# Category: Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

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By Fami1yfed June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### October 7, 1979
Belvedere
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

The topic this morning refers to our present position in relationship with God. People in general have a yearning to possess a high place and wide influence. When you go to such places as the Himalaya mountains or the vast Pacific Ocean, you enjoy their greatness. It is not easy to occupy a high place or have wide influence, however, because you have to get there first.

Personalities of people in the world are something like the zigzag of the mountains, with high and low positions and all kinds of ups and downs. There is great variation. Nations are the same. Some are high, others low, some are narrow, and others wide and open. Some countries have broad, monotonous plains, and others have jagged heights. National characters can be described accordingly. A person’s character can reach a medium height, or go all the way to the pinnacle. Which is better? This is not an easy question to answer. It is possible to have a pinnacle so sharp that there is no room for anyone to stand on top, or a pinnacle with just enough room for one person. It is not easy to decide which of these is preferable.

The best choice would be flexibility-to be wide when we want to be wide, and to be high when that is best. The question is whether we have that kind of potential for flexibility. I am limited to a space of less than six feet, but in that limited area there is some intangible quality flexible enough to be wide and tall. What is it? In your mind you can go as high and wide as you like.

We can talk about a small mind and a large mind, but there is no yardstick to measure them. However, a narrow-minded person thinks of small things, and you can certainly recognize a broad-minded person. Levels of thought can be as big or small as you want. A mind can be so small that there is no room for even one person there. On the other hand, you can make your mind so wide that God can fit into it with room left over. People have that kind of capability.

Although we may be limited to a physical space, we do have that capability of being as big or small, as high or low as it wants. If we have wide, broad minds, what kind of things would we want to fill them with? With material things? What about filling them with life? Next, fill them with love. There is nothing more wonderful than thoughts filled with life and love.

Who else in this universe is in a position comparable to that of human beings? God has a mind and His thought are probably the biggest. What kind of mind and thought does God have? They are filled with life and love. Of course, all religions strive to receive God’s spirit, but what is the point of receiving it? All that effort is directed toward gaining a God-like mind and thought so that people can be filled with life and love.

Suppose we draw a circle representing God’s mind, and it contains thoughts about man. Do you think it would have a wavy pattern, or flow in a straight line? If we say that God’s thinking is wavy, or up and down, does that mean He likes certain people more than others one day, or likes one race more than others? When you love a person don’t you sometimes love one eye more than another, or one arm more than the other? Is each part in an equal position?

When your mouth laughs loudly is the rest of your body weeping? No, when your mouth laughs the rest of your body responds together and rejoices. Now do you think God’s thought about man would be up and down or a straight line? Now you all say it would be a straight line.

Are all people good, or are there sometimes bad apples in the barrel? God can always love a good person, but does God love even evil people? Does that mean they are both the same? Doesn’t God’s thinking about good and evil people go up and down? As the leader of the Unification Church do I blindly value everyone the same? Sometimes bad apples have to be spanked and good apples praised, treating each according to its value. Where does that characteristic come from? It comes from our ancestors, meaning that God works the same.

We can conclude that God works in a straight line as far as justice and public equality are concerned. God intended all people to be good, so there is no difference, but only a straight line. But our world is not equal. World affairs go up and down, and there are all kinds of upheavals and convolutions. There is a central line running down the middle, and above that line God can intervene, while below that line is an area God cannot touch. One area belongs to the good side and the other area to the evil side. Thus, there are two realms in our present world.

Human society and also spirit world work just the same. Therefore, in spirit world there is a Kingdom of Heaven and at the same time there is a kingdom of hell. God is all-good and He recognizes that there are bad things in the world, but He is determined to transform all evil into goodness. Thus, He has always remained good and He is needed by everyone, even the people in the dungeons of hell.

What is a good person in our world? Can we say a good person is one who lives with a God-like mind? There are many “beautiful people” among the movie stars in Hollywood. Are they more inclined toward good or evil? Why? They have fame and wealth, so why are they disposed toward evil? Why don’t we have high respect for them? Maybe many people there spend money for good causes, but generally speaking God-centered morality is absent in Hollywood. The incredible movie scenes reflect the promiscuous nature of their lives. People can get divorced as easily as they throw out an old pair of shoes.

Maybe “kissco” dancing is a better name for disco dancing. Is it most likely on the good or bad side? What’s wrong with it? In many cases the dancers have fun, but don’t think of anything else-not their parents, or town, or nation. Most likely they are not on God’s side.

What are good people? Imagine I went disco dancing. When I started dancing would God criticize, or want to join me? We can resolve that the criteria of good and evil depend not on external appearance, but on internal motivation, on the reason why people do certain things.

Music, dancing, and drink are not inherently bad. If your internal character is totally centered on God every day, and you are serving a great purpose, then every action stemming from that motivation is good. As I already said, God takes responsibility for evil people as well as good people. In some cases maybe wine or dancing would be needed to help get them out of hell. You need bait to catch a fish.

Is saving souls a good purpose? Does that mean we can turn our church centers into disco halls? An important question facing us is how to deal with our present society. Would God just draw a line and say that activities like dancing automatically sentence a person to hell? In order to win disco people into heaven, God might have a heavenly disco place. Would it be good or evil for us to have a disco hall then? We could show that dance is not inherently good or evil, but can help enhance man’s understanding of God. It doesn’t have to lead to lustfulness and promiscuity. Once people taste heavenly dancing, they won’t enjoy their old disco again.

Good and evil can look just the same. I am known as a religious leader, but suppose I were to organize a nationwide martial arts network that fought against street gang activity. Would it be considered evil for a religious leader to do that? Suppose God heard me making a plan to combat gangsters and organized crime this way. Would He protest that this was not a dignified activity for a holy man? Does a holy man have wings to fly around with? A holy man has the ability to convert evil people into good people.

You may know that Japanese communists are among the most belligerent and violent activists anywhere. To help contain their activity I had some of our members open gun shops around Japan. We demonstrated our determination and ability to deter them. The communists were scared by this, so they started accusing me of not being a religious man but a gang leader.

I investigated the modern martial arts and found they had certain deficiencies, so I researched a traditional martial art known as chung do su, or Art of Righteousness. I trained some of our young people in Japan, and with that method they were able to defeat black belts in karate after six months of training. Whenever we have Victory Over Communism rallies, the communists try to break them up. At one time they succeeded, but now that our young people know chung do su, they don’t dare interfere.

If you have power and capability but you are restrained and persevering, then people respect you. People don’t follow me because of my short temper and my hatred of unrighteousness, but because I can restrain my temper and do good things. God needs good people to be His tools to restore evil people into goodness. He needs representatives here on earth to carry out His work.

As you know, Soviet Russia is conducting an enormous espionage campaign, and the American CIA spies on them in turn. What is the difference between the two organizations? The Russians work for Russia’s benefit, while the Americans work to benefit America. There are also spies who infiltrate to listen to me, but their goal is not to help us build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Their goal is to find a way to stop me.

My purpose this morning is to show our present position in relationship to good and evil. The understanding about what is good and what is evil is hazy in today’s world, so we need to know which side we are on. We should be able to distinguish good and evil in our world. A good man can go to the dungeons of hell for God’s purpose, but his quality and value will not be changed by doing so. The important thing is whether he goes down there to bring the people up. He may look the same as people in the evil world, but his motivation is to influence the world of evil to come back to God.

The Bible says that after the Crucifixion, Jesus spent three days in hell before he ascended into Heaven. Was he still the savior during those three days? Did he go there because he was attracted by life there? He went there to bring hell into his realm, which is Heaven.

Has America welcomed me? Not only was I not welcomed, but the government has tried to get rid of me. Is it good or evil that in spite of their plans I organized young people here? From the viewpoint of evil I am a bad person. Your parents dislike me the most because they think I took you away from them. Do you love me? Are you cleaning up your lives because of what I have taught you? But your parents think you are not normal because you don’t go out on dates. Which direction is easier to fulfill? Why didn’t you follow the easier instruction and get boyfriends and girl friends?

How do you know I am a good man? You cannot explain it, but you feel good to be here, even though it is so early in the morning. When you don’t live up to my expectations, you feel depressed and weighed down, but when you follow them you feel light-hearted and free. If you live three years this way and then look back at your old life, you realize how much you have changed. You can think about the whole world now and mankind, not dwelling on trivial things. You have noble thinking now, and your mind has widened. You white people have changed so much that now you want to have a black husband or wife, whereas before you would hardly have considered such a thing.

Is your thinking centered on gaining benefit from other people, or how to give them some benefit? It is not easy to think about how to give to other people. Why is it so good? Why doesn’t God give us something easy to do, instead of always asking hard things of us? God’s thinking is public-minded, and the other way is selfish, private-minded. When you stand on the public side you are on the good side. This has always been true-whether in the past, present or future.

When you say you have good parents do you mean that they exploit you? Or do they give unconditionally to you and expect nothing back? Do good friends take advantage of you, or try to help you?

That principle is illustrated here in this room. You are cramped by sitting so close together and your legs are tired by now. If you didn’t care about the other people around you, you would stretch out and lean on others so you could feel more comfortable. But instead you realize that your neighbors’ legs may be even more tired than yours, so you invite them to lean on you. Which is better-the person who stretches out and hears 100% of my speech because he is comfortable, or the cramped person who only hears 50%? The second is best because he is already living up to my words. The other person may have heard every word, but is not living it. God knows that though such a person is hearing, he is not really listening.

Without clear criteria, it is difficult to judge whether some action is good or evil. There is much confusion in the world on this point. Suppose I went every day for a week to study disco dancers in order to understand them, and someone spotted me and called the newspapers. The next day it would be in the headlines. People would criticize me for making you work hard while I go enjoy myself at the disco. How would you feel upon reading such an article would you leave? Maybe you wouldn’t leave, but you would start going to discos yourself

In many cases people don’t understand why I do certain things. If I make a movie, people just wonder why a religious leader spends so much money. Their viewpoint and mine are entirely different. I see that a clean-up job is needed in Hollywood and a moral revolution needs to be kindled among the youth, so if a movie will serve that purpose then it is God’s tool. I have paid much attention to Las Vegas, the gambling capital of America, because some day that has to be cleaned up too. If religious people run away from evil, who will take responsibility for cleaning it up? Who will build the Kingdom of Heaven in the evil world if they run away? Someone must face it.

Many people advised me not to buy the New Yorker Hotel because it is on Eighth Avenue, but I decided to get it so we could start cleaning up that area. Do you applaud me because you feel good about this? Our beautiful sisters can learn martial arts and line up on Eighth Avenue. As soon as a man approaches to solicit them, they can put their karate into action. In this manner, Eighth Avenue would be cleaned up very quickly!

I am convinced that the martial arts need to be organized in this country. In Japan there are many martial arts organizations but they fight among themselves, so I am mediating to make them a force of goodness. I did that long ago in Korea. Sometimes my reputation suffered and people insisted I was a gangster, but I accept that title on the condition that I be called a heavenly gangster. We have created a karate studio at Barrytown and Belvedere. You never heard of a seminary offering karate so that the students could combat evil. I know that our men must be ready to use their strength to protect goodness in case of emergency.

I prepared myself to do any sport, and even now I am perfectly fit. Because you are Moonies you feel glad that I am pushing America, but the rest of the American people don’t like it. Whether we have a good life or not, we are going to stop America from crumbling and revive it on God’s side.

What is our present position? Is the Unification Church only religious, or is it involved in everyday life? Are we still the Unification Church even when we are in the bottom of hell? We do not deal with just good people. I send you out to the worst places where people will persecute you and where evil is really working. That is our real stage. You go to worldly places for witnessing and fundraising, but actually you are spying on that world so that in a few years you will know how to save them. I am working with you to learn the reality of evil so we can have a working strategy to win.

We have intelligence and experience. We get to know the evil society, and then we create a ladder for it. We must witness to people from all walks of life. You might go to Hollywood and witness to movie stars, gamblers, drinkers, for they are also part of humanity. The mere fact that we are in Las Vegas does not mean we are gamblers. Why would we go to a place of prostitution? Only to save the people there. That’s how the Unification Church thinks.

Our present position is to be everywhere. First, we must be strong, arming ourselves with truth and commitment. Then we shall be champions of God who are ready to go anywhere. Suppose such a champion goes gambling and wins $100,000 every night. Many gamblers ruin their families by their compulsive gambling, so the first place all that money should be spent is to restore those people and help mend their homes. When that gambler appears before God, would he be sent to hell because he gambled? What would God’s verdict be?

God’s way of thinking is revolutionary and entirely different from that of most religious people. Unless God thought in an extraordinary way, how could He dream of saving the entire world? He’s not interested in having a small heaven and a big hell. He is planning to turn the whole world around.

I would like to see you becoming fabulous actors. I am also interested in creating a school to teach the best form of dancing. I am planning to create the best acting college in Hollywood, where our members can become the best film stars. They will be great movie stars, but God-centered men and women who are not swayed by temptation. You can imagine that I am thinking about many things. Many other projects that are already being fulfilled as well. In five or ten years when you see the result you will wonder when I started all that. You are simply going ahead with your responsibility now, and during that time I am doing everything.

Now you realize that I am not interested in just spiritual work, but that I am creating a solution in all the smelly, crumbling areas. I am creating a solution. I am doing work which no head of state of this world can duplicate. Even in martial arts we don’t want to take second place, so we are creating our own champions. I am also planning to create sports teams, but only the best. A Moonie soccer champion will still be kicking the ball even if his leg is broken!

It is my standard to excel and be number one in every area. We are interested in catching a lot of fish, and we have received criticism even for that. Last summer I set a new record in catching tuna and also for catching the biggest tuna on the East Coast. It was a huge battle to catch every tuna and bring it aboard. When the tuna was finally drawn near the boat, I was the one to harpoon it. Many people question how a religious leader could do such a thing. But I see the tuna’s blood a sacrifice to save Americans who are destined to die because of their sin. The fish will die in their place.

In the Old Testament era the animals which were offered on the altar were killed by the chief priest. I offer the tuna for the sake of humanity, to help pay the debt of sin. I never, ever think I am catching tuna to help feed my family, or to earn money for them, or for sport. Whatever I am involved in, I have 100% unity with God, with total vertical harmony. If that is my attitude, then what kind of men and women do I want you to become? I want you to become central figures in all walks of life, but always God-centered people.

Who is the best member on a 10-person fundraising team? It is the person who gives more service in the most sacrificial way, and who strives to make unity. The person who is always giving orders is less likely to be in that position than the person who strives to carry them out. What about the person who complains about having to do the work?

When you look at yourself in the mirror, demand that your eyes repent for giving any dirty looks to people, and that your mouth repent for any harsh words it said, and your ears for wanting only to hear good things. Ask your brain if it is thinking of itself, or for God and others. A selfish mind is narrow, but a broad mind thinks for others and for the mission.

What is the place of the Unification Church? We are here to take responsibility for all the bad things in America. We want to change them for the better. If we can turn the dirty, smelly places into heaven, people will have to respect us. When we bought Belvedere and East Garden, there was much criticism in the community, and people felt the town was losing its beautiful landmarks. But now they see that we are doing a beautiful job of taking care of these properties. Our philosophy is to get a piece of property and make it better.

America is crumbling because most people think they will take responsibility only for good things. No one is interested in improving the bad areas. If God is truly determined to save the world then will He deal only with good people, or will He go to the worst possible place as well? It is a simple philosophy: if the worst place can be changed into heaven, then everything else is taken care of.

When I came to America I said I would help all the people who were struggling with problems, whether free sex, drugs, family problems, whatever. In 1975 Barrytown was a training center for members from all over the country. Whenever I visited the leaders they would wail about how many low-standard people were smoking marijuana and stealing, worrying that this was not how a training center should be run. But I told them if America didn’t have so many such people, then I wouldn’t be here. I came to America to help save those people.

Many of you were in trouble in the past, like human trash, with no goal in life. Today you are revolutionaries, completely turned around. You will receive more and more assistance as spirit world intervenes to help people overcome temptation. There is a story about one chain smoker who heard Principle and decided to join. But he just couldn’t overcome his desire for smoking, and would sneak out for cigarettes. One day he sneaked out and put a cigarette in his mouth and then his whole chest throbbed with pain. He exclaimed to himself, “I never knew smoking was that painful!” And then he could quit.

One person wanted to be a member and follow God’s way, but had a hard time overcoming his drinking habit. One day he had a drink secretly and then hiccupped all day long, advertising that he had been drinking. The Unification Church is a mysterious place where things like this happen. Without knowing about spirit world, people think there is brainwashing going on here because they hear about things like this. They can’t understand how such drastically good changes in people’s lives can happen otherwise.

Another mysterious thing is that even if you leave the Unification Church you cannot extract the Principle from your mind, and you will see it working everywhere. Then you have to come back. We are really turned around. There are couples who were living fallen lives in the world, but then they realized God was working in the Unification Church and joined. Then for seven years until they were blessed they had no physical relationship with each other, even though some of them still shared the same bed. Was I spying on them to make sure they did that?

This is why we can confidently say that we can change the world. Our job is to be responsible for the worst situation. When you get a mission in a terrible place, would you say that even though you love me, you simply can’t do such a mission? Is your love conditional? If you really feel that the Unification Church is created for saving this world, you will ask what is the most troubling, difficult mission and then volunteer to go there.

What is the worst problem in the world today? Why is it communism? God is the living Father of mankind. If someone tells your children that you don’t even exist, and your children deny you are their parent, how do you feel? When you realize that that person is telling your children to deny you simply so he can destroy them, then that person is truly your enemy.

This analogy applies to communism. It says that there is no such thing as God, so communism will be the master and ruler of mankind. God is our Father, but communism is trying to throw Him out the window. Therefore, communism is the greatest evil in the world. The Unification Church has declared a war against communism in the name of God, and saying, “We know God.” I have truly won the reputation of being the greatest enemy of communism, and the communists know this better than anyone.

We are making a movie about General MacArthur, and so far there has been no publicity about it in the free world. But the communist press has already accused it of distorting history. Kim Il Sung even sponsored a week of rallies against the movie. The State Department and Pentagon are very naive and never think what the communist motive might be in trying to stop that film; instead they tiptoe around, trying to be careful. The communists know very well who their most threatening challenger is, and they know the impact this film can have on them.

The Japanese communists thought they could deceive the world, but they fear the Unification Church and Reverend Moon because they know we cannot be deceived. We created a committee in Japan for the study of communism. Thinking we were promoting communism, they came to listen to us, but then they found out exactly how wrong they were and since then they have opposed us. We have mastered communist theory. Communists have studied the Principle so they can rebut it, but they are confused by our emphasis on spiritual values and spirit world. They cannot master the Principle!

A letter was received in one of our Japanese centers from someone who had been a prominent member and had left. He confessed he had been sent by the communist party to study the Principle and develop a complete rebuttal. But he said he realized Divine Principle was the truth, and his conscience wouldn’t permit him to stay and spy any longer. So he wished good luck to the church, and finally left. What can the communists do if their spies are converted by us?

Without question the worst problem faced by the world today is communism. How can we win against it-with fists? No, only with the word of God, and the heart of love. The communists believe that the end justifies the means, and that if a lie is repeated enough it will become the truth. We must teach them that truth is always truth and a lie is a lie. We have become the most formidable organization working against communism. Our International Federation for Victory Over Communism is working in Asia, Europe, and America and will weaken international communism.

This summer our CARP members were working at the University of Southern California. A communist youth group staged a rally with about 500 people to demonstrate against Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. Only 80 of our members were there, led by Tiger Park. He told the members to stand back and watch him. He strode up to that opposition rally and challenged the leader to come out for a showdown. The group fought among themselves over whether the leader should go out or not. Tiger Park grabbed one of the organizers in front and held up his clenched fist and asked him, “Do you see my fist?” In the face of this determined confrontation the rally melted away. We are winning a fearsome reputation among communist youth in the world.

The second worst crisis for God in the world today is the weakening of Christianity. It should have been God’s main force but in the last two decades it has rapidly declined, so it needs to be revived. Today Christian churches are mostly recreation halls with bingo and dances.

We not only teach our own members at the Unification Theological Seminary, but we also invite eminent theologians from all over the country to visit. We offer them an open invitation to study Unification Theology and question it and criticize it. Many theologians thought the Unification Church had no theory, and thought they would teach us about theology, but everyone who comes to Barrytown is amazed that we have such a deep teaching.

We are qualified for accreditation to offer a Masters degree, but because of government harassment we have not received it from the State of New York. But so many visiting scholars have seen the quality of our school that our students are accepted by many leading universities into their Ph.D. programs-this includes Harvard, Yale, Drew, University of Chicago, and so forth. The students and some of the faculty at these universities are shocked that Moonies are enrolling there, and they are very curious. But after a while our students win their respect, and now are demonstrating their leadership abilities.

Our students are making their professors study again. If they don’t come to class prepared, our students challenge them with sharp questions. If they don’t want to be embarrassed, the professors have to study ahead of time! Now we have conducted Unification theology seminars for leading theologians at 18 different universities, with our students presiding over the visiting professors. This is unheard of at those schools. These famous professors are the heads of the intellectual communities in their areas. We are attempting to turn the heads of the academic world so the body will also turn.

Without really knowing what is going on, some ministers warn people not to mingle with the Unification Church, but we are confident that we have the commitment to revive the established churches. The louder the ministers shout against us, the more young people drift away because those ministers have no power. Do you have confidence you can revive Christianity?

Now our seminars are being offered to the legal profession. Soon I want to organize a judicial federation as an arm to crack down on communism when it violates basic human rights. In a few years we will have our own Ph.D.’s. They are graduating from seminaries of many denominations, and because they are well grounded in these theologies as well as the Divine Principle, no one will be able to compete with them. Established Christian churches have always tried to destroy the Unification Church, but we have never attacked. We are only trying to revive them.

The third greatest problem of the world is the moral decline, particularly among youth. Who will clear it up? Do you have confidence we can do it? This problem has been Satan’s best weapon so far in stopping the realization of the heavenly kingdom, but all three of these problems operate in conjunction with each other. The communists work to corrupt the youth, promoting drug traffic and encouraging immorality by proclaiming it as a “right.” The Unification Church has a confident answer for all this, and we are not just talking about it, but acting on it.

So far we have proven we can prevail over communism and revive Christianity, and now we are tackling the moral problem. Unification theory is being taught in all walks of life in Japan. I have been misunderstood and hated by the powers of the world, but this lonely man has proven that God’s solution works. We must work harder than the communists. We should be burning with greater zeal than Christian leaders, and living with God-centered morals. If we are no better than the people we are trying to change, how can we say we will save them?

My strategy is to reach young people under 30 and teach them heavenly discipline, training them to tackle these problems of the world and win. We can travel from one side of the world to another. If our Japanese Church hears that we need 100 members here, they will arrive the next day. If I ask you to leave for Europe or Africa tomorrow, you will. We cover the entire world, but we are one movement, one family. Our stage is the entire universe, but our minds are even bigger. We will solve all these three problem areas, liberating America, the world, and ultimately liberating God. Have you ever thought we would liberate God, instead of God liberating us?

We will take over God’s mission so He will have nothing to do except watch. You may be sitting here on a cold concrete floor, but you have the confidence that when you move, America and the world will move. I come from humble origins in the Korean countryside, but I am telling America that I will move this nation. When I go to Britain, it doesn’t even take six months for the whole country to begin talking about me. The government knew that nationwide controversy would start with my arrival, so they tried to keep me away. They didn’t know, however, that there are many small Reverend Moon there who will also stir up heavenly trouble!

Whether I am here at East Garden or away in the mountains, if I give a direction would you act on it at once? If I told 1,000 of you to surround the White House, fasting and praying for 40 days, would you do it? My way is not the communist way, but God’s way. We have the power to do anything, but disciplined by God’s spirit, so our way cannot go wrong. We will tackle each task fearlessly and boldly, and we will flourish.

If you have a black husband or wife, you feel you can be a savior to Africa, a true father or mother to that continent. If you have an inter-racial marriage you can be greater than me because that is one thing I haven’t done. I want you to have that credential, and be proud for that.

You can tell God to watch you liberate Him. Unless you make noise, how will God know you are doing anything? You have to tell America what you are up to, or it will not pay attention. Why has America reacted so strongly to me? It is because I have such a fervent interest in this country. This nation can’t help but respond.

It doesn’t matter whether I live for many more years or die now, as long as you become junior Reverend Moons. You can have the confidence to turn this nation upside down for God. Can you do it? A little sister on the front line must have confidence that even though she is unknown, when she stands up, America will also stand up and be saved. Make your minds big like God’s mind and fill them with life and love. Wherever you go, life and love will overflow. Moonies are powerhouses, intense and hot, and when our circuits are hooked up the world has to jump.

Why did you come here instead of staying with your own families? Many members are wondering how they ended up here because they are scared to move forward and scared to stay put. I feel sorry for them. There is no such thing as two ways- there is only one choice and that is to go forward. The Unification Church way of life is not just ours, but the universal way of life and God’s way of life. If a spanking is inevitable, you might as well get it over with and let other people be inspired by your example.

Maybe you like the Unification Church but have decided you still don’t like people of other races. Is that your position? White and black make a beautiful mixture. When you are teaching someone, you should feel you want to convert them into the best possible man or woman. To do that you must make a wholehearted investment. Am I investing myself in America? In every respect I am investing totally-materially and economically, of course, but most importantly, with spirit and heart. I am holding nothing back.

You are either here to take advantage of me or to be directed by me. Which one? That means you are willing to respond to my call? If your lips say yes, do your eyes bear witness and your heart echo it? You are willing to be directed by me because you know it will be used for the purpose of God and mankind for salvation. You welcome that, don’t you?

I tell you to live and die for the sake of your country because otherwise America will not be saved. That determination means you will give everything, without reservation, for the sake of this country. The person who is ready to die doesn’t care about hunger, lack of sleep, or hard work. As long as he is still alive, how can he complain? Suppose you are martyred. Would you wonder how that could happen to you and complain that you worked so hard while I lived in East Garden?

You are a different person now. You can tell the sun that you are here to liberate God. If you climb to the top of a mountain, you can say you are the first one to climb that hill with the heart of liberating God and the world, and the mountain will know you are its friend. When I first came to America I went to every state and dedicate a holy ground, offering a special prayer. I told nature at each place that I would be back, and I could feel the creation welcoming and cherishing me. The entire universe will be your friend.

Will you ever be lonely? If you are in chains in jail, you will not be lonely if the entire universe is your friend. When you are a dynamo of the spirit of God, even if you don’t say anything, still people will be brought by spirit world to comfort you. Have you seen me in dreams and visions? If you live this life 100% then you will be like me. Your position and place is that of a master, not a servant.

When you are witnessing or fundraising you feel hope to convert this nation. In years to come many people will seek your advice and you can influence the leaders of this nation. That is a realistic hope as long as you live this way. Today we have churches in 127 countries, but think of 25 years ago when I was living in a mud hut in Pusan, talking about these very things. The people listening thought I was really crazy.

Now that I am saying these things at Belvedere no one thinks I am crazy. You can see hope, and you know this is the only alternative remaining for the nation and the world. My crazy words turned out to be true. You are persecuted now, but in time you will be honored by the world, and leaders of nations will invite you to come help them. Will you start working when that times comes, or will you start now?

Today is the day to begin, here in New York in your home church area. Will you be a freight car or a locomotive? A locomotive is smoky, hot, and noisy, so everywhere you go, there will be noise and smoke and controversy. You have to receive persecution; that is our daily diet. People may think you are weird and they are curious about how you live. That curiosity is a good thing and through people’s interest you will become famous. Then you can exercise more influence for God.

My name is well known, isn’t it? Even elementary school children know my name. When my 11th child was born, it was announced by all the wire services and all the major newspapers.

Whether they like me or denounce me, no one ignores me. Among Moonies I am the best man, but among anti-Moonies I am the worst man on earth. Who is right?

I knew that I would prevail even without your help, but with you it is much easier. Will you be defeated or victorious? Our mission is to liberate God. It is the most difficult mission. You may shed much sweat and blood, yet feel you haven’t done enough. Even when you give every possible service, you still feel you have not done enough. Do you think God will embrace you, saying, “My child, I know you love me and I love you”? If you drop from total exhaustion, God will embrace you, and in the dark of night even your dirty hands will glow. You will experience many mysterious things.

A pious son wants to take over his parents’ difficulties and liberate them. A loyal subject takes over the problems of the kingdom, sacrificing himself to solve them. What is the starting point? It is the point of love and truth. You have to know what is good and what is evil. If you know it, then you will act on it.

Today is October 7, a good number. Can you pledge you have changed today and want to liberate God? If so, raise your fist with mine.

God bless you.

## DAY OF THE VICTORY OF HEAVEN

By Fami1yfed June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### October 4, 1979
World Mission Center
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

When you hear “Day of the Victory of Heaven”, the meaning of it might not be very clear in your heart. Therefore, this morning we are going to make the meaning clear.

To make a long story short, the fall of man meant the defeat of God. How? God was unable to possess the position in which He could govern the entire world and have true dominion. Consequently, God has not truly controlled all things of creation nor man. Finally, God has not had dominion over love.

Among these three things, what would be the central point? Love is the key and central factor to have dominion over men and all things. Once you possess love, you can actually possess all things and man because love encompasses everything. God’s history after the fall of man has been one of struggle to regain the position where He could have dominion over love. There is no doubt that the ruler of this fallen world is Satan because he has dominated all three precious things of this creation.

As a result, history has developed as a course of restoration of the lost dominion. In order to re-establish God’s dominion, God’s side must demonstrate a quality that is superior to any on the satanic side. Thus, a movement must inevitably appear which will show the way toward the restoration of God’s position. To accomplish this end the people in that movement will deny their families and world, and even their own lives to serve God.

With what weapon and strategy will God defeat Satan? God’s tool in history has been religion. What is the essence and depth of religion? God’s prime purpose in establishing religion is simply to bring men to a level where they love God more than anything else under the sun. In order to possess God’s love you must become a man of God first. There are many religions in this world, but how many people are really striving to become men and women of God? What about Christians today? Many religious people believe in a certain faith in order to receive some benefit, such as a place in heaven. That is not how God intended to fulfill His purpose for religion, however. The essential intention of religious people must be to restore men and women who will do their utmost to serve God above all else. This is the standard which must be established.

If love is the key factor in religion, what will be the standard and who will set it up? Should men or women set the standard? Let’s broaden the question-should individuals set the standard, or a nation, or religion, or what? In order for God to establish the domain of love, more than a nation or society is needed-one individual is the key. Who is going to bring that standard, a man or woman?

Restoration follows a process which is reverse that of the fall. Who brought the fall by initiating the fallen action? Women initiated the action by which God lost His love, so who will God use first in restoration? I will ask you a difficult question to help you answer: did men or women give birth to Jacob and Jesus? Women initiated the fall, so women are in a position to initiate restoration. This is why women were ordained by God to take action to bring these men to this world. If Jacob, for example, had not had cooperation from his mother, the history of Israel could not have taken place.

What did Jacob’s mother do? In order to fulfill the will of God, she went to the extreme of deceiving her own husband and her eldest son, allowing Jacob to be in a position where he could fulfill his mission from God. Have you ever heard of someone trying to buy the birthright from his elder brother? From a secular point of view, Jacob’s mother was a liar and Jacob himself was a swindler. The Bible records these things very clearly, as well as the fact that God glorified and blessed them, and this has been a puzzle for Bible students.

Satan is the master of this world, so this satanic world is in the elder brother’s position of holding sovereignty. If you confront Satan and inform him you have come to take over his world, will he just drop it and leave it to you? Instead, you say that you will take back the world in the same way that Satan first stole it. It is only logical-Satan took the world without God’s permission, so you don’t need Satan’s permission to take it back to God.

How did Satan take the world? First, he lied to his own Father and to Adam, deceiving father and son. Furthermore, through Eve Satan deceived the husband. In the process of the fall, God and His daughter were separated when she became a betrayer. In restoration the reverse way is necessary, so God and His daughter must be united; in other words, women should be united with God. Satan and women united in the fall and took Adam and all things of creation away from God. In restoration God and women unite to take the husband and all things of creation back to God.

That was the position of Jacob and his mother, Rebecca. Here mother and son united with God to cut the fallen tie, which in this case was to the husband and son on the satanic side. Now you understand why that process was acceptable in the sight of God. Their first task was restoration of the birthright of the eldest son. Why was this necessary? The elder son’s position is always that of master or dominator, which was the right and authority bestowed on the eldest son. In biblical history the family heritage always passed from elder son to elder son. Since the elder son’s position was stolen by Satan, God used Jacob to restore that position by taking it back.

By restoring the elder son’s position Jacob could restore dominion over all things and over men. Since Jacob totally united with God, once he could take the position of elder son he completed God’s sovereignty, ending the satanic rule. By Jacob’s cutting off the satanic line, restoring the elder son’s position to God and creating a tribe and people, God finally had a territory and people He could claim. This is why God gave Jacob the name Israel, which means victor.

Because of the failure of men, God was always in a position of failure. Now for the first time God won a victory, through Jacob, and set up a foundation on earth. Through Jacob God expanded His territory further and further, and ultimately that family grew into a tribe, a people and a nation.

Because restoration between Esau and Jacob was completed when both were in their forties, or middle age, Satan could still claim that God had not changed the foundation. Because Jacob and Esau grew up in the satanic world for forty years, Satan still had some claim. This period from birth to the age of forty remained in Satan’s hands, even though the birthright was restored after that age. Therefore, another step of restoration had to be taken, beginning with the mother’s womb.

God’s representative was not born in the elder son’s position. Jacob assumed that position only after he was forty, as another battle remained which had to be won in the mother’s womb. This dispensation was conducted through Jacob’s son Judah and his daughter-in-law, Tamar, and the whole course had to be accomplished in a period of three generations. Tamar was destined to be responsible for an unusual dispensation specifically asked for by God.

Tamar’s story has always been incomprehensible to scholars. According to Jewish custom, when the elder son died the second son would marry the widow. When Tamar’s husband died, however, Judah’s second son refused to marry her. The third son was too young to take the role of her husband. Knowing that she must bear a child, Tamar thought of a scheme to have a child by her father-in-law and thus continue the lineage. This put her in a position to deceive both her father-in-law and his sons. Tamar disguised herself as a prostitute and enticed her father-in-law to have a relationship, out of which she became pregnant.

According to Jewish custom at that time, a woman caught in adultery, such as a widow who conceived a child, was supposed to be stoned to death. Tamar already knew what would happen to her if she had a child, so she wisely took the precaution of asking for Judah’s ring and staff, which would prove later that she was not just acting as a prostitute, and thus save her life so she could fulfill God’s dispensation. When Judah learned that he was responsible for her pregnancy, he protected her and saved her life. This was not a joyful act for Tamar, but an act of risking her life. She performed such a dangerous duty simply to fulfill the destiny given her by God.

Centering upon God’s situation, Tamar won the heart of her father-in-law, who was in a position of potential enemy who could have her killed. Yet Judah protected her, uniting with the mission of father. Therefore, the children in Tamar’s womb could stand on God’s side. Judah was the fourth son of Jacob, and out of the tribe of his descendants Jesus was born. In Jewish history Judah’s tribe traditionally carried the tabernacle. They held this sacred position because God bestowed it on them, but most important of all, Jesus was born into this lineage.

Jacob and Esau were twin brothers, and Tamar conceived twins who stood in the same position. The closest kind of relationship among brothers and sisters is found between twins. Even in the mother’s womb twins truly exchange feelings; if one cries then other feels some sorrow, the other feels some sorrow.

Two brothers, Perez and Zerah, were struggling inside Tamar’s womb. At the time of delivery the brother who was later named Zerah reached his hand out of his mother’s womb. In order to clearly mark who was first born, the midwife tied a red thread around his wrist. This was representative of Cain, and ultimately foreshadowed the satanic force of the Last Days, which would eventually emerge as communism; before Jesus’ birth the Roman Empire held that position. After the red thread was tied on, however, a great struggle took place in Tamar’s womb, in which Perez fiercely pulled Zerah back in and was born first himself! Thus, the name Perez means “he who pushed aside.”

You can see that at that time the victory won by Jacob over Esau was consummated in the mother’s womb through Perez and Zerah. Now restoration was complete in that lineage and there was no room for Satan to exert any claim, even from the time of conception in the womb. That family tree continued uninterrupted for 2,000 years down through the birth of Jesus. As you can see, God prepared a foundation which was totally cleansed from the root, so that at an opportune time God could have a sinless son out of that lineage, over whom Satan could have no claim.

The restoration of the birthright was first carried out on the family level, and that particular family expanded to the national level. Years after Jacob won over Esau, Jacob and his family had to flee to Egypt, where over the generations they developed into a great tribe. Why were Jacob and his family sent to Egypt, which was enemy territory? Since that family was given the blessing of being called Israel, all the various elements of that family had to be totally united, but that had not been done. There was still room for Satan to accuse them of not being united. This was manifested in the fact that Jacob loved his eleventh son, Joseph, very much and the ten older brothers were jealous. Instead of thinking of Jacob’s happiness or mission, they were envious of Joseph and tried to kill him, eventually selling him into slavery in Egypt. Even though he was first a slave, Joseph became respected and loved by the Pharaoh and eventually became prime minister. When a seven-year famine struck Canaan, Jacob’s family was saved by Joseph when he gave them assistance in Egypt.

When Jacob struggled with Esau he had to flee to Haran, and returned 21 years later to be reunited. In Egypt they grew in prosperity into twelve tribes of 600,000 people. During this period God allowed the Pharaoh to be very cruel, forcing the Hebrews to unite totally with each other. No one totally knows why the Pharaoh could be allowed to be so cruel to God’s chosen people. Because the Pharaoh was so cruel, however, the Hebrews became united under the leadership of Moses and were ready to obey God’s order through Moses.

When the Hebrews came out of Egypt they took as many of the riches of the Egyptians as they could. This was one of the few dispensational moments that God allowed His people to strike a blow at the satanic side. This very rarely happens. At the conclusion of the Exodus the Hebrews entered Canaan, but again there was more division and lack of unity. Because they did not realize their mission and remained divided, God again used external forces to torment them and force them to awaken. I cannot clarify everything today, but eventually God used even the Roman Empire to chastise them just before Jesus’ arrival.

The Romans worshipped many gods, but the Jews and Christians worshipped only one, and the two ideologies inevitably clashed. God made the Roman Empire strong to achieve one goal-the unity of the Jews, and a fierce determination to free their people from oppression. God always uses that strategy, so that by allowing an enemy to become strong His people are forced to unite. In the development of Christianity the early believers suffered terrible persecution. I visited the underground labyrinth of rooms in Rome known as the catacombs, where the Christians gathered secretly in the early days. They were deeply united because opposition was so strong.

God used the Roman Empire to unite the Jews before Jesus came, and after the crucifixion God used the Roman Empire to make the Christians unite. Under those adverse conditions God’s people had to give up everything for the sake of God, so that there was no other reason for them to exist. Then they could have total oneness with God and with each other. In this way God’s dominion over all things, over man and over love could be restored. When God’s people were totally united, they would all move as one under His direction for wholesome restoration. All this is historical fact, but this perspective on history has not been known till now.

After 4,000 years of biblical history since the fall of Adam and Eve, the time finally arrived for the birth of the Messiah. This means that for the first time in history God could finally send His true son in His lineage, sinless in the mother’s womb. Because that lineage had already been cleansed, Satan could have no claim on that sinless baby boy, and on this level Satan was defeated. This event was the first of its kind in history, and any people who united with this messianic child could also be made sinless and elevated into heaven. By uniting with the true child of God they would be linked to God, and dominion over all things, men and love could be restored directly.

The Roman Empire ruled the nation of Israel externally, but the Messiah was to rule it internally once the Jews united totally with him. God wanted the Jews, whom He had trained for 2,000 years, to unite with Jesus so they would be as one. Jesus came to fulfill all of that. Jesus was already destined at his conception to be the son of God. Upon his birth God expected the whole nation to bow down to him.

At one time I was buying clothes at a New York store which was run by a Jew. He asked me if I was Reverend Moon, and then wanted to ask me a question. He asked, “If the Jews are the chosen people whom God loves the most, why did God allow so much suffering to fall upon them? Can you answer me?” I replied, “The answer is rather simple, but explaining it fully would require one hour. Could you give up one hour of your business time to listen?” He said he couldn’t possibly do that, so I told him maybe we would talk another time.

I want you to know that it is God’s will that all religions be united into one. You know restoration takes place according to the law of indemnity, and that God’s purpose is the restoration of all mankind. Some people, like Jesus, are in the position to sacrifice for the sake of the world. The Jews as well are in a position to help God restore billions of people around the world. Their sacrifices must not remain in vain; they served an important purpose in the history of God for the sake of restoring all the multitudes of people in history.

Among the religions of the world, the Jews have suffered the most because God’s loved ones are always in a position to be a sacrifice. Because God allowed such suffering to come to the Jews, God expected them to be the strongest, most understanding and most united religious people. Who shall play the central role in uniting all religions? God handpicked the Jews and trained them for that role. This is my explanation of the suffering of the Jews from the dispensational point of view; their oppression was not a punishment from God, but was the same glorious sacrificial role that Jesus was given in order to complete the restoration of mankind.

After World War II the Jews had a great opportunity because they suffered the most. They should have become flag bearers and champions of God, calling for unity of all religions, including Christianity, under God’s banner. If those two had united then the unity of all other religions would only have been a matter of time. The problem has been that Jewish thinking was always nationalistic, while God’s thinking was universal. The Jews should embrace all people of the world for their salvation, and in that case they would have won a true victory for God after World War II. But as long as they have narrow thinking they will face more and more problems. Once they liberate themselves to see from God’s perspective, their whole situation will become different. If they think self-centeredly then God will leave and look for some other champions elsewhere.

I want you to understand that because of this failure of religions to unite, communism could rise after World War II. In the event that they take over the free world, the first group of people to be annihilated will be the Christians. The worst bloodshed, never seen in history, will take place and touch all people of the world. The genocide of the Jews in World War 11 will seem small in comparison as millions and millions of people will die in that bloodletting. God will require the toughest kind of unity to be forged under those circumstances.

Pope John Paul II visited New York recently and received a wholehearted welcome, but do you think he could have been given such a welcome under worldwide communist rule? No, the Pope and all Catholics, Protestants and Jews together would have been killed at the outset. What about the Unification Church? We would be the first to go. In that respect all religious people face a common destiny. My proclamation is that we must unite and go beyond the level of denomination and the boundaries of religions. I established a movement to unite religions, but instead of being united, Christians are uniting with communists to accuse and oppose us. What seems to be unanimous opposition to me, however, is being split by you who crossed over the line to unite with me. You are the people who saw the will of God and want to give your lives to it and fight for this goal.

All of this has been a tangent because I thought about that Jewish merchant. so let’s get back to the main topic. Yet it is necessary that you know this common sense truth.

The nucleus of God’s dispensation is given to the chosen people through the Messiah, who brings the true meaning of restoration to the world. Should the Messiah be born of a man? Of course not. “Man” is a short, simple word, but “woman” is a bigger word; that “wo” means Wow or wonderful, so women are “wonder people”!

Who was chosen to fulfill that most extraordinary dispensation in the sight of God at the time of the Messiah 2,000 years ago? Her name was Mary. “Mary” and “marriage” sound quite alike. In God’s sight the first woman in the position of bride was Mary. She was a culmination of all God’s work through 4,000 biblical years of history, the pinnacle of this dispensation, and her responsibility as this chosen woman was to pass through a course representing all of history.

In the process of the fall three deceptions took place. Eve deceived God, her Father, as well as Adam, her husband and God’s son. When God summoned Mary to take up her great responsibility, she was already engaged to be married. This was significant because the fall took place during the period of Adam and Eve’s engagement. Mary conceived Jesus without having any relationship with Joseph, so there was deception of her husband-to-be involved When the angel came to Mary, he told her she would conceive a son whose name would be Emmanuel. How did she react upon learning of this incredible mission? She could have refused, saying she was already engaged and that her fiancee would be angry, that she would be stoned if she conceived a child. The mission presented to her was a life risking one.

Her husband-to-be was involved, as well as her own and her husband’s family, and the Jewish people. She was given a mission to conceive a child out of wedlock and faced condemnation and death. But did she refuse? She answered the angel, “I am the hand maid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” She knew people would revile her, so her determination was that she would willingly die, but not until after she had borne this son. She was clever and thought that the best way to protect herself would be to win Joseph’s heart. But could she go to him and claim that she was carrying the Messiah in her womb? She faced incredible difficulties, but I don’t want to take the time to go into detail.

Ultimately, because Mary made up her mind to giver her life for the mission of God, God cooperated to help her. An angel appeared to Joseph in a dream, telling him not to fear taking Mary as his wife. Joseph was also a man of God, and where another man might have dismissed this as but a funny dream, he took it seriously. He turned his back on the external appearance of the situation and accepted it as God’s will. He took Mary as his wife, knowing that she was carrying a child that was not his.

Do you think that naturally he would ask her whose baby it was, since after all he had saved her life? Could she reply that she conceived through the Holy Spirit and expect Joseph to accept it? If the Pope was in Joseph’s position would he believe her? Would Billy Graham believe his wife if she told him that? That kind of conversation between Joseph and Mary could have led only to a great argument, with Joseph accusing that even though he saved Mary’s life she still was not being honest with him. Though this is not exactly what took place, do you think there was no tension in that family when Jesus was finally born? At first the community would think he was Joseph’s son, but it was impossible to keep secrets. Any conversation between Mary and Joseph must have been overheard, even by the birds or insects, and I’m sure rumors spread quickly that Jesus was an illegitimate child.

More children were born to Mary and Joseph, and they all knew that somehow Jesus was different. The Bible does not speak directly about this, but the fact is that when Jesus was a boy there was a great deal of tension, and even Mary was distant with him at times because she was a victim of the everyday situation. Jesus was lonely as a child and often left the house to be alone. Once his parents even left him behind in Jerusalem for three days, only coming back to look for him later. How could parents leave a young boy behind that way? There were not many happy days in that family.

I’m sure many of you have grown up with a stepparent, and even in an open society like America’s today there is tension between a stepparent and stepchildren, so imagine how much more difficult it was 2,000 years ago. In this sense Americans are in a position to be sympathetic with Jesus’ position; many young people are experiencing the same kind of suffering Jesus went through.

Satan took Eve away through deceit of father, husband and son. Mary, in the reverse position, willingly faced difficulty and misunderstanding in order to do the will of God. In spite of her mistakes, she was a great woman for she accepted the call and strove to fulfill it.

This is the background of the circumstances under which Jesus was born. He was destined before his birth to be the Messiah, but he was not accepted by the people. He was rejected and crucified. God worked unspeakably hard to bring this one son of His to the world, guiding a course of incredible history. After all His effort, do you think His Messiah came only do die on a cross at the age of 33? Was that God’s will? The Messiah was born as the elder son of the universe on God’s side, having sovereignty over all things. Jesus was sent to the world as the representative of God’s personality, God’s love and God’s entire creation.

After 4,000 long years of struggle, one person, Jesus, could be born as the representative of God in totality. Christians today must repent for not knowing that the crucifixion was not the will of God. The path of the cross was not God’s primary will, and the cross is not a pleasing symbol to God at all. Because this is what I teach, people call me a heretic, but let them go ahead. This is the hidden history that only God can reveal, and until now it has not been known to anyone on earth. If men continue in this ignorance, they are destined to be destroyed, but instead God has chosen me to reveal the truth for the first time in history.

If I am truly a God-sent champion to reveal truth God has never disclosed in all history, then any religious leader or believer who opposes this work shall inevitably decline. Look at how Christianity, which has prospered for 2,000 years and spread throughout the entire world, is faltering and crumbling in the thirty short years since World War II. It cannot be a coincidence.

What happened after Jesus’ crucifixion? God’s dispensation was divided, with one side a physical dispensation and the other a spiritual dispensation. Jesus remained the parent on the spiritual side. The Trinity of God and Adam and Eve, or male and female spirits, are represented by God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Hence, Jesus fulfilled the position of parent of mankind spiritually. His body was killed, so he was in a position to be a husband spiritually. The Holy Spirit is in the bride’s position, but has never had physical form as Jesus once did. In the end, however, the Holy Spirit will take physical form as one woman, who together with a physical man will become True Parents to mankind. Together they shall be the channel by which mankind can return to God.

Only with the installation of True Parents who are both physical and spiritual can the Kingdom of Heaven on earth be formed which can finally be lifted into heaven. Therefore, the Bible and the Divine Principle teach that the Kingdom must come first on earth and then be opened in heaven: “Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

God created both man and woman, not just one or the other. Could Jesus be the parents of mankind all alone? The inevitable question is whether Jesus should have taken a bride. Then he would have had children, right? If his lineage had continued from generation to generation, would such a system as the papacy have been needed? Of course not. Jesus’ descendants would have been the center of the living kingdom on earth. If Jesus had left heirs on earth would there have been unity or not? Nothing like that happened, so the natural conclusion is that Jesus must come again. In order to fulfill this mission could he come as a celestial body on the clouds?

Based on Jesus spiritual heritage the entity we know today as the free world was formed. What is its purpose? It exists as a foundation for the coming of thee Lord of the Second Advent. The center of that free world today is America, a nation which contain the essence of the Christian world in Europe. People of all denominations who lacked freedom of worship in Europe came to America, and the founding spirit of this nation is “In God We Trust.” When the Pilgrirn fathers came here. they came to make a better world centered upon God. They were outcasts in Europe and because their consciences could not accept the government oppression there they wanted to make a better world somewhere else God opened a new horizon to them in their search. and led them to America. They fled from Europe, determined to make a better country.

Did they have a joyful, lighthearted departure from England? No, they were outcasts fleeing their own country. The Mayflower was a tiny, rickety ship and they sailed without any assurance of what their destiny would be, realizing that they could very likely all die at sea. That was the strength of their determination when they set sail.

The Mayflower is a symbol of men who value their faith above life, men who don’t mind risking their lives to find freedom of worship. Because of the strength of their faith, America rose to incredible prosperity in the short time of 200 years. The people in this nation were determined to make a better nation than any in Europe, and believers and immigrants of all kinds came from abroad, creating a melting pot of faith, races and nationalities in this one nation. America is a movement of unification under God.

There were many thousands of Indians in this country when the Europeans came, yet God sided with the white people and allowed them to push the Indians back and settle this country. Indian opposition to the settlers was quite necessary, however. If the Europeans had found this beautiful land all free and idle for them to use, selfishness and division would have been more extensive among all the different groups and they would have more easily forgotten God. God allowed the Indians to attack so that the white minority would have to unite. In the end, however, the white people made a great blunder. They should not have massacred the Indians but should have had the same unity with the Indians that they had among themselves.

The law of cause and effect cannot be avoided in history. America is an extension of Great Britain which means that Satan is more interested in America’s fate. Thus, America is in a position to indemnify what Britain did wrong in history. The British had done great evil over the centuries particularly m Asia and India. They aggressively developed the Opium trade in the Orient in order to bring out ton after ton of gold for themselves Official policy gave no consideration to the well-being of the Asians and was totally unconcerned that whole groups of people became addicts. just as long as the British could keep petting gold. Someone today has to pay for that sin. America is paying that historical debt, and young people here are plagued by drugs White people crippled the lives of Asians through the effects of opium, and now the same evil is plaguing America.

No other race in the world trusts the word of white people when they say they bring salvation because, especially in recent history, their actions have always brought greater evil and distress to other peoples. Look, for instance, at the plight of the boat people since America’s blunders in Vietnam. If Asians, however, come forward to say there is hope in the world, other people will listen to them. There is an unbridgeable gap between white and black people today, so a mediator must come and that can only be yellow people. It is historically sound to say that God will bring hope to the world from Asia.

Do you hear any Orientals proclaiming hope for all mankind today? No Filipinos, Vietnamese, Chinese or Japanese have come forward. The only voice crying in the wilderness is Reverend Moon, and I am proclaiming the solution to the problem of the world. But I am not just shouting like a crazy man; this message is logical and truthful. America needs that voice and should listen, but instead of accepting me this nation is trying to suppress this movement. That is the reality.

Someone might be skeptical and want to know why, if I am destined to save this world, I didn’t come to America sooner instead of waiting until I was fifty. The answer is that a foundation was necessary on the national level. Since Jesus lost his physical body and the national sovereignty of Israel was subsequently destroyed, that position must be indemnified and restored. Both spiritual and physical things must be restored on a national basis. Until then the world dispensation could not be started.

Unity between spirit and body must start from one individual, then be expanded to one family, one tribe and one nation, then to the world. It is impossible to jump to the world level without following each of those steps. Before coming to America and the world stage I had to liquidate the debt of history. All the sins committed by men and women of history had to be solved before I could come.

Jesus was opposed by his family, tribe, nation and world. And before I came to the worldwide level I received the same persecution. In order to indemnify the past I had to receive the same persecution, yet win. I came as the world champion of goodness, yet I was treated the worst possible way, as was Jesus. From Satan’s point of view the Messiah is the worst person in the world and he never wanted to look at Jesus, but from the heavenly standard the Messiah is the best. Satan doesn’t care how much the Mafia grows or how much drug addiction spreads, but he can’t stand to see my work growing in America and the world.

If Satan is to survive he cannot allow me to prosper, so he began an all-out attack against me, mobilizing even the communists. He was even successful in getting religious people and well-established public figures to unite against me. No matter how righteous religious people may have been, if they oppose the central figure on God’s side they automatically put themselves on the satanic side. The ultimate showdown, however, must be done on the worldwide level. My work in Korea, Japan and Asia was only preparation. To make the final showdown I had to come to America, and you know the history of what I did after that.

I arrived on December 18, 1971, but the real battle and offensive began on April 30, 1973, the day I was granted permanent residency in this country. On that day I was given legal permission to stay here, which meant I was allowed to begin the battle. It was all culminated roughly 3½ years later on September 18, 1976 at the Washington Monument Rally. That was a gigantic heavenly offensive on the worldwide level. During those years I created a God-centered nation on the worldwide level and God-centered people on the worldwide level; everything I did in those years was on the worldwide level.

The ultimate goal is that centered upon the love of God you restore dominion over all things of creation and all people. In every respect the standard of God’s people must be superior to any satanic standard. How can we prove that we have set that standard? If you have a great chunk of gold, will you put it in your pocket, or rejoice that it will serve the purpose of the Kingdom of God? When miners found gold during the 1849 gold rush they killed each other to keep that gold for themselves. But in the heavenly standard we rejoice that it can be used for Kingdom building, not for ourselves.

The purpose of MFT is training to prove to the secular world that our standard is higher. If we earn $100, we want to give $101; that’s the way we think. Then that money shall come under God’s dominion, without restriction. Adam and Eve lost that standard, so men and women, you and I, should restore it. Some people might say they like the Unification Church and the Divine Principle, but they don’t like to fund raise. Is it right for people just to want to enjoy some benefit for themselves? Unless you set a standard higher than Satan’s side, you have no way to represent God’s dominion over all things and all people.

When you join the Unification Church, the first thing you do is fund raising. You must liberate yourself from the old selfish way of thinking about money, giving up the concept that money is for your benefit. On MFT you might think you are tired and want to use the money you earned for a big meal at a nice restaurant, or for a taxi instead of walking, giving the leftovers for God’s mission. That is not the right way to think. Adam and Eve never had a car, so we walk too. The excuse that you need vans for fund raising is not acceptable. Unless you keep the highest possible standard in fund raising here in America, how can you win on the worldwide level?

This way of thinking is rather fearful, but it is not my thinking-it is God’s thinking. If you live this absolute standard, Satan is the one who will be trampled and have to bow down to you. This is the victory God wants to gain. If there is anyone who has the right to complain, I am surely the first one. Have you suffered as much as I have? There is absolutely no suffering that I have not gone through.

Satan has mobilized every technique to oppose heaven’s forces and there is no method he hasn’t tried on me. When he opens his big gun against me, I squat down and hunch over and just take the beating. The enemy encircles me, but since I am down so low their fire ultimately hits each other instead of me. The government and religious leaders thought they were firing at me, but they have discovered they are firing at each other instead. I take their fire calmly, but they are fighting among themselves over me. That’s God’s strategy, and no one can outwit God, right?

It is inevitable that a controversial giant shall emerge around whom all four billion people in the world shall gather and start barking at each other. In the end they will conclude either that he is the most precious visitor sent by heaven, or the worst criminal. I cannot be halfway or mediocre: I must be either completely good or completely evil. The world is divided over this, saying both that I am the best and the worst. Where do I stand? You recognize that I am a controversial figure in the world. In one thing I have unquestionably won the championship: I am the King of Controversy! That is one thing no one can dispute, young or old. Mother and my children also believe that.

Either I am extremely evil or extremely good, but which side am I on? You are just saying I am on the side of good, right? When the entire world hits you, will you divide or unite? You are not so dumb that you will divide? Are you united? I see all kinds here, white and black skins, and all colors of hair. Are you united? Will God say He cannot forgive me because I took His love and all the young people, or will He be excited and encourage me to do more?

What a wonderful goal we have! For the first time in history we want to create one race of mankind we call the love race or Adam raise all colors of skin as brothers and sisters and no national boundaries. If I were living in the remote countryside of Cuba and called all the Moonies of the world to come see me, would you come? Even if your parents and all your relatives opposed you? Even if the U.S. Government refused to let you go? Would you swim across? Sharks might get you! The one principle of life or credo which would bring you is what is in the Bible: “Those who would lose their life for my sake will find it.”

Do you think there will be years of greater controversy to come in the future? No. The year of most heated worldwide controversy was 1976. Everyone was watching the Washington Monument Rally, including nations and U.S. Government agencies, hoping Reverend Moon would sink down. Only one group of young people was insisting that I would go up instead. The problem is which side God stands on. He stood on my side and because of that support we won the victory. This hectic battle will continue until 1980, but a culminating point must come and it will all be finished.

Without the help of God would it be possible that one man coming from a mountain village in Korea, not understanding the language or the culture, could go to a foreign land and stir up the entire world in 3½ years? Is that an ordinary or an extraordinary thing? Furthermore, that battle was not fought in an obscure place, but in front of the U.S. Congress. It was a modern-day confrontation between David and Goliath. I predicted in those days that we would prevail, but when I spoke like that in 1976, 1977 and 1978, did you believe me 100 %? Only a few of you said yes. Most of you were not sure.

After all these victories were won, God declared the Day of the Victory of Heaven. All the 6,000 years of biblical history were won at that point. On the foundation of that victory I proclaimed the year one in the history of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, on February 23, 1977. From that point on the defensive battle was finished and now everything we do shall become a monument to that victory.

The battlefield since that day is home church, where we are deeply moving into society. In home church we are winning on the level of family, people, nation and world, and the home church victory represents all victories. Home church is your divine altar to offer yourself as a living sacrifice for God. When you make a righteous offering there you are inheriting all of heaven. Your 360 home area is your world, your place of love, service, worship and prayer. There you care for the people and teach them, awakening them from darkness to light. Ultimately you shall be recognized as their tribal messiah. You shall be a master in three ways: master of love, master of all things, master of people. It all comes together in home church.

If you are united into one then our opposition shall cease, slowly but surely. As long as there is division, however, there will continuously be enemies coming against us. The communists will continue to pressure the free world until it awakens and becomes one.

Now you can clearly understand the meaning of the Day of the Victory of Heaven. This is the historical day which marks my victory over Satan and payment of all the debts of the world, just as Jacob struggled with the angel at the ford of Jabbok and finally won. I have restored the name Israel, which means victor, on the worldwide and universal scale. That is the meaning of this day.

We have laid a firm foundation for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Even if all of us except one person were to die, leaving that one person to carry the banner, he would succeed in building the Kingdom of Heaven. But we will not die; we shall win and the Kingdom of Heaven shall be a reality, not a dream. Since the Day of the Victory of Heaven, unity between God, Adam and Eve, and the archangel has taken place. In the garden of Eden they were all divided, but here they are united and restored.

Adam and Eve represent the physical kingdom of God on earth, while the archangel represents the spirit world, or Kingdom of Heaven in Heaven. All three united together create the unity of the Kingdom of Heaven both on earth and in spirit world. Now that the foundation is laid on earth, all the spiritual power that had been confined to heaven can freely work and intervene on earth as well. This is why you can act boldly and strongly-the entire spirit world and angelic world is behind you. There is no way you can be alone and weak.

Unless you have a bold and dynamic trust in God and True Parents and demonstrate your faith by your achievement here on earth, you will not be respected when you go to spirit world. I want you to understand the true meaning of this day. Before this day was declared, the spirit world was in the subject role and here on earth we were in the passive role. But the establishment of the Day of the Victory of Heaven reversed these roles and now people on earth are the masters over the spirit world. We are in command, not the spirit world.

From now on, those who join the Unification Church shall be fierce fighters who will do more work than the old timers. I want you to understand this very clearly because unless you do very well you shall be in the position of Cain, not Abel. Who is Cain? He is the one who doesn’t want to go to the front line. That is why I push out all the Abel forces to the front line, as in CARP. If you just want to sit relaxed and idle, your foundation will be lost and you will find no position in the Kingdom. This is why the Bible clearly predicted that those who were first will become last, and the last become first. This is why I had my first disciples from several decades ago in Korea come to America and sent them to the front line. That’s the only way they could survive. The front line is the place of survival.

What is the gift which the Day of Victory of Heaven brought to you? What will home church bring to you? God’s providence has prevailed in heaven and it shall prevail on earth; the priority has been reversed from spirit world to physical world. A new age has dawned. Why do we proclaim this new age? The old history has been terminated and the new age has begun. The direction of God’s work has been changed from heaven to earth, and God will dominate directly. The highest of the satanic positions has been taken over by the heavenly side.

We should work with the spirit of going 24 hours a day plus one more hour. Since it is physically impossible to have 25 hours, you have to run faster. There is no time to sit down and eat in relaxation. There is no time to take all your clothes off and relax in bed; just lean against your bed standing up and sleep a little bit. That is the kind of tradition you must build. You will become pioneers of the new age if you live this way, in the ultimate age which is dawning in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

Rebecca, Tamar, Mary and others really gave up their lives to serve God. Do you think I did that too? Would you inherit that tradition too? From this time on God is with you. Home church is your life-giving duty, and unto your life you should do home church. In home church you will indemnify everything that was lost in history-all the things of creation, all the love and heart which was lost, all of God’s personality which was lost.

Shall we renew ourselves on this anniversary and make a new beginning? Those who feel, “Today we must make a pledge never to shame the Day of the Victory of Heaven” raise your hands. Now the emphasis has shifted from heaven to earth. God’s spirit is coming down and the emphasis of spirit world has

shifted to earth. We shall not get behind those in spirit world but lead them. That should also be your pledge on this day. Raise your hands and show me if you determine never to shame the Day of the Victory of Heaven but to lead the spirit world and angelic world and win the victory.

God bless you.

## LET US KNOW OURSELVES

By Fami1yfed June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### September 30, 1979
Belvedere
Translator – Sang Kil Han

Knowing ourselves is probably one of the most important things in our lives. When you say “us” or “I”, you have a certain identity in mind. For instance, there are around 240 million people in America who would say, “I am an American.” However, one could be either the lowest possible American, a very noble American, or in between. How do you think of yourselves?

Apart from being American citizens, what else are you? You are children of your parents. In this country your parents might be descended from many combinations of nationalities, and when you investigate your family tree there may be many variations. Your lineage may be a proud one or a humble one and your ancestors honorable or dishonorable. Your parents’ lineages might even have conflicted with each other at some time. As members of the Unification Church we can ask, “Who are we?” Again, there are basically two types. One person might be part of the backbone of the Church, while to another person it might not make much difference whether he is here or not. You may have come to some realization about whether or not you are a person of importance here.

It is always true that each person thinks from the point of view that he is the center of each situation because each person thinks that he has some value or importance. Everyone also has some ambition or aspiration, and there is no limit to what man can desire. Do you feel that you are important, and do you have some aspiration in life? In this regard are there differences between races, or between people of the past, present, and future? No, each person is the same here. You can conclude that you want to be important and to be recognized, and that you want to better yourself every day. This is a common human aspiration.

Let us determine whether we are good men or bad men. In the category of good men there are many different classifications or levels. It is important to know who determines whether one is a good or bad man; will you do it, or someone else? Is that the individual right of a person, or will the majority opinion decide good or evil? Goodness must be determined from the public point of view, and whether a person is good will be decided by his contribution to the overall well-being. Someone may pride himself on his good looks, but if he is missing one finger can we say his appearance is perfect? From the overall point of view, a part is missing. Value is derived from the entire point of view, or point of view of wholeness or perfection.

A good person is one whom the whole can recognize as being good. Suppose I think I am the best in my family. My parents might think I am good, but if my little sister thinks I am terrible then something is lacking. Who determines whether you are the best in your family? It is the consensus of family opinion that decides. How can you be admired by all your family? When you serve them unselfishly and make them important to you then they will respect you.

What is the basic formula for being recognized by public opinion? Two key elements must be there: sacrifice and service. Will you become a good person if you expect others to serve and sacrifice for you? You have to be the center of sacrifice and service. Will some of you protest this?

This is an important congregation because it is a miniature of the world, with all nationalities and races represented here. If this representative group can agree that this is the principle for determining who are good men and women then this must be the principle that will work for the entire world. One category of people will agree that service and sacrifice are good and they will try it; others think they will mull over the issue, while yet others will agree that this has always been their way of life. Which group do you belong in?

If you feel you have been practicing this way of life, are you in a position to be recognized as a man of goodness by the entire world? Do you practice service and sacrifice by expecting service from 240 million Americans, or by thinking that you must serve 240 million Americans? Obviously you must do it. Now that we have agreed on the definition of a good man, would you want to become the best man within the limited scope of America, or on the worldwide level? America is a microcosm of the world; do you love all the races and nationalities here? Could a man of racial prejudice be described as a good man? If he dislikes black people then would only blacks think he was guilty of prejudice, or would people of his own race also criticize his attitude? Is this a racial judgment or a universal one?

We must recognize that there is a universal principle involved, regardless of what race you are. You can see that the universe has certain fundamental laws, and anyone who violates them will be judged accordingly, regardless of his race or stature. What is the spirit of that constitution of the universe? It aims to preserve or uphold the men and women who try to live for others. It would also try to eliminate people who try to take advantage of others and benefit only themselves. This is why we can say that good people are those who exist for the sake of others, and good deeds are those actions which benefit others.

If a person is brought to trial and convicted of violating the constitutional law, would he feel good? Often a convicted defendant reacts strongly to the judgment of the court, demanding to know what is wrong with him when there is so much wrong with society. Normally a court will not reverse its decision just because the defendant objects. If even a human court won’t do that, will the universal court reverse its decisions?

There is always room for mercy in a righteous legal system, but in order to be entitled to receive it a person must show his sincere repentance. Repentance is the key word. This is why Jesus’ pronouncement was, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” What should we repent for? Very simply, we must repent for all those actions which violated the rule that says we should live in sacrifice and service for others. This was Jesus’ first teaching.

The essence of Christianity is to seek repentance for the sin of greediness and selfishness. Sin can be defined as violation of the universal law of service to others. Even stealing a dress from a big department store chain is wrong. That dress has value which comes from the person who prepared it, and the person who steals it nullifies that public value. That is the sin. Another person might realize that he tells lies all the time, but his conscience doesn’t hurt him. The motivation for lying always involves hiding something to take advantage of others: otherwise, there would be no reason to lie.

Everything is embraced by this universal principle and every deed can be judged accordingly. Imagine a person who sees an ugly woman on the street and knocks her down, thinking that he can’t stand to see her, and that he is also doing a service to other Americans who wouldn’t like to see her. If that is his motivation then is his deed a sin? That individual might try to justify his deed but the universal law will not. Universal law would decree that no matter how ugly that person might be, she is just as valuable as everyone else because she is made by the Creator. Therefore, no one has a right to knock her down.

Everything about this principle is consummated in two key words: sacrifice and service. In our human courts today is there any judge who would uphold a conviction that a person did not live his life in service and sacrifice to others? What law judges deeds of sacrificial service? Such deeds are not governed by the law of the nation but are upheld by public recognition. If a person gives sacrificial service to his nation then his country will honor him with a medal and national acclaim.

Perhaps someone will complain that this universal law about service doesn’t fit him and want to know why he can’t be given a citation and still enjoy his life. Would the society which honored selfish, greedy people endure very long? If that way of life prevailed then no unity and harmony would be possible. If the creator enforced selfishness as the universal law that law would apply not only to all humans but also to the whole material world. Then each tiny cell could claim that everything in the universe exists solely for him and that no other cell has any rights. That kind of attitude would bring nothing but division and destruction.

Universal law doesn’t work like that, however. No one denies that the cells of the eye are important, but those cells exist for the benefit of the entire body. The purpose of the whole precedes the existence of the eye, so the eye must obey the universal law of the entire body. That eye should obey simply because the universe upholds this point of view and that way of life is the one which will flourish.

You eat breakfast every morning, don’t you? Where do the animals and plants come from that comprise your meals? In order to have food you have to ruthlessly cut down different plants, then chew them up with your teeth and swallow them. The vegetables in your salad bowl won’t protest, however, because they know the universal law and think that they are there to serve a greater purpose. With that attitude they can thank you for eating them so that you can serve the public purpose.

There is a harmony of purpose here. The food on your plate has a certain appreciation of what you live for and is willing to serve your body. That’s the only way there can be harmony between you and your food. Otherwise, your food would hate you for eating it and resent hearing you laugh. The key point is that your food accepts you only because it knows you are living for the public purpose. Food will resent the laughter of a greedy person who wants to eat it.

If you are not living for a public purpose then sometimes your food will stage a demonstration against you in your stomach. Then you get sick, or even die in some cases. Under the universal law goodness should flourish and evil should decline. Now you know precisely that the direction of goodness includes service and sacrifice, but until now that definition has been hazy in history, lacking a focal point.

Let us examine whether that definition is right or wrong. Everything in this world exists in one of two classifications, and even the tears trickling from your eyes can be either good or evil. Your ears and eyes could serve in two ways. If your eyes want to look at the world to find a person in need so that you can go and serve him, then your eyes are serving a good function. On the other hand, if your eyes are trying to spot someone’s weakness so you can exploit him, they are serving an evil function.

There are all kinds of music in America, but who is it played for? Disco and rock music in themselves are not good or evil, so what purpose they serve is the main consideration. If they serve the public purpose then they are good. If music and dance are used only for personal physical pleasure or for getting money from others then they are serving an evil purpose. Is it likely that disco music is played for an unselfish, public purpose today? That’s the reason I would not favor going to discos. If dancing and listening to that music will help resurrect people from darkness to light then go right ahead, all 365 days a year. Do you have that confidence? Would it be correct to think that this is just my idea, and that once I disappear it will no longer apply because it is not universal?

There are two great examples of how this universal law is unchanging through the past, present and future. Jesus Christ lived a most miserable life on earth, but on the cross he could forgive his own enemies. When he died he looked like a defeated person in the secular sense. But his ideology has practically conquered the world in the last 2,000 years, and history is counted from the year of his birth. On the other hand, the Hitlers and Napoleons who thought they could conquer the world with military might have appeared successful temporarily, but have their accomplishments remained? No, because they too are under the dominion of the universal constitution and that activity is unacceptable.

The saints in history are those who lived up to this principle and completely practiced this way of life of goodness. The saints are those who belong to God and at the same time to mankind, the people who are living on the universal level. People are proud of any connection they may have with a saint, whether they are relatives, or come from the same nation, and so forth. Why do they want to be proud? Because the saints exemplify the most basic principle of the universe.

The topic today is Let Us Know Ourselves. What kind of people are you? You have some guidelines for evaluating your own deeds now. Perhaps you have a hand that wants other people to work for you. Perhaps your body doesn’t want to work at all for others but wants the rest of the world to work for it. Normally you have a rebellious attitude if someone gives you commands, but in the heavenly world you can think instead that you are linked to the universe through that person.

In that respect do you like me? Why? Because you know I am a mediator through whom you can leap forward to greater well-being. What kind of man am I? Some people describe me in the worst terms, saying that evil people like Hitler and Stalin paid their own people to work, but Reverend Moon is the worst because he doesn’t pay anyone and yet he still makes them work hard. They say I am the worst because instead of giving you money I send you out tuna raising! If I am as evil as they say, why don’t you leave? Am I evil or not?

I can accept the charge that I am ready to push you harder than any dictator in history, but the issue centers around what my purpose is. My purpose is to let you work for something greater than yourself and greater than your nation; it is for the world and for God. Mine is a totally unselfish motivation. While you work hard to raise funds I am working harder than you to raise even more funds, and then when they are pooled together it is spent for the public purpose. Each of my actions is within this principle of living in sacrifice and service for others.

I am not only doing this myself, but am pushing others to live for the public purpose as well. Does that make me an evil or good man? Parents sometimes seem very cruel when they push their children to study, but their motive is not to benefit themselves but to strengthen their children. These parents want their children to be future leaders and have a good impact on the world. Are those parents good or evil? Another kind of parent would let his child do whatever he wanted. Though that may sound wonderful to the child, it is better for a parent to be firm and push his child to mold his character in a God-centered way. The leniency that seems wonderful on the surface actually reflects the fact that the parent doesn’t care about the public purpose.

Teachers can also be classified in two ways. Students as a rule just don’t like to study and they want the teachers to leave them alone. There are two kinds of wives as well. One kind nags her husband about where he has been and how much money he spent and why he doesn’t spend more time with his children. The other kind decides she will just have fun on her own while her husband is away. In this case the nagging wife is serving the public purpose.

Some husbands are strict with their wives about not going out without first getting permission, and about caring for the children and the house. Another kind is lenient and feels that each of them should do as they please. Should the first kind of husband be criticized in this case?

Which person is more likely to be on the side of good, the person who has ten supervisors or the person who has none? Supervision can seem like a burden, but the discipline and demands of the supervision can push you to accomplish more. My policy is that Unification Church members can’t afford to do only one thing at one time. That is only average. I want you to tackle hundreds of things at one time. Sometimes I give so many instructions at one time that the American members are immobilized and don’t know where to move. But even the smallest Oriental members will run like ants, jumping from mission to mission, and somehow bring the result.

You know how to evaluate good and evil now. What kind of person is God? God is the master and center of the public law of the universe. One thing can be said: God exists solely for the sake of others. He is the supreme public person in the universe. God is the creator and the originator of the two basic principles of service and sacrifice. Let us call these distinct characteristics A-type blood. If both your parents have A-type blood, most likely you will too. In the same way, if we are created by God then His principles must become ours as well.

Since God is proclaiming that way of life, everything should come under that way of life as well. That’s the way God designed the universe, and anything that goes against that principle will receive pain. When we establish give and take with God by living that way, it brings harmony and energy to life. Whoever is linked to that kind of give and take shall enjoy eternal life because there is no end to it. Why do we have to live the life of sacrifice and service? Ultimately it is in order to have give and take with God and plug into His energy.

Why should we become one with God? By doing so you will enjoy eternal life. He is the source of power; God is the highest, so by uniting with Him you become highest as well. God is absolute. By uniting with Him you also become absolute and in that unity you will be protected because no one else will have the power to harm you. In unity with God, His power and energy become your power and energy and you become a child in His image. There are all kinds of love, but none better than the love of God, which shines like the sun. You then become the recipient of that love.

The sun radiates warmth and light, and when you are part of the sun of God’s love you also become a life-giving element which can bring harmony and life wherever you go. Such a person always brings life and energy and melts ungodly things. Many of you first came to the Unification Church to discredit the doctrine. You were like a cold chunk of ice, but when you heard the Divine Principle you began to melt into water. Is that true or not? If this is true then this is an historical event.

What technique do I use to inspire you this way? Am I a hypnotist or magician? There is no magic here, only universal law at work. All I have to do is teach this law. Sometimes I seem very cruel when I ask you to go out and work for the universal cause, but is it for the sake of good or evil? It is for goodness so big that it is the size of God.

I don’t have any assets of my own except this universal law. Furthermore, I aspire to work harder and suffer more than anyone else for this cause. God knows very well what principle I am living under. If Satan complains to God that I have been permitted to acquire too much success and prosperity and he wants me to demonstrate what I have done to deserve it. would God hesitate to let Satan test me? It is because Satan is trying to deter me that I have faced incredible persecution and torture in communist prison camps. But did I change even when I had to go through all that?

Is it true that the entire world has persecuted me? Hasn’t America welcomed me with red-carpet treatment? Don’t many heads of state want to welcome me to their countries? Christians and Jews are supposed to be our friends, but are they? Do the communists call me their friend? I think that in all of history there has never been one individual who was persecuted by the whole world or who has suffered more opposition than I have. Have I crumbled into many pieces because of this opposition, or am I getting stronger than ever? Even outside people should come to the conclusion that I am not lukewarm or mediocre; either I am really evil or really good.

I am Oriental, but even white people are telling me I am good. It is a puzzle to the world and they can’t figure it out. Do you really believe I am good? That is why people think I have brainwashed you-it is too incredible for them to believe. Is that what I did? All you have done is link yourself up to the universal principle, but even you yourselves don’t realize when you changed. You used to be just like people in the secular world, but as you followed this way of life you covered a great distance and changed a great deal.

These days each faith has its pride. The Pope is visiting many nations and millions of people gather to see him. Are their cheers for the Catholic church, or for the salvation of the world? If that sound is for the sake of the Catholic church, it is not good enough. But if that gathering is intended to help God and man together to save mankind, then it is good. If they gather to strengthen their resolve to sacrifice themselves more for the public good then such gatherings are good.

Are Unification Church members a good group of people? What is good about us? We don’t gather for the sake of the Unification Church, but for the liberation of God and mankind. What we do is for the supreme good. If we only gather to receive God’s blessing and privilege then we are not good people. We gather to give ourselves for the liberation of mankind and God, so we are a God-centered church. In that case the leader who founded it must be good as well. The more ardently we pursue the goal, the more success and prosperity is bound to come. My philosophy and ideal is to live for the liberation of God, not just mankind or spirit world. No one ever spoke of that goal before.

Are these empty words or am I really doing it? There is no night or day for me because I am always working for that goal. Were you lucky or unfortunate to meet me? Indeed I am ambitious and greedy and ruthless, but I am applying all these characteristics for making each of you a God-centered leader. That means I will push you out to untold hardship and difficulty with an iron will to let you be a winner, not be defeated. Even if someone threatens to poke your eyes out unless you renounce this Church, you can reply, “Even if you destroy my eyes I will not change. They are being sacrificial for the sake of goodness.” After you feel this way, then you can say ouch. Then God will receive that pain as well.

When you are ridiculed and mistreated you naturally feel pain. But if you are serving the absolute goal of the liberation of God, then everything that you bear shall be borne by God as well; your own death will be felt by God as well. He will acknowledge that you died for Him and for mankind. Then God and mankind will bow down to you because you made your sacrifice on the most divine altar.

Those who are here for the first time, raise your hands. Do you think I am speaking truth or not? Did you come just to watch, or do you want to be a part of it? This universal principle must be taught to American youth who are in darkness and confusion today. Is the light we bring necessary for America? Night or day, the answer is still yes. If I don’t fulfill this duty then God must find someone else who will. This is the only course left to America and someone must do it. Otherwise, there is no hope.

The person who tries to fulfill the will of God every day is not going to be glorified by Congress but will be persecuted and ridiculed by the people instead. His duty must be fulfilled in that position. Sacrifice and service must be the credo of our life. Would a beautiful woman be willing to give up her attractiveness for the law of God? Imagine the most handsome white man and the most ugly black woman being blessed together in marriage, giving themselves to God at the altar. That is the most dramatic thing you can imagine. They will probably be the happiest and most attractive couple under the sun. They will open the door to historical heaven and God will be liberated by their marriage. God is truly life and love, and He is looking for this kind of dramatic marriage.

When I look at your eyes I feel a certain vibration, and it is not yet 100 per cent pure. If the bestlooking man has the confidence that he can accept the worst possible wife from among the women and still be the happiest man, then this gap will be closed. When the two extremes can unite and be happy, everything in between will be overcome and all people encompassed by those extremes can become happy couples. When a couple representing two extremes reaches heaven they will enjoy total freedom to go anywhere and meet anyone they want.

That is the Unification Church spirit, the spirit of the founding nation for the Kingdom of God on earth. Before the entire world comes against you, I will play Satan’s role and be vicious and cruel and ruthless. Will you accept it? Not only that, but God will be harder on you than I am. Why can you accept that ? It is because you know that by passing the worst test you can inherit the deepest love of God. To receive that unique love you feel you can bear any burden.

Will the people of this conviction look gloomy and unhappy, or will they be the most exuberant, rain. or shine? Why do we have to take up this duty and go through the narrow gate of this life I am describing? God created all things and made them with His dual characteristics. Not only are they connected to Him vertically, but to each other horizontally. God is spirit and the created world is material; the material world is horizontal, while God and the spiritual world are vertical. God’s invisible dual essentialities were manifested in visible form, so everything is made in the image of God. Where do you belong here?

Each man is a microcosm of the universe. Your body is made of all the elements of the world. Nature supplied all the ingredients that make your body, which means that the universe made you by donating itself. If nature demanded that you refund everything that nature loaned you, would there be anything left of you ? You can feel that the universe gave you birth and made you, so nature is your first parent. Do you feel good that you are a microcosm of the universe? All the universal formats or formulas can be found in you. You could accurately say that you are a small walking universe who can move, whereas the universe is stationary. Because you can move and act you can govern the universe. The universe would want you to exercise dominion over it, so your first duty would be to love nature. Then wherever you are you can love the creation and appreciate it.

Since you feel such an urge to love the grass, trees and flowers, the birds and running water, how can you not love your fellow man? When you lie on the beach you can feel that you are lying in the bosom of your parent, or that when leaning against a tree you are leaning against your own brother. Would nature protest, or feel that you truly love and know it? All things exist for you, so you can appreciate them for that reason. As a man you are the only begotten son of the universe, and as a woman you are the only begotten daughter of the universe. Then how much love would be possible between the two?

Have you ever had a conversation with the sun, saying that you love it and singing a song of love for it? Many of the people who think of themselves as poets don’t even appreciate the depth of this truth, and their poetry is superficial and shallow. Am I telling the truth, or only seeming to?

Your second parents are your own father and mother. They represent the universe and labored to bring your life into being. Men and women can feel that they are the center of the universe because their parents, representatives of the universe, brought their physical life to this earth. Your parents represent not only father and mother but all mankind-teachers, neighbors and relatives. When you serve your parents you are actually serving mankind, not just two particular people. By doing so you will be loved by all mankind. This is the historical background out of which we can say that our virtue as sons and daughters is to serve our parents with filial piety. Your immediate family and neighbors represent a microcosm of mankind; your sisters represent all women and your brothers represent all men. Therefore, your family is a microcosm of mankind.

The true men are those who look at all people as one family of man. If you are a true man or woman, when you see a senior citizen you look at him as your own parent or grandparent. Other young men and women are your own brothers and sisters. If you are a true man then you love not only your own family but also all mankind. It is against the Principle to care only for your family and not the rest of the world. If you happen to be white, then it is a most exciting adventure to find your black family, and to find senior citizens and young men and women whom you love as much as your own grandparents and brothers and sisters.

If you see someone in dire need then you want to fill their need because they are not just your fellow man, but your brother or sister. Here in America, when parents become old and can’t take care of themselves, do they go to their children’s homes or to senior citizens homes? Which is the ideal? Aren’t you just like all other Americans who think old people should go to senior citizens’ homes? Would a grandmother be happier to visit her grandchildren or to visit in senior citizens homes?

Are you willing to accept your grandmother into your home? Would you do it in reality, or are you only saying yes because you are here? As a new wife would you rather go to live with your husband’s family of many in-laws, or to live only with him? If you want to live up to the public law of the universe then you want to go to live with his family.

You have your own physical parents, but ultimately you have one most important parent who created you-God. Your parents were the tools God used to create you. The journey in search of the True Parents begins by loving nature, which is the first parent, then loving your physical parents, and then to the ultimate parent, God, who is our Creator. God is the ultimate destination, our eternal parent. The moment of death, which everyone now fears. is actually the moment of fulfillment. If you live your life in the right way here on earth then your life leads ultimately to the one common parent. Then the moment of death actually liberates you to live with that parent for eternity. He is the true parent to us all who has true love with no end. Life with Him is what we call the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven.

The principle atmosphere of that world is supreme love. That love is not selfish. but is based on sacrifice and service. Because it is based on that universal law, that supreme love flourishes. The Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world is our ultimate destination, and our physical life here on earth is only a workshop. No matter how long you live, it all nurtures you to enter eternal life in heaven. When I discovered the core truth of the universe, this is what I found. Earthly life is merely preparation for eternal life and it is here that we pass or fail. With that realization I then prayed to know the basic principle Of the universe, and the answer came-the father-son relationship is the backbone of the universe. That is the relationship you have with the creation, with your parents, and with God. The central theme of that relationship is love.

While we are here on earth we are attending the most important workshop of all, learning this principle so that we can ultimately reach our destination in heaven and enjoy our father-son relationship with God for eternity. This is why the Unification Church exists and why I am leading you. MFT life is training to make a relationship with God for eternity. Any money we raise comes out of nature and we value it accordingly. You can tell the money that after it has longed to be used for God’s purpose it has finally come to the right place because you will connect it to the True Parents and God.

Wherever you go in the world you face certain difficulties and persecution, out of which you gain greater value for your work. If everything came easily then it would have little value. You desire to link whatever money you have, whether large or small, to True Parents so that it will have true value. All things have been fervently waiting for this relationship and you are the mediator who will make it happen. No matter how old and distinguished and socially accomplished you are, you still need to make this link with nature and restore material for the sake of God.

Another important part of our mission is restoration of men. When you see other people, you can think; that they have been waiting a long time to be restored to God. Now you can go to them because you know the way and purpose of life. You can he the mediator to bring them to God. By reaching out to people you are actually serving your parents as well and having you as their children they shall be glorified and saved. By finding the strayed sons and daughters ot America, you are serving your own parents in addition to loving them, and together you can come to the True Parents.

When you truly live this noble life there are no parents who will not welcome you. As much as you practice loving the people of the world you can certainly love your own parents and brothers and sisters to that degree. You love them as representatives of the True Parents and as someone who was commissioned by God. They have that value. No family would reject such a child, but would bow down.

There is one more training course left-the training of the spirit world. You have to know how to deal with and serve the spirit world and liberate it. You should be in a position to love the spirit world, and no one can make you realize this except the Messiah. That is the most important training remaining before you can love God.

The Messiah comes as director of training, setting: the example of how to love people, the world and spirit world. Then you can pass the ultimate test. Before the coming of the Messiah the spirit world was divided. with no harmony or cooperation anywhere in the midst of all that complexity. When the Messiah comes he will create unity and barriers will go down. It is one of his qualifications that he fulfill this while he is on earth. He is the one man on earth who has the power to control the spirit world.

The True Parents are those who represent not only this physical world but also the spirit world and God, under whom you practice love. If you go to spirit world without knowing the Messiah, it might take several million years to learn to love people there. But when you accept the Messiah while on earth you can accomplish many millions of years of work in a short time. By obeying the True Parents here on earth you are entitled to receive recognition for loving all spirit world and obeying all its rules. The True Parents represent not only this physical world but also spirit world and God, and by obeying God’s representative you demonstrate your obedience to God. By loving them you can pass every level. Now you know why unity with True Parents is necessary. They represent the heart of God so that by loving them you have already loved God and the spirit world. That is the culmination of loving all parents-nature, your physical parents and God.

Until True Parenthood was installed, all love was divided and there was no harmony. Now by loving the True Parents you are in a position to love them all. If you fail on other levels but in the end you accept the True Parents, you have demonstrated your loyalty and love to indemnify all the past. Everything culminates in that supreme accomplishment. If you are given a paper signed by the President of the United States, it has power everywhere in the land. In the same way, if you pass this final level of loving True Parents, you pass every other level as well. That is why it is an absolute necessity to have True Parents.

By fund raising you inherit the material wealth of the universe. By witnessing to the people of the world you inherit the condition of loving your own physical parents. When you love True Parents you are inheriting the world of God and His love. We can conclude that by practicing loving the True Parents, God’s representatives on earth, you can practice loving everything you need to do on earth. Here you can finish all the qualifications you need to be entitled to the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven. You have that center here in the Unification Church.

The people of the world just scoff or ridicule you, but in front of them we are proud of being Moonies. Your voice of pride shall be stronger than the voice of negativity, both here and all over the world. If anyone is reluctant to speak up as a Moonie, I will not speak up for him in front of Heaven. Tomorrow is the first of October. These nine months of 1979 have been months of indemnity for everything so far, and it is culminated with the birth of the new baby, Hyung Jin.

We know ourselves-we are Moonies and proud of it. We rejoice over what we are, so when we deal with the world we shall be strong and bold. Don’t be intimidated by the world, but be proud and quietly say, “You just wait and see. In a few years you will find the truth. The time will come when you will understand, and in the meantime we are proud.” As long as the people misunderstand us we will just tighten our belts and work harder to bring the victory. If you move forward and I am pushing behind you, there is no way you can fail.

Spirit world is pushing behind us. You know that the intervention of spirit world is becoming stronger. Is there anything to be afraid of? How proud we are to have found the truth and be children of the True Parents. In the morning when you stand in front of the mirror, greet yourself and say, “You haven’t been too proud of yourself. Now you are proud of being a Moonie.”

Those who pledge today as a new beginning to walk proudly on the streets of New York and be central people to bring this city back to God, raise your hands. Thank you very much. Let us pray.

## MEN OF GOD

By Fami1yfed June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### September 23, 1979
Belvedere
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

“God” in Korean is Hananim, and the literal translation is “one master”, or “only host.” When you spell God backwards, what word do you get? Dog. One is heaven, one is hell. On one side men of God, on the other side men of dog. You don’t think of dogs as being very lowly and disgusting in American culture. You love dogs as pets, but in the Oriental concept a dog is a rather foolish and lowly animal. A dog symbolizes ungodliness.

The Bible speaks very much about cleansing oneself, particularly before holy days. Dog meat and pig meat are never used, and not even fish which have no scales. If a Korean is describing the worst of anything, a dog is always included somewhere in his description. Don’t ever call anyone the son of a dog in Korea; you’ll be knocked down in the street! That is the worst way to curse a Korean. Do you know why? I will not explain; that is your homework.

What kind of people are we who gather together in the darkness of early morning at Belvedere-are we dog people? There is a boundary in between the realm of God and the dog-like realm. They are basically and fundamentally different. A person who would go from the dog’s realm to God’s realm must start out by denying himself and all his circumstances and all possessions. He can only hold on to the one line of life. What is that one line of life? You have no use for anything else in the other world because God wants you to become perfect in love. Also, if there is no more life then nothing else can be fulfilled.

There are two things to hang onto and nurture-one is life and the other love. The only thing which God wants to remain is life centered upon love. The life and love of men shall ultimately be connected to the life and love of God, becoming one and the same. People of the dog-type culture represent satanic culture. What is a dog like? A dog does not have a standard of discipline in life. Also, he symbolizes self-centeredness because if a dog feels mistreated he might even bite his own master. When you pat a dog he wags his tail and shows contentment, but if he feels mistreated he reacts violently. A dog serves his master, yet does not totally give himself up. A dog has no discipline or regulation in its love but just goes anywhere. Any people who live that kind of life are far from noble. A dog represents the opposite of noble human characteristics.

What kind of people are gathered here? If I rap you on the head do you feel good or do you feel like biting me? There are some people here with a dog’s characteristics: if they feel mistreated they want to fight it immediately. A snake always has an angry look on its face, particularly poisonous snakes, and it is always ready to bite. You never see a snake smile. A snake is naturally a symbol of Satan. Are there any dog-like or serpent-like people here?

Of course there is no such thing as moral principle in the animal world, but dogs are the most promiscuous in the whole animal kingdom. They have no hesitation about mating between brothers and sisters, or even parents and children. Do God’s people have moral discipline? Is America becoming more and more disciplined morally? What will happen to satanic people? They will be so corrupted that inevitably they will destroy themselves. Have you completely cleansed yourself, made a totally new beginning and left your past behind? Maybe you have cleaned away most of it, but probably some small portion remains.

If America keeps going in its present direction, the time will come when the rest of the world will abhor America. A man with any conscience could never tolerate what America is doing today. What is the so-called glamorous life being led by Hollywood stars? They are basically self-centered. Are their love affairs pure and upright? If any nation or community lives a dog-like life, it is bound to decline because God’s principles are uncompromising.

In the Bible it is recorded that Sodom and Gomorrah were judged by brimstone and fire because dog-like people lived there. They were totally immersed in a sensual life and interested only in satisfying their physical appetites. God could not tolerate such people who were totally destroying their love. Some of you may have visited Pompeii in Italy, which was destroyed by a volcano. Archeologists have uncovered evidence by which they can reconstruct life at the moment the volcano erupted and covered the city, and it was truly dirty and lustful, totally morally corrupt.

The Roman Empire was once mighty, yet it collapsed, not from outside force but from within. From the emperors down to the everyday people, everyone was pursuing a sensual life. Sometimes the most representative element of such a life is dance because it reveals the values and heart of a culture.

Certain songs and Iyrics emphasize the sensual side of human desire, evoking those sensations in listeners. Such dancing and music always presage the coming of doom for that culture.

You know that dance styles and music in America center on physical desire and sex. The latest dance fad is disco. There are many signs of the last days in American culture today. What kind of people could survive this and bring hope to America? Who will rise above all this with strength and discipline for the sake of the future? Unless such a movement emerges, we can say that America is already doomed and it is only a matter of time before it totally collapses.

Family life and the home have been weakened. America’s dignity as a nation and the spirit of patriotism are fast disappearing. People look for nothing else but fun and self-satisfaction, and they are blind to anything else. They are like dogs. Can you see some hope and dream for America’s future in the eyes of such people? Someone has to step forward and clean this mess up. No human could do such a task. The satanic phenomena in the world are not totally of man’s making, but Satan’s. The American public, particularly the young people, have become Satan’s victims. He has been so cunning and persisted so long that man’s wisdom alone could not find the solution.

God must intervene in a religious, spiritual way. Is there any religion in America which represents God’s will and is trying to clean up the mess? America’s churches today are also Satan’s victims. Churches advertise things like disco dances and bingo games. Are those churches working for God or Satan? They are hastening doomsday in the name of Christianity, making their own destruction inevitable. Am I just criticizing because I dislike America? No, this represents Satan’s culture, a dog culture.

Before you knew the Divine Principle you lived in that culture without too much trouble. When parents see that their teenagers don’t have girlfriends or boyfriends they get worried and tell them to go out with several people and pick one they like. Is such education advocated in the Bible? Would any righteous religion teach such a principle? That kind of habit is part of a doomsday culture and it deserves judgment. America is totally blinded and becoming more aimless every day. Because it has no goal or anchor, it is becoming more and more dumb every day.

In order to turn the tide, a new religious movement is needed which really represents God’s direction. That is the only hope for America. But even if such a movement exists, the whole nation will try to crush it instead of welcoming it. If America did so, it would become the enemy of all mankind because such a movement is not only good for America but necessary for world salvation. If America persists the way it is, the time will come when nations will mobilize to expel America.

Do you think a movement which had the strength to revolutionize America’s way of life could originate in the midst of America’s present culture, or would it have to come from elsewhere? Someone else must come and turn the tables. Where will this movement come from? America’s trends today originate in the Western culture, which has its roots in materialism. Therefore, the solution must come from the opposite kind of culture, which is the Eastern culture. Where in the Orient could it come from? It should be a Christian nation because unless it can understand the Christian heritage it could not do any good by coming to the West.

India is known as a country of mysticism and spiritualism, but it is not a Christian country. Buddhism prevails there. China has been the center of the Orient for thousands of years, but it has become a communist, atheist nation. Nothing can be expected from there. Japan is a religious nation, but traditionally the Japanese worship many gods. Korea is one nation that stands out in this respect and meets all the criteria. It is a Christian nation which preserves the Oriental traditions. Christianity has been perfected in Korea. It is significant that Christianity in every nation of the world is declining except in Korea, where it is thriving. Korea is also America’s last bastion of power and influence in Asia.

When Jimmy Carter was campaigning for election he stated that as President he would withdraw America’s armed forces from Korea. He openly said he intended to dissociate from Korea, but when he got into office he couldn’t do it. Later he said it was a mistake and that America would not withdraw. Some force in heaven would not allow it. The relationship between America and Korea is more than a horizontal one. People today have to feel there is something vertical there. Even though policy makers and liberal politicians want America to disengage from Korea, somehow they can’t do it and the link between the two nations is still strong.

The Unification Church is one spiritual force which consistently advocates American involvement in Korea. During the Koreagate crisis everything Korean was suspect in this country, and at that time not one politician spoke out for Korea. Only one man-Reverend Moon-and his followers were unafraid to speak up and advocate relations between the two countries.

I confronted the Congress of this powerful nation, even when people told me I was foolish and would be shattered. People laughed at me. At one time America was so sure of its power that everyone was sure the Unification Church would be crushed. But my ally was God. It was exactly like the confrontation between David and Goliath in the Old Testament. There is no question that we had some gloomy days, and the investigators were sure they could clobber us. Even some of our members and leaders were worried and expressed their doubts whether we could survive. When the Fraser committee tried to strike the Unification Church, it seemed to people that he had won 98% of a victory. But when Mr. Fraser was running for election to the Senate he thought he had won and declared victory on election night. He went to bed happy, but in the next few hours a miracle was in the making, and when he got up in the morning he had been defeated by a slim margin.

Now people look at me differently. They think I must have some mysterious power somewhere. I look normal, but they think I must have a hook-up to some special guidance.

This morning I gave Mother permission to come for just half an hour and then leave because she is expecting our baby any day now.

What are these people in the Unification Church? Your parents and society want to kidnap you and try to persuade you that they have a better world. But it is a dog world out there. We are a formidable entity that is a threat to that way of life. Everywhere in American life I am a phenomenon. If the issue of Reverend Moon comes up at the most dull dinner table, the barking begins on both sides, pro and con. People are starting to think that without me America will be a dull place to live. If that happens when they just talk about me, what would happen if I showed up in person?

I have heard that when a child is crying, an American mother might try to quiet him by saying, “Stop! Stop! A Chinese is coming!” Soon they will be saying, “Stop! Stop! Reverend Moon is coming!” I don’t mind. People may misunderstand me, but I have had an impact on the American scene and we will make the truth known. Then they shall be saved by it.

Are you Americans? Are you dog people or not? If I rapped the average American on the head like this he would certainly start barking! People outside could never understand such a scene in our Church, and they only know to explain it by calling it brainwashing. There is no other way they could describe it. Suppose an American preacher came down to the pews and slapped one of the church elders; what would happen? The elder would yell, “What kind of minister are you?!” and a fight would start.

What are we here for? For disco dancing? Rock music? What kind of culture is this where we sit on a concrete floor, gathering early in the morning even without breakfast? Normally this place would be empty after two weeks, but instead more and more people try to get in, coming all the way from New York. Will we receive great honor by being here? You certainly don’t have rich, expensive food. Many of you are engaged, but you are so busy that you hardly see your fiancees. What kind of life is this? You say this is a great life, but I say it is a grave life! Which is it?

What makes us great? We represent the only hope for America. We represent God’s kingdom and some special godly power that no other power can compete with. When we are united together we are like a rock and nothing can disturb us.- We have the power of life which is connected to the ultimate power source, which cannot be disrupted by any means. We have the power of life and love centered upon God.

Why do I represent a source of strength, but also a source of fear when you do ungodly things? Because I am a channel of the power of life and love that comes from God. Whether you are white, black or yellow, once you clearly know my secret and what I really stand for, you cannot help but follow me. When I leave New York and go to Boston, as far as Unification Church member are concerned the sun of hope rises in Boston. When I go to England, the sun of hope rises in England. Do you agree because you are afraid of me? I am thinking it might be true, but if you believe it then you are greater than me. Because there is power coming from our give and take, when I go away you lose some strength and feel anchorites. You are my witnesses to that.

What are we trying to accomplish and where are we going? Would you mind if I made you captain of a boat that would be going out in high seas? How about you women, are you ready to be captains? When you go out to sea a shark will swim by and laugh at you, sneering, “What kind of captain are you?” Are you the kind of captain who will shout back, “I am your captain and I’m going to catch you”? Could you harpoon him right in the eye and catch him?

Why are we, as religious people, catching the living things of the sea? Whatever we catch from the sea becomes a sacrifice on the altar. We offer our catch to God and ask God to forgive mankind. Whatever we do is a sacrifice on the altar. Jesus told Simon Peter he would make Peter a fisher of men. Peter had been a catcher of fish, but Jesus was going to make him a catcher who could bring men to God. We go to sea and catch real fish as the representation of God’s kingdom and offer them on God’s altar. If God wants us to stop fishing then He must save the rest of the world first. We are doing it for the salvation of the world.

Twenty-four hours a day we catch fish and make them a sacrificial offering. Of course we need money for building God’s kingdom, but so far none of the money from fishing has gone for that; it has been re-invested. More money has gone into the sea than has come back out. I have no intention of spending one penny from the sea for my own personal or family use.

This year I caught many tuna weighing over 1,000 pounds, and every time the fish was drawn in near the boat I was the one who speared it. Its blood gushed out and the water became crimson. Why? If America were to pay for all its sins, many people would have to be killed. The criminal reality of today’s American culture deserves the bloodshed of many people, but by killing the fish I am thinking that somehow one more life is saved and one more death is prevented. That is my fervent desire. I look at the fish as a sacrificial offering, just as Abraham cut the offering in two without mercy. I am not sympathetic to the fish at that moment as I make it an offering for the world, but every time I offer a prayer that the killing of one fish may prevent the death of many sinful Americans.

Those who have met me for the first time since I returned from Boston, raise your hands please. Why did you come to the Unification Church? Do you think this morning that you made a wrong decision? I am merciless in pushing you out as a sacrificial offering for the sake of mankind. Will you accept that? Look at Jesus-what was his mission? He made himself a sacrificial offering for the sake of mankind. He did it on his own, not at the command of God. He voluntarily accepted his destiny. God is not commanding me to do certain things every day; I am telling Him to rest assured that everything shall be taken care of, that I will do it willingly.

There is no time for rest. Most people who sleep one hour extra feel good when they wake up. But if I rest one hour extra, when I get up I feel I must repent. I push myself that way. When I travel I seldom go to expensive restaurants. Usually I go to a McDonald’s because I know the MFT and mobile teams frequently go there, and when I am there I think of them. I don’t want to buy expensive clothes for myself. This suit I am wearing is one of the best suits I have; the slacks cost just a few dollars and they come from Poland. London has several excellent department stores, where one good suit normally costs at least $300. But I went to a cheap wholesale place and paid $90; then I saw on the label that it was made in Poland. Actually I went there to get Dr. Durst a suit when he came from America, but he said he wouldn’t get one unless I did too. So I bought one.

My shoes cost $12, and just like MFT shoes they are all worn out. They are plastic, and so in the summer they are sweaty and smelly. But that’s the way the MFT lives. When People magazine did an article on me a couple of years ago they came to one speech I made at a celebration in the Catskills. They described me as being expensively dressed, with leather shoes from London, a custom-made cashmere suit, and so on. They assumed that was the case and did not ask questions, but that is not true. I am stingy with myself, but for the sake of the members I spend much money. I am extravagant when I buy them clothes, food and houses.

What does the world think of me though? They think I am so money-hungry that I would take your eyeball and sell it for money. They think I would take your gold dental fillings and sell them. What a gap there is between the truth and their opinion! I am amused sometimes by the unfounded criticisms people make because eventually that will make a great story. My road in life leads in the humble direction, but people who bark at me are rushing in the other direction looking for me. Soon they will be so far away that I can’t hear them barking any more. When those people can’t find me they will eventually encircle the earth in their search, and they will be so tired that they need someone to help them. At that moment they will meet me. That is how I think.

I have received much criticism, but to me it just sounds like barking dogs. I feel that the children and grandchildren of these people will understand me, however. No matter what people say today, what I am telling you this morning will become reality. God is building a true force here-that’s you. Even if people don’t want to have anything to do with me, you will go after them one by one, and all of a sudden you will have touched everyone. Twenty-four hours a day you are thinking about it. Are you paid to do it? But somehow your heart and mind just cannot be idle, and the more you do the more fulfilled you feel. When you don’t do anything you feel uncertain and nervous.

Those who volunteer for the dog world, raise your hands. Don’t you like the dog world? You have every kind of freedom there to do whatever you like and no one will bother you, but as soon as you enter God’s world there is discipline and you aren’t allowed to abuse yourself. I don’t think you like that, do you? In God’s world you must walk straight, with your chin up, and when you sit down you sit very straight. When you sit cross-legged American style you are unstable, and if someone pulled the chair out you would fall over. But when you are anchored with two feet, sitting on the floor in the heavenly way, there is no way people can pull your chair out.

You can tell American chairs that because you will sit on the floor you will give them a vacation from being sat on and enduring smelling things. They will be thankful that someone thinks of liberating them. There is humor, literature and beautiful poetry in sitting on the floor. Do you feel good sitting on the floor? Sitting close together on the floor like this you cannot move away if two people you don’t like sit or either side. Then when you change positions to relieve your legs you have to lean close to one of those people. Then you have some beautiful fellowship with the neighbor you hate. You can feel what a wonderful life it is here because you have suet fellowship and you have to work together.

You don’t mind if we change the dog world? We need a rope to get to God’s world, and that is the rope of life and love. When you cross the boundary you enter a completely new world. In order to get there religious people have emphasized celibacy as a way of life. The gate to heaven is rather narrow and only wide enough for one person at a time, so men and women cannot enter together side by side. One has to be in front. American women are unlikely to get to heaven because they would rather stand side by side instead of walking in back. Thus, there is no room for them!

Is the Messiah coming as a man? Inside you might be asking why God couldn’t make the Messiah a woman. Religion starts out with the individual and because the gate is narrow it’s best if you go into God’s realm as an individual; so throughout history religions have emphasized celibacy. Who can come and go freely on earth without visas? That is the Messiah. You need a pass with the Messiah’s name on it in big letters and yours in small letters in order to move freely. You can’t say your name should be in big letters instead.

I think that soon American women will demonstrate against me for women’s rights and want to get rid of me. You say no, but don’t you have a little grudge inside?

There should be one single file to enter this gate; either men or women will have to go first, and it is unlikely women will go first. Men have to go in front. Someone will insist that I say this because I am a man, but that is not true. Woman is truly the one who caused the trouble in the garden of Eden. By man listening to a woman, everything in the garden of Eden became fallen, so if in restoration men let women lead them in the wrong direction the nation and world will crumble. That is true! The bridge to heaven is a single-file bridge, with no room for passing. One person should be up front leading everyone to the goal. That should be a man.

Why can’t you have more freedom and flexibility? Because there is only room enough for one line marching forward. Therefore, each step is critically important. If you make one mistake then the whole path will crumble.

Have you ever seen one bride and two bridegrooms get married? Love is single-minded and goes in one direction. Do you have more than one life? Everything except life and love is unnecessary and you should cut if off. This is why religion always teaches self-denial. Higher religions even teach people to deny their family and society and to go away for meditation to awaken into a greater truth. Your goal is to become united with God, to be a man of God.

What is the basic difference between a dog-like man and a man of God? First, the lineage or origin is different. Second, their words are different. Third, their actions, and fourth, their love is different. What are God’s characteristics? God will never compromise His lineage or position at all, but insists that it must be completely pure. Next, He emphasizes words of truth, and He always acts on His own words. There are no lies or deception in God’s world. Finally, His love is genuine and pure. God wants to have His own lineage, and He exists for the sake of His own lineage and there is room for nothing else. When He makes a pronouncement, action follows in exact fulfillment. Ultimately it is all consummated in love.

Ultimately the goal of God’s entire dispensation is love. Love starts from its own lineage and tradition. Then the word will blossom in His own actions. That is how love is consummated. Let us examine how this works. Are you in the image of God? If you resemble God then there are four principles to follow. God certainly maintains His own subjective role with its dignity and authority. In the same way each of you has his own dignity, and no one wants anyone to offend that. When you say something do you live up to it? It is not good to make a pronouncement and not live up to it yourself. When you say it you should live up to it, and then expect others to live up to it. Why should it be like that? You need someone else who can live up to your expectations because that is how you have an object of love. You need someone to love.

Men and women need someone for give and take of love. If there is some word to be spoken then there must be two parties-one to speak and the other to listen. When you speak would you want men and women in action together, or only one or the other? If they are together then you can have a channel for give and take of love; together you can find a subject and object so give and take is possible. We want to mingle and be together because we aspire to fulfill love, and love cannot be fulfilled by oneself.

When you are stimulated by love, particularly first love, it is an overwhelming experience. When you are in love you talk all night and still are not bored. You are temporarily blinded and can’t think of anything else. For the sake of that love you would willingly sacrifice yourself. That is noble love. But today’s Americans don’t even think about finding a true love for which they could sacrifice. If they want to find out whether the other person truly loves them or not, they face a dilemma. Men and women come together just for convenience or fun, and there is no true love there, so even after several years a person cannot really know if the other person really loves him.

Divorce has become a business in this country and good-looking young women go into a marriage for some strategic purpose. They find a rich man, marry him, and then get divorced. Or they marry a rich old man for a few years and then divorce him, but both ways they get lots of money. Increasingly the custody of a husband and wife’s money is a secret they keep from each other. If they revealed everything then the other person might want a divorce to get part of it!

But the world of God is different. What kind of lineage would you have? God is alpha and omega, first and last. Love is unchanging from beginning to end. Life is also alpha and omega, and no one can hide or lie about life. You want eternal life, don’t you? That is because life continues eternally, without end. That is circular motion. Motion in a straight line always ends some time, and only circular motion is unending. Why is the earth round? Because it represents eternity. Atoms also move in circular motion. There is no square shape with sharp corners in the human body; your eyes face, head, limbs-everything is round.

What in our world should remain for eternity? What quality shall be preserved for eternity? You would like to keep love and life for eternity. Which comes first? For God, life comes first because first He existed and then He expressed love. But for man, love comes first. Love was the origin of man. Everyone’s life was initiated in love of their parents, and they have value because they participated in that love. Your life was conceived in honest, true love. That is why your relationship with your parents is inseparable. Could you divorce your parents? No matter how much you insist you are independent and have no relationship, you cannot deny them.

The privilege of children is to be participants in their parents’ love. The true desire of children, therefore, is not to be wealthy or honored by the world but to grow up in the love of their parents, then consummate and gloriously return that love. Therefore, God provides each child with a husband or wife and children of their own. Your husband and sons are representatives of your father. Your wife and daughters represent your mother. No matter how big and strong a husband may be, when he comes home he may become like a child with his wife, Lying on her lap, and even sometimes drinking the mother’s milk. Sometimes a child will suck on his mother’s finger, and sometimes the husband does it also. You can accept it in the future.

Some person might want to revolutionize everything and start a whole new order. Go ahead and change everything, but can you alter your relationship to your parents? You can say you won’t be their child, but will it work? Husbands and wives get divorced, so why not parents and children? Men and women may separate, but not parents and children. There is a heavenly tie binding them eternally. Your parents are alpha, and when you marry you become omega. Then alpha and omega are one and the same. One is up, the other down; one is right and the other left, and they interact.

Are there any children who like to see their parents get divorced? Does anyone get married with the knowledge that he will get a divorce in the near future? Why does divorce come unexpectedly and against their will? In many cases divorce comes because of another love affair. Because there was no concrete love in the first place, the foundation of love easily breaks apart. Is there any wife who would like to see her husband dancing with another beautiful, charming woman? No husband wants to see his wife dancing with another man. Maybe if the other man is uglier or inferior to the husband then he will have confidence she will come back to him.

There are all kinds of formalities in social dancing, but no matter what, this particular principle persists in human affairs. If a husband knows his wife is having a good time and snuggling close with another handsome man, could he really enjoy himself? Would anyone welcome that? God provided a man and woman with each other and husband and wife are meant to be a pair, so if they go disco with each other then that’s all right. Once a covenant is made between husband and wife, it becomes a tradition and lineage, a foundation which none can touch. It must be preserved for eternity.

On that foundation the words you speak become truth and have value, but if you stand on an improper foundation of lineage, the words you say will have no power. If you want to speak, you must live your words in action first. Why do my words have power? Because I have lived everything before I ever speak. There is nothing I say which I have not fulfilled. You think you are the master MFT members, but actually I am. I know best how to make a business and how to witness. No one has brought in more people to the family than I have. Therefore, when I speak my words have authority and power. When you don’t live something yourself, your words are meaningless.

Many times when your parents tell you to do something you resist and say you can’t do it, but it causes you no pain. But when I tell you to do something and you don’t live up to it, you feel pain and misery. It is because what I am teaching you is meant to help you achieve the world of love, and when you don’t live it, you don’t get to the world of love. I push you out so you can fulfill it, and when you don’t live it you feel pain and your conscience hurts. When you violate the heavenly principles I teach you, you feel pain and discouragement. Nothing you do brings you comfort.

Perhaps one time I tell you to do something that seems impossible. When you have the courage to live it you feel full of power and life because it has brought you out to the world of love. Then you have hope to fulfill love even more in the future. I am known as a man of strength and conviction because I have a fervent desire to love the people of the world. When you devote your will to deeds of love for mankind, love will return to you. That’s why your energy increases. Look at what is happening right here-people of all five races have come to follow my way of life. When you live it you feel comforted and satisfied.

What are the True Parents? They are the alpha initiated by God, and wherever they go they are alpha seeking for an omega. If I left for Africa tomorrow, the same thing would happen there-alpha will attract omega. Why are you Unification Church members here? You want to receive alpha so you can receive the power of love and life. By receiving the energy of life and love you can rejoice together with God. Then you can be parallel with God’s position. This power and authority I have is a privilege given by God, and I am meant to give that authority to you. When you receive life and love through True Parents it becomes your life and love which is parallel with God’s.

It is my duty to bequeath that to you. If you receive and live up to that inheritance then you shall become a true father or mother of mankind as well. There is one Father and one Mother, one truth and one tradition. The Unification Church has come to begin that tradition in this promiscuous world. If the world does not respond but persecutes the Unification Church instead, the tradition of God shall go on regardless. Could you men become women tomorrow? Could you women become men? No one can change your manhood or womanhood, and no one can revolutionize the parent-child relationship either. Do you welcome that?

Here we have True Parents installed by God, and no one can change your spiritual sonship and daughtership centered on them. Are America’s families probably destined for hell or heaven? No one likes to hear about doomsday and the world tries to shut me up. Even though I may be more persecuted for criticizing President Carter, I am not swayed. If I can see the death and decline of American society and do not say anything because I want to be popular, history will judge me severely. Even if the world judges me today, let them go ahead. I would rather be approved by history.

I was persecuted by Koreans because I spoke the frank, honest truth about that nation, and it persecuted me. When I spoke the truth in Japan, the nation didn’t want to hear it and I was persecuted there. When I came to America and spoke the truth without fear, this nation persecuted me as well. Sometimes I chastise you when you do wrong and it is bitter to hear. A satanic person tries to hide his flaws and failures, but a heavenly man wants to expose them and repent. That is the best solution in every case.

It is the Unification Church tradition to confess when something wrong is done. I never volunteer to listen, but I hear many confessions from members, either in person or in letters. You want to unload all the iniquities in your heart. When I hear them and forgive you and tell you not to do them again, you feel liberated. That’s why many people want to speak to me and unburden their hearts. Everyone has personal secrets, and though I never ask to hear them, people volunteer anyway. You hardly want to tell even your teachers or parents, but here in the Unification Church you want to unload your secrets to me. Why is that? By using me as a foundation you can reach out for a greater horizon of love.

Those who need love, raise your hands. What kind of love do you need? How is true love different from illicit love? Satanic love is always self-centered. Parental love is pure because it is unselfish. Why do we all crave the love of God? Because it is parental love, pure, genuine love. Every man and woman craves such love. A husband and wife desire pure, unselfish love that is unconditional. Sometimes in an airport I might see an elderly husband pushing his wife in a wheelchair, taking care of her and getting her on the plane. That is a beautiful scene. In my mind I wonder whether they married when they were young or middle-aged, or when they were old. I feel that if they started their pure love when they were young and kept it alive over the years then God must bless them. I pray momentarily for God’s blessing on that couple.

That’s the kind of world we want to build. God is very idealistic. In a pure, truthful, unselfish world you want to become husband and wife and parents, as well as leaders of the nation. That is truly heaven. If 220 million Americans crave only selfish love then there will be 220 million fights a day. But you want to feel love for 220 million Americans, whether they return that love or not. God’s tradition is one of unconditional love; He doesn’t want to receive love first and then give love. Parental love is unconditional, even towards sinners.

Therefore, you want to practice God’s tradition, and whether people love you or not, you will love them first. Then your love is pure and genuine.

If your parents love you to degree ten, you love them to degree twenty. You should want never to be indebted to your parents, but to become a creditor of love. That is my tradition. That is the Unification Church tradition because it is God’s tradition. Let others be indebted in love to you. When other people try to do you favors, always bring more blessing to them to clear away that indebtedness. When you live a self-centered life it will never reach out beyond your own boundary and become eternal. But when you go beyond your boundary and center upon God, there is no limit and you can travel all the way to God and embrace the whole universe.

When you want to live in unselfish love and have ambitions for the sake of the world, God knows that you need people and material resources to build the Kingdom and all these things will come to you. A low-pressure realm always attracts a high-pressure system to it. That is what causes storms. The give and take of love and high pressure systems can create a hurricane. Are we a destructive or constructive hurricane? Centered on the greediness of Reverend Moon? The greediness of all mankind? What is the craving and ambition of mankind? Unity of the world. Power, money and knowledge will all fail to bring unity.

I crave the oneness of the world also, but I will do it with the power of love. This is one area I cannot be surpassed in. It will be done with true, God centered love. How can you achieve this? The simplest way is to follow me. Taste persecution for the sake of mankind and God. God has been ridiculed and misunderstood, and now you should want to be in that position in the name of God and the world. If you want to avoid persecution then your love is only conditional. Many members try to live Unification life conditionally; they say they love True Parents, Divine Principle and the Church, but they can’t stand being persecuted.

Engagement comes before-the wedding. An engagement is a covenant made between two people who promise to become one. You must go through this engagement period to prepare for complete oneness because later when children come there will be stormy weather and unexpected difficulties. In order to overcome all these with love you must practice with each other, learned to rely on and trust one another. When rainy days come in the future you will be able to handle them. It is beautiful, but not easy. When you finish, however, there is true value which commands the respect of the people..

Why are you persecuted? If you bother no one and just earn money to support yourself, why should anyone bother you? That’s not how you will save America though you must do something extraordinary, including fundraising where you can earn more than your own share, and witnessing, where you bother some people and bring them to be members. The secular world thinks eight hours is good enough for one day, but we consider 24 hours a day to be adequate.

What do you do with the money you earn fund raising? Two thirds of the income should be devoted to the sake of others, and one third for your own needs. But you shouldmake a conscientious effort to reduce your needs, so you require only one tenth or one twentieth of the income and you can give more for others. Then more value can be created. That shall be recorded in the annals of the Unification Church. The MFT spirit is to strive to use 100% of their earnings for the public purpose. Always you feel you are not doing enough when you give everything you earn; you even take money out of your savings account to add to the result. That is my spirit and tradition.

I never feel indebted to you; instead you are indebted to me. America is indebted to me. When you are indebted to others you cannot be a leader or have dominion. I am, indebted in word or action or in love, and you must be like that because God is like that. You are Americans because you belong to American he American tradition. The Unification church has no particular nation. Our country is the planet earth. The earth is our hometown and family. Let’s claim our home and build our nation.

You must feel that any place you go is your hometown, where many blessed people live because they want to make their nation. When you ask such people what is their aspiration, they will reply it is to have one world and one family, a free world where no war is warranted. The Unification Church is creating the new lineage and origin. We are speaking new words which never existed before, doing new actions and giving new love. These new things didn’t come from me but from God. What is the ultimate goal? To make everyone here on earth men of God.

When you speak, do so on behalf of God. When you act, do so as God’s representative. We worship God as our Parent. No one can remove you from the Unification Church any more than they can deny that you are an American citizen or have American parents. In the same way, no one can separate you from your heavenly citizenship. No one can deny and change your destiny; it is already sealed. Even if someone cuts my head off, it doesn’t change anything. Just as a patriot shouts, “Long live my country, ” at the moment of his death, so will I cry out at my death, “Long live my eternal Parent and nation here on earth, the Kingdom of God.”

We live in a world of evil and the quickest way for us to unite completely is to suffer persecution together. That will only harden and toughen our unity. Many white people oppose you, but there are black people very close to your heart. When white people persecute us, it brings white and black and yellow closer together here. We have a multi-color blessing because all five colors of skin are married together here. This is a historical event.

This started with alpha and it will circle all the way around to omega. No one can stop it. What does Divine Principle mean? Actually the literal translation means “original principle.” Since it originated from God and God is divine, we call it the Divine Principle, however. We are talking about principles of the original way of life, the original way to form a family, society, nation, world and cosmos.

Would you speak without action? You act by earning money to spend for others; you bring people so they can learn the original way of life. These are the most brilliant acts in the sight of God. First do these things and then speak. You show your action through MFT, witnessing, and many other things. After that you demonstrate how to truly love your neighbors and family, and people will see in you an example which they want to follow

If it happens that you marry a nasty husband then you should compare his nastiness to the worst persecution you faced when fund raising. Then you can say, “My husband, you are still better than those nasty people on the street and I still love you.” I saw many horrible husbands in Korea who would burn their wife’s face with cigarettes, or beat her. But those wives would pray to God that they had already forgiven their enemies and now they wanted to pass this test of their unselfish love by loving their husbands. Through such an extraordinary demonstration of love, God can give someone the title of special heroine or patriot. When husband and wife live together normally in love and peace there is no historical event taking place. History is made under abnormal conditions. When you face such an emergency you can always feel it is your God-given opportunity to do historical things. Are you ready to be historical persons?

Many people asked to marry a black husband or Oriental wife, and now some of them are thinking that maybe they did the wrong thing, yet they don’t want to speak up. I am telling them now that they should look for an extraordinary situation so they can become historical people.

The black member of an interracial couple should give his or her mate the worst time because so far the white people have discriminated against black people. Now white people must have the opportunity to be heroic in the same way black people had to do. Thus, the white husband or wife have an opportunity to be recorded in history. All history will honor such couples, and flowers will be left on their tombs every day. Do you white people welcome it? Wouldn’t you rather be ordinary, everyday people? White people will welcome it because you want to demonstrate that white people can love all mankind, from extreme to extreme.

My ambition and desire is to create historical, tradition-setting families which will be remembered. Would you like that? I will not forgive those who oppose this!

Would you complain? Before you complain, exercise obedience and loyalty. In order to practice love of mankind on the family level you must forgive, be loyal and be obedient. Our lineage should be different. You have many different colors of eyes, but you are of the same lineage. No one can alter or disrupt this, not even God. This is the king’s lineage directly from God and you are born for it. If you deserve that lineage then you will speak like a heavenly man and live up to it in action. Ultimately all these will be fulfilled in God-centered love.

I persevered for decades through all kinds of agony and persecution just to live up to this position and fulfill it so I could bequeath it to you. There is a new world coming, something brilliant and exciting which is bringing hope for the world. Our pride is that we are marching forward to reach the final day when God’s will is fulfilled on earth. Amen! The most important thing is to become men of God. We are harboring the hope of the future. Amen. Those who will fulfill that goal unto their lives, raise your hands. God bless you.

## HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE DISPENSATION

By Fami1yfed June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### September 18, 1979
Belvedere
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

I’m sure all of you realize the meaning of the day and the significance of September 18. Today I want to deliver a message entitled “Historical View of the Dispensation” since you should know the historical background. There are many religions today, but there are few which really understand the dispensational view of God. There are many religions and faiths, but normally they cannot easily separate themselves from their cultural background and local roots. God’s dispensation is always started in one local area, but with a universal concept which is directed at bringing these into one culminating universal dispensation.

Although a religion may seem to be shaped by the context of its local background, each good religion has the same central theme of the basic dispensational picture of Gad. Our conclusion is that God is always working toward one central theme of dispensation. Therefore. the completion of the will of God will not be realized in the process of its development, but in the end’ at the culmination. Human history started in the fallen world. When restoration from that point up to the original world is completed, all the goals of religion will be accomplished, including the level of family, society and nation, when the entire world is restored back to God.

History is always moving toward one central line of fulfillment, in a process similar to the development of a central government; instead of doing it all at once God starts out by organizing a family, tribe, village, town, then country, state and finally the federal government With this kind of picture you can explain God’s view of dispensation.

There are basically two aspects in today’s world-the East and West. Of course, in each of those aspects all four directions exist. A variety of cultures have emerged in East and West’ but God is always working in one central culture’ with one central theme of dispensation. Even though a certain religion represents the central theme of God’ it probably doesn’t look so different from other religions. Whether you are standing in the center or to the side of the main dispensation doesn’t make any difference because there is only one direction-upward-and the fulfillment of each religion will always bring it upward toward the central goal. Each religion was born for a purpose, and once it has fulfilled within its limited sphere, it has finished its mission. A village government is under the authority of the national government; in the same way, when a higher religion appears the lower religion will be absorbed. Thus, until the central religion fulfills God’s will completely, it will not stop or become dormant but will endure until the culminating day.

When will all these religions become one? In the Last Days the purpose of each religion will be completed, and when we reach that day of consummation there will be one final movement of unity among religions. The central religion always focuses on that one day when all religions will be united’ and it will have many prophecies about the great day of unification to come. That is how the central religion has been upholding hope.

Christianity is a world religion. How could it come to be such a formidable religion today? It is because Christianity was created by God to take the central role. and as long as God’s will is still moving forward Christianity must keep pace. When the Last Days come, however, it will come to an end along with all other religions. In that day of consummation the one unifying force which is being predicted is, in religious terms, the concept of the Messiah. The Messiah is the central theme of Christianity’ and each religion has a messianic concept in some form. Each good religion in the world today has some variation of this idea.

At the same time religions are moving internally toward that one unifying point, the external world is also moving toward unity. Today the world has been consolidated into two aspects-the democratic and communist worlds. When the day of consummation comes, these two worlds will confront each other and both of them will be ended. Why is that? It is because God’s purpose of dispensation is for the whole world, and when it is culminated both of those worlds must end in order for one world of God to be formed.

Where are we today? Again, we can say that the time for the end of the free world is near. The United States is proud to be a democratic country, but that particular philosophy is becoming outdated. Today’s philosophy of democracy will not work in the future world. When we talk about the end of the democratic world it implies the end of the Christian world. This also applies to the communist world. Until 1978 the communists were confident they could conquer the world, but since then they have realized that because of their own internal divisions they could not do it They became aware that communist power is not almighty.

The time has come when a new vision is needed, a new religious philosophy and ideology which will help the present world consummate the ultimate goal of God’s purpose. Who will bring this new concept and vision of the future? What would he teach and where would he lead mankind? God’s promised Messiah will give new vision not only to the religious world but to the secular world as well. First of all, he would come as true man, bringing the truth which will enable him to unite all religions. Furthermore, he will have a realistic solution for the world’s problems and he will be able to lead the way to a solution of hope.

A solution is needed on all levels-individual, family, nation and world. Realistic problems are there and realistic solutions are needed. When the Messiah comes as a man will he do it all by himself? He must first demonstrate a family that is building a block of the Kingdom of Heaven. That will be the family in which all religions could feel at home and find the fulfillment of their ideals. Even non-religious people will feel that the Messiah’s family is the ideal family that everyone needs. That family will be a universal one, not based on any one particular culture or denomination, but one which can provide the universal model for all cultures. Can you think of any exception to this?

If one religion is preaching white supremacy, does it have the qualification to provide worldwide fulfillment? Christianity embraces the concept of being God’s chosen people, but if Christians are making themselves a privileged class which disregards others they will not be acceptable to God. If they try to perpetuate that concept will they continue to prosper? If God’s chosen people have some prejudice or arrogance then God will definitely raise up another group as His chosen ones instead. If Christianity has developed primarily into a culture of white people with racial prejudice, or if the Jews have some arrogance as the chosen people then they are not understanding God’s mind and He will definitely raise up another race as the chosen ones. This is not just my opinion, but a proven fact of history.

When I came to the Western world to preach the most logical and natural revelation of God, Christians were shocked and the white culture refused to accept it; the Jewish people also felt I had to be stopped. The interesting thing is that when established religious leaders oppose me, often their wives and children start taking the side of the newcomer! If a husband is adamantly opposed, in many cases God will chose his wife or child to give support instead. That doesn’t happen by the effort of any one religious leader but through God’s direct intervention. God has prepared many individuals who are ready to receive the messianic ideal, like seeds which will sprout in the final day of consummation.

How will we know when the Last Days are here? The sign will be a movement of people predicting the time of the Last Days and urging people to prepare. If their particular predictions are not fulfilled then at least there will be people who are trying to prepare themselves. The one movement which is preparing for the day of consummation is the Unification Church.

I am very glad to have been born a Korean because Koreans don’t have any worldly status or respect to be proud of. For instance, Japanese people generally are proud of themselves and think they are better than Koreans and other peoples because they are usually in the lead in any race. But there is no rule that every champion must be Japanese. In boxing, for example, a small Japanese can’t defeat a giant Westerner. Boxing was begun by whites, but now supremacy usually belongs to blacks in that sport. White people cannot disqualify blacks from participating simply because white people originated the sport of boxing; international law would not allow it.

When the Japanese realized the Divine Principle was the supreme truth they felt the Japanese should play the main role and some businessmen approached me about buying the Divine Principle. Should we respond and negotiate with them? Money talks in many arenas and sometimes sports results are rigged, for instance, but it is illegal nevertheless. I refused the Japanese businessmen, and later the Japanese press tried to smear my reputation so they could take the Divine Principle by force. These leading citizens felt they could not afford to allow me to prosper in Japan, but then their own children and many brilliant university students spoke up to challenge them!

Here in America, however, another situation has developed. Here Christians think Jesus belongs to the West, and when a Korean preacher appeared Western theologians reacted by thinking that they certainly knew more than he did. Initially they adamantly rejected Unification Church and Divine Principle. My response was that the two should compete in the world arena and have open public discussion, so I issued invitations to famous theologians and philosophers. Most of them refused to attend. That retreat actually represents their own defeat, showing they haven’t the courage to stand up.

Then the dirty-tricks began with various people trying to cut me down in various ways, through bad publicity, character assassination and government investigation. When I started my work here in 1972 many people thought that I wouldn’t last past 1973 and then they could get rid of me. Instead the Unification Church defeated even the United States Congress.

The problem faced by people who want to prevent the Unification Church from prospering is that the movement here is made up primarily of Americans, not Koreans. If I am deported from America would you also pack and leave? If I leave, there will be many people left behind who will cry and feel they cannot forgive the nation for that act. Their heartbreak will not be healed by any white people coming to comfort them. They would only be comforted by some Koreans promising to convey their heart and love to me and urging them to get down to work in the meantime. Not even government weapons or threats can change a man’s heart, so what will happen ultimately? If many Americans are upset that Reverend Moon is not in this country then a democratic government would have to respond by issuing an invitation to Reverend Moon to come back so that the citizens would be placated.

What should I do then? Should I immediately fly back, or refuse to come again? If I refuse to come back then millions of Americans will apply to emigrate to Korea. The world will see that these emigrants are not the trash of society, but distinguished and motivated young people. Will that be Korea’s problem, my problem, or America’s problem?

Even though this is a Church gathering. I know that there is some government recording being made of every word I say. For their benefit I say that if America continues on in its present course it will inevitably decline: we must do something drastic now. The Unification Church has no wish to see America decline, but if it mistreats this God-given movement then God will take action and decline will be unavoidable. It would be much better for God to begin all over again than to continue struggling with a country that does not parallel His direction. Such a nation cannot survive.

This World Mission Center is located on Eighth Avenue, which is famous for prostitution. Here our members are gathering by the thousands, pursuing one direction in life, while people on the street pursue another. Who will influence whom? Will you be swallowed by them, or refuse to be influenced but just sit and wait, or will you do something about it? I have seen that in the last five years New York is sinking and becoming unthinkably dirty. You can see it just by looking across the street. What is the government doing about it? In most cases the government doesn’t care.

There are many denominations in America, but what are they doing about it? The situation is getting worse, yet what solution are they offering? Even though they despise me, they will have to acknowledge that I am offering a solution. The evidence is you: many of you were victims of that society but you have been reborn into citizens who are building the kingdom. Immoral and discouraged young people who come here are being changed into godly men and women of vision. You are working harder than anyone else in fund raising and witnessing. Many people accuse me of brainwashing, but that kind of cheap criticism will not stand up under honest investigation.

No power can prevent America from entering the Last Days, and no citizen can be aloof or reject being part of the situation. If Americans refuse to embrace God’s dispensation. this country will tall apart. God needs a champion who can advance the dispensation by leaps and bounds. Who are the people who can live up to His expectation? At this extraordinary time in history God sees the opportunity for leaping ahead, and if the government or established religions oppose His instrument, God will allow unusual things to happen to them. God is allowing the Unification Church to leap ahead and giving us great opportunities by suppressing the power of governments and dispensations Himself. That is God’s mandate.

Are you the kind of people who can rebound from pressure like a rubber ball, or will you be shattered by it? We need people who are not only elastic but tough and who can endure. American religion is like a ship caught in a hurricane and the government as well is helpless and has no anchor. When the water is rough and the wind is strong and your ship is pitching and rocking out of control, what will happen? That is the kind of perilous situation we are living in today.

Do we in the Unification Church have an anchor? God is our anchor and I am the rope. That means all you have to do to survive is hold onto the rope; you don’t even have to grip the anchor directly. The anchor is always deep in the water so what you have to do is grab the rope and hang on. Other churches may be offering people a beautiful rope of gold, but there is no anchor at the bottom. The Unification Church rope is plain nylon, but there is an anchor down below. Those people who advertise their beautiful rope criticize ours; even the government boasts how big its rope is and how fishysmelling the Unification Church is. But the difference is that we have an anchor and they don’t.

Who will be the controlling factor or central person in the midst of this global catastrophe? Even the President himself will not be adequate because today’s problems go beyond human comprehension; no human power will suffice. Do you just believe this or know it as a fact? Only a solution based on a message from God can work.

Can you think of any other religious leader in history who has raised as much controversy as I have, stirring up hurricanes on every continent I visit? The media have given me many unsolicited titles, such as Korean businessman, Korean evangelist, Korean prophet. All of those titles are correct, which means that I am not just a small religious leader taking care of one church; I am interested and involved in every sphere of life. Another recent criticism is the prediction that I will dominate the oceans and America’s ports through our fishing industry. I definitely feel that some great fishing captains will emerge from among our Unification Church women. That will be our pride because usually American women stay home and command their husbands.

I have concluded that the day of consummation is here. What we need is vision to see our direction and guide human life in an orderly fashion and create the future world. At this turning point we need a central theme which comes from God’s direct involvement in the form of the Messiah. Would you like to change your church to one that is more convenient? I’m sure some of you were atheists before joining, but now could you revert to that conviction and way of life? Wouldn’t you get tired of looking at me sooner or later? I keep pushing you out, saying you must live for the sake of the world, but aren’t you discouraged because you haven’t even seen the world yet? If you don’t move then I will push you out.

Would you rather push yourself or be pushed by me? How about being pushed by God? It is better not to have me or have God pushing you because then you carry a burden and face judgment if you fail, but when you push yourself there is always another chance. What route would you smart Americans take? If your eyes are drooping with sleep you have to command them to stay open. If your hands don’t obey, you have to warn them they can’t behave that way after meeting me. Tell your legs they have the wrong owner if they can’t work harder. If you sisters have a bosom and hips that are so big they slow you down then you have to chastise them and shape up. Command your mouth to go without eating if it demands good food too much. Men are always greedy to get something for free, but now you can tell your brain it is time to give something free for others. Your mental processes have to change like that.

Will Orientals or Westerners see further into the distance? If a camera lens is opened wide then it only focuses nearby objects clearly, but when it is closed more than it can also focus objects far away. Westerners’ eyes are always wide open so they focus on things closer at hand, so naturally they have created a great material civilization. Orientals’ eyes are narrower. Even for an Oriental I have small eyes, so small that sometimes you wonder whether my eyes are closed or open. I have the vision to see far, far into the distance.

I have seen a great distance, enough to penetrate the heart of God, and because I know what lies ahead I can command my body and discipline my eating, sleeping and love life. When God sees this self-control He feels He can absolutely trust everything about me-my legs, arms, mouth, and so forth. Can you Unification Church women control the desires of your body? If a handsome man is near don’t you wish he would touch your body? You men are not any better! I sometimes hear very honest reports about members who act crazy because they cannot control their sexual desires. Do you have total self-discipline to control your love life?

We must either prepare the day of culmination or fulfill the day. Would you like to be those who prepare or be the central performers on that day? The Messiah is the culmination of God’s work through history and he is needed by everyone, whether man or woman, American or Oriental, or even a communist. We have to pinpoint what the central religion is. First Judaism and then Christianity held that position historically. The central religion always starts out from God and will continue until the fulfillment of its purpose at the close of the Last Days. God said that He is the alpha and omega, and this is reflected in the course of His central religion.

The first part of God’s history was the Old Testament era, then the New Testament era, and now we are moving into the Completed Testament era. That era is the time for the completion or culmination of both Old Testament and New Testament history. Judaism cannot be consummated by itself; there must be an ultimate truth which will liberate it and lift it up to be completed, and Christianity as well. The Unification Church is functioning as a mediator to bring unity so that all religions can move toward culmination together. That is why you will find Unification members who come from every aspect of religious life-Jews, Christians, Buddhists and so forth.

I can see that until now human history has been a failing venture. Who will take up the responsibility to mend the history of failure? Those who were responsible for history’s failures are now in spirit world and they need to be liberated. That will come to them only when someone here on earth physically reverses their failure. This is why you cannot solve the problems of the present unless past failures are resolved. There must be some combined solution for problems of the democratic and communist worlds, to untangle both the past and present. Without that solution there is no hope for the future.

Christians and Jews don’t think in that fashion, but believe they will continue as they are for eternity. They can’t even imagine the need for a day of consummation when they can be liberated. In the day of consummation, the past, present and future will be unfolded horizontally at the same time in different layers. If the Unification Church is the central faith in this period then we must have the solution for the past and present. You might see yourself as one insignificant individual, but you are the fruit of the past, you are the present and the extension of you will be the future.

All of you come into the era of consummation from all kinds of backgrounds, but you are united by the central theme of God. That’s what your role is. Unless you discover the central theme and direction you cannot project yourself to the future in the direction of God, which is one vertical line straight up. You must find it, join it, and move with it to reach the spirit world and God. If your angle is even slightly different then you will eventually go an entirely different direction.

If Christianity had united with the Unification Church when it was born there would not have been a great spread of communism or catastrophic turmoil which we see now in the world. Christianity is like a field prepared by God for the Kingdom of Heaven, and all that was needed was the birth of the new ideology which would take hold in the central position and expand this Christian territory. That is what God hoped would happen. This is why God planted the Unification Church on the worldwide foundation of Christianity. The first thing that should have happened was acceptance of the Unification ideal by the Christian community of one nation. Then it would have expanded to the rest of the world.

When Jesus came to the world, God had already prepared for 4,000 years so that the Messiah could win his own people first of all. Then the worldwide dispensation should have begun. Jews have strong national identity, but the Messiah did not come for Jewish supremacy; he came for the worldwide purpose, although he started on the national level. Why couldn’t the Jews accept Jesus? Because they saw he was different. But naturally he was different because they were only on the national level and Jesus was living for the international level. How could he be the same?

The Unification Church is here with the universal ideology and it cannot be fit into any particular nation or part of the world. Existing religions see that we are different and don’t listen to them, but naturally we are different and they should listen to us. We have a God-approved direction and philosophy and the guts to spread it around the world. If the Korean Christians in particular had wholeheartedly accepted the Unification Church many decades ago, would the Christian community of the world have been affected? If worldwide Christianity had been affected then the democratic world would not be as helpless as it is today. God had to allow the expansion of the enemies of the free world because nothing else would wake it up. Communism is threatening its very existence, but the democratic world is still asleep. Is the free world or the communist world expanding its territory faster today?

God’s greatest need is to raise up one ideology that will not be overwhelmed but will win over the communist ideology and expand throughout the world. This is certainly a most logical strategy. The messianic ideal will therefore start out with the individual, tribe, nation and so forth, expanding to the world. But this ideology will not be just the product of one local culture; it will be a universal culture.

Because the 2,000-year old Christian community opposed the Unification Church, God is leaving the churches today. The Bible says that in the Last Days your own family members will be your enemy; now families are becoming enemies because of Satan’s work. From the very beginning my concept was of a worldwide base. I started in the national environment of Korea because the movement had to begin from some local point, but I went beyond that boundary to reach out to the world. Because the great Christian foundation was broken, I had to erect the foundation step-by-step myself so that I could reach out to the world. That work began on the family level, then moved to the tribe and nation, and then I could leap beyond the nation. By 1972 the national foundation was laid.

After that I could move the worldwide crusade and I went from Korea to America, the central nation which represents the entire world. I came and prepared for one year and from 1973 on began a most extraordinary crusade. How can the opposition of Korean Christianity be indemnified? Yes, here in America. Up through the Madison Square Garden rally in 1974 America gave me an open-armed welcome in the first Day of Hope Crusade. A great number of citations, proclamations and letters of honorary citizenship were received. The Korean Christian community had rejected me, but initially the American Christian community welcomed me, and thus restitution was made for the Korean failure.

Based on that victory I organized the IOWC in 1974 and moved the crusade to Japan and Korea at the end of that year. Even though I had erected the national foundation in Korea, it was only spiritual and internal in content. Based on the victory in the Western world in 1974 I could go back to Korea for the external victory.

In those days the Korean government was boxed in by Korean Christianity, which took an anti-government position. Furthermore, North Korea’s warmongering attitude was so frantic in those days that there was actual danger to national security. In order to subjugate Korean Christianity, a patriotic theme was absolutely necessary. Once we won victory on the international level I knew we were bound to win on the national level. This was the significance of bringing the International One World Crusade to campaign in Korea. You remember the heavenly collision between the Unification Church and Korean Christians during my 1975 crusade there. We began in Pusan and won gigantic victories over an outpouring of opposition in every city as we moved up the peninsula, all the way to Seoul. The internal foundation was laid in Korea but the external victory was brought from America, another Christian nation. We imported that victory to become victorious in Korea externally as well and at that time the Korean people fully realized that the Unification Church was not just a Korean movement but that it had gone far beyond and become international. In 1975 I sent out missionaries to every corner of the earth.

In order to make restitution for the failure of Korean Christians I laid the spiritual foundation in Korea, came out and won the international victory externally and brought it back to Korea to make Korea’s victory whole, internally and externally. This was culminated in the World Rally for Korean Freedom on Yoido Island on June 7. At this rally the Unification Church demonstrated with sixty nations represented and I proclaimed our commitment to fight against communism on the worldwide level.

If the same thing had happened 2,000 years ago it would have equaled Jesus’ victory in the Jewish nation coupled with an external victory in the Roman Empire, united into one culminating victory. Jesus could not win that victory in his lifetime however, and both the Jews and the Roman Empire opposed and crucified him. This remained to be indemnified, and it was done by our victory in Korea and America. We have paid the indemnity for this.

With the completion of this internal and external victory in Korea, I came back out of Korea to America with a heightened dispensation. Now I had to export that whole victory out of Korea and make it a worldwide victory. The American victory was only external so it had to be make internal. A more substantial movement had to be erected in America, and that was the spiritual battle I began upon my return, starting the Yankee Stadium and ultimately Washington Monument campaigns.

From this point on American government and worldwide attention was alerted and opposition began, and the U.S. Congress in particular became a seat of opposition. The Roman Empire represented the world, and the failure of Rome in Jesus’ time must be restored by America. Until that is done there is no way history can fully come alive. The entire world was united in opposition to the Unification Church- the Christian community, democratic nations, and even communists were agitating. I was confident that victory would be ours because we had already won the initial victory externally in America. Even though people who had initially welcomed me now turned to opposition, I knew the victory could be won. Every ounce of our movement’s energy was mobilized to confront this opposition, and it culminated with the battle against the Fraser Committee in the U.S. Congress.

I am no enemy of America or Congress, but certain people were trying to cover me with this image. This paralleled the agitation of the Jews of the Roman Empire to kill Jesus. Jesus was a victim because he had no physical movement to mobilize to oppose that, but our situation was different. In the days of that confrontation even many of our American leaders expressed dismay at the situation and were skeptical of winning. I was the one person who truly believed in victory and l knew there was no way to go on without victory. When I instructed Col. Pak to go before the committee I told him to go fight and not hesitate or give excuses, but to go there like David before Goliath. I told him that in the name of God and True Parents he would win.

When you show your absolute oneness with God and His spirit, God always takes your side and a miracle will happen. This was an exception. This was a most giant, historical battle and I knew a miracle was needed. History is living, past, present and future, so the consequences of the past must be unwound today. Only I knew the historical meaning of that confrontation, so only I could plan precisely how it should be won.

Today we are celebrating a most important day in the history of our Church. The Washington Monument Rally was God’s demonstration of power, organization and determination, and through that Rally the entire world learned about us. It was our supreme battle, our declaration of war against the entire world, not just the United States. September 18, 1976 was truly an historical day for the world, not just our movement. It was a life-or-death showdown, the culminating battle in Unification Church history, and I won the victory. I knew that God was with us in that victory, and afterwards I ordered all echelons of our leadership to be bold and strong whenever faced with opposition from our enemies.

Two most important events took place after the Washington Monument victory: on October 4, 1976 I declared the Day of the Victory of Heaven, and in the following year on February 23, True Parents’ birthday, I declared the day one in the year one of the Kingdom of Heaven. That was the culmination of my mission. I was liberated at that time and now I can go anywhere at any time. Also at that time I declared that now we would proceed with the legal battle and not tolerate any longer the unconstitutional treatment we had been given. We have to demonstrate legally our righteousness and it should be proven that the American Constitution is on our side.

Many victories have been won in that battle, and this will be completed by the middle of 1981. We have been pursued by many government investigations, but one by one we have won. The courts are on our side and our constitutional rights have been upheld. The IRS has been looking for years to find something wrong in our finances, but they have found nothing so far. The historical universal program has been fulfilled and the past failures of history have been restored; no historical figure can point a finger at me.

Congressman Fraser represented a far left political viewpoint and supported the anti-war movement during the Vietnam years, and such liberals were the victorious heroes in recent years. But Fraser’s defeat represented the fall of liberalism on the far left, and now more conservative, patriotic Congressmen are emerging on the scene. From now on the presidential candidates will be younger men in their 40’s, not older politicians. Younger men like Jerry Brown, Edward Kennedy and Philip Crane have emerged as candidates.

A refreshing new tide of revived Christianity will occur soon in this country. A longing for a new Christian revival will emerge in America, and I want you to be flag bearers when that time comes. The same old evangelism of established religious leaders will not suffice when that time comes; a new outlet is needed and you can be the heroes in that time. This is why I am enhancing the CARP movement in this country. When a new spirit is generated I will reappear in the public eye.

I see that a major victory is needed in the area of the media now, as well as acceptance of the Unification ideology by the academic community, particularly by theologians and philosophers. I have already gone a long way in this direction. I want you to understand that a day of hope is coming, and in order to meet that day I have been pushing you and demanding that you do incredible things. We need to educate the leadership of this nation so we need well-trained intellectual members who will not be dominated by the present intellectual climate but will be champions and leaders. This is why I am sending our graduate students to graduate schools all over America. They are entering the major universities of America, inviting major professors and teaching them Unification principles.

Theory is important in the academic world, and in that area academicians have already surrendered to Unification theology. Now they see that we are not just people of theory but are doers, and they see they cannot compete with us here either. In that way our victory over them is complete. Now these academicians are realizing that to be well-off in the future they will have to be experts on the Unification Church so they are writing books on us, on me, and on our social impact; they know that these books will sell and bring them money. They love to get some kind of cooperation from us for these projects, but later, instead of just giving endorsement I will reappear in public. This is not just a dream or plan, but is already going on.

Once America has exhausted all means of opposing the Unification Church, the rest of the world will also be helpless to say anything against us. Many research papers will be publicized about us and widely read by the public, particularly by the leadership. If they truly understand the meaning of our Church, that will be end of their opposition. I want you to teach this ideology to the leaders in America, not just the students. All the failures of Israel and the Roman Empire as well as Korea shall be restored here in America; this is the final battleground.

On the foundation of all these victories I have explained I could conduct a special ceremony for the liberation of the spirit world. As long as spirit world was not liberated it was divided into compartments with many, many boundaries, but on November 2, 1978 at Chung Pyung Lake I conducted a special ceremony to break down all those barriers.

There is no national boundary in the Unification Church. Once the Unification Church moves to a new nation, we meet many national patriots and patriots of the Kingdom of God on earth. In each nation we raise up people who are more patriotic than anyone else in the history of that nation. Because they want to serve humanity and the rest of the world, how can anyone say those people are wrong?

All the religions of history had a central goal and moved toward the center, and the Unification Church throughout the world is following the same pattern.

When you become faithful men and women and create faithful families, you have to create a faithful nation before you can love the world. With this ideology each person becomes a messiah; could you hate the people then? No, you would love them.

Why am I pushing the home church providence so much? It is your way to become messiahs. I have done so much to win my victory and I want you to be qualified to inherit this glorious foundation. Home church is that qualification. Your 360 homes are your own world, both internal and external. You begin with the internal dispensation but ultimately will win them externally too. The spirit world will be linked with your work and spiritual phenomena will happen there. Home church is where you will win your victory, and then you will move into the national and world levels and be liberated. If you try to bypass home church you cannot be a world citizen of the Kingdom of God. You are creating 360 homes of your own in your area.

People will reject you initially, of course, just like the Messiah was rejected. Would you welcome True Parents if they came to visit your home? Your home church should be the place where you are welcomed as true parents. You can never reach this goal by attacking the people; only by overcoming the persecution and opposition of the people can you do this mission. Through home church you will be united with spirit world and your ancestors will come to assist you. Furthermore, you are becoming one with the physical world because your 360 homes represent the world. You are in the position of completed, perfected Adam and Eve, so where is your garden of Eden? That is your home church. Your area is Cain’s territory, spiritually and physically. By creating your own garden of Eden in this home church area you are consummating your internal and external dispensation, spiritual as well as physical.

The unity between God, Adam and Eve, and the angelic world should have brought the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, but division came in the form of the fall. Now in restoration, by doing home church, you and God are united, like God and Adam and Eve. You and home church are united, like Adam and Eve and the angel. That restores unity of all three worlds. This is why spiritual help is bound to come when you do church work

In order to bring down help from spirit world you must do one thing: demonstrate a spirit of service and more loyalty and piety than anyone else in history. Then your ancestors will come down to your home church area and join with the people there, wanting them to bow down to you. That is how these two worlds will be united and how you can set the condition of having subjugated the entire spirit world and physical world. There is no other way you can gain this condition. You should be very grateful for this home church providence for this is where you can unite with the entire spirit world and physical world and become perfected Adam and Eve.

Home church is the great finale of God’s providence. I started out in the individual dispensation, then moved to the family, tribe, nation and world, fighting all these years for the global victory. After that I liberated the entire spirit world. Now I want to give all that to you as your inheritance. Home church is the final chapter of the dispensational history of God. The ultimate victory celebration will be held, not at the New Yorker or Manhattan Center, but when you can invite Mother and myself to be with you in your home church.

Three generations will be linked in love-True Parents, you, and your home church people. When I come to your home church area I want to say, “It is very good,” and hear your people say, “It is very, very good.” Then you can say, “Yes, thank you, True Parents and home church. I feel very, very, very good.” Home church will be the base on which a society, nation and Kingdom of Heaven on earth shall be erected.

You can be deeply grateful that upon the Washington Monument victory came the victory of heaven, which led to the new history of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, which ultimately comes to you when you make a small condition to inherit all of that. It is an amazing fact. Since the spirit world is now one, all the religious figures of the past can come down, guiding people to learn Divine Principle. Many Buddhists, for instance, will be guided by Buddha to find out about the Unification Church because Divine Principle is the culmination of Buddhism. Until now the entire world has been in blackest darkness, but now everything is lighting up. The spirit world sees the Unification Church as the fulfilment of messianic accomplishment, so people of all religions in spirit world see their religious goals fulfilled and want to unite the world with that goal.

What was the messianic role? The messiah is perfected Adam, the head of the family and of his own tribe, the father of mankind. At the same time he is the king of all people in parental heart. He is coming with dual purpose-to become the parent of mankind and also the king of all people. You don’t use the term king in referring to your own family, but only when you are talking about many other unrelated people. In home church, therefore, you are becoming a parent to your people; since your area represents the world it includes all races and peoples. You will love them as a parent but govern them as a king, teaching them the truth and teaching them the heavenly moral standard.

A society and nation are but an expanded family, so one family is only a model, and once it is formed a society can be formed by expanding that foundation. No one questions that they have some relationship with their parents. At the same time you recognize that they are more than parents; you recognize them as king and queen who govern. In the Kingdom of Heaven those children who are not recognized by their own parents as filial children shall not be recognized anywhere else. In home church you shall be recognized by parents first. So far l have been describing Cain-type home church, but the Abel-type home church of your own relatives must also be developed. There your parents must be the first people to recognize you, before you are recognized by the society.

The Unification Church is how to become a true parent and king of true people. When home church is completed and perfected, no sovereign nationhood will be needed. No matter how people criticize, this will be done because it is God’s will. Home church is the altar where you and your family go to pray and present yourself as a living sacrifice; that will be the most beautiful thing to behold in the future. Again, there will be three generations offering that prayer-God, you and your children-united in one prayer. Horizontally, True Parents, you and your children are three generations.

Through the True Parents you are educated about how to love parents; from the vertical parent, God, you receive the dove of true dominion and justice. The love of God is a most disciplined love. Ultimately your goal is to be loved by God in heaven and True Parents on earth. To receive recognition of the True Parents you must be loved by the Unification Church; to receive the love of God you must be loved by the spirit world.

You accomplish all that in home church; that is your area to fulfill these ideals. If you have some sad thing to cry out about, go to home church and cry. If you have ecstatic joy to express, go to home church and laugh. If you feel like dancing, go there and dance. Whatever life you have led so far, you should lead a more exciting one in home church. I am the one who has paid all the indemnity for the sake of the individual, family, nation, world and spirit world. Now I want to share all these assets with you. Even if it takes seven years, you must determine to fulfill the home church providence. If you cannot, it will be extended 21 years. In my case, because of opposition from Korean Christians my seven-year course was extended to 21 years.

Those who cannot do home church well cannot become national or world leaders because you will always be faced with Satan’s accusation that you are unqualified. No matter how much education you have, until you fulfill this one condition you cannot be accepted anywhere else. Eventually you will do home church because each year it is getting easier as the Unification Church and Reverend Moon are more widely accepted. The actual order of things is that first you do home church and then receive the blessing. The only reason you can have a blessed family before then is because True Parents and God regard you as a branch of True Parents, who are that trunk and root. When True Parents bear fruit, then you bear fruit because you are a branch. The significance of the fruit you bear is up to you, however. This is where your test is.

I have explained God’s view of historical dispensation. When the world is more enlightened about this then people will come and I will travel from nation to nation without any visa. That day must surely come and it will be hastened because of our missionaries in many nations. They are not only missionaries teaching the Principle but patriots of those nations and will be respected as such. American, Japanese and German citizens went to those nations but loved them more than the native people; how could they not be respected in those nations?

When you see the whole view of dispensation, no one can claim to be ignorant of the present time. Now you know where we are, how many more years are left in the third seven-year course and what will happen in 1980 and 1981. The time will come when I will not say anything more, but people will have to push themselves because they already know the dispensation. People will even ask me to push them and I will refuse. This opportunity to hear me speak for hours at a time will be rare in the future because I will not have the time.

When the third seven-year course is over I will be traveling and not be here much. I will be going to many famous places and doing many things. Even the American people will take it for granted that I deserve to have many wonderful homes in different parts of the world. Who will accompany me when I travel? It is most natural that the home church champions among you will come with me. We will all be able to travel freely because no passports will be needed. When Harvard Ph.D.s join the Unification Church they will do home church. If they want to come to my home, they will have to come through even a small member who is a home church champion.

When I go to visit distinguished people I am thinking inside that they will some day complain that I didn’t tell them about home church earlier. I will answer that I talked about home church at Belvedere service at 6 a.m. and ask why they weren’t there even once to hear me.

Who can come freely to hear me? You are those people. People so far have not known that the culmination of the dispensation of God is home church; religious leaders and saints never knew the final destination. I searched throughout the spirit world, knocking on every door and found the solution: otherwise, you would never know it. The greatest thing is that I have found the realistic way to find all the ideals described in the Old, New and Completed Testament. We can either be governed by or govern the spirit world; that era is coming.

Shall we hasten to fulfill home church? This September 18, 1979 is a most memorable day to commemorate the True Parents’ victory. Will you pledge that you will complete home church successfully? The conclusion is that the goal of God’s dispensation shall be fulfilled by completion of home church. Let us pray.

## LET US ANALYZE OURSELVES

By Fami1yfed June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### September 16, 1979
Belvedere
Translator: Bo Hi Pak

My topic this morning is our internal situation: Let Us Analyze Ourselves. If you assemble a large crowd, among them you will find young people and old, men and women, and people of five races. You will find people of different circumstances: happy and sad, healthy and sick, excited and discouraged. In a gathering of a thousand people, there would be a thousand different situations.

Here at Belvedere this morning there are about a thousand people; each of you has slightly different motivations and situations. When you step outside the gates and head out in a continuous line, you will find a totally different society in Tarrytown, in Westchester county, in New York state, in the United States, in the entire world, and in the spirit world.

Every person or circumstance you encounter will have a different internal situation. Suppose one person, a supervisor or whatever, was told to find answers or solutions to all these different circumstances. What would you think about such a responsibility? Would anyone here volunteer for that job? All people who have ever lived have encountered circumstances that they want an explanation for. All these historical expectations have been accumulating until today.

There are basically two types of people: one kind seeks to advertise their circumstances and explain things, while the other type is more reserved and silent, thinking that explanations are not needed. Of these two types of people, which is more respected? The second type, because those who speak up and advertise themselves normally want to get out of their situation and finish things up quickly, while the others will persevere, confident that they can overcome circumstances on their own.

Those who speak out and try to advertise their difficulties may cause others to be unhappy. They may cause their parents to cry or their brothers and sisters to worry about them. Those who persevere do not make that kind of impact on their neighbors and their surroundings. Those who advertise for help in face of small difficulties are somewhat shallow; those with an internal sustaining power will persevere without letting small things bother them.

Who generally make more effort to justify themselves, men or women? It has been proven historically that women have more of a tendency to explain their situations. You women may not want to accept that statement, but just close your eyes and say, “Yes, Father”! Men who have a depth which they don’t easily reveal are more attractive; they can sit down with dignity and make wise observations.

Men and women present contrasting images. Women have smooth, soft skin, while men are bearded. Women tend to explain things, using beautiful adjectives to compose poems and write romantic letters. Men, on the other hand, with their tough looks and closed lips, sit with weight and dignity. In contrast with feminine qualities, these masculine qualities are more trustworthy.

Those who tend to speak too readily-in most cases women-reveal things quickly and their listeners soon get bored. But those who don’t expose themselves quickly are more attractive, and people are more inclined to listen. They wonder what is on their mind. Those who give quick explanations soon disappear from sight, but people with hidden depth hold others’ attention out of curiosity.

Now, I want to ask you women to raise your hands if you really like those feminine qualities and don’t long for something opposite to what you have. Women are always moving around, changing from one position to another; you need an anchor line to keep you from floating away! Do you realize that? The role of the man is like an anchor, holding onto the woman. On the other hand, you tough-looking men, instead of mingling with others like yourselves, go after those charming, talkative women. Men are impressed by women’s smiling faces, those gracefully-moving lips, those sweet utterances. Men, who were born to be tough and strong, lack such qualities. Without those feminine qualities, you men can’t charm others!

Generally speaking, the talkative people lose the battle and fade away. That is usually the case in history. On the other hand, reticent people maintain their strength and persevere. Well, do you realize that this is a fact, or do you consider it just my theory? In history, what kind of person generally governs? It is the thinkers, the people of few words. They don’t have time to talk much because they are busy thinking and dreaming. The men and women who made gigantic contributions to history have generally been this type of person. The people who are busy talking, looking around, having fun, and getting involved in this and that are generally shallow. The people who sit on rocks and meditate for hours on end have depth and sustaining energy. Then which type of person is wiser? The second.

In comparing religious and non-religious people, the truly religious people are generally people of few words; they tend to pray and meditate more. Non-religious people seek to excuse and justify their actions. The Bible encourages people to persevere, be patient, and endure; those are prime virtues taught in the Bible. The Bible doesn’t urge people to go out and fight to prove their worth. Even if there is an enemy, the religious people commit the enemy into God’s hands and let God ultimately dispose of the adversary position. The first virtue the Bible teaches is to forget the other person’s shortcomings and wrongdoings. Furthermore, the Bible instructs us to love our enemy. It is not easy to love one’s enemy. Nobody is truly perfect in loving the enemy. Therefore, since you cannot really live up to that credo, you should be silent instead of trying to justify yourself; in such a situation, it is best not to talk too much.

The adversary’s side has every freedom to criticize and accuse, but your position is to love them, even though they are your enemy. Therefore, if you don’t live up to the Bible’s standard, you don’t have much to say. If you habitually talk back to your enemy, pursue them and try to justify yourself, people will tend to abandon you instead of supporting you; they may even join the other side. This is the reality of the world.

Consider the United States. If America is to have a vision for the coming days and hope for the future, it needs leaders who are thinkers, people of few words with the capacity to persevere and move forward. Then this land will have hope. The kind of leader who can embrace the entire nation and have room for more will eventually embrace and control the future of the nation. Leaders who get upset at any small situation and instantly react to it reveal themselves as shallow thinkers. Suppose a crisis develops and all 240 million Americans shout and complain about it and ask their leader what he thinks. If he doesn’t say much but looks at them wisely, the people will be attentive to him; he will have a certain charm and attractiveness. Such a deep-thinking, patient leader would not respond to his people with hate, but with love. How do you think the people would react to such an expression of love? They would love such an answer! This is precisely why the Bible says to love your enemy; this is love in action.

To review, there are basically two types of people: those who are talkative and those who are reticent. Within each group, there are two kinds: one loquacious person who speaks for egotistical reasons and the other for unselfish reasons. One reticent person keeps silent out of unselfishness and love for the enemy, and the other keeps silent for self-centered reasons.

In handling a great deal of criticism from the public, how should a loving leader respond? How can someone in authority really convey a loving heart to others? The best way for a leader to show care for the people is to demonstrate affection quietly. When people see that their leader is truly concerned about them and the future of their nation, they will recognize the leader to be a dedicated, unselfish person who deserves their respect. The citizens of the nation will support such a public-minded person, and history will give its approval.

Instead of pushing forward greedily, a reticent person gives priority to the public purpose and unselfishly serves the nation, conveying a spirit of hope. Such a person definitely makes an important contribution to history, and history shall record that person’s deeds. Such a person will have an international following; not only Americans but British, Koreans, Japanese and citizens of all nations want to see such a leader emerge. Since such a person has a broad public support, the popular sentiment that develops represents God’s sentiment. That means that God also likes and follows such a person. Isn’t that true? You agree. Even if God were to come out and say, “No, you are wrong; I’m convinced I’m right,” you could defeat God, for God cannot win over the principle, since the principle is God. Do you agree with my conclusion?

So look up at God and ask Him what kind of God He is. Ask Him about His characteristics. The principal characteristic of God we learn from history is that He is reticent. God would answer, “Well, if I open my mouth, there are millions and billions of things to explain. I could talk about how much I suffer, how heartbroken I am, and how much people mistreat me. I am the most mistreated being in the entire universe, but I still maintain hope; I have great hope for humanity, and I keep persevering, with few words, seeking to restore all people.”

God is a public being, the center of public consciousness. God is God because He is the most public-minded being under the sun. That is His nature because He has no selfish motivation. In doing so, however, He keeps the greatest silence. God never loses sight of the ideal; He never loses hone for tomorrow.

God saw Satan come and subjugate His son and daughter, Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden, destroying the entire blueprint for the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Yet God remained silent. When God sent His son Jesus Christ to the world and the people misunderstood him and crucified him, God still remained silent. Today God loves me and has sent me out to the world to accomplish revolutionary changes in it; yet He remains silent in spite of so many upheavals. If God were like American women and tried to explain it all and get everything off His chest, none of you would be able to bear it; none of you would remain.

Unification Church members are the masters of history; you are the hosts and hostesses of providence. Those who play a central role in history are those who most resemble God; those who speak little but think and act for the sake of the public good shall be the central people of our church. Why? Because that is how God is. Because that is the kind of person God loves. Because that is the kind of person who will endure and prosper. Anyone who disagrees with this conclusion please raise your hand. Anyone who agrees with me that God loves those who resemble Him please raise your hand. You raised your hands to the second proposition, but they didn’t go up very fast. You responded slowly because you realize that it isn’t easy to be like God, isn’t that so?

To try to learn sophisticated techniques and proper methods to reach God will not work. I want to teach you the simplest way to achieve the goal. The simplest way to become like God is to live with a sacrificial spirit. You should silently seek to sacrifice for the sake of others, for the sake of the public good.

When you read the Bible you find mention of all kinds of offerings and sacrifices made on the altar to God. Today we are talking about a living sacrifice. When you become a sacrifice, you don’t make any excuse; you don’t go from one village to the next proclaiming that you are a sacrifice that will be placed on the altar the next morning. A sacrifice is always silent, always obedient. The cow, lamb and pigeons cut in two for the sake of history are silent even at the final moment of offering. That is the way it goes. Somebody else will speak up for you; eventually the public will recognize you.

This is how history operates. The people who make incredible contributions to history are little known in their own time’ but history bears witness to them. Suppose the members of the Unification Church were the worst, most unforgivable kind of religious people-we would have a lot of explanations to make. We wouldn’t want to be silent. Yet the Unification Church basically remains silent. People will see Unification Church members working quietly, without losing their temper. When you go fundraising you are mistreated in incredible ways. If you were to explode about the injustice, you could do it several times a day. People give you dirty looks, spit at you, hit you, and may even stab you. You experience all kinds of persecution. But instead of trying to explain yourself, you keep busy with your positive mission; instead of confronting the negativity, you keep busy with the positive work of constructing the Kingdom of Heaven. You have no time to fool around with people.

If you remain silent, maintain your composure and hold your peace, people will wonder about you. They will say, “What kind of crazy people are these? Even when we criticize them severely, they remain silent. They must be really dumb!” If the entire village comes against you and criticizes you, keep your composure and your smile. Those who are as reserved and composed as you will marvel, “He is an amazing person; he is just like me!” Normally, the people who see your true value and recognize your unselfishness will be high-quality, influential people. They and their children will discover your worth. They are the thinkers; thinkers search for the essence. On seeing your young, noble face, such people will wish for a husband or wife like you. “I have never seen a person of such rare quality,” they will exclaim. These things have actually happened.

Do you love me? Why? Even though you know that I have been so badly misunderstood, attacked and persecuted? Even though people say all kinds of things about me? At least one thing is for sure: I have set the record for getting a bad reputation. I have first prize in that category. No one has been so harshly criticized in his own lifetime as I have been. Not only one class of people has opposed me, but people of all classes, all races and all continents. There is no nationality of people who have not said bad things about me. Are they testifying to the truth? Am I evil? Here you see the same principle at work: everybody says I am evil and wrong, but you disagree. Likewise, when you go to a village, 99 percent of the people may misunderstand you, but at least some will recognize your true value. People around the world have misunderstood me, but you comprehend my worth.

So whoever wishes for a good husband wants someone like me, right? I’m sorry Mother isn’t here. Mother is very tired, since she is expecting a baby in the next couple of weeks, and she has to go to the bathroom every 30 minutes or so. Since that is a biological need, I cannot ask her to stay here for two and a half hours, or however long the sermon lasts. The biological need must be met; she is going to the bathroom for a public purpose. Normally you would not walk out of the room during my speech, but if your leaving is for a public purpose it is forgiven.

Many people criticize me for taking American youth away, like a Pied Piper. However, you are participating in a cause far greater than anything they can conceive including staying home and serving your parents. Therefore, your devotion is beautiful in God’s sight, and it shall be respected and praised in history. Your parents misunderstand your reasons for joining the Unification Church because they are ignorant about our church and its true cause. Once they understand they will be the first to urge you to go forth. They will say, “I respect you, my child, and am proud of you; please go and serve the public purpose.”

I came to the United States and indeed made an impact. Has that impact been good or bad? You are a small minority, compared to the entire 240 million people in this land. You call the impact good, but the rest of the world does not call it good.

When you say good, you are using a gigantic word. Look how it is written: the four letters are formed by four circles. A circle represents at the same time zero and infinity. Thus a circle is a symbol of infinite value, infinite quality. It seems to be nothing; therefore, it is everything. You can make the circle as big as you want and have it contain as much as you want; that is the nature of a circle.

Now where does this gigantic word good start: from a gigantic big place or from a small place? Let’s look at the beginning, God. God never spoke the word good when He was by Himself. He only uttered the word good when He began creating. He only pronounced, “It is very good,” when He first saw Adam and Eve. He created heaven and earth in six days, but they were just good. However, when God saw Adam and Eve, for the first time He said, “Behold, it is very good.” What is so very good? Before Adam and Eve, even though so much had been created, nothing actually existed for God’s sake. When Adam and Eve were created,

God saw the possibility of give and take of love, the fulfillment of love, an object whom He could love. God wants to enter into that fulfillment of love.

Which is bigger: God or love? Love is so all-inclusive that it can wrap up even God and float Him away! Enclosed in a love-bag tied with a cord, God doesn’t even say, “Ouch!” Instead, God will beg that the pressure of love be increased. God longs for the excitement of love. Therefore, we could say that God exists solely for the sake of love, and that love is everything.

Have you ever seen love? Can you carry it in the palm of your hand? Where is it? Love is not activated until you see an object with whom to have give and take. No matter how beautiful a woman you may be, looking at your face a hundred times in a mirror doesn’t excite you too much. But when a tough, stern, ugly man shows up, something inside you starts to warm up, and instead of looking at your own face although it may be lovely enough to grace a Miss America-you find it much more interesting to look at the ugly face of a man. Because the most beautiful woman can find true beauty and excitement in the face of the most ugly man, God pronounced human beings very good.

Actually when a beautiful woman and a handsome man love each other, it is good; but when a beautiful woman loves an ugly man, that is really very good. Is the Unification Church a good group or a bad group? In order to become a very good group, black, yellow and white people should all mingle together, right? When people of all races and all degrees of attractiveness come together, it is very good.

God’s nature encompasses both day and night, not just day, not just night. God can rejoice during the day and at night. There may be some situations in which only white people laugh, other situations in which only black people or yellow people laugh. But when black, white and yellow people can laugh together with the same happiness, that joy is universal. God envisioned such universal enjoyment when He pronounced mankind very good.

Today I’m talking about our tradition, our circumstances. Our first conclusion is that selfish situations have no value and should not even be the subject of discussion. Do you American women accept my conclusion? You might want to reply, “That sounds very good, but I want to give a little explanation about myself.”

When I started out on this course, I came to the conclusion that the winning way of life is the unselfish one. I decided that the guiding principle of the Unification Church shall be the unselfish way of life; the Unification Church shall not consider any explanation based on selfish reasons.

Upon undertaking this course I resolved to live 100 percent for the public purpose. When I came to the United States, I devoted myself to teaching that way of life to the American people, in whom individualism is strong and selfish motivations prevail. Of course this nation does not eagerly accept this notion. This is like a shock treatment. People react, “Oh, no, Reverend Moon. That is not my way of life. Don’t talk about such a thing to Americans. You may live like that, but I’m an American and I won’t.”

Protests come from all directions: the cats complain, “Meow, meow”; the dogs bark, “Woof, woof”; the tigers roar, “Go away.” Everybody reacts so violently to the principle of unselfishness. Let the cats cry and the dogs bark I will remain in peace and quiet. I am engaged in building the kingdom, and I’m building it my way. I have been so busy building that the cats and dogs who close their eyes in violent rejection will suddenly open them and wonder where everybody is. They will find themselves all alone.

How different we are from the cat and dog types of people. Who really loves America? Who is truly concerned about America’s future? Who has caught the vision of this great nation? Should people stay in the cat and dog groups, or join our group?

When you came to our group you weren’t always treated so kindly; you may not even get eggs for breakfast. In contrast, when you go home your parents may fix you eggs and even serve you breakfast in bed! They may give you whatever you want.

To follow Reverend Moon is not easy; the path is filled with hardship, suffering and tribulation. If you seek a relaxed, easy way of life, go live in a comfortable place. Here you work all day long and the next morning you can’t even sit down to enjoy your breakfast. You eat standing up and go out and work all day again. I never praise you, just chase you out again. If you are chastised and challenged over and over, will you still like it?

When will all this be finished? When the world is restored to God’s world. When that task is done I will say, “Go and sleep 24 hours, sleep 48 hours, and you will find a whole steak-or even a whole cow-coming and standing on your plate. Then your clothes will be decorated with diamonds. ”

I tell my own children to study hard, do their math homework, etc. When they go to high school I increase the pressure, and in college even more. My children might protest, “What kind of father are you to keep pushing me? I’m always obedient. I always try my best. I always get A’s.” But children cannot complain like that, because they know that the motivation comes from parental love and that their parents want them to succeed.

The same holds true in the Unification Church. You are children of God. I am not going to stop and praise you; you must keep pushing and challenging yourself, because my goal and expectation for you are so great. This pushing comes from pure parental love. Do you follow?

It’s hard for children to study every day; but when they are pushed to do the toughest job and accomplish it, the end result is joy and happiness. Even after their parents have died, children recognize that whatever they have accomplished-in serving mankind, becoming a leader, making some contribution to history-they owe to their parents. They realized that their parents pushed them towards such success.

So when I push Unification Church members it is not out of exploitation but simply because the goal is so high and the task so great and I want you to succeed in these tasks. The children who understand the true motivation of their parents and appreciate them shall become great children- and eventually great men and women.

When you joined the Unification Church you frequently heard about a three-year course. But consider the value of three years of schooling. After the three-year course there is a seven-year course, and after that three consecutive seven-year courses! How long a course do you want to enroll in: the shortest or the longest? Would you like to enroll in that triple seven-year course? Twenty years is a long time in relation to the human lifespan; a lot of things can happen in 20 years. To stick to the vision and goal for 20 years, rain or shine, is not easy; but once you reach it you know you have accomplished something truly great.

How did people view me 30 years ago? Pretty small. How much did I grow in the meantime? Am I still small? What is the difference between the Reverend Moon of 30 years ago and today? Are they two entirely different persons? The only difference is that 30 years ago there was a small circle, and now there is a gigantic circle. What made me great? Three consecutive seven-year courses. I always persevere and push myself forward in a straight line. Each year I have focused on traveling forward in a straight line, but at the same time God has been expanding my territory, using the length of that line as the diameter of a circle. Thus the circle has been getting bigger and bigger all the time.

You may sometimes question what kind of God we have, because the course He has given us seems too much to bear and you wonder why we need to continue. I too had those feelings, but then I would turn around and look at the territory I had covered, and every time I would be amazed and flabbergasted at what great blessings God has bestowed on me. One by one, the people who had seemed so powerful have become smaller and smaller as I look back. They have become so apologetic, so appreciative of my work, so filled with love and respect. This is God’s strategy.

I am just one small Korean. Here there are people whose bodies are bigger or taller than mine. There are many great Americans. So why has my stature grown to the point where people consider me a giant? Because I keep pushing myself toward the public, unselfish way of life. Many people had predicted that the Unification Church would be a passing phenomenon and would not last beyond a few years. Instead of fading away, however, the Unification Church is growing and growing. Why has the Unification Church not been destroyed? Simply because we are living God’s way of life, and God cannot afford to be destroyed.

You may become so tired and frustrated within the church that you decide to leave; but when you look back in from the outside, you will realize what a precious life is contained in the church and how noble the members are. You will recognize that I am truly following God’s way.

Such phenomena have not been occurring in the United States yet, but they happen all the time in Korea. There were many early followers who became so tired and disillusioned that they left. Now, however, when I return to Korea these people cannot lift their faces to me; tears trickle down their cheeks, and from the bottom of their hearts they seek to show me respect and love. They are saying, “Father, you have won our respect. You broke through such adverse conditions. No one can stand in front of you.” They realize that if I were a person like them, there would be no Unification Church; God would have nothing to hold onto. That would be a poor and miserable day for world history. But now these early members say, “Father, I’m glad you did it. You won.” Sometimes I felt so deeply that I had to succeed, if for no other reason than to show the critics that God is alive. I determined to win because I could not afford to lose.

After listening to all this, would you try to explain your circumstances to me? No, you would shake your head and say, “Father, don’t worry about me. Don’t worry about my petty situation. I don’t have anything to explain.” I’m sure that after two long, thirsty months without me you must have been thinking, “When Father returns, I must discuss something with him. My leader doesn’t understand my situation, so I will explain it to Father. My Abel figure never listened to me, so I must go directly to Father.” Can you do this? No? Thank you very much.

On my part, I too can speak to you only about public matters, not petty, selfish things. There are many public issues to speak about, for the sake of this nation, the world, the destiny of our mission, and the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. You should go out and proudly repeat these things. You can shout them out, knowing that you are speaking for a public cause.

Even without rich food to eat or milk to drink, you can persevere on the public path and nobody will be able to criticize you even one iota. You can tell yourself that the milk and cheese you are foregoing will be saved for the rest of the world. Instead of wearing the best clothes yourself, you can think that you are saving them for the rest of the world.

You may have had a hard day fundraising, but you don’t come back and announce how great you are afterwards. You may have gained good results and you feel like stopping at a nice restaurant and enjoying a juicy steak; even with the money in your pocket and knowing that nobody will stop you, if you choose to go to McDonald’s instead God will look down upon you with tears trickling down His cheeks. I too look at you and want to give you not just a piece of juicy steak but a whole cow and more. This is how parents feel. This is the link in the chain linking God, True Parents and you. No one-not even God, myself or Satan-can cut that chain.

Last night I spoke to many members who are pursuing a doctorate degree. They feel that so many things remain to be achieved. However, these intelligent people were amazed at the gigantic things I have been accomplishing so quietly that they didn’t even notice. Totally surprised, they asked when I did them.

I have a tremendous plan for a future university. According to the master plan presented at a briefing the other day, about $250 million will be needed to build it and $250 million to sustain it. That means $500 million. Do we have the money? The people asked me to call on God to make it work, but I am not in that kind of position. I myself must find a way to make it work.

God Himself looks down and says, “Father, why don’t you rest a little bit? Just go slow and easy. It’s too much money; just wait.” Mr. Kamiyama might feel like protesting, “Father, you are funding so many projects I simply cannot keep up with you.” Even though he might think this, he won’t say it. It’s not easy to make my wishes a reality. We have been working so painstakingly, but look around now and see how much has been accomplished: missionary work all over the world, the top-level Little Angels school, the motion picture “Inchon” filmed on location in Korea, the fishing industry and my vision for the sea. Feeling that what I am doing is so big, have you ever wondered how your efforts can help?

Returning to our situation, do you have more to say to me, or do I have more to say to you? The entire world is watching us. There are a lot of “Moon watchers” around, standing with mouths agape wondering what I will do next. People’s mouths are opening wider and wider all the time. You get tired just thinking about this, but still you can renew your energy and walk out with pride to the world.

If each of you follows my prescription precisely, you are bound to be a success. Do you believe this just because it sounds good, or because you know it is a fact? Now, when I say something you believe it, but it used to be that when I talked of so many crucial things you just couldn’t believe. It isn’t easy to believe. It takes time. Faith and trust must be earned, and I have earned them. Now when I announce something, you can accept it and believe it.

Many years ago I talked about international marriages as the basis for the ideal. I stated that the various combinations of blacks marrying whites, whites marrying Orientals, and Orientals marrying blacks make up the beauty of the human race. It sounded good and logical, but people felt it was naive and irrational to propose such a thing because it could not become a reality. Now what happened this year? At the matching you volunteered for international marriages; even in some cases when I didn’t recommend an international marriage you still insisted. It was so amazing and so beautiful. What I used to speak of is no longer just an ideal but it has become a reality.

As you know, the movie industry is a very powerful force but also very immoral. It needs a revolution; a new heavenly spirit must enter it. Those Hollywood considers superstars have great influence among young people, but their impact is often ungodly. The government cannot alter this; only a spiritual revolution can transform the situation. Sometimes I go to Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno, and so forth, to observe what is going on in the world of gambling. I must get first-hand information. Cancer is brewing in such places; there are many cancerous threats to civilization growing in Hollywood, Las Vegas and New York. Eighth Avenue in New York, where the World Mission Center is located, is a hub of immorality, and I have a strong desire to clean it up.

The time has come for America to give us due recognition. We must let- the world know. CARP is our task force, heralding the message on the campuses and to the intellectual communities. The seminary graduates joined CARP for active duty as front-line soldiers. They are attending a workshop on the West Coast, and in a couple of days they will be coming to East Garden to listen to me.

Whoever envies my position, let him volunteer to take up my role. Would you like to carry out my task here? After three hours you would probably give up and run away. That is the kind of pressure under which I have been operating.

Do you really want to know about my situation? I have been fishing for tuna off the coast of Massachusetts, and tuna fishing is truly a battle. People go out in luxury yachts looking for the “New Hope” and trying to find out if I am on board. They are curious about my appearance and my actions. They don’t imagine that I would go out every day, because serious tuna fishing is a tough job. They assume that I go out just once in a while for enjoyment. I’m out there every day, humbly dressed, working all the time; and looking through their binoculars in our direction they assume I am not there. They think that I haven’t even shown up this summer. They don’t even consider that the ordinary-looking fisherman they see wearing humble clothes and humble hat could be me. They envision me seated on some throne atop the “New Hope.”

Every time I catch a tuna we take it to the pier for processing. People pass by me and notice my fishy smell, but they never consider it might be me. When they see some of the Moonie supporters they tell them, “Please tell Reverend Moon that I missed him. Please tell him hello from me.”

Even in tuna fishing there is a need for a lot of creative thinking. I speak few words; mostly I experiment. For three consecutive years the “New Hope” has been setting new records. As you know, people have been fishing for tuna for many centuries, and until now, professional fishermen with 10 or 20 years experience have always held the record for the greatest number of tuna caught. But three years ago they lost the record; they can no longer keep pace with me. Each year that I have set a new record in Gloucester, those proud professional fishermen say, “How can we be defeated by the Moonies? We can’t afford to do that.” So they go out at 3:00 am, and I go out at 2:00. Then they resolve to leave at 1:00, and I leave even earlier. They cannot sustain this pace more than a day or two, but I do it every day. That is the difference.

No one used to be on the boats at 3:00 am, but now there are as many as 20 boats in operation at that hour. All the boats used to return to harbor at 3:30 in the afternoon, but since I stay out until 7:00 others routinely stay out until dark too.

It isn’t necessary to say a lot of words to people; just be disciplined, and they will demonstrate their respect by wanting to follow your pattern. There was a great deal of hostility in Gloucester the first year I set a new record. Now the fishermen have resigned themselves to defeat, and rather than fighting us they join us. Wherever the “New Hope” goes people follow closely, watching every move. They try to imitate my pattern because they too want to catch tuna.

Three years ago I invented a new method of tuna fishing. Until then all the fishermen used a pole and nylon lines. When I stopped doing that three years ago, the professionals thought I was doing something strange. Now, all tuna fishing in Gloucester is done by my method.

Gloucester is the most famous tuna fishing port in the world; people come there from all over the world. So whenever the “New Hope” goes to New Jersey, Los Angeles or Alabama people recognize it and want to honor it.

Three years ago when I first started. tuna at dockside was worth only ten cents a pound. Now, it’s $1.75 per pound, and eventually it will rise to $5.00 per pound. My intention is that as prices rise, a 700 to 1000 pound tuna will be worth $3,500 to $5,000. That will provide a good income for anybody. So everybody wants to get into the great gold-rush.

I want to assemble all kinds of boats for tuna fishing. As is common at many fishing ports, the economy of Gloucester has been depressed, but the people of that small fishing village who have been so unkind to me and mistreated me so badly will see their whole town come alive because of my presence. Gloucester will boom and prosper economically. The people of Gloucester will owe me so much, and I’m sure they will come and bow down. So which boat will be most welcome in Gloucester? The “New Hope.” The “New Hope” will always bring new hope to Gloucester.

This year I invited all the elder leaders to Gloucester for tuna fishing-the toughest kind of workshop. Next year we will assemble both small and large vessels, about 50 altogether. Can you imagine how much controversy it will create when 50 Moonie boats are launched each morning?

Why am I so interested in tuna? Because solving the challenge of freezing tuna and preserving its freshness will bring a technical revolution to American fishing industry. The Japanese are consuming a lot of fresh tuna now because they love sashimi, the very popular dish made with raw fish. To ship tuna from here to Japan takes much time, and in many cases the tuna do not arrive fresh. However, I invented a certain method for optimum preservation of tuna, and this year the Japanese importers sent telegram after telegram to their suppliers asking them to process tuna like the Moonies do. The Japanese instruct their suppliers: “The Moonies’ tuna is always fresh, but yours is no good. What happened? Go and learn how the Moonies process tuna.”

I have been going to sea for six years. Would you like to do the same? Let me see the hands of those who say no. Let me see the hands of those who say yes. It is not easy to take care of even one boat; a lot of work is involved. To organize an entire fleet is even harder, and more difficult still to organize an entire fishing industry. We work hard, and we accomplish things step by step. We go the tough way every day. Ten years from now we can turn around and be astonished at how much territory we have covered.

I would like to see the headquarters building of each mission be larger than the city hall. After all, it is God’s house. Isn’t that a good idea? Some may answer that the idea is good, but it’s so tough to accomplish. Well, that’s why we do it. It should have been done a long time ago.

Let the world’s people do the easy things; the Moonies will do the tough things. And let them take ten years to do it, while we do it instantly. That is what I would prefer. Do you agree with me? Even if you don’t like it, still you will go on. Wherever the course may take you, you will not regret it; you will not be disappointed. Instead, you will rejoice at the results.

Is home church an easy job? To do home church means to become the historical number one servant to 360 homes. You start out as a servant and rise from that position to become ultimately the number one master. In home church you construct a ladder which you can climb from the bottom of hell all the way to the top of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Who will make this ladder? You may be a pale, weak-looking woman with small slanted eyes and thin lips, but you are a Moonie and you commit yourself to do it.

When will you do it? Today? Ten years from now? Most people work only eight hours a day and the remainder of the time they rest, eat, or sleep. But we can work 24 hours without eating or sleeping very much.

People will observe you and estimate that you will last no more than six months; but they will be amazed at how you persevere step by step for one, two, or three years. Initially, people in home church will mistreat you. The normal pattern will be for them to mistreat you, spit at you, criticize you, chase you out, do all kinds of things. But you shouldn’t care, because eventually, after one, two, three or ten years, you will be like their king and queen. When you leave your area they will shed tears for you. In this fashion you will become the host and hostess of history.

I have many historical episodes stored inside me which I have not spoken about. I am a champion, but not like the wrestlers who boast of their prowess. I am the kind of champion who pleases God, one who is silent.

Regardless of your past, I am interested in only one thing: that you become a champion of history. Sometimes I will agonize for a week before I decide what mission to give a certain leader; during that time I consider that person’s various qualities. If someone is not cooperative, it might seem easy to give up and decide I need another person for that position. But when I chastise a leader and move that person to another place, there are historical consequences; the person’s children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are affected, so how can I not be serious about such decisions?

Normally I don’t give many commands. My practice is first to do something myself and then let others observe it and follow. Do you understand? Each of you has individual circumstances and goes through internal struggles. I know that. I understand your situation better than anyone else. However, if you work silently, always moving forward toward the goal, and after 10 or 20 years you still see no results, then you have something to speak to me about. But without even beginning on the journey, if you complain about various things, making all kinds of noises like an empty drum, your objections are not acceptable to me; they don’t fit into God’s principle.

This is now the month of September. We are in the latter part of 1979. I know you have been doing your best so far, but not to the degree that is pleasing to me or to God. We need a rejuvenation, a revitalization, a new beginning. This is the month to do it.

There are two kinds of motion: disintegration and reconstruction. If decay proceeds more rapidly than rebuilding we will eventually lose the battle. We need to gain speed and apply the brake to America’s decline. Do you take exception to this statement?

In summary: be silent, set a high standard and goal, and keep moving forward.

You are entering the arena of the final battle. You are like champions walking into that arena. Would you like to participate in that final battle?

When you look into the mirror in the morning and see your face clouded with unhappiness and discouragement, ask that person in the mirror: “What are you doing? Why are you so discouraged? Get up and go! Go! Go!” Evaluate yourself. Such negative attitudes can destroy the entire dispensation, block Heavenly Father’s cause, and frustrate history. Tell that person in the mirror, “I cannot afford to let you become a rascal!”

How many of you became engaged this year? Every day you have been thinking of your fiancé, right? Every night you have been wondering why you didn’t get a letter, right? You feel that you have given up everything and you need at least a letter. I understand that feeling. But what does your fiancé expect you to do: abandon all other duties to sit down and write a long letter, or go forward and win the victory that day, even though it means you cannot write that letter? Which attitude characterizes the more public fiancé? When the latter type of couple eventually meets, even though not too many letters were exchanged they will experience tremendous understanding and love. When a public man and a public woman are in love, their cause is a public cause.

I am not saying you should not be in love, because I really support intense love. But you are like students facing an exam. Your prime duty is to pass the test of being a public person.

After hearing me speak this morning at Belvedere, please write a short letter to your fiancé today stating, “If I don’t write to you for the next six months, I want you to understand that I am perfecting my public character.” What kind of spouse do you prefer: someone who forgets the mission out of love for you, or someone whom God recognizes as a public person? What kind of husband would you want? What kind of wife would you want? You are greedy; I know what you want. What I am teaching you today is very correct. Do you agree with it? Some of you didn’t answer; you need to decide whether this is right or wrong.

If I were to explain fully Heavenly Father’s circumstances, you would be so ashamed you would have no place to hide. If you knew my circumstances and God’s circumstances, you would have no room to complain about your situation.

God is God, even when He is sleeping. In other words, God is number one in whatever He wishes to do, even sleeping. If sleeping were the course that would win the race, God would win. On the other hand, God is also the champion at playing. So you wonder how God decides what to do, don’t you?

God is always my guide in decisions. I always follow the public purpose. God has already determined what the public purpose is: pursuing His cause, even if it means sacrificing sleep. Therefore, God doesn’t sleep at all; there is no night for God. God can play, but He doesn’t; as a public being, God has no time to fool around. All the difficult things God wants to bear; all the easy things He wants mankind to do.

God’s position is not easy, yet He utters no word of complaint. God will let accomplishments speak for themselves; until then God remains silent. That is the way you too must go. Don’t explain yourself away, but let your deeds and results speak for themselves. Until then, your will should be as unshakable as a rock; keep going forward with an iron will. Then you and I shall certainly end up together in God’s heaven and rejoice over the same quality of joy there. You will meet God and me in heaven. That is what God is anxiously awaiting to happen.

Your eyes must work for the public purpose, not for selfish reasons. Look at other people as public persons as well. Don’t think of one woman as prettier than the other, or one man as friendlier than the other. Those are not qualities by which to evaluate people; you should consider the degree to which they are working toward the public purpose, the degree to which they are advancing God’s cause.

Put your conviction into action and let the world see your achievements. Then you won’t even have to ask for anything, because the entire world will bow down to you. Do you understand?

In conclusion, there are two sides to every situation: the external and the internal. One side is always trying to move you toward a selfish purpose and the other side is always trying to move you toward an unselfish, public purpose. You must evaluate each situation, determine which is the unselfish purpose, and then advance toward it. This is the wisest, most successful way of life. Always pursue the greater cause rather than the smaller cause.

At least dedicate yourself for the national cause; when a person speaks for the sake of the nation, it is not out of selfish purpose.

Furthermore, the world is a more public concern than the nation. When a person is concerned about world events, national considerations become small and selfish.

Beyond that, the spirit world is much more public than this earthly plane; so for the sake of the spirit world a person must learn how to sacrifice our world.

Ultimately, God is the most public being of all, the supreme public; therefore, for the sake of God’s public purpose, a person can abandon everything else.

All the saints of the past walked this way of life. Jesus lived this way. I am living this way. And so should you. You call me Father, and in that name we gather together. If you are that kind of person,

you should follow my way. When you speak, do so not for your own situation but for your public purpose. Instead of doing silly things that get your body tired and make you feel knocked out, open your mouth even 24 hours a day to speak for the public purpose. Use every ounce of your energy for the public purpose, until you fall down with exhaustion. This is the sacred way of life.

Now you realize how God works and what His principle entails. Now you know how to become sons and daughters of God. Now you understand how to become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let’s persevere until the final victory is won. Until God declares the final victory, we shall go on. Are you glad I said this?

Today, September 16, those who will fulfill without making any mistakes, raise your hand as a pledge to me. Thank you.

## THANKSGIVING TO GOD’S WILL

By Fami1yfed June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### July 8, 1979
Belvedere
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

You are some of the many young people living in the present time. When we look at young people on the college campuses or on the street, we wonder where they are headed. They live lives of intoxication. but without a goal. They don’t care much about the past or worry much about the world, and they don’t care too much about the future. They would rather live a free style of life at random, without contemplating any responsibility, and are basically self-centered. They don’t worry about such fundamental questions as why man was born.

They have also forgotten about the founding spirit of America, which was basically religious and focused on a God-centered ideology. When you really study the founding spirit of this nation, you come to the conclusion that this nation is really not a democratic country but a religious nation founded on the spirit of God. That has been the national motto.

At the present time, however, America is not living like a religious nation and is even less than a true democracy. Right now the American way of life is totally materialistic and money seems to have become almighty. People are trying to locate human value within the realm of money to such an extent that they are incapable of thinking outside that sphere. But who should be subject, dollars or man? In the present way of life in America none of these things are clearly defined or realized.

In America the most important information is the minimum wage law, which says that a worker is worth at least $2.95 an hour. America is so totally enslaved to the money system that every measure of human value is translated in terms of dollars. When you hear $10, you think that is worth three hours. If you loan someone $10, you think that you are entitled to three hours of work. Sometimes children loan their parents $100. and before thinking of their parents as parents they think, “You owe me thirty hours.” It is to the extreme that the money concept dominates all other human relationships.

Money has become the tyrant of America’s way of life. Children often resent having poor parents and think that if their parents were better people they would be rich like some other people. Sometimes children are very critical of their parents simply because they are poor. Particularly when looking for a husband, American women are checking in terms of dollars. ‘ How much is that man worth?” Many women marry because the man is very well off, forgetting however, that money cannot stay in one place. Once the money is all spent. those women who married for wealth start complaining. If their husbands don’t earn good money, the wives become scornful towards them. Money increasingly supercedes other human values, such as character, morality, religion. etc. These are the more valuable things but money seems to be blinding people. This is the kind of life we see around us.

How much value do we have as men and women? Man’s value has become so small that people are considered insignificant unless they have money behind them. If offered a choice between having money or good men and women around them, people would normally choose the money. You say no, but that’s the way American life seems to be going. When people cannot satisfy their fantasies through money, they seek to intoxicate themselves with other external methods, such as drugs. They are trying to find intoxicating happiness through many external means.

What would be the end result? The fundamental illness of today’s society is irresponsibility. People don’t want to take responsibility so they abuse freedom and reject any kind of disciplined or organized life. They have no goal or master plan for their lives so they live capriciously. In the final tragic result of such a life a person will feel he has hit a stone wall and be shattered into pieces. If individuals are living in that fashion, they will form an irresponsible society, which will lead to an irresponsible nation and an irresponsible world.

Knowing that such a way of life will eventually lead to disaster, people must start a trend or new movement that denies the existing value system. We see this trend in the attitudes of young people who question why they need money, democracy. parents. or the institution of marriage. If a person is only denying all the objects of the world without a clear-cut goal to substitute for them, he will soon conclude there is no reason to exist and eventually come to deny even himself. He cannot avoid the fact that in this world no one can survive all by himself, so he will either end his own life in despair or live out his days as human trash.

There are two ways to deny life and value. One way is to deny a lesser value by securing a greater value Denying the lesser value in order to search after a greater value is the right thing, but total, blanket denial is dangerous because then people cease searching after true goals or the true way of life. There are many thinking people in this country who are searching and experimenting with new values. That’s how the hippie movement began. But people couldn’t find values they were seeking there, and in their search many even ended up in a communistic way of life without knowing its true nature. They thought they might find something worthwhile in communism and never realized that once a person gets in he becomes a victim of that philosophy, which denies human value.

In the communist system no individual, no human rights, and no freedom are recognized. Communism itself becomes god. To ensure the survival of that god, communists would sacrifice anyone without a second thought. Compared to communism. human life and even love is considered unimportant, and even the family system is forcibly sacrificed to promote the prosperity of the communist system. The communists claim that their ideology will bring utopia, that it is the ideology of ultimate human satisfaction. If that were true, maybe their sacrifice would have some meaning, but we know that communism is based on lies. There is no truth in it.

Today both communism and democracy have come to a deadlock. Then what do we need at this juncture of human history? Even though communism and democracy can be shattered into pieces, there must be one ideal that can survive and clarify the value of human existence. Where can we find this ultimate human values? The dilemma is this: the world is dirty, yet you can never totally deny the whole world and liv·e all by yourself because you need someone to live for. On the other hand, you can’t completely embrace the way the world lives either. This is the dilemma of our society today.

No matter how great the democratic ideology is, it cannot digest the human situation. and neither can communism. Then what kind of ideal do we need? An ideology is needed which can start out small and grow to greater and greater horizons, finding something that is greater than the world, the universe and the cosmos. Some ultimate destination must exist, but without an ideology of this dimension it would be impossible to reach. It is almost like climbing over a mountain with a small ladder. As you climb further and further, instead of finding your small beginning disappearing, you will find it becoming wider and wider and providing you with a much sounder foundation for your further climb. Whoever goes by that route and climbs step by step to the end will win the respect of all people because it’s a goal everyone aspires to.

Every individual has certain aspirations and desires to climb higher and higher to a commanding position. You have ambition, don’t you? Everyone wants to fulfill his own aspirations, but today most ambition is squelched by the world, and instead of bringing fulfillment it is only one more heavy burden. When all ambition is shattered, your life is hell. No matter how many great things you are given, if you are in that position then nothing can satisfy you because no one lifts your burden. We are in a contradictory position because each individual is small compared to the world, but our ambitions. goals and ideals are so big that they are greater than the universe. This is man’s eternal dilemma.

Then how can we satisfy these contradictions? Suppose you become a billionaire. Even with great wealth you are still small compared to the world and are unable to change or deal with the entire world. There is a vast world out there untouched, so where can we find true inner satisfaction? All men and women have an inherent ambition to become conquerors of the world. First, everyone wants to rise to the top of the world, and second, everyone wants to possess the most precious thing in the world. Do only Americans harbor that kind of ambition? All people want to fulfill that kind of dream.

As you know, each person has two aspects, mind and body. Which one should be subject? Which one would you follow? Do you live for your ambition. desire and ideal, or for your physical body? You may work very hard, but is work itself your goal in life, or is it the means to fulfill the goal of your life? That goal is always ahead of you, and though you can’t see it you are always working toward it. Then what should become your fundamental concern-giving satisfaction to your mind or your body? Does that mean you neglect to give your body food and sleep? The most ideal situation is to give satisfaction to both your mind and body. In lieu of the ideal, however, there could be a very easy solution: give the body enough to maintain itself, but give the utmost satisfaction to the mind. If there is such a way then that .should be the ideal. In other words, you may not eat or dress like a millionaire, yet your mind is infinitely free and happy. Your ideal is there and being fulfilled. The person who lives this way must be a very happy person.

Two ways of life can be seen among men. One kind of person doesn’t care about the desire of his mind or about pursuing a larger will or ideal: he just follows the sensual desires of his body for good food, lots of sleep. fun and sex. The other kind of life doesn’t pursue the satisfaction of the body but of the desires and goal of his mind. These are the two basic types of life that can be seen in our world today. Which one would you prefer?

What about the happiness of the body? That’s happiness, too. A person is basically dominated by the ambitions and desires of his mind, however, which govern his entire life. No matter how some tyrant may try to eliminate ambition or desire from man, it is impossible because a person’s goal, desire and ideal are greater than the universe. Each individual has his own universe. When you are centered upon the goal of your mind, even though it seems to be difficult to achieve in the beginning, there is always hope for opening greater horizons every day. But when you only seek to gratify the desires of your body you know that your momentary pleasure will not last and that you are headed down the road to despair.

Basically we can define good and evil by saying that the direction pursued by the mind is good. while the direction pursued by the body is evil. As a result there are two types of people in our world: Conscientious people are trying to satisfy their own consciences, while others are only living for the carnal satisfaction of their bodies.

Who is the man of conscience? He lives for the public purpose and is willing to give himself as a sacrifice. In doing so he sacrifices his outer person, not his inner self, which is steadfast and constant. When you try to be humble and meek, you are making an effort to control your body. At the same time your ideal is not limited but is as free and as great as it can be. Your ideal is pursuing the benefit of others and the public purpose, the purpose greater than yourself Your mind unceasingly pursues that goal.

National laws or constitutions are enacted in any good nation, basically to enhance the public way of life The philosophy and basic nature of the law is to uphold the giving way of life and to attempt to limit those who would live only for themselves. Once you make yourself the center and try to pursue only self-centered goals, the more effort you make, the more you narrow down your life ultimately confining yourself to darkness and despair.

Many people today embrace the ‘me-first” philosophy. When you pursue that goal, you evaluate everything in terms of how happy it makes you. Actually the opposite will occur; your nation and society will turn away, and your parents, friends, and brothers and sisters will all go away. Even your children will leave you. In the end you will be left all by yourself and you will eventually hit the sharp edge of a stone wall and get a bloody face. The outlook will be so dark that finally you will not be able to see any more hope to continue. Though you tried to be happy and to gain the most for yourself, you actually suffered the most. Your suffering begins inside yourself because you will be struggling with your conscience.

Everyone has another public man inside himself who keeps insisting that living selfishly is wrong. The person who tries to ignore his conscience is only torturing himself. If a dog barks at him, his first reaction will be to think that the dog doesn’t like him. If he passes by Belvedere and hears the birds singing, he won’t think their songs are for the glory of God, but will feel the birds are criticizing him.

A person who is this self-centered is so closed that he cannot relate to anything. Consequently he is perpetually scared to death that everything is coming against him. In the end, he will feel he is no good and that everything is against him and then he will want to kill himself. That is why the suicide rate in this country is phenomenal. The statistics show that last year at least 38,000 young people committed suicide, and the rate of attempted suicides was 50 per cent greater than that. This is the reality, but it is only the logical outcome of the way America is heading now.

Where are you? Have you hit the stone wall? There is one hope for democracy. for this nation and the free world. and that is to create a movement that will deny the materialistic and self-centered outlook. We must find the way of life in which our greatest ambition and ideal can be freely pursued and a sense of fulfillment attained. Even the smallest person has a dream and a goal and wants to possess the entire world. That is an undeniable dream.

Everyone also has the desire to be liked by everyone and everything, even the birds and the flowers. That’s a natural desire, but how can we satisfy it? It’s impossible to erase this desire from within yourself. Do you want to possess the United States or the world? When you go beyond America, you do it joyfully because you receive the world instead of one nation. What is greater than the world? When you receive a greater value, you can give up a lesser value without any complaint. The earth is a very small particle compared to the universe. so if you can own the universe then you are willing to give up the world. Is there something greater than the universe? If there is some greater value than the universe, then in order to receive that value you can gladly give up the universe. What is greater than the universe? How do you know there is a God? Have you seen Him?

Deciding whether or not there is a God is really a problem for many people. When you look at the universe, however, would your logic tell you that everything came about at whim or random, or that there is someone who planned and willed the universe to exist? We live in a solar system in which the earth is but a very small particle, and there are millions of other solar systems and galaxies in our universe. These heavenly bodies are not stagnant or still like a dead fly on the wall, but are in constant orderly motion. Not one heavenly body is standing still for one second. Have you ever heard of a traffic accident between planets in the universe? The earth has been rotating for millions of years, but have you ever read that one day God’s alarm clock didn’t work and the earth didn’t get in on time and 365 days became 379 days? The exactness of the universal movement cannot be compared to any man-made computer system.

Is it logical for someone to say that all these things just happened at random with no will behind them? The logical answer is that there must be some cause or will which preceded all existence. There was an invisible cause somewhere and the universe was the result.

During my school days I knew many people, some of whom were communists who argued that material is real because they could see and touch it. but God is a fantasy because He can’t be seen. I said to one fellow, “You believe in logic, don’t you?” He replied, “Yes.” “Then if I logically explain that there is God, would you accept it? Let me ask you a question. Do you know the history of your eye? Where did your eyeball originate? The first man on earth must have had eyes, and whether born with his eyes open or closed, he eventually opened his eyes and saw.” This person knew that no baby has his eyes open in his mother’s womb, so he said, ‘ ‘I’m sure that baby’s eyes were closed before he was born.” “When you close your eyes, do you see your eyeball?” I asked. “Then was the eye the result of some accident?”

He replied that it must have happened at random because there is no will in such a thing. Then I asked him which came first, the sun or the eye. The eye was made to perceive light, and without it the eye has no function. The eye of the baby inside the mother’s womb didn’t know the sun was shining, but someone else had to know because the eye is made in such a way that it can function in sunlight. The eye didn’t know but some cosmic knowledge knew and matched the sun’s rays with the eye.

If everything can happen at random then the eye could have been like the sole of your foot. “Now think,” I said. “Was there some knowledge prerequisite to your birth and the creation of your eye.” There was some universal intelligence existing that organized the two to match. Either the eye knew everything that was going on outside and decided to become as it is, or else there must be some outside will or intelligence which matched the eye to the sunrays. The eye certainly had no consciousness of it. Then what do you think? There must be some previous intelligence. You may call him anything, but we happen to call him God.

“Before you were born, did your eyelash know that there would be lots of dust in the air? Some will or universal intelligence knew there was air and dust outside and that your eye needed something to prevent the dust from coming into the eye. There is also a water supply which moistens your eye all the time. Do you think the eye knew that there was heat and dry air outside that would prevent the eye from functioning unless there was moisture always available?”

“Do you know how hard your eye works? Try lifting your hand and blinking it all day long like your eye does. It’s hard work, isn’t it? If your eye was open 24 hours a day it would dry out like a fish eye after three days. But because your eyelids blink. your eyes are cleansed and moistened. If someone says that everything happened at random and no one planned this universe, I have to say he is crazy. How can you say that material comes first and spirit second,” I asked this communist. I was young and very excited, and at the end of our heated argument the first communist surrendered to me.

From today on, when you look in the mirror look at your eye and appreciate it. “God, thank you for giving me a built-in water hose and for eyes that blink.”

When I first came to America and saw how women here talk so fast, I wondered how their lips could work that quickly. What kind of incredible skin did God give to American women? When you think of the beauty of man and the intricacy of the human body, you come to the conclusion that the human body is a mystery palace. There is incredible beauty and mystery within your one body, which is a microcosm of the universe. One human body is so delicate and complex that the entire universe cannot compare with it.

The human ideal is infinitely gigantic and there is no limit to the capability of man’s mind. Every man is born with ambition. The ultimate question is: If there is an Almighty God, would you want to possess Him? There is only one God. but billions of people want him. So what should we do? To whose home should He go? If God has only one body and everyone wants Him, it’s a great problem. God thought,

Everyone wants me, so in order for me to go to everyone’s home I should be invisible. Now I’m available to everyone and they will come to me in spirit.”

With what spiritual substance would God want us to make a relationship with Him? With what kind of love? Does true love have a string attached? When you go to God with true love, He has no sensation, but as soon as you contact Him with true love He will jump from the shock of it. You don’t want to touch a live wire, do you? If you attach a live wire to a wooden stick and touch someone with it. he won’t feel any sensation. If you connect it to metal, he will feel some sensation, but if you connect it to pure gold then all the electricity will be conducted and the person will really jump.

God said, “I am the Alpha and the Omega. the beginning and the end.” The love God is talking about is not just wooden love or metal love, but genuine gold love with 100 per cent conductivity. When the gold wire is connected to a source of electricity it doesn’t make any difference whether it’s 1,000 miles away or one mile because the same sensation and power are conducted. There are all kinds ot love, but true love has that 100 per cent conductivity. What kind of love do you have?

Are your body and mind united into one, or is there some struggle within you? Your mind and body may be pretty good friends, but you should make them absolute friends. Are you the kind of person whose mind conceives some thought and whose body then gets excited and echoes that thought to your mind? This morning your mind said to go to Belvedere early and sit right in front of me. but your body said to forget it and sleep a couple of hours longer. Normally does your body come to Belvedere first and then your mind follow, or does your mind come first and your body follow? Your mind comes to Belvedere and then your body wakes up and says, “Mind, where are you? I want to go to Belvedere too. Why did you leave me?” Do your mind and body work together as one team and does your body respond quickly to your mind? If that is the case then your mind and body are one. If you are genuine gold. you should act like that. What is your real situation?

The man of conscience always has his body under control. God is invisible, but we know through Divine Principle that God has internal and external characteristics, sung sang and hyung sang. Even though God is invisible, He has two parts which work together 100 per cent. When you love someone with your mind and body in total oneness, you are completely flexible and can penetrate anything. The heart of God is perhaps the most impenetrable of all things, but when a bullet of gold love hits it, even God surrenders. When true love hits the heart of God, it causes the greatest thunder and lightning.

Even the birds sing songs of love in the spring. Then how much more glorious would it be for man, God’s greatest creation, to sing an eternal love song? Their love together would be the supreme power. Have American men and women thought about noble and true love? When that love hits men and women, they become totally consumed into love. How can two things which are utterly melted into one be separated? Even at death that love cannot be parted. If I think and preach in this fashion, how much more must God have this conviction?

Is there divorce in the spirit world? Are you convinced you can give a shock treatment to God with true love? Do you want to be the men and women of love? How beautiful you are. When you look at each face here, there is none that is truly ugly. When you just look at the surface it may be sometimes ugly. but when you see the origin of your life, everything is so beautiful. When you know your true origin, everything on your face-your eyes, nose, teeth, lips, hair, ears-possesses incredible beauty and mystery.

Do I look like an ugly man, like a potato or pumpkin? Even if I do, it doesn’t make any difference. When men and women come into the Unification Church do they love me? Is it because I give you sweet things all the time? Your simple answer is that you like me, even if you don’t know why. When you come to see me you feel different vibrations, don’t you? People outside our Church can’t understand these vibrations and so they decided you must be brainwashed. They are trying to describe me, but they can’t do it because these vibrations can’t be detected by any instrument.

When sunrays shine onto a dirty mirror they aren’t reflected well, but a clean mirror gives 100 per cent reflection. If sunlight is being reflected from a mirror into a cold room, then warmth and light come in there. You feel that reflected warmth and move closer to it. I am like a mirror reflecting God’s love, so in this cold and freezing world you want to come closer to be warm.

If I taught that there was no love and no ideal, would it do any good for you to come here? If I only craved power and money, there would be no attraction or vibration between us. God doesn’t needmoney or power or knowledge. God needs only two items: true life and true love. True life is lived by men and women who have mind and body united. What is true love? It is the infinite give and take between God and yourself. Only through true love can you have give and take with God heartistically. Our ambition is bigger than the universe. If there is a God then we want to conquer Him, but there are many different ways to possess God. You can possess God’s wealth, God’s things, or you can hold God’s hand or body, but the ultimate way to possess God is to conquer His heart.

The heart has different contents, so where would you like to concentrate? The center of the heart of God is love, and in the deepest corner of God’s heart is true love. The Unification Church was born in heart, shim jung. You don’t have a word in English to translate shim jung, so I created a new word, heartle. The wisest men and women aim at this innermost heart of God. Snatch it and put it in your pocketbook, for as long as you have God’s heart in your possession He cannot leave you.

Imagine a gigantic powerhouse generating millions of watts of electricity. If that power is burning within instead of being sent out over the lines, how big an explosion will be generated? The power of it will shock the world. This is what I am like inside.

When you touch true love you can taste and appreciate it, and then when you look at the spirit world you understand it completely. In true love there is nothing you cannot see, so getting a diploma from Harvard or Yale isn’t worth as much; in true love you have the highest education of all. When you look at the world through the eyes of true love, you already know the world. When you look at the spirit world through the eyes of true love, you already know what is there. There is nothing more you can learn.

If that is the case, are you an unhappy, miserable person? If you have this ambition and come to experience true love, is there anything else you need? No more effort is needed because you have reached the peak and you can stay there for eternity. You live in love, dance in love, sing in love.

If that is the case, do you think love should be the ultimate goal of life? Then what is the Unification Church for? We are very greedy people, so greedy that we want to Possess the universe and more. No matter how much we are persecuted, we persevere because we are greedy. I, for example. am the greediest Moonie and I go on and on because nothing bothers me. We are so greedy that we can’t stop until we reach the heart of God. Once you arrive at the center, you can occupy the precious heart of God. Then the whole universe and the entire world of persecution will be turned around.

Recently a report came from Scotland about a minister who was so vicious in his attacks on us that one day as he was making an anti-Moon speech he collapsed and was taken away on a stretcher. We don’t advertise such events, but many such mysterious things have happened around me throughout my life. The Japanese members had a certain fund raising goal to meet this year, and it was reported to me that most of the result is coming through the activity of spirit world. Often a person has received a revelation or had a dream to have a certain amount of money waiting. Then when our member knocks on the door, his response is, “Please come in. I was waiting for you.”

The other day Mr. Kamiyama met with me and we discussed whether the outstanding MFT members would like to receive good watches. Mr. Kamiyama said they didn’t want anything like that; they wanted a picture signed by me instead. Unification Church members don’t care about money. It has no value to them. Can you find young people anywhere in the world who say they don’t need money? That’s why people think you are crazy. In the world money governs everything, but in our world money has no power. Everything is secondary to receiving the love of God.

Do I have lots of money or very little money? I myself don’t have any money, but when some goal is given to raise money in fifty days, can I do it? Everyone thinks I am a billionaire but my pockets are empty. I have a need for money because there is so much to do, but not a single penny goes for my own well-being. It all goes for the sake of the world. Therefore, I don’t love money. I love God and mankind, so money is merely the instrument with which to do God’s work.

A diamond ring is actually only valuable as an expression or an accessory of love. The money I spend is also an accessory of the love of God. I would like to give every American a diamond ring as an expression of God’s love. In a way I am doing that now, and because our work represents God’s love it would be more precious than any other diamond under the sun, even the First Lady’s diamond.

People know that I am doing many projects and spending much money, but they only see that external aspect. What they do not know is that this expenditure of money is an accessory of the beautiful love of God. The day will come, however, when Americans will know the true meaning of my presence in this country and my projects here. Once they come to understand the core of it, they will cry out in praise. If this generation doesn’t do it, your ancestors who are already in spirit world will do it. This is the truth.

The man who pursues the “me-first”, materialistic goal will hit a stone wall because he is living a contradiction between his mind and body. The ultimate freedom and liberation is not offered by democracy or communism, but by the one ideology which will offer total harmony between man’s mind and body. That is Godism, the absolutely God-centered ideology. The Unification Church possesses the ideology that can satisfy the infinite ambition, will and ideal of man. That means we have the possibility to help man settle in the ideal world.

No matter how powerful or greedy a person might be, the love of God can satisfy him instantly. The purpose of life here on earth is to develop our sensitivity and capacity to have give and take of love with God. That’s the way God intended life to be, but because the fall of man shattered everything into pieces we need salvation and restoration. The consequence of the fall was the total loss of everything, and the most precious thing to mankind-God. God is our common parent, the beginning and end, alpha and omega. When we discover our eternal king, we discover ourselves as eternal princes and princesses. The ideal world is the atmosphere or circumstance in which that prince and princess can receive a formal education of the love of God.

The love of God will fill you according to the size of your container. When you have a greater container, more love comes. Our job here on earth is to expand the capacity of our containers. Are we then creating a better world than the democratic and communist worlds?

The American people are basically smart, so when they compare the conventional way of life and this new way of life, they will see that the new way is a greater. more valuable way. Then they will get rid of their old mode of life.

When you come to the Unification Church you can find an incredible value that cannot be swapped for anything. Sometimes your parents or your society persecute or kidnap you, but nothing can stop you because you have found your ultimate value. If you are kidnapped, will you want to stay with the kidnappers? If loving husbands tell their wives to stop coming, will all the wives not come again? Even your husband should not be allowed to become a barrier between you and the ultimate love of God. That doesn’t mean he should be cut off but that his wife must win him. Go to the goal and come back with a rope strong enough to pull him there with you.

If two people are caught in a flood, the best way for both to be saved is for one to somehow reach shore, anchor himself and then pull the other to safety with a rope. That’s the way you must think about your life now. Sometimes your parents can’t understand your mission and don’t have the patience to delay judgment about what you are doing. Nevertheless, many members have succeeded in winning their parents.

When God looks down at how the secular world is doing things and how we are doing things, which side do you think He will take? If God doesn’t support me but sides with the world, when the world crumbles God will crumble too. Do you think God can afford to crumble? There are many prayers petitioning God for my removal, such as God, Reverend Moon is a heretic from the Orient. Please summon him to spirit world soon so that we can be without him. Do you think God will listen to that prayer? He comes to me and says’ “My son, this person is praying for your death. But keep going 100 per cent.”

The Unification Church will provide the ultimate satisfaction. We have the ideology and the way of life to attain the ultimate ambition and ideal that mankind can possess. But at the same time, Unification Church members are not living in a fantasy on cloud nine. We are bringing practical restoration starting at the individual level by upholding one central way of life. First you perfect the individual, then restore your mate, create your family and have children. Finally you change your society, nation and world. We have a practical master plan to build the kingdom of God here on earth.

Ultimately when we restore the entire world we will liberate God. Have you ever heard anyone talk about liberating God? It is an incredible proclamation. John 3:16 says that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son and whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. God loves the world, but the circuit of love has been broken and God is not in a position to truly love the world now. We must liberate God so that the circuit can be reconnected and God can truly love the world once more.

There are many ideologies in the world, but nothing that surpasses this Godism that I am proclaiming. All the great professors and theologians are entitled to inherit these things, but the inheritance is going elsewhere instead. The inheritance of the blessing is one thing, but fulfilling the responsibility that comes with it is the problem. You can do it, however, because the message is a simple one. No one is asking you to lecture at Harvard University; all God is asking you to do is practice true love.

There is a specific way to practice our love of God, and your 360 home area is your battleground. This is your university curriculum. You should receive at least eighty points of credit, so in order to make this grade at least 288 homes in your area must say, “yes, you are truly my tribal messiah. You are a great savior and subject of love.” What kind of men and women should you become in your home church? Suppose there is a newly married couple who have just come back from their honeymoon. If they are in the bedroom when you knock on the door, then they should want to jump up to greet you.

The amazing thing in the Unification Church is that wherever I go, no matter how much a couple love each other, they follow me rather than each ether. You should also be followed and respected to that degree. If you truly represent God then your home church people should respect you that much. Recently I tested what kind of standard our married couples live by and called all the wives to assemble for new missions. All the husbands urged their wives to go instead of trying to hold them back.

There is no doubt that I have become controversial but it was inevitable because without undergoing persecution we could not kindle the revolution of love in this world. We are the planters of the universal standard of love on the individual level, and when you extend this standard it will cover the family, tribe, nation and the entire world. That’s the way step-by-step restoration will be conducted. Are we doing it? We possess the loftiest ideology, but at the same time we have a very realistic master plan to fulfill it. We are not just dreamers. Every individual knows where he is standing now, what he has achieved and how much further he has to go. You know whether you have passed the examination, or are just a first or second grade student because you have a standard to measure by. We have triumphed over the individual, family, nation, world and spirit world.

With this central standard we are changing ourselves. The important thing is to deny the world first and then to rebuild it. When you deny the old, you already have a responsibility to build something better. I deny the democratic world and the communist world because I have a plan to build a better America and world. It is only upon that condition that I can speak out. If you just deny for the sake of denying, you will become the enemy of this nation and of the world.

The only thing I want to say to those who deny me is this: show me your blueprint to make this nation better, and to make this world better. If you don’t believe me, show me a better alternative. But no one has submitted a better proposal. Therefore, we can come to the conclusion that I have already won this battle.

Do you think I am just sitting idle because of all the persecution that has been directed against me? I am thinking of all possible ways to go. I lived in the worst kind of concentration camp for several years. Do you think I just sat back passively and waited for something better to happen? That is not the way I am. I thought out every possible way to solve the situation. As an individual and as the head of a family I have fulfilled my responsibility. As the head of the society, nation and world I have been fulfilling responsibilities as well.

When we had the 705-couple engagement, I declared to you that we are the love race. Does the love race consist of white marrying white, black marrying black and yellow marrying yellow? It was beautiful to have a lovely white woman say, “Give me a black husband.” When God saw that did He say, ‘ What’s wrong with you? You will stain your beauty by forsaking your tradition that way. Don’t do it”? No, God said,”She is part of my love race.” That is not just an ideal. It has become reality. The world is small for Unification Church members. Going to England is like a weekend sightseeing trip.

Where are all your chairs? You are sitting for hours on a concrete floor. Because we live with all kinds of cultures, we can be comfortable wherever we go. In Asia, Africa, Europe, South America we are comfortable because we have the capacity to embrace different cultures. I am doing the most incredible mission possible, but is this making everyone miserable and unhappy? Before we began our new life we were lost people. We had lost God, the universe, the world, the nation, and ourselves. But as soon as we came to this new vision of the world, we found we got everything back and more. Now our hearts are filled with gratitude and excitement. That should be our way of life.

When people persecute you, have mercy on them instead of being mad at them. Have a compassionate mind which is big enough to embrace them and smile. Actually, they are jealous of your position. They feel you have come to this position without any qualification and that they should have come first. That’s why they come against you. By persecuting you, they will make you greater sons and daughters of God because through them you can fulfill all the qualifications. Don’t go in a mediocre way but prove yourself worthy.

I created the home church system to give you an arena in which to be persecuted and to realize what your position is, to feel gratitude and really live the heart of God. You must have a grateful heart and really understand the life we are living at this time in history. We know the most precious truth under the sun so now we have a great responsibility. The entire world is like a rag that we must mend, and even though our hands are roughened and hardened by mending this dirty rag, we will be grateful.

Even though you have been persecuted, you can be grateful for being born in this country, because it is here that we met. Thank your father and mother for giving you birth at this particular time in history. Be grateful to all the teachers who instructed you, to everyone who benefited you so that you could be in this position today. Thank all things of creation which provide you with physical food. Thank the birds for singing a beautiful song of God. Thank the farmers and their fields for providing for you.

Declare to all creation that you have become the princes and princesses of true love and love them as a representative of God. Love the grass and the trees. The entire earth is like a glacier, so now you must bring the warmth of the love of God and enable the earth to truly feel the cosmic spring. Do you feel the joy of being the harbinger of the cosmic spring? Feel the warmth in your heart, that satisfaction and purpose of life. Look at the world and all things of creation with that frame of mind. We have discovered God’s will and dispensation and will live on earth in eternal faith and gratitude.

Even though your heart is willing to give thanksgiving to God, sometimes your body lets you down. Always repent that your body can’t keep up with your will. That way God will be very sympathetic with you. Can you complain then? The moment you know the will of God and His dispensation there is no way you are entitled to utter even one word of complaint until you die. You should not even know how to complain. Are you living that way? Even though you go through the valley of the shadow of death, fear no evil but be grateful instead. We have so much to be grateful for. We should begin our life in gratitude and end our life in gratitude. With this heart you can desire to bear a greater burden and be grateful for it.

If anyone lives this way of life and it comes to no avail, then he can accuse me. I myself have lived this life and been persecuted, but many incredible things happened. When other people wanted to see me destroyed, God was right behind me and I became more and more prosperous year by year.

The road of dispensation is our way of life and the way we can restore the individual, family, tribe, nation and world. Our way of life is the way of restoration. Every feeling and sensation in your body should be an expression of gratitude. Would you be grateful to the will of God? After working all day in the heat like a horse, would you be grateful at night when you come back home? One brother requested a Korean bride, but I gave him a white woman instead. Is that reason to complain? You must always think you were given the best.

Recently I declared an emergency situation at The News World and now everyone is going out to get fifty subscriptions. Should you be doing that with a complaining heart? Would you wish I would go away because you don’t want to do it?

Mother has carried many children and her physical ordeal is great, but my mandate to her was that she must have twelve children. Should Mother pray to God, “My husband is crazy. How can I have twelve children? Could you somehow convince him to be satisfied with less than that?” Mother is precious because she is grateful to God for her mission. It is an incredible mission but that’s why she is even more grateful. That is also why each child is more beautiful and great than the ones before. Then Mother wants to give more because God is rewarding us in such a fantastic way. God shows His love by blessing this family.

If you want to start complaining, you have all kinds of reasons to do so. “Why do I have a flat chest,” or “Why do I have no hips?” God has a reason for everything so you should be grateful for whatever you have. If you are big and walk heavily, think of the thin person who looks at you and is grateful to be thinner. Have that kind of serving attitude. When your body has some abnormal condition, you are serving some godly purpose.

If you are crippled, thank God. There are many healthy people who don’t appreciate their condition, but when they look at you they must appreciate being given two healthy legs.

We have gotten so involved this morning that we have forgotten the time and it’s almost time for the home church service. So in conclusion, everyone lift your hands and open your eyes and mouth and thank God. God bless you.

## RECORD-SETTER OF HISTORY

By Fami1yfed June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### July 1, 1979
Belvedere, New York
Translator-Bo Hi Pak

Whenever a champion enters a contest or major competition, his foremost desire is to set a new record. For example, in the Olympic games all the contestants go hoping to set a new record. To do so they have to follow all the rules and regulations set forth by the Olympic committee. A new record cannot be set just by doing things at random, but only within strictly disciplined limits. No matter how capable an athlete you may be, the moment you violate any rules not only the judging committee but all the other participants as well will rule against you. The judges will disqualify you and you will lose your chance. That is the most fundamental thing a champion must remember-he must obey all the rules of any competition.

Sometimes the rules change and then you have to understand and obey the new rules. All competition heads toward the matching of better and better contestants.

When we talk about records, the first thing that comes to mind is athletic games, but actually there are far greater competitions going on at higher levels. Nations are competing with each other in world affairs, and we can also consider each nation as one stadium where competitions are being held. Do you think there are rules on all those levels as well?

Certainly the people of each nation must follow the rules, and not only that, but follow tradition as well. A nation can set a record among other nations, but to do so it must clearly abide by the rules of international competitions; it must be recognized and respected by a multitude of other nations. In this game different nations are champions while mankind are the spectators, with God acting as the judge or referee. In our world today there are two ideologies in competition-democracy and communism. It is an invisible, yet bitter battle between the two.

We can see confrontation and competition in every area of our lives. In America here we see on-going political competition between the political parties trying to win power in government. Here again, certain rules must be followed. In every arena of competition there is a law, a kind of covenant which clearly sets forth the goal and is derived from the tradition of the past. This phenomenon is everywhere-in government, schools, families, every facet of our lives.

In order to become the greatest champion you begin as a small competitor, starting in local competitions, then state, then regional, before you enter national competition. That is the way champions are selected. I can draw an important conclusion here, that our lives and careers are always exposed to some kind of competition. That’s life. We eat and sleep and handle mundane things every day, but in addition we are each engaged in some kind of competition. Your eating and sleeping is for the purpose of maintaining your well-being so that you can be a winner. Who is going to be a victorious person who sets the record?

The ultimate competition is that of life. If there is a way to win that competition, it is the ultimate, and for that goal we should be able to give all kinds of sacrifice. In that competition we want to be victorious and set the record. Which direction should we go? What will our strategy be?

Suppose there is a competition in track; the fastest man cannot win if he runs anywhere else except the track because no one will acknowledge his accomplishment. The way you want to do things is unimportant because the rules are all-important. Each champion is required to run around the track. Perhaps one contestant might think he is clever and plan to run across the track instead of around it. Some people in our world think about how to get around the rules and snatch the victory and they ridicule those who follow the rules and do things the hard but legitimate way.

How many in America are trying faithfully to abide by the rules? Many people in America today lead lawless lives and they see no reason to abide by the laws or put up with authority figures, like parents and teachers. People have come by this wrong idea by thinking that they have freedom from any restraints. They want to know why they aren’t recognized as the victors, but theirs isn’t the logical way of doing things is it?

Unless you abide by the rules of the school, you cannot pass your courses and no one will give you credit. Competition in life is just the same. In school you may complain about required reading or tough homework; you feel the pressure of measuring up to regulations and getting a good report card. You may feel as though you are being hung by the system, imprisoned by it, but actually your liberation comes when you fulfill triumphantly, not by avoiding it but by confronting it. Then you are free and the school, the teachers and even the books will welcome you.

In school the teachers, the dean, the other students are all competitive, yet you can truly achieve the level where people can’t help but recognize you for your accomplishments. That is real liberation in school. Without that accomplishment there is no freedom and you will always be under pressure.

Where can we truly find human freedom? Freedom can only come after the requirements are fulfilled. Freedom comes within discipline, within the law. It is not abuse or license. There is law everywhere: If you disregard nature’s laws, you will die; this nation is governed by law; the world is under law. Therefore, you will be triumphant in freedom when you triumph within that law, not outside of it. The law is the most common sense direction. For example, there is a certain way a spoon is to be used. If you use it right side up it is useful, but if you turn it upside down or on end it won’t be any good. There is a common sense way to use a spoon well.

The law is always seeking the optimum situation. In history that optimum law continues and is universal, needed by everyone. There is no law that prevents you from blinking your eyes. It is nature’s necessity. Yet there is an optimum way of blinking the eyes, perhaps a certain number of times a minute. Then there is a way of blinking too much that is detrimental. Even in such a small thing it is noticeable when someone does something outside the law. In everything there is an optimum way, even in breathing. There is an optimum way to listen; no particular facial expression is required. How you sit can also be evaluated, as well as how you dress. There are certain rules to follow. The law is not there to harass you but to guide you to the ideal situation.

Sometimes we resent the law, but in this perspective is law a necessity? Liberation always comes through fulfillment of the law. With the fulfillment of family law, for instance, you shall be liberated centered upon the family. Some people might wonder why they need parents or brothers or sisters, or why they have to sleep in a bed instead of anywhere they choose. That attitude will eventually bring that person to destruction. The man who tries to live like that would never even think of setting a new record, and even if he did, no one would recognize it or give him credit. Even a mechanical device moves precisely as it is designed to do, following certain principles.

Here in America some people claim to be patriots and champions of the nation. The patriot is a law-abiding person, not the one who disregards the law as being too clumsy. Without even knowing the laws, can you claim to be a good citizen? If you actually try to live up to every article of the U.S. Legal code, you could spend your whole lifetime just trying to understand it. What I mean here is the spirit of the law, the attitude that by following certain principles everyone can be benefited, not just individuals.

The law always follows certain patterns based on experiences of the past, moving in the direction which benefits the most people. When we look at the behavior of Americans today, we see that most of them are ill with “excess freedom.” They are freedom-crazy. Will anyone say that is not true? No matter how prominent or exceptional you try to make yourself, if you don’t understand the true spirit of freedom or the true meaning of tradition, whatever record of accomplishment you make will have no purpose. For America to truly enjoy freedom, each individual must be disciplined in the law of the nation. If a person is triumphant in that way then he will truly set a new record.

Our life is already a competition, so we must learn how best to engage in that art. First, we must acknowledge the past and its tradition. Also, we must recognize the necessity of the present time and recognize a certain vision that can be welcomed by the future. These three conditions must be met. What is the central game or event in the Olympic Games? What is the most spectacular game? There is no question about it: The Olympic marathon is always the central game, in the past, present and future. A marathon is the longest race, so is it easy or tough to run? It would be easy to cover the distance in a helicopter, but to win the race you have to cover every inch of ground on foot. There is a common definition of why the marathon is spectacular, why it is recognized as a great achievement. In it a person has to give his own sweat and labor for a great distance. To run that race is a great strain, and people have died attempting it.

What is our marathon in life? Again, it requires going the longest distance against the toughest odds. In our arena of life competition there must be some central event. Philosophy is one area, sport another; the cultural and academic worlds and field of religion are also areas. Each of them is a game in life. Which of these goes the longest distance? Christianity has talked about the coming of Christ for 2,000 years and still it is not known how many more years it will take. Truly the religious arena involves the longest distance.

Is the religious way of life an easy way? In religious competition the regulations are stringent. For example, you have to fast, endure suffering, be humble and avoid temptations. Religious competition seems totally apart from common sense. For instance, Jesus said, “Whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” What kind of dilemma is that? Many people just cannot put up with it. People may look like slaves under religious rules.

God knows that He imposed the toughest of all rules in religious competition, but He is doing so because He has to select one champion. Will He pick one politician or academic? God must pick from the toughest arena of all areas of human life, which is religion.

Does anyone like religion? You are crazy; that’s why you like it! You live only one life on earth so it is an acceptable desire to want to go the toughest course and meet the toughest challenge of all. As ambitious young men and women, what area would you prefer to set records in? We recognize that religion is the arena that everyone must ultimately participate in.

Suppose this circle is the globe. We are heading toward the highest pinnacle, starting from all directions and going out. Some people may come close, but miss by a few inches and then have to go all the way around again to try. The person going this route doesn’t see the overall picture, just the same angle and height, so even if he reaches the top he may not realize it. So far no explorer has gone over the entire planet to make a map with clear directions to the pinnacle. Without clearly defining their goal, many people just keep walking, wasting their lives.

Human ambition is a great thing. For instance, many people deeply desire to climb the tallest mountains. Recently two ambitious Korean climbers wanted to climb Mt. McKinley; they made it to the top, but on the way down they met with disaster and were killed. They came all the way from Korea to die on Mt. McKinley!

Because religion has not given man a clear map or course, mankind has suffered tremendous harm in seeking to fulfill religious ambitions. Without knowing the goal clearly many people made attempts to reach the pinnacle but died along the way. Do we have to give up religion because of that? No, because religion is man’s ultimate destiny. Can you eliminate the marathon from the Olympics simply because it is so tough? If so, the Olympics will no longer be exciting. There is no question that the religious field is tough, and because of that the world’s people ultimately must be interested in religion.

What arena are you in? Did you come here to make money, or to be a famous politician or to get married? You are actually champions in this toughest of all arenas in life. We have clearly defined the goal so that we shall not falter but go on to set the new record. New champions always emerge to surpass the records of the past, and the same is true in religion. What past saints and prophets have said is not the ultimate statement of faith so we look forward to a new record being set. Therefore, we are inheriting the record and tradition of the past, as well as recognizing the present, and going forward to set the record that will remain in the future.

There is no other church or religion that has inherited the past more perfectly than this one. For example, the Bible records an account of the fall, but many contemporary religions regard the fall as nonsense. Yet we absolutely know that it did happen, and not only that, but how it took place. We recognize everyone in the Bible-Adam, Noah, Abraham-as well as internal things about the dispensation that are not even explained in the Bible. We know precisely what happened. There is no doubt that the Unification Church has absolutely inherited the tradition of the past. History is on our back; we stand on the foundation of the history of God.

We know many hidden secrets about what went wrong in the past, such as the failures of the central figures which the Bible does not explain. Therefore, we know precisely why certain faiths and religions failed in the past. By knowing this we have a new set of tools which will not fail us. There are many scholars and theologians who concentrated their study on the Old Testament, but when we ask them certain questions they have no answers; yet we know the answers, which are only common sense.

It is a natural conclusion that the Unification Church has a most authentic historical inheritance. The New Testament is also a book of mystery, but we have brought it into the sunlight, explaining the mission of Jesus, how he came, and what he tried to do. We know in what way the New Testament dispensation was not completed, that Jesus came to marry, not to die as a single man. These things are so shocking to conventional Christians that they practically have heart attacks hearing us, but when you come to the bottom line, who has the most realistic view of the situation? Our proclamation today is so drastic and dramatic that millions of Christians around the world look at us as heretics. Which view is more faithful to the Bible and to the will of God? Our philosophy and belief is certainly the one.

The tenth anniversary of the moon walk is coming shortly, and people are thinking all the time about it. There are many philosophically-minded people in the world today, and they are all caught in one universal disease, which we call moon-phobia. Already people look at you as an extension of Reverend Moon. Are you?

We are not in politics or economics, but in the religious arena. Are we in an exciting or dull game? Are we the winners in the competition with contemporary Christianity? We are running in the marathon with the Christians of the world. They are accustomed to resting when they are tired and eating when they are hungry, but we take the kitchen and water tank right along with us so we don’t have to stop. The conventional religious way of thinking is that the preacher preaches and the congregation pays his salary, but the Unification Church doesn’t work that way. We create our own money and resources, and in the process I have accumulated many titles by starting work in many areas.

We are talking about a new game with new in a new arena. The old ways will not work in this new arena so we have custom-made our way of doing things for the new. We are determined not to be defeated but to be victorious in the religious Olympics. We have been called heretics, but even those name-callers cannot disregard us. Even while they are accusing us they are learning our methods. It is common sense that all the runners in a race as well as the spectators focus on who is in the lead because they want to beat him.

The Unification Church has definitely inherited the traditions of the past and we have also devised a realistic way of doing things. We are not in the clouds but on solid ground. We also have a realistic future vision of how to bring down the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and we are not just talking about it but living it. What is it? Home church.

Many people in the religious arena are going in circles at random but we are going in a straight line, like an arrow to the bulls-eye. Did God say that one of the rules was that the champion in the religious arena had to be a white man? Must he also be an American citizen, or adhere to the democratic way of doing things? Or did God leave the door wide open so anyone can participate in this most difficult of marathons?

The Unification Church is a spiritual athlete in this toughest game. What will the trophy be? The love of God is the ultimate reward. We alone in the Unification Church are talking about the heart of God, the love of God for the world, nation, family and individual. Suppose the winner of the marathon was an American. When he entered heaven I am sure he would go first to the treasure house where the jewels are stored. Another champion might go first to the world of culture and the arts. Another champion might go first to the dining room, while yet another might look for the department store and wardrobe room to get all the things he lacked on earth.

When the Unification Church runner enters that world, where will he go? You said he would go to the heart of God, and you know the heart of God is not in any of those places I mentioned. God has suffered so much that He is down in some storage room in the basement of heaven. If you found the heart of God in a corner covered with dirt and dust, what would you do? When you find Him there would you give a shout of Mansei in excitement, or cry out to find that the heart of God was burdened with so much suffering?

Then you would say, “Heavenly Father, don’t worry; now your child is here. Let me escort you out so you can really sit on your throne and receive joy from the world. I will make it happen. I didn’t come to receive glory from you, but to liberate you and ease your sorrowful heart. Since your heart has been suffering, the entire world has been suffering. I come to liberate your heart and in turn liberate the world.”

If you are a champion with that kind of goal and heart, do you feel you are going toward the noblest of all? Can you think of any higher goal than that? We are motivated and challenged for this purpose and goal, and there is nothing we cannot do; we can give all our money, our lives, any suffering necessary. We are a group of people gathered together who are crazy for God. Indeed, if you enter heaven in any but this way then there will be still more competition to go through. But when you set the liberation of God’s heart as your goal there is no higher place to go. Ultimately that is the highest.

I am motivated to achieve this goal and my will is of iron. No matter how people treat me, I am unswerving in this goal. I thought this conclusion out on my own, but do you think I was smart or dull? You came here to join, so are you smart or not? Are you better than me or less so? God keeps telling me that I think of things even He does not think of. God is asking me to be like that, and you as well. I am determined to do something that God could not do, and I am asking you to do things that I could not do. Would you smart men and women accept that challenge?

If other people sleep two hours, would you sleep only one hour? Normally people who try to drive after not sleeping at night will nod off at the wheel, but we are challenged by this extraordinary task and we will never sleep. We see the bulls-eye of God’s love so clearly that there is no moment we can be dull and sleepy. Since this is the moment of competition, how can we let up? In a boxing match your opponent could jab you at any moment so you must be alert to any eventuality. The arrow flying toward the target doesn’t care what anyone is saying.

Now nearly all of you are matched, and I can see that most of you still haven’t come back to earth yet. If you got the perfect match then do a perfect job to deserve it. You and your fiancee have to inspire each other, competing with each other and with other engaged couples. Life is a competition, after all. Will you accept the challenge? Are you fortunate to be in the Unification Church?

How many years will it take for you to win the marathon? Three, ten? Even for the unbeatable Reverend Moon it took sixty years to cover the course and still I have not finished the race. Last night after graduation at the seminary I took all the leaders fishing. It was in the midst of a thunderstorm and we were cramped in a little boat. Even though they didn’t say this, inside they were probably thinking, “What kind of Father are you? Can’t you have even one day to rest?” Even though I gave Col. Pak permission to be with his family that day and Col. Han didn’t go because he had only dress clothes to wear, I told them that really those were not acceptable reasons.

What does it matter if it is night or day once you are going toward this challenge? Would you prefer a leader with absolute determination, regardless? It is normal to rest after a day’s work, to have meals at mealtime and to sleep at night. But here our standard is to keep going for all 365 days. That is not acceptable to many people, but would you do it? Do you like my type of leadership?

You never hear me praising or complimenting anyone. I only push them harder. Do you like it? Why? Each time you are pushed by me you are going farther toward the goal, even though it is painful. If I am coming at night or at a difficult hour to see you, you may flee but under any circumstances don’t complain. The place to hide is home church.

What are we going to do? I want you to understand that the Unification Church is here to set the record, and in order to set the record you have to live in an abnormal way and go an incredible distance. There are two worlds of East and West today, and the Orientals want me to win big but the Western world is trying to push me down. There is a competition between the two worlds centering on me. Many governmental agencies are investigating us, which is a sign of how the Western world feels about me, wanting me to decrease. Even you are skeptical sometimes-you may cheer me, but then when you look around and see that the rest of the country is not cheering, you feel doubtful. Whether America recognizes it or not, historical events are happening now. Why has this one individual become so controversial? Why are people so apprehensive about me? This kind of phenomenon is new to America.

Where do we go? To our pinnacle. How far away are we? Soon Americans will change and come to confess that they have evaluated all the other possible ways but they didn’t succeed, and the only way of hope is Reverend Moon’s way. Do you think that day will come soon? Do we have the capability to present hope to America? 10% or 100%? If America continues as it is will America decline or prosper? Would you Leave it alone?

First you have to apply the brake. The 240 million people of America must be stopped, then turned around and headed toward the goal. Have you ever thought that sparks and heat will start flying when the brake is applied? Do you want to go first and have the brake applied on your back, or wait until next in line? Who will be the young people who can apply the brake 24 hours a day?

In the religious arena I want to be the champion. Who of you in the Unification Church wants to become the champion? Sometimes you are exuberant and answer me enthusiastically, but many times your answer turns out to be a lie. We need money and people to move America, but is the government going to provide the budget? Some rich foundation? No, they regard us as their enemies, so we will trade our blood for the money. Some people may worry about the social courtesies and their reputations, but who will worry about America’s decline? America’s future is more valuable than any of those things.

If we are too late to save America then the Unification Church is also part of America’s defeat. I want you to understand that our survival is directly linked to the survival of America; we must survive for the sake of America. America’s survival is vital because it means the survival of the free world. In the free world Korea will remain as well. If you think that the communists would not kill you if they had the chance then you don’t understand the reality of communism. That kind of consequence is not far away.

The ultimate confrontation over the champion ship is being waged now. In Japan we have won heated confrontations with the communists. Here in America we are confronting the churches as well as communism, and we will never avoid it. We are runners, and though we may feel suffocated at the moment, we keep running for we are in the marathon race.

We are not spectators, but participate in the race as champions. I am determined to be the champion in the arena of religion in history, determined to be a champion in the arena of the Unification Church. Ultimately the heart of God is our goal, and I want to liberate Him. Once you set that kind of record, it is the alpha and omega, and when God blesses such people, it brings consummation, completion.

When a person occupies love, he occupies all other authority and dignity as well. The record-setter is the kind of person God and history are looking at. God is expecting you to become one who sets the record, so this is a one-in-a-million opportunity. I am now investing much energy in the fishing industry and I am determined to make it successful. When you see my desire, you should put your shoulders to the job to be a champion in that arena. I would like to see all the seminarians and church leaders go for sea duty for one and a half years. At this time there is no master or host who is claiming or leading the American fishing industry because this is one arena God carved out and saved for the heavenly dispensation.

What if I supply sufficient fish and say that Unification Church members will eat nothing else for six months, not even bread? We will give all the good fish to the trade and eat the leftovers ourselves. Will God say we shouldn’t eat just the leftovers, or will He be touched? Who do we suffer for? For God and humanity. By doing it we are covering God with an invisible net, making Him our prisoner. All you have to do then is pull that net and God will have to follow you.

Did anyone in history ever have this kind of thinking and ideology? Look at me. All this time many people through the country have been trying to destroy or discredit me-in Korea, Japan and America-but I have survived and am still going strong. That in itself is a miracle. You think you do the Unification Church work, but in reality it is the spiritual world acting. All you have to do is set the condition. You are here as a remnant, not out of your own goodness, but because of spiritual pressure and guidance in dreams or visions. Does existing Christianity have such things? There is an amazing power behind us pulling us into oneness.

You have entered the competition in this arena now. Would you run with your full might, or only half-heartedly? Our Unification Church freedom is not just that of eating or sleeping and doing things as we like. Your real freedom comes through our victorious achievement, and then you will receive recognition that you are free. Before heaven and earth you will present yourself as the victor who won the race within the heavenly discipline and law. You strive to become a champion in this situation so that you can set a better record than anyone else, one which will command the respect of the people. Then you can be a victorious person before heaven and earth.

You men who think you are pretty smart, strong and capable, raise your hands. Now you confident women raise your hands. None? By worldly standards we may not be attractive or ideal, but we are applying to be champions of highest quality. Once you win this race, all the good men and women of the world will come bow down to you, however imperfect you may be. That is the kind of authority you will be given once you finish the race. Many women in particular agonize over their faces but that is useful thinking in the sense that they can turn that energy into service, into giving an additional kick to themselves. “My shortcomings will all be overcome when I set a record,” they think. That’s why God is sending ugly men and women to the Unification Church!

Since we are already lowly people here, we have nothing to lose. The amazing thing is that with this kind of attitude once you hang on until the end you shall be gloriously triumphant, a record-setter. We have records in witnessing, in MFT, in many arenas. I want you to be champions in your specific area. When we gather the record-breakers together to work we can set American records. Our combined effort will do that. I used to feel that Col. Pak was really pushing you for home church and I liked that, but nowadays Col. Pak is too gentle and not pushing enough. You can’t complain because I am commissioning him to push you, and the purpose is for you to become record-setters.

The Unification Church is here to be a champion and God is depending upon you. God wants you to set records on the universal scale, not just in one nation or organization.

Today is July 1, which usually falls on a Sunday. Those who will become record-setters, raise your hands. I want you to become record-breakers in every way. You can even set a record in eating, but at the same time you can fast more than anyone else. Even in sleeping set the record, all month long, but then stay awake all month and work. Set a record in putting on makeup-white people use black makeup and black people use white makeup. In sleeping don’t lie down in an ordinary way but lift your leg up in the air. When you sleep plug up your nose and don’t breathe the way ordinary people do. In the bathroom set the record for the shortest possible time, or sit down and stay all day long.

Do you understand what I have been saying? When you become a record-setter, then God will be a record-setter. Will you do it? Let us pray.

## WHAT KIND OF THOUGHT DO YOU HAVE?

By Fami1yfed June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### June 10, 1979
Belvedere, New York
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

If all of a sudden someone asks you what you have, you may hesitate to answer, not knowing exactly what to say. You may start to answer this question by naming the things closest at hand, such as your face, hands and eyes, but is that all? You also have your mind and thought, but then what is the difference between mind and thought? Can you think because you have a mind, or do you have a mind because you think?

Whatever you have is a property you can utilize and be benefited by, such as money. Thinking more broadly, what do you have as American people? People here have their families and relatives. No one would raise an objection when someone claims possession on that level, but when an individual says he has his nation and society, Americans become suspicious. Do you control or administer America as your property? As Unification Church members what do you have? We say it is our goal to unify the entire world and cosmos, but many people wonder how they can have a relationship to the world or cosmos, and whether it is possible to control or administer them. We know the cosmos exists, so by whom would it want to be possessed and controlled? All things of creation want to be dominated or controlled by men. Do they want to be conquered by man’s power? By his knowledge? Indeed, all things of creation want to be conquered by the love of men.

What about God, who created the universe? God would say the universe belongs to Him since He created it, but would He think He is entitled to keep it because of His power? We have to consider the purpose for God’s creating such a magnificent universe. I am sure God had a reason in the goodness of His heart for doing so, but is that enough reason for the things of creation to want to be dominated by God? All things of creation would reply that that is not enough and they want something else. They want to relate to whatever there is in God’s heart that is of the utmost value and goodness.

What is the best part of God? Is truth the most important part of God? If God and the things of creation are interrelated, what good would be brought about through truth? Truth is actually a cold, impersonal quantity stemming from logic, not from heart. Truth can specify facts, but has no warmth. Truth can describe something, such as how a dot and line create something through their harmony, how the dot moves and creates the line, and then the line in harmony creates the circle. In light of this understanding, would the power of truth be the best part of God?

Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father but by me.” Ultimately speaking, what good would it do to be the way, truth and life? If life itself is the ultimate goal, what is good about it? We can conclude that the culmination of the purpose of existence is found in one word-love. When Jesus said he was the way, truth and life, that key word of love was contained but not expressed there.

If there are swimming pools of truth, of way and of life, which would you prefer to swim in? Whether handsome or ugly, everyone would prefer the pool of love. Love has incredible power, and as soon as you speak about love everyone comes alive. Love has incredible power, and as soon as you speak about love everyone comes alive. When you are embraced within love you already feel life and power and truth. God is truly the king of wisdom, and when in His wisdom He made all things of creation He wanted dominion over everything through an ultimate goal He had in mind.

When you are in the dominion of love, sunlight and darkness are both fine because you can relate everything to love. Both daytime and nighttime are wonderful. Night is the time when God isolates you from the rest of the world so you love only one object. That is God’s mandate. During the day you embrace all things of creation in love, but at night God wants you to love Him alone. During the day a husband and wife are bustling about in many different activities, but at night they are isolated from the rest of the world and the darkness is better for loving each other. The darker the better!

No other element in the universe enhances both day and night except love. God must think in that fashion, and if the creation has the power of thought I’m sure love is the center of their thinking as well. Agreed? No one in the world would say no to love. Love must be the center of the creation.

Today many people who graduate from a good school are proud of themselves and the degree they obtained. There is a saying that knowledge is power. Many scientists think that science is almighty and that computers will solve the problems of the world, and indeed, computers are asserting a new tyranny over human affairs in many areas. Scientists feel that the human mind is limited compared to computers. Why do you laugh? It is because you know in your heart that mankind is not going to be dominated by computers.

When we consider what we have in the universe that is of real value, what do we find? Unification Church members are poor people in material things, yet we are definitely here to obtain something. If there is something universally needed by the individual, family, society, nation and world and even by God, we want to have it. You said it is true love, but what then is true love? Is true love true seeing? Is true love a true smell? Is true hearing true love, or real eating? True touching? Where can we find true love? Do you see God?

As a patriot you say you love your country, but can you see that element called love of country? We are confident it exists, but where can we find invisible love? Let’s analyze it. Is there more than one kind, with one type for each race? No, there is only one, and the answer to where we find it is very simple. Mankind is composed of two major elements-men and women, so can true love be found between women and women, or between men and men? Between men and women? Yes, true love can be activated between men and women.

What are men and women then? When a man and woman meet, they are coming from two entirely different sets of lineages and backgrounds. True love has to have a true history and background, as well as a true present and true future. But today when men and women meet does their love have a true background and do they know that it will continue for eternity? Nowadays love is cheap. You may see a couple who have a few conversations and then think they are in love, but how long will it last? Fifteen minutes?

The root is the important thing, the place where the true love of men and women begins and connects with the present time. The relationship of men and women is a horizontal one, no matter what, and once the horizontal line of today’s love is broken there is no way to re-connect it because there is no power to bring the two parts back together. Therefore, the American family system today is breaking down for lack of anything to sustain the horizontal relationship. Often one squabble snaps it apart. Horizontal love by itself has no depth, and as a result it is not only cheap but fragile.

What is needed, then, is a horizontal relationship supported by the vertical. What is that? There must be some vertical reciprocal relationship between subject and object, in this case between parents and children. Why is that relationship vertical? Because it begins at birth. A horizontal relationship begins with a meeting or encounter, but a vertical relationship is one that is born into and which no one can change, even after death.

A father and mother should have a vertical relationship both above and below them, in addition to the horizontal line between them. The unchanging line which no one can sway is the vertical line. No matter how many children you have, the father-son relationship is unchangeable. Furthermore, there is an unbroken line from the parents to the grandparents, and so forth all the way back. Is that vertical line crooked and changeable, or unbending? Would your forefathers agree that it is best for the vertical line to be crooked or straight? It should be a straight vertical line which no one can change.

Who do you find at the top of that line? Would God, who is in the position of supergrandfather, think that the vertical line should be crooked at some point in history? I am sure God would declare that He is setting the vertical tradition in loving His children, and that they in turn will love their children the same way, and so on forever. Since God Himself set the tradition, all his descendants will continue that tradition forever.

What if some parents somewhere down the line think it will be adequate to have 75 degrees of love instead of 90 degrees? In that case a complete circle could never result, but only a rectangle, and that would distort the entire tradition. The unchanging vertical line has been drawn by God, so husband and wife are supposed to be at precisely 90 degrees to the vertical. As much as the vertical line is absolute, the horizontal line has to be absolute as well. The vertical sets the standard. Why would you agree to that? Unless an absolute line is derived somewhere the entire universe would wobble and shake.

What do you think is the longest thing in the universe? True love is so wide and vast that everything can be embraced in true love with room to spare. Would anyone ever complain that things are too cramped in true love and they need more room?

The highest position, which is God’s, and the lowest position can still be harmonized in the one substance, which is true love. One direct vertical line drawn from the highest point of the universe, God, down to the depths of the universe is still one line. That unchanging, stable vertical line is the line of true love from God to all creation and man. No matter how high God is or how low this world is, these two points are connected with one line.

This line which God has drawn is the axis of history, while the history of every man forms one horizontal line. The diagram of this would be many different circles which vary in diameter; the length of the diameter determines the size of the circle, but as long as the horizontal line is drawn correctly, perfect circles will always be formed.

You want to be great men, don’t you? What should you do to become so? There is only one simple definition: a good man is centered upon this one central vertical, eternal line. That is how you become a good child, husband or wife, in-law, and parent. We frequently use the word “true,” but what is the definition of true son, true father, etc.? True refers to anything that has a perfect 90 degree relationship with the vertical line. When four perfect 90 degree angles are formed by the vertical and horizontal lines, a perfect circle is formed, with four equal segments.

This 90 degree relationship is a central pattern, and no matter where you go, that angle will fit exactly with another 90 degree angle. When you make that relationship with the vertical then you can call it a true one. Then what is true love? In true love your horizontal relationships engage this vertical line at 90 degrees and your love is eternal and unchanging. When men and women engage in true love, wherever they go the vertical line automatically forms 90 degrees. True love is established when you recognize the two kinds of love-vertical and horizontal. What is the most valuable thing you possess? Now you can answer.

Why did YOU gather here in this room? What are you going to do with true love? What are you gaining by being here? People outside our Church commonly make vicious allegations against me, but did you come to be a subject of the worst dictator? No? Then why did you come?

You wandered many places and explored many alleys and streets in life before you came to sit here on this concrete floor. We gathered here for some common purpose and have a reason to be here. We recognize that our world is crumbling and the truth is not to be found in it. You know from your own experience that the world is deceitful and artificial, so you came here to find the answer in something real and eternally true: true love. We want to consummate our lives in true love.

We emphasize trueness. Therefore, we draw the vertical line first of all between True Parents and true children. I did not create this terminology. It was there at the beginning of God’s creation and of human history. God has always wanted to leave the true tradition throughout history and I merely came to manifest it. But the truth was always there and so this is nothing new. In the Unification Church we first make our vertical tradition clear, then we try to engage that vertical line at precisely 90 degrees.

The Unification Church is like a workshop. For three years you recognize the True Parents and put yourself in the true son’s position, trying to be truthful to this relationship. Here we have a tradition that we are joyfully obedient to the vertical mandate, not forced or doing so only out of duty. That is the key. Yes, you have physical life given by your natural parents, but true life begins with the True Parents because this is the first time the true vertical tradition of God has been brought down to earth. Our lives must conform to this eternal tradition and life. By being part of it you will be resurrected and receive that eternal life.

Before you can talk about anything else you have to come back to this vertical relationship. This is the most fundamental effort you must make. Once you are perfectly aligned according to the vertical line you can talk about horizontal love, or what we call the blessing of men and women. The true relationship of love is actually a sacrificial relationship of giving. Parents are those who are willing to give themselves die for their children. That is the true tradition of parents.

Children as well could give their lives for their parents. That is the tradition of vertical love which God initiated in His love, the fundamental truth of the universe for which we are willing to give our lives. That is what truth is all about.

Love is sacrificial and thus is true and beautiful. Do you accept that in logic? Since what I am teaching is this eternal and vertical tradition of truth, it matters not whether 240 million Americans accept it. Eventually all mankind will have to accept it because this is not my theory but God’s theory. Once we know this much about the vertical tradition which God is trying to consummate, we can seriously commit ourselves and give ourselves totally to it. We have the father-son relationship everywhere. You are in the position of parent to your spiritual children, so you love them unconditionally and sacrificially, even being ready to die for them.

Before you talk about loving your husband or wife you must set the tradition of loving your children, whether spiritual or physical. Why is that? Because of the fall the Cain-type world exists and we must subjugate it with love, bringing it to the true love of the father-son relationship. When you see a husband and wife in your home church area who have a beautiful relationship of love then you can feel that you must love your spiritual children more than they love each other. That’s how you must inspire yourself. Your line will get longer and longer when you acquire the true vertical tradition.

You are creating a vertical line from the horizontal line downward, but don’t worry about the vertical line upward yet. If you love your spiritual children then the vertical line above the horizontal is formed automatically. When you create the line downward which is truly straight, the extension of that line upward is automatic and your relationship with God is automatic. The relationship, tradition and achievement that you create in that vertical line is your precious asset. My situation is just the same.

Outside of the Principle I have no reason to come to America. No one invited me and no one welcomed me, so why did I come to a country with a foreign culture? Because it is my divine duty to set the heavenly tradition, whether it is done in the Oriental or Western world. Since Americans today are ignorant of this, people have come against me with tremendous hostility, but it is inevitable that this truth will prevail in America within three generations. Are you convinced?

Can anyone remove the chapter of American history that I have written here? Later on in history this teaching will shine as even more brilliant because it is God’s principle, not mine. This is why I am pushing you out to home church, the world where you will become a tribal messiah. The entire universe is ready for restoration but the center is empty. The whole environment is ready for the Kingdom, but the very essence is non-existent.

The relationship of parents and children is confused and the relationship of men and women here in America is void because tremendous chaos and confusion persist. The vertical father-son relationship is not clear and the horizontal man-woman relationships are all confused, so all other relationships are entangled and confused as well. That is the state of this society at this time. We need a policeman to guide all this traffic to the one vertical line where it can all be organized.

The Unification Church teaches what God is and what ideal men and women are, and as a result we are learning the foremost essential elements of the universe. In many cases men and women see no reason for God to be part of their private love lives, but no matter how much fun they try to have in life, they always need an axis to turn around. Without an axis no one can turn. If you are not stable then you will be self-destructive. When you are in a right relationship, however, all you have to do is hold each other and the universe will turn you, just like riding a merry-go-round.

From this viewpoint today’s America is far from God’s ideal, sunk in immorality, and God finds no joy at all in this society. God is determined to bring change about. Do you really agree with this? There is no question that America is headed for decline if it continues this way, simply because no society can endure if it departs from the Principle of God.

Because the world is slipping toward the cliff, we have to put on the brakes and stop it. When the wheels are turning fast and you apply the brakes you have to exert much pressure and inevitably much heat is generated. People wonder why I came and stirred up so much controversy, but I cannot be quiet be cause the world is crumbling and we must stop it If you want to stop this crumbling world you have to be stronger than the world. Are you strong enough?

Love of God is the key; when you have that you have everything and need nothing else. First there is the vertical relationship of True Parents and true children, and the horizontal relationships you have with each other. We are engaged in many activities and there is nothing we do not do. Many segments are needed to make a complete circle, so we are doing all kinds of things. Because our radius of activity is so wide, some things may appear to be unrelated to the overall goal, but actually it all is part of the same horizontal line of true love.

Home church is our system for filling the void in society. If all of your 360 homes are realigned in this vertical love relationship, would it be a noteworthy happening in America that would draw much attention? It would be like a volcanic explosion, a panacea for society’s ills made visible, and in every state people would try to make it work. Many people in history will start out in home church and compete to see who becomes the tribal messiah first. This is the one way we can make unification of the world possible without fighting and killing.

I am the judge of this competition and I will go all over the world to find the best one. Will that title of best in home church last through eternity? The entire spirit world will erupt in recognition and there will be a great celebration there, with the ancestors of that person rejoicing and telling everyone their good news. Once you have that title, all your ancestors will claim relationship with you, no matter how distantly related they are, trying to link up with you for some benefit.

We are filling the void in society. In God’s sight there is nothing out there so we must fill it with something substantial. The Unification Church is here in order to inherit the tradition of true love, both vertically and horizontally, and by doing so we can truly create harmony, which is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. That crusade is on now and I have made a covenant with God that the Unification Church will do it. This crusade of true love will be the first article in the constitution of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Why should the True Parents take so much time and effort to bless you men and women in families?

Simply because we want to fulfill this ideal and the blessing is an integral part of that. If I chase you out of the Unification Church, what would you do? You may cry on your way out the front door, but then turn right around and come in the back door. If you are that kind of child then I can never be separated from you. That’s the secret I learned from God, who is just the same.

The entire world comes against you so life each day is not easy, but some day when you look around you will realize that the whole world is ours because God was always supporting us and He has given it to us. I work on that principle. When I came to America this country was hostile and negative, but I pushed and God pushed, and now we see that this country is being swayed one way or the other by me.

God is more eager than anyone else to get this done, far more than you are, and He is relentlessly pushing you so that His ideal will prevail. It is inevitable that America opposes me, but eventually even this society will accept this ideology as the way of salvation and thank me. Once that happens the entire world will follow.

Why did you come to the Unification Church? You came to receive the inheritance of true love and to learn from the living example, to love our Heavenly Father as True Parents do so that you will set that vertical tradition. As I love God, you love me. As God loves me, I love you. This example will set the eternal vertical tradition and no one can alter or sever this relationship. The amazing thing is that your mind is not happy unless you do this. You don’t need extensive logic as motivation for doing this, but unless you go in God’s direction your mind and conscience are not clear. Love your spiritual children as much as you love me. That is how this tradition will be passed down.

We are drawing this vertical line. No matter how many times you die, you will not become a rebellious son or daughter, right? Those who are ready to receive engagement and the blessing should be able to say that no matter what happens they will never be rebellious, but be completely obedient to this tradition.

A vertical tradition has been set and a horizontal tradition is now being created, so since the prototype is established all you have to do is fit into it. Should you have your own unique way and want me to follow it? You don’t feel you can do that because you came to accommodate the vertical line, not for the vertical line to accommodate your wobbling horizontal line. This is why you come to me to be engaged and blessed and to be directed in your life.

The Unification Church has set a tremendous tradition in the horizontal. We are truly horizontal because there is no difference between races here and no national boundaries. The greater power of true love is penetrating them all. Are you single-minded in concentration or is your mind wandering? You must be single-minded toward the one woman or one man who is your spouse. In the garden of Eden were there many choices for husband or wife? No, there was only one man and one woman. If Adam and Eve were engaged by God but later Adam slipped from a cliff and was crippled, could Eve say he was not qualified to be her husband? Then there would be no husband for Eve for eternity. It was a very simple situation! You engaged men and women are in exactly that same position so you should see only one man and one woman. It is very clear.

An eyeball has one vertical and one horizontal line, which meet in the center. The eye moves as a unit; the center doesn’t move one way and the periphery of the eye move another. You have two eyes, but do you see two images when you perceive something? No, you see one image, not two, so in marriage your focus should be one as well. Man and woman are two individuals, but your one focus is love of your child. You love your parents as much as you love your children, and that’s how you restore the vertical line. The truth is always simple.

This is the great conclusion of the Divine Principle, that the whole purpose of creation is the completion of the four position foundation. You have received a tremendous treasure without even knowing how valuable it is, yet it is given to you unconditionally. Once you become principled men and women you will be the center of the universe wherever you go, whether to Mars or to the moon, to the spirit world or physical world. No matter how small a portion you may occupy in the center, you are still in the image of the prototype and the circles are the same, though of different sizes. You will fit into any place in the universe and be accepted.

We are trying to create the core truth here, with love of parents and children and love of husband and wife like the first atom or cell. Our effort now is to expand it to the worldwide scale. That is the Unification Church.

When you look at a black grandmother or grandfather, don’t view them as strangers but as your own grandparents. When you meet people the same age as your parents, whether they are beautiful or ugly you can relate to them as to your own parents. When you meet your peers, they are extensions of either your husband or wife. When you meet younger people, see them as your own children, or as your younger brothers and sisters. If you are familiar and comfortable in that way of life then you are living in the one family of the world and you will fit in anywhere in the universe; you will not be rejected anywhere, even in spirit world, because you are the basic cell which can fit anywhere in the world God created.

When you men look at women, don’t do so with the archangel’s point of view but from Adam’s perspective. Satan always knew that Eve did not belong to him but to Adam, yet he still wondered if there was some way he could conquer her and entice her away. A woman can also harbor the mind of Lucifer, looking at a handsome man who is not her husband and wondering if there is some way she can win his attention. The safest way to look at a man is through the eyes of your husband. The men should look at women through their wives. That’s essential. When you do so, the entire world will be the extension of your family.

How will a sense of ownership and value be determined in the future? The assets you are entitled to possess will be determined by how far you can expand your central truth to influence your surroundings. That will determine the size of your world. When you have a true horizontal line, the true vertical automatically comes into being; when you have a true vertical line, the true horizontal line automatically comes into being. A perfect plus comes whenever there is a perfected minus, just as a high-pressure area is automatically attracted to a low-pressure area and generates thunder and lightning. Anyone living in this Principle, regardless of how they look, is sending out beautiful vibrations, and everyone who comes near won’t be able to help but love them.

If you are white, you must ask yourself what you have done for the black and Oriental people What you need is the whole world, not yourself alone; you cannot survive without the world. Do you think this ideology should be welcomed only by white society? Or only by Asians because I am Oriental? Or only by black people? If I should be welcomed on the universal scale then I should bring God’s conviction and way of life of lovism.

What do you gain in the Unification Church? I am anxious to give you much, but have you received it or are you in the process of receiving it? I can classify you in one of three ways-those who have received, those who are thinking about it, and those still in the process.

Some people claim they have been members for twenty years, but they have been spectators, only trying to gain something without investing themselves too much. For those people it doesn’t matter how long they have been here. Also there are those who think they should gain some benefit from the Church, such as housing or money. Supporting the Church is actually only the first level because eventually you are going to support the nation and the world. It has never been my philosophy that the Unification Church should prosper; it is my philosophy that the Church should sacrifice for the sake of the nation. Am I pulling the Unification Church to the goal, or is the Unification Church pulling me to the goal? In that theory should you be pulled by the Church, or do the pulling? Just as I am pulling the Church, you too should be taking the initiative to pull the Church to the higher goal.

For instance, do you come here to Belvedere because you are required to, or because you want to be better locomotives? Should members come only when I am here, or should more people come when I am away? It is absolutely true that when I am not here you should be even more strong, taking my position. No one else will lead if you don’t. If you are always passive and I am the only one pushing you all the time, then when you come here you will only think that you are being pushed some more again.

You should be a radiator of the love of God to influence the world more and more. That’s how your value will be determined. During your student days you asked your parents for an allowance, but then when they told you to study you resented it and grumbled about the generation gap. Our life here is similar because I am always pushing you and when I am away I send Col. Pak to push you, so you think that there is no respite. Do you think I do that to earn my meals? No, I am investing every penny I have, and the harder you work the harder I must work to provide funds for all your activities.

This is the only chance to make you into gigantic men and women in the sight of God so I have to push you hard. For the first time God is relieved, knowing that I am doing this work for His sake. For the first time in history God has found a representative to push mankind. America is proud of all her accomplishments, but unless they are connected to true vertical love they-have no value in an eternal sense. That’s why reorganization is necessary in order to bring everything back to the central line and that’s what we are doing in the world. Has anyone else even attempted this?

Last month there was a momentous engagement. Is that the end of it, or just the beginning of expanding this true love to every continent? That engagement is symbolic of uniting the entire world in reality. Will that concept of unification be welcomed by each continent? People point their finger at me and accuse, but do they have any better alternative? Then who shall ultimately prosper and win? You shouldn’t say we will, but say “I will” instead.

The topic today is “What Kind of Thinking Do You Have?” You are creating the heavenly four position foundation, and without it the universe will crumble and salvation cannot be brought to the world. It is the purpose of your life to start the living tradition of that foundation. That’s why you need your wife or husband and children-not for your own security and enjoyment, but to fulfill the heavenly foundation. You are becoming the point of stability in the universe and because of you the world will be stabilized.

Can we swap that value even for the whole of America? Even if the whole universe is handed to you it would not be a fair exchange for this value. You cannot even swap it for God and True Parents. Do you want to have that value? How much have you been yearning to possess it? This process is one of trying to sculpt men and women together into harmony with the universe. Carving yourself out of stone is painful. with all kinds of hardships coming to you as the chips fall away. After many years of tumbling around in running water gravel has smooth edges, but imagine how harsh an experience it was to become nicely rounded. We are going out to the world, which is like the running water, to smooth off our rough edges. Through your experiences you will get harder and stronger, but the water will round you off and make you into a beautiful shape. Do you have confidence in this?

For a few days you people who were just engaged were enchanted by having your new object, but after a while you looked closely and thought perhaps that he or she was not so attractive. Did you ever think back nostalgically to the days of having your former girlfriend or boyfriend? Inevitably then your skepticism would expand to include the True Parents who matched you. Do you have confidence that will not happen? Why? Because your engagement has common ground in true love. For the sake of the world and the future you are going to be a pillar to support the world, so you cannot crumble, either of you. It doesn’t make any difference whether this pillar is a little short or fat or thin. That person can be fat like a potato and it won’t matter as long as he has this burning desire and radiates true love.

At this particular juncture of history God is using me to be a mediator of this true love to disseminate the example of a true individual, true family, true ideal society, nation and world. The Unification Church, therefore, is the place where you will receive it because I am the mediator to do that. Eventually you will receive God, and He will find His dwelling in you. Do you think you have received this inheritance or are you still receiving it? If you have received it are you really taking care of it? Are you using that inheritance in your own life?

God created His world of love, and in the same way I am asking you to create your own world to love. You are in the process of recreation-of yourself, your family, the nation and world, and eventually even the entire universe. In love you are the builder and you administer your house with love. Don’t you want to become that kind of men and women? Is it easier than getting Ph.D. from Harvard or more difficult? It is so difficult that I have given

all sixty years of my life to it and still I am working on it. No other thought even enters my mind. Do you want to receive that inheritance? Do you have the genius to do this? If I have struggled with my whole might for these sixty years, then how much more would you do?

How many years would you need to live to do it-several hundred? You know you won’t live that long, so since your time is limited don’t you think you should be desperately hastening toward the goal? Then should I encourage you to relax? If I have a real heart of love then should I push you to work harder than I do? That is why I clearly say that if you have a real ear and real thought then go ahead and analyze this task and do it.

What do you have? You have the ideal of the heavenly four position foundation. Would you put it in storage somewhere? If we have this ideal then we must fulfill it in every way to create a new world of unification culture. You will have to invest every talent and skill you have to fulfill this heavenly four position foundation. If you don’t have too much talent then invest your body and do it, but don’t ever be idle. You must not be a burden to the Church or to me, or to the nation and world. You must not be indebted, but give grace so the world will be indebted to you.

At home you want to be a good child who will not burden your parents, so you take care of your brothers and sisters and bring comfort to your father and mother. If you die with a great debt then you will be bowed down eternally and not able to lift up your face, but when you make the world indebted to you, you can look at God face to face. That is the secret of heaven. That’s why I never wanted to be indebted when I came to America, but to make this nation indebted to me instead. Many times I have seen members trying to take advantage of me, but I am still giving and trusting because my life has been given and God’s life has been given.

The young people of America have come to me, but they are indebted to me, not vice versa. The same principle works at my home with Mother and the children. I have received a great inheritance so I must be in a position to give abundantly. This is true for you as well, since you have received so much. Don’t worry whether Your work will be recognized or whether people know what you have accomplished. Just live the Principle. I may not recognize what you have done, but that doesn’t mean you have been deprived; your assets will remain and no one can take them away and there is no way you can complain. No matter how well you do, you know you have not yet fulfilled your responsibility to the nation and society, so as a person who has not finished how can you lift up your head or complain?

Do you have this inheritance? I am a man with bare hands who has nothing except the most precious gift-truth. Millions of people of all races have to follow me because they want to receive that inheritance. Everyone comes to me to drink the water of life.

Amazingly enough the entire spirit world is supporting me. There are many great ministers in the world, but even though I am unjustly persecuted spirit world is working with me and all kinds of miracles take place in our Church around the world. It is because I have the central truth of God; I am the heir of God’s kingdom and the mediator between God and mankind.

Today is June 10, 1979. Today you undoubtedly received the inheritance of the true love of God from His mediator, the True Parents. Then what can you do? You have to give it to others. Go to your home church and give it away, and go to your nation for True Parents and God. At the beginning of this sermon you couldn’t answer the question, “What do you have?” But now you can answer that you have the true love of God.

Those who pledge that you have received that inheritance, raise your hands. Thank you. Let us pray.

## THE TRUST PLACED IN US

By Fami1yfed June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1979

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### June 3, 1979
Belvedere, New York
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

Every word has its own nuance and flavor and cultural background. Correct perception of each word is important, yet translation from one language to another is very difficult sometimes. Have you ever thought how much of a gap there is even in a 100% translation from one language to another? You must recognize that it is virtually impossible for a translator to close this gap in interpreting for me into English. If I am speaking about one point, do you think the interpreter can get 75% of the way to the target? Some time in the future when you know Korean perfectly and you read my own words you will realize how different the English and Korean versions of my speeches are.

When I tried to understand English I discovered it is an impossible language, with many kinds of usages. It is true that in any language there are many exceptions to the rule and odd usages without explanation that just have to be remembered, but I also realized that English is not the best language for conveying the spiritual element of life. The language is just not equipped to express things about the spiritual life as Korean is. When you compare Korean and Japanese there are marked differences; even the Japanese language cannot match the Korean facility of expression. I am definitely encouraging you to study Korean.

The Korean alphabet is very scientific and modern, comprised of only 24 vowels and consonants, yet even with that small alphabet Korean can reproduce any sound. The Korean people are very good at learning foreign languages because their mother tongue already has a variety of sounds. I see God’s hand working here, preparing the Koreans with a language suitable for the universal dispensation.

English can be a boring and tasteless language to study, but Korean has a profound taste in comparison, with a most intricate and beautiful way of saying things. It is true that the contents of Korean expressions are complicated, but that makes it sweet, so have trust in Korean based on my recommendation.

What are Moonies? You are not competing in a gold rush or seeking fame and reputation in society. You are not seeking fun from day to day or involved in drugs or sensual experience. Neither are you pursuing academic honor, or ruthlessly seeking worldly success. None of you are writing love letters or dating, and you don’t have lots of money in your pocket. There are many who want their names known to the world, but not you. You don’t even have many accomplishments that command the respect of many people.

When we see all this, what would make anyone ambitious to become a Moonie? There seems to be no reason at all. On Sunday morning you come early to Belvedere, but here you won’t find even one chair to sit on, only a hard floor. Reverend Moon’s church is one without chairs. When you present yourself as a Moonie to the world, no one says how wonderful you are, but ridicules you instead. Even your parents cannot understand why you became a Moonie and your brothers and sisters think you made a mistake. No one is sympathetic and the nation and world are treating us poorly.

No one thinks Moonies are normal people. Regardless of how normal you try to be, as soon as people discover you are a Moonie they look at you in an entirely different way. Your clothes and demeanor may be perfectly normal, but still they will think you are odd. Waiters and waitresses practically expect Moonies to eat with their noses instead of their mouths. These are the circumstances we are forced to live with every day.

Why do we have to go this route? Our ambition is not to have delicious food every day or to make much money or gain honor, so we are looked at by society as an unusual group of people. Nevertheless, our goal is to give ourselves for the sake of all. People in the everyday world have one small target in their lives, setting money or honor as their life goal, but we look at the whole picture. These people who aim at only one segment of life can move freely and don’t care about anything else as long as they have that one thing. They may be far from the whole, but as long as they have their one thing they are content. Americans today are individualistic, going in their own directions. The concept of nation, society, or even parents and their family are unimportant to them as long as they can go after their individual goal. If their life goal happens to be fun and carnal pleasure, they only think about having fun and a good time. But such an individual is pursuing a goal that contradicts the well-being of the whole.

Our first job is denial and separation from that kind of life, and we begin by denying the materialistic and individually-oriented trends that America thinks are worth pursuing. We deny the new counterculture the hippies said they would build. We do unconventional things like worship, and not only that, but in a sanctuary without chairs. We are not thinking only in Western cultural terms, but looking at the world as one unit. Here white people are thinking about all races, for instance.

Instead of drifting away from the center we are returning to it, trying to unite with it, and no matter where we are we can always instantly join together at the center. We are turning, but there must always be an axis around which to move. Today people commonly seek happiness by revolving around the opposite sex, but then what is going to be the axis of men and women once they come together? Their job or family or society? Today Americans are living center-less lives and young people are not even making an effort to find a center, thinking that they are already having fun.

What is the center of America? There is none today. Because there is no center in American homes, families today are living at random without any lasting sense of purpose. A tree has roots, trunk and leaves. Just as a tree cannot survive without having its roots in the earth, the family is rooted in the society and the individual is rooted in the family. How can an individual leaf deny that it needs the roots and trunk? Do you agree that a rootless way of life prevails here in America?

How can you ever exist in isolation from everything else? Even minerals have certain relationships of harmony which unite their atoms and crystals. What is the central axis of American life? Should the center be the soul or the body? Americans today tend to favor the body and physical pleasure, and since there is no fixed center Americans bump into each other and bounce off the walls, ultimately inviting self destruction.

There are central principles in the universe which no one can change. In each solar system there is a fixed center and all the planets revolve around it. Each day has order, with the morning coming first, then noon, then evening. An animal’s tail cannot be its head at times, nor can the tail and head argue over who does what. There must be order in relationships between men and women, not confrontation over who is subject. If everyone is constantly leaving his own position then there can only be chaos.

There should be consistent order and discipline in life, but when they are ignored nothing but chaos can result. Sentences have a certain structure; just lining up nice words from the dictionary won’t make any sense. A great painting is always thought out and then constructed, but just throwing things together has no meaning. We live in a senseless society, so what are we doing about it? We are people who are uniting with the center of the universe, going back to the original center without which this universe could not exist.

What is the center then? You may say God is the universal center, but what is God’s center? What kind of relationship is there between the love of God and the love of men, and which should be the center? There is love seen from God’s point of view and love seen from man’s point of view, so what kind of relationship must be created between the two in order to have meaning for both?

We have five physical senses, but at the same time we know we have five spiritual senses and that they should always be united harmoniously. That is why we are looking for one love which will satisfy both the spiritual senses and the physical senses so that they can function together. How intense should that love be? The intensity of this love is such that even though you may try to leave it you will be pulled back. The attracting power of that love is so strong that you cannot ever leave it. It is possible for such love to exist that will attract not only you but God. In that love the mind and body will be the same burning crimson red. When you begin to taste this love you cannot help but bring yourself up vertically instead of just remaining in the horizontal. If you journey all the way up you will penetrate the love of God and even go beyond. Do you have that love? This is a convincing explanation, isn’t it? If you want love, that’s the kind you want, right?

When Unification Church members are really burning red with love that melts spirit and body together, no power under the sun can separate us or stop us, even the power of God. Isn’t that exciting? When this love is activated even a sleepy grandmother is electrified. If even grandparents can be electrified then the bodies of young people will be burning like the sun, giving out light and heat. You can become a radiator of love. Are you imparting such life and love?

Once you taste such love, would you be pulled away by anything trying to interfere? Even if someone physically tries to pull you away, your physical body may be dragged in one direction but your mind and soul will be straining to go the other way. That’s why people tell you that I am using mind control and brainwashing on you, but actually that is not mind control at all; we are all patients suffering from the disease of true love.

If no one can deter you then you are like a bullet, with your purpose and goal so clear that you can fly straight to the bulls-eye. Amazingly enough, when you are a bullet of love you do not destroy or harm anything. When you penetrate a person or a society or nation, no one will feel pain, but will be overjoyed instead. Usually a bullet destroys what it hits, but not a bullet of love. People look scornfully at Moonies, but I want you to know that our ideal is the best of all. That is the exciting and dramatic philosophy which we live.

Because we have a goal and are not moving at whim, we have a discipline. Men and women are not pursuing gratification but pursuing the highest goal in a parallel way. There are many strings and ropes attached to each Moonie, including the individual line, a family line, a tribal line, national line and so forth. It is very complicated and there are many ropes to handle, but each rope has a certain meaning and we need them all. We have a way to straighten everything out. The individual line will extend a certain distance and the family rope will go in the same direction, but be a little longer. The tribal line is longer and can thrust you further, but most important of all, it still goes in the same direction. In crossing a river you need a bridge that is long enough to reach all the way across, not just halfway. The national rope can extend further, but the rope of the world goes farthest of all and will finally reach the other side. Each rope is an important segment of the bridge crossing the river.

Do you know how to make this process simple? Your goal is to go all the way to the world, and with that line you will embrace everything else. Once you reach that goal you already have everything else. That’s why we set the highest possible goal of going out to save the whole world. We can save the world by practicing love, true love. When you truly practice love of the world, you will already have loved your family, your people and nation. All of those are smaller than the world, so once you have loved the world you have already loved them as well.

Since our goal is to love the world, it is nothing for white people to love black people, and for black people to love whites is easy. Your love shows when you come to be matched. Did those who volunteered for interracial marriage accept it because I pushed them? That day I was colorblind. Why is it possible in the Unification Church? Because our goal is to love the world, and as a result there is nothing we cannot digest. For us there is no boundary between races or cultures.

As an individual you must be anchored in this love, and as a nation and world as well. Everyone’s life must be anchored in this foundation of love. If America really sees that the foundation of life is true love then this society and nation must be anchored there, and the government’s first policy will be to anchor all citizens in this love. Could they oppose me or respond to me then? Then should the nation respond because you are Moonies?

One thing is sure, however-because you love me most of all, no power can separate us and it doesn’t matter whether the government or people accuse you. That is our pride. Naturally some adverse reaction comes because your parents are jealous of that love; after giving so much of themselves to raise you they will feel badly if you love an Oriental man, particularly one from Korea, which they have never known anything about. Your answer is that you can’t help but love me because otherwise your conscience would suffer. With that love you can work harder and accomplish more, sleep better and feel better, so you can’t help but love me. It is not brainwashing; you are bound by that bond of true love.

Why is it a goal to love me? I am at the other side of the river, like a support for the bridge you will cross over on. Unlike a regular bridge, I move back and forth, so when I pass nearby you hang on and cross over. That means you are here to take advantage of me! Are you happy people to see this? Why? Because you are sure now that you have a bridge of love between heaven and earth. You need a permit to cross that bridge, a statement that you practice love. That ticket not only gives you authority to cross, but tells you how. You came here to get that ticket! This is the only place that ticket is issued.

On Sunday morning you come from New York, and I am sure that many of you probably get speeding tickets for driving so fast. The Moonie’s goal in life is to secure the central point, knowing it is everlasting. We have found that point, the central theme of the universe. When we loop our ropes around it and create a bridge we know we can cross the river. This is the first time in history there has been a bridge to cross over, and this bridge extends from here to eternity in the spirit world.

There are many ways you can travel, but they must all ultimately connect to this bridge. That is the destiny of mankind. It is ordained that every man in history and in the future must cross this bridge, the only one in existence. Do you agree that without it there is no connection to eternity? In order to cross it you have no choice but to listen to me and follow this way of life, even if you hate doing so. The most amazing thing is that no one is forcing you, but something inside tells you to go ahead. Once you know that the bridge exists and that you have to cross, do you want to wander and take your time or would you cross over in a flash, like a bullet? What about relaxing first and then crossing? You are young; don’t you have time to linger and have fun before you cross?

Do you want to cross with your spouse? Suppose three couples came who are ready to cross-one couple is white, another is black, but the third is black and white. Which couple should be given priority? Don’t white people have supremacy? American people resent hearing you say that white people don’t have priority. Forget for a moment that you are a Moonie; what would you say then? I’m sure even the President and anyone in his family, if they are people of justice and good heart, will say that black and white together take priority.

Since the answer is so obvious, we in the Unification Church pay a great deal of attention to international marriage. I recently matched 705 couples, and the most beautiful scene was seeing all the volunteers who stepped forward for interracial marriage. I left it up to you, and a great many brothers and sisters made that request on their own. We will have all colors of skin in the society we are going to create. They will not be there for a fighting championship, but to embrace in love. This is the Moonie philosophy.

You don’t feel good when people are scornful toward you, so today you must come to a confident understanding that you are destined to cross that bridge between heaven and earth. Being a Moonie is the only way you can accomplish that. Here is one brother who is a lawyer; he could have had a profitable practice, yet he is sitting here without money in his pocket. A Moonie’s pocket never holds any money, no matter how much goes in.

Mike Warder recently went to Las Vegas for a Newspaper Publishers Convention and as The News World representative he was chosen to be on the host committee. That involved greeting and assisting all the leading publishers from around the country, yet Mike flew out there without a penny in his pocket. He has no money but he doesn’t worry. If he really needs money then he can always fund raise. Mike’s parents might wonder how he can be a publisher yet be so poor, but they don’t understand Moonies. This is the drama of our life-one day you could be a newspaper publisher and the next be a fund raiser. This is how we can go up, down, and all over.

I am a messenger to mankind for the most important message from God, but at the same time I can be the number one laborer in any factory or mine. There is no shame in this because we do it all in the name of God. Many people think the Unification Church is rich and that I live in luxury, but that is not true. It is because I have laid a foundation based on terrible suffering that we have come this far. People in the everyday world despise Moonies. But we love each other.

What is the trust that is placed in us? We are taking up the life that proceeds all the way to God, with segments of the family, nation and world all in that one straight line. There is no confusion here, yet in the history of dispensation God could not even pass through this first gate of the individual and family.

That is why God could never hold His true position as loving Heavenly Father. Because even the first gate was not open, there was no tribal, national or worldwide gate.

What was your goal in being engaged recently? Your purpose was to open up the first gate of the heavenly family. Those couples are forming the family gate, declaring to the world and to spirit world that everyone, including God, must pass through this gate. Would you object to having all those people passing through your gate, wanting only your husband and children to go through? Here in America everyone is worried about his privacy, but a Moonie has no private life, only a public one. Some blessed wives feel they must have some area that is just for their private lives, but I say absolutely not. Every moment of the day is for public ministering. The universe follows this principle as well.

What kind of gate are you making-a narrow one, or one wide enough so the world’s people can come dancing in with room to spare? Can you create such a gate with money or power or knowledge? Only with love. Love makes the gate wide and open. Suppose you couples have a tiny room to live in and you finally have a private moment; if I knock on the door would you ask me to wait so you can have some private time? I’m sure you would tell me to come in any time, but what if other brothers and sisters knock on the door? Would you turn them away or will your door always be wide open to them?

Love is elastic, far more than any balloon. There is no end to love. In one sense love is harder than a diamond, but in another sense it is softer than cotton or down. That love is our target. You American members are not just U.S. citizens who are working for America; you are living and working with Japanese and Germans, whose nations were this nation’s enemies thirty years ago, but that historical fact doesn’t make any difference to you. This family can only be united by the true love of God, with which we can open the doors and embrace everyone. It is not easy to follow me, but I’m sure you have realized that in the process you are learning many things.

Since knowing me you have learned how to use chopsticks. Can you envision God using chopsticks? It is logical that God must be the chopstick champion!

God’s chopsticks are very long. He made one representing Western man and the other representing what? If you think like God then you perceive the entire universe as one, so naturally the other chopsticks must be from the East.

Westerners use canes often, and their philosophy is also straightforward and pointed. Oriental philosophy is very abstract, and you may think you understand it, but in reality you can’t see the bottom of it. The bottom is rounded and disappears somewhere in the distance. If Oriental philosophy seems unending then does God comprehend this mystic philosophy? No one else is more mystic than God. Have you ever wondered whether God favors Western or Oriental philosophy? God’s two chopsticks must have some differences of character; otherwise, how could there be both East and West?

I am from an Oriental background and I came to the West to examine the Western chopstick. I found that it is rusty and has rough edges and metal spurs on it. I came to cut off these dangerous rough spots so they won’t cut your mouth when you use it. I discovered that this chopstick of God’s has been rough and rusty and God has not been able to use it well so I want to shine it and clean it up to present it to God for His use. I will invite God to a banquet for all races and cultures and languages, and then put this chopstick there for His use and enjoyment.

I wouldn’t want you to be embarrassed by not knowing how to use chopsticks, so this way of life is important training, including sitting on a hard floor. You should know about Oriental customs as well as Western customs, even though your long legs and your back ache from sitting on the floor. I know that when Westerners come they are glad to see me, but often they are practically Iying down on the floor with their legs sticking out toward me. Even dogs are more courteous in front of their masters than to lie down. If you were to do that at God’s banquet it would be an embarrassment to Americans and to the Western world. You are a representative of your people at the banquet and you have to be prepared to comply with all heavenly etiquette and courtesy. There is no room to complain.

Do you think it is easy trying to instill discipline in you untrained young people? Nevertheless, we cannot function like West Point; we are a religious organization so our manner of teaching must be based on love, not coercion. In love you come to know a higher protocol, but it takes time and also a great deal of energy on my part. You may never realize it, but you are so far departed from the usual American way of life that your countrymen are astonished to see your new manners.

The Japanese members who came to America use pidgin English, so some of our members are starting to use pidgin English as well! Instead of Yes, they answer Hi. What would the rest of America lose by bending over backward like that to learn about other cultures? In the future the Moonies will make the best diplomats because you learn how to mix with and embrace others. Governments will want Unification Church members to be their representatives because no others can better associate with other peoples. We know how to serve.

You are soldiers seasoned from MFT training, learning how to evaluate all circumstances and how to win someone’s heart. You may not have anything in your pocket or in your bank account, but you know how to cope with the world. The training you are getting here will never be obtained at any university. You may not have a college degree, but I know you sisters will be the best wives for diplomats or Senators and Congressmen. No one can excel us in leadership.

I am an expert in every field, such as public speaking, but also as a fighter and hard worker. I would like to become a pilot, not for small aircraft, but for a 747. I very often fly across the country and have noticed that every time the 747 comes down it bumps on the ground. I am sure that I could make such a smooth landing that the sleeping passengers would never even realize they had landed. If I were the pilot then the stewardesses would have the extra job of waking everyone up. Because I am a little old to be trained as a pilot I may not have that opportunity, so you can inherit that mission instead.

Many times I have to drive to various places, and if time is short then the driver has to have the skill to weave in and out of traffic to get to the destination quickly. If I were a driver I know I would get many speeding tickets, but I also know how to go slowly and other drivers would be honking their horns for me to speed up. If war breaks out, you have to be alert enough to know how to act in an emergency. Would you prefer having an encyclopedia which covers all knowledge or just a simple dictionary of your own country’s language? You need to become very broad and round in your thinking.

No one now knows the Moonies’ true qualities, but in ten years everyone will be looking for my disciples because they are so versatile and adaptable. I would even like to organize an Olympics of the religious people of the world. Recently I invited some elder ministers to travel the world and examine Unification Church activities. They were amazed at the tremendous variety of things I am doing around the world and they said, “There is nothing Reverend Moon cannot do, and nothing that he does not do.”

I was going to go to sea today, but the weather did not permit. Some people might say I should rest on the Sabbath, but since the Sabbath is still a workday for God, going to sea and catching many fish for needy people is in accord with God’s own standard. In our concept a holy day is not one for just sitting around. It is far better to go out and bring reconciliation to people who are fighting.

We are not the same old-time religion; we are a 20th century religion, but when the 30th century comes, the Unification Church will still be the most modern of all. We are creating a new unification culture centered upon one true love as a foundation of life. This is our goal. The path to love is strong and bold, never ambivalent. Love is almighty; it can be forceful and soft but it can also be hard and dignified.

America will definitely come to a time when it will accept this philosophy. America is now wandering without a focus or purpose, but we have a purpose and in every phase of life the love of God is our center. By centering upon that love we create a new family, nation and world. There is not a moment of wavering allowed because that way of life is the one which all human history has been waiting for. When the Pilgrim Fathers came to these shores they were aiming at that ideal but it was never realized. Now after 200 years of American independence I have come to this country and they are confident that their goal is ready to be fulfilled.

There are vast differences between the cultures of East and West, yet the power of God’s love can unite the two powers and traditions. The vast distance between God and man can only be bridged by the power of love. This is our central ideology and theme and way of life, and no matter where we go, even to the rim of the world, we always come back to the center. There is no way we can deviate from it. Wherever we go we bring the power of love. At home you can embrace your parents and brothers and sisters with this love; with this power of love you can become one with anyone in society.

Now people are mistrustful and misunderstanding of us, but the day will come when they will put their whole trust in us. Why? Because God has trusted us and spirit world has trusted us. Spirit world is assaulting this earth, so those who are more sensitive spiritually will be the first to recognize our true value. Then more and more people will come to realize our true value. God is putting His trust in us because of His dispensational purpose; God knows that finally there is a possibility of consummating His historical love and that is why He supports us. This is God’s battle, not only yours and mine. God has committed His whole life and honor to this, so we do the same for the fulfillment of love.

The marriages of the international couples will not be easy, but I tell you to go ahead and consummate this love, no matter what difficulties you face. Because it is difficult to fulfill, it can be your pride that you have been chosen especially for that mission. We must not forget the great trust and expectation that are invested in us by God and spirit world and history.

In England over 300 couples were matched last year, and out of those only two were matches of British people. Members from over 21 European and African nations were matched together. Often when the future husband and wife met to talk they needed interpreters, and if there weren’t enough interpreters they started to talk with their eyes.

The European continent is much smaller than America, but each nationality there has fierce pride. The Germans think they are the best and they always stick together, while the British think they are the true gentlemen and the Germans are barbarians. Even in London society there are organized groups of each nationality. The European nations might be trying to come together economically now through the EEC and EuroParliament, but culturally and heartistically they are reluctant to mingle. There is no other way apart from international marriage to bring heart-to-heart contact.

The three great barriers in Europe are the barriers of national boundary, of language and of marriage, but when I went to Europe I challenged all three of those. Is there any national boundary or language barrier in this heavenly culture? In a few years everyone has to recognize that I could unite Europe and then one world will finally be born there. The communists want to promote division there so they can conquer each country one by one, so they see me as their archenemy in this respect. Here in America the oldest and greatest problem is animosity between black and white, and the communists thought I could never cope with it, but what happened? After the 705 couples were matched, the black community can see that it has found its champion in Reverend Moon.

The worst possible war in the future would be racial war. Whites know that if racial war ever begins that they will be the ones to be annihilated. Who is manipulating all these racial disturbances? The communists. Those white people who worry about the future of the world and of America must ultimately conclude that Reverend Moon alone can solve the racial problems of America. Interracial marriage is the worst problem of history, but the Unification Church is solving that problem.

The entire world is watching the couples I have matched to see what kind of children will be born to them and how those families will serve the world. Once they recognize that interracial marriage is working here, the entire world will be turned around. When you understand the incredible implications of this, you can’t help but get goose bumps just listening.

This is the day and goal that everyone has been waiting for. The idealistic people of the past, present and future will welcome this new way of life, knowing that without it the world will not have hope. If you really live in this new way of life and commitment, you will have new dignity for eternity. When you are elevated to spirit world you can lift up your head before all the saints because you could practice what they only dreamt of.

From the historical point of view, the trust placed in us will be the final one. We are going to be the people who carry the ultimate trust of history. spirit world and God. Korea must reach the conclusion that the Unification Church is the only hope of that nation. Japan is no exception either. Now Japanese leaders openly say that the future of Japan depends on Unification Church young people. There is no doubt that America will also say this soon. If you know this is true. then this is an historical event taking place here.

Therefore, we are going along a straight line in this way of life, not from side to side. We go in a straight line, sacrificing the lesser for the greater. For the nation my family can be sacrificed. For the world my nation can be sacrificed, for once the world lives then all shall be fulfilled and everyone shall be saved. If there is a God, this must be His way, and the most idealistic thinkers and the saints must also feel this way.

We are living for people from all six continents. If everyone lives under this principle, how much benefit can be brought to our fellow man? It is realistic to think that we can turn this world upside down into the Kingdom of Heaven. People might say they don’t like Moonies but they will have toe agree that our ideology is the best.

When we know this goal and ideal, we as individuals become small in importance. Are you glad to be Moonies? Are you becoming genuine Moonies? I have heard your answer, so go and do it. Would you prefer to be limited to activity on a small scale? My own children will be educated in this way of life. Later on when your brothers and sisters and relatives join, I don’t want you to be in a position for them to point out what a poor Moonie you have been. Wouldn’t you be ashamed if they exclaimed, “You have known this truth for a long time, but what little accomplishment you have brought!” Later on more prominent Japanese people will come and point out what trivial accomplishments you Japanese have made here if you aren’t careful.

I don’t want people to remark on what a tremendous ideology and way of life I had but what little I accomplished. This is why even now that I am sixty I am desperate to act every day. When my legs are tired I scold them and make them go on more.

Our job is to live up to the expectation of the trust placed in us. Do you want to be just smallminded people? No, be giants who cause good trouble and controversy in the world. Go into the world of evil and stir things up; be strong and bold. America may not trust us yet, but already the entire spirit world has put their trust in us, and God Himself has put His trust in us. Would you be strong and bold to go to the ultimate victory? If you live up to it, America will come to trust us very soon.

Let us pray.