race is about 26 miles, but if a satellite were to run a marathon race, how long would the course have to be? It would need the whole cosmos. In today's space age, religion should have the capacity to measure the cosmos!

Since nothing special seems to have happened today, Christians are still praying, "Lord, please come." But wouldn't it be more wonderful to go and visit the Lord yourself? How about making something like a space shuttle and flying it to the Lord?

So instead of asking him to come, go to his gate and wait for him. Shine his shoes, get everything ready for him. Prepare his bed when he is ready to sleep, prepare his meal when he is ready to eat. Do everything to make him comfortable. Then he will think you are a useful person and may even place you in charge of his house. Become a better manager than he is, then when he goes out, he will naturally tell you, "Please take care of my house while I am away."

Then when he is ready to eat, do you think he will keep you standing in attendance? No, he will welcome you to his table. At first you sit at the corner of the table saying, "This place is good enough for me; I don't have to eat." When you see your Lord eating delicious food, your mouth will move unconsciously, as if you were eating also.

When he sees your mouth moving, do you think he will be able to eat alone? No, he will invite you to eat with him.

"No, I don't need to," you will reply. But you might taste a bit and discover that the food is very delicious.

When the Lord sees you eating the delicious food with joy, would he feel uncomfortable? No, he will feel better than if he were eating alone.

Then he will tell you, "Eat more," and maybe even pick up some food and offer it to you.

The next time, even before the Lord offers you food, you can ask him,

"May I eat this?"

"Yes, Yes," he will reply.

Then you can even eat up everything before he starts!

This is not just an idea. You could really do this kind of thing.

A man feels lonely if he lives all alone. Therefore, God created woman. So it is not surprising that women like men. What aspect of men do they like? Their handsome features, their rough skin and beard. Women's faces are smooth and beardless. Women blink their eyes. It's not good if men blink their eyes all the time, but women who do often have a deep heart.

Who was Jesus? He was the bridegroom prepared to love his bride. And his intended bride was ready to love him. Ministers of the established churches will be surprised to hear this, but I am talking in accordance with the principle of heaven and earth.

Jesus came as the Lord, and everywhere people pray to him with respect. But if we listen carefully, we often hear men praying to possess the world, and women praying for good husbands. Men pray like thieves: "God, make me the president of this country; God, make me the president of this world; God, give me Your position." Women without courage to pray like that ask God to give them a beloved husband. Which of these prayers interests Jesus most? Men pray to fulfill their own purposes, but women pray for a bridegroom to serve with the greatest devotion. The answer is obvious.

Men should pray, "Lord, after I make You the president of heaven and earth, please let me become the president of the world. After You have become the president of the world, please let me become the president of one nation. As Jesus' younger brother, I will serve him. I will respect and serve Jesus as my great teacher, esteeming him above everyone else." If you pray that way, then Jesus will respond to you.

The Principle of Love

The name of our movement is the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. Therefore, by what means shall we unite? By the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the love which can harmonize the spirit world and the physical world. The Holy Spirit could open the eyes of the blind and make the deaf hear, but that is not important. These days, Christianity seems to think that since nothing is impossible for the omniscient and omnipotent God, the best thing for God to do is to make the lame walk. But this is wrong. The Holy Spirit is love. To unite by means of the Holy Spirit means to unite by the Holy Spirit of love.

The Bible says that we must worship God in spirit and in truth. But what is the truth? It is not the Pythagorean theorem or the Newtonian principle. It is the truth of love. What is the greatest aspect of the principle of love? It is the love between parent and child. What God wants is not money or power or knowledge. He wants love. Why? Because He wants to rejoice, having an object of love. We were created to be an object of love, giving God joy. Therefore, our value, even though we are a created being, is equal to the value of God when our relationship is centered upon love. Christian theologians would object that creatures can never be equal to their creator. But why else did God create all things?

The Holy Spirit, which we see in the name The Holy Spirit Association, produces harmony centering upon the love between parent and child. If we establish harmony on this earth, no matter how small its base may be, it can spread to the entire cosmos. When a broadcasting station sends electromagnetic waves to the cosmos, it doesn't matter how small they may be; they are still heading for the cosmos. In the same way, regardless of how small the realm of harmonious love may be, it can connect to the mighty cosmos. As the base of harmonizing love spreads, it becomes infinite, and nothing will escape its touch. Everything in the world will resound to its frequency of love. Therefore, God, who is the center of the cosmos, cannot help tingling with its vibration.

When we are in harmony God will say, "I love you." Then what do you think He would do? He would kiss you. Does He know how to kiss? His kiss is not like a worldly smack. Does God have hands? If He does, they must be more wonderful than hands filled with gold or diamonds. If you love someone, don't you want to touch him or her? When you make contact, harmony and unity are established. When two people rotate, the cosmos also revolves, heaven and earth and all things above and below become one. Everything becomes part of that oneness; the head can become a leg and the leg a head; the stomach can become a back and the back a stomach. God would find such a harmony interesting, wouldn't He?

Men and women laugh in different ways. Laughter has a rhythm of its own that can become singing. When you sing, you move your body, so singing leads to dancing. Embracing His beloved sons and daughters, God would laugh and sing and dance. Those who love God love laughing, singing and dancing.

If God is a real father and you cut His hair, will He sue you? Since you are His beloved child, even though He might say, "You rascal! How could you cut your father's hair?" He will not get angry at you but rather embrace you. I am saying these things to you because you need to develop this heartfelt relationship with God. I want you to have an unforgettable image of it in your mind.

Twenty-seven years ago, an unknown man tacked up a sign which read, "The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity." My name has become big recently, but at that time it was unknown. When I started I did not realize how big the name Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity really was. But once I displayed that sign, I had to fulfill it as a matter of principle. Can I quit because of the opposition? Wherever I have gone, that sign was disliked, and even kicked and destroyed. So many things happened.

Jesus' Miserable Life

At the beginning of today's speech, I said that God's will was the perfection of Adam, Eve, children and clan. The perfect clan should be established in one nation. Jesus sought to build his clan on the foundation of Judaism and the Jewish people, on the foundation of the clans of Joseph and Zechariah, including John the Baptist. God had prepared these two clans to be related and to be Jesus' extended family. If the high priest and other Jewish leaders had united, centered upon these clans, Jesus would not have had to do anything more. Witnessing would have been unnecessary. People could have lived with Jesus in their daily life, and heaven would have automatically cooperated. The Jewish people would have been united and could have won the Roman Empire over peacefully. Everything could have been restored, and Jesus could have become the king of kings. This was God's original plan for the Messiah.

However, Jesus lost the country, which was supposed to have protected him. He lost the clans of Joseph and Zechariah and, as a result, Judaism as well. Then he had to leave his home and seek new followers. Those who joined him were uneducated people, beggars and lowly fishermen. I saw the place where Peter lived. It was a miserable cave. Could such people comprehend God's will and think of all humanity? No. Eventually, all they could do was desert their teacher, Jesus. He was betrayed and killed.

Jesus' life was such a miserable one. Christians affirm that Jesus gave his life for the sake of our sin. But if God is such a capable God, why couldn't He find another way to save man? Ask that question to theologians and Christian ministers and leaders. Since God is omniscient and omnipotent, why couldn't He find another way of salvation than to let His son's blood be shed? They cannot answer that question.

By reading our Principle, all these questions are solved. When you read it your eyes change, your ears change, your mind and body change. All problems are solved. But because they do not want to be defeated by Reverend Moon, religious leaders oppose me. If I were a Westerner, there would be no problem. But I am an Oriental and they think they are better.

In the case of Jesus as well, his parents and brothers and sister did not work with him. The Bible tells how his younger brothers ridiculed him. Therefore, Jesus had no foundation of nation, religion, clan, brothers and parents. He had no choice but to start his three years of public ministry.

I am telling stories that traditional Christians never heard before. That is why they call me a heretic. But whether I am a heretic or not cannot be determined until the end of my course -- whether I end up in heaven or hell. Our church's ladder reaches up to heaven. Christians are trying to visit the home of God's servant, but we are seeking the home of God's son. In this sense, we may be heretical.

After the unification of Christianity, how can God's will be perfected? Abel-like people have to take responsibility to complete God's will. There are many people in the spirit world who were saints and sages, but they could not meet the standard of ideal character which God desires. They are still classed as servants or adopted children of God. Even Jesus, who is in the realm of sonship, did not complete the entire mission. The mission of sonship includes governing your nation, church, clan and family and offering yourself to God on the basis of a nation. Since Jesus did not do all this, he must come again.

We have gone beyond the national level to the world level. Therefore, when the Lord returns, his responsibility includes dedicating the entire world to God. Christianity has the responsibility to unify the democratic world and prepare it for the Second Coming, connecting the entire world to God and dedicating it to Him. But Christianity has not yet fulfilled its critical responsibility as a mediator. When it does, its mission will be consummated. If Christianity is united, communism will no longer be much of a problem. Therefore, I cannot abandon those Christians who oppose me. Rather, I must stand firmly for Christian unity. This is the purpose of our movement. The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity means an association, not a church. You must understand this clearly. Without the unity of Christianity, it is impossible to create one world.

Patriot, Saint and Son

So far, I have taught Unification Church members to be exemplary patriots. This is the first article of education in the Unification Church. The next article is to become a true believer, more faithful than the best Buddhist, Christian, Confucianist, Jew, Hindu or Muslim.

However, to become such a patriot and believer is not sufficient. You must become qualified as a servant of God. When somebody calls for a servant, you should be the first to respond. Therefore, when you begin your life of faith in the Unification Church, you do so from the servant's position. The Unification Church teaches, "Take responsibility for the most difficult problem in your nation. Take responsibility for the most difficult problem of the Unification Church, and take responsibility for the most difficult problem of the world." If you don't go this way willingly, you remain as a servant and cannot reach the realm of adopted sonship.

You have to be willing to digest all the problems of the world today with joy. Then you can rise from the position of servant to adopted son. When you stand in the position of adopted son, you should be better than any adopted son in the world, taking responsibility for the problems other adopted sons cannot solve. Such a path will lead you to the realm of true son. As a true son of direct lineage, if you do what no other person can or will do, you will become the central successor among all the other sons. Everything is systematic.

As you become older, can you urge all patriots to follow your example? Can you ask all believers in other religions to follow your example? Can you say it with confidence? Even if the Unification Church members are unable to go this difficult course, I must do it.

Recently I have heard Koreans say Reverend Moon is a patriot. I received tremendous persecution in the past, but I persevered. Do you know why? To go the path of a servant. If you become the best servant, you can become an adopted son. When Christian ministers say they are God's servants in their prayers, do they really want to become a servant? They call God Heavenly Father, but if you are a servant, you cannot call someone Heavenly Father. Only a son may do so.

You must know that you become a servant among servants in order to inherit the position of adopted son. After you go through the path of obedience, you should love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first commandment. Therefore, you must devote not only your mind but all your love. As a member of the Unification Church, there is nothing more fearful than not to be able to do God's work. It has been my path ever since I came to know God's will to take responsibility for restoration. Therefore, members of the Unification Church should not avoid hard work and sacrifice. A person who does not like this path cannot fulfill it.

Those who suffer most for their nation become patriots. One patriot may be killed by a single bullet and another may be tortured, with his eyes gouged out and ears and nose cut off. Which of the two is at the head of the line of patriots?

Become a servant of servants first. That will qualify you to be an adopted son. If you become the best adopted son, when there is no other son, you will be chosen as the son. Through this process you will be restored to God's side and receive God as your parent. Unless you go this path you cannot restore the position of God's ideal son or daughter. This has been my course ever since I was born. This is the path every human being must go. I have pioneered this path and established the tradition for all humanity to follow.

Some of you may think this path is suitable for me but not for you. Does what I say apply to you? You may think that I can suffer for you and you can just follow. That cannot be so. Prominent scholars will join the Unification Church. They may complain, "I am such an eminent scholar, but the members of the Unification Church do not understand who I am. They talk badly about me." That person must understand that everyone must follow the path of restoration. If a president joins the Unification Church, even he cannot claim he is special. He must go the course of restoration. When a scholar visits me, I will not see him as a scholar until he has gone the path of hardship and sacrifice. Those who do not want to suffer cannot open their mouths.

The adopted sons who suffer the most can inherit the responsibility as true sons. If you get blessed without going through hardship, your Blessing is not a true one. In a way, I am the most foolish person on earth, taking a foolish path. Whether people speak bad of me or not, I go my own way.

The Challenge of Korea

I am working now to revive our nation. North and South Korea are confronting each other. Satan is trying to agitate the masses and bring about a confrontation. Who is taking responsibility for that? The established churches are finding all possible faults with me, accusing me of trying to turn the nation upside down. They can say whatever they want. I am working for the survival of the nation. No matter how much evil they may say about me, what I want is for this to become a nation which can survive and receive God's love. Such a nation can shelter our families. Our church needs such a nation in order to live in peace, centering upon God's will.

I could cross the Pacific Ocean and live quietly in the United States. Why do I come back to Korea and try to cope with its problems? So the nation can survive. I have to do things no one else has done in all 4,300 years of Korea's history. How can we find a way to subjugate communism without confronting it? It would be so wonderful if we could do it. God's greatest headaches are the problem of communism, which -- denies His existence, the decline of religion, and the immorality of the young people. I have declared that I will take responsibility for these. As the son of God, I will solve communism, God's most difficult problem. By my own hands I will revive the Christian churches and raise up fallen youth.

Without going the path of hardship as an adopted son, you cannot inherit the position of true son. You must understand this clearly. The role of True Parents includes governing heaven and earth. True Parents have to prepare the worldwide foundation on the basis of the church and tribal foundations. True Parents have to prepare the environment on a higher dimension. If they do not do it, their descendants will perish.

Therefore, in order for the Unification Church to survive, it needs a national environment. The nation needs the proper world environment in order to survive, and the world needs the spiritual environment. Therefore, I am influencing even the spirit world. I have the cooperation of the spirit world, so no one on earth can compete with me. Those who believe in this are in the Holy Spirit Association. If people do not believe in the Unification Church, they cannot understand these things.

The Korean Unification Church members have to go the way; of hardship, at the risk of their lives. When many of the 36 Couples go to America and speak to the brothers and sisters there, what are you going to talk about? If the members there are working hard, you have to be able to tell them stories about doing much harder work. In order for Korea to lead the world, you must work harder than anyone else. Representing the nation, you have to live for the sake of all people, the whole world and God. This formula applies anywhere. It must always be centered on love. It is not a mere method. The one in the position of elder brother has to sacrifice himself, as a representative of the parents, and care for his younger brothers and sisters centering upon the love of True Parents. This is the tradition and order of love. Do you understand what I am saying?

Parents should represent the children and suffer more than the children, centering on love for the children. Then even if the family is in a tearful situation, they will not feel like leaving each other. Even though they weep, they continue on the path. When you have children, you should educate them in this tradition.

As a true son, you must become the one who suffers more than anyone else. For what? For the whole, for the family, for the nation, for the church. If you sacrifice yourself for everything, you can become the center, inheriting the tradition of the True Parents.

So far, I have done everything for the nation and the world. Is there anyone who has not spoken ill of me? But because I have been following the heavenly principle, I have been able to advance steadily. God has been using religion to untangle problems throughout history. He has to develop one mainstream of thought so one primary ideology could emerge.

Always a Servant

In celebrating today's anniversary, you must remember your position. In the position of a servant I walked the path of a servant of servants. Even as an adopted son and later a real son, I worked as a servant of servants. As a True Parent, I have suffered more than any parent in the world. But heaven gathered all kinds of love -- the love of servant, adopted son, real son, and True Parents, and connected them with the love of heaven. Heavenly love has always existed and tries to connect all the other loves. Love is what makes the spirit world and the human world rejoice. Therefore, the Holy Spirit Association was founded centered upon love.

To see things with the mind of love means to deny yourself and go the way of sacrifice. You must become a perfect minus in front of a perfect plus. When a perfect minus appears in front of a perfect plus, another plus is attracted to it. For example, if I am a perfect minus before a nation, the ultimate plus, God, will be attracted. This is the principle of heaven. Therefore, the tradition of patriots is one of blood, sweat and tears. The tradition of filial piety is one of blood, sweat and tears. The tradition of saints is one of blood, sweat and tears.

There is one axis in history: the axis that links the hearts of the heavenly child, the saint, the patriot, and the filial child. This axis is the standard of sacrifice for the whole, set on all levels -- filial child, patriot, saint and heavenly child. No matter how ambitious you are, you cannot reach the goal unless you go through these stages.

I am a man of strong desire. My eyes are small, like the aperture of a camera stopped down to focus on the distant scene. People with small eyes have more wisdom and understanding of the truth. People with large eyes tend to be fragile and unstable. (But don't feel bad if your eyes are big!)

I pray to God: "If Your will includes the worlds of servant, adopted son, real son, and parent, then I will go the path to obtain these worlds. Along that path I will take more responsibility and be more sacrificial. I am here because I chose this way. If You let me be a servant, no one will be more sacrificial than I; I will work 24 hours a day."

Without eating, without sleeping, without playing, we must go such a path. We are different from ministers and elders in the established churches. Our prayer, witnessing and study is different. The Unification Church began from the position of a beggar. A beggar has no clothes, a beggar sleeps under a bridge. There is no job which I have not done: laborer, fisherman, farmer, dock worker. I know more about the world than anyone else. I can do God's will anywhere. If the predestined people do not follow, I will continue the path by educating laborers and farmers. I have the capacity to do all that. That is why I can be the teacher of the Unification Church. If an ordinary person were to try it, he would leave the church within less than a week. You cannot become the teachers of the Unification Church without knowing anything about this suffering path.

The teacher must guide all the work and take care of organizational details. That is why the people of the Unification Church like me. Men, women, grandfathers, grandmothers and children all like me. The day before yesterday, an 80 year old grandmother came up and grasped my hand, rejoicing like a child. Why do people like me that way? Not because I have money, but because I have love. Love, however, does not refer to secular love. How wonderful love is! If you could express it in art work, what a masterpiece it would be!

Now you can definitely understand the tradition. The servants who go through the most miserable hardships become the primary force and center of the mainstream. The adopted son whose course was the most difficult becomes the center of the tradition. The son who works hardest for the parents becomes the center of the tradition of love. The most sacrificial and uncomplaining parents can set the main tradition and go to the Kingdom of Heaven first.

When did you cry in the position of a servant? Representing the most miserable laborers and farmers, you should tremble in sympathy for their suffering lives.

Have you suffered as an adopted son? Handicapped people often lead miserable lives without anyone to whom they can appeal when they are humiliated. They may feel like failures before their parents or nation. Standing in front of them, you should be able to cry. Next is the position of son or daughter. Today families in the democratic world are being destroyed; their young people are becoming immoral. If you can cry with them, you can become the greatest among the children.

For whom do you do this? For God and mankind, for your nation, clan and family. All are connected. Finally, you do this for yourselves. But Western people do all things first for themselves. If that is the way you want to live, go ahead. But you will be lonely and die in desperation.

Nations have opposed me. North Korea, Japan, the United States, the whole world has opposed me. Everyone opposed the Unification Church and Reverend Moon. Judaism, established Christianity and especially communism have opposed me. Most people would want revenge. But I do not. I have no thought of revenge. I am willing to forget everything, as soon as possible. I am willing to forget even though I have been kicked and maligned. When people oppose me I take the attitude that they do so because I could not carry out what I wanted to do and give them more love. Because I could not achieve what I had pledged -- to love people before God -- and because I could not prepare the right position for them, they persecute me so loudly. But I love them even though I am persecuted. When I do this the world changes.

Inspire God

What kind of promise can inspire God? "Oh my God, I have power and talent and great scholarship. I became a great doctor and I can wield authority. I am a capable president; through my orders I can control everything." Such words cannot inspire God. You can boast of none of those things.

If you say, "I have raised many sons and daughters," you still cannot be proud of yourself or inspire God. Only one promise can inspire God: "I have decided to be a sacrifice in order to establish the tradition of Your love. I have been trying to live for others. All I want to do is continue living this way." Then God will reply, "Oh, I understand you well. You have accomplished the principles of loyalty, filial piety and fidelity." Otherwise, you have no true pride before God, even though you work hard witnessing and fund raising, trying to do something for the world.

What can God be proud of before us? He can say, "I have done everything for you. While you were sleeping and playing, I have been protecting you, even though you had fallen." We can see everything God has done, like a videotape, if only we press the switch. It was not with His power or knowledge that God has done things, but because of His wonderful, loving heart.

Today Western people are eager to visit Korea because I came from there. Western men want Korean wives, and Western women want Korean husbands. Is there anything handsome about Korean men? Their noses are so low! There are many handsome men in America. In the blue eyes of Western people, you can see everything as clearly as if you were looking into water. They are very fascinating.

I have done something nobody else could do. Women want to be married to a man like me, and men want a wife like True Mother. At the matching of 843 couples, all the woman said they wanted to be matched with a Korean. The men likewise.

The world which I envision is something that should have been established at the time of the liberation of Korea. Christianity should have united at that time. What would have happened if other Christians had associated with the Unification Church? Instead of a prison course, the way of new truth would have opened.

If established Christianity had opened its gates, it could have been won over within seven years. Look at what is happening recently. Ministers and church elders are so surprised when they hear three days of lectures on the Principle. If the church leaders like it, won't the established churches eventually change?

Results of Rejection

If such things had happened at the liberation of Korea, the country would not have been divided into North and South. If established Christianity and the Unification Church had united on a worldwide level centering upon the United States, communist domination would have disappeared.

I know communism very well. I have greater ability to digest communism than anybody else. Established Christianity is largely responsible for the situation today. If officials at key Christian universities had not opposed the Unification Church, restoration could have been quickly accomplished. However, they attacked us in every possible way.

I knew well what kind of person Kim Il Sung was. It was so clear that he would appear as the head of Satan's side and do all the things he has done. I knew that a coalition of resentment, centering on the sovereignty of Satan, would rise up and penetrate into half to two-thirds of the world. It was like losing again the foundation of Jesus' 33 years of life.

Because of the opposition in South Korea, I went to the satanic realm of North Korea. There I labored and suffered in prison. After paying that indemnity, I was released from prison. At the risk of my life, I visited several church members in Pyongyang before escaping to the South in 1951. Then I wrote the original manuscript of the Principle and worked to rebuild the Unification movement.

Reunification of North and South Korea is possible only on the basis of our worldwide activity. They cannot unite as they are. Korea cannot survive and unite without the support of a worldwide foundation. This is the view of the Principle.

The division between North and South Korea was not accidental but was related to the heavenly principle and the failure of Korea and the United States to fulfill their responsibilities. Because of that failure, the United States, England and the rest of the democratic world began to decay. The blessings they had gained during World War II were claimed by the communist world. If we belong to heaven, we can stand on the worldwide level. If not, tragedies such as the division of Korea result.

Regions which Germany had occupied became satellites of the Soviet Union. Even China fell under the Soviet sphere. A military administration was set up in Korea centering upon General Hodge. However the historical tragedy which I. mentioned prolonged the suffering and resulted in a 40 year wilderness course.

Then what nation can solve this problem? Neither the United States or any other democratic nation can. No church can deal with it. The United States and established Christianity have failed their responsibilities. Therefore True Parents have to resolve the destiny of the world. The dispensation of True Parents is to restore the entire history of Christianity centering on me, based in Korea.

The Unification Church has received world-level opposition. As a result, the world will be driven into circumstances more painful than those which the Unification Church has been experiencing for the past 10 years. According to the principle of indemnity, such painful situations will occur in families, societies and nations. Members of the Unification Church have endured much pain in their minds as they have sought to do God's will when the satanic world hit the heavenly side with growing power and authority. The Unification Church was persecuted because of God's will. There is a principle that the side which attacks another can be hit by heaven. Members of the Unification Church have been bearing countless difficulties in order to return the world to heaven. Now the Unification Church will rise, while the world will experience collapses of the family, society and nation.

But I cannot allow the world to collapse. That is why I made a base in Korea and am reaching out to the world. Christianity stands in the position of elder brother in Western society. I cannot allow my elder brother to collapse. God's love is to reawaken him. You must understand that this is why I have been struggling so hard.

Korean Christians are very aware of my activities. If they hear the name Reverend Moon even in their sleep, they cry out! I have a worldwide foundation of programs and activities. Recently I created a strong educational organization to make coalitions with other groups and hold rallies on the state, city and village levels. In spite of my efforts to save them, I am still the object of enmity by the established churches and the nation. I have spent more money in ecumenical work than for the sake of the Unification Church. From a worldly point of view, I should consider them an unforgivable enemy, but I forgive them, because they kept the position of son of God before I came and because I need their foundation as a bridge for going further. If I can succeed, God will consider them successful as

Social Decline

Because God thinks that way, I do too. This is the law of Cain and Abel. Established churches have gradually become sites of dancing and horizontal love. Many have allowed things in which Satan can rejoice, such as disco dancing. It is common for ministers and church leaders to tell lies about the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. I foresaw all these things before I started, and they have happened. Because the United States opposed the Unification Church, rapid damage has come to the world.

People opposing the Unification Church have kept us from finding a solid position, driving us into miserable circumstances and causing sorrow to heaven. And we were the ones who had been worrying about the world! As the situations of the individuals, families and nations who opposed us become more miserable, we will rise.

This follows the principle of restoration by indemnity. I became famous because of the Communist Party, which attacked me. From a Principle viewpoint, they emerged to promote my success, which would have been difficult without them. Lacking the Christian foundation, how could I have become famous without the communists? Christianity, communism and the free world all tried to attack and kill me, but I remain uninjured and unshaken. That is why I could become famous.

Now in the United States, scholars are lining up to study my thought. They take the initiative to study it, even if I tell them not to. They talk about me, even if I ask them not to.

People in the democratic world do not understand the true meaning of society or the nation. They have no idea about parents, history, and tradition. Their concept of men and women is animal like. They see the relationship between men and women in carnal terms. If a man and a woman like each other, they have a relationship. People see nothing wrong in it. That is why the democratic world will decline.

To teach the ideal of the nation, we have to teach the ideal of the state. To do that we have to teach the ideal of the society, and before that the ideal of the family. To teach the ideal of the family we have to form the ethical order of the family, by following the proper path and principle of love. My heavenly ideology is based on this principle of love.

Onlookers or Participants

Then what is the Unification Church and its mission? Did you come as participants, or mere onlookers? If we are an active organization, why are you standing still? The Unification Church is a group of soldiers who take action. Because now is the time when we need young people, I am rallying them around religion and forming a worldwide movement. Who but Reverent Moon can be their hero at this time of history? Those of you who consider yourselves young people raise your hands. Who considers yourself old? There are no old people here! You cannot say you are old, since I also consider myself young. You know, I have become pretty old. I am 62 years old, but if I read backwards, my age is 26! So I consider myself only 26.

In order to make a new start in Korea, the course I was pursuing with Christian universities such as Youn Se and Ehwa women's universities was the path God wished. However, they not only treated me coldly but tried to destroy all my foundation, as the Korean saying goes: "The man not only rejected the beggar, but also destroyed the beggar's cup." They even tried to catch me and kill me.

These are the last days of the human race, and the last days of the human race are the last days of the nation. People today are valueless human beings, having no religion or nation. People have said that the worst enemy of society is the man called Moon or Sun, the one who is standing and speaking here! Among those of you who came tens of years ago, some of you must have said bad things about me. This is the time for repentance. Who of you once thought that either I or the Unification Church was no good? Raise your hands honestly. If so, I raise my hand, too! If you didn't raise your hand, you were not truthful. If I can say bad things about what I myself did, I think it is natural for people to say bad things about me.

There is a difference between the strategies of God and Satan. Satan's strategy is to rob by force, while heaven's strategy is to succeed by being beaten. By being beaten, we get victory. Treacherous leaders perish after they gain power, but loyal leaders become powerful after they endure the path of hardship. You must understand the difference between God's strategy and Satan's strategy. God's strategy claims compensation for damages after being beaten; that is how God restores things. But Satan's world tries to claim the right of ownership by force.

Because I learned God's strategy I trained myself to go that way. I wanted to become a true patriot, better than any patriots in a righteous country, race or church. I tried to be better than the most faithful Christian.

This is the kind of attitude God wants to see in His champion. In the satanic world, however, people persecute me by calling me the worst kind of person. But those who do so have to pay for it, making compensation for the damage they cause. You have to know this is God's strategy. Check and see if people who oppose the Unification Church and me prosper in the long run. Investigate it through three or four generations of descendants. Certainly you will find some disabled, insane or criminal people. That is what happens when people betray and oppose God.

Sacrifice Your Family

As a person who stands in the position of ancestor to a Unification family, you must fulfill the responsibility of parents to your sons and daughters. Your responsibility includes pioneering and preparing this path before you can concentrate on loving and living with your wife and children. This is the not the same as the worldly way. Your wife will surely oppose you and your children will complain. But the time will come when the nation and world will officially recognize that your actions as parent were not wrong. Then you will be able to stand in the position of parents, inheriting the tradition of the true family under heaven. This has been the motto of my family.

My sons and daughters say that their parents think only of the Unification Church members, especially the 36 Couples. I eat breakfast with the 36 Couples, even chasing my own sons and daughters away. The children naturally wonder, "Why do our parents do this? Even when our parents meet us some place, they don't really seem to care for us."

It is undeniable that I have loved our church members more than anybody else, neglecting even my wife and children. This is something that heaven knows.

If we live this way, following this course in spite of our children's opposition and neglecting our family, eventually the nation and the world will come to understand. Our wives and children will understand as well. This is the kind of path you have to follow.

The family foundation must rest on the basis of the nation and church. But the foundations of the nation and church were lost. Without them it was impossible to lay the foundation for the family. Because of the opposition of the Korean government and established churches, my family was shattered. Because I knew that my family was destined to be broken, I did not do anything to help them. I did not care for my family for seven or eight years. I heard all kinds of rumors, but I didn't even write any letters to tell them what kind of activity I was involved in or how I was living. Why? Because I knew the heavenly principle, that if you cannot fulfill your responsibility, your sons and daughters will have to assume the burden. Until I fulfilled that responsibility, I dedicated myself to the public mission by staying away from my family until a condition was set for heaven to support them.

The same principle can be applied to the members of the Unification Church today. That is why, when I sent members of the church to do pioneer witnessing in the 60s, I let them go without extra clothes and carrying only their train fare. Is there any other teacher like this? There is no other path for the Unification Church than this miserable one. When the democratic world and Asia decline, when the nation and the church decline, we are affected by that downward spiral. Under such circumstances, the only way to survive is to go to the bottom and make a new start, erecting the pillars of tradition one more time.

Exemplary Patriots

Korea and the established churches tried their best to crush me, but they could not. I set the foundation anew and moved up from the individual to the family, the tribe, the society, and the nation. Now I am creating the chance to establish the world level foundation.

In Korea no one can speak about patriots without including our church members. They cannot mention a patriotic organization without including the Unification Church. Our church members set the true standard of filial piety, showing more sincere loyalty to me than others have for their parents. Their devotion was so great that even their own parents were jealous. People who were formerly strangers have united to form a new family. Families with no blood connection form a new clan and prefer their new relatives to their old ones. And when different races assemble to create God's new nation, they can love their country and bring more renewal than a single race. This is the path which the Unification Church is supposed to go. Do you understand?

Therefore, we have to love the Japanese and American people. The Japanese are our traditional enemies, from the common sense point of view. The Japanese and the Germans were recent enemies of America, but I took Japanese and Germans to America and told them, "Love America more than you love your own country." I was the one who did such a thing. That is why I got opposition. I inspired people from formerly enemy countries to love each other. That is why we are opposed. But if we plan this way, we can restore the situation by being persecuted.

From this point of view, the seven-year course that started this very day in 1954 was the age for all the established churches and social organizations, and even the nation, to attack one person: Reverend Moon. Even the babies attacked me! You know this very well. What kind of period was this seven-year course? I had to devote myself completely to the heavenly will as a very lonely individual. Everybody was trying to capture me and kill me. Wherever I traveled in the nation, north or south, I walked this kind of path. When I held the Holy Wedding in 1960, I was being investigated by the court. Just as Jesus' 12 disciples deserted him, with Judas even betraying him, members leaving the Unification Church conspired with our opponents and appealed to the court to stop our church. I conducted the Blessing during this time of judicial investigation. Nobody knows that fact.

The government at that time had enlisted the aid of five top administration officials in order to eradicate the Unification Church. They tried to have me arrested and killed. And what happened to those families?

In the course of history, who would ever have imagined that a man called Mr. Moon -- who at one time was presumed dead and his body thrown out with the trash -- would accomplish what he has! Who enabled me to do so? God and the principle of restoration by indemnity. Using this very strategy of gaining the victory by being beaten, I have accomplished God's will.

You shouldn't feel downcast and humiliated when you are beaten for standing on the side of goodness. Know that the time of blessing will come, from all possible directions, because of the indemnity you paid. That is my standard of life. In the past, when I was in prison I was confronted with all possible persecution and opposition. But the more I was beaten the stronger I became. When the nation and the church oppose you, be stronger than they. I fought against the satanic world, and being this kind of person, I overcame it.

Mother's Course

Then the time came for Mother's seven-year course. Every woman has to go this path. Women of the early Unification Church wanted to love me at the risk of their lives, coming to see me even late at night. So people gossiped about us. These women didn't even know why they made such visits to a man who they knew remained centered on God.

And when the Holy Wedding came, every woman, even the elderly widows, wanted to be able to stand in the position of Mother. Some women even claimed to be the True Mother, their eyes shining with confidence. An old lady of 70 years said she would become my wife and bear 10 children! Of course, she didn't know why she was saying such things. Women with daughters prayed to God with deep sincerity and said they received revelations that their daughters would become the True Mother. They were excited, as if it were a matter of life and death.

But the woman who would become True Mother appeared unexpectedly. She was a person whom few of them had met. Probably no more than a third of the members even knew her. Yet this unforeseen person was chosen.

I was 40 and about to marry a 17 year old girl. If this were not God's will, who could be crazier than I? Just imagine, from that time on Mother's great responsibility was to carry all the burdens of the Unification Church. Many wonderful college educated women were lining up and listing their qualifications, but I shook off all of them and chose an innocent, 17 year old girl as Mother What a surprise it was! Old ladies and mothers exclaimed and rolled their eyes. I had no choice but to live separately from her for three years. The task of restoration proceeds from outside to inside. Many female members of the church, even old ladies, were jealous of Mother in the beginning, but when they saw her situation they thought, "Isn't Father being too severe? He should live with Mother since he married her, but what is he doing?" Because I put Mother away from me, living a separated life, old ladies sympathized with Mother and restored the things they had complained about. Women of all ages sided with her. Then Mother could take her position. This is an example of Mother's course of restoration by indemnity.

During this period, how anguished Mother's heart was! One woman received a revelation from the spirit world telling her she should be the Mother. She wanted me to give up Mother and take her instead. There were many other incidents. Spirit world taught strange things, and Mother had to undergo all sorts of trials like this. Mother is very patient, and all this was merely training for her to become much stronger and greater. It continued for seven years. But the most admirable point about Mother was that she believed in me more than in her own father, grandfather or elder brother. She believed in me 100 percent. Thus she overcame all the obstacles and established a firm position.

Since a man got the victory, a woman also had to gain the victory. Mother confronted the society and nation which opposed her and overcame everything during that seven-year period. During this period I set up Parents' Day, Children's Day, World Day and God's Day. What does God's Day mean in reference to Mother's course? Mother's mission was to have unshakable confidence in her husband, regardless of the circumstance and in spite of all opposition. Whatever happened, even if she should die, she had to keep an unchangeable attitude toward her husband. That must be her commitment even if the nation opposes her. Eve fell into a position

Heaven could not trust, and because Eve mad Adam fall, Adam could not believe 100 percent in a woman. Therefore, Mother had to maintain a firm position in which heaven, God and her husband could have 100 percent confidence.

For the first time in history, when God and man could believe in a woman 100 percent, God's Day could be established. Do you understand? That was Jan. 1, 1968. In order to restore the standard of restoration by indemnity for both men and women, Eve had to go through the completion stage from the top of the growth stage. Upon entering the eighth year, after completing her seven-year course, Mother and I could obtain God's seal as a true, perfected family, and we could take our position on the earth. Then we could set forth to the world, leading our family and nation. Upon this foundation I could come to the United States with Mother.

There has been so much persecution in the United States against the Unification Church, centered upon my own family. Not only my wife and I but also my sons and daughters have been mistreated. My children are ridiculed as Moonies in school. They are also quite famous in school. Teachers watch them with special concern. They have a lot of talent in art and music. They study well.

Centering on the United States government and people, established Christianity and Judaism and all religions have opposed us. The communists oppose us, the U.S. Congress and even the White House have taken a stand against us. We had to overcome a seven-year course of tribulation. The fiercest battle was in 1976, but even though the world opposed us, we did not go backward. We overcame, and the Day of Heavenly Victory was set on Oct. 4, 1976. There will not be any worse antagonism than at that time.

By being beaten, we can regain everything. If a man is beaten as an individual he may recover things even on the national level. A woman cannot claim the victory that a man gets; she has to gain one herself. Children also have their own course of indemnity to overcome. That is the course of restoration through indemnity. Because the True Parents have won the victory on all three stages, our family, who represents the Abel core of the democratic world, received the total attack of the Cain side. We have survived this situation and can now raise the flag of the new world of Unification.

In order to broaden that position to the people of the entire world, I sent out missionaries to 75 nations in 1975. Throughout the world the Unification Church, centering upon the blessed families, has been battered but never defeated. We have now finished the 21-year course.

Taking the Offensive

The period since 1977 has been the era of taking the offensive. That means we have to go to the people and teach them the truth. We can do this on campuses and in society. From now on, conditions will change. After 1977 I have done many things to change our position from the defensive to the offensive.

Originally, if President Nixon had listened to me, our situation would have been different. But because he did not, his position was passed down to Ford, Carter and Reagan. Four generations had to be restored because God's will, which was supposed to start centering upon the president of the United States, went the wrong way. Our members supported Reagan, who is the fourth president from Nixon, and gave great spiritual help for his election. If I had not prayed for him, giving my support from behind the scenes, he might have already died. In any normal circumstance, he would not have survived the assassination attempt.

No American president had previously recovered from a gunshot wound. A 70 year old president received a bullet wound seven centimeters deep on his 70th day in office. Everything revolved around the number seven. We can see it as formation, growth and completion. Everything fits into the principle -- 40th president, 444 days until the liberation of the American hostages in Iran -- all are principled numbers. People have not realized it, but God has planned everything with certain mathematical conditions, and we are going over this historical turning point based on such conditions. Now the American president has to listen to me.

The president of Korea cannot guarantee Korean survival by himself. Japan and the United States have to be mobilized. I am teaching and paving the way for South and North to unite. I do this. not for my own sake. I do it to revive the world. I am responsible to give life to the world and educate the present world.

Koreans should not think of themselves as a miserable race. Korea has been invaded from the outside and has fought wars with Japan, the Soviet Union and Red China. Korea underwent all these trials as training. Its history has been a history of training.

Why did the Korean people have to pass through such a course? Because they have the capacity to assimilate the different traditions of four major civilizations and four different ideologies. Do you understand? South Korea should be able to digest North Korea, Japan, the United States, and even the communist world. We should not regard anyone as our enemies. Therefore, your accomplishments as members of the Unification Church have to exceed those of anybody in the Communist Party, the Soviet Union or the United States. You have to pass through such training.

Why do we have to become a people able to absorb four major civilizations: North, South, East and West? In order for the East to go to the center, it must spiral around to the South, West, North and, finally, the center. Nothing can reach the center by centrifugal force, only by centripetal force. Do you understand?

The Unification Church is the nucleus for all four directions and can control them by taking the subject position.

I find the figure 8 really interesting. When we write it we use both clockwise and counter clockwise movements. The number 8 is the number of a new beginning, but it is always drawn in opposite directions. That is how the course of restoration, the way of Principle, the way of recreation, operates. A paradoxical course is in the end the most reasonable. You have to understand this very well.

Therefore, my life does not follow the normal, reasonable way. It began as a figure 8 on an individual level. My wife went through the course of a figure 8, and my sons and daughters followed the same course on the family level.

The next level is the clan level. The 777 Couple Blessing of 1970 began to form the clan era, including various races and centering upon all the families of world history. There are many clans throughout the satanic world, but we created one new clan. When it exceeds the 60 million people in Korea, Korea will begin to follow us. From a principled view, if the Unification Church gains 70 million people, helping them centering upon Korea, don't you think Korea will follow us?

Therefore, we will advance to the worldwide level in many aspects, and the Unification Church will take the ruling seat. In the past 27 years, I have become quite famous. My fame has gone beyond the imagination of most Koreans. They had thought that the man called Moon would float off somewhere and disappear. But what happened?

Centered on Mother, the Unification Church restored through indemnity the individual and family. Then the work of restoring the world through indemnity was taken up by sons and daughters. Now the Unification Church has spread throughout 127 nations, in the position of a clan. In some nations there are so many members that people have become worried.

Be Proud of Ourselves

The time has come when you can be truly proud of yourselves. In your place, I have been passing through the indemnity course by receiving persecution, opening the tribal level for you. Furthermore, the foundation has been laid for the world to welcome you.

If you do your best, with utmost sincerity in this course of tradition, I will give you my endorsement. With that endorsement, you can go anywhere you want. In the United States and in church centers throughout the world, there are rooms set aside for me and my wife. In England and Germany, every center has these special rooms. If I give you my endorsement and tell them to let you sleep in my room and eat the food prepared for me, they will do it. That is true around the world. Don't you want to be treated like that?

The other day I took 12 Japanese members who had achieved certain things to the United States and let them travel around. The American members looked at them and understood them. They came to me and reported that the Japanese members are working above the secular standards. From the Principle point of view it is natural for the spirit world to assist those who transcend their limits rather than those who stay within them.

Members of the Unification Church who work by their own power cannot witness very well. Do you know why? How many woman are there who invest everything they have in their children, excel in serving their husbands, or do their best to prepare for the coming of the Lord? When the Unification Church members witness, they have to surpass the standards of the secular world. If you do so, heaven will always help you.

You may think God is not very united with you. But when you say "Heavenly Father," He doesn't answer from far away but from right behind you. That is the kind of Heavenly Father you have. God has been protecting you; heaven embraces you and gives you sweet sleep when you fall down in fatigue; when you raise your hand, light comes from it. These surprising facts are the truth.

Today, on our 27th anniversary, what should we do? I have accomplished everything and set the standard of tradition for all peoples of the world. You should do the same. Not only you, but your sons and daughters and thousands of generations of descendants must inherit this Unification Church tradition. Therefore, even if the leaders walk out, even if I go away, as long as our descendants remain, the Unification Church will never perish. The tradition of the Unification Church will shine throughout thousands and thousands of years.

Suppose two factions appear in the Unification Church. You don't have to give yourself a headache trying to choose the right one. The criterion is who works the hardest for God's will. The person who sacrifices himself for the sake of God's will and tries to give himself for the sake of the world more than others is the one to follow. The most valuable person is the one who works for the sake of the unity of the world, even at the sacrifice of his parents, spouse and children. He is the one who is closest to the tradition of heart. Thus, denominationalism will never arise in the Unification Church.

If the president of the church is self-centered, he is not a true person. But if he labors day and night for the sake of God and for the nation and world, laying a foundation of blood, sweat and tears, heaven will work through him. Any such members of the Unification movement, either man or woman, who can love others with tears is the example for everyone. Heaven will create a new history of goodness through that kind of person.

In this way, the heavenly tradition has already been established in the Unification Church. My successor among my sons and daughters will be determined in the same way: the one who sacrifices himself the most for the sake of God's will, the one who best exemplifies the principle of loyalty and filial piety. Everything is measured against that tradition -- in the family or in the church. We cannot appoint a person to a position simply because he has money or power. He must be able to give deep inspiration and heartistic love to other people, even though he might not be a university professor or hold a doctoral degree. He may be humble and unknown, but when he prays, his words come from his inmost self and create explosions in people's hearts. Wherever such a person is found, church activities will center upon him or her. The Unification movement will follow that person's standard.

From this point of view, you can clearly understand whether you are on the correct course of tradition. You know what kind of standard you have, don't you? You don't need explanations. Your mind is trying to follow the heavenly side, but your body inclines to the satanic side. Taking the easy way leads to internal struggle between your mind and body. To end that conflict, you must reach God's love by going the way of hardship. Once you set out with strong determination, all the battles between mind and body will eventually come to an end.

Love and Beauty

You women may be thinking, "I am the right age for getting married. I am good looking and I have a very attractive body. Any man will like me. Therefore, my husband will have to be a very handsome man." Instead, you should think this way: "I was born such a beautiful person because of the grace of God's love, which is focused on solving all the resentment of humanity. So I don't mind even if my husband is ugly or a cripple. Please let me be able to live my whole life in loyalty to him. It would be so wonderful if I could become that kind of woman." If you think like that, heaven will come to you.

I have striven for this kind of attitude. I have confidence that I am a better than average Korean man, but I did not expect to marry such a beautiful person as Mother. I looked for a woman who could be loyal to God's will and who could sacrifice herself for the sake of her husband. There are many careless women, so I asked God not to give me a wife who would destroy the Unification family. I knew my marriage should be for the sake of the Unification Church, the nation, and the world. I found many promising women, but none who could sacrifice themselves with a pure heart and bring the seed of love horizontally to their husband. Such women leave God sooner or later. Finally I found beautiful Mother and educated her.

These days Mother has a higher reputation than I do. They say she has not only Oriental beauty but Western beauty. Therefore, I have learned many things from her I received a great deal of Oriental training, but not so much Western training. For example, when I eat, I stuff a lot of food into my mouth at once. I don't eat gracefully, I just think of enjoying the food. But Mother wipes my mouth each time I make a mess.

People say we are a very loving couple. Mother never stands on my right side, always on my left. Wherever we go, she walks beside me holding my hand. She takes my hand first. We do that in America, but it is not so natural to hold hands in Korea. The culture is different here.

Have you ever walked hand in hand with your wife? Probably you were shy. It is not evil to hold your wife's hand. If you want to walk hand in hand with her, go ahead! If you want to carry her on your back, you can do that too! It is the same East or West. If you ask God, "Father, do You want to see Your beloved sons and daughters kissing their wife or husband?" of course He will say yes. So even if you kiss until heaven and earth tremble with excitement, it is not a sin. You can do that with your beloved wife or husband, of course, but not with another man or woman.

The True Standard

Even if I die, the tradition of the Unification movement will never be destroyed. A different tradition cannot appear in the movement; even if it did, it would soon rejoin the mainstream. It is easy to tell who is true and who is false. Someone who speaks only for himself is false; if he speaks for others and the world, he is true. A son of filial piety will serve the whole family. A loyal man will serve the whole nation. A saint will serve all people. Someday the angels and all people in heaven and earth should be able to welcome you as a son or daughter of God, based on your standard of love.

Which Unification Church member is going the more traditional way, the one who is out witnessing at a local center or the one resting at headquarters? Members who are working hard don't put on makeup and they may smell sweaty. If you compare this person to someone perfumed and well dressed, who is more beautiful to God? It is the sweating person, ridiculed by hostile people, but still faithfully loving the nation. It is the person who says he will go on, even when told to rest.

When I speak at night, almost everybody dozes off. By midnight eight out of 10 people drop off, but I continue to talk. Even though I become sleepy, I fight the urge to stop, and I continue to speak -- all for your benefit. So who is serving the most, you or I? It appears that I am serving you even more than you are serving yourselves. When you see me overcoming the desire to sleep, preaching on and on, you probably think I am a man of steel. I am not like that naturally; only because I know the Principle did I become like a man of steel.

Because I know the Principle and pursue the fallen world with all the yearning love of God, I don't like to take the winding path of restoration. I want to build a straight highway, like a bridge of love. Therefore, people from all over the world will seek me out. Even if I build my house on the summit of a mountain, they will search me out, perhaps even with the aid of professional mountaineers. Someone who thinks this way must be crazy! However, by going the way of hardships, we can unite the world into one.

Very few relatives of church members have welcomed the idea of a mass wedding. Before the Blessing of the 36 Couples, for example, I sent invitations to our members' parents inviting them to their child's wedding ceremony. But I told them they needed white ceremonial garments in order to attend. People thought this was a reckless violation of the time honored tradition of parents arranging their children's marriages and wedding ceremonies. Therefore, everyone spoke ill of me. However, many of those same parents have recently come to me and thanked me for having given them such a wonderful son-in-law or daughter-in-law.

Soon we will no longer need to witness for the Unification Church. Then what will we do? Perhaps I will buy an airplane and take all the members who worked so hard for rides! From now on, we will not witness in the old style but through videotapes. Already there are videotape sets for seven-day and 21-day workshops, and a 40-day Victory Over Communism (VOC) lecture series. All you have to do is push the button. You can educate people while you relax. Then if I go on national television and speak for 40 days, the world will completely change. If that happens, why should we need to witness?

People under Satan's dominion act based on their personal desires. We, on the other hand, live for the family, clan, race, nation, world and God; We love God first, and then the world, nation, race, clan and family, in that order. Then we can understand the power and value of love and be able to love ourselves. In this world, people have usually thought first about themselves. This tendency will be reversed.

Your Course is Shorter

Your hard course will be shortened from now on. If it took me 60 years to fulfill something, you will be able to do it in six months. So elderly people need not be discouraged. The Unification Church is not for young people alone. Older people can work together with young members.

I encourage you to work hard in the Unification Church so you can work on a worldwide level in the future. Therefore, toil hard and go the suffering way. Go out to society at large. Do good deeds and be sacrificial. You must understand that this is ultimately the only reasonable way to go.

Today is May 1. From today, the second 21-year course will start. So how about becoming more responsible? Until now, you lived depending upon me. What will you do if I die? I want to have some free time now. Will you allow me to have it? I have fulfilled all my responsibility over the past seven years, and the time is coming for me to visit members around the world as I wish.

Up until the present, because I was guiding the restoration providence, it seemed that the whole history of restoration would fail if I died. However, I have fulfilled everything that was required. I have no. regrets. Even if I am killed, I can die joyfully. Now you also have to learn how to conduct the restoration providence. That is why I am urging you to improve yourselves in every way.

Who cleans the glass doors of this headquarters building? Do you assign somebody to the task, or do people clean them on their own? You should never use somebody who does not want to do the job. If there is nobody to clean them, do it yourself. The person who lovingly, joyfully, humbly cleans the glass doors will be the victor in the spirit world. Don't force someone to clean the building's doors. I would rather not work with people who don't want to work. I work only with those who are willing to give their lives for the world because they understand the situation of history.

In the years leading up to this 27th anniversary, my own course of restoration through indemnity was fulfilled, as well as those of Mother and True Children. Upon this foundation I built the family and clan indemnity foundation of the Unification movement. Therefore, in order to inherit this, you have to accomplish your five percent responsibility. So if you understand this and determine to work vigorously for the next seven years, the world will be transformed.

We must have a successful rally in Moscow. I want to do this before I die. The Soviet leaders, however, are quick to mock me when they hear this. But who believed me 21 years ago when I described what our church would be like after my 21-year course? I said there would be cars and houses everywhere in the Unification Church and that members would have spread throughout the world. Before beginning my 21-year course, I promised this to the Unification Church members in Korea. Many must have thought I was crazy, but I was not.

Now you have gotten a glimpse of what will soon happen. Some key Americans will declare that only Reverend Moon can bring a significant change in the world. Patriotic people will rush to help us with their economic, academic and social foundations. But because I am so busy, I cannot yet handle all the work that would entail. Therefore, if there are people in the Unification Church who can do my job, I will let them.

We must fly like an eagle, becoming God's right and left wings, God's right and left eyes, God's hands and legs.

Well, do you want to follow this way? Then work hard at the risk of your life. The Japanese and American church members are working 18 hours a day. But when I come to Korea, you seem to be taking it easy in this spring season! Please work hard and tirelessly for the next seven years and establish a good tradition in Korea. I deeply hope you will build with dignity and tradition, as the subject and fatherland of faith, and as an example to Japan, America and the whole world. Thank you very much. Let us pray.

Prayer

Beloved Heavenly Father,

We know very well how painful our history has been for You throughout the course of restoration. You persisted through thousands of years to build foundations of indemnity on the individual, family, clan, and racial levels, always acting on the principle that servant-of-servant humility brings success. Finally, You were able to lay the national foundation in Israel, making possible the appearance of the Messiah on the worldwide stage. Yet when he finally came, he was not accepted and thus could not complete the restoration.

The result was that during the next 2,000 years, You had to witness a history of terrible suffering. America was born on the foundation of the heartbreaking tradition of martyrdom and constant bloodshed, and has become the center of the free world in the Last Days of the worldwide level of the dispensation. You expected America to assume the task of protecting the victorious worldwide godly foundation and offering it to You by fulfilling Your will, especially during and after World War II. But again this did not take place.

I also know how anguished and heartbroken You are when You see people turning away from accomplishing their responsibility. Today, America cannot lose her link with South Korea. The destined age for the spiritual leaders and the providential nations to unite has come. Reverend Moon, who was born in Korea and who represents the internal subjective position, and the Reagan Administration, which represents the external position, must be so united.

Even at this moment, worldwide communism with all its tremendous power is making maneuvers designed to overthrow the Reagan Administration. The time has come for the administration to be strong and bold. The time has also come for Korea to be strong and bold. Also, now is the time when even the Korean people must be strong and bold.

Heavenly Father, we have learned that Your will is for the free world to help the communist world, both spiritually and physically, upon the complete foundation of unity between Korean Christianity and the Unification Church, and between American Christianity and the Unification Church. I sincerely ask You to provide Unification members, who are striving to accomplish Your will, with a strong and bold determination, so that they can strengthen the free world and give it the boldness to take the subject position over the communist world both spiritually and physically.

This is the road toward immortality, and Unification members have learned that this is the road to Your presence. Therefore, I humbly pray that You can bless them to be lights in the world of darkness, shining like the brightest suns, brave and strong like victorious generals. Even though the arrow of persecution may be strong, Heavenly Father, please let them be stronger still, so they can never be penetrated and brought to surrender. I humbly pray and wish to give them the Blessing, so that they can become the ones who can stand in the position to inherit the foundation of True Parents' family and represent the heavenly family -- by practicing and mastering the principle of servant, adopted son, and son. Also, I pray that they can be protected on all sides by the shield of love, and learn to walk the path of tradition as they march toward the Kingdom of Heaven and become the representatives of heavenly love.

I thank You that we can have such a time and day as today. Now we have understood what the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity is and the role religions played in the development of tradition. The path I have trodden until now has been to gather the different races from all over the world. They are not even from the same lineages. The success of this has been due to Your love. When this foundation develops from the national to the world level, then naturally we can embrace the world and absorb all cultures and historical traditions. We know such a day is at hand. I pray for the Unification members to be strong and bold so they can march forward, overcoming all things through love.

I respectfully pray and wish for them to have great confidence that victory is waiting for them, and that failure can be banished. I thank You for allowing me to return to Korea for this anniversary day.

I sincerely pray for unity among the leaders and all the members. I pray that they all will defend heavenly tradition to the death and live in accordance with this way of love. A unity of all races, with its blazing fire of love, is being offered to You, Father. With this love and unity, centering on the nation of South Korea, we can gain the power to master North Korea. I pray that members will make effort day and night without rest to achieve this goal.

I hope that one day soon we can establish far and wide this tradition of unity and love, and that all mankind can soon measure up to it. We know this is Your desire and will. I pray we can be determined to be the ever victorious heavenly army. By making such a determination, I respectfully pray and desire for members to become better sons and daughters, who can come closer to You each day. Centering on love, they can become the group that prepares the way for the restored nation and family.

I pray all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.

Parents' Day And This Age

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
April 5, 1981
World Mission Center
Translator - Sang Kil Han

Today is the 22nd Parents' Day. Parents' Day was established on April 10, and after that came Children's Day, Day of All Things, and God's Day. Centering on Parents' Day and Children's Day, Day of All Things, God's Day and the Day of Heaven would all have come into being at the same time. Then, of course, the history of restoration would not have been necessary. As a result of the fall, however, children have no connection with parents, and the things of creation have no connection with either parents or the children of God. Certainly, no true parents have been found in the world of the fall.

Salvation actually means saving the four heavenly days also. They should have no other origin except God. The first Parents' Day marks the beginning of transition from the old world to a new world. This transition is not a concept; in the 21 years since the first Parents' Day, the world has really changed in dramatic ways. There has been no comparable period in all history, and now the completion of that transition is inevitable. One day we will also bring a Day of Heaven into being, the day when the world will be united. The Unification Church is marching toward this definite goal.

This new history is not compiled by the human element alone; God has an active part in it. Therefore, in the past 21 years and in the 21 years still to come-roughly forty years-we will witness unique developments. The first 21 years was the period in which the Unification Church emerged in this new world, becoming quite visible to the communist and democratic blocs. Also, a world of Unificationism will come into being. What characterizes that world? It puts God at the center of life; we can call that ideology Godism. The three ideologies-democracy, communism and Godism-will interact as the new way of life is brought in. Increasingly, however, Godism will be brought to peoples' attention.

What is communism? It is materialism based on Satan. What is democracy? It is chiefly centered around religion, particularly Christianity. It is a way of life centering around children, for Jesus was filling the position of adopted son. Democracy stresses spiritualism and things of the mind, instead of material things. In contrast, communism stresses materialism and is servant-centered; in Principle terms, it is the Cain-side. Thus, democracy would be the Abel-side.

Just as the mind and body of the fallen individual are always in conflict, communism and democracy are always in conflict. The contemporary world is a reflection or deployment of that individual conflict on a world scale. There are broadly two kinds of person: one, who is pursuing material things, and the other who is turning inward to spiritual things. Which would be the ideal way of living? The original way would be for the mind and body to be in accord.

Where would the mind send the body? The original goal of the individual was to follow his parents. Where would they go? Toward God. Once they reached God they would not face Him, but stand behind Him. Wherever God goes, the parents would follow; and wherever parents go, children would follow. If the body raised any objections, the mind would refuse to change direction. The mind would have firm control and tell the body that it cannot go anywhere it wants to, but must follow the direction of Principle.

Why should the path be uniform? Because everyone and everything want to go where love is. Thus, it is inevitable that they go in the same direction. Love is where God is and where parents are; therefore, all things are directed there. When seen through the glasses of love, everything is beautiful and nothing will be disagreeable to us. Wherever we are would be a place of happiness.

Freedom is very precious, but it becomes meaningful only after we find happiness. Which is more important- freedom or love? Love is by far more precious. Love must exist only according to God's law of creation. It only comes when we follow parents and when parents follow God. That is the Principle. Love comes into being whenever that happens. In other words, there is no love unless we follow parents and follow God, and there is no freedom when we do not have love. Today we see that the world is confused, that young people are searching for freedom without even knowing what it is, without knowing what will lead them to love.

American members in Unification Church who were used to doing whatever they wanted are now challenged by everything we do here, but now they know why they must do those things. We do them because true freedom comes from true love; once we have true love, then we will have true freedom. To reach true love, however, we have to abide by God's rigid law, and in doing so we do things we may not enjoy. We accept that with the knowledge that we are guaranteed to reach parents, God and love. Through this gospel we realize that in True Parents there is a way to get to heaven and God.

Meeting God does not mean we become His equal in a democratic sense, but that we follow God. When God and His children meet, where would they go together? Certainly they would go to heaven. Certainly if there had been no fall, going to heaven would have been automatic. As it is, would the few fallen people who find True Parents and God leave everyone else behind and go to heaven? The first few individuals would assemble as families and a clan, and ask God to be their leader. After more clans are assembled, they would ask God to be the leader of the nation, and then to be the leader of the world.

This is what we have stood for all along. In Unification Church our goal is to bring the whole world under God, and with God as a leader to go forward in the ultimate direction. Will it be an easy thing to achieve? There is only one style of life in the Unification Church-even if the individual sees he must be sacrificed, still he feels the family must get ahead. Each one of us is determined that the nation and the world will get ahead because of us. Otherwise, it is wishful to think of bringing the world under God.

Is it easy to live the Unification Church life? We have to go through difficulty so great that, though we are alive and moving, still we are like dead people. If someone talks to that person, he will not respond, but will keep on going. Jesus said that those who are willing to die will live, and those who want to live will die.

Are we going to follow the servant's ideal, which is communism; or the children's ideal, which is democracy; or the parents' ideal, which is Godism? It was inevitable that these three ideologies appear in our age. Even though people may find the ideal of Godism in Unification Church, from lack of understanding they may still be inclined to either Cainism or Abelism. The whole world will come to this ultimate crossroads.

Then how will Godism continue to exist? The only way for Godism to flourish is for the people who believe in it-the Unification Church members-to work harder and more bravely than the communists and those under democracy. What is the essential difference between the two old ideals and the new ideal? First, Godism has the vertical relationship, whereas the other two are horizontal and have no vertical connection.

Certainly the vertical connection would be closer to the original way. Without the fall it would have been automatic. God created Adam and Eve in a vertical relationship with Him, intending for them to deploy that in a horizontal relationship with each other. First Adam was created from the image of God, and then Eve was created from the image of Adam. First came the vertical relationship, and from that the horizontal relationship.

Throughout history, East and West have had a different emphasis, with the East emphasizing the vertical, or spiritual side of life, and the West focusing on the horizontal, or physical side of life. It is only natural, then, that the four major religions have begun in the East. Buddhism began in India, Islam in the Middle East, Confucianism in China; Judaism and Christianity also began in an area considered to be the East. The Unification Church also sprang from an Eastern civilization.

The more you search for spiritual things, the more you have to discard material things. Since the physical side of life cannot be totally wasted and disregarded, custody of its advance and development was given to Western civilization. Today we see an Oriental nation starting to surpass the materialistic West in industrial matters. Why would that happen? The time must come when the spiritual side and material side will connect somewhere. Japan is taking that role.

Westerners must be aware that material things do not belong to them, but belong to God. Those who were given custody of material by God should follow a course back toward the spiritual side, but instead they have followed a materialistic way of life. God will make them understand they are wrong and try to change their minds. If they still do not change in time, then He will allow the communists to deprive them of all their wealth. Westerners must quickly find the reason they have been able to accumulate so much material wealth, which is to make it of use for the spiritual side. If they can quickly make the transition, then fine. But if they don't, the communists will deprive them of their wealth anyway.

The present American government is really rocking in uncertainty. It is still undecided about whether to boldly confront the situation in El Salvador or not. The winds of communism are like a typhoon blowing those two countries together. Since a collision is inevitable, we should be determined to deal with it, not be broken by it.

At this point only the ideal of Godism is strong enough and all-encompassing enough to solve the situation. Neither democracy nor communism is adequate. This is a dramatic age of uncertainty, with people under both democracy and communism unsure of what to do. We can be assured that at such a time Godism will come to the forefront.

Democracy has always worked to make each nation a better place for its citizens to live in; witness such countries as Denmark and England. They tried to do that in a material way and were able to succeed somewhat without really looking toward God. Those nations seemed to be progressing, but today we know that those countries have come to a standstill. We see every day that America also is floundering without direction. This is the result that comes when man tries to work by himself, without God.

Japan has set itself a new course as a developing nation. The West has criticized it for not paying much attention to social welfare and security, but Japan doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of the West. Japanese workers are content with longer hours and lower wages, but in the West workers want fewer hours and easier tasks, like the grasshopper in the summer. The Japanese work industriously like the ants, and when the cold winter comes it will be the ant which rescues the grasshopper.

I knew this is how things would develop. I am committed to change this trend in the West, based on Godism, and I want to make Westerners strong enough to do even more than the Japanese.

Though Godism is the stronger ideology, the only way for people under Godism to win the victory is to work harder than the opposition. It is only reasonable that without working harder we cannot become better than democracy or communism. Do you have confidence to do that?

Rather than simply getting along with the other two ideologies, I want to be an independent central figure. I want to grab both of them in our hands and bring them closer to God. You must clearly know that this is our goal. If the members and leaders think that they cannot meet a higher standard-or are reluctant to work in Africa, for instance-with that limited thinking they will never meet the goal. Godism has no boundaries; it will go beyond all boundaries and encompass the last person on earth. There is no distinction here between black and white. It is imperative that we go beyond racial feeling, and not be aware of who is white or black. We must bring the black nations with the left hand and the white nations with the right hand, and make them one in love. This is why we have stressed international marriage.

In the present age we must bring these three "isms" together. Today in the democratic and communist countries we see the symptoms of the end of ideals in the immorality and the drug use. We have to wash away all those things and make new people there. We have to make and administer a medicine for all that. Democracy and communism have both gone as far as they can, so this new Godism will have to rise up strongly and reach out nation by nation. When the time comes, you must approach the nations; you cannot remain a lone individual. You are working impossibly hard in order to better yourself, so that when the precise time arrives you will be prepared. In a short time here in America, I have brought people of all races into oneness.

Godism is here to fulfill the ideal and purpose of creation; that ideal is for parents and children together to center around God, making the four position foundation. Then all men will yearn to go in only one direction, to one destination, which is to become unified with love.

We go to every corner of the world to bring people into love, into one unity with God. Once we do that, we will have heaven on earth. We only cherish a person as God's child, not for his race or nationality. The only thing I remember is whether a person is in God's image, not that he is of a certain race; not whether he is handsome or beautiful, but whether he has much or little love.

What is the difference between children, servants, neighbors and cousins? The children are different in that they will fight against anything that threatens their parents' ideal. You can recognize a true child of God by his sensitivity and willingness to risk his life to protect God's ideal. Cousins and neighbors will tend to be critical of the direction God and parents may go. But a child would love them even if they did something upside down, even if they were limping. He would feel that his parents are limping because they worked so hard taking care of their children. He would be proud of his parents, not ashamed.

If you apply this criterion, you can immediately discern what position someone is in. Which position would you like to be in? When the parents carry a cross on their shoulders, we also want to carry that cross. Whoever is reluctant to carry that cross is more of a cousin or neighbor than a true child. Are you sons and daughters of God?

Are you Americans going to go out of your way to help protect the cause of a yellow man like me? When there is pressure and persecution from the government, will you shrink into a corner, or will you shout out, "What's wrong with the Moonies?" I don't like those who try to hide; they can never be real sons and daughters. What would have happened if I hadn't fought back against the accusations of the Fraser committee and the Carter administration? If anything blocks God's way to the world, I will say so without hesitation and get rid of it. Are you 120 day trainees children of God, servants of God, or bystanders? Will you confront anything that opposes you? I have found in the past that Americans give nice answers very easily. Is your answer today a cheap one, or an expensive one?

God created religions, and Christianity in particular, so that democracy could grow and fallen man could be free to reach perfection. America was started by the Abels of the religious world who gathered here to build a new nation. It stands to reason, then, that America should always be ready to stand up for God with unswerving belief. It should have strong families which unite around a belief in God, but today America is not that way.

God has three major problems today-the churches are separated from Him, the young people indulge in immorality, and families are breaking apart. If the churches and families are broken down then eventually the country will break apart under the force of communism. The problem of immorality, the social permissiveness toward homosexuality, free sex and drugs, are all fragmenting American families and churches. If God wants a strong America then Satan will try to weaken it through all these trends.

The communists want to destroy everything the free world stands for, such as spiritual life and strong families. Thus, we can see that communism is a satanic ideology. Communists discourage good traditions, trying to influence people to deny America's ideals. The communists always want to cause separation-between children and parents, between families, between old people and young people. Then they try to cause conflict there. Satan characteristically tries to cause division and conflict, and that is exactly the technique used by communists. In the beginning Satan separated Adam and Eve, and they inherited that quality from him. When the communists cause separation and conflict between parents and children, Satan will approve it.

In contrast to that, what is God's ideal? He wants to unite instead of separate. He yearns for everything to be united with Him. We see this struggle throughout the world. Every day in the news we hear of fierce fighting in the world, with one side promoting God's cause, and the other trying to destroy it by slandering God's side and misleading people. You must understand the significance of this age-it is the culminating theme of these three ideologies.

Then why do parents come to this earth? There is a twofold purpose-to realize God's ideal, and to save fallen mankind. If there were not fallen people then certainly the task would be easier and more pleasant. If there were only a million people in the world, don't you think the word of God would have been established already? This is why religions have always encouraged people to remain celibate and not have children.

Then what is the objective of true children? It is the same as their parents' ideal-to help establish God's original ideal of creation, and help restore all the fallen people. How do you save people? By recreating them; to restore people means to recreate them. In the garden of Eden there were Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel. When they reached perfection, God wanted them to become completely one, which meant that God could be situated right between them. The process of becoming completely one is love itself; without love, it is impossible.

If there was any rift between Adam and Eve then certainly they could not become one. But when they become one in love then God would live with them and they would wear the clothes of love. God wanted to cover them up with love. Then wherever they went they would inhale the fragrance of love and see nothing but scenes of love. If God was pulling Eve around, Adam would certainly follow because of love. Once love sets in, there can be no separation.

Is love necessary even when we eat? Why? If you are eating for the sake of love, how much more joyful it is. If you have beautiful clothes, you wear them for the person you love, not your enemy. If you have a beautiful mind of love, you wear beautiful things for the subject of your love. Then wearing nice clothes is a wonderful thing to do.

Do you need love when you are sleeping? Do you need more money or more love? American women are so practical that they would want money, right? You only need money on a few occasions, however, not every minute. If you go to your husband's bedroom, must you carry money? If you are full of love, that is all that is needed. We know that love is more necessary than any other precious thing. Does God need money, power, knowledge, or love? ;

When love is fulfilled then the archangel has no place to invade. He can come close and stand on the periphery, but can't get in. True children should stay close by, wherever their parents are, but because of the fall that did not take place. Adam and Eve did not become close; because there was division between them, God could not dwell with them, and their children went away on their own independent course. Wherever they went, Satan stood guard and demanded a passport, asking where they were going and why they should be allowed to move freely.

Satan has been working that way all through history for a good reason: as long as the boundaries remain, Satan can dominate, but when they are eliminated then the satanic world is no more. Satan set up a checkpoint which he won't allow people to cross, so that he can keep his own domain. Larger checkpoints were needed as societies and nations developed, but that pattern has lasted until today. Instead of allowing God to be at the center of the original world, Satan has used a similar pattern to bring everything under him.

There has to come a time when the satanic side will have to do its worst, promoting everything that God hates most. When that happens we will know that even the end of communism must be near. Parents and children should be the closest, so when they feel like enemies it will mark the ending of the false world. If parents and relatives try to prevent the children from going to the godly side, then we know that Satan must be working.

We can figure out that what Satan would hate most would be for God to expand His foundation. That final foundation would be the new religion of God's original ideal. Another distinguishing characteristic of the God centered movement will be unity in its families, for in Satan's world parents and children would be enemies. The most difficult thing to achieve, even though people have talked about it for centuries, would be unity between black and white people and between East and West. But the God-centered church will achieve it.

This is precisely what Unification Church is doing, and we are carrying it out with our lives to the world level. People will be wild to oppose that movement, just like mad dogs. A mad dog doesn't know why he is mad, but just barks at everyone-the master, the servant and the children. If a mad dog starts barking, other dogs will join in, even without a legitimate reason. But one dog has a keen enough sense of smell to recognize the master, and that is the Unification Church.

In your opinion will communism or democracy survive the longest? Unificationism or democracy? God protects us because He loves the cause we are working for. How could a country boy from the mountains of northern Korea survive great opposition and come to world prominence if God was not there? God protected me because He loves me. God protects us because He needs us. I have always been alone, with no nation taking my side or helping me. That is why the world will call me a fearful person, a heroic, indestructible man.

How can we say we have True Parents now? Always the evil side has attacked goodness and taken it to the evil side by force. But now with True Parents the good side will deliver the evil side with love. No brothers can come into unity horizontally without parents. First Cain and Abel come into unity, then become one with parents, and then become one with God Himself. This is the pattern of restoration, the four position foundation. Once the children become one with their parents, becoming one with God is automatic. This applies to nations as well. There will always be conflict in the satanic world, but by following this heavenly pattern mankind will always come into unity.

The Cain individual will follow the Abel individual. The church is in Abel's position to the country, like the mind is Abel to the body. Together they can go into heaven. Through Abel the country will eventually enter God's world. The individual will follow Abel, who is in a position following the family. In other words, the individual Abel's position becomes Cain to the family level.

The clan is Abel to the family; that family must follow the higher Abel. The nation is Abel to the clan. Because the nation must bear more difficulty and pay more indemnity, it is Abel to the clan. Whichever has more difficulty is Abel. The spirit world will be on a higher level; since it includes thousands of generations, it has a more difficult burden.

How can an individual take the Cain position to the family, and then in the family take the Cain position to the clan, then be Cain to the nation, and finally the world and spirit world, all in one lifetime? All of this has to be restored in actuality, not just concept. But God has arranged a passport system; if you are issued a passport which shows that you have followed Abel, you can go everywhere. Do you need that passport? The person qualified to sign your passport is the one who is king on the individual level, and king of the family, clan, society, nation, world, and spirit world.

When the President visits a governor's house, he is automatically welcomed there, and also in the homes of individuals. He doesn't need some passport to go to those various places. Whoever has the President's signature authorizing him to travel can also pass as freely as the President. Isn't that reasonable? What would you call the person who could sign your heavenly passport-your brother, teacher, friend, or parent? God knows you would call this person your parent. His signature will authorize another person to go anywhere.

Here is a sister from Russia, an enemy country. If however, President Reagan signs a paper authorizing her to travel, she can go anywhere in America, can't she? Travelers don't have to get clearance every time they want to journey to another place. If True Parents come in the name of God, then the individuals they authorize can travel freely anywhere. This is the only way anyone can go all the way from the family to the national level.

Do you want to qualify for this passport? You have to meet some standard first. If you finish home church successfully, then you can have a passport clearing you to go to any level. Everyone has to meet the same standard in order to get that pass. Do you think American citizenship exempts you from that qualification? Do you need Unification Church? Do you need Reverend Moon, who is an Oriental? How can you say it doesn't matter if my eyes are black and yours are blue? We can say so because the color of love is the same for everyone. Since you all need love, you need parents.

From this transition point on, the horizontal ideal will not suffice; we need Adam's country and Eve's country as a vertical foundation. When that foundation becomes the focus of the horizontal relationships of other nations, rest assured that the last days are near. When countries representing Adam, Eve, and the archangel are finally united, the democratic nations and communist nations will come into unity without fighting. That is spiritual law.

Korea, Japan, and America are the focus of world attention, each being unique. They are still overcoming the feeling of being enemies from forty years ago, but with the love of God they can form unity. Then, according to God's law, the rest of the world will become one. Under what ideal can this unity come? Not under communism or democracy, but Godism.

America, under democracy, cannot bring Korea and Japan into unity to oppose communism. Korea will always be anticommunist, and America also is basically anticommunist. But Japan still entertains the possibility of following communism, and needs a strong leader to direct it the other way. Japan is an island, an Eve country. Eve will do better to listen to the Adam country than to the archangel, or any other nation. Can Korea exercise any influence over Japan? Korea does not have horizontal influence over Japan, but in the vertical way it has some influence.

America must follow the example of some country; it is helpless under democracy, which it has tried for two centuries. If there is any FBI or CIA agent here, he can tell the government that I said the only way for this gigantic nation to survive is to listen to Reverend Moon.

Try as it may, no individual nation can find the solution by itself. When South Korea, Japan and America and the free world all make unity, they can exercise meaningful influence over the communist world. As soon as Christianity wakes up to its mission, this will not be difficult to do. For many years the Unification Church has been establishing the pattern of what a family should be, showing what morality young people should follow, and working to revive Christian churches. This will help America be reborn as a great nation. With that great nation as the center, the whole world can be united under Godism. This is God's blueprint.

What if America fails to achieve this? Then it will cease to exist as the great country we have known. Then the center of Unification Church activity will move to another country. We are working to eliminate racial awareness among us. International marriage is a difficult thing, but we are working headlong on it.

Today is the 22nd Parent's Day. This has come into being because God worked for this goal. The fallen seed was planted on this earth, so Adam, Eve, the archangel, Cain and Abel must be restored to the original ideal. Individual nations are already assuming the roles of Adam, Eve and archangel, and the communist nations and democratic nations represent Cain and Abel.

Japan is taking the role that England should have assumed, but failed to fulfill. Economically, Japan has done more than anyone in restoration. Because Eve fell, the Eve nation should work to bring Adam and the archangel into harmony. In just the last four years Japan has brought an incredible degree of achievement in playing this dispensational role. Japan is like a beautiful naked woman, coveted by everyone. Korea wants to be friends, America wants alliance, and the communist world wants to take it to the communist side. Which country Japan marries will be important not only to Japan's future, but the world's future.

Today's young people have cut themselves adrift from the past generations, which have so loudly opposed me. These young people will all come to the Unification Church in the future. Can any military or political power digest and influence the Moonies? Will the small number of Moonies digest America, or will America engulf them? We are following God's blueprint to bring unity and peace to mankind. Then former enemies can come into unity and establish a new tradition. For instance, Japanese members love me more than their own emperor, and when they come to America they love this nation more than Americans do. The Unification Church has caused that amazing phenomenon.

Not too long ago American members wondered why so many Japanese members were needed here, but now you know. They are fulfilling a different position than Americans; also they take me more seriously than American members. Naturally those in the archangel position must listen to those in the Eve position.

The world is divided into two big blocs of communism and democracy. Korea and Germany are both divided nations; one is divided horizontally, east to west, and the other divided vertically, or north to south. This is symbolic of all the separations in the world. The division of Germany represents separation between brothers, or the human element. Korea's division represents the elements of the satanic world and heavenly dispensation. Korea is being offered as an altar for all the heavenly elements God has worked on.

If the situation in Korea is worked out, the other kind of division can automatically be solved. As soon as East and West come into unity, the problems of Western civilization will healed. If Korea were a big country, with hundreds of millions in population, that would be difficult to achieve. But because it is small, it is easier for God to work there.

If the Unification Church will grow in numbers, then Korea will automatically turn to the heavenly path and unity will be attained. Then unity elsewhere will follow. It is not so difficult for 50 or 60 million people to support us; just think, if the New York Times and Washington Post endorsed the Unification Church and said it was good, many people would listen. If I had been a white man, they probably would not have opposed me in the past. If they ran positive articles about me for one week, all America would support Unification Church.

If those papers repent then they will prosper again and be trusted by people. But if they continue going the wrong way then I will buy them out. We will make much money in the future so we can speed up the restoration; that's the only reason we need money. Recently those two papers are looking at me in a different way. The News World has spoken out bravely about what is wrong with those papers, which no one else dared to do.

If I don't carry out this purpose then you can do that in my place. You are smart, so you can judge what you must do. This is the day I have been working toward all the time. If I teach the presidents of any other nations exactly what I have taught here, they will accept it better. This will certainly be done. Are you going to stand by and watch, or will you participate in doing that?

We are not following the Oriental way, but the providential way. I brought the Japanese members here because here we are making unity between the three providential nations. At engagement time, white members weren't so interested in marrying other white members, but in marrying men or women from the fatherland, or from Japan. Some American women complained, "What about us? " It is according to Principle that men from the archangel nation like the women from the Eve nation. Do American women think I am right or wrong? If I were you, I wouldn't think I was shortchanged. If you marry a Japanese or Korean and dedicate yourself to that country, you will be the central figure. How can you complain then?

We are Abel, and Abel must digest the four great cultures. Those are the Adam nation, Korea; Eve nation, Japan; Cain nation, the Soviet culture; and the archangel culture, which is America. If you can unite those four cultures then you can win the whole world, and by doing that you can accomplish God's purpose. As Moonies, we must establish a new culture, so we must digest four cultures. We are already on that road-you like rice and kimchee, and are encouraged to learn Korean and Japanese. One day we must also learn Russian. Then you can win over everything.

Now you know what I mean by "this age, " or "today's world. " You cannot connect God to the world on an individual basis, but through the five positions-Adam, Eve, archangel, Cain and Abel-and the formula course of restoration you can do it. You only have to wait a few years to judge whether the world is or isn't going in that direction. Are you confident to do it now, or will you wait and see? There is no question that this is the future trend of the world.

Everything I have predicted in the last twenty years has come true, no matter how incredible it sounded. It doesn't matter whether people help or criticize-this will come to pass because God is working. Regardless of what the world is today, the fact that True Parents have established Parents' Day is truly the gospel. At this unique time in history you can work, sweat and receive the same persecution with the Parents. Will you drag along in discouragement, or will you go with a shout? God and the spirit world will go along with you if you go joyfully. If you go dispiritedly, later they will ask why you did not work fully when the opportunity was there. Divine Principle directs us clearly this way, and spirit world already knows it.

You cannot go to heaven whenever you like; spirit world must endorse you. History will judge whether you lived up to the standard of the Abel side. Unification Church members have not understood the formula clearly enough to be determined to follow this path, but have vacillated. If you can correct that now, then you will go straight forward.

It will be more difficult to see me in the future; I will not always be speaking every Sunday. Not everyone will be able to come where I am, whenever they want. Already you have seen that as the dispensation broadens I am away more and you do not see me as much. If presidents of 120 countries want to see me for three days each, that alone would take 360 days. When would I find the time to see you and encourage you? I certainly have to visit many countries.

As time goes on you will have more and more to do. Especially here in America you have heard enough about God and the dispensation already, so even though I don't talk to you every week you should be able to carry this out.

It is up to you. It remains for you to live up to what heaven has shown you; you don't need me to lead you by the hand. Unless you go forward on your own, you can never be independent. In doing home church you will be doing exactly what I have been doing on earth, so you are stepping into my shoes, into what has already been established on a world scale.

Unification Church leaders will consult with everyone who works hard for the heavenly cause and will work with them for God's goal. If some members are working harder than the leader, he must consult with them; then the work and that leader will prosper. If not, that leader will decline and the harder-working person will prosper. That is because God's mainstream always follows the one who works hardest.

Some person may speak very well and have many nice ideas, but his endeavors may not last long. God's work will be expanded through the person who works hardest and gives his heart the most. All my life I have been working, even after my responsibility was finished. I only want to add to the foundation that has been built, not to live off it. God does not follow the person who expects recognition, but follows the person who does more than his share and still continues to give. That is the mainstream of the Unification Church.

This is the tradition the True Parents leave behind, and is what I want you to inherit; it has much more value than leaving you money or property. I am entitled to rest now, but I don't, so no one else is entitled to take things easy either. This tradition is the best gift I could give you. It is the result of my sweat, and through home church you can distribute this to the world.

If I had only given orders in my capacity as Abel, then Unification Church progress would have been very slow. But instead I carried out everything myself and showed the members through my example. That is my tradition. Now the leaders have seen this clearly-not by being taught, but by seeing me do that firsthand. If they follow my tradition then many people will follow them. If you follow my direction in this then your members will more easily follow you.

I have no choice-that is the Divine Principle way. If the grandfather does that, then the parents and children must also go that way. There is no exception. This is the precious tradition you are to receive and follow. Now under my authority you carry this out in home church, shedding sweat to leave the best tradition. If you don't do that, then the next generation will have to do it.

Communism, the decline of morality among young people, and the decline of Christianity are the big problems we must be responsible for. These are God's biggest problems, and as His true children you must inherit them. I will solve this source of God's agony, and will gather all the countries to work on this also.

We are all in the same boat. You may have a nice first class cabin, but if there is a hole in the boat then the water will eventually reach you. You have to be alert for that, and help repair any hole to make sure there is no danger to the ship. Can you rest and do nothing then? There is hardly time to eat. You even have to think about educating some person who can take your place if you collapse. This is a holy war we are fighting.

The crew of the boat may not be aware of danger if they see that the boat is dry. God knows more about the future of Unification Church than you do, and what dangers lie ahead, so He needs people to share His concern and make certain the boat reaches its destination. We must not just feel that if our cabin is all right that we don't have to worry about anything else.

You can't feel that you don't care what America does. We have to reach shore safely by a given time. If we take too long then danger is always increasing, so we should only care about the boat going faster. We have to work desperately and hard, day in and day out. If each of you will live up to this Principle standard, then already there are more than enough people here.

Those who are determined to live up to that standard raise your hands. Then please be confident that your fist will have enough power and your muscle enough strength to accomplish it, as long as you are willing.

God bless you.