Relationship Between Men And Women

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Second 100-Day Training Session
Master Speaks
March 20, 1973
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

Good morning! Sit down!

You Must be especially careful of the relationship between men and women. I say this lest you should cause a scandal. If you leave any rumor or scandal between men and women, you will never be blessed together. The people of the U. S. especially must change the concept of going on dates and things like that. Because I am going to rely on you as the leaders of this nation, I regard that kind of thing with special concern.

Up to the present there have been many such people who would leave rumors. Back in Japan and Korea, those who felt they were attached would deliberately not meet each other. Those who have that kind of rumor would never be blessed under me. In my last blessing I took the reference from the missionaries I sent here; but in any case, those who had been attached beforehand, I would not have blessed them. You must be thorough and absolute about that. Due to the human fall it took us thousands of years to restore humankind to the original position. And it's not quite done yet. If you commit any mistake in that kind of thing, it is nearly impossible for you to be forgiven. Our movement belongs to the period of perfection. Since Adam and Eve had barely reached the period of growth, they could fall -- because they were not connected in heart with God. But if you are going to fall now, it's more difficult to be saved. Adam and Eve fell before being able to connect their love relationship with God. That's why there is room for them to be saved.

But if their heart or love were connected with God, and they had then fallen, there could never have been such a way of salvation. The love relationship between Adam and Eve was intact, but they never made the connection of heart with God, so there is room for them to be saved. But if you arouse problems in the love relationship, it will make it difficult for you to be saved -- the Principle tells us. Do you understand? There was no heart or affection connected between Adam and God -- and the fall occurred at that stage, so I again say that there is room for them to be restored to the original position. But if you are going to fall here, it will be very difficult to be restored. Even I cannot do it according to my own will. If you know the theory of the fall and then commit the fallen act, it cannot be forgiven. This is something like putting your hand under the sword wielded by Satan -- to chop off your hands. Is that clear to you?

I have been hearing rumors about you people. In that case you must be careful about that. It's not good for you to sit together side by side. Haven't you other people been feeling that? If you have, you must have or should have advised them. Chastity and keeping pure is the greatest thing in our group. In the outside world, even in public places such as parks, they do just anything in this country. That cannot be allowed in God's sight. In the future, our young people have to do something about that. We have to revolutionize U. S. society. We must go beyond this or else the new world cannot be brought about by our hands. I am very strict about this, and I am going to punish any mistake committed between man and woman, because I am teaching the very principle of how to be pure -- not to commit mistakes. In the near future there will be a time when I will not even let you walk hand in hand, man and woman. Because in that way you can give the wrong impression to other people.

Purity is something like a blossom before it is opened. So, before you are blessed, you must be like a blossom shut tight, and bear the fragrance deep within you. I am strict about this because the Principle teaches us that -- the truth. Up to the present even missionaries sent here by me did not quite know the depth of it. You are going to be future leaders of this nation, so you must be very careful about this point. Any leader of any group in any center: try to avoid the situation of a man alone with a woman. You must be there -- at least one man and two women, or two men and one woman. Eve fell because she was alone with the Archangel. When Eve fell with Adam the same was true, when there was God. Eve, Adam and the Archangel -- then the fallen act could not have been committed. If one male and one female are alone by themselves, isn't there the possibility of their committing the mistake? Isn't that true? It is something like lighting a match to vapor in front of a gasoline tank. Wouldn't you avoid that? If you commit that kind of sin, after knowing the Principle, the way is narrow for you to be restored. For those who are already married before joining our group, I have already set up a condition, and the way is already paved, so that they can be blessed. But for the bachelors, heaven wants you to keep your virginity. In U. S. society, there are not many who have kept that purity; but after joining this group, the possibility is greatly increased.

As I said before, it is worse than murder. If you murder a person, you are killing one person; but by doing this thing, you are killing your descendants and your lineage. Then, wouldn't you say that this is more than killing and murdering people? The law to punish this kind of act is going to be the severest. Do you know that? You know what you have been before joining this group. But upon joining -- after learning the Divine Principle -- you must repent, and try your best to keep your purity from then on. You must have the feeling that you are so happy here that you would do anything in repentance. More than anything else if you commit this mistake after joining the group and learning the Principle, that's horrible. Do you understand clearly? Your one act of sin will affect your ancestry and your future descendants, the fruits of your ancestry. You will know when you have your own children how loving they are to you; and then your act of this kind will be something like giving them poison. You must be very careful.

Whenever I bless you, you confess your past, too; but I always keep the statistics, and the statistics tell me that in Korea about 83% of the girls keep their virginity; about the same for males. In Japan, 63%, but in the U. S., they are almost rags. You must be ashamed of that. You are certainly not proud of that. That's a sign of ruin, and if you have that kind of attitude here, don't come to me. If you go out into society in the worldly way, that kind of thing is allowed; why don't you go out and do that? I am so strict on this because I want to prevent it from happening. You must keep your purity and chastity. You must think of it as more valuable, more important, than you own life. The fallen act in love will kill your descendants. If we teach you here that kind of concept, would the people outside of the U. S. like this kind of idea or not? Would they like it or not, our teaching this kind of purity? Yes. Even in the outside world, wouldn't the boys like to have pure, virgin girls as their wives, and vice versa? After the blessing it will be more strict. You are all forgiven of your sins and blessed. If you are distracted and set eyes on other males or females, that can never be forgiven. Jack, you have two boys. As a father, wouldn't you have your boys welcome pure girls as their wives? If you want that for your own children, wouldn't you have to be pure yourselves? When you marry, would you marry thinking that after a while, you are going to be divorced? If you are in the parents' position, would you have your children marry once and get divorced later? The reason for their having to get divorced is almost without exception, usually the problem between male and -female -- the love habit. In order for us to be able to prevent this from happening, we must be able to theoretically explain that.

The Divine Principle is the only truth for that. Unless one knows clearly what would be the result of the committed act of love, they will not take it seriously. Those blessed couples must stick together always. To the present you have been separated because of witnessing purposes and other things. But when you are allowed, then you must stick together, never allowing any temptation to come between you. I want to see you together. God is happy to see you seated side-by-side. But when the couple is sleeping, can other people get in there and sleep with them? That's not allowed even in the worldly standard. In our world, sometime in the future, those other people may have to bow down before the beautiful couple when they pass by. We must applaud the beauty of the couple. Isn't that true? [Yes!] They are blessed in God's sight and they have the right to be respected by the people around them. We must be very strict on this question. If you have any questions to raise, please do. If you feel you don't know too clearly, ask me questions.

Now, do you understand why I am so strict on that? [Yes.] After joining this movement, you must go through a public career of at least seven years, corresponding to the 6,000 years. . .

Yesterday I happened to go out into the city of New York, and there was a parade -- an army parade -- Army, Air Force, and Navy -- because it was Armed Forces Day. In my mind I had a great expectation: this is such a great nation, it must be grand to see an armed forces parade in this country. So I wanted to telephone to Belvedere and bring the movie camera. But from what happened, I was discouraged. There did not seem to be any strict rule in their marching and all the rest. The rows were crooked and the men talked on the way. I didn't see the rules working -- even in the army. I was discouraged, and I thought, "I will have to do something to the people of this country." They were in gorgeous uniforms, with high hats and all the decorations. But they kept no rule there and all the parade was spoiled, and the tradition of the armed forces was ruined. If we are going to do that kind of thing, we will never do it in that way.

I am good at training people; so even though I put certain people to shame, I will be strict on that and have you be awakened to the fact. I am not the type of person who can easily forgive people, in a sense. If I am too generous or tolerant to people whose behavior is questionable, then there will be Satanic invasion of other people's minds. Can I forgive that? In a sense I am frightening. I am strict and all that. But on the other hand, I am tender and sweet. But mostly I am going to be strict on you because you deserve that. This kind of thing must be eliminated from the early stages of our movement. So, if you cannot bear that now, you must go back, wrap up your things, and come back ten years or more from now. Would you want to do that? [No.] Why not? It's a hard job for me to have to be so strict on you -- by frowning all the time -- saying harsh things. I don't like this myself. I am doing something like the timber-makers would do. I will cut off the branches and cut off the tree from the root and cut the trunks into pieces. When I have to cut off the branches, I must not be reserved -- I must do it without reservation -- even the root. After you are made into timber, you are going to be used for a very great purpose -- not before that. In training I am going to cut off the parts from you which are not needed. Do you understand? [Yes.]

I can read your faces. From the way you talk, the way you smile, I can judge your personality. When I matched 235 couples out of the Japanese Family, it took me only eight hours and some minutes. Can you imagine? How could I do this? To others eyes I looked as though I was drawing lots or something like that. I had some male member in mind, and I would look at all the girls, each one of the girls. When you look at nature, all the trees in sight at the first glance would look the same. But could a pine tree be engrafted to an acacia tree? They would both be ruined. If there are several pine trees, even though one of them is crooked and small, I have to cut one of the branches and engraft it to another pine tree, not other kinds. Some persons have the characteristics of waterfalls, very sensitive and flowing. In that case, if I am not careful in matching that person, he will die. If I have a person of explosiveness, then they will be well-matched -- they will complement each other. If the waterfall comes down with beating power, there must be some power lifting it up or stopping it from doing that, or else that cannot be harmonized.

Only those who have eyes for that can match people -- and if you go on like you are in the U. S., as I see it, there will be many underdeveloped people, or idiots, born in this country. That's true. There will be ruin. I am serious in wanting to match you. You don't know who will suit you best. Isn't it so? [Yes!] If you are going to marry, you are not going to marry for your own sake. Marriage is like heaven and earth meeting together and being united into one, centered on you. On the horizontal level, I am responsible for the whole nation in marriage. In that sense, if you deny your wife, it means to deny the earth and to deny all the people on the horizontal level, the nation. When you love her, it means you love the whole earth and love your nation. It is because your wife is the closest person to you out of the people of your nation. You are going to love the nation through your wife. If you are not loving your wife, you have no face before the earth, before your nation. Then, can divorce be possible in our movement?

All the way I have gone through is in accordance with the Principle. My job is to gather together what has once been dispersed, and sew together what has been torn apart. I have the iron law in myself and no woman can ever tempt me. Adam fell because he was enticed by Eve, and fell into temptation. So, in me, there is no temptation possible, and I am not vulnerable to it. No one can induce, seduce, force, persuade me in that thing. I know that if Adam had been intact from Satanic temptation, restoration would have been possible centered on him. Eve can be recreated or restored by the person of Adam if he is intact -- that is the Principle.

Do you know that, do you understand? Everything fits the Principle. Nothing is done without conformity to the Principle. Centering on Abraham, too, between Sarah and another woman -- Hagar, the mother of Ishmael -- there were many particulars in light of the Principle. Mother is now trying hard to unite the minds of such women. You must know that I have gone through a difficult path which you can never imagine. I sometimes even feel fearful of women. In the fallen world, it is easy for fallen women to tempt males. Since I have gone through such difficulties, I wouldn't let you, and I don't want you to go through the same path. Rather, after my having paid the indemnity, I want you to go straight on the road with purity. Regarding this problem, I am not a forgiving type of person. I feel rage in me if I find that kind of thing happening here. The Messiah being the Second Adam and the Lord of the Second Advent -- in the same position to him, as in the case of Adam falling away, there should be a woman who, like Eve, is seduced into failing by the Archangel. Also there must be a woman who is in the position of the Bride to him, with him as the Messiah.

There have been many types of women in human history who have had a resentment toward men, either spiritually or physically, and have come to me to get this indemnified. If I had listened to them and had been dragged back to their side, I would have become a failure. So, I had to be very strict with those people. But if Adam were intact from Satanic invasion, he would have had his bride. And with Mother, he could go on with his mission. During my first seven year course I had to educate Mother, to recreate her. It took God 7,000 years to locate the bride for me, so during the seven year course I had to indemnify all those things. My first absolute course means that. I have been able to recreate Mother. From her part, she must be absolutely obedient to me. She must be different from fallen Eve. Do you understand that in light of the Principle?

Then, you would say, "I must follow the example of Master in that, too, in the way he has trodden?" That's something that has been done and has to be done through the man who is the Messiah, as the central figure, because he has to undo the entanglement. What took place in the Old Testament Age and New Testament Age around the central personage must be solved, centered on me. I hate the idea of my having to go through all those things. So, I did this in order for these kinds of things not to happen. So, even at the idea of those things -- when I recall those things -- it makes me feel horrible. In the Principle, I can love Eve only when she is in obedience to me -- not in other cases. Do you understand? [Yes.]

So, up to the present, I have never given Mother my pure heart. Because she had not yet been to the standard. I have gone through all this without your knowing it. I now let you know all these things, because you must have a clear idea of what I have gone through. So, when you are blessed in marriage, you women must be absolutely obedient to your husbands. You must know that. In your public career in this movement -- in your mission -- you must be cooperative with your husband and in obedience to him. If you, in holy marriage, are going to divorce, Satan will accuse you of that. You can never be restored. Do you understand?

This morning, I wanted to be frank with you, to let you know all these things that have happened to me. In fact, I was going to tell you about something else this morning, but this is very important. You men must think that women are something horrible, fearful. They are apt to be a nuisance to you, in public -- 80% obstacles. You have your own family -- but is your wife helpful to your work? She means to be cooperative with you; but still, you are sometimes distracted or drawn back by her. Women by nature want to have their husbands confined to the home.

But you can feel safe that the women in this movement are so brave, so generous, as to let you go -- and they would love you more when you are good at carrying out your public mission. As a whole, women are above the standard of the men. So (in the reverse way), men are apt to drag the women backward. I warn you! When you feel lifted, it's because the women, knowing the Principle, make themselves obedient to you.

You must not ever think of yourselves as being high. You are so only because your women want you to be elevated. In that way they are going to restore the position from what happened in Eve's day. Eve would drag the men down into the fallen position. But not those women who would want to lift their husbands high above them, in the course of restoration. Do you female folks know that and understand? In the Pioneers flower selling, most women excel the men. That's why I am sending out more women for the Pioneer work. When they do well and earn a few members, then I will send the male members as the leaders. That's how the Principle goes.

I must come back to tell you, even the girls of the U. S. must be obedient to their husbands. Because in the States, up to the present, the women somehow occupied a higher position over the men. Up to the present moment, women, being in the position of Eve, had to restore the men to the elevated, original standard. That's why in the U. S., which is the leading nation of the world, women have been in the leading position. Is that true in this nation? I learned that there are about 800,000 people in Washington, D. C. who work for the government; and out of that number, 200,000 women are secretaries for high level officials. The secretaries could influence their bosses. I heard the press men say that the U. S. is being manipulated by women's hands. In a sense it is true, isn't it? It is because we are still in the stage of restoration, and the fallen Eve must drag up the men who are in the position of the Archangel. The men in the U. S. are as yet in the position of the Archangel, and women in the position of Eve. So, the Archangel is in the position of a servant.

That's why, in this country, the man opens the door for the woman, helping her to come out. At first it looked funny to me: until the driver would come out of there and open the other door, the woman would sit and wait for him to do so. How could that kind of thing happen elsewhere? In that case, the man is in the position of king and the woman, queen. In that case, can the queen act like that before the king? It is because, up to the present, men here are in the position of the Archangel. The U. S. has enjoyed 200 years of peace -- and then comes 21, which means three sevens, and going beyond that it enters 200 years and corresponds to the history of 200 years and over. You are now crossing over the peak of the 200 year history; do you feel you are going down from there, or are you going up again? [Yes.] The actions of Americans show the opposite. You are somehow descending. Without our efforts, the U. S. cannot be lifted up again. It is like Adam and Eve while they were still in the stage of indirect dominion, or dominion according to the result.

So, we are going to go through the last stage having restored this much; and then when we enter into the direct sphere of God's dominion, that is the ideal world. After our three seven year courses are concluded, the ideal world must begin to come at least in this nation of the U. S. If within seven years from now, this cannot be realized, it may be prolonged to 21 more years. Then, it can be prolonged to the year 2,000. By that time I will be 80 years old. That would correspond to Moses' 80 years of age. At the latest, by that time, our way will be paved to reach out to the end of the world. This seven year course will be concluded when I am 60 years old. From the year 1960 up to my age of 80, it will be 40 years time. So, we must try our best to conclude our mission -- or to make our mission a success, if possible -- in 40 years at the latest. Do we have an indefinite time ahead of us. or can we see the conclusion? Even though you may be a failure, I will go on and accomplish my mission.

In order for a woman to be loved by her man in the real sense, she must first of all be able to lift her man up to the standard where he can be loved by God, and then with him in place of God, she can be loved by him. That's why I am separating even the blessed couples for the time being. During that three years, I would want the male folks to restore their rights and dignity. After restoring the rights and dignity of the male being, and putting him above the woman, then alone does he have the right or qualification to love his wife. That's why I have been doing this. When you go over this standard, a woman is in back of the man. We have three stages in this period, too. That is to say, three years. In Korea, for three years time, I separated all the blessed couples. That's what happened in the U. S., too. When I sent out the blessed women to the frontline, I meant that they should follow the example of their husbands, who had been working in the frontline, to experience the same thing. Their husbands are in the position of having accomplished those three years, and by treading the same way, by going through the way paved by them and reaching that point, only then could they be really loved by their husbands. Entering that age, they could be under the direct dominion of God, and they could come to the original position where a man can love his wife. In the family, if they have children, the children must also be obedient to their parents. They must feel like going out to the frontline to work with them and live with them. With that unity of spirit they can be elevated to their standard.

When they first went out, of course, they went out deserting their children, leaving them behind. It is because, only after the parent is restored will the children be restored, automatically. If, in that case, the children would object to their parents having to go to the frontline, they would be repeating the act of sin. There were many tragic things which happened during that interval of time. Something like the tragedy that has happened in the course of restoration was happening in some of the families. Some would have someone taking care of their children, but some had to leave the children in their grandmother's hands or mother in-law's hands -- or when they didn't have people to take care of their children, they had to leave them in orphanages. They had the same experience as what happened between man and God in the early days of human history. Between God and Adam and Eve there was a great gap. The children wanted to reach God and they missed Him. This is a very important thing. Someday, you will have to have an examination on these questions.

Didn't I go through the same thing in Korea? You must realize that in Korea your brothers and sisters have gone through untold misery in your place -- to indemnify all the conditions. I have gone through the indemnity course in my own family, and Korean blessed families have gone through the indemnity course, and all those things are being passed on to you. Thus, your way is paved, and you cannot complain about having to work hard. Without this already done by the Korean people, your road would be more bumpy and difficult to tread. So, you must be grateful to the Korean members. Down at the bottom, the Korean members laid the foundation stones, and struggled hard to pave the way, and now the road is smooth and wide. Can't you go -- dash forward on the road? Now, in the worldwide level road, you must be in the vanguard of others, struggling hard on the way. Are you ready for that? [Yes.]

For you to have to go through all these things is, by the worldly measure, a sort of tragedy. But knowing the Principle, I have to solve all those things, undo the entanglement, and I have to solve it with you -- and without me you cannot do it. By our going through these three years, we are in the position of having resurrected Jesus, who failed in being the True Parents to his would-be children. So, by going through these stages we could have made these three into one -- Jesus in the position of the True Parents, having a relationship with the true children. In this way, he will have laid the foundation on the national level, centering on his own family, corresponding to Jesus.

So, from this time on, the toll gate to the worldwide level is open, and we are in the next stage. Without this having been laid in Korea, I could not have come to the U. S. for more work. I have received a letter from home which is a very good report of what happened recently in Korea. Before long, being caused by just one person, something great will happen overnight. That is possible.

Yesterday, I went to the Madison center, and I met a new member there who had been receiving revelations from God. While walking on the street she saw a vision of beautiful blooming flowers and shady trees all green and leafy, and there appeared young people dancing and singing, hand-in-hand, working together. She thought it was such a beautiful scene, and she asked Father to let her find that place; and the very next day she was led to the weekend workshop here. When she came out of her car she saw the same scenery she had seen in her dream. At that moment she felt that this was the very place where God was going to lead her. With that kind of person such things can happen overnight. In the U. S. you will see many people walking on the street and murmuring, talking to themselves. They are not mad people at all. Before long the whole spirit world will be mobilized to work through the people of the earth.

Master can take charge of these people. He alone can do that. You must be able to work in place of me, too. Can I reach out to the end of the world at one time, being limited in flesh and body? So, you must be well armed with the Divine Principle yourselves. You must be able to manipulate those people. That's what is happening in actuality. It is no dream, no illusion. What is happening in the spirit world is transcending time and space. Can you believe that? Do you believe in it -- do you know it and understand it? Do the people of the world know that? They cannot believe it.

So, there is a vast gap between the worldly people and our group. But those who are here, you folks, don't realize the value of it. You have still a long way to go. You have to go through those final stages which are left before you. Can you be attached to each other -- between male and female and be vulnerable before the fall? When you commit any mistake there, it's something like killing each other or disfiguring the person -- plucking the eyes out. You must know the horror of the thing. Wouldn't that make me stern, strict? I am serious, because I know it took God so many thousands of years to bring the people back to the original position without having to do that kind of sin. Jesus died for that -- because of that -- because he failed in righting the wrongs. We are in the position to have to carry out this mission. We are so serious as not to heed anything else, and if I find that kind of thing taking place, can I leave it?

In Korea, only after ten years from the early stages of our movement, I began to talk about these things -- by telling them that by going through those three final stages, you can reach that point. Can you say you cannot do it starting from that point? In Korea, those who had already married had to remain in abstinence for ten years or more. There are couples who had already married in the work remained in abstinence for 12 or 13 years or more, and then were blessed. Then, can you commit mistakes? Even after you get blessed in the holy marriage, you have to have three years separation. Can you ever dream of being together before the blessing? Can you promise among yourselves you want to be blessed with each other under Father's blessing? Can you dream of it? I have to warn you against those things. That is the point where you are apt to fall into the place where in Principle you will never be saved. Strictly speaking, there will be no restoration possible from there. Don't you ever dream of being restored from there. Even descendants, when they sin, give birth to other descendants, and will never be forgiven.

How many Jewish members are there here? In the olden days, under the Jewish law, they were supposed to stone the adulterous people to death. Under our law, in the Divine Principle, it's going to be more strict. Do you understand why I am so serious? Without knowing this, you are apt to commit mistakes. At one pace you can fall down off the cliff. So, you must be very careful and keep yourself intact from that kind of sin. Is everything clear to you? The part of the men which is different from women is like a serpent's head. Can you wield that in misuse? The part of the woman is something like a poison pot. That's true. You must purify it. That's why in the Jewish custom, they circumcised their children to drain out the stained blood. There was no such thing even possible on women. If they were in utter obedience, they could be saved.

That's the core of what happened in those days, and the misconduct right at the time of the human fall must be reversed or undone. It cannot be easy. You must again realize that if you commit adultery or any such thing, it means you poison yourselves to death. From now on, men, more than women, must keep their chastity. Especially for you, as the leaders of groups, you must know this clearly enough so that you never commit it. If you clearly understand what I mean, raise your hands. Those who are determined not to commit such a mistake in any way, will you please raise up your hands in pledge before God. Do you have any questions?

Question: When we teach the Principle of the Fall, how soon are the people responsible for what they've heard?

Answer: Right at the very moment when they are taught. As the lecturer, you must plant in their minds the notion that the woman's part is poisonous, and that the man's is the serpent's head, and that committing adultery is the most horrible sin. You must teach it thoroughly. It's more than that. By this they are killing not only themselves, but also their descendants. A contagious disease can kill many people. Likewise, those who are born out of stained blood will be infected. You must teach them thoroughly. I want you to be exemplary in this area. We have to purify the people in our movement first of all.

Question: When we witness on the street, should we witness men to men and women to women?

Answer: That's okay, for you to witness to women -- only you must put yourself in the position of a father to them, as a father to daughters. Don't ever feel yourself being her possible spouse or things like that. But try to avoid being with her alone -- by yourselves -- because even though you may not be in that mood, other people will misunderstand, and in their eyes you may look like lovers.

Question: What about the biblical statement, "If you think it in your mind you have already committed adultery"?

Answer: We must go beyond that, and we must try to eliminate even the thought of it, because we are in the position to have to indemnify all those things. By the year 1967, till 1968, when I first established God's Day, I tried to straighten up this thing -- the problem of heart in love. In order to put it in order or straighten it up, I spent so many years up to that year. In a way, I am in the position of the body and tail. If you cling to me, holding fast to me, then you can go along on that way. In crossing over the three years, it's going to be most difficult -- you must be hurt. That must be something like Jesus' three years of public ministry, in which he had to have at least three major disciples entirely in cooperation with him; then he could have gotten married through their cooperation, and could have wedded those three disciples as his spiritual children, and he could have restored Noah's family and Adam's family. Had it not been for the fall of Adam and Eve, in Adam's family the eight members could have been brought about. But because of their separation from God, the fall came about, and caused the separation between them on the horizontal level, too.

So, in the course of the restoration, there is also the separation between mother and children, parents and children. So, in the course of restoration, there must be oneness between brother and sister, and they must be vertically centered on God. Brothers and sisters must become one and parents must become one -- and then those two levels must unite into one. Then those in wholesome oneness can go to the kingdom of heaven. So, until you have three spiritual children and raise them in wholesome oneness and have them blessed, you cannot reach the kingdom of heaven. At the time of Jesus, when the three chief disciples of his were not willing to die in place of Jesus, he was a failure. In this age, you are in the position of Jesus. When you have gained three spiritual children, you must be able to raise them till they become so dedicated to you that they will be willing to die for you -- or else your mission will not be a success in the real sense.

What was committed at the time of the fall must be restored or undone or done all over in the reverse way. Because Adam and Eve failed to be united into one with God in love, they are under the position of Satan. Now we must cut off our bondage from Satan and bring ourselves back to God, to come to God with love. So, among our members, we must feel closer in the bonds of love than with our brothers and sisters. You must never love each other as lovers would in the world. When Adam and Even were going to be blessed, they were in the position of brother and sister. At the time that they were in the stage of brother and sister, they did not know that they were going to be blessed. You must put yourselves in that position. If you talk about being future husband and wife, it's already a mistake or sin. You must restore yourselves from the position of brothers and sisters. Without knowing that they were going to be future spouses, they could still fall. So, if you know this and commit that kind of thing with conscience, it's more dangerous.

You can never think or talk about things in terms of what you are going to do as future husband and wife. The Divine Principle can never allow this to happen. Do you understand? So, you can never imagine who is going to be your spouse. Who knows -- God's will can be the only motivation, and the True Parents alone can do it. Not now, but in the future. In the Unification Movement, who is in the position of the parents? You know that Master is; then without Master's position, how can you do that kind of thing? Master allows you in marriage -- that's the time you begin to think of that. At that time I will assemble you and have enough time to associate with you and see each other in terms of your possible spouses, and then alone can you think of people in that way. Before my permission you can never do that, or you will feel impurity working in you before the time is due. Under this strict law, there is even the possibility of your falling into misdeed. Then, if I were to let you alone there is more possibility of your committing that kind of mistake. That's why even God in the very beginning had to tell Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit.

How can I give you permission to eat freely? I must be more strict than God because I know the fallen nature inherent in you. Have you fully understood what I meant? Even after you give birth to your own children, you must raise them wholesomely intact from Satanic invasion in terms of that. Every one of my children is accompanied by someone else when he goes out on the street. Because Satan would set eyes on them. With those who are above ten or entering adolescence, I am more careful. In this sinful world, for me to set up this kind of standard is a tremendous job, a most difficult job. That is why God and myself and everybody else in this movement need a nation; if we can lay the foundation or set up a nation of our own, there will be no such anxiety. Do you understand? [Yes!] Unlike your children, if one of my children should be invaded by Satanic power, it's going to be a terrible, untold misery. If in the beginning, God would insist on Eve's being with two more -- not Eve and the Archangel alone, nor Eve and Adam alone -- they could not have fallen. So, from now on, I am thinking that two persons should follow the eldest child, who is entering adolescence. It is not because I love them more in the worldly sense, but it is because I have the responsibility to protect them from Satanic hands. It's such a serious problem. You must be able to actually feel that if you are inclined to that kind of thing, Satan will applaud and be happy of the fact, while if you are inclined to the Godly side, God is happy over what you are doing.

One more thing I want you to know, especially the men, is this: Don't ever dream of proposing to women first, or saying, "I love you." Don't initiate that kind of thing. From the women's part, it's more so, because they initiated the fall, so how can they ever say that to men? You are in the position not to have been born or not to know what love really is as yet. So, unless the parents would bring you love, or plant the notion of love in your heart, you cannot initiate love or talk about love. That is the core of the Christian ideology in terms of bride and bridegroom. Before this, celibacy is advocated. In the Bible we read that St. Paul said that if you cannot overcome lust, you may as well make yourselves into eunuchs. You must know that when I repeat this over and over again I am really serious. I warn you against committing a mistake.

So, once you commit that kind of mistake, there is no way for me to save you and there is no measurement of how to be saved. You will be doomed to Hades. Then you will have no excuse even in the spirit world when you pass away. You can never say to me, "Why didn't you let me know this? Why did you allow me to fall into the pits?" Did I tell you? Are you sure you understood? I have done my part. You must try hard not to fall into the snare, into the trap. This is very far or high from the standard of what you have been thinking and acting in the world. So, I know it's going to be difficult for you -- but all the more, you must try hard. This is the formula, this is what the Divine Principle demands of you.

Mind The Environment In Advancing Forward

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Second 100-Day Training Session
May 25, 1973
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

Good morning! My subject this morning is, literally speaking, "Let us go forward, taking into consideration the environment."

We have here both male and female members. The path of human life for women is obviously different from that for men. What women feel is different from what men feel. Within the life of any individual, there is a difference between his or her childhood, youth, middle age and old age. Not only in human life, but also in nature, we see four seasons coming one right after another. If you insist that you are always living in summer, and if you are always thinking only of the summer, not preparing for what is coming in the winter, you will be faced with great difficulty. In winter, those who don't think of the coming spring, and confine themselves in snug, cozy rooms will have difficulty when spring comes. Can you insist on wearing winter clothes when either spring or summer comes? No! You want to change your clothes to suit the season.

This is exactly how it happens in our lives. Those who belong to the summer of life -- which is the prime of life, or youth want to have eternal youth. But that is not possible. It's natural that in each of our lives, there must be changes. But are you not inclined to insist on remaining the same age? You are afraid that by changing, you will somehow decline. You know from experience that you don't always go up. Every day your mood has ups and downs. After having passed through 24 hours of the day, if you find that you have had more ups than downs, then you can safely say that you have had a good day. If you have had more downs in a day, you will say that you have had a bad day. You may think that you want to have no downs at all in your life, but that cannot be so.

In the world of change, how to digest what we are faced with and make it into something good is always the question. More than anyone else, young people are faced with constant change, because their dispositions are like that. You want to have stimulating things and you want to have changes all the time. If you can digest the difficulties and changes, and still want to have the changes, that's OK. But if you don't have this digestive power and yet desire to change every moment, that's not possible. You, as young people, must learn the difficult job of handling your own problems. You do not know the future before you, so you have to learn from experienced people how to go through the path of life while you are still young. In other words, you must undergo training in order to handle those problems in such a way that you can order them and be able to think of things in a positive way, so that you can change yourself in a good way.

If you say you hate to undergo rigorous training because you don't like it or you can't bear it, you are in a way, defeated. You must have the attitude that you want to face the facts with great concern and interest. You must not look into just one point of focus, but look around at the environment in four directions. You may look at the Hudson River, and you know the deep water runs silently. But upstream there have been many particular happenings: sometimes the water swirls in a deep eddy; sometimes it pounds down on rocks, as in the waterfall; sometimes it dodges past big rocks or runs over small pebbles to be gathered into the ocean. As you may have seen in movies, if you are faced with a very rough current when in a boat, you cannot just look right in front of you, but you must set your gaze far and wide, and you must be quick to manipulate the ship or else it will be wrecked. In your life, too, there are waterfalls; and sometimes the water will form walls or cliffs, so you must in some cases dodge past a place or steer through the waves.

You must be prepared for the wave. If you are on the wave, however hard you may struggle not to be carried away by the current, you cannot resist it. If your destiny is to float on the current on the Hudson River, you must flow as the wave does. You may very possibly be like the waterfall or the water running past the rocks, but you must not be discouraged. If you are trained on this course, things will be easier for you to handle. If you take interest in what you are going through, and if you are thrilled to experience that kind of thing -- then in the next moment, when you are faced with more difficulties, you can tackle those things with more zeal and capability. But if you are unwilling to tackle the problems occurring around you and are afraid, then you will not be well trained to face the following ones. Only by having gone through the rocks and waterfalls can you lead yourself to the heart of the ocean.

There are many ways of life: the life of a common man, the life of a sacred man, and the life of a great leader. When you are asked which one you want to become, all of you, I am sure, will answer, "I want to become a great leader." But a great leader cannot be made overnight. In order for one to become a great leader, he has to go through many difficulties -- and with desperate effort must persevere through trials and be ready to face still more. When you call a person a great leader, there are many factors to be considered. Those who are faced with life at the cost of their very beings -- not once, but continuously -- would do things at the sacrifice of their lives. Suppose there is a great general in this country. Looking back into his past, we find maw records which show that he fought in many battles, was sometimes defeated, and sometimes victorious in the battle. As many experiences as possible would count. If that general, in time of peace, would not be willing to do things for the nation at the sacrifice of his life, his fame would fade away. His attitude must be that of a patriot; he must always be ready to sacrifice his life in the face of danger. We must always be able to look at how the water runs from the mountaintop. When it runs down and down it will be faced with many difficulties.

If we compare our lives to the stream of water, where are we situated? When we look at the world as a whole, the whole situation is somewhere in the middle -- not quite reaching the depth of the ocean., Before its coming to the great ocean, it may still be at Niagara Falls. Can the water say, "I hate to pound down upon the cliff"? Can it say that? At the top of the cliff, you must get ready and say to yourself, "It's a thrilling job, and I want to jump down from this cliff and reach the ocean as soon as possible If you are eager, then you will succeed and attain your purpose. If you survive, after having gone through a Niagara Falls, then every other person who is faced with the waterfall will come to you and ask your advice, because you have had this experience. Many other people may give the new ones advice, describing how difficult a job it is to run down the cliff -- but you, with the experience, are the only one qualified to give such advice.

What must be our way in the Divine Principle movement? In the Christian world under the Roman Empire, they were faced with iron bars when they tried to advance. If Christianity had not been persecuted by the Roman Empire at that time, I don't think Christianity would have progressed to today's level. Compared to the water, if there is a barrier of lesser height, then water will overflow it. If the running water has more power than the stopping power of the Roman Empire, then the power of Christianity would overflow and flood the Roman nation and the world.

When you are tired you doze off, but you yourself are not aware of that. You try hard to resist your sleepiness, and you mean not to fall asleep, but you do just the same. If the two small openings here, for your eyes, become closed like this, then all the rest of your body will come into harmonized action and fall asleep. Every cell of your whole body will cooperate with that one action. That is, when you doze off, all the rest of the parts of your body will do the same. In order for you, one individual. to survive the difficulty, you must realize that the whole universe, including your relatives and neighbors, will come to your aid. If someone pulls out one hair of yours, would that part alone feel the pain, or your whole body? Every human being it a part of the universe, so if one part is a failure, the whole universe will ache over that failure. If you succeed in a mission, you must not think that the success belongs to you alone. A river is the accumulation of raindrops, but out of the water, some portion will be gone.

You must want to ride on the current that will beat against the rock, and on that impetus you can go downward, joining the mainstream, until you reach the mouth of the river -- so that you can go to the ocean. In the providential course of restoration under God, there is a mainstream. Don't you think so? Would you join the mainstream or the tributaries? Most anybody will answer, "mainstream." Unless you can dodge past all the obstacles in the tributaries, you cannot join the mainstream.

Our life is something like a stream of water. You are here going through training, seated side by side; but once you are scattered and sent to your fields, then you are like water running through your own way to reach the mainstream. Would you, a drop of water, try to join other raindrops -- or would you rather absorb other drops of water into yourself, to form the mainstream? Even if you may have to be tributaries for awhile, I want you to be the main or central one to gather other drops of water into yourself until you join the mainstream. We cannot foretell if all of us here will join at the mouth of the river when we reach the heart the ocean. Are you confident that you will join at the ocean in the end? If you are faced with any power stronger than your determination, what will you do? If you are faced with a power greater than your own fighting spirit or fighting power, will you be absorbed and surrender? It is not easy to answer.

Sometimes, don't you see, you are just so small or tiny like this; if and when a difference of interest occurs between the two of you, you will get mad at each other and fight. Then someone else may want to reconcile the conflict between you, and say things to you, but you will only become more fierce in fighting against each other. If you had a broader mind and would let the other go, you wouldn't want to fight any longer and would want to leave. This person will cling to you and solve the problem, you will be of such a broad mind that you can smile and go away to your place, where work is waiting for you. Then who is the greater person? If you are like water trying to surmount a wall, you will want to leave the place as soon as possible to join the bigger place. The time element will solve the problem; and if you can leave the difficult place sooner than others, you will succeed. Tell the other drops of water, "You stay there, but I must rush on."

When you become those raindrops scattered in the field, all over the country, you, as drops of water, can write back a forth. Some will say in their letters, "Oh, I am faced with difficulties and this is not what I expected. It's a most difficult job witness to the people." Those who receive the letters will be influenced by that. It is very likely. In the life of faith, we must not fix our glances on what is happening right now, but toward the distant future, at the goal, where God is hailing us. We must not be settled in one place. As you go along you must be able to add something to what you are. For instance, if you pass by a village and there is a great fight taking place, you must get into it, reconcile it, and then go along your way. In that way you can solve problems, and also pave the way so that those following you can tread an easier way.

You have seen many successful people in the history of America. In their backgrounds, they have many interesting experiences. The more adventures in which they have had to fight to prepare the way, the greater they are. If a person has one more experience, he is a little greater than another person with less experience. Our adventures will be recorded in anecdotes about how we have struggled hard at the cost of our lives in facing difficulties. We speak of movies as being "thrilling." It means the hero is at the point of life or death; then you can say the movie is suspenseful. In deciding on what to eat, how to sleep, would you say is any thrill? This is just everyday routine. In Western movies, you see Indians pierce cowboys through the heart, and you say that is thrill and suspense; otherwise, the movie would be dry and monotonous. Suppose God is looking at a movie. Would He like a movie which is thrilling and suspenseful -- or just a dry and monotonous one? Answer me clearly. Why do you laugh? Which would Go like? The movie with thrills and suspense.

The viewpoint may be different between male and female. I think that women like sweet and homey movies. But men like movies in which bravery is demonstrated -- full of suspense and thrill. In that case, would God be on the side of women or me [Men!] As far as I can imagine, God would like a movie with suspense and thrills. As I understand it, God is full of energy; He is an active being. I think God liked men more than women, because in working to restore the world throughout history, He has been using males more than females. Women will be fully appreciated after the war is over and peace is obtained. So when God chose a Bride for the Lord, He will do it right after the close of the age, when peace is about to come. Both in the movies and in reality when a man is so brave as to sacrifice his own life and his family for the greater cause of his country or the world, then there is all a woman who would stop him from doing that.

How are things in the Unification Family? Are the women braver than the men, or is it to the contrary? [Braver!] You can debate the fact. Who will win? But according to the reports coming from the field, the records say that the women are making in more members than the men. That is proof that women are doing better, isn't it? As I see it, the women are good in the pioneering stage. The reason for this is that the men are inclined to organize the people in groups, while the women want to look for people and get them into the movement one by one. The difference is that women can continue to work, repeating the same thing; but men are faced with failure in something which they had first attempted with great zeal, they abandon this and start again, wanting to do greater things. Women are more attached to what they are doing or have been doing. But men do not want to repeat the same thing over again. That's the difference between male and female.

For instance, there is a man who would go out witnessing, and when he was faced with opposition, he would say to himself about the people, "Be gone with you -- I can find better people than you!" But a woman, if rejected, would go around from the rear and would beg again, "Won't you listen to me?" Then she would try the side, and then the rear attack, and everything else possible. Ultimately, if the man continues to object, you will cry, and tears will run down your cheeks. In the United States, men feel bad if they make women weep -- so they will become tender toward you. Men insist that the people receive the message, and they can easily deny or reject the men, but people are more tender toward the female. But in our movement, men must be braver than women and try to win more souls, more members.

With a stronger build, physical strength, can you be defeated by women? [No!] God will lose as well as our movement if you fail to do things and are defeated by women, because men eat more and use up more things. This means they consume more things in general. In the future, when you are going to marry, a woman would not want a man who can be easily defeated by women. On the part of you men, you would want to have a girl who will surrender to you. A woman is of such a disposition that she would like to have a man who is braver than herself, even though she would be defeated. Men are endowed with more courage and physical strength than women -- so you have no reason to be defeated by women. So you men are in the position to pave the way for women to tread; but when you are defeated by women and let the women pave the way for you to travel smoothly, that's contrary to the way it should be. Doesn't that sound logical? When women are desperate in winning souls and working for this great cause, while you men are idling away the time, would that be good? In the face of death, would you want a fragile woman to risk her life, or would you choose to die in her stead?

Suppose Jesus were a woman, and you constantly heard, "A woman savior died for mankind." Wouldn't that sound awkward? Women members would you want to cry out to the world, "I am the savior. I am going to save the world!"? You may cry out at the top of your voice, "I am going to die for humanity -- but your voice is too sweet to be trusted by other people. But men can cry out to the world, "I am going to save the world!" in a deep voice, and people will trust them. Up to now, in history, men have been in the vanguard of fierce battles. I always think that God must be very intelligent, because He used men for that purpose. In the Unification Movement, too, if we are really engaged in fierce battle, I am going to use men instead of women. When there is a great rock before us, would you have men go against it or women? [Men!] If you fight through the difficulties, then victory will be yours.

You have seen on television that the prisoners of war are coming back from North Vietnam. What was your impression of them? I wanted to ask them, "When you were in prison, were you training yourself to fight against the evil power of communism?" Were you in such a mood that you hated communism, and resolved yourself to fight for freedom and democracy, or did you just exist is captivity with utter despair, and with only the animal desire for food, shelter, etc., keeping you alive?" I Which . type of person do you think most of them were? In their prison life, they could have shown to the communist leaders that in the democratic world the spirit is one; is really their strength. Once they are imprisoned they no longer have the strength to fight against communism. There, in prison, they could have betrayed their weakness; if so, it's a great sin they have committed. The communist leaders would have observed and learned that if they fight against the power of democracy, it will collapse in an instant. Wouldn't they think that way? In the face of torture, in the face of any difficulty possible to the imagination, if the prisoners had remained strong and persistent, and had demonstrated that in the democratic world people are so strong and hateful of communism the communists would have been scared and would have learned that they could not win against the democratic world. But if they showed instead their fragility, then the harm they have brought to the world is great and almost unforgivable.

If, among the prisoners of war there were both a general and a private, and both were so strong that they could not be defeated or even be weakened by any torture coming from the communists, then the communists would have thought that they could not win against the democratic world. Even at the time of armistice, they could have taught the people -- and in their teaching, the could have defeated them spiritually. But without that, both in prison and after their release, they have been defeated. In the United States, there were wives and children waiting for them, and they received them like victors. In fact, when I looked into what they did while in prison, I saw that they are all failures. I wondered how many of the wives and children of those prisoners of war had analyzed what they did in prison, and were ashamed of it. That's what I contemplated upon seeing them come back. Was I right in doing it?

The same thing will be true in our movement. If I send out a small, fragile looking girl into one of the cities, where she will have to go through untold difficulties and be faced with persecution, where people will try to scourge her, etc. -- but she would never be defeated, and instead would be thankful to God even in difficulty -- then she will prove to the people that our ideology is the one to save the world; she will be a living sacrifice and a symbol of the greatness of our movement. There may be temptation from many brutes. In the movies, when a girl is forced to kiss a male, she may resist at the beginning, but later on she enjoys it. Most males will think, "No matter how well trained she may be, if I try to tempt her over and over again, she will yield." But in that case, if one of the males in that vicinity tries to tempt you, but you never fall into temptation, they will learn that you are the stronghold of God, and will soon come to their knees before you.

Suppose the female members sent to the front line are as strong as that. Then male members are sent to be Mobile Unit Commanders and such. If people of that city or town find the males idling away their time, seeming to be playboys and lacking faith -- then what would happen? Since the female members there are test proof, the men in the town may try to test you by tempting the males -- because they think you are vulnerable, and that they can tempt you with knowledge, wealth and other things which seem good in the worldly sense. They may send a beautiful girl to you to try to tempt you. Then what would you do? If the town has seen the strength and invulnerability to temptation of the women; and then find again in the men the same strength -- strength is on the side of God -- then the whole population of the town will think that this movement is the strongest in the world, and can finally win over the world. They will think that these young people can even reach God and heaven.

Now that I am sending you out to the battlefront, you will either become captives or victors. Which are you going to be? [Victors!] At the beginning, anybody and everybody would want that. All those in captivity wanted at first to become victors; you must remember that. If you fall into captivity, what will you do? You must be prepared for that too. You would do better to kill yourselves, if you are going to become captives like the prisoners of war that I pointed out. If you are that weak in captivity, the least one in the Satanic world will deride you, be scornful of you, call our movement names, and things like that. Are you going to be victors, defeated, or captives? Which would you become? [Victors!] But if you are taken captive, what would you do? I would not ask you a question like this, if you still had a way to escape. If you still had explosives with you, if I were you, I would throw the explosives at the enemy and die with them. In that case, even though you kill yourself like that, you will still be the victor when you have died. Those who die with such bravery will be praised, and people will set up an epitaph there. Would you rather die in captivity? In all events you must become the victor -- or it would be better for you to die.

Back in Korea and Japan, the rumor is that the Unification members, though they are young, have tremendous power and are the bravest people in the whole world. But those people are now focusing their attention on what is going on in our movement in the United States. If you are soft as pumpkins, easily pierced through, what would they think of you? Would you rather become strong and hard like iron, or soft and tender like pumpkins? [Iron!] Is it true? If you really mean that I want you to put yourself through more hardships, or else I will drive you harder. Are you prepared for that? [Yes!] Do you really mean that? [Yes!] Some you may grumble in your hearts, saying, "Master has brought so many Japanese brothers and put us in competition with them. I don't like the idea of competing with them; and when we are defeated, we are begrudged -- what will we do? Without doing that, we have enough struggle; why does he have to do that?" Master knows that soon there are, going to be fiercer battles, and he wants to concentrate all the forces to fight against the evil power in that final battle. That's why he wants to train you even more.

The U. S. is still in the stage of remaining on the Hudson River (metaphorically). Before long you will reach the heart of the ocean, where there are tribulations waiting for you. So I must train you before you reach the ocean. You must become like the waters which rush into the ocean, and with that power coming from you, you can defeat the fleet of enemy nations. Have you ever thought of that? Then would you want to be trained harder than this? [Yes!] You have had an average of six hours of lecture these days, but if I had to tell you that you must have twelve hours of lecture each day, what would you do? Then would you complain about it, saying, "I have been educated in primary school, high school and universities. I am a university graduate; why do I have to go through lectures? I can memorize it in even half this time. I know it, I can give the lecture"? In that case, would you complain? Your "no" is too weak to be trusted. Just think: we must turn the whole world upside down, along with heaven and earth -- to put them in right order. I will put you through such, hard training as history has never before seen.

I must put heaven and earth together with a wheel here -- with a rope of steel plaits so when I pull it, heaven and earth will come together. The strength exercised on that reel must be as strong as that used by God thousands of years ago. If in any part, the steel rope is weaker, it is apt to be disconnected or cut off. Have you ever thought that, at the back of your belt, there is a rope of your strength -- a rope you have made to which other people will cling, in order to follow you? Would your rope be so weak that when God wants to pull it on the pulley, it will be severed? Your rope must be so strong that it cannot be cut apart when it is pulled by God and clung to by someone following you. Then are you ready to die for the cause in the Divine Principle movement? [Yes!]

How many times did Peter answer Jesus in the affirmative? It is easy to answer now. If one of your eyeballs is plucked out in battle, what will you do? If one of your limbs is cut off, what will you do? If you lose all four of your limbs on the battlefield, what will you do? Your answer is becoming weaker and weaker. In the face of great work, a great task, you must be ready to sacrifice even your life. A raindrop beginning at the mountaintop and running down through the stream to the riverbed is faced with many difficulties. If you are not prepared for difficulties while doing great things, you are a fool. You must be prepared to die for the cause, or else you are foolish to say you are following the way. If you are resolved to deny yourself and give up your very life, you will never be afraid of any difficulty. However strong the enemy's fortress may be, you will never be scared. You will be contemplating how to die a brave death. Are you like that? If you are prepared to die, victory will be yours, and your victory will be proclaimed by the people of the world. You must be resolved, first of all, to deny yourself.

Why do I tell you this? My subject was "Mind the circumstances, mind the surroundings," and when our surroundings are rough, and circumstances difficult, we must be determined to face those and win over them. You must know that you are going to be defeated if you don't consider the circumstances and become able to either adjust or steer through the way in the face of difficult surroundings or circumstances. That is only too natural. How to digest, how to conquer the environment, is the question. Don't ever try to escape from the environment, but feel challenged and steer through the way. On a bumpy road, there are many ups and downs -- as we said before -- and where there are peaks, there are valleys at another time. So when you are faced with the dungeon, you must expect that in the next moment, God will bless you with more grace.

When winter comes, we want to try to get over that, and then spring will be there. Then summer comes. That's progressive change. The harder, the more challenging the situation is, the more progress you will make. Do you realize that? [Yes!] You are anxious to be successful -- but if you have no zeal to fight through the way in the face of difficulties, your success will not come soon. So you must realize that only after having gone through difficulties and darkness will you see the light. In our fight in the United States, if there are obstacles and difficulties in our path, then what are we going to do? Are we going to try to escape or try to go through those? [Go through!] No manmade method will win over it; only true heart and true zeal coming from God can fight through the way. What is truth or heart? Our entire mind and body must be the incarnation of truth. What is the power binding those two? Life is the binding power between mind and body. Life is the truth of truths; and with the investment of our lives, we will fight and make our lives a success.

When there is a force coming from the United States to attack us and we want to stop or repel it, then there must be a consumption of power in a way -- that means sacrifice. Then either of the two may be an evil power; one is at least better than the other, God's sight. Which will win is more than clear. The righteous power will win. On the side of righteousness, people are doing things a sacrifice of their very lives -- which makes them stronger for the fight against the opposing power. After death there can be resurrected. Even though you may have to die, if you are granted resurrection, you can fight through. That is why God taught us that those who deny their lives will live, and those who are ready to lose their lives will gain them. That means He is going to give resurrection to those who are ready to die.

Those who would die for the cause of righteousness, even though they die a physical death, will inherit goodness. So they live a long life, in that sense. But if they die on the way, without being able to defeat the Satanic power -- after their physical death, they will be denied by God. Our stage is not only the United States, but the whole world. In the environment there are evil powers all around, but with the power of righteousness and God around, are we confident to fight through and win the victory? In this country, freedom can be enjoyed; I regret that I cannot send you to Red China or the Soviet Union as spy agents, to find out what is happening in the evil side of the world. In case I do that, would there be anyone prepared for that? [Yes!]

The other day, out on the lawn, when I wanted the members to sing, and asked them which language they knew, one of the girls answered that she could speak Yugoslavian and Russian. When I asked if she would go to Russia, she was scared. She said, "Don't send me to Russia." Are you also like that? If you win over Satan and obtain victory in that world, then victory in the rest of the world will be easy. If we are going to cover the whole world, who will be responsible for that part of the world? If you are scared, if you are unwilling to go there, how can you be responsible for that? If you are like that, do you think that we will have final victory? There will be no final victory for us.

If, in the future, we do our work hand-in-hand with the CIA, I am ready and willing to send the strongest members in our movement as spies to the Soviet Union, Red China, etc. Then I will have to choose those who have accumulated good deeds in the movement. They are the only ones who are qualified for that job. In your mind, are you saying, "I must not work hard, lest I should be chosen to go," or "I will stop doing work in the movement when he chooses me for that"? You must not think this way If and when you are sent to countries like Russia and Red China to smash those things of evil nature, and then come back as a victor with spoils to be returned to God -- then you will be received in glory.

You are becoming dizzy at what I say. If you are scared, then wrap up your belongings and go away today. Are you going to fall away, or go through the way to the end? [To the end!] There is no reservation when I am fighting against the evil power in this nation -- even though I may have to be imprisoned. I fancy that there will be bullets coming at me. If I am scared before bullets, what will happen? I must receive that kind of thing as a matter of course. I am even contemplating having to go to Russia or Red China and be faced with persecution from them. When you are blessed in marriage, the women must try to train their husbands to be strong in order to fight for the cause in the place where the evil power is the strongest. The men must be able to train their wives to do the same. When her husband is trying to train her like that, if the woman is scared and clings to him and says, "Let us have a happy home life without having to do such things," you must be able to repel her.

Who is going to be responsible for overcoming the communist power? Can the United States do it? [Yes!] Can the United States as a whole, in the outside world do that? [No!] In the United States, only our group of people can do that. Not even in the Christian world can we see such a group. We must be responsible for the whole population of the world. That is our goal, and I am going to train you to meet that standard, just as in the communist world, the people will move at one command. But in this world, if I command you, you must be ready to obey me for eternity. In the communist world their aim is to win the world for their sakes, but we are doing this for heaven and earth -- the whole world. Even though we may shed tears, sweat and blood we have to carry out our mission until we make it a success or victory. With that idea in mind, we have laid the foundation, and we are on our way toward building the house. Our first task is to conquer or win over the circumstances in both the United States and the communist world.

Before being able to conquer the world of evil power, we must be able to overcome the difficulties. Can you do that? You may say that in order to go to San Francisco, you must ride a bus, an airplane or a train -- but in our movement, there is no such fixed notion. Only if you are able to walk to San Francisco can you say you are victors. However vicious the communist power may be, if you are sent into that country, you will have to conquer the force and come back to return glory to God -- or else you cannot be called victors.

When I went to North Korea, which is under a communist regime, and was imprisoned there, it was right in the prison cell that I learned that, and became resolved to fight against the evil power. I was confident that I would win over it. I said to myself, "However strong Kim Il Sung's power may be, if I am well trained in prison and go through difficulties here, I will have the power to be victorious over them." I was ready to eat any food they gave me -- or even to starve. In North Korea, the temperature was 23 degrees Fahrenheit. Even though I was clad in thin clothes, without any lining, I could bear the cold. The labor in prison started at 8:00, but as early as 4:00 they would call us out in the open air and check to see if we had anything hidden in our clothes. Out in the cold air people would tremble -- their trembling sounded almost like thunder. In that situation, Master would always say to himself, "if more cold comes, I will not surrender." He did not feel cold at all. He would try to give thick, heavy clothes to other people, and clothe himself in sheer, light clothes. He would look for heavier work, and say to himself, "If I don't succeed in doing this, I must die." With that seriousness, he would fight the circumstances; otherwise, he could not have trained himself to be such a strong leader.

So people were very touched. They admired me -- even the jail boss bowed down before me in admiration. I would come out on top in everything. You must be able to fancy yourself in a race, with that kind of difficulty. You must be resolved to have more power than the enemy, so that you can win over the other power -- whatever that power may be, however difficult it may be. I always imagined that I would eat less than other people and do more than other people, sleep less than other people and wake up earlier than others. You must learn how to go through that. There is a way provided for you.

When you are faced with difficulties that look really bad, you may feel as though you are going to perish -- but there is always a way out if you look for one. In that way, even in the prison cells, I would teach the young people. In that field, too, I am an expert. I know how to make fire even when I am alone on the mountainside. I know how to feed myself with wild herbs. I always imagine that I would be faced with every possible difficulty -- because I am the central figure and have to go through the indemnity for all mankind. Satan, who has hitherto tortured God and all righteous men, will come and attack me. That's only natural. I would study that and learn the secret to win over that power.

So I hate the idea of anyone's not keeping his promise. If you have vowed before God for any great cause, you have to keep it. When you fail to carry out your mission, just as Peter crucified himself upside down, you must be ready for that. You are brave warriors for the cause of God in the Divine Principle movement, so you have to lay the foundation for yourself, and you must welcome any bitter experiences to win the victory after that, to make you stronger. Do you resemble me? [Yes!] I don't mean that you should resemble me in outward appearance, but you have to resemble me in ideology. I am the trunk of the tree and you are the branches. I want you to be leafy, flowery branches so that you will bear much wholesome fruit.

You must have heard that in the battlefield in Vietnam, Korean soldiers were brave warriors. The casualty list shows that Korean soldiers could kill seven times as many of the enemy as the South Vietnamese could. So, the commanders of the North Vietnamese army told their soldiers to run away when they saw Korean soldiers. When they went on night assaults, the whole village could be attacked and the people killed -- with but a handful of Korean soldiers. All the villagers would be scared and run away. In order to be as brave as that, they had to go through much training.

Efficiency, capability and actual deeds always count. There are two ways possible: if you go on and accomplish many things, that's more desirable; but if you cannot do it on your own part, I must be harsh on you, drive you out, and train you.

Wouldn't that be logical? Which of the two ways would you choose? If you are not willing to do that, it will never be easy. More than the soldiers, you must get training in many ways. You must be able to eat faster, sleep less, walk speedily -- when you run, you must dash like arrows. Are you prepared for that? You are going to try. It's not that you already have that kind of experience.

It is not too late. That stout fellow must work until he becomes thin. Those who are already thin, you must be ready to die; even though you may have to die, you must carry on. It is because for those who are already weak, it's natural for them to be defeated by the stronger ones. So you must be ready to kill yourself -- then you will never die.

Let us reach the conclusion. If you cannot master your circumstances, you will be defeated. Women can be defeated as well as the men. That failure can come about through temptation by women, through temptation in starvation, through threats by other people, through the sacrifice of shedding blood, or through death. In order for you to become a victor, you must welcome what may come. In that case, if you are ready to face that and win over it, you are not going to be defeated. In the face of death, or before that, you must be able to set up or train a man who can be your heir. Even if you have to die, before your death, you must decide who is to inherit your mission.

What did Jesus do during the 40 days after his resurrection? He tried to pass on his mission to his disciples. If, before his death, he could have appointed a heir, he would not have had to come back to train his heirs to take on his mission. In that case, even without Jesus' resurrection, people could have fought in his place and there would not have been so many Christian martyrs. The Jewish nation would not have been ruined as it was. Again, I want you to be the victors, winning over the circumstances, even though it may be difficult. Before your death, before going on to another mission, you must find your own heirs. You must know that victory will be neither mine or yours -- as individuals -- but will be ours and God's.

So, before going any further, you have to find followers and pass on your mission to someone else. Even after this training you must not walk all by yourself in the field. In the Bible we read that two or three or several must become one in prayer, one in anything, and God will answer them. Even in the fallen world, when you are involved in a lawsuit, at least two or three witnesses must testify for you. Before God can justify your deeds, the people around you must be able to testify to you. However hard you may struggle during your life, if you don't have any heirs, your deeds may be nullified. Even in prison, I prayed to God, "Don't worry about me, I am all right. I am going to carry out my mission even in difficulty." But heaven worried about me, and provided many people for me; I would witness and bring in members right there in the prison cell. You are going to be victors, and that's good; but if you don't have any heirs, you cannot pass on what you have accomplished to your descendants.

Now that you are going to be sent out to the field, are you going to come back all by yourselves, or with other people at your side? That's something like the spoils, after victory in the war. You must be always thinking and deliberating over what to bring back as spoils after the war, and what to show to the people of the Christian world. In that way, the Christians will be taught that only by doing it this way can they win over the evil power. They will say that, without these people, the United States cannot be saved -- the country's future will be nothing. They will know that you are going to be victors; but if you as victors do not have an heirs, your victory will come to an end. We must be serious even after we become victors; we must be able to pass on what we have gained to other people. So we must be serious. I want you to know that, whatever circumstances or surroundings you may be face, with, you must be victorious.

Yesterday you put labels on the boxes of ginseng tea, and some of you may have thought, "We are trainees, and we are here for training. Why on earth do we have to do this?" Maybe you are right in not wanting to spend any of your time at any job other than studying the Divine Principle. Then, through that experience yesterday, you could have learned a lesson; it's as is you have another branch growing out of you. Sometime later, I may so train you as to have you wake up at zero hour. Then what would you do? You may grumble and say, "Why do I have to wake up this early?" What if this hour is the very moment when the enemy, in ambush, would come and attack you? That's possible, isn't it? You must be well trained in that, too. Maybe just before a meal, you will be called out to the grounds and sent out to fight for a task. You will say, "We can do this after eating; why do we have to go now?" Who knows, but at the very hour you left the place, a bomb may come and destroy the dining room. Those who would complain and eat first would die there.

You must know that enemies will not warn you about the time. They will come to attack you beyond common sense, time and anything else you can imagine. So we want to be trained beyond common sense -- or else we will have no way to win over the fierce enemy. That is the secret; that is the strategy. So don't ever question what Master wants you to do. He has good reason for it, which you don't know about. If you go beyond any boundary, just believing in what Master would have you do, you will be victors. Do you understand?

I hate to see people chewing gum in the lecture. When you are determined or resolved you will have your lips shut tight, not relaxed like this. When you are really serious, you cannot do that. That's not the way you should act. When you chew gum your spirit is already distracted. When you are concentrating on one thing, would you be lax like this? In many ways you must be trained. Up to the present, my missionaries to the United States have taught you a lot, but I am going to teach you more. Compared to what I am going to teach you, what they taught you is under my level. This is like the difference between kindergarten, primary school, high school, and university. There is no comparison.

Try to focus on today, this very moment; and if you are the victor at this very moment, you will be the victors after going through the entire course. So you must be alert in winning the very moment you are faced with for the side of God. You are accustomed to peeling apples; but if you rely too much on your skill and want to peel them with your eyes closed, you are apt to cut you fingers. In anything and everything, there is a standard or central point, even in clothing yourself. You must know that your circumstances are something you must be fearful of. You must occupy your environment or circumstances, and be the master over them.

Circumstances are things to be feared. If you want to control fearful things, you must be more fearful yourself. Do you know what mean? I want you to be victors over the circumstances more than anything else. Do you understand? Let us pray.

Relationship Between Men And Women

Sun Myung Moon
May 20, 1973
Second 100-Day Training Session
Belvedere
Translated by Won Pok Choi

Good morning! Sit down!

You must be especially careful of the relationship between men and women. I say this lest you should cause a scandal. If you leave any rumor or scandal between men and women, you will never be blessed together. The people of the U. S. especially must change the concept of going on dates and things like that. Because I am going to rely on you as the leaders of this nation, I regard that kind of thing with special concern.

Up to the present there have been many such people who would leave rumors. Back in Japan and Korea, those who felt they were attached would deliberately not meet each other. Those who have that kind of rumor would never be blessed under me. In my last blessing I took the reference from the missionaries I sent here; but in any case, those who had been attached beforehand, I would not have blessed them. You must be thorough and absolute about that.

Due to the human fall it took us thousands of years to restore humankind to the original position. And it's not quite done yet. If you commit any mistake in that kind of thing, it is nearly impossible for you to be forgiven. Our movement belongs to the period of perfection. Since Adam and Eve had barely reached the period of growth, they could fall -- because they were not connected in heart with God. But if you are going to fall now, it's more difficult to be saved. Adam and Eve fell before being able to connect their love relationship with God. That's why there is room for them to be saved.

But if their heart or love was connected with God, and they had then fallen, there could never have been such a way of salvation. The love relationship between Adam and Eve was intact, but they never made the connection of heart with God, so there is room for them to be saved. But if you arouse problems in the love relationship, it will make it difficult for you to be saved -- the Principle tells us. Do you understand?

There was no heart or affection connected between Adam and God and the fall occurred at that stage, so I again say that there is room for them to be restored to the original position. But if you are going to fall here, it will be very difficult to be restored. Even I cannot do it according to my own will. If you know the theory of the fall and then commit the fallen act, it cannot be forgiven. This is something like putting your hand under the sword wielded by Satan -- to chop off your hand. Is that clear to you?

I have been hearing rumors about you people. In that case you must be careful about that. It's not good for you to sit together side by side. Haven't you other people been feeling that? If you have, you must have or should have advised them. Chastity and keeping pure is the greatest thing in our group. In the outside world, even in public places such as parks, they do just anything in this country. That cannot be allowed in God's sight.

In the future, our young people have to do something about that. We have to revolutionize U. S. society. We must go beyond this or else the new world cannot be brought about by our hands. I am very strict about this, and I am going to punish any mistake committed between man and woman, because I am teaching the very principle of how to be pure -- not to commit mistakes. In the near future there will be a time when I will not even let you walk hand in hand, man and woman because in that way you can give the wrong impression to other people.

Purity is something like a blossom before it is opened. So, before you are blessed, you must be like a blossom shut tight, and bear the fragrance deep within you. I am strict about this because the Principle teaches us that -- the truth. Up to the present even missionaries sent here by me did not quite know the depth of it.

You are going to be future leaders of this nation, so you must be very careful about this point. Any leader of any group in any center: try to avoid the situation of a man alone with a woman. You must be there -- at least one man and two women, or two men and one woman.

Eve fell because she was alone with the Archangel. When Eve fell with Adam the same was true, when there was God. Eve, Adam and the Archangel -- then the fallen act could not have been committed. If one male and one female are alone by themselves, isn't there the possibility of their committing the mistake. Isn't that true? It is something like lighting a match to vapor in front of a gasoline tank. Wouldn't you avoid that?

If you commit that kind of sin, after knowing the Principle, the way is narrow for you to be restored. For those who are already married before joining our group, I have already set up a condition, and the way is already paved, so that they can be blessed. But for the bachelors, heaven wants you to keep your virginity. In U. S. society, there are not many who have kept that purity; but after joining this group, the possibility is greatly increased.

As I said before, it is worse than murder. If you murder a person, you are killing one person; but by doing this thing, you are killing your descendants and your lineage. Then, wouldn't you say that this is more than killing and murdering people? The law to punish this kind of act is going to be the severest. Do you know that?

You know what you have been before joining this group. But upon joining -- after learning the Divine Principle -- you must repent, and try your best to keep your purity from then on. You must have the feeling that you are so happy here that you would do anything in repentance. More than anything else if you commit this mistake after joining the group and learning the Principle, that's horrible.

Do you understand clearly? Your one act of sin will affect your ancestry and your future descendants, the fruits of your ancestry. You will know when you have your own children how loving they are to you; and then your act of this kind will be something like giving them poison. You must be very careful.

Whenever I bless you, you confess your past, too; but I always keep the statistics, and the statistics tell me that in Korea about 83% of the girls keep their virginity; about the same for males. In Japan, 63%, but in the U. S., they are almost rags. You must be ashamed of that. You are certainly not proud of that. That's a sign of ruin, and if you have that kind of attitude here, don't come to me.

If you go out into society in the worldly way, that kind of thing is allowed; why don't you go out and do that? I am so strict on this because I want to prevent it from happening. You must keep your purity and chastity. You must think of it as more valuable, more important, than you own life. The fallen act in love will kill your descendants.

If we teach you that kind of concept would, the people outside of the U. S. like this kind of idea or not? Would they like it or not -- our teaching this kind of purity? Yes. Even in the outside world, wouldn't the boys like to have pure, virgin girls as their wives, and vice versa? After the blessing it will be stricter. You are all forgiven of your sins and blessed. If you are distracted and set eyes on other males or females, that can never be forgiven.

Jack, you have two boys. As a father, wouldn't you have your boys welcome pure girls as their wives? If you want that for your own children, wouldn't you have to be pure yourselves? When you marry, would you marry thinking that after a while, you are going to be divorced? If you are in the parents' position, would you have your children marry once and get divorced later? The reason for their having to get divorced is almost without exception, usually the problem between male and female -- the love habit. In order for us to be able to prevent this from happening, we must be able to theoretically explain that.

The Divine Principle is the only truth for that. Unless one knows clearly what would be the result of the committed act of love, they will not take it seriously. Those blessed couples must stick together always. To the present you have been separated because of witnessing purposes and other things. But when you are allowed, then you must stick together, never allowing any temptation to come between you.

I want to see you together. God is happy to see you seated side-by-side. But when the couple is sleeping, can other people get in there and sleep with them? That's not allowed even in the worldly standard. In our world, sometime in the future, those other people may have to bow down before the beautiful couple when they pass by.

We must applaud the beauty of the couple. Isn't that true? [YES!] They are blessed in God's sight and they have the right to be respected by the people around them. We must be very strict on this question. If you have any questions to raise please do. If you feel you don't know too clearly, ask me questions.

Now, do you understand why I am so strict on that? [YES.] After joining this movement, you must go through a public career of at least seven years, corresponding to the 6,000 years...

Yesterday I happened to go out into the city of New York, and there was a parade -- a military parade -- Army, Air Force, and Navy -- because it was Armed Forces Day. In my mind I had a great expectation: this is such a great nation, it must be grand to see an armed forces parade in this country. So I wanted to telephone to Belvedere and bring the movie camera. But from what happened, I was discouraged.

There did not seem to be any strict rule in their marching and all the rest. The rows were crooked and the men talked on the way. I didn't see the rules working -- even in the army. I was discouraged, and I thought, "I will have to do something to the people of this country." They were in gorgeous uniforms, with high hats and all the decorations. But they kept no rule there, and all the parade was spoiled, and the tradition of the armed forces was ruined. If we are going to do that kind of thing, we will never do it in that way.

I am good at training people; so even though I put certain people to shame, I will be strict on that and have you awaken to the fact. I am not the type of person who can easily forgive people, in a sense. If I am too generous or tolerant to people whose behavior is questionable, then there will be a Satanic invasion of other people's minds.

Can I forgive that? In a sense I am frightening. I am strict and all that. But on the other hand, I am tender and sweet. But mostly I am going to be strict to you because you deserve that. This kind of thing must be eliminated from the early stages of our movement. So, if you cannot bear that now, you must go back, wrap up your things, and come back ten years or more from now. Would you want to do that? [NO!] Why not?

It's a hard job for me to have to be so strict with you -- by frowning all the time -- saying harsh things. I don't like this myself. I am doing something like the lumbermen would do. I will cut off the branches and cut off the tree from the root and cut the trunks into pieces. When I have to cut off the branches, I must not be reserved -- I must do it without reservation -- even the root. After you are made into timber, you are going to be used for a very great purpose -- not before that. In training I am going to cut off the parts from you which are not needed. Do you understand? [YES.]

I can read your faces. From the way you talk, the way you smile, I can judge your personality. When I matched 235 couples from the Japanese Family, it took me only eight hours and some minutes. Can you imagine? How could I do this? To others' eyes I looked as though I was drawing lots or something like that.

I had some male member in mind, and I would look at all the girls, each one of the girls. When you look at nature, all the trees in sight at the first glance would look the same. But could a pine tree be engrafted to an acacia tree? They would both be ruined. If there are several pine trees, even though one of them is crooked and small, I have to cut one of the branches and engraft it to another pine tree, not other kinds.

Some persons have the characteristics of waterfalls, very sensitive and flowing. In that case, if I am not careful in matching that person, he will die. If I have an explosive person to match to the waterfall person, then they will be well-matched -- they will complement each other. If the waterfall comes down with beating power, there must be some power lifting it up or stopping it from doing that, or else that cannot be harmonized.

Only those who have eyes for that can match people -- and if you go on like you are in the U. S., as I see it, there will be many underdeveloped people, or idiots, born in this country. That's true. There will be ruin. I am serious in wanting to match you. You don't know who will suit you best. Isn't it so? [YES!] If you are going to marry, you are not going to marry for your own sake. Marriage is like heaven and earth meeting together and being united into one, centered on you.

On the horizontal level, I am responsible for the whole nation in marriage. In that sense, if you deny your wife, it means to deny the earth and to deny all the people on the horizontal level, the nation. When you love her, it means you love the whole earth and love your nation. It is because your wife is the closest person to you out of the people of your nation. You are going to love the nation through your wife. If you do not love your wife, you have no face before the earth, before your nation. Then, can divorce be possible in our movement?

The way I have gone is in accordance with the Principle. My job is to gather together what was once dispersed, and sew together what has been torn apart. I have the iron law in myself and no woman can ever tempt me. Adam fell because he was enticed by Eve, and fell into temptation. So, in me, there is no temptation possible, and I am not vulnerable to it. No one can induce, seduce, force, or persuade me in that thing. I know that if Adam had been intact from Satanic temptation, restoration would have been possible centered on him. Eve can be re-created or restored by the person of Adam if he is intact-that is the Principle.

Do you know that, do you understand? Everything fits the Principle. Nothing is done without conformity to the Principle. Centering on Abraham, too, between Sarah and another woman -- Hagar, the mother of Ishmael -- there were many particulars in light of the Principle. Mother is now trying hard to unite the minds of such women.

You must know that I have gone through a difficult path which you can never imagine. I sometimes even feel fearful of women. In the fallen world, it is easy for fallen women to tempt males. Since I have gone through such difficulties, I wouldn't let you, and I don't want you to go through the same path. Rather, after my having paid the indemnity, I want you to go straight on the road with purity.

Regarding this problem, I am not a forgiving type of person. I feel rage in me if I find that kind of thing happening here. The Messiah is the Second Adam and the Lord of the Second Advent -- in the same position as Adam  before the Fall, as in the case of Adam falling away, there should be a woman who, like Eve, is seduced into falling by the Archangel. Also there must be a woman who is in the position of the Bride to him, with him as the Messiah.

There have been many types of women in human history who have had resentment toward men, either spiritually or physically, and have come to me to get this indemnified. If I had listened to them and had been dragged back to their side, I would have become a failure. So, I had to be very strict with those people. But if Adam were intact from Satanic invasion, he would have had his bride.

And with the bride, Mother, he could go on with his mission. During my first seven-year course I had to educate Mother, to re-create her. It took God 7,000 years to locate the bride for me, so during the seven-year course I had to indemnify all those things. My first absolute course means that. I have been able to re-create Mother. From her part, she must be absolutely obedient to me. She must be different from fallen Eve. Do you understand that in light of the Principle?

Then, you would say, "I must follow the example of Master in that, too, in the way he has trod"? That's something that has been done and has to be done through the man who is the Messiah, as the central figure, because he has to undo the entanglement. What took place in the Old Testament Age and New Testament Age around the central personage must be solved, centered on me.

I hate the idea of my having to go through all those things. So, I did this in order for these kinds of things not to happen. So, even at the idea of those things -- when I recall those things -- it makes me feel horrible. In the Principle, I can love Eve only when she is in obedience to me -- not in other cases.

So, up to the present, I have never given Mother my pure heart because she had not yet been able to keep the standard. I have gone through all this without your knowing it. I now let you know all these things, because you must have a clear idea of what I have gone through. So, when you are blessed in marriage, you women must be absolutely obedient to your husbands. You must know that. In your public career in this movement -- in your mission -- you must be cooperative with your husband and in obedience to him.

If you, in holy marriage, are going to divorce, Satan will accuse you of that. You can never be restored. Do you understand? [YES.]

This morning, I wanted to be frank with you, to let you know all these things that have happened to me. In fact, I was going to tell you about something else this morning, but this is very important. You men must think that women are something horrible, fearful. They are apt to be a nuisance to you, in public -- 80% obstacles. You have your own family -- but is your wife helpful to your work? She means to be cooperative with you; but still, you are sometimes distracted or drawn back by her. Women by nature want to have their husbands confined to the home.

But you can feel safe that the women in this movement are so brave, so generous, as to let you go -- and they would love you more when you are good at carrying out your public mission. As a whole, women are above the standard of the men. So (in the reverse way), men are apt to drag the women backward. I warn you! When you feel lifted, it's because the women, knowing the Principle, make themselves obedient to you.

You must never think of yourselves as being high. You are so only because your women want you to be elevated. In that way they are going to restore the position from what happened in Eve's day. Eve would drag the men down into the fallen position. But not those women who would want to lift their husbands high above them, in the course of restoration.

Do you female folks know that and understand? In the Pioneers' flower selling, most women excel the men. That's why I am sending out more women for the Pioneer work. When they do well and earn a few members, then I will send the male members as the leaders. That's how the Principle goes.

I must come back to tell you, even the girls of the U. S. must be obedient to their husbands. Because in the States, up to the present, the women somehow occupied a higher position over the men. Up to the present moment, women, being in the position of Eve, had to restore the men to the elevated, original standard. That's why in the U. S., which is the leading nation of the world, women have been in the leading position. Is that true in this nation?

I learned that there are about 800,000 people in Washington, D. C. who work for the government; and out of that number, 200,000 women are secretaries for high-level officials. The secretaries could influence their bosses. I heard the press men say that the U. S. is being manipulated by women's hands. In a sense it is true, isn't it? It is because we are still in the stage of restoration, and the fallen Eve must drag up the men who are in the position of the Archangel. The men in the U. S. are as yet in the position of the Archangel, and women in the position of Eve. So, the Archangel is in the position of a servant.

That's why, in this country, the man opens the door for the woman, helping her to come out. At first it looked funny to me: until the driver would come out of there and open the other door, the woman would sit and wait for him to do so. How could that kind of thing happen elsewhere? In that case, the man is in the position of king and the woman, queen.

In that case can the queen act like that before the king? It is because, up to the present, men here are in the position of the Archangel. The U. S. has enjoyed 200 years of peace -- and then comes 21, which means three sevens, and going beyond that it enters 200 years and corresponds to the history of 200 years and over.

You are now crossing over the peak of the 200-year history; do you feel you are going down from there, or are you going up again? [UP!] The actions of Americans show the opposite. You are somehow descending. Without our efforts, the U. S. cannot be lifted up again. It is like Adam and Eve while they were still in the stage of indirect dominion.

So, we are going to go through the last stage having restored this much; and then when we enter into the direct sphere of God's dominion, that is the ideal world. After our three seven-year courses are concluded, the ideal world must begin to come at least in this nation of the U. S. If within seven years from now, this cannot be realized, it may be prolonged to 21 more years. Then, it can be prolonged to the year 2,000. By that time I will be 80 years old.

That would correspond to Moses' 80 years of age. At the latest, by that time, our way will be paved to reach out to the end of the world. This seven-year course will be concluded when I am 60 years old. From the year 1960 up to my age of 80, it will be 40 years' time. So, we must try our best to conclude our mission -- or to make our mission a success, if possible -- in 40 years at the latest. Do we have an indefinite time ahead of us, or can we see the conclusion? Even though you may be a failure, I will go on and accomplish my mission.

In order for a woman to be loved by her man in the real sense, she must first of all be able to lift her man up to the standard where he can be loved by God, and then with him in place of God, she can be loved by him. That's why I am separating even the blessed couples for the time being. During this three years, I would want the male folks to restore their rights and dignity.

After restoring the rights and dignity of the male being, and putting him above the woman, then alone does he have the right or qualification to love his wife. That's why I have been doing this. When you go over this standard, a woman is in back of the man. We have three stages in this period, too. That is to say, three years. In Korea, for three years' time, I separated all the blessed couples.

That's what happened in the U. S., too. When I sent out the blessed women to the frontline, I meant that they should follow the example of their husbands, who had been working in the frontline, to experience the same thing. Their husbands are in the position of having accomplished those three years, and by treading the same way, by going through the way paved by them and reaching that point, only then could they be really loved by their husbands.

Entering that age, they could be under the direct dominion of God, and they could come to the original position where a man can love his wife. In the family, if they have children, the children must also be obedient to their parents. They must feel like going out to the frontline to work with them and live with them. With that unity of spirit they can be elevated to their standard.

When they first went out, of course, they went out deserting their children, leaving them behind. It is because only after the parent is restored will the children be restored, automatically. If, in that case, the children would object to their parents having to go to the frontline, they would be repeating the act of sin. There were many tragic things which happened during that interval of time. Something like the tragedy that has happened in the course of restoration was happening in some of the families.

Some would have someone taking care of their children, but some had to leave the children in their grandmother's hands or mother-in-law's hands--or when they didn't have people to take care of their children, they had to leave them in orphanages. They had the same experience as what happened between man and God in the early days of human history. Between God and Adam and Eve there was a great gap. The children wanted to reach God and they missed Him. This is a very important thing. Someday, you will have to have an examination on these questions.

Didn't I go through the same thing in Korea? You must realize that in Korea your brothers and sisters have gone through untold misery in your place -- to indemnify all conditions. I have gone through the indemnity course in my own family, and Korean blessed families have gone through the indemnity course, and all those things are being passed on to you. Thus, your way is paved, and you cannot complain about having to work hard.

Without what has already been done by the Korean people, your road would be more bumpy and difficult to tread. So, you must be grateful to the Korean members. Down at the bottom, the Korean members laid the foundation stones, and struggled hard to pave the way, and now the road is smooth and wide. Can't you go -- dash forward on the road? Now, in the worldwide-level road, you must be in the vanguard of others, struggling hard on the way. Are you ready for that? [YES!]

For you to have to go through all these things is, by the worldly measure, a sort of tragedy. But knowing the Principle, I have to solve all those things, undo the entanglement, and I have to solve it with you -- and without me you cannot do it. By our going through these three years, we are in the position of having resurrected Jesus, who failed in being the True Parents to his would-be children. So, by going through these stages we could have made these three into one -- Jesus in the position of the True Parents, having a relationship with the true children. In this way, he will have laid the foundation on the national level, centering on his own family, corresponding to Jesus.

So, from this time on, the toll gate to the worldwide level is open, and we are in the next stage. Without this having been laid in Korea, I could not have come to the U. S. for more work. I have received a letter from home which is a very good report of what happened recently in Korea. Before long, being caused by just one person, something great will happen overnight. That is possible.

Yesterday, I went to the Madison center, and I met a new member there who had been receiving revelations from God. While walking on the street she saw a vision of beautiful blooming flowers and shady trees all green and leafy, and there appeared young people dancing and singing, hand-in-hand, working together. She thought it was such a beautiful scene, and she asked Father to let her find that place; and the very next day she was led to the weekend workshop here.

When she came out of her car she saw the same scenery she had seen in her dream. At that moment she felt that this was the very place where God was leading her. With that kind of person such things can happen overnight. In the U. S. you will see many people walking on the street and murmuring, talking to themselves. They are not mad people at all. Before long the whole spirit world will be mobilized to work through the people of the earth.

Master can take charge of these people. He alone can do that. You must be able to work in place of me, too. Can I reach out to the end of the world at one time, being limited in flesh and body? So, you must be well-armed with the Divine Principle yourselves. You must be able to manipulate those people. That's what is happening in actuality. It is no dream, no illusion. What is happening in the spirit world is transcending time and space. Can you believe that? Do you believe in it -- do you know it and understand it? Do the people of the world know that? They cannot believe it.

So, there is a vast gap between the worldly people and our group. But those who are here, you folks, don't realize the value of it. You still have a long way to go. You have to go through those final stages which are left before you. Can you be attached to each other -- between male and female -- and be vulnerable before the fall? When you commit any mistake there, it's something like killing each other or disfiguring the person -- plucking the eyes out.

You must know the horror of the thing. Wouldn't that make me stern, strict? I am serious, because I know it took God so many thousands of years to bring the people back to the original position without having to do that kind of sin. Jesus died for that -- because of that -- because he failed in righting the wrongs. We are in the position to have to carry out this mission. We are so serious as not to heed anything else, and if I find that kind of thing taking place, can I leave it?

In Korea, I began to talk about these things only after ten years from the early stages of our movement, by telling them that by going through those three final stages, you can reach that point. Can you say you cannot do it starting from that point? In Korea, those who had already married had to remain in abstinence for ten years or more.

There are couples who had already married in the world, remained in abstinence for 12 or 13 years or more, and then were blessed. Then, can you commit mistakes? Even after you get blessed in holy marriage, you have to have three years' separation. Can you ever dream of being together before the blessing? Can you promise among yourselves you want to be blessed with each other under Father's blessing?

Can you dream of it? I have to warn you against those things. That is the point where you are apt to fall into the place where in Principle you will never be saved. Strictly speaking, there will be no restoration possible from there. Don't you ever dream of being restored from there. You’re your descendants, when they sin, give birth to other descendants, and will never be forgiven.

How many Jewish members are there here? In the olden days, under the Jewish law, they were supposed to stone adulterous people to death. Under our law, in the Divine Principle, it's going to be stricter. Do you understand why I am so serious? Without knowing this, you are apt to commit mistakes. At one false step you can fall down off the cliff.

So, you must be very careful and keep yourself intact from that kind of sin. Is everything clear to you? The part of the men which is different from women is like a serpent's head. Can you wield that serpent in misuse? The part of the woman is something like a poison pot. That's true. You must purify it. That's why in the Jewish custom, they circumcised their children to drain out the stained blood. There was no such thing even possible on women. If they were in utter obedience, they could be saved.

That's the core of what happened in those days, and the misconduct right at the time of the human fall must be reversed or undone. It cannot be easy. You must again realize that if you commit adultery or any such thing, it means you poison yourselves to death. From now on, men, more than women, must keep their chastity.

Especially for you, as the leaders of groups, you must know this clearly enough so that you never commit it. If you clearly understand what I mean, raise your hands. Those who are determined not to commit such a mistake in any way, will you please raise your hands in pledge before God. Do you have any questions?

Question. When we teach the Principle of the Fall, how soon are the people responsible for what they've heard?

Answer. Right at the very moment when they are taught. As the lecturer, you must plant in their minds the notion that the woman's part is poisonous, and that the man's is the serpent's head, and that committing adultery is the most horrible sin. You must teach it thoroughly. It's more than that. By this they are killing not only themselves, but also their descendants. A contagious disease can kill many people. Likewise, those who are born out of stained blood will be infected. You must teach them thoroughly. I want you to be exemplary in this area. We have to purify the people in our movement first of all.

Question. When we witness on the street, should we witness men to men and women to women?

Answer. That's okay, for you to witness to women -- only you must put yourself in the position of a father to them, as a father to daughters. Don't ever think of yourself being her possible spouse or things like that. But try to avoid being with her alone -- by yourselves -- because even though you may not be in that mood, other people will misunderstand, and in their eyes you may look like lovers.

Question. What about the biblical statement, "If you think it in your mind you have already committed adultery"?

Answer. We must go beyond that, and we must try to eliminate even the thought of it, because we are in the position to have to indemnify all those things. By the year 1967, till 1968, when I first established God's Day, I tried to straighten up this thing -- the problem of the heart in love. In order to put it in order or straighten it up, I spent so many years up to that year.

In a way, I am in the position of the body and tail. If you cling to me, holding fast to me, then you can go along on that way. In crossing over the three years, it's going to be most difficult -- you must be hurt. That must be something like Jesus' three years of public ministry, in which he had to have at least three major disciples entirely in cooperation with him; then he could have gotten married through their cooperation, and could have wedded those three disciples as his spiritual children, and he could have restored Noah's family and Adam's family.

Had it not been for the fall of Adam and Eve, in Adam's family the eight members could have been blessed in marriage. But because of their separation from God, the fall came about, and caused the separation between them on the horizontal level, too.

So, in the course of the restoration, there is also the separation between mother and children, parents and children. So, in the course of restoration, there must be oneness between brother and sister, and they must be vertically centered on God. Brothers and sisters must become one and parents must become one -- and then those two levels must unite into one. Then those in wholesome oneness can go to the kingdom of heaven.

So, until you have three spiritual children and raise them in wholesome oneness and have them blessed, you cannot reach the kingdom of heaven. At the time of Jesus, when the three chief disciples of his were not willing to die in place of Jesus, he was a failure. In this age, you are in the position of Jesus. When you have gained three spiritual children, you must be able to raise them till they become so dedicated to you that they will be willing to die for you -- or else your mission will not be a success in the real sense.

What was committed at the time of the fall must be restored or undone or done all over in the reverse way. Because Adam and Eve failed to be united into one with God in love, they are under Satan. Now we must cut off our bondage from Satan and bring ourselves back to God, to come to God with love. So, among our members, we must feel closer in the bonds of love than with our brothers and sisters.

You must never love each other as lovers would in the world. When Adam and Even were going to be blessed, they were in the position of brother and sister. At the time that they were in the stage of brother and sister, they did not know that they were going to be blessed. You must put yourselves in that position.

If you talk about being future husband and wife, it's already a mistake or sin. You must restore yourselves from the position of brothers and sisters. Without knowing that they were going to be future spouses, they could still fall. So, if you know this and commit that kind of thing with conscience, it's more dangerous.

You can never think or talk about things in terms of what you are going to do as future husband and wife. The Divine Principle can never allow this to happen. Do you understand? So, you can never imagine who is going to be your spouse. Who knows -- God's will can be the only motivation, and the True Parents alone can do it.

Not now, but in the future. In the Unification Movement, who is in the position of the parents? You know that Master is; then without Master's position, how can you do that kind of thing? Master allows you to marry -- that's the time you begin to think of that. At that time I will assemble you and have enough time to associate with you and see each other in terms of your possible spouses, and then alone can you think of people in that way.

Without my permission you can never do that, or you will feel impurity working in you before the time is due. Under this strict law, there is even the possibility of your falling into misdeed. Then, if I were to let you alone there is more possibility of your committing that kind of mistake. That's why even God in the very beginning had to tell Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit.

How can I give you permission to eat freely? I must be stricter than God because I know the fallen nature inherent in you. Have you fully understood what I mean? Even after you give birth to your own children, you must raise them wholesomely intact from Satanic invasion in terms of that. Every one of my children is accompanied by someone else when he goes out on the street. Because Satan might set eyes on them.

With those who are above ten or entering adolescence, I am more careful. In this sinful world, for me to set up this kind of standard is a tremendous job, a most difficult job. That is why God and I and everybody else in this movement need a nation; if we can lay the foundation or set up a nation of our own, there will be no such anxiety. Do you understand? [YES!]

Unlike your children, if one of my children should be invaded by Satanic power, it's going to be a terrible, untold misery. If in the beginning, God would insist on Eve's being with two or more -- not Eve and the Archangel alone, nor Eve and Adam alone. Then they could not have fallen. So, from now on, I am thinking that two persons should follow the eldest child, who is entering adolescence.

It is not because I love them more in the worldly sense, but it is because I have the responsibility to protect them from Satanic hands. It's such a serious problem. You must be able to actually feel that if you are inclined to that kind of thing, Satan will applaud and be happy of the fact, while if you are inclined to the Godly side, God is happy over what you are doing.

One more thing I want you to know, especially the men: don't ever dream of proposing to women first, or saying, "I love you." Don't initiate that kind of thing. From the women's part, it's more so, because they initiated the fall, so how can they ever say that to men? You are in the position not to have been born or not to know what love really is as yet.

So, unless the parents would bring you love, or plant the notion of love in your heart, you cannot initiate love or talk about love. That is the core of the Christian ideology in terms of bride and bridegroom. Before this, celibacy is advocated. In the Bible we read that St. Paul said that if you cannot overcome lust, you may as well make yourselves into eunuchs. You must know that when I repeat this over and over again I am really serious. I warn you against committing a mistake.

So, once you commit that kind of mistake, there is no way for me to save you and there is no measurement of how to be saved. You will be doomed to Hades. Then you will have no excuse even in the spirit world when you pass away. You can never say to me, "Why didn't you let me know this? Why did you allow me to fall into the pits?" Did I tell you? Are you sure you understood?

I have done my part. You must try hard not to fall into the snare, into the trap. This is very far or high from the standard of what you have been thinking and acting in the world. So, I know it's going to be difficult for you -- but all the more, you must try hard. This is the formula; this is what the Divine Principle demands of you.

Scanned by Hans-Juergen Hutzfeld, 14.01.2008-Duesseldorf.

On Unification Philosophy

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
March 19, 1973
Third Directors' Conference
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

In philosophy, the question is always asked about the nature of the ideal and material worlds. The first question is always about the ideal. The second question is about the material. The material and ideal are true only in their relationship to each other. By the difference in the application of these two -- ideal and material in our daily lives -- from this, various philosophies have come about.

Also, we need logic, which explains the existence of the cause. Also, we have a theory of cognition -- how these things can be perceived. Also, we often use the words "goodness" or "truth" or "love." What are they? We often think these words come from a concept or idea, an invisible thing. From where does this idea come? There must be a being who has the idea. So, the being and his idea cannot be the same. But that means that God Himself cannot be merely an idea or concept.

We know that truth, goodness and love are abstract concepts and they cannot exist by themselves. Truth cannot exist by itself. Goodness cannot exist by itself. Love cannot exist by itself. Truth, goodness and love are mediators which can link other things. When we think of "goodness," then there must be someone who has a personality or character of goodness. So, if there were no God, then love or goodness as ideas could have no meaning. With the existence of God comes meaning.

So, in our Unification Philosophy we have a new concept which established philosophies do not have. We call it personality. Man has man's capacity or personality, also woman has woman's capacity or character. Man is not the same as woman. Then, how can these different characters come together? For these two different characters to be united, they need love, truth and beauty. So, love, truth and beauty are necessary linking elements to the concept that something is good or beautiful. To make these two one, then we always have to think of the concept of subject and object. We call the highest subject God.

Thought, idea or ideology: they are all your thinking. Your thinking is not you. So, many abstract words are not actually one's self. Love is also not one's self. These are all the linking elements to make two beings one. Also, when you desire to be a good singer, that is also to make yourself and your object one. So, to solve the problem, Master worked very hard and he made a new concept of character which is dependent on two beings. Also, we say that material is made of energy. This energy cannot be vague energy. This energy must have beauty, truth, love and goodness. Then, by these themselves, everything can be solved. Then there should be two beings: subject and object. To make both of them good, there must be this condition. When we think of the relationship between God and man: if God is above and man is below, then this relationship cannot be a mutual relationship -- that is just a one-sided relationship. Therefore, to avoid this situation, God must also have a horizontal subject and object relationship. From this standpoint, we have to think of the dual characteristics of God. So, when we say God is above, man is below, that is a vertical relationship; that cannot be a horizontal relationship. So, God also needs subject and object; and from this the dual characteristics of God come in. This means that within God Himself there must be Sung-Sang and Hyung-Sang. So, within Himself, there must be truth, beauty and love. Also, God created man to have a vertical relationship; therefore, to have a perfect relationship with God. Man must also have a subject-object relationship within himself. From this, give and take action comes. Therefore, dual characteristics and give and take action are necessary in the Divine Principle.

In give and take action, the purpose is to become one. To become one you must go through three stages of growth. To become one, not only these two, but all beings, must be happy. From this view of life, the individual, family, clan, nation comes. Unity between God and man is not the final goal. By establishing this, then we have to expand this relationship. This is the view of life; this is the most important element. So, we have to always think that beauty, truth and love are attributes of an abstract nature, and there must be one personality which has these natures. This ultimate being is God. So, God has such a nature; therefore, God thinks and God has an idea. God has the idea of truth. Also, He has the idea of beauty, the idea of goodness, the idea of love.

So, a personality perceives the existence of abstract ideas. Then, what is the purpose of love, truth and beauty? They are to become one. When the purpose is realized, then they can become an eternal being. To become an eternal being, men must be united. All the philosophies come to make subject and object one. Without subject and object nothing can exist. To make these two one there is only one way. There can be many similar ways. But if they deviate from the straight line, then that is not perfect unity. So, there can be only one way for perfect unity. If the relationship deviates from the straight line, then it cannot be true love, truth and beauty. So, we can say that love, truth and beauty are the elements which are necessary in the process to make subject and object one. Because of these natures, we can have stimulation. By having these natures, we can become one and continue to seek unity with a higher being -- then we become one with God. When we become one with God, then we can finish our purpose. So you have to summarize this. Without subject and object, man cannot know truth. Also, for the ideal existence, we must think of subject and object. Also, power or force cannot come about alone. For force to exist there must be action. To make action we also need two beings. So, action and force also come through the relationship between subject and object.

So, first think that there is subject and object, and also the personality of subject and object. The personality of man is God and the personality of God is man. The reason why God created man and the universe was to have an object of stimulation. Also, for God to work, He must work in perfect oneness between subject and object. If this relationship deviates a little bit, then God cannot work. So, the base of Unification Thought is subject and object. So, we talk about union between God and man, husband and wife, parents and children, family and tribe, tribe and nation, and nation and world. So, when we come to have this concept of subject and object, the idea of ideal and purpose automatically comes. When we come to have the idea of this purpose, then the communists cannot stand. Without subject and object there cannot be any existence. That is not just a vague concept, but that is personality. The perfect personality of man and perfect personality of woman must be united. So, by having these ideas we have to always think of subject and object relationships -- and also personality. So, to take the position of an eternal, objective personality to an eternal, subjective personality -- this is our life's purpose. So, the most important thing is the concept of subject and object. So, man's purpose is to seek his object. Sol the reason why we explain the dual characteristics of God is to explain God's personality or character, which is subject and object. So, personality cannot come in vertical relationships -- there must always be horizontal relationships. So, when we speak of a man of character, it means a man whose mind and body are united. By having this relationship, man can stand in the same position as God. All elements are made of subject and object, following the pattern of God. Therefore, they can be eternal beings. From God to the smallest elements of the universe, they are made of the same pattern. So, now you understand the capacity or personality of character. This is the reason why everything is made in a relative relationship. We can apply this idea to anything, to any being. Because of this we can say that this is Unification Thought.

You have to ask why there are dual characteristics, give and take action, and three stages of growth. These are to explain this relationship. So, is it clear? This is God's idea. If everything is not met through this -- man's eyes and ears, etc. -- horizontal positions cannot be carried out. By the unification of these things, then man can become a man of character. Also, when man and woman unite, they can become the ideal couple. To make these two one, then we need ideology, beauty, love and goodness. Also, the movement comes from this relationship. Why? Because of this relationship, one wants to give out, and the other wants to receive. From this relationship there can be action. So, the basic idea of Unification Thought is very simple. Do you understand this? So, yourself and your mind must be united, you and your work, you and your nation must be united -- everything must be united. Why is this? That is to make the eternal personality. This is logical. God is the same.

To Succeed In The Will Of God And Our Responsibility

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
May 18,1973
Belvedere
Translator: Sang Kil Han

Here in the congregation are a number of VOC (Victory Over Communism) members who came from Japan yesterday. After hearing their leaders' reports, we feel that the Japanese church is going to have a hard, challenging life for many years to come. I foresaw that the world situation would come to this. I have done my very best, here in the United States this spring, to promote cooperation between Korea and free China (Taiwan), centering on Japan.

The situation of Asia in view of God's will and the dispensation for the free European countries

Basically, Asia will be protected if Korea, Japan and free China cooperate and assume the direction of Heaven. When you look at Asia from the dispensational viewpoint, keeping East and West in mind, China is an archangel country.

Korea, Japan and China play important roles in the last days. Through the Principle we understand why the territory where these three countries exist plays a crucial role in the last days. Whenever history turns to a new direction, everything is focused on the country which is in the position (or role) of the offering. How can we promote cooperation between these countries of Korea, Japan and China? The country of Korea cannot exist by itself. Without Japan, Korea's path in the future is unclear. The same is true for Japan; without China, it will lose its way.

As you well know, free China in October, 1971 was expelled from the United Nations; it lost its position as an archangel nation. What position is America in? It represents the world and must defend itself against communism. In the dispensational view it is the archangel nation which represents the democratic world and the western hemisphere. Thus, if America, in the future, fails to be connected to the dispensational direction, much indemnity will have to be paid.

What I have emphasized for Japan is not to lose sight of America. If Japan loses America, it represents losing the archangel; then Japan's path will be blocked. If the relationship between Japan and America is severed it will cause problems. From Japan's standpoint, it has already severed relationships with free China.

So, Japan and America must cooperate. Who can do this? They are entering the stage where they cannot do it by themselves. Thus, it now remains our problem to cultivate this understanding. We are the ones who have to work to unite Japan and America here in America. I began this work in 1972. We must bring together the three nations of Korea, Japan and America.

Moving toward that direction, we should bring Europe into this work. Why? If America is the Adam-type nation, England is the Eve-type nation and Germany. is to be the world-level archangel nation. The nation in the archangel position should be a nation which manifests itself In a divided form.

From this perspective, the nation of America is the Adam-type nation which represents western (free) European civilization. When we consider Asia and Western Europe, Asia is more Abel-type and Europe more Cain-type. Thus, America cannot help but be the nation which represents all Cain nations. Thus what if you fail in Asia? We will be able to extend the Providence to the realm of Western Europe. If we, centering on America, work with England and Germany in one final effort, we could manage to do what we failed to take responsibility for in Asia. Thus, what has been built in Asia is now being moved to the western world. All of the internal accomplishment is being extended. This is the strategy I have been following since last year. We will conduct many revival meetings. You must work with all your might until the end of 1974.

Japan's and Korea's situations must face a final test. Now is the optimal time, both internally and externally, for this work. In Japan and Korea, the question is how can we do our very best to end the second seven-year course. The second seven year course is the growth stage. Whereas the first seven year course is the course that parents trod, the second seven-year-course is for the children. Therefore, the second seven-year course is for the children to inherit from their parents, and to triumph as their parents did, in Japan, Korea, and even free China.

It is Japan's role to protect the freedom of China and Korea. But it is not doing that, instead evading Korea and neglecting China, too. They are not doing what they are expected to do. Therefore, you who are internally responsible, in the place of Japan, must take responsibility for Korea and China for the next two years.

Since 1974 is the beginning of a new seven-year course, we must reach and hold to a certain standard until that time. Today Korea's situation is critical. So is Japan's, and free China is no exception.

Japan -- a target for which USSR and communist China are covertly fighting each other for

Now communist China and USSR have broken relations and are internally fighting. Japan is not protecting free China. Japan recently recognized free China as the territory of communist China. That statement led the communist Chinese to naturally believe Taiwan is a part of communist China. Free China, which has been heavily dependent upon Japan, now has no alternative but to shake hands with the USSR. The USSR has long planned to move its arms on the Chinese border to a military base in the south. By making India its friend, the USSR began to possess the ability to blockade all of the Chinese coast. In its confrontation with China, the USSR has always thought that it was difficult to maintain its strategic position on the land, because of China's huge population; thus the best way to maintain superiority is to have the ability to blockade the coast.

What kept the USSR hesitant to do so till now? It has been America that has been steadfastly guarding the Taiwanese coast. But now America is not totally committed to protect Taiwan at any cost. America is not willing to protect Vietnam or the rest of Asia. However, America's original purpose of defending Asia has now faltered and it is on the verge of evacuating.

Now, since Taiwan got together with the USSR, naturally the USSR fleet came to make frequent visits to the Taiwanese strait. Knowing that America is not ready to crash against the Soviets, the USSR now is strongly pushing to come down south. A few days ago there appeared a newspaper article that in Pang Ho Island, a small atoll near Taiwan, the USSR is negotiating to build a naval base. When this materializes the USSR will be able to control all of the waters of southeast Asia to the gate of the Indian Ocean.

Why would this happen? Because it is the Soviet Union's intention to defend itself from Communist China. The USSR wants to bring Japan under it's influence. By getting close to Japan it wants to apply pressure on communist China.

Let's look at the situation in Japan now. Both Communist China and the USSR want Japan, and you must understand that the Japanese Communist party belongs to the Soviets side. Thus communist China is paying great interest to the Japanese government. The Soviets believe to block the ocean is to block their communications. Once this is accomplished Russia is in a very strong position. You may not realize but recently Russians have been regularly making surveillance flights over Japanese Islands from the base in Sakhalin. They also have fortified troops there to 230,000 men. Under these circumstances in Japan, the election becomes favorable for the Social party and Communist party. As of the present time Japan is being led favorably to Russia. By mishap if Japan falls into USSR's hands, the entire island of Japan will become a Soviet naval port. After that it will influence all of the Pacific Ocean, at that time come into direct confrontation with America.

Thus it is my view that by 1976 no matter how reluctant Nixon may be to do so, America must defend the freedom of Asia. No matter how much you may dislike it and are against the idea to do so and want to retreat, America will and must commit itself again. When you commit yourself and reenter into Asia, it should be with great determination to defeat the enemy, communism. Then the question is, is America resourceful enough to do that? I believe that they are not.

Then who should bear that responsibility? This is what we must prepare for. Look at Europe. I spoke in Europe, too but every country, France Germany, Italy . . . . every country is swept under the influence of communism thus leaving England as the final base. No one in Europe is making any preparation.

The last resort to defend the world against communism

Now let us look at the world today: we will soon face the time when the fate of the world is decided. Who will take the responsibility? We are the only ones, no one else. What intrigued me most after I came to this country is that Christians are not interested in their own nation. Christians are not able to protect (keep safe) the country, nor are there any senators who are able to, either. They are only interested In winning elections but what happens to the country they were not paying attention to. They have that kind of thinking.

What then should we do? What kind of movement should we launch? We must make a movement to reunite Christians. You cannot think of senators without the color of religion. Those who believe in God must defend this nation. Senators, too, must stand up for Christian ideals before they can really move people.

What is the purpose of doing this? It is to defend ourselves against communism . By initiating such a movement here in America first, and then spreading the movement it will enable all Christians around the world to defend the entire world against the demonic reach of communism. In the event there is a threat of communism , Christianity should mobilize young people beyond the boundaries of nations to fight against communism. By uniting all Christians of the world and by sending them wherever there is the threat of communism we can ward off communism. I believe this is the best way to defend this world against communism.

In spite of the fact that America is the representative of the democratic world, is America capable of stopping communism? The answer is unfortunately 'no', Therefore a revival meeting should be launched centering on Christian thought. There is no other way. The first step is to solicit the support of the World Council of Churches. The world will come to notice us and appreciate our solution.

In this time of desperation, Christianity is externally confronted with the threat of communism and internally with the serious problem of division and is wondering -- which way to go, the Divine Principle will greatly empower them.

It will soon be noticed as a world problem. Better than working singly, we should try to reach from the top down. Christianity is today launching a revival meeting with Billy Graham as a center. We must do more than that. We should make a foundation so that we can suggest the solution to the worlds problem s more efficiently.

Who can do that? It is you. What is most urgent today is to enroll into the World Council of Churches, as I pointed out to Mr. Pak and President Kim Young Whi, we are researching it now. We are working on it though mobile team and itinerary workers.

Unless we make strong enough a foundation that helps Christians notice us, who would help us to do our work? So unless we make this foundation in the next two years, strong enough to launch an offensive against communism, we can not make ourselves ready to meet the tide of history.

Let us make a foundation before the critical time comes to America

In view of today's world problem and position of the democratic world which is being threatened by communist world, the situation in Asia is pressing America to force them to withdraw from Asia. As for the future of the USSR and America centering on the Pacific ocean, the Soviets are about to gain superiority in all fields. Who is going to stop this approaching threat during the next three years?

All 200 million Russians are completely armed with the ideology of communism and ready to march at any time. What about America? If they become confused, they will come to be destroyed.

Do you think that there is no underground aiding the activities of communists in the US? Also we have the racial problem between black and white. When it becomes too late there is no remedy.

Look in Asia, Korea, Japan and free China failed to take heed of what I warned and the situation became really difficult. The same will happen to America if it does not listen. What I forecast 5, 6 years ago is accurately coming to pass. Our International Victory over Communism Federation has in Japan, in Korea and also in free China a world-wide organization and we are standing forefront against Communism. If we do not win, do you think communists will spare us?

In this real question do we, or don't we have a chance of winning? (Yes, we do!) Communism today occupies one third of world population, and us? A mere 850 people according to latest figure. With that small number do you think we can stop communism? How? When we are being pushed like we are, God is wagering an advantage whereby we have a chance of winning drastic victory! God is anxiously preparing a way through which we can leap into victory. We must become leaders to meet that opportunity. There is no time to think in a "normal" way. We cannot succeed otherwise. The only way is to hold tight onto God with adventurous faith. Even if we do that, we do not have tens of years, rather we only have a few years. We are really short of people. How urgent I feel about this time! It is same with God too. We should grasp this opportunity with all our might so that even if we do not succeed we leave no regret. If we do our best, even if we fail, there is a way to revive. We are in that kind of time now.

Now are we to march on or retreat? (March on!) It's not easy. Therefore in your mind you should not forget that until the war is won you can not rest. You are the last emissary of God to save mankind. Now America too will come to experience lots of desperate situations. Before that time comes we must build our foundation and hoist a flag. People see us and say, "if we do like them, we can surely win over communism," We should become like that, every one will want to go with us. That day is not far away.

The method and way to win over Communism

In this perspective, we can rise fast because there is communism. If communism did not exist, Korea would not need us. Also, Japan's people need our thought. China and America too will become like that too. Without fail American will need us. Europe and whole world are the same.

Here are two problems. Firstly, we have to defeat communism and then secondly after winning how to contribute to the creation of a peaceful world. Do you have solution to these two questions? We must be responsible even after winning. Sometimes the second problem is even more important than the first.

Then do we have people like that? No. Therefore from now on after eating each meal we should devote time to education and more training. How, what is the method? It is to let them know that we are working for their sake. That is one way. Once we leave in people's mind that impression strongly, making a valuable contribution is not a problem. Do you agree?

Therefore you must enter into peoples' life, harmonize with all people of the nation, have a common heart, shed tears, fight together, and show all people that you are bearing the heavy burden in their place.

Now, the reason why we struggle is to prepare a solution to the issue of world peace after winning victory. It is to train ourselves to defeat communism and win. We must realize that we are doing these two things now. So we are looking at two sides of winning victory. This is why I said not to do advertising first. You must demonstrate and then advertise it. So we must begin with states and after that cover the towns and villages and organize through and show people that "without the example we exhibit we cannot save the world" To implant that firm idea is so crucial.

To take Korea as an example, college professors and other high level citizens say "we heavily depend on Unification Church". You are surely able to save this county, therefore please continue what you are doing even a few more years." In Japan too, people say that "within 15 years you can surely move this country so please work hard." The fact that everyone responds alike is the result of working steadfastly according to each circumstance. It does not bring us any immediate benefit but the foundations that have already been made have created a tremendous standard of expectation. This has surely resulted from our history of endeavor.

In the words of Jesus, "let us witness at the cost of our life"

We can demonstrate in deed to any county or any group of people how we like to revive and save the people of the country and let them agree in tears that we really lived for them. This is a formidable achievement. Should we or shouldn't we live like that? (yes we should) That is the only way to save the world. The reason we work for the country is not to receive, but to give. You must first give before you receive.

Isn't it correct in principle? First we must give. Often we are pressed for time because of our lack of resources; if I genuinely feel like that, inexplicably spirit world will always help. People will be motivated to want to do something in spite of themselves and wandering out to the street they will come to meet one of us. This is how spirit world works. Thus, the first day the captain should lead. The captain should speak with microphone -- Are you doing that? You should witness at least to one person and if you weren't able to witness to one person you should not even eat that day. If for 40 days you determine yourself you will witness or you will fast, you will surely find a follower.

Look, Now we have 850 people but by next year we need eight thousand people. What percent of American population is eight thousand? 30,000 to I Isn't it? Can one man move 30,000 men? In this case, as an emergency measure we should witness to a top senator, a state governor or a police chief. There is not other way. Then we need to train ourselves to be able to relate with them. . Though we lack in ability, with all this training and knowledge we gained in the course of such training, we should be able to persuade them with confidence. Would it not be true? If you eat all you want to eat and do all that you want to do, how nice would it be? But is not possible. Why would Father want to do such a difficult task?

You must understand that no one sympathizes with losers. Therefore, losers must become winners. Win legitimately. It is tens of times more difficult than winning by any other means. You must understand.

Do you think I am comfortable? America is not a small county like Korea is. In view of the situation of world today, there is no other way to go except that. But I do not despair. I have always walked between the peaks of good and evil. I am on it's border line and am always leading such a life. No one led this way and invited me to follow. I always stood in front. In Korea and Japan I had no language problem, but to lead tall people without the knowledge of language is not easy at all. And when I pull you, you resist. You think it is a very difficult life, don't you? You are not the only one. Missionaries must feel the same way now. Should we remain comfortable? What will become of America now? If there is a way, tell me. No one other than I can offer the answer. So there is no other method. If you run fast, there is a backfire. Some drop off, some falter. It is only natural.

Have you ever seen a war where there are no casualties and no dead? You must understand that famous battles and noted victories all have their toll proportionate to the degree of success. Are we going to advance or retreat? (Advance) Should I only care for America, or should I look after all world including poor Korea? (Other countries as well) with good reason, too. (We will finish and go help you in other country) The result remains to be seen after fighting.

So we must tighten the belt. Can you do It without tightening your belt? (we must tighten our belt). Eight thousand members of mobile teams must witness to one person at least. Since January 1 we have increased by about 500 people from 350. Even this result only came because I pushed . . .

If we cannot accomplish our goal, try ten times harder

In this standard we must push to ten times harder. If we work ten times harder 500 people will become 5,000 people. So with this solid reasoning, we mobile teams must work ten times harder and IW's should cover ten times more distance. If it is physically impossible we should dedicate ten times more heart. If we had slept with a blanket on, we should now sleep sitting doing away with blanket. If we can't sleep sitting then we should sleep stomach down (Father laughs) Well, in this country you seep with stomach down, don't you?

Then you should sleep standing up. Can you do that? (Yes). You should do it happily? (Yes) Then, you go ahead and try. Let me watch you do it. Oh it's comfortable. . . . When you see me you always make me serious so you make me laugh a little now. Originally I am a pleasant person, I like to laugh a lot and play well too. That kind of father is now serious.

God has no one to depend on but us. There is no other way than that. The only one way is to unite with God's will. There is no other approach. If you say you will be responsible then I will gladly let you do it your way. Father is not a person who lives for power or honor but he cares for only one thing -- the will of God and future of mankind.

So now our conclusion is to keep marching forward. Going forward as we live, -and marching forward as we sleep, as we eat, as we rest as well. All we think of is to go forward. Now after the sixth of this month I will visit Korea, and even though you could not witness for anyone in last five months, in this one month would you witness to a person for this month? (Yes). IOWC team captains should resolve themselves like that, and members too. Set your heart on one person per month. Now every six months I am going to give an award to IOWC captains and it's members, to the best performers. One every six months, twice a year. I am preparing for it now.

Leaders must bring members into unity centering on heart

Now, those who have more then 20 mobile team members, raise your hands. (21, 22, 23, etc.) Old members should continue to engage in activities and newly brought in members should be given training. And new. members shall be trained to become your successors. Each mobile team should make plans and form a team. One will be responsible for training, and another for witnessing.

You must think about this. It is well that you give lectures and you hold revival meetings. But you should not conduct revival meetings without due preparation. So you should give lectures, master the lectures in 6 months time. That is the problem. You should continue to witness and solve your financial problems.

Think about this. It's very good that you lecture and hold revival meetings, but you shouldn't be holding revival meetings without a clear purpose. Lecture. You're supposed to lecture. How to master the Principle within six months -- that's the problem. And witness. In the future, I'm going to have to establish an itinerary worker system, so that if there are three good people in a particular place, one can offer to go somewhere else.

In the future, you have to keep changing the people as the numbers grow. You need to change everyone around. The thing to be careful about, though, is that the leader should not just send the new person out first. Instead, you should spend time working with each person. Decide how long you will work with each person. It can be four days, or even a week. Say it's a week. How many weeks are there in six months? Six times four is twenty-four. Twenty-four weeks. You have twenty-four weeks, so take each person and for one week concentrate on raising up that person. Do you understand? For one week, take that person wherever you go. Establish a close personal relationship. Talk with him. One week for each person. Of course, you are still leading the whole group, but pay special attention to one particular person for one week at a time. Tell him what his faults are. Tell him how a responsible person must act in society and personally. Give him detailed counseling within the context of God's will.

That is why we need to work to become one centering on heart. Once you've accomplished this, then it's just a matter of the leader standing in front and taking charge of the whole. They will follow you without hesitation.

The leader's attitude in lecturing and his topics of study

So, if you have twelve days, you can go through all the lectures twice. When you are doing that, the members will look at you and, if you are fulfilling your responsibility properly, they will say: "'Wow, our leader is really great!" But what happens if the member works hard to bring people to the lecture, but the leader gives uninspiring lectures? The leader loses one guest, two guests, and then three guests. If the leader loses as many as three guests, then the member will say: "Oh, it's no use." He will lose his energy to continue. That's why it's up to the leader to do well. For that reason, whenever you give a lecture, even though you give the same lecture many times, you must always be studying what points need to be emphasized so as to inspire the particular persons who are listening to you.

Your team shouldn't become low on morale. You need to become skillful in finding ways to encourage your team. These are some of the things you can do when you are lecturing. If the people in your audience are Christians, you have to show them the contradictions in the Bible. If they are fundamentalist Christians, you can say: "No matter how hard I tried to believe that Jesus was God, I couldn't." Also, you can say: "Just before Jesus died on the cross, he cried out, "Father, Father, why have you forsaken me?" How could he have said this if he himself were God? Also, Jesus was dead for three days. How could this be, if he were God? I had a number of doubts like this myself. No matter how much I struggled with these questions, I couldn't accept the traditional Christian answers to these questions." You tell a story like this in an exciting way. In this way you arouse their interest. You can even say that if the Principle didn't answer your doubts, you were prepared to give up entirely.

If you talk like this, they will be listening to you with wide open eyes, wondering what kind of teaching this could be. The more they listen, the more they realize that you have been through struggles similar to theirs. Work through their doubts for them. Give the lecture as a kind of testimony.

When you lecture the Principle, it finally all comes down to a logical presentation leading to a certain conclusion. You need to tell your audience: "'This is the way, and so it leads to that. And finally, the conclusion is this. Thus, from this standpoint, the Fall could only have been this kind of problem of love." What are the points that ministers are struggling with? You need to know that. If a minister comes to hear your lecture, give the lecture from his standpoint. You need to know what difficult problems the minister has in witnessing to his congregation, and you need to show him the solutions to those problems. That's the way you should approach him.

So, you need to know their minds. Your feelings toward them should not be to think of them as "sons of vipers." Instead, put yourself in their position and feel for them. Let them know that you have been through a similar situation. When you were in that situation, you were looking for something new, and this is where you finally wound up. You can say: "I was surprised by what I heard. I thought, 'How can this be possible?' But after giving it deeper thought, I realized that this is exactly how it must be." And so on.

But you are always looking down at your books while you lecture, so you don't have the flexibility to adapt to the situation. Once you've got somebody, you need to be able to start giving them inspiration immediately -- as soon as you open your mouth, words of inspiration should start coming out. To inspire people and to influence them, you have to rely on your own personal feeling of inspiration. You take that and you push with it. So, sometimes you may be lecturing with such fervor that you start perspiring even In a cold room. That's what's necessary. Sometimes you might pound the desk in front of you. When you feel inspired and tears begin to well up in your eyes, then you can suddenly interrupt the lecture, and just let the tears flow. That situation should help to get your message across. In that kind of situation, if the person giving the sermon begins to shed tears, the audience is also inspired. If the speaker and even just a few members of the congregation begin shedding tears together, then the entire group can be turned around. The whole group will become a sea of tears. When that happens, you should turn to the person who began weeping with you and say: "How much pain, how much difficulty, you must have gone through for you to start shedding tears from hearing me speak?" You come to share the same heart, and you feel the joy of seeing one life being resurrected. This brings more tears to your eyes. If I shed tears first, then the whole group just cries. That's what is necessary. After shedding tears in this way, even the son of a burglar won't be able to oppose you. That's what we need.

A kitchen stove can't heat anything up until it itself is hot. In the summer, something would have to be cold before it could cool off anything else. It finally comes to the problem of the leader. Whenever the leader is going to give a lecture, he should say -- even if only to himself for a brief moment -- something like: "Father, I am now going to give a lecture." You have to make a habit of this. "Let there be no one who will hear my words today and have their heart wounded so that they fall away. At least, let them go away from my lecture better off than if they had never come at all." Then, if the lecture goes well, you should feel gratitude, and report everything in prayer. This is the kind of life you should lead. Also, before you lecture, always pick up the Principle book and prayerfully read it over, page by page, even if it is a section you think you know well.

Whenever you give a sermon or otherwise address a large group of people, you are standing in a very serious position. If you read the Principle book, then through that, God will give some words or some other form of inspiration. So that is the way you must train yourself. Also, even if you are feeling a guilty conscience for some reason or have been through some bad experience, you need to put all such feelings aside for the time that you are speaking. At home, your wife may be lying sick in bed, there's something amiss with your child, or someone has sent you a nasty letter. But once you stand at the lectern, you must wipe all such thoughts from your mind.

You cannot mix public and personal matters. You have got to know that. Don't you think so? You don't know how to do that yet. That's why you need to wipe away that limitation completely.

Life on the mobile witnessing team and your attitude toward the members

Another thing you need to watch out for is that it is easy for the leader of a mobile witnessing team to start taking things for granted. What does it mean to take things for granted? For example, let's say you have fundraising members. Don't be happy only if they come back at the end of the day with more money than they have ever raised before. When you receive the money they have raised, always be aware that this money contains the blood and sweat of those who have worked for it. That is why public funds have to be taken so seriously. Also, when your members go out, you should be so concerned for them that you say to yourself: "Oh, how much I miss them! I can't wait till they get back!" When they are out, you want to keep the door open for them. You want to go out of the house and wait for them outside. You can't help but start walking about a mile in the direction from which you expect them. That should be the attitude of your heart. A leader should never nap during the day. If you have to lie down, pray a prayer of repentance, saying, "Father, last night I did such and such work, and I am so tired now that I have to lie down. I will sleep for just a few minutes." Then, if you should sleep longer than you intended, you have to repent. If those who are out working see such a person taking a nap, they think "This rascal. He is exploiting us."

At one time in Korea, I worked in a factory. There was no sleeping during the day at the factory! If someone were so tired that he couldn't endure, he might put his forehead down on the table and meditate for a few seconds. How can there be any rest for someone who hasn't fulfilled his responsibility?

The responsibility of the wife

I imagine you think that it would be nice if everyone on the mobile witnessing team could have their wives with them, and you could share your love with each other there, don't you? This is where the problem is. Can you love God more than your wife? Can you love the members next after God? And can you love the people to whom you are witnessing next after them? You have to love these three before you love your wife. And what woman would be happy if she were married to a man who actually did love these three before her? Consider this: The husband is tired from giving lectures, but the wife is satisfied. She says: "First, give me some love, and then go lecture." But the man is tired. So, tell me honestly how you would answer her in such a situation. (Laughter from the audience.) That's what I'm afraid of. If you build up your mobile witnessing team to forty members within a week and bring in forty new members in a week, then after that it will be all right. Then, everything will be all right. Don't you think so? What would happen if you took your wives with you? There would be many problems.

If she is angry toward her husband, then she will be likely to take it out on the members like this. (Laughter from the audience.) It's possible. If that happens, it would be worse than if you had never brought her along in the first place. If you want to do that, then I am thinking of having you change places with your wives. They would all take part in the lottery and you would do like this. I think that's a good idea. (Laughter from the audience.) Doing it one on one, the way you do it is not simple. Raise your hands, sisters, if you have confidence to do that. (Laughter from the audience.) You may think it's a simple matter, but if you go, you have to do all the cooking. If the wives go, they have to cook all the meals as a mother would. You have to do all, the shopping. You have to work so that your husband will be satisfied enough to say: "'It's a lot better having her here. I need her as my wife." The biggest problem involves the problems which arise among the women themselves. If there is a woman among the members, then that member will try to wrap her skirt around the wife (translators note: that is, take the wife under her wing). If the wife doesn't become someone she can use, then there's trouble between the two of them. The member will try to pull her down. If the wife joins the team, she needs to embrace all the members as quickly as possible. She must assimilate them to her and win them over to her side. Otherwise the women will say: "How about that woman! How about that leader's wife! Let's just sit back and watch how well she does." And then they don't do any of the work. They try not to do any of the cooking. In this case, the wife should go and do everything. She should cook a delicious meal, and then tell the others to come. Maybe she can go out and buy some gum for them as well. (Laughter from the audience.) After that, the unmarried women will feel good about the leader's wife, and feel that they should say so to the others. Once you get that far, the wife can make these women her own.

If, on the other hand, the wife goes in from the beginning with the feeling that everyone has to do what she says just because she's the leader's wife, then she will be beaten back. Everything will fall apart. Do you think I'm right or wrong? (Audience: "You're right.")

The men are not much of a problem. All you have to do is cook the food a little tastier than they're used to and wash their clothes for them, and they really appreciate it. Sometimes when the male members are sleeping you can go and take their clothes off them and wash these for them. (Laughter from the audience.) If you do that, they will really appreciate it. It will increase substantially -- even double -- the amount of work they can do during the day.

If you start complaining in front of your husband, if you are not completely free In your relationships and start to have a complaining expression like this -- even a little -- then this has an effect on all the members. That's the problem. ("What happens with the unmarried brothers?") What do you think happens? They think: "I should get a wife like that and be in that position."

Team leaders for United States

So, now lets discuss the mobile witnessing teams. Within six months, we need forty mobile witnessing team leaders. So this is what I am thinking: In cases where a mobile witnessing team leader does not have twenty members, I will assign a person to be responsible for the state. That person will go to the state and witness to ten new members. These people, then, will be organized as a mobile witnessing team. By witnessing to ten new members, the person assigned to that state can become the leader of a mobile witnessing team. I think that will give him the incentive to work quickly. Then, if headquarters makes the announcement that each mobile witnessing team will be given a van, everyone will work as though they were on fire. What do you think? If, instead, we send two more people to work under the team leader -- three in all -- there will be ten new members in no time at all. At the end of June, we can gather again. At that time, I would like to do this for all the forty-eight states. Then, for those who have ten members, we will buy a van. Those who have forty members will receive a car or bus. This is the kind of effort that we need. If we have this kind of competition, then this plan will go forward rapidly. Wouldn't this be a way to gain quicker results? Which would be better? Do you think I might be right? This is how I think we can grow. If twelve people are sent out each week -- three times four is twelve people sent out to create new mobile witnessing teams.

If each week we send out twelve people -- four teams of three people each, including the team leader -- then we can create four new mobile witnessing teams each week. A team leader and two assistants are assigned four different places. Three times four makes twelve, right? We are preparing to create four new mobile witnessing teams in this way.

Thus, if we figure forty people per week for each of the four witnessing teams we create, how many will that make? Forty people for each team will make 160, right? If we get 160 people, we can move America. And then you have the existing membership. So, you have the 160 members of the witnessing team, and if you multiply that by four, you have 640 members. If we can have 800 people in each state, including the state leader and the church leaders, we will be able to move this country of America. How many people will that mean in all the fifty states? 40,000, right? It takes twenty, thirty years to build up a foundation to become a U.S. senator. Wouldn't you like to be in such a post? (Yes). I'm not just making idle talk here.

Now, each of you needs to make a financial foundation in the future. Suppose that the Christian church then begins to move. We will join forces with the smaller and weaker denominations and join the larger, traditional denominations. This will be how we conduct the ecumenical movement. They will be invited, and they will come.

So, we need to work quickly to get people a with university education. When college graduates join, they can be educated here. My plan is to pick those who show promise and assign them to specific tasks, even if they have not been in the church very long. From now on, you. should be concentrating on how to send three university graduates from each state to this facility every month so that they can receive training.

Don't worry about your children

So, we need to create the same kind of people. We need to train them. If you do as I tell you, you will be able to see the dawn of a wonderful age. If you don't, however, you won't be able to see such an age. You shouldn't be concerned that you have no home and that you are sometimes separated from your children for this work. You don't have any time to go anywhere -- and then comes the time to give birth to the baby. Try giving birth in the bus. That baby will be an historic person! (Laughter from the audience.) It will be recorded in history. Don't you think so? It will be written in the history of the Unification Church, and everyone who reads that history will say: "They say. . . that that boy has come to our state" and they will all come out to see him. (Laughter from audience.) Would that make you unhappy? The animals have their offspring even in rock crevices and in the fields. There's no reason that people can't do that. You can do it if you have to. You have to go to such lengths in order to fulfill God's will. When Adam and Eve had their babies, do you think they had a house like this, or were surrounded by doctors and nurses? There was only the two of them, so what else could they do? If you think that way, you will be healthy, your babies will be healthy, and everything will be like that. If you're going to worry, you have more important things to be worried about. (Laughter from the audience.)

If you think like that, you have nothing to be worried about. You have to think this way. (Laughter from the audience.) It is because you think this way that you can be satisfied even if you aren't treated particularly well. If you think that things have to be a certain way then. Don't worry. If I see a husband and bride together and the wife's womb is as big as this, I think to myself: "I'll bet those I people are worried about where to have their baby." I know more about such things than you. That's why we need the mobile witnessing team leaders to do well. What do you need to be concerned with now? You need to be concerned with sending trainees to Belvedere. If we are to continue the training in Belvedere, the state leaders and the mobile witnessing team leaders must be responsible for sending at least three college graduates here every week. How to send three college graduates a week to Belvedere for training -- that's the main issue. It may not be possible to accomplish this immediately, but you need to make preparations so that you can do this eventually. I have just finished naming people as team leaders, and your concern should be how to secure 400 team members as quickly as possible. You need to do it by the end of June.

This time, you need to do this without fail.

Write this down. In the beginning, three trainees a month. After that, 400 witnessing team members by the end of June. After that, those who accomplish their responsibility will be applauded every six months. After that, there is the distribution of books. The idea is to buy thirty copies each. Everyone should buy these. In the future, all the witnessing team members will be required to buy these. If you can't carry them with you now, just keep them somewhere. You absolutely need them. The next step will be to establish churches as quickly as possible.

What comes after that is that you need to set the goal of your witnessing activity at bringing one new member every month. Emphasize this always. Even at mealtime and at meetings, you should emphasize that each person must witness to one new member every month. The desperation of saving one person's life needs to be felt to the marrow of your bones. This is not necessary just for you but also for the members of your mobile witnessing teams. The church members, too, need to have this goal deeply in their minds. Your thinking should be that you cannot eat lunch until you have done this. If you fail in this goal for a particular month, you might skip all your lunches for a month, or something similar. Do you understand? Mobile team leaders until now just listened to me say "One person a month," but no one has accomplished it.

As I said before, if you figure on thirty days in a month and you only work eight hours a day -- even if the witnessing team members work just eight hours a day not including their meal times -- you have 240 hours a month. If you spent that time lecturing the Principle, how many times could you give the whole cycle? At twenty hours a cycle, you can lecture the entire Principle twelve times over. Isn't that right? And lend out a book to one person every day. One at a time, until they are all lent out. Take back one copy and lend it out to another person; take back another, and so on. If you have thirty copies, you will be busy just telephoning all the people who have read the book. You don't need to go somewhere else to witness.

When you get to know the thirty people who have read them the Principle, you will find that this group includes a variety of people. "Oh, yes", someone might say, "everyone in our family read it. So and so read it and said it was very interesting. . We'd like you to come over and talk to us about it." This is the kind of movement that you have to create. Go family to family. You can tell someone: "I'm going to your home so gather your relatives and friends." If someone says the book is too difficult to read, tell them you would be glad to come over and talk to them about it. You can visit them in the evening or late at night.

Later we will put the Principle lectures on cassette tapes, and have all our members carry these tapes with them. Once you have these tapes you will be able to witness all you want. You can give the "Principle of Creation" tape to one person and the "Fall of Man" to another. You can record your own tapes if you like. Witness with the books and tapes all you want. Tell people, "This is really interesting. You ought to listen to It." The main emphasis of our witnessing should be individual to individual. My instruction is not just for the mobile team members because they move around, but for the general church members.

Universities, churches and prominent people

University students from Britain will be coming here for training. This should be made know to Americans. You can gather professors in your state, then call on someone to come and give them the Principle workshop. Someone can come to your state for one or two week training depending on what the people want.

Go to the universities. At the time the classes finish and the professor leaves the classroom go right in and start advertising your program. Then draw up a list of names. If you are planning a training session in two months time visit the class every ten days, about six times in all. That way you can surely get the whole class to attend. don't you think it's possible? (Yes).

In the process of this activity the mobile team leaders should pay particular attention to mobilizing the campus. If only the university president becomes interested. . . University presidents have a foundation in the community. With an introduction from the president, its no problem to meet the senator of that state or the police chief of that city. You will have no problem.

What comes after that. The leaders of the established churches. How can you approach them? If possible the team leaders can get thirty Principle books and lend them to the ministers. They will be grateful. When you find a minister who is not opposed or who likes the content, go an give a sermon in his church. Establish a relationship with him. Visit all the ministers and divide them into three categories. Those who are supportive, middle and opposing. Additionally make a list of all the churches in your state. In the not too distant future we will hold seminars in each state and invite those ministers. These seminars can be held on Saturdays or for three weeks during the week when the ministers are not so busy. There will be no charge for the seminar. This is something we have to do. The supportive people can be a bridge to the others in the middle category. Then if these people can come to support us we can work through them to those who are opposed to us.

What will happen then is that when there is an effort to oppose us the ministers will start fighting amongst themselves. Those who haven't yet heard God's word in the Principle will be admonished by those who have. Those who understand the principle will say: "Who are you to say such things? These are things we couldn't know from our theological perspective." To those who oppose us, give them the Principle book and tell them: "Here, you've been opposing us, but read this and see what you think." Do you understand? (Yes). We have to do this work as soon as we can. So go and meet them all. Don't go empty handed, take the Principle book with you. Giving them a book gets the whole thing started. One thing you need to do is to read a book or two on modern theology, systematic theology, church history and the history of theology.

The next thing to do is to meet the prominent people in your state. Here too, you will need the Principle book. If you have the three books, "Divine Principle", "Critique of Communism", and "Unification Thought" -- you can create a movement of lending at least one of these to anyone you meet. That will enable you to develop a vast network. Do you understand? First mobilize the campus, then the established churches. Then you can work with the prominent people in your state. How well you are able to do this will determine the foundation which you can establish.

Plan for the 21 city tour

I am thinking to conduct a speaking tour of twenty-one cities at the end of this year. (Applause). I want you to choose the twenty-one most important cities. Which cities would you pick? We will include the seven cities .Where I spoke last time, so we need fourteen new cities. We will have to go to Boston. (Audience: St Louis). Also the important states. We need to go to Denver, Texas, someday we will establish a major place in southern Texas. So Dallas. My plan for the future is to establish training centers on the same level as New York in Washington, St. Louis, Denver, Chicago, San Francisco. Los Angeles and Dallas. Come on now, choose the 21 cities quickly. (Various voices offer suggestions). We need to give priority to the cities with the largest number of members.

Beginning next October, from October 1, its best to have a rally one day and take the next day off. -- Oh, that means we will need nearly three months. We are going to do it. Starting from New York. October, November and December. You have to have someone ready to give the talk in my place, just in case something happens to me. Next year we will do all fifty states. We will do that by the end of May, then no one in America will be able to say that they never heard of Rev. Moon. After that it will be your turn to stand at the forefront. For this purpose you too will need to lay your foundation. You have to witness. You have got to witness. Do you best until October. On the tour I may decide to speak in English, so you have to do well this time.

All right. Tomorrow, go down to Lincoln Center and reserve the hall. The same one as we used last time. This time lets fill the hall beyond capacity. The New York church has to grow to accomplish that. That should be no problem, June to October is five months, that is plenty of time. You have to do it if we are to lift up New York. (laughter) From now on, negotiate and reserve the speaking venues according to the tour schedule. Borrow the money for the reservation fee if you have to.

You will be paid back later. There should be no changes in the speaking dates once they are set. Make the dates certain and reserve good places. Would it be better if I were to give you the money to pay, or do you want to pay yourselves? (We will pay.) Well, thank you. But you will have to sell tickets. How much did we charge last time? (Twenty-one dollars). How much should we charge this time? Three dollars? Lets make it two dollars. It's much better than not charging anything.

You have a lot to do, if I am going to leave in July. In July I will go to Europe for two weeks. I will come back at the beginning of August. We have to think of gathering everyone in Europe in one place. They must be jealous of you Americans for monopolizing Father. You have to work hard so as not to lose out to the Europeans. Lets see, we will meet next on the first day of July. People who are nearby can come here on June 1, because that will be the Day of All Things, and there will be a ceremony conducted here. You are welcome to come if you like.

Fathers Prayer.

Loving Father, We are now faced with a tremendous responsibility and task. May your blessing be on these people here who are about to return to there places of mission, placing their calling before them and re-determining themselves to become people who need have no shame before Your will.

May they become sons and daughters in whom You can take pride, persevering in the face of difficulty, and hastening themselves along the path that must be traveled in order to realize our hopes and accomplish Your fervent hope.

Father, through this meeting we have created for ourselves a new opportunity. We have established at least a symbolic foundation for setting up global witnessing teams in the fifty states. We pray You will add your power, because we know that human strength alone is not sufficient. With You in the center, we will defend America. We will make this a country that can fulfill its responsibility in expanding the new foundation of glory and in establishing Your sovereignty and Your kingdom.

We ask Father that You watch over the nations of Asia, particularly in Korea and Japan Your children are working hard. We ask that You afford them Your protection. We sincerely pray that You will give them the guidance that they beseech of You.

We pray that You will give Your particular concern to the overall situation today in Europe. May the perimeters of Your victory be expanded, so that people will know that You are alive indeed and that You have a hidden plan to place the forces of unification on the ramparts of the world.

May You take charge of all that we do. We have decided on a new plan that will take place from the beginning of October until December 22. We pray that You will allow all our actions to proceed smoothly. We thank You for the Divine grace you have given us today. Look down upon us now as we bow down before you with hearts ever desiring to travel the path of blessing. We offer this prayer in the name of the True Parents. Amen.

Significance Of The Training Session

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Third Directors' Conference
Master Speaks
May 17, 1973
Translated by: Mrs. Won Pok Choi

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Good morning! Sit down!

I am going to speak about the significance of a training session like this. Master's intention is to have the State Representatives, Commanders, and the Itinerary Workers pass the examination, getting at least 70 points. I will continue this until the last one of the responsible members has passed the examination.

For fallen men it is their duty to pass through three stages of judgment! Judgment of words, judgment of personality, and judgment of love or heart. All through history, mankind has been in search of the truth, true words. The, truth is the standard by which all the problems of mankind can be solved. We know man somehow fell in the beginning, and to fall means to fall into the bondage of Satan. So, in order for us to return to the original position, we have to get rid of the bondage of Satan. For fallen people, there is no other message which is more hopeful and desirable than the message of restoration to the original position, To be restored is, in another sense, to be liberated from Satanic bondage -- and this is the gospel of gospels for fallen men.

Then what is judgment? Judgment is the measurement of the standard on which all our acts are judged. If our acts cannot come in accordance with the original rule or measurement, we must be judged or punished. In the government, there is the ruling party and the opposition party -- in order to have the balance of power -- and if one of the laws is to be set up to be amended, then both parties must agree. There is God and Satan. Between the two there are men -- some are more on God's side, and others are more on the Satanic side. But in judging the people they must have the measurement for judging. People more on the right side can be claimed by God, and on the other side by Satan. In worldly matters, too, we have a certain standard, a ruler. If we compare it to the rule or measurement, and if it is above the standard, then it is called successful, but if it is below the standard, then we call it a failure. If it is a total failure -- so that it can never be compared by measurement -- there can be no judgment possible. Neither God nor Satan can claim this total failure.

In the course of restoration there must be the standard rule. If you are going to find one in the Bible, which must it be? For instance, when there is a mountain there are peaks and valleys. Centered on one peak, there are two sides, God is on the right side, while Satan is on the other side. There is a difference between the high peaks and the low peaks. All through history, when we examine the courses our ancestors passed through, it is something like going up a peak, then down -- and then again, they will attain a certain height. In that way, they were coming up. There are many peaks of various heights. Those who belonged to the Old Testament Age began to climb up -- and on the peak, they decided whether they were on God's or the Satanic side. Then they made another hike to reach another peak of greater height. The Messiah is the person who would be waiting on the highest peak, and those who have attained the peak will be welcomed there. The climber begins right at the foot of the first peak, and by passing on what he has done to the next and next one -- when he has attained the highest peak, the Messiah is there to welcome and praise him. But the Messiah himself has to know what way the man has to go through.

Jesus is the fruit of the truth -- of God's Logos. He has attained the highest peak in the spiritual sense. Jesus said: "The Old Testament came about for me -- everything and every word from God is for me." He said on another occasion: "I am the way, the truth and the life." The way is the truth and the truth is the way and life, too. The truth is something God exalts, while Satan is jealous of it. The truth belongs to God. God must love the law He has set up and He is going to love it through eternity. Then what must be the mission of the truth? The mission of the truth is to guide the people through the way. The Principle of Restoration is to connect all the ways trodden by the Old Testament Age saints, with the New Testament Age saints, through the present. We are going to make the zigzag road a straight one, so that we can show to the people the standard of how to reach the highest peak. The shortest cut is the straight line and the mainstream and the final one. That's what the word "Principle" really means. Is this the principle of physics or any other science? What kind of principle is this? What is the Divine Principle?

The Divine Principle is the measure or the way -- the guide -- that will take us through the way to reach God, and to the original position. Without going through this way, fallen man cannot reach the original position. This is the measurement, ruler and fundamental guide. If a rope or string is entangled with knots, we have to undo the tangles first. If you just put your energy and pull it hard, would the knots be undone? No. If you pour out your time, would that be solved? Time and energy poured into it in blind, random efforts would not do anything. In praying before God, also, if you just pray blindly to Him to give you something or to help you to do something, He can never help you. There must be a rule or standard for that. Suppose there is a very good man -- but he is just a blind man. Without your knowing how to wield the sword, would God give it to you? There is the danger of your grasping the blade instead of the handle. God would not give it to you. If He does, then He is a blind God. Everything must suit its standard. The Divine Principle is the measurement according to which God can liberate us fallen men. You are not liberated into true words. You are not liberated from the darkness into the light, where you can see God and yourself in precision -- so that you know the relationship between God and you. In light of the Principle, we know the relationship between God and ourselves, and ourselves and the universe. Up to the present, no one has ever known this fact. Through the way of the Divine Principle we can reach out to every direction and we circle around, covering all there is to it.

In America you ride in cars every day. When you are in a hurry, you want to speed up. When you dash at full speed, there is danger accompanying it. If you want to dash at full speed, and yet without danger, it means you have to have good practice beforehand. In handling the wheel, do you have freedom -- can you do it as you please? Not an inch of excuse is there. The wheels must be round; if they are angles, it may endanger you. If the four wheels have a will of their own, and some wouldn't turn as they should, what would happen? The air pumped into all those four wheels must be the same amount, or they will be crippled. When you want to go at full speed, it means the wheels have to make many revolutions, circling around. I know that Americans hate to repeat things, the same old things. When you want to keep a diamond or jewels glittering, you have to polish them. If you want to keep this room clean, wouldn't you clean it once, twice and more each day? The same applies to the Principle.

Have you ever stopped to think how many times in your whole life you are going to give lectures to people? When you eat bread or other food, the more you chew, the more delicious it becomes. If you chew once or twice, and just swallow it, do you know the real taste of it? With a thing of value, you must repeatedly practice with it and try to know the taste of it, and it will give you more and more taste. So, with things of value, repetition does not fatigue you. For instance, your eyes are blinking all the time. If they stop blinking, then what? Respiration -- you inhale and exhale all throughout your life. If you stop exhaling and inhaling, then what? Every meal, you have to repeatedly eat something all through your life. When your eyes blink, the nose inhales and exhales, is it helpful? Is it necessary or not? You give yourself exercise. The more you repeat, the more strength you get and the more healthy you become. In light of this, is repetition helpful, good or not? [Yes!] After the first conference, when you came for the second, some of you may have thought, "What's the use of having conferences so often?" But I have something else in mind. What would you recommend if it were up to you? How many times would you have a conference? Once, twice, three times, four? How many times? The more you repeat, the better outcome you get. It is very important.

When a poem is very good, wouldn't you read it repeatedly? If you just grasped the meaning and nothing more, then it wouldn't give you any taste. If you read it more than once -- hundreds and thousands of times -- if it really is a good one, it will give you more taste. Those who can appreciate other people's poems can write better ones. Isn't it true? It's the same with lectures. As you go along, hearing the Divine Principle repeatedly, then you can understand the depth, height and breadth of it. I never get tired of hearing the lectures. But I have no time to do that. Even if the lecture is from a beginner, I am so interested in listening to this lecture. However inexperienced you may be when you stand on the platform to speak to a group, you want to give a fluent speech; do not expect to give a poor speech. After the speech, if you find your speech a failure, you are so ashamed of yourself, you want to escape from the listeners. The listeners must be sympathetic toward you. After the failure, you must feel you want to tear apart your lips. In repentance, you beat against your head and say, "This dull brain of mine -- what shall I do?" In that case, you must study hard and repeat and repeat -- then you will be successful. The world's foremost champions in athletic games are those who have practiced more than anyone else. Isn't that true? In proportion to how many times you have repeatedly practiced the lectures will your lectures be a success. If you have practiced many times the same thing -- the lectures on the Divine Principle -- you can give them by heart. If you are good at walking on the same road, you can walk on the road without light -- in the darkness. If you owned the best car in America, would you want the chauffeur to be a beginner? Or would you want your chauffeur to be a very experienced person who could drive the car in the dark, on a bumpy road, anywhere? You would want to get an experienced one. It is a question of common sense, but it is difficult to follow the rule.

Our church is a vehicle, in a sense. Is it any less than the best car in the US? What position are you in? You are the driver. The whole church is under your charge -- you are going to handle this church. If you are at a loss as to what to do, without direction, how can I rely on you? You look so dangerous, people will never ride in your car. When you look back at yourselves, how dangerous a driver each one of you is. People say, "It's a gorgeous looking car, but look at the driver! I can't bear to ride in that car." If you find yourself a poor driver, wouldn't you practice? Would you still say you don't like repetition? Nevermore should you think that repetition is a tiresome job. When you have gotten seventy points [on the test] , you are barely at the point where you will never cause an accident. That is my viewpoint. You have to pass this standard or else I cannot give you a license. This is a standard ruler given from God. If you don't go over that, you are liable to judgment. That is the judgment of words. Isn't it necessary? If there is anyone who doesn't think it necessary, just tell me. Everyone needs to have training, to repeat the lectures. The first standard is judgment of words. You must go through that stage -- the judgment of words. In judgment there is no tolerance. If you do not pass the standard, you cannot be released from bondage. You cannot be relieved. Master is the judge.

The second is the judgment of personality. However hard you may struggle to walk fast on a certain road, if you are going the wrong way, you have to come back. Where doe's Satan lie in ambush? He is always guarding the main road, the true way. Because he wants to snap you up and stop you from going along the right road, he comes to attack you without warning. So, you must prevent him from stopping you from going on the way. However well practiced, however well equipped you may be, if you are attacked by Satan on the way, that is the end of it. You must have a technique to prevent Satan from stopping you. You must have the personality to win over Satanic temptation. Isn't that true? [Yes!] You must be more able, stronger than Satan in every way. You must be alert to see where Satan lies in ambush. Have you ever stopped to think of that? Satan is everywhere -- and you are vulnerable to his attack. You must know how to locate him and find him out. When you are strong enough not to be tempted or fall into the hands of Satan, you can win over him; but you must know Satan waits for the time when you are about to fall into the pit, when you are in a most difficult situation. That's the moment Satan comes to press on your neck.

When you fight on the battlefield, the enemy lies in ambush. Most likely, he comes to attack you during the night -- when you don't expect him. Spies will come, but if you are with wide open eyes, they will run away. When you are in slumber or relaxation, or when you are in distress or despair, that's the time of Satanic attack. For instance, you are frustrated and say to yourself, "Oh, I have worked one year on the mobile team, how can I go on like this? " That's the very moment Satan will attack you. Satan would say, "You are my prey at this very time." All you have accomplished will be gone with it. It would not take one of the strong Satans [evil spirits] to attack -- but the smallest and weakest one can press on your throat and you will be killed. Isn't that true? When you are in distress, frustrated, you must remind yourself of the fact that this is the very moment when the weakest of Satans can attack and kill you. When you are not witnessing, not doing church work -- when you miss good food, good clothing -- when you are in that kind of mood, that's the very moment you are liable to Satanic invasion. When you miss your sweetheart, that's the very moment you are liable to Satanic invasion, that's the very moment Satan attacks you. Those are the hooks on which Satan can drag you back.

When you doze off, that means you are in a lax mood. That's the very moment Satan will come and grab you away. Satan is here, watching over you -- and Master is, at the moment, saying a very important thing. Satan would have you slumber and doze off at that very moment. You will fall prey into his hands. At these words of mine your eyes are all blinking. We have many enemies, you must remember. When you cannot help being tired and frustrated, try to hide yourself and go into the closet or somewhere where you will be away from others' sight. You can relax there -- but not in the sight of others. Because through those persons, Satan can come and attack you. You will be grabbed away. It would be better for you, in such cases, to retire to a corner where no one else can see you, and stay there until you solve your problem. Meditate, pray, and for three days, if you are doing that, you will look at brothers and sisters working so hard and think, "What am I?" In distress you will think, "Can I be loved by God? I must work." Your conscience will tell you. You will be aroused to new vitality. You pray in repentance, and feel again like going out to work. That's better. In that way, in deep meditation, you tell yourself you have not been working as hard as others; and if you end up like this, then what is left? Then you are ashamed of yourself and you will say, "The newcomers are so energetic and enthusiastic in carrying out their mission. I am an old timer and am tired and in distress. I have to rouse myself again to new vitality and go out and work."

You must remember that, among our members, there are some working in the satellite nations -- or Russia. Can you say you are tired of working? Then you would imagine God during those three days: God is looking down at you, and how miserable you look to Him. Your ancestry is looking down at you, and how agonized they must be to see you like this. They will accuse you, and all those thoughts will agonize you, and you will not be able to stand it, but will have to come out to work. So, when you are in that mood, the best thing to do is to retire to a corner where others cannot see you, and in deep meditation, solve your problems and get recharged with new energy -- and come out again. Temptations come in many ways. For instance, your old university friend visits you and looks at your shabby appearance and says, "What happened to you? You are a university graduate and had many things before. Why are you so shabby looking, wearing neckties and suits like that? You should follow me." That's the very moment you will fall prey. You must tell him you would not take the whole world for this. "Wait five years longer and I will show you." You are a university graduate with a B. A. and other degrees -- you are on the street with bundles of flowers, and people may deride you, laugh at you; but you must think of this act of yours as drawing lots to occupy something great. A fortune greater than anyone else's will be waiting for you. You can say to yourself, "Those old friends of mine cannot sell flowers on the street like this. If they were given this they could not do this. But I can do this. I am doing more valuable things than they."

Many times when I was in prison and in handcuffs, I would appear before the judge; and on my way from prison to the court I would meet members from my church, and I would wave my hands in hilarious joy. And when I waved my hand like this, the handcuff jangled -- and it still resounds in my ears. In the very court I would say to myself, "Those who judge me will be judged by me in the future. They will fall into misery." And now this has happened! I swore I would never die before realizing my mission. I would show them that what I was going to do was this. I would never die in their hands until that day. That I would be strong enough to go through the difficulties. When I was released I would work again with more strength. Even in prison, I would think this was my training course. After this I would be a stronger worker. When you picture the prison life, don't even imagine the life in prison in this country. It's far below this level -- untold misery -- almost like animal life. Even if I were to describe it, you wouldn't understand. A handful of rice, almost rotten, per day. We missed the rice and food -- and we worked on and on, carrying all those heavy things -- and after we were exhausted and were to have a handful of rice, on the way to eat, some of us would die. Others were anxious to get the rice to feed themselves. At that very moment, I would say to myself, "Even though hardship will be doubled and tripled, I will never fail.", Even in the communist prisons, I worked so hard that they had to give me an award -- I got the first prize for laboring.

In anything and everything I would never be less than the Satanic people, so I would get the first prize. In giving me the prize, the arrogant prison boss who gave me the certificate (citation) bowed before me, and I held up my head and received it. That's what I wanted. Even in prison, I wanted to subjugate Satan. I am with this quality. That's why God chose me -- with all my patience, all my hard struggle to win over any difficulty, any Satan. That's the quality I have -- for which God chose me for this mission. All the prisoners lost weight, got pale -- but I looked just like I do now, in prison. It is because I did not surrender to them in spirit. I am here in the US, however hard our struggle may be here -- even if I am imprisoned and tortured, I will fight it through and win the victory. Once I said I would carry it out -- you must know that. Once I start doing things, I will pass -- I know no retreat. I fight at the risk of life. In that sense you have met the wrong leader. [No!]

I am sympathetic with you. You are in the prime of your life. You want to dance with your lovers, your sweethearts; you want to enjoy your life in the worldly sense. There are many good things teeming in this world. [No!] You helplessly say no. But you have been awakened to the fact that someone must do this job if it is not I. The heavy lump of the whole world is failing down. Some power must stop it from falling. The failing lump is the earth. The whole earth is tumbling down, and you are on that earth plane. With it you are going to come down into the dungeon. Those merry-makers -- those without the knowledge of what is going to happen -- may look happy. But those who know the fact that the lump is falling down into a dungeon cannot help but want to stop it from failing. Some are bystanders -- would you just watch it fall? Wouldn't you want to stop it from failing? You may have to die or be killed. Would that be all right? There may be causalities by tens of hundreds and thousands, but if you are not ready to die for the cause, you cannot live and save the world.

If you are ready to die ahead of others, all of you; if you have that attitude, you cannot die and you can save the world. But if you are like the disciples of Jesus who denied him upon his death, you will fall away and the whole world will be left unsaved. Would you become like Jesus' disciples? Jesus' disciples were in fear of Satan and they were overwhelmed by Satanic power. Satan took them away -- all twelve disciples, who in Jesus' lifetime had served him. Then, what happened to Jesus? Satanic hands were on him, but he died a physical death, not a spiritual death. If your spirit is not dead, if you are with the same zeal and ardor upon your death, there is a way to be saved and resurrected again.

The same is true for you. If you may have to die, if you die a courageous death -- without leaving shame to your descendants -- then you have the chance to be resurrected and work through your descendants. Jesus was attacked by Satanic hands, but was he defeated by Satan? [No!] God, who is more fearful than Satan, was on his side, fighting for him. You must know that. God is on the side of righteousness. Have you ever stopped to think, "How long can I work? Will there be a time when I will be utterly frustrated?" To be shot to death is a simple thing, but to be tortured, to have Satan cut off every limb -- arms and legs -- would you bear that torture?

If you are resolved to live for the cause and die for the cause, you are already being resurrected. You are transcending life and death. God is on our side. In that case you are on God's side and God is on your side, because God is also the being transcendent of life and death. God is our friend and our co-worker. Those who have God as their co-worker must be courageous. Would you want to be friends with Satan? [No!] You must be a friend of either God or Satan. Which would you choose? [Yours!] God is not only your friend, but your Father. You are going to be the incarnation of God. God corresponds to the whole universe, to all humanity. He sent many saints and prophets to work for the great cause and they were killed and martyred. That means God's hands and arms and all limbs were cut off. He has been enduring pain all the way. But He is still intact from Satanic invasion; He is sane and whole and all powerful and almighty. He is living in me and I am the incarnation of Him. Would you not be proud and stand as firmly as He is standing? Then, with that quality, will you say you are tired after a year, after five years, ten years, 20 years? Will you be tired of doing this job? When will you be exhausted? Never? [Never!] Is it true? I cannot believe you. On the smallest pretext, you say you are tired. In a word, you must think you are born for this and this is your destiny. You have got to tread on the way and you cannot but go on the way. Then, your attitude must be different. You must be accustomed to eating humble food, being clad in rags, being sheltered in tents and outdoors -- you must know the taste of enjoying your life in this way. I began my work while you were not yet born. At your age I had accomplished much. But I thought there was a tremendous amount of work that I must accomplish during my lifetime. I knew that. I was never proud of my having done so much. I was always anxious to carry out more and more. I was in haste every moment. Do I look frustrated? Do I look tired? I am not tired. The farther I advance forward, the more strength is added up.

People say, if I live this way and that, I am happy. Man is happy because he is living this kind of life. Then, who set up the standard? The definition of happiness -- can it be right? You must say, "I did not set up the standard of happiness like that, so it has nothing to do with me." I have to create a new standard or definition of happiness. If you define happiness to be eating humble food, being clad in rags, being sheltered in a humble place, that is your standard of happiness for the time being. The people whose definition of happiness is like this will never fail in life -- and in the end they can enjoy the utmost happiness. In extreme terms, to kill yourself -- or to lose yourself at the soonest possible date -- will make you the happiest one. It is because we have the spirit world there. The spirit world is vast and endless and eternal. But suppose we limit the spirit world. We say that we can enjoy 100 years of life on earth, and then a longer and more glorious life in the spirit world. Which would you prefer to have? The longer and more glorious life. Those who die earlier will enjoy more life in the glorious world. At this moment, the early comers would say, "I am senior to you; I have enjoyed more life here." Wouldn't you say the same in the spirit world?

So, longer life on earth does not promise you happiness. Even though your life may be a brief one, if you have worked a lot and have been recognized by God, upon entering the other world, you will be welcomed and you will enjoy the flourishing and glorious life there. So, in this life, the question is how hard you work and how much wholesome fruit you produce. So, you must work at the risk of your life and at the cost of your life. If you go on like that you are sure to achieve victory. If you die without succeeding in your mission, God will be sorry, because He knows that you have been doing that at the risk of your life. Wouldn't God, in the position of Father, if He knows His son is going to die soon, want to give him something to help in any way possible? If you have that attitude, God is anxious and ready to help you. If you are confident enough to carry out 100 things, but you are qualified to carry out only 30, God is anxious to fill in the other 70. If you are doing this for your Father, wouldn't Father be ready to help you? Father, with love, is, in a way, weak before His children. With love, He is ready to do anything you ask. As for Master, once he starts doing things, he becomes intoxicated with the job. He forgets to eat, sleep, rest, and clothe himself. When I come to myself, I find God has been working with me. He is scared to think that I might die in doing this work. Neither Jesus, Buddha, nor Confucius had disciples so dedicated as to die in their place. But this Master of yours has disciples who are ready to sacrifice their lives for this great cause, and this is being done in my lifetime. Our work is on the worldwide level. Did Jesus succeed that much?

Out of all the saints sent by God, I think I am the most successful one already, as it now stands. Don't you think so? [Yes!] Even seeing that, you can trust me as your leader. You must know that this work of ours is a thing of tremendous value. If and when we have a nation of our own restored to God's side, how fast will our mission be realized? By that time we can stir up the whole world. Won't that be true? [Yes!] I am a thinker, I am your brain. Don't you think I have been thinking over and over again, and choosing this way? Even though I may be rejected by God, I choose this way. If I were in your position I would have achieved more. This is a wonderful way, and you must not regret that you have chosen this way. For any male or female being, this is the worthwhile way that you have chosen.

What is the judgment of personality? If you are well equipped, and you are the incarnation of God's words, then you will be intact from Satanic invasion. Satan would attack you on the individual, family, national and worldwide levels. If you are attacked on the individual, family or national levels, you will not fall. Then they can beat you by utilizing that power; you can advance more rapidly. If he beats upon your forehead, you are always on your toes, going all the time. So, if he beats upon your forehead, when his hand is gone, you can dash to the next step with more speed. Can you work automatically? So, Satan will have to give up. Then, he has to retreat and leave you. He will give up, saying, "However hard I may try I cannot attack him." Are you like that? Would you want to be like that at least? [Yes!] If you want to be like that, can you accomplish it standing still like this? You must try hard in training. Satan will use on you the same cunning method he has been using on our forefathers, past saints and martyrs. Now he is attacking you with that same power -- but you are more powerful and wiser -- and he will give up and leave you. After going through difficulties, when you attain the goal, God will find you there and will tell you, "Now I found one who resembles Me. I have gone through all difficulties and I am here intact from Satan. As the victor, you are the only one who resembles Me and you are the only son of mine." In that way you will pass the judgment of personality. That's the standard.

God made everything a success -- from the very beginning up to the present moment. If you resemble God, you will continue success, and by continued success you must attain the goal and render glory to God. God will cry out to Satan, "Come on, I can tackle you, I can win over you." God will not be a coward and beg Satan not to come. Would he beg Satan not to come or tell him to come? If you resemble your Father, you must be like that. You must call to the nation, "Come on, US and the whole world -- I will attack and win over you." "Come on, State of Wyoming, State of Texas!" Are you that way or not? [Yes!] Are you confident? [Yes!] When you should be like that, for instance, you will shrink back and say, "How can I meet the mayor?" If you shrink back, then how can you meet him, if there is any dignity in being the son of God? If you are the leader and say, "I am not good at raising money -- you go out," or "I am not good at witnessing -- you go out," are you capable and just don't have the time to go with the others -- or are you just saying that? Are you advancing, have you stopped, or are you retreating? Which category do you belong to? [Advancing.] You can say, "Yes!" But are you really like that? Is it true?

Those who have not been doing that, please advance forward from now on. You must fight through your way to win the people of position, knowledge and wealth. You must always be ready and on your toes all the time -- asleep, awake, in the bathroom or anywhere. When you are called, you must dash out and do your work. When you are resting, or eating, if there is a call to you, then would you abandon your meal, and talk to him? You don't know what a great thing can happen to that man. You don't know if you are going to fall prey by mishandling that man.

In my experience, if I didn't have anyone to give the lecture to, I would go to the top of the mountain and cry out to the whole world, or in an empty lot and wield my hands in giving the lecture. In cheering up the athletes on the athletic field, I will do the same -- with all my zeal. Before giving the lecture, I am always resolved to sweat more than anyone else, shed tears and blood more than anyone else. If I have no one to come, I will set out in search of the people. Even though I may have to walk all day, I will do that, spending many days until I find one at last. The person of the world, when I find him, may have wealth, position and knowledge -- more than I maybe -- but he lacks one thing. What I have more than he has is the thing of utmost value; I will attack him with this and he cannot resist. He cannot fast; he is not better at shouting on the street. He is not better at going through difficulties than I am. I excel him in many different and difficult ways. If he is without money, I can give him money out of the money I get from flower selling -- this is the most fascinating thing. To my eyes, the wealth, knowledge and the rest are just nothing. I have much better things than they have. When I buy a new pair of shoes, I will compete with them and say, "At the soonest possible date, I will wear you out." You are better than other people when you can do better things than other people, and when you can do things which other people cannot do. Arrogance is what Satan has in position, so we have to pick at it until it is annihilated -- the arrogance.

I am a cruel person in a way. When I was imprisoned, my mother would come to see me. If she said things in the worldly manner, I would cut her off and send her away. I would say, "Woman, don't weep for me, weep for the whole world. If you are sympathetic with me, I hate to see you -- go away from me." That's what I was and that's what I want you to be. You must have such a personality -- with which you can never fall prey before Satanic temptation. Before death, in the face of death, Jesus extended his arms and said, "Kill me," and at that instant he was not killed, and spiritually he had to resurrect. If you are determined to lose your life, no Satan can dare kill you. You have eternal life there. Are you like that? If you are not like that, God cannot bless you. If He does, the blessing will be grabbed away by Satan. But if you are so determined to face death without fear, then God will bless you and it cannot be taken by Satan. That is how to win in the judgment of personality. Win over all the temptation coming from Satan, and go to the standard where God can bless you. That's the point where you can win in the judgment of personality and that's how it was with Jesus.

Are you better than Jesus? You must be better than him. Yes, you must be confident that you can do better things and you can be better than Jesus, because Jesus died and could save the world only on the spiritual level. But you are going to save the world both on the spiritual level and physical level. You must be confident that you are better than Jesus. The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world. I will go beyond the boundary of the US, opening up the toll gate, reaching out to the end of the world. I will go forward, piercing through everything. Are you with that attitude? With that zeal and courage? Are you not scared? You must be with strength here. Unless you are like that, you cannot go over or win in the judgment of personality. May I continue? This is not the subject I originally intended to talk on. This is only the by-product. I started to talk about the value of the training course and I came to this point. But even though I may go astray, I never forget the mainstream of the path.

The third judgment is heart or love. Do you want me to speak in concrete terms? I have limited time. Have you ever loved a person in the truest sense? Do you have the pride of having been able to love with that kind of love? Then, you cannot safely say that you have loved a person. Without that kind of love, you cannot be proud of yourself before God, before the past, present, or future. You yourself must have loved to that extent. Is that real love? The term "to love" means to love someone else in the objective position. Love starts only when you have a person in the objective position. What is the standard of love in the truest sense? There are many kinds of love in the world: love between friends, between husband and wife, between a couple -- which can sometimes be endangered, in that they can fight because they love each other. If one of the two does things three times or more, then the quarrel starts. The one who started the quarrel does so on the pretext that he has done those things because he loves his spouse. At one misused word or action, horror can come between the couple. Have you ever quarreled between blessed couples? The question of love always brings a quarrel in the family. The woman may think her husband is loving her less than he used to, and that's the seed of her quarrel. From the man's part, too, his wife seems to be reserved in devotedness, and he is so greedy as to want utter devotedness from her. Why is it so? It is because love should be unreserved -- and if you are self-centered, if a little bit or a tiny fragment of ego is there, we cannot call it total love in the true sense. You must deny your whole being in loving your spouse. If a particle of you is left there, your love is not a wholesome one. Love, in the true sense, must be like that. Do you understand? So, if you find yourself self-centered, you must shake off the particle of yourself playing the role there.

How wonderful love must be if it is as pure as that. So, true love must accompany true sacrifice. That sacrifice will be willing sacrifice. With this love, you can subjugate any individual, family, nation and the whole world. I must ask you again, have you ever loved a person with that kind of love? If not, you are not qualified to receive God's love -- you cannot dream of receiving His love. Before wanting to receive God's love, you must practice loving people to that standard. You must miss not only your sweetheart, your lover, but you must miss every child of God with love of that kind. Until you are exhausted in tears, until your legs are fatigued, until your whole energy is exhausted in search of that person, you must miss that person. You must be ready to give out your life for that person. You must pour out the whole of your being into that person. You must invest your life in that person; your life will be multiplied in that person. You must plant your soul in that person in order for your soul to be multiplied. Jesus must be loving people with that kind of love. Have you ever loved God with that kind of love? Without that kind of experience you cannot call yourself a wholesome human being. In that case, you must be so humble as to say to God, "Don't come near me; I am not qualified. If there is anyone as true as God, don't come near me -- I am not pure." Have, you ever dreamed of loving like that? As you now exist -- as dirty as clay -- as disfigured as a disabled man -- you just want to come near God -- you want to be associated with any man. In that case, you are going to be the robber of love. In order to love the people in the true sense, you must purify your love. Don't you think so? If your eyes would sin, if your nose, mouth, ears and limbs are used for insane love, disfigured love, you must feel like plucking them out. You must know that you are not qualified even to love the ugliest woman or the ugliest man. It is a serious question.

May I stop here? [No!] I will become more and more serious -- and you will have to cry. When I think of God, I am truly sympathetic with Him -- for wholesome, perfect, absolute God, who always has to look at a world full of disfigured, disabled, crippled persons. He is ready with beautiful, pure love to be poured down on us, but we are not ready to receive that kind of love. We are not ready vessels for the love to come. But He is ready to give us more and more love. Thus, He is a pitiful being. Because He has that kind of love for men, He is ready to save mankind despite all the hardships and disillusionment. For God to meet one man -- the Messiah -- to locate such a person as His true son, was His desire all throughout history. There have been multitudes of people in the world who have been willing to receive God's love, but there has not been a single person ready to love God -- except the Messiah. Because he knows that, Master never gets tired. "Oh, Father, you have been betrayed by the many saints you have been sending to the world, and by individuals, families and nations -- by the whole of humankind, the whole world. Your heart is aching and torn into pieces. I have to restore you to happiness, and I am going to render you happiness. I will never cease to work until I return to you with joy and happiness." I would tell him not to worry about anything. I am in His place to work for Him until I turn the last one of all humanity back to Him. In that place, I am serious enough to excel Jesus when he prayed his last prayer. Compared to that, my agony is greater. I feel that I have the totalization of all the betrayals committed by the past saints. Thus, I have to return glory to God, to clear away His resentment and remorse and disillusionment. Only a small number of people are here as members in this movement, to work for the great cause. But I am not worried about the small number. If you are dedicated enough to work at the cost of your lives, we are going to be of tremendous strength, and we are going to be victors at the last. All through human history, God has been planting His love in human hearts, on the individual, family, national and world levels.

God has never been able to reap all those loves; but we are here to reap -- and by reaping them we can return the crops to God. You must be awakened to the fact that you are the totalization of the fruit. When you are reaped in God's hands, with all the rest of humanity, God gains your fruit. Now that I have reaped all that was planted in humanity, then I have to replant it into the soil of mankind, the soil of the world. With myself planted in the soil of humanity as the seed, then I will multiply your love all through human history from now on and forever. If I am going to plant Godly love into the hearts of the people, it will be multiplied to cover the whole world -- and I know that they will come. This is the mission of everyone here. When I send you out, you are in place of me -- every one of you. I want you to witness to the people; bring many more people into the movement. But that is not the ultimate goal. In doing so, you must plant the heart of God into many people, and have them multiply it into the whole world. That's the fundamental thing I want you to carry out.

How many people have you been loving with the truest love? Have you ever loved the people with the heart of the Father, in the shoes of a servant, shedding tears for the people, sweat for the earth, and blood for heaven? Do you really understand what I mean? Do you? So, you must ask yourself always, "Have you ever loved a person with that kind of love?" With the love you have been receiving from God, you must go on loving all the rest of mankind. That's the heart of love. Unless you reach that standard, you are liable to the judgment of heart or love. Have you ever held a person, and in a tearful way spoken to him and wept to him -- and he sobbed in sorrow in repentance? When you meet one person, you must think of the person like this, "I am here for this person." You must feel that what you have gone through, all difficulties and hardships, will be fruitful in this person, and you will never let him go without having him in the Family. If you are in the position of absolute plus, then absolute minuses can be created there. So, the question is you, yourself. It is because I have this kind of love, people around me miss me; and even though they may not have food to eat, clothes to wear and a place to shelter themselves, they miss me and are crazy over me and want to come close to me. This is only because I am like that with God. Have you ever woken up during the night, opened the window and looked out in meditation -- thinking of your members, missing them and feeling compassion for them?

Have you ever climbed up a high peak in the early morn, at dawn, prayed and looked down at the whole world and in tearful prayers asked God to save the whole world -- feeling that you were responsible for all mankind? Have you ever missed persons so that they cannot but come to you? Have you ever experienced that? I have set up the tradition, I have paved the way for you to go. You on whom I rely and send out to the battlefield -- if you are not in my place, and if you don't resemble me, how can I work through you? You have failed me disillusioned me many times. Still, I have to trust you, I have to rely on you, because I have no one else better than you. To think of how many times do I have to endure disillusionment and betrayal from you -- and I feel dark. But again, when I think of God, who has been faced with disillusionment and betrayal all through human history, I think my disillusion and betrayal is nothing compared with what God has gone through. I am revitalized, and feel like relying on you again. I am ready to lose. It's all right.

But if I would let go as you will, then I will go astray. So, I have to drive you on the right road. It's my heart. If I advise you again and again, and you would go astray, for the rest of the multitude, I must go on, letting you go. In the course of the history of the Unification Church, there have been many people failing away, but the number of reversing members would be multiplied -- and those who fell away are in misery. A self-centered person with ego is always the one who falls away. However old one may be in the movement, if he or she is self-centered, sooner or later, that person will have nothing to do with our movement. But, unlike such persons, even though others may betray you and fall away, if you go on the road with a steady pace you will reach the goal. You must be ready to help the people, save the people, and die for the people. You must be ready with your will upon your death. You must locate the one who will accomplish that which you leave. Who is going to be my heir? I am always looking for one like that. I sometimes think of a certain member to be my heir in this movement in the future, then I am disillusioned. Again I find another and another -- and there are not many on whom I can really rely. Between the couples your standard of love must be this: when you look at your husband, you must think how close is he to God, to our Master, to the standard set up in the movement? If your wife is fading away from that standard, she is failing away. There must be that standard of your love.

Are you qualified heirs to God? Can God rely on you, to leave everything in your hands? That's the measure of love coming from God. It's a grave question. There is a set standard of love from God and you must reach that point -- or go beyond that. Otherwise, you cannot come to God and hug Him and call him Father, and you cannot be received by Him. Unless you reach that standard, you are liable to judgment in the heart or love of God. Are you so qualified as to be received by God? He will wipe away your tears, your agony and the rest, and will take you to the most sanctified place to change your clothes and to give you all the glory He has. There is no change in my original intention to bring you to that place -- transcendent of national boundaries, transcendent of the barriers between East and West. Since I am like that it is natural for all the people to want to come to me -- and before long there will be no national boundaries -- no boundaries of any kind between individuals. In the end, there will be a day in which the whole human family will be restored under God as the Parents.

Do you really love me? [Yes!] But you must know that you are not quite qualified for love from me. You cannot love me either. In the course of restoration, you must go back and find your spiritual children and then you can come to me. Unless you are true parents to those spiritual children of yours, you cannot come to me and become one with me. That is what the Principle teaches us. For this I have struggled all through my life. I want you to love your brothers and sisters more than you would me. Love between brothers and sisters is what I want in loving them, love them more than you would me, I must say again.

In that case I will be drawn to you and I will be helping you, working through you. Then, in that way, you will have loved me and I will love you. So, before loving me, why don't you love your brothers and sisters and your spiritual children? We are training you to practice love until we reach out to the whole world and cover the whole world -- this is what we are going to do here. Can you complain here, can you be frustrated? Can you be tired while I am not? You must never dream of being a failure. On the way, even though the road may be bumpy and hard to tread on, you must think of what Master has gone through and what God has gone through; then your difficulty will be melted away. Even though I may die here at this very moment, my place is in heaven; but I worry about you and I cannot leave you alone. So, I am with you -- I am ready to work with you. If you complain against me, if you are unwilling to go this way already paved by me, what am I to do?

In love, you must connect: you must connect God, Adam, Eve and then children, so that we have three generations. We must be able to connect three generations in love. That means, when we learn to love, we learn from our parents -- from God, and then Adam and Eve -- the children, of parents give the love they have learned from their parents to their children. When the children are grown up, they then know how to give love to their children. In the world of love, there is no discrimination. What you have received from your parents in the form of love will be transmitted to your children, and the children in turn will do the same with their descendants. Is there any difference between the love you received from your parents, and the love you give your children? Is there any revolution here in the parental love? You must love your spiritual children as you would your own children, and as our True Parents would love you. In that way; love will be multiplied, and the family will be prosperous. That is how we restore our heart and, love. You cannot go to heaven all by yourself. You are in Adam's place. You must have a spouse; you must have at least three spiritual children, raise them to be wholesome and reach their, maturity to be blessed by God in holy marriage; and only with those eight members can you go. to heaven. It's like the eight members of Adam's family and Noah's family. That's exactly what Jesus was going to do with his three disciples or more. Before winning his bride he had to die. We have to accomplish in our own lifetimes what Jesus left unaccomplished. Heaven is the place where the couples having multiplied those members come and enter with all those. After having experienced that kind of love on earth, they can enter the kingdom. Only after you are already loved by me, can you know how to love each other and your spiritual children. I want you to bestow my love to you and to your spiritual children. Unless you do that, you cannot raise your spiritual children'. That is the formula for entering the kingdom of heaven.

I am here to restore love to the original love. Now that I have planted divine love in your hearts, you must practice it, multiply and plant it in many hearts. Have you done that? In loving you, do you think that I was so selfish as to want to get something out of you? Would I calculate some reward when I give love to you? Then you must exercise the same love toward other people. In the worldly sense, you are going to love your nation, your own people. You must love your own people more than I love them. But I am loving this nation more than you do. I am not conscience stricken, even though I drive you hard to do this. I feel it is only natural and logical to do this. I want to make you persons who can receive love from me and who can love others. Would your, love be of a higher dimension than the love between Eve and the Archangel? That's what makes the world heaven. You must have a clear conception of what the heavenly kingdom is. If you don't, if you are not able to place yourself in the position where you can love people with a love of a higher dimension than Adam's or Eve's or the Archangel's, then you are not qualified for that.

When you go beyond that level, where you win in the judgment of heart, then the place where those people live is the heavenly kingdom on earth. Do you understand? Do you see the possibility of our realizing this on earth? Then, there is the possibility of the erection of the kingdom of heaven on earth. We'll do it with our own hands. That is how the world of heart and love goes. If we have that kind of love, God will come abide in us and live among us. Go ahead and do that, and you will find out if my words are a lie or the truth. If every moment, after practicing love, you feel that your love has not been enough -- and in repentance you want to have more love to be distributed to others, then the heavenly kingdom cannot but come through you. If you feel that your love is not enough, and you are tearful and you struggle harder, then in that kind of world of heart, the kingdom of God can come. In that case, you will win in the judgment of love or heart. Is it clear to you?

I want you to be determined to get at least 70 points on the examination after the lecture, or above. By that you will win in the judgment of words. Then, out in the battlefield, I want you to win in the judgment of personality, and finally, in the judgment of love. In subjugating Satan or Satanic people, you must subjugate them with the weapon I of love, with the weapon of personality and the weapon of words -- and then they will either leave you or be absorbed by you. If you have a love of higher dimension than that which is exercised in the Satanic world, it is something like building a stronghold to surround us. No Satanic power can invade that society. If the Satanic power tries to invade, God will fight against that power and repel it. If we, in this manner, can reach out to the end of the world, the Satanic world will come to an end and our world will begin. But until we reach the goal, you must realize that there are many boundaries. Even if we have won on the level of the individual, there is the family level, then there is the next level, and still the next to come and attack us. But after we have won the last level of things to reach the whole world, then we can have the whole world under God and under us.

When we are in our battle against the whole nation of the US -- if you are truly in love with this nation, and if you love this nation more than anyone else, this nation will come into God's possession, and Satan will have nothing to do with it. That is what the Principle is. If we go on like this, wouldn't the US come to us? That's only too natural, and we can see it. We know the tactics, the strategy: our strategy is to be united into one with ourselves, and with that as the bullet, we can smash the whole world. Does it sound possible?

So, I want you to have confidence. Whatever village, whatever town, you may visit, you must have confidence; and with that zeal you can have the love of God and can be resolved to smash the whole world. Rain or snow, even in storm, if you visit the community with love, in due course of time, in three years -- or at the longest seven years -- they will recognize you, love you and come to their knees before you.

In anything and everything there must be a standard. So after the training course, if you get 70 points or more, we will send you out to the front line; then those weaker soldiers will be brought back to be trained here. All things will be done like this in circular motion. Well trained, more qualified persons will go out to do their work on the front line; and so many people will be brought back to Belvedere to be trained, and this will continue. Those working on the front line will be made stronger and stronger. From the next time on, those who got already over 70% will go out, while the rest of the people will have to go through training. They will leave from the conference earlier than others. The rest will have to stay until they get 70% or more. You cannot escape from it.

This I am not doing for my sake, but for your sake. As I said before, even though I may have to die at this very moment, I have no regrets. I left my people in Korea and came here to fight for your nation. I always say to myself that I have done my part for Korea. Since I came beyond the national boundary, having done my part for the nation of Korea, I am qualified for heaven and I don't feel death. Would you become so qualified a person as to have won in the judgment of words, in the judgment of personality and in the last judgment of heart and love? [Yes!] You promised me -- so the day I find you not quite that, if I have to beat you, drive you, harder than ever, you wouldn't complain, would you? If your parents send you to school and you flunk, then it's natural for you to be scolded by your parents. If, even in failure, you protest and complain against your parents, can they love you? They may have to kick at you. You are destined to have to go through training and pass the examination, so you cannot but push yourself hard to study. You must listen to the lecture, study hard on your own, take the examination, pass it, and practice it on the front line. Even on the front line, before giving the lecture, you must pray hard, read again and stand before the people, giving the lecture. A little later, the examination will be harder, because you will have to have an examination on my speech, too. There are going to be many subjects in this Divine Principle university. It will become harder and harder. So, unless you are well armed with the Divine Principle, you cannot go through the rest easily.

Based on the Divine Principle alone, you can understand Master's speech, Victory Over Communism and Unification Thought. In the future, when we have more members, a vast number of members, and I am pressed with so many other things, I have no time for this kind of thing. In case I cannot give you a detailed speech, then I will have to give an examination with questions like: "Do you know what heart is, what love is in the truest sense?" and have to ask you for the answer. In the future, only those who study everything Master says can pass everything. Every political and economic situation in every field can be solved based on the Divine Principle. Can you solve other problems without knowledge of the Divine Principle? So, without even eating, you are going to study the Divine Principle hard. Would you want me to be harsh and to drive you to study?

You will be a failure without hard study. Even though it may not be absolute, your grade will show whether you are a failure or a success. You are going to go through three trainings; if you are found to be a failure after three examinations, I cannot set hope on you. In the 100 Day Training Course, after several cycles of the lectures, you will go out to learn how to raise funds, and then you will go out to practice teaching the Divine Principle. There will be many personnel shifts made at our conference this time. But don't be discouraged if you are deprived of the right of being State Representative, Commander, Itinerary Workers; you will, in that case, have the privilege of being trained here. After awhile you will be trained so that you can take a position, being more qualified than before. Through 40 days you will have six cycles of Divine Principle lectures. If you study hard, after the sixth cycle of lectures -- or in the course of them -- you can imagine what will come next when the lecturer gives you a certain chapter. You can even analyze or criticize President Kim's lecture. You may think, "The last time I came he gave a dynamic lecture, but he is tired this time; when I give the lecture I will never be tired," etc. In your own way, you can organize your lecture. In order for you to be a dynamic lecturer, you must know the knack of holding and possessing the listeners' hearts. If there appears a crack in the man's personality, you wedge in a chisel, and split the person apart. For the first few lectures, you will just memorize. But after that, you will study the character of your audience, and adapt your lecture. If he is a scientist, you will approach him differently than a commercial man, artist, etc. The audience as a whole will have a nature, and you must be flexible.

At least two weeks -- you must experience flower selling -- two weeks to 30 days. Whether in two weeks or in one full month, until you raise 80 dollars a day; then you go to rallies, witnessing, and then if you cannot bring in three persons in one month's time, you cannot go. That's the formula you have to go through. Twenty people are now going through flower selling. They were supposed to go to New York Center to help in witnessing to the people; but since time is limited, they will have to go out in place of those who will come for training. Commanders on the mobile teams, the rest of the people who are here for the conference, will have to go through those stages -- even though the time will be shorter. If you attain that standard in passing the examination on the Divine Principle, and if you make that amount of money per day, then witnessing and bringing people in so many days, then you can go out. If you accomplish it in more days, your time will be prolonged. People will be circulated like that. If you fail in doing that, you will have no foothold.

In this way, I am going to elevate you to the same standard. Then, I will assemble future leaders from all over the world and do the same to them and with them. Do you understand? Be ready to go through that. Each and every one of you. Either toward the end of June, or very possibly the first part of July, I may have to go back to Korea via Europe before coming back this fall. I cannot leave unless I have made 400 mobile team members. There are many things to be straightened up by me in Japan and Korea, so I have to go back, but then I will return.

So, be determined to go through those things, and make it in such a way that you don't have to go through three cycles. Just by having one training session, you can become qualified for all those things. In the future, without your going through the training session, we will not send you out as leaders in responsible positions. We will bring in more people from the mobile teams than from the members in the states. So, the members in the states will have to go to the mobile teams -- and from there will come here. Each and every mobile team should be able to bring ten members at least; and at least three should be sent here for training. One out of three is the formula, so three out of ten will come for training. Those who are trained will be sent back to the mobile team, and more members will come for training. The mobile teams will be increased in number to cover all the states, and each mobile team will have to grow until it has 40 members. Then the teams will be multiplied and the number will be multiplied. If teams of 40 members each are stationed in each of the 50 states, that means 2,000 people. In the future, in each state, four mobile units will be the ideal number -- that means 160 in each state, and in 60 states, 8,000. If that number of members are working in 50 states, we can do anything with senators and congressmen; we can influence them. Even senators representing that state will have to beg the help of our State Representatives.

If that number of people are well armed with the Divine Principle, Unification Thought and Victory Over Communism ideology, their speech will influence the whole population. Then the Republican Party will want to have you on their side, while the opposition party will want to have you on their side. You must say, "Come to me." Unless we are that powerful, we cannot save this nation. The State Representative is only 23 years old now; but after three years or more, perhaps senators will come to take him to their place in a luxurious car, and they will put themselves at his disposal. That's what is happening in Korea. If the US continues its corruption, and we find among the senators and congressmen no one really usable for our purposes, we can make senators and congressmen out of our members. Would you want to be wives to senators and congressmen? The male members -- wouldn't you like to be senators? If you have confidence, you will make it possible and I will make you that. I have met many famous -- so-called "famous" -- senators and congressmen, but to my eyes they are just nothing; they are weak and helpless before God. They are scared to think it might be possible that they will not be reelected. I didn't see any confidence in them. But if our foundation has been laid, are we going to be confident persons or not? [Yes!] Then we will win the battle. This is our dream, our project -- but shut your mouth tight, have hope and go on to realize it. As it now stands, forget about those things, and try hard to lay the foundation for those things. I will be with you and I will guide you.

My dream is to organize a Christian political party including the Protestant denominations, Catholics and all the religious sects. Then, the communist power will be helpless before ours. We are going to do this because the communists are coming to the political scene. Before the pulpit, all the ministers of the established churches must give their sermon on how to smash or absorb communism -- but they are not doing that. We are going to do this. Unless we lay the foundation for this, we cannot carry it out. In the Medieval Ages, they had to separate from the cities -- statesmanship from the religious field -- because people were corrupted at that time. But when it comes to our age, we must have an automatic theocracy[*] to rule the world. So, we cannot separate the political field from the religious. Democracy was born because people ruled the world, like the Pope does. Then, we come to the conclusion that God has to rule the world, and God loving people have to rule the world -- and that is logical. We have to purge the corrupted politicians, and the sons of God must rule the world. The separation between religion and politics is what Satan likes most.

But I am not going to send you into the political field right away -- but later on when we are prepared. If we multiply the people by planting God's love in their hearts, they are naturally going to come to us. We can rule them with love. If we have 50,000 members all over the, country, under one command from Master, if they are told to come and live in New York, what would happen? Upon my command to the Europeans and others throughout the world to come live in the US, wouldn't they obey me? Then, what would happen? We can embrace the religious world in one arm and the political world in the other. With this great ideology, if you are not confident to do this, you had better die. Are you resolved for that, and confident for that? [Yes!] Are you resolved? I don't see the possibility. Still, would you want to do that? [Yes!] Then, I come to surrender before you.

I am versatile, I am many sided. Back in Korea, last year, we staged an athletic gathering which we called the International Religious Peoples' Olympics. If it's going to grow, the Olympics we now have will be superseded. Last year in Germany, the shooting tragedy came about after the athletic race. At that time, I said, "Since I began my project of International Religious Peoples' Olympics, it is natural that Satan would do that." They are on the slope of declining. I am going to choose a football team from this nation and send them to Korea. Are there many who are good at football? The number of athletic games will be increased. There is significance to my organizing that. The present UN must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for the communists. We must make a new UN Then, I must be able to make out of you world renowned personages. Wouldn't you want to be trained for that? You will have to go through training of such a type that history has never seen.

Are you anxious for that or are you scared? [Anxious!] You resemble me. I must stop here. Now you have a clear idea of what training means and what our training is going to be like. You try to put yourself in a place to suit that standard, and by going over that you will pass the judgment. By bringing in people, you raise the people to your standard; and by bringing in people here, we will raise the people to that standard, too. After awhile, if you go through training in a shorter time, then I will take them boating on the Hudson River. People will be anxious to come to Belvedere.

With a brilliant hope like this we will strive on.

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[*] This speech is the source of an infamous quote in which True Father apparently calls for an "automatic theocracy to rule the world." A more careful translation showed that he did not actually say this, but described God's will being realized through the democratic process by the election of godly leaders. See The Need for a Critical Edition of Reverend Moon's Words by Andrew Wilson published in the Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 9, 2008
(Note added on October 4, 2015 by Dan Fefferman]

Untitled Address On Training Plans (How We Run A Training Session)

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
40 Day Training Session
Master Speaks
May 7, 1973
Probable Translator: Won Bok Choi

This 100 day training session will be continued throughout the years. Former 100 day trainees and the new trainees will be treated as same. Everything, e.g., studying, eating and attending lectures should be the same.

Now, I am going to explain the reasons why we are going to have this training session.

The purpose of the training session is to correct all the ways of thinking and ways of operation. As one measure, we started the operation of the mobile teams. This training session is also designed to accomplish that purpose. So, from the top level directors and leaders to the bottom level members, everyone will be trained again. This is the reason why I appointed David Kim and Miss Kim to be commanders of the teams. Elder members were assigned as the commanders of the mobile teams. Also, all the State Representatives and Center Directors should be reformed with the new concepts and ways. Therefore in the beginning., we put all the Center Directors under the commanders of the mobile teams. So. whenever the mobile teams go to visit a center the Center Director and all members should work under the directive of the Mobile Commander. By this we wanted to establish a tradition of working together.

Also, there have been many problems. By this time, most members understand that we must go this way. Because members came to understand this, therefore we started this training session. Also, we have many State Representatives, but I don't think they are qualified to lead one state. However, we cannot pull out all the State Representatives, because we do not have representatives to replace them. So, I asked them to send three men from every state to be trained as leadership material. In the beginning when we started this training session I told them to give lectures six times. So, you have to listen to detailed lectures for at least three times. If you do not understand in detail, then when you go out in the field, you will be in trouble because you cannot answer questions.

So, if you study hard, if you listen to detailed lectures then you can have the material with which to answer. Then, the next one is just interim length lecture twice. That means half the length of time from the previous lecture. Then we have shortened the lecture about one-third. If you listen to that many lectures then you can understand. Then after that you can make your own lecture outline. It means you can change your contents by different listeners. Then, you should have the Divine Principle test three times, Those who get good scores will be sent out. We will also have a vote. The trainees select the good people by their votes. With all these things combined, we select those people to be sent out. All the leaders must understand the Divine Principle. So, because many directors did not understand the Divine Principle well, therefore, they have given lectures their own way and caused many troubles and made many people struggle. So, wherever we go, we have to find the same lectures of the Divine Principle. By doing this, if we cannot make good results still they are not perfect. Also, they have to be the leaders not only of Divine Principle lectures but also they have to know how to deal with economic problems and other problems of leadership.

Many Center Directors got a job and they work to earn money and therefore spent only small time for witnessing. Those who had a job before you came, raise hands. This is not right. Center Directors should not have a job. When Master came here for the second visit in 1969, he appointed directors to thirty states, but at that time the directors had jobs. Because of that there was no development. So, if you have a job, then God cannot help you. So. Master wanted to change this.

So, to solve this problem, Master wanted to teach you to earn money in a short period of time. So, Master brought Japanese members and through them he wanted to teach you how to earn money. So, Japanese brothers cannot speak good English, but they are earning money. Therefore, you should be able to earn more money than Japanese brothers, Every day they are earning more than $70 to $100, and some more than that. If you earn $100 then you can live for one month. So. this means that if you work for seven days in one month, then you can make money to support a center for one month. Also, you don't have to be confined to anything, you can work as you want. By doing this we can solve the problem of being bound by economic matters by candle, selling and flower selling. Flower selling should be learned by everyone. The reason for this is that when someone buys flowers they cannot last for more than 7 days, so you can sell to them again. But candles can last several months if they don't burn it they use it for a decoration and therefore we cannot sell them any more. So, flower selling is the most important and most secret weapon for us. Even when you do not have any money, if you go to a florist and you work for one hour, then you can borrow three flowers. Then you can sell that and with that money you can continue your flower selling and by this you can earn enough money.

The second purpose of this training session is to make you such a man that you are confident in making money. Thirdly is to train you in public relations -- activities of public relation. You have to be trained in contacting many people -- lower class, middle class, and government officials. If you are not trained in this field, when you go out for the first time in centers you will not have any confidence to meet high-ranking and government officials. New York is the largest and most famous city in the world, and it is the reason why we are having., the training session here. All the people in New York City are very high culturally, intellectually, and in many other ways. So. when you go out and you say you are trained in New York City then people cannot look down on you. Every week they are having a Rally for God in Hew York City. So. after you are trained in selling candles and f lowers, you will go out to New York City, and there you will train. When the New York Center Director finds that you are qualified to be sent out to the field, then you will be assigned. So, before you are assigned as a Center Director or any position of responsibility, you have to be confident to witness and bring in at least one man per month. This is the problem the training session will deal with at this time.

If we are to go through these processes, then it would take 100 days. Also European members will go through the same training. Also, whenever we send out 20 members, we have to have more than 20 new members to replace them. So, this is the reason why I have brought 30 members here. So, we should have from 80 to 100 members here all the time. When we finish this training session three times through, then we can have finished training for all Center Directors. Then all the Center Directors will practice the same method in their own centers. Also, when a new member comes and the Center Director recommends him to be trained here then they will come here and also be trained. So, as training goes on and many new trainees finish training to, they will go out in the field. We have several State Representatives here, but they cannot go back to their own state. So, you have to gain power and also accomplishments. Also some states are vacant, therefore, among the trainees we will assign. When a State Representative cannot earn one member per month over a period of 6 months, and he cannot find any results, then we will call him again. Then he will be trained here, and another man will go out to the state.

In that case, we will also keep statistics of your accomplishments. So, this will continue for one or two years. If those who are sent as State Representatives do not make good results then they also will be called in. The new trainees who go out will compete with the old State Representatives. He can come here for at least three times. That means that he can come back and go out three times. Even with that training, if he cannot make good results, then he will be transferred to another field -- to business or another department. By doing this, all the Center Directors and State Representatives stand on the same standard. If during this training session you are not well trained and you are not qualified and do not get good knowledge of the Divine Principle then you will have to come back again until you get these things.

So, this means that all the front-line leaders must work hard and must not be defeated by the new trainees. By this competition we can elevate all our old standards. Also, this system will be applied in Japan and also in Europe. Until this time we didn't practice this system because we did not have enough members. Actually, we should have three times more Center Directors than we have now. But from now on, we will practice this system throughout the world. Do you understand? If you have any questions concerning this system, ask now. What do you think if we do it in this way? Now we can get Divine Principle knowledge, also solve the economic problem and also contact people. After this, we will also select good leaders and give them Victory Over Communism training and Unification Thought. By getting this, directors and leaders will become more and more qualified. Whether you are in the first or second group does not matter, what matters is your power or your strength or your qualification. Even though you can give good lecture but you do not make good results then you cannot get results. You always have to remember your strengths, and your accomplishments.

Q. Will 40 day training become 100 days?

A. The training will consist of 40 day training of Divine Principle, then selling, and also witnessing at the New York Center. You have to actually bring members in New York Center. Here you are trained in everything which you will encounter when you will go out. If it takes you two weeks of candle selling and two weeks flower selling, then that makes one month, and then another month in Now York Center, makes 100 days. So. study period is 40 days.

You also must have lecture practice. Before you finish you have to give a lecture here and everyone will criticize you. Whenever new trainees go out and if they make good results, then that will also be evaluated. This means that all Center Directors and State Representatives must come and go through this training session. Whenever they come here, if they pass the test after the two weeks then they can go to the next stage of training, then in that way maybe in 40 days they can finish everything.

Q. Will we receive physical training?

A. Physical training too. Master may have you run across the George Washington Bridge and back. However because we do not have much time from now on you can make the plans. Sunday we had many programs, and that is also part of the training. Yesterday, after three games of pulling, then the defeated one became horse and winner rode him. Master told them that they should not put feet on the ground. But some did not touch their feet but changed anyway. But, sympathy should not be given at that time. Because he did not explain it all to you, then he did not punish those who did that. But you must go by the rules. Even though America is a free country if you violate laws then you will be caught and punished. You cannot do anything just as you want.

Here, we started this training system. In the future all the leaders will be brought to Korea and there we will have international training. At that time we will go through difficult training. If you are not willing to go through difficult training, then America will be the last. This is not all the training you will have. In the future you will be trained in Karate, Tai Kwon Do and Taichi. This means the art of the true way. Because in the future we may have to fight against the Communists, in that case we should not be defeated -- we should not be killed. So, we will be trained in self-defense. This is just the initial stages of training. If you say that this is difficult, then you cannot be future leaders. So to become an international trainee you should be superior to any leaders. So, whenever you finish training, then you have to be qualified as a good leader and you have to set up a good tradition. You did not have the tradition so far. We do not have any tradition to be transferred to generation to generation. So we will establish this tradition through the International Training Session.

Q. What do you expect of the women?

A. For the time being a woman can be a State Representative or Center Director. Because Eve fell, therefore, women must work as pioneers. Women are much batter in pioneering new centers, is it true? (Yes.) How about men? It is true about the women, even in Korea and Japan. You have to be frank. Woman is better than man. Every state should have four centers and more -- maybe 10 centers. We have to make as many states as possible, in that case we have to have many women. Also some State Representatives will be transferred to Center Directors or some other field, but don't be discouraged, because that might, be better for you. in that case if you go out as Center Directors and make good results, then you can be assigned as State Representatives, so don't be disappointed. You cannot complain about anything. If we go by this system then no one can complain about a personal transfer or assignment.

Since our Master came he made many changes in our church system. If this dogs not bring batter results, then you can complain. If you make complaints even when we make better results, then you are, Satan. That is just for the sake of object against our system and our movement. So, if you find such men among old members, all members, then you have to fight against them. They cannot be forgiven. Even if an old member, such as David Kim, makes such a complaint, then he will be removed from his position. You have to understand this. So, you have to clear away all your old concepts. Also, Master does not do anything which is inferior to the things that are done by missionaries. Master is confident, and because of this he is making the change. Do you understand me? I think you understand now. That is the cycle of training. Always you have to think that you have to finish this course within 40 days.

Also, when a young man does not have any fear for living, then he is a very strong man. When new member comes in our church then they have to go through 7 days fasting. This is to give confidence. You have to have it continuously not divided 3 and 4 days. Those who are over 60 years can divide their fast into two times. Those who did not fast for 7 days raise hands please. Those who did not go through must go through and finish. To become a leader you have to go through many difficulties. You may encounter many difficulties and to over come those things. You must be well trained. You have to have confidence that you can go and work without eating for 7 days. Without such confidence and power you cannot defeat Satan, who has caused such trouble for thousands of years. Whenever you encounter great, difficulties, you have to have in mind that you must go beyond this, go over this. In that case God will help you. When you complain then you cannot be given a higher mission than the one you are complaining about. During this 40-day period, you have to study hard, and have to make better scores so that you can pass the test. For study you can find study time in your house. We cannot give you special time as you want for study. Isn't it true? You have to study all the time. Without knowledge, without good background, you cannot become a good leader.

This summer 120 graduate students will come from Oxford and Cambridge University in England. In that case we may need $580 to $700 per person to bring them here. We will spend $70,000 to bring them. Our goal is to make at least one half of them our members. After they go back they will become high ranking officials and dignitaries in England. So it is very important to make them understand our Divine Principle and make them our members. If we do this, it will be advertised and transmitted to many people. During this session we will invite many permanent professors from Harvard and Columbia University. If this happens, then maybe American Students will want to have a training session. By doing this, also we want. to send you out. When those people come in then they can replace you and you can go to universities and study. Our members, our leaders should be qualified in every way -- knowledge, etc.

Some of you may be thinking that you are not making real advancements. Don't think that way. After ten years you will be much more highly advanced than other people in the society today. In Korea such things are already happening. So you must be thinking of buying a university, and there we will send our members and let them have training, in that case we can use university graduates for Center Directors. By this we want to change all out Center Directors. If you make, good results here, then you can be good international leaders. We have now mobile teams in every country, so in the future we can have international mobile teams. You have to be world famous orators and speakers. We can also mobilize The Little Angels, and they can perform. And also we will make a good orchestra and choir. So we want to buy good pianos. We will buy many musical instruments -- we will buy the best ones.

If all those Europeans make good results, then they will be assigned to New York Center. We will make international center. We will set days for each nation, and set day of Israel and then invite all the Jewish people and they can have special program. Also, German day than all German members will be mobilized and invite all German Americans. Also, we will have cultural night and have a special German program. If we have many such groups of different nationalities, then we can invite all the New York citizens and in Central Park have special performance. It will be good material for mass communication. Last Parents Day we had a musical contest and this is just the initial stage. When we have 40 members for each mobile team, in that case we will train all 40 members as one choir. Whenever they go and visit one town or city, then they invite all the people there and they perform singing, etc. After their performance then we will also sell our books and invite them to our lectures.

Within our church, you can develop faster than your friends in the world. When you become older than 50, then you will be the presidents of companies and business firms, not just Center Directors. In that case you will be qualified in many ways and therefore you can lead your subordinates very well. In the established churches, ministers become older than 60 and they have no place to go, but in our case this is different. Master is preparing for that too. You never think about that. You are not losing anything by coming into our Church. If you follow Master's instruction, then you are sure to become world level leaders. Do you think Master is qualified to do that? (Yes!) It is not only words, but he will actualize it. By June 1, you have to make 400 members for the mobile team. By the end of next year we have to make 2,000 members for the mobile teams. If you have strong confidence that you can do this, then it will be done. If you have no confidence, then you cannot make it to come. Even though you have confidence, there are many things you cannot accomplish, so how can you do without confidence. So, first you have to have confidence. Also you have to have confidence that God must help me.

Now I heard many things; and also in New York Center one girl came and received revelation from heaven about Master and about our Church. In the future, there will be many things like this. If you think you are working alone, then God cannot help you. You have to think you are working with God, then he can help, and you have to think God is my subject. When you have this confidence, then God wants to work with you. When you encounter difficulties you have to think not only I, but God is facing these difficulties Himself. God cannot help you because there is a condition that you have to make. Wherever you go, whatever difficulties you encounter, you have to always think that you are the object of God and you are working with Him and then He will help you. So. if you think God is going through more difficulties then I must suffer more. If you go with this spirit, then God will help you with everything.

For you to get cooperation from God. you have to always think that you are doing this for God and also that God is doing more than you. So, you have to comfort God and go through difficulties.

A rubber band has elasticity, and if you stretch too much then it wouldn't come back to original state. In our case it must not be that, however hard we are stretched, we must come back to original state. When man has such spirit, then man will not lose anything and God will help him. When Master is praying he prays as if he is turning the globe upside down and within 5 minutes he perspires. You have to pray with strength. Prayer is the hardest fight. When Jesus prayed at the Mount of Gethsemane, the Bible says he shed sweat and blood. Do you know the necessity of prayer? Did you experience any results by your prayer? You have to have such an experience too. You have to have confidence that whatever you pray to God will come. What you prayed about you should not be doubtful about. If you believe that anything will be realized as Master directs you, then everything will be so. Don't make your range short -- maybe for 10 or 100 years you have to have a long range plan. We are not working for 3 or 4 years in the future. We are working to establish a 10 billion year tradition. Therefore you have to have that kind of long range mind. God wants such people and wants to establish such a tradition. So, I ask you to have strong confidence.

President Kim is having the greatest responsibility. This is the second session. So, President Kim must establish the tradition. I think maybe this training session should be gone through a third time. The reason why I brought Mr. Furuta is to take over this plan, because Kim must go back to Korea. Then Mr. Lee will come here. After this, then all Americans must take over. Also, all the best men out of State Representatives and leaders will come here and take over. There are many people who think I am the oldest member, therefore I should be able to do this. That is not so. Sometimes new blood is more important than an old branch. If you become a branch which can bear good buds, then you will have good value. In that case the old branch can remain.

There were several Korean missionaries. If their work continues, then they can finish. Old members do not count as much. This is fair way of development. So no one can complain against us. Also, you are already on the field of international competition. Those who were trained here, if you are defeated in the field, you are ruining Master's face. You have to keep up Master's word and Master's face. So far, Master was proud of Korea and Japan, but he also wants to be proud of American members. If you do a better job than Japanese members, then he will send them home.

Because you are not doing that much and also because you do not have that many members, you have to be resolved to make better accomplishment. Do you understand that? Then you have to do it.

Before sending out new trainees, he will listen to their lectures. In business, when you want to make interest, you have to invest capital. In spiritual work, if you do not invest anything then the result cannot have any relationship to you. Witnessing is also delivering. Master knows that if you are to make other man more than your children, then you have to pay three times more than you pray to your own children. Whenever you bring new members, then you have to take responsibility for them. If a man wants to go out, if you want to bring him back, then you have to give him a strong explosive experience. Also when you are on the platform, don't think you are alone. Then you are putting your body deep into the earth, just like you are put as a nail from heaven. You have to have the confidence that nobody can move you away from this place. When you are fighting for you to be winner, you have to be stronger than your counterpart. So you have to have the spiritual power to overcome your enemy. When you give a lecture sometimes you have to experience that your clothes are wet with your sweat or you shed tears. Sometimes you have to be resolved to become a sacrifice on this platform. With this determination if you give lectures then all the listeners will be moved. There must be a man of motivation If you give words without power it becomes like a record player, and you cannot give life. You have to store your energy. You also have to pray.

Also, at Belvedere you have to experience many things. At night you can look at the moon -- the stars and daytime at the sun you have to have various experiences. Now you have to study well and not to come back again. Do you have confidence? (Yes!) Now you know, originally Master wanted to make the schedule, but if we made this, then Master cannot have time to speak. So. we'll have special program too. Sometimes you have to ask Mr. Kim to proceed quickly. Then you have extra time. If you can have spare time, then Master can come and speak. So, you have to finish quickly. For 120 days the tradition will be set up, he thinks. Are there any other questions?

We have 50 states, and within 120 days all the State Representatives can be changed. That means that we finish three times, then all State Representatives can have training,

Q. When we succeed and don't, come back here again, will you come here and visit us?

A. Master wanted to visit other centers, but he did not have time to. He was busy meeting many senators to mobilize many spirit men. Did he tell you that he is mobilizing? To get the cooperation of spirit men, we have to make a condition on earth. Senators represent their states, so if they surrender, then by that condition their ancestors can cooperate. So, when Jesus came he had the cooperation of his government officials and also from Judaism from both sides. Same thing. Now Master is working to have cooperation of government officials and then next is church leaders. When this circuit is made between the government and churches, then the spirit world can work. This is because Cain and Abel come together on that condition. This is caused by Master and therefore Master, Abel and Cain are three stages horizontally. By this, the Old Testament Age spirit man and the New Testament spirit man become the Completed Testament Age spirit man.

This is the most important problem Master is facing now. His major aim is not visiting senators. If the government officials and church leaders object to our movement, then we have to come from persecution. Also this year he is planning to have a revival meeting. Maybe for 7 months. By this we have to link horizontally all the government officials and important people by our movement. When senators are linked with our Master, the Center Directors and senators will be close. If the top level leaders are united with Master, then all the people will be united with our church. Because of this work, Master needs much money. Also Master needs many good looking girls -- 300. He will assign three girls to one senator -- that means we need 300. Let them have a good relationship with them. One is for the election, one is to be the diplomat, one is for the party. If our girls are superior to senators in many ways, then they will just be taken by our members. So Master thinks he has to meet more than 60 senators. Up to last time he met nearly 28 senators. In that area he is very busy. Even though he wants to visit rural centers, he cannot spare time for that. When Master goes to your center, he will probably hold meetings up until 3:00 a.m., because he does not have time to rest. Also I don't think you have many members.. So, even though he cannot visit, he has more urgent problems. Also he must visit other countries, too. He thinks it is more important to visit European countries; better to have relationship between subject and object. To have good relationship with other countries is more important than visiting your countryside. In 1965 he visited 40 states. He made all conditions. In the future Master will not have much time to speak to you. He will have many things to do. So, this is the best time.

Our lecture will be held two hours in morning, two hours in afternoon and two hours at night. So you have to hear 6 hours in one day. More State Representatives will come and 20 members will be assigned.

Q. Should we put more emotion than intellect into our lectures,

A. First you just understand, and then combine knowledge with heart.

First you must understand. Always you have to think we have to experience what Master experienced when he first taught the Principle. So. whenever you do anything you have to have heart and purpose. When you go out to sell candles, you have to think you are doing this to sell, but also to feel God's heart. You are doing things to restore sacrifices to God's side. You think that you are contributing that money to heaven. Your body represents New Testament Age, and Old Testament and New Testament are combined in your work -- that is, Cain and Abel. Uniting Cain and Abel together centering in your heart, you are devoting this to Master.

So, during this period of time, you have to devote all your heart. During this 40 day period you study harder than any other time. So whenever you feel sleepy you have to wake yourself up. Those who did not fall asleep while you were listening to lectures, who did not doze, raise your hands. You should not doze. When you are listening to lectures then a spirit man -- Frenchman, Dutchman, etc., may ask you to study harder and also many martyred people are looking for your good work. This is just like a period of offering sacrifice; when you listen to the lecture. I think this is enough for tonight.

Untitled Address On Training Plans

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
May 7, 1973
40-Day Training Session
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

This 100-day training session will be continued throughout the years. Former 100-day trainees and the new trainees will be treated the same. Everything, e.g., studying, eating and attending lectures, should be the same.

Now, I am going to explain the reasons why we are going to have this training session.

The purpose of the training session is to correct all the ways of thinking and ways of operation. As one measure, we started the operation of the mobile teams. This training session is designed also to accomplish that purpose. So, from the top-level directors and leaders, to the bottom-level members, everyone will be trained again. This is the reason why I appointed David Kim and Miss Kim to be commanders of the teams. Elder members were assigned as the commanders of the mobile teams. Also, all the State Representatives and Center Directors should be reformed with the new concepts and ways. Therefore, in the beginning, we put all the Center Directors under the commanders of the mobile teams. So, whenever the mobile teams go to visit a center, the Center Director and all members should work under the direction of the Mobile Commander. By this we wanted to establish a tradition of working together.

Also, there have been many problems. By this time, most members understand that we must go this way. Because members came to understand this, we therefore started this training session. Also, we have many State Representatives-but I don't think they are qualified to lead one state. However, we cannot pull out all the State Representatives, because we do not have representatives to replace them. So, I asked them to send three men from every state to be trained as leadership material. In the beginning, when we started this training session, I told them to give the lectures six times. So, you have to listen to detailed lectures for at least three times. If you do not understand in detail, then when you go out in the field, you will get in trouble because you cannot answer questions. So, if you study and if you listen to detailed lectures, then you can have the material with which to answer. Then, next, each lecture will be taught twice at moderate length. That means half the length of time of previous lectures. Then we have shortened the lectures about one third. If you listen to that many lectures, then you can understand. Then after that, you can make your own lecture outline. It means you can change your contents by different listeners. Then, you should have the Divine Principle test three times. Those who get good scores will be sent out. We will also have a vote. The trainees will select the good people by their votes. With all these things combined, we select those people to be sent out. All the leaders must understand the Divine Principle. So, because many directors did not understand the Divine Principle well, therefore, they have given lectures their own way and caused many troubles and made many people struggle. So, wherever we go, we have to find the same lectures on the Divine Principle. By doing this, if we cannot make good results, they are still not perfect. Also, they have to be the leaders not only of Divine Principle lectures, but also they have to know how to deal with economic problems and other problems of leadership.

Many Center Directors got a job and they work to earn money-and therefore spent only a small time on witnessing. Those who had a job before you came, raise your hands. This is not right. Center Directors should not have a job. When Master came here for the second visit in 1969, he appointed directors to thirty states; but at that time the directors had jobs. Because of that there was no development. So, if you have a job, then God cannot help you. So, Master wanted to change this.

So, to solve this problem, Master wanted to teach you to earn money in a short period of time. So, Master brought Japanese members-and through them he wanted to teach you how to earn money. So, Japanese brothers cannot speak good English, but they are earning money. Therefore, you should be able to earn more money than Japanese brothers. Every day they are earning $70 to $ 100, and some more than that. If you earn $ 100 then you can live for one month. So, this means that if you work for seven days in one month, then you can make money to support a center for one month. Also, you don't have to be confined to anything-you can work when you want. By doing this, we can solve the problem of being bound by economic matters-by candle selling and flower selling. Flower selling should be learned by everyone. The reason for this is that when someone buys flowers they cannot last for more than seven days, so you can sell to them again. But candles can last several months; if they don't bum it they use it for a decoration, and therefore we cannot sell them anymore. So, flower selling is the most important and most secret weapon for us. Even when you do not have any money, if you go to a florist and you work for one hour, then you can borrow three flowers. Then you can sell that and with that money you can continue your flower selling, and by this you can earn enough money.

The second purpose of this training session is to make you such a man that you are confident in making money. Thirdly, is to train you in public relations-activities of public relations. You have to be trained in contacting many people-lower class, middle class, and government officials. If you are not trained in this field, when you go out for the first time in centers, you will not have any confidence to meet high-ranking and government officials. New York is the largest and most famous city in the world; that is the reason why we are having the training session here. The people in New York City are very high culturally, intellectually, and in many other ways. So, when you go out and you say you are trained in New York City, then people cannot look down on you. Every week they are having a Rally for God in New York City. So, after you are trained in selling candles and flowers, you will go out to New York City and there you will train. When the New York Center director finds that you are qualified to be sent out to the field, then you will be assigned. So, before you are assigned as a Center Director or any position of responsibility, you have to be confident enough to witness and bring in at least one man per month. This is the problem the training session will deal with at this time.

If we are to go through these processes, it will take 1.00 days. Also, European members will go through the same training. Also, whenever we send out twenty members, we have to have more than twenty members to replace them. So, this is the reason why we brought thirty members here. So, we should have from eighty to one hundred members here all the time. When we finish this training session three times through, then we will have finished training for all Center Directors. Then all the Center Directors will practice the same method in their own centers. Also, when a new member comes and the Center Director recommends him to be trained here, then he will come here and also be trained. So, as training goes on and many new trainees finish training, they will go out into the field. We have several State representatives here, but they cannot go back to their own states. So, you have to have knowledge, power and also accomplishments. Also some states are vacant; therefore, among the trainees, we will assign. When a State Representative cannot earn one member per month over a period of six months, and we cannot find any results, then we will call him again. Then he'll be trained here, and another man will go out to the state. In that case, we will also keep statistics of your accomplishments. So, this will continue for one or two years. If those who are sent as State Representatives do not produce good results, then they will also be called in. The new trainees who go out will compete with the old State Representatives. The State Representative can come here for at least three times. That means that he can come back and go out three times. Even with that training, if he cannot make good results, then he will be transferred to another field-to business or another department. By doing this, all the Center Directors and State Representatives will stand on the same standard. If, during this training session, you are not well-trained and you are not qualified and do not get a good knowledge of the Divine Principle, then you will have to come back again until you get these things.

So, this means that all the front-line leaders must work hard and must not be defeated by the new trainees. By this competition we can elevate all our old standards. Also, this system will be applied in Japan and also in Europe. Until this time we didn't practice this system because we did not have enough members. Actually, we should have three times more Center Directors than we have now. But from now on, we will practice this system throughout the world. Do you understand? If you have any questions concerning this system, ask now. What do you think if we do it in this way'? Now we can get Divine Principle knowledge, solve the economic problem-and also contact people. After this, we will also select good leaders and give them Victory Over Communism and Unification Thought training. By getting this, directors and leaders will become more and more qualified. Whether you are in the first or second group does not matter. What matters is your power, your strength, your qualification. Even though you can give a good lecture, but do not produce good results, then you cannot get results. You always have to remember your strengths and your accomplishments.

Will the 40-day, training session become 100 days?

The training will consist of 40 days of training in Divine Principle, then selling, and then witnessing at the New York Center. You have to actually bring members into the New York Center. Here you are trained in everything which you will encounter when you go out. If it takes you two weeks of candle selling and two weeks of flower selling, then that makes one month-and then another month in New York Center makes 100 days. So, the study period is 40 days.

You also must have lecture practice. Before you finish you have to give a lecture here and everyone will criticize you. Whenever new trainees go out, whether or not they produce good results will also be evaluated. This means that all Center Directors and State Representatives must come and go through this training session. Whenever they come here, if they pass the test after the two weeks, then they can go to the next stage of training; then, in that way, maybe in 40 days they can finish everything.

Will we receive physical training.?

Physical training, too. Master may have you run across the George Washington Bridge and back. However, because we do not have much time, from now on you can make the plans. Sunday we had many programs, and that is also part of the training. Yesterday, after three games of pulling, the defeated one became the horse and the winner rode him. Master told them that they should not put their feet on the ground; some did not touch their feet but changed anyway. But sympathy should not be given at that time. Because he did not explain it all to you, then he did not punish those who did that. But you must go by the rules. Even though America is a free country, if you violate laws, then you will be caught and punished. You cannot do anything just as you want.

We started this training system here. In the future, all the leaders will be brought to Korea, and there we will have international training. At that time, we will go through difficult training. If you are not willing to go through difficult training, then America will be the last. This is not all the training you will have. In the future you will be trained in karate, Tae Kwon Do and Taichi. This means the "Art of the True Way. " Because, in the future, we may have to fight against the Communists; in that case, we should not be defeated, we should not be killed. So, we will be trained in self-defense - This is just the initial stage of training. If you say that this is difficult then you cannot be future leaders. So, to become an international trainee, you should be superior to any other leaders. So, whenever you finish training, then you have to be qualified as a good leader, and you have to set up a good tradition. You have not had the tradition so far. We do not have any tradition to be transferred from generation to generation. So, we will establish this tradition through the International Training Session.

What do you expect of the women?

For the time being, a woman can be a State Representative or Center Director. Because Eve fell, women must work as pioneers. Women are much better at pioneering new centers. Is it true? (No.) How about men? It is true about the women, even in Korea and Japan. You have to be frank. Woman is better than man. Every state should have four centers or more-maybe ten centers. We have to cover as many states as possible; in that case, we have to have many women. Also, some State Representatives will be transferred to Center Directors or some other field -but don't be discouraged, because that might be better for you. In that case, if you go out as Center Directors and produce good results, then you can be assigned as State Representatives-so don't be disappointed. You cannot complain about anything. If we go by this system, then no one can complain against personal transfer or assignment.

Since our Master came he has made many changes in our church system. If this does not bring better results, then you can complain. If you complain even when we produce better results, then you are Satan. That is just for the sake of objecting against our system and our movement. So, if you find such men among old people, old members, then you have to fight against them. They cannot be forgiven. Even if an old member such as David Kim makes such a complaint, then he will be removed from his position. You have to understand this. So, you have to clear away all your old concepts - Also, Master does not do anything which is inferior to the things that are done by missionaries. Master is confident, and because of this he is making the changes. Do you understand me? I think you understand now. That is the cycle of training. Always you have to think that you have to finish this course within forty days.

Also, when a young man does not have any fear of living, then he is a very strong man. When a new member comes into our church, he has to go through seven days of fasting. This is to give him confidence. You have to have it continuously, not divided three and four days. Those who are over sixty years can divide their fast into two times. Those who did not fast for seven days, raise your hands please. Those who did not go through must go through and finish. To become a leader you have to go through many difficulties. You may encounter many difficulties, and to overcome those things you must be well trained. You have to have the confidence that you can go through and work without eating for seven days. Without such confidence and power you cannot defeat Satan, who has caused such trouble for thousands of years. Whenever you encounter great difficulties, you have to have in mind that you must go beyond this, go over this. In that case, God will help you. When you complain, then you cannot be given a higher mission than the one you are complaining about. During this forty-day period, you have to study hard, and have to make better scores so that you can pass the test. For study you can find study time in your house. We cannot give you special time as you want for study. Isn't is true'? You have to study all the time. Without knowledge, without a good background, you cannot become a good leader.

This summer, 120 graduate students will come from Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. In that case, we may need $500 to $700 per person to bring them here. We will spend $70,000.00 to bring them. Our goal is to make at least one half of them our members. After they go back, they will become high-ranking officials and dignitaries in England. So it is very important to make them understand our Divine Principle and make them our members. If we do this, it will be advertised and transmitted to many people. During this session we will invite many permanent professors from Harvard and Columbia Universities. If this happens, then maybe American students will want to have a training session. By doing this, we also want to send you out. When those people come in, they can replace you, and you can go to universities and study. Our members, our leaders, should be qualified in every way -- knowledge, etc.

Some of you may be thinking that you are not making any real advancement. Don't think that way. After ten years you will be much more highly advanced than other people in today's society. In Korea such things are already happening. So you must be thinking of buying a university, and there we will send out members and let them have training. In that case, we can use university graduates for Center Directors. By this we want to change all our Center Directors. If you produce good results here, then you can be good international leaders. We have now mobile teams in every country; so in the future, we can have international mobile teams. You have to be world-famous orators and speakers. We can also mobilize the Little Angels, and they can perform. And also we will make a good orchestra and choir. So we want to buy good pianos. We will buy many musical instruments-we will buy the best ones.

If all those Europeans bring good results, then they will be assigned to the New York Center. We will make it an international center. We will set days for each nation; set a day of Israeli, and then invite all the Jewish people, and they can have a special program. Also, German day, when all German members will be mobilized, and invite all German Americans. Also, we will have cultural night, and have a special German program. If we have many such groups of different nationalities, then we can invite all the New York citizens and in Central Park have a special performance. It will be good material for mass communication. Last Parents' Day we had a musical contest, and this is just the initial stage. When we have forty members for each mobile team, in that case, we will train all forty members as one choir. Whenever they go and visit one town or city, then they invite all the people there and they perform singing, etc. After their performance, we will also sell our books and invite them to our lectures.

Within our church, you can develop faster than your friends in the world. When you become older than fifty, then you will be the presidents of companies and business firms, not just Center Directors. In that case, you will be qualified in many ways, and therefore you can lead your subordinates very well. In the established churches, ministers become older than sixty and they have no place to go, but in our case this is different. Master is preparing for that, too. You never think about that. You are not losing anything by coming into our church. If you follow Master's instruction, then you are sure to become world-level leaders. Do you think Master is qualified to do that? (Yes!) It is not only words, but he will actualize it. By June we have to have 400 members for the mobile teams. By the end of next year we have to have 2,000 members for the mobile teams. If you have strong confidence that you can do this, then it will be done. If you have no confidence, then you cannot make it happen. Even though you have confidence, there are many things you cannot accomplish-so how can you do anything without confidence? So, first you have to have confidence. Also you have to have confidence that God must hell me.

Now I heard many things-and also, in New York Center, one girl came and received a revelation from heaven about Master and about our church. In the future, there will be many things like this. If you think you are working alone, then God cannot help you. You have to think you are working with God; then He can help, and you have to think God is my subject. When you have this confidence, then God wants to work with you. When you encounter difficulties you have to think not only 1, but God also is facing these difficulties Himself. God cannot help you because there is a condition that you have to make. Wherever you go, whatever difficulties you encounter, you have always to think that you are the object of God and you are working with Him and then He will help you. So, if you think God is going through more difficulties, then you must suffer more. If you go with this spirit, then God will help you with everything. For you to get cooperation from God, you have to think always that you are doing this for God, and that God is doing more than you. So, you have to comfort God and go through difficulties.

A rubber band has elasticity; if you stretch it too much, then it won't come back to its original state. In our case, it must not be like that-however hard we stretch, we must come back to the original state. When man has such spirit, then man will not lose anything and God will help him. When Master is praying, he prays as if he is turning the globe upside down and within five minutes he perspires. You have to pray with strength. Prayer is the hardest fight. When Jesus prayed at the Mount of Gethsemane, the Bible says he shed sweat and blood. Do you know the necessity of prayer? Did you experience any results from your prayer. You have to have such an experience, too. You have to have confidence that for whatever you pray to God, will come. What you prayed about, you should not be doubtful about. If you believe that anything will be realized as Master directs you, then everything will be so. Don't make your range short-you have to have a long-range plan maybe for ten or one hundred years. We are not working for three or four years in the future. We are working to establish a ten-billion- year tradition. Therefore, you have to have that kind of long-range mind. God wants such people and wants to establish such a tradition. So, I ask you to have strong confidence.

President Kim is having the greatest responsibility. This is the second session. So President Kim must establish the tradition. I think maybe this training session should be gone through a third time. The reason why I brought Mr. Furuta is to take over this plan, because Mr. Kim must go back to Korea. Then Mr. Lee will come here. After this, then all Americans must take over. Also, all the best men out of the State Representatives and leaders will come here and take over. There are many people who think I am the oldest member; therefore, I should be able to do this. That is not so. Sometimes new blood is more important than an old branch. If you become a branch which can bear good buds, then you will have good value. In that case the old branch can remain.

There were several Korean missionaries. If their work continues, then they can finish. Old members do not count as much. This is a fair way of development. So no one can complain against us. Also, you are already on the field of international competition. Those who were trained here, if you are defeated in the field, you are ruining Master's reputation. You have to keep up Master's word and Master's reputation. So far, Master has been proud of Korea and Japan, but he also wants to be proud of American members. If you do a better job than the Japanese members, then he will send -them home.

Because you are not doing that much, and because you do not have that many members, you have to be resolved to make greater accomplishments. Do you understand that? Then you have to do it! Before sending out new trainees, he will listen to their lectures. In business, when you want to make interest, you have to invest capital. In spiritual work, if you do not invest anything, then the result cannot have any relationship to you. Witnessing is also delivering. Master knows that if you are to make other men more than your children, then you have to pay three times more than you pay to your own children. Whenever you bring new members, then you have to take responsibility for them. If a man wants to go out, if you want to bring him back, then you have to give him a strong explosive experience. Also when you are on the platform, don't think you are alone. Then you are putting your body deep into the earth, just like you are put as a nail from heaven. You have to have the confidence that nobody can move you away from this place. When you are fighting to be the winner, you have to be stronger than your counterpart. So you have to have the spiritual power to overcome your enemy. When you give a lecture, sometimes you have to experience that your clothes are wet with your sweat or you shed tears. Sometimes you have to be resolved to become a sacrifice on this platform. With this determination, if you give lectures, then all the listeners will be moved. You must be a man of motivation. If you give words without power, it becomes like a record player, and you cannot give life. You have to store your energy. You also have to pray.

Also, at Belvedere, you have to experience many things. At night you can look at the moon and stars and daytime at the sun-you have to have various experiences. Now you have to study well and not come back again. Do you have confidence? (Yes!) Now, you know, originally Master wanted to make a time schedule, but if we made this, then Master would not have time to speak. So, we'll have a special program, too. Sometimes you have to ask Mr. Kim to proceed quickly. Then you will have extra time. If you can have spare time, then Master can come and speak. So, you have to finish quickly. For 120 days the tradition will be set up, he thinks. Are there any other questions?

We have fifty states, and within 120 days all the State Representatives can be changed. That means that we finish three times, then all State Representatives can have training.

When we succeed and don't come back here again, will you come here and visit us?

Master wanted to visit other centers but he did not have time to. He was busy meeting many senators, to mobilize many spirit men. Did he tell you that he is mobilizing? To get the cooperation of spirit men, we have to make a condition on earth. Senators represent their states; so if they surrender, then by that condition, their ancestors can cooperate. So, when Jesus came he had to have the cooperation of government officials, and also from Judaism, from both sides. Same thing. At the present time, we have the same situation. Now Master is working to obtain the cooperation of government officials-and then, church leaders. When this circuit is completed between the government and churches, then the spirit world can work. This is because Cain and Abel come together on that condition. This is caused by Master; therefore, Master, Abel and Cain are three stages, horizontally. By this, the Old Testament Age spirit man and the New Testament Age spirit-man become the Completed Testament Age spirit-man.

This is the most important problem Master is facing now. His major aim is not visiting senators. If the government officials and church leaders object to our movement, then we have to come under persecution. Also, this year, he is planning to have a revival meeting, maybe for seven months. By this we have to link horizontally all the government officials and important people, through our movement. When senators are linked with our Master, the Center Directors and senators will be close. If the top-level leaders are united with Master, then all the people will be united with our church. Because of this work, Master needs much money. Also, Master needs many good looking girls -- 300. He will assign three girls to one senator-that means we need 300. Let them have a good relationship with them. One is for the election, one is to be the diplomat, one is for the party. If our girls are superior to the senators in many ways, then the senators will Just be taken by our members. So Master thinks he has to meet more than sixty senators. Up to last time he met nearly twenty-eight senators. In that area he is very busy. Even though he wants to visit rural centers, he cannot spare time for that. When Master goes to your center, he will probably hold meetings up until 3:00 a.m., because he does not have time to rest. Also, I don't think you have many members. So, even though he cannot visit, he has more urgent problems - Also he must visit other counties, too. He thinks it is more important to visit European countries; better to have a relationship between subject and object. To have a good relationship with other countries is more important than visiting your countryside. In 1965 he visited 40 states. He made all the conditions. In the future, Master will not have much time to speak to you. He will have many things to do. So, this is the best time.

Our lectures will be held two hours in the morning, two hours in the afternoon and two hours at night. So you have to listen six hours in one day. More State Representatives will come, and twenty members will be assigned..

Should we put more emotion than intellect into our lectures?

First, you just understand, and then combine knowledge with heart.

First you must understand. Always you have to think we have to experience what Master experienced when he first taught the Principle. So, whenever you do anything you have to have both heart and purpose. When you go out to sell candles, you have to think you are doing this to sell, but also to feel God's heart. You are doing things to restore sacrifices to God's side. You must think that you are contributing that money to heaven. Your body represents the New Testament Age, and the Old Testament and New Testament are combined in your work-that is, Cain and Abel. Uniting Cain and Abel together, centering oil your heart, you are devoting this to Master.

So during this period of time, you have to devote all Your heart. During this forty-day period you study harder than any other time. So whenever you feel sleepy you have to wake yourself up. Those who did not fall asleep while you were listening to lectures, who did not doze, raise your hands. You should not doze. When you are listening, to lectures then a spirit-man-a Frenchman, Dutchman, etc.-may ask you to study harder. Also many martyred people are looking for your good work. This is Just like a period of offering sacrifice, when you listen to the lectures. I think this is enough for tonight.