How God Exists

Sun Myung Moon
April 4, 1972
Unification Church of Paris, France

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In the universe, for everything to exist, there must be power, or energy, or force. In order to have power or energy, there must be action. Without action, there is no energy generated.

In order to do an action, there must be an object. Without an object, no action can take place. Without having an object, no action can be possible, and action can never occur. If you talk without having any object which listens, then you are quite abnormal. Even God, if He talks, laughs and does things without having an object, then He is quite abnormal. Also, no actions occur without being preceded by purpose. In order to have action, purpose must precede. Many of you walk early in the morning to come here, and when you do that, you have a purpose in your mind. If you knew that you were going to lose something, then the action would never really materialize, you would never move for any further action. Action is always done between two elements, subject and object, by having a reciprocal relationship between the two. And there is a preceding purpose, a common purpose of the two.

Every day, in the streets here, there are multitudes of people walking and passing by, and none of those people are there without any purpose or are there to lose something. Between two people, this principle works in the same way; if they feel that they are not gaining anything, then two people never give and take and talk in conversation. Initially, they may start some give and take action, but they discover that they are not gaining anything, and the conversation will decrease and end. The marriage between man and woman works on the same principle.

If they felt that they would lose by the marriage, they would not go through with it. To unite between subject and object, there must be a guarantee of the convergence of common purpose; in other words, there must be a guarantee of common purpose of good or benefit; and also that good or benefit must be a fasting one, not just temporary. If things decrease through give and take action, instead of increasing, then this whole universe cannot exist, and cannot be created to begin with. There was always a greater purpose when there was give and take action; therefore, through give and take action, things increase. Then through additional, further give and take action, things increase further, and thus productivity occurs. In a chemical laboratory at school, there were and there are many chemical elements, and no matter how you thought certain elements to unite, they do not unless they establish give and take action. You cannot force them to give and take. Because they know that they lose by uniting between them, they do not. Therefore, they cannot form a subject and object relationship. Elements always unite when they have a preceding, lasting purpose, an unchanging purpose.

Atoms, even one single atom, has an electron and a neutron, the electron going around the neutron in a give and take relationship. When they have a complete relationship, in other words, a perfected give and take, then there is a complete, eternal purpose there, and the action lasts eternally.

Perfected plus (+) and perfected minus (-) are preceded by the perfected purpose. Therefore, give and take action is eternal.

If you recognize this theory, then the theory of evolution becomes meaningless. The Communist theory of dialectic materialism also becomes meaningless. To make evolution occur, two things are absolutely necessary. One: the purpose must precede, must come first. Second: greater energy must be added to it, so as to push it into higher creation. No action occurs all by itself, and no action occurs without having a relationship between subject and object. Since primitive elements, the very primitive creation, cannot have its own purpose, it cannot imagine its higher being.

Also it cannot regenerate, it has no power to generate the energy to achieve its higher purpose. If there is give and take relationship between subject and object, it is up to a certain goal, a certain purpose; in other words, it started from its goal and purpose. Then the give and take action only thrusts it to reach that goal and cannot move any further without having any further action.

Do you have the characteristic to like everything? No, you do not. You have certain, specific characteristics. Certain things fit into your character and your talents. Then, you want to do these things more and further develop them. You like them so much that you keep doing them.

Dialectic Materialism, which opposes two elements by fighting between them and creating a new creation, is utterly not true; it is a false theory. Between two conflicting elements fighting each other, do you think you can expect that a new, higher, greater production is feasible? It may fit, owing to the history of fallen man -- the history of war -- that the stronger always takes the weaker by force. But even in war, the person who waged the war is expecting a greater purpose to be profited by that war. There is no one who wages a war to be destroyed.

Instead war divided the world into pieces to be destroyed. War occurs because the war-maker is in a plus position, subject position, while his opponent is also in an opposed plus position, and between the two pluses, give and take cannot occur; one must be minus; therefore, by force it destroys its opponent. This is war. If there are two subjects, then between the two subjects, there is always a conflict; a war occurs. If there are two subjects and one object, then two subjects are always fighting for that one object. Therefore, in the principle of the universe, one subject always takes one object, not two. There are so many males and females, but in the universal principle, there is always one perfected subject and object that are to be united. In the inner world, population is divided into two great camps: male and female, but the balance in numbers between male and female is always level so that history can go on without great imbalance. Sometimes, the female population is more than the male population. Sometimes, the male population becomes greater.

Yet in the overall picture, the balance is kept. Being a female, have you ever worried about what to do if there is no male? We automatically are not concerned with such things.

Being a female, were you born for you yourself or for others? For one subject. Therefore, you are born for man.

We have to change the total concept of life. Love is not yours. You are for others, in other words, you are for your subject or your object. Otherwise, love, this precious thing in life, never materializes. Is love yours? Without an object, love cannot maintain itself. If somebody claims that love is his, then he is a thief of love. The definition of thief is someone that gets other ownership, other people, and things that belong to other people, taking them by force and using them as his own. But if he consults with others before he takes any property, he is no longer a thief.

When all things were created, they were created for object or a subject; therefore, there must be a purpose between the subject and object. Do you think this logic is convincing to you?

Everything has a subject and object relationship, and a reciprocal relationship. Every function in the human body cannot occur without having give and take action between two elements, without a reciprocal relationship. For example, a cell cannot increase itself and maintain its life unless it has a subject and object and a give and take relationship. All heavenly bodies are in motion, and they are in motion to search out their object, and maintain the proper give and take action between subject and object. In man, the mind is in a position of subject, and body is in a position of object. Perfected man is supposed to be united between mind and body, so that they have perfect give and take.

Then man becomes a perfected man; however, because of the fall of man, the physical body was infiltrated, taken by Satan, and became another plus, therefore, two pluses repel each other instead of uniting. In a relationship between subject and object, when they are on an equal level, they would not have give and take, but, as soon as the subject becomes superior and a minus is formed, then immediately, give and take action occurs. However, in this universe, this plus and minus is always united into one, and plus and plus repel each other, but this principle does not work with Satan. Satan, being a subject, repels even minus which is an object because this cosmos is created by God, and God is the absolute Subject, so that all elements as object must have give and take with God. But Satan was not a rational being, and formed another subject in this cosmos. In God's world, in God's creation, through give and take action, there is more productivity, and more benefit for God, in a higher level, so that each higher value can be achieved. But, on the other hand, if you have more give and take with Satan, then the value decreases further down to the limits of hell. So, the man who does evil does not do it willingly. He is somewhat forced to do the evil thing. Man, because he has ancestors who had an illicit love relationship with Satan, is always fooled by Satan.

But our mind is for the other direction. Because there is God, God through religion, teaches man to deny his physical body, to chastise his body. One method is to deny the physical body and the second method is to reinforce the mind by giving tremendous strength to the mind, to make the human mind much stronger and in balance with the physical body. In other words, in the theory of electricity, if you insert a substance of isolation, then the current cannot flow and give and take cannot occur; therefore, God blocks this evil force, and only allows good give and take action which is give and take of the mind. Christ is coming in the role of this substance that makes the current flow freely, so that the cutoff give and take action can be restored.

If there is the greatest man in this universe, you want to relate with him somehow. As a friend, you are not satisfied; as a relative, you feel a little better, but you want a further closer relationship, ultimately the father-son relationship; if you want to become a son, you will be really happy. Is that true? Why? Because once you become a son of the highest, then everything that belongs to the father is automatically inherited by his son.

If there is a highest, God, don't you want to occupy Him? Don't you want to possess him? Then, since there is only one God, then everyone wants that God, and there must be then great fighting among your selves. Each cell, and the multitude of cells in your body, do they fight each other? No, they do not fight. With life as a main subject, every cell has a vertical relationship with that subject, in a position of object, and give and take action takes place beautifully. While they are doing this, cooperative relationships among other cells exists. When you have a perfect give and take action vertically, subject and object, then automatically, horizontal give and take relationship between subject and object is also perfected there. In other words, a vertical give and take action always brings horizontal give and take action.

Because of this principle, the entire universe is forming circular movement, so everything is circular and round. The earth, and moon, everything is round and of a circular shape. The finger also has a circular shape. The principle of sports is to adjust, to perfect the circular motion into beautiful harmony. When you are exercising, you are utilizing this principle in harmony. By exercising, by the motion of exercise you are thrusting out, pushing out the energy to the extreme end of your physical body, all the way to the end. From here, to the finger to the heart -- give and take action should always be equal. Let the blood circulate very smoothly; this exercise makes the blood circulation fine. In order to wage our principle battle, with college students and intellectual people, it is very good for you to know all these things.

Therefore, Master's method of human health is to utilize this principle of circular motion, and really, in order to maintain health, you do not have to have any drastic sports or drastic exercises. By merely utilizing some method, you can maintain good health, and Master is doing it. You give a stimulation to your skin and stimulation to all the parts of your body and your limbs. Sometimes you take a cold bath and that also gives stimulation. All this makes circulation movement perfect. I do have certain secrets, out of this principle, so that I just do short exercises and revitalize my energy. For other people, it takes ten hours to recover their complete energy, but for me, it may only take three hours to do it. When you are very hungry, and losing your energy, then there is a certain exercise in your stomach area that makes the circulation instantly better. Then you feel completely better. You put all human energy, body energy concentrated on the stomach, then suddenly release it.

Then, all the blood assembles in this part of the body, just like any area, when a vacuum is formed, then air comes in. If there is someone who is studying physical education in college, if you study the theory well, you will become a PhD. I am sure, this principle, circular motion, fits into all the scientific world; today, it is the formula of mathematics. So much for this demonstration.

Now, let us go back to man in relationship to God, who is the highest, and we said we want to possess Him. How would you like to be as God, as Father? When we become a son, and Father, God, has beautiful things, then, do you want to have them? When God is a Father, and you are His son, then the relationship is a vertical one. Father -- son relationship is a vertical one, and we do not like it too much. The son wants to be in father's position. He seems to be very high, so that the son wants to go up there, to be in this position. Then, will Father get really angry, when son wants to be in his position?

No, Father rejoices. Father is more than happy. God as Father is giving the blessing of His own position to His son, to be on an equal level. If there is such a God, would you love Him? Of course, when you are in love, you want to see and frequently meet the other, but real love is not that way. If something is really lovable, really good, then there is always a chance for it to be taken away by somebody else.

Then, where do God and man meet and love each other? Everybody dreams of this happiness of having this value most, of having God as his own. So you want to love God in a place where you can see, but nobody else can see. You want to bring God to that secret place, that hiding place. You do not want to leave God far away up in heaven. You want to bring Him very close. Also, you want to become one with God, one with the loved one, where the place is so deep, so remote, that only you can reach. Where is such a place, where is such a hiding, secret place? Every one of you has one -- that is your mind. Once you bring God to your heart, in your mind, then your body cannot be separated from Him. You are always with Him.

Even among men, between man and woman, when they are in love, the first, very virgin love, then, they just want to give the whole thing. They want to give everything, including life for their love. Then how much more between God and man, which is the highest of all. Just nothing can exceed being one with Him. No value can exceed this love. Then, is our mind that big to contain God? Yes, your mind is big enough to contain God. Is mind visible? Can you see your mind? That means, when you say no, there is no mind? Please raise your hands, those who think that you do not have a mind. Then, when God comes into your mind, can you deny Him, can you say: there is no God? When a child is born, the first thing that a child recognizes is his parents. By the same token, when man is first born on earth, the first thing that man should know is God, and bring Him into his mind.

Even man, in his boyhood, when he goes out to play and comes back home, and he cannot find his mother, he is suddenly so lonesome and cries out, shouting out for mother and father and looking for them. How much more our search for God. If man did not fall, how much more this intimate relationship between God and man would be beautiful and perfect and wonderful. If God would be in visible form, like our bodies, then this poses a great problem. Man today is fighting for a piece of ground and giving his life, between Russia and America, the free world and Communist. If there would be a visible God, I am sure they would be fighting each other to death to have that God on their side. Do you think that the Frenchmen do not want to have God in France? Once you have God here in France, then all the universe and cosmos would become France. I am sure, once you see a visible God, that you would go first, that you would never be behind anybody in the world to go after Him because you are the descendants of Napoleon. So God knew that all problems would occur once He was visible, so He decided to be invisible. So, since God is invisible, He has an invisible object, and that object is our mind. Isn't it logical?

Between invisible God as subject and invisible object, our conscience, there is a constant give and take action that is taking place in each one of you. Between the Creator and creation, His product, there was a common purpose; therefore, the purpose of God and the purpose of man cannot contradict each other. It must be one common goal. So, all men are going after God to occupy Him by love, with love, to become His son, to become one with Him.

Through binding by love, this relationship can go on eternally. Love -- you can use the maximum, most beautiful adjective, and still you have not described love enough. With an eternal life, eternal love, an absolute love, an unchanging love -- you need love, one love, and still, you have not described love enough. The reason we can use such an adjective in the description of love is because it has been made possible for us to reach that state.

Once you become one with God, then everything is fulfilled, since God is the eternal unchanging God, the unique and absolute God. This is why the Bible says that you love your Lord God with all your mind, all your soul and all your heart, and this is the first and greatest commandment. Once you meet such a God and possess Him in this beautiful relationship, once you have tasted love, can you be separated in your heart again? Even love, in heart, in human relationships between men and women, is so extreme, even in this fallen world. So, how much stronger would the perfect loving relationship between God and man be in the unstained, unfallen world. Is there anyone who does not want that? If there is someone who does not want these things, then perfect, complete unification is not possible. However, since everybody wants this state, complete unification is possible with this principle alone, this principle of having God as our Parent and becoming His son, and staying with Him, in other words, being one with Him in love. This theory, this principle alone can make the world one.

We become one with God. Now, then we would see that there is an additional quality, an additional good in God. And then, we would still want to possess that too. When we become one with God, then we see God, and we see that He has the power of creation, the power to create the entire universe. Now we, sons, are one with Him. God created all things of creation, and men; created men. We also want to have that power of creation, and God knows it, and God wants to give it to us. Within God, there is the dual essentiality, plus (+) and minus (-); plus essentiality of God manifested into man, which is plus, and minus going into the minus being, which is woman. Then, this subject, man and object, woman, unite as one. That is called a perfect position of minus which is object to God, God being the subject.

By having this relationship of give and take between God as subject, uniting man and woman as object, the power of creation, God's power, flows into this base which is Adam and Eve. And that would not occur unless man and woman unite in complete, perfected love. Then, when we inherit the power of creation, we have the power to multiply our children; the children are in form of creation. When you have your own children, you feel very great. You feel great accomplishment. God gave us the further joy of creation and when God tasted the joy of creation, when He created Adam and Eve, He wanted everyone, all men, to taste the same joy by multiplying children.

Once we have that value in our possession, then, do you have anything further that you want? Do you have any reason to be dissatisfied? We may think sometimes that man's desire is limitless, however, this is not so. Man's desire and ambition have a limit once we occupy God and God's love. Then all desire is all fulfilled.

What is the destination of our human desire? With God, do you need a temporal or an eternal, everlasting love? So, as I said before, our ultimate destination is to meet God and possess His love. Then, if that is our goal, unless you have tremendous urge and desire to reach that goal, how could we get there? So, God is invisible in nature, therefore, the invisible object within our body, which is our mind, constantly has give and take with God and strives towards that goal to unity. Is our mind working that way? How about 10,000 years ago with the people living in that age? Did they have the same desire or not? Do you think then that our eternal posterity, our generations will have the same desire or not? Who can revolutionize this mind? No personal system, no power of science can break this human desire.

Communists think they can do this. They are out of their minds. They are crazy people. Once they give freedom to these people i:tnd give them the truth, then all of them will go away. So it is the natural nature of man to give and take with God, and they are trying to stop it. Therefore, their agony is greater.

What is that pain they feel? Pain is the warning that they are in the direction of destruction, because, if one true give and take action is cut off, then destruction results. Pain is a warning for that.

When you are ill or in sickness, why do you feel pain? The principle of the cosmos is having subject (+) and object (-) with give and take action between them; eternal existence is there. However, in a certain element, once the minus element disappears, then plus also disappears. Therefore, the principle cannot allow this thing to happen. So, this universal principle rejects any infiltrator from the outside, and this rejecting action appears as a phenomenon of pain. When you get treatment from a doctor or from a hospital, it is to restore the object minus position into a normal condition, then, with the give and take action, relationship between subject and object restored, the pain goes away.

When you become one with a greater subject, a higher subject, you feel tremendous joy. When you are united with a lower subject, then something is lacking, you do not feel good. Why do I feel that? Why do you feel that? Once you are attracted to a higher subject, you are closer to God. Since our human desire, ultimate desire, is to reach God, therefore, with even one step' closer to God, you feel joy. So, once you step closer to God, then you have a better give and take relationship with God, so you must feel joy. When you have give and take with a lower subject, in a lower relationship, then you go away from God, so you feel no happiness. You do not feel good. Everything started with God as the original point, with God as center, plus and minus, and all would have been formed around Him. We did not know where joy came from, where sadness came from, but now, we know already that when we get closer to God, we feel joy. Then, do you need God? This is more than a religious standpoint. Without subject, can your conscience, your mind act?

Also, will the mind go on in give and take action when there is a losing effect, when it loses something? So, there must be a beneficial purpose that gives mutual benefit to both subject and object. That is why our mind is working this way. Our mind is great, therefore, mind has great action. Given a plus and a minus magnet, the magnet forms a give and take relationship in plus (+) and minus (-), which is going on, continually, everlastingly. Once we become one in a perfected fashion, is there any power that can separate God and man?

So, we covered the two principles: action cannot occur unless there is a subject and an object, in a mutual, reciprocal relationship. Also subject and object cannot have give and take action unless there is a preceding, inevitable, beneficial purpose. So, then creation is minus give and take action with the subject. There must be a subject. We cannot deny the existence of a Subject through the action of conscience. When we know that conscience is working, there must be a subject to work with it.

So this is self-explanatory that there is a God, and that there is the mutual, beneficial purpose for God and man, in other words, both God and man are benefited by this goal, this purpose.

So, in logic, can you draw the conclusion that there is a God, or that there is no God? God exists. If you recognize that there is mind, then you cannot deny God.

God is like a railroad. So, God is our ultimate destination, our final terminal, and our mind is the railroad to reach that goal. Now, the locomotive wants to run on that rail to that goal. But something here is pulling back and makes it run back from that goal. Once it is cut off from all hampering effects, then it can run automatically to that goal. That hampering effect is our physical body which belongs to the law of sin, which is Satan.

Satan is pulling through our body. So, in order for us to fulfill our goal and our desire, God has to instruct us to chastise our physical body and strengthen out mind, so that we can have more energy to go to that goal. Our body is tied to the physical world, so we must cut off the tie between our body and physical world, with the physical world and our body. Also, God is teaching that you should do your best in heart and soul and mind in loving God. So, with these two facts together, we cannot deny the existence of God. And if religion does not teach these things, then this is not a fulfilling religion for God.

The Unification Church is a religious movement. In the past, religious life was so difficult and harsh. The more you cut off and chastise your body, there was more temptation. But once in the Unification Church, it becomes much easier. Even if there are lots of difficulties, suffering and hardship, since we know the truth so clearly, we have more power to thrust ourselves to the goal. Even though you undergo hardship, this hardship will benefit you so much for the ultimate goal. By going through your hardship, you are not going to lose anything.

This is one example here. Your [Reiner Vincenz] leader came from Germany. It used to be that the two countries, Germany and France, were enemies, but now, you are loving each other. This is one good example. Do you go this road because you are forced to do it, or are you willing to do it? If this is true, there are no problems. You are on your way to your goal. I studied science. I do not believe, I do not act on anything that is not logical. Now, you know that God exists.

When you go out and witness the principle, many people will say to you: "Show me God, then I will believe." Then you will say: "Are you sure, once that you see God, that you will believe?" Then you say: "I will show you God." In the past, among my friends, many were Communists. Once they started to discuss their logic, then they were completely flabbergasted and flustered. They were fighting, at first, then they were subdued. And I became a most formidable man for all the Communist world. It is true. I went through testing periods in Korea, and I was completely successful. There is a fast way to witness about God to Communists. You point them in the eye, and then you say: "Can you see, this finger?" He will answer: "I can see it". Then you ask him: "Where did your eye come from?" "My eyes were given by my parents, my parents' eyes given by my grandparents, my grandparents' eyes from my grandgrandparents, and going on up." "And when the first eyes were made, where were they made?" "On the earth, right here, on the earth." "The eyes were created to see sunlight that comes from the sun and the solar system and heavenly bodies.

Do you think that the eyes know that once an eye was made, there would be a sun to see? The eye itself did not know. And the eye never even conceived that eyes must be formed in this way to see the sun. Did the eye know all the environmental places, everything that it would face? The eye itself did not know, but there must be someone who did know everything so as to create eyes in that fashion.

Eyes blink, and they blink in order to maintain moisture in the eyes. If all the moisture evaporates, then eyes will be in trouble. That's why they blink. Do you think that this eye, eyelash and upper muscle knew that there would certainly be moisture to protect it, or that the radiant sun heat would evaporate the moisture? This eye muscle did not know such phenomenon, but someone must have foreknown that the environment was there. Also, the eye has a certain system that provides moisture; water is constantly supplied. Someone foreknew that all these things were necessary.

The eye itself did not know that this circumstance happened. This time, look at eyelashes. Eyelashes are there to protect against dust from the air. And did they know that? Eyelashes did not know, but someone must have foreknown. When the female was born, did she know there was a male when she was born? The female child did not know, when she was born, yet someone planned it such. Here is the eyebrow. Why is it here? When men have sweat, sweat should not drip down into the eyes. In order to prevent it, there are eyebrows. Did eyebrows know that such a mission could be…

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…this. Ask the God-denying Communists these questions, step by step, and they have to know it is this way. Then, finally, you ask them: "Do you agree that there must be someone who had a foreknowledge of all these things?" The information this human body has as a mysterious palace, cannot even be expressed by all the volumes of books in the world. And this is not the product of accident. Should it happen at random? Suppose there is a PhD, and he is planning his precise schedule for one year, 365 days. It is very difficult, even for a doctor, to create such a complete, perfected schedule for one year. They are not in a position to say this and that, and they are not in a position to evaluate, even analyze all the great information that is hidden in the human body. Even man with his knowledge of science, cannot create the human body, the living man. Then how much more impossible it is that these materials evolve themselves into the human body.

Communists claim that consciousness is a product of material, but this is a crazy idea. That means that all these materials just evolved that way. So there are many crazy people with open eyes. You may choose any name you desire, but this; Master planner who had a foreknowledge of all these things is God. Man did not create knowledge, but he searches for the truth and human knowledge. What do you think? Did man create knowledge or does he search after knowledge? Therefore, matter cannot come first. The men who control all this material are now searching for further knowledge. So how then can this material be superior to that knowledge? Our body is led by the mind; the mind wills first, and wants to go first, then the body follows.

Then do you think that the body goes first, and the mind follows the body? Does the mind lead or does the body lead?' Communists say that the body leads. So we have to eradicate this. We must be able to win over Communism by logical theory. We have not yet reached the world-wide foundation upon which we can use the mass-media, to publicize all these things, but in the near future, this foundation will be established.

The Communists in Japan, and particularly left-wing college groups, ask their people not to meet with Unification Church members. But they have meetings among their leaders, in which Communist theory is discussed, and confronted with the Divine Principle, the Unification Church theory. Then they know that Communist theory is without roots, and crumbles. That's why they would rather avoid a confrontation with us. Nothing can defeat the power of logic. So you came to the most precious place, to have this truth as your own.

In this universe, there is a phenomenon of contradiction, and Communism says that this is reaction, in other words, that this is an opposing power. Also in the universe, there is a power of union. There is a repelling action. But that phenomenon must be there, it is a necessity. I will explain this in a simple way.

The opposing action is not always bad. This must be a necessity the plus (+) and minus (-) unite; and plus (+) and plus (+) repel each other. Now, in the atmosphere, particularly in a cloud on a stormy day, there is a lot of electrical current up in the air, and plus (+) electricity and minus (-) electricity sometimes clash with each other, and create thunder and lightning. Is there all of a sudden a great big mass of plus created and a great big mass of minus created together at the same time? It is not that way. The important thing in the principle of electricity is how the pluses unite more pluses so that they become a greater mass of pluses; how minuses together with other minuses become a greater mass of minuses; this is the problem. It the same pluses repel each other, how can they unite? This is one subject I wanted to write a thesis about in school.

According to the principle of repelling, the same plus (+) plus (+) repel, and the same minus (-) minus (-) repel, and they cannot become one. This plus only repels another plus when he has found his minus and has formed a reciprocal relationship of give and take then it repels. As long as there is no minus, no object there, the plus will be united. So, these pluses all by themselves, only pluses alone, just keep uniting, going like a snowball, becoming bigger. On the other hand, minuses are getting bigger and bigger and finally, there is a mass of pluses and a mass of minuses, and they become united into one through give and take action, in a united form. So there is the step, and minus always follows plus one step behind. They keep uniting, but still, it is not quite balanced. That is why pluses are adding up more pluses, minuses are adding up more minuses in a great big mass. But once plus and minus become attracted into one, then they become an eternal entity.

If another plus approaches, a repelling action then occurs. So then why is repelling action necessary? Once they become an eternal, everlasting entity, like plus and minus united in one, if another plus approaches, this plus must be repelled. If plus is added to another plus, then minus will be eliminated. It would disappear and would be destroyed. That is why this plus must be repelled. However, if instead of plus, a minus approaches, then it will form a union. When plus and minus approach together, plus and minus unite, so they become bigger. The universe has a tendency to protect its eternal entity. Therefore, if another plus approaches that entity, because of that plus, that entity can be destroyed. In order to prevent that destruction, they have to repel this plus. The repelling action, or expelling action is the action of protection. Because of this principle of repelling action, the plus and minus become more one, in order to sustain the entity. This is not a bad effect at all, because when plus repels another plus, in fact, it is saying: "Go away and take your own minus, like me, like us here, and become an eternal being!" So, the universe cannot form unless there is a uniting action and a repelling action. When you turn something around, there are two powers working in different directions.

One is pulling outwards, and one is pulling towards the inside to the core, to the center. The jet-plane takes advantage of this repelling action, this pushing force.

If it is not completely clear yet, then let us take another example, using man and woman. Two single men become friends; they can unite, and single women also can unite among themselves.

Once the man and single woman are married in one union, then, if another man approaches, they repel him. In fact, when they repel, they are saying: "Go away and, like us, take your object, and become like us, an eternal being." So, because of this repelling action this husband and wife become more one. They are more united, closer and inseparable. So we must understand that in this cosmos there is a principle of union and a principle of repelling. From the standpoint of this principle, you observe all the phenomena of the world and the universe; then you are convinced that everything without exception operates under this principle. So, once God and man unite as plus and minus into one, is there any power that can approach and infiltrate and de troy? So from Principle, we can readily understand that all the heavenly bodies in their respective circular motion, will not clash with each other and destroy each other. Do not think that one day a star might approach the earth and clash with the earth. Don't worry about it! Because once this relationship between subject and object is formed, and something approaches that unity, it will repel it.

This is a repelling principle. In that case, this circular motion may change into a rectangular motion, but they never really destroy each other. There is some variation of the circular motion, changing into different forms, so that we have longer days in the year, and longer nights and so forth. However, there is no possibility that heavenly bodies clash with each other, and destroy each other. In other words, all the plus (+) plus (+) will be able to be united, that should have been united a long time ago. There is nothing left in plus (+) plus (+). Do you understand the principle of union and the principle of repelling?

The period from 1977 to 1978 is a most critical period for the world. We are preparing ourselves for that crisis. At this time, the Master's third world tour, he could engage in many public speeches. This is also one preparation for that crisis; and also the creation of mobile teams in all the world is also another preparation. It is my faith and my belief that I may sacrifice France, but save the world. Once the world is saved, then France is of course saved. So it is from that principle, that members in the Unification Church in France may give their lives in America. And if these things are necessary for the world strategy, it is more valuable to work in America. Suppose it takes you 10 years to restore France. However it takes only 5 years to restore America; then you would rather go to America to help their restoration, and in the overall scheme, it is much quicker. If I send you to America to work over there, would you complain? Would you be willing to go, or would you rather be forced to go?

England promised our Master to send 100 members to America next year. Now, how many can you promise in France? Germany is going to send more than 300 members. How many would you want to respond for? Would you like to be defeated by Germany and by England? Then, how many? Tell me a number! I must have a promise. Before I leave, I would like to have a concrete plan. America has 60% of the world's wealth. Then do you think we should restore America first or France First?

We must restore America first. America is mobilizing more than 400 mobile team members next year, and 2000 mobile team members in three years. I am the Commander in Chief and I want to have a France mobile team participating. How many?

70. That's less than England. If you increase your members to 600, then you can send 160 to America, and there are still 350 left in France. Do you think, if God wants to do it, He is able to do it? If you cry out, day in and day out, and are always working, day in and day out, do you think it will not be accomplished?

Do you think God is busy or not? God wants to accomplish the whole thing overnight. But there are not enough people who are truly committed. That's why it is delaying and dragging. Let us decide a number first. I am not going to force you, I am not going to decide for you, you decide. If you decide 101, then England will say we'll do 102; then you say we'll go 103; then England would call and send 104. So, in order that this situation cannot happen, there must be a large gap, so that they don't even dare to try. I will teach you how to witness, so you decide a number by majority vote, How many? Would you like to leave it to your leader? Then you (Reiner [Vincenz]) answer the Master how many France will promise? Reiner: "I would say 100, too." Do you all agree? Then, what would you do if England would do one more, so as to make it 101? Are you going to follow them?

Now, I will teach you how to witness. Each member will buy 20 or 30 Divine Principle books and you will give it to each one of the prospective readers every month; in other words, you distribute the 20 to 30 books to 20 to 30 prospective readers; then, if you have 20 books in your possession, then you have 240 people reading the Divine Principle during the year. Out of the 250 readers of the Divine Principle, you select the very best 10%, which is approximately 20 people, and contact them, teach them, and you'll get really busy. And when you take 5%, it's 10 people (less than 5%). Then, if these 10 people among 240 are deeply interested by reading the Principle, then you go and tell them: "Well, if you like the Principle so much, then there must be so many people around you, your relatives and your friends, who want to hear the same message. Why don't you gather those people, then I will come and teach them and talk with them." Then when each man assembles 10 persons, then it will become 100. Then, 5% of them will become 5, and altogether, 15. You can advertise. Then out of these students of the Divine Principle, you can give them a test on Divine Principle; if they get more than 60 points, then you can tell them; "You are a good candidate to go to America to work."

If you have parents here, and elder brothers, those who are influential members of the family, then invite them home, so that they can see the activities with their own eyes. Then when you introduce your relatives, your mother, you father and your elder brother and so forth, they undoubtedly would say: "how wonderful! You are proud parents to have such a wonderful son or younger brother." Then your parents would be very happy. Also, once your parents or your elder brother are convinced and impressed by your own activity, and approve of it, when they have a big occasion at their home, like a birthday party or any other gathering with all the relatives, you can suggest to talk to them of the Principle. Then your parents really need organizing for the meeting of relatives, however, the parents cannot preside the meeting, because it is their own son's affair. So let the uncle come in and let him preside the meeting. So, actually, the unity between you, your parents and a third part, your uncle is formed. Then, among your relatives, there must be more than 10 people, the distant relatives, etc. Once this mood, this action is formed, then everybody will like to come.

In your center, you can prepare one room only for parents who become friends. They will not just go away after receiving such a tremendous treatment. They will do something in return. So you simply cannot say that you cannot bring in new members, at least one a month. So, can you witness and bring the new members into the family, 12 during the year? So, we are about 50 members here, then it will easily become 400 or 500 during the year. So, now, use the book, it is the book method we call it with the book method, you go ahead, initiate. During the month, among 20 or 30 who are reading the Divine Principle books, there must be one person who is attracted to it more closely. Then things will happen. If a person really likes the book, then you can sell it to him. Initially, of course, you loan it to them, for a week, for two weeks, or one month, but after one month, you gather all these books and give them to new people. If people are reading the book in two weeks, then, during the month, you can count 40 people through the book.

You must be very sincere to them, do you heart-felt service to them, and they will be impressed by your attitude of service, so they will give their attention to the book, and read it and be interested in it. Then, you have a good chance to bring that person in. Those who graduated from school can utilize their alumni to study.

You buy 20 books, then let the people read them in two weeks, then, during the year, you are contacting literally 480 people. Can you do it? Newspaper boys, in one morning, usually deliver 300 papers from door to door without any trouble. So 40 people during the month should be well within the reach of the goal. People will feel grateful to you because you are giving them the book to read. Shall we do it? Then do you still feel that it is very difficult to bring in one new member during the month? Then do it! Then, when you do it and reach that goal, next time when I come here, I might organize my first meeting as I did in other places. Now you promised me. Those who promised me raise their hands. Next year, when I come, you will need a much bigger house.

Separation between Good and Evil

Sun Myung Moon
April 3, 1972
Paris Unification Church

Sun Myung Moon circa 1966

Sun Myung Moon circa 1966

Everything is reaped as it has been sown. You sow in springtime and you read in autumn. Due to the human fall, our fleshly side and our mind side, spiritual side, have been divided.in two and are constantly at war with each other. On a wider level, there have been two wars-one war on God's side and the other war on Satan's side. The world has been divided into two.

Everywhere you will see two powers at war with each other; for instance, in the home, if your parents are fighting, one is on the good side and the other must be on the bad side. Even if they do not quarrel, the right side is the more Godly side and the other one is the less Godly side or Satan's side. Even in the village, you will see people more Godly and more saintly, and also in the society on a wider level. In the world, there is the ruling party and the opposition party. In the whole world, you see two powers -- the democratic world and communist world. Is it true or not? Everything is divided. It has not been done for nothing or without a cause. There is a cause, the one who has made it that way.

Ever since the human fall, God has been dividing those two, that is, separating good out of evil. Also among yourselves, if two are fighting, you will instinctively know which is more on God's side and which is more on the other side. Then bow to divide those two -- one to be more on God's side, one to be more on the other side -- is the problem. To divide here means to discriminate. You must know for sure what is good and what is evil. For instance, you have two beloved sons. Those two are fighting with each other. If the elder slays the younger, then the parents are always on the side of the younger, putting the blame on the older. They scold the older one. In that case, why do the parents scold the older one? Because he is good or bad? Why is the older one bad?

What would happen in the case where the younger one beats the older one? In that case, the parents will be in favor of the older one, why is it so? Because he initiated the evil thing. This side attacked and the other side was attacked and was harmed. When one attacks, he can be intact and unharmed, but in this case, the other one is harmed.

You must know the definition of good and evil. Those who are on the good side, on the side of goodness, never attack. And they will never want to harm the other person or to kill. That is the difference between good and evil. Good does not attack; it is always attacked. Evil initiates the attack. The good does not attack but wins the war and ultimately wins the quarrel; the other one, evil, initiates the attack but finally is defeated. When evil attacks, it attacks for its own benefit, but the other one, when it is attacked, it is attacked for the benefit of, or in place of, or for the indemnity of others. Thus, evil is self-centered and the other one -- good -- is for the others.

Your view will be evil when in viewing or in seeing things, you see them from a self-centered point of view. This is bad. A view for the benefit of others will be good. When you think: of things, when you see and do things, the same thing will happen. We always have the explanation of the difference between good and evil. It starts right from our eyes when we see things. It happens right from the eyes, nose, mouth, every sense of ours. If when you see things, you think quickly in your mind how you can get the benefit out of that person even at the sacrifice of that person, your view is more of evil. But if you look at the other people and try to help with something, thinking how to help them, this is on the good side.

Nobody knows that he or she is living with these two powers at war with each other. We are always placed on the boundary line of good and evil. That means that we will either be with good or evil. Is there anyone who has known before that we are like that? Everybody thinks that he himself is the good one or the best one, and that the other people are all bad and that society is evil. He puts all the blame on others, but thinks himself to be very good. There must h; the boundary line between good and evil and we have not been able to know that. Then do you know now exactly what the boundary line: or front line between good and evil is?

Although our Master may have to beat a person, if he does this for the benefit of that man, this is good. In that case, my act has not been self-centered, but for the benefit of that man. That is what makes things good. When you go somewhere, if you go there for a self-centered benefit, it is bad, but if you go for the benefit of others, it is good. If, when I speak, I speak for the benefit of myself at the sacrifice: of yourselves, I am bad. But since I am talking for the benefit of all of you, of all people, I am on the good side. Those who want to keep others' things for their own benefit even at the sacrifice of others, or who want to rob others of anything or everything are bad. Those who want to give out things for the benefit of others are good. God and Satan, both sides, have their own strategies. When we are entangled with Satanic strategies, we are on the side of evil. Otherwise, we are on the side of good.

What is the definition of an evil thing? Self-centeredness, initiating the attack and harming others. On the side of good is the concept of the benefit of others and working for the benefit of others. The outcome, the result will be helpful for others.

By doing that, the side of goodness will win, while the other side will always be divided in the end. It will perish. It will rise and then fall. For example, when the older brother beats the younger one, Mother's love for the older one comes to the younger one. So, while the older one is deprived of love, and thus is doomed to perish or to lose, the other one gains Mother's love, which is the portion of the elder brother's and he becomes richer in love and gains more. Suppose you have 10 friends, but you are self-centered and you always attack and want to harm others and get benefit out of others, the number of your friends will decrease. 10 will become 9 and 8 and so on, and you are going to lose more and more until you have completely lost all your friends. But on the other side, if you are unselfish and you always think of the benefit of others and never take from others, but do things for others at the sacrifice of yourselves, you are sure to gain friends. Your friends will increase while the other party decreases. When your friends increase, they will bring their own friends, parents and relatives, and the number will increase. To increase means to rise while to decrease means to fall or to perish.

Do you now know the definition of good and evil? Now your view must turn upside down like this. Up to the present time, you have thought, I am good, I am always good. The other people are evil, society is evil, and the world is evil. You must think the other way around. I am bad because of that.

I must take responsibility for those things and always think of the benefit of others and you will be good in God's sight. In the whole world, there has never been a single person thought to be good who was selfcentered, who took others' things, or who put blame on others or harmed others. When you are selfcentered, your parents, your friends, your brothers and sisters will all dislike you. So you must know exactly the definition of good. Those who are self-centered, always attacking and harming others around them, are on the side of evil, while those who are the other way around, which means, unselfish or helping others or always work for the benefit of others, belong to the side of good. Has there ever been a patriot who has been working for the benefit of himself, always attacking and harming others? He is on the side of the public or he is fighting for the benefit of the country. This is true for people on the individual level but also on the national level. When you see two countries, two nations, you will immediately discriminate which is good and which is evil. When one nation fights against the other for the benefit of his own nation and for himself and harms the others, is it good or bad? Suppose that nation initiated the attack for the benefit of the whole world, what would you think of it? Good. Why? 1) Even if somehow it initiated the attack, it never attacked for a selfish purpose. It attacked for the benefit of the whole world; 2) The outcome is for the benefit of the world; 3) This side, even though it attacked, lost things and the other side gained.

I must say further that when you do things for the benefit of others, when you do things for the benefit of one individual, it is good to an extent, but when you sacrifice yourself for the benefit of the family, your goodness is greater, and when you do things for the benefit of the nation, for the benefit of the world, your goodness becomes greater and greater. And even though you may have to attack that person, when you do so for the benefit of that person, it is good. And if you attack the family for the benefit of the family, it is better. When you do that on a national level or worldwide level, the goodness will be greater.

Suppose a person is thinking of or even doing things to ruin the whole world. Even though you may have to attack him, this is good. God will judge the whole world according to this standard, this principle. This definition is very simple.

Then you can judge others from this Principle or standard. Up to now, people have been in confusion, without being able to discriminate between the two.

What is the definition of a holy man or a sacred man? Would you like to become a patriot or a holy man? Which of the two? Do you still think that Napoleon is the best man in the whole world? Napoleon was and still is the enemy of all the nations which he conquered. Those people still think that Napoleon is their worst enemy, and when your country is declining, they are glad of that. This is why patriots are not or cannot become holy men. A holy man is for the whole world and he does not have enemies. This man is not for the benefit of the nation but for the benefit of the whole world, transcending the national level. What is really true is true not only for the nation but for the whole world. Jesus was the greatest among men of the whole world because he did things for the benefit of others at the sacrifice of himself. He could even pray for his enemies at his death. By doing that, he has made all the people in the world his friends, all of those people are on his side.

When patriots pass away, they are respected by all the people of the nation. But when holy men pass away, or even in their lifetime, they are persecuted by their own people. This is because they worked for the benefit of the world even at the sacrifice of their own nation. This person, this holy man is a cosmopolitan person. He always thinks of the whole world, saving the whole world and acting for the whole world with a selfless or unselfish attitude.

Then, what is the definition of a holy man? He is centered on what? Of course, he is centered on the whole world, but one can say further that he has placed his center on God. He does God-centered actions. While all the people of the world have self-centered, these holy men, for instance, Jesus, Confucius and Buddha, have been doing things, working for the benefit of the whole world, transcending the small view of life. They have put stress on Godly things and things of the world so they are "God-ism" people, "world-ism" people, cosmopolitan people. By doing that, the holy man wins the minds of all the people of the world and wins the heart of God. Did Napoleon put the center of all things on God? Is he Godcentered? What about Hitler? Perhaps they worked for the benefit of themselves, for the nation, but their actions were ego-centered. They wanted to be heroes. In the light of our definition, our formula, Napoleon and Hitler were crazy, mad people. Do you want to become heroes of the world or holy men? In light of the worldly standard, holy men are fools. They want to lose things for others. They are fools, stupid men. They are stupid, in the worldly sense of course, because they have never done things for the benefit of themselves. Take, for instance, Jesus, when he prayed on the Mount of Gethsemane: "If possible, let this cup pass from me, but not as I will but as Thou wilt". From the worldly point of view, how foolish, how stupid it looks. From the worldly point of view, he was an utterly helpless man, but this man, when he passed away, became the most widely known holy man and everybody knows that God loves him. From this fact, we cannot deny the existence of God. Speaking in a spiritual sense, the whole world belongs to him. In other words, he has the hearts of all mankind.

Then do you clearly know what is good and what is evil? In what manner do you become holy men? Your heart must be God-centered and then world-centered. And when you are God-centered, you are naturally world-centered, because God is always thinking of the world. God's will is not just to save France but to save the whole world even though he may have to sacrifice your nation France. Now you are sure that you know the definition of good and evil? Then what is our Master like? What kind of a person is he? He is God-centered and world-centered naturally, because God is world-centered and he wants to save the whole world because it is God's wish. He is for the will of God and for the whole world because God wants to save the whole world. He always thinks of God and God's will.

And God's will is for the whole world. God is world-centered, centered on the whole. In that case, it is not Mr. Moon-ism but God's will, God-ism. That is the best ism in the whole world. It is the best ism and you will never perish by doing this. Even when you are attacked, God is using the enemy as the instrument for giving things to you. You are gaining more by being attacked. So, those who are on the side of God will not initiate the attack, but still gain. Those who are on the Satanic side initiate the attack but while doing that, they lose things instead of gaining. You must know this clearly. That applies to our everyday life because this is the truth.

So, from now on, you are going to be holy men. Has Jesus been able to carry out God's will or not? Then, if Jesus was not able to carry out the will of God, will you accomplish what is left unaccomplished by Jesus? Will you do greater things than Jesus or lesser things? Do you have to be better than Jesus or lesser? You must know that Jesus still in practice and has not been able to enter the Kingdom of God. In order for you to be able to enter the Kingdom of God, must you be greater or better than Jesus? So, I must repeat that you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven if you are not greater or better than Jesus.

Are you that way? Are you ready to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? Are you ready to die for the cause of God, for the will of God? If you are ready to do that, to die for the cause of God or the will of God, you are friends of Jesus. But when Jesus died, had he been married or not? No. Why? He did not marry or couldn't he marry? If you can marry or be blessed by God in marriage, you are already better than Jesus. Isn't that true?

The mission of the Unification Church is to accomplish what was left unaccomplished by Jesus. If we are not capable of doing this, our work will be a failure. So far, in our Church, Master has blessed so many couples, and has fulfilled all these formulas. From the time of Jesus on, Christians and other religious people have only put stress on remaining single instead of marrying. But our ideology is different because we bless couples in divine marriage. Do you think our Master is doing that because He wants us to be lesser than Jesus or better than Jesus? Greater.

We must think of things in depth. This is an amazing thing. In doing things, we must have better conditions than in the time of Jesus. Did Jesus' parents cooperate with Jesus? Did John the Baptist and all the relatives of Jesus cooperate with him? Did he have a Church? Did he have a nation under his ideology? Did he have hope to open up the channels to the whole world? What about you? Even Jesus knew the Divine Principle and knew the Divine Truth to a certain extent. You are in a better position than Jesus. You have your True Parents, your True brothers and sisters. You have the base of the nation, the foundation of the nation under the Divine Principle because he is on the way to that goal, and you will have the worldwide base for our family. Unification Church is in the position of Judaism in Jesus' day. Unlike those days, now we have complete freedom under Democracy and no one can kill us even though we may carry out works for God's will. So, all this taken into consideration, are we in a better position than Jesus or not? That is why he can marry you in holy marriage. I do not think you know things in real depth.

Can you imagine he pioneered into the unknown world, spirit world, and he has fought and conquered a whole bunch of Satans there, and only after having done this, he had the authority to be the victor. He is going to carry out God's will on earth and he is going to inherit all those things to you. When you do not even know the mere value of it, I do not feel like giving it to you. It is too much to be given to you. It is something like this, when you are given a big diamond, a big diamond grain and if you think of it as a piece of glass, would that person want to give it to you? If it is really true that you can become greater than Jesus, that you will learn the way to be that way, what is more important or more valuable than this?

Jesus could not marry. Before reaching this, he died. He was supposed to have the day of the marriage of the Lamb and without his being able to do that, all the Christians, his followers, have been put under difficulty and persecution. You are in a better position than Jesus because you know this truth and you are able to be blessed in divine marriage. Are you confident to receive such a blessing? Do you think you are qualified enough for that? If you have not reached that point, that means that you are not confident.

Was Reiner [Vincenz] blessed in holy marriage or not? Is he greater than Jesus? What makes him better than Jesus? He has one thing more than Jesus. He has a wife. Have you ever seen the couple fighting each other? Can they be separated, divorced?' Why not? More than that, your answer must be this. Even before Master could be able to bless them, he has trodden a thorny path after having shed so much blood, after having paid so much indemnity, so that is the value of his blessing. It took God some 6, 000 years, it took Jesus 2, 000 years. We must even think of the saints and religious leaders who throughout human history have fought for this cause. Plus our Master's endeavors and persecutions and hardships, all that he has gone through.

All those add up. This is the value of his blessing. It is the most valuable thing for man to find or establish. It is something like this: The owner of the house signs his name on a piece of paper. The moment he has this, the whole house belongs to him. Master is the initiator, the creator, the owner of this right, and this authority. And it is as if he signs on the paper and gives it to you. The moment you are given the paper, you have the right to possess it. We inherit this free of charge. Do you need me? Are you going to utilize me? If you just think of utilizing me, you are against the formula I taught this morning. Do you still need me?

When you really think you are in need of me, it is not just for the blessing of the holy marriage but to give birth to your offspring, to your descendants and to your children, for the whole world, a sinless world and for the future world. If you think of things in that way, you are not against the formula or rule. When you are blessed in holy marriage, you are not going to marry for yourself but for the whole of mankind, for heaven and earth. You must know that love is the center for unifying heaven and earth. Is there even one person here who has thought of this in that way? Love is not yours. Love does not belong to you. It belongs to God, to the world, to the earth, to the future prosperity of the earth and future generations. I have seen many boys and girls even in the streetcar or on a crowded street or in the parks kissing and embracing each other, and in my heart I question if they really know the value of love. The value of love is high like this, but because of the human fall, it was distorted and degraded. You young people must know all this and you must be thorough in discriminating true love and false love.

Now, you know how to measure and how to judge things, in the light of good and evil. If you feel that you really know that, raise your hand. People of the world are ignorant of all this. This is only too clear, but the people of the world de> not know how to draw the line between good and evil. You must know that you are placed on the boundary line between good and evil. Our mind is the center for God. God is guiding us in our mind but our flesh side, our body is the center for evil, or Satan. You are always wavering or vacillating like this.

You are good and evil, headed for heaven or hell. God is always on the side of good while Satan is always on the side of evil. But, man is placed on the boundary line where he can go to the side of God or to the side of evil, so man is the most horrible thing. He can either torment God by being on the Satanic side or torment Satan by being on God's side. You can either be the traitor to God or the traitor to evil. You must belong to either side -- one or the other. So you must be very careful, very cautious to know that you are a more horrible thing than Satan.

Sometimes, you are like flint of a spear whose point is poisonous. You are just as dangerous and horrible. So do not vacillate or waver. If you ever do that, you will just go out of the Church. If you go out and come back and go out again, God would not like that kind of person and neither would Satan.

When you meditate or reflect about your family background, the history of your family, your ancestry, your relatives, your brothers and sisters around you, you can count how many of those are on God's side, on the side of goodness and how many are on the other side. Then you may be able to know that your whole family is more on this side or more on that side. When applying the formula and judging things, we know that in the First World War, those who declared war were defeated in the end in the Second War the same thing occurred. Then we are sure to know that between Communism and Democracy, between Goduniting ideology, and Godless-uniting ideology, which one will win. As you see, which side always takes the initiative of attack, the Communist side or the Democratic side? In attacking, do they do that for the benefit of the world, or for their own selves? Are they God-centered or man-centered? On the other hand, what about the Democratic world, is it God-centered or man-centered? Does the Democratic side initiate the attack or is it attacked? Of all the Democratic nations, are there any Democratic nations that work for the benefit of the whole world? So far, the United States of America has been in that position but now she is retreating. While the United States was helping the world, the whole world respected America, but now that she has retreated from that, the whole world has feelings against the United States. At the peril of the Democratic world, our Unification Church has appeared, and we are going to fight for the cause of God and for the will of God. By doing this, the whole free world will benefit, and will not perish.

Do we have a nation with our ideology? Not yet. So we have to lay the foundation at the earliest possible moment. As I said yesterday, there must come out a nation, a sovereignty which can conquer the evil sovereignty. In the world, which is the nation which has so far laid the foundation from the individual level, tribal level, almost reaching the national level based on the Divine Principle? You may think that Master is a Korean and so he thinks of things in that way. He was born in Korea but he is not a Korean in the sense that he is for the whole world and for God. More than that, he was persecuted so much in Korea doing Divine things. In Korea, we have reached the point that in any group, in any religion, in any community such as associations, schools, institutions or the Government, people have come to think that they cannot do without us. Up to the present moment, he has laid the foundation from the individual level, tribal level, up to the national level upward like this, on the vertical level. But from the moment he has established the foundation on the national level, it will come on the horizontal level and will spread from country to country, and nation to nation.

I am sure that you like your country France. Do you or don't you? Are you answering me with that formula in your mind? Do you love France or not? NATO was in France, but you chased it away. Was France right in doing that or not? Recently, Kosygin of Russia visited your country and your President signed the treaty Russia and disregarded the United States and betrayed England. Was it right? The members of the Unification Church are of a different sort. Are you like that or not? Are you the type of people that are always vacillating? Do you like this attitude? God and the whole of mankind hate to see the kind of people who always walk zigzag like this, sometimes on the side of God, or on the side of evil, on the side of right or left. There has never been one single man that liked that kind of person, and even Satan hates him because he has the possibility of going to the other side. These are not Mr. Moon's words. This is the word uttered through formulas and I am judging things applying this formula. You must know all this and you have got to right the wrong that your Government people are doing. If you go on doing what you have been doing, French people, all the people of the world will hate you and dislike you, so you must correct the wrong.

The true man will keep his promise and even though he may have to be faced with ruin or perish, he will be loyal to what he has promised. You must know clearly all this. All of your acts must be God-centered, thus naturally world-centered, and you must always act for the benefit of all mankind, for things on a bigger level; otherwise, you will perish as an individual, as a whole nation and your influence will ruin the whole world. Since you know what is wrong with France or French people, would you want to leave it alone or do you want to correct it? Those who are determined to do it, raise your hands.

You should not be like other French people. History is the best proof, the best witness. And those who have been on the evil side have perished and the other side has always risen. So, you must always be on God's side wherever you go. When you are among other communities, you must be as such. In school, you must be on God's side, and in the community as the church. Everywhere, you must be on God's side, judging things according to the Godly or Divine formula, and working for that.

As I see it, once they know what is right, the German people act and put it into practice, but French people think a long time, reflect in their minds, meditate over the matter and dream of it. Reality does not wait. Reality is the best judge and waits for the action to be taken. It does not like people to dream over the matter for a while. To meditate over the matter, to dream over things in a sense can be good, but at this time, at this critical moment, will you still remain like that or act and put out ideology into practice? Do you want to be defeated by the German people or win over them? You will and you can be quicker in action than the German people. Do you know that I have organized a mobile team in Germany? In England, too, they have organized a mobile team. You must never be defeated by those nations, so why don't you try your best?

You, French people, are like swallows in the spring flying about from place to place singing and chirping, while the German people are like bears. They are always digging into the soil, digging to the root of trees for a certain root to feed themselves with. How can a swallow win over a bear? You must try to become otherwise than a swallow. You must fight day and night until you can win over the other and win the victory.

Even among our members, I think we can find such people. So, for those who speak the German language, I will take them to Germany and get them trained, then get them back and let them train the rest of you. Are you hurt to hear that? Can it help? It's the best way and by doing that you can save France at the earliest possible date.

I compared French people with swallows and the German People with bears. Do you think my description is right? The French people talk in beautiful, poetic terms. The German people are the opposite. They may appear to be sometimes wild, but when we know them, they are kind-hearted people. The only way for you, French people, to save your country France is to be really united with Germany, to live in harmony with the German members in the family, with those two blended into one. That is why I brought a German man here as your leader. I want Reiner to train these people more severely than Paul Werner in Germany. By his doing that, France is restored earlier than Germany. How blessed you are. Do you want it that why? Before I leave, upon my departure, I will advise Reiner to train you this way, and you may think that he has changed. (He is too strict, severe.) Never think of him like that. Get trained under him and in that way, you will be able to save your nation as fast as you can. It will be all right.

Today, I have spoken to you about the definition of what is good and what is evil according to the formula or the definition. In applying the definition to every factor, every happening in the world, we can judge things. If you put more stress on the things on God's side, your Church will be victorious.

The Unification

Sun Myung Moon
April 2, 1972
Unification Church of Paris, France

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Unification must be accomplished behind one person. England, Germany, Holland and France are different nations which fight against one another.

Napoleon had the dream of uniting Europe behind himself and his nationality; Hitler had the dream' of uniting Europe behind himself and his nationality. These two dreams are not logical. Soviet Russia's ideology aims to go beyond the boundary of nationalities and to conquer the world. In the past, the leaders of countries resorted only to military force. Man generates energy in two ways: the power of flesh, which is exterior, and the power of mind, which is interior. Communism, in the highest form of its ideology denies God. Communism is using the power of mind. When they fail, what will the world be like?

Without God, Communism is mobilizing the maximum power which exists in our world. On the other hand, religious people have been extremely attacked; their bodies have been attacked. Communism attacks our physical body, but it cannot infiltrate our spirit.

God does not permit the attack of Communism into our spirit. From that standpoint, religious power has only internal power, but not external power. The religious world has been denying the physical body, the external, and has been emphasizing the internal, but it has been losing the essential point. Therefore, in the world of religion, a greater ideology superior to Communism will combine the internal and the external.

Our movement is to unite the spirit world with God and in this way, also unite the physical world. Prior to this time, a leader of a movement would want to unite with a national goal. Even Communism, a world ideology beyond nationalism, cannot go beyond nationalism. If the Russian people had greater generosity to do more, and had done more for the Communist ideology, they would have had greater opportunity beyond the limitation of their own Slavic people. Then, the split between Russia and Red China would not have occurred. Those dreamers who wanted to conquer the world in the past could not go beyond their own nationalism. They tested it and failed. Communism is testing it, and they are failing right now.

If there is God, God is closely watching this development. God's ideology, what He is thinking, His plan, has to be an ideology that goes beyond nationalism. God knows clearly that any ideology based upon the interest of any nation will not work for the unity of the world; therefore, God's ideology is going beyond nationalism. All the man-made ideologies and man-made philosophies have failed; therefore, the only solution is to have a God-made ideology. If a God-centered, God-made ideology is established, and if, with this ideology as a center, the people are united and establish their own country; God's country, not a man-made country; then with all united towards this one central goal, the world will move into unity. Through this God-made ideology, if it has exercised its power, even uniting the physical world and physical power, then no power under the sun is capable of defeating this new strength and power. This is the very road we are now taking.

First, we must know about God and we must teach that God" is our Father and that God made the world and that all of His creation is our home. So, the Unification Church should teach clearly of the existence of God first. Our church teaches clearly God's will. God's will is to have all people, all mankind in the world become one true brotherhood.

Through the Divine Principle, you must have learned already the purpose of creation. Losing the purpose of creation is losing God's will. When we fulfill God's purpose of creation, then the ideal world of God and man becomes a reality. What is the purpose of creation? God wanted the God-centered heavenly unit of four positions established. God's love is the unification of parents and children centered on God. In that world, there are no national boundaries. If the world can deny God, then boundaries will remain a reality. But denying God is impossible. And all these things are products of the Fall of Man. Cain and Abel is also the product of the Fall of Man; heaven and earth, and hell is also the product of the Fall of Man. If Adam and Eve did not Fall, their language would have become their children's language; therefore, there would have been one language upon earth with one way of life and culture. If there are two civilizations -- one that belongs to God and one that belongs to man -- should God follow the civilization of man? Or should man follow the civilization of God? Which way of life would you go? The way of life of man or the way of life of God? Certainly, it is obvious, God's way is man's way. If all mankind truly knew, truly realized that God is the center and the closest one, that God is their Father, then they could not go the other way; in other words, there is n ' other way. There is only one way to live -- God's way.

We must be one with our mind and body, centered on God then our family will become God-centered. Religion has been denying the physical body and has been repelling, disregarding and rejecting the external body and the physical world. It has centered itself exclusively on man's spirit. In the Last Days, God's providence will work only from the mind, the spirit-centered way into harmony between spiritual and physical world. This will happen at this time -- the time of the Lord of the Second Advent. We must know that the Satanic world and the world of God are moving in opposite directions. The Satanic world is centered on the physical body, and then on the world of mind. God's world is centered on mind and heart and spirit, then is moving towards the physical Since God is the highest in spirit and in the world of mind, in order to control all of the physical world, God has to come down.

God, through religion, has been uniting the world of mind, and from this point, God is further moving the new providence, which is uniting not only the world of spirit and the world of mind, but also the world of flesh. And when God comes down to the world of flesh, and God's ideology for even the physical world is superior, then everything in that physical-body-centered ideology has to be united together, has to be gathered in.

Satan's method is aggressive and always offensive. God's method is sacrificial and conservative. God has been declaring peace from the very beginning. And He is the Principle of Peace. Satan resorts to war. Therefore, the history of man has been the history of war and this history will be no more. Everybody loves peace in this world; therefore, the new ideology will bring forth to the world a concept of uniting mind and body into one. The first peaceful man on the earth was the Creator. Through His ideology, the whole world will be united into one. Throughout history, man has had a selfish purpose. In order to achieve that selfish purpose, he has always made others sacrifice for him, has made the world sacrifice for him. However, God is the Father, and all men are in the position of children. God loves them with a love of giving; therefore, through this, confidence is much stronger through which the world is more quickly united. No parent wants his own children to quarrel with each other. If all brothers were united with the Parents, truly one, then among brothers, war could not be conceivable.

Satan's methods and Satan's actions have always been to take you away from the center, divide you, thus making you quarrel among yourselves. We must know that this world does not have a center, a core or nucleus and, thus, there is fighting among men. Therefore, this is a Satanic world.

However, we have a center and a nucleus. Once we are united with that center, or nucleus, then horizontally, we will all be united among ourselves. Once we fulfill this ideology, this ideal, then all the Satanic world will crumble. Therefore, Satan is constantly working to take us away from the center and divide us among ourselves. Evil men in this world have already used the same means. They are always telling you (and this is the sign of an evil man) to deny your parents and try to separate you from your parents and to encourage division among yourselves. You must know that this is the source of evil. Even though this world is the fallen world, the love of parents for children has not changed.

The age which denies the authority of the parents and disregards the parents has come. Children are trying to take their own selfish freedom. Then you must know that this age is the Last Days.

Men and women of the world are trying to think in a self-centered way about everything and are trying to take advantage of others for their own sake. Mankind will then be destroyed. Since this is the Last Days and God cannot afford to have this world crumble and be destroyed, God sent True Parents on the earth through which the whole world will be revived.

Therefore, God is trying to destroy this self-centered ideal, self-centered ideology, and God is bringing a new ideology, a new ideal on the earth that will benefit others. If you serve and sacrifice, then others will benefit. Put yourself in the Parents' position. If Parents have their own children, who help each other, give to each other, give and take with each other, then how much joy comes back to the Parents. On the other hand, when children are fighting each other, that breaks the Parents, heart. This is our way, this is our Divine Principle way. God installs the True Parents and we are all trying to unite as one with True Parents.

Then Satan attacks, but under any kind of Satan's attack, we must not separate. If no nation nor world power nor ideology on this earth has the power to separate the unity and the union between parents and children, then this is the ideology through which this world will be revived and will be saved and which will bring the world into unity.

From this standpoint, the French people must not be prideful people, particularly with other nationalities. The French people are in the position of Cain and the foreigners who came from outside are in the position of Abel because the French people have been here for many generations, but the foreigner has just come in.

Do you think like that? This is the view of the Divine Principle. Which one should obey the other? Should Cain obey Abel or should Abel obey Cain? Those hosts who treat their guests most kindly, cordially, that house will prosper. So you treat the guests right.

As I said, God has been working through the world of mind and the world of spirit, and upon this position, Christianity has been established. Sine Christianity does not have a physical base and the world of flesh has nothing to do with Christianity, because it gives only spiritual salvation, God is now establishing a new religion, and this new religion is the Unification Church.

If the Unification Church is really chosen for that position, then we have only one way. God sent me to fulfill this mission, and Satan, therefore, since this is his last day, desperately counterattacks from the individual level to family level, tribal level, national level and worldwide level, but Satan has not been successful. Then what do you think? Has the center been established on the earth or not?

Then, among the Unification Church members, if there are those who have the bitterest tribulations, rejections and accusations from their own family, and still deny their physical family and come to True Parents, then this is the solution, the final solution. Your parents might not like you, they may reject you and criticize you by saying that you are away from home and always in the Church.

It is very natural in our movement that when you go home, you have all kinds of headaches, but when you come to the Church, then even if your dwelling is very poor, and you sleep on the floor and eat a very poor diet, you feel in heaven. This must be the natural tendency. If our Church goes in this direction, then you must feel that this is the answer for the world. From this point, the world salvation will begin.

If these phenomena occur, not only among Frenchmen, but among many nationalities, without quarreling or fighting, and if they become true brothers and feel so comfortable with each other, then this is the final destination of God, our final terminal.

Do you think that this very place is right here? Then there is no other opening. There is no other way. Once you leave here, and go into the Satanic world, then division occurs. It is our mission, our responsibility to make our tradition for all the people of France. it is your responsibility to make this new ideology come to everybody so that people like God, and you popularize God. If the tradition is set up on those members who are not sure or are in and out, the flaggers, and if this is the case, then this movement will not go any further. The tradition must be set upon the absolute determination of sacrifice. Would you like to set your tradition on the highest level or on the lowest level? If you really want to see your tradition on the very highest possible level, then you cannot emphasize yourself. You must be in a servant's position, in the position of service. This is where you should be. The person who sets the tradition will become the patriot of that nation and a historical person. Would you like to become such a patriot and a historical man? The Unification Church is not only established in France. The Unification Church has been established in 30 different countries. In order to set the tradition for the worldwide level, then your determination should be on that level -- the highest.

Do you want to become the thumb, the top of the world, or the little finger that waves out into the world? If you cannot reach that highest possible tradition, that highest level, or set your tradition on the highest possible level, then do you want me to help you, to push you out to achieve that goal? Then, for French people, French method does not work. Also, the oriental method does not work either. The method that we are going to use is relentless, absolute, and sometimes cruel.

Let's decide one true patriot for France. Among many candidates, patriots of this nation, we finally decided three most likely candidates. Among three, one is a very old person, one is middle-aged, one is a young man, and all three gave their lives for France.

Who is going to be the top patriot of all? The old man? Middle-aged man? Young man? It must be the youngest man, then middle-aged man, and then the old man. This is a very normal sequence under normal circumstances. However, given another method of giving sacrifice, the youngest man was just shot and dropped dead.

The oldest man, however, died in a most miserable fashion. For example, his fingers, his arms, his legs, and all his members one by one were cut off. It was the most incredible and most miserable way to suffer death. If that is the case, then who will be the first patriot of all? The young man? One just died, just gave his life, yet the other one, the oldest man, gave his life and went through miserable suffering and tribulation. If you had to be in a position to die or give your life, would you like to die rather quickly or die slowly while you are going through tremendous suffering? It is almost doing him mercy to kill that person at once, but those who really went to best their enemies sometimes revenge through the method of slow killing.

Given a new situation, the old man and young man die in the same miserable fashion through slow killing. Then who will become the first one? The most natural thing is to bring the patriot who suffered the most and put him in the top position. Now do you think you can become the patriot of this new Kingdom of Heaven which only comes one time in human history? Those who are trying to live a comfortable life cannot come to this position. Those who are determined even to give their own lives for the sake of the cause can be in this position.

And do you think that Jesus come upon this earth for this great and divine mission? Don't you think he harbored the desire to set the highest possible tradition upon the earth? From that standpoint, it is a matching theory that Jesus preached to his disciples that he who finds his life will lose it and he who loses his life for his sake, will find it. You must give up everything and love me the most. Do you think this is the right method of training or the wrong method of training? It is this principle that directly applies to us all. Those who as future sons of God are trying to lose their lives for the world and world salvation, will find it. Which way would you prefer? Would you rather receive the command, the order from Father and do your best and fight and ultimately win the battle or do you just want to keep up with your own way and your own methods, then ultimately you will die. I am a man of strong will. Do you want me to say to you, "Well, you just do what you can do and you can have all kinds of freedom and possibilities, just do what you can do." Do you like this method? Or do you accept my strict commandment to you and push you out to one direction? I am going to be here for three days. So I am going to tell your leader in a very intimate talk, a very private talk and instruct him to push every one of you out to work. And if you ever feel that this German-born leader is really giving you a hard time, this is not right.

As I said before, there is no German, there is no French. We are all one breed and kind of people and we have only one tradition that works everywhere in the world.

We do not have weapons nor do we use any method of aggression to others, yet we have the strongest ideology on the face of the earth and even Communism cannot even compare with the ideology that we have. Then, there shall be many people who, echo our movement and who will try to stand on our side to help., us out. Our ideology has the power to bring all Christianity within our arms. Our teaching showing God, teaching the existence of God, is much clearer than Communism's denying God. Do you think that any Communist, who comes to know the reality of God and the existence of God can keep his own Communist ideology or do you think he will throw it away? He throws his conventional ideology away. If this is the truth, than the world is ours.

With our right foot, we subjugate Christianity; with the left. foot, we subjugate the ideology of Communism; and with both arms, we reach out to God and bring Him in and the world will be ours. One ideology will exist.

The world is under Satanic sovereignty. If theologians could solve the problem of why Satan could become the king of this world, then they would solve the rest of the problems. Satan is governing the entire world, and in this world, there is one representative nation. So God is working to establish one sovereignty under His direct command. That sovereignty is superior to any higher established, Satanic government. Satan is the fallen angel.

The angel become fallen and become Satan. If Satan is governing all the sovereignties of the earth, and if the angel is in the lowest position and is the lowest from God in heaven; therefore, the one nation that God directly controls or Adam directly controls must be superior to this nation which is under the sovereignty of Satan.

The new Messiah is coming in the position of Adam; he is coming as a restored Adam and therefore, he is the second and third Adam. So, the sovereignty that the new Messiah will command must be superior to the sovereignty that the fallen angel commands because the angel, in the original concept, should come under Adam. So, 2,000 years ago, God has been working to establish the chosen nation of Israel as a base for the foundation to receive the Messiah.

And, on this foundation, Jesus comes as the Messiah to become the head of this nation. So, this nation should have come under the Messiah's command and should have overcome or subjugated the Satanic sovereignty. Then, this dispensation and the whole of restoration should have become worldwide.

Jesus truly came as the King of Kings. So, he is coming in this position. If all the Satanic powers or sovereignties came and the government surrendered or became subjugated under the Messiah, then this is something like the fallen angel's position. It has to be restored by obeying Adam's position through which all the world shall be saved. Because of Jesus' death, this goal was not realized. The world is divided into two worlds -- one is the Democratic world, and the other is the Communistic world. The Democratic world is the base for the coming of the new Messiah.

And the new system, the Principle of the Kingdom of God, must then subjugate the Communistic world, and the world will become one under God's sovereignty. Then, in one stroke, the world will be united. Because of the death of Jesus, Christianity has only spiritual salvation. The physical base has been lost; therefore, In the physical world, in the free world, there is no physical base, no nation that God can claim as His own. Christianity has only been developing the spiritual force. Right now, just as Cain attacked Abel, the Communistic world, which is in the position of Cain, comes out of the world first and now it is ready to attack Asia. The ruin of Christianity, on the other hand, is in a very critical moment of peril at the coming of the new Messiah. Therefore, when the new Messiah comes, he will work with Christianity; however, the first thing he has to do is to establish his physical nation, the chosen nation of Israel as his physical base for the dispensation.

Christians are doing it and our nation is ready for it; therefore, the Unification Church should do it. The worldwide unity of the Unification Church will stand for establishing one nation under God's sovereignty. We are now forming the foundation for the world. So, you are the candidates. You are the fighters for the restoration of our heavenly Fatherland.

Once the good sovereignty becomes superior to the evil sovereignty, then things are already fulfilled. At this moment, the world will come to its very end. Then this God established sovereignty that we are working for under the new Messiah's command will unite all the other free nations into one. The Communistic world will crumble automatically. Therefore, this is the reason why Communism hates religion and calls religion an opium. Satan has the power of vanity and the power of the physical world. God is establishing this foothold in the spirit world and gradually comes down to establish His foundation upon the earth. And as soon as Satan began to lose his base and his power and his vanity, he used the power of that age, which is symbolically equivalent to our head.

He resorted to the power of the high-class society. And this part of history is up to World War I. In this struggle, Satan was defeated therefore, Satan resorted to the middle class, comparable to the middle part of our body. Satan used this power to throw out God's power. From World War I to World War II is the age, the period of military might. Physical power was the means to fight. When Satan failed, then God could restore up to that point.

Since Satan is the fallen angel which denies God, once God steps in and gets His power which accepts God, then the Satanic world will crumble. This angelic, heavenly archangel position is now America. America is in the position of heavenly restored angel. After World War II, the terminology left-wing and right-wing became popular terminology.

So, Communism, Satan, has no other place to go except to go further down to the leg part or lower part of the body. So, Satan is using the lower part of the body, earth and feet -- materialism. Lower class people are represented by the laborers. There will be confrontation between the ideology of heaven, which was originally America and the Free World, God's world in God's position, and the ideology of the earth or the Communist world in Satan's position. The leader of the Free World, America, should be in this superior position.

America is, however, declining and shaking right now. At this very moment, I started the Third World Mission. My mission of the Third World Tour is to bring this balance into its former position, in other words, to bring America's position into the originally intended position of God. Even though Satan is going down to the lower part, in other words, to materialist-related ideology, he is bringing up the power of the mind and mobilizing the power of the mind. He came out with an ideology; therefore, since he took this form of ideology, God cannot help but allow this to go on a world-wide level.

In the pattern of history, evil always comes out first. Communism came out as the last evil and it will stay upon the earth for a temporal period. Therefore, there is a division in Communism. If they split once again within themselves, then it is the end.

These things are not man made things. These come under God's plan and God's strategy. God's position is this: God is permitting Satan to use every desperate method, then Satan surrenders. In other words, if God has given Satan every possibility with everything he wants to do, Satan will say: "God, I have done my best. There is no other way. Now, I surrender.”

Satan is also working for his own purpose, his own goal to unite the world towards one world. He is working towards one world. In the Last Days, when God restores the Satanic world, then all the work Satan has done directly contributes as it is for the Godly purpose; therefore, even Satans in the Last Days, when they are restored, they are in a position that they have worked for God, and not for themselves. So, therefore, God preserves His position as absolute and almighty. The fallen angel, no matter how he tries, cannot become God but always remains in that position.

Why then is the last Satanic ideology a God-denying ideology? Because Satan knows that once he loses his last battle, in other words, once the lowest class people are restored to God, Satan has no more place to go. This is final. Therefore, he knows that he will not last so long. While there is an upper class and middle class, there is always somebody serving Satan, so Satan says, "Well, if I cannot have it, God cannot have it either." So he says, "There is no such thing as God." If this is the case, if all this is true, then have we come to the final days, last days, or not? Number two is the nearest number to number one. So, one world can only be established through our ideology. So, God will drive you out. The only reason why God drives you out is for success. The battle has now come to the final showdown.

On our side, there is God, the Unification Church members and the entire spirit world. Satan's side is Satan and the Communistic world. These two great struggles are happening now. You can compare these two camps -- Communistic camp or Satanic camp and God's camp. The Satanic camp has all the Communists in the world plus all the Satans. Our camp has God, the Unification Church members and the high, good, spirit world. Which side is the victor? Both God and Satan are trying to infiltrate the world through man's mind. They are trying to occupy man's mind. Satan is desperately trying to get us on his side, and God is working through the same side. Therefore, all kinds of mental disorders are occurring right now. And spirit world is descending, and this makes that situation even worse.

Because of this phenomenon, there are people which we call the hippy generation. They have become so disorganized. They are just becoming trapped and helpless people. On the other hand, there are young people, who are in the Unification Church, who rally around God and are moving the world in the right direction.

I might term these young people who participate in this crusade as God's hippies. Good people and evil people, good and evil separate from one point. Satanic people are denying everything-existing order, parents, their brothers, country and society. They are so disorganized that they do not know where they are standing. Right now, they claim that they are love -- flower people -- and claim that if you have love, it is the most precious and wonderful thing. But the time will come, when there will be nothing left. It will become a tragedy.

In a way, we are doing the same thing. We are denying existing order, existing world, existing nations, existing societies, existing families, existing parents, existing brothers. But, we are denying simply because we are establishing a new order, new parents, new brothers, new society, new nation, a new world centered on God. If you find such a peace to establish a new God centered order, then you have found the happiest place in the world. When this movement grows into the form of a tribe, it becomes the strongest tribe the world has ever known. When it becomes a race, with a new freedom and a new religion, then it becomes the strongest race the world has ever known. And if it takes the form of a nation, that nation will become the strongest nation the world has ever known. Since we are surrounded by the Satanic world, we have to penetrate into the Satanic world and establish our foothold on the family level, tribal level, race, national level and come up to the worldwide level.

That means we are destroying the Satanic sovereignty and establishing the sovereignty of God. We are surrounded by Satanic power, so we must first go across the Satanic world. We must all become restored to Adam's and Eve's position. Our position is superior to the archangel. As a fallen generation, can we get out of this, out of this bondage of Satan? Can you do it by your own power or do you need help from God? That is why the Messiah is an absolute necessity. The Messiah has come to destroy the Satanic sovereignty and establish the heavenly sovereignty, to open up a superhighway to perfection so that all mankind can follow this pattern and fulfill in the same fashion that he has. This is the first mission of the new Messiah. Secondly, the Messiah has come to eradicate the original sin from you and all mankind. Every one of us has original sin. The Messiah comes to eradicate it.

No matter how much you have strong faith in Jesus Christ, in Christianity, in the Pope, the bishops of France or the great men and devout men, do they have the power to eradicate original sin so that their own children will go to heaven without going through this process of salvation? Every child, every offspring in our family, still has to go through the same process of faith. They must believe in Jesus Christ. That is the proof that they cannot eradicate original sin. If they can really wipe out your original sin, then your children should be able to go to the kingdom of Heaven without coming to Jesus. Hell is the product of the Fall of Man and the Savior has also become a necessity by the Fall of Man.

Through the principle of the Fall of Man, I am sure that you learned of original sin and the problems of the Fall of Man. In short, in our blood stream, there is a Satanic lineage, so, within our own power, we cannot cleanse this stained blood.

Therefore, we need a help, and this help is the Messiah. Did you wipe out your original sin? Among us, is there one who claims to be without sin, so that your children can go to the Kingdom of Heaven without going through the process of believing in Jesus? So, you all need the Messiah. What are the two missions of the Messiah? One to change the Satanic lineage into heavenly lineage; second to restore the sovereignty to God.

The Fall came about through Parents, so the restoration must also be made by Parents. In the days of Adam and Eve and the Archangel, the True Parents did not have anybody to discuss with. All mankind is in the position of the fallen angel. I cannot teach all of you every truth I have because you are not ready.

Unless you accomplish, you cannot be taught. The Fall of Man was. initiated by Parents, Adam and Eve, who were in a fallen Parents' position; therefore, restoration is also done by Parents, True ones.

So, Adam and Eve, the True Parents, cannot discuss this matter of salvation to any other people because they are in the position of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and there was God, Adam and Eve. Besides them, there was only one -- that is the archangel who was fallen. The True Parents have no one to discuss, no one to confide upon. All mankind are in the position of children of the fallen angel. So, if I teach all the truth to you without your paying your indemnity, without your accomplishing, then you are immediately in the position to be accused by Satan. This is why for 6,000 years God could not reveal His hidden truth unless men were ready. And Jesus Christ could not give his whole truth to his disciples because none of them were ready. Among you, if you can believe in Father for 1,000 years, 10,000 years without failing, raise your hand. But there is really no one capable. You never know what will happen tomorrow. Therefore, for years I have been watching and waiting for all of you. I am fulfilling my mission all by myself. When you hear me speak, then you will feel that the world has become so small and that everything comes within the grasp of your hand. It is natural that you feel that.

Three people are most afraid of me. First of all, Christians fear me, Communists fear me, and Satan, of course, fears me. Are you afraid of me? If I am Father, we are your True Parents, and you are the children, how can children be afraid of their parents?

Process of Restoration

Sun Myung Moon
April 1972
Paris, France Unification Church

Master speaks to Japanese Unification Church leaders at Cheju Island during their tour across Korea country in September 1972

Master speaks to Japanese Unification Church leaders at Cheju Island during their tour across Korea country in September 1972

Because of the fall of man, we received the Satanic blood. If the parents, Adam and Eve, did not fall, then they would have been sinless children and children of God. Because of the fall of man, both became children of Satan. Originally, lordship is only from God. God is the only Lord over man. However, because of the illicit relationship with Satan, Satan became the illegal lord over man. The Principle says that love is accompanied by the power of control, or domination. Therefore, even though it was an illicit love, Satan has a certain power, or authority, or right to claim ownership over man. But, according to the principle of creation, God is original Lord. Therefore, both can claim man. However, it is physically impossible to cut Adam into two pieces and Eve into two pieces, and then divide between God and Satan. Therefore, from the standpoint of the Principle, God established certain rules to divide man into two parts. From the position of God as internal being, and others in an external / internal / external relationship and subject and object relationship, God has set the rules to divide. Therefore, God divided the fallen Adam and Eve through their two children.

Cain is on the side representing Satan, and Abel is representing the position of sinless Adam. By taking the second son, God is taking the internal position, and this represents a lesser evil. In other words, the second love between Adam and Eve. Abel is the fruit of the second love, whereas Cain is the fruit of the first love, which was representing Satan in this love. Abel is closer to the relationship with Adam, therefore, the second son was taken by God's side.

Originally, the sequence of the chain of command originated from God, Adam and Archangel. Therefore, in this situation, this relationship must be that of God, Abel and Cain. This is the restored position. First, by restoring this formula, God is restoring the lost Principle into the original state, and secondly, He is restoring love. Because of the fallen act, the lineage was crossed; in other words, the Satanic lineage occupies the human bloodline. Therefore, it has to be restored into the original state. So, the second son, Abel, must restore the birthright of the first son.

In these situations, the fall has occurred in the mother's womb, this original point. Therefore, they should be restored in the mother's womb. Since this was the source of evil, the source of origination, in restoration, we have to go back to the source. So, in using these two brothers, God is going through His dispensation for restoration of the birthright of the first son. Cain should come down to Abel's position; Abel should come up to Cain's position, the first son's position.

However, Cain slew Abel. That act is repeating the fallen act in the time of Adam and Eve; therefore, instead of being restored, the angel was in a position to subjugate Adam once again. It is very difficult to fully comprehend; therefore, I drew the diagram. Using two brothers with a different age is far too distant; therefore, God wants you much closer, bringing this restoration down to a closer level, closer to the source.

The best thing would be to have Cain and Abel return, retract their lives and go back to mother's womb, but it is physically impossible. (Blackboard: This is like a folding in the center, and repeating this part (I) into this area (II) so that it is equivalent. This (I) corresponds to this part (II).) God's providence occurred using twin brothers, Esau and Jacob. By the same principle applied to Cain- Abel, Jacob must be restored to the Esau, elder brother position. Esau must come down to the younger brother's position.

This figure represents True Parents (a) represents Adam and Eve, the fallen parents. Up to here the upper position (b), Cain came; in the lower position (c), Abel the two sons of Adam and Eve.

This figure represents True Parents (a) represents Adam and Eve, the fallen parents. Up to here the upper position (b), Cain came; in the lower position (c), Abel the two sons of Adam and Eve.

The twin brother's mother was Rebecca. When she was to conceive, the two children m the mother's womb were fighting. And she went to the Lord, inquiring the Lord, and the Lord said to her: "Two nations are in your womb. Two people born of you shall be divided, and the elder shall serve the younger." This is God pronouncing Jacob set the condition to be free of accusation, so that Jacob could buy the birthright from Esau by selling red potage. Therefore, even though Jacob deprived the birthright from Esau, Satan cannot accuse him. The birthright was restored and the blessing was received by Jacob from his father. Yet Esau was so mad and angry that he tried to kill Jacob, as Cain did. Jacob was in a position to restore the lost position of Adam as well as the position of Cain. He fled to Haran for 21 years, which is self-explanatory that he had not quite fulfilled his entire mission. 21 years later, after accumulating his wealth, he returned to his homeland Canaan. In the process of the fall of man, the mother initiated the fallen act, and the son consummated the fallen act, and they cooperated bringing the fall to man. In the restoration process, this must be reversed. Therefore, in the time of Jacob, Jacob's mother, Rebecca, and Jacob, the second son cooperated together to achieve the goal of Jacob.

In the fallen process, Eve lied to Father [God] and lied to Adam, her own brother. In restoration, Rebecca lied to her husband and to her elder son to get the blessing for Jacob. Isaac, the father of the two children, was in God's position, and his son Esau was in Cain's position; therefore, now, Jacob's mother, Rebecca, lied to these two in restoration, reversing the cycle of the fallen process. Unless you fulfill this process, the restoration cannot be completed. Thus, the actual condition, the foundation is established, but the physical form was not yet established or restored. And, so far, Jacob's mother had fulfilled, but this time, it was Jacob's turn. Jacob's mission was to restore Adam's position, which was attacked by the angel, and also Abel's position which was slain by Cain. And thus, Jacob must return to the Esau position and subjugate Jacob.

What was his mission after 21 years? You must think in these terms: how Adam was lost. The first important thing is that Adam's position has to be restored. He was subdued by whom? He was subdued by the angel, then, in order to restore that position, he had to struggle, to fight with the angel. This happened in the Ford of Jabbok. He struggled all night with the angel, and what happened? The angel admitted that Jacob won, and blessed him. And the original chain of command was restored. Why then did the angel hit the thigh of Jacob before he blessed him? The action of the fall of mankind came by misusing the thighs, that part of the body. Therefore, by attacking that sinful part, the law of restitution was fulfilled -- in the Old Testament: eye for eye, tooth for tooth; that law was fulfilled. Then the angel could bless Jacob.

Then, what was the second mission of Jacob? Whose position was to be restored? Jacob won over the angel. So the victory, the internal victory was won and Adam's position was restored. Under that condition now, Jacob was in a position to restore Abel. Jacob, therefore, now coming back from Haran after 21 years, sent all his property as a gift to his elder brother Esau to appease his heart, and he only looked for his elder brother's blessing, so that his elder brother Esau welcomed him. He gave all his property to him as a sacrifice.

Esau, after receiving all these gifts of great property, instead of killing Jacob, accepted him and welcomed him. So, Esau came down to younger brother's position, and Jacob went up to elder brother's position. Therefore, in this situation, this is the reason why Jacob, when he blessed his grandchildren, the children of Joseph, crossed his arms, so that the left was upon the first-born Manasseh, and the right arm went over the second son Ephraim. He had restored Esau's position, so he could do it. According to the Bible, Jacob's character was very cunning. Then, isn't it a mystery why God blessed and used this cunning man, and gave him the blessing? Well, here is the reason. Now, Divine Principle shows this answer. Jacob was in a position of having fulfilled God's dispensation. Do you think it's convincing to you? Do you think this is all my own making? This event occurred many thousand years ago, but nobody has known the true reason until the Divine Principle. From this point (d); the name Israel started. Even though Jacob established the victorious foundation, it is not yet the source which is right here (e), therefore, it has been restored upon this same corresponding position.

Therefore, this distance (d) has been restored, so one more act should be fulfilled. If God ends his dispensation at this level of Jacob, then the level up to Jacob's age remains unrestored. But suppose God's dispensation occurred in the age of Jacob and was successfully completed at his years. Then all generations beyond this age are restored because of this condition; but up to Jacob's years, that is, from birth up to middle age, still remains unrestored and untouched. Therefore, one more further dispensation must come at the very source, in the mother's womb.

(Mr. Park:) Let's say, I'm Jacob, I'm 43 years old, by God's dispensation I restored Esau's position at this age. So, all my life ahead of me is all restored, but from my birth to 43 years of age is untouched. Satan controls these 43 years.

The third dispensation of God occurred, once again, this time at the very source of the fall, the mother's womb. The very first mother, Eve, fell because she distrusted God. Therefore, Tamar, who is fulfilling Eve's position, in return, has to have absolute faith in God. She must forget her dignity her pride, even giving up her life. Eve, because of her distrust, had thrown out her Father, God. Instead of God the Father, Eve received Satan as father in His place. By the same token, Tamar must bring Father into the picture.

Eve could not become one with her Father. This was the fall. Therefore, in Tamar's case, she must unite with her Father in one union. Judah was in a father-in-law position, and he was fulfilling the father role to Tamar. This time, Tamar was conceived [inseminated] by her father-in-law Judah in one union. Judah was the father-in-law of Tamar. And Judah was in father's position. By father and daughter uniting, she was conceived, in other words, she conceived a baby from her father-in-law.

Go ahead and refer to Genesis Chapter 38. Judah had three sons, and Tamar was the wife of the first son. Her husband died, and usually in that case, in the Jewish custom, she would bear a baby through the second son; but the second son died, and the third son was too young. Therefore, Tamar thought that it was very important, a vital thing, to continue that God-restored genealogy. Therefore, she must exhaust that last resort, to conceive through Judah, her father-in-law.

So, in other words, in that case, her pride was thrown out, she even risked her life. Therefore, Tamar pretended to be a harlot, and stayed by the roadside in the passage of her father-in-law. So, when Judah was on his way to his farm, she enticed her father-in-law, and had a relationship with him.

She conceived a baby, and at that time, in order to have a proof for future purposes, the wise woman Tamar received three types of gifts from her father-in-law. One of them was a signet[ring], and a cane [staff], and the other was the little kid or lamb.

In other words, Tamar could not fulfill the mission to conceive a baby through her father-in-law if she openly wanted to do it. Therefore, she disguised herself as a harlot and enticed and wooed her father-inlaw for the love relationship. Judah didn't recognize her as his daughter-in-law. For future proof, Tamar received three evidences, and one was a signet or seal, the other was a cane, and a little kid. Why did she have to do this? The law of Israel, of the Jewish people at that time, was that, if a widow conceived a baby without having a husband, she was killed by stoning.

And, as the months advanced, Tamar was visible. So the rumor was going around, and it went to Judah's ear. Judah was so mad, and he brought in his daughter-in-law, and condemned her to death by burning with fire. At that critical moment, Tamar presented the evidences she kept and told the people that this baby was conceived by the owner of the jewelry. Do you think Tamar risked her life to fulfill her mission or not? She had no other purpose, no other thought, except one -- to fulfill the will of God. Tamar set the condition to restore fallen Eve's position, by taking exactly the opposite course. Do all the female members here think Tamar did well or not? Only God knows, nobody knows.

You are the most lucky, fortunate people that you know the hidden mystery and secrets in just a matter 30 to 40 minutes. Thus, Tamar conceived a baby. And these twins struggled inside the womb of the mother. And Tamar prayed. Then the Lord came to her saying the same thing that He said to Rebecca: "Two nations are in your womb; the nations, the two people are divided, and the elder shall serve the younger".

Do you think God should say that or not? God waited for 2,000 years for the moment of fulfillment. Now, the time of delivery came, and first son, Zerah, pushed out his arm. The midwife took a scarlet thread around his wrist. This is the symbolic prophecy that in the last days Communism comes out first. In order to restore 7,000 years of history, this shows that Satanic communist history would last 70 years. Now, this is where the figure 1978 came from, because Communism started in 1917, so it lasts approximately 60 years. From this point on, Communism will decline. This is the truth, therefore, for those who are studying Communism, this is the time to throw it away.

The struggle occurred in the mother's womb. And the second son, Perez, pushed aside Zerah, and came out first. This restoration, this changeover occurred in the mother's womb.

The principle that Jesus must come through the genealogy of Judah was established at this point. Now, from this point, Cain is going down, Abel is going up. From this point, history is proceeding in a wider range, from family to tribe, tribe to nation and national level. At the same time, the Satanic expansion is also parallel, and these two distinct camps are divided into two distinct areas, progressing on to the national level. This (f) is the history of Israel. This (g) represents the Israeli nation.

The Satanic world is expanding from family level to tribe level, racial level and national level, so that they form the Satanic nation. The circle from small family level, expanding to tribe, and racial level, this (h) is the nation of Cain. Therefore, this (g) must be a nation of Abel, which is the chosen nation of Israel, which also grows from family to tribe, race and nation. God waited 2,000 years to have this chosen nation of Israel formed in the form of a nation. God had to wait the 2,000 years Satan had already established a nation, so God's nation must be superior to the nation of Satan. While the Israelite nation was going through history from family level, tribe level, racial level to national level, they made many mistakes. John the Baptist came with the mission to restore all the mistakes that the Israelite nation made, so that Christ, the Messiah could come upon the foundation that was fully established. John the Baptist came in the position of Cain, whereas Jesus came in the position of Abel. The chosen nation Israel uniting with John the Baptist became plus (+) which is Abel. Then Jesus came as the Messiah upon this nation. Once the Israelite people united absolutely with Jesus Christ, they would have formed an absolute plus (+) and then an absolute minus (+) would have been formed. This would never have been destroyed.

It started this way, and after dispensation, finally this all ended, culminating in the True Parents, which is absolute plus (+) and minus (+). Since Jesus was crucified, the True Parents, in physical form, were not realized. Even though the lineage of God was established, the physical manifestation, the True Parents, both spiritual and physical, was not reality. This (i) represents the Christian history, and is only in the spiritual realm, in other words, only spiritual salvation.

Physical salvation, the redemption of the body, was not realized. So far, Christianity has only a spiritual father and a spiritual mother. And, with the coming of True Parents, we are all destined to be born again, spiritually and physically. In other words, in order to be born again, we are almost repeating the process here, by returning conditionally, symbolically and going back to the mother's womb, being born as a new life. In Christianity so far, the Holy Spirit was in a role of mother. Through the mother of the Holy Spirit, and then, through the spirit of the father, which is the spirit of Jesus, we are born again on a spiritual level. Of course, here we were born in the mother's womb, but going back one step further, the origination of life starts from the father. By going back up to mother's womb, only the lineage was crossed and restored. But Father was not in the picture. So far Christians, rely on the power of the Holy Spirit, which is a mother spirit, have been waiting to return to the very origin, the source of life, which is the father, the coming Christ.

Before we fell, it we had not fallen, then all life of the son and daughter would have been initiated from Adam as a seed in the father. It is the seed of the son and daughter in the father's body. In an original, fundamental sense, you cannot be born spiritually only, you must be born in spirit and body, spiritually and physically together. Therefore, we are going back into the position of seed, starting-all over again in spirit and body. In order to fulfill that providence that Jesus promised there must be a bridegroom and a bride, who become True Parents, through whom we are reborn, reseeded as a seed which is planted again and come and out into the world as a new life. Then, when we are born, this is a new restored life. So, from this explanation now, is the Lord of the Second Advent, the new Messiah, a necessity or not? Do we need the new Messiah or not?

During the time of Jesus, since this physical world was not restored, is has continued its expansion, up to a world-wide level, and therefore, in the last days, the world will be divided into two parts, and one represents Satan and one represents.

God, and there is no more. At this point, in the last days, there is great confusion and chaos. The new Messiah must inherit all these backgrounds and a foundation. The new Messiah mush inherit the Christians, who are spiritually in a position of seed in the body of Jesus. The Christians are not yet born completely. Therefore, they are like a seed in the body of Jesus. Yet it is only spiritually that they have inherited this factor. Therefore, the Father will come out first and will establish the foundation first. Here (e), in this case, the mother fulfilled the role, but, here (j), father has a big role.

So, there is a seven-year period during which everyone must unite with Father, before even mother is manifest. So you are returning to the position of seed in the body of perfected Adam, which was not yet married. You are going back, straight back to the source. We all can see it comes from the father, the unfallen man; the seed must be conceived, starting at the body of Adam, who is not yet married, who is a single man. The seed is right there; we must go back to this position. And that role was fulfilled by the Unification Church.

Since Jesus was rejected by the Israelite people, in order to restore Jesus' position, there is the uphill stroke by the Second Advent. Of course, all of us who are already physically born and grown up cannot go back to the seed position in perfected Adam's body. Therefore, we are setting a condition to be born again through union with the True Parents and True Children. Since there is a principle that, by having Cain completely obedient to Abel, both are restored, through this principle, we, in the Cain position, unite with Abel, the True Parents and True sinless Children. By uniting with them, we are given the same blessing as restored children. Therefore, when the True, sinless Children were born through the True Parents, we must set the condition to share the same ingredients the same food, and so forth. So, that we must go through the position of participating in True Children's position.

The archangel had to be in an obedient position while God created Adam and Eve. By the same token, we fallen men and women, must be obedient to the True Parents and unite with the children of the True Parents while they are in the process of being created, being born. All the female members, through whom do you unite and set the condition to become a new born child?

The father is not enough. The process must occur through True parents. No matter how important is the Father, through True Parents and their children. Female members through whom? Of course, through True Children. The True Parents have children, a son and a daughter. Which side should you be united with? True Parents, Mother and Father, and daughter. And men? True Parents and son. Since the woman fell first, the Restoration of woman comes first, then man. So, who is in this position -- this first restored female? This is the first daughter of the True Parents. The first son is the second child of the True Parents. This is only a skeleton, a very brief explanation. Behind this whole explanation, there is such a deep, complicated process.

With the birth of these True sinless Children, the heavenly four positions is restored for the first time in history. This is the restoration of the heavenly four positions within our Church and the whole of Satanic world has nothing to do with it. Since the chosen nation was not restored, from this point on, the expansion of this heavenly foundation goes from family level to tribal level, racial level up to national level. However, the center, the core is the heavenly Family that was restored with the four positions. This nation is the strongest, invincible nation, which was failed by Israel.

This will be the center of the outside world, which will be superior to all other Satanic sovereignties. This is Satanic world (l). Once the heavenly nation is restored, then it will expand to two sovereignties, three, four until we cover the entire world. Then, the nation that belongs to that heavenly state will automatically restore lock, stock and barrel the whole thing together. Up to the restoration of one sovereignty for God, it is like a vertical course. Unless you restore up to a national sovereign ty, no matter how much restoration you have done, then, if one Satanic head of state or government is installed, the whole thing can crumble. Therefore, it is our most urgent mission to restore one sovereignty.

In order to do that, we must unite with the True Parents completely and absolutely; then, with our brothers, in all the world Korea, Japan and elsewhere. Through this process, you must realize how, difficult a process this road of restoration must be. In Jesus' time, Jesus said to Nicodemus: "You must be born again'', and Nicodemus always protested, saying: "I am an old man. How can I go back to mother's womb? How can I be born again as a new life?" And Jesus said: "You, Nicodemus, teacher of Israel, you do not know." But Jesus was truly speaking of this principle.

In Christianity, the words, the terminology of resurrection and rebirth, all this means this one pattern, this one same thing. This point, (e) the restoration of lineage, was done finally through mother, and the Principle was restored and the stained lineage was restored into the heavenly lineage. However, through the Father, through Father's body, we are fundamentally reborn as a completely new life, new creation.

So, from this creation, from this time on, the salvation of spirit and physical redemption is completely possible. Thus our children will go into heaven without going through the process of salvation.

You must realize how restoration is a difficult process. I not only found out the Truth, but also fulfill all this Truth. Now, I'm giving it to you free. You are just like a college student without doing anything, receiving a diploma. You must realize that, if Master did not come to all this, then you, all France, all the Frenchmen would be used for sacrifice to give this blessing of restoration. By going one step further, all the world's problems can be consumed as a sacrifice so that God can fulfill the restoration of this position. And God wants still more. It is that much precious and valuable.

The slogan this year for the Unification Church is the defense of the battle line of unification. It means that we must protect and defend this heavenly establishment. So, wherever we are, we, all the Unification Church members, march together, united with the Korean Family, to protect the Unification Church battle line. From the worldwide situation, with regard to our movement, Korea is the nation where the most foundation has been established. Therefore, we must work with Korea to the degree of restoring this sovereignty. If we want to start new in other nations, then we have to start all the way from the beginning, from scratch. Until 1974, which will be the year of completion of the second seven-year's course, I must work with Korea, and I must finally stay in Korea, and concentrate everything in Korea.

This is equivalent to Jacob's second seven-year's course. Once this period is past, then we are going to have the world-wide foundation. We will have enough economic strength to spend for heavenly restoration. If one nation is restored, all nations can be restored.

Answers About the Principle of Rebirth

Sun Myung Moon
March 24, 1972

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In Asia people talk not about the principle of rebirth but about the theory of reincarnation, which is a Buddhist idea. They view returning resurrection as such a phenomenon, because they just see it as a single instance. They do not see the whole picture. Spirit people in the spirit world want to benefit through people on earth. This is their request.

Original people who have not fallen are valuable beings who can manage the angelic world and the universe. Due to the Fall, people dropped several levels downward and consequently must go back up to that original position. In ascending, however, they do not do so in one step but through stages, restoring individuals, families, tribes, people, nations, the world, and all the way up to the cosmos.

Originally, people were to go to this world. Yet, because there is no way of going up in one step, each stage must be pioneered and passed through, from the individual to the family, from the family to the tribe, and from the tribe to the race.

In view of God's providence, those who died before the Old Testament Age, which is the age of the providence for individual salvation, desire to enter that age and receive its benefits. As such, going up each stage inevitably requires indemnity. Crossing over each stage inevitably requires conditions of indemnity, like in the case of Cain and Abel.

Even if a spirit named A has been helping through this age up to this point, he cannot cross over into the next stage just like that. There must be a period of indemnity. It is not finished in a day or two but rather over a period of time, such as seven years, forty years, seventy years, or even a few centuries.

Since spirit A, who has been helping up to this point, cannot continue his ascent before his period of indemnity ends, he returns to the spirit world. Spirit A wants someone on earth called B to lay the foundation, but if B fails to indemnify within the period and dies, spirit A chooses someone else called C and waits impatiently to return through C. Thus, the spirit who returns to C is the same A who had returned to B.

Suppose the spirit person is Paul. If A, through whom he returns in an attempt to ascend through each stage over the ages, fails to indemnify within that period and dies, Paul returns through B and helps him and ascends. There must be an indemnity period.

According to the Principle, indemnity is not accomplished in a short time. For this reason, if B, the second chosen person, does not indemnify, the next person C is chosen for coming again. So eventually, Paul will have returned through C. If B were to leave a message or were to do something, he would say that he is working with Paul's assistance now. Likewise, C in the next age will also say in the message that he is working with Paul's assistance and that he is even Paul himself. This way, it looks as if Paul's spirit appeared in B and again in C around the world.

Looking only at such a phenomenon, people call it reincarnation. It appears like it is this phenomenon of reincarnation. People speak like this, because they do not see the whole picture. Such phenomena will appear in this age as well until the global and cosmic ages.

Originally, people were not supposed to live under Satan's rule but rather within the realm of God's direct dominion. Yet due to the Fall, they have come to live in the fallen domain. In order to escape from this fallen domain, they must pay indemnity as individuals and as families. Without indemnifying this, they cannot escape. Each stage looks like a phenomenon of reincarnation or transmigration of souls, because spirit people must appear in each age through the returning phenomenon.

From this point of view, the same applies to all of you. If you have faith just as an individual, but die before having a family, you must surmount the standards of the family, tribe, people, nation and world. Because of this, you will not know how many eons it would take. It corresponds to infinity. Even Jesus could not go over the national standard. In order to do so, he has to come again, and only by going over the peak of the nation can he enter heaven. Right now, he is in paradise and the same reasoning applies here.

The person to whom Jesus comes and directly guides and dwells within calls himself "Jesus." Seeing only this, a person thinks that Jesus is born again in him, which gives rise to the theory of reincarnation. You must understand such a spirit world well.

People who are supposed to live in God's direct dominion of goodness live instead in the fallen dominion, and thus must escape from the evil dominion. This is why such things happen. Jesus did it spiritually. So did Christianity.

From this point of view, the Unification Principle of Resurrection conforms exactly to the realities of the spirit world. In other words, it teaches you the formulas of the spirit world. So far, countless religious people have experienced these unknown facts of the spirit world but have not understood them clearly.

When you hear this principle, however, do not just learn it as a theory. It is difficult enough to find this principle itself, but you must practice it in your own life and achieve victory. If you fail in this, I will not teach it to you.

In other words, instead of just learning about Noah's family, Abraham's family, Jacob's family, the age of Moses, John the Baptist, and the age of Jesus and stopping there, it involves understanding about them all, paying indemnity for them, and equipped yourself with the restored foundation of victory. I will teach it to you when you have done that.

Unless we turn our past defeats by Satan into victory, we cannot realize God's will. The figures who took charge of the providence of restoration – such as Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Moses – did not know this. Yet the Lord who is coming upon the earth must indemnify the failures of individuals, families, tribes, people and nations. He is the representative who knows all this and can put it into effect until the ideal world is found. If he does not, it will not be realized.

When meeting the Messiah, what will happen if you believe in and follow him? If you meet him at the time he perfects the ages of the individual, family, tribe, people and nation, you will also receive the benefits of those ages, ascending to the national level. Yet, for those in the age of the individual to receive the Messiah and thereby ascend to the age of the family, they must pay indemnity on earth, just as spirit people do. Also, because they must go through the course of indemnity to ascend from the age of the family to the age of the tribe, the longer they have stayed in the Unification Church, the more indemnity they have paid. The longer they have been here, the closer they are to me.

The way up to the age of the nation is one of vertical ascent, and the national system should be determined and surmounted here. Yet, if you do not continue the process of ascending, you may fall away, because however high the stage to which you ascend, the same phenomena recur, due to indemnity; this is the nature of spiritual phenomena. Indemnity blocks your way. It causes opposition. This is why it is easy to fall away after taking a risk and making a mistake. If you fail here, you will collapse.

The nation of Israel and Judaism prepared to receive the Messiah for over four millennia, but because the Will remained unfulfilled with his death, the prepared foundation completely collapsed. Consequently, countless people have been sacrificed in the ups and downs of the process.

This happens to the mainstream of God's providence, but it also happens to many subsidiary peoples around the world. Through this, indemnity is paid globally.

Since the providence ascends as a mainstream in this way, other people around the world take either conforming or opposing positions and pay indemnity. Things are organized through such indemnity. Until now, countless religions have made many sacrifices in going the course of restoration.

The question is how do people in the spirit world and religious people on earth attain the highest level of goodness? In other words, how do they take their places after transcending the national level? This person becomes the Messiah; he comes to seek that. As he knows the way to pay indemnity, when people unite with him, even though they have not yet paid indemnity, their indemnity period will be shortened. If a nation takes its place with him, all individuals of the nation will be included here. If a nation pays indemnity, its families, tribes, people, and the nation itself will ascend to the global level. Looking at it this way, think how quickly the world would be restored if one nation were recovered!

Only by establishing a nation can we transcend paradise. Paradise is the same as a waiting room before going to heaven. If errors remain that were committed by Adam, Noah, Abraham and Jacob as they underwent the process of restoration, these must all be indemnified. Without indemnity being paid, horizontal development cannot take place.

From this point of view, we can know how important a nation is. If we have a nation, we will not fall away. For instance, the German government intervenes with the affairs of foreigners in Germany in the same way it does with its own citizens. If a foreigner does something wrong, he is deported. If someone is deported and if he is stateless, where can they go? They have nowhere to go. Even if such a person was sentenced to death, they would have nowhere to appeal.

The same can be said about the satanic realm. In the satanic realm, we are their enemies. As theists are their enemies, how much do they hate and persecute us in their realm? Not only that, even if they were to deport or kill us, we would have nowhere to appeal. Since the nation is important, God comes looking for it.

In seeking a nation, you must pay indemnity for the individual, family, tribe, people and nation. You must go through indemnity courses as an individual, family, tribe and people. Otherwise, there is no way to the world-level course. Since the nation is the center, each nation must pass through the central nation in order to go this way.

If you died without restoring a nation, you could only return to the earth to support individuals and families, unable to work with dignified authority. You would not be qualified to fight for the occupation of the satanic world.

Accordingly, you can be registered only when a nation appears. Have you been registered? You have been registered with the Unification Church, but not with God's unified nation. Can you be citizens without a nation? No.

Because of this, all the people in the spirit world hope to assist the people of this nation. Only if you are in this nation will returning phenomena occur horizontally.

As the phenomena occur horizontally, the foundation you work for will remain for you. When ascending in seeking that nation, however much indemnity you may have paid, you would lose everything if you were to collapse. Wherever you might have climbed up to from the bottom, if you were to collapse, everything would disappear. This has happened repeatedly. But when this is being done on a horizontal level, what you have worked for will remain eternally. In other words, in the age of ascending through restoration, you lose what you invested through indemnity, but when a nation is found and we work horizontally, it will be the age in which your efforts will remain as your accomplishments, rather than disappearing as indemnity.

The Appearance of the Messiah

Sun Myung Moon
March 24, 1972

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There have been many religions, but what has been their mission? Their mission is to find one particular person. Many religions talk about attaining salvation and other such matters, but they are seeking to find the one person able to rise to the highest point in the world, the one person who has even gone beyond that point. They want to bring this person into existence. In this way, the center of all religions is one specific person; he is the Messiah. In other words, all religions have been looking for one person, and this one person, the central being, is the Messiah, the Savior. When the Messiah comes, he does not come to his position immediately. He has to fulfill a seven-year course. The Messiah is a man. This Messiah has to come and gain victory over Satan by going beyond the blood relationship of the satanic world.

Centering on this triumphant man, there should be victory on the level of the family, tribe, and people, and a foundation for national victory must be laid. One man alone will not suffice. In other words, he must be greater than the satanic world. Unless the Messiah rises above the families belonging to the satanic world, he cannot lead them.

The highest level in the satanic world is that of a nation. Satan has always been opposing God's will through nations. Since Satan has the nation, he has used it to strike heaven on the level of the individual, family, tribe, and people. Satan has constantly used a nation to block the path prepared by heaven.

Ultimately, if you are opposed and persecuted, it is because you are in an inferior position; if you are in a superior position, you can turn around and persecute and dominate. Because this world became Satan's through the Fall, there are plenty of individuals, families, tribes and nations on the satanic side. But God has none of these on His side. There is only one individual, but there is no family, tribe, people, or nation that has come up to God's standard. Hence, without a foundation on which the Messiah as an individual can triumph on the family level, the tribal level, and the national level, there is no way for ordinary people to advance.

Through individuals and families, God prepared a realm into which a people who could advance with the Messiah when he came to earth. This was the people of Israel who lived with the concept of being the chosen people.

However, the people of Israel have not yet arrived in that realm. It was as if they were held back behind a line. The hope of the chosen people was to go over this line. If they failed to cross over, it would be a great disaster. They had to cross this line and yet, as hard as they tried, it was impossible to cross over on their own. That is why God promised the people of Israel that He would send them the Messiah, the Savior. This was the Messiah for whom God had prepared for thousands of years in order to transcend this line on the national level. He promised to send the Messiah.

The people of Israel should have become completely one with the Messiah when he came to them. They should have been willing to die for him. If they had, Satan could never have separated them in any way. The Messiah could have engrafted them to him on the individual, family, tribal, people and national levels and brought them into this realm all at once. This is why the world needs the idea of the chosen people. With that people chosen by God, the Messiah should build God's chosen nation. The existence of a chosen people proves God's existence. And judging from that basis, the prophecy about the coming of the Messiah further proves His existence.

For what purpose do we need the Messiah? That is the question. Through the Fall, we came to have false parents. The parents who were to have become one with God disappeared. The Messiah comes in the position of parents through whom we can be one with God. This is the first purpose of the Messiah. What is the second? It is to give us rebirth. Since satanic blood runs in our veins, the Messiah will drain out this satanic blood and engraft us to him. He will give us second birth and thus we shall no longer be Satan's sons and daughters. The Messiah's third purpose is to transform us into the people who can turn the devil into a servant and put him to work as a servant. In other words, the Messiah will come and make us qualified to subjugate Satan and punish him.

Because of the Fall, human beings first lost the chance to have parents. Second, they received satanic blood; third, they came under satanic dominion. Restoring what was originally intended requires going in the reverse order. In the Principle, we have the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance. We can hope for the Messiah only when we have laid these foundations of faith and substance. This is the Principle. We must establish the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance.

Unification Movement's Founder Sun Myung Moon here in Berkeley

March 8, 1972
The Berkeley Daily Gazette

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Sixty-five followers of the Unification Church yesterday rallied at Sproul Plaza on the University of California campus here to announce the advent of an "ideal society" and the appearance here of the movement's Korean founder.

The young people, called "pioneers" is the world ecumenical movement originally named The Unified Family, essentially asked for a big turnout to hear Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, speak Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 8 at the Hotel Claremont.

Joseph Sheftick, director of missionaries for the church, explained the movement, which started in 1954, will "bring man together with the Creator".

Nancy Callahan, a philosophy senior formerly involved in politics and a Unification Church convert, said that neither Marixism nor Christianity as you have understood it" has the answers. Among the "pioneers," who have preceded Sun Myung Moon on each of his visits to seven US cities, are more than a dozen Berkeleyans.

The three-year-old Berkeley chapter, also known as the Unified Family, maintains three "living centers," including its church at 1727 Euclid Ave., and operates several small businesses. The Berkeley lecture series, called "This is the Day of Hope," is billed as three nights of "lecture, song, and celebration" to deal with such topics as the unification of religions, and the need for spiritual revival in America, the establishment of "God-centered families," and Marxism's challenge to Christianity.

Music for the event will be provided by the Unification Chorale, 80 young men and women currently training to be missionaries for the church in the US.

Tickets for the forthcoming talks are available from the Unification Church, 1727 Euclid Ave.

According to Edwin Ang, director of the Berkeley Unification Church: "Mr. Moon chose the United States for these speeches-his first such public appearances anywhere in the world-because he is convinced that America must fulfill a crucial mission for God in our time."