Human Life

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Tarrytown, New York
December 1, 1974
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

"Human Life" is my topic this morning. We are born of parents. First for you to be born, your ancestors existed. Whenever you look into the mirror at yourself, you find yourself either handsome or average-looking, and things like that, and you judge yourself to be such and such. But you don't realize that there are many generations of your ancestors, and you are the fruit of your ancestors' lineage. The Japanese brothers and sisters would want Father to speak in Japanese, which will make it difficult for me. I've so far talked about your being the fruit of your ancestors, not limited to your own self, but you are a totalization of your ancestors' genes. When you look at yourself in the mirror, you find that you resemble your parents perhaps, but when you examine your ancestral lineage, you see that you resemble either one of them or a combination of both of them.

When you think of your own parents, your mother is born of a different lineage from your father, and those two come together into one unity, into oneness, and then you are born from the two, totalized in you. When you think of two tributaries which reach the ocean, you can imagine each of those two have gone different ways. For some of you, your father's lineage has more righteous people in the past, or, for some others, your mother's lineage has more righteous people. On the other hand, for some of you, you have a bad or evil ancestral lineage. When you analyze your ancestral line in light of the Providence of God, you can never say that your ancestors have all headed toward the same goal, directed or set forth by God, and you are not happy because of that. You may immediately think that your ancestors have been estranged from God's dispensation rather than in conformity with it.

In the Principle, we must think of ourselves not apart from God's will in terms of individuals, but we always have to think of ourselves in terms of the Providence of God or His will. Seen from that viewpoint, you can place yourself at the cross junction. Your life on Earth is at most 70 to 100 years, but your record will matter, and your future will count. You are at a junction point connecting your past and future, and thousands of years of the past is connected with you, and what you are doing here on Earth in your life will be connected to your future generations.

When you think of your life as coming from the past, as a stream, the wide stream is narrowing down on you at one point, and what you are and what you have lived here will be extended to all your descendants. When you think of the time of past history, suppose your ancestral past is like a muddy stream, and at the point where you are situated, you must do something about it-cleanse or clear away the muddiness and bequeath it to your descendants. Otherwise your descendants will be ... well, in the swirl of a muddy stream in muddy water. When you think of the past human history as a whole, we can see that it has been muddy water, not clean water. So, how to cleanse the water to be a clear stream, to be handed over to your next generation, is the problem. Before being able to do that, we must find a way to change the course of the muddy stream to flow downward. We must find a way to do that. But it seems to be impossible for any individual to do the job. In order for us to be able to stop the stream from flowing on its way, we must have some power stronger than the current of the stream. If there's any way possible for us to bar the current of the muddy stream, or, if we can find any place or any person who can do the job, we must be ready to spend our whole life or cast our whole life for the job.

We conclude that for fallen man, there's no possibility of doing this task; then who-who at all can do the job? That is the question. If there is someone who can take over the job, take the responsibility of the task, we must be very grateful to that person. We cannot thank the person enough, even though we may risk our lives and do the job at the cost of our lives. There are thousands of past generations who cooperated with each other to make that muddy stream, to be handed over to us. When you imagine that those ancestors of yours have not been annihilated but living somewhere in spirit world looking at you being swept along by the stream, how sad must they be, how grieved must they be in their hearts. You know that your own parents would want you to lead a happy life, without being swept up by unhappiness and misery. If your direct father and mother are like that, you can imagine your grandparents and great-grandparents, and their parents and parents and parents, up to the very origin must also be grievous. All the past ancestors of yours are expecting you to get out of the muddy stream, to be cleansed. Once you go to the spirit world you will feel and see who has done how much of righteousness, and you cannot escape it. When you think of that, you can imagine that you resemble one, at least, of those ancestors very much. From the viewpoint of your ancestors, since you are situated on the cross-junction of human history, they would want you to resemble the best one of all their ancestors, to pay off the debts they have accumulated. It is possible that you, as the fruit of your ancestors, resemble one of the best ones in your ancestral lineage, but very possibly, on the other hand, you resemble the very worst of those people.

So, we must seriously think about whom we resemble among our ancestors. Is it the righteous one, or the evil one? What do you think? Would you like to resemble the very best one, or the worst one? (Best!) Well, of course, it is natural for you to answer in that way, but is that true? Are you really born resembling the best one? That's the question. When you think of yourself, you can very safely define yourself to be good, or close to good. But, when you think of your ancestral background, you cannot safely determine that you are a good fruit.

It is possible that a man outwardly resembles the very best one, and he is handsome and has good qualities. But inwardly, he resembles the very worst one, being the totalization of all the evils committed by his ancestors. What will happen? On the other hand, for someone on the external base he resembles the very worst one, being very ugly, not handsome, but inwardly, he's endowed with righteousness and many good elements in him. But for each one of them, when he or she is situated on the cross-junction, his life would not end with himself. It will be extended to others. Since you are the totalization of the fruit of your ancestral past narrowed down at one point, since you are not confident you are from a good lineage, if you multiply yourself just as you are it will be awful. So, you must at first try to narrow down until you cleanse the muddiness. There's only one path which is righteous. It is absolutely right. Get on the line up to the very origin where you'll find God.

When you extend the line to eternity, at some point you will find the ideal world, or ideal being. The ideal can be erected not by your efforts alone, but with the cooperation of God. In your ancestral past, in what generation did your forefathers work with God, or have they been with God ... in accordance with God's will? Well, you all may think that it would have been far better off if you had good ancestors having worked with God. And you can well imagine that your future descendants will say the same about you. So, we must be very serious to think of ourselves in terms of God's will. We will work on the spirit line to reach God up there and reach the ideal world down here. Men are born to stand up straight like this, but your spiritual posture, well, for your spiritual posture, some are standing like this, some like this, some others like this, still others like this, and very many stand, can I say, standing up-side down, on their heads, something like that. In some cases, many people are such that it would have been much better that they were not born at all. Then, to what category do you belong? Where are you situated? Those whose spiritual posture is like this must try their deadly best to stand up straight. But instead of doing that, he would try to sink deeper and deeper to the dungeon.

There are many members here, and all of you, without exception, would belong to either one of those categories. Therefore, it is very difficult for you to find harmony with each other, since you are from different origins representing either one of those types. Well, even after joining the movement, you find yourself just the same. Your joining the movement is of no accident. You are helped ... you are being helped, or you have been, by the best of your ancestors, and at that moment he knew that, your best ancestors led you into the movement. But, well ... who knows? At some moment, different ancestors of yours can cooperate with you, and you will bring out history more than any forefathers of yours. At that moment you feel like leaving the movement, or feel like drawing yourself to a private place. There are low periods.

Well, suppose our goal is up there. You know very clearly, but sometimes you go backward, sometimes you go a little forward and then you zigzag. Even in one day, you think of many things. So, your spiritual direction is zigzag, going back and forth all the time. If your ancestral lineage is on the whole a good one, then even though you may draw a zigzag line, you are going up, never coming down. You are the fruit of your ancestors, with your ancestors being the cause. So, what they have done in the past, if they are good, will be reflected on you. When you think of those complicated things that make it possible for you to exist, we cannot fully trust a person.

There are various types of persons in the world. We are conceived of various elements but we must know how to put them in order and arrange ourselves to be in a good condition. God will be thinking of the same thing and would help you if you are ready. When you analyze the past history of mankind, the very fall or evil came about when men thought about things centered on themselves. Selfish desire brought about that kind of condition. Man could not have fallen if he was unselfish and sacrificial, and thought of the larger whole instead of himself. But the worst thing happened, and man began to think of himself and deny others. Therefore, in the process of restoration we must be able to go the reverse way, going backward rather than the worldly way we are used to.

When we talk about death in terms of the Divine Principle, we use the word "indemnity." And by going through indemnity, we must go the reverse way. Is it true? (Yes!) When you closely examine yourselves, can you say you are happy, or are you unhappy? (Happy!) Are you really happy? Is there any such thing as real happiness in the world? No. If you truly realize that you are the fruit of your ancestors, and your mission is to pay off the debts accumulated by your ancestors, you cannot have even a moment of your life in easiness and happiness.

If you think of your being happy, with the notion of all the ancestral past and the debts you have to pay off, something is wrong with you, you are not normal. But you cannot be ready to lead your life in unhappiness all the way. There must be something done by you. If you surrender yourself to unhappiness, you are abnormal too, you are not yourself, you are beside yourself. You cannot tell yourself you are born unhappy so you are going to lead an unhappy life. You cannot say that. If you keep telling yourself that there is a way for you to go beyond unhappiness and that you can build the world into a happy one, and if you are mission-sensitive like that, what kind of path are you going to make? What is your conclusion? Would you be ready to go on the miserable way, to cleanse away the debts, pay off the debts, or would you rather go an easy way? If there is a way possible for you to go by which you can pay off your debts, which way would you prefer to have? "Hard and quicker way," he said. Oh, you are not ready to die for the cause? The hard way will be enough? (No!) It is the hardest way to steer and there you cannot afford to die! These are not just empty words, it is truth. If you are so heavily saddled with the burden of your past, and you have no moment at ease, then have you ever stopped to think of the seriousness of the situation, struggling hard to win over it, and triumph there? If there's any way possible through which you will never die, but obtain the goal, you would take that way, wouldn't you? If that is the way of the ladder not only straight up like this, but you may have to climb up a ladder placed like this, it is better than the way of death. Isn't it true? And you are compelled to climb up the ladder, so what would you do? (Climb.)

Sometimes you would think, "Well, I would rather die than have to climb that kind of ladder!" Even in competition you can picture your life in the Principle, as being in the Providence of God. On the other hand, girls above the age of 30 may think, "Oh, I'm over 30, and what I need is my own mate!" And the same will happen with the boys. The boys of over 30 will think, "Well, this is the time for me to have my mate!" And you are most serious for that. Aren't you? No? Isn't that true? This is far from God's expectation. When you are entertaining that kind of notion, you will be burdened and when you are climbing up the ladder, some power will pull you back. For the girls: May I ask you a question? After you are married here, would you want to lead a bitter life, having to pay off debts all the way through? Or, do you want to remain in a happy home, having nothing to do with those things? Well, answer me. I would expect more than 98 per cent of the girls would answer that they want to lead a happy life. They are born like that! Then I'm very sympathetic with the men-they have to lead these women.

Even in the Garden of Eden, female folks were the problem ... the female was the problem, and the same thing will happen in the way of restoration, I'm afraid. When we think of that, we come to the conclusion that, if we are headed for the true way, we must have nothing to do with women! Well, in the oriental countries, we have that kind of notion. When we are faced with serious problems, you must try to have nothing to do with women! In the Oriental countries, suppose the head of the family, the man, has a serious problem to discuss; he will do that with his sons, not with his wife. He can tell his wife to leave the room, because he has serious things to discuss with his son. It is etiquette, and it is common sense that the wives will leave the room without being hurt. Well, is that common in American homes, in the Western world? (No!) The wives will get furious! Angry. Suppose you, as a man, have a serious problem and you are going to do something great for the nation, or at least for a bigger whole than your own family. If you discuss the matter with your wife, nine out of ten, I suppose, will either reject it, or will have a feeble mind so that she would try to stop her husband from doing that, or, later on, she will reveal the secret, betray the secret.

You females are more like that. Up to the present moment in the history of restoration, women have not been dealt with too seriously. Well, that's what you find in the Bible. Up to now, men have directed the world, but at the cross- unction, in the latter days, they are destined to meet women and get their cooperation to accomplish the mission of restoration. If women had the responsibility of manipulating the world, what would have happened? Just imagine! Peaceful world. If women have lived exclusively for women, maybe they would have been at peace, without having to fight, but, if there's one man appearing in their midst, there'll be wars, fighting. Well, you may think that men initiated fighting ... fights and wars. But, it is inevitable because of the evil world, men were all brave to fight against the evil power. They were destined to do the job. How can the world be changed without fights on the part of men? Even in the Unification Movement, the same thing applies.

Suppose you are blessed in the Holy Marriage. After the marriage, the women are apt to think of the happiness in the home, rather than, you know, living or having your husband to work for the greater cause. It's possible for your husband to be sacrificed but you are not willing to have him be sacrificed. Isn't that true? If you are truly the members of the Unification Church, you must be different. My logic is that, up to the present, men have been in the vanguard of the women. But now ... from now on, the women must stand in the vanguard of men, leading them-almost leading them ... putting them in the rear. By comparison, I would rather have my female members fight in the war against Communism where, in the Communistic world, they would have their male folks to fight against our female folks, and I must have my female members win over the male soldiers of Communism. What about it?

I As you may know, in North Korea, Kim 11 Sung is training his women to be stronger than the South Korean men soldiers. North Korea represents the evil side, while South Korea represents the Godly side. And in both countries, they train women to be strong soldiers. If and when the Communists would send their soldiers to fight against our movement, and fire the artillery and things like that, would we just sit with folded hands to be killed and annihilated? (No!) Then what would you do? (Fight.) Can you, especially you women, kill the Communists? (Yes!) It is not an easy task at all. In light of the Divine Principle, you should not kill even your enemy. You must love your enemy. And in face of death, you are about to be killed, what would you do? That's the great problem. There's only one way possible-to win over Communism without having to kill them or be killed. That is, to put more strength on our side and we will train ourselves to be more efficient soldiers, and stronger by far than the Communist power.

Then, they cannot even dream of attacking us. It is typical of evil to attack you when you are weak. Satan will appear when you are weak, around the nation of God's choice. And when there is a group which honors God, God has always been helping that group to be stronger than the evil side. Suppose there are people depending on your arms having to carry them. If it is allowed, what would you prefer to do? (To carry them.) Carry, or climb up without those people? (Carry!) If the ladder is so weak, that if you are going to carry two persons, one on either side, it will crash down. What would you do? (Carry them.) Still carry them? All by yourself and after you attained the goal ... let other people climb up?

I've talked about happiness and unhappiness. But before that, I would want to ask you, what is our average age here? Well, male members? What is the average age? (23.) Ah! And what is the average length of life! It is not that much here. Sixty-five? Seventy? (73.) One third of the day is spent in sleeping, so the next forty years will be lived. You are awake during the day, but you are working only half the day, maybe, in concentrated work, so, you have the next twenty years to work. Well, are you happy while you work? (Yes!) If it is hard work and you are forced to work, are you still happy? When you work, would you be gay and hilarious? You want to have hours of recess or rest between work. Maybe three hours a day. Sometimes you are sick. So, you have to subtract two hours.... If you subtract two hours of rest that's two-eighths of the day.

We sometimes get low, we struggle with it, quarrel with each other and we get sick. So, I should say that we are only working in concentrated effort for the next ten years, or less. How many minutes or seconds of real happiness do you enjoy in a day? When you just feel like dancing, and singing, and smiling, laughing-how many minutes? How many seconds? Well, there are even less than two years of real happiness you will have tasted all through your life. All through your life span would you imagine that you have two years of that utmost joy and happiness? Or even less? When you think of that, life is just like a shadow, fleeting away so quick.

Suppose in your life and your homes, you cannot quite trust your husband or you cannot quite trust your wife, so there are always quarrels, and your children do not have filial piety. You have to worry about them, then how many hours are left for you to be joyous? I should say that there are less than two years of life for you to really enjoy. On the other hand, all the rest of your life will be filled with sadness, fights, greed, and things like that. Because of that, men have struggled to get out of this life, or to spend this life seeking for real happiness in the other world, in the spirit world, and, in doing that, men have enjoyed great happiness. The more we find the value of doing that, the more happiness we can enjoy in earthly life, too. If you find any way possible for us to be really happy all through eternity, at the risk of even those two years, would you rather sacrifice those two years and exchange them for eternal happiness? Compared to the greatness we are going to enjoy as a reward after this life of struggle the two years of sacrifice will be of no matter at all. We find ourselves being drawn to the dungeon of life by enjoying the few years in our lives, and meanwhile there's another way open to us to find eternal happiness if we sacrifice these two years of happiness on the Earth. By comparison the other thing is by far the greater.

So, are you sure of God's existence? (Yes!) Which is it: is it because I have been teaching you that there is God and you trust me, you almost believe my sayings in such a way that you are compelled to believe in God? Or, have you experienced God's existence in your life, and you feel the abode or dwelling of God in your own self? That you recognize Him? (Yes!) You have experienced God? If it is true, hold up your hand. What if I publicly declared to you: There's no such thing as God! Go away, and enjoy your own life! What would you do? (We're not leaving!) Are you confident of that? (Yes!)

We all know what it is like in the fallen world. If you think there is anything like happiness in a fallen affair, it is entirely wrong. If you really recognize the human fall, it is an abnormal state and you cannot be content in that state. Suppose there is a damaged machine or a cart pulling barely ahead, but you know, you are aware that it is destined to stop somewhere, and you are going to get into difficulty, can you sit still there? I see that you really recognize that you are in the stage of having fallen, so it is either insane or abnormal to think that you can enjoy happy life here. So our destiny is to have to get away from the present state, to grasp something of a higher dimension, for our eternal life. Would you rather remain in the fallen world, or try to escape from it? (Escape!!!) When you will have barely attained the goal going beyond the level of the Fall, would you want to go back to the previous world? (No!!!) If you are like that, you are idiots.

Before long, Christmas will be here. Once you left your home, which you thought was beautiful, because there you found something here better than that. Then what has your life here been? You have been out on the streets selling candles, peanuts, witnessing to people, and being rejected while you have to pray for them, and when you look at your own selves you are clad in rags with almost worn-out shoes, and all wrinkled dresses and suits, and your old friends are looking at you, and they find you to be miserable now. How do you find yourself, and what is your feeling? You long for your past lives? (No!!!) You are home-sick for your past? (No!!!) You say no with your lip, but deep in your mind, are homesick. You are at least thinking of something else than what you ought to think. It is permissible to think, just to think of that, maybe, but if you put it into practice, it is wrong.

If you have attended here only a short time and then if you go back to the old world, you are apt to be swallowed up again. You must have a good bearing here, you know, solidly settled here, and then by the order coming from above you can go back to your place, restore your family, relatives, and bring them back to this world; and it's permissible. The best thing is that, if you save the whole nation, your family is included. Your relatives and friends are already included there. Our conclusion is that it'll be far faster for us to save the nation, with its population of 2 1 0 million, and then the rest of your friends and families and relatives will be included, but if on the other hand, if you try to rescue those people, save those people and be rejected and be faced with difficulties, that will prolong our restoration. Do you follow?

In your past ancestral lines, your forefathers, most of them I should say, were always thinking of their own home. Only a few of them have been thinking about their countries or have thought of the salvation of the world. It has been very difficult and almost impossible for those people to do things or think of things in terms of saving the enemy. There are many levels of people who have lived on this earth. Some thought of their families exclusively, some thought of their nation at best, some thought of the world, some thought even of the salvation of their enemies; and, from God's sight, who would be the greater, who would be a great person or saint out of those people? When you think of a larger home, you become greater. And Jesus belongs to the last category, having loved even the enemy. God's goal of salvation is that, having to save even Communists. We must have the same goal. Centered on the Godly side, we must save the ungodly world of Communism, too. Step by step, we must go on, until we can include the whole world in the salvation, from the individual to the family, the nation, the world, and including even the enemy. On the crossing junction of every level we have to pay the indemnity due ... due and proportionate to the greatness of the mission. Who would do the job? Who is ready to do the task? We must at the end be able to save the enemy. These are historical front-lines.

After you will have attained the family level of restoration, would you want to go back to the individual level of things; after you will have attained the goal of national level, would you long to go back to the family level? After you will have attained the goal of world-wide level, would you long to go back to the national level of things? Can you do that? (No.) In our movement the idea is for us not to look back. When you will have attained the next goal, you will never look back or long for the previous stage of things. Just head for the goal, and go up and up, until you will have attained the last goal, you cannot look back. When you are settled safely here, with all the right bearings then you can go back and take care of our other affairs. In the latter days we in the fallen world are destined to go back. We cannot sit still just repeating the same thing all over, but we have to do something and a way is to go back to the original state before the Fall. One of the reasons it is good for us to go back to the original state from the fallen world now in the latter days is that there is chaos, uncertainty, confusion, and all sorts of evil prevailing in the world, making it impossible, almost impossible for us to go back.

There is moral corruption and the threat of Communism, and the free sex problem. Now history has even witnessed streaking. You are situated here, but in a small way, you have to go through all those things. History has never seen such an age in which all those things are mingled together. A bit of everything of evil is there. But, from God's side, He will pour out all righteous things, showing a hopeful and promising way of life. Unhappiness, destruction and misery, and all those evil things will be here, but from God's sight, in proportion to those, He will give you brighter and happier things. Tens and thousands of generations have committed sins, and all those things are totalized and bearing fruit here. At the time of harvest in the latter days, those evil things must be harvested, too, but in proportion to that, God will work to help people cleanse the wound, and win over evil. In human history, we have been in the most miserable world, in a way. But on the other hand, if we will have paid the toll of indemnity to win over those situations, a new world is promised before us-a new world of higher dimensions, filled with happiness. Even in America, which all the rest of the world has been thinking of as an ideal world, a God loving world, there are corruptions prevailing, and even the citizens of the United States are aware of the fact that they are living in the dungeon of life, in sin here in the United States.

The situation here is more dreadful than in Korea. In Korea, a woman can walk on the street at midnight and nothing will happen. They are safe. But here, on the streets of New York, if a woman would walk all by herself, something dreadful can happen, something awful can happen. It is because America has been the leading nation of the world, and a bit of everything has been prevailing here including good things, but in the last days, at the turning point of God's Providence, God has displayed everything evil in this nation in order that it might be restored by going through indemnity and so that what is done here, according to the Providence of God will be spreading out to every comer of the world. That's God's dispensation.

So far, we have been working on the streets of New York, and we have won great numbers of people to our side. But later on, sooner or later, we will have to witness in the Harlem section and then all the Negro people must be brought into the movement. At the end, we must infiltrate into the Communistic ranks too, to win their hearts and bring them back to God's bosom. Just think of that: our enemy, the Communist's target also is the United States. Have you been aware of that? (Yes.) International gangsters and gamblers-all those people are assembled in this nation. It is nothing strange that you have Mafia people in America. This is the world-wide display of evil power. It is Lord God's desire and the desire of mankind to change this world into a better place to live in, and a bit of everything is displayed in this nation, in this leading nation of the world as the stage of God's restoration. God's intention is to have His people working here to overturn every level of thing-individuals, families, and the nation of the United States to His side. By doing that and by using America, He will turn all the rest of the world to His side, including the enemies and evil powers of Communism and gangsters and all those societies and communities. What, anyway, does the Unification Church stand for? In America, there are many nationalities mingled. There's no other place in the whole world other than America where people from all nationalities and races are mingled. You are here, but you are not now yourselves alone on the individual level, but you represent your family, your nation, and your race. You must be conscious of that.

As you well know, human history on the vertical line must be indemnified and straightened out on the horizontal level in our age. In restoring all the vertical things on the horizontal level, we cannot go to the right side alone, but we must go back to the left side rather than bring back all those things to the right way. Since we are placed in the fallen world, our indemnity to pay is that when we want to attain this much, we must go backwards. When you want to attain the level of family, you must go backward to win things in the fallen world on the family level, and then alone can we attain the family level of restoration. When you want to -attain the level of national salvation, you must go backward to win the hearts of the nation, then alone you will have gained or obtained the goal and so on. The longer distance we want to cover, the longer distance backward we want to cover, and then restore them to attain that much distance. Our strategy is to go back and cover the same distance on the left side to, so far as to be able to attain the same distance on the right side. That means we want to live in the Unification Family exclusively for our own happiness, but there is none allowed. We must be scattered to the front-line to win the hearts and souls of the nation.

Jesus was the only son of God. He's entitled to live in God's bosom up there, but he was sent to the dungeon of life in the fallen world, and after he would have received the whole mankind alone, he could have gone back to God's bosom to enjoy eternal life there. But his mission was not fully accomplished in his lifetime, and where he is now situated is Paradise, not Heaven. After the sacrificial lives of Christians for 2,000 years longer, he must come back to save and accomplish his mission, left unaccomplished in his former life. It is not any easy job for him to come back. After having prepared the people to receive him alone, he can come back. In that way, God has spent 2,000 years. Now that evil power is prevailing on the world-wide level, the Lord of the Second Coming will be here with the mission on the world-wide level. If the evil power is not on the world-wide level, the level on which he comes will be different. So, what are our lives in the Unification Church like? What must they be like? What should we be doing here?

You American members, even though you are Americans, you should not be like the American youth of this day, today; you must live an entirely different life. In the outside world, American youth are enjoying free sex and all this corrupted way of life, but it is never allowed here in the Family, in our church. In the outside world, American youth say that they must have their own freedom. But in the Unification Church, there's no freedom in that sense. You must move upon the command coming from above, because that is the only standard. In the outside world, the American young people are using their money for the enjoyment of the fleshly life, but if you have money here, you must think of the money not being your own, and the money must be used for the greater purpose, as directed by the central figure. Our shelter, food, clothing and everything we are using is for the benefit of the nation.

Our families in the Unification Movement are different from the ordinary families in the outside world. Our families are the instruments, the bridges to connect the world with our ideology and save it at the sacrifice of the smaller things. What makes our Church different from the established churches is that in our Church all the members are ready to sacrifice themselves and the Church as a whole for the benefit and salvation of the whole nation and world. In the outside world, all the Americans are coming to their knees in face of the threat of Communism. But here, in our movement, all members are marching forward to fight against Communism and win their hearts, even to God's side. Our goal is the world, not anything smaller than that, and sooner or later we are going to fight against and win over the satanic world as a whole at the risk of our own lives, while in the outside world, people would want to save their lives, and keep material things to themselves. Well, we must have strength and immovable faith in the success we are going to have, even though evil power in the past, present and future will be totalized, centering in on us, and fighting against us. So again I must say, America is the nation in which all the past evils and present evils will be totalized and we must be well aware of the fact.

America must be re-awakened to the fact that what they must be fearful of is not an enemy coming from outside but one in their own midst. They have also foreseen the threat coming from Communism, the external enemy. But in their midst, the internal enemy of Satan is going to bring rupture in their homes. Now your homes are situated in the places where the fall of Adam and Eve appear, the illicit love relationship which divided and separated human ancestors from the person of God. The situation continues today all over America in every home. That is a great problem. If there is not found any group which can eradicate all that disharmony in the homes, caused by Satan, and fight against and win over Communistic power, God cannot work for the salvation of the world. All evil things and good things are resurrected and they are prevalent in this age, on this stage of America, and we, from God's side, must restore all these things by paying the toll of indemnity. America is almost hopeless to eradicate all the corruption and disunity, disharmony, and immorality prevailing throughout its society. America is a Christian nation, but Christianity cannot eradicate all the evil, so the established Christianity cannot do anything, it is powerless. A new power, out of the religion of Christianity must emerge to do the job. Then, whenever we look around we are the only group which can do that.

As I said before, in order for us to attain a certain goal, we must go backward to cover the same distance. So our way, now, is to go back to the evil world, to fight against them and win them to God's side. Whatever triumph and victory we will attain there will be long remembered and recognized by God and will endure forever. If we really know the truth, then we will do the job at the cost of our lives, and we will never hold ourselves back. Our unchecked audacity and courage is needed now. The currents are flowing down like this in America, and how to reverse it is the problem. How to go against those currents. We must flow backward, upward. It is natural for water to flow down to lower and still lower places, so what we are going to do is to fill up a high ditch, so that the current will flow backward. So, we must increase our membership. From individuals to homes and nations, and if we are so strong as to have so many members that the other party, the enemy, will be drowned and defeated by us, than it is the way we are going to stop the current and have it flow backward. We are in the midst of that kind of battle. Up to the year 1974, what I have done has been towards that goal, and we did get a greater membership and we became famous nation-wide. What we voice here will resound all over the country. In that way, our presence will be felt all over this nation. We are going to influence the whole nation this way.

On the external base, we have to expel or absorb Communism, and on the internal base, we have to eradicate the corruption undermining the youth of America and change them into the way of life of God's intention. I'm planning a strategy now to have our university graduates evangelize college students and university students. College campuses are also the target of Communists. Satan is aiming at the corruption of the university youth, too. The mission of the Unification Church is to have all those levels of people changed into the world of God's creation. In the Unification Church, we must be awakened to the fact that we are not living the limited life-span of sixty years or seventy or 100 at most, but our life is a totalization of the past. Our life is for eternity, and we must be aware of this fact. On each one of you as an individual lies that burden of the past and the future, and it has to be paid off in our own generation. You are in the position to resurrect yourself and resurrect others. In the past, any sages and saints and martyrs and patriots have tried their best: some failed and some gained a little bit of ground. But, with so many things left unaccomplished, we must accomplish our job in our own age to pay off our debts and rebuild the world for the later generation, and our burden or responsibility is so great. We can anticipate and expect many difficulties and hardships coming our way, but we must feel challenged and win over them and obtain the victory. Suppose we are in an all-out battle and a final one against Satan, and all the rest of the members have been killed except you. All by yourself you are left alone, in the sight of God, and you must put yourself in the position of the central figure, and you will make the Kingdom of God on earth. You must be that constant. You must be aware of the resurrected truth of millions and tens of millions of sages totalized in you. That is our human life, for each one of us. The courageous soldiers, warriors in the Unification Movement must lead that kind of life. Human life, totalized with the past tasks unaccomplished, totalized in you.

Do you follow me? (Yes!) Then what must be our Master's mission? He is also a human being, and he has had temptations to win over like Jesus did, and in the midst and in the face of so many difficulties and hardships and persecutions, he had to pay the toll of indemnity to win the position as the Messiah, first of all, on the individual level. On the family level, too, the same thing happens. He's forbidden to create a family in which things against God's Will can happen. If his family is found to have satanic elements, he is courageous enough to cut it apart. Now that he has restored himself on the individual level, if he finds his family to be apart from God's Will, he's in the position of God there, to have to clash or drive out the family elements from the Garden of Eden. Even in my imagination I am so fixed and almost cruel to able to cut off with Mother and my children. For instance, Ye Jin might commit some mistake. I can't be more cruel than to cut her off. I have been like that in the past, and I am, still, like that. And I will be in the future the same. How much more would I be so with members of the Unification Church Family. If all of you, without exception, would fall away, betray me, I would still stay. Both on the internal level and the external level, how many temptations and threats and attacks come to me ... I would rather choose to collapse or die on the way to fight, rather than remain still and defeated. Come what may come is my attitude. On the individual level, family level, and church level, and on the societal and national levels-how many hardships and persecutions and temptations may come to me-I'm obliged to, and I'm confident to win over them, and erect the Kingdom, at all costs. On the practical level, what we have to do from now on is to eradicate racial discrimination; we must imagine that we will be able to live in the same compound, in the same family, black people, yellow people, and white people together, as brothers and sisters-that's our goal and the ideal.

It is no easy job, of course. And you will say, "You don't have to do that ... why do you have to do that? Why do you have to come from Korea to this nation, which is enjoying comparative peace, and stir up the whole nation like this?" And my answer to that is that I am coming here to do the job, and I will carry it out because it's the command coming from God. Even on the individual level, I'm fighting the world-wide battle. On the home or family level, I'm having my family fight a world-wide level battle; even on the national level, I'm having the nation to fight the battle on the world-wide level. That's what I'm doing and will be doing. Then, if America would go against me, what shall I do? If the whole world would come against me, what will I do? Even at the cost of my whole life, I'll never cease to battle against the evil power, even in the spirit world. Even at the end of the world, God's battle-cry will have to be that I must go back to the same road. What shall I do? Then I will find that the same way will be difficult to go, so I will go on a round-about way to have the surprise-attack from there. There is no way for us to reindemnify on the same level, so I will make a roundabout way. I am obliged, I am ready, to do my job, to accomplish it to the end of my life.

What I am doing is not done for my own sake, but for the sake of the whole world, so you are safe to follow my instructions, and you will have arrived at the goal of God's intention. The victory you will have won on the front line will be connected to and left to the rest of the people of the nation and the world. For instance, in World War 11, the victory in the battle of Normandy by the Mexican soldiers was inherited by the whole population of the United States to enjoy.

Then the victory I will have gained at the end will be connected with God, spirit world. and the earthly world too as its corresponding base. Do you know what I mean? (Yes.)

So your life, as a human life, will not be just for yourselves, but for the sake of the whole world, and spirit world, and God. We are now in the all-out battle, in cooperation with each other, with myself as the subject and yourselves as the object. On that battlefield, there is no such thing as freedom claimed by you. No freedom is recognized on the part of the forces. Victory is the only goal for you. That is the attitude of living in the Unification Church. We have the iron rule that we have got to win the victory at all costs. Even though you may have to be killed on the way, die on the way, you must end your life on the ascent, not on the descent. What you are doing is something like the marathon race in the world Olympics. Myriads of spirit men and God are cheering at you and watching over what you are doing. If you are on the race track, can you rest on the way? (No.) On the way, can you come off the track and buy something and eat and enjoy it? Your only goal, your only purpose is to have the goal first, and when you get to the goal and have the victory and win the victory, you can sleep and rest and enjoy your life. And if you want to drink, even though you may not want to drink, people will force you to drink.

If you think of things that seriously, can you afford to have a Christmas vacation? No. I myself am in the vanguard of you, in the front line.

Down here is the world population of the past, and we are situated on the peak of the pyramid, with a life span of barely 60. If we win the victory up there, God will be our master. If we fail there, Satan will continue to be our master. On the vertical line, everyone starts from the bottom, beginning from the individual level, going through the family level, national level, worldwide level, and cosmic level. What you want is to have all those things accomplished in your lifetime, in one generation. Then who will do the job? I am always in your vanguard ahead of you.

I must go beyond the failure of Adam, the failure of Abraham, the failure of Moses, the failures of Jacob, Moses, and John the Baptist, and Jesus. In order for us to be able to go beyond those levels, we must know what goes on at all those levels, and not only know what it is, but put all those things into practice until we accomplish the mission on those levels. All through human history, God's wish was for a man to be able to go over the levels of those things, by accomplishing what was left unaccomplished by the predecessors.

Mr. Kamiyana wanted to do a tremendous job, and the goal for him is to win 3,000 members by the end of April. He must think, "Oh, Father is commanding me to do an almost impossible job." But now what counts is your attitude and confidence, rather than deed. Even though at the end you may not be able to carry out the job, your attitude of mind and spirit is the problem. As the responsible person, if you don't want to get entangled in the conditions and get stuck there, there is one way possible. Smite your own self all the harder. If you have been sleeping six hours a day reduce it to four. If you have been making one long trip of New York City a day, you must try to make two rounds, go to the very end of your mission. If you lack in sleeping, you can sleep as you walk, you can sleep as you put on your clothes, you can sleep even as you eat.

Then God will know that you cannot do more. Unless you have done that much, you cannot say it is impossible, or I cannot do it. You can double or triple what you have been so far doing. That is the question. If you do your daily best, then you cannot do more, then God may have you entitled to the victory, even at one-sixth of what you have done, even though you have brought six members instead of 3,000.

You have learned about indemnity. When you are told to save the whole world, you must believe that you are able to save the world. That is the first thing. Be ready to work all through 24 hours, all through the week without sleeping. Then you will collapse, I know. Then alone God will tell you to rest. There is a limit to our work, too. If you are told by God to rest, then you can go ahead and rest 24 hours.

The road of indemnity is that hard. Go to the very limit where no other people can attain. So you must go a step ahead, forward of others. Then you will gain the victory. If our attitude and your spirit is like that, you will have paid the indemnity. Do you follow me? (Yes) You keep saying the restoration through indemnity, but unless we situate ourselves on the highest point or the most advanced point, no other people can imitate or reach, then alone you will have paid the indemnity and be recognized by God. If on the verge of death, you must whisper to yourself, restoration through indemnity, restoration through indemnity. When you shed tears for the cause you can call it the indemnity toll. There are always ups and downs, and when you cross over the very peak, the way from then on will be easier and other people will be there. And if you have gone through the highest peaks, then what you are going to do will be nothing compared to what you have already gone through.

Our Seattle campaign was the sixth one, and I thought it was the peak to cross over, and I was a little anxious about whether or not my speech would be a success. Before that, in between Chicago and Seattle I had to go to London for the Science Conference. There I had to do many other things. In that lapse of time, there could be difficult things prepared ahead of us. So I was worried about our Seattle campaign. While in London I could not plan or think about the Seattle campaign. If my mind is absent from the project, I know that Satan is easily invading in that place. The moment came and I was already in the car heading for the speech hall. I should have been all serious to think about what I was going to talk to the people at the moment, but as soon as I would get into the car I would fall asleep. Even before leaving the church for the speech hall I wanted to repeat or think about my speech, I wanted to pray before God about what to speak to the people, and I would turn off the lamp and I would kneel before God and I would fall asleep. It happened. So I was not at all prepared for that speech. Until the moment I stepped on the platform my brain was hazy, and I was not ready to give the speech. What could I do at that moment? I knew too well that if I as a man were to struggle hard to give the speech I would fail to do so. Then I was desperate to cling to God. I wanted to prepare my heart in conformity to God, so God would speak through me. But I have had that kind of experience many many times so I knew how to control myself at every moment. If the center point or the focus is not stable, then the speech is apt to be out of center. To go beyond, to go over ten minutes to win the battle in my speech was my goal. The interpreter would not know the situation. Not any common people would detect it. Outside the hall there were demonstrators. The Communists were demonstrating. In the back something exploded, a firecracker Satan brought in to scare the people. When my mood has been like that, I would think that something strange, something unusual would happen. And it did. I always feel the heaviness of the atmosphere whenever I am in a bad mood. Even the atmosphere itself, the air itself, will be heavy on my shoulders. While the whole spirit world is as serious as that, I myself must be as serious as that. This is an iron rule we must go through. Do you realize that? (Yes.) Have you been feeling that kind of thing? (Yes.)

As I said before, I am in your vanguard paying the toll of indemnity for you, paving the way for you. With all these experiences, we must be well prepared to grow successfully through the third seven-year course, or else we will be retreating. We will have to cross over the peak of the three years ahead. In the meantime, we are still erecting the bases for the world-wide mission. These are not empty words, and we are dashing forward to the final goal. In the final all-out battle, I expect some members I have so far trusted to fall way, some white members, some yellow members, some black members will fall away. The tendency is always here, and I am thinking of personnel shifts. In the midst of our battle, in my life, in one generation, I must go through every level for my own restoration. Then on the horizontal level I must go all lengths. I must restore through indemnity all that is undone on the horizontal level, the vertical level accomplished on the horizontal level. I must go, as I explained before, over the reverse distance to go through indemnity, then I must bless the couples there.

You must go through all those things in compressed form within three years time, where you will have your public ministry, or even contract it to seven months. That is what I have gone through, and you can go through the same things, and then alone you can be blessed in marriage.

But direction is always important. If God is headed for that direction and I am going this way, I cannot accomplish my mission. My direction is destined to go parallel to God's direction. Wherever you are situated, you must start from there to draw the parallel line to head in the same direction. Even in your short period of your life in the movement, you have to go through all the three stages in contracted form. If I have done the same, why can't you be prepared to die for this cause? In your desperate efforts you can attain the goal. Without my being with you, you could not have thought or dreamed of your being able to pay the toll to be restored.

In order for you to be blessed in the marriage, you must go through the way of principle. That is the law. Then how can I give you the blessing? I am doing that from the position of the True Parents. For the True Parents, they should not have anything to go through as their own indemnity. Before the True Parents, you are conditionally entitled to become true children to them, and then with that condition set up alone, you can be blessed and come to the True Parents as their true children.

So our conclusion is that your future life and mine will be the same, destined to the same goal. Until you are restored through indemnity, through paying off the indemnity, you are situated in the most miserable condition. Maybe you are the most miserable ones in the whole world. But after going through the toll-gate by paying the indemnity, you will be the happiest ones in the whole world? Do you know what I mean? (Yes.) You know too well that what I have gone through in the past was the most miserable and unhappy one. I am now entering the new age with bright promise and everything of value and happiness. In the past my life was so bitter as to almost envy even beggars. In the prison camp I would long for life at home. Even in the sick bed where I could see my parents and minister to them. In the prison cell I would get a type of small card and would just treasure it almost as a jewel, a treasure in my life. If I picked up a small needle, I could never forget how happy I was to get it. I can never forget the moment when I got a bowl full of rice, and I was fascinated and joyous over that. Only when you are in the dungeon of life where you long for the meekest thing which you would reject in the everyday life in the normal case, then alone would you really know the blessedness of being able to have those things. In that miserable situation, I found no one around me sympathetic to me. Their attitude was to destroy me or hate me. With people all around hating you, it is like a stone wall, and you are in the dark cell, then there is only one opening, reaching to heaven, and there is always God helping you out.

I know too well that God in finding His son would look for Him not in the midst of happy people, but in the midst of the tortured and miserable people, where He could find one in miserable circumstances and looking up to heaven alone to be rescued. Then alone in that situation you can meet God face to face, one to one. Even in that situation you cannot be completely restored if you are not in the position to completely console God instead of being consoled by Him. If in that situation you call to God, shout to Him, calling for rescue, calling, "Father, God, help me! save me!" you are a failure. You must be able to say to God at that moment, I know too well that you have trodden a more thorny way than myself here so I have tasted a bit of what you have gone through. I am thankful and grateful to meet you here and be one with you. In that way I consoled God's heart. If you are in that situation, then God will be yours, and the omnipotent God will work for you.

Jesus on the cross said all is finished, but until God can say that all is finished, you are not an ultimate success. We must pull ourselves up and drag ourselves to that point where we can even console God's heart without tending to our own business. If God has been such as He wanted to be consoled by His son who is already in darkness and persecution and misery, He this time would want you to be able to console the Master in His place. You should be able to console my heart, saying I am under persecution and hardship. Everything is here, but I am grateful that I am tasting a bit of everything you have already gone through. Even though I may have to die here, I am grateful and I am glad. In that case, if you die at that point, even in the spirit world you will meet me and you will get blessed by me. In that case, I cannot wish you could do more for me, and God will do the same. If you are out there, placing yourself at that point, God will work for you, and if not 1, God will replace me and help you out Himself. Do you follow me?

This human life of ours is on the road or path of restoration through indemnity. When you are asked the question by me, have you ever passed the stage of servant of servants in the course of restoration through indemnity, you must be able to answer in the affirmative. God has spent 2,000 years or more to have Jacob situated in that position, and Jacob had to go through the stage of servant of servants, and after that alone, God chose that man. And would that same God not expect us to do the same? Can you answer me yes? (Yes.) Until Jacob, God Himself had gone through the stage of servant of servants, in the shoes of the same person, and after that, up to the time of Jesus, by having His people go through the stage of servanthood, then God Himself had trodden the way of the servant until He chose Jesus Christ or sent Jesus Christ. Then after that, would the same God not ask the people if they had gone through the stage of servant?

After Jesus Christ, up to the present age, God has trodden the way of adopted sonship as the example for people to follow. Would God not ask us if we have not trodden the way and paved the way as adopted sons to God? Are you confident to be able to answer with yes? Have you done that?

The next level is being true sons and daughters to God. It is something like your having been resurrected as Jesus was resurrected after death, like being reborn. Even though you have gone through the stages of servant of servants, servanthood, and adopted sonship and daughtership, then what you have to do from now on to be the true sons and daughters is to be able to win over Satan and command Satan and control him. Jesus' mission was to take back all the lost children of God from the satanic world and annihilate the satanic sovereignty to make the whole world into God's kingdom on earth. But by dying on the cross he could accomplish only spiritual salvation, leaving physical salvation on the earth unaccomplished. The Kingdom of God on earth is not here by the efforts of Jesus. So as the true sons and daughters, if you are entitled to that title, you must be able to annihilate the Satanic power from all over the world and erect God's Kingdom by taking back and restoring all the lost children of God into the citizens of the Kingdom of God. Unless you do that, you cannot be entitled to true sonship of God. Are you confident of that? (Yes.)

In the Garden of Eden before the fall, the archangel was supposed to minister to Adam and Eve. So for you to restore yourself to the original status before the human fall, you must be able to control all the rest of mankind in the satanic world and over Satan himself, by having him minister to you. Unless you do that, you are not entitled to the sonship and daughtership of God. Are you like that? (Not yet.) But your goal is that. So on the way in the battlefield, you must accept the firm goal for that purpose.

If you are not quite restored to that point, if you find other people like the true son and daughter of God, you must be able to follow him or her at least, or cooperate with him or her. Sooner or later, we have to go through our low stages to be restored as sons or daughters. So that is what we have left in human life. Have you ever been in the stage of servant of servants, being sacrificial in the way of serving others? Have you ever done that to the fullest extent? (No.) Have you ever been doing the same thing on the level of servant? If you are kicked at even harshly on the way, have you done your job without complaint. Even though you are pierced with a spear, have you obeyed the command in the position of a servant? If you are certain to be killed, would you have obeyed the command as the servant? Have you ever done that? (No.)

Jesus came as the son of God, but not having been able to accomplish the whole mission, he is situated now in Paradise, which is the realm for the adopted sons, not the children of God. Paradise was not the heaven of God's intention. It is only the waiting lounge until Heaven is opened. In order for you to be entitled to and qualified for heaven, you must excel in or be greater than Jesus Christ. Even though you are put on the cross you must win over it and go through it to be resurrected again to work towards the goal. If you really know that I have paved the way for you to be the true sons and daughters, have you been complacent and satisfied, and grateful all the way through, without a word of complaint? Have you been doing that in following me?

Even though you cannot do the job, the law of indemnity will be left to do. So sooner or later, even in the spirit world, you have to go through it. I will give you talks after talks and recreate you with words, and then you will go up like this in leaps. But the next moment you don't hear me, and therefore several days you go down like this again. The result is that you cannot restore yourselves through indemnity by yourselves, without my help.

But my desire and God's is to find even one out of the vast number of Unification Church members on the same level as myself. And God will connect my mission with his and with other such persons'. Even in the earliest members who have gone through so many difficulties with me, they are not many, or very few are like that, who have that standard. Well, being ignorant of the fact they can claim their age in the movement, saying, "I have been in the movement 20 years or more." That's nothing for you to be proud of-the years you have spent in the movement.

Suppose I have gone through three stages of seven stages, but it is narrowing down through you, and you have to go through every stage in contracted form. Even though you are ordered to go through the stage of servant of servants all through your life, you are compelled to do it. In the stage of the servant, in the stage of adopted sonship, you have to do the same. Then where are the true sons supposed to be born? Only after going through the stage of the world-wide level can it come about. Only after going though the level of world, can you reach the level of God. At the cost of our lives, we have got to restore the whole world. Unless we do that, we cannot go to the level of God where we can meet Him and enjoy our lives with him. So we want to shorten the period, and we must expect more hardships ahead of us, in order to have the day come faster.

After winning the level of the nation of America, we will enter the world-wide level of providence and then will be ready to meet God after going through the world-wide level. After we will have restored a nation by paying the indemnity, in the world-wide campaign we are going to have to pay the indemnity on the individual level, family level, or national level. What we will have to pay is the indemnity on the world-wide level of things. That is the past of our human life in the Unification Movement, where everybody must have gone through the same things, the same formula.

America is an independent nation on the level of Cain. But we are the people to be independent as a nation or as a tribe on the Abel level. The founding ideology of America being Christianity, this nation has been placed in the leading position to the rest of the world. But after accomplishing our mission, we are going to be in the position of the leading tribe, leading nation, not only of the world, but of the cosmos, including the spirit world.

After perfection, as the Principle teaches us, there will be no fall at all. So, in the perfected world, we will enjoy happiness through eternity. In our human life on this earth, we have to go through indemnity. After passing the level of the world, we will meet God and enjoy eternal life there. Would you prefer to have the goal on the way, without having to pay the toll of indemnity? But now there is no such way possible for us to go over the boundary. You know, you want to pay as small amount of indemnity as possible. But then what you get on the other side will be in proportion to what you have paid. The larger the amount you have paid the larger the happiness you will be granted. In proportion to what you have paid you will enjoy in later days. So you must be ready to pay the largest amount of the toll of indemnity. Then you will never lose. You must be able to do greater things than Jesus himself. Is it true? (Yes.)

You must be so confident as to do the job while on earth. But if you cannot accomplish your mission on the stage of servant of servants, you must be resolved to be born again, to be resurrected, to accomplish the next level of things. If you die there, you must be determined to be resurrected to accomplish what was left unaccomplished to the end.

Then even Satan will give you up, because he knows that if he kills you on the stage of servant of servants, you will get resurrected to carry out the next level of restoration. If you are killed there, you will still want to get resurrected to carry out the remaining jobs.

So, even Satan will give up killing you. Even God cannot but recognize that. If God can recognize your potential, in that way Satan cannot torture you anymore. For you in that case there is nothing but victory ahead. You will be blessed by God, and you will inherit what has been accumulated by your predecessors. Sooner or later you are going to die. And if you are going to die at all, why not pay off the indemnity toll for the servant of servant stage, servant stage, adopted sonship, and true sonship all together, if it were permissible. If it is allowed, you want to die as the true sons and daughters to God. To do that, you must deny yourself first and abandon your life for the cause and you will live. That's why Jesus said, if you want to lose your life you will gain it, and if you want to gain your life you will lose it.

In order to have your life resurrected, you must pay your life for the resurrection. In order for you to gain eternal love, you must sacrifice your ephemeral, temporal love of the world.

You must be able to discard your own nation on the worldly level. In a word, in brief, our human life in the providence of God is to lose the best and love the most in our lives, and to gain the most and gain the best in the future life. That is the human life on our level. Then can you attain it? (Yes.) If you are destined to lose the worldly life, then would you not be prepared to lose it at once. The sooner the better? Rather than putting our energy, our manpower a small amount at a time, if we go into the battlefield with all our efforts, with all the members mobilized all over the nation and over the world, would success not come sooner than expected? (Yes.) Well, there are a vast number of our members all over the world, but what God is seeking is the place where the concentrated efforts are being made so that the compressed form of indemnity is paid there. Then, where can that be? Where? (New York.) It is somewhere, at least, and you want it in New York. New York is the very place, the contracted fork of the whole nation of America, and the central figure of our Master from Korea is here, and Mr. Kamiyama from the Eve nation of Japan is here, and all the cooperation of the American members who are in the position of the archangel are fighting together. America needs Japan. All the staff members of the American movement may have thought they could be better without Mr. Kamiyama, they would want him to leave. Some may have thought that.

Staff members in Washington headquarters would shake their heads like this to think, I would want to have Mr. Kamiyama leave this country. I am thinking of moving the whole headquarters to New York. Then I may have to place the headquarters members under Mr. Kamiyama. He said I may have to, until -the American members feel humble.

There is a reason for me to put Mr. Kamiyama in that position. The very name of this person is, Kamiyama, which in Japanese means God's Mountain. Symbolically, it is very meaningful. His name comes in conformity with God and with God's will. Mr. Kamiyama as a person has the qualification. He's born with the zeal and heart towards God. If you look into his eyes you will see it. He is a man of iron will. He will never be defeated by anyone. Not only that, when he drives you harshly on the road he inwardly weeps. He sheds tears. That is why I brought Mr. Kamiyama from Japan.

Kamiyama being the representative person in the providence of God, the thing that happened as soon as he arrived in this country was not exactly persecution, but kicking at by the American members. But he must know, and I think he may have realized that I myself have been faced with the same, in the beginning when I revealed my strategy here. All the staff members in headquarters wouldn't believe me. They thought, "Father, doesn't know the situation in America. He cannot carry it out." They would say to themselves, "We must wait and see. We will be watching what he is going to do."

July 1, 1973, when I addressed the celebration of victory day, the people came to recognize my capability. On the day of victory, our capability was recognized. From then beginning with my Carnegie Hall speech, until now when I am going to conclude my speaking this year, it is going to be barely one year and two months. We have elevated ourselves to that standard.

When Mr. Kamiyama first arrived in New York, for the first few months I am sure he would just want to go back to Japan. I told him to wait, and he will see the days in which those, who thought ill of you will come to kneel before you. I will make it happen. That is what is happening now. I ordered him to fill up Carnegie Hall and then fill up Madison Square Garden. And he has accomplished his job through his ability.

I still remember that Carnegie Hall was fairly full of people. But he thought his expectation was betrayed, and it was not quite full of people. And he came to me and cried at the top of his voice. I still remember that. And then at that moment I decided in my mind that he can win the goal next time. He can fill up Madison Square Garden, I knew that. I was confident. And that happened, it was realized. I was determined to see him dance and laugh before me after Madison Square Garden, but he did not do that. Maybe he did that in his own room.

Well, from Carnegie Hall to Madison Square Garden, the formation stage and the growth stage have been covered by the cooperation of Korea and Japan. For the final stage, we can leave everything in the hands of the American members alone. They are convinced to win the triumph there. That is the way of restoration through indemnity.

These stages are four levels: first, Carnegie Hall, second, Madison Square Garden, third Yankee Stadium, and fourth and last, Washington Monument, a rally in front of the Washington Monument with a half million people attending. Then Father will have erected the world-wide level. Then what we will have acquired in America will have been connected to the end of the world.

Early next year, 360 international mobile team members will be sent to the Oriental countries and Europe as the extension of the Day of Hope tour. Maybe on the final day, Father will appear himself on the stage to talk. And then in Celebration of Life they will prepare for my coming on the third and last day. They will prepare to pave the way for me to appear before the nation. Then by their doing a job ahead of me by the time I talk to the people, I will touch the hearts of the people very easily. So we are at the top junction, from which we are going beyond the level of nation to the level of world. On that level, we are paying the indemnity on the world-wide level to enjoy life through eternity in the will of God. So you must be grateful for what you are going to do, what you will be compelled to do.

After the third seven-year course of ours, after the year 198 1, you can picture what the world would be like, all changed by our own hands. Are you confident to win the battle? (Yes.) It is a wonderful life we are going to lead from now on, and you must know the blessedness of your having been born in this age to do this job. You are greater than those who were born in Israel 2,000 years ago as the chosen nation.

Be determined to be a bullet to pierce through all those people at one shot, zigzag piercing through all those millions of people.

That's something like, if I may name it, an eternal bullet. You are floating in the air. There is no heavy layer of atmosphere where there is no weight felt. Then it is possible that the bullet will go round and round, never stopping. There will be no obstacle there to stop the bullet from flying around. You must be determined and confident' like that. Anything that will go against you, you will pierce through.

If the bullet is coming to me, what shall I do? I will have it pierce through my self, pierce through God. Shoot him down, and God will not get angry at you. I am not going to get mad at you.

We are living in a wonderful age. You as the resurrected being, reborn in the new world, will have to change the world, the world's destiny. We must realize the blessedness of our living in this age in this world under the will of God. (Mrs. Choi: Father wants me to make reports on what happened in London.)

Actually Col. Pak was with him all the time, and he is the most appropriate person to make the report, but he is not here. I think I will make a brief report of what took place in London.

We arrived on the evening of the 21st of November. The next morning at 10:00 Father was going to make the speech as the founder of the International Conference on the Unity of Sciences. Well, what was different this time from the previous conference was that Father was justly treated. In the first conference he was just giving a short talk as one of them. It was accepted mostly by our members. And, you now, we were overwhelmed by his way of presenting his speech. It was intelligible, and our members were so very happy to find him giving the speech so intelligible among all other foreigners, non-English speaking people. Their English was not intelligible at all.

The second conference was held in Tokyo in 1973, in April I guess. There was controversy centering on the person of Reverend Moon at that time. Some scientists were against Father's giving the speech on the stage. He was on the verge of not giving the speech. At the end he was allowed to give the speech. But it came at the end, thanking them. But it was a prepared speech, and the contents were very nice and touching. And some of the people recognized his speech as a greatly moving one. But most others just failed to recognize his capability and his initiative as the founder of the conference.

But this time, from the beginning, on the stage, on the platform, Father, looking from the outside, the Master of Ceremonies standing at the pulpit already, and on the prepared table there Father was seated at the extreme right. Lord Adrian, a nobleman who won the Nobel Prize, was in the middle. On the left hand was Mr. Sawada from Tokyo University, who was going to make the keynote speech.

The emcee introduced Lord Adrian, saying he was going to give a greeting to all the members. But instead of giving the greetings, he praised Father again and again, and he was just overwhelmed -somehow spiritually moved I think. You can see in the manuscript how greatly he praised Father's initiative in starting this conference on the Unity of the Sciences. The emcee introduced Father to speak as the founder. And there was the name printed on the program as the founder's address, and after that Lord Adrian praised Father. He was touched by Father's speech. He said, we were shown the direction while all the scientists have been doing research in the narrow fields of their respective research. But they are at a dead end now. Without finding a breakthrough, they don't know where to go now. They are stalemated. But Reverend Dr. Moon, he said, gave us direction and a hope as to how all fields of research would be united and assembled as parts to make the whole and to work for the benefit of all mankind. And he kept praising Father, and uplifted all the people to be again touched by his speech. They all had the manuscript in their hands, because we had the manuscript printed.

After the conference on the first day, after his speech, he came to the lunch hour. And our Father had a conference exclusively for our members at the lunch hour. So he came back. On the second day he had a peep into the conference again, and when he was sitting in the suite of the Royal Lancaster Hotel, where the conference was held, every scholar and professor and scientist wanted to see him personally.

A man by the name of Lord Sir E. B. Chain 1, another prize-winner, had the reputation of never speaking good of other people. But he came to him and praised him and sought his guidance as to where to go after his long years of research.

Father reminded me of telling you how many were assembled-120 professors, scholars, and scientists were there. And out of the 120, almost 20 were Nobel Prize Winners. It was exceptional, and people were overwhelmed to see it. And I think the media will handle the articles, and write good articles for us.

On our second day, Father dined together with the Korean professors and scholars attending the conference. We had luncheon together in the hotel suite. Father spoke a long time. They were entering the conference already in the conference hall, but all the Korean scholars were intoxicated by Father's speech and wanted to hear it. They would just hate to leave the place, and father talked on and on, and as usual he monopolized the talk and conversation. He finally talked about our movement, and advertised our movement. They were enlightened in such a way that they thought that the only way they could work with us as scholars and scientists would be in studying this Unification ideology to enlighten themselves so that they can work for the final goal of the whole of humanity. They were resolved to cooperate with our movement when they go back to Korea.

Back in the center, meeting after meeting was taking place. Some 21 national representatives assembled, from as far as New Zealand and Scandinavian countries, Italy, Greece, Austria, Holland, France, Germany. They would listen to Father, and Father would proudly introduce what has taken place in America. He was so proud of what he has done. He talked about what has been done in America in less than two years' time, and he said that our fame is known all over the country, not only in all America, but all over the world, almost. So it would be easy for them to accomplish their mission. So at least in three years time they have to accomplish their mission to let the people of their country know of our movement from comer to comer. Exclusively on the third day, Father talked about the mission of the Messiah, what the mission of the Messiah really means and what he is like as the Messiah himself.

The message will come on cassette tapes of all these things, and you will hear it in later days. He at last said this as such was the mission of the Messiah, with myself as the center. But, you are the Messiahs to the respective nations under you. You must, and you will be able to save your respective nations if possible in one year, but at the longest in three years to have our movement, the presence of our movement felt in every comer of the nation. And they were determined to resolve it. And they held up their hands in pledge before God. They were all ignited, and they were overflowing with zeal to shout Mansei before our True Parents.

Well, in brief, that's what happened in London. On the last day of the conference on the Unity of the Sciences, Father was wanted at the reception. Father and Mother were to stand in the reception line and shake hands with every scholar and scientist and professor. They were so glad to meet him in person, and they wanted to speak a few words with him. It took so many hours just to shake hands with them.

After that, he came back and had another meeting with our members in the evening, with all our national leaders, with scholars and scientists in attendance at the conference, we went to see an opera, a famous one in London. There we concluded the third evening.

The next morning we had to rush back on the first plane to Seattle.

London Conference Address

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
London, England
November 25, 1974
Master Speaks
Translated by Mr. Bo Hi Pak

The Conference we held for the Unity of Science was quite successful, and every one of you participated and worked very hard.

The prominent and distinguished scientists attending were most impressed by our young people. Your serving attitude, your bright appearance, and your good management behind the scenes created a very warm atmosphere. I expected good results, and I was deeply gratified by their comments about you.

Throughout history, it has been true that when new things begin, usually they are not easily recognized. However, when there is a great cause and an unselfish purpose behind the innovation, sooner or later the true value is known.

When you met those prominent scientists and professors, famed throughout the world, and you directly talked to them and mingled with them, you found each one just another human being. It is a valuable experience for us to organize this international conference, and bring together such prominent people.

From this time on, it is my intention to develop these intellectual people, to bring them together, and to organize a certain unity among them so that a much greater contribution to humanity can be made. This time they discussed problems instead of answers. They knew they definitely had problems to confront. By next year, when we continue with the fourth science conference in New York, I'm sure they will come up with clear-cut solutions. In what direction must they move?

Through them, our Church and particularly Father's name and image, will be circulated in a more favorable way and in a new dimension. People will know that the Unification Church is here to serve the world in a truly extraordinary way.

There have been a great many scientists who made prominent discoveries. But today, a scientist's field is so specialized that he deals with a very minor part of the entire field of science. Therefore, a scientist sometimes loses vision. The Unification Church is bringing scientists together to establish a new vision-some unified purpose.

When I bring this conference to New York, I will deal with a great many American professors and scientists. Since I have been working in America and laying the foundation in many ways, I am already on a much greater scale than in Europe. With 360 regular conferees and another 250 observers, altogether over 600 scientists will gather next year. It is going to be a gigantic meeting, through which we can truly further our purpose.

As I said, the scientist's field is very specialized. There are many international conferences on science and academic subjects, but they are so limited to a particular area that they can not see the entire dimension of their own field of science. Now, by bringing scientists of all fields together, we provide a great and beautiful opportunity to understand each other, and to see the problems of the other fields. They are now trying to deal with the tremendous realization that scientific unity is vital and important. So once again, this time in the field of international science, we are setting another historical record and a new standard.

It is my hope and ambition that in the future, the ten major universities in America will be centered upon the major scientists, primarily the Nobel Prize winners. We will organize a year-around research program so that through prominent professors we reach many of their students.

Our movement is dealing with all human endeavors, not just the religious field. This is evident in recent years, particularly this year, during which we dealt with so many prominent people in the political, cultural, academic, and economic fields in America. Now the field of science adds another dimension to our movement by our having won very prominent leadership in America and uniting them with the leadership of Europe. We are now establishing a foundation upon which we can bring an even greater thrust to our work for humanity.

Later, we will establish an organization which we will ask them to join, as our members. Membership in this organization will be known and coveted by so many people that every prominent scientist or scholar will compete to join. We would like to see this happen. Then we will organize several specialized committees, and each committee will develop a special position paper or research paper, which we will publish monthly. All the academic world will be in touch with our endeavor and will be anxiously waiting for more and more new breakthroughs from our organization.

We have been dealing primarily with the religious or spiritual movement. This is a spiritual revolution we are kindling. Whenever new ideas emerge, the establishment or old tradition is bound to rebel against the new ideas. This has been the pattern of history, and this is not the exception with our movement. Therefore, we have many difficulties with people trying to protest and rebel against us and ridiculing us in many ways. However, members of the academic field value the truth. And a cohesive organization among intellectuals will truly bring our movement into a new dimension.

No one has tried to bring unity among the intellectual minds of the world. We are attempting to do this on the highest possible intellectual level. They will recognize truth because we have truth. Then if they testify to the spirit of Reverend Moon and his ideology and what he is trying to do for this world, their testimony will be accepted by young students all over the world. They will know that the scientists and the scholars are speaking the truth.

I would like to mobilize the brilliant minds, the intellectuals of the world to let them have access through you to our ultimate truth. Through that we can really bring a new dimension in this movement by making them champions of God's cause.

I am sure you have felt the magnitude of this science conference and the vision expressed here. Now what I expressed to you shall be accomplished through our effort and by application of our Principle. Do you understand? Then let me change the subject.

Recently, while speaking to European national leaders, I mentioned that the Western mind is very analytical; therefore the abstract concepts of "heart of God," or "heart of the parents" couldn't be comprehended. So you might say, "I simply have no feeling. "

What is the Divine Principle you have learned? What kind of formula is that Principle revealing? It is the Principle to restore the fallen world into the original sinless world.

Because of the fall of man, we lost God's ideal and true, genuine love. We have been degraded and have fallen into the dungeon, into the darkness. Therefore, we have not truly seen the kind of life man is supposed to live. We need a bridge from the fallen state to the original state, and the Principle is that bridge.

A bridge connects two points. So in the Principle, we clearly state what the two points are. One is the ideal life that God originally created, or the ideal of creation. The other is the reality of life where man exists in the fallen state. Therefore, the Principle must make these two points clearly known to all people.

It is probably the greatest contribution to the world, particularly the world of religion, that Divine Principle shows us clearly where to return. It reveals our goals and destined purpose, and the ideal world. On the other hand, Divine Principle clearly points out what kind of state we are in. Throughout history religion has been rather hazy and confused, so that people haven't known where they are or what the goal is. Divine Principle has removed that confusion.

The Principle is different from a mere theory or opinion. It has been proven by history. History testifies that the Principle is true. We can measure it by the rule of the Principle and it fits. Furthermore, the concept of a dispensation centered upon God can actually be experienced. By knowing and accepting the Principle, you simply cannot deny the existence of God. The working, living God is revealed through the Principled view of history.

The history of the dispensation of God and human history is one history. The Principle proves this, and we can prove through the Principle that God is living in our way of life. God is not the God of concept, in our mind, but the living God experienced in our way of life. God's own dispensation history and the history of mankind are not separate and distinct. They are one.

We are living in a fallen world and a fallen history, and God is clearly showing us the direction to turn to. God is showing the direction and the goal.

The Unification Church and the Divine Principle have concluded that the history of man is a history of restoration. This is the greatest truth. Even great historians have not figured out the destination of human history, but the Divine Principle clearly teaches that history is moving toward restoration. We have a goal to which we can return.

This entire globe, the fallen world in the sight of God is like a great training school. So, we must enroll in kindergarten, and step by step we will achieve the highest possible light. God has been putting all mankind through training school, through the process of re-educating and remaking the people.

Before the Divine Principle was discovered, this world was still a training center. However, all was disorganized; there was no harmony, and no channel, because no one knew the entire picture. So, kindergarten students thought they were learning all they could learn, everything that was available. They thought they had all the facts. On the other hand, high school, middle school, and elementary school students thought they had the best available. Now the Divine Principle is putting the school system together under one big school principal.

The Unification religion has the responsibility and mission to tell mankind the direction and goal. Let them clearly see the vision of where we are to return.

The direction we show through the Principle has been the same direction in which God is leading mankind. In other words, we are revealing God's way, or God's message, step by step, so that mankind understands. By walking that way, man will ultimately reach God's goal, His ideal world.

The Divine Principle shows how mankind fell. Mankind has never had a clear diagnosis, but the Principle shows how we fell. By letting mankind know the process of the fall and steps of the fall, we can show them how to return.

All human beings are categorized in our society. First, we see the position of the parent, the position of son, the position of adopted son and the position of the servant. Further down is the ungodly, or unprincipled area. So, all mankind fits into one of these categories.

The fall of man brought mankind down into the ungodly, unprincipled area, which is lower than the position of servant. This is where men fell.

The human positions, parent, son, adopted son, and servant; these are the positions in which all men belong. And these are the positions through which God will work.

"The fall" means that man deviated from the original position and brought himself down. So restoration must be the reverse process. Restoration has to be a step by step process. The kindergarten student cannot go to elementary school simultaneously. The elementary school student can't study a college course at the same time. One must study in kindergarten in order to go to elementary school, and then finish elementary school before going to high school. One must finish high school before going to college. In the restoration process, we must deal with the very lowest first, and finish that step, before we go to the next step. One can spend a great length of time in each step, staying, for example, in kindergarten for an entire lifetime. This is what is happening in the religious world. Certain religions throughout history have dealt with one minor area, and people of those religions want to spend their entire life at that point. They do not know the entire scope.

So what we need is a superhighway from kindergarten to college. From the very bottom step to the very highest step if we create a superhighway, then everyone will not only see that superhighway, but will be able to run 60 miles an hour. Don't you think God wants to give His children such a highway, so that everyone without fail, can reach the highest goal? (Yes!)

Don't you think that man desires the same thing? Man is in agony trying to find a magic way to reach for the highest possible achievement. Is it true? (Yes!) So actually, it is the desire of both God and man. Both want the same thing.

God and man need one super pioneer, one super construction company, who can build that superhighway from the bottom to the top. This is the Messiah. The Messiah is coming as the contractor to construct that highway.

Restoration is a circling process. It is not a direct-line movement, but it is the process of returning in a circle to the original point. The fall of man has brought mankind all the way down through this circle process. When you bring history near the original point, all you have to do is have a burst of speed between two points. You don't have to waste time going all the way down. All you have to do is to reach this point.

If somebody revealed the secret or the formula, even the kindergarten or elementary student could walk or run that short-cut without any problem. Only God knows the shortest distance, so God is sending us the only God-ordained Ph.D. That's the Messiah.

Who has the Ph.D. from God? Do you think he has to go back to kindergarten and study again? Or the elementary school? Or the high school? Or college? No! He has the highest degree in Heaven.

You know the scope of our work, and the extraordinary position of this movement. What would you like to be? Would you like to be a kindergarten teacher? An elementary school teacher? A high school teacher? A mathematics or physics teacher in college? No. Everyone will ask, "Can I have the same Ph.D. that you have?" That has to be everyone's highest ambition. The greatest Ph.D. will show the shortest distance between two points to reach the goal; then you can really show mankind.

In order to obtain the Ph.D. that you desire, you must belong to that one super-Ph.D. and absolutely follow his path, since he is the only one who knows the way. Is that true? (Yes!) This is why the highest degree of loyalty, the highest sense of devotion, is the key to achieving the highest possible goal.

Throughout history, mankind has failed tests from God. Everyone knows the problem. What is wrong with mankind? We have been aware enough that the problem existed, but not aware of any solution to the problem. Ultimately that clear-cut answer is given in God's revelation, Unification Thought, the Divine Principle. The Messiah is the one who not only knows the problem, but has the solution to that problem. Do you want that solution? (Yes!)

So what is the Unification Church? The Unification Church boils down man's entire history in a capsule form and swallows that capsule. It's role is to indemnify all of human history at once. That is the Unification Church. The 7,000 year history of man, which is not the true history, will be compressed into one 7-year capsule.

What kind of school would you like to attend? A 7,000 year school, or 7 year school? Would you really want to go to such a school? (Yes!!) Then we must run at supersede.

A fast-moving vehicle usually makes more noise and needs more fuel. Isn't that true? So, when the Unification Church runs, there is always a noise. This is not a small noise, but always a big noise. And we need a great supply of energy, don't we? No matter how fast your car is and even if you have a great superhighway in front of you, without fuel in the fuel tank, that car cannot run. So you must come to a filling station. Don't you think it's necessary? (Yes!) If you know the simple truth, then nothing will stop you. A whole new universe will open to you, and great power and courage will be yours.

Then the restoration process is looking forward to returning to one point. From one point to the same point, you can make a circle as big as you want, or a small circle, as short as you could possibly want. We are taking the short-cut.

You represent new hope for mankind. All men are in some position on the road to restoration. They are on some kind of circular route, moving in a greater or smaller circle. The important thing we must do is to show the short-cut, the shortest route, the shortest circle. And there is only one shortest distances direct line. Can we bridge these distances to go the shortest possible route? We must show the world this short-cut. We will go the shortest way, with God pulling from above. We are being pulled, to follow His way.

The fall of man, brought man down to a position lower than that of a servant. So man became the servant of a servant. Therefore, we'll find the shortest route from that position to the servant position, and from the servant position to the position of adopted son. From the adopted son position we will move to the true son position. Then ultimately we will become a parent in Heaven, under God. The Divine Principle is the shortest route to go.

Even without seeing the Bible, we can sense intuitively that it is the truth. Even without looking at the pages of the Bible, God gave us intellectual power, reason, and judgment. We have a God-given ability to reason. If you reason that there is Almighty God, and we are given the position of children who have fallen, then there is no other way to go except this way of Restoration. God has been working for this ultimate conclusion throughout history.

It is common sense, great common sense, that if there is a God, then God is trying to see His ideal realized. Then He must have left behind one absolute truth, one secret formula, in a hidden place within the reach of man.

Furthermore, our reasoning is backed up by the Bible. That is another proof that we are living the truth. Through this formula, we can evaluate all the religions and determine what state they are in. Because you are in a position like that of a mountain top, you can look down and evaluate all others situated below you.

So we reach the conclusion that in order to realize His ideal throughout history, God has been working through one central point, one central religion. There must be a central role played by one particular religion. That is the obvious conclusion.

All of history has a purpose, and all religions have a purpose and a direction. No one can live for a million years, to see the entire process of religion, for if one ever could, then he would recognize that all religions have the same direction. Everyone can see the highest mountain top. That is the goal. A person, looking up at the goal, may ruthlessly apply himself to reach it. He may try with all he has until he dies, but no one can live for eternity. Struggling toward that goal, he will falter and die, and the next person to pick up the mission will pass over his body. After going another step, he will also fall and die. Then another person will try. This is the process of history. If no one had success in a certain area then that particular ground remains to be covered, without any further development for a thousand years.

Only an eternal person can see the whole situation, and can summarize or analyze it. Only God is an eternal person. He can see the whole situation and He is planning based on His own analysis. God will send one man with a clear ideal of how to tie all these things together in order to bring everyone to the top of the mountain. This man is the champion of God, the Messiah, who comes to show us how to construct a highway, to bring all mankind to the mountain top. All we need then, is to get fuel, shift into high gear, and run.

The Messiah, this one man from God, will produce the fuel, the automobile, and the superhighway; and leading thousands of automobiles, he will give a very good sight-seeing tour. This tour will not be an entirely pleasant one, because he will show you the valley of death. Many millions of people have tried to elevate themselves from the servant position to the position of son. They came so far, then faltered and died. The Messiah will show how many people really tried and failed along the way. Is this concept becoming clear to you? (Yes.)

When we see the phenomena of the world and of religion, we know there must be one central religion. Then if we evaluate the value of all the different religions existing in history, we come to the conclusion that Christianity has been playing that central role. Compared to all others, it shows more clearly the shortest route to the mountain top.

Even though people have not understood the symbols in the Bible, through the Divine Principle we know the Bible has a constant theme of how to raise men from servant of a servant to the servant position, which is the Old Testament era. It shows God's attempt to bring man up to the adopted son position; then to the direct sons and daughters position; and then to the true parent position. These stages are stated in the Christian religion. So through Divine Principle, the message of the Bible becomes clear. Before the Principle, the Bible was a book of confusion, but through the Principle we know that throughout history, God has been working toward consistent goals. We know now. Do you understand? (Yes!) Christianity has been given the role of pioneer in Western civilization. Christians have spread the message all over the world, running toward that final day of fulfillment.

So, it is the clear pattern of history that, according to the Bible, before Jacob was the historical period of servant of servant, when man was even lower than a servant. Then from Jacob to the time of Jesus there was the period of the servant. And the time from Jesus until now has been the adopted son period. When the Lord of the Second Advent comes, he will show the way to become true sons and daughters of God. And in order to have true sons and daughters, you must first have true parents. Without true parents, how can you become true sons and daughters? Without parents, how can you be born?

The other day at the European Leaders Conference, I said that Abel's responsibility is to fulfill his mission as a son. Then he can elevate himself to the parents' role. Now do you understand clearly the steps? (Yes.)

Even before I received this revelation, the Divine Principle, I knew the structure or the framework of God's pattern. I knew His formula, His Principle, so clearly, that I discovered the entire Divine Principle little by little, until I could make the whole truth known to the world. And this Principle fits to the logic of man and God, and fits the proof of the Bible. Therefore, it has complete unity, proved by the historical past, present, and future. There is one consistent goal; therefore this Principle alone can give the direction to mankind. Before you learned the Principle did you know the direction of the world? (No!) Now do you know? (Yes!) I discovered it!

Once we discover this fundamental goal, nothing can stop us. Nothing, even your lover, can turn you around. Your parents say, "Go this way! Your nation, society, school, your honor -- everything is at stake. " But you must be able to turn and without fail go to the goal. This is the first criterion to be a Unification Church member. Are you? (Yes.)

Once this truth comes to you, it comes not only as a truth. Truth is power, so once you really know the truth, God will automatically provide the power for you to turn. This is the power of the Father, which will eventually become your power. You will have that power. If that is true, can the person who truly knows the Principle become a drop-out? (No!)

Even if I say, "Take it easy. Sit down here son. Rest and come later. " You must say," No, I must go now! " This has to be the attitude, because our opportunity is not here for eternity. Our life is not here for eternity. We are given just this one golden opportunity, and if you miss that opportunity, there are no more. So, the role of bringing the restoration is a busy role. Many people may say, "That is a very wonderful truth. But let me do my thing first. This is my own kindergarten, my high school, my college, my M.A. degree, my own worldly Ph.D. Then I will apply for that heavenly Ph.D." But do you have a guarantee that God will sustain your life that far? (No!) One has to be a wise man, to feel the urgency so that you have the true goal to get that heavenly Ph.D. first.

Can you be mentally vague about that? What Father teaches in a regular teaching, has been taught by the Bible. Didn't the Bible say that he who tries to gain his life will lose it, and he who tries to lose his life will find it? Didn't the Bible say that you will bear the cross every day? But Jesus said it without showing the clear-cut goal, so he didn't give people the power to go. Do you know what I mean? (Yes!)

Father has only limited time this morning, and we are enjoying this session very much. (Yes!) Now, don't you feel our goal? You are good men, and good women, and in a good state. But one hour later, after hearing Father's message, you know you have been elevated, right? (Right!) Although you don't know when that process took place, but you do know one thing: the result is now different. In other words, you are already more spiritual than one hour ago.

Tremendous searchers of history have sought the true meaning of life and history, but they did not get answers, and don't have answers. There are many anguished millions who faltered and died. How fortunate we are! We have seen the glory of light, and we are going that way. So actually, this is a moment of great celebration!

We can come to the conclusion that the truth makes man great. Truth makes man new. Truth makes man truly tall. So it really makes sense when the Bible says, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. " If you sometime fall away and try to find some comfort in life in the outside world, I assure you, you cannot get away from your conscience, you cannot remove the truth from your mind.

So let's say you leave the Church. You will soon learn outside that indeed we had the truth. "I must go back," is the conclusion that everyone will reach. But meantime, great damage may be done when you even temporarily leave the movement. That is something like the commission of another sin, and is really tragic. I know that.

May I say this to you? If there is an easier way to go and still achieve God's goal, I do not want even you to lead me. I will lead you. I don't have that kind of brain. I tested it out in every way! I know our road is not an easy one. But I do know also it is the only one. Therefore, I'm going, and everyone is destined to go. So, if you are determined to go, would you like to waste time, or would you like to go real fast? (Fast!) Then already you want to arrive at that place! Right? (Yes!)

A long, long, time ago I came to the conclusion that nothing will compete with this ideology! Nothing! Now when God is anxiously asking, "Can you meet my expectations? You know the way. Can I see you at the arrival point or terminal point?" What would be your answer, yes or no? (Yes!) If my life could not bring me to my destination, still you cannot give up. Your children must go, your grandchildren must go. This distance of highway must be covered. That's the Unification way. That's our way of life. We come to ultimate truth.

God's rope is down here. He cannot climb up this rope, but he will come right below the rope. There are many people who can stand around, being delighted spectators. Being a spectator, you couldn't take that route, and you wouldn't bring it any higher. So you must come to that one point, right below the rope. That's the beginning point, the unifying point, and the harmonizing point. There's only one such point. And you must come. In other words, the Unification Church is that point-you must come there.

So, since everyone has to come to that one unifying point, do you think we can talk about unification? (Yes!) So, that's why our name is Unification Church. Is it a good name or bad name? (Good!) We say good name, and the rest of the world says bad name. But don't worry. No matter what the people say outside, don't pay any attention. You will see them where they are, and many will see you where you are. They say, "Ugh, ugh!" but they still are coming to that point.

We have only one way out. There is no way down. We have only one way, one direction to go, and that is upward. Other people are bound to see us! So, I come to another conclusion. Unification Church is the one that can set the greatest record, one that nobody else can attain, in the shortest possible time. We have that energy, that vision. So, we will break records in all fields. We are breaking the record in every field we encounter, aren't we? (Yes!) So, again, this is another proof that this truth, this movement, is the ultimate one, the right one. Do you follow me? (Yes!)

The entire world is at stake. For billions of people-life is at stake. There is just one life. Are you afraid of this one?

Jesus knew the same truth. He who loses his life for my sake will find it. That one rope of salvation is going straight down through the bottom of the dungeon, because salvation belongs to everyone. In order to reach that rope, many people may have to go down to the lowest point. In order to do that, they must have all kinds of ridicule and persecutions. There, the Bible says, "He who is trying to lower himself, will be elevated." The Bible, when you really know the ultimate truth, tells a lot of good truth, doesn't it? (Yes.)

So, we are destined to go to the one direction pointed out by God. I know that direction. I know that treasure chest and I'm leading. So what would you do? Would you want to listen to me, or not? (Yes!) Many people say to me, "Well, what are you? You've come from Korea, an Oriental man. We have the civilization of the Western world. We enjoy a golden age. We have a great empire. So what are you talking about?" You think people can say that to me? Do you think it's the right thing? (No!) That's not right! The person who thinks in that narrow way will only dig himself into a hole.

We haven't lost. Logically speaking from any angle, if anybody analyzes our movement he must come to the same conclusion: we are right. All of you must come to one direction, and that one direction is clearly given, so we are fortunate. Once you grab the rope, you have to stick to the rope, right? Then move step by step, upward. In the middle, if you release the rope, what will happen? You'll be shattered into pieces.

So while you're doing this important service, our Heavenly service, your ancestors in the Heavenly world are excited! They're cheering! "Oh, my grandchild ... my grandchild is there... ! " When you are striding and making each step, they're striding, too. At that very crucial moment, when you couldn't make that final point, and you release the rope, it's not just a disappointment to you, but to your millions of ancestors. They all fall down and are shattered together. For them it is a sorrow and a disgrace to all the spirit world. Not only your direct ancestors, but their relatives and their friends will -all together-grieve. And not only that, but God Himself, and all the host of angels are watching and cheering, so when someone cannot make it, it is also a grieving and heartbreaking moment for God's heart.

This is not merely, "It may be so." There's no maybe. " This is so! This is a most realistic painting of the state of the spirit world. Now, do you have that realistic concept? Our movement is not a horizontal one, but a vertically-connected one. Is that true? (Yes!) If that is the case, then we not only work for ourselves, but for many people! They wait for our achievement day in and day out in the spirit world. We must feel them out, feel their hearts. Suppose that 50 million British citizens are here. And if they really know that this is the one great race we have to go, do you think that all 50 million would not cheer, or would cheer? (Yes!) The reason they do not cheer is simply that they don't know it. They don't see. That's why they're just idle out there. But the satanic world knows. Therefore, they're really cheering. So, you're clinging to the rope, but going up step by step is not your business alone. It is the business of your country, of your ancestors, and of Heaven and Earth. In order to make sure he would never fall off this rope, the wise man not only takes hold by both hands, but even puts the rope around his neck, his body, and his legs. Then with even two hands released, he is still safe, having that kind of security.

Then, you want to climb down. But all of a sudden, somebody way up on the top buys a crane and cranks you up. Are you grateful, or not? (Yes!) That is precisely what has happened in the Unification Church. You're fortunate to have this Heavenly crane up there. Push the button, and the engine is running, cranking up that rope. All you have to do is to stay on. You think you are not moving. You think, "I'm not making any progress. " You aren't moving your hands, but you are making progress, because that crane is pulling you up. I'm the Father in that crane. What I'm doing in America, in trying to bring the biggest possible weapon to you, is serving out of that crane.

Now when you see this you are elevated, seeing this whole world is under you. We are looking down, and we see the beautiful gold terminal. Just see the excitement, getting nearer to our goal. You are on the rope, right? (Yes!) You are on a Heavenly rope. But around you is there a worldly rope? One rope of your mother, one rope of your brother, the rope of the society, the rope of honor, and the rope of your nation. You will pull them all down. They are pulling on you, pulling down and saying, "Why should you go the hard way? Come down, sit down, and let's have a little good time here! You can swap the ropes. Get one around you." Fortunately, Father gave you one knife. Use it to cut off all the rope around you. Clean yourself up, so that you're much lighter.

You don't have to bring so much, because you are already carrying a great burden. But when you come to the station, then you will have full strength to reach down to them, and pull the ropes of these other people one by one, to bring them up to your place. You can reach them and you can bring them to your own joy. Actually, that is the best way you can serve your parents, your brother, your country, and humanity. Because you are able to get up to that station first and reach as many people as possible, you will help them. If you get there first, you have reached your prime goal. Are you confident? (Yes!)

The first 7-year course, second 7-year course, and third 7-year course will represent the Old Testament era, New Testament era, and Completed Testament era. We are all going through these periods, passing through 2,000 years of history, each represented by seven years. Two thousand years can be compressed into seven hundred years, and it can be compressed with super-power into seven years. All we have to swallow is one 7-year capsule. We are restoring 6,000 years of vertical Biblical history in a horizontal, twenty-one year dispensation.

Fortunately, the second 7-year course is ending at the end of 1974 with triumph. In another forty days, 1974 will be completed.

I'm leaving tomorrow to undertake the continuation of our 8-city Day of Hope Tour, and I will continue my Crusade in the West Coast area of the United States-in Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. I deeply sense that the urgency of our mission has been declared in the spirit world. They are breathlessly awaiting our victory. This world is like a ship at sea with no captain. It is almost wrecked, with no direction and no way to stabilize. We are the ones who can put ropes on both sides and stabilize the ship of the world. Put yourself into the position of God. At each moment of battle, God can see it first, so He feels the very realistic excitement. And all of spirit world is bubbling with enthusiasm.

This is the final hill to go over. The top of the hill is just within our reach, so my whole body, my whole system, every ounce of my energy, and every single cell is engaged in the effort. The entire spirit world is saying, "We don't care about Great Britain, America, Korea, or Japan. Let things flow. But don't allow anything to happen to the Unification Church. " That is the kind of urgency felt in spirit world. If we successfully go over this hill, then we will liberate the entire world! If you know this not only by reasoning, or by learning the Principle, but if this comes to you intuitively so that you feel it deeply, then you are the one Father is looking for.

You must know that the Messiah is not only the savior, but he's the one who gives you resurrection, recreation, and new vision. He's remolding every person according to a new pattern. And we have that pattern! Furthermore, he's the person who is closest to me. Where would you like to have that person? In a brother's position? Or in a husband and wife relationship? The closest of human relationships in this universe is the father-son relationship. Wouldn't you want to have him in the father's position? (Yes!) Therefore, it is logical that we proclaim a new world order in our movement. The greatest words we know in our movement are two words: True Parents. Nobody has spoken them in history! We are the first ones to utter them, and we know why. It is an absolutely precious gift. If you lovingly serve the position of True Parents, your first duty is to become true sons and true daughters. Otherwise, you and the True Parents have no connection. This is only reasonable.

You are in a separate world in which you have True Parents. You yourself are true sons and daughters. It is really a blessed Kingdom which you inhabit. Soon you will have your own family, so that you can have your home in Heaven, in which the True Parents will be the center, dwelling with you for eternity. When you perfect your position in your relationship to the True Parents, all you have to do is expand. From one perfect family come two, from two come four, and as they increase they become a tribe. As the tribe increases, it becomes a nation. When it gets even bigger, it becomes a world. Do you follow me? (Yes!)

You know the truth, and you know the conclusion. Let me give you an example. Let's say there's a rope, one central rope from heaven. All of you are standing at various distances from this one central point. Because you are the fruit of your ancestral tree, you are the cumulative total of the accomplishments of your ancestors. Their cumulative merit determines the distance between you and the rope. It is true that the newest members, who joined the movement just this week, could be the closer to that rope, because of the cumulative total of the accomplishment of their ancestors. Therefore, the Bible said that the first will be last and the last first. But if we don't know this truth, that vertical history indemnities and helps in other ways, then no one can jump the distance and come to the central point immediately.

You are the ones who can conquer the distance from your point to the central point. But there's only one leader, one central figure who is throwing the rope, and showing you the distance, asking the people to grab the rope and pull.

The Lord of the Second Advent is the person who will come to Earth and throw out the rope.

Therefore, the Messiah comes at a central point and throws the rope to all of the world, so that everybody can know the central point and cover the distance easily. That's why we have to send out missions all over the world. Good missionaries are that rope. Do you understand? (Yes!) The missionaries who go out to their respective missions are throwing the rope. That's their job. They are to witness. That's what brings in members, so that's the biggest job. You should throw the rope of life in all four directions, so that millions of people can find you. Is this a busy task or a lazy one? (A busy one!)

While you're dreaming, or while you're taking a short nap, perhaps thousands, even millions of lives are lost. Man lives for 100 years at most. Let's say one man has a goal to live 100 years on earth. If we divide the entire population of the world into 100 portions the number of deaths is more than 36 million annually. So every year, 36 million people will go into spirit world. If those 36 million people ever learn the truth-the Unification Church Divine Principle-their position in spirit world will be entirely different. They will belong to the True Parents and reside in the Kingdom of Heaven! Since they do not know the truth, their destination is Hell. Therefore, if we wait ten years, 360 million people will head for a spiritual dungeon. Think of it. Christianity was the immediate forerunner of Father's ministry. What a terrible crime, in the sight of God, Christians have committed in the last 30 years. Billions of people have been blocked from seeing the truth and Heaven. Therefore, do you think God can allow Christianity to prosper, or will it disintegrate? (Disintegrate!) There must be a predestined way for Christianity: one day, because of this ultimate truth it must decline, and decline rapidly. Can you follow this reasoning? (Yes!)

Then what about you? You are the one who disseminates the truth and lets people know the truth. If you do not fulfill your responsibility, what will happen? We are also responsible, aren't we? (Yes!) If we fail to fulfill our responsibility to reach out to the people of the world, then those people will die and end up in Spirit World, but not in a good place. Then they will accuse you saying, "What happened? Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you do your job?" Next they will say, "Even if I was not ready, at least you should have come to me and told me the news! Whether I accept or not accept, that's my responsibility. I take that responsibility. But why didn't you let me know? Why didn't you give me the news?" What would you say? No excuse. So we have to avoid this criticism or suffer.

Now you can understand clearly why, in America, I determined to let every citizen of that land know about the proclamation of the Kingdom of God and the name of Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Why? I want to leave them no excuse. They could not say, in spirit world, "I didn't know Reverend Moon came to America!" "So, where were you?" we can ask. God will ask, "Where were you? You were in the basement? You indeed belong to Hell. " This is what I am doing in America, whether people accept or not. Each missionary in the mission field is doing the same thing as I'm doing in America. You must let that country know. From 1960-1975 and for three and a half more years, we have a responsibility to let the entire world citizenry know about this great truth. If we successfully complete our mission of proclaiming the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, we will not be responsible for people. When we complete that mission successfully, even if the rest of the world is still stubborn and will not listen, and will not accept, then God will take responsibility. Because you set the condition, God can really judge the world. So, don't you think we should do it? (Yes!)

Next year, I will send out missionaries all over the world, to 120 nations. Go to your respective mission fields. Throw the rope of life all over to all directions! If there's no rope to throw, you can even tear your own clothes and still throw them. Even if there are no clothes to throw, then you must use your skin. Make a rope out of your skin. Have that kind of determination, that kind of seriousness. Do you understand? (Yes) That is your job. Each one of us is responsible for restoration on different levels, so on the individual and the family level, you must throw the rope. On the tribal level, you must also throw the rope. On the national level, you must also throw the rope. On the world level, you must also throw the rope.

Nobody in this room can say, "Well, at least I know the truth! I know the True Parents, and I belong to them. All I want is to stay here!" You cannot do that. You're going to complete the mission on the family level, and then toss the rope on the tribal level. When you've completed that mission, toss the rope on the national level, and toss the rope on the worldwide level. You have to continually elevate yourself. You are going to start as an individual, for your personal restoration first, then as a family, tribe, nation, and world. Then the central rope will come. You just cover the distance from you to the central point. Can you move the central point? Can you pull it from one position to another? You have to go to it and pull those ropes to your position. Can you say, "I'm here. Instead of me going there, why doesn't the central rope come to me? Can't he pick me up?" Who has to cover that distance, God or you yourself? (Ourselves).

Each one is responsible. Almighty God would not move the position of the central point one iota. God wants everyone to come to Him. Shall we go? (Yes.) I am declaring an emergency! Without even your legs, without your eyes, without arms, without anything, still you have life: you must not die. You must go. In order to meet this emergency quicker, God is working in a tremendous way. The rest of the world is like a sea of agony. They are agonized. They have no hope. There is confusion. They are plagued by problems and they desperately try to find some kind of hope, some kind of life.

It's like a flood: God gives a Heavenly flood. Unless everyone is helped out,-each will be drowned. They're reaching out for the rope! They reach out all over then they happen to grab one rope and they find that rope is the Unification Church rope. In order to survive, they pull on that rope and come to their destination. They find they have come to the right place. This is how the world will end. The world will go in that direction. The world is becoming more difficult, but God is doing it to help you.

When the flood comes there's no order. The mother and father and family members are about to be drowned. They're trying to put their heads above water! So busy! They've not time to think of their own wife. They've no time to think of their parents; students don't care about their professors, professors don't care about their pupils.

Young people have more energy, more vitality. They are able to put their heads above water. But now they're floating. Meantime, they see the rope, and reach for it. The hippie movement thought that their way was the way of life, and was the way they could bring utopia. But they haven't found the answer there. Then, while they're still trying, they see the many ropes we're throwing, and they grab them and see that it is the Unification Church. That's why young people are coming here. When we bring young people in, they're ready to drown and ready to die. So we have to revive them by using a special breathing exercise. This Unification Church is a system to teach reviving exercises.

Our chances are greatest when you quickly throw the net and the rope as far and wide as you can. How do you feel? Do you have to witness? (Yes!) Witness more than eat? Than drink? (Yes!) Think of it: how God feels every moment of the day, so urgent, urgent! You who come here and see this urgency might say, "Well, just wait-Father-just wait. Give me a little time to be a little more organized." Can you say, "Oh, this is not my way. My way is this way. I'm going slowly. I must take ample time to think. Let me think about it first." If you say that, God will be so initiated! He will get more angry with you than with the people outside. Because it has come to this important time, and the champion is not producing, then how good is that champion? How good is he to God?

Nowadays there are many movies, which are spectaculars. They have all kinds of events in the movies in which I see how people struggle to live and survive, trying to find one rope or one hope to escape from despair. Well, I feel this world is just like that. Now, I feel that you have a clear concept. You know what God's position is, what the True Parents' positions are, and what position this world is in. Now that you know these things, you know what to do. If there is no father, who's going to take care of this world? Also, do you think that I will live on Earth a thousand years? Now I am planning our global strategy for the next fifteen years! Just think of it! In fifteen years, I have to deal with this entire mess of a world!

You know, for thirty years our movement has been delayed by the initial rejection I received when I first declared this message. Koreans deserve hell, so that nation must suffer. Christians all over the world deserve to decline, because they did not accept me. This world has to suffer, because this world did not know me early enough. I feel so realistically that we are controlling the destiny of the world. Actually, if I feel vengeful toward those enemies, there's nothing which deserves to survive. Korea must be disciplined. Christianity must be shattered to pieces. This world must be destroyed. But God does not feel that way. We must even have compassion for our enemies. We will ultimately save even our enemies.

Therefore we must have great power, great organization, and great success! We will let our enemies see where we are and how wrong they were, so that they can repent. Also, which ever path you walked, it doesn't matter. What you have is the present. What you are is the matter. What you will be is the matter. So those who do the quickest work at this junction of history shall be heroes. We know the central truth. We know our distance from that central point. We know what steps we have to pass through. From the position of servant of servant, servant position, adopted son position, son's position, and finally the True Parents position, regardless of the sacrifice we are required to pay, we are most willing. We need the most burning and bubbling enthusiasm. This is the state of the Unification Church now, here and all over.

The family level foundation is laid, the tribal level foundation is also laid. The national level foundation is laid, and the world-wide level-that one central point of the world dispensation-belongs to the third seven-year course. This is where we are. The entire world is within our grasp. So, after completion of the eight-city tour in the U.S., I will go back to Korea. When I return from Korea I will raise our movement above the national level. We have done our duty on the national level and now we are entering the era of international crusades. So let's have a soldier's attitude to really bring the world to ultimate victory. Once we have the world, all of the lower echelons will belong to the world. The nation will belong to the world. Society will belong to the world.

The family will belong to the world. When you are on top of the world, you have everything. All you have to do is crank up the winch to raise the entire globe.

Let's summarize what has been said. The concept of the Divine Principle must be clear. Is that true? (Yes!) Who is going to conquer this distance? You are. I am. We are. And we will do so without dying. We cannot afford to die this time! We must live! You have a strong commitment, which no one can compete with. You're dedicated. Hold on to that rope. Hold on tight. Bring the rope around your body, around your neck, and stay strong! Then the Heavenly winch will crank you up. This is your way of paying indemnity. I struggled through a 21-year period. The distance I covered in 21 years you can cover in the final seven years-only one seven year course.

Seven years. You'll descend to the bottom of Hell. Revive! Resurrect! Keep going on the path through Hell! Come up to Heaven! Along the way, we must pass through Hell, in order to come up. Do you understand? We must go down.

Satan is covering and holding that Hell. So we must win over Satan's ground. And we must win the victory. Come! If you want me to bear the cross, I will be willing. Bear any kind of burden, any tribulations or any suffering. I don't mind. Let them come. I will confront them, face to face. So, no more death! This is the most important statement of our movement. For us, there is no such thing as death. Even death is a victory, when you've conquered death! How can you expect any greater victory than conquering death? Actually, the short-cut is getting there by dying for it. This is the shortest, quickest way! Therefore, read the Bible. Jesus taught even two thousand years ago, "Bear the cross. " That's a really ruthless statement, but it is a true statement of love. But the disciples didn't want to die. They didn't want to go down to the dungeon of Hell. They just wanted to go the nice way, the quick, easy way. But there is no easy way. Therefore, they failed. They were so lazy, instead of bringing themselves to the central point, they wanted to have God come and bring the pick-up truck, and pick them up one by one.

Here in Great Britain, whatever is your greatest difficulty, break through it! In France and Italy do likewise; maybe the Communist threat in Italy is very serious. You break through it. In Europe or in Germany, what ever is the greatest threat or difficulty, we are the ones determined to break through.

But time is limited. And we don't have enough soldiers. So what can you do? You must do double time, triple time, or even quadruple time to cover.

This is an emergency. I want you to understand this. Every time I come, I literally push you out to the front, even to the point of death. I want you to know this message is based on love. Without pushing you in this harsh way, I have no other way to bring you to Heaven. You have to pass through Hell. Can you understand my position? (Yes!)

We share a common destiny. We do not live individually, but with one destiny. That common destiny is not your destiny alone: it is God's destiny, Father's destiny, and the destiny of the three of you together. God, the True Parents, and you-all three, are going the same way. What makes you stay with the True Parents and with Heavenly Father? Not rope, but your feelings. You must feel how our Heavenly Father feels. You must feel how the True Parents feel. The True Parents and you echo each other. God is saying, "Urgent!" the True Parents are saying, "Urgent!", and you must be saying, "Urgent!"

Before the battle, before victory, unless you become one with the True Parents and feel the same way they do, and the way God does, you will not go on to celebrate victory after victory. Can you feel this way? (Yes!)

Do exactly what I told you! Then you know God is present with you. You know I'm with you. And when you open your eyes, you will see that God is sweating together with you. When you come closer to the central point this intensity of feeling will increase. Do you understand? (Yes.) Now, you know everything. You know clearly as Father does. After knowing this much, but you still fail to go to your destination, can you later say to me, "Well, Father, why didn't you tell me more clearly?" Do I deserve that statement? (No!) You answered correctly. You are fortunate persons. You are great-not because you yourself are great, but because you are part of a great history. Greatness can elevate you to the position of true sons and daughters. You shall become His son, His daughter. Do you understand? (Yes!) His heart is right there. You meet His heart. Your actions will follow your mind. So determine in your mind, and your body will follow. The main thing is your mind, your state of mind.

We are in a battle, a divine war, and we are the front-line soldiers. God is all the way at the front. Front-line soldiers are the nearest point to God. God is not sitting in the back at headquarters. He is right up with the front-line soldiers, as you are. So it's worth doing it, isn't it? (Yes!)

To shake this world, you must shake this country. Everybody has been talking about it, day in and day out, saying, "What's going on here? Are all scared by the Unification Church?" France, Germany, all of Europe-let them talk about us every day, every minute. Whether they criticize or defend us, I don't care about the subject, but let them talk about us. Let them be upset or not upset; let them decide. Our job is to let them know.

This is the Exodus on the world-wide level. Moses brought the Israelites out of Egypt, and they stayed and wandered in the wilderness for forty years. We are in the universal forty year period in the wildness. This world is passing through the wilderness, and only one person knows the right direction and the ultimate goal as did Moses in his time. By the same token, the Unification Church is the Moses of our time. If Moses failed to tell the people where to go and what their goal was and how they should act, then he did not fulfill his mission. By the same token, unless we tell the world where Canaan is and what the goal is, then we fail our mission. You know both, and you know it clearly. Isn't it true? (Yes!)

If you don't follow this road, you and I and the Father will accomplish nothing. You just simply cannot doubt. You must act now.

Dennis, you must transcribe today's message. I'm not addressing this European Family alone, but I'm addressing the world. Transcribe this message, edit it nicely, print it, and send it to Americans, all over. (Certainly, Father.) Particularly America. I never talked in this specific fashion in America. Why do I come to London to do this? Because you are lucky. Great Britain gave birth to America. I emphasize that you are in elder brother position, in a Cain and Abel position. I come to declare to the elder brother country first. All right, Dennis, you fulfill this mission. Then I don't have to repeat this message. They will know what I have declared here. You are lucky because you are the only group to listen to Father in person.

I want to make this November 25, 1974 London Message historically recorded and known all over the world. It's also the victory celebration message side by side with the completion of the Science Conference.

Since you are getting the message first, you must bear the fruit first, right? (Right!) If you do carry out the demands of this message faster than anybody else in the world, then you are going to lead the world.

In a way Great Britain, this great Empire, is almost like a sunset going down. By accepting and carrying out this message, we can go faster, and we can revive a great Heavenly Empire here. In this way I will promote free-will competition here. There may be German brothers here and German leaders here, and I know that they think in their hearts, "No! Not Great Britain. We, Germany, will move Europe!" Well, let them try to do it.

Then the French brothers will say, "No, no, wait a minute! We, France, will get the first chance. We had a great hero in Napoleon. We're going to become the Heavenly Napoleon. We're going to become the Heavenly Napoleon!"

However Italian brothers will not be satisfied. They will say, "Wait a minute. What are you talking about? European tradition is Roman tradition! And we had Caesar at one time, and we shall become a Heavenly Caesar! Rome is going to be the one to declare this message all over Europe!"

Go away confident. Do it! (Yes!) Will you be defeated? (Never!)

Let Us Set The Tradition

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Tarrytown, New York
November 17,1974
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

Good morning. "Let Us Set the Tradition" is my topic this morning.

We have members from many nations here. Americans have their own tradition. The Germans have their own tradition. The Frenchmen have their own tradition.

From God's viewpoint, the traditions they have so far set up are the traditions which draw the people far from God. In view of the Fall of man, this is only too natural. God must gather the people to His side by having them set up new traditions through which to come to Him.

God cannot change the traditions and culture of all the nations all at once. So, it has taken Him time to gradually change those things, in order to have his children come to His side.

Up to now, religions of the world have worked to bring traditions and cultures back to God. But we must find one very high religion which can lead people closer to God than any other religion.

Had it not been for the human fall, a God-centered tradition on the individual level would have been established by Adam and Eve and then they would have laid the family tradition, national tradition, and world tradition. The traditions laid after the Fall cannot be recognized or accepted by God because they have not been in accordance with God's will.

Throughout human history, God has sent His prophets and saints to clear away the old religions and set up a new tradition. But almost without exception, the people have not been prepared to receive their messages. God has to choose one of these religions to be the central religion of the world, to lead the way back to God.

God has lost all His children to the satanic world. To restore them, He must elevate them step by step, from the stage of servant of servant, through the stages of adopted sonship and true sonship.

God has been sending His prophets to all nations, sometimes without being able to form the desired religion. Even in the primitive religions, these prophets have all talked about the coming of the Messiah. Sometimes the founder taught them that he was coming back, and upon his death, people would begin to expect that very person to return, as the Messiah. But God would send them a greater person than the first one who died without accomplishing the full mission.

In the latter days, when God's dispensation is coming close to His will, two kinds of phenomena occur. One is the corruption in the established religious world. The other is the emergence of the new religion which will lead the others. We are now in the age when this central, world-level religion should emerge, to unite religions even on the national level. It will be led by a central person. This is the messianic idea.

Then where is this religion? God is looking for one like that, with a world-wide messianic idea, and a central figure bound for God's bosom. This messianic hope is present today in both Judaism and Christianity, which have inherited the same tradition. But when we closely study the messianic idea of Judaism, we find that their messiah was exclusively for the Israelites. God's intention was to save all mankind, by working with and even sacrificing the Jewish people. But they did not understand that.

When you read the Book of Apostles, you will find there was great discrimination between the circumcised and non-circumcised people. Jews did not associate with Gentiles. They could not quite go beyond the national level and this was the serious flaw of Judaism.

We set the tradition on the individual level, family level, tribal level, and then national level. But in order to shift to a higher level we must tear down or deny the preceding level. In building the tradition on the world-wide level, we must annihilate or deny the national level. If Judaism still expects to save the world as the chosen nation, or if it stands against Christianity which has already set the tradition on the world-wide level, it is doomed to perish. What kind of religion is God seeking as the central one, to be used to save the world?

The human fall was from God's bosom into the satanic world. From this fallen state, mankind is destined to come back to God in a reverse way. But in the latter days many religions become corrupted and are doomed to perish.

The central religion must teach us that we used to be God's children, and have us experience and feel that. And it must give us the full confidence that no evil power can put us asunder, keep us from being God's children. It must make us this kind of children of God.

When people of most religions are asked if they are children of God, they cannot answer with confidence, because they are not experiencing it. Christianity is the only religion which teaches that all mankind are the children of God. So it must be the closest to God of all the religions. No other religion has had its founder claim sonship to God, and Jesus said he was God's only son.

He was also unique because he taught his followers that he and they were bridegrooms. The Scriptures conclude that in the latter days the Bridegroom will come and the marriage of the Lamb will take place. Furthermore, Jesus was perhaps the only one to strongly proclaim the brotherhood of all men under God. This teaching was in accordance with God's will because it stressed brotherhood among God's children as a means of finding again the bosom of God, the original father of mankind. In order to restore the illicit love which caused the Fall, Jesus urged everyone to prepare to unite in love with a future central figure, as brides to this bridegroom.

Christianity has taught the brotherhood of mankind, but in the latter days when we are closer to God, we must have a higher concept or ideal than this. The highly Christian, leading nation of America has not realized the ideal of brotherhood of men because there is still discrimination against black people. Therefore, God cannot use America in the final days as a central nation to bring mankind back to Him.

Thus within Christianity, there must arise a religion which can unite people through a new messianic ideology. As you well know, in the Unification Church, we have this kind of centralized ideology which can bring people back to God. We not only claim the brotherhood of mankind, but we are also practicing it. In the Unification Church, we teach a new messianic ideology. It is "new" because we not only know how to get back to God, but we practice it and can lead other people there. To members of the Unification Church, there are no national boundaries. So if someone were to ask you, "What country are you from?" or "What nation are you from?"-what would your answer be? (World!)

You are citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, Kingdom of God on Earth. But have we created the Kingdom of God on Earth yet? (No!) Then you are without a nation. You are citizens without a nation.

You Japanese members, don't you identify very closely with your country? (No!) But you are still speaking Japanese! And you sometimes wear Japanese clothing. Well, you're proud of your nation, and when people speak ill of the Japanese people, you are irritated or angered, isn't that true? (Yes.)

You Americans, if you are called names, if your national pride is hurt by people who are scornful of your country don't you get angry at them? (Yes.)

As long as you have the idea of your being Americans or being Japanese, and you are hurt when people revile you, we still have nationalism. If YOU Japanese members think, "If I'm going to die, I want to die back in Japan," and if Americans working in Japan would rather die back home in America, then you are still not out of the category of being Americans and being Japanese. Isn't that true? (Yes.) You are still in that stage, I'm afraid.

If you still have that kind of notion, you must change. Our most important problem, which must be changed at the earliest possible date, is the notion of your being of a certain nationality. We must erase this idea; unless we do this, we cannot leap to the next level.

Even though you Americans may be proud of your tradition as a great nation of the world, this is not acceptable, and you must overcome it before you can enter God's world.

Then how to bring us to the mainstream is the problem. It may be easy for you to throw away what you have, but there must be an alternative, and we must know what it is.

We must be able to unreservedly throw away what we used to have. That's the first thing. But as you discard it, you must have the idea that you are the sons and daughters of God; and that you are connected to His lineage. After the human fall, man became the children of Satan. In order to regain our position as sons and daughters of God, we must first cut off our Satanic lineage. In order to be reborn into God's lineage, we must completely deny ourselves by paying the indemnity toll. Before being engrafted into the true tree of life, and entering into God's bosom, we must cut away our old selves. The human fall was caused by a process of self-discovery that was self-centered. As we discovered this forbidden self-knowledge, we lost God. To discover God, we must lose ourselves. And one important thing we must lose, to be reborn under God is our idea of having been born as Americans or as Japanese.

From that moment on, you lose everything belonging to the world, and then you will be brought back under God's lineage and under the tradition of God. Unless you do that, you can never cross over the transition or cross-junction to belong to God. Is that true with you? Have you done that?

We read in the Bible seemingly paradoxical things: Jesus said, when you want to lose your life, you will gain life, but when you want to gain your life, you will lose it. And when we know that we have to deny ourselves to get reborn in the new world under God, it's absolute truth.

You must re-examine yourself in an objective way. If you find that you still think and act like you used to, and if your goal is just to lead a happy life in the worldly sense, this is not right. Jesus said that when you want to gain your life, you will lose it. Without your paying a certain indemnity toll, you can never dream of being led to the new world.

You may say to yourselves, "Well, the truth they are teaching in the Unification Church is very good, but I don't like the idea of having to pay the indemnity toll. Oh, I don't want it!" Can you say that? I want you to think of it in the reverse way: "Well, the truth they are teaching is all right, but I really think it's wonderful that we'll be able to pay a certain toll of indemnity to get into God's world. This makes sense, and it will increase my understanding. " You must have this attitude. Without this kind of positive view to inspire you to reach Heaven, you cannot get there.

You will find it very strange, after you have already thrown away the old way of life, and denied your old friends and your family to start a new life here. But if you cannot go beyond that, and learn to deny yourselves to practice only God's will, you cannot dream of entering the Kingdom. You must first have the certainty that you are God's children. Only then, in exchange, can you throw everything away. Then the condition or standard of your action from now on must be that you do anything and everything for the sake of God's will, and for the restoration of mankind.

It is indispensable that you have in your mind that you are born for God's will and mankind, that you are living for them, and you are going to die for them. There have been many great people in the history of mankind. Some were great family men, or great tribal leaders, or even enlightened national leaders. But they have not been able to go beyond the national level. This boundary cannot be crossed unless you go beyond living for the sake of yourself, or even your nation, and live for the whole world and God.

For instance, if your parents were to try to stop you from being God's children and from doing God's will-what must you do? They would tell you to be their children, not God's. You must answer, "I'm the son of God before being your son." If they should cling to you, saying, "You are a member of this family, not of the Unified Family," you must say, "I want to be a member of the Unified Family, rather than of this small family."

Well, there will be a fight in your family over this. Then what will you do? You might say, "I'm going to be a citizen of the Kingdom erected by the Unification Church, and not of this nation of America." But do we have a nation? How can you be a citizen of the Kingdom if you have not erected it? Then what is your job?

In the Unification Church, we have been able to set up the tradition among the brothers and sisters, and the relationship between the True Parents and yourselves as a family, but we have not been able to set up the tradition as a nation or people. The problem is that we don't have a nation where we can set up a new tradition, leading the people of the world. So we have got to make one, and establish a national tradition under God's will.

America has her own constitution, but there are no articles in it which clearly indicate what Americans should do to live according to the founding ideology of the nation. Have you ever stopped to think of that? If any one nation were the household of God, its constitution would clearly indicate how to behave-as a family member, as a relative, and what to do as a national citizen or world citizen.

The standard of the family is the core and condition for everything else, so we must establish a solid foundation and tradition on that level. What is the fundamental principle of democracy? You claim the freedom of press, freedom of worship, freedom of so many things, but you have not touched the core of the matter. The fundamental thing is how to have the citizens free on the individual level, on the family level. That is the most important part. If that fundamental thing is sound and solid, the rest is easy.

The American way of life is vacillating every moment, changing all the time, and what is changing cannot be thought of as the standard. American youth have had the idea that human emotions and the emotional side of man has always changed. In their eyes, there is no tradition. Tradition is not important in their eyes. We cannot go on like this. Ideal or value lie not in what is changing, but in what is unchanging and eternal and unique. Americans should know that with American customs and habits one cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

Once you realize that you are the children of God, the next thing you must do is to work for God's will and for mankind, to establish the tradition in the Kingdom of God. Without doing that, you cannot claim to be the children of God. In the Unification Church, we do things for the sake of the whole world, We sleep, eat and do everything for the sake of God, and in doing that, we must accomplish more than we used to in our worldly life. That's the thing you should not forget.

Seven thousand years must be restored in the reverse way by our paying the indemnity toll. We have come on the reverse road, and are now at the threshold of the Kingdom. The greatest indemnity toll must be paid here. Would you want to enter the Kingdom after having paid the indemnity toll, or before?

It is logical to pay the indemnity toll in seven years time, condensing 7,000 years in it. We must know that the human fall was caused on the individual level. Six thousand years history plus one-representing a new beginning-makes seven. We must be able to restore ourselves through indemnity within at least six years. The seventh day is to enjoy what we have recovered.

In the Unification Church you must work hard for the will of God for at least three years, to be able to be blessed in the Holy Marriage. Jesus' public ministry of three years represented his mission for mankind. He tried to accomplish his mission of restoring the world by paying indemnity for the Jewish people, who represented the world. But by his death on the cross at that point, without fully restoring the world, it has become our destiny to accomplish what Jesus left unaccomplished.

The human fall was caused by the illicit love between Adam and Eve, so on the family level you must find and raise at least three spiritual children. And you must raise them at least to the standard of the three chief disciples of Jesus. They denied Jesus at the moment of Crucifixion, but you must raise them in such a wholesome way that they will die for you. This means you must have at least twelve disciples or spiritual children, out of which you choose the core three.

So after joining our movement, you can never be blessed unless you have three years of public ministry and at least three spiritual children. But following this, you and your spouse must accomplish the rest of the mission. In Korea and Japan, the men of the 777 couples sent out their wives to the front line to witness, and win at least 12 or more spiritual children. The number seven will be the basic number: two people-based on the number three-makes six, plus the seventh day or year. But you can never say, "Well, if I join the movement, that's all I should be doing." There are many missions for you to accomplish based on the number seven in the Principle.

The desire of the individual is the family, but the desire of the family is restoration of the nation. But does everyone in the Unified Family all over the world know this formula and put it into practice? Haven't we set up the tradition for this? We must connect what we already have won on the family level to the tribal level and to the national level, but we have not had a clear and strong tradition for the national level. Well, when can we do that? We can lay the foundation after having won a nation under God. We cannot expect God to give us a nation. We must win it ourselves, because in the beginning, man fell by his own action.

The tradition to be laid on the national level is going to be a new one. What we have now is not the tradition yet. Unless we can lay a foundation of unchanging quality on the family level, we cannot think of being able to do that on the national level. We are in the process of doing this. But even if we have laid the foundation on the family level, unless we have a nation, we are always likely to be invaded by the Satanic power, because a nation has power over a family. So, until we create a nation in which we have that tradition, we cannot take the Sabbath, we cannot be reassured, we cannot enjoy life under the will of God.

So the nation we erect under our ideology must be the leading nation of the world, with all other nations coming under it. We have not created a nation as such. But with our spiritual power, we have to march forward beyond the level of a tribe, and nation. How to go beyond the level of the nation and reach out to the end of the world in the soonest possible date is our greatest problem.

Then what is my strategy at this point? I'm going to form a nation in America transcending national boundaries and bring the people under the will of God by having them set up the tradition of God's will on the spiritual level. And then, gradually, we will expand the territory physically to every comer of the world.

I have brought here more Japanese and German members than from any other nation. Why did I do that? Because these two nations were enemy nations in World War 11. We are demonstrating whether or not people from former enemy nations can be summoned here to be united into one family, as brothers and sisters, to work for America.

The question is whether or not they have become like that. Have the German members and Japanese members working here loved America more than the Americans, and have they been united into strong oneness, proving that they are children of God in the real sense? Conversely, have you Americans loved the German and Japanese brothers and sisters more than you would any other American youth? Have you done that? (Yes!) And you Japanese members, have you loved the Americans more than Americans would? (Yes!!) If you really mean it when you say "yes," then if I encourage you to have international marriages, you will be more than glad. (Yes.) Then God will be proud of you, being in love with each other. For instance, between the enemy nations of World War 11, their members will build ideal families, so dearly loving each other. And that'll be wonderful, in God's sight.

You have come from Japan, Germany and other European nations to work for the nation of America. You came for the sake of America, but since our goal is also to be blessed in the Holy Matrimony, if you get your mates here from America, you will be doubly rewarded. Have you ever thought of the small Japanese girls being matched with tall American boys and the tall American girls being matched with small Japanese boys? The highest ideal is to have two people on the extreme ends to be united into one.

You will wonder why I'm talking about the same thing, when I already said it the last time. It is because marriage is the most important factor to set up a new tradition. If we are going to set up a new tradition of higher dimension, we must transcend national boundaries. And international marriage, alone, can lead us to the goal. We will set up a new tradition without national boundaries. In Judaism, they marry exclusively among Jews, and the scope of their tradition is narrow, without going beyond the national boundary. But we are advocating international marriage between all the peoples of the world. Only through this intermarriage, which will help to cleanse and restore each lineage can we set up a new tradition of higher dimensions under the will of God. It was for this discipline and training of lineages that God assembled in America, to live together, people from so many different nationalities.

Suppose I give a girl of small stature to a big giant? I had the experience of matching a German girl to an Englishman, even though they couldn't speak each other's language. They even had to use an interpreter in their courtship. That was a most wonderful thing to do. Just imagine: the baby of one American girl will have black, almond-shaped eyes, and the baby of one of the Japanese girls will have blue eyes. Isn't that wonderful? When an Oriental girl embraces her blue-eyed child, then it means she is embracing America, embracing the Western world. When an American girl embraces a baby with dark, Oriental eyes, it means she is embracing the whole Orient in her arms. And in this way, you cannot stand apart from the Western world, or apart from the Eastern world. This will be the proof that you have become one with the opposite world.

In that case, God cannot but recognize this unity, and then both Occidentals and Orientals, and even Satan, cannot but recognize it. Marriage in the Satanic world has been among one's own people, or at best within a certain ideology, but there have been many, many divorce cases and things like that. But in our Family, our Father will make international marriages where the love ties will be so great, with couples loving people of the West, the East, that they will just embrace all humanity in their arms. In our society, there will never be such a thing as divorce. Even Satan will recognize the greatness of it, because he will already be defeated. In this way, we will set up a new divine tradition, and people will admire us.

And only a religion of higher dimension can do the job. No political power, no authority, no physician, or any other thing can do it. Someone is destined to do the job, and we are the only people who can do it. International marriage will make it easier for you to love the world, and to set the highest tradition. If you have an international marriage, you will be famous in the history of the Unification Church. In the future, when I visit other nations, I will stay in the home of an international couple. These international families will be pioneering a new life, and naturally, for the first few years at least, they will have disharmony and difficulties. But after overcoming them, it will be a sublime form of the peaceful waters after a storm. I expect a new breed of children to be born out of these families, great people of genius who will lead the future world.

Sooner or later you will go to the Spirit World, where the vast majority there will associate with each other. But only through marriage of East and West can you travel freely among the people there.

What I'm teaching is not Korean culture or Oriental culture. There's nothing to be proud of in Korean culture. Ours will be like the culture of Greece, the nation from which all the Western culture was derived. Because Greece was the womb of culture and philosophy, even though externally the Roman Empire conquered Greece, Rome was eventually dominated spiritually by the Greek influence. Repeating this classic pattern, it is very natural that Unification ideology will rule the world. If you really want to study me and my teachings, you must learn to read the Divine Principle in its original language.

You can never be proud of speaking English, but only of speaking and reading the Korean language. In the future, those who do not speak the Korean language cannot become leaders. In order to set up one culture, we must unify the languages into one. I cannot force you to learn Korean now, you yourself must decide to learn it. In a few years, when I speak at a conference, I won't use an interpreter. It is against God's law, and it reminds me of the human fall, which caused the differentiation of languages. In the ideal world centered upon God, everyone will speak only Korean, so no interpreter will be necessary. Language barriers have been the enemy to oneness of the world, and all those different languages have created different cultures. So, in order to unite the whole world into oneness, we have to unify the languages into one.

How old do you think I am? Soon I will be 55. Then how many more years do I have left, until the age of 70? God's providence is to have me conclude the restoration history in 70 years, with the 7,000 years contracted into 70. If I leave the world alone, can I set up that kind of tradition? Well, up to the age of 60, I've got to lay the tradition, so that I will complete it by the age of 70.

We must make our movement very conspicuous, and have people see that we will even overcome Communism, and bring the whole world into oneness by our ideology. Unless we confront the Communists, we cannot assess our power, or have the confidence to win over them.

Just think, America, the world's greatest nation, has the chronic headache of Communists, which the government itself cannot cure, but this Reverend Moon is on the stage proclaiming that we can win over Communism and annihilate this ideology. Who do you think the Communists would consider their fiercest enemy, President Ford or Reverend Moon? You must realize that I'm doing this at the risk of my life, and be determined to do the same.

As you remember, just last year on July 1, I proclaimed the Day of Resolution of Victory, and three months from that I began my speech tour, kicking it off at Carnegie Hall. And it is in barely one year and one month that we have accomplished this much, and every person in America knows my name. For me it was a Ion , long time. If upon my arrival the Christians of this nation had welcomed me, it could have taken only one month or so. But despite the opposition and persecution, we have done this much, and our job from now on is to arouse the United States and the whole world, and alert them to what we are doing.

It is not a simple job to have filled up Madison Square Garden, and our next project is still bigger. Since Madison Square Garden, as you well know, we have visited Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, and Chicago, where without exception we leased and filled to overflowing the biggest halls. There are only three cities left in this tour-so everyone knows these halls will also be full, and that we just can't be stopped. Since we have reached the optimum by filling the largest indoor places, the meeting place for our next project must be somewhere outdoors, like Yankee Stadium. There's no other way possible.

We have already fixed the date. As a matter of fact, I was going to speak at Yankee Stadium in 1975, but the stadium is under construction until April of 1976, so my speech will be given then. And the following year, April 1977, 1 will give a speech in front of the Washington Monument, in Washington, D.C., so 500,000 or more people is our goal. With our experience, we will be able to carry it out. When I made my first appearance, in Lincoln Hall, those who were present never dreamed of our being so successful within such a short interval of time. Reverend Moon must win the fame or public recognition of having been able to fill up the biggest halls in the biggest cities of the United States. That is the tradition I have laid, and a tradition of even higher dimension must be laid with our hands.

In order to make our bearing a solid one, we must have our members go to other nations to make a similar stronghold, and I'm determined to send out our missionaries to 120 nations in the next year. Just in case we cannot fill up the mall of the Washington Monument with 500,000 people, we can bring our people from all those 120 nations. So it is more than clear that we can fill up the place. But if that happens, it will hurt the dignity of America, so let's do that exclusively with the members working in America. Just think, if I'm elevated like the sun in this manner, the name of Billy Graham is doomed to decline. But Father's name will rise as the sun and people will think that he has youth-power in this hands, and is stronger than anything else. The great accomplishments of Billy Graham will still be recognized, of course, but his fame will not last more than one generation, while my accomplishments will never be forgotten by the people of future generations.

I have to cry out to the people of the United States and the world what route to take, in order to restore this world as the original place of God's will. To do that, we must consolidate our base, and for this, we must lay the foundation. By the time we send out international mobile teams to other countries, it'll be easy for them to win the people by just showing the film made concerning Madison Square Garden, and Yankee Stadium, and the Washington Monument. But we must be able to do that within 5 years, or even earlier than that. If we cannot do the job within 5 years, things will be more difficult.

Our project for next year is to send out 1,000 international mobile team members, visiting seven countries. By visiting so many nations, the whole world will know what we are doing. If we mobilize 1,000 members with 30 in each team, we can send them out to 33 nations. And if we mobilize 3,000 members with 30 in each team, we can send out 100 teams to 100 countries. If each of the 30 members in the team will bring one person to the Family, that would be 90, but at least 50 members will increase in three months time. So if we use 300 members in one nation we will bring in 500 members in three months. In a year, they can visit 40 countries, and in 3 years, 120. Then in five years, if each nation we visit will make 500 members, then we will mobilize 3,000 international mobile team members, and we can sweep away the whole world.

Our successes in Yankee Stadium and at the Washington Monument will serve to awaken the people, and will make it easy for our members to work in other nations. The question is how to make these projects a success.

I have ordered you to make 3,000 members by April next year, within the city of New York. At present we have some 500 members in New York City. This means I want every one of you to bring in 6 members. We have only six months left, so you have to bring in one person a month. I've assembled all the Japanese members to concentrate on this project in New York City. This will prove whether the Japanese are capable or not, and it will be the fruit of totalization of what they have done. Then the 3,000 members you will win by April 1974 will increase to 10,006 or more after one year. If you follow my instructions, you will without doubt be able to make that number. Then if each one of the 3,000 will bring in 6 members, it will make 18,000.

What you accomplish here in the city of New York will be the example to be followed by local churches in every state. Every year we can triple the membership very easily. By the time of the Washington, D.C. project, we will have 30,000 people, and with that number we can do just anything and everything. If we can mobilize 10,000 for Washington, D.C. project, we are going to make it a success for sure.

Each bus can accommodate 62 people. Then the traffic will be paralyzed in Washington, D.C. and the neighboring cities. Then the buses will be stuck on the highway, they will be lined up parked on the highway. Just imagine, it'll become a world issue. Then in the future this will be good propaganda material. These are not just empty words, and since I have said it, I will bring it to pass, because I've decided to make it a success. I will drive you out, I will kick at you...

In the Madison Square Garden campaign, we could have done it exclusively with our membership in the United States, but we brought 250 Japanese members, and we had a hard time putting them in hotels. The same thing will happen in Washington. We could fill up the whole place with the membership already in the United States, but the members all over the world will be anxious to come, and when they do, it will be difficult to house them. We may have to sleep on the highway. So you must be ready to take 62 persons in one bus.

Capitol Hill will be the meeting place for our speech. Just imagine! If that happens, can the people of the world object to our movement? If possible, we want to shorten the period, and accomplish it sooner, to hasten the salvation and the restoration of the world.

The subject of your prayers must be these two mottoes: "250,000 for Yankee Stadium," and " 500,000 for Washington, D.C. " You must put them up on your walls. By meeting the quota, you will be able to claim having been my co-worker in my lifetime.

After the success at the Washington Monument, we can have that kind of meeting every three months. Yes. But it's going to be your turn to speak before the people, not mine. All those projects accomplished, we can shake up the whole world. There is no other way possible for us to do it, except by doing this. So I want you to join me in the great project, and accomplish your mission. By that time, without a doubt, one nation will be solidly restored under our ideology. We are already at the stage where any one nation can be shaken up or stirred at any moment. The nation which is first to be awakened and restored will become the leading nation of the world.

Next year, I'm going to mobilize some 50 P. R. members to work in Washington, D.C. These people can work through the embassies of 120 nations, making it easier for my missionaries to work abroad. Mr. Kamiyama has had the P. R. members work to win the hearts of the ambassadors from these nations, so that when we send out our missionaries, the ambassadors can introduce them to the kings and presidents of these nations. When we bring back many brilliant new members from so many nations, they can influence their respective UN ambassadors, and thereby influence the government authorities of America. We plan to lease a suite in the best hotel in Washington, D.C. and serve ginseng tea there to the VIP's coming from other nations. We will serve as assistants or even employees of the Senators and Congressmen, or even be used by the President to receive and welcome the ambassadors and presidents and kings coming from other nations.

Finally, we will become VIP's ourselves, to be invited by the kings and presidents and ambassadors from all those nations when we visit them. Then we can open up the channels to reach those top-level people, and when the time comes, I can sweep the whole world, visiting all those kings and presidents in a year. I will invite them to come fishing with us, as my guests aboard the best yacht we can buy. And then, in the boat, we will converse with each other and I can enlighten them and bring them to our ideology. In this manner, I can form a new United Nations.

Before doing that, I have to assemble the most brilliant academic minds of the world. That's why I initiated the Unified Science Conference. At the soonest possible date, we must establish our own university where we will invite those brilliant professors. That's why I'm busy buying the land for the site of the university. I ordered the Korean residents in Japan to bring several hundred thousand dollars for buying the site for the university when they come for training. And they have done that, they brought the money.

That's the most money we have borrowed from Japan. You must know that. We cannot afford to lose time, and I have to buy the land now, when it is for sale.

I'm planning and doing so many things without your knowing, and your job is just to witness to the people and bring one person per month. Time is urgent and I'm so desperate, and I'm working at the risk of my life. If you think of that, for you to bring in one member in one month is no problem at all. By our doing that, we will set up the tradition to move the whole world.

We will make my name known to the world for having created a world movement, a great university, and for having assembled the best academic minds, all in the shortest possible time. I'll be regarded as being most outstanding and capable, to have met the leaders of the world in the shortest possible time. We can tell people, "Reverend Moon has done this much in this short period of time." Can you not do it as a leader of this nation and of this organization?

In the providence of God, our Madison Square Garden project was the formation stage, Yankee Stadium is the growth stage one, and the Washington, D.C. project will be the perfection stage. This is our goal, and we have got to attain it to make our movement a success at home. Since I have confidence and zeal, the problem is you. If you have the confidence and enthusiasm, you can carry it out, and human history will be changed. There are three crucial years left in which we must accomplish our mission, and I want your all-out effort, for you to strive hard until you win. I want you to be the warriors and champions to set up the new tradition of the highest dimension in the world, so that others can follow.

Would you rather remain single and work hard for these crucial years, or get married in the Holy Matrimony and then struggle hard? I will let you decide on that. Even though you may marry, that's just marriage in name, and you have to work hard while just living as brothers and sisters. Without the experience your seniors have had, you can't know what it is like. They are married but have been living as brothers and sisters, and their problems have not been easy ones. You are mentally affected by having responsibility for your mate, and such spiritual complications will not let you remain simple and with a single-minded dedication. Well, those who are over 30 may still prefer to marry, even though it is as brothers and sisters. But those under 30 should want to remain single. Would you give me the privilege of deciding what to do" Then the best thing is for you to be prepared not to marry, and to accept marriage whenever it comes.

Time is urgent, and I have only ten more years left to accomplish the mission. At the risk of my life, I'm desperate to carry it out. Then on your part don't you sympathize with me, and feel compassion for me? I've spent the prime of my life in prison and working in the face of opposition and every difficulty, and you have only to follow my instructions and in three more years or at the longest ten more years, the world will be changed by your hands. Will you do the job?

Money is another serious matter. In order for us to establish a school we need some 300 million dollars. Just think of that and how hard it must be for me to solve all these problems. I have to mobilize some 12,000 people for fund-raising. Then 30 million dollars a month will be no problem. In a year's time, we will have 360 million dollars very easily. One person has to earn at least 3,000 dollars a month. Towards that goal, I'm going to train some of you. If we can raise that much money with our own hands, then through education in that university we can change the people of the world. If we can mobilize between 5,000 to 10,000 people for witnessing something great can be done. Heaven will help you if you follow me.

Believe me, if I cannot carry it out, God will do it for me and through me. First of all, you must have strong faith, then put it into practice, and dedicate your life to that. In Japanese, "to desperately work" means to do so at the risk of one's life. "Let me carry out the job, or give me death, "-that must be your attitude. I am always determined like this. I have a great goal before me, and I strongly believe that I can do the job. I would rather die than not be able to succeed. My prayer is always like this: "Oh, God, if you really love me, when I fail to do the job, take my life. I cannot live on without a face to be lifted up towards you or to follow everything of Nature." So your prayer must be similar. If you have such faith that you try to succeed even at the cost of your life, and you still fail, then you can leave the rest of it in God's hands.

I always think that if I fail and live on, my successor cannot succeed, but if in the face of failure, I die, then my successor can undertake my mission and succeed. So I'm always desperate, and always willing to lose my life for what I'm doing. In the past three years, I've done my best and the proof is that God has helped me to succeed. With this attitude, every problem will be solved.

I want you to take the responsibility for witnessing. That's all I want you to do. After Madison Square Garden, I think our movement is known to everyone. It would be easy for you to witness, especially in New York City. If you are so serious that you are willing to die, you cannot fail to bring in one member a month. If you will not oblige me to even witness to the people, I cannot carry out other jobs, so I want you to take up the responsibility for yourself.

Don't forget, our goal is three thousand new members by next April. Then by using all those people, 10,000 members the next year will be no problem. Then let us advance forward to the goal. You will be responsible for setting the tradition.

Am I Really Needed?

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
November 10, 1974
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

Everyone living on the earth thinks of himself first. Especially when one is born in an underprivileged country, thinking of himself as ugly, under-educated, without power, position, knowledge or wealth, he is apt to think of himself first. Young people as a whole, however, are in agony because they don't know where they are bound or the purpose of their life. When you are asked the question, are we really needed? Then your answer must be either yes or no. Your answer is usually determined by the environment. So, do the people around me need me or not? In our way of thinking centered on God, if people around you really need you, your answer is " Yes".

Why are gold or diamonds necessary? It is because they are very precious and they represent other things. You think of gold and diamonds as most important and most valuable things. People in the past thought highly of gold and diamonds, and people in the present and future will like those things. Another thing that makes gold and diamonds valuable is that they don't change. When we say a certain thing is important or valuable it means that when we compare it to other things, its value is conspicuously higher than the rest. The environment may change, but the value of some things may never change. Then it is only too natural for other people to like them, love them and want to have them.

Let's apply this theory to men. Suppose there are important people who are very precious to everyone. What is the standard making him or her valuable? If a person changes every day, every moment, he would not be important or valuable. We said that gold and diamonds are valuable because they never change. Gold glitters and diamonds are solid and hard. When you think of men, the same thing applies. First, though, we have to define God as the standard of value. He never changes, and that makes him valuable. God has many attributes and they will never change. Father has many valuable and good attributes and those things never change. Therefore he is in the center pulling the whole world around an axis. We can safely say that this is the quality that makes him valuable. What kind of people do we want to be ? We must never change. Our will power must be as solid and hard as diamonds and our personality must glitter like gold.

In this light, when we think of the saints and sages of the past the same thing applies. Suppose our person had never-changing qualities and ideas, and he lived up to that standard in his lifetime. He had a never-changing goal. If this man had an idea, a way of acting and a goal set before him which never changed, in later days, when he passed away, future generations would admire him as a never-changing person. That's the quality that makes him important and valuable. If a man, in his lifetime, in every endeavor has made his standard of life higher than the past saints and sages, that's what makes him greater than they. If his way of thinking and talking, the way he does things, and the goal he had before him never change; and if he does everything on a higher level than others, that's the difference between him and everyone else. That's what makes him higher than other people.

When we compare ourselves to such a great person, we feel like grains of sand in size and in value. It is our inborn nature not to like people who vacillate all the time. We don't want to be that kind of person either. We all want other people to follow us with ourselves in the center. We want to have all things under our possession. This quality exists among men of the past, present and future. What makes man like that? In the ultimate sense it's not self-centeredness because it's an attitude that you want to live with people around you. We think of ourselves first, but we do it because there are many people around us, and in the ultimate sense we are doing it for them.

We long to live among people who are innocent, natural and pure. Our life begins from our parents. Your life began in the womb of your mother. When you grow in the womb, you draw nutrition through your mother. If the infant in the mother's womb had a mouth to speak he would want his mother to be always gay and happy and singing. In the Orient we have the phrase, "education in the womb." So, we teach pregnant women to think of beautiful things and see and hear beautiful music. It will affect the baby in a good way. Can you comprehend it? In the beginning God created man, but the act of creation was like giving birth to His children. If we fancy that Adam and Eve were in the womb of God, what would have happened there? God, with His child conceived in Himself, must have thought about beautiful things, have seen beautiful things and have done beautiful things, in the anticipation of giving birth to beautiful children. He could not have complained about His baby being in His womb. In the womb, He somehow felt the happiness and joy of a parent, and in that way, when His child was given birth, he would be born beautiful. As men, we always want our Father to be happy. Therefore, the child conceived in God's heart would have wanted Him to be happy. We can imagine that after creating Adam and Eve, God was overjoyed. He spent dream-like and beautiful days with His children. We resemble God, so we can think of God in terms of how we would react in that situation. All of you, without exception began life in the womb I of your mothers. Then after birth, your earthly life began. Our earthly life is not different from our lives in the womb. The whole universe is like the womb and we are embraced by the universe. In that way, we are in the womb of the universe. When you are in your mother's womb, you live in a watery atmosphere. Air replaces the water, and it is of higher dimension. Without air we cannot live. If there is a vacuum all around no life is possible. We are living by extracting things out of nature. We are sustained by the environment every day. In these ways, our life on the earth is no different from the life in the womb. f It is human nature that everyone likes to have good things, eat good things, be sheltered in beautiful places, listen to good music and dance about-to have all the joys you can possibly imagine. Do you want the people around you to smile, frown or cry? Do you want to see them hopeful or in despair? We don't want to have our happiness or hope changed. If we are in despair, without hope, we want to change the environment as soon as possible. However, we want to be happy always, and when we are happy we don't want to change the environment.

Suppose we are utterly happy, in ecstasy. Then when we boil it down, what is the pivotal point of this happiness? It comes down to male and female. Any male or female person has his parents first of all. Do you want to have your parents changing all the time? Why do you say no, when you are accustomed to the American way in which the families are ruptured and divorce cases happen so frequently? It must be natural to you, but still you don't like it. With those things prevailing in your nation, you want to change the attitude of living. You want to change the changeability into unchangeability. You want to have the same parents-never changing. When we talk about parents, we do not mean just one person. Is there any one of you who wants only father or mother? Or would you like both ? (Both.) That ' s an absolute rule; it never changes. The most precious thing is love, and parental love must never change. Would parental love change after 10 years? From your birth all through your life until their death, your parents keep loving you. Is it true that parents' love towards us is important because it never changes? If this is true, then their love is what we want.

Can parental love change? Do you know that parental love never changes? If you are loved by parents whose love never changes, then are you a person who is needed or not? If your parents love you dearly, then you are in the position of object to them as subject. So you are needed by your parents. You are born out of the love between your father and mother. They need you because you are in the object position to them. Now we know that however great parental love may be, without you it could not function, not having an object to pour out love upon. So, then we are as important as the parents. If there is anyone or anything that would break the tie of love between you and your parents, that would be the most hideous enemy. And if you betray your parents' love, what would happen? Then you would be in the position of enemy to your parents. Even though you became an enemy to your parents, they would have to continue to love you. In that case your parents are in the most miserable situation. If they have other enemies, your parents can cut him or her off and have nothing to do with them. But as for their children, they just keep loving them and cannot help but think of their welfare. That's what makes them more miserable and in agony. However unforgivable the things you have done, your parents would forgive you and would want to correct your mistakes and have you return to their bosom. If you think of your parents who keep loving you so much even though you have betrayed them, you are in the position of being needed. You are the happiest person. You know that even though you may change, your parents can never change. If your love towards your parents has changed while theirs toward you has never changed, then which is more valuable? Your parents' love is more valuable.

You must realize the blessedness of having your parents' love which never changes. Have you ever stopped to think of that? If you think parental love is so precious as that, you cannot help but love and respect your parents. Parental love cannot be exchanged for gold or diamonds. Do you think you can replace their love with anything else? We can understand that we are in such a precious position that our parents would never take anything in exchange for us. Now you know the value of parental love. Then when we ask the question if we are needed by the parents, our answer must be that we are absolutely needed by them. Next, you must think of yourself as not being able to change because of the absolute love coming from your parents.

Then, we are needed by our parents. Where else are we needed? Some of you are born male, while others are females. Then what will happen in the future? You are in search of something's mate. Your parents are already one with you. Would they want you to have your mate or not? Is there any parent who would not want his children to marry? There are no such parents. So, our conclusion is that any male and female have to marry. Is there anyone here who wouldn't like the idea of marrying? By your expression, I can tell that you all want to marry someday. Men are born for women and women are born for men. In the future days they want to marry their spouse.

The motivation of love between father and mother is to give birth to children and we are indebted for that. Your parents, both your father and mother, want you to marry. They want you to be like them, becoming parents too. Then you will know the unchanging love of parents, experiencing it in yourself. When a male and female are united in a marriage, they begin to experience conjugal love and then parental love. When you marry you are separated from your parents, but they are not going to lose you. By your being parents yourself you will experience and feel the love of your parents all the more.

How long is human history? We are the fruit of the human history. There have been thousands of generations coming down and down to reach us. Our immediate parents are just above us in the ancestral line. We are the fruit of our parents, but our parents are the fruit of our grandparents and they of their parents, etc., going back to the very origin of man. We can say that all our ancestors gave birth to give birth to us, the fruit of their lineage. When you realize that your immediate parents are the totalization of all your ancestral love, you will find more value in them.

On the horizontal level there are many parents living in the world, but your parents alone have the lineal relationship with you. They are the only ones who love you most. You cannot replace them with anything in the world. You cannot even replace them with God. You would not do that and God would not want you to do that. Then your parents being the only ones who pour down such love to you, play the role of the central figures in your ancestral lineage. Their love is absolute and everlasting. That quality is something like that of God. In them is unchanging love.

If you have a diamond you wrap it up and hide it in some remote place, never to be found by anyone else. What is more valuable, the wrapper or the diamond? Still when the wrapper is around the diamond, it is as precious as the diamond. We are like diamonds wrapped up with the love of our parents. As the wrapper, the parents are as valuable as ourselves. Our parents are unique, unchanging and eternal. Those three qualities, unique, unchanging and eternal are the attributes of parental love. That's true. Does the love of your parents change? Is it temporal? Throughout human history there has never been a revolution to overturn parental love. We can never change parental love. That means it must continue through eternity. Parents with these qualities need us. They need us uniquely, unchangingly, and throughout eternity. When you have your mate, would your parents want him or her to be always changing? To your parents you are the unique one, the unchanging, eternal one. They would expect the same thing of your spouse.

The people of the West as well as the people of the East would say this is true. If any one of you wants to marry twice or more, hold up your hand. Why do you laugh? You laugh because it is against the law of nature. You have the concept of your mate as being the unique, unchanging and eternal one. Man is born for woman and woman is born for man. So, you are born for your spouse and your spouse for you. All your ancestors would desire to have your spouse never change. Ultimately, we will find that God is saying the same thing.

However ugly your spouse may be, and even though your spouse is not to your eyes an ideal mate, you must know that he or she is the totalization of the past history imposed on you. The Principle of Creation is to have a male and female be united into oneness. You are the fruit of your ancestral lineage and your spouse is the fruit of his ancestral lineage. Those two lines are going to meet in your family when you marry each other. Since the ideal of creation is matrimony between male and female, it is realized in you when you marry. Male and female represent all mankind. When you form a family by uniting with each other, that's the condensed form of mankind or the whole universe. There is a vast lineal plight that has brought you together. If you think about that, even though you are disharmonious or quarrel with each other, can you separate? Can divorce be easy? You must know that an unknown plight brought the two of you into oneness so you can never be put asunder. Just as you are born not out of your own will but out of the unknown, divine will, you and your spouse are married. When you are together in matrimonial unity, you must not be separated from each other. You are the fruit of God's creation, of your ancestral lineage, and the fruit of the past, present and future history. The future will depend on what you are now.

Can you think lightly of yourself and dispose of yourself at your own will? When we think of matrimony it is almost fearful. But in proportion to the fearfulness, your marriage is going to be the most precious thing. God's way of thinking about marriage makes it most precious and valuable. A man and wife cannot be united without love. Would you want to be united with your spouse with eternal love between you or changeable love? I understand that in America young girls experience love relationships with many boys before marriage. Is this right? It is the same with American men. Is it a good thing or not? (No.) Then we must be resolved into turning the changeability into unchangeability from now on. There will be no change in your wanting your spouse to be unique, unchanging and eternal. Isn't that true? That kind of love is a thing of beauty and wanted both by God and your parents. All your friends and relatives around you would want you to have that kind of love. If you have that kind of love you will be the happiest person.

Sometimes you think, "I am not needed anywhere. I am just human trash and nobody needs me. " But ultimately you are going to marry. So, there is one person who is in need of you. You must be sure of that. Then we now understand that we are very much needed somewhere. In that sense we have ultimate value and cannot dispose of ourselves on our own accord. Then who can handle us? You would ask me, "What do you mean? What can I do with myself?" If you have parents having nothing to do with the fall (True Parents), then you must be willing to be disposed of by them. You must be willing to obey them. Then if you are married to a person of their choice you are needed and you must obey him or her. The first article in the family code must be that the man must obey his parents and his wife and the woman must obey her parents and, her husband. You cannot do things at your own will. If you have your parents and your husband or wife, can you do anything without their agreeing? Now you have learned that your parents are the first level of persons important to you and next is your spouse.

Of your parents and your spouse whom must you think more important? The Western members said 6 1 spouse" and the Oriental members said "parents". If there are only Western members in our movement it would be awful. In the oriental countries we think more highly of our parents and that's the way that human beings should behave. Which is the better way of thinking, to think more highly of the parents or the spouse? Why? If we place more value in parental love, our love towards our spouse will be created naturally. You are single but the parents are two. In the democratic way of thinking two are more important than one. When a couple love each other there is one-to-one love but when you love your parents, then the love is one-to-two. You have your own parents and your wife or husband has his or her parents.

Your parents are like the roots of the tree, while you and your spouse are in the position of the trunk of the tree. Your children are in the position of the flowers or fruit. If a tree is diseased, would you cut off the trunk or the root? Even though a tree is diseased and you cut off the trunk, still the root may grow again. So, we must realize the importance of the root of the tree. If the root is sound and intact from any disease, the tree will grow again. So the root is the most important thing. God is the root. As the root, God is intact from the fall. When man fell diseased, He could cut man off. When you think of the process of engraving, we want to have the root of the tree safe and sound. So, we put our parents in the position of the root. Then the Western way of thinking is wrong to put a spouse in position more important than the parents. Both you and your spouse must be loving your parents. The love between husband and wife must come from the parental love. The love between husband and wife is a copy of the love between the parents whose love comes from grandparents, etc. Then we finally reach-God. God is the root of love. So, we must think of God as the most important existence.

If you really love your parents you cannot be divorced from your spouse. Even if you had to be divorced from each other, you must not be separated from the love of your parents. The same thing applies to men as individuals. Even if we had to cut ourselves off from our family, friends and neighbors, we must go back to God, our parents. If we could bring our parents, relatives and friends back to God-so much the better. But if they are opposed to us, we must cut them off and go to God. In the Western countries I often see parents advising their children to divorce when they are not dearly in love with each other. But the oriental way is entirely different. The parents teach their children not to be divorced. Women must obey their husbands until the end of their lives. The oriental parents teach their daughter to go to their in-laws home and die there, never being separated. Is that the right attitude? You must put yourselves in good order and think of things in those terms. Now I have given you the standard. In the world of the fall you have been thinking the other way around, but if I say this way of thinking is right and my way is in accordance with God's, then you must follow this way.

When we take seriously this ideology in our movement, can I teach you not to be obedient to your parents? Can I tell you that you can divorce? So, after holy matrimony blessed by me, if you want to divorce each other, then I will have nothing to do with you. I will drive you out of the garden of unification, as God chased Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden. Isn't that logical? The answer to the question, "Where are we needed?" is that your spouse needs you. Are you not absolutely in need of your spouse? You must realize that you are absolutely needed by your spouse. You may think of your present situation as miserable, but you have a bright future because there is someone waiting for you. You are in need of him or her and he or she is in need of you. So, however low your spirit may be now, you must not be discouraged. If you are going to be discouraged do it after you are married. Then you will never do that. So, boys and girls who are single must take the right course. Never be discouraged.

The spirit world is still a mystery and everybody is eager to know more about the spirit world. That's what makes the spirit world more valuable. When things are wrapped in mystery, it attracts you more. You have not experienced married life, you think of it as mysterious and beautiful and march towards the goal. Would you just take it for granted thinking that "sooner or later I will marry, that's only natural. " Can you think of marriage so lightly? You must entertain the idea of your marriage being something mysterious and beautiful. There is a vast difference between the way of thinking of the Western people and that of Eastern people concerning love. Oriental people think of love as so mysterious and precious that they wouldn't want other people to look at them in making love. But here you do that openly, even in the park. Which would seem more mysterious and more beautiful? If love is something so precious, would you just throw it in the street where everybody can kick it? When you have a diamond and you think it so precious you wouldn't want to be robbed of it. You would wrap it up and hide it where people wouldn't find it. In the same way, mysterious love is exclusively for yourselves without other people looking at you. What type of love would you want then? I am not telling you that the oriental way is the best way because I am oriental, but because the oriental way is God's way. We must come back to God's way because your spouse is in need of you. Your parents, your spouse, your brothers and sisters are in need of you.

Can we exchange our brothers and sisters with anyone else? This is another level of love which is unique, unchanging and eternal. You are needed by your brothers and sisters. How much are you needed by them? You are absolutely needed, because this is the plight of love coming from the principle of creation. If you have a brother or sister who lies in bed in sickness, would you want to have him or her to be cured, or to die? The more miserable situation he or she is in, the more love is poured down upon the person. That is true. Your love, in that case, resembles the love of your parents. When you are really in love with your parents, then you know they love your brother or sister so much that you must love him or her equally. Before marriage your love towards your brothers and sisters is practice for love towards your future spouse. Having brothers in your family you know what men are like and you learn how to love men. When boys have sisters they come to learn how females react to things and they learn their way of thinking and life. They come to love them. You are being trained by loving your brothers and sisters, trained to love your spouse, your parents and your future descendants. Only through fraternal love will your horizontal love reach the people of the world. So, brothers and sisters must be loving each other. You must learn the love of brothers and sisters from parental love. You must not quarrel with each other.

In your childhood I presume you have quarreled much. Haven't you? But even though you have quarreled, between brothers and sisters it doesn't last long. You forget about resentments. A quarrel between husband and wife, what is it like? It lasts longer and the resentment is not easily erased. When I look at my children quarrelling with each other I sometimes leave them alone, because in that way they learn how not to quarrel. Sometimes I would scold them and punish them, but the next moment they have forgotten about it. They are in the process of growing and their notion of how to love their parents and their brothers and sisters is not quite fixed. But as they grow their way of thinking will mature. According to my own experience it was stimulating to quarrel with my siblings. We learned a lot from quarrelling. So, before the age of 16 1 think quarrelling is all right because you learn so much. 1, myself, have quarreled a great deal with one of my sisters. Now, I miss her more than anyone else. However much you may quarrel with each other, if the tie of love is strong then quarreling is sometimes good. If you are sure your love will not be cut then you can go ahead and quarrel. Quarrels centered on love, the growth of the family and the well-being of the family are all right. When I say a quarrel between brothers and sisters is all right, it is because however fiercely they may have quarreled, brotherly love can not be cut. In Adam's family, Cain even killed Abel, but the way of restoration was opened by the love and obedience of Abel towards Cain. After brothers and sisters become one in love, then they have matured and they will be in search of their own spouse. Parental love and brotherly love are love in the lineal plight, but the love between husband and wife is on a different level because they are from different blood lineages. If those two, when they marry, become disharmonious and rupture comes in the family, they can be separated.

It is very interesting to know that even in the Western world, the woman comes to the man's family, not the man to the woman's family. It is the same in the oriental custom. Why is it so? You women change your name to your husbands' and that indicates that your husband is in the subject position while you are in the position of object. Your husband is like the seed and you are like the field for the seed to be planted. Man is in the center and when he whirls around he is stable on the solid axis while other members of the family will be whirling around with him. When the axis is moved to another place it means the whole world will lose its center. Then it is natural for the woman to come and form a family obeying the husband. The Western girls should learn the oriental way. If your husband goes to the west, you must be westbound, when he turns to go to the north, you must go to his side. You must follow him wherever he goes. You must move around wherever he goes and in that way alone there will be a circular motion to make the family prosperous.

If the husband follows the wife, what will happen? That is not the way you should behave. You should be prepared to follow and obey your husband. The center point must be one, not two. If the center point can move about from place to place, changing every day, there will come to be disharmony. The family will collapse. This is why in America many families are collapsing. At the start of your family life there could be a difference between the parents of your husband and yours. But you must try hard to become one. Then both will meet at one point. Men must go ahead and wives must follow. Like a drill which makes a hole, the pointed edge must be one and the other will support the central one. This is not the oriental way, but the Divine Way. When God joined the first man and woman he meant them to be united into oneness. The way they become one is for the woman to follow the husband. I ask the women, do you know what I mean? This is the Principle.

Now you are taught that you are needed by your parents, your brothers and sisters, your spouse and your children. Then alone can you extend your love to other people, so you can say that you are needed by your nation. However, big and powerful a nation may be, without people it cannot be called a nation. Then the nation is in need of you. The world is constituted by the people, so the world will need you. Sooner or later the spirit world will need you. And God needs you; He needs you every moment. So, you are the most important person. Your parents, your brothers and sisters, your children, your family as a whole, your nation, the spirit world and God are in need of you. You are needed on 8 levels, and if you think little of yourself and that you are not needed anywhere, you are betraying the law of God-the Principle of creation. Then you are sinners against the law of love, initiated by God. Then those who commit suicide, can they do that? You can never dream of killing yourself. In human history there are ups and down, rises and falls. When you are situated in the very darkness you can lift yourself up and attain the height at any moment.

As you all know, the black race has been oppressed so much-being so low while white people are at a higher level. But they have fought until they are almost on the same level. I am surprised that there is a vast difference between the time I visited in 1965 and now. America has changed in a way for the better and in a way for the worse. But it has changed quite fast. European people are afraid of yellow power. The white race must not think that they can eternally possess the highest realm of human life. England is now in the third level of the nations of the world -having been the first in the olden days. Great Britain herself did not want that to happen, but just as there are day and night, they are now situated in the night. Like an individual, if a nation has done wrong in ruling the people-as England has, then it is doomed to fall. In stormy weather the angered waves will rise up and go down. Can you still float on the surface of the water? In that case you must not try to fight against the waves, but let yourselves move with the motion of the waves, going down with them and up again. First of all you must detect the direction of the wind. If you are keen about the direction it is the most important thing. In the Unification Church we are keen and clear about where we are headed. On the waves of time, we are going up and down with human history, but we know the direction and we are going to attain the goal. We adjust ourselves not to the present but to the future. Even though the American people as a whole may decline, our people will prosper and our goal will be attained.

Now, we understand how much we are needed and on how many levels. You must realize your importance and you must strive hard to attain the goal set before you. On every level, things are not what they should be because of the human fall. So, we want to adjust ourselves to the new tide of the providence of God. Since we have the clear way we must steer our way to the goal. This is God's will and our True Parents will and it is our goal. In the Unification Church, we use the terminology the True Parents. Do you understand what that means and do you welcome the idea? What do you want to be before the True Parents? Good Children! Everyone wants to be good children. If you want to be good or true children to the True Parents, you must try to resemble them, following their example. Isn't it true? (Yes.) Are you confident of that? You must resemble your True Parents, copying their way of life.

Up to the present you have been thinking, "I am an American, Japanese, Korean. " But you are a new breed of people, not American, Japanese or Korean. You are our breed of people. We are going to create a new way of life, a new culture. You Western members must try to copy the oriental way of life, while the oriental members must try to copy the Western way of life. In that way alone we can be mingled together to create one culture. All of us mingled together must resemble God. God's way of life is what we are going to live. What I am teaching is not an oriental or Occidental idea, but God's way of life. If I teach you God's way of life, then there will be no East or West and no gap between the two. Then we must have a clear notion of how to change. We must be able to digest all the things in our environment and make it our nutrition. We must be able to adjust ourselves to the environment.

You Western members are used to sitting on chairs, but if you are brought to the orient where others are sitting on the floor you must do that. Therefore, you are already practicing the oriental way of sitting. In America you go in cars even to nearby places, but in the orient you must walk. You don't need to make a golf green to walk and run following the balls. Instead you are compelled to walk and run in the oriental countries; so you don't need to go golfing. You must have the confidence that wherever you go visiting in any comer of the world, you can adjust yourself to their custom. Next comes the difference in languages. As you see, when I don't speak your language I must use an interpreter. If I don't use the interpreter you would have a hard time understanding me. Would you want me to learn your language or you to learn Korean? If you learn my native tongue you can absorb my words more fully. To be recreated by my words is most important, so you must be able to read the text and hear my words in my native language. You know that students of scriptures learn the Hebrew language because they want to read the words from the text-it is because Jesus' own words are important.

From the medieval ages Greek has become the classic language. This is because a few philosophers who directed the way of thinking of the people of the world were in Greece. That is what made the language important. The text of Unification Thought is going to be in the Korean language. To learn from the text is very important. In the future there will come an age in which we will have conferences where we speak the Korean language alone. Don't you feel it necessary to learn the Korean language? If you realize the importance of learning the Korean language you must start right away, because in the spirit world they will all use Korean. If you are true children to the true parents, it is natural for you to use your parents' language or else you will be dumb. The world is already being changed but I am going to change it for the better. As you see I have stirred up the whole nation of America within a short time. My name will become more famous and influential in this nation and all over this world. The ideology I am teaching will be important to all the people of the world. Then they have to learn the Korean language to learn the truth in the texts. There are many Divine Principle books translated into many languages, but compared to the original texts, they are remote. The original can never be changed. What never changes is more important and valuable. So, you must start learning the Korean language. Next you must study about me. To study about me is to resemble me and to become one with me. Do you think it's possible or not? If you are confident to follow my example then it means you are going to be like me, changing the world wherever you go. Your way will be easier than mine because up to the present I have been steering against the storm coming to bar my way. I have been all alone fighting against persecution. Can you do that? Then you don't need me. Can I then relax and travel around the world and enjoy my life, which I have not been able to do in the past? (Yes). Can you be responsible for all things? Right at this moment are you in need of me or not? (Yes.) You are still in the children's position. How can I leave you alone and just go traveling?

If I think that you are still in childhood, then I must educate you. In educating you I must be strict. Would you want to be cats or tigers? The tiger's way of life is entirely different from the cat's. You must be fierce toward evil and you must be dignified representing God. When you roar you must feel that the whole world is shaking. When you step on the earth, you must feel that the whole earth is shaken and the axis turned. Many people opposed me in Korea because they were afraid of me-in Japan, too. I think it is because they are afraid of me. The same thing is happening in America, and it is because they are afraid of me. If in their eyes I appear like a cat, then I would be no problem to them. We are tigers to shake the whole world. We are great personages to change the whole world. Our stage is the whole world. The leading nation of the whole world is America and we want to shake America first. We tried to shake the UN -the General Assembly and it moved. Isn't that true? We want to tackle the Communist world and stir it up and it will move. We want to move the religious world, especially the Christian world, and it is being shaken. We want to get hold of God and shake Him and He will move with our zeal. I don't just believe that is happening, I know it is. Wherever I go great issues will arise. Wherever you go you must represent me, so you must act like me. Then, are you needed by me? How much are you needed by me? Absolutely. God being on our side, we cannot hesitate to go on. However hard a challenge may come to you, you cannot be discouraged. You must take every rebuff as a challenge to overcome. The harder the situation you are in, the more you must be sure that God is always with you, fighting with you. And your True Parents are there, fighting with you. Then our attitude is "Come what may, the more hardships we are faced with the more we feel the challenge." There is no force in the world equal to us, and people will be afraid of us.

I am in need of the white people because through you I will win the white people of the world. I am in need of black members because through you I am going to gather all black people of the world. I am in need of yellow members because through you I am going to gather all yellow people of the world. I am in need of white, yellow and black, because through you I am going to harmonize all. We start doing that in the Unified Family. So, here you must be united, white, yellow and black. I am thinking of living with members from twelve nations, at least in one compound. Those twelve people will be four black, four white, four yellow representing the whole world. If people at that time scorn me because I am living with black people, I will curse them. If white people are scornful of that, then I will assemble black, yellow and white and smite them. There is no racial boundary in our movement. If all are equally the children of God, would God say I love white children on an equal basis, but He will love the underprivileged children more. That's the way parental love is. That is the principle of love. Since I know it's God's way of thinking, I am going to teach my people how to win the wealth from the white people and use it for black and yellow who have been underprivileged and in poverty.

In America there are many stout, fat or plump people. They are anxious to lose weight and they go on diets. In the future I will gather the money they save going on diets and give it to the poor. Our way of dieting is going to be one day of fasting in the week. That means 52 days in a year we will go without food; so that much will be saved for other persons. So you must pay about $52 a year, each one of you. That will be quite a sum for the poor. Every Sunday morning the purpose of training, we don't eat. You have been through a 7-day fast. If we have in America, one million members, a dollar per person will be one million dollars. $52 per person will be 52 million dollars. That's an amazing sum of money. We are going to do that for the underprivileged of the world. If 200 million people of America will do this without exception, what would happen? If 200 million dollars could be raised each day, then 10,400,000,000 dollars can be used for the poor. We can easily make the world a better place to live in. That is the heavenly kingdom on earth. America's foreign aid has amounted to 2 billion dollars each year. In that way America could have saved the world and re-created the world as the heavenly kingdom. She has been helping some 20 nations but has actually made enemies. The revolution of consciousness is the problem and if America were equipped with the Divine Principle she could have easily re-created the world.

May I ask you a question? Before joining the movement have you thought of America so ardently? America must realize that by having young people who think of America as so important, she profits. Then before long people would want to be dominated by the young people who love the people of this country so much. The future of America will be in our hands. We will lead this nation. Wait and see, this will happen! When we establish a school, we are going to make it better than any other school. We are going to make a daily newspaper better than any other, and we are going to build a church better than any other. In every field we will excel. Are you confident of that? (Yes.) I know that you are all brilliant and that in your calculation it is possible. And I am glad that you admit that we can do it. We are only a handful of people and it seems like a dream that a handful can move America. But history has been moved by only one great man in any era. I know that America is turning now because you, on the axis, are turning. If there is any greater power than the power of our movement you should go and belong to that group. Do you see any other organization stronger than ours? If you really recognize our strength and if you know that our group is the strongest in the whole world, then you must be proud of being members of the Unification Church and you must be grateful to God. Then you must change the world into a better one.

Being such persons America and the world are in need of us. Out of the vast number of people living on the earth, those who are in the subject position have more strength to affect others. We love America more than any other people and we can evaluate and analyze this country more clearly than any other people. We have the right view of the world. We love the world more than other people. No other group can evaluate, analyze and know the particulars of the spirit world more than we do. We know God and His heart more than anyone else. So, we can come to the conclusion that all humanity needs us. Without us the world cannot become a better world. Do you realize that? If you are in a position to lead the whole world you cannot be silly. You cannot afford to lose a moment. When you know that you are so needed you must dash forward. If the American people don't like our ideology, then we must shift our position to the southern tip of Africa and work there. Our stage is open-the whole world.

If the white race and the yellow race are all against me, at least I know the black race will welcome me. At least one channel is open before me with bright hope. If all mankind is against me, at least the spirit world will be on my side. It is the world of higher dimension. If I am not welcomed in this world, I am not discouraged. Even though the spirit world might rise against me I still have one person of ultimate importance in need of me. God is in need of me, so I can never be discouraged. Unless God does not need or want me, I will never be discouraged. Since God is in need of me, He will open the way for me and the world can never object against me in the end. When I think of that I can never become dark or low. I want you to be the same. If you are opposed by your city, you will go to another city. If the whole state is against you, you will go to another state. If the whole country is against you, you will go to another country; and if the spirit world is against you then you will go to God. Then you will fight along with God.

In my thinking there is no such word as discouraged. Following me you will find yourself being asked to do things of higher and higher dimension and you will think there is no end. But there is an end. If you return to God with all things restored then you can rest. You want to shorten the period and realize the goal in the soonest possible future; then more pressure, more hard work, and more rebuff should be expected. Would you want to go at a slow pace lasting so many years or be a lifetime, or shorten the days as much as possible? Any people would answer the same way. If possible you want to shorten the period of hardship. Then you must expect hardship to be doubled and tripled over the hardship you would have if you went slowly. In the pioneer days when your forefathers were bound for the west coast in covered wagons, the driver could not just sit still and drive when the Indians attacked them. They had to fight and drive all the way. As in the frontier days, we have enemies all around, we have to double our efforts. The women must sometimes fight more than men. All the men members must play the role of generals, not just privates. You will immediately ask yourselves "What is Father going to tell us to do next? He never praises us if we do a good job, but just drives us to do harder things. " Why? Because if the time is prolonged I know there is going to be a tremendous amount of sacrifice.

If one out of 100 people are dying every day, then 36 million people are dying per year. Without being restored they are bound for hell. You must know that. Wouldn't it be better to sacrifice a handful of people to save the whole world? The whole population of the world will die, destined to hell in a century. When we know the situation we have to feel the urgency of having to accomplish our mission. Centered around you, your ancestors rely on you to save the world and your friends and relatives. Are you anxious to save the world in the nearest possible future?

Spiritually the whole world is relying on you. People are anxious to be saved. If they are reached by you, they can be saved. So, in the future when you are sent to a certain part of the world and you don't save the people there, in due time people of the following generations there will accuse you. Would you want to have God say to me, "You could have driven your people harder and saved them in a certain amount of time, but you have not done your share. " I could not lift my face to God. Would you want that to happen? If you accomplish your mission, shortening the period, when I am in the spirit world I will prepare the place for you.

Am I asking you to do the same amount of work that God would have me do? Is your burden heavier than mine? I would choose to bear a heavier burden than you. I would choose to pave your way and make it easier. However hard things you may have to go through you must not be discouraged when you think how much you are needed in your place. The harder you work the more you are needed there. You want to finish the assigned work sooner than expected and then shift to a broader scope. Then finish it still sooner and go to another area bigger than that. You must have the confidence that the city of New York is badly in need of you. The city of New York needs you more than it needs the mayor. You will love the city of New York more than the mayor would and therefore the whole city of New York will belong to you. In our movement it is natural to think that you want to make New York the place of our vision. Then you must go ahead and make the whole country of America the way it should be, according to our vision. Therefore, you must be responsible for this nation more than President Ford is. If each and every one of you thinks of America in that way, the nation of America will be the happiest one. If you make America such a nation, then America can certainly lead the rest of the nations. In that way we can restore the world into oneness under God and connect it to the spirit world. With the spirit world and the physical world restored we will go back to God.

We have still a long way to go. We have not yet restored the nation of America. Can we afford to lose time? Even though we have finished restoring the whole world, we must connect it to the spirit world. Both of these worlds must be restored by our hands. Before coming to America I envisioned the protesters coming against me. I said to myself that if all the nations come against me I can still steer my way through. Then my hope was that even though this generation will oppose me, the next generation will be on my side. Even though I may die, I will leave the foundation or tradition for the future generations of America to work on. On the platform there were many protestors shouting at me and hurling scorn at me. But I never wavered a moment. I was in the position to scoff at them, because I knew too well that in future generations their sons and daughters will fight on our side. Before starting I always determined to break my way through. I experienced prison life. In a way I am anxious to experience prison life here in America. I will not dodge rebuffs here. If I am on the side of righteousness and the side of God, there is nothing to be afraid of. I have the same attitude before Communists.

We cannot be discouraged. We cannot complain because we know we are badly needed. When you feel that you are so badly needed that you cannot mind the rebuffs and the persecution, you can fight through. That's God's way, and you can be sure that God will be on your side, working with you, if your spiritual attitude is like that. When I push you, I do that because it is necessary. So, you must not complain. You are needed everywhere, badly needed, so you can never complain in any situation. If you are badly needed by the people around you, your parents would not want to have you be discouraged and complaining. Your mates would not want you to be that way nor your brothers and sisters, relatives, sons and daughters, or your nation. Are you confident to. be one who is really needed like that? (Yes!)

I wed 777 couples last time, so the next wedding ceremony will include 2, 100 couples. So, many newspapers and news media-ABC, NBC, etc.-will swarm to our place to write articles about us. Then the parents who have opposed our movement will come to our side, smiling and overjoyed that their sons and daughters are married to good spouses. The world will say, "Rev. Moon is doing a very dynamic thing again." The mass wedding will be so popular that a wedding for only one couple will be peculiar. Even people who are not in the movement will join to be married in this manner. If we have that kind of huge mass wedding in Korea, the whole world will send us telegrams and letters of congratulations, and in their own nation they will celebrate the day. There is no adjective which can really describe our feelings about this. We are grateful to be born in this wonderful age, to have the wonderful true parents, to have wonderful brothers and sisters and to be in such a wonderful church; to be in the restored wonderful nation, to be in the wonderful world, to pass away into a wonderful spirit world and to become wonderful children of God. Just imagine, if all of you should come to Korea to be blessed in marriage. In later days more and more couples will be blessed. Then your future descendants may want to get married in the country where their forefathers got married. Then Korea will be the place of blessing. Since Korea is so small they can do nothing else there but bless people. No one else but Master can do this. No one else in the whole world can make this possible. So, in that sense I am the foremost one in the whole world. Do you believe me? (Yes.) Since I am sure you are determined to carry out the job realizing that you are so badly needed everywhere, I bless you and I thank God. May He bless you and project you on your way until you gain and attain the goal. Let us pray.

The Completion Of Our Responsibility

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Barrytown, New York
October 28, 1974
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi and Mr. David S.C. Kim

I saw you a few minutes yesterday evening, and I'm glad to see you again tonight. Yesterday when I saw you, I felt deep compassion, but tonight I feel eased. It is a regulation that you must undergo a fast of at least 7 days to become a regular member. If you have not gone through such a fast and are not aware o the greatness or value of the seven day fast, then you must be awakened to the fact. Back in Korea, in the year 1957, on the 20th of July, I began the seven-day fast. How many years ago was it? 1957-17 years ago. This is the history of the past years. Those who have not completed the seven-day fast cannot be blessed in holy matrimony. This is the fundamental condition for the blessing and as I said the other day, it signifies the deficiency of seven thousand years of biblical history. There are many among you who have done several seven-day fasts and before beginning the seven-day fast this time, I encouraged you and explained the significance of the fast. Here you have been fasting not as an individual, but with many other people. So, it should not have been as difficult as in other cases. While fasting you have been meeting with many people and you have continued to contact many important people-so this experience has been a wonderful one, I believe.

In the next two days you will have training, and it has a double purpose. What you eat after fasting affects your health so you will be given carefully selected and nourishing food, and you will attune yourself to all the conditions for your future on the physical level. So, the training will be very meaningful. We will feed you a certain amount at a time, and if you want to have three or four servings ... it's against the law. On the spiritual level, what you eat could affect your growth, so you must be very careful. If I would let you eat as much as you please, the moment you eat that much, you would feel like dozing off! But, if I give you a certain amount of food at a time, the expectation of the next meal and still the next will be wonderful and you won't be able to doze off.

Our conclusion is that during this fast, we have learned a great lesson, and on the political stage of the world we have done a great thing. So, this has been a very meaningful occasion. You had only to sit there without doing anything and you were on stage for New Yorkers and people from all over the world to see, including observers from 137 nations. Well, since sooner or later you have to go through the seven-day fast, it has been a great occasion and you have now attained confidence, I think. So, I'm thinking of staging the fast, a seven-day fast, every year. If we continue to do this kind of thing to solve world problems, it will be most wonderful. It's painful for me not to be able to treat you as well as I would like, after your having gone through such a wonderful work for the whole world. You are good guests, you are my guests here, but I regret that I cannot treat you as well as I would like.

Well, my topic this evening is "The Completion of the Responsibility." When you think of the completion of your mission or responsibility, you have many things to restore through indemnity at the individual level, family level, national level, and world-wide level. But for me, it is different. You can go through the individual level of restoration and then stop if you want or you can go through the second stage-so much the better, and even the third stage-that would be wonderful for you. But, I cannot stop anywhere until I accomplish my mission of restoring the whole world. The Divine Principle has taught you that we cannot restore ourselves. Adam and Eve could not be restored until now, after the six thousand years of biblical history. Even God could not complete the restoration of men. The Divine Principle teaches us that even God cannot accomplish the mission without the cooperation on the part of man. So, it has taken such a long time. Your responsibility is to go through the restoration on the individual level of Adam and Eve in yourself.

One significance of our having to go through all those stages is that in our movement we are responsible for the restoration of the whole world. This is why we take a worldwide view of things. By our going through a broadened scope of restoration on the horizontal level, we can return the fruits to our Father, to God. While God himself could not restore Adam and Eve in six thousand years, we want to restore them in our lifetimes at the earliest possible time. Then we must feel the deep responsibility and the sense of mission required. When Americans, including the Senators and Congressmen, hear about my work here, they become skeptical and they say, "Why does this man have to work in the United States, when he has many more problems and more serious problems back in his own native country?" It is because they do not understand God's Providence. Seeing things only in a superficial way, they do not know the Providence of God in the internal way. Seen from God's standpoint, this America which has been established and blessed by God in preparation for the great day has its own mission. But this same America is becoming corrupt in God's sight. So God would want his representative to reawaken this nation and bring it back to the original status of a God-fearing nation. No other group is found to be responsible for this and unless Americans believe in God, they cannot accomplish their mission. That is why God has brought me to America. However hard the Christians of today may struggle, they do not know how to claim what they have done or connect it to God's Providence -and we are the only group which can do that. That's why I am here: I'm accomplishing the Providence of God in the continent of America, and in this way alone, I will pave the way for Korea to go. That is why I left Korea in the hands of the people there and came to the United States.

As you well know, young people are leaving the churches in the United States. That is not the way it should be from God's point of view, so we have the responsibility to revive the Christian spirit, not only in the churches, but in the whole nation. When we have done this, we will have accomplished God's purpose in this nation, and God's purpose of saving mankind through this nation. We can well guess what the responsibilities of the Unification Church members are, and how we can accomplish or complete our mission. If you as individuals can give the right image to people and can have the confidence to represent the whole nation and be able to revive the Christian spirit in this nation, then, I am assured that we can carry out our mission. If and when you are recognized by the people, you can be a leader on the individual level, and in your families, and this nation can rely on you and you can take responsibility for it. Then we will be successful.

When you think of a nation, it is a vast concept, but the elements comprising the nation are man and woman. Men and women are the products of youth. So the fundamental problem is how to educate young people to the responsibility of leading this nation in the future. We must bring you up to the standard at which people can say, "These are the youth leading the nation and these are the ideal youth. " If such men and women marry and begin families, people will think, "Those families are ideal families. " And then, "The nation which consists of those families will be an ideal nation, and those nations will be gathered together to form an ideal world. " The question is whether or not we can accomplish this in our movement. If you can accomplish your restoration on the individual level and then form ideal families and nations, the rest will not be difficult. We have been spreading the word about your being well groomed, clean-cut young people-very disciplined and very wonderful. If we can lead the people to realize that the future of the nation and the world can be entrusted to such persons then we will be victors.

Everybody likes to say "ideal person, ideal something. " Well when we call a person an ideal person, he cannot be ideal only on the individual level; he must be ideal in his family, his nation, in the whole world and in the whole cosmos including the spirit world. We can build a foundation for being an ideal person by always sacrificing ourselves. At the sacrifice of ourselves, we will build an ideal home. And at the sacrifice of our homes, we will build an ideal nation, and at the sacrifice of our nation, we will build the ideal world. So a sacrificial way of life is the important thing. When you think of things centered on yourselves as individuals it is very easy, but when you think about building a family, it is not an easy job.

The human fall was caused not on the individual level, but on the level of two in confrontation with each other. If you are all alone, you can get along well, you can go on without problems, but if there are two or more, questions will arise. If two of you in the family are ready to sacrifice yourselves for the sake of your nation and greater things, then your responsibility can be accomplished. But, can you build an ideal family? How many of you are confident? It is easy for you to become an ideal person on the individual level, but two people together forming a family is not easy.

When you are sacrificial with each other, you will be good couples. When you give birth to your children, you must raise them, educate them in the ideal way. You are going to pioneer your way, building an ideal world, but you must remember that even God has not been able to restore Adam and Eve to perfection in 6000 years. You must have your family as the base and defend yourself from the satanic invasion. You must build your home and the nation and the world into ideal ones; it is a very difficult task.

You have gone through a painful seven day fast, but there was joy in your heart, because you knew the purpose. But what you have yet to do is form an ideal family and nation-which do you think is more difficult? It is sobering to think of the monumental task of restoring the nation and the whole world. In the course of doing this, we must triumph and defeat the satanic world. In defeating the satanic world, we must separate it into pieces. So, on God's part, too, he divided the whole world into pieces in preparation for the day in which we will work for the goal. And in the chaos and fragmented pieces, we are going to work.

We are in such a situation, where families are in disunity, and there is rupture at the tribal, national, and world-wide levels. That's the way God has arranged the stage for you and if we are successful, it will have been worthwhile for us to work. The present-day situation of America is that people --especially the young people-are separated, not united with each other. In contrast with this bitter reality, if youth in our movement are united in strong oneness, and people believe in us and accept us as being able to be united for eternity, we can carry out the Providence of God. My ambition is to help you become such strong personalities, all of whom become one with each other, so that no power can shatter you into pieces. I want you to be united in such a strong way that even Communist power cannot put you asunder. I want to make people think that Reverend Moon is the only person who can bring the American youth into strong oneness like that.

The three day fast on Capitol Hill was a shock to the American people. For those people, there is a vast difference between a three day fast and a seven day fast. If they were shocked at the three day fast they'll be more shocked to hear of our seven day fast, they will be amazed and flabbergasted. The religious leaders in particular will be shocked. Even the laymen will have their consciences stricken because most have never gone through even a one-day fast for this purpose. Even from this viewpoint of fasting, people cannot but recognize us as the strongest group, and Reverend Moon as the strongest leader of this group.

Our history here is a short one and people will recall that this Reverend Moon came to the United States only a year or so ago, and will be amazed that he has done such a great work. It must be a great puzzle to them because Reverend Moon cannot speak the language (not a word of English, they may think) and yet he has been able to do what other leaders have not been able to do. I'm sure leaders are studying our group, studying me. They must wonder "What is the Divine Principle that it leads people into such strong motivation in God's ways?" and they may feel compelled to study that Divine Principle. They may think, "What is the element or factor leading this movement? It is not money, not power or authority, not even knowledge, but the strong young people who can shoulder the future of the nations. " In that sense, we can safely say that the new America is being established, the new world is being erected.

People will see the difference between the persons-between your personality before joining the movement, and that after you joined it. But how many friends you have made before the movement and after the movement will determine whether or not we will lead this nation. By the some token, America's value will be determined by the extent to which this nation will be working for the world.

If in our movement the number will increase from a thousand to ten thousand, ten thousand to 100,000, a million, then what will happen to the world? Suppose there are one million American youth in the membership of our movement? At one command, those on the West Coast will come to New York in three days' time. Many Americans who were born on the West Coast have died there without having visited the East Coast or other parts of the nation, but in our movement, we can have our young people come from the West to the East in three days' time. Well, with that power we can occupy New York at an instant! Can't you imagine-one million young people come to New York, don't have houses and are scattered all over the streets fasting for seven days-what will happen? After one week's fast people will want to come to join our movement.

There's nothing impossible before us. Or if we have ten thousand members and each brings in 100 members, you can make the one million very quickly. Whether or not you can do it in one year's time, ten years' time, there will be the creation of the new America. If you are so serious as to think that you are going to be put to death if you don't accomplish the mission, it's easy for you to carry it out.

If God is incarnate in you and exists in you, He can accomplish the mission in an instant. But God cannot do that. When one is not perfect, God cannot abide in the person. God can only be incarnate in the person who has perfected himself. But your faith is great, so 1 if you believe strongly in God and believe that you can perfect yourself, then God can work through you on the formation level and the growth level. He can work through you. If you waver and vacillate all the way along, however, God cannot work with you.

I can imagine that during the seven day fast, some of you may have thought, "What made me come into this movement, that I have to go through this seven day fast. I wish I had never joined! " But, if you could say to yourself, "I would go through more than a seven day fast, even a month or more-I will not be frustrated," then both God and I can rely on you. You must examine yourself closely to see if you are such a person-not wavering, not vacillating, never changing in your dedication.

Well, how do you find yourself On the way there will be many of you who will fall away, but what will happen to me? You can change, you can be frustrated, but I can never do that. And I will never do that. If you wish to enter the Kingdom of God, you enter by me and your brothers and sisters here-you must have determination of the same kind as mine. However hard you may struggle, it is the shortest path for you to imitate what I am doing. The new members may not know, but the older members know that I do unbelievable things, and initiate seemingly impossible things, but sooner or later you will find that that was very logical and reasonable and it will be done. I know what period we are in according to God's timetable and what kind of channel will enable us to reach a certain goal.

During our fast this time, our having attacked the United Nations is a significant thing. Americans, Japanese and Koreans represented the Unification Church with the cooperation of people from other nations. Those people assembled in America in oneness carried out their mission of confronting 137 nations from around the world. What was our purpose? Our purpose was to bring America, Japan and Korea together with each other in the ideal of this unification movement. In the Providence of God this is possible. What we have created in the nation of America, must happen in other nations, too, spreading out to the end of the world. Next year, we will send out missionaries to 120 nations. At least we must be able to send our missionaries to 100 nations.

During the time of your fast, people from 137 nations observed you. The people representing those nations in my view don't have self-control, self-mastery, or subjectivity. They are afraid of involvement. But I'm not that type of person. It's an incredible thing, and too bold a thing for me to do this, you know; it's something like shooting one's gun into the air, people may think. But you at least understand. Having attacked so strongly at this time, if we retreat and fall back, we fail. We must do the same thing over and over again until we gain the goal. If we do the same thing next year, what will happen? And the successive years we will do the same thing.

The future of Korea is connected with the future of America and of the world. So, since I find many problems in this nation, I have to win and gain the victory in this nation first. If by our doing this the Communist power in North Korea will eventually collapse, what you have done will be long remembered and will spread out annihilating and exterminating the power of Communism all over the world. If we can so influence the world, the people who represented 137 nations and observed us this time will want to have our missionaries in their own nations. Then, because these people represent their governments-when we send our missionaries we will have our stronghold on the national level. Then very soon, to each of those nations we can send our international mobile teams sweeping along whole nations. We need from one thousand to three thousand people for these teams. If by our doing this we can influence one nation in such a way, then the premier or president of the nation may want to invite our mobile team. Then we have a clear picture of how and how soon we can turn the whole world upside down. First of all, we must think that what we are applying is a wonderful, heavenly service. After sending out our missionaries to 120 nations, we can influence those nations, and by having the youth of those nations mobilize, we can form a new United Nations.

What I have in mind is that in the nearest future, we are going to publish a daily paper in Japan and in America. Well, in that case those members of ours who have been in the 120 nations can collect good articles from all over the world and church leaders in those nations can play the role of news correspondents. We will cover the news from all over the world. By selling our newspapers, we can change the direction of the media of the world.

To lay the foundation for the best newspaper in the world, we must assemble the noted professors of the world. The Unified Science Conference is in preparation for that. If we assemble the noted professors from all over the world, what we are going to do next is to establish our own university. Barrytown is the most likely place. In Belvedere, we are buying almost 200 acres of land for that purpose. We have to buy 500 or more acres of land, so we can erect a university, larger than the University of the State of New York. What we are going to do in the shortest possible time is to establish the largest and the most noted university of the world. It is easy for you to agree, but it can only be realized by you and me becoming one, like this. By the end of next year, it means I will need some three million dollars a month. That's just nothing compared to the greatness of what we are going to do.

If I have 30,000 members, in seven years' time I can do many things which the world has never seen. So the key to the problem, the question is how, in what way, can we bring in 30,000 members. Just imagine how those 30,000 members will move about from place to place. If each of the states has 500 members, what will happen? We can do anything, anything and everything. The Senators and Congressmen will be influenced by us. We can do almost everything, practically everything. Then we can visualize the restoration of the whole world before us.

We are here from the 50 states. If after going back to your own states, you are going to be crazy to find 500 members, then it will mean that we can bind to our way of life the whole world which is declining so rapidly. This is not a difficult job because you are the ones who have attacked the United Nations and moved the hearts of the New Yorkers. With that power, it is no problem for you to influence the people of your own state. Are you resolved and confident to do that? (Yes!)

Well, my topic this evening was "The Completion of Our Responsibility". You have completed your responsibility in having fasted successfully before the UN But with that same power, you must complete the responsibility in your own state. If you are frustrated and lose the power and strength to work in your state, I cannot rely on you. I have directed the New York church alone to win 3,000 members. If the same power will spread all over the state, and in each state you do the same, then our membership and our strength will increase in the shortest possible time. My goal by the end of this year is to have at least ten thousand new members. Then in three years' time, we will have met our goal. I have stated that the years 1977 and 1978 will be the most crucial years in the history of America. I must determine how to restrain the Communists in this nation, and then I must go back to my country and to other parts of the world. I am very serious. Out of this seriousness I have made many public appearances in the year 1974, carrying the message to all people of the world to make it easier for you to work.

In 1976 you will celebrate the bicentennial of your country. But God is leaving this nation, and if you fail to accomplish certain things by that time you will lose God and God will lose you. If we prepare this nation to be strong and to be reawakened to the Christian ideology before that year comes, then God can work in this country. I began the preparation some seven years ago, and ever since I have been contemplating and working for this nation.

In preparation for the Communist attack against us, we must train ourselves on the physical level as well as the spiritual. Without your knowing, I have prepared many things. I have organized Karate institutes for example. Members of the Unification Church must be able to handle themselves. In the future, we will financially support those organizations, so that they can be utilized by us at any moment. My intention is to spread out our foundation on the wider level and have it be successful in the shortest possible time. Both internally and externally, I have prepared the foundation in so many ways, and if we cannot culminate it and conclude everything in three years' time, our goal will not be attained in the set time. You have no idea what I'm going to do from now on. The time is ripe and I am going to carry out things in the timetable of God.

You see what I have done in three years, or less than three years, and if people are widely awakened to the fact that we are such a strong group, we can reach the goal if you only follow my instructions. From the way things have been happening, you can readily imagine that in the nearest possible future I will stir up the whole world.

We have won the support of 350 Columbia professors for the cause we have undertaken here at this time. Columbia is a campus on which we can win the people of New York. That will be headquarters for the base on which we will work. You must be determined to carry out your responsibility at the cost of your life.

You don't know how vicious the Communists are. If people are against the Communist ideology, they don't hesitate to kill them. The Communists know only too well who is the key person moving these people and that Korea, America, Japan and all the world are braced up by him, so they set eyes on the person of Reverend Moon. So I'm doing things at the risk of my life, you must realize that. If you are not resolved to cross over this peak in the history of this nation and the world at the risk of your life, there is no one else to take up this responsibility. After the year 1977, you have only three years left in which to carry out the great mission and you cannot dream of accomplishing it without risking your life. From the past you have learned how to risk your lives, and on the spur of the call you must dash forward. Do you feel the glory of participating in this great harvest of God?

As you well know, there are many vicious eyes looking at me and finding fault with me, and they would do just anything against me. In the face of such peril, you must be greatly resolved to carry out the mission. If you are not doing the job at the risk of your life, you cannot carry it out. You are not only the warriors and champions of God, but you are His sons and daughters. Since you realize that God is going before us, always in the vanguard, then you cannot retreat. You must know the glory and blessedness of participation in God's cause, so even if you collapse or die on the way, you can die with confidence, with that strength. Well, what I'm doing here sometimes will not attract too much attention, but this demonstration will influence Korea and Japan greatly; a storm is arising because of what we are doing here.

We have initiated many things, and we have to conclude them. It is our responsibility to connect what we have done in America with other nations, so that we can cover the whole world. One of our projects will be to send 1,000 IOWC members to Japan, Korea, and Free China. Up to the present moment, the Church in America has been assisted by Korean, Japanese, and European members, but after a certain period of time, you must go on your own. Next year we will enter the third seven-year course, and I have been training the American members in such a way that they can stand on their own. So from then on Americans must take the responsibility for this nation. Can you take that responsibility?

Next year, we must mobilize at least one thousand fundraisers. Without your being able to do that, our plan will not be carried out. Besides that, we must mobilize one thousand mobile team members so that means we must have at least 8,000 very active core members. We have to prepare for these things in six months. You Americans must love your nation more than I do. I have set the example, so you must follow what I have done in three years' time, and at least try to accomplish that goal. I have done that much in one year's time. When you think of that, you cannot imagine accomplishing a mission by idling away your time in a dreamy way.

Wherever I go, whatever I see, in my thinking, in my words, and in my action, I have had my goal before me. That goal was to bring the message of hope to every American. It is not an easy task. But the seed has been sown and is beginning to grow. I have visited all 50 states, spoken to the people, and advertised in the newspapers and through posters and brochures. And I've made a 32-city tour, and now an 8-city tour. And if anyone should say that he or she does not know of our movement, they have no excuse.

Recently our members were handing out leaflets in the city of Hamburg, Germany and met an American tourist from a remote, village in one of the states. He said, "I know Reverend Moon and I know about the Unification Movement. I'm surprised to know that the movement is in Germany too. " Our members were very much impressed and happy to hear that. They were overjoyed to know that my message had reached every comer of the United States, resounding all the way through. Actually, I've done this much not in three years, but in barely more than one year. Then, if we go on like this with the same strength, it is no problem for us to do more work and greater work before 1977.

Three years ago when I talked about the Madison Square Garden project, you were appalled and had serious doubts. But we can visualize what's coming in the future, and you will not be surprised at the victory. You have only to obey me, and whatever instruction I give you, you will be able to carry it out. Nothing is impossible and this is what I want you to do. Within the coming three years, you must solidify the foundation in this nation of yours, following my example in the past three years. Can you do the job? You have done well to accomplish your mission and complete your responsibilities so far, but towards the year 1977, you must be determined to fulfill on the foundation of what you have done already. In that way, you will have accomplished your mission on the individual level, family level, and national level. Would you want to have the period shortened or lengthened? The more ardently you want to have it shortened the harder you must work. If you are resolved to participate in the project, raise your hand.

This is another matter I want to speak about. I know the Heavenly strategy because I have applied it in the three nations of Korea, Japan, and Free China. I have not met my membership quota, however, because more urgent issues had to be tackled. Under those circumstances in the Orient some of those mobilized only heard Divine Principle once and then were placed on the front line fund-raising or witnessing. This has resulted in some leaving the mainstream of the movement. Why did these people stray from the main line? Because under the circumstances, with the small number of members to accomplish the results, external factors were emphasized while internal attainment of understanding and discipline were lacking. There was no other alternative at the time. Everything was urgent. There were no funds to prepare a training facility and the number of members was so small that I did not dare to plan that kind of a project. I felt that this loss of members had to be stopped by all means. There was no other choice -to provide a time of education and training was absolutely necessary.

I do not want that same situation to happen here so I am going to set up this policy, this line of approach now. Some might think the training can be the same for those in Principle 10 years or 3 years or I year, but there must be a system with progression though kindergarten, elementary school, high school, college and so forth. This kind of a graduated educational system within our Church is absolutely necessary. That is one reason we have acquired the Barrytown facility. Will those who have received three weeks training at Barrytown or elsewhere raise their hands? How about those who have received seven-day training? From now beginners will not be assigned for other purposes until they have at least six months of training. Older members who have not been trained will also be trained. Regular official membership will require completion of six months of disciplined training. From now on, newcomers will receive this intensive training.

On this foundation over a certain period of time, we will advance and accomplishment will be great. Through this system there already are or will be seven stages of education in the Unification Church: three-day, seven-day, 21-day, 40-day, 100-day, six-month, and twelve-month training programs. All members will be required to complete the 100-day training course. This will confer official membership. This will be a requirement for any important position and for the blessing. When a newcomer attends a three-day workshop, we will encourage him to go through the seven-day training with specifically qualified teachers, or counselors. Then after the seven-day program, we will encourage them to come for 21 days. Then after 21 days, we will encourage them for 40 days; then by all means we must persuade this newcomer, the new creature born in Principle to go through the 100-day course.

Suppose some older seven-day trainee is unable to complete his course for some reason. Let them go, but he or she will think, "I am only in the second stage-I must get through the three-week course!" The same with 21 -days; someone is in the middle of the program and drops out. Then he thinks "I have to complete the 40 days." Then during the 40 days, he thinks, "If people drop out, they have to come back later-I have to get through this program."

Some may not finish in even five years, but will think, "I have to finish this if it takes my life!" So that way even the temporary member who drops out and returns to the satanic world will have to come back.

Then some other people will say, "I am dropping out. I quit," and you say, "what stage are you in-what training have you had?" "Just 7 days. " "Oh, that's the reason why! You have to go through the 40 days training at least!" Another may say " 1 00 days. " Then you will say, "Oh! You have a hundred, that's why you left! You come back!"

Even when young members someday criticize the Unification Church or Father or something like that, you can say, "What are you talking about? You never even finished the entire course. How can you dare to criticize Reverend Moon? You come back!"

Now, this is a wonderful system. For instance, we have a large facility bringing trainees at different levels together. Some are seven-day trainees, some 2 1 -day , some 40-day, I 00-day. They look after each other. They look forward to going to a higher level. They stimulate one another and may say, "What's happening? I lasted one day in your stage! Me? I am a seven-day trainee; are you in the 40-day?" They stimulate one another, reinforce one another, react to one another, comfort one another and help each other.

In order to complete training, you need food, shelter, a place to sleep, clothing-so a tuition fee of $350 per person will be asked for the 40-day training program. So the trainees can feel self-sufficient, they will raise that money during their training.

So we will encourage them to complete at least six months training with this variety of programs. During this time it may happen that we open the door to your brothers and sisters or relatives and friends. "Come here, see what we are doing. " Then they can come and rest and no parent will oppose the children who are studying very hard in that system. When they visit in this setting, we will set up a three-day course for them! We'll give the three days program for them and for other visitors. We will plan a good program including recreation, variety show, skiing and movies-all like a regular college campus!

After this they will want more training and they will be used in one generation, because they are trained well. They will want to practice what they have learned, and because they are well equipped, well trained and indoctrinated, they are ready to be the leaders to others. After six months they are ready to work! Even if we say, "You can go home", they will come back, they'll stay all day long and all their life because they know what it is. They will know the will of God. They will know the necessity for their own future, so that they will never leave anymore.

The same seven-day program will be accomplished in every state, every region. In this way many leaders will be produced to send to the local, state, or international level. Also teachers for every level will be produced. Also, the system of hierarchy of Unification Church will be set up so you will know your position, your superiors, and your subordinates. After the 100-day training, we will select those people who are potential leaders to go on for further training, and they will be the core and nucleus of the Unification Church movement. Those who successfully completed six months training will be part of the higher echelon of our Unification Church. After one year of study, they will come back here for another year of study. Then they will complete requirements for the MA degree right here. Within three years, they will obtain the master's degree.

I am preparing this educational system. Graduates will go throughout the world; they will be respected as leaders. This will be effective November 1, 1974, when the IOWC Commander Conference begins. This system will be adopted, applied throughout the world in Korea, Japan and the other nations. Even within this nation of America, the East and West and Mid-West, and four comers of this continent will have similar training institutes. This system will bring great advancement. After such training, not being involved with the Unification Church will be the most shameful thing to the individual. They will recognize the will of God, the value of the individual. Will state representatives and state commanders who have just done their first seven-day fast please raise their hands? This is a shameful thing, you as mobile unit commander or state representative should have done this seven-day fast earlier. This is one of the qualifications as a leader. From now on a certain time will be set up during the 2 1 -day or 40-day period for the seven-day fast.

In all this, keep in mind the goal of bringing souls. I will open the door for you according to your accomplishment. According to your ability to bring members, I will consider your future advancement and promotion. I will decide if some changes are needed at the November first conference. I plan to fly tomorrow to Atlanta for the Day of Hope Tour, so by the time you leave, Mother, Mrs. Choi and I will be in the air. Pray for us. Good-bye and God bless you.

The Conclusion of the Seven Day Fast at the United Nations Supporting the Human Rights of Japanese Wives of North Korean Repatriates

Sun Myung Moon
October 27, 1974

You have worked hard and accomplished a very difficult job, which I appreciate very much. I imagine that you have been waiting for this hour of midnight of October 27. 1974. Also. I think you must have experienced and learned many things during this fasting period.

Your state of mind of waiting for the final hour to come must be a sincere, a longing, a unique and a valuable one. If you could apply this same mind as you have now waiting and longing for a time of human happiness and, further, for the time of the consummation of God's will, I believe it would be fulfilled in a short period of time.

Also, I believe that during this period of fasting you must have really experienced and clearly felt the degree of importance of "bread", or substance to eat, for each of you. Under these fasting circumstances, you must have learned how much you desire and long for food beyond any concept of distinguishing "good food" from "bad food." If you apply the same mind of longing for something to eat and its importance and value therein, to God's providence and His will, which is the restoration of all mankind to Him you could produce a new prime mover for a new history.

Now, you have beautifully finished the most difficult task of 7 days straight fasting, which previously you must have been worrying whether you could make it or not and even in your dreams you might never have thought of your successful completion. Now your overcoming has proven that you have found within each one of you the individual potential which made you succeed in a most difficult task throughout the 7 day fasting period. If you apply this courage and patience to overcome the most difficult work to all circumstances, I am sure that you will succeed in anything and everything you do. With your experience in this fasting you have become the people who are able to transcend the insecurities and threat of our daily lives. If a group of nearly 700 young people like you are united into one to accomplish your common goal and then march forward, you will direct contemporary human history and create a new history by yourselves.

When our Heavenly Father looks down on your bright, shining and hopeful faces He must feel wonderfully contented with you all. If I ask you, "Let us fast 7 more days" will you continue to finish I more 7-day fast." (Yes!) Such persons like you need no training, and there is no need to ask you to fast anymore. You have already fulfilled by your expressing your willingness to do so. I urge you not to forget through your whole life the experiences you have had with 7 days fasting. If you will pioneer and explore all things and take action God shall guide and protect you all the way in the future and you will obtain confidence and trust on the national level.

From now on I hope that you look forward to the higher dimension and march forward to the ultimate goal with strong will and new zeal. Also I hope that you must be very careful of your health for at least the next 7-day period. Take care of yourselves. Congratulations on your successful completion of a 7-day fast, which is equivalent to God's dispensational time of 7.000 years. Thank you.

The Seven Day Fast

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Barrytown, New York
October 20,1974
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

Those of you who are seeing me for the first time, will you please hold up your hands.

I sent out official letters so by now you must know why you are here. Except for the New York members, I think most of you have not gone through a seven-day fast. Those who have not yet gone through a seven-day fast, put up your hands.

In our movement every member should go through a seven-day fast, at least. You may think it strange, "Why do we have to starve ourselves to death while we have things to eat?" Those who have gone through the fast, please hold up your hands.

Through the Divine Principle we have been taught that we are now living in the world apart from the Principle of God's original creation. The world where we are now living in is the world of the fall. Since the human fall, men of the world have not been living on the things of nature which are under the control of God, but instead on natural things under the control of Satan. We have been living on the unnatural things. The nutriments taken from nature have not been those controlled by God but those under the domination of Satan. All through human history you have been living that way. Seen from the viewpoint of the Principle, we at some point of time must come to be living by taking the natural things of God and by using things under the control of God, and by enjoying those things.

So we are bound for that point, From the traditional point, we are going over to God's side. As you know, God created man in six days' time, on the seventh day He took Sabbath, and on the eighth everything started its existence. Accordingly, in bringing ourselves back to the original status we have to go through, even conditionally, all those processes. By going through the number six we can take Sabbath on the seventh day, and only then can we start our new life-new life on the eighth day.

The Principle teaches us that we must straighten up through indemnity what has been established on the vertical line. We must indemnify on the horizontal line what is on the vertical line. On the vertical level, human history has gone through 6,000 years. Upon entering 7,000 years, we will have God take Sabbath, and at the 8,000 years level, we will have a real start. Six thousand years plus Jesus' millenium, makes 7,000 years, and then the 8,000 years will begin which is the new start of everything.

In the Bible 1,000 years denotes perfect restoration, a perfection of restoration through indemnity. That means we have to go through 7,000 years. All things happening within those 7,000 years on the vertical level must be indemnified on the horizontal level. By our going through 7,000 years-or the coefficient number of seven-alone, we can indemnify or restore through indemnity, ourselves on the individual level, family level, national level and worldwide level.

If there is any way possible, we want to go through all those things at once, and if any individual will go through a seven-day fast, that symbolizes 7,000 years, and we will start on the eighth day our new life, symbolically. By our going through a seven day fast on the individual level, we want to have it symbolically mean that we have gone through 7,000 years of fallen history by indemnifying ourselves. And that can also mean we have gone through seven years of indemnity.

In Biblical history, symbolical terms and conditional things are very important, and if you have not gone through a seven-day fast it means you are still remaining in the satanic world. Do you understand me? (Yes.) Many of you may ask, "Well, if we go through those conditions in our movement, can we indemnify ourselves into such a position where we can dominate the whole world? Nature, at least? Can we?" My answer to that is yes. Why? Except for the human fall, men should have been under God's control, who is righteous. We should have been righteous children and true children to God, our Father, and the first human ancestors without sin. Then you can put yourself in the position where you have your True Parents and true brothers and sisters and true children. Is it true? (Yes.)

In our movement we must elevate ourselves to such a standard and in doing that we use holy salt to sanctify ourselves. And when was that holy salt created? The holy salt was produced on the day of my holy matrimony in 1960. In fact, with the coming of the True Parents all the old things should have been burned up and we must produce new things, brand new things to be used by the children of God. It is not God's intention to have His children use things and eat things stained by satanic control. God would have burned up all those things and create or produce new things to be used for His children. But since we cannot do it all at once, God permitted me to create holy salt to sanctify all those things, to bring them into the condition where they are pure enough to be used by His children. So whenever we buy anything from the grocery stores or any stores of the world, we bring them home and sanctify those things before using them, with our holy salt, of course. And that means we are going to use sanctified things and live in sanctified places-for instance, when we move into a new house we sanctify the whole place. So we are using sanctified things and eating sanctified things and living in a sanctified environment.

Those who are assembled here may not have known the importance and the value of the holy salt. From now on you must feel that you must always have holy salt with you. Up to the present you have not had such a notion, I'm afraid.

The value and significance of the holy salt is to eradicate or annihilate or exterminate what is satanic, and if you use the holy salt you are always sanctified. You must know the value of holy salt from now on.

Well, in the nearest possible future I'm going to sanctify the whole place here, Barrytown.

From this viewpoint we can draw the conclusion that we cannot go back to God unless we can restore ourselves through indemnifying horizontally what was done on the vertical line of history. In doing that we have to use number seven, and you must be determined to go through that. Is that right? (Yes.) Even I myself have gone through a seven-day fast. By doing that, I put myself in the same position as you so that you can follow my example. So at this moment I want you to eliminate the fear of going through a seven-day fast. You may have thought, "Well, if I don't eat anything for seven days I may die." You must eradicate that thought.

I have been guiding the members, leading the members, for some 20 years including my life in North Korea, but I have never seen a single person die during the time of a seven-day fast, so be reassured. If you are going to die in the process of the fast, you are Satan; you are strongly possessed by Satan then. There have been many who have gone through three weeks' fast. That's an experience transcending scientific logic. That's what makes it important to have a religious life of faith.

Here is one thing you must be really careful about, and I want you to be really strong. For instance, most of you will at first be floating in your minds and saying, "Well, it's nothing. I can go through a seven-day fast. " But after two or three days you will, you know, become downcast. You will be energyless, and you will think down, down, down. You must not be like that.

Our fleshly side is the base for Satan to work on, so you must be very strong to keep Satan separated from you. You will feel every moment of your seven-day fast that Satan is coming to attack you. The Satanic weapons are food and things of everyday use, and you will be tempted with those things. Do you feel the strength of such temptations, how strong temptations will be? Three to four days will bring you to the peak of things, and after three days, upon entering the fourth day, you will immediately think of what you have left: "That means I have only three days left and three days later I can eat. " So it is very likely that food, rice, bread, all those things will occupy, your mind, and then you are going to be a failure even though you will have gone through a seven-day fast.

After going through three days, on the fourth day you must go through the whole indemnity course. If you successfully go through the fourth day then the rest of the seven days will be no problem. Just have your mind blank, or meditate on something else.

On the seventh day towards midnight your heart will click and your pulsation will be excited to think that one minute after another is going away, and at that moment if you think only of food, you are going to be a failure. So those several minutes will be most important. You must be careful about how you find yourself. So you must be well determined and even fairly indignant about Satan's having invaded our ancestors. By going through the seven-day fast you must restore the True Parents, restore the true brothers and sisters, restore your own true children-later generations, of course-and true relationships. You are doing this not only on the individual level but for your family and the nation and the whole world. And if you realize you cannot fail, you can never fail. At the very moment of difficulty you must imagine you could go through even more difficult things if you could save the world by doing that. Do you understand me? (Yes.) Those who have already gone through the fast without knowing the significance of the fast like this, then you must be grateful that you are going through it again, and in that case you must feel the importance all the more, more than other people.

When you go through a seven-day fast you must imagine yourself going through three weeks' fast and you must be grateful that you are going through only one week, with three weeks condensed into those seven days. After going through the seven-day fast with success, you will have confidence in everything. Wherever you are placed, whatever situation you are placed in, you will have no fear of anything coming to you.

According to common sense we cannot live by going through seven days without eating a fragment of anything. Back in Korea in a way a seven-day fast was a great training because in Korea you can never imagine-the situation is not like that in America. You don't have food just everywhere. So when our members went out to the front line to witness to the people they sometimes had to starve, having no food to eat; and our members, having gone through the seven-day fast, could go through such difficulties and hard situations without shrinking back.

You Americans may think, "Well, how can you get hungry? If you are hungry there are crumbs of bread, at least. " Bread just comes free of charge here at the tables in the restaurants. The problem is they don't have any crumbs of bread in those countries.

In the future, I'm going to send you out to remote places were there may be difficulties awaiting you. You may in the future be sent to the southern tip of Africa where people are starving to death, and you must be prepared for that. So this seven-day fast is the most important and valuable experience in your whole life.

Now, do you feel the significance of the seven day fast? (Yes!) Yes? (Yes!!) Are you confident? (Yes!)

Now I'm going to explain why we are going to go though the fast in front of the UN Building, not elsewhere. You must know why we are going to fast in front of the UN Building, where they have their General Assembly, and why people from all over the world--our members from all over the world-have to fast before that UN Building on this occasion. We are going to create a great event. The event is going to be a providential one, an event in the providence of God, a great event.

If you have gone through the seven-day fast already, that has been for yourself and for indemnity on the individual level, but what you are going to go through is for America, for the whole world, and the significance is greater than that of those other fasts. You are sharing the experience for the whole of mankind, and the whole of America will watch over you and the United Nations and the whole world population will watch over you, including, of course, our members scattered all over the world, including the spiritual world. Myriads of saints and spirit men in the spirit world, and God Himself, and even Satan, are watching over what we are doing. Do you understand? (Yes.)

In the Principle we are taught that we restore ourselves through indemnity to the original condition lost at the time of the fall. If we ponder the cause of the thing, when we think of ourselves going back to the original state, we want to go back to the status of Adam's family, before the fall. Before our being able to save the whole world we must be able to save ourselves, and in doing that we must bring ourselves to the position of the brothers and sisters in Adam's family. In order for us to restore ourselves on the individual level we must bring ourselves to the position of Adam before the fall. That's the starting point, and without our being able to do that we cannot save our family, tribe, nation and the world.

So mankind in the fallen world, without being conscious of it, has been hoping to restore their positions back to Adam in perfection or without the fall. In the Bible we are taught the principle of bridegroom and bride. That means we have to have the True Father and Mother, fatherhood and motherhood without the fall, and that's what is meant by the holy Marriage of the Lamb. That's what God and all mankind would want to have. The whole world, all mankind, would want to have such central figures, leading figures. Though they had everything else, they would want to have those people, those personages, because without them we cannot be saved, and through them alone can we be brought back to the original position.

In America you seem to have everything. You have wealth, you have your own government. You have your own President, and everything you need. You have all material things.

You need guidance by the central figure sent by God according to the providence. Isn't that true? (Yes!) If it is true with America, it also applies to the rest of the world. If that central figure can guide you to restore yourself on the individual level and family level and national level and worldwide level, there's nothing for you to hope for elsewhere.

There has never been such a period of time in the human history where people longed for leadership like this, with the ardor they have today. The central figure or the leading figure is the Messiah. We are taught in the Principle of Restoration that we start by restoring ourselves into the position of servants, and then adopted children, and then true children. And true parents, where we reversely go in the course of restoration.

In the world, roughly divided, there are two great ideologies, namely, democracy and Communism. And they are at war with each other. That's the struggle between Cain and Abel expanded to the worldwide level. That's the fight between brothers, so in order to reconciliate the brothers' disharmony, there must come parents. No one else can do that. Among the brothers there's none that can reconcile those two. Among brothers you cannot distinguish what is right and what is wrong; only your parents can do that. Only with your parent intervening, can the problem be solved, and those in both the Cain position and the Abel position can say "yes" to the decision. Then that's the only way the problem will be solved and the reconciliation between the brothers can come about. Do you follow me? (Yes.)

We members of the Unification Church can protest that we are reborn, we have been given rebirth by the True Parents, and we are living in harmony between brothers and sisters. We are a new breed of people recreated or reborn, and with that we can proclaim to the world that we will be able to save the world, to make everyone like ourselves.

Then where are we bound, and what is our mission as Unification Church members? We are not here to idle away our time. Love affairs are not our concern. We are not here to fight for worldly causes. If we are going to fight at all, we are going to fight in order to bring peace on earth. We know that without expelling Satan from the world we cannot bring peace. That is why we have to fight against Satan. We must be able to distinguish evil on every level. We must know which is the strongest evil and the next strongest and so on; in order for us to be able to fight against them and fight the battle against them, we must know that and know how to distinguish the prince of evil.

We must be newly awakened to the fact that we have such a grave mission. At every moment we are fighting against Satan. At this very moment, too, you are fighting against satanic power. You are not only fighting those battles on the individual level, but also on the family level and on the church level, and as members of the Unification Church we are going to fight a fierce battle against Satan in these days.

Religion is the stronghold or fortress for God's battle, and if you find any Satan invading that fortress, that is the strongest Satan. You must recognize him. On reflecting, we find that Communism is our strongest enemy, so it is the strongest Satan.

Someone out of the religious world must come to fight against and win over Communism, which is the strongest and most evil power in the whole world. And if Communism cannot be overcome by a religious figure, no one else can do the job.

Before the day comes when all the world is invaded and undermined by Communist power, in our movement our members must be united into strong oneness to fight against that power and eradicate it.

On the outermost front line of our battlefield, we must fight against Communist power, and on the secondary line we must revive and reawaken the democratic world with the Christian ideology. Our having had speaking tours beginning in 1972, during those three successive years, is the preparation to fight against Communist power for the next stage. I may have been the first one to be attacked by Communist power in making a speech. I may have been the first one in the history to be attacked by the Communists. That's what happened at Madison Square Garden, and also in Washington, D.C. Thus, the democratic world, free world, is attacked by Communism and ultimately undermined by them. We Unification members are going to be the first target of the Communists.

With a strong ideology, we can lead the people on every other level. When we are armed with a certain ideology, that means our whole beings, including our spirits, will be manipulated by the ideology. You find yourself being dominated by your mind. Satan, knowing that only too well, would come to get hold of your mind when God is away from you, and by getting hold of your mind Satan will want to pour into yourself an evil ideology. While Communism gets hold of your mind and spirit by its ideology, we don't have, on the other hand, a strong ideology that can compete with it and win over it. We cannot do anything against Communism. Then the Unification ideology must be stronger than Communism. We must not be defeated on any level by Communists.

Our system of education, our way of life and our way of training ourselves-all are going to be stronger than what Communism has, so you must be determined and expect something hard and difficult coming from me when I train you. You must not be less than the Communists, and be ready to do things at the risk of your life. We are training ourselves by going through this fast to have no fear before threats and before death. If we are going to be in competition with Communism in fasting, I'm sure we are going to defeat them. (Yes!)

We have already set the record of working all through the night without sleeping, and in competition with the Communists not to sleep and working the whole night for many successive days, we will win the battle. Our goal is different from theirs. They are doing what they do for Communism's sake alone, but we are doing what we do for the sake of the whole world. We are connecting the past history through the present to the future. And we are bound for unity with God, so we are doing all these things for God and His providence. For Communists there's nothing like past or future; they just live the present and they live only for themselves. In their eyes there is no such thing as God. So in light of the standard of goodness and righteousness, the Unification Church is the only group that can do the job.

There have been many great leaders, but on the individual level they have not been able to do anything against Communism. We are in the Communist world: they have a strong international organization. So it takes a great and vast number of people to fight against and defeat the Communist people. It is true that not only on the individual and family level, but after having solidified our foundation on the national level, we must unify the whole mankind-freedom loving men-to go against Communism. In the Communist world they are unified strongly according to their own terms, but in our world we must be even more strongly unified into oneness, unified in such a way that no satanic power, no Communist power, can invade and tear us apart. Are you that strong in unity? (Yes!) The problem lies there.

We are already one, transcending national boundaries. If the way we are united is stronger than the Communist way, and the way we act is stronger than their way, then God cannot but rely on our group. We must have faith and determination, and we must be proud of ourselves, not liable for the accusation of Satan, but entitled to the praise of God.

You are determined to go through the fast successfully, but if you feel downcast in the end, Satan will point at you, accusing you of being weak, and saying to God, "Look at your children. They vowed and pledged before the True Parents, but they failed." And Satan would laugh at you and accuse you of being weak.

We are in all-out efforts and battle against Satan to annihilate Communism, and if you are accused of being weaker than Communists, you cannot hold up your face before God. As God's children you must be stronger than those people. At the cost of your life, you must be strong in fighting against the satanic power which invaded your ancestry, invaded your past selves, and still is invading you; and as the children of God we will fight against that evil power at all costs. You must think of things in these terms: In ordinary circumstances you cannot become united, but with Satan going to invade you, you can be stronger among brothers and sisters and be united into ultimate oneness, absolute oneness. We have been tortured by Satan, and there have been many rebuffs; we must take the rebuffs as challenges, and we must be united all the stronger to fight against them. So in our Family there's never an impossibility of being united into oneness.

You have dedicated yourselves to God and you have taken pledges before God to live for the cause of the will of God so many times. Hundreds and thousands of times you have done that. Is it true? (Yes!) If the very persons who have done that complain on the way, if you are going to be frustrated and shrink back or collapse on the way, that's not what you should do. If you are going to complain at all, complain at yourself, asking, "Why, why can't I go on when I have already taken vows and pledges?" Then you will be able to gather strength and go ahead with renewed energy.

Our conclusion is that at all costs we have to annihilate Satan, exterminate him. God's purpose of using us is to exterminate Satan. God's intention and purpose is not just to save you, as individuals, no. You don't have to struggle hard to save yourself if you go on fighting against and winning over Satan; then in the total salvation you are already included. We will go back to the end of the world to pursue Satan. If Satan is in the North Arctic, we will visit the North Arctic. If he flees to Antarctica, we will visit there, and we will fight until we exterminate the last of Satan.

As I see, America is the place where most of the satanic power is working. Don't you think so? (Yes.) Drug problems, free sex, adolescent crime problems, family disunity, all those things are the evidences of being undermined by satanic power. The reason why Satan concentrates his efforts and focuses his attention on America is that those things which I have already named are of satanic delight and not God's. God will be agonized over those facts, and Satan all joyous about them, and Satan comes here to undermine human minds all the more. Do you think God will take delight in hippie people? (No.) Do you think God will be glad of the drug users, drug addicts? (No.) Would God wish to have families disunited? (No.) Would God want to have the society going to pieces with individualism? If you closely examine, even the foreign policy of the United States is going to be a failure. Then the satanic power will win, and your system of government will always be cheated by them. Well, would God want to have you be like that? (No.)

You have been the leading nation of the world, in a way dominating the whole world, but you are retreating and you are shrinking back into nothing. While you are being diminished, the Communist power will grow and invade your territory. Would God want that? (No!) Now is the time, and before it's too late you must be united to do what you should do, and go to the ends of the earth to include everyone in the free world. Even among the religions in the United States, is there any group where they are strongly united to fight against those powers? (No.) If America were just a nation like any other nation, God wouldn't mind too much, but God has raised you and blessed you to be the leading nation of the world in His providence, so God's distress will be great if you fail. Even in the General Assembly of the United Nations, the United States is more or less segregated by other nations. In that, you are influenced by Communist power and you are pursued and attacked, to be diminished like that.

Now the mission of America is to build a foundation on which you become once again revitalized in Christian spirit and become attentive to the voice of God. A group with those characteristics should come out of the religious world, but when you look around, there's no group like that other than our group. So we are going to ignite the people's minds to come back to the Christian ideology and accomplish the mission assigned by God. Ignite the minds of the people.

We are at the peak of something now, and the United Nations General Assembly this time is most important. We are passing over a historical 'unction by making our project this time a success. It is the Divine Principle that unless you restore yourself on the individual level, you cannot restore your family. Unless you can restore your family, you cannot restore your nation, and unless we can restore one nation we cannot restore the whole world.

Now we are at the stage of restoring a nation, which is God's purpose at this time in history, and by our being able to do that we can cross beyond that point to reach out to the world.

In the Bible we learned that there is Alpha and Omega. We must set the standard of Alpha on the individual level, family level, national level and worldwide level. Unless we can do that, we cannot conclude all those levels of things on the Omega. We must raise that standard of history beginning from Alpha, reaching to Omega, on every level of the things we are doing in the providence of God. If we are united in solid oneness on that level, no other power can tear it down. No satanic power can break it into pieces, even though they have already built the foundation of their nation and the world. They can never come and attack and tear that unity down. Even God Himself cannot put it asunder, tear it into pieces.

Then are we that strongly united in our movement? Unless we are that strongly united, we cannot restore ourselves back into the position of Adam and Eve without the fall, back to the position of Cain and Abel without the fall, back to the position of mankind without the fall. Our Unification Church members must not have any ideology except God's. Your way of thinking, your way of saying things, and your way of acting must be in accordance with God's will. If you just think you know from your brain the will of God, and the will of God is above your idea, and you act in a different way, that's not the way you should be, what you should do. Why is it so?

We know that in the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve entertained other things in their minds other than what they were told by God, and in disobedience they sided with Satan. That's the cause of the fall, so we must come into utter obedience to God and think of nothing other than God's commandment, say and do nothing other than God's commandment. And that's the only way we can restore ourselves and the world back to God. Do you follow me? (Yes.) From that viewpoint, in America where individualism is prevailing, it is difficult to carry out God's will and realize it, don't you think so? (Yes.) Every individual will say, "I have my own idea, I have my own attitude toward life, my own way of life." We must root out those ideas.

America is now in the leading position in individualism, and in that way you are headed into pieces. It's only too natural that you are bound to be prey to Satan. When in America there are no individuals who will starve themselves almost to death in place of the starving people in Africa, if America as a nation cannot be sympathetic with underprivileged nations who are going through difficulties and hardships, we cannot set our hopes on this nation to save the world. So we must be like that, even if out of the whole nation we are the only ones. If the whole population of the United States, like ourselves in the Unification Church, would go through a seven-day fast for the starving people of the world, then it would be easy for this nation to save several nations at a time from the bonds of poverty and misery. If America went on doing things like that, America could not perish. Then there would be no nation in the whole world which would attack America or whose target would be America. But now in the United Nations many nations are siding with Communism to tear down the United States, and the threat is coming from every direction.

You must realize that it is the judgment by God, and you must be reawakened to the fact, and you must come to Him in repentance. All the population of the United States must repent at this time of the providence. When God has lost all the righteous people whom He can use as His instruments, if we rise up like the dawn and in our group we are strongly united into oneness, then before Communism we are going to be like David before Goliath. God will be on our side, helping us and working for us, and we can win over the Communist power and over even any power greater than Communism.

Just as David threw a stone at the forehead of Goliath and Goliath had to collapse and die, likewise even a small number of our group-if we are united like a stone and throw ourselves against the United Nations at the time of historical importance-then the United Nations can collapse before us.

Now I want to put in order and speak about the importance of the United Nations in the providence of God. In the beginning, the first human family should have been one with God, united with God. If that had been the fact, there could never have been the rupture between Cain and Abel. The conflict was caused by Satan, not God. Satan robbed God of His children. Originally men were God's creation but God is now in the position to have to restore them from the bosom of Satan. So in the course of restoration the second born must subjugate the first-born and, united into one, they must come back to their parents. By their doing that alone can they be restored. In a family the parents and children must be one with God, and only by three levels of things becoming one, can they go into the Heavenly Kingdom. The people on the Cain level have been multiplied and the people on the Abel level have been multiplied, creating on the one hand the Communist world, and on the other the democratic world.

The reason why Communism came about is that Satan knew only too well that the Creator was God, and sooner or later all mankind would go back to God's bosom. Then Satan would become powerless, so before that happened he wanted to deny God, and he planted that ideology into the minds of people. So he wants to have the sovereignty as long a time as possible. Even if people deny God and at the same time deny Satan, it's still better for Satan than recognizing God and denying him. If possible, Satan's aim is to have people unable to expel Satan because they are still in the satanic world. The world of the fall is in itself the satanic world, and Satan will want to have the people remain in that world. Do you understand? (Yes.)

But on God's part, He is very, very desperate to expel satanic power from this world to restore His children, at all costs. Then in what way can God eliminate Satan? It can be done only by finding one family meeting the standard before the fall. If that one family can be expanded to a tribe, a nation, and then cover the whole population of the world, then the satanic bases will be annihilated and Satan cannot but be gone, be eliminated. Our conclusion is that the separation of Satan from us can be done centering on Adam's family.

Because of the human fall, between Cain and Abel there was rupture, and separation came about. What God wants is an Abel who is stronger than Cain, of course, and a stronger Abel on the family level, a stronger Abel on the national level. God has to prepare for that base. The nation of Israel were the people of God's choice at that point. We must know clearly that the nation of Israel was a nation in the position of Abel, and if they had become one with God there would have been nothing for them to fear, and they could have annihilated Satan. Do you understand? (Yes.)

For Satan, it is the most hateful thing to see that in God's world a nation is born, to be the solid foundation for God's providence to work from. But by order, Abel is in the position of younger brother to Cain as the elder brother. Satan first shattered Adam's family. When he struck Adam's family, he at the same time struck God. The threat and the striking of God and of Abel created the fall, so we, in order to restore ourselves and restore God's world, must be struck first, beaten first, and then restore ourselves. When you are beaten by Satan, in that difficulty if you are united with God, united with your Abel, then you will be stronger than the evil power invading you. That principle applies, and we know-we see that in the religious world that only when people are beaten and persecuted and put under difficulty do they mushroom and grow faster. In Judaism and in Christianity we find that when people are persecuted, then God is on their side working through them, and then they become more powerful. If under such difficulties they are determined to become one with God, cling to Him, never letting him go, then history is witness that those groups are stronger and endure to be winners.

The human fall means spiritual death, so you start from the point of death. So if you are resolved and determined to kill yourself, deny yourself for the cause of God, then you will become strong enough to win the goal. Do you understand that point? (Yes.) On the worldwide level or on the national level, this kind of religious group and this kind of government are in the position of Abel and Cain. All religions have been beaten by the power of governments, which is in the satanic position or Cain position. In that manner history under Abel and under Cain has been developed. On each side they must come back to the vertical line to join Adam-level man in the providence of God. That's the point, to join the Adam-level man: by that I mean the Messiah, to join the Messiah, to become one with him, then that nation can become the Adam-level nation.

In the history of Israel, the people's wish was to have the day when they could meet the Messiah. Then when you are united with the Messiah and become completely one with him, then there comes about a crossing 'unction and those in Abel's position will come to the first-born position, having the birthright, and those in the position of Cain will come to the position of the second-born.

In the Principle of Creation, the second-born is not supposed to dominate the first-born. The firstborn can only be dominated by his parents. Do you understand? (Yes.) The Principle is that the parents are supposed to dominate or be united with the firstborn, then the first-born only by being united with his parents, can dominate and be united with his younger brother. Do you understand? (Yes.) So without your parents you cannot do anything. In the satanic world, Satan, in the position of the parents, has already become one with the Cain type of people so they have claim over their younger brothers. That's why those who are in Abel's position, especially those who are in the realm of religion, have been persecuted by the satanic people. In that case, God could not do anything but just watch His people in Abel's position be beaten by satanic power. Do you understand it?(Yes.)

Up to the present you have been very skeptical about why God cannot just strike the whole satanic world in an instant, and leave them alone. God is a God of Principle, and He is going to apply the same Principle in restoring His people, so He could not strike the satanic world without Principle. Sooner or later in restoring His children back to His bosom, He must have the Principle be used in that project. Until the condition was created, many martyrs and persecuted people have passed away, but if in dying you just cling to God without letting Him go, even at the moment of death, then you are safe even in the spirit world. You must always be able to protest and claim yourself as being God's son. In Principle you have been born under God and lived with God and will die with Him, so it is natural for you to be persecuted by Satan, but you must not be defeated by Satan under persecution. That is why in the Bible we read seemingly paradoxical things: When you want to lose your life, you will gain it, but when you want to gain your life, you will lose it. Only by overcoming death can you come alive.

God's wish is to have His side become stronger than the satanic side. By paying untold indemnity and by leading His people for 4,000 years, He could send the Messiah. At that time the Messiah came as the central figure for his own family, for his own tribe and for his own nation. Only by the people's being united with the Messiah, could he have built his family, and only by the people's being united with his family, could the church have prospered, and only by the people's uniting with the church, could the whole nation have been united with God and have been a success in God's providence.

God sent the central figure as the Messiah to his family, the Messiah to his church, to his tribe, to his nation; and the people should have had him stand in that position. But when the people were not one with God, they were scattered into pieces, with only the Messiah on God's side. That's why the nation of Israel, the people of Israel were scattered all over the world, and that was done by Satan. At that time, if the people had become one with the Messiah, they, in the position of Abel, could have conquered and won over the Roman Empire, in the position of Cain. In unity with the Roman Empire, they could have placed themselves in the Abel position to conquer the whole world in Cain's position, and finally have the whole world united into one.

Then it is the Principle that the Messiah should have had his own family, with the parents in the center. His family would have played the role of the central family in the nation, and the nation would have united with the Arab nations first; then the whole Semitic nation in Abel's position could have absorbed all the rest of the nations of the world.

All these things should have been done in Jesus' lifetime, but because of Jesus' crucifixion, after his death he had to work toward this for 400 years. So his disciples had to conquer Rome in 400 years' time because originally that was Jesus' mission; the Roman Empire should have been one with the Messiah in his lifetime. Thus it was his disciples' job to bring that about after his death. Then the prolongation of 400 years until the disciples conquered the Roman Empire under the Christian ideology came about because of Jesus' death; then the Christian world came into being as the instrument of God to absorb the rest of the world, centering on the Roman Empire. In the Roman Empire centering on the papacy, they tried to unite the whole world. Only by their uniting the Cain type of world to their side, could they play the role of Abel as a nation. If in the papacy they had come into strong and positive oneness with God, then theocracy could have prevailed, and through God they could have reigned over the whole world. They could never have failed. If that had been possible, no Communism could have come into being. But there was also division in that Christian world so in the ]6th century the Renaissance came and humanism prevailed, in reaction to theocracy. Do you understand? (Yes.) On God's side, Luther's religious revolution came, and then the Wesley brothers came along with many types of revival, putting things in order. And then finally democracy was born again centering on America. In the Old World of Europe people under religious persecution fled to the new continent of America for the freedom of worship. On the other side, the French revolution came about with an Enlightenment orientation, and then Communism was given birth.

If in the Christian world after the Messiah's death even on the spiritual level they had become one on the family level, and national level, then those two branches of things could not have come about. But because of the failure there, the rupture between the two, world division came into being. Those are the Abel sphere and Cain sphere on the worldwide level. If the Messiah had been born into that world, the Christian world with the people united into one, world unity could have come about at that time. But because of the split between the two worlds, now for the Messiah to unite the whole world he must work hard to put everything in order again.

In that type of world if the Messiah is to come at all, the nation of the coming will have the condensed form of the whole world, divided into two. Then we must locate a nation of that kind in the world, somewhere in the world. The nation of Israel left the position as the chosen nation to receive the Messiah, because they had already failed to receive him. Now the Christian world is in the position of the chosen nation at this time, and on that base the Messiah is coming. Then the Christian population is in the position of second Israel. But unlike the Israel in Jesus' days, the Christian world exists only on the spiritual level. It is not both physical and spiritual. So there must be one nation, a homogeneous nation, which can play the role of the nation of God's choice both on the spiritual and physical levels.

Christianity, which began centering on the personage of Jesus Christ in the Semitic world, is now spread through Europe. What caused that? It is because Jesus in his ancestral tree was one of the descendants from the line of Seth in Adam's family, the third brother. At the time of Noah, God was going to judge the world by the 40-day flood, but after the judgment because of the misbehavior of Ham, Japheth and his descendants were the line of God's blessing. The descendants from the lineage of the third son were the people of Israel.

Anthropologically speaking, the European people, the Western people, are born out of the lineage of Japheth. The Arab nations are the descendants of Ham. Asiatic people are the descendants of Shem. Asiatic people are in the position of the first-born, while the Semitic people are in the position of the second brother, while the Westerners are in the position of Japheth, the third son. At first those in Abel's position should have sovereignty over all, should be in the position to absorb those in the elder brother's position, so that's why in Jesus' time God used Jesus born out of the Semitic world to be the Messiah. And he had to cover the western world from there on. Do you understand? (Yes.)

The Christian civilization put together with the Western civilization must go back somewhere to search for, to locate and absorb those in the elder brother's position, all the brothers. Because of the failures of Ham, those nations representing Ham were deprived of the blessing, so the trend of Christian thought must come to include Asiatic nations first. Asiatic nations are from Shem's tribe, do you know? (Yes.) That's why the Western civilizations are destined to go back to the East and be influenced by the Orient. So Christianity prevailing in the Western world is centered on Israel, but only on the spiritual level, so they must have something both on the physical and spiritual levels ahead of them.

The Christian world failed to carry out its mission, producing two worlds, one of democracy and one of Communism, so it is once again a test by Satan. Therefore there is no completion or accomplishment of God's will. So God cannot accomplish His mission by having the Japheth type of people used as His instruments, and He must look for another people of His choice. What kind of people would God have in mind? Just as in the case of Adam's family and Noah's family, God is in search of the nation in the position of the first-born. Do you understand me? (Yes.) So in the world today the Orient is the question, not the Western world. In the history of the providence of God, we are now entering the period where God has found the nation He has been seeking in the oriental part of the world. In this period, sooner or later the western hemisphere and eastern hemisphere, with both cultures, must come together. And what nation can play the role of unifier?

We are inheriting God's providence from the Roman Empire, so God should choose a peninsular nation for that job, like Korea. That is Korea. Do you understand? (Yes.) A peninsula is the place where the continent connects with the sea. The Western civilization came mainly from the sea. It began in an island country, Great Britain. The Western people, European people, are the descendants of seamen. They had the ambition of taking sovereignty over the ocean, and mostly they settled in the island of England. They began to occupy the continent of Europe and then Asia, extending their hegemony. In coming to Asia, Western civilization is now meeting with Japan. America, representing Western civilization, and Japan, representing Eastern civilization, are now meeting each other. God finds it impossible or difficult for Japan and America to become one, so God chose Korea, which was liberated and gained independence through America, to play the role. Korea is the only nation where free environment can be created to make Japan and America into one, East and West into one.

Even history can tell you that something great must come out of Korea to unify the whole world. What makes Korea great is that it has a 4,000-year or more history and has been attacked by so many nations surrounding it, yet it has not been stained by foreign power; it has kept its own race and culture. Korea has never attacked other nations. When it was occupied by other regimes and persecuted by them, it kept praising God, only thinking of things in terms of God. When America and Japan began to fight, the remote cause was Korea. American missionaries working in Korea were on the side of the Korean people to win independence from the occupying regime of Japan. In the Orient, Korea is the only nation that historically and culturally and religiously is appropriate to play the role.

During the time of the war between Japan and Soviet Russia, during the time of the war between Japan and China, and even now, Korea has been used as a bridge, and even now Soviet Russia and Red China are setting eyes on her. The center of world problems is now not Russia, not Red China, but Korea. Centered on Korea, Soviet Russia, Red China, America, and Japan are all connected. The solution of Korean problems will be the solution of the problems of the world. If the United States withdraws from Korea, it is doomed to peril.

The American people as a whole don't like President Park of Korea, but still they cannot withdraw from Korea, and they must continue to help Korea. They feel like doing that in the providence of God. God is making them do that. Who will save Korea, and who will play the role of the central figure in Korea, who will be the master in Korea? That's going to be the problem of the world. Surrounded by the nations of the Soviet Union, Red China, and more-or-less pro-Communist Japan, what will happen to Korea will be the focus of attention of the world. Korea is on the dividing line between Communism and democracy. Is it right? (Yes.) North Korea is occupied by a Communist regime, while South Korea is intact and democracy is still prevailing. Western civilization must revolve around to come to Korea, and Eastern and Western civilizations will meet there in Korea.

On the other hand, democracy and Communism will also meet there, so one part of Korea is strongly Communist while one part of Korea is strongly democratic, meeting with each other there and fighting against each other in that nation. The nation is not only the meeting point of Communism and democracy, but also the meeting point of God and Satan, and centering around Panmunjom area, the demilitarized zone, God and Satan face against each other. Do you understand me? (Yes.) While in the spirit world God and Satan are accusing each other, the same thing happens on the physical level with the Korean nation divided into two around Panmunjom. Panmunjom literally means "place of the wooden gate." We have got to make the place of the wooden gate, the place of the golden gate.

What is taking place in the world is never just an accident. Always God's will is working behind the scenes, and all civilizations and cultures and all the historical particulars are concentrated and condensed into one nation of God's choice in the latter days. Then in what position is America placed in God's providence? America is the nation born out of England, Britain. In the course of restoration, the person in the position of Adam must be born out of Eve. Is that right? (Yes.) England being an island nation, signifies or symbolizes the female, and out of that female which was once a prosperous Christian nation was born America, to create a new Christian world.

America is a male country, you know. Like a son born of a mother. Why is America such a big country starting from a small island. An island is like a woman. An island wants to see the land, an island wants and longs for the land. So therefore an island misses the continent. An island country can be likened to a woman, while a continent can be likened to a male. The reason why the continent of America could stand in the leading position of the cultural world is that she was born-not she, in this case-the United States was born out of the female nation, to be the master of the new world, as the male child. America in unity with England must be prepared to receive the Messiah.

Now you have learned that the Messiah should come from the nation in the position of Shem instead of that in the position of Japheth. That nation should be one of the Oriental countries. The nation where the Messiah is going to be born is the fatherland of every other nation. The nations in the position of Adam and Eve in the Christian culture, namely the United States and England, must come to the rescue of Korea, because Korea is the nation where the Messiah is to be born.

Up to a certain time, Korea had been under Japanese control. Japan was in the position of Eve, because it is an island country. In the Asiatic parts of the world, Japan is the only island country. And this island country is conspicuous in the world scene. Because Japan was in the position of Satan in the Oriental part of the world, it came against America with the ocean in between in the Second World War. Japan was the nation of Satan. As a satanic nation, their God was a goddess. With their goddess and with their geographical characteristic of being an island, Japan is in the position of Eve. Japanese people as a whole have more or less the characteristics of a woman. The people of the world know that even the Japanese men are more or less submissive to a stronger power, a male power. The women vacillate. Even the Japanese people can recognize this. Maybe not in the Unification Church, but in the eyes of the world, Japanese people as a whole are more or less feminine. Well, in the world of the fall Eve has been in the position to dominate Adam. So for a certain period of time Korea was something like Adam being dominated by Eve.

In the meanwhile America was in the position of Adam according to the providence of God, and England is in the position of Eve.

Both America and England, in the position of Adam and Eve, came to rescue Korea, and fighting against Japan, defeated Japan and liberated Korea. And from now on Korea will be conspicuous in every field. If Korea is a little better off than Japan economically, then it can beat Japan very easily. Both America and England are already Christian nations. In the latter days God is going to choose one nation out of the Orient to play the role of Adam, and if America and England receive that Adam nation and help God's providence to be accomplished as the leading nation of the world, then they will be able to make God's project a success.

The Christian world, as I have already said, is in the position of the second Israel or in the position of the Jewish faith, so in Korea the Christian population must in fact receive the Unification Church. Do you understand? (Yes.) If the Christians in Korea, while they are supposed to receive the Unification movement, reject it, the whole Christian world will become a failure and collapse. The Christians in the Oriental part of the world together with Western Christianity are collapsing and being shattered. Is it true? (Yes.) Why? Why is it so?

Believe it or not, Korean Christians, having persecuted the Unification movement, have in God's sight made a great mistake and are doomed to fail, to perish. Even America, which has hitherto been aiding Korea, is going to retreat. If in Korea the Christians had not persecuted the Unification Church, on the worldwide level not Japan but England would be in the position of Eve, while America would be in the position of the archangel to Korea as Adam.

In 200 short years God has blessed this land of America with great material abundance. You have been in the position of the archangel, so you have been only the custodian of heavenly wealth. What makes America be placed in the position of archangel? One of your characteristics here is that American men think highly of American women. Is it right? Unconsciously they know that the Messiah is coming as the bridegroom, so all the male people in America are helping their females to receive their Bridegroom. Men in the fallen world can go to the Bridegroom only through their women, that's why. So up to now, American women have been more or less dominant over American men. There's no other nation in the whole world like this. They have been only doing this in the position of the archangel, to help the women to receive their Bridegrooms.

And one more thing which is very interesting is the question, why in America is free sex so prevalent? It is the duplication of the fallen act between Adam and Eve at the time of the fall. Unless you can turn that trend upside down, America is doomed to perish. If you go on like this, God's judgment will fall on you, first of all. The human fall was caused by the illicit love act between Adam and Eve-that means free sex as reproduced here-so America is going to be the first nation of many to perish. The human fall was planted in that way, so in the autumn of human history, in the latter days, the same thing will happen; it will bear fruit and be harvested by judgment. Satan will get hold of the people through the idea of free sex. So in the Unification movement it is our privilege and our duty to turn that idea upside down or annihilate the free sex idea. We must be alert to the fact that all material wealth will go under satanic dominion if we let it alone. We all exist for that purpose, to restore all things and all men to God.

From that viewpoint we cannot deny that America is in the position of the archangel and that in the latter days you must reap America for God's side. Do you follow me? (Yes.) There is no other group in the whole world where they will teach you this. These are not humanly fabricated words, and I have not gotten this idea out of my study, but it comes from God.

Because of the failures of the Korean Christians to be united with the Unification Movement, God has been looking for another nation in the position of the world Eve, which was to be England, and He located Japan for that position. Even after the defeat in the World War 11, during 20 years' time God blessed Japan with material wealth. It is because 20 is the number of maturity, and when a woman is matured, she's going to be married to a man. She has to first be prepared with material things, equally with spiritual things, before being married. Japan is something like a naked woman, and all the male beings around her will set eyes on her. Both the Soviet Union and Red China have the ambition to get hold of Japan, and they know if they get hold of Adam they can easily get hold of Eve, so the focus of their attention is on both Korea and Japan. And the same thing happens with America. America, too, has set her eyes on both Korea and Japan. The Korean Unification Church sets its eyes on Japan. Japan's only way is to come to Korea. That is, Korea or the Korean Unification Movement cannot afford to let Japan as a woman go to marry Red China, or marry the Soviet Union. We cannot let her do that. You must marry the Korean Unification Church.

In the position of Adam, I myself with the Unification Movement have the mission to win over North Korea, which is in the position of Cain; and win over Japan, which is in the position of Eve; and America, which is in the position of the archangel. Up to the present in the fallen world Eve has been dominating Adam, but reversely now in the course of restoration the nation in the position of, or the movement in the position of, Adam must dominate those in the position of Eve and the archangel. In that chosen nation of Korea, South Korea, the center of South Korea is the Christian world, but the core of the Christian world is the Unification Movement. And in the democratic world the Unification Movement must absorb other ideologies, while in North Korea the Communist ideology is in the central position and is trying to unify the whole people under its ideology; and they just come against each other. Kim 11-sung is in the position of Adam in the satanic world. "Kim Il Sung" literally means "to form or create suns with gold," something like that. That name means "gold sun was accomplished. " Do you understand me? "Make a golden sun," "make a sun with gold." Before the coming of the Messiah into South Korea, a pseudo-form of the Messianic mission happened in North Korea, and Kim 11-sung plays the role of Messiah in his own satanic nation. Kim 11-sung calls himself "father" to the people. In the satanic world the representative of the whole evil power is Satan, and he calls himself "father" to his people, while in the south the godly people assembled together to form a family under God with their leader as their True Parents. In our Unification Family, too, we use the terminology "Father" for the True Parents, Father and Mother. Then there are two fathers. Then one must be the true one, and the other must be the pseudo-form of the True Father, so those two must fight against each other.

You know the story how President Park was attacked on Liberation Day, the 15th of August this year, but it is in God's providence for him not to die but instead his wife was victimized, because if the one in Adam's position should die, the providence would be nullified. You have learned how to restore through indemnity what is on the vertical line down on the horizontal line. In the nation where the people must carry out the mission of the chosen people, there must be one playing the role of the central figure on the internal level and one on the external level. From the year 1960, which was a providentially significant year, we have gone through three regimes, the regime under President Rhee, Syngman Rhee. The next regime was under President Pak, Pak Sun-chon, and in the third place comes President Park's regime.

The first one symbolizes Adam, while the next one symbolizes Eve, and the third symbolizing the archangel, finally. Well, the first regime, Adam, that was the founding or renewal of independence in our nation. In that way symbolically Adam began to have a solid foothold. And then the second reason was in the position of Eve, and in that regime the head of the political party was a woman. The Park regime came by coup-d'etat through military force, so it is in the position of the archangel. In the fallen world, in the world where Adam and Eve are fallen, the archangel seizes hegemony. The archangel is not in the position to marry to anyone, so it has come to be solitary. In three years' time from now, Korea can either become the leading nation of the world or be destroyed utterly. We are at the critical moment. Everything will be done in the Principle.

Kim 11-sung, hand-in-hand with Japan, could have attacked Korea and even America could have clasped hands with those two nations, but the critical moment has passed. In the providence of God I prayed hard for the Park regime and through many channels I reached him, advising him in such a way.

"Be strong, " I said. "You must be stronger than Kim 11-sung. You must be stronger than Japan, and America. " That's what I said. It is because unless he can do that, Korea cannot keep on playing the role of the Adam nation in the providence. I've never once met with President Park and I have never once received a penny from him. No aid is coming from him to me. I'm helping the regime because in the providence of God the regime must be strong. It just hurts me to hear American people say I am the puppet of the Park regime, and even of the CIA. The Communists say that I am a puppet of the KCIA. In the providence of God I'm not in any position to be manipulated by the Park regime. I am putting things in order in the chosen nation and helping the government go the same way.

Now we are situated in the urgent point of time where Korea as the Adam nation and Japan as the Eve nation and America as the archangelic nation must go hand in hand with each other in strong oneness to win the goal under God's providence. Nothing else is in our mind. From the viewpoint of Korea, Japan is in the position of Eve so Adam is going to save the nation of Eve. In the satanic regime of North Korea, the men who married Japanese women cheated them by bringing them to North Korea, and they are now ill-treated and persecuted under the regime; and we have got to restore those people back to their own nation. By my doing that in the position of Adam, to have saved those Japanese women out of the North Korean regime means to open the toll gate for doing the same to the people grabbed by the Communist side, and restore them back to their original position.

Now by our going through the fast and protesting against North Korea's cheating the Japanese wives, if we are successful it means that we are going to bring into light and make naked the evil reality of what they are doing in North Korea and in all the Communist regimes. Then our Master and Kim Il Sung will, you know, attack each other centering on United Nations. Symbolically, it is the taking of a woman, and the pseudo-Adam and the real Adam are fighting each other for her sake. By restoring Eve and by liberating Eve from the hands of the evil power, we can annihilate the Communist world. We can tread down upon the Communist powers. Then to the worldwide scene the fact of the Communist world's having cheated its people will be brought to light. And all the people of the world will come to hate Communism. The master of the Unification Church, Reverend Moon, having known all the facts, has endeavored to expose them, and we are now at the culmination of our activities. We will reflect it in the UN Assembly, and we are going to bring it out on the scene of the whole world. I am not doing this as a politician with ambition, but I am doing this for humanitarian purposes under the will of God. That's all.

The next thing I'm going to do is to snatch back all those great political figures who are the target of Communist influence. We have succeeded in winning the favor of Professor Reischauer for this project and a Mr. Cohen (you know, he is a Harvard professor who was the first one to have visited North Korea) and Jack Anderson and another person by the name of Mr. Williams. With those people as the steering committee, I think they are going to influence Columbia University, which is more or less a center or a hotbed of Communism. We are going to win the people to our side, by winning 217 professors from that campus. And we are going to reflect this to the UN General Assembly, and there if we win the favor of many nations represented, it is going to become a world question.

Up-to-date there have been many nations cheated by Communist propaganda, and now we are bringing to light all the evil things that are taking place in the Communist world, people will have their eyes opened and come to a new recognition. Then they will be separated from the Communist influence.

Most of you may know of a columnist, Jack Anderson. He's a syndicated writer and he is going to write a good article for us. If he writes, some 900 newspapers will handle the articles, and without your knowing, I have already opened up channels to reach those people and they are all on our side. We have facts and material concerning the Kim 11-sung regime, and they are going to handle those in their articles. In the Congress centering on the Senators our PR members are encouraging them to write letters to Prime Minister Tanaka of Japan. In order to make this project a success, I planned and managed to go to the Congress to speak before the Congressmen. My focus was on this point when I began my speech in Madison Square Garden, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. By my making the speech here a success it will influence our schemes to be accepted. I feel as though if I pound on the earth, the earth will crumble, and if I turn the axis the whole world will revolve.

Well, around our project we find that October 24th will be UN Day. We are going to be in the midst of our fast. And it is no coincidence that it is going to be the 24th UN anniversary. This is going to be the very day we have so long waited for, and this is going to be the turning point from where we can open up the toll gate to reach out to the world, to bring it out on the political scene on the worldwide level. From next year on, we are going to send out our missionaries to 120 nations, and in that case those nations represented in the UN Assembly at this time will open up the channel for our missionaries. People of the world will know that Reverend Moon was the one who saved them from the threat of Communism and the fear of Communism.

Korea, Japan, America and many other nations are affected by Communist infiltration, and they are at a loss as to what to do; and at this point if our project is a success, then a new dimension of work will be ahead of us. Although the Communist regime of Kim 11-sung has set forth the bill for withdrawal of UN forces from Korea and it passed by a vote of 34 to 2 1, if the bill is passed it means that the North Korean regime will be liberated from the fact that they were already branded as the aggressor to South Korea. And on the other hand, the truce ending the Korean war was signed not between North Korea and South Korea but between North Korea and the UN Forces. So if the UN Forces are dismissed, then they don't have to keep the truce. No power in the whole world can restrain them from again invading South Korea. Kim 11-sung knows that at the dismissal of the United Nations Forces, the United States Army must naturally withdraw from Korea, and if North Korea comes down attacking South Korea, they can easily occupy South Korea without violating any international law. And even upon the aggression into South Korea, no UN forces, no United States Army, can come to aid in a Korean war. Then it is easy for North Korea to occupy South Korea, and on the same offensive they are going to occupy Japan. This is what North Korea is winning at the vote of 34 to 2 1. She is at a loss what to do at this point.

In the providence of God I know only too well that Korea cannot be occupied by a Communist regime, so since I knew that bill is on the verge of being passed, I cannot sit still. I must mobilize my people to go against it and fight it through. So at all costs, at the cost even of our lives, we must fight through and win the victory. I'm not going to have you do that for the sake of the Korean nation but for the sake of the whole free world. If we win the victory in this project, Korea with Master as the center, and Japan and America will become one. That means three nations are becoming one under God's will.

With all this knowledge you must be strong to be united into one with God, and with God working through you, you must not shrink back in fasting. I want you to be really strong to win the victory. In the arena of the United Nations, we Unification Church members on the side of God will fight against the evil power of Communism, and we cannot afford to be defeated. We have got to win over them. By mobilizing mostly the Asian people and including all people from so many nations, centering on the United Nations during the time of 21st to 24th, if we cannot pass over the peak, we cannot make it a triumph. Before the 27th comes, we are going to be able to have ambassadors from so many nations to the UN participate in our project and come out and greet you, make remarks to you. Those who come out to greet you and make remarks to you will never in the future go back to the Communist side. It will harm the dignity of the United States if the UN Forces are dismissed. It will be a disgrace to America.

We have a collective mission to fulfill this and make it a triumph over the enemy evil power. We can almost think that this is going to be our final battle. Our motto for the last three years was the protection of the unified front. In this period we are going to prove to the world that we are standing on the side of God, winning victory for Him. This is going to be the peak of the providence of God. History has never seen the fact that 600 or more young people went through a seven-day fast together. We are passing through the number six denoting 6,000 years of human history, of sin. By indemnifying the number six we are going to reach the number seven, meaning Sabbath. You must deeply realize that this is going to be an event of utmost importance, and you must feel an intensity of mind and body. This is going to be the most critical event history has ever seen. If you concentrate in your meditation and prayer, you can mobilize your whole ancestry and the spirit world, and what you will have done will be long remembered by human history.

With heavenly authority and power and dignity, you must carry out your mission, and never for a moment must you be ashamed of yourself for doing that. People will watch over you with their eyes wide open, and they will be skeptical whether or not you are going through the fast in the real sense, and they will suspect you are going to eat something in secret, and if you are found to be doing that, all that we are doing will be nullified. If even a single person is found to be eating something, then it will be propagated all through the world and it will be misused in a very evil manner. Then people will call me an imposter, cheating people. Have you ever stopped to think of that? Especially Communist people will have their eyes wide open, always watching you, and if you are downcast, if you are complaining, then the very thing will be photographed by those people and be used as propaganda. Among the mass media people there are many Communist people, you must know that. So I want you to be strongly determined and pledge before God that you are not going to be a failure, and as sons and daughters of God to keep the dignity and grace of God, you must fight through and win the victory. You must be gratified that you are going through the seven-day fast in this manner while you have to go through sooner or later the same thing on the individual level, and you must be thankful for being able to do that now.

Especially for the Japanese members, you are doing that for your own country and for the world; and in doing that you must be really determined and successful, because you are representing the whole Japanese population. Do you understand? (Yes.) You must realize that you are participating in the providential history of God, and that your success or failure will determine whether or not God's project will be

successful, so I want you to pledge before God and be really strong in carrying that out.

You must remember that you should not be saying anything in political terms. You must say, "We are not concerned about political things. We are not doing this for political reasons, but out of humanitarian motivation." Then this is the best chance for us to realize multiple goals. Perhaps one of the reporters would stick out the microphone and ask you if Reverend Moon said anything political to you to encourage you. Then you can clearly answer that Reverend Moon has always said things in terms of God's providence and that in the will of God we must do this and that, but never once has he said things in political terms. We are motivated to do things for religious reasons and for humanitarian reasons. That's why we are doing this. That is your answer.

Again, I must remind you of the fact that now we are standing in the historical moment of the providence of God, so I want you to make a pledge before God and go out in front of the UN building. If you pledge to God that you can carry out your mission with dignity of God, hold up your hands. I am going to trust you.

There may be some here who have never heard of such things, but by now I think you have understood that we are going to do this according to the providence of God, under His will, so I want you to gain the goal at this time with all your might. I'm anticipating a great event is happening. By your being the object to God, our project will be a success.

I will conclude my speech today by praying to God that he may help you and protect you.

David S.C. Kim-Let us pray together. Dearest Father: In this crucial juncture of your dispensation, we are chosen to do practical work to please You and to fulfill the deep meaning and significance of your providence. We have our True Parents behind us. We have received clear explanations of the satanic side, spiritual side and heavenly side. We have heard the implications of the complicated way of your hard first steps up to this point, where in New York from 21st through 27th we will finish all the battles of the past. We will bring the culmination and climax to produce the total victory over Communism and Satan and their evil powers throughout the world. When we go out to work, we'll be surrounded by the spirit of power and truth. Wherever we go, whatever we do, whomever we may meet, we will be the incarnation of truth and love and Your spirit, so that any other person, even Satan's children, may realize we are from above, not necessarily politically oriented, but on the humanitarian basis to love all mankind, to save this nation, the whole world, all mankind. With this determination we are ready to fight. We are ready to win the victory and bring You victory. Thank you, Father, for this time to receive detailed instructions from our True Parents. May each of us be able to really return joy and a total victory to You. We ask all this in the precious name of our beloved True Parents. Amen.

One World

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Tarrytown, New York
October 13,1974
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

"One World" is my topic this morning. We are now living in the world of disharmony; it has not become one yet. We are living in the world in which all the nations are fighting against each other. And when they think of world unity, they think of it in terms of unity with their nation as the center.

It is common that in a nation where there are many races, a certain race will think of making the nation one around that race. If there are organizations, a certain organization would want to unite the whole nation centered on their organization. A certain family, for instance, would want to unite the whole around that family. Even in a family, it is a human trait that the father would want to bring the whole family into a harmonious oneness surrounding him; the mother would think the same, and any one of the children would do or think in the same way.

If you think of human traits in these terms, this is not only our way of thinking, but has been the way of thinking of our ancestors and so many passed-away saints and sages. There have been many changes and reformations and even revolutions in the cultural background throughout history, but this one trait of human nature has never changed or gone through a revolution. The Orientals and Occidentals have never mingled with each other, and the Occidental people don't know much about the Oriental customs, but as I see the whole world, both the East and the West have the same common traits. Well, we think in terms of our nation in relation to the world, or tribe in relation to the nation, and our relatives in relation to the tribe, and my family and myself in the background of the tribe. Any individual thinks of making those families into one; the family thinks of making the tribe into one; and the tribe thinks of making the nation into one; and the nation thinks of making the world into one.

If applied in a proper way, this is a good trait of human nature, to bring the world into oneness and harmony. We all have desires. Human desire has to go through these channels to reach out to the end of the world. For instance, a member of the family's first desire is to bring the family into a happy wholeness and harmony. Then what is the desire of the family? The family will try hard to bring the surrounding families into a oneness, centered on itself. And if the relatives and tribe have brought the society into oneness, what comes next? The tribe would want to bring the whole nation into oneness, and then the whole world.

Then what was the desire of the world to be? Since this world is the resultant being, when compared to the world of cause, it tends to go back to its cause, the great cause of everything. And it means it wants to go back to God, and we know that God is the ruler of the whole world. In other words, He is the center of the world, and the subject of the rest of the world. God being the subject and the origin, He must have an object. When the subject becomes one with the object-as in the case of electric current-plus and minus meet with each other and light comes. You only see the resultant current, but we see that there is an electric bulb with plus and minus put together, which makes the light. But you forget that it is connected with the plug, the cord, the transmitter, and finally the generating plant.

In the Unification Movement, we are proclaiming that we must make the world into oneness. How can we bring it about? Well, it may sound simple and easy, and you'll say, "Well, if the nations become one with each other. . . " But before the nations can become one, there must be a central nation to play the role of the subject. If every nation would want to be the subject of the rest of the nations, harmony and oneness cannot come about. Any one nation could think, "Well, if the rest of the nations would come to our side, and become one, that's a wonderful thing; and the world oneness can be achieved!" Their nation must have subjectivity over the rest of the nations, and in that nation there must be a subjective view to make it possible. In any tribe, in any family, the same thing applies. Let us not deny it. The same principle applies to any individual.

But out of the whole mess we must find and set up one principle that can be applied to any situation. We are trying to do that. In our Principle, we have a clear picture of what it is. And on the positive side we must put things in order, so the smallest thing must come first, and the second largest thing on the second stage, and third largest thing next. On the minus side, the same thing must be done. Then, after putting those things in order, the providence stops. Then, the individual in the position of subject will be paired with the individual in the position of object, and the nation in the position of the "plus" subject must go hand in hand with the nation in the position of "minus," in order to become one. There must be no single person that would not accept or hope for this someday.

Then, what is the starting point of one world? It starts right from yourself, you and me. When you single out the most important thing, you didn't think of yourself. But you are stable and solid, and with all the bearings and directions around you. You are one with all your relatives, and friends, the nations and the world population surrounding you. You can identify yourself. But when we think only of ourselves, and not of the surrounding people, that's not the way we should think.

We are living in a world of relations. I'm not born of myself. There must be some cause to me. I'm the resultant being, born out of some cause, and if I'm not yet completed according to the original intention of my Creator, I must be on the way. You must identify yourself as that. And when you closely look into yourself, you will see that there are two beings or two selves: your self centered on your mind, and your self which is physical self.

When you say "you" or "I", it does not mean that your body and fleshly side are fighting against each other in disharmony. You can put those two together and you call it yourself. Automatically your mind and body tend to become one, and when we call ourselves "I" it means those two put together in harmony. Then our mind, the subjective part, is not changed.

Well, there's the greatest cause or subject in the world, namely God. Can God be changed? We destined to go to a suitable goal which is connected with eternity. We are bound for that goal, but on the way we must not vacillate and change all the time. When there's instability, there's no unity. Well, even on the way to unity it can be scattered into pieces again. If I were to set up one principle, it would be that we must see ourselves through eternity, on the way toward constant stability.

Then where can we find such an unchangeable being? Between mind and body, which is less changeable, mind or body? We naturally think that our mind is. If our mind is in the position of the subject, would we want to have our mind unchangeable or changeable? There's no question about that-we want our mind to be unchangeable. The more we think of our mind as important, the more we would want to have it stable and unchanged. It is symbolic of human nature that we value certain jewels or treasures which never change-for instance, gold and diamonds. So there's no contradiction when we define our mind as the subject, because we find in our mind unchangeability, well, at least more than in our body. That's why we put more importance on our mind and we treasure our mind more than our fleshly side.

There's a plus side and a negative side, when our mind and body become one. Then you will be headed towards a larger level of plusses and minuses, for instance towards relatives, nations, and the world. They will be added up when you accomplish the unity within your own self.

In yourself mind is in the plus position. Then would a plus and another plus become one? No. Well, where would the subject, or plus, go in order to make a unity? It would go to the minus. It's safe to say, then, that around your mind must be your body.

So you know that there's an ultimate subject or an ultimate plus? There is a God in the universe. And if you go to Him with just your mind, which is in the position of plus, He would refuse to become one with you. You must go to your minus side first, and unless you create a unity between your mind and body, you cannot reach God.

This is why the Bible teaches you not to make enemies of each other. So if you have a resentment over certain people, you are told to go to that person before going to God, and be reconciled. Unless you get harmony there, you have the obstacle in your path to reach God. And, if there is unity and beauty in the world, and then all the rest of the things and people are destined to push you up to God and not destroy you. That's the nature of the universe.

So, on the contrary, if you have your enemy in your back and you try to go to God, the enemy will pull you back, not push you up. You have to be in the minus position to the ultimate plus, but if there's a power pulling you back, how can you become one with the plus? When you are told to love your enemy and be reconciled with him, you are told that because God is love and He wants you to become one with Him. If in yourself, your mind and body are not one with each other, then it means that your minus side, your fleshly side will pull you back, even though your mind tends to go to God.

Do you really want a world of unity? Then where must that start? (Inside.) Then it is simple. You must apply that principle. In the world we have been training ourselves in faith. under religions, on moral standards, but all that has been in order to perfect ourselves according to that standard. Then, do we have to have the desire? If the desire is according to the Principle coming from God, then it is worthy of desiring and you want to have it.

Your desire must be one which makes all others happy. Then what kind of desire must that be? That is the desire for unity under God. First of all, we must know how to bring ourselves into oneness and unity. Suppose there is a man and a woman: man with the plus and minus harmonized in himself, and a woman also with the plus and minus harmonized in herself. What is the difference between the characteristics of man and woman? All the men would want the more feminine women and all the women want to have the more masculine men. Would any of the male members want to have his wife be masculine? Would any of the female members want to have her mate be feminine, without hairs, with smooth, beautiful hands. You want the contrary. Why is it so? Because in that way you automatically tend to become one, complementing each other.

In that case with plus and minus put together, the men would want to have the women in the minus position, with men as a whole in the plus position. And the minus part of the men would tend to become one with the plus trait in the women. These plusses and minuses put together will be stronger than the plusses and minuses themselves separately. Well, this plus-minus put together is stronger than either this or that. These two together will play the role of plus and then either one of these will come to be united in oneness. All these put together will become another plus, bigger and stronger. But even this, before God, becomes a minus, to receive God's love. But we know that in God Himself there is a plus quality and a minus quality, and the same thing happens there. That is why we can say that we will be able to be united with God. Do you have a clear picture of the pattern?

But when you ask yourselves the question of whether or not your mind and body can become one, and your answer is "no," what can you do? Will that be an easy job to bring them into oneness? That seems to be impossible. How would you bring your mind and body into unity? When you apply that principle, you'll get the answer

The fastest way for you to do the job, when you cannot bring your mind and body into oneness by yourself, is to find an object. Your minus side, your fleshly side, must come into obedience to the plus side of another person, and then by serving him or her, you'll find yourself becoming one with at least some element. If you are successful with one person in getting your minus side and his plus side to become one, then it will expand to the larger level, and you can finally bring your plus side and his minus side into one, and the plus in yourself and the minus in yourself can ultimately become one.

That's the way any religion would teach you: to serve other people. Serving other people and sacrificing yourself is the only way you can become one with others, and be harmonized in your own self. Didn't I tell you that if you serve ten persons at the sacrifice of yourself, then the ten persons will come under you and want to be dominated by you. Jesus washed the feet of His twelve disciples once in order to teach us this lesson.

Then which would be the first way to create unity-by serving other people and becoming one with others first? Or bring your mind and body into oneness? Which is the easier way or the faster way? (Serving others.) This is because Satan is always getting hold of our body. Then why can Satan be separated when you serve other people? It is a universal principle that when you serve other people, you are in a position of being far better off than Satan, so he's naturally destined to leave you. This is because the trait of Satan is self-centeredness. In your fleshly side, Satan is already guiding and undermining you. So, if you want to leave him or have him separated from you, just be nonchalant to him and become faithful to other people. Then Satan cannot imitate you, because he's the symbol of arrogance and self-service.

If you serve other people at the cost of your life, sacrificing yourself, then it's natural that he will be separated from you. Applying that principle is the only way for you to become one with that person and separate yourself from Satan. This is the secret of unifying yourself. This is the formula, and it can be applied to everything. By applying that method, you can separate Satan on the individual level, family level, national level, and world-wide level.

Then let us investigate more closely . Isn't it true that if you serve your friend with all your sincerity, wouldn't he want to follow you? If he knows that you are serving toward him, if you go to the comer and sit there, then it will be natural for him to come to you and follow you. So, which of the two can become the subject: the one who is serving to the other, or who is served? Who will bow his head to the other; the one who is served, or the one who is serving? When he respects you, it means he is saying, "You are the subject. I want to follow you. " If any group wants to choose a leader for themselves, the same thing applies.

If the Principle is not properly applied in the Unification movement, we are apt to create Satan. You may say, "I came into the movement earlier than you, so I am in the position of Abel. " Well, we must eradicate that kind of contest. If you have been serving other members ever since you joined the movement, then you may safely stand as an Abel. But if you have not been serving other people, and you are older than others in the movement, then that cannot make the case for you to stand in the position of Abel. Do you know what I mean?

Well, I sent out people and assigned them to posts of State Representatives, Mobile Unit Commanders, and Regional Directors. And they all think that they are in the position of Abel to the rest of the people, so they want to be served by the people. Does that define someone as Abel? First of all, they must serve the people under them, and then they can naturally be served by them. After going through the 100-day training program, you will be sent out to the states for leadership, so you must not forget what I said this morning.

When people want to define whether or not our Unification Movement is good, and we apply this principle, it will be easy for them to grasp it. We must tell the people that we are not working for the Unification Movement, but for the good of the whole nation. If we are able to make the Unification Movement or Unification Thought the leading ideology of the nation, then that nation as a whole must serve the rest of that nations of the world, or else it cannot stand in the position of Abel to the world. This is the formula, and this is the principle, to connect to the next level of things, from the individual to the world-wide level.

If you are asked the question, whether you want to live for yourself or for the world, what must your answer be? (World!) You are greedy aren't you? In everyday life, you must live not for yourself, but for your family, for your nation, and not even for your nation alone, but for the world. Would you really want to live that kind of life?

In order to be able to live for the world, you must resemble Jesus. Jesus' twelve disciples represented twelve tribes or twelve nations of the world. I understand that in America you don't like the number thirteen. I like that number, because for instance, if I put down twelve on the rim of the circle, the remaining one should go in the center. Then now, don't you like the number thirteen? With twelve surrounding it, the thirteenth point will come to be the center point. First he serves the rest, and then all twelve will come to him as the center, meeting him in unity,

Jesus tried to bring his twelve disciples into unity within the scope of His own nation, but now we are going to bring twelve nations into unity, each representing one disciple of Jesus. If centered on our movement we can bring twelve nations into unity, we are optimistic and confident to be able to bring the rest of the world into oneness.

You say you want to bring the whole world into unity, but how to bring the world into unity is the problem. I think you have grasped a clear picture of what it is. Then the question is, "Can you? Can you live your life for the people of twelve nations?" Representing the twelve nations, you will choose any twelve people, or twelve of your friends coming from twelve nations. If you are successful in serving them from the bottom of your heart, you have the possibility of making twelve nations into one. Do you follow me? America is a good place to serve this purpose. Here you have people from so many nations, and so many races mingled together. There are maybe 120 or more living here. If those people, from so many races and nationalities can mingle in harmony and just live here in beautiful unity, then this is already the most Heaven there can be.

Then America is the only nation that has realized the Kingdom of Heaven, and we cannot hope ahead for it elsewhere. Then, is it realized that way in this nation today? You have your own problems between black and white. The Jewish people are not quite unified with the rest of the nation. That's your difficulty. If we can apply the Unification Principle in this nation, and if people really feel that this is the only principle that can bring unity in this world, and if they understand that, they cannot but try to apply this method. Would you want to have them do that? Well, having known that principle, are you not going to apply it yourself? And how can you decide on your being qualified for that? Can you define yourself? For instance, if it is all right for some male member to have as an ideal mate a Negro girl, a white girl, a yellow girl, or any girl from 120 nations, and if you will be able to love any one of the 120, then you will have passed the test. The same thing is true with girls. If you can really love any man of the 120 types as your husband, you will have passed the test. If you don't like any one of the 120, through that nation, Satan will come to invade you.

Then Jesus, by choosing twelve disciples and serving them, trained himself and put that principle into practice. The other day, I asked this question of one of the Japanese girls: "Would you want to marry an American or Westerner?" she said, 4"Yes." And I asked her again, "You would rather marry a Japanese boy, wouldn't you?" And she smiled and said, "Yes!" We must go beyond that level in our thinking and in our actions.

I went through the same thing. Before choosing Mother, I thought of many things. At first, I did not think of choosing the best woman in Korea. I thought of one who was not too well educated, and one whose family background was not up to the standard. Something hit me, and I felt I wanted to have her. That is my standard. If my mission had started in America, and I was going to choose Mother here, I could have married a black girl, because I wanted to bring the world into unity without the discrimination between black and white. In my imagination I would visualize a black woman with a big brown face, so overweight, with such big hips that I could not even embrace her. If that was the only way I could realize the will of God, I would have done that. Some of you may think, "Well you have already chosen our beautiful Mother, so that's why you can say that." I had been visualizing all those ugly women for my wife, and I was ready to have them if it was God's will. That's why God gave me a beautiful wife. That's true, that's true.

You cannot calculate on God's giving you good things, so visualize bad things for yourself. That's not the way, but if you are ready for that, God will provide you with better things. We must be thankful to God, because we now know the blessedness of being one of the Unification members, because we are in the stage in which we can bring the whole world into one, applying this principle. We can never fail. I have paved the way for you in my past, by discarding my family, deserting my relatives, my friends, and sacrificing all those things. As many of you may know, I have divorced the wife of my first marriage. It was because my wife did not want to follow me, to do the will of God. And I've done my best to convince her and lead her to the will of God. You have read about the wife of Socrates, how she played the role of obstacle to his way. I've done more than Socrates did for his wife. I've done my best. Then someone told me God wanted me to get divorced. I decided that I had to live for the world, not for just a woman, a wife. Now, she's regretful and in repentance. Song-Jin's mother, now deep in her heart, respects me and keeps saying that Song-Jin's father is best of all the men in the whole world. God knows. She knows that, and she's now in repentance. She would want to get divorced and I wouldn't submit, so she would come with her brother and with her mother, and wanted so badly to get divorced and be separated from me, so finally I let her go. Would you want to have me leave the woman because of the world, or leave the world because of the woman? (Leave the woman!) I would want the female members to answer me. (Leave the woman.) So, that's why I had to cut her off, and I was not conscience-stricken by that. If I would tell you the whole story in detail, you would become indifferent, and say, "Well, why did you not cut her off long before that?"

My eldest son, Song-Jin, knew all the particulars even in his boyhood, and at the age of seven he would run from his mother and come to my side. In the worldly sense, his mother loved him dearly, but this boy somehow came to Father even though he had not been seeing him. It was God's will that sent him. He could barely recognize his Father's face. But how much I would have loved him! But, in order for him to go through the indemnity course, I would leave him to be raised by someone else, before my second marriage of course.

God knows, I loved my Unification Family members more than I did my own child. I loved the Unification Family members more than I did my own parents, because God wouldn't love mankind. Now that I'm in the United States, I love the people of the United States more than I do the Korean people, while the Korean people are under the worst situation and in the more miserable situation. I do this because this is God's way. In saving the whole world, God has been sacrificing the people of His choice, His own sons and son. This is why I'm applying the same method; and I know, at the end, those who have been served will serve us.

In the year 1960, 1 had the Holy Matrimony, and only after that would I receive Song-Jin, my eldest son from my former marriage, to come to live with me. Back in Korea, I would just cry and refuse to have my members buy me a house. But now we are passing through the second seven-year course. That's why I allowed myself to buy the house. Before buying my house, I bought a big site in the best part of Seoul for our future world headquarters in Korea, and I built the training center, and I bought places for many regional churches. And then I came here and I bought my house. I bought the site for our future university in Korea, and then I thought I was entitled to buy my own house.

I bought the site for the world headquarters in Korea for the members and the site for the university, for the education of the later generations of our members, and the training center for the present education of the people in our ideology. And then I thought I was qualified to buy my own house. But I've recently read that the newspapers say I'm living a stylish life or a luxurious life. I'm not indebted to them! I'm doing this because I have crossed over the level of the national providence. In God's sight, the members are the persons who ought to buy my house-you, the sons and daughters. But I for my own part have been buying houses, one after another, for my staff members in Korea, and only after doing that, I bought mine.

By the end of October of this year, I will have bought houses for every one of the 36 couples in Korea. And then next will come the 72 couples, and the 120, 430, 777, until we cover the whole world with blessed families. But, while their Master doesn't have a house to live in, are they entitled to buying their own house? That cannot be. Everything I do is done is accordance with the Principle, and I do nothing against the Principle. There is an order of things, and I begin from the 36 couples and then go on and on to the rest. You must not complain in any way or be skeptical about me, because if you believe in me, you must know that I am doing things in accordance with the Principle and under the permission of God. Would you rather have me live in a good house or a good mansion like I do now, or would you rather have me live in a miserable situation? I know that the Unification members of America would want me to live in the most luxurious, the most wonderful house in the whole nation! Am I right?

Whenever I see a good house, I just feel like buying it for you! Well, we are headed for that goal. Even though I live in that mansion, I don't think of it as my own house. I always think it belongs to the Church. And, in the long run, I will return to Korea and it can become the museum! As you may know I have brought millions of dollars from Korea and elsewhere to buy so many buildings. But I know and I think that they all belong to our Church.

Well, you, in buying the house, must think of the matter that way, and you must not think of buying the house in your name. There's no "mine" in our movement, but everything belongs to the Church, to God. After all, you must think that what you have belongs to the world, to mankind and to God. If you have some money in your pocket, you must first of all think of the money as belonging to the world. So, you must live in the Principle, not otherwise.

There have been many bad things said about me, ill rumors, but all those have been side-effects or by-products of what we have been doing. They were said and done by the people who would not understand our situation, and who have not looked, and who have not lived the Principle. So we don't have to mind all those things

One world is our goal, day and night, asleep or awake. So, among yourselves you must not think, "He's from England; he's from the black race, the white race, or the yellow race. " There should be no discrimination among our group. For instance, since we are living in this part of the world, sometimes as measures we can go through some obstacles, but fundamentally we must not be discriminating among the races, and things like that.

In conclusion, I must repeatedly say that, in order for us to go through all those levels of things, we must be able to serve others in every category. I brought so many Japanese members here to drive them hard, and I often asked them questions like this, "Are you working for the well-being of the whole mankind, or for the well-being of our Family members, or for the well-being of America?"

So, my conclusion is that when they have to leave this nation, they must not leave any trace of regret, no lingering thought. They must leave the country with their mind cleared away. If they are too attached to what they have done, then its means that they did if for the sake of themselves. Whenever I leave one place I just forget about it.

What is your answer, Japanese members? Some say, "I want to remain in America because I've done so much, and I've not quite finished my job here. " In that case, I will define him as a person who did the job for the sake of himself, not for the sake of the will of God or the country. I once declared that they have to leave, probably very soon, and then from that moment I have been feeling that among the Japanese members all think, "We are sooner or later leaving this nation. Why do we have to work so hard?" And their spirits are becoming low, and the movement is not prospering too well. Then you will have completed your work in the United States not in success but in failure.

I understand now that less people are coming after the Madison Square Garden to the workshops. If you keep on letting it happen, then I will conclude that the Japanese people's work will have been a failure in the long run. I cannot place much hope on you people. Aren't you being inclined that way? Frankly speaking, what is your answer? Before leaving, my command to you is to bring 3,000 members. There's a Japanese proverb that goes like this, "The bird that leaves the nest should not defame the nest. "

By the first of November, I will bring all the Japanese members living in local states to New York, and I will watch how you are doing. One by one, from the persons who make the poorest record, I will kick them out, and they will have to leave this country. We must work for the unity of the whole world, and not for Japan, not for yourself.

Mr. Kamiyama says they think, "Well, I may be one who has to leave America. " That is not the way you should be. I may not say anything more like this, but what I do is according to the Principle; and when I observe you doing things, I evaluate you in that light. I may leave you for several months, and if you live up to the standard, I may have you stay longer in the United States. If you don't live up to the standard, I may have to send you back earlier than you expected. You must remember, whether you stay or leave, all will be one according to God's will.

If Jesus had lived long enough to accomplish His mission, then he would have been so much the better, but if he was supposed to be crucified by the demands of the circumstances, he would have gladly received that situation. And that's the way we should go, as his successor.

You must be determined, while you are in the United States, to bring twelve nations into one, and to bring at least twelve people, representing twelve nations into one. Even after you leave this country you must be thinking of them and praying for them.

The Bible and the Principle teach that you are going to do greater things than Jesus did. So, you will have to create twelve disciples of yours, or spiritual children of yours, and serve them, putting them in the position of the twelve nations. And if you see to that, they will be blessed in Holy Matrimony, all your twelve spiritual children. Then your job for them will be finished. In the year 1970, when I blessed 777 couples covering ten nations or more, I symbolically blessed people from twelve nations. That was the condition formed to be able to go through the tollgate, reaching out to the world. Do you follow me?

The problem is always yourself, your etiquette, and if you apply this principle to your twelve spiritual children, representing twelve nations, we can create or realize one world. By your doing that, when you pass away to the spirit world, you'll go freely through all those twelve gates to the Heavenly Kingdom. In that way alone can you make heaven your own world of the Heavenly Kingdom. If you only think of your own nation, you are entitled to pass through only one gate. This may inconvenience you, and you'll be miserable, because other people will go through twelve gates freely.

You are going to create one world; and that one world can only come about when you can create your twelve gates by bringing twelve or more members representing twelve nations, and serve those people. If you serve hopefully 120 people, then we are sure that we can realize one world under God. I want you to apply this method in your everyday life, and attain the goal. In that case, you will be able to separate yourself from Satan.