7-Day Fast for Japanese Wives of North Korean Repatriates

Sun Myung Moon
October 27, 1974
Compiled by Taekon Lee

Seven hundred Unificationists fasted for seven days in front of the United Nations in New York from October 21 to 27, 1974, to protest the treatment of Japanese wives of North Korean repatriates. True Father initiated the fast for humanitarian and providential reasons. He noted that Korean men living in Japan who married Japanese women and then repatriated to North Korea had “cheated” the wives who were “now ill-treated and persecuted under the regime.”

In this connection, the Unification Church published a volume of testimonies from these women, If I Had Wings Like a Bird, I Would Fly Across the Sea, which publicized their plight. Apart from the humanitarian issue, Unificationists undertook the fast within the context of a North Korean proposal, which had gained traction in the UN General Assembly, that called for UN forces to be removed from South Korea.

True Father stated that the fast’s purpose was to “make naked the evil reality of what they are doing in North Korea and in all the communist regimes.” Unificationists’ efforts continued after the fast, and on December 9, 1974, the UN General Assembly approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution providing for maintenance of the United Nations Command in South Korea.

One World

Sun Myung Moon
October 13, 1974
Belvedere

We are now living in a world of disharmony; it has not become one yet. We are living in a world in which nations are fighting against each other. When they think of world unity, they think of it in terms of unity with their nation as the center.

In a nation where there are many races, a certain race will think of uniting the nation around that race. Organizations 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 harmonious oneness surrounding him; the mother would think the same, and any one of the children would also think the same way.

This is not only our way of thinking, but has been the way of thinking of our ancestors and so many saints and sages in the past. 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. Orientals and Occidentals have never mingled with each other, and the Occidental people don't know much about Oriental customs, but both the East and the West have the same common traits. We think in terms of our nation in relation w the world, our tribe in relation to the nation, 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; 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. For instance, a member of the family has as his first desire bringing the family into happy wholeness and harmony. What is the desire of the family? The family will try hard to bring surrounding families into oneness, centered on itself. If the relatives and tribe have brought society into oneness, what comes next? The tribe would want to bring the whole nation into oneness, and then the whole world.

We must make the world into oneness

In the Unification movement, we are proclaiming that we must make the world into oneness. How can we bring it about? It may sound simple and easy, and you'll say, "Well, if the nations become one with each other..." But before 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 thus world unity 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.

Then, what is the starting point of one world? It starts right from yourself, you and me. When you singled out the most important thing, you didn't think of yourself.

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

That does not mean that your mind and fleshly side are fighting against each other in disharmony. Put those two together and call it yourself. Automatically your mind and body tend to become one; when we say "I" it means those two put together in harmony. Then our mind, the subject part, cannot be changed.

We must not vacillate all the time

The greatest cause in the world is God. Can God be changed? We are bound for an eternal goal, but on the way we must not vacillate and change all the time. When there's instability, there's no unity. 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 on the way toward constant stability.

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. 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. We define our mind as the subject because we find in our mind unchangeability, well, at least more so than in our body. That's why we put more importance on our mind and we treasure our mind more than our fleshly side.

If your mind is in the plus position, would a plus and another plus become one? No. Where would the subject, or plus, go in order to make unity? It would go to the minus.

There is an ultimate subject or an ultimate plus. There is a God in the universe. 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; unless you create unity between your mind and body, you cannot reach God.

Be reconciled with your enemies

This is why the Bible teaches you not to make enemies of each other. If you have resentment towards a certain person, you are told to go to that person before going to God, and be reconciled. Unless you achieve harmony there, you will have an obstacle in your path to reach God. If there is unity and beauty in the world, 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.

On the contrary, if you have your enemy on 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? It is simple; you must apply that principle. We have been training ourselves in faith and moral standards; all that has been in order to perfect ourselves according to that standard. Do we need desire? If that 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. 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, unity. Suppose there is a man with 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. Why is it so? Because in that way you automatically tend to become one, complementing each other.

Plus and minus combined create unity

The man would want to have the woman in the minus position, with men as a whole in the plus position. The minus part of the man would tend to become one with the plus trait in the woman. These pluses and minuses combined will be stronger than the pluses and minuses themselves separately. These two together will play the role of plus. 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 say that we can be united with God.

But when you ask yourselves whether you r mind and body can become one, that seems to be impossible. How would you bring your mind and body into unity? When you apply this principle, you'll get the answer.

The fastest way for you to bring your mind and body into oneness 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 clement. 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 what 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. If you serve ten persons at the sacrifice of yourself, then those ten persons will come under you and want to be dominated by you. Jesus washed the feet of his twelve disciples in order to teach us this lesson.

Serve other people

Which would be the first way to create unity -- by serving other people and becoming one with others first? Or to 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. 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 must leave you alone. This is because Satan is self-centered. Satan is already guiding and undermining you on your fleshly side. 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 selfservice.

If you serve other people at the cost of your life, sacrificing yourself, den 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 from Satan on the individual level, family level, national level, and worldwide level.

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 corner and sit there, it will be natural for him to come to you. Which of the two will become the subject: the one who is serving the other, or the one 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.

Live for the world

When people want to define whether or not our Unification movement is good, if we apply this principle, it will be easy for them to grasp it. We must tell people that we are not working for the Unification movement, but for the good of the whole nation. If we are able to make Unification Thought the leading ideology of the nation, then that nation as a whole must serve the rest of the 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 worldwide level.

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. 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 we can bring twelve nations into unity, we are confident to be able to bring the rest of the world into oneness. How to bring the world into unity is the problem. The question is, "Can you? Can you live your life for the people of twelve nations?"

Representing the twelve nations, 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. America is a good place to serve this purpose. Here you have people from so many nations and so many races mingled together. If those people from so many races and nationalities can mingle in harmony and live here in beautiful unity, then this is already the most heaven there can be.

Apply the Principle yourself

If this were true, then America would be the only nation that has realized the kingdom of heaven. Is it that way in this nation today? You have problems between black and white. The Jewish people are not quite unified with the rest of the nation. 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, they cannot but try to apply this method. Knowing that principle, are you not going to apply it yourself?

If it is all right for some male member to have as his mate a Negro girl, a white girl, a yellow girl, or a girl from any one of 120 nations, and if you could love any one of the 120, then you will pass 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 pass the test. If you don't like any one of the 120, through that nation Satan will come to invade you. Jesus, by choosing twelve disciples and serving them, trained himself and put that principle into practice.

One world is our goal, day and night, asleep or awake. 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. I must repeatedly say that we must be able to serve others in every category.

The problem is always yourself, and if you apply this principle we can create one world. By your doing that, when you pass away to the spirit world, you'll go freely through all twelve gates to the heavenly kingdom. If you only think of your own nation, you are entitled to pass through only one gate. You'll be miserable, because other people will go through twelve gates freely. 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.

United States Congress Invitation Seminar - October 8, 1974

Day of Hope speaking tour at Madison Square Garden in New York City - September 18, 1974

The words, love, ideal, happiness, and joy do not mean anything if you are alone

Sun Myung Moon
September 17, 1974
Day of Hope Banquet, Waldorf Astoria Hotel

I am very happy to be here tonight. I thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for coming. I wanted to meet each one of you on the way in; however, because of the lack of time I could not do so. I deeply apologize for it.

You must be asking, who is Reverend Moon? What office is he running for? Well, here I am, Reverend Moon. I am not running for anything.

Humility is a wonderful thing. At 5:00 rush hour I see people, most of them walking with their head down. New Yorkers are so humble and meek, I thought God must love New Yorkers. Then after several months I found out the real reason. There are many tall buildings. Tourists look up at the skyscrapers. So New Yorkers know they must be very wise not to be stepped on by tourists. I find people humble and meek in the sight of God, so I know they can be blessed by His love.

I would like to leave with you a few grains of thought. [Five women from the International Socialist Workers Party shouted "Rev. Moon is a fascist.... "Guests threw things at them and they were finally escorted out of the ballroom.] Their participation in this program makes it even more exciting. So I thank them very much. Those ladies are a work of God, because now I feel so close to you. I'm sure you feel close to me, too. I would really like you to feel at home, speaking to you as brothers and sisters.

Throughout history, all men have been searching for true happiness and joy, which is eternal. Many search, but very few have found it, because our life on earth is very brief and changing. So people come to the conclusion that if we want to search for unchanging joy and happiness, we must search for the source. Is there a source? Yes, there is. Almighty God.

Man is the object of God

The words, love, ideal, happiness, and joy do not mean anything when you are alone. Those words come alive when you form a circuit between two, when there is give and take. This is also true of God. Even though He is almighty, as long as He is alone, He cannot generate them within Himself. They remain dormant in Him. For God to realize His ideal, He needs someone to love and someone to be loved by. Who then can be in the position of object to God? Man and woman, you and I, are created to be in the position of object to God. Therefore, God is in the position of subject, and man is in the position of object.

I think that there are many distinguished couples in this hall. When you looked for a mate, did you look for someone inferior to yourself? You don't have to answer, because all people look for someone ideal and perfect and superior to themselves. In Korea, parents are complimented when told their baby is better than the parents. Why do we act this way? God is subject and man is object. Our human traits all come from their origin, God.

If we ask God, "God, would you like to have your object better than yourself?", God will give you the answer, "Yes, I want my object, my son and daughter, to be better than myself." Have you ever thought, God cannot become perfect without you? You are that precious in the sight of God. Without you, God cannot fulfill His idea. This is a really stunning truth.

The relationship between God and man is not only the relationship of subject and object, but the relationship of Father and son. In this fallen world, deviated from God's ideal, we want our love to be eternal. God's ideal and love are eternal. God wanted to have an object, a son and daughter, to have the same quality of love. So God wanted a world eternal and unchanging. Therefore, God must create man to be the realization of love which is eternal and unchanging.

Now the subject and the object are actually one. When you consider these two, subject and object, you can think of two kinds of relationships: selfish and unselfish. Which would God choose? If God created the universe and man on the basis of selfish relationships, it would lead to self-extinction. Therefore, God, the king of wisdom, created the universe in a relationship of unselfishness, upon which His ideal can prosper and in which we can attain eternal joy and happiness.

We are created for others

God created us not for ourselves, but for others. There are many men in this hall. We all have pride in our ego, pride in our accomplishments. But did God create men for the sake of men? No. God created men for the sake of women. I see only the ladies applauding. But just a minute. By the same token, are women created for the sake of women? All ladies throughout the world have something in common. They really want to make themselves beautiful -- hairdo, beautiful dress, beauty exercises. Do they do this for the delight of themselves? No. For the sake of men. So everything is complementary.

I am trying to emphasize this. God created everything in the universe for complementary and reciprocal purposes. This is a universal truth. All creation must complement each other and create a circuit for give and take relationships. By doing so, we can fulfill the purpose of creation. When you apply this in daily relationships, it will work wonders. For example, if you practice God's way in your family, between father and children, truly you will feel as one true family of God. What is the true relationship of husband and wife? Unselfish love, nothing else. At their wedding they pledge eternal love. "I love you even to death." However, that particular pledge will not last for three days.

In America, you can name famous patriots. I know one, Abraham Lincoln. Why is Abraham Lincoln a great patriot? Because he gave his life for the wellbeing of his countrymen. By this principle, can you name one, the greatest of all? Yes, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was the supreme example of giving. He was born for others, lived for others, died for others. Jesus Christ knew the universal truth, God's way of life, which is an unselfish life. He truly demonstrated that way of life to an absolute degree.

Then what is the fall of man we speak of in Christianity? What is the sin that all men come from? Selfishness. Satan twisted the truth of God from unselfish giving to selfish taking. He subjugated Eve and she subjugated Adam. This is a deviated world, a sinful world, departed from God's ideal.

Religions are an instrument of God, trying to bring this world into the knowledge of the true will of God. All good religions, East and West, have this one thing in common -- teaching the sacrificial way of life.

Unselfish love bears interest

The God of wisdom has set the principle of life on unselfishness. Why? Suppose someone loves you one hundred percent in an unselfish way. If someone truly loves you, would you want to return one hundred percent to him, or would you like to be stingy and return 40-50 percent, or would you give more love? Which way does your original nature work? You want to outdo him or her in returning the love you receive.

Suppose I love Col. Pak, my interpreter next to me, one hundred percent unselfishly. Then I want to return one hundred percent and more than the love I receive from him. Then I receive 120 percent in return, and I can give more, maybe 130 percent. So in the circuit of give and take of love there is premium and interest. The motion of love is a circular motion. A straight line comes to an end, but circular motion of love remains for eternity. Unselfish love remains for eternity. Each action of give and take brings more results, and therefore great prosperity.

The second reason why God made the principle of an unselfish way of life is this: When you practice God's way of life, you resemble God; you are more like God. For example, suppose you have ten members in your family, eight children and two parents. If the very young son is a very loving, selfgiving person, and loves everyone, soon he will become the central figure and will receive more love from everyone, including the father and mother. So when you practice God's way of life, you shall have the power like God; you shall have the central position.

All compete for God's dominion

There is another principle in this universe. Everyone wants to belong to the one who loves him. Everyone hates selfish domination, but where there is unselfish love, everyone seeks to come under that domination. Heaven is the world of God's domination. Does everyone hate that domination? No, everyone competes with each other to get closer to God and more domination by God, because that domination is the domination of love. Everyone is seeking God and true love. When you become like God by practicing God's way of life, you are taking God's position in your own society.

There is one final reason for an unselfish life. Is love yours? Love is not mine, love does not belong to me. You cannot fulfill your love within yourself. Love can be fulfilled only by an object. You also have certain ideals. But ideals can never be fulfilled in yourself alone. Ideals can only be fulfilled by dealing with others.

Everyone in this world seeks fulfillment in life. In order to fulfill your life, you need your love and your ideals to be fulfilled. But they can be fulfilled only by others. You are in the receiving position. Therefore, our basic attitude of life is one of humility and meekness. This is God's way of life.

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, God is looking down on this earth, seeking a God-like person who can truly represent Him and His way of life by tribe, family, and nation. He is seeking such a champion on earth.

When I talk about the spirit world, people shake their heads, disapproving. But it really can be said that I am an expert on that world. That world in which the principle of God alone is working is systematic, a world in which God's ideal has been fulfilled. The world of God is the total practice of God's way of life, an unselfish way of life. Therefore, those who practice God's way of life on earth are the only ones who deserve it eternally. We all long for something eternal. Yes, we can attain that world, by knowing God and His principle.

One grand circle of giving

I am here to present one formula -- God wanted to have the nation, society and world in which His formula becomes successful. First, of all, I myself exist for my wife, husband and wife together exist for the family, the family serves the society, the society serves the nation, the nation serves the world, and the world serves God. God is solely existing for you and me. So by giving your total self, actually you are gaining the entire universe, including God. This is truly one grand circle of giving. By doing this you possess the ultimate one. God is in your possession. You can attain true happiness by fulfilling this way of life.

When people hear this word unification, they say, "Reverend Moon, it is a good idea, but it is too idealistic. I am sorry, Reverend Moon, because I know it will never work." But to those critics, my answer is very simple. Reverend Moon is not going to do that. God is going to do that. God created the world in harmony and unity. Let us all get together and practice His will. Allow yourself to be His instrument.

What is the origin of the evil world? Basically, selfishness brings evil. From this principle, we can evaluate when this world or this society is on the side of wickedness or goodness. Any nation which truly works for the purpose of serving the world and tries to sacrifice itself for the benefit of the entire world and for the salvation of humanity will emerge as the center of the universe.

I came to America to serve. I love America just as I love my own country, because this is God's country and I love God. But if I failed to really succeed in the propagation of God's way of life, then all my philosophy would be in vain. God loves America and is relying on America. Therefore, it is important to God, to all of us, and to me. From the beginning, America has been pursuing the great goal of one nation under God. That one nation must not be selfish, it must be truly sacrificial for the benefit of the entire world and all mankind. By demonstrating God's way of life, indeed, America will become the champion in the Kingdom of God. Therefore, I came to America to speak to the American people.

A revolution of love

In 1972 I had a vision, to go to America to speak to the American people. For three years I am obeying this command. America is coming out with individualism. But God's philosophy is not individualism. When an individual is centered upon himself he will find himself in a lot of trouble. That trouble is shown in America. There are many broken homes; American young people are in trouble. God is trying somehow to wake Americans up. God has very strange ways. He called me to kindle the fire of spiritual revolution -- a revolution of love in America.

I want to announce an important competition between you and me. Let's love America and bring this country close to God. America is truly one great Christian nation on the face of the earth. Furthermore, America was founded on the love of God. However, in recent history, America has been going farther and farther away every day. Someone must turn it around, so someone must come as a fire fighter.

In the last eleven months, I went to every state of America. I visited every corner of the country. Everywhere I go I do not get too much kind treatment. People shout at me and throw things at me. But I do not concern myself with those things. I concern myself only with God. I did not come for money, I did not come for any other purpose than to give myself for the eternal well-being of this great country. I have a real reason to cry out to you tonight. I hope you truly understand.

New York is really the heartbeat of America, the center of America. I am launching my crusade in New York, because if I succeed in kindling the heart of man for God in New York, I will succeed anywhere -- New York, America, the world. This is my goal. I will not stop.

I came as a friend

I know that in the last several weeks there have been many posters outside. This has become very controversial. I know there are many criticisms of my poster. So many candidates spend money for earthly purposes. I come to proclaim the Kingdom of God on earth. I want to do more than they do. I came to America in obedience to God. I wanted every New York citizen to know of my coming so they will have no excuse before God. But I will do something unusual for New York. After tomorrow, September 18, no poster of Reverend Moon will remain here in New York. They have the purpose of inviting people to hear the declaration of the Kingdom of Heaven. After they serve their purpose, I will take every single one off, myself and my people.

I came to New York as a friend of New York. I respect and admire you. Let's be close. If I meet you on the street, let's shake hands, as brothers and sisters on the street.

My dream and ideal is to install one great movement of God, not an institution, to bring the Kingdom of Heaven on earth -- and I want to start the Kingdom of Heaven here in New York!

I truly have the deepest admiration for you and I also want to express my genuine love for each one of you, because in God we are one. Let God's love come into your heart, let it run out to New York, to America, to the world. I want all of you to embrace God as I embrace my brother beside me.

May God bless each one of you.

God and His Kingdom

Sun Myung Moon
August 11, 1974
Excerpt
Belvedere, Tarrytown, N.Y.

In the world all people long for a central figure. We want the central figure to be unchanging and everlasting. Not only that, but also the central figure must be righteous and good. Such a central figure cannot be found in human society and we cannot make one. We know that the central figure must be a human being for others to follow, but since we cannot create one, from where can we expect such a person? We all know that not just any man can stand in that position: to be righteous, good, unchanging and everlasting.

Even in our imagination, we must have a figure who is like that. Without such a goal before us, we cannot go on our way towards the goal set by God. When we look at ourselves, we have our bodies and our minds. Let us closely study ourselves, trying to find if there is any quality in man to allow him to become such a perfect one.

People in general know that we have minds but they end there. Even when we look at the mind, the views of people towards the mind are different from each other. When you study the mind superficially, minds always vacillate and there seemingly is no central power manipulating the mind. Do we really know what our mind is like? If there is something good, something of higher value, the mind is always inclined to attain that goal. While our minds are seeking for things of higher value, on the other hand our fleshly side always tends to stop the mind from going towards that goal.

In human society where can we find real righteousness and happiness? As long as our mind and body go different ways, we cannot really attain that goal; we must bridge the gap between mind and body. When we have our mind and body in utter oneness, we come close to that absolute Being and we ourselves resemble Him. In the scope of a family, when you can bring the whole family into unity and harmony, you can call that family a happy one. We can draw the conclusion that we can attain happiness only when we make unity at every level, with yourself playing the role of the center.

There must be a view of personality, view of life, which can never vacillate or change. We can never dream of being able to find such a standard without our mind and body in oneness. In that unity, what we acquire must come through our mind. But sometimes -- and very likely -- we cannot trust our mind. And more than that, we are ignorant of what our mind is really like. Where there is ignorance we cannot really trust anything, and where there is no belief or trust, we cannot find clear goals.

What is the human mind is the ultimate question. Where does it originate? Does it start from ourselves or from elsewhere? If you define it to have originated in yourself, you must be able to manipulate it; but when you find you cannot manipulate your own mind you must imagine that it comes from elsewhere. It is not of human origin but of an origin far above the human level. As we find such a thing of higher dimension manipulating our minds and through our minds our bodies, then at last we can sight the goal and we find our direction.

Through what channel can we reach that goal? In human society, because of the fall, only through religions can we find such a goal and get associated with the final or ultimate Entity. If you are sure you have found something like that, you must feel that you have five senses other than the fleshly ones working in you, and you must have personal experiences. That kind of sensation must be stronger than what you feel and see and do using your five physical senses, and it must be experienced by your own self.

When in your past you have tasted good food, seen artistic things, and heard music and all those things, then you don't want to go down below that level. In the human conscience the same thing applies. You must always look up to something of higher dimension than your level. When you acquire or attain a goal a little higher than the level you are enjoying now, the next moment you want something of a still higher level.

Since all human beings without exception are struggling towards that goal, trying to associate with things of higher dimension, we must go on struggling for that goal, looking to the spiritual side. It doesn't matter what His name is, but when we call Him God, our minds are always inclined to have some relationship with Him. But we see a vast difference between the Je, el of our minds and the level of that ultimate Entity. How vast the distance must be between God and our minds!

We must be able to bridge the gap, or bring our minds closer to Him. We say we must educate ourselves, train ourselves and discipline ourselves. All those things start from our mind. But we don't know what our mind is like. And we cannot trust our mind. It always vacillates. We find it is not absolute.

In human society even our ideal, the moral standard, is always changing, hopefully for the better. It has been changing and it is changing now, and it will continue changing. Change sometimes means progress towards a goal of higher dimension, but we must always adjust ourselves to be bound for that goal, not the other way around. If we find ourselves inclining to lower the level of our conscience, we cannot even call ourselves human beings. In that case, we must try to lift ourselves up, setting ourselves on the path towards that goal.

When we find ourselves and others below the level of conscience, there's no human order. We would have to destroy this world or the past standard of life. There would be no value, no standard, and we would come down to the level of animals. In that case, all human beings would be doomed to danger, despair and darkness. There must be the standard of God's Kingdom. Where can you find God's Kingdom at all? Which of the two in us, the mind or body, will set the standard or find one? We have come to the conclusion that it cannot start from our fleshly body but from our minds. God is the ultimate entity which is never changing and eternal, and His Kingdom also is of that quality. Can our body fit that? Though our mind has the tendency to want to have that goal, even our mind is far below that level as it now is.

But can God alone erect His Kingdom? No. He can do the job only in unity with a man resembling Him or in oneness with Him. The erection of the Kingdom of God must start from one man like that, but where can we locate this man? Is the man just a man of moral value? When you say moral value it means based on our mind. Can you find such a person in the religious world? We must look for such a person not among just moral people but among religious people.

We can safely say that we can find such a person among religious people who would not set his goal on individual things but on broader things such as the family, national and worldwide level. Unless what he does on the individual level is in conformity with God's goal for all mankind, we cannot dream of finding such a person. Which is better, people who want to become happy for their own sake or those who want to sacrifice for the sake of others' happiness? In order for us to be able to play the role of the central figure we must be taught to work for other people, even sacrificing ourselves for that goal.

The central figure of the higher dimension could be found among those who are ready to sacrifice themselves for the happiness of all humankind. In which religion can we find such persons? That religion must be of worldwide level.

We have seen we have four big religions: Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Confucianism. In which of the four religions is the relationship between man and God the closest? You say Christianity because Christianity has the father-son relationship between God and man. But more simply why is it? It is because there is an everlasting relationship centered on love and life. That is, our life is related with His life and originated from His life, so we cannot think of ourselves separately from that relationship. We have inseparable ties between our life and the will of God because there is love coming from the divine origin working in us.

In oriental philosophy we think even though couples can separate from each other, we can never be separated from our parents. It is because in our relationship with our parents there is a life stream running through lineage -- from our ancestry to us as their fruit. If we deny that, we deny our own life.

But between husband and wife, the love does not originate from the life relationship. Of course it is desirable for any husband and wife not to be separated, to go together eternally, but if either of the two relationships would be cut off, you would rather have the relationship between the husband and wife cut off, not the tie between yourselves and your parents. In other words, you can never cut off the tie between you and your parents, however hard you may try. That's something you can never cut off. Maybe the children have changed not to recognize their parents, but parental love never changes.

That is why even prodigal sons and daughters can come back to the bosom of their parents. When you come back, you are sure they will not reject you. You will find they have been waiting for you with outstretched arms.

But if there is disunity and rupture between husband and wife and their relationship is cut off, they very likely are going to become enemies instead of friends. You would just hate to look at that person you have loved. Both of you feel that way towards each other. But between sons and parents it is never like that. The children may feel that, but it is never like that with the parents.

But in the We tern world I find that you think more highly of the horizontal relationship between husband and wife, rather than the vertical one between sons and parents. This is the very reason that disunity, rupture and disharmony is prevailing in this society.

Unless you can love your parents -- and if you are in the position of the parents, your children -- you cannot love your brothers and sisters, and unless you can love your brothers and sisters, you cannot love your spouse in the real sense. You must love your brothers and sisters as your parents, and you must love your spouse as your brothers and sisters and your parents. Then alone can you create and build an ideal family, which is the fundamental unit of society.

If you cannot find the ideal in your homes, you can never find an ideal society or nation. Your family being the fundamental unit of the whole human society, how can you build the ideal society without your being able to find or build such a family?

Let us go back to the mainstream of our thought. In Christianity we find love and life relationships between man and God in the father-son relationship. We put more stress on life, love and sacrifice. That's the very core of what Christianity is.

What would God and Jesus want us to do? If Jesus was in the position of son to God, we can well imagine that Jesus was educated by God. Jesus learned to know that God was the Source or Subject of his love and life. He knew that God was existing for the sake of himself, and God was sacrificing His self for Jesus' sake.

With what ideology would God educate other people? How would Jesus educate other people? Jesus knew that all human beings on earth are brothers and sisters under God. He wanted to produce people, educate people, to find God and love God and recognize God as their life, their source, and the One who is sacrificing Himself for the sake of mankind. He tried and tried to teach people, and when the people did not absorb his education and rejected him, he continued to the end of his life, even sacrificing his own life.

He said that he was the symbol of the life and love and way. For him that was the way of the cross when people rejected him. So, in this world of the fall, where there is real love and life there must always follow sacrifice for others. The core of the teaching of Jesus towards mankind was that people must love God as their Parent and love others as their brothers and sisters; then alone we can build a real home based on divine love between husband and wife. I again emphasize that we must learn three kinds of love: first, love towards our parents; love among brothers and sisters; and then love between husband and wife. With those three loves put together, we can taste the true kinds of love, and then we can build good homes and good societies. Christianity alone is the religion where they teach that kind of love relationship, so when God seeks a man who can lead all humanity, he must find one in Christianity. That's what makes Christianity the religion of all religions, the most important religion of all.

We must look for leadership, true leadership, in the religious world, and in the religious world Christianity is the core of all religions. The reason for Christianity's being the core of all religions is that in Christianity we teach the love and life relationship with God and the way of sacrificing ourselves for the sake of others. That's why I chose Christianity. It is not because my parents had been Christians before my birth, and it is not because tradition tells me to, but I found that in Christianity that kind of core teaching exists. It was only too natural to draw the conclusion that through Christianity alone we can save the whole world, because there we are taught to have the relationship between God and man based upon divine love and life.

Then what must be God's Kingdom? Unless He finds an individual who is God-like or who resembles Him, He cannot erect a Godly family and then Godly clan, tribe, society and world. So the core of the thing is man in the tie of divine love with God, and his family around him. When God is anxious to find a nation of such standard, even though that nation may be homogeneous in worshipping God, God does not want that nation to confine itself to things of national level without having a broader sense of love towards all mankind. He would not choose that nation but He would like to have that nation love other nations and educate the whole population of the world so that through that nation and through the central leader of that nation He could erect His Kingdom. This nation must transcend national boundaries. Viewed from that standpoint, America is prepared soil for that because the American nation was formed by having people from all nations; and if you really had created unity in this nation under God's ideology, this would be the best place. Here alone God's ideal could be realized.

God blessed America because there is the possibility of making the whole world into ultimate oneness and harmony and love starting from this nation, not elsewhere. Without Christian ideology there would have been rupture md you could have created the second Europe. Like the old world, there could have been disharmony. Before your forefathers came to this continent, there had been, in Europe, disharmony, rupture and persecution of Christian people. That's what made your forefathers flee from their own countries to come to settle on this continent. And their way of life was to worship God in freedom.

If in the new world -- America -- as in the old world, there is corruption in the new Christian world it means second doom or peril. If in the midst of peril and corruption even in the Christian world, there sprouts up one group which thinks dearly of the life relationship and love relationship between man and God and would be ready to sacrifice themselves for the salvation of mankind, that's the only religion God would be using as His instrument.

Unless there comes into existence a group where a new tribe will emerge under the leadership of man, as in the case of the Jewish people of God's choice, unless this chosen people do something to change America and the world, there's no hope for the world to be changed or saved. In other words, in America we need a stronger Christian group with a strong ideology, because all other ways have proven to be a failure.

If, maybe, black people would emerge with a stronger leadership than others, you must be able to follow that leader. Despite the race, you must follow the leadership and you must realize the bitter fact that in the Communist world or in the satanic world in general their purpose is to destroy this world of religion, the world in which they believe in God. The first target for satanic power to destroy is Christianity, and their final target within Christianity is to destroy the family, which is the core of divine love.

In the world even of Christianity they have been putting more stress on the mind side and on the conscience; but, if through our mind and conscience God does not work, giving us the life and love relationship and touching our hearts and inspiring us to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of the rest of humanity, no group can work God's will. It is thrillingly important that in our church we talk about the heart of God. When we understand and feel and experience the heart of God, it is natural for us to feel the life and love relationship between God and ourselves, and this is the most wonderful thing. We learn that here, and when we put it into practice to reach out to even the last one in all humanity, we are sure to save the world.

God has been looking for this kind of religion because here we teach that we must be able to love our God as our parents first, and love other human beings as brothers and sisters under our Father, God. Love between husband and wife is emphasized next. With all those loves totalized, we will love all humanity, and that is what makes our group the most wonderful one. As it now stands, no such religion will possibly be found elsewhere than in our group -- where God can rely on people to erect His Kingdom on earth.

Where does God's kingdom come from? It comes from the divine idea. Through our conscience and mind we are a group of people which try to learn and put the ideal into practice. There are many, many, many men of conscience in the world, and at the best they have been thinking of the well-being of their own nation, if not their family. But, in our church we want to be happy after making the whole of humanity happy. By humanity, we mean all nations, all races. All are children of God, and only after having made children of God -- our brothers and sisters -- and God happy, can we be happy ourselves. This is the best ideology.

God has so prepared this nation that from here the ideal world will be erected. God, seeing the corruption in this nation, is sad but has not yet left this nation. That's why I came over to this nation of America and started working here. And our work will see no end until we restore this nation under God's will. I want you to be even stronger than ever and try your best to change this nation and stop this nation from going to destruction, and lift your people up and have them head for the eternal goal.

We must stop the corruption of Christianity in this nation. We must stop families from being broken up. We must stop the individual from being corrupted like hippies and going to pieces. If we are not able to do that, this nation will be hell.

What we are doing is character building; by character building I mean the perfection of individuality and the perfection of families, clans, nations and the world. We are the only group to do that. We are the religious group of the highest dimension as it now stands, and through us alone God can build the world of love and unity and life and harmony, which is the Godly Kingdom on earth.

Before anything else you must be able to have your mind work in unison with God's demand, and your sensation of love towards God must be more than that between brothers and sisters and within couples. By our doing that, we can build perfect individuals, and from there on we can widen the scope to build the Heavenly Kingdom on earth.

Everything starts from us. You must have confidence. The Kingdom of God will be erected by our own hands. The Kingdom is in your own mind, in your own self, in your family, clan, tribe, nation and the world. It will come about.

The Hope of Youth (Part 2)

Sun Myung Moon
July 29, 1974
International Leadership Seminar
Barrytown, New York

Once you have become an ideal self, then what would be your second desire or ambition? We don't even have to say that. Of course, the second desire of ours would be to find some good · mate. Mankind is man and woman; we call them mankind. We don't call all men "mankind." Our second desire is for true man and woman to become one. More precious than your own self is finding someone who can be your mate, your better half. No matter how perfect one may be, he can't be perfect alone; only when he finds someone as an opposite, someone in whom he can find his perfection, will he become perfect.

More precious than your own self is finding someone who can be your mate, your better half. No matter how perfect one may be, he can't be perfect alone; only when he finds someone as an opposite, someone in whom he can find his perfection, will he become perfect.

No matter how shabby she may be, there is no girl who would not want her better half to be someone far better than herself. The same thing can be said for a man. He wants to become perfect, but he would like his spouse to be a little more perfect. Then he would like to be happy, and feel happiness with her. So the ideal is to live in love, be intoxicated in love, fulfill all our higher ideals, and spread them around.

Then the question arises, is there such a man and woman? If we look all over the world and we cannot find even sporadically such ideal youth then how will we feel? God also will be immensely sad, and so will be all mankind past and future.

No matter what perfection an individual may achieve, this is not the end of the ideal; rather, it is the beginning of the ideal where he and his spouse will become one. There the ideal will begin. We can never deny that this is the desire of all mankind, and this is the desire of everyone.

This is a proclamation that we have made upon heaven and earth. We proclaimed this representing all history. This proclamation has been made to prepare the tradition for the future. No matter how high a wave may come in the future, we must be able to go through and over it. This is what all mankind wants, and this is what even God wants of us.

So far, God has had one objective, which is to make one perfect man and one perfect woman and one perfect youth. Since this cannot be achieved among fallen man, some man must be sent directly from God; this is the concept of the Messiah in all religions. That Messiah is one youth.

In Revelation, at the end of the Bible, it shows us clearly that the end of God's ideal is this perfect man and perfect woman; when they rejoice, embracing in holy matrimony, this is interchangeable for the entire universe. Once God has achieved this high ideal as a standard, then there will be more such individuals and families coming into existence; this is what God has been working for. So this is the highest ideal of God and the highest ideal of mankind. This is the deepest desire of God and also the deepest desire of mankind. Only around this one center can mankind and God eternally be happy and one.

Unchanging love

We want someone as a being opposite to us to be worthy of our eternal and unchanging love. Why? Because true love is of an eternal nature. I presume that you want only one perfect spouse, because such love will be absolute, and there will be only one. And then he or she will want his or her spouse to have absolute authority, because love is almighty. So therefore, since this is God, and we are born from God, we have come to have this very high ideal resembling God.

So what would you like to be? Would you like to be a child that is loved by God? And beyond that, would we like to mature ourselves so we can make God happy in turn? This should be not only our desire and ambition, but this must be God's desire.

The perfect family can only exist centered around perfect individuals. Then immediately you may think that if the most beautiful girl in the world can be your spouse, then you can be happy. But here it is different. This is the way all mankind has been thinking. Then who is the most beautiful man or the most beautiful woman in the world? The most beautiful man or the most beautiful woman in the world is the one who would like, with his good eyes, to see the good world. The most beautiful man or woman will be the one who wants more than anything else by far to hear with his ears something good, and nothing but good. And the most beautiful man or woman will be the one who with his nose not only smells cosmetics or other things, but who would also like to smell the goodness of the world. Who is the man who has the most beautiful mouth? It will be such a man who will not speak with his mouth about himself, but about the world. The man that is willing and ready to stand against the world and speak on behalf of God for the entire human history and mankind, such is the man who has the most beautiful mouth; therefore he is the most beautiful man.

No matter how well proportioned one may be, still if he is disliked by many, he will not be a good man. Everyone will like him or like her because of his character or her character; he will be a good good man, or she will be a beautiful woman. Do you understand that?

Unity of opposites

Actually even more ideal is a man who is one hundred years old and about to go to spirit world with a very little baby; when they become happy and play, then such a world will be the ideal world.

That leads us to say that when the most beautiful man or woman and the most ugly man or woman become one, and when they will never for anything in the world leave each other, then that will be the most ideal combination. And such people are the most ideal people.

I've been going to the Atlantic Ocean for some fishing. About a week ago there was a storm, but I ventured into it. The waves were tossing very high, and then I thought, the wind blows from one direction, but why doesn't it make one great wave? Because it obeys the principle of the universe, everything is in contrast: high and low, high and low, fast and slow.... From all these variations comes the ideal.

For a high mountain there should be a deep abyss. And in the deepest valley is stored everything that comes from high above. In the highest place there is nothing beyond, but there one can look down on the lower place, and make something of it. That's the ideal. So therefore, the action of give and take is in the whole universe. The highest will balance with the lowest, and that's the way the symmetry is. When this is all achieved without consciousness, when everything is achieved automatically, there is automatically the ideal.

If someone has much money and someone else doesn't have much money, and if the one who has a lot of money keeps it all to himself, he will be unhappy, himself and others. When he learns to give this all to the ones who don't have much, then he will be worthy of being the center of that money.

If you go deeper and deeper into the earth, it becomes warmer and warmer. Then appears the phenomenon of deterioration or corrosion. Because things become too hot, they evaporate and go up. So here, the high will reward the low. As we all know, water flows to the lowest point from above. But it again goes in the air as vapor. So we easily find out that the lowest thing has some means of dominating the highest, for instance, becoming a cloud and dominating the high mountain.

In this world, if here is an advanced country, there is a backward country. If there is a rich country, there is a country which is not so rich. Where there is the Occident, there is the Orient. And when these establish a perfect harmony, as opposites or a pair, then the ideal will start to exist. And the Unification Church is responsible for teaching this to the entire world.

Rhythm comprises music, and that's also the way the wind blows. The wind doesn't blow in just one gust. So when the wind is analyzed in this way, we discover a wave. When the wind blows steadily from one direction still the branches of a tree toss their heads to and fro. So also when we breathe we inhale and we exhale. Sometimes we bat our eyelashes, and that's variety. Where is harmonious variety? That is the problem. There is no man who can claim, "Since I have a mathematical nature, I don't approve of that." No matter how philosophical or mathematical he may be, everything goes by this rhythm; he can't deny that.

Harmony of East and West

Western people sleep with their stomach down. Many people sleep in this way. They are symbolizing, without their knowledge, looking down at the earth. Almost all Orientals sleep with their back down. That means they are looking up to heaven, and it symbolizes the spiritual civilization. Especially at the termination of the age, people act according to the symbolic meanings. At this moment, the Western people may feel diminished a little bit, but we can't help it, that's a fact; how can you alter the fact? The Western civilization will serve the world in terms of material, by material. But that's not all. The Orient will be in the leading position of the world with its spiritual nature.

The East contributes to the West. God his one high ideal. Since two elements form happiness, He has provided man with a spiritual nature, and in contrast, a material nature. By harmoniously balancing high and low these, He has expected happiness. It's very interesting that when an American summons people, he motions with his palm up. Actually, he is symbolizing, "Heaven, come this way, come my way." And when Oriental people summon people, they motion with their palms down. That means they, being in heaven's position, call "Earth, come." That is very symbolic.

In the West, the flute, for instance, is played to the left. In the East it is played to the right. It symbolizes the external or horizontal development. Material profit is made by Western enterprising nature. Western civilization analyzes everything to its least part. But the Oriental way of thinking aims at the crux or heart of the problem, to grasp it as a whole.

When Western people are happy, they express it all throughout their members. They show it completely, they have nothing to hide. But there is such a thing as Oriental ambiguity. When he is happy, sometimes he looks happy and sometimes unhappy. He rarely shows the root and the top.

All throughout history, it has been an Oriental virtue to discard everything material, so that men become whole in a spiritual manner.

Orientals are poor. They are not poor because they are bad, but because they are destined to be poor by God. Therefore, God has prepared the Western civilization reciprocally for the Oriental civilization. We must be very sure of one thing, that at the end of a merely material civilization, nothing but misery will remain. Whereas at the end of a spiritual civilization, hope pops up. Hope is what we get after being poor all this time. When we ask, "Where are you going,

Westerners," Westerners must answer, "We are heading to the East to learn," which is as it is supposed to be. And when Orientals are asked, "Where would you like to go?" they would like to come to the West, where they may experience some of the things that they had never experienced until now.

We can safely predict, and everybody can easily understand, that we are just about at the brink, at the end, of material civilization. From here, we can expect something very drastic.

The only way for the survival for Western people is to try to find some path which is valuable, through which they can consider the Oriental way of thinking very valuable. In other words, we must subjugate ourselves to Oriental thought and go into it and learn from it, because one learns only after he humbles himself. Expanding your ideal

Then what is the youth's ideal, after perfecting himself and after meeting the perfect mate? Such a man and wife and such a family will want to have everybody in the world as their friend. The world will be a happy multitude which will be happy just looking at all their brothers and sisters in the entire world; when they become friends, it will be such a beautiful sight. Those are the multitudes who will make their credo to love God more than their own nation. It will be those people who can love their God-centered brothers and sisters more than anything else they have in the world. Wouldn't that be the highest ideal that youth can put its aim to? The person who extends his love through and beyond his own mate, to the brothers and sisters of the entire world, will be the successful person, the only successful person. He must be centered around God, because without God we don't exist.

If you concentrate man to a seed, what is the seed? Before the child was the parents, so the parents are your origin or seed, you might say. So let us say it is origin, because the seed is an origin, and from the origin you are born. Then what is the origin of your own parent? Parent, parent, parent, parent, parent... Then it goes back to the ultimate cause, and that is God.

The only hope and purpose of every living being's life is to resemble its own source. Let us examine a seed. A seed is always split into two and is surrounded by one pouch. And if you take a smaller portion, then it is in a different sac, but it is still divided into two. No matter how small a seed you may take as an example, everything is split in that way. Then who does it? It resembles the ultimate cause. What is the ultimate cause? God. So God has a dual capacity, or dual essentiality as one necessary character. Everything else does also, because it takes after the principle.

To take another example, even an individual has two elements: the body or flesh and the conscience. That's the plus entity and minus entity. When they go against each other they perish. When you take the example of the seed, do the two elements within the seed fight each other? They never fight. If they did there would be no plant. What about the king of all the animals, mankind? As an individual, are you one? Are you perfected? If not, you have no life. In other words, you haven't become a seed yet. A perfected man or woman must become one. When man and woman become one, then they are happy. Why are a man and woman happy together? Because in that way, they resemble, and come closer to God; that's why they are happy.

Each individual has to have a root, and he has to have a trunk, and then he must have leaves. So the three will comprise a tree. Who is your root? Your parents. You have to make a perfect trunk out of yourself.

All seeds contain all the elements of a plant. So when you plant a seed, a root comes. It comes from something, because there is something in it. The trunk comes because a trunk was already there, and it has leaves. The leaves come because there already have been leaves.

When you look at a tree, it resembles a closed circle. Why? Because God is like that. God is round, so it becomes round. The base is round, the trunk is round, the branches are round. Round things rotate faster. They run easier anywhere. It is like a ball, which, if you kick it, will go very easily everywhere. So that's why you need something round and complete in your character. That's why everybody resembles this round shape.

Everything is in three steps. Even the finger has three steps or joints, and the arm has a hand and upper and lower arms, it's all three. Also the head and body and trunk... because that's the principle of God. So we see these three steps: root, trunk, and leaves. When you live in conformity with these three elements, the world can be yours, and God will not protest.

A void extreme individualism

Then let us ask these American people, "Are you precious individually or in a collective sense?" Collective. Is your value temporary or eternal? Eternal. Is it absolute value or something that can be diminished? Absolute. Everybody is very ambitious, as if he was a thief trying to rob everything from God. But God doesn't mind: as long as you are living within principle, He doesn't mind.

One of the extreme forms of individuality in which we live now is, "I don't need anybody. I am selfsufficient. I don't need any parent." Individualism is wrong; it does not fit the principle of existence. In other words, it doesn't resemble the seed. So we must correct it. If we say the family is one unit, then the root of that family is the parents. Americans feel, "I don't need anybody. I need myself." Further, some people say, "I don't need a wife." Or if they need a wife, they can go anywhere and money will take care of it. Will that work for God or not? It cannot.

The trunk has two functions. One is the sipping the water up, and the other bringing the water down. From the date of birth to the date of death, we have one trunk. That has duality, too, man and wife. Would you like to become that trunk? Can you change a new trunk every day? You might as well go to spirit world or die early if you are going to be variable, changing every day. When the trunk is changing minute by minute or hour by hour, or day by day, how can branches and leaves come out from it? They will automatically die. We must bear historical fruit. We must bear the fruit which resembles the original entity.

Youth is like a tree root. Even the root is formed in a round shape. That's the period of youth. In that period youth prosper and grow big. In order for a trunk to become a perfect trunk, it must have a perfect root, from which it must get all the nutrients. We must make sure that we exist now for the past, and that we shall exist for the future. And that's the sole purpose of our existing now. So the one who changes every so often and the one who disappoints others will never bear fruit.

The period of youth, of course, is the most brilliant period of man's life. He works harder, wishes the highest ambition, expects the best in the world, and. then works hardest. When a perfect man and perfect woman become complete, then a flower will bloom one day. When there is a flower, there are all good scents and fragrances and honey. That's the beginning of love, and that's the period of youth.

When man and woman come together, they will have that fruit, and from that something that resembles them will appear. That's what we call a child. These are the same three steps: parents, ourselves, and children. All throughout the world leaves and branches of one trunk will prosper. Then don't you need leaves? Doesn't a tree need leaves? Yes. So for you a child is absolute necessity.

When you have all three elements with you, then you can say that you are a man. So any man must have these three. Some are selfish, keeping all of these for themselves. When you confess, "I am doing all of this to please my parents," then God will be happy and you will be happy. Everybody will be happy to see such a one. Everybody will be grateful for him. No one will do anything for himself, but would rather do it for his spouse. Western or Eastern, black or white, yellow or black, everyone is saying in unison, "Yes."

When the parent does everything that he can and works so hard simply for the sake of his children, then everybody will look up to him and say "Beautiful." We must remember that this is the path or procedure that we have to take in order for us to bear good fruit. The root exists for the trunk and for the leaves. The trunk exists for the root and the leaves. The leaves exist solely for the trunk and the roots. There the ideal exists. Have you ever done something very good for your own parents? Have you ever stopped to think that since your parents existed earlier than you did, that they are more precious than you? Those people should be called good who value the roots more than themselves. We call such a man who loves his children more than himself a good man. We must realize that this is the long existing and deepest principle of the truth of goodness.

Become an unchanging standard

Once you become the one complete self with all these, then would you like to become someone who changes easily, or who does not change eternally? Among these three, the root changes least. In other words, the leaves change more easily than the trunk and the trunk changes more easily than the root, but the root changes the least.

When you grow as a tree, would you like to grow straight up, or would you want to grow curved? Straight. Do you want to go high, or low? High. In other words, you are looking for the ideal, ambition, and hope. Would you like to become large or small? Large. Would you like the reality to be an individual one, or a worldwide one? Worldwide. You are not different from any tree. A tree would be the same. These brilliant and full-grown trees will be the center of all plants and animals and creation. When the time comes, there are flowers and fruits.

Do you get married because of your spouse's sake, or for your children's sake? Children's. But now, everybody gets married for himself or herself. The only reason why you have to give everything to your child is so that your fruit will be fruitful in that way. The reality of the ideal is accomplished when these joys become real and all these principles are in one accord.

So far we have not realized that the reason we are living is for the future, so that we will see a better future than our present life. We had not realized this yet. Throughout history we have wanted to get married, but we didn't know why we did it. We wanted to get married and have children, but we don't know why we wanted children. Now we know. It has always been because of God, in order to resemble God. He wishes to see the world a perfect world where mankind can live, as in our example of a tree.

Have you ever heard that such an individual existed, that such a family or nation existed? We are going to have it now. All the branches are from East, West, North, and South. The directions of civilization in the East and West are completely different. Although the directions are different, they are all absolutely necessary for the center. Even the very tip of the tree is in a way like a branch. It all depends on which angle you look at it, but it's the same thing. So everything, according to its angle, is different. Some grow in a horizontal way and some vertically; according to the angle a branch has, its value is different.

Alignment with the center

What is the most valuable thing? The most valuable thing is the one that resembles its center in angle. So this is why we wish to become similar to the center one. The branch that extends to the East and the branch that extends to the West have two different or opposing directions. But since there is one trunk and one center line, these are all harmonious, although their direction is different.

We have things of every direction and every shape, so what God now needs is one center, centered on which everything can direct its own way. Then God will have something to judge values by. He is going to make that criterion. In the family it is the same way, and in the larger group it is the same way -- God needs some criteria by which He can compare and judge the value of others.

The reason why He is urging you to become the most perfect individual in the world, the most perfect family and nation in the world, is so that you can serve as a trunk, as one center line. Once that value or criterion is established, then God can judge values in comparison to that. So with these we have come to have a new ideal for the family today. Then how far does the ideal of a family extend? To the world. Then we have to be the center of the nation which represents the world. Then centered around that, we have to establish a criterion by which different things can go in different directions. We should not forget that heaven is trying to nurture us to become a member of the country which is to serve this purpose. So such will be the ideal, things will start from the small and become ever higher and ever larger. Still, they resemble one principal entity.

Let us repeat our conclusion once more. We must achieve our perfection, which will never be less than any historical achievement. We will become the men and women who never appeared before in history. We shall bear and raise children which all the world and mankind would like to have. This is the purpose of creating and obtaining the ideal society and the ideal world under God.

No bigger ideal

God works twenty-four hours a day for the world, so we must resemble God. We must take after God and His effort. So we must think all the time, twenty-four hours a day, about the world. When we establish ourselves on this ideal of God, then it will be ours. And that's the most beautiful ideal that one youth can have.

Now we know that our path and purpose in life is to raise good children and resemble God, as has been explained, in three stages. We shall never err in our direction. We shall go unchanging towards this one direction. So our members love their brothers and sisters more than anything else, and they will love their parents better than anything else. Such will be our attitude. So we must live for others. This is the one pattern that we must establish for our followers to copy. In return the world will be ours, and the world will love us. There are many, many seemingly big things, but nothing is bigger than this, believe me. This is most fundamental.

I hope that you resemble God, do everything for God, and understand God. I wish you all happiness, and all security, and all closeness to God in the future.

The Hope of Youth (Part 1)

Sun Myung Moon
July 29, 1974
International Leadership Seminar
Barrytown, New York

There is no youth that does not have hope. And what is that hope or ambition? Some people might say, "It is my ambition to succeed in the subject I am majoring in." But when we get really serious and ask, "ls that really your ambition?", then not so many people are very confident. By the time someone has achieved that ambition, then he must start all over again. This is most probable. By the time he has achieved as a professor, and teaches ever) day on the blackboard, he will suddenly realize this is not the ambition that he has been seeking.

It is very safe to assume that no matter how a person has achieved his ambition, there are very few people who can feel, "I have achieved it, and I am really happy and contented." Once he has achieved in a certain area, he would like to go beyond that. In other words, the people do not want to stay at reality, but they would like to go beyond that reality. Then what really is youth's hope or ambition?

It is a fact that no matter how hard we try, at least in the past, we have never been able to say, or heard anybody say, after reaching the goal of his own ambition, "I am happy, for I have accomplished it." No matter how big a man he will become in the world, he still has to achieve something more, look for something farther.

Then what does youth really want? Is it not the ambition of youth to become invariable, eternally constant and the center of the world? No matter how accomplished he is, unless he is accomplished in a personal way, as a human being, he will be unhappy.

Hope starts within us

Then how can we be secure with our own sense of happiness, once we are established? This is one of the gravest goals that we have to consider. Regardless of his country, any youth you may pick out and speak to still has the ambition to go beyond his own national boundary. But even though he may stand on that level, there is no true ideal. The ideal begins to exist only starting from one's self. The conclusion is that the basic hope and ambition of youth must start from a certain central point within ourselves, from which we can go cowards the world.

What is the true sense of our perfection, and what is the center of our hope? If such a person existed, with his center well founded, then he would have been happy in the past, happy now, and happy in the future. Such a person, when the world looks at him would be the most dependable and most beautiful person. Everyone would like to devote himself to such a person. Such an ideal person must be accepted consistently throughout history. Then how can such a person come into existence?

The image of ideal youth should be the one who can represent the world, including every country, and the one who can represent the three ages of the past, present, and future. If such a youth existed on earth, he would be the treasure of the world. As you all know, precious treasures do not go away in a short time. Inevitably and invariably they have an eternal quality. Such a youth reflects the total. We must all covet such an image of youth.

Then we must think about mankind itself. When we look at a man, we see two in him, an external man and internal man. And in him we see two aspects, the man that has to do the ideal, and the man that is a physical being. Then what is the ideal? The ideal represents everybody; it excludes nobody. The ideal does not display itself momentarily, but for eternity.

Chinese concept of the ideal

The "ideal," in Chinese characters, is comprised of a left side ("king") and a right side ("village"); in other words, "king's village." One side symbolizes the whole, and the other side represents the center. When the whole focuses on one center, then that is ideal. A single man will never achieve that; only with the entirety surrounding the original center will the ideal exist.

Each Chinese character has a deeper meaning, representing one thought. The elements of the ideal are again the tree on the left side, and eye on the right side -- "the eye of the tree." So the eye of the tree also symbolizes the whole. And then you simply put "mind." So when all those get together, that becomes one concept. Then it is not very difficult to understand that when people started using these characters, they unknowingly included all the elements of happiness and the ideal in the concept of the ideal. And on this basis alone, developing our own environment for this one purpose, the ideal can come to exist.

So to make it short, the ideal can never be achieved by one person. Only when there is a perfect object, upon which we can work and be worked, can the ideal exist. There is no ideal with only one man. When a reciprocal relationship is established, there the ideal begins to exist. Then what is the ideal youth? The ideal youth can never be alone in himself, but he has to be equipped with both sides, so he can represent everything.

Every individual is different from another. Some people have special points in outer things, and some in inner things. Some people are very weak, and some are very strong. Some people are noble, and some are lowly. The ideal person will be someone who can embrace both ends and stand at the center.

What is the ideal youth? The ideal youth is the one who encompasses everything and stands strong as the center. He is concerned nor only about himself, but also his own village, family or country. He is interested not only in the present, but also the past, the future, and the world.

We have to center around God

We speak not only about individuals and mankind, but when a person tries to achieve some relationship with God, then he will be an ideal youth. If God exists, what would God be like? You may have already had in your image that God is someone who is the center of the whole. Then in God we can represent the present, past, and future. And also, from no matter what direction -- East, West, South, and North -- we have to center around God. Then God must be an entity which is the center of the whole universe.

Then what kind of a relationship should be between God and mankind? Man, by nature, takes after God. In other words, man likes to become God, or like God. But if he in himself becomes an entity of God, then he no longer has the subject -- object relationship. To be ideal, we must have the lateral relationship as well as the vertical relationship. So we have both characters within ourselves, to have a complete, perfect relationship outwardly and also inwardly. There are some persons who would like to live centered around their body, whereas some people would like to live centered around their mind and spirit.

We know by experience and by learning from the past that when we center around outer things, they pass away, and we are easily invaded because of the vulnerability of the inside. So it is imperative that man has something absolutely necessary: internal strength.

Only after we find some identity and harmony between our spirit and body can we begin to see such a thing as the ideal. And this very point is when we see God. Centered around God, we would like to live with our conscience and our body in a harmonious relationship. When this harmony is achieved within an individual, that individual in perfect harmony would like to achieve harmony with God. That's man's desire. As you already know, when you have a strong conscience, you become a strong man.

This leads us to another inevitable conclusion: when we become completely harmonious within ourselves, when our spirit is dominant and our flesh is subjugated in a reciprocal position, then we are likely to become as strong as God Himself. So we can safely conclude, in an oversimplified manner, that man can only become ideal, or start seeing the ideal, when his mind and his body can achieve perfect harmony.

Heaven is unity

You cannot say "It is good," when you are alone. Goodness is something you like. Its Chinese character means simply man and woman, that's all. When subject and object become completely one, such as when man and woman become completely one, then that's good. This is not only an Oriental ideal, but also an ideal that has been held by the Western world.

The Bible says that God created man and it wasn't good enough, so He made woman, and that was good enough. We can never deny that it takes a reciprocal position to become ideal or good. In other words, the ideal comes only when true man and true woman unite. That's the ideal. And it is also a very logical, reasoning that before that goodness comes, an individual must have complete harmony between his mind and conscience, when they really become one, that will be the element of future happiness.

Then what is heaven like? Heaven is nothing but two separate things achieving one unity. That's heaven. The standard Chinse character is written as "two men." There is no character for heaven except that. That's very revealing, isn't it? Why did mankind start using that character a long time ago? Because man's ideal, by its own nature, is directly connected with the ideal. The symbol of the ideal is achieved only through the symbol of the unity of the two. So this very simple process is already expressed in one character. We can never deny, beyond any cultural sphere, that it takes two to achieve the ideal.

We by nature think we are precious. What makes man think himself so precious? We feel this simply because we have a long way to go to achieve that built -- in desire for the ideal. We can say the objective of our ideal is to achieve this unity between our mind or conscience and our body. It is not the person whose conscience goes in one way and body another who is ideal, but the person in whom these two will eternally head in one direction -- such is the image of the ideal.

Our body, for example, always thinks centered around itself, and the conscience always thinks in terms of the whole. And when these become one, then such a perfect person will embrace both sides. Let us examine ourselves. Have our body and our conscience become completely one? If we call our body the plane, then we can consider our spirit an added dimension. Where is that exact crossing point? That is the point where we can find our ideal. When such a person becomes one, then he can represent all directions; that is God, and then we resemble God. Also, the body has a time element; our spirit is unlimited by time. So when the limited part and the limitless part become one, there the ideal exists.

Since mankind has not yet become like that, some people say that God simply does not exist. But if God exists, and if He is that way, then our mind and body must function like God's. Otherwise, God must have two opposite directions. What I am trying to say is that God is not that way, although it appears to us that He is like that; that's where we are wrong.

So that's where we must recognize the fall of mankind. There we find the need of educating ourselves and also mankind. We can't say, "God is wrong." So God must be right, and we must be wrong here. To make this great repair in human history and make it perfect is the task of religion.

Conscience existed first

Then what is the more valuable thing? The more precious and valuable thing is something that existed before "I" or "this" began to exist. Considering our conscience and our body, which came to exist first?

We can never deny that man was not, in himself, a motive. Man was born by some other motive. And when you ask, "Which is first: the cause or the effect?" we must say, "The cause is first." Then how can man communicate with the cause? The only avenue is the conscience, and nothing but the conscience.

We acknowledge that everybody cherishes more the person who loves him spiritually, whose love stems from the deeper sphere of his mind. When two people love you at the same time, you· will almost always choose the one whose love stems from the mind, rather than the flesh.

Why do you consider the conscience more to be cherished than the flesh? Because it existed earlier. Then what is the earliest being that existed in the world? That is God. So God is of absolute value. We can recognize the importance of a person born by God, but only in a secondary place. He can never be in the first place, because the first place is already occupied by God. Then how can the cause (God) and the effect (man) be connected? That element must be of the utmost eternity, and represent the whole. That element within ourselves is the conscience, or mind. So what connects us to God is first the conscience. So therefore, the man of conscience is always cherished as more valuable than the man of flesh, because the conscience existed before the flesh.

Why subjugate your body?

People have been separated into these two different positions or areas, and religion has tried to bring them together. So the first proclamation of all religions is to become one with God, centered around conscience. And the second command of all religions is, once you become one with God, centered around your conscience, then subjugate your body. Do as your mind wills; don't do as your flesh wills. And that is the oversimplified content of all religion.

Religion commands that you deny everything that has to do with the body. Why? Because man, who was originally created to become one centered around the spirit, denied it, and Satan has come to occupy our body. He would like to do everything through our bodies. Our body does not think about others; it thinks about its own preservation. There is no ideal in this way of life. This kind of man works against the ideal, destroying the ideal, but he can never help any ideal. So we find the perfect religion in the perfect denial of the body. Therefore, God always commanded mankind, "Sacrifice your body."

God has been teaching everything in the reverse way; for example, "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." (Matt. 23:12) Only after we understand this we can understand the passage in the Bible: "Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it." (Luke 17:33)

Then the development of religion can be expected only when there is a perfect denial of our body. Any religious sect which centers around itself and tries to interpret and develop its own way will never become the center of the religions of the world, simply because this goes against the will and nature of God. But any religion, no matter how small, that denies itself and wills what God wills, must inevitably flourish with God. Such a religion will prosper and encompass the whole world. The basis and background of all culture has been religion. And God has been trying, through religion, to make persons perfect as individuals. Here we must accept the fact that God exists, seeing all the things that God has been achieving for us.

Happiness that God and man share

What happens when we let ourselves be occupied by conscience? We will become a person who can praise the eternal value and his own value. We will feel such value when both the cause and effect become one harmonious whole. At that point, we will feel our body exhilarate. Just imagine, at that perfect stage, what keen happiness we will feel! A person at such a stage of perfection will feel exhilaration and happiness even beyond his five senses. It is something of the other dimension. It can be very safe to say that no one among this large crowd has previously experienced such an exhilaration and happiness.

Most people don't even know whether or not God exists, much less what the source of their conscience is. When you find out there is such a thing as conscience, and that it is valuable and godly, then you will feel valuable. When you find out that you have elevated yourself in God's level of conscience, then what keen happiness you will feel! Imagine that there is some realm of happiness which you can only imagine and hope to get near. If God exists, there must be some level where God and man can feel happiness and exhilaration together. If man once finds out such a thing exists, then he will sacrifice everything for that purpose. Don't you want that? If you have once gotten that, you will never exchange it for anything in the world or everything in the world.

Then you will find God not as something external to you, but one who has always been with you; you have only magnified Him to His greatness. So in that position, God's everything will become your everything. And also God's life will be your life. And the almighty power of God will naturally become our almighty power. This is the position where we can really feel the entire love of God.

God cannot achieve His love and ideals Alone

If in that position we can feel completely the love of God, how happy we would be! If it hadn't been for the fall, our flesh would have been in the reciprocal position to Him. Happiness, if it was once achieved as it was intended to be, would have been eternal -- lasting throughout eternity, not just our momentary life. Man should have been in such a position that when God is happy, he would be just as happy in such a reciprocal position to Him, where He Himself can feel that happiness through man.

God can never be happy alone. When God has love, He cannot love all by Himself. When God has an ideal, He can never feel that ideal or achieve that ideal alone. The endless ideals, endless happiness, and endless everything which God has can never be achieved without mankind. When we suddenly realize that that's the high and eternal value with which man was created by God, how happy can we be! If a man can experience one such day of happiness, and completely become one with God, he will never trade this life for a thousand years of life centered around the flesh. Don' t you think so?

Throughout the long history, God has been looking for this perfect, ultimate ideal. We must learn that although God has longed for this for many, many thousands of years, up until now He has never found such a level of perfection within us. We should have been completely one, a harmonious one, in the very beginning. We didn't make that, so we have been separate, struggling, suffering, and tortured. This is the history of mankind. Can anyone deny that. We are not in that position now? Once he finds out that this is the true meaning, then no one will say, "I won't go." Everybody will go forward. A person will then only worry about how he can get there.

Religion is all -- important

Can he get there by using his own brain, mind, and ability, or something else at his command? No. There is no way except to train ourselves to become closer and closer to God's way of acting and thinking. In a word, it is absolutely impossible for a man to attain that goal without going through the path that religion teaches. Then can we conclude that religion is necessary among mankind? How necessary? It is all -- important.

When we set our course in this direction, if something comes out against it, deny it. If one's own parents oppose him, religion has taught him to oppose them. He must overcome, even if his entire family or entire country goes against him. Everything you cherish as being most valuable, you have to deny it, go beyond it.

God has been doing this all throughout history. God can do that only because of His love. God is trying to give you something which is beyond all of these; regardless of all the sacrifices you make. Therefore, He asks this of you.

When we find God's ideal, His endless giving to us, and His concern, then this shall be the starting point of our ideal. We can receive God's life, God's love, and God's ideal. All of these we can receive. This is the hope of the youth.

Youth craves the highest ideal

Therefore, youth looks for and craves for the ideal. Does it want the lower ideal or the higher ideal? Higher. How far up? To penetrate through God. We must love God, and go higher, to the extent that we can go over anything that is valuable to us at this moment. Therefore, man has had a craving for high ideals ever since his realization of himself, and even now is trying desperately to reach them. And actually, you are caught in that net.

So the ideal must be high, so high that it will go through heaven. It must be the ideal that can be able to liberate everything. It must be able to liberate not only mankind, but also God. If that is the ideal, isn't that high enough? If God cannot achieve this, if He does not see this achieved within mankind, He Himself cannot be liberated. This is why God is fettered now.

When we see somebody doing something wrong, against his conscience, then we go and demand of him, "Do you have a conscience?" At that moment he will realize himself that he is faced with the principle of eternal things. That's something that has to do with God.

Conscience has its own cause, and that cause is God. That entity must be the ideal entity of an eternal, limitless, and unchanging nature. Our conscience is heading for that very point. When there is a perfect flower, then everybody wants to make it his. Every man has a sense of comparison. Then what would he like to compare himself to? Not to another man, because we don't want something that changes. We want something which is limitless, boundless, and eternal, something which never changes. The ideal is this high.

Standing on the highest position of the ideal itself, when you call for God, He will come right over. Just imagine, when our spirit is in that position, then· our flesh is automatically controlled by it. When our conscience laughs, then our body also laughs with it. If our conscience can be able to smile eternally, our body will be able to smile eternally also. Have you ever met such a person?

So the Bible says, "God in me, and me in God." Jesus pointed out, "I am in the Father and the Father in me." (John 14: 10) By nature we have every element that can be connected with God. Only by religion could you deny your body and go very confidently where your spirit commands you.

Live for God and the world

We have witnessed in a 400 year period, people who became the prey of lions, and who have been crucified, and who have gone through tortures, but were still happily holding this one ideal. They were more confident and happy than ever when they went through this path in Rome. That is possible. Once you have experienced this perpetually, then you will want nothing but this to take you straight to your objective. In this position alone, man has endless and limitless value.

So youth has the highest ideal and ambition. Many, many people act for their individual happiness. But imagine, no matter how hard you try, can you liberate yourself? No. That is a very miserable situation.

Some people live for the sake of their family. We might say, "That's slightly better than if he lives for himself." And some people will even live a little higher than that, in order to try to liberate their own clan. Some people dedicate their lives for the sake of their country. The average youth can go as high up as to sacrifice for the sake of his country. If one has stepped beyond this, living for the sake of the liberation of the world, then such a person has been called a sage and saint. But imagine, even after that, if the world is liberated but God is not liberated, then we cannot call such a world the ideal.

There are two types of men -- some men live materially, and some men live according to their conscience. We can see clearly these two differing ideals, one materialism and the other spiritualism. It is sad that in the democratic world, which is supposed to be a good world, we don't know what constitutes the conscience, and especially where the conscience is heading. On the other hand, materialism or Communism will, never liberate the spirit. Communism, once it flourishes to a certain degree, will never be able to go beyond that.

Then in this viewpoint, what is more valuable, Communism or a God -- centered theory? The God -- centered theory. Conscience must have existed before material did. So we come to the rational conclusion that even the Communists one day must recognize God.

The body is stronger than the mind most of the time, but we can never deny the precedence and strength of the mind. In your very presence here, your mind commanded your body to come; your conscience said, "Reverend Moon is here; we are going to go and listen to him." Your flesh never said, "Conscience, let's attend the lecture." Oneness must come somewhere: where can we find this unity?

Communism and the Free World can never become one as they are, because they are in the world of result. Just as our conscience is perpetually fighting against our body, so also will the Communists and Free World struggle until the end. As long as they keep on fighting, there is no ideal. Even though man tries to find some solution within the world, he is not going to find it. Man is sick. When you heal that sick man, the cure will not be a permanent one, unless you locate the cause of the ailment; then you eliminate the pain.

Individual solution to world problem

The solution to the world problem is an individual solution. When an individual himself finds what made him wrong, and what can repair him, then he can repair the world. We must emphasize this point, it is not the world that we are concerned with; we must be concerned first with ourselves -- that's the beginning of the entire thing. No matter how peaceful and happy the world may become in the future, unless man can become happy, that world has nothing to do with him. It is not a feasible idea that an imperfect man can make something perfect. It's never possible; you might as well not try it.

First, we must become ideal men before we hope that somebody else becomes ideal. An ideal man should speak on behalf of the past and the present; the same person will have achieved something for the future. If there is some man who is able to do all this, he can first be called an ideal man. Unless this one man approves something, there is no such thing as the ideal. We must have some movement, some current culture which will look very seriously for this direction.

No matter how dear and precious and valuable past human culture may have been, it cannot be compared with what is to come. Throw it away, discard it, and you will find new things; at this point we will be on the eternal course God set for us. If any youth desire that, God will immediately know; He will guide them on the path through which they may attain the goal. That is the first ideal -- that's the highest ideal that youth can have.

If there is a youth of this nature and determination, who lives this kind of life, then he will be the treasure of the past history, and he will be the treasure of the present time, and he shall be the treasure of the eternity to come.