Three Major Principles: Absolute Love

Sun Myung Moon
Circa 1968
Excerpt
Living Faith in the Era after the Coming of Heaven
From "Selected Speeches of Reverend Sun Myung Moon"

Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, May 23, 2011

Absolute love exists where you live for the sake of others. When you empty yourself completely, absolute love can visit and dwell within you. Absolute love has nothing to do with you when you are concerned with your own matters, existence, or concepts. Unless you get rid of these concerns, absolute love will never visit you. You must know this. If wives insist on their own situation or husbands only wants to claim their interests, a history of wars and a world of conflicts will follow them.

What is most important is that your mind and body should become one. Unless you achieve such a state, everything will be ruined. Then, what should be the center of such unity? They become one centered on absolute love. They should become one centered on God's absolute love. Absolute love is true love. Your mind and body should become one centered on this true love. After that, you can proudly proclaim saying, "My body is totally unified with true love."

Absolute love exists when you value your object absolutely. In such a place, a man can become a master who can love a woman absolutely; and at the same time, the woman also becomes a master of absolute love. Therefore, you must know the fact that the master of absolute love cannot be found within yourself but is found in your reciprocal partner.

Even God must have His object partner in order for the ideal world to be established. You can never create absolute love, unique love, unchanging love or eternal love if you are alone. You need your objective partner. Such a partner would be most precious. Thus, even God believes in such a partner. That is absolute faith. He attends His partner with His great aspiration. In other words, He is faithful to His Partner. Whom does He believe in? His objective partner. A man must offer his noblest faith in a woman, like bone needs flesh. Thus, you need absolute love and absolute faith!

Absolute faith and absolute love do not simply manifest by themselves. The root of all God's attributes is the absolute, unique and unchanging love. God's core being lies there. Accordingly, His object partner who is able to reciprocate to Him does not just come into being. Therefore, as God is the original motive for His object partner, invisible God must invest Himself completely for its creation. Through such total investment, His object came into being. Going through the age of minerals, the age of vegetation, the age of animals, the age of humans, and then the age of Heaven. Once all of these can be united into one the infinite God will have His dominion over this universe. The universe is so vast that even if human beings multiply for tens of millions of years, there will be no limit.

It is said that the size of the universe is more than a billion times the size of our solar system. But it is even greater than what science estimates. God wants to create the ideal world to be even greater than the size of this infinite universe. For this end, He has been investing His high-degree of love. Since this ideal that God continuously supports never left me, I have been investing my entire effort to re-create His object partners.

In Order to Gain a Victory, You Must Move God's Heart

Sun Myung Moon
Circa 1968
Excerpt
"The Origin of Loyalty and Filial Piety¹" Volume 1
Unofficial Translation

Sun Myung Moon and Hyung Jin Moon, May 10, 2011

In order to gain a victory, you must move God's heart. There is no other way. In order to move God, you must not have a sense of your own self-existence. When you are living for Him 100%, God will help and assist you. When you have a concept of self, you belong to the realm of Satan. This is very clear.

If you reach a standard of mind-body unity, absolute faith, absolute obedience, and absolute love, you will be able to resolve everything. God will concern for you much more than when you worry about your own wellbeing. For instance, I am concerned about you more than you worry about yourselves. As a district leader, you think about Japan from the perspective that is centered on your district. God and I think of Japan from the cosmic viewpoint.

There is no nation that stands as the central nation in God's providence, which can connect and transmit God's electromagnetic wave to the earth. It is not necessary that every citizen of the nation should be like that transmitter. However, the nation must have at least one person who is determined to be a living sacrifice to liberate God.

The Sacrificial offering must be divided in order to determine its ownership -- to determine whether it belongs to God or Satan.

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Note:

1 Editor's Note: "Origin of Loyalty and Filial Piety" is several volumes of books compiled Father Moon's speeches (given to Japanese members where he spoke in Japanese) from later 60's to early 80's by Rev. Kamiyama. For the above excerpt, it is not clear which speech it is taken from.

The Starting Point of God's Kingdom on Earth

Sun Myung Moon
Circa 1968
Excerpt
"Origin of Loyalty and Filial Piety?¹"
Volume I
Unofficial Translation

In conclusion, what I want to convey to you is that God's heart has not reached the realm of joy even after having gone through the sorrowful historical process. How can He begin to experience this realm? We all share the mission to open this path for God by offering our youth. In order to accomplish that, you must go through a path of hardship and suffering. You must live sacrificially. As you stand in this position, do not spare anything. Do not think it is hard.

Always, think of God. Think about His heart that is consoling and comforting you even though God has been suffering much more than you. Then, you should know, in this world, there are billions of human beings who are not as blessed as you are. Unless you reach out to them, they have no hope to be saved. Compared with them, you are very fortunate. With this gratitude, you must forget your own hardships and pains, then offer a prayer of joy for your own suffering and sacrifice, and make efforts for saving humanity with tears at the risk of your life. Then, you are in the same position as God. Through your suffering, you will be able to set a condition that you have participated in the suffering and hardship of God.

Once you stand in this position, God's heart can start permeating to the world from you. At this position and in this realm, God's Kingdom will begin. As God's representative, you must console and comfort all humankind just like God has been comforting and consoling you. As you follow this path, the blessing of all human beings will begin with your own hands. Therefore, you should never forget that the beginning point of happiness of all human beings and the Kingdom of God on earth is such a person.

All of you must become such people. That is the logical conclusion. God stands in such a position. God carries out His historical mission to save the world while enduring all the sufferings and pains of the fallen world; you must fulfill this historical mission for all humankind from the same standpoint. With this understanding, you must firmly determine to become sons and daughters of God.

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1 "Origin of The Loyalty and Filial Piety" is several volumes of books compiled of Father Moon's speeches (many of them spoken in Japanese) from the later 60's to the early 80's by Rev. Kamiyama. For the above excerpt, it is not clear which speech or speeches are the source.

A Person Who Serves God, Standing in the Realm of God's Heart

Sun Myung Moon
Circa 1968
Excerpt
"The Origin of Loyalty and Filial Piety¹" Volume 1
Unofficial Translation

Do you know how much tears I shed for God? One time, I wept for three days, straight. Through such experiences, I touched the depths of God's Heart. Even now when I think about the experience -- reaching the indescribable tenderness and loneliness of God's heart through investing my entire mind and spirit -- I have to think deeply about how sorrowful and anguished Jesus was. I also live in a place of solitude even lonelier than him. Do you need such a lonely teacher? (Yes.) Put yourself at the pinnacle of solitude! There, God will welcome you.

When I was imprisoned, I stood in such a place. Then, God witnessed to people and through the help of the spirit world they came to believe in me. The spirit world directly testified who I was and, thus I gained my disciples there. With this conviction, wherever I will go, there is nothing that I worry about. If I were taken to the southern tip of Africa, the furthest place from here by a helicopter right now, I will have absolutely no problem about the cultural environment -- about eating, sleeping and clothing. You must gain such a confidence.

What do you have to worry about? When you stand in the realm of God's Heart, place yourself in a position to receive God's compassion, and go out and obey Heaven. Then, there will be no one who will not obey and follow you. In order to create such people, I tell harsh things to you. Are you all right? Let's do it. (Yes.) Now, I will trust in you one hundred percent. As I place my trust in you, you must offer results worthy of this trust to Heaven!

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Note:

1 "Origin of Loyalty and Filial Piety" is several volumes of books compiled Father Moon's speeches (given to Japanese members where he spoke in Japanese) from later 60's to early 80's by Rev. Kamiyama. For the above excerpt, it is not clear which speech it is taken from.

The Principle of Indemnity will Determine the Future of the Universe

Sun Myung Moon
Circa 1968
Excerpt
"The Origin of Loyalty and Filial Piety¹" Volume 1
Unofficial Translation

Indemnity definitely exits. In case of a war, it is a national level indemnity. So, judging from the individual standpoint, a person whose face shows the historical merit is to be protected from any harm; however, as God desires to liberate a nation from long suffering, such a person may be killed in a war, carrying the national level indemnity. As punishment of individual sins, someone may be killed justly; but someone else may be killed by representing and carrying the national sins, which had been accumulated by the hundreds of millions of people of Japan throughout her history. In such a case, the most outstanding person in Japan may be killed.

In other words, this one person may have the value equivalent to tens of thousands of people; therefore, to save tens of thousands of people, that one person may be killed or sacrificed as a conditional offering. This principle also applies to you. Sometimes, it is natural that you must make restitution for your own sins. However, in other times, you will be making indemnity conditions for other people's sins. This is especially real for you, Unification Church members.

When you pray for someone deeply from your heart, you may be influenced by that person's sins needing to be indemnified. In this case, the sins of that person may be indemnified through you. Let me give you an example. From Heaven's view your value is 1,000 but a person for whom you pray may only be valued at 10. In order to indemnify his sins, he should be beaten 100 times; but if you are hit only once, his sins can be indemnified. For this reason, our members may be picked as representatives to indemnify others' sins.

This principle may apply when you go out and witness to people. When you try to witness a person whose ancestors committed terrible acts, you may be defeated, instead of indemnifying the historical debt of that person. So, before you go out to witness, you must prepare your spiritual state through prayer. When you pray deeply for witnessing, you will have a sense about a person whom you will meet, and what kind of indemnity he needs to pay.

If a person for whom you pray has a good standing, your mind will naturally be pulled toward him. By the degree of strength of that pull, you will know his ancestors are good or his parents are good or bad. You must experience this when you witness. Through these experiences, you will be able to discern if he is influenced by evil spirits or Satan. You will know it clearly and sharply by your heart. As you accumulate these experiences, as soon as you look at a face, you will know if that person is conscientious or not. You will gain such discernment.

The principle of indemnity will determine the future of the universe. Because of this spiritual principle, everyone wishes to have good ancestors. Also, everyone wants to have good friends. Through having a good friend, your sins may be indemnified through him. You may wish to have a good teacher. By uniting with the heart of such a teacher, you may be elevated, spiritually. You see this principle at work in relationships in society. If your daughter or a daughter of your relative marries with a son of a famous person, you may be able to have direct relationships with this famous person. It is a natural desire in your life to want to have a good standing in the society.

However, you have to go over the remaining path of indemnity. You may have an individual level mission, or you may be a part of the clan who must make indemnity conditions in order to save a nation. You may be part of a nation that has been experiencing a long history of suffering and misery. Even though you have no such sins and yet are very conscientious for saving the world, through you this nation must make indemnity conditions for the world.

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Note:

1 "Original Source of Loyalty and Filial Piety" is several volumes of books compiled Father Moon's speeches (given to Japanese members where he spoke in Japanese) from later 60's to early 80's by Rev. Kamiyama. For the above excerpt, it is not clear which speech it is taken from.

Raise a Flag of the Heart that You Pledge to Love God

Sun Myung Moon
Circa 1968
Excerpt
"The Origin of Loyalty and Filial Piety¹" Volume 1
Unofficial Translation

Sun Myung Moon and Unification Church members 1960

You must center yourself on the original mind given by God and hold on to the heart that is pleasing to God. Raise a flag of the heart that you pledge to love God; and boldly and bravely walk to go over the pinnacle. Only then will you be recognized as a victor.

It is the most difficult task in the world to kill your own self. Therefore, the fiercest battle waits for you on your path. What is it? That is the battle through which you kill your own self. In other words, unless you are able to divide yourself and kill your self-centered self, even though a battle kills off the world, there is no victory for God.

Even if you are the beloved and begotten son of God or pledge to totally offer your loyalty to God over and over, God cannot treat you as a victor without you going through this battle and winning a victory yourself. Then, what God will do to people like you? He will put you in a position to be killed, so that God can recognize you having gone beyond death. There are many people who were put in such position who were killed, literally. When you face certain death, you must center yourself on the original mind given by God and hold on to the heart that is pleasing to God. Raise a flag of the heart that you pledge to love God; and boldly and bravely walk to go over the pinnacle. Only then, can you be recognized as a victor.

That is the way to handle the situation according to God's Will -- as He has to place His people in such positions. However, none of the people went forward bravely and boldly holding the flag of God's Heart. The people of Israel were chosen to stand in the position from the individual level to the family, people and national level. They stood to begin to go through the path; however, they could not follow- through on the path waving the flag over the hill to reach the national level as His people. Among them, no one won the battle.

Because of this reason, Jesus himself took responsibility as a representative of the Israel people; then he won victory raising the flag for the first time in history, as representative of the people and the world. As Jesus gained the victory in this way, not only do you gain a condition that you occupy and control your own body but also that you are declared righteous through the grace of the standard of his victorious heart -- if you believe in Jesus. Even with this grace, you must be put in the situation where you are sacrificed, abandoned, killed, and denied yourself at least once. Therefore, those who believe in Christ cannot be recognized by God, if they remain in a comfortable position such as a wife of the cabinet member, or a child of a prominent person. So, all believers must go through a course of struggles, in order to reach one position where they occupy and subjugate their physical bodies.

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Editor's Note

1 "Origin of Loyalty and Filial Piety" is several volumes of books compiled Father Moon's speeches (given to Japanese members where he spoke in Japanese) from later 60's to early 80's by Rev. Kamiyama. For the above excerpt, it is not clear which speech it is taken from. 

Yearning and Longing for God

Sun Myung Moon
Circa 1968
Excerpt
"The Origin of Loyalty and Filial Piety¹" Volume 1

Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han blessing the 3 Couples, 1960

Please raise your hands if you have fasted for one week? Question is what you learned during the time when you were fasting. At the end of the seventh day, when you will break the fast in ten minutes, you think about how much you are looking forward to and yearning for tasting food again. Your whole being -- your senses and nervous system -- is focused, desperate, and compelled for that. However, at such a moment, you should let go all of that to love God. You must build up such a standard for loving God in you. The hunger you feel is very real. It is the reality of all realities. But, can you love God more than your hunger for food? Yearn and long for God. Such a heart that goes beyond physical limits will reach to Heaven.

Imagine a wife waiting for her husband to come home, after several years when he left to go his mission. Can you imagine how desperate is her longing for her husband? When it rains, her heart will long for her husband who may be in the rain. You should experience such a heart of longing for God two or three times in every three days. In other words, you must experience such a yearning every day.

When you are walking a city street, you are overwhelmed and overcome by your longing for God. Then you stop walking, but you are unable to stand by your own power so you embrace a telephone pole and pray to God. Have you ever experienced such longing? Even if there are many lovers in this world, none of them would experience such a compelling and over powering feeling towards their lover. Have you ever experienced such intense hunger for God in your heart? Your faith and heart should always yearn for God with such intensity, greater than your desire for bread at the end of fasting.

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1 Editor's Note: "Origin of Loyalty and Filial Piety" is several volumes of books compiled Father Moon's speeches (given to Japanese members where he spoke in Japanese) from later 60's to early 80's by Rev. Kamiyama. For the above excerpt, it is not clear which speech it is taken from.

The Standard of Heart for Each Member of Unification Church

Sun Myung Moon
Circa 1968
Excerpt
"Original Source of Loyalty and Filial Piety?"¹ First Volume
Boundary of Heart
Unofficial Translation

No Matter how painful my situation is and how unfathomable the suffering and agony I feel, my innermost concern is whether my heart is focusing on the fact that Heavenly Father is even more anguish-filled. My forty some years of suffering are limited to those years. However, God's 6,000 years of suffering is incomprehensible by human beings, no matter how much we try to understand it.

The more you appreciate this fact, the more deeply you must bow down to Him. The more you comprehend it, the more obedient and humble you must become. Then, you start feeling to your bones that you have nothing to offer to Him -- even though you give your life a hundred times or even ten thousand times, you will never repay His loving heart. With this attitude, you move forward with a profound gratitude to Him in your heart and go over the road of indemnity toward the world-wide level, and then giving God a new hope in seeing such a child. I am always thinking about this.

When you face painful and agonizing situations and feel like you have reached the end of your rope, you must focus on the central point -- God has never experienced real joy in His Heart. His Heart is only embracing sorrow and agony. Therefore, your question is how to comfort God's grieving heart. It is your important responsibility as a member of Unification Church. When you gain a victory, you must thank God with tears of gratitude.

The victory you gain today is not a victory won by your efforts alone. From the first victory, to the one-hundredth, to the ten-millionth victory, every victory is won because God's decisive motive is behind it. Thus, those who understand this principle must always keep grateful hearts to Him, even when going through courses filled with tears. Jesus offered his gratitude to God, when he went the course of the cross. Unless the heart of gratitude had remained, even after death by the crucifixion, there would not have been his resurrection.

Therefore, we must fight on and continue fighting on. After a victory, with gratitude to God, you must move onward to the world on the road of battle. This is where you stand in the process of restoration. Don't forget that. You may endure momentary pain and suffering; However, God has been persevering through unbearable pain and anguish ever since the Fall of Man. God has endured them -- with the heart of perseverance, He has been holding on.

Therefore, if someone asks God what are His footprints since the fall, He will answer, "I am Perseverance." If God's children come to know His heart, they must go willingly any path of suffering -- any course of restoration. You are not responsible for restoring one nation alone. Even though you are but one as a child of God, standing before Him, you must gladly take responsibility for all nations and peoples in the world -- with the sense of responsibility that you will decide life or death for every human being. This is the standard of heart for each individual member of Unification church after knowing and understanding the course of restoration.

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1: "Origin of The Loyalty and Filial Piety" is several volumes of books compiled Father Moon's speeches (many of them spoken in Japanese) from later 60's to early 80's by Rev. Kamiyama.