# Category: Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977

## THE IDEAL WORLD OF SUBJECT AND OBJECT

By Fami1yfed June 12, 2018 June 12, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### February 13, 1977
Belvedere, New York
Translator, Bo Hi Pak

The name of our church is the Unification Church. The process of “unification” requires two parts, subject and object. Within an individual, for instance, the mind and body must unite, and every individual needs horizontal as well as vertical unity. Man’s happiness is experienced by receiving vertical inspiration from the hope and ideal of God, the center of the universe, and by putting that particular ideal into practice on the horizontal level. That vertical and horizontal unity brings human happiness.

We are learning through the Divine Principle that the subject and object together bring unification. In a man the mind as subject and the body as object should unite together. When this unification comes about then God can be present with that person. Where does God dwell? The juncture where the body and mind meet is the place where God dwells. The Bible teaches that “The kingdom of God is in the midst of you.” Heaven exists in the deepest unity of the human mind and body.

How can we unite our minds and bodies? Can unity be established if the mind is going in one direction and the body another? Do your mind and body unite automatically without any effort? There must be some central motivation, some catalyst to bring these two together. God is this catalyst, and around Him the two can be cemented into one.

What is the characteristic of a mind and body when they become completely one? They create a perfect 90 degree angle between them. The mind is searching for the highest possible goal, the highest hope and ideal, while the body is trying to fulfill the highest ideal through action. This is what men are pursuing. Who determines which ideals and deeds are noble? Do men get together to decide the standard? Since men are temporal beings they could not determine what the everlasting standard should be. An eternal standard could be set only by someone higher than man, someone in the position of subject over all humanity. That someone is God.

### Even fallen man desires
a high ideal and noble deeds

There is an eternal motivation in this universe but man could not have been the source of that motivation. God was, is and will be the everlasting motivation in the universe. He establishes the human ideal. Therefore, we are in the position to unite with that ideal and accomplish noble deeds through our own efforts. Then realistically, what kind of person should I be?

I can think of myself in two ways: I can become a man who follows my own standard, deciding for myself what kind of man I should be, or I can become a man of eternal motivation, seeking to live up to God’s standard of perfection. Finding God’s divine standard is absolutely important. For fallen man, the problem is how much we know God. Because of the fall of man a haziness developed and we lost the ability to see God. However, even without crystal clear vision we know that there is some ultimate goal for each of us to strive toward. In the fallen world men are searching for an eternal motivation. In order to reach man’s highest possible goal of perfection there must be some corresponding clement, even within the heart of fallen man, that can resonate with God’s eternal motivation. Without this invisible element linking our desire and God’s desire, we would have no way to pursue that cosmic goal.

You are each a child of the fallen world but, along with the rest of fallen mankind, there is a desire in your hearts to reach out for a high and noble ideal, and you desire to do noble deeds. Where does this desire come from? Who planted such a noble concept in your hearts? Some might say, “That’s a quality given to me by my father and mother.” But where do they get such a desire? Communism has provided one answer. In communist theory matter is the source of everything. Do you think that matter can create the spiritual qualities and desires of man’s heart? Dialectical materialism is coupled with a theory of evolution which explains how material things evolve to ever higher and more sophisticated levels. However, within the human heart basic feelings and desires will never evolve but remain from generation to generation. They will not change over time.

If mankind belongs to the animal kingdom then will the monkey or any other animal some day evolve to the point where they feel as human beings feel? Will they have man’s sense of justice and morality, and a desire to elevate themselves through some noble concept? Will time create that in monkeys? A monkey will never be a man, even after thousands and millions of years have passed. There is no evolution of such heart-felt desires or spiritual motivation.

We conclude that man was created from the very beginning as man, and that God gave him a spiritual capacity, plus a desire to be like God and reach His standard. These desires are given only to men, not to monkeys, and they remain unchanging through time. Why? The simple conclusion is that God is subject, not matter. From the very beginning He created man to be His object, infusing him with His own unchanging qualities. We eternally remain as a mirror of God, and because God’s qualities do not change, we also have no way to change.

As human beings we always act in certain ways and our hearts always harbor certain desires. This is already important proof that there is a subject beyond us. God is invisible but we are created to mirror His subjective characteristics. In this world everything exists in a reciprocal relationship. There is nothing that exists independently. God permitted no such existence in this universe. Consequently, everything always exists in subject-object relationships.

As the subject, what is God’s purpose for creating the objective world? Was His purpose just the creation of the object itself, or did He desire to reach out and experience greater glory and joy by having subject and object? As subject, God created the object and dreamed of having the subject and object united together; He looked to the future, desiring to achieve ever greater joy. As human beings we always desire something greater, thrusting ourselves out to seek some cause of glory. In reacting this way our minds precisely reflect God’s own mind.

God looks forward to achieving some result greater than Himself. Only by being centered on some greater desire can a true subject and object be united into one. Our desires are always focused on uniting with something greater than ourselves; we want to progress to greater achievement and greater unity. A resultant being always resembles its cause or origin, like a reflection in a mirror. When the objective result completely mirrors its subject origin, the

The purpose of the object and the purpose of the subject must be parallel, not contradictory, and in that parallel existence unification will emerge. Man’s basic desire is to be noble himself, and to always have a direction for fulfilling a higher goal. If our desire is to soar in that direction then our deeds will not be arbitrary, following one direction today and another tomorrow. In that case we will have a direction and principle that continually lead us toward one goal. Our purpose exists first, and when we are striving to reach that purpose we automatically have direction.

God has a goal and purpose, and in order to achieve this goal He created subject and object. There must be a goal, and some direction or principle to follow in order to achieve it. This is the principle of the universe. Every individual has two directions to follow: the ideal pursued by his mind, and the deeds pursued by his body. Human life was not supposed to be lived at random, by arbitrary whim. No, there must be a principle direction or goal, and self-discipline.

In our daily lives we are always making some effort. For instance, we want to acquire good teachers and good friends. We want to go to important colleges and universities and receive a Ph.D. We want to follow a good leader. These are our subconscious concerns. Why? When we analyze our desires we discover our subconscious effort to strive toward the highest ideal and the most noble action. Our mind seeks the highest goal, and desires to make constant effort in that direction.

A person may think that his goal is to become a Ph.D.; however, even after reaching the pinnacle of success that person will still not be completely content. He will discover that becoming a Ph.D. was merely one method to further pursue his higher goal; in other words, he will realize that the Ph.D. itself was not actually his goal. As you elevate your ideal then the stage where you can live and manifest that ideal becomes broader. The higher your goal and ideal are, the broader your space will be for living that particular ideal, for backing it up with actions.

Let us reach a conclusion. The true man is the person who lives without contradiction, the person there. noble deeds which match his noble ideal. That man will serve the world and be welcomed by the world. A man who thinks about good things but does not do good deeds is not a true man.

When you acquire a fine ideal, you can have direction in your life and your mind can set good goals. But when you try to pursue that way of life on earth there will always be opposition, and you will have to make constant efforts to overcome the roadblocks. By every standard, such a person is a true, God-centered man.

In the sight of God, man’s value will be elevated when his noble ideal is matched by noble deeds. To acquire eternal value you must live your ideal, and your value is further elevated to the extent that you must overcome obstacles to live your ideal. Your eternal spiritual value will be elevated in the sight of God with every step you take in living up to that particular goal.

### As we are striving upward God is striving downward

As you pursue your ideal through your deeds your value is elevated along a diagonal line. At each level there is always a 90 degree angle formed by the vertical line of your mind and the horizontal line of your body. Without losing that 90 degree relationship between your mind and body you must elevate yourself to the highest possible point. You stand at some point along the diagonal line marking the path of your achievement, but always before you is the goal, the final point where the complete unity between God and man is perfected. At that point the dwelling of God will be with men.

This unity is the point of perfection, the highest point of human value for eternity. Man is striving upward toward that goal, and God is striving downward toward that goal. As we achieve each higher level our sphere of influence will be expanded to the family level, tribal level, and national level. When we bring ourselves to the highest point, our sphere of influence becomes infinite, encompassing the entire world. God is coming down to the same degree and will meet us on the worldwide level. God’s ideal and action will match ours perfectly. This is the most important conclusion: our perfection is God’s perfection. Therefore, our achievement of highest value here on earth automatically becomes spiritual perfection in the spirit world as well, meaning that we do not have to repeat everything after we get to the spirit world.

Here on earth we must liberate ourselves from sin and elevate ourselves into perfection. When we understand the need to match ideals with deeds, we will understand why God emphasizes life here on earth so much. If only life in spirit world is meaningful, why did He create life here on earth in the first place? Jesus said, “Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” This is a most important teaching when you understand what I have just explained. As we live this principle here on earth, what we accomplish affects not only our lives on earth, but decides our eternal life in the spirit world.

Perfection cannot be attained by man alone nor even by God alone. Man’s perfection can only be attained in relation to God, and God can only achieve His highest perfection in relation to man. Even in the very concept of creation God and man are inseparable. The fulfillment of God’s goal and man’s goal is not accomplished up in the air. God wants to see that perfection attained here on earth. This is why we do not actually rise up to God’s position. Instead God comes down to us because He wants to make His dwelling with men. Some people might ask how we could know this. Let me ask you, do you like a man who just talks, talks, talks, without even accomplishing one single deed? Do you like people who say, “I have a great idea and a great philosophy and I can unite the world,” but they turn around and do nothing about it? Do you prefer a man of action or a man of empty words? You respect the man of action.

This is precisely how God feels. Is there anyone who has a bigger ideal than God? God wants to have His ideal actualized but because he is spirit He cannot do it by Himself. He needs man to actualize it. You thought God was almighty and all-perfect, but actually He has a weakness: without us even God cannot be perfected. God is not floating around up in heaven; His entire attention is right here on earth, focused on every human soul. God is seeking true men and women here on earth to fulfill His desire in action and deed.

I want you to come to an important realization: Your one life here on earth is your most precious and unique opportunity in all eternity. This is your chance to resurrect not only yourselves but also God. You can perfect not only your own goal but also God’s goal. What a great opportunity! In this respect our lives here on earth are so precious. The invisible God who put all the creation together cannot exchange anything for one man’s life on earth.

Why is man’s physical life so important? God and all the creation cannot be brought to perfection without man. Therefore the value of God plus all the creation still cannot surpass the value of one true man. One man is that precious. That man is the key to the realization of man’s perfection and God’s perfection. According to the Bible you cannot exchange even the entire universe for one man. “For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole universe and forfeits his life?” Even the entire universe is of no value to you if you lose your own life.

God is longing to achieve a day of happiness, but He cannot be happy by Himself. He can only rejoice together in oneness with man. God has no way to have joy unless He comes to man, and man comes to Him and they become inseparable. That realm alone is where true ecstatic joy can be discovered. Then God and man will become completely united in mind and body and in thought and action.

Think of it as a great ballet. In order to create the beauty of ballet the partners must dance with equal intensity. If one dancer is dancing ecstatically but his partner is just watching, then their dance lacks the beauty of harmony. God is seeking the same intensity of joy in unity with man. In dance, great joy cannot be expressed through a stationary pose; instead you have to move around, leap and spin and so forth. Isn’t that true?

Our realistic conclusion is that God not only needs man, but wants to dwell with man. God wants to live with man in mutual intensity. If one is hot and the other cold then they are not of the same intensity. When God is ecstatic with joy He looks for man to respond 100% with the same intensity. When man shows his joy then God wants to respond 100%. This is God’s dream of the creation of the world.

When you hear this, do you feel gloomy or happy? It seems that you feel good, but how does God feel? He is also listening to this morning’s sermon. Do you think He feels good or is He saying, “Reverend Moon, this morning you’re embarrassing me!” God reacted just as you did. God is saying, “He sure is telling the truth!”

Today the fashionable idea is “human rights,” or “civil rights.” That is a very superficial idea actually. We are talking about God’s rights and human rights equally. Human rights without God are worthless; God’s rights without man have nothing to do with the ideal. We have to initiate a movement which can demonstrate how we find our real dignity when we put ourselves on an equal level with God. God’s rights are our rights. What are you doing here in the Unification Church? The Unification Church came to ignite the world through a spiritual revolution. We are not just talking about human rights or civil rights but about the restoration of God’s rights in society. That is the kind of revolution we are after.

This kind of noble ideology was never before seen in history. The Unification Church is really the first to proclaim this concept. For example, communists proclaim that their ideology will liberate the poor and the proletariat. But the poor are only one segment of human society. There is no concept of God in the ideology of communism. And yet without God, nothing is really valuable. The communists’ concepts and way of life are grossly different from our way of life. God already accepts our way of life, but people must accept it too.

### Love, happiness and hope come from your object

The ideal world can come only through unity between subject and object. We are talking about the two worlds of God and man. Where is the starting point of the ideal world? Will it start from you or from me? Saying that you will start it is only 50% of the answer. Alone you will never make it. You need me, and together we will make it. God will answer the same way; God and mankind must begin restoration together. From mankind’s point of view, mankind and God must begin. There are always two parties. The ideal was never born single-handedly.

Is this convincing to you? Do you feel it to your bones? When you talk about the ideal world or the ideal man you are automatically talking about subject and object. Without subject and object you c-not even dream of the ideal being born. To attain such a thing as “happiness,” “ideal,” or “hope,” you must have two parts, subject and object. If you just go out all by yourself and look into the blue sky you can never say, “I am happy! I have hope! I am filled with the ideal.” Love goes a step deeper.

Do you love love? You cannot truthfully say that you have everything and do not need anyone to love you. Love needs someone to love and someone to be loved by. Love, happiness, joy, hope, and the ideal-these things cannot be generated from ‘me.” These are blessings coming from the object, and originating in the object; consequently you are the recipient of them. Since you receive love, happiness, and hope from your object, you should be humble. Meekness is needed to accept these things.

As a meek person you empty yourself and make yourself clean. Then you can contain more and more until total perfection and blessing flow into you. However, if you arrogantly shut the door and never make yourself empty there is no way that blessing can flow into you. Love is more precious than life itself. The ideal and hope are more important than life itself. To receive such blessings of love, hope, and the ideal you must be in the position to sacrifice yourself. Since love is greater than life this is logical, and you must invest your life for the sake of love.

The very central truth of my revelation is this: Happiness and love come when we live for others, serve others and give of ourselves sacrificially to others. All the subjective power of God will flow into the person who gives unselfishly of himself, investing himself for the sake of others. His meekness makes that person totally ready to receive a limitless amount of blessing.

The secret of life is to be a good object. In contrast, an arrogant person clings to his own ego and desires, claiming that subject position for himself. When a subject meets a subject they repel each other. Thus there is no way that two subjects can have a reciprocal relationship.

Satan became Satan because of arrogance, and he advances on the basis of arrogance. If we attack Satan with the same attitude of arrogance then we cannot win over him. It is impossible to unify the world with arrogance. We must use a completely different tactic. Satan will crumble when he sees a person of humble meekness who really gives himself to serve the rest of the world. Satan has no way to conquer such a man. We conclude that Satan’s purpose is destruction and his weapon is arrogance. God’s purpose is construction and humbleness and meekness are God’s weapons. Therefore all religious teachings throughout history have emphasized common points: humbleness and meekness of character, and sacrificial service.

Today we know that the Unification Church is going through a stormy period here in America. We are under a hurricane of persecution everywhere as Satan’s world attacks our church. If we turn around and attack them in the same say, using the same methods, no one will win. If we utilize Satan’s weapons it would only be self-destructive. In order to win over Satan we must utilize God’s weapon: humble meekness. We will let Satan hit us, but we will survive; we will demonstrate the way of virtue and the true power of God’s spirit. Even after he has done his utmost and his power of persecution subsides, we will still survive. In the sight of God then, he will have no excuse to accuse us, and after that we will be able to do anything.

### God’s tactic to win

This does not mean that retreat is God’s tactic. Not at all. We are using God’s principle to win, but our attack is different. As our attackers advance to strike us we will not retreat but ready ourselves to take beating after beating. As we advance they will prepare a second and third wave. Ultimately we will reach the goal and they will have to yield the world to us. Then we can stand up and proclaim the truth.

In the wilderness Moses struck the rock at Horeb twice, a grave mistake in the dispensation. He should have hit the rock once, but in his anger toward the people he struck it twice while remaining in the same position. This is not allowed in the Principle. If he had moved forward and then hit the rock again, God would not have been offended. However, he stood in the same place and hit the rock twice, and that mistake damaged the dispensation surrounding his mission. This law applies also to Satan. If we absorb Satan’s initial blow then he has to move backward or forward before hitting us again. Satan cannot attack us twice from the same position. Therefore we must survive that one blow and go on. That is our tactic.

Throughout history the scope of the war between God and Satan has been expanding. Why? The satanic forces are attacking the heavenly side, but they cannot strike twice from the same position. Therefore they attack and then expand their position, then attack a second time in order to expand their position again, and so on. Through continual expansion they advance forward toward the final battle, which will be worldwide war. Satan always initiates the attack but Satan always is the loser. In World War I the satanic side attacked first, but God’s side won. Again in World War 11 the satanic side attacked the Allied side, but the Allies won the war.

The third World War is taking place right now in the confrontation between the communist world and the free world. Without question Satan always takes the initiative to attack God’s side. Now many communist agents, spies and saboteurs are infiltrating the free world, many more than the free world is sending to the communist world. The agents are not sneaking in to strengthen America, but to sabotage and destroy it. This is characteristic of communist tactics, showing clearly that they represent the satanic side. Their actions fit the pattern of Satan’s actions; they always come to destroy, instead of build or save.

The communist world disregards all human relationships. A son kills his own father, and a wife her own husband; there is a complete disregard for human relationships and family structure. These deeds are the final manifestation of satanic ideology. There is nothing worse than this. Communism is the ultimate form of satanic ideology. To destroy the family is to destroy the basic structure of human society, as well as the fundamental basis of human value. What is worse than this?

Satan is god in the communist world. The Communist Party is in the supreme position of God, and all men are subject to the domination of the State. Communists do not say, “Each individual represents the Party, and the Party represents the individual.” Instead there is no regard for individual value. The individual becomes a slave of the State and the Party. This is the worst kind of satanic dictatorship, destroying all human value.

Ironically, in criticizing me our adversaries say that I am a Hitler or a Stalin, maybe even worse than Stalin. However, the dictatorships under Hitler or communism have always disregarded individual rights to accomplish their objectives for the glory of the Party or the State. Such regimes will do anything and sacrifice anyone because they have no regard for the value of the individual. I operate on an entirely different principle than the communists.

Here in the Unification Church do I drive you into slavery and then reap the results while I relax and live an easy life, or do I push you out of love, knowing that great blessings will come to you? Actually, I myself am determined to do more than you. Rather than pushing you from behind, I am ahead of you, pulling you, pioneering the way before you.

Our course is entirely different from that of communism. As true men and women you must know God first. This is our most important and unchanging standard: You must know God, His ideal, His goal and His direction, and then you must try to live His ideal. Where can we find true unification and God’s ideal? Trying to achieve unification without love is impossible. We unite at the point where the vertical line and horizontal line meet. God dwells where there is total unity. Where would you want to meet God? At the top of a hill? In New York? The place to meet God is in your heart and mind. If you make yourself a dwelling place of God then you do not have to go to God; God will come to you.

You must cherish God’s ideal as your ideal and God’s goal as your goal. When you want to make a total, conscientious effort to live that ideal then the dwelling of God will automatically be within your heart. Can you say without hesitation that your mind is totally focused upon the ideal and will of God, and that whatever you do is done with God? When you eat, are you eating with God? When you look at something, do you see its beauty together with God? When you can totally give yourself up in seeking the heart of God, then the dwelling of God can be realized in your heart and then you can become an individual who can embrace the world. Such a man is welcomed in every comer of the world.

Is it possible that some of you have two opposing minds? One mind may be shooting straight up to God’s heart, but your other mind sometimes works to drive you away from God. Your mind is supposed to go straight to God but your ungodly mind is going in the opposite direction. Then automatically your ungodly deeds make a diagonal line in the unprincipled world. The area above this horizontal line is God’s principled world. A vertical line is intersecting that line with the right side representing the spirit world, and the left side representing the physical world. The area below the horizontal line belongs to the dark, unprincipled world of Satan. Any action that is fostered and consummated in this realm always turns out to be against the will of God.

### You can either follow God’s plus or be your own plus

God is the true universal plus. Any person who lives his life below the horizontal line is actually setting himself up as another plus, another god. He does not want to change and acknowledge the true God. Rather he wants to be his own God. The bottom of this lower world is the deepest part of hell. The highest area above the horizontal line is the height of heaven. You cannot dwell in two places at the same time; either you are above the line or below the line. It is important for you to decide where you will be. As an individual you can either follow God’s plus or you can be your own plus and dwell in the world of darkness. As you expand to the family level, national, world, and cosmic levels you will remain in that dark world. Which realm you will dwell in is determined by your decision.

There are people who claim that there is no such thing as God, that they can be a god and mold this world as they desire. Although they want to become God themselves, in reality they are colliding with the true universal plus. Such people become the worst kind of dictators.

The person whose ambition is to subjugate the world for his own purpose will end up in the deepest part of hell. When you become a plus yourself you can have no connection with God because plus and plus automatically repel each other. The goat of our life in the Unification Church is to empty ourselves and become minuses. In this dark world we make ourselves into complete minuses, which will always attract the true plus of God. The magnetic power between the plus and minus can pull the minus up. Then we can create our world of light and no longer have to remain in darkness.

There are little satans everywhere in the secular world. When you become a total, absolute minus then you attract Satan as well as God, but because you have the greater plus of God holding you, you can never become the prey of Satan. That is how we can liberate Satan-by drawing him to God. When you become a meek, humble and serving person you are making yourself a complete minus in God’s sight. When you make yourself completely one with God you can conquer Satan and then cleanse and restore him. You will even be given the power to conquer Satan. This is the only way the world can be saved. But it is not enough to just think this way all day long.

### We claim the unique, unchanging love of God

Satan became Satan because of illicit love. I want you to understand that love is a very formidable weapon of Satan. You must be equipped with a greater, more principled love in order to conquer and liberate Satan. Satan is always trying to trick you with cheap love in order to destroy you. But heavenly love is beautiful and constructive in its sacrificial giving. Therefore heavenly love has greater power to overcome Satan and the world. Satan’s love is temporal and will last only a short time, but heavenly love is eternally unchanging.

Ultimately these two kinds of love will clash, confronting each other in a showdown. This is what we call the “Last Days.” America is facing the Last Days right now and we can see two extremes of love in this country: the carnal, dirty love of free sex and the deep-rooted, heavenly love now being proclaimed by the Unification Church. Secular love and heavenly love are confronting each other here in America.

As the scope of satanic love becomes greater there will be more destruction. Families will break up; people will become corrupted; life will become miserable, and more people will commit suicide. But as heavenly love expands, our lives become richer. We in the Unification Church proclaim the unique, unchanging love of God. There is a line of judgment separating these two worlds of love, and you must stand on either one side or the other. You can not be in both.

The Unification Church has one goal, ideal and direction. We all know the goal we are striving toward; however, the satanic world is only confused about its goals, which are temporal and changing. Our goal is not limited to our own individual achievements, but is leading toward the greater levels of the family, nation, world, and all the way to God. With one living, unchanging principle and way of life we want to penetrate to the heart of God. Satan’s world does not have this principle.

Since our principle is God’s principle, when we raise ourselves up higher to the family, national and worldwide levels and then to the heart of God, we will find perfect harmony and unity with God. What is the energy that drives us forward to bring us up to the goal? Love is the locomotive. As you press on, you leave behind a superhighway in the world of love which everyone else can take advantage of. You are pioneering the world of love and everyone can be a beneficiary of your accomplishments. This is the world of your love and God’s love together.

In order to unite the love of God and the love of man, you must always remember the 90 degree angle of the vertical and horizontal lines. You must always make yourself the dwelling place of God, placing your mind parallel with God’s mind so that God may dwell with you in word and deed. This is the simple formula: think of God every day and live with God every day. There can be no moment that our thoughts are diverted from the thought of God.

God’s love can only manifest when you have individual unity between mind and body. You must reach that level in order to be eligible for the blessing. As men and women come to the age of 18 their sensitivity to love begins to blossom. Adam and Eve were supposed to be living God’s principle when they reached that time of blossoming love. Then they would have been completely anchored in the love of God. Their love would have intertwined with the love of God and not been ruined by satanic temptation.

Your foundation of life should be built on the Principle when you are young, before that true sensitivity of love begins to blossom. When you practice God’s principle as a youth and grow up in that atmosphere then when the sense of love, comes it will automatically become God’s love. If you have been brought up in that environment then you see and hear things from God’s point of view.

When a man appears who was raised in God’s love, the entire world is automatically influenced by him. This man of God is a spiritual magnet of heavenly love, pulling the universe to him; even without thinking, everyone will move toward that man, the center of the power of love. Even if people want to do something else, their desires will be automatically drawn to that man. Soon that man will be surrounded by many people. This is the universal power of the Principle working.

The love of God is different from the love of men and women, who only attract each other. The love of God attracts everything. It is the greatest magnet in all the universe, attracting men and women and all the things of creation. That is the nature and power of the love of God.

If we create a church that is truly a dwelling place of the love of God it will become a magnet and people will find themselves in the church without even thinking, pulled by some mysterious power. In the early days in Korea when I was actually pioneering the ministry myself, the church was the powerhouse of the love of God. Many housewives who would be going to the market for dinner would end up at the church. Their husbands would be waiting for a good dinner which would never come! The wives would return with a lot of spiritual food but that does not fill an empty stomach. There were many such episodes.

Have you experienced this vibrant power of the love of God? Even in the secular world, when two people are in love there is a pulling power between them. They are always seeking excuses to visit even when there is no reason. That same power works in the universe; the power of God has a much greater pulling force and everything is drawn to it.

Would only white people be drawn by that force, and not blacks or Orientals? No, there are no barriers because this law applies universally. That is why unification is possible with God’s love. This is the principle of return; all that is of the Father returns to Him. Your mind must be parallel to God’s mind and God’s ideal, and then you must try to express that mind in your actions. The meeting of the mind and body is the dwelling place of God.

As a fund raiser, if your mind is parallel with God’s ideal and your action is selling, then your fund raising will be a manifestation of the ideal of God. You can be all frowns, approaching the people with a most unhappy face, or you can have a shining face, speaking for the ideal of God. Even though the external action of selling may be the same, there are two totally different kinds of heart in fund raising.

The person of God thinks, “This peanut is really heavenly dynamite. I will push a button and anyone who buys this will feel it explode in his stomach, making him a man of God. What a great commodity I have! ” Your mental state determines the outcome of every situation. If you really think the peanuts are God’s heavenly love bombs, then they will be love bombs. It is up to you to decide, not the peanuts. When you sell, do not ever think that you are the one selling those peanuts. Rather God is the one selling them and they are God’s commodity.

Now do you understand why the vertical and horizontal must be united? A person may declare, “I have a noble ideal in my heart.” But if his actions are timid, unwilling, and hesitating, then Satan will say, “What kind of son of God are you?” Satan will laugh at you. It is most important that you live according to your own heart.

Many people come and hear the Divine Principle and many of those people leave. After reading the Principle and hearing me speak many people say, “I really respect Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. I love the philosophy and it is absolutely the will of God, but I simply cannot follow that way of life.” So many people do not act; they accept the vertical line but they cannot accept the horizontal line. Only those who can accept both can remain in Unification Church. That is how you are different from the rest of the world.

### Make yourself a magnet with
the pulling power of God’s love

The basic principle of your mind and body must be that you are willing to serve, in both heart and deed. Then this unity and harmony will expand from you as an individual to the family, tribe, nation and world. At the same time you will leave a great sphere of influence behind you. Through the love of God you have already conquered much territory. This is my way of life.

When I came to America I did not think that America belonged to the white people. Instead I thought, “This is God’s dwelling place, God’s nation and God’s people. Here is where my people are dwelling.” I came to this nation in the name of God, and when I look at God’s country and God’s people here, I feel more responsible for them than the man in the White House. My job is larger than his: I must bring these American people closer to God and unite them. I must create a spiritual superhighway so that they can travel quickly to God, bringing greater achievement and glory for Him.

This is what I think about every moment of the day. This is how I act and how I ask you to act. I am pushing you toward this goal, and while doing these things I have become famous and controversial. However, my heart is parallel with God’s heart and my mind is parallel with God’s mind. All my actions originate in that thinking and for that reason I have been initiating this most sacrificial standard in our movement.

God is definitely dwelling with me. As a result of His pulling power I have become a magnet in this country, pulling together sensitive, searching people. Children are the most sensitive, genuine and unstained people, but children do not understand the theory and principle of the heart of God. That is why I come to you. You young people are closest to children in heart while still adult in understanding. Young people such as you are the most sensitive group of people in America. When I look at your youthful, shining faces I see true greatness.

Actually if you American young people were even more genuine and pure I could pull you much faster. The environment of American society rusted you too early, even in your teens in many cases. You can still be pulled by God, but quite slowly. However, if American young people could preserve their purity and genuine heart, then it would take only an instant to pull them to God’s side. This is what witnessing is all about. There are people outside who can be pulled by you as soon as they are touched.

An extraordinary revolution of love is taking place in the Unification Church, and many remarkable things are happening. Once men and women in love discover the Principle, they suddenly find that they have a much greater love to pursue, and all their former dates and love affairs become tasteless and cheap. Young people can see a greater intensity of love in living this teaching.

Sitting right here in front of me are people who chose to disregard their secular love, and give their first love to God and the True Parents instead. Even though your parents love you, some greater love is pulling you here and you want to stay. Isn’t that true?

If this kind of love is not present here, you cannot even talk about the unification of the world because it would never happen. But the most moving beauty of this love for God and the True Parents springs from the fact that it is not just temporary, lasting only one or two years. This love will continue, and become even more intense. Unfortunately there are many who have not even experienced an initial love. Why is that so? They have not committed themselves 100%, lingering instead on the fringe, all the while knowing in their hearts that this is the best way of living the true universal principle. Because they have not quite committed themselves to living and acting for God, their realization of God’s love is very shallow.

Some of our members say, “When I first joined the Unification Church I felt ecstatic joy and excitement, but that was three years ago. Now I feel tired, despondent, and discouraged. Somehow I have lost my original power.” That kind of person may have accepted the ideal but never really lived it. Even though you have the ideal you must live it in order to make yourself the dwelling place of God. If you never make yourself a magnet with the pulling power of God’s love, of course you will become weakened.

I am warning those blessed couples who only consider how long they have been in the Unification Church. Some of those people are destined for the trash can because they know the truth but never live it. Because they never make themselves a dwelling place of the love of God, there is no magnetic power or burning zeal radiating from them. If older members only eat good food and sleep long hours while the younger members are desperately trying to win people, they will never be admitted to God’s kingdom, regardless of how long they have been in the Unification Church. Who is more of an old timer than I am? Yet I do not relax even one second. Anyone who shuns my way of life can never win my sympathy, and I will not give any mercy to him. This has to be made very clear.

I want you to know that the Kingdom of God will only come when the dwelling of God is with men. You must have the love of God in order to be the dwelling place of God. To achieve this your ideal must be matched by your actions. Unless these two are matched, the love of God has no dwelling place. If you practice that principle while you have a physical body, then you will fulfill the purpose of your life here on earth, and I guarantee that you will jump from this place to the highest part of heaven in just one leap.

Adam and Eve fell while they were young and filled with enthusiasm and vitality. In the same way, you must give all your youthful energy, passion, and enthusiasm in restoration. That is why the Unification Church is primarily made up of young people-you are offering your youthful zeal and passion for the restoration of the ideal that was lost by Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. You who commit your youth, your energy and passion for the sake of God, investing yourselves fully for the sake of His kingdom, shall be called sons and daughters of God.

No one gets tired in the atmosphere of love. Look at me–am I a tired man? I have a young heart, even younger than yours, and I never avoid responsibility. If God says, “I am sending someone to help you,” I respond, “Never mind. I will be responsible; leave it to me.” The person who joins the Unification Church yet who still looks pale and tired out is really pitiful, but I have no sympathy for him because he has not truly become a Unification Church member.

The height of your ideal must be matched by the quality of your action. You must live as a balanced person, and then your life will become your own asset, like a territory that you have conquered and which no one can take from you. Your spirit belongs to heaven while your body belongs to earth, but both are yours. The value of your life becomes interchangeable, belonging to God but also to you. Wherever you go you are at home, with no boundaries to isolate you. The action and power of love are means by which we can expand our territory and continually progress to higher and broader levels.

We must conclude that the ideal can never come alive unless there is a subject and object united in harmonious give and take. Through love this ideal world shall become a reality. The dwelling place of God is not possible until your mind and body are united into one; then you can become a recipient of the love of God. The Unification Church must be totally balanced. We have the most noble, most powerful ideal, and we are not just a church of words-we are a church of action as well. Our ideal of unification must be substantiated with action.

### Your conscience is God’s secret agent

This is why the force of conscience is so active in your hearts. You know that you are not quite living up to the ideal and every day your consciences are pushing you to do a little more, driving you because you know the truth. You feel distressed and almost guilty when you have overslept a little in the morning, but who is accusing you? Your conscience. If you have not done enough witnessing or fundraising during the day, then even though no one but your conscience is watching, you think, “I didn’t do enough today; I feel so bad. I must do more tomorrow.”

Some members say that their conscience bothers them so much since learning the truth that they completely knock themselves out, and they mutter, “Why did I have to find this Unification Church principle! If I didn’t know the truth my conscience would never have bothered me. I wish I had never learned this truth.” But it is too late! Have you had this experience?

You must realize that your conscience is a good thing, and a real asset for the Unification Church. Your conscience is God’s secret agent, and it knows which path has the greater blessing for you, and the greater life waiting for you. Thus your conscience is ruthlessly driving you in that direction. It is your savior in a way, because it is directing you to the place where you can receive more love from God.

Once you taste the love of God you will never be contented with any lesser level of life. Do you shy away from the love of God? Is that pushing action of your conscience good or bad? The Bible says, “And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” Now you know the truth and it must liberate you from darkness.

When your body tries to relax you must be ruthless to discipline it. The person who can discipline his own body is really a man of God. When you drive your body, it is for the sake of goodness. Do not get mad at your body, just smile and say, “Come on body, let’s go. It’s time to wake up now so we can go out to witness. Don’t stay down there or you will be the victim of Satan. You are far better off to stay with me.” That is a realistic experience in our daily life, isn’t it?

The Kingdom of God can blossom when you overcome your body. How many of you have been listening to me but could never quite live up to what I have been saying? Today you know what I am teaching and why. You know what to do, and you know why your body is your worst enemy. Those who can say to me, “I will do it,” please raise your hands. Let us pray.

## THE SPIRIT WORLD AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD

By Fami1yfed June 12, 2018 June 12, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### February 6, 1977
Belvedere, New York
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

Do you know that there is a spirit world? Who of you are actually convinced of the existence of spirit world in your hearts or through personal experience? Everyone has a certain anxiety to know about the spirit world and the nature of life after death. Through history all religions have preached about the existence of a spirit world and their doctrine and goal has been to secure eternal life there. Religion has been losing its influence, however, and has lately been reduced to being simply the crutch and comfort of the weak.

Many of you came from Christian homes, but the Christian doctrine and way of life in America has been weakened to such a degree that many of you were probably raised with only a vague concept of religious values. Religion is taking a more and more trivial role in daily life. You were wanderers in modern day America until you finally met the Unification Church. Are you still wandering in the Unification Church, only to go somewhere else some day?

Why has Christianity been weakened? Christianity has a promise of eternal life, a profound covenant between God and man. Why then are young people like yourselves losing their vision and hope for Christianity?

The first major reason is that people today do not clearly know that there is a spirit world. Human beings have the innate gift of comparison. When their wisdom dictates that certain things are better than others, they abandon the things of lesser value and seek to secure those which are of higher value. This is human nature. If you definitely know that something is better than your present way of life then you certainly want to change.

People do not know clearly of the existence of the spirit world. Secondly, people do not realize the relationship between God, the spirit world and man. Third, they do not know God, nor do they feel deeply that God exists solely for the purpose of love. They do not realize the love of God and how the two worlds of God and man are interlocked by love. If they realized these things then their lives would certainly be changed.

As long as there is love, it does not matter whether one is socially high, low, or in the middle. For instance, between a loving husband and wife it does not matter if the husband is of a cultured background and the wife is an uneducated person. As long as love unites the two these things do not matter. ‘Me power of love stimulates their unity. Love brings the two together into one, wherever they may be.

People today are more and more aware of the necessity of bringing harmony and unification to our world. How can we bring that unity? Some claim that force will unite all people under one dominion. Others are convinced that in this computer age we can unite the world through meticulous organization. Still others insist that only a common ideology or a common language can bring the world together. But none of these have come close to the God-centered method of unification. None of these can bring complete harmony in man’s heart or unity between his body and mind. None of these really has the power to embrace every conceivable existence in the universe. Money will not do that nor will knowledge or force.

There is one universal force which can bring every conceivable creation into oneness, allowing the entire universe to join in common goodness and common purpose. This is the power of true love. Do you agree? A person can become completely intoxicated in love. No other force has such attraction. For example, within true love our bodies and minds melt together in elation for eternity; money cannot do that, nor anything like knowledge or power. The power of true love activates all our senses so that our whole being is completely awakened and electrified. In other words, the human spirit and body truly respond to that certain element which is love.

### The divine mind

There are two distinct worlds created by God; one is the spirit world, the other is the physical world. Only the power of God’s love can evoke a reaction from both worlds. None of the things cherished by the physical world, such as money, power or knowledge, have influence in the spirit world. Existence in the spirit world is God-centered existence. Without the existence and the power of God’s mind spirit world could not exist.

You each recognize that you have a mind. How does your mind differ from your spirit? Many people think the mind is the spirit but that is not true. A fallen man has a mind but that mind has nothing to do with spirit world. Suppose your body did not have bones. Can you imagine a human form without bones? It would be a most miserable entity, actually having no form. This illustrates the contrast between the fallen mind and the spirit. The fallen mind has no connection with the spirit world, being like a body without bones.

In addition to the physical mind there is the distinct existence of soul or spirit mind. Furthermore, each person has a distinct spirit body. Even though we cannot see the spirit body with our physical eyes, it is the substantial reality of existence in which the spirit mind dwells. However, the mind of fallen man has nothing to do with God. God is dealing only with the spirit mind.

How does your mind react to situations? Do you sometimes feel your mind change, as though you changed faces? Communists promote the theory that the human mind can be altered. They want to revolutionize the human mind, even to the point of denying God. They also insist that there is no existence beyond this physical existence. They believe they can successfully convince people of these things; however, the spirit mind does not change. Once the spirit mind is awakened and grasps the true value of life it will never change, but continue for eternity. Why? The flesh mind belongs to the physical body, but the spirit mind belongs to God and reflects the unchanging quality of God’s nature.

In the Divine Principle there is a section in the Principle of Creation about the original or divine mind. That mind is the essence of each person, being the living soul which is eternally connected to God. It is through the original mind that people can be regenerated, to live the true value and purpose of life here on earth. Without the divine mind we have no means by which to make any relationships between ourselves, God, the spirit world and the physical world. Your divine mind functions in conjunction with your conscience. As it does your whole body will certainly have a purpose and direction. By working in obedience to your divine mind you will become one with God.

The greatest problem of humanity today is the separation between mind and body, with these two contradicting each other instead of harmonizing with each other. In restoration, it is when the divine mind or soul becomes the master of the human body that a person’s life can become God-centered. It is as if God’s mind were coming to dwell within that person. As a person responds to his divine mind that person will find his purpose and goal. Fallen man has no hope or direction unless that connection with the divine mind takes place. Until then, man’s existence cannot have value.

The purpose of religion is to plant the divine mind in the human heart. There are many kinds of religion: some form small circles and others large circles, but some even form distorted circles. The important thing is to realize that even though there are many religions, very few actually deal directly with the divine mind.

Fallen man’s ultimate goal is to reach his divine mind. Religions have evolved now to a point where they are close to finding the divine mind, yet still they have not touched it. They circle around and come out again yet they do not see it. When the true religion of God finally is fully revealed its focus will be the divine mind; it may come out and go in and circle around many times, but still it will not fail to pinpoint the target.

The amazing thing about this search is this: In searching from the outer to the inner circle the individual is in front. However, after reaching your divine mind there will always be someone else in front of you; from that time on God is ahead of you. Once you reach the divine mind within you and come back out to the world, you will find that God is already before you; thus nothing will be able to disconnect you or overcome you. In this way the world is guaranteed of finding peace.

Regardless of what age one may live in, every human being is a seeker. We are pioneers searching after the center of the universe. In our common search after the truth, however, we must be careful to not misjudge our ultimate goal. Some people think that the most fundamental goal in the universe is money, yet those who accumulate money realize that it is not the highest goal. Many people seek power while others pursue knowledge, but once they reach their objective they feel empty; what they sought was not the central point of the universe.

### Communism misjudges the central point of the universe

Communists, for example, believe that they have found the ultimate purpose or center of the universe through their ideology. Believing that the end justifies the means, they have used exceptional cruelty in attempting to reach their goal. However, once communism exercises absolute power, its followers discover within their own hearts that their ideology has not really shown them the center of the universe. In order to accomplish their goal they have disregarded everything, including their families and the well-being of others. Under communism only the state is important and it must have absolute power even when it uses the most ruthless means to achieve its goals. The people following this ideology thought they were going to find paradise, but the ecstatic joy that they expected was not there.

The communists misjudged the central point of the universe; they misjudged the ultimate purpose of life. Therefore, even though those working under communism are trying to get to the central point they are deeply disappointed. They thought that dialectical materialism was the truth, but once involved in communist activity they discovered that their values were always being changed. They found that communism is not based on an eternal and unchanging truth.

What is it in this universe that is unchanging and unique, in which we can truly find a union of our body and soul and in which there can be joy for eternity? What is it? There must be an unchanging center which remains from eternity to eternity. But even that is not enough; there must be an unchanging quality which we can enjoy within our own lives for erternity. This center is love.

Love is the central truth that we must reach. The direction in which you move and the shape your circle takes does not make such a difference as long as you reach that unchanging center of the universe: the truth and love of God. God, the eternal and central being, exists there. I am not speaking of a concept or some theory of my own. I am speaking of the reality of God. We can make an unchanging relationship with Him through love. Once you reach this experience, not just by logic but by your own feeling and emotion, then no one can change your heart. Even in the communist world people certainly taste love and long for love within their relationships. Although they may officially disregard these things they can never eliminate the innate desires of their human nature.

Does anyone want only temporal love which will last only a year or two? Could that ever be true? Why is love so precious? Because love has an unchanging, eternal quality it will never decrease in value with time. Do your parents only give out love for a certain period of time, telling you, “All right, I can love you for one year. You take it now because then I will have no more.” Parental love is not that way.

Parental love has no end. Even though the children become senior citizens, the parents still consider them their sons and daughters, feeling the same intensity of concern and love that they always bestowed upon them. If a grandmother is 150 years old and her son is 120, she will still say to him, “Watch out for traffic when you go outside.” Such beautiful warmth and concern for children will not be tarnished with age. Even when the mother is 1,000 years old and her child is 970 she will still think of him as the child that she has always cared for. Do you feel embarrassed when you are treated by your own parents like that or do you feel loveliness and beauty in their hearts?

This particular pattern does not change from the East to the West. And throughout the ages no one has ever revolutionized love or changed it. The way of love stretches from eternity to eternity. The quality of love will never change. Neither will truth change. Does truth have dual aspects, with one aspect applicable only in the East and one in the West, or is it always the same? The truth or the true quality of a thing does not change. Gold may be heated hundreds of degrees, but it will continue to be gold. Even if one were to repeat this process a thousand times, the nature of the gold would not be changed. Gold is gold. Does value derive from the changeable or unchangeable qualities? Value is derived from unchangeable quality.

Dialectical materialism, on the other hand, does not recognize any eternal or unchanging power; it asserts that progress toward higher value is made only through relationships of conflict. However, this process will never bring man the ultimate happiness for which he has been searching. Man can only achieve that goal and happiness through an ideology which leads him to what is unchanging and unique and absolute. That concept is centered upon love. There is no other way.

### Someone must show the world the living love of God.

Why did you come all the way to Belvedere this early on a cold morning? Is it because you know that I am wealthy and you came to see if I will give you money? However, there is nothing here, not even chairs or warmth. People cannot grasp the purpose that draws you young people together. The important thing is this: value does not have to be tangible. We gather here to search after something intangible yet eternal and concrete. That intangible something is the center of the universe and the love of God.

Actually you are finding yourself in God’s position. Think for a moment about His situation-most of the world curses Him, arguing, “There is no such thing as God. God is dead.” People who haven’t found God are trying to be comfortable without Him; they do not even want to remember Him. But God is God. Looking down, He still has the same unchanging quality of love and is still trying to embrace the world. Even while people are denying Him God is looking down and calling to them.

Do you think God will be angry with a person who says, “There is no God; God is dead”? Or will God say, “Hmmm. Is that so?” He does not get mad, but will sadly smile. That is the way I also prefer to be. What am I doing? Simply speaking, I am trying to resemble God, to become closer to Him and take after Him. Consequently the entire U.S. and even the world is ridiculing me, saying all kinds of untrue and terrible things about me. I like to say, “Hmmm, is that so? All right, you will see.”

The amazing thing is that the love of God is not only bestowed on those who respond, but is given also to those who do not respond; even greater love is given to those who do not respond. It would be normal for you to love only those who responded to you in love. But when you sacrificially give of your love to those who are hostile to you, you begin to reflect the real quality of God’s own love. True love moves in this way. Its quality does not change regardless of the response of the people.

Parents deeply suffer if their child makes a grave mistake, perhaps becoming a criminal, but that does not break or lessen the love of the parents. They find themselves giving out more compassion, love and sympathy, and feeling even greater anxiety for their child in jail. That is the heart of the parent. If their child is sentenced to death, the parents would not say, “You deserve your death because you committed such a terrible crime.” They will never curse but desperately search even up until the last minute, willing to do anything to save their child’s life. The parent has the heart of forgiveness. That is unconditional love.

If the heart of human parents reacts in such a way to their children, then do you think that God, the parent of mankind, would be any different? No, His heart reaches far beyond this. God is the parent of all parents. The love of God surpasses the feeling of all the parents of the world. It is only His forgiveness, the giving and unconditional love of God, our parent, that can pull all peoples of the world into unity. It is only through the power of the love of God that all of mankind will be brought together.

This world has been looking for the manifestation of God’s love. Someone must be found who can show the world the living love of God through their own action of love; then this world will have a direction and hope of unity and harmony.

God’s dispensation has been precisely that. Indeed, God sent Jesus to the world as a representative of His parental love. The life of the Messiah of 2,000 years ago was one of total parental love, embodying the love of giving and the life of sacrifice. He not only forgave mankind but blessed his own personal enemies even as they were taking his life.

That love goes beyond any kind of love ever seen here on earth. It is more than brotherly love and more than that of husband and wife. All the love throughout the world put together cannot compete with the parental love of God. The central expression of the love of God was manifested here on earth in Jesus Christ, but he was crucified and could not proceed to the completion of his mission. God desires to continue His dispensation and ultimately fulfill His will on earth. For this He is preparing for the Messiah to come again. When the Messiah comes again, mankind will see and hear God. That is God’s dispensation and the fulfillment of His Biblical prophecy and promise.

Mankind has only one hope in this world: the promise of God that such love exists, and that God will send His own son once again to show to the world by his love that it is possible to unite. No matter what mankind has been suffering, no matter how much confusion and chaos persists in the world, as long as there is that promise of God we have hope.

The hope of mankind is not communism but it is not democracy either. Our hope lies in the manifestation of the love of God in living form here on earth. God will create His own headquarters here on earth. Through His own representative He will show this love to the world. This power and love will bring harmony and unification to the world and it is the only hope of the world; this is the plan of God and His promise. The Unification Church embraces a hope that is crystal clear while the world is yet in despair. We can grab God; we know that His love exists and furthermore, that the love of God will manifest itself in human form here on earth.

The Unification Church member is a good diver or jumper. In order to jump we must crouch all the way down and then plunge down to the bottom of hell in this world, deep amidst the sin of mankind to bring everything back all the way to heaven. That is our way of life. Our purpose is not to stay in hell but to use hell as a springboard. If we plunge all the way down with tremendous energy and power, we will easily spring all the way up into the heights of heaven. Most importantly, we must always remember that it is God who will bring us up and that we will bring those who are in hell with us into heaven. That is our job.

Now you can understand why every member of the Unification Church goes down into hell. By going all the way down into the suffering of mankind you are tasting the misery of the ages. I am pushing all of you down there that you might taste this. Is your attitude, “Oh, I don’t want to do it, but I have to because Father wants me to go”? Or do you courageously plunge down into the darkness with willingness and bubbling enthusiasm?

Are you anxiously thinking, “If the Unification Church looks so miserable now, what will tomorrow bring?” Is that your concern, or do you know what tomorrow will bring and therefore you can go into the dungeon of hell as a liberator, with the determination to bring hell into heaven? That is precisely what Jesus Christ did.

Jesus came to this earth, the dungeon of hell, to bring this hell to heaven. Furthermore, after his crucifixion he went down to the hell of spirit world. According to the Biblical description Jesus went down to hell for the first three days following his crucifixion. Why? He has the power to liberate the people who are bound there and to bring them with him up to heaven.

By his coming down to the hell of the physical world and the hell in spirit world, Jesus left millions of ropes or lines by which every soul suffering in those dungeons could climb to their liberation. Jesus left hope behind him, and all those multitudes of suffering people have the chance to be liberated.

Few of those people had the desperate desire to reach the final destination, however. Many would start but then lose their energy and fall down into hell again. To be successful they had to realize that those lines were the only hope of life and that there was no other choice. They had to look up and just keep going, not stopping for any reason. The spirit world and physical world have been separated throughout history, having no meeting ground and no unity. This is why so few people have even glimpsed the spirit world, and why as a result most people do not even think that there is a spirit world. For most people it is natural to see only what is here and now and never what is beyond our physical realm. They think this is all that there is.

### Everyone must sweat and labor
together to find the Kingdom

Even though few know anything about spirit world, there is an intrinsic desire for unification and harmony among men in the heart of each person. They desire the ideal unified world but they do not necessarily want to take the responsibility for creating it. “If someone creates such a world then I will be glad to enjoy it.” Many people think in this selfish way.

When the ideal world comes, do you think it will automatically fit into the standard of your life as it is now, or would you have to change in order to fit into the ideal world? American young people must awaken to the wonderful realization that each person will have to change himself in order to be qualified for the ideal world. Most people who are yearning after love and goodness do not realize that as the first ones to participate in the ideal they would have to be the first ones to change. In many cases their attitude is, “The ideal world will come and accommodate me. I don’t want to move; put me into the ideal world.” Rather, we must search for the ideal world, learning and growing into its standard. We must bring the revolution to ourselves and in this way adapt ourselves to the ideal world. The youth of America and the world must realize that they are a most prestigious group of people because they are young and have the zeal and energy to change the world and to change themselves.

Communists delude what they call the working class people into supporting them by promising that utopia will come to them. But that will never happen. Everyone must sweat and labor together to find the Kingdom. The Communists speak sweet words about their ideal paradise here on earth, but the reality of the communist system only chains nations and peoples in even greater turmoil, hardship and slavery. The ideal world will not come in that fashion.

Each of us must participate in building the ideal world. You must learn the truth and put yourself in the pioneer’s role, getting fully involved in it at great cost. It is irresponsible to idly wait for the ideal day to dawn and expect to wake up on that day with the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. That will not happen.

Do you think I am wrong? America thinks so and is coming against me, trying to show me how wrong I am. However, I am bringing together many young people; while the world accuses me of trying to enslave you I am teaching you how to be the foremost pioneers of the Kingdom of God. If you get down to work and joyfully take up the most difficult responsibility then your reward in heaven will be just extraordinary.

A better world will never come unless people such as yourselves determine to give of themselves in unparalleled sacrifice and devotion, not for their own sakes, but for the very purpose of the Kingdom of God. Will complaining, protesting, demonstrating, and acts of violence be effective in bringing the Kingdom of God and the ideal world? The ideal world can only come where those people are gathered together who are trying to plunge down to the very heart of sin and human misery, sacrificing everything in working to cleanse and liquidate the sin of men’s hearts and the vice of society. Only that kind of effort, dedication, and sacrifice can bring the Kingdom of God. I know to the depths of my being that the ideal world can be brought about only by people like that. I not only know this but I have been living this knowledge my entire life.

I know that this cause will never fail. It is secured and guaranteed, not only by the power of God, but by the fact that I have worked harder than anyone else here on earth. How can I fail? People talk about me in a most unkind way, but let them talk. Let the New York Times and the Washington Post talk. The communists think they will control the whole world by violence, deceit and demonstration, but you will see. We are moving quietly; however, the quiet force will be the winner. In the end it is history that will tell.

How fortunate you are to be here. When the world looks at you it will say, “You poor, miserable children! You look so pale and tired.” Do not be deluded by these words. During my entire ministry of thirty years I looked just as you do now; often I was pale and most miserable. When I was imprisoned and tortured in indescribable ways I looked a thousand times more miserable than you do. But I was a winner; I am a winner; I will be a winner continuously. That must be the pattern of your lives as well.

Presently everyone views me either positively or negatively; that represents a certain personal influence and power on my part The American government and the FBI are looking at me and always wondering what my next plan is. Even the communists scrutinize my every action to determine if I am really going to Moscow.

I did not begin my work in a gorgeous palace but in the most miserable situation. The center that I established was so small that I could reach out and touch all four walls while sitting in one place. That was the first Unification Church, the birthplace of this new world. God’s ideal and dream was planted on the earth in that little center, just like a tiny baby conceived in its mother’s womb and then coming out to grow and bear influence in the world. In the same way, the life of the new world was conceived and was born in that small cubbyhole.

By every standard I am a successful person. I am victorious and still moving forward without limits. I am fresh and do not feel like a man of 60 years.

Where would you like to live–the physical world or the spirit world or both? Where would you like to start your eternal life? Do you begin eternal life after your life in the physical world is over, or do you start it right now? Have you started it already? Because of the fall of man the two worlds were separated. When these two worlds do meet according to the plan of restoration, will man or Satan be aware of that meeting place first? Of course God is the master planner, but apart from God who else would detect that plan?

There must be a central, chosen person who pioneers the world to bring about this unity. God will plan to send that central figure at a certain time and to a certain part of the world. Do you think Satan will not know? When there is a heavenly maneuver God Himself has to manifest a certain plan and then it remains no longer a plan but becomes an action. When an action begins to unfold, Satan will quickly detect it because he is constantly alert.

The Messiah is coming to bring these two worlds together. However, that particular intelligence is picked up by Satan before man detects it. Satan knows how the Messiah will come, being fully aware that the Messiah is coming to destroy his power. Satan will do his utmost to kill that child at birth and to crush the birth of his movement. This world has been controlled and dominated by Satan, and from the time of the Messiah’s conception in his mother’s womb through his entire life and ministry he faces the threat of destruction by Satan. He is destined to fight through the most difficult possible conditions here in the world, with nothing to ease his path.

The Messiah is destined to take the most extraordinary path of tribulation. God knows it and He will do everything possible to prepare for him. Through the ages religions have been revealed in order to establish a groundwork for the coming of the Messiah. They are merely God’s preparation for the Messiah. When the Messiah actually comes he will bring the new world and the existing religions will be consummated by following him.

### Christians must realize that the Messiah
is not coming to do things their way

The chosen people are indispensable to God’s dispensation. At the time of Jesus Christ the chosen people were the people of Israel. It was to them that Jesus came. However, at that time the chosen people thought the Messiah was coming to fulfill their desires for a better life and for independence. They forgot that the Messiah was coming for the ideal of God and His new order and that they were to work to establish the Kingdom of God in God’s way, not their own way.

If there had been understanding between the Messiah and the chosen people then Jesus Christ would never have been crucified. Instead there was a fatal difference of opinion. The Messiah’s goal was one thing and the people’s desire was another. The tragedy came about because of this difference of opinion.

This lesson is vitally important to Christians today. What is modem Christianity throughout the world? It is the gathering of the people prepared for the ultimate day of the Lord of the Second Advent. However, Christians today feel that the Messiah is coming only to fulfill their own desires, to liberate them and give them happiness and a place in heaven. They do not think in terms of the Messiah coming to fulfill the original ideal and will of God.

If the Messiah comes only to fulfill the wishes of the Christians today then there will be no kingdom. In fact, there would be no value in his coming. Christians accept the most horrendous idea that when the Messiah comes all the disbelievers will be burned in unquenchable fire and judged to eternal damnation while the Christians will ascend up to heaven to enjoy the heavenly kingdom with God and Christ.

The Christian world itself is not only hopelessly fragmented but corrupted in its practices. Christians have erected barriers among themselves in order to continue believing in their own comfortable way. If the Messiah came and fulfilled all their conflicting wishes there would be nothing but war.

When the Messiah comes with the will of God he will not condone and praise Christianity but will ignite a spiritual revolution and clean house first. The Messiah comes as the greatest of all revolutionaries, not using weapons and violence but bringing peace through truth. Great changes will come about and people must prepare to adapt themselves to the way of the Messiah, not thinking in terms of the Messiah adapting himself to the ways of Christians.

Will the Messiah’s revolution begin in the spirit world or physical world? Among the rich or down in the gutter of human misery? Liberation from sin starts at the very bottom of hell, so the Messiah must begin his work at the bottom of human misery, The Messiah will begin his religious movement to build the Kingdom of God here on earth at the very bottom of human misery. He will gather young people like yourselves and ask them to go into hell and transform it into the Kingdom of God. The worst enemy is conquered when the worst sin is conquered.

If Christianity accepts such an extraordinary revolutionary movement then there will be harmony and a new world will come easily. But if we study the lessons of history we know that the Messiah’s acceptance is most unlikely. The people working with him who launch the spiritual revolution will face a wave of persecution for each step of their accomplishment, until finally they can encompass the entire world. Satan is the worst kind of enemy and he will try to block the spread of this movement in every conceivable way.

### Are you ready to receive the same treatment I have received?

Any religious movement will face the possibility of persecution if it is determined to deal with the reality of human sin and misery at the bottom of hell, while at the same time proclaiming to the world the highest possible goal of the building of the Kingdom of God here on earth. One way to confirm the emergence of God’s new Messianic movement is to find where worldwide persecution is concentrated on one group. Why? The reason for this is that God must begin His work in the satanic world, and this world is Satan’s territory.

The Unification Church fits this qualification. This movement began in the most humble circumstances on a mountainside of Korea, becoming the center of a worldwide hurricane of controversy within the lifetime of its founder. The Unification Church is the very honorable bulls-eye of the world. Almost every conceivable type of group, even including government bodies, are disturbed and want to throw me out. Established religions have had their peace disrupted and are agitated enough to actually unite in making a statement against me! Why did the powerful religions of the world today unite together to try to destroy this one man and his small handful of followers? The only explanation could be that they feel threatened. Let us compare the two opposing factions by their present-day fruit. Are you members assembled here in the Unification Church just the cast-offs of mankind? Even our persecutors admit to the quality of our people and comment on their shining faces and their ideals, dedication and sacrificial spirit.

I know and you know that we are trying harder to live lives of unselfish sacrifice than most people outside our Church who do not know the truth. In our dedication and in our understanding of the world situation we are more solid. It is my pride that I will never fall behind anyone in dedication or unselfish giving for the cause of God. The President of the United States does not have the insight and vision to really stop the corruption of the youth and engender a new generation of leaders. But I have a purpose and ideal and a plan of action, and I can show young people how to become champions of God.

The world is coming to know the power of the Unification Church and our opponents in the past have seen how we will not be crushed. When they push us down we merely spread out to the sides! Even under persecution we have expanded to the worldwide level. President Nixon was crushed by the criticism of America and the world, but even though harsher accusations have been made about me, I am still going and going strong.

Are you intimidated by this headwind? Nothing can stop you; persecution should only make you stronger. Where does the Kingdom of Heaven begin here on earth: the most luxurious place or in the pit of misery? Who does this world belong to? In every possible way Satan is trying to stop us, but eventually he will give up and then you will be the winners.

If you follow me then you will receive the same scornful treatment I receive. Even with your youthful vitality this road is not an easy one. Maybe the newcomers here are shocked by hearing these things, but we are honest and say that this is not an easy way. You should pack up if you don’t want to face this life. Perhaps then you would not feel any pressure, but if you think about it there is no hope outside of this Church. At least one thing is sure; if we stay here then at least we have hope. To stay in the Unification Church you need a lot of faith, both in me and in the Principle.

My life for the past thirty years is my enduring testimony; by looking at my whole way of life you can be convinced that I will not fail. The established generation are the ones who are attacking me and trying to destroy my work, and yet you people here this morning are their children. The Unification Church is primarily blessed by the participation of the youth. God is truly working here. Many of your parents have taken a position opposing me, but God has changed the hearts of their children, that you might understand and pursue this way of life. Eventually you will also be the ones to persuade your parents to change their opinion. Some parents passionately feel that I am their worst enemy, but all of a sudden they find their own children defending me! Only God could inspire such a revolutionary happening.

### Temptation always comes through those nearest you

Our enemies know that it would be hopeless to try to deprogram me, but they think they can deprogram you. The deprogrammers use many enticements such as money, your former love relationships or finally even extreme threats, like, “I will kill you unless you do what I tell you.” Are you confident to win over these? No matter how special their offers are, you will be tempted unless you have put away your desires for such things. I see many weak spots in you! Satan looks at your weak spots and he knows which ones to use.

Many times members are resolved that they could never be deprogrammed but when they become too concerned about how soon they can get married and start having children they may get discouraged. That feeling becomes a hook which Satan can grab, and then those members decide to leave. You may be vulnerable in another way. You may be working hard fund raising and witnessing and then your parents phone you, tearfully pleading, “You don’t have to suffer this way. Why don’t you come home and we’ll get you new clothes and you can have a happy life for a change! ” At that time you may feel sorry for yourself and say, “I’ve been in the Unification Church for three years and nobody cried tears for me.” Your parents’ offer may be very tempting.

I personally know all these enticements very well. I too have lived through the reality of these things; the most important thing to realize is that temptation always comes through those nearest you, to whom it is so difficult to say no, people like your friends, your spouse or children or parents.

Unresolved doubt is always a hook for Satan to pull. You may even feel sometimes that there is no God or that our movement is inhumane and unjust. That is why you must be wise in understanding the Principle. God sometimes tests you by pretending that He is unconcerned or even that He is betraying you. You must understand the Principle more deeply than to be swayed by that experience. When you go over that experience you realize that God wants to give His entire love to you, but only on the condition that you have completely won over Satan on your own.

God wants you to be free from any condition of accusation. Then He will fill you with unconditional love and blessing. He wants to give His blessing freely, without any condition of accusation from Satan, and the entire world will say, “God, that man certainly deserves that blessing. We have no complaint about him.” God wants us to meet that standard, becoming people who are victorious in heaven and on earth. He wants to say to the world, “I even denied this person, but their loyalty and trust and faith never swayed even one iota. This is indeed My victorious child.” When God can say that about you then you have received the highest praise possible. By meeting that highest possible standard you can secure the ideal center upon which God can rebuild the entire world. Once we meet that standard then God can pour His blessing upon the Unification Church. Satan will not be able to say, “God, they do not deserve the blessing you have given them so freely.”

Can you now see why we can become truly victorious only under persecution? Persecution is the most ideal situation in which to demonstrate to God and to ourselves who we really are. The entire spirit world knows that America came against me and against the Unification Church. Once we meet the high standard of heaven and God can fill us with His blessing, then there is no way for any American on earth or in spirit world to complain or accuse us before God. There are many in the spirit world whose descendants are trapped in communist countries and we don’t want to be accused by them for not doing everything in our power to help save their descendants. Already some of our members are working in communist countries and are suffering at this moment in communist prisons.

Last year I sent missionaries out to 120 nations, knowing that because I am well-known they would receive the same persecution that we are receiving here in America. No one on earth or in heaven will be free to accuse me of not paying attention to their nation by at least having our Church established there. As a movement we are bringing ourselves into the position where we can be free from the accusation of Satan, and even from those in spirit world. If that principle is true, the day will come when the worldwide level of God’s blessing will pour down upon the Unification Church.

### I have spiritually liberated every kind of human misery

Where will the Kingdom of God begin? The Kingdom of God will germinate here on earth in the depths of human misery, the pits of hell. Have you received threats on your life here in America because you were acting on your beliefs? That has not seriously happened in this country. Then who has laid that foundation for this Church? I am the one who really tasted the misery at the bottom of hell, being threatened and imprisoned and tortured many times. That is how the foundation was laid upon which you now stand. I started out all by myself to erect the family, tribal and national foundations; then I worked to set the foundation in Asia and for the world, and now in America, the focal point of God’s dispensation, I am unfolding the universal level of the dispensation.

Because I have liberated every kind of human misery by participating in every walk of life, I have a friend everywhere. I have talked with murderers and given them hope; I have suffered together with people in prison camps and labored with dock workers and miners and old mountain people. Do you know why we bought the New Yorker on 8th Avenue, where there is so much prostitution? It is our responsibility to solve that particular situation. Recently I even went to Las Vegas and prayed for that most carnal city The gamblers and strip-tease dancers need to be saved some day and I had to set some condition for them to eventually be liberated from that life.

I do the most unique and extraordinary things, which have never been seen in human history. I am making connections with the entire human race in order to truly create a most spectacular international family. I am responsible to redeem every human misery and crime, to leave a spiritual rope by which these people may some day have hope to climb out of their hopeless situations. Absolutely no one knows more about human misery on all levels than 1. No one has ever visited more kinds of places around the world than I have. I specialize in the keen observation of human misery and human sin because that is the area I am going to liquidate. I have many friends, even those who have committed crimes, but who have become new people and committed their lives for God’s cause. There are many beautiful stories that you would be moved by because you also have felt something touch you.

Have you ever spoken to God concerning some threat to my life, “Heavenly Father, let me be his shield; take my life instead of his and let him remain on earth to continue with this work for humanity!” Why do you think in that way? My entire life has been lived that way and something is inspiring you to live like that as well. My prayer has always been, “Father in Heaven, let me suffer in Your place. Whatever arrows come to You, let me be the target.”

Right now I am like the shield before God, receiving all the criticism from the world. Ultimately I am responsible for every deed you do and every mistake you make. Our enemies have planted false members in the Church who act like model followers and then after six months or a year commit some crime or immoral act in order to give myself and the Church a bad name. All the blame comes to me.

The world may think I am like a “godfather,” being totally evil and only exploiting young people for my personal gain. You, however, have come to respect and love me as a man of God. Your belief in and understanding of me will be strengthened in the days to come, and the world’s wrong conviction about me will slowly change because of a lack of foundation in fact. Slowly but surely the world will be won.

The time has come to unite spirit world and physical world, finally ending their separation. That unity will not occur in a smooth, peaceful transition, but through earth-shaking events. Why should that be necessary? An extraordinary confrontation will take place, with God exerting all His power to accomplish His will and the satanic powers desperately trying to stop Him. One such dramatic battle took place in Washington, D.C. on September 18, 1976. February 17 is the final day in 1976 by the lunar calendar. In the heavenly dispensation the lunar calendar is often very important and influential, and God is continuing the dispensation for 1976 until that day.

The age is now dawning in which Satan will no longer have the power to accuse man in the sight of God. The spirit world may blame others, but they cannot blame the Unification Church. Furthermore, the time has come when all the spirit world on the side of goodness will come down and assist our crusade. With that assistance our work will be greatly speeded up. The time has come for the great spiritual leaders of the past, such as Buddha, Confucius, Moses, past Christian saints and Mohammed, to appear before their own disciples, telling them that they must receive the benefit of the Unification Church.

### We have laid a foundation for unity on every level

Until now all of spirit world has been divided by many barriers, but the victory of the Washington Monument Rally broke through all those barriers and allowed the spirit world to become one unified world. The spirits there communicate with each other and now know who the central figures are and where the central movement is. They are traveling in their respective channels to break down the barriers between people in the physical world and create a similar unity here as well.

So far there has been no fellowship in the spirit world between East and West, but now that barrier has been broken. The power of absolute, heavenly love has united the two with God at the center. On earth, the Unification Church is bringing the two cultures of East and West into one, intermingling them by international marriage and international gatherings of members working together. In our Unification Church there is no boundary between East and West.

We have laid the foundation for unity on the individual level, family level, tribal, national and world levels. Anything we bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and anything we loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. In the future we will take more and more initiatives in world affairs, and you will witness how even our most violent opponents will fade away. This phenomenon of persecution will persist until 1981. Therefore, we must act now to set the foundation and strongly establish ourselves; we must develop the will of a captain in steering his boat through a storm.

These next five years will be an extraordinary period in which the entire world will be shaken, including the communist world. Already the communists are troubled; since their signing of the Helsinki Agreement the free world has a reason to attack them for their terrible abuses of human rights. Communist leaders always disguise their true motives, deceiving the free world into allowing the expansion of communist power. The communists have no intention of giving anything to the free world. However, deprogramming on a large scale is presently taking place in the communist world; Ted Patrick is not doing it, but the spirit world. Spirit men are descending to the children of communist leaders, saying, “Communism is wrong. This ideology is based on a lie. It is not the truth.” A great deal of turmoil will be seen soon between those parents and children as the two ideologies confront each other.

In the garden of Eden Adam and Eve came against God, their Father. In the last days God would like to indemnity this situation within the communist world by having the parents and children in conflict with each other over the heavenly ideology. This same confrontation is already widespread in America and the free world.

Why does this situation persist? It is not a sign of decline but of preparation for God’s Kingdom. The American youth have tried every conceivable thing–hippie life with its sexual freedom, streaking, drugs-but they did not find anything there. Now they are coming back to religion but not back to the established churches. Young people have not found anything dynamic and fulfilling in the churches they knew before so they are searching after something new.

I know very well that people outside our church have usually heard of me in a negative way and they think this is some kind of terrible cult. But you will see that in two years this movement will be completely changed by an avalanche of young people flowing into our Unification centers. Because the young people of America are wise people they will inevitably pass through the gates of the Unification Church to investigate it. We are like the catchers in a baseball game; the young people are the ball being thrown by all of America. We need a lot of catchers to receive them and I am preparing them right now. The time will come when many balls will be flying toward us. The most beautiful young people will come to us and we will train them with the truth, giving them a new direction and purpose to live.

When young people without any preconceived notions about the Unification Church come to hear lectures for one week, they are ignited by the deep spiritual insight of the Divine Principle and say, “What a powerful gospel this is! Why didn’t we know about this before?” Then they hear that this is the message of Reverend Sun Myung Moon. At that point they cannot say anything in opposition. The testimony to the power of the truth will be seen in their inspiration to change others’ minds about Reverend Moon.

We are the only ones who can overcome the negativity of those around us. We have the power to change the youth of America, and once that happens the communists will have absolutely no power. I know in detail what the strategies and techniques of the communists are; I am an expert on it. We are the only ones who have the power and truth not only to overcome but also to liberate the communists. Because they know that this positive truth will liquidate their own lies, the communists are afraid of our ideology.

We must have the pride and joy of realizing our good fortune at living in this particular age of awakening; we can live and accomplish what no saints or religious leaders of the past could accomplish. In your mind new spring has dawned and you are becoming a new, ideal individual, and establishing a new ideal home, society, nation, and world, with one main truth interconnecting them all. With one common base you can build all these levels of perfection, centering upon the heart of God which will become your heart and your love.

Once you are united to God and His love your personality will become universal and you will not only be the central point of a family, society, nation and world, but the central point around which the entire universe can be harmonized. It is not necessary to go many different routes to fulfill each level; there is one route and by uniting with one central point you can realize them all.

The communists say, “We are going to liberate the proletariat and the poor people.” We are going beyond that goal, aiming to liberate the conscience of all mankind. We are not limited to concern for material wealth but are concerned for the conscience of man and the love of God, in which there are no classes.

### Even Almighty God forgets Himself

Before you met the Unification Church your goal was nothing abnormal; in the everyday world it is natural to be focused upon yourself. But since coming to the Unification Church your goal has completely changed, focusing not on yourself but upon God and humanity. Of the two possible ways of life we can live, the selfish way only leads you down. On the other hand, the more you are unselfish and public-minded the more you will rise in happiness and prosperity.

Those who say, “I don’t care about God or the world, my country, or my family, only about me,” will end up in the dungeon of hell. The person who truly lives his utmost, investing every ounce of energy for the sake of God and the sake of humanity, will end up in the highest possible level of Heaven. Why should the Principle work like that? The world is created according to that principle and nobody can prosper apart from it. God Himself does not exist for Himself but solely for the sake of man; even God forgets Himself.

True parents are those who live solely for the sake of their children. Truly pious sons and daughters are those who live for the sake of their parents, forgetting themselves. In any nation the government must exist solely for the sake of the people and the world, and the people must live for the prosperity of the nation and mankind. This same formula applies up to the highest possible level. God lives solely for the sake of the world and humanity. He does not claim that His people exist for Him, but instead He lives for them. God is the ultimate and eternal parent and His children must also live for the purpose of their Father.

In comparing this to the communist ideology we see that communism is an evil, false ideology which is trying to destroy both God and humanity. Communist leaders sometimes test the loyalty of Party members by requiring that they kill their own father or mother. That ideology is the total abandonment of God’s principle and must be liquidated. No matter what the communists may boast, the time will come when their internal division and external problems will move them slowly but surely to extinction.

America is trying to withdraw from world responsibility when instead this nation should be willing to sacrificially give itself for the sake of world salvation. If that became America’s national goal then this nation would not only lead the entire world, but eventually possess even God. There was a time when the American people were respected overseas and when American citizenship was a very glorious thing, but the time is rapidly approaching when people will spit at anyone calling themselves American.

America should not have become involved in Vietnam without intending to take full responsibility for any consequences. Millions more people were killed by America’s becoming involved and then abandoning Vietnam. If America had left that nation alone the Vietnamese would not have suffered as many deaths after coming under the communist yoke. Instead, when America withdrew all the people who had trusted America were lost. All became victims of communist retaliation.

When faced with the responsibility America has assumed in Korea, politicians are increasingly saying, “We must withdraw our armed forces from Korea.” If this nation fails Korea then not only that nation but God will react. Americans are thinking, “Oh, we have so many problems internally that we have to take care of ourselves first and forget about the outside world for now.”

America will never take care of its problems by withdrawing from its worldwide responsibilities; instead the internal problems will become more desperate and America will catapult into a rapid decline. If American young people will stand up by the millions, willing to give their lives for the sake of the world, then America will have hope. However, Christianity has failed its mission in this respect.

### I am accused of brainwashing because my message is so strong

l came to treat the patient which is America, providing a worldwide vision for which it can stand up and to which it can give its energy. No American leader dares to make the statement, “I will act as a doctor to heal this country.” I am not even American but I uttered that at the Yankee Stadium Rally. At Washington Monument I proclaimed, “I came to restore the young people, the leaders of tomorrow, back to God.” Nobody else can utter such a clear statement because they have no conviction. The white people and particularly the religious leaders of America should be embarrassed that a yellow man from Asia could challenge the American people with such a dynamic commitment. I am not making empty statements at all, and the proof is seen by the fact that I am doing things that no religious leaders in the world have ever done.

Why am I accused of brainwashing you? Simply because I brought the message with power so strong as to ignite a heavenly revolution in the hearts of young people. Such a thing has never been seen before and thus I am accused of brainwashing. How could I brainwash you if I never met any of you when you first came to the movement? There are many members in state centers and on MFTs all over the nation who have never seen me. How could they be brainwashed without even seeing me? Many people think I am a dangerous hypnotist, but this is contradicted by the fact that our members remain dedicated for many years. If I had the power to hypnotize people without them even seeing me then wouldn’t I have already hypnotized all the 4½ billion people of the world?

My enemies want to stop me by spreading rumors and vicious accusations, painting a grotesque picture about the work I am doing. I do not have to go to 120 countries for this work to grow, for even without my presence our movement is expanding in those nations. Do you think a gun or even the atomic bomb could stop our activities in those 120 nations?

The spirit world and physical world have been separate for a long, long time, ever since the human fall, and now for the first time in history the two worlds are being linked together again with the Unification Church acting as a catalyst. I am sure that most of you here have had some spiritual experiences. Because you can have a living relationship with God you can continue your dedicated work under any circumstances. This is the experience of the members of the Unification Church all over the world.

Why did you come here early this morning? Did you come to gain something for yourself or did you come to lose something? You came because you know you can advance spiritually by being here. Here the power of God’s love is manifested in truth. I am not the world’s best orator, but you can recognize truth in my words and in my own being. It is not flowery words that give inspiration but the living truth coming into your heart that makes you want to act.

The Unification Church’s mission is to build the Kingdom of God by going to the very bottom of human misery and building the highway up from there, both up through the whole physical world and the spirit world as well, all the way to the throne of God. We will not end at the throne of God but will march proudly toward the heart of God, for our ultimate destination is the heart of God’s love.

Do you think that the joy and ecstatic excitement of being entirely absorbed into God’s love is far superior or far inferior to the experiences of drug users? Compared to the love of God, the love the world offers is very cheap and shallow. When you become the kind of person who completely forgets himself in giving for the sake of God and humanity, all of spirit world is yours. You will have complete freedom to go anywhere and will be honored as princes and princesses of God. Even the love of a married couple in this world is nothing in comparison to the experience of the love of God.

The love of God is electric and there is nothing it cannot melt and absorb. When the love of God unites two into one there is no way those two will ever be separated. If there had been no fall then your lives would have been charged with the electric love of God. Your mind and body would have been completely one and the entire universe would have been ignited by your ecstatic joy and intoxicated in your happiness. Since I know that world of love as a reality, neither persecution nor even death can sway me. Your opportunity to live on earth is at most 70 to 100 years, but it is important that in that time your body and mind are united into one and you experience the love of God.

### God’s idea is to swap lives with man

Man and God have a mutual goal: It is God’s goal to become completely one with perfected man and to manifest Himself in man here on earth, and at the same time man is working to elevate himself to be one with God. In a sense man and God are striving to swap positions with each other. We all have the ambition and desire to become the kind of person who can influence the entire world. God is already in the position to have dominion over the world, so He wants to come down and live side by side with man. Man is seeking God’s position and God is seeking man’s position.

Why did God create Adam and Eve? God wanted to manifest Himself as a living person on earth. Why does man desire to unite with God? Man would like to become one with God and enjoy His position. After they become one, everywhere you go you will find God; when you are on earth God is there and when you go to spirit world God is there. Right now God is only in heaven and man is only on earth, but when they are one in love God will be everywhere.

The power of God is descending, seeking to dwell with men, while we are striving to meet God and become His dwelling place. When you live completely in communion with God on every level then God will be able to completely embrace you. God’s idea was to swap lives with man, with His life being for each man, and each man’s life being for God. If you demand that your partner love you, trying only to receive instead of give, then there will be separation. The universal principle calls for you to exist for others. This is the only way for two to become one and there the ideal will blossom for eternity.

The wise man is the one who understands the universal truth of living for others. Actually the existence of the entire creation is already centered on serving something else. The mineral world exists for the plant world and the plant world exists for the animal world, which in turn exists for the human world. V,/hen you eat meat you are actually being fed at the sacrifice of something else. Then do we exist for ourselves? No, we exist for God and God exists for us. When we swap positions joy is generated. That is the formula of the universe.

God created everything to exist for something else. Logically then we were never created to exist for just ourselves. The theory of evolution claims that inevitably the weaker become the prey of the stronger. The shark, for example, eats smaller fish for food. This fact was not invented by the scientists, but is God’s principle at work. Man’s physical life is also a reflection of this principle; man is nourished by all the things of creation. They were given for that purpose by God. However, the only way you are justified in eating those plants and animals is by living for the joy and service of God and the universe.

God Himself lives for His children and the universe. Even Almighty God puts Himself in the position of sacrifice, giving Himself for you, for humanity, and for the sake of the world. If you in turn do not want to live for God and humanity then you have no right to eat the things of God’s creation. How can you ever complain about being object to the same principle?

The most beautiful thing about this rule is that it does not result in your decline. God will give you the best of all blessings under the sun when you live for Him and for humanity. If beef on the table had a mouth, it would say, “I wish to be eaten by a man of God. I want to become part of God’s flesh.” When a God-centered man eats that meat it becomes that man’s flesh, and since man’s body belongs to God that beef can be very happy in fulfilling its purpose of creation.

Fruit and vegetables as well wish to fulfill their lives by becoming part of God’s flesh. Even clothes wish to be possessed by a truly holy man in order to serve God’s purpose. God created all these for the purpose of God-centered man and only saintly men have the right to use them. All things of creation want to share the love of God by becoming part of the flesh of God-centered people. They will actually ask you to eat them when you become men and women of God.

If you understand this basic principle of creation, you understand how all things of creation feel. Those who feel it is vicious for the stronger to eat the weaker do not understand God’s point of view. Just as those plants and animals want to become a part of God, so we want to plunge into the heart of God.

If you feel a sense of service to God then when you eat breakfast, lunch and dinner you will never have stomach trouble. However, when you eat food with an ungodly mind the food will demonstrate inside of you, “No, I don’t want to become that person’s flesh and blood.”

If you really become sons and daughters of God and look at all the things of creation from God’s point of view then you can hear the music of your surroundings and share in the happiness of the food which you are about to eat. Unless you become the embodiment of the love of God then in spirit world you have no right to even look at nature or to enjoy food. In hell in the spirit world you will have no right to eat and even though you hear of certain places that are very beautiful and glorious, you will not be free to go there.

Our human destiny is to harmonize with the love of God, plunging into His heart to become a part of Him and to enjoy the universe from His point of view as His representative. That is the ideal of creation that God originally intended to fulfill. The love you will receive in heaven will be as much as the love you have felt for this world, humanity and God while on earth. You will not be able to receive even one iota more or less. This is the law of cause and effect and God’s justice is absolutely carried out in that respect.

The higher realms of spirit world are reserved for those who gave their lives in service to others. Those who live here on earth with a self-centered way of life, regardless of their positions as noted religious or world leaders, will end up in the lowest realms of hell. Our goal in the Unification Church is to serve, even to the point of liberating the communist world. We are not trying to destroy the communists, but to free them through our service.

If the communists ever seize us they will first of all kill our members. In contrast, if we gain power over them we will make them our brothers and sisters. Which ideology is stronger and is destined to win eventually? Our positive ideology must be stronger even than communism. When your passion and zeal to serve the world is stronger than the communists’ conviction, you shall not only save this world and liberate the communists but you shall be entitled to live in the Kingdom of God.

### Distance between us does not matter

Are you preparing to enter the Kingdom of God? Will you continue preparing just today or tomorrow, or for ten years or a hundred years? You are like a wild olive tree and must be grafted into the true olive tree. Has this process been completed in your lives?

Have you seen me in your dreams or in visions? Unification Church members all over the world are experiencing the same thing, some seeing me all the time; sometimes they even walk with me on the mountains of Africa or in South America. Distance does not make any difference in this case. Some of you are probably experiencing such mysterious, unprecedented phenomena. This will not be just a passing thing but will become more frequent and widespread.

Before the fail, God spoke to Adam and Eve directly and walked beside them. In a parallel way if you are spiritually sensitive then as you mature I will be involved more and more directly in your life through visions and dreams. The person who willingly accepts my directions with obedience and enthusiasm will experience great spiritual accomplishment sooner.

If a person seriously pledges, “Father, give me the worst mission you have, the worst problem and I will solve it,” then spirit world will intervene to give him the power and wisdom to fulfill. If any person has the kind of commitment to volunteer for such a task then he will never be alone. Even if you plunge into the communist world and go to liberate the millions of suffering people there, with the willingness to give up even your life, then spirit world will intervene and help show you the way to save some of those lives.

Whenever I was in prison God intervened to give me guidance. I have experienced communist prisons in North Korea, prisons under the Japanese and prisons in South Korea, but even when I faced the worst circumstances, God’s intervention came immediately.

The supreme power of God does not manifest itself in a palace or from a gorgeous throne but always at the bottom of human misery, where blood and sweat are shed and where cries of anguish are heard. That is the place where the love of God is manifested in a supreme form. Though I did not preach even one word during my prison terms, the spirit world testified to me and most loyal disciples joined with me there, people who were willing to die for me. If I had been a desperate criminal I could have ganged up with those followers and escaped, but I never did.

I experienced God’s intervention in the worst possible situations. Food is absolutely precious in a prison camp because there is never enough food given for the prisoners to survive, just some barley and salty water. Sometimes one of my disciples would receive spiritual instructions to hide the rice cakes which had been brought to him by a visitor. Of course he was hungry to the point of starvation and wanted to eat them himself, but instead he would bring it to me, whispering, “Won’t you share this little piece with me? Hide it here.” You cannot imagine how this was a precious, precious gesture and true expression of love. Truly they risked their lives in such acts as this, and I have never forgotten each of those moments.

Although we were kept in separate cells, my followers had dreams of what I was doing and what my status was, and I also knew what they were doing and thinking. More than once they said, “Let me die in your place.” I too was willing to lay down my life for their safety and well-being.

You have not gone that far yet; instead your thinking is, “I’ve been here in the Unification Church for three years and I’ve done nothing but suffer.” However long you have been here does not make any difference; what matters is where your heart lies and whether you are still fervent in elevating your maturity of heart centered upon God. No matter what happens to me, if everything I have done is stripped away, or if one morning I become a leper, I still have value and cannot give up this way of life. If you also feel that to the depths of your heart then for the first time you are really entitled to the highest heaven.

We have more difficulties ahead. Blessed are those who continue steadfastly on this road with appreciation and a grateful heart. They will end up at the final goal. Because there is still so much distance to cover, the faith of many members will crumble in complaint and the desire for reward, even after only one or two years. Those people cannot be rewarded. If you are that way you will never be together with me in spirit world. Even though I would like you to be with me, without having the right heart we will be separated by a great distance. Whether you believe this or not is up to you; soon enough you will experience the truth in spirit world.

If you believe me then you must want to put that faith into action. You will never regret it. Even though you may be alone you can always have communion and companionship with God and live in anticipation of communicating with me in visions or dreams. As you prepare to go out witnessing you can anticipate unforgettable experiences. You never know when the opportunity for great blessing will come, so you must go on until it arrives. At the moment you get discouraged I may be but the next step ahead of you. Always press on with that expectation.

Do not ever think about whether you feel hungry or count how many hours you slept. Forget it! When you forget the earthly things then spirit world will feed you, and even if your forget to eat you will not be hungry. When spirit world intervenes, though you may run and run, you will feel as light as a bird. When you feel this joy of assistance from spirit world you will not even want to live in this clumsy earthly world. Nevertheless, God needs you here because His work is to be done on earth. Also He wants you to have a spouse and children. That is why God does not want you to enjoy spirit world too much but rather wants you to wait until your lime is finished on earth.

### You must keep your purity and give your heart to God first

One of the important qualifications to enter the Kingdom of Heaven is that of creating your family. The love of husband and wife and the love between parents and children is essential to this physical life. That is why Heavenly Father wants you to have your focus here on earth, although the cooperation of the spirit world is essential.

Once you know the spirit world’s standard of justice, you will be serious about maintaining harmony within your family. A husband and wife must seriously repent for their quarrels, even over a period of several months if necessary. Disunity between parents and children is also serious.

I would like to train you and leave you with the standard of spiritually perfected people. Can your own parents or your college professors train you that way? Your natural parents and professors cannot take responsibility for your eternal life, though I am doing it. No one else can take up the responsibility which I am fulfilling for you. I am coming into your life through dreams and visions to elevate your spirituality.

After coming into the Unification Church your understanding of God’s heart and the intervention of spirit world may come quickly, but you do not realize the value of what you receive. Behind the grace given you is the sacrifice of the saints and holy men of history. You are reaping the fruits of their suffering, standing upon the priceless foundation they have laid.

Spirit world has not yet seen perfection, but because life in the flesh is in the subject position, perfection of both the physical and spirit worlds must be accomplished by work in the physical world. The flesh is most important and precious. While you have your body you have to invest it properly, and it is your heart which will consummate the purpose of your body; through your heart you will fulfill individual, family, national and world perfection.

You single people must keep your purity and give your heart to God first. Those who have committed earthly sins such as lustful acts need to repent and work out the entanglements of your life. You will be forgiven if you repent and forever leave behind those ideas; only as a purified person can you be admitted to the Kingdom of God. Without purification you are incapable of receiving God’s pure love. God’s intention was for you to first taste His pure love, but this world has been a place of illicit and unprincipled love. Even so, there is no excuse for losing individual purity. In God’s sight fallen men are dirty, impure creatures who have lost the qualification to come before Him.

Upon entering the Unification Church you should have begun this cleansing process, completely dropping all connections to your past illicit relationships. Your concentration on God should become so intense that you even forget the names of those you were involved with. One serious condition for your blessing is that you restore yourself in purity before God.

You must bring yourself into a new realm of life in which you love God more intensely than your feeling of any past earthly love. To be acknowledged as a child of God your first love must be given to Him and to the True Parents. The illicit, impure love of the fallen world will not be accepted. You have a lot to forget and to cleanse. As members of the Unification Church you must not think about who you might marry. You will never reach the level of sons and daughters of God with such thinking, but only leave a hook by which Satan can snag you at any time. Your love should be connected to God and to the True Parents, being innocent, genuine and pure like Adam and Eve’s before their fall.

Once you have purified yourself to that degree then the entire spirit world will open to you and unification between the spirit and physical worlds can take place through your being. That is the Principle. The wisest way for you to go in the Unification Church is to become a person who is single-mindedly focused on one goal, not looking from side to side. Only then can you take up the worst possible sacrifice and accomplish the most difficult task. God will accept that person first.

In San Francisco there was one blessed Korean woman whose husband passed away. When she came to America I gave her the most difficult task of working in a restaurant so that she would not have a moment to think about her grief. Recently she said to me, “Thank you for giving me this task; I have had to concentrate on this task so hard that there has not been a moment to think about anything else.”

### Idle time without purpose is your enemy

Idle time or time having no purpose is your enemy because that is when your thoughts usually become self-centered. If you look back in your life then you know how true this is. I do not allow myself an idle moment but schedule my time in such a way that my whole attention is needed at every moment right where I am.

Take up the greatest possible responsibility and work yourself the hardest; then God will be free to accept you. In the morning get up early and stay out all day long; then come back and have supper and pray and sleep like a log. The person living such a life is the happiest person because he can cover the longest distance in the shortest possible time. Always push yourself and also ask God to push you. Once you deeply realize your situation in world restoration and feel the urgency of God, no power can bring you down. Recently many brothers and sisters have been vacillating back and forth, wasting too much time in idle moments and purposely wandering about. You must be straight and single-minded, directing yourself in such a way that all your time is given to God, True Parents and your mission.

This is why my message is concentrated on the spirit world and physical world. Unless you are earnestly pursuing that level of perfection and accomplishment, you don’t deserve to be blessed. When you truly experience the world of God’s love you will feel, using an American expression, like you are on Cloud 9. Then the next morning you will come back to the world of reality and the physical world will seem absolutely strange to you. You might have an even more extreme experience of being embraced in the heart of God and then coming back to yourself. Seeing your family’s faces you will think “Is she my wife? Where did these children come from?” It is possible to forget everything when you are living so single-mindedly in God’s world.

No matter how much a couple loves each other, when one of them precedes the other into a higher realm of spirit world, do you think he misses his spouse still in the physical world? Being intoxicated every moment of his life in spirit world, he will be constantly looking up to still higher progression and spiritual accomplishment. To those in spirit world the physical world is very clumsy and awkward and they have no desire to linger here.

You older sisters who are still single, do not speculate and wonder about your own blessing; if you are truly able to forget it amidst your work then the blessing will come sooner to you. Concentrate on your spiritual maturity. You clumsy brothers who are over 25 raise your hands. You must purify yourselves; you have a much more urgent mission for which you must intensify your way of life. From the point of view of the spirit world many of you are not yet human beings. When you came into the Unification Church you came into a new world and you must forget the world that you came from.

I am always concerned about how I can guide you young people so that you aren’t always losing your single-minded sense of purpose. In order to attain the highest possible heaven you need to strive for purity and perfection. Do you want to go over that hill quickly? That is why I push you out to do the hardest possible missions, in which you must fight and battle uphill against great odds. Satan loves to see you in an agony of confusion, but when you are joyful even in the midst of suffering the worst kind of tribulation Satan has no power over you.

In the communist prison I was tortured and beaten and was at the point of dying from losing so much blood. When the prison guards threw my body out of the prison my disciples started to make preparations for my funeral because they thought I had died. Even under those circumstances my spirit was never defeated. My prayer to God was, “Father, don’t worry. I will never be a weak person. I shall never be defeated by my suffering. I am concerned only for Your heart and I want to comfort You. Don’t worry about Your son.”

I never prayed from weakness to beg God’s help; I never said, “I’ll die unless You come to help me.” I want to go over every difficulty with confidence and show Heavenly Father that He has no further cause for concern or misery or sorrow. My philosophy is to reduce the sorrow and pain in the heart of God, not to add to it or burden Him further.

In your life also there will be a crossing point between good and evil which you must go over. You must become the embodiment of God’s love; otherwise you will never be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Your eyes must be focused upon the one single-minded goal of becoming the embodiment of God’s love. Because we have been living in the age of indemnity the course has gone up and down, but from this time on you must single-mindedly focus your attention and go up. We have come to the end of fluctuation.

You can do the same and even greater works than 1. Since we know things that other people do not know we can do extraordinary things, performing miracles. I have the same kind of body you do, with two hands and ten fingers. I am putting my life on the front line all the time. The mission I am fulfilling has never been comfortable or even safe. There have been many threats on my life, and without God’s protection I would have been killed a long time ago.

Because I know that God’s protection is everywhere, I go anywhere with faith that God’s power will defeat an assassin’s purpose. I have already seen occasions when this happened. One time a person was ready to kill me when suddenly he dropped dead. With danger always around I always live my life on the brink.

When you can love someone at the risk of your life, your love is then true love. The American people are deeply indebted to me because I have been giving my whole-hearted attention and love to the American people at the constant risk of my life. In the same way the entire spirit world is indebted to me.

God will bring the victory, no one else. The blessing is wonderful but you can ask for your blessing only after God’s heart has been comforted. Until then your point of view should be, “God, please push me out all the way until we attain Your goal.”

There are many things about God and the dispensation which I did not tell you before, but now I can tell you the truth very plainly. However, you must act accordingly. What I am telling you this morning is not theory but the eternal truth. You must forget the ways of the old world from which you came and become a single-minded person centered on God’s purpose. Since you had previously forgotten God and devoted yourself to the world, you must now forget the world and devote yourself to God. It is the road of restoration. As a person who has not yet reached the goal you must humbly accept the fact that you are far from perfection.

### To indemnity the past, give your deepest love to God

Those who have experienced the love of someone in the fallen world must indemnity this by giving a more intense love than you gave before in your witnessing and fund raising. Without changing yourself you will not be admitted into the Kingdom of God and His world of love. Your love will be tested and then you can demonstrate that you love God and the True Parents with all your heart and soul. That love should exceed all your past experiences.

Have you ever experienced a longing for True Parents so great that you could not sleep, but went outside and watched the moon rising and the stars shining? In the everyday world people sometimes can’t sleep for longing to be with their fiancé or their family, but they go outside and shed tears in the dark of night. Your change in heart must be brought to the point that you long for God and the True Parents even more. That is the Principle and the fastest means by which you can obtain the Kingdom of God eternally. The person will be blessed who can give his first love to God and to the True Parents. God wants to give tremendous glory to those who offer their most precious love for His sake.

Unless the intensity of your love for God is stronger than all your past love experiences, Satan will always be able to hook you and always you will have that one condition for Satan to claim. God is not free to give you unconditional love and blessing until you liquidate all conditions for the accusation of Satan. Do you think that is right? You know this truth now. Once you die and give up your body it will be too late to change easily; to make progress in spirit world requires millenniums. You young people have something worthwhile to live for now.

The standard of truth I am giving you this morning is a very, very difficult standard for the average stained young people of America to be challenged with. In this sense the background of Oriental young people is much better. In the East genuine purity has been strictly upheld so those people have a much greater chance to give their first love to God. In the Western world your first love is often given cheaply among yourselves, and what you call “experience” is what kills true love. Pure love is like unstained linen, but stained love is like linen with big ugly marks that are most difficult to wash out. You have to wash away all the memories of the past from your mind.

Today’s American society has lost the value of true marriage and many babies are born out of wedlock. Society is in confusion. However, God can even utilize this situation because in trying to change and go the heavenly way people may more easily forget such relationships and go the way God has called.

Degradation and decline can be seen everywhere; the world is crumbling, but through it all God has a certain purpose. It is very logical that the spirit world and physical world shall be united centering upon the genuine pure love of God. That is the one thing that can speak loudly in both worlds; nothing will work in either world except through the pure love of God. Unity with God’s love is the most basic and fundamental means by which everything will be restored. Without this one basic element, no matter how much effort is made nothing will be accomplished.

When you are lonely then you can feel closer to God’s lonely position and you can more easily forget this lonely world and come toward a single-minded devotion to God. God’s goal is to make a personal relationship with you. When you are in the direct dominion of God He directly intervenes in your life.

You are entitled to know what kind of heaven awaits you; I am not talking about a fantasy world but a more real world than man has ever yet experienced. Let us experience and live that Kingdom of God on earth. After that, the Kingdom of God in heaven shall be open to you automatically as an extraordinary reward. Shall we build it or not? God bless you. Let us pray.

## WORD AND DEED

By Fami1yfed June 12, 2018 June 12, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### January 30, 1977
Belvedere, New York
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

The topic of the message this morning is “Word and Deed.” In our daily lives our words are very important. Our words do many critical things: they can give inspiration, bring happiness, or cause heartache. People commonly compliment those who can speak well; however, in order to be successful in our lives words alone are not adequate. Words must be backed up by deeds.

We have to determine the secret of success in human life. Which is better, to have more words and fewer deeds, or fewer words and more deeds? The combination of words and deeds that a person has determines his value and defines his personality and character. That criterion is the same, whether for man or for God. Let us think about God for a moment because God also speaks and acts.

Since God is omnipotent and omnipresent, nothing is impossible for Him. In that case, why does He even bother to speak? God, the Almighty Creator does not have to explain His actions to anyone or make excuses. Then why does God need to speak; why does He bother?

When there is happiness and joy in our lives on earth and also in spirit world, we laugh and dance and sing. However, we cannot communicate joy or happiness by ourselves. In order for God to express His joy, He needs something, too. We know God speaks and acts, but why? In order to create? The Bible says that God created the world by His Word. Does that mean God climbed up to the top of a mountain and shouted out for creation to appear?

Is God really only interested in creating things? The creation must have some purpose; God is not creating just for the sake of creating. There must be a central reason why God speaks and acts, but what is it? We know God speaks and acts for the salvation of the world. However, in reality, the salvation of the world was never intended by God; it became necessary only after the fall. Let me ask you Unification Church members something. Do you want to have this emergency state requiring the restoration of the world to continue for eternity, or do you want to finish the restoration and have a new day dawn?

God wants to see the new day dawn, too. He is surely doing salvation work, but that is not His permanent job. He wants to finish it quickly. Restoration is a necessity right now only because the original concept of creation was not fulfilled. But beyond the salvation work and beyond the creation God still would have been speaking and acting. Why? For love, true love. If that is so, then what is true love?

No one can really explain true love with the words of men. When true love comes, our very bones and organs, our five senses will all smile and burst into laughter at the same moment. Then what would our minds do? While our bodies are smiling and bursting with joy, would our minds be stone cold? When we contact true love, everything reacts. There is harmony and united action. Our whole mind and body react to it in harmony. This is an eternal and -universal principle.

What is dancing? There are many different kinds of dance, but in all of them, before your arms and legs begin to move, your mind is already dancing. Why do we dance? To satisfy someone else? Dancing is truly an expression of love, an expression of joy. The heavenly world is a world of music, a world of dance, and a world of laughter. Think for a moment about beautiful songs. Are there many songs in praise of oneself, songs which say, “I am a hero,” or “I am a heroine”? That kind of song does not appeal to people; even one short song like that would bore them. That kind of song cannot be repeated twice, ten times, or a hundred times.

But when you sing a song of love, there is still freshness, newness and excitement after repeating it a hundred times, a thousand times. A song of love can be repeated for a millennium, and there is still freshness and excitement. If the entire universe were completely packed with power, money and knowledge, there still would be room for a song of love.

Money, power, and knowledge do not last forever, but a song of love has eternal freshness, eternal awareness, and eternal joy. The ideal world and particularly the perfected spirit world is the world of love. Love is perpetually consummated there. Out of that world comes music, singing, dancing, and the joy of laughter. Everything centers around this one true love, the central quality of the ideal world and heaven. Do you take exception to this? Does anyone not want it?

Everyone looks forward to the ideal. In the ideal world, nobody tries to claim that he is a hero or a heroine, demanding respect. It is not that kind of world. Instead, everyone wants to melt into the world of love, to have harmonious give and take with one another.

In the world today there are many for whom money is everything. They think money brings the utmost happiness; they want to be rich and to show off; they want to have a mansion, to have everything. They think that wealth is the consummation of human life. With the exception of Unification Church members, American women look forward to having very rich husbands. Probably their next highest goal is to marry a man of infinite intelligence who has a Ph.D. from Harvard or Yale. Or perhaps their goal is much higher. Perhaps they want to be the First Lady, to enjoy power in the world so that everyone will come and pay respect to them. Is that your goal, too? These things may be fine, but they come and go. They will not remain; they will disappear like the morning dew.

Let us think about words of love. When you express your love in words, do you give an explanation for it or put some condition on it? Do you say, “I love you because you have lots of money, or because you are the President of the United States”? There is no explanation for real love, it communicates directly. Would you prefer the kind of love which requires an explanation, or the kind which comes directly to your heart and which you feel in your very bones?

We must realize that there are many, many kinds of love. There is the kind of love that is deceitful, the kind of love that tries to take advantage of others, the kind of love that manipulates others; there are so many false colors of love. Love not only builds with a most beautiful and supreme power, but it can destroy. When misused, love can be a deadly poison for you and can even destroy the world. Do you know what I mean?

If we classify love, there are primarily two kinds: God-centered love and Satan-centered love. How are they different? First of all, God-centered one common goal; they act with one purpose, in one direction.

True love is a uniting force, and therefore the common point of unity between the mind and body, between men and women, between families, and between friends. Then what is the standard and formula of unification? Love sets the standard. Love is the common place where the subject and object can meet, where the mind and body can meet, where men and women can meet, and where parents and children can meet. God is dwelling at that central point. Because love actually belongs to God, it comes from a place higher than yourself.

Why does God place His throne at that particular position of love? God is seeking for an object. Being love, God is seeking that common place where love is responding to Him. We commonly say that the human body is the temple of God, but what is a holy temple? Is that a place to work for a living? Is it a factory, an office? When you think of a holy temple, you immediately visualize some permanent resting place where you can have peace and tranquillity.

The dwelling place of love must be a place of tranquillity because without love there is no tranquillity or peace. If we are the temple of God, we are a resting place, a holy place, a dwelling place of God’s love. This is the only way we can restore peace and tranquillity. You can rest in yourself when you have God’s love. We want to elevate ourselves as holy temples of God and become dwelling places of God in which we can restore our peace and tranquillity forever. We call the world of people with those kinds of personalities the world of heart. When you invite God to dwell within you, within your own holy place, then His love is like spring water. No matter how much you consume, the fresh water will keep coming. It will never stagnate and never run out. Don’t you want to become that kind of person?

If you become that kind of person, a temple of God, you can comfort those who are sad and crying. If you are becoming the consummation of the love of God, then you are becoming a perfected man, and those who come near to you will melt in the spring love alone can harmonize the body and mind. No human effort, no glue in the world can make two things come together the way love can.

In the Unification Church we call each other brothers and sisters. How do we become brothers and sisters? People commonly say that we become brothers and sisters by the word of God, through the Divine Principle. But what would you want, just the Divine Principle itself or a personality that is already living the Divine Principle? When you really live and consummate the Divine Principle, your personality has a heart of love.

“Word and Deed” is my topic today. To be a person of noble character means that one’s words and deeds are united by one common principle, that one speaks and acts in complete unity. Still, we can see many people who speak one way and act another. If you look at a noble or godly person from the standpoint of his words, however, you will find that they are united with his deeds; and if you look at him from the standpoint of his deeds, you will find they are united with his words. No matter which angle you look at a godly person from, you will not find contradictions, but rather harmony and unity. How about you? Are you completely one in word and deed? Anybody who can claim to his own wife, to his nation, and to God that his words never contradict his deeds is indeed a consummated, perfected man.

We must also consider what those words and deeds are centered upon. Some people can say that their words and deeds never contradict each other as far as money is concerned. Where business is concerned, their word is gold. Many scholars are proud to say that while they are pursuing the knowledge of the universe, their words and deeds are just the same. Powerful rulers of the earth, presidents, kings and emperors of the world might say that their words are law, that their words bring about action, and consequently that there is complete oneness between their words and deeds. There are many who have lived with that kind of standard.

Considering the true value of life, what kind of rating can we give such people? Their words and deeds are united, but with a certain emphasis: money, power, or knowledge. From God’s point of view, are they below the standard of His Word, or above? These different standards are real in human life, not hypotheses. We can witness them every day, both in the Unification Church and outside. Which is your emphasis? If you become a man of united word and deed, then with which emphasis, on what foundation do you want to live? If your emphasis and foundation are not clear, your direction will be unsteady and your course could be shaken or disturbed.

What emphasis can bring you higher value? Nobody can deny that the most supreme way of life, the supreme unity between word and deed, begins with the emphasis of love. With this conclusion, now think for a moment. Would anybody say, “Something seems wrong; I do not completely agree. I want to bring revolution; I want to break love apart and rebuild it.” Is that possible, or is love such that the most evil person under the sun could not think of revolutionizing it?

Love is universal. Everything under the sun can be united around it. If you emphasize money, you can control a certain segment of life; if you emphasize knowledge or power, you can unite or control other segments, but you cannot have universal success. There are so many people who claim to be wise, but God is the King of wisdom. If God and a man of wisdom both think deeply about something then they can come to the same conclusion, but for them to have any kind of a lasting, universal unity and peace, their relationship can only be centered on love.

Emphasis on love alone can bring nobility to man’s way of life and make it sublime. Is God or love the center of heaven? It is very difficult to decide between them; we are torn apart. We finally have to say that the center of heaven is God with His love. None of us can dispute that, whether we are white or black or yellow. We are seeking, longing for God and that kind of universal love.

Therefore both God and love are the center of the universe. Then in order to become a universal man, where should you stand-on the outskirts or right in the center? You should make your center with God and His love. The center with God and His love is already there, and you are making yourselves acceptable to that center. You are moving into that center.

God does not stand still; He breathes and He acts. Because He is the universal center, when he breathes the entire universe breathes together with Him. There is nothing that does not come under His influence. You cannot say, “I have nothing to do with God’s breath or with His influence.” That is the same an expression of some sensation that you cannot help but express. This kind of dynamic, ideal life is what we have to accomplish.

For a moment let us concentrate our thoughts on religion. Religion is one method in human life for searching after God. But is God actually the ultimate goal? No. We are trying to go into the realm of the love of God, trying to be intoxicated by or drowned in God’s love. That is the purpose of religion. But you know, the thrilling yet sad part is that if there had been no human fall, we would not have needed religion; we would have been born in the central position and would have grown up in it to enjoy and live in heaven for eternity.

There are many facets of love and life that do not need explanation, that you do not have to learn in a classroom. Do you need to learn the theory of love between parents and children? It is natural; it should automatically become part of you. Love is like air. You don’t have to explain where air is to breathe it 24 hours a day. Man was born to breathe the love of God. If you had to go somewhere to get air to breathe, you would soon run into trouble because there would be a long waiting line for air. But air is everywhere and the love of God is also everywhere; it would have been our environment if we had not fallen.

We should feel the love of God naturally, but we cannot because a great deal of blockage was brought about by the fall of man. Once this is removed, however, God’s love will become natural to you. Our individual center should be based in the center of God; there should be a common center.

Fundamentally speaking, why are people born? You are not born for the accomplishment of power and money and knowledge, but for the accomplishment of love. You are born for love, also from love. God made love so great as to be the source of life. We are the result of love, not the result of life. We were all born, not by competition between our parents, but in the beauty of love. That is the cause of life for all humanity. No birth is the result of the mother and father sitting and counting money. No one was born as the result of discussing the most important scientific theory.

From love, life emerged, you emerged. We are caused by love and our purpose is to result in love. The unity of love of the subject and object brings a new germination of life. Therefore, any married couple without children is somehow unstable. Even though the husband and wife become one, without children there is no common accomplishment which can vividly show that they are one. Even though there may be some squabbles between husband and wife, when they look at their own children their differences can usually be resolved. It was God’s ideal when He put men and women together that they produce a family; God intended to see their children.

All human actions and our life of love are always submerged in the love of God. The atmosphere of God’s love embraces all life. The promise of love is the supreme force in this universe. When Adam and Eve are united in love, that event is really the most important happening in the universe. God, all the creation, and Adam and Eve will focus their entire attention on it.

God represents the past, while Adam and Eve represent the present, and their children represent the future. The past, present and future are all united in the one embracing atmosphere of the love of God. Your individual position is a composite of the past, present and future. Because God took part in your creation, the past is represented in you. Because your parents were involved, the present is there, and you yourself represent the future. Through love one unified position was created, and through that position one life was born.

When parents have a child, they always embrace the child; they want to touch and hug him. There is a mysterious force working here, the force of God’s love. Because the child is a manifestation of the parents’ love, the child participates in his parents’ love and they are all one.

Of course God also participates in that position because His love created the environment. Once you are all united in love, nothing under the sun can separate you. That is the ideal. Once love is flowering in the environment of the love of God, everyone wants to stay there forever; everyone wants to make it eternal. Do you think God will say, “Well, in a little while I will change it”?

In God’s concept of the ideal, loving relationships are established on an eternal basis, Therefore, God wants to see men and women in love and to see that love perpetuated for eternity. Don’t you want to have your parents’ love last for eternity? Would you want to have them love you for ten years and then separate from you? Wouldn’t you mind? Whether it is the love between husband and wife, parents and children, or between God and men, we all anxiously desire that the love be perpetual.

You are the representative of your parents’ love, the fruit of their love. Furthermore you are representative of the love of God; you are the living example of His love. God dwells where the warmth of love is and that is heaven. Whether here on earth or in spirit world, this one principle stands: The essence of heaven is God’s love. The repetition of love is the formula that creates history. There is a real history of love which is woven from generation to generation.

In the Divine Principle we are concerned with the heavenly four position foundation. The four positions represent the various facets of human love centered on God. Therefore, once we create that heavenly four position foundation, nothing can disrupt it. Where is heaven then? Beyond the Pacific Ocean? No, heaven is within you, within the heart of a wife, the heart of a husband, the hearts of the children, the hearts of the grandparents. Heaven is not any kind of Disneyland; heaven is in the midst of you because the place where you are becomes God’s dwelling place and the dwelling place of your parents. All love is located right there where you are.

Once the consequences of the fall are liquidated, you will not have to search after heaven. You are supposed to be born in heaven, to grow up there, and be perfected and consummated in heaven.

To say “I,” means to be responsible. You cannot say, “I don’t care about anything,” because “I” is a representative of the parents, and a representative of the love of God, and they care. Your situation is not simple. You are a very heavenly burden in that respect. Today’s most important new awakening centers on “I.” Many people say, “I don’t care,” or “Why do you care about me? I don’t need you. I can do anything I want.” This kind of “I” is not the true one. When you understand God’s concept of the ideal, you become a very responsible “I.” When you say “I,” your parents are automatically involved and God is involved; your past, present and future are all involved in “I.”

We must have three prides: First, pride in history; or our past; next, pride in our present, and finally pride in our future. Particularly in America there are people who are crazy about antiques. America is only 200 years young, not yet that old, but American people are still nostalgic about the past. They are even trying to create antiques. If they use brand-new wood to build a home or to make furniture, they try to make it look old. Sometimes they dent it with hammers, or use streaky paint and sprinkle it with spots; they even make holes here and there to make it look 100 years old.

Why do men do such crazy things? Their actions express a human desire for history. People want to register themselves in history; they want to remain longer. Antiques are expensive because their value comes from their history. If you have something in your home that your great-great-grandfather used, then you have some personal link to history. No money can buy that kind of value. This trait reflects a desire of our original nature.

If you hurt yourself, you are not hurting only yourself, you are hurting the fruit of parental love, and you are hurting the manifestation of God’s love. If parents see their child in a great deal of pain, they certainly feel that pain. God too, feels that pain. If there is something in which you take great delight, then your parents can also take great delight, as well as God. Your feelings are parallel.

In America, however, young people do not know much about their parents. They think, “My parents gave me life, so their job is finished. I’m independent; I have nothing to do with them.” This shows that American culture is losing the beauty of family life and sinking closer to the animal kingdom. This kind of thinking goes against the universal principle of God and is more dangerous than the hydrogen bomb. When God looks at American society and particularly at the American family system, He does not have too much hope for America; its future is dismal and unstable because the most important trunk line for His truth is being lost.

Suppose that you sisters looked in the mirror and became convinced that the best feature of your face was your eyes. Then you would love your eyes, but as you say, “I have the two most beautiful, sparkling eyes in the world,” you should call your left eye your mother’s eye and your right eye your father’s eye. Identify parts of you as your mother’s and parts of you as your father’s. It is a beautiful thing to took at yourself as an expression of your parents. Everybody cares for himself or herself, but you must not do it for yourselves; do it for your parents and for God. That is beauty. Then you will love your parents and care for your own mother and father and God to the same degree that you love yourself and want to care for yourself.

There is no selfishness in this way of life. Even though a person may love himself or herself, it would not be selfish love. When you have something at school to be joyful about, then your parents will be very happy too. At such a moment have you ever thought, “Oh, God must be happy.” If you are smiling, do you think, “Oh, God must be smiling too.” When you are really ecstatic and dancing around, then remember that this is not just your joy; this is also your parents’ joy and even God’s joy. He must be dancing upstairs.

The entire universe will also be dancing around you. Your joy will echo throughout the universe and spread like a wave. This can be seen in nature. When springtime comes, Belvedere is a very beautiful place and many birds sing in the early morning. However, they all sing differently: cheep cheep, chirp chirp, tweet tweet, and soon they become a New Hope Singers International.

When you express joy, it will be echoed by another, and then it will spread out in a wave through the entire universe, in a beautiful echo of life. But that echo of life, the echo of your singing and dancing, is not just for yourself. When you are fully aware that you are the representative of your parents and of God, then you will feel that God is dwelling in you, and that you are singing and dancing and joyful for Him and for your parents. Then would God come out and say, “You! Shut up! Why do you wake me up this early in the morning?” Will your parents say, “Stop shouting! Come and eat”?

You are precious, so go ahead and praise yourself, but not out of your own ego or for self-aggrandizement. You are the result of history; you are the expression of thousands of years of history and tradition. Furthermore, God has been working behind all those accomplishments. To know that God has made His dwelling place in you is a beautiful realization. It is a beautiful ideal life. The person who stands in that center has the approval of God. He has passed the test of life. In so many cases, however, we flunk this course of life.

Where were your born? Where did you originate? You were born out of the love of parents and the love of God; don’t forget that. God’s intervention played an important part in your birth, and you are the result of your parents’ love; therefore, the world of men is an expansion of your father’s world, and the world of women is an expansion of your mother’s world. When you have your parents, you own the entire universe.

Together they represent the entire world of men and the entire world of women, and both are manifested in you; you are the focal point of the microcosm of the universe. When you are centered and your deeds are righteous then your deeds will bring you tremendous joy, and certainly your father and mother would share your joy, and through them the rest of the world would share your joy.

Everyone respects the pious son and daughter who are faithful to their parents because that piety is approved by the universe. With that heart you become a catalyst or central point for your parents to relate to the rest of the world. Your parents are beside you from your birth on, and God is always involved; these same heavenly four positions will multiply into a society, nation and world. That is how the ideal life can be expanded into heaven here on earth.

The heavenly four positions represent all the loving relationships of human life on a worldwide and universal scale, and ultimately the Kingdom of God here on earth. It starts on a small scale, with you in the center; then it expands to your family, your society, nation and world. The most important aspect here is the quality of love that you demonstrate. When you demonstrate unselfish love toward your parents, you will become a pious son; and when you demonstrate that unselfish, most beautiful love toward the nation, you will be regarded as a patriot. When you demonstrate this beautiful love toward humanity, you will be known as a saint or holy man. The quality of these loves is the same because they start from the same central point; they do not have separate centers. Those who possess the central position of love shall indeed be known as the sons and daughters of God. From the nation’s point of view, they are the most patriotic people in God’s kingdom, and from God’s universal point of view they are the most holy people. But they always begin as sons and daughters of God.

The entire teaching of God’s truth can be summarized in one simple sentence: All mankind desires to become sons and daughters of God, even in the fallen world. We know that the fallen world resulted from the fallen ancestors of mankind. To restore the fallen world, someone has to bring a new, common center to the universe: God’s center. Therefore, we need new, God-centered parents, and the concept of True Parents came into being.

The entire teaching of the Bible leads toward one simple truth: The fallen world was brought about by Satan through false parents; therefore, God will establish a new beginning point of a new human history, the True Parents. Through them all humanity can be grafted into the new history. We must be grafted into the true olive tree. From being wild olive trees representing the satanic world, we will begin a new life and new history. What is the ultimate goal? To become children of God.

Let us come back to this morning’s topic. Words do not exist for their own sake, nor do deeds happen for their own sake. Words and deeds must serve some purpose. What is the qualification for speaking or acting? You must speak as a son or daughter of God, and you must act as a son or daughter of God.

What should you be in order to qualify as sons and daughters of God? You must realize that you are the manifestation of the True Parents’ position, their labor, and their love, and furthermore, of God’s love. With that realization you have already accomplished the heavenly four positions; God is definitely with you, and True Parents are definitely with you. By uniting with them you represent the four positions, and in heaven and earth you can be proclaimed as a son or daughter of God.

No one can take that concept out of your mind. If people beat you up and throw you in jail, they still cannot remove the realization from your mind that you are one with Heavenly Father and the True Parents, and that you are the representative of the heavenly four positions. You don’t need to worry about where you will end up; if someone pushes you down to the dungeons of hell, you will never remain there. As though on a springboard, you will fly up to the highest position of heaven. Our salvation is guaranteed. You must become men and women of heart and realize these things through feeling and emotion, not just by logic. These feelings must be embedded in your bones, so deeply that even unconsciously they are always part of your life, and nothing could ever change them.

Individually you are related to the past, present, and future. Because your father represents the world of all men, you have a connecting point there. Your mother is represented in you, so you can love all women, and you can love the future because you represent the future of God, and the future of your parents.

You are the manifestation of universal love from all directions. Ultimately we are all supposed to go to the throne of God, but you don’t go alone. You go together with the True Parents, and God will open His arms and welcome you. If you approach His throne with your True Father and Mother, you are actually coming with the entire universe. Father represents the world of all men, and Mother represents the world of all women. Together you approach as universal beings. Therefore, you are not alone; when you are with them you go with the whole world. If you are moving toward the throne of God with Father and Mother, God certainly cannot afford to reject you.

How can you win Father and Mother so they will embrace you and you can go together with them to the throne of God? You can win them by making yourself acceptable to Father’s heart and by making yourself acceptable to Mother’s heart. In a simple way of speaking, you must become a pious son or daughter. When you can move their hearts, then you can certainly move the heart of God.

This is the eternal formula. The ideal person or perfected person in the sight of God is the person who loves all men as he loves his father, who loves all women as he loves his mother, and who loves all mankind as God loves mankind. In other words, this person can look down on the world from the viewpoint of God. That person is truly a perfected person, who can pass any test of God.

That person has a free pass to the Kingdom of God in heaven. Even if God is asleep in a kingsize bed, you can tumble in and disturb Him and God will accept you. With your words and deeds united, you can perfect yourself so that you automatically live, speak, and act in harmony. Such a person is perfected; there is no further goal beyond that.

Words are so powerful that they can build or destroy the world. Isn’t that true? When your heart is established in the love of God, whatever language you speak is an expression of love. That language may sound very harsh or unkind, but since it is from the love of God, it will always build, never destroy. The word is also a judge. If I speak about a definite standard, those words become the judge. If a happy looking person is listening, he may immediately become very serious. Perhaps that person comes to me and says, “I did this and this; can you forgive me?” Then a simple word of forgiveness can lift that person’s morale instantly.

Love is so powerful that when you are based on heavenly love, your words become powerful as well. As long as that word is based on love, it will only build and never destroy. When you act from that heart, your action will further harmonize the entire universe instead of taking anything away from the universe.

What kind of place is the Unification Church? What is the fragrance of the Unification Church? When you go to the fish market there is a smell of fish, and when you go to a hog farm there is a smell of hogs. So what is the smell of the Unification Church? The Unification Church has a concrete logic, philosophy and conviction which you heard about this morning. You are speaking as sons and daughters of God, going out to the world, manifesting yourselves as representatives of God. We gather together here as a building force, a cleaning force of the universe, not as a destructive force. We are here with the smell and fragrance of God’s Kingdom, in the capacity of sons and daughters of God. If you go out to act with that commitment and realization, you can bring a beautiful result, But if that foundation is shaken, you will never build anything.

Actually, neither your words nor your deeds are important, but rather what you are is all important. If you have absolute conviction and awareness as sons and daughters of God, you can go out and act as you wish, and everything you do shall become a manifestation of the love of God. Simply speaking, you are living not for yourself, but for your own parents, True Parents, and God, who is the ultimate parent. Your real parent is the God who embraces all humanity, so you also must live for humanity.

When we talk about world humanity, we are actually talking about brothers and sisters. White and black together make the most exciting beauty because then we have more stimulation among ourselves. When whites love blacks, and blacks love whites, it is much more beautiful than just whites loving whites, and blacks loving blacks. When your words and deeds are words of love for your own parents, and your own brothers and sisters, then there is no way you can be hindered from moving in any direction.

You could go on speaking 24 hours a day because everything you would do is the expression of the inmost nature of God’s love. If nobody is listening, then the floor will listen and the air will listen; all nature will listen to you. Creation will respond to anything that you do. That kind of world is our eternal world; the spirit world is already living that principle.

Our ultimate destination is heaven. Here on earth we have the opportunity to discipline ourselves and to create our character which will be magnified in heaven. When you have become the personification of God’s love, people will accept and love whatever you say. People will accept and love whatever you do.

Put yourself for a moment in the position of parents. How do your parents feel? They want you to love your brothers and sisters more than you love them because they represent God, and God feels that way. The hearts of parents and the heart of God have much in common. The greatest love in this universe is parental love. This love is most pure because it is absolutely unselfish. A true husband would want to have more benefit come to his own wife than to himself. He would always take more delight when his wife is honored and praised or given beautiful gifts than when he is.

Any love that is close to parental love is noble and sacred, and the more unselfish love is, the closer it is to parental love. The entire universe is moving toward that ultimate, supreme form of love because that is the very love of God. God exists totally for the sake of His children. In the world of love, anyone who tries to raise himself up to the highest point receives the worst mark. In the world of love, that standard doesn’t work.

In the world of love, sacrifice is the supreme value. Any religion that is close to God’s heart demonstrates a sacrificial, dedicated spirit. No parents calculate how much love they will give to their children, saying, “I’ll pay your tuition for college, but you’ll have to buy me a big house in the future.” Rather, they give without reservation, and they delight in their son or daughter growing up and accomplishing something important for the nation, the world, or for the sake of humanity. That reflects the very feeling and thinking of God.

Anyone who violates this way will become the least in the world of God, and anyone who emphasizes it will become a giant. A true parent will teach you to become a sacrificial person. Forgetting about themselves, parents emphasize being sacrificial for others. They will say, “You go and love the world the way I loved you.” Such people are true parents.

Let us examine the Unification Church from this criterion. Are we on the right track or the wrong track? Am I teaching you that you must love me today, and 24 hours a day every day, or am I teaching you that more than anything else you should go out and give yourselves in a sacrificial way to serve God and humanity? When we live that principle, are we destined to be destroyed or successful? Actually this is the real secret of heavenly conquest. Heavenly conquest is accomplished by love, by melting peoples’ hearts with the power of love. Your parents, humanity, the nation, even God, all their hearts can be melted by the power of love. You can conquer God and make Him helpless toward you. When this love just whispers, even just exists, God wants to be there. Just ask Him to come; He will dash to that place. You already command me in this respect.

From this point of view, the harder the mission the better, because it gives us a better chance to test ourselves and to prove how worthy we are in the sight of God. Heroes are born only during emergency and crisis. Under the most adverse conditions we can prove ourselves to be sacrificial and truly unselfish. We have only the one limited period when we are living here on earth to demonstrate that spirit. Compared to eternity, our lives here on earth are like a spark of light.

Our time here on earth with this physical body is our opportunity to perfect our love and our spirit. We need our bodies to demonstrate our love of God. That is why our bodies are important. There is a world of problems out there; that is good. This is our opportunity to apply the Principle and live it. This is where the deeds come in.

Therefore I have stirred up controversy and have become a problem to the world, but in a good way. I am not casting out poison. Rather, there is so much poison already that I became controversial by neutralizing the poison. I am the first one to come with the power to neutralize the poison that Satan has been spreading for 6000 years. By doing this I have created controversy.

People outside may think that I am the worst kind of devil. Let them think that way, but let them come to see me. Then they will realize that I am entirely different from their original understanding. In order to restore something, you normally have to make one full cycle and return, like making a U-turn in a street. But in order to make controversy and speed up the restoration, we have jumped around instead. I cannot afford to spend time going all the way around.

If people have a negative image of me, that is fine; at least they know me. Then all they have to do is one simple flip, and we can make that happen overnight. That is possible here on earth while we have a physical body. In the past, some of the worst sinners became saints overnight, but a miraculous transformation like that is possible only in the physical world. Once you take off your physical body and are elevated to the spirit world, you need millions of years to make one inch of spiritual advancement.

While we have spirit and body together here, we can create a miracle because our bodies can demonstrate our hearts and extraordinary change can come about. But once you lose your physical body and become only a spirit, your opportunity is gone. Then in order to act, you have to come down and work with somebody on earth. If even your own body does not respond too well to your mind sometimes, what will happen with someone else’s body? It is very clumsy and awkward to accomplish anything. Once we clearly know the truth about God, the more we live a sacrificial way of life, the better it is for our own achievement.

Do not give lip service to your brothers and sisters by not speaking from your heart. Unless you have deep motivation to do something, do not do it. Doing something only to impress someone will become the worst kind of burden in the spirit world. Spiritual law does not provide any means to restore acts and words that are not truthful. Just being Unification Church members is not a guarantee of heaven; it depends on how much you live the truth. Now you know how to become sons and daughters of God, so all that remains is to speak the right words and do the right deeds.

It is so important to speak and act from your heart. Then wherever you go, you do not even have to prepare; your words are ready and your deeds are ready. When you go out with the right motive and the right heart, your actions are automatically there. Whatever you do, fund raise or witness, you have one central goal: you do it to become a pious son or daughter of God. You want to become a true patriot in the Kingdom of God. You want to become a saint and holy man in the sight of God. One central, common principle can accomplish all those with dignity.

I proudly send you out to fund raise; our members sell peanuts and flowers, but there is no shame in that because our purpose is far greater than working for Ford Motor Company, IBM, or anyone. There is no nobler heart or more sublime task. Our love for our parents, for our society, our nation, humanity, and God will get stronger, and our spiritual maturity and accomplishments in the sight of God will become gigantic by living this way. Since our motivation is right, why should we be ashamed?

We will become prosperous by leaps and bounds because this is the truth of God; it is the only path to follow. Unselfish deeds are bound to be successful because everyone’s innate nature longs for such accomplishments; eventually that is the only way to win the world. That is the way I have always wanted to live and the way I have always lived. In Korea and Japan, night after night I did not even look at the clock. Even at three or four o’clock in the morning, as long as someone was listening to me, I did not notice the time; I kept teaching.

The international leaders come and report to me at East Garden. I am always enthusiastic, talking with them and listening, but by twelve or one o’clock I can read their minds, “Father, why do you keep on like this; why don’t you tell us to go to bed and rest?” But I never tell them that because as a parent I always feel such excitement in my heart that I just do not want to quit. God, too, is always awake and enthusiastic and paying attention to every little thing His children do.

This is my advice to you: do not speak if your heart is silent, and do not act unless your heart is sincerely moved. We have so much to say and do in this world that once we know the value of it we can throw ourselves wholeheartedly into our task. Why do we have to go witnessing? If you can bring one person from the streets of New York into a realization of God, all of his ancestors can be elevated. Through earthly deeds many souls will be assisted in spirit world. When you distribute the truth of God, you are becoming a mediator of His love. Through you so many people can come to know the truth and raise up their eternal life; you are a mediator of love, pouring out the love of God to them. Your position is absolutely beautiful as spiritual mothers and fathers.

You don’t know the impact of your witnessing. You may witness to someone who can affect an entire generation in England, or he may contact another person important and wealthy enough to do that. That person would be your spiritual grandchild. Through bringing one person to a realization of the truth, you are making an impact on his whole nation and his whole spirit world. You may think that you are just a trivial individual; never think that. You have within yourself power that can move the world. If you move one person perhaps that person could move many countries or even continents. By the truth you can move that one woman or man.

President Carter’s mother can go to the White House, but actually, what right does she have to be there? She can go to the White House because she is the mother of the President. If your spiritual child becomes the leader of some nation, would you, as their spiritual parent, have the right to see them? Physically these things are true, but of even greater significance is the unseen way that you are making an impact on the spirit world. Even if your spiritual child does not become a national leader, do not worry; that person may have a very important position in spirit world through his ancestry.

There are many capable people outside who could be great leaders for God and change this world. By bringing the truth to such a person, everything that person has-education, experience, and money will be to your advantage. Many people outside are very critical of me, saying that I stole their children. Of course I never did that, but I understand how they feel. They gave you food, clothing and education, and then all of a sudden you became my follower and are now dedicated to serving something they do not understand. In a worldly way of speaking, those parents think that their children have been stolen.

You are here to pursue the highest goal and achievement and you know that true values are intangible, but your parents feel that you have the most value. They put their hope in you, and then all of a sudden you started doing things that are crazy according to their standard. You are truly revolutionaries. You each had your individual goals and private ambitions, but when you heard the Divine Principle, an important revolution took place within one week’s time that changed the entire direction of your life.

I want you to be proud that you changed yourselves that drastically. At the same time, I want you to honor the power of the truth of God. This means that when you go out to witness, you can ignite the same revolution in others; are you proud of that? Each individual represents the entire world, but each individual can change for the better with great speed. You can see it with your own eyes and be proud of your accomplishment.

You can even compete with God. God has been trying to change men for 6000 years and He could not accomplish too much! But you can change a man within one week. It is an exciting task. How can your mouth stop preaching? How can your legs rest? Exciting things are happening; how can we stop? Think of it, you can change 1000 lives while you are here on earth. If you had 1000 spiritual children you would be the richest parent in the world; you would actually be building your own kingdom. It would take more than three years to visit your children around the world.

You are the most important person to your spiritual child because you gave him the most precious thing under the sun: the hope to become a son or daughter of God. That person is totally indebted to you. He will not chase you away, but will welcome you.

Ten and twenty years from now, a great journey will begin when I tell you to visit your spiritual children all over the world. One kind of person will have many people to visit; another kind will have no spiritual children, and another kind will not even know where their children are. Think of being by yourself with nobody to visit. But the person who visits his spiritual children in all four corners of the world will have limitless joy. Those who have no harvest will stand still in loneliness. Having an education is very important, but even more important is having children. Shall we go out to witness, speaking tirelessly around the clock? When you become a son of God, the words you speak are the words of God. Invest your words and your deeds, your whole body to the maximum. Do not let your body be idle because this is the only opportunity that God has given you. Do not let yourself be wasted.

If you speak only for yourself and live only for yourself, what glory is there? But if you invest your body and your words for the sake of God, then every word you speak flies like a bullet, with purpose and result. Do not speak empty words. Do not complain. Complaints are words that waste your energy.

If you use your body for your own sake, your work will not remain, but if you invest yourself for the sake of others witnessing-fund raising, doing things productively-your deeds will remain. Starting today, analyze how many empty words you have been speaking and how many words you could speak productively for God instead.

Go out witnessing; go out fund raising; go out for whatever your mission may be, but do not do it passively; do it willingly. Gather your motivation first. Without motivation you will fall into a passive pattern, and it will not benefit you. You will not be happy. Your words and deeds must register in the memory of God. I want you to do something that God can remember. Volunteer; be the willing one, the one willing to participate with bubbling enthusiasm. A teacher cannot make you study; you are the one who must study. You must qualify for your own heaven. The way is open and everything is waiting, but unless you take advantage of it, it will not be yours.

Those of you who will commit yourselves to those kinds of words and deeds as sons and daughters of God, please raise your hands. Thank you.

## WHO AM I?

By Fami1yfed June 12, 2018 June 12, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### January 23, 1977
Belvedere, New York
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

For each one of us our “self” is very important. From the Moment we come into existence our self becomes the central point of everything in our lives. Therefore we want the society, the nation, and the world to all center upon our individual selves. This is not only true for our individual lives but for all other levels too, for families, societies, nations, and even for God. We could say, “Who Am I?” And God could say the same thing. Therefore, the starting point for each one of us in this universal existence is “I’ll and we must be able to understand that “I.”

In order to understand that “I” we must understand “I” in the context of history. History is presently approaching its consummation, the period of the end of the world. These are the Last Days. When people say “Last Days” they think of two opposite things. Some think the “Last Days” are the time when everything will be consummated in a fruitful harvest, and some consider the “Last Days” to be the time when everything will dissolve into nothing. These two conclusions are absolutely exclusive of each other; one implies hope and the other implies despair. Many people today are thinking that the Last Days are the end of the world when everything will be destroyed and there will only be despair.

If we are living in the Last Days then we must ask, “Who Am I?” Each of us is encircled by the world around us. When we make the circle a little smaller we find we are living within the boundary of the United States. We are also members of the society, of the Unification Church, and also of our own families. When we lift all these circles away we are standing at the central point.

Many people look upon the central position as a position of despair; they look upon tomorrow as having no hope and wonder where they will go then. People standing in the central position certainly should not go down, or to the left or the right. They should be able to go up. However, they do not have the energy, hope, or vision to go up. If we find ourselves in that central position in a world where hope is lost, then it is very serious for us all.

We may ask the nation, “Please, America help us! Give us a direction for our lives and all the things that surround us!” But the nation cannot answer the fundamental problems of human life. When we shout out to the world, “World, come help us; save us,” the world does not respond. Our societies, our schools, our own families do not have the power to save our individual selves. Religion has been one hope; however, the religions existing today have also lost all vision. Then what shall we do? Where shall we go?

We must discover this true “I” or true self, and try to save ourselves. However, no individual is capable of saving himself. In this situation of world despair, if someone can say, “I have the solution; I have someone who can lead me into eternal hope,” that person is indeed a fortunate person. At least that person can surround himself with happy circumstances. If someone in a family can lead the way to the ultimate hope, then any person within that family is fortunate and has found the solution also. If that circle can be extended and someone can bring the solutions to the problems on the level of society, the level of the nation and the world, then all the people in the world surrounding that person are fortunate.

His solution for the world must correspond to the national solution, which must correspond to the societal solution and the family solution. If someone can do that, then that person will have unified the world through their solution. But history has never found a person who could bring hope by bringing a solution which could apply from the worldwide level all the way down to the individual level. This is why the world remains in despair. In the Last Days every individual is still searching; we are still on the road, searching for a solution.

Through our experience we conclude that a per son living within our own environment could not bring the solution. Many philosophies have been born in history, with each thinker trying to solve human problems through different fields: for example, through science, through literature, medicine, or philosophy. But the one field that fundamentally deals with the value of human life is religion. Religion is one field where we can concentrate our search for the ultimate solution of human problems. However, the current religions are losing their vision so we have to search in a new, more elevated religious sphere to find new spiritual power.

The important thing is that God is already involved in these events. He has His own schedule, His own master plan. He knows of the circumstances in which we live in the world of despair; He knows of our searching. Therefore, God’s plan will emerge through a new religion and a new leader to let us reach the ultimate conclusion of our search. ‘Ibis particular solution has been manifested in the concept of the Messiah.

Let us concentrate our thought on the Messiah. Why does the Messiah come? What is the content of his work? First of all, the Messiah tackles the problems of all humanity, not just one group. The Messiah brings to this world the fundamental solution for the problems of all mankind. The Messiah comes not only with the key to solve human problems, but also the key to solve heavenly problems, God’s problems.

Since the source of every problem has been the separation between God and man, the Messiah comes for one single purpose: to bring God and man into unity. This will solve both man’s and God’s problems. Where will this unity between God and man begin? What is the starting point? An American President might say that this unity must start in the White House here in this country because, after all, America is the greatest nation. Maybe communists would want to possess God themselves, and their unity would probably begin in the Kremlin. But even if there is tranquillity in the White House, if the people of America are suffering and desperately unhappy, then this has not truly solved the problems of the nation. And even if the people in the Kremlin can enjoy a rich life, as long as the people of that nation are suffering, that certainly does not represent happiness.

Unity between God and man does not begin in high places, in the office of the sovereign or bead of state. It begins with the individual at the very bottom of human life. Even within the family a father and mother may have reason to be jubilant, but at the same time their happiness may not be shared by their children; the children may be desperately unhappy.

Happiness must begin at the starting point of “I.” Then where is this “I” standing? Maybe “I” is at the pinnacle of the entire world, the central point of the world situation. That person might be happy in his position relating to the world, or that person might desire to have nothing to do with his surroundings. These are two manifestations of “I.” Which kind of “I” would you want to be?

Everybody has the desire and ambition to become identified with the rest of the world. You do not want t, just be isolated; you want to be someone special, recognized by the world. Why does everyone have that ambition? When you are standing on the pinnacle of the world, the earliest rays of the morning sun will touch you first. You will be the first recipient of the heavenly blessing. Human nature has the innate desire to be standing on high ground. That position is closer to God, and when the Messiah comes with ultimate hope, the person in that position can identify him first.

Jesus came to Israel 2,000 years ago. Do you think he came to Israel just as the leader of that particular nation, or did he come with a dream and desire for the entire world? No doubt he came with an ideal for the world. Tragically, the chosen people refused to accept this universal leader as the Messiah; they were not ready. But innate human desire has not changed. Everybody is still looking for the pinnacle of the world because they know it is the place closest to the Messiah, closest to God.

How about you? Are you looking for this position? It is a common human desire, regardless of your level of education. You may have just gone through elementary school or you may be a Harvard Ph.D. It does not make any difference. Human nature is always trying to be on higher ground, to be where the ray of hope hits first.

Who am I? You should answer that question, “I am the one striving toward the high point of the world, trying to be on the pinnacle of the world; that is who I am.” That one central point is the position where the entire world is concentrated. The person who has arrived at this pinnacle is in a position to say, “Without me this world is empty and in despair. I am the one who relays the blessing from the top. Without me the rest of the world has no point to rally around.”

The person who can say, “I am the center of the world,” can certainly say, “I am the center of the nation. I am indispensable for the nation; I am indispensable for the society and the family, and finally, I am indispensable for myself. Without me there is no ‘I’.”

That is the ultimate hope of “I.” “I” wants to be the center of the entire world. That is the relationship in which “I” wants to exist. That “I” cannot isolate itself from the rest of the world. When that “I” moves forward then the rest of the world moves too, because that “I” is the center of the entire world and of society. That kind of “I” could not exist without being surrounded by the rest of the world. “I” cannot be the center of the world without a world, but today people are trying to exclude God and the whole world. They want to exist only for themselves. This cannot work. They disregard everything in existence around them, trying to be “I” by themselves; however, one cannot exist by oneself.

When you say “center,” your meaning implies the existence of the rest of the world. A center does not come first; the world comes first. If you want to stand on the pinnacle of the world, the important thing is whether you want to become the center of the world. Each one of you must realize and say, “I am responsible for the world.” That awakening will bring you to the center.

It is logical that blessing and responsibility come together. Most people say, “I want the honor of being the center of the world, but I do not desire to be responsible for the world.” Is that how you are thinking, or do you think, “I am going to be the center of the world because I want to take up the responsibility of the world”? Which one? Instead of putting themselves in the center of the world, most people are trying to move the world to their center. They stand fast and do not want to budge. They say, “Let the world come to me and make me the center.” Is that possible?

In relation to the rest of the world the center is always an equal distance from any edge. You travel the same distance in any direction to reach the edge of the circle. A person might say, “I’m American so I’m close to America, but I’m a little distant from Asians, Europeans and Africans.” Then that person is not exactly at the center. That person is somewhat distorted, somewhat off center. The person at the exact center of the circle has an attitude and personality that is completely accommodating and embracing. If a person says, “I’m a white man so I don’t care about blacks or yellows or any other race,” then he is not perfectly in the center. That person could perhaps become the center of the white race, but certainly not of all the races of the world.

Then what kind of person must the Messiah be? The Messiah is the first person to put himself on the pinnacle of the world, to perfectly position himself at the center. Who can have rapport with the Messiah when he comes to this world? In America some people think only of themselves and are very individualistic. Could these people possibly establish rapport with the coming Messiah? They have an entirely different outlook on life. Is the philosophy of that kind of individualistic and egoistic person parallel with the philosophy of the Messiah?

Because the Messiah is coming with a universal concept and, therefore, universal equality, anyone who pursues individualism is the enemy of the Messiah. When someone says he wants to become the pinnacle of the world, the center of the world, what he means is that he wants to inherit the Messiah’s concept, the messianic ideal. The Messiah is looking for people of that philosophy and conviction. Ultimately speaking, such people are striving to become messiahs themselves. Simply said, people just want to follow the Messiah and imitate him, and finally they want to make themselves actual messiahs.

The central position of the Messiah is the position of God. The Messiah and God hold one concept. Anyone who is following the mandate or teachings of the Messiah is initially a follower and disciple. But later that disciple will not even need instruction. He will automatically think the same as the Messiah; he will act and work and live by the same concept as the Messiah, elevating himself to the position of Messiah.

When the Messiah comes he is looking for such ready people. Why is that? There are people who are ready to be positioned in the center of the world in the Messiah’s position. God and the Messiah are seeking such people because it is easier. Such people do not need much training; they are already disciplined and educated to take the position of the Messiah. When the Messiah comes and actually mobilizes such people, he can make that family a messiah’s family; he can make that society a messiah’s society and that nation a messiah’s nation.

Think of yourself, what kind of person are you? Do you need lots of training to become a messiah or are you disciplined and ready, just waiting to be touched and you will become a messiah? What kind of person are you? When the Messiah comes as the center of the universe and summons you to come to the center, are you a person who will say, “Yes, sir, I will be with you in a second,” or will you say, “No, sir, I don’t want to move. You come and stay with me”?

If your original position is in one place but you are summoned to the center, should you take all your surroundings with you, and slowly but surely get there? Or should you be revolutionary, taking off the shackles of your old surroundings and dashing like a bullet? Will you keep all the old wires and ropes fastened to you so you can always be pulled back to your old position, or will you chop them all off. The important thing to realize is that you have to get rid of your old position and shackles to move to the position of the Messiah. You can plan to go back to your old surroundings some day, or you can completely get rid of them and stay in your new position for eternity. As a member of the Unification Church it is very important to establish the second attitude.

You are not moving anywhere else but to a higher central position. When you consummate your mission there you will not have to go back to influence your old place because you will already be the center of the world, and you can lift up your old surroundings. As you elevate yourself in the center of the world your direction is a one way street, and there is no reason for you to go back to the past position. This is history. When saints and holy men undertake a cause of righteousness and justice, there is no way to retreat.

When you begin your march toward the higher central position then you must not go back. This is very important. For “ample, when you become a true patriot to save America, you need to sacrifice your individual surroundings. By the same token, when your cause is for the sake of the world, then an even greater sacrifice of your individual surroundings is needed.

Even your closest loved ones, your wife or husband, could be an obstacle when you undertake this holy mission. But if you sacrifice them, even disregarding them at times and closing your eyes to all your individual circumstances, you can raise yourself up to fulfill the highest possible mission. By doing that you are inflicting sacrifice on your surroundings. Should this be regarded as sin?

When a person is moving toward the center it might look like he is cruelly leaving his wife and children and all his circumstances to go to the higher position. However, by doing so, he is doing the most good for his own family. By reaching his destination he has a chance to bring them into that center, too.

The view that the road of a saint is a one-way street upward and forward is part of Eastern philosophy. The loyal subject of a nation or king walks a one-way street of loyalty, never looking back. But this corresponds to your own understanding; it makes sense in Western philosophy, doesn’t it?

Let’s look at my life from this standpoint. In spite of going through hardships for 30 years I still forged ahead toward the higher goal and came to America. Here too, I am receiving tremendous persecution and am being mistreated. But from this principle, should I go back to my comfortable place in Korea? Is that what the righteous person should do? Or should I follow the one-way street upward?

Is your advice to go straight forward? When you say, “That is my advice, Father,” that means you are actually saying, “Father, we are willing to back you up. We are willing to follow you, or even beat you and go ahead of you.” Are you saying that? So far I am a lonely runner, running only by myself with nobody beside me or in front of me. After 30 years of running I would like to see someone running faster than I am, saying, “Father, just hold my hand, I will pull you.” Are you going to be that kind of person?

There are many ways you can go. You can go slowly, taking all the time you want for relaxation, food, sleep and worldly enjoyment. But it might take you a millennium to get there. Would you go that way? Or would you forget everything else and go like a dashing bullet? That “dashing bullet” is a very important phrase this morning. Do you think this world needs a movement to push people and fire them up so they rush toward the center?

Logically you can say yes, but are you reluctant to accept it? There are many ambitious people outside wanting to be recognized and to excel in the world. But when I ask what they would do to become famous, they do not have an answer. They do not even have a clear vision of their reason for wanting to become famous.

In the world many scholars strive day in and day out to become famous. While they are working so hard they sacrifice many things and become old and pale, but then once they become famous they wonder, “What was my purpose? Why did I push myself so hard to become famous?” Even once they are recognized they feel such emptiness, even despair. Many people strive toward very ambitious goals in the political and the academic worlds, but once they attain them they realize that actually their dream was not fulfilled through those ambitions.

Only when your dream is parallel to the dream of God and the dream of the Messiah will you be fulfilled. When you reach your pinnacle you have such a completely consummated feeling in your life that you feel utterly rich and full of hope and blessing.

The person who truly recognizes God and recognizes the Messiah’s ideal, the ultimate purpose of this world, will never end up in despair. However, without that ideal, even though you go higher and higher, your despair will grow deeper and your life darker.

America has another new President, Jimmy Carter. He has become an American hero, but what will history say about him? He must still prove himself. Is he living for his own ego and accomplishment, or can he be a hero for America and the world? More important, can he be a hero in history, a hero in the sight of God? I wonder what he thinks about his own mission. Is he thinking in terms of the heavenly dispensation for all of humanity, in terms of the entire world? What kind of president will he be? He is facing a very severe test. What kind of American president would God want? He wants a God-centered one, right?

Communists have no hope because they deny the vertical, central position of God. When the communist world sinks down to the bottom of despair it has no hope to recover. But no matter how desperate the free world becomes, as long as it accepts God and keeps connected to the one vertical line to God, the spirit of God can come down and give revival and restoration. That has been the history of God. Humanity has fallen down to the dungeon of hell so many times throughout history, but with God there is always one vertical line of life and hope to bring mankind back. Why is there so much despair outside today? Simply because the people do not know God. The moment we know the existence of God, His purpose, His will and His love, then our despair turns into hope. Is that true? I am sure this concept is clear to you.

Let us expound for a moment on who am I in the Unification Church? First of all, what is the Unification Church? This nation has been mistreating the Unification Church because the people do not understand our purpose. They wonder who I am, what kind of person I am. Am I someone who wants to become the 40th president of the United States, or who wants to become a billionaire and live with a thousand servants? What kind of person am I? The answer is very simple: I am the person who brought hope to this world of despair. What kind of hope? I am bringing the reality of God to man’s life, letting mankind see God.

This world is in despair because it has no central figure and no center. Without a center this world has to be in confusion. Certainly none of you knows what your center is or America’s center, or the world’s center. Therefore, you cannot relate yourself to anything stable or of value, and there is confusion. There must be some central vertical line from heaven, plus a horizontal line at a 90 degree angle. There should be clear-cut vertical and horizontal lines, but instead people draw their own lines at many different angles. All over the world everyone is drawing his own lines. There are not many people who are confident that they can intersect with the vertical line and become one with the center. For the proper relationship there must be a 90 degree angle between God and the horizontal line.

We are searching for the position where we can have this 90 degree angle. There is one central vertical line, and in relation to it there is only one horizontal line at a 90 degree angle. Your line may not have the same length as the worldwide or universal line; it may be very short. However, it is very important that your line on the family scale or societal scale be at a 90 degree angle to the vertical line.

This world has not yet seen this central vertical line, and because the world has no model to align itself with, people continue to make all kinds of lines at random, thinking they are parallel with the horizontal line. They can think this only because they do not have a central point. Some philosophies have a person standing upside down and backwards, and still present him as the center of the world.

Did you know we need such a clear-cut vertical line? In the Unification Church we are striving to know that vertical line. At the family level your line is not too high, but you are going to be absolutely straight and parallel to the central example. Then you have a guarantee of heaven. In English you say a person has a “clear” conscience, but in Korean we say his conscience is very “straight.”

As we progress from the family level to the societal level, to the national level, and so forth, we make constant progress along the vertical line. Now most of you are pursuing your own individual course horizontally. This is the direction of achievement. As you progress more you will rise along the vertical line, moving toward higher development. This is the way of life of the Unification Church.

Shall we stand still or go on? What men badly need today is an example, so they can see with their own eyes what is righteous. God is revealing that right direction or vertical line in the form of a new religion. Through it people can come to clearly see God with their own eyes. Even if I do not speak to you, are you still bubbling with enthusiasm every day to develop more? Has this been your goal?

Where are we? Let us each determine what our true position is as an individual. How much territory have you covered? Where am I standing? How much am I ahead of you, or how much behind? Have I covered the entire territory, or am I somewhere along the way? Does the Unification Church have its own sovereignty, its own nation? Do we have our own heavenly world?

We have not yet broken through the national boundaries, nor are we universally united yet. If I had a worldwide foundation large enough that I could really push upward beyond the national level, then do you think any more persecution would come? What I am saying is very important: we still have a higher goal to achieve. America has not been saved yet; the world is lying there, waiting for salvation. I have accomplished all the conditions that are needed for the spiritual victory. Therefore, even if I died today, this movement would still succeed; the day of glorious victory would come. However, our job is still ahead of us.

Do not think that I am the one who will be the champion and leader. You must be the champions of this world and of God; you must lead this nation and this world into salvation. That work remains to be done. Shall we go? We must determine to go. Will you say, “Oh, Father, the weather is so cold, could you give us just a little bit of time to relax?” Or will you go regardless of the weather, regardless of the temperature, regardless of the time of day or night? When you are shivering in cold, will you go backward or forward? You have a tendency to stand still. Do you want to have me come push you forward, or say, ” You just stand there and rest” ? Actually I do not like pushing!

There are three choices: to go forward, to stand still, or to retreat. Which is your choice? I want you to know one important thing: It is your destiny to go forward. Whether you like it or not, whether at your own will or someone else’s will, regardless, you must get there. As you go forward your achievement is greater, you are entitled to higher heaven.

God is so willing to push you because this is your only opportunity. In His love God is ready to push you, even club you. If a person will accept it and persevere through such pushing, even crying but still striving to go forward, God will push. There is no mercy in this situation. The problem is that God hesitates to do it because if He pushes you too much, you might just collapse, and that would disappoint Him so much! He is inspired by the kind of person who can take a beating, saying, “Father, come after me; push me all of the way. “You men and women are dynamos; you must always have energy for thrusting yourself forward, for running within yourself.

What is today’s topic? It is: “Who Am I?” The answer to that question should be, “I am going to be the one who can achieve heaven, the one who consummates the ultimate heaven.” Can you say that? You must know that you cannot go alone. You are the center of the world; you must bring your family with you, your society with you, your nation and world with you. That is your burden.

In accordance with the Principle formula, if there is a person prepared to take this responsibility when the Messiah comes, then the Messiah cannot go anywhere else but to that person; there is no other way that God and the Messiah can fulfill the mission. The Unification Church is a religion needed by the Messiah, needed by God. The Unification Church is showing the world how we can become parallel to the central line, how we can make our own vertical line on the family level, societal level, national level, worldwide level, and cosmic level. The Unification Church has a blueprint so that each individual can achieve the ultimate destination.

What the world will say about me does not matter. The important thing is whether we are on the right track. As long as we have the right principle, whether we have connected with the Messiah or God yet does not make any difference. We do not have to worry; the Messiah and God will come to us. If this is not the truth, then you do not have to worry further because that would mean there is no God, and if there is no God, we do not need to worry about anything. As long as God exists this must be the truth, and as long as this is the truth, it will be our way of life.

The Unification Church is the new religion which is to achieve this ultimate goal. We have a highway of truth laid all the way to the top of the world. By achieving that pinnacle we are going to liberate humanity, and most important, liberate God. On that day I too will be liberated. A few moments ago I said this is your destiny, but this is also the destiny of the world, the destiny of humanity. But what a blessing! God has shown that destiny to us first! He has made us pioneers of the eternal heaven. We have been hand-picked by God as pioneers of that heaven.

You are living as historic persons; you have an historic responsibility, an historical mission calling you. Shall we go? This is a war; it is a battle and regardless of the sacrifice we must go on. Some might falter and some casualties might be suffered, but we still must go. There is no other choice. Actually you have a very easy path simply because you have me as a pathfinder in front of you. Without my being in America it would be ten times, a hundred times more difficult; this is really your golden era.

The important thing I want you to know is that I will not be here forever. If America fails to become the center of the world, if America fails to respond to the worldwide mission, then I must go somewhere to people who will rise to the worldwide mission. Historically we have never seen such a pattern. If the young people of America unite with me, if you and I become one, we can make a new history.

Nowhere in the history of America, in the Western world, have there been young people calling an Oriental man “Father.” The word “Father” is abused. In the Catholic church they call priests “Father,” but in our Unification ideology “Father” has a different meaning. It is an historical event. Why should the brilliant young people of America try to follow me, giving up everything to take up a sacrificial way of life? It is because they see the truth; they see that there is no greater hope, no greater future than this one. You are these young people of vision; your vision conceives of the greatest hope and future, and you know you cannot find it anywhere else. The future of America, the future of the world lies only in the youth of this nation. The world shall bless you.

“Who Am I?” That is my subject this morning. The answer is, “I am the one who conquers the despair of the world; I am the one who conquers the concept of the Last Days, which is not a time of despair but of the greatest hope. I am the one who can go over the hill. I am the one to meet the Messiah on prepared flat ground instead of on a rugged mountain. I am the one who is going to be the pathfinder, the pioneer, the one who will have the groundwork ready to welcome the Messiah.”

Where would you like to meet him? On a small foothill, on the second hill or third hill, or beyond the hill of the universe? Where would you like to meet him? Where would you like to meet God, here or high above? Since God is staying over there if you say, “God, wait for me there,” it means you are going to go this way without God’s help. You are promising that to God, saying, “God, don’t worry about me; stay there. I’ll get there.” Are you confident of that? Do you desperately need the help of God, or are you going to desperately help God?

This is not the time for long prayers but only short, terse prayers. That is all we need. What we need is action in faith. In our case, our search is over because we know the center of the family, the center of society, and the center of the world. All we have to do is get there and be with him and just live out our destiny.

You already know the truth. Now if you do not act according to the truth and live the truth then the rest of the world will accuse you. You cannot excuse yourself saying that you did not know the truth. You knew the center, but still you lazed around and were idle. The entire world, all of humanity, even the spirit world, and your surroundings will accuse you. You will become the target of accusation.

The destiny of the entire spirit world and humanity rests on your shoulders. If you become idle or weak, the consequences will affect not only you but the rest of the world and the entire spirit world. They will definitely look upon you as an enemy. You knew the truth and you did not act upon it. You will make yourself God’s and my adversary,

The person who does not know the truth has one excuse, “God, I did not know.” But in the Unification Church no excuse will work. Those who say, “No, I still don’t know anything,” raise your hand. If you know, then you must go and act. Since I know the truth, I cannot just stand still; I have to be on the move. Regardless of what the world will say, I will still go. My responsibility is to let the world know in the shortest possible time. This proclamation came to a climax in the year 1976. It does not make any difference if they took it positively or negatively; in 1976 1 let the world know my declaration.

Now the people of the world have no excuse in the sight of God. They will say to God, “Oh, I heard about Reverend Moon but I heard only bad things about him.” That excuse will not work in the sight of God. God will say, “Why didn’t you investigate? In history all the righteous men have been persecuted and misunderstood. Even though you heard negative things about Reverend Moon, why didn’t you go and find out who he was?” The people have no excuse.

In 1975 1 sent out missionaries to 120 nations of the world. I knew that incredible suffering, tribulation and persecution would come to them. Why did I do it? I had to let the world know so that in the dark day of judgment the world would be without excuse. For the first time in mission history in the world of religion, missionaries from formerly enemy nations were sent out together: one Japanese, one American, and one German. Has history ever recorded that kind of mission work?

Because of that our missionaries make even greater controversy and upheaval in those nations. My aim is for the representatives of these nations-Germany, Japan, and the United States-to be eye-catching. Because they are so very different from any other representatives in all of mission history, a nation has more reason to investigate why they came; therefore that nation will be without excuse later on.

I have fulfilled my responsibility and am now free from accusation. I have done the work in goodness for the purpose of salvation. Only pure desire, sacrificial work, and genuine labor of blood and sweat are here. If people in the world respond only negatively, it is not our responsibility but their responsibility. I will have reason to accuse them.

I sent missionaries to each nation to create a base to elevate the spirit world. Now people in the spirit world cannot say to me, “Why didn’t you send your missionary to my country?” No one can say that. They cannot accuse me that I did not do something for each nation.

If I were elevated to the spirit world without having sent missionaries to Africa, the African people there would say, “You talked about world brotherhood under the fatherhood of God, but actually you didn’t accomplish that. Why didn’t you send missionaries to the African continent?” But now they can no longer say that.

In spirit world no person, including the heads of state of the 120 nations of the world, can say, “Reverend Moon, you have such a wonderful truth; why didn’t you come and tell our people?” Could the American young people say, “Why did you pay attention only to the Unification Church young people and not share with us outside?” I visited all 50 states of America, not leaving even one state out. Ten years ago, even before anybody knew of me, I established 120 holy grounds in different parts of the world, but more than 60 of them were here in America alone. I gave so much to this country. Nobody can accuse me of neglecting my responsibility.

Since 19601 have had the responsibility of going out to the world to proclaim the truth of God. Particularly in recent years I have been accomplishing a special dispensation to inform the world. Now at least they know about us-whether they have a good impression or bad. The Yankee Stadium and Washington Monument Rallies were not just national but worldwide events. Certainly the American people are left without the excuse that they did not hear about Reverend Moon. If someone has not heard about Reverend Moon by now, he is not American! Whether negatively or positively the people have heard about me. Therefore, I have accomplished my responsibility. I have done the work necessary to free myself from any accusation from the contemporary world and the spirit world.

Indeed, the year of 1976 is the year of Reverend Moon in history, the year of the Unification Church. In the January issues of some of the major magazines like Newsweek and People there were summaries of 1976 events and I was included, not because they liked me, but because they had to list me as an event of 1976. 1 have been personally proclaiming the truth for the sake of the American people, for the sake of the world and for the entire spirit world. There was much negativity directed at our movement, but the Washington Monument victory was one positive note. Because of that event people had to recognize me as a man of strength, a man of organization, a man of action, and a man of my word.

I am sure you vividly recall Yankee Stadium. I addressed the American people, but actually I was speaking to the world. I said I came to America as a doctor to heal this wounded land. I came as a fire fighter because this house is on fire. Nobody else can make such statements; I do not think the American President can, nor can American youth or Norman Vincent Peale or Billy Graham. I also knew I was addressing history, not just contemporary America. History will establish this as truth.

At Washington Monument I proclaimed that I came to guide the young people into becoming the leaders of tomorrow’s America, tomorrow’s world. Can eminent professors or the religious leaders of America make such a statement? Even the Presidents have never claimed to guide the American young people into becoming the leaders of tomorrow. Perhaps some people are scornful of me. Never mind. History will tell the truth. Under opposition I have had the courage and dynamic strength and conviction to proclaim that I came to save the young people of America.

In the Washington Post and New York Times we were recorded in history. Nobody can say, “Well, I didn’t know about Reverend Moon; I didn’t hear about him.” The year 1976 was a year of history making events. Because of the victory I won in 1976 here in America, the entire spirit world has been liberated and united. They are in jubilant celebration. All the barriers and divisions of the different denominations and religions have been broken down. Spirit world is enthusiastic in welcoming my work. This is why I could proclaim the day of the victory of heaven on October 4, 1976.

Because there have been great divisions in spirit world, and because it is the world of cause, my strategy focused on it. In spirit world there are Buddhists, Moslems, Christians, and people of every other religion, all in their own separate communities. Since my victory here on earth all these barriers have been broken down. This is why I can proclaim the victory of heaven. There are no more boundaries in spirit world, the subject world of cause. Therefore, sooner or later that will be reflected in the object world of the flesh. Then national and religious boundaries here on earth will be broken down. A wave of spiritual assault is now crashing onto the physical world. The entire spirit world is descending not only to the free world, but to the communist world as well.

Spirit world is 100% with us. Therefore spirit world cannot leave anyone alone who comes to oppose my cause unrighteously, but will chastise them. You will see. I have a plan and God has a plan to fill the entire environment with spiritual power. Spirits will come in a first wave, second wave, and third wave. I have prepared wave after wave to assault the earth. This means that you are in Adam and Eve’s position, with the entire spirit world in the archangelic position. Are you, Adam, and you, Eve, going to fall behind the spirit world? Are you going to be led by the archangel? Are you fallen Adam and fallen Eve? Are you the one who brought sin to the world, binding God and bringing tragedy to the world, or are you the one to restore all things to God, bringing liberation to God and to me? Which one?

Do you stand below the fallen level or above? Do you still have the possibility of falling, or did you get rid of the possibility? Will you mind if you have no chance to get married? To fulfill the will of God you must first become perfected Eve before you can be blessed and have a family. After you are perfected, will you bring great sorrow to God or only joy? In order to bring a life of joy to God you have to bring the entire world to Him. Then you can say, “Father, I want to be blessed.” Then God will say, “Certainly, you deserve it.” But you cannot be blessed even one inch before that. That is the Principle. Which one should come first, your marriage or the fulfillment of the will of God?

How about you, Adam? Dumb Adam, you were caught by cunning Eve. You lost your subject position. That is why the entire world has become like this. Dumb Adam! What will you do? Will you say, “Father, we don’t need that sly and cunning Eve. We will just do the will of God first”? When temptation comes from Eve, then will you just completely black out the will of God as your eyes go in her direction? No? If I say, “I want to bless this group of people here,” would you just sit there or would you move over here? What is your honest opinion?

Once again we come back to the subject of the morning: “Who Am I?” You should answer, “I am not fallen Adam or fallen Eve. I am Adam or Eve who will restore God’s wishes and bring liberation to God and humanity. That is who I am.” When Adam is perfected as an individual he will automatically become the center of the family, the center of society, the center of the nation and of the world. That was God’s original plan and we must restore that tradition. We want to become Adam and Eve as the center of the universe. Then the entire universe will rest upon our shoulders. When you are perfected and fulfill your mission as Adam and Eve together, all heaven and earth will be united. We will indeed be the fulfillment of the will of God, the fulfillment of His joy, and the fulfillment of the Kingdom of God here on earth. Restored, fulfilled Adam is full of joy. He will be so jubilant that all heaven and earth will envy and respect him. Are you ready to become that kind of Adam and Eve?

There are two ways to go in Unification Church. One way is to just go along passively and reluctantly, without any stamina or enthusiasm. The person going that way will never make it to the end. The other way is to go ahead of everybody with bubbling enthusiasm, burning with zeal and ambition, possessing a perfect understanding of the will of God. Would you go this way?

It is a cold day and working outside witnessing and fund raising is not that easy. Even though your whole body is shivering and going backward, will you remember that I said you have to go willingly and with jubilance and bubbling enthusiasm? Is that attitude truly in your heart, or are you just trying to be that way? We are involved in serious business.

Who are you? Who am I? We are the perfected, restored Adam and Eve. When we look outside the window we see a world dying, trembling in despair. Satan is holding the people, binding them and making them his prisoners. They are victims of Satan. Would you just look on as a bystander or spectator, or would you feel indignation and go out and do something about it? Do you feel that indignation and wrath of God? Do you feel like saying, “Satan, you brought misery to the garden of Eden; you brought misery to the heart of God. As God’s child I will not let you alone. I will not let you go. I will liquidate you; I will fight and win.” Do you feel that burning wrath of God toward Satan?

You can be one of two kinds of people. One is the kind that Satan sees and says, “Yow! That is a giant coming; I must take over!” And Satan will run. The other kind of person Satan sees and says, “Oh, that Adam, what is he? I have nothing to fear from him.” What kind of Adam and Eve are you? The person who Satan laughs at or runs away from? Once again we come back to the subject, “Who Am I?” Can you answer, “I am the exterminator of Satan; that is who I am”? Are you? When you go down a street in New York and you see certain ungodly, immoral things going on, don’t you feel the indignation and wrath of God toward this, or are you apathetic, just passing by? Looking at the American youth corrupted by drugs, free sex, and immoral acts, dying every day, being victimized by Satan every day. Do you feel apathy towards them, or do you feel the responsibility and wrath of God to do something about it?

We will create an America which God can love, from the common people all the way up to the President of the United States. Today, if you have pledged yourselves to such a responsibility shall we just go home, or shall we show in some public place that we will truly take up the responsibility?

Then are you going to be Adam and Eve who will liberate God and liquidate Satan and bring America to be the God-favored nation of the world? America is dying and the world is dying. New York must be like a spiritual volcano, exploding with spiritual power and achievement. I am expecting it from you. Go out from today on; get down to work and bring the result. Everybody is in the same situation; you must get down to work.

I set the rule: everybody must earn three meals a day. If you do not go out to witness that meal will accuse you. Are you doing that? Do you feel good when I scold you? Even if you do not want to hear this, you must accept it fully. If you try to reject it you will be accused permanently. You cannot say, “Oh, I don’t want to hear that; it makes me very sad and uncomfortable.”

America is going into an era of turmoil. Carter is the 39th President and next is the 40th President, The number 40 is very significant in the history of the dispensation. Therefore this period of time in American history is going to be marked by great upheaval and difficulty. America is heading toward an unprecedented crisis. America is coming into an age of realization and awakening, and Americans must analyze the present government and the people involved in and surrounding it. Maybe President Carter has a brilliant mind and good heart, but perhaps the people surrounding him are deeply corrupted. So many communists are behind the scenes to take advantage of him.

In my prayer I am deeply concerned for American much more so than at any previous time. The Carter administration has indicated that it will seek to withdraw armed forces from Korea. Carter already spoke about this shortly before his inauguration. This shows that America’s traditional foreign policy of standing up for freedom in the world is in danger. Americans have been willing to sacrifice for the sake of brothers who were the victims of communist aggression in other lands. That was the tradition since the time of Roosevelt and Truman, but it seems that America’s foreign policy is turning into a mockery and is retreating into a weak position.

Already America has lost so much credibility in the opinions of most nations. Many nations no longer expect America to be a world leader; they have already given up hope in America. For America to safeguard even its own safety, Asia, more than Europe, is in a critical, pivotal position. Withdrawal from Asia will bring danger to the very shores of America. Russia is seeking to move into the Pacific Ocean, and Soviet Russia is much bolder than the United States. Alaska is situated side by side with Russia. Any turmoil in Asia will rapidly bring about an emergency situation there, and then within five years America will be fighting another formidable world war.

In World War II Japan was hostile to America. But once the communists take it over, the Japan of the past will look like a peanut compared to the new, formidable enemy America will have to face. Look at Canada. Canada’s internal problem is severe; the French and British people of Canada are divided almost to the point of civil war. Canada is not just some far away land; if civil war breaks out in Canada, America’s adversaries will dedicate themselves to bringing about the same situation in this country, too.

Underground communists are ultimately dedicated to breaking down this nation. My conviction is that America must be strong and again take up the responsibility of the world. America must be aggressive in its Asian policy, taking initiative in positive, strong, determined action. This alone can save Asia.

In order to stir up that kind of spirit here in America, a revival of Christianity is important. It has to come. This is why here in America I am starting a revolution to awaken a new spirit of sacrifice, love and service. From its leadership down to its grass roots, America must rearm itself with a new spiritual force. That alone can turn the tide in America but God cannot trust the established churches to do this.

Recently I received a very secret letter from two young people who were planted as underground communist agents. They had a certain motivation to write me and expose their tactics. They are distributing money to communists who are sent out to churches on Sunday. They appear to be absolutely devout Christians and give lots of money to the church and through this they control the pastor, the church administration and sometimes actually infiltrate as pastors themselves. These young people revealed that many communist priests, pastors and ministers have already infiltrated into various church hierarchies.

Communists are promoting Christianity because one day they want to utilize Christianity to set up a revolution. The churches have the kind of atmosphere that allows them to become instruments for an ultimate communist takeover. This is what is happening today. In Korea there are many Christians who oppose Korea, and maintain a hardline, pro-Communist policy. In the name of Christianity and human rights, they are trying to tear down the anti-Communist posture and discredit such leadership.

We must deeply understand that another line is trying to infiltrate behind the Christian churches. One day they will use the Christian churches as their bases of operation. This is the reality happening right now in America. What can we do under these circumstances? A principal communist tactic is division. They set up division everywhere; when they infiltrate Christianity they will make division between Judaism and Christianity. Communists now are uniting Judaism and Christianity, both Protestant and Catholic, to oppose the Unification Church. This is their goal and cherished plan. When this plan has succeeded they will move to the next step, and after dividing Judaism and Christianity they will pit them against each other.

Although we embrace all religions of the world they are trying to accuse us of being anti-Semitic. This is far from the truth, but they are using it as an instrument to bring about a confrontation between Judaism and the Unification Church. Under those circumstances the Unification Church must make , firm foundation in the next two years, 1977 and 1978. Unless we do that America is without hope and its future will be very, very dismal. This is our goal. With that understanding you must go and reach out.

Do you think this handful of people is large enough and good enough to influence and move America? Realistically speaking, what we need in New York alone is 5,000 members. That is why I prepared a center with a 5,000 member capacity. You have that center in the New Yorker, but most of the rooms are empty. If the New Yorker is filled with enthusiastic members then I can clean up New York. Those who do not contribute to witnessing and evangelizing do not deserve to remain in New York.

Mr. Kamiyama has been assigned as the head of an IOWC team, but I am now giving him an emergency mission. He must leave the IOWC mission in Boston under Aidan Barry or some other leader and together with Dr. Bergman come up with a most sound and exciting plan to evangelize New York. I want you to have a most spectacular achievement in the next few weeks and months. Dr. Bergman, you must become a complete object to Mr. Kamiyama; become completely one and come up with an aggressive evangelistic movement in New York.

I want to give a special mandate to the Japanese members. You did not come here to America to be idle. Unless each of you fulfills the one person per month ratio in America, all of you must return to your own country. I will not stay in New York all of the time but will go around the entire nation from one place to the next each day. In the last couple of weeks I went to several places, and I felt so deeply touched by the members who were waiting, begging me to stay a little longer. They were waiting for my visit for so long that I almost felt guilty in front of them.

American members, even though I gave a special mandate to the Japanese members, you are not going to be defeated by them, are you? The Japanese members are working with many handicaps in language and cultural background. After all, you are the hosts and hostesses in this city and nation. The Japanese are going out and trying to witness to the American people with such tremendous difficulty. I want you to know that. American brothers and sisters, you are the ones to really move ahead in the forefront and set the example.

Now in wintertime is the best time for witnessing, not spring or summer when there are too many other attractions. I trust that you are going to fulfill and deliver the results as you pledged already before heaven and earth

## TO WHOM DO I BELONG?

By Fami1yfed June 12, 2018 June 12, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### January 16, 1977
Belvedere, New York
Translator- Mrs. Won Pok Choi

This is the third Sunday of the New Year. My topic this morning is, “To Whom Do I Belong?” We have members here from Japan, Korea, and the European countries, together with the Americans. In the Unification Church, everyone belongs to a certain group or has a certain position. In that sense, you have many boundary lines between you. The people beyond those lines belong to other posts or other nationalities. In the physical sense too, there are boundaries; in Tarrytown for instance, there are many districts and parcels of land belonging to different people. The owners of those lands have different backgrounds, ancestries and educations. They are also different in whether they are good people or not,.

On the individual level, as you know, you have both your mind and body. Are your mind and body in complete oneness, so that you belong to a higher dimension like God, or are they the other way around? That is the question. In the Unification Church too, there could be two groups of people. Do we belong more to the godly side, or the worldly, more evil side?

In case you belong to God, do you belong to the internal side of God or the external side of God? Where would you want to belong? God is the God of wisdom, the God of power, and the God of heart. Which part of God would you want to belong to? Why do you want to belong to the heart of God?

We know that God’s heart is the center point of everything that exists. All decisions are made by the heart of God, not by His power or knowledge or wisdom. In yourselves too, your heart or mind is making decisions, not your body. Whether your decision will bring happiness or something good to your side is determined by whether or not the result is linked to your heart’s desire.

You are often asked whether or not a certain thing pleases your heart. When men are asked what they want to belong to, their answer might be to the opposite sex. A man wants to belong to his wife and a woman wants to belong to her husband. That is because they want to win the heart of that person, not just have his or her power or wisdom or knowledge.

I don’t think there is any woman in the whole world who would say she wanted to belong to the wisdom or power of a man. She would like to belong to his heart. Some women may say, “Oh, I want to marry a millionaire,” but would they want to belong to his money or power in that case? A woman may say, “I want to have the knowledge and wisdom of that man,” but deep in her heart she would really want to belong to his heart. If she prefers the other, she is crazy, or there is something wrong with her.

Men and women want to belong to the hearts of the opposite sex because there is nothing else more important than that. Again, we know that when we find a central figure, for instance God, then we want to belong to His heart, instead of to His other essentialities.

In our everyday life too, parents want to win the hearts of their children and the children want to win the hearts of their parents. Their every decision is made centered upon each other’s hearts. All humanity belongs to God. As a parent, would God say, “I want to have only you belong to me,” or would He want to have everyone else in the world belong to Him centering on you?

If your parents are great people, they would not just want you to become the President and dominate the country. They would want you to have the respect of people around you, not only of your family members, but of the rest of the world. Then with that respect, they would like to see you advance toward the Presidency or other things. That’s why your parents train you to be respectful, not only within your family and neighborhood, but in your society and nation. They want you to become the central figure in that way. How can that be so?

It is because in your position as central figure you may have many people around, but it is only through your connection with them that your position can have meaning. Unless you have harmonious relationships with those people, your position will not be stable. If you are supported by people all around, you will stand straight up, instead of leaning to one side.

Would your parents like to hear you say, “I love only my parents and nobody else”? Your parents’ desire would be for you to love your brothers and sisters, and then with that relationship to love them. They would tell you to look around and love your relatives, your neighborhood and your whole nation, and then come back to love them.

They do this because if you love a broader scope of people, you gain more respect, and your situation becomes more stable. Your parents represent the center, so if you have relationships with a broad scope of people, they can reach out to all those people through you. Through a love relationship with one person, a whole group of people can reach the central point.

Let’s look at the matter from the viewpoint of God. Would He want to have His people think that they need God alone and nothing else? Would God tell you, “You are wonderful to love me alone and never look at other people,” or would He tell you to look around and have relationships with others and then with that love come back and love Him?

My topic this morning is “To Whom Do I Belong?” Ask yourself to whom you belong. Do you really belong to God? Can you just sit there with folded arms and say, “I belong to God”? Would God like that? The question is, whether you belong to God or God belongs to you. Which of the two? If there is complete oneness between you and God, you can say both that God belongs to you and you belong to Him.

Being in oneness with God means that you must stand in the position of God, that you must think and speak and act from God’s point of view. For instance, if God said, “I want to go to Korea,” but you clung to Him and said, “Stay in America,” then your views would be contradictory. Then could you say you belong to God and are in oneness with Him? In that case, there would be a separation between you and God.

God is anxious to go even to hell to save the people. If you don’t want that to happen and tell God, “Why don’t you just stay with me? Never mind the other people,” are you in oneness with Him? Then no matter how strong your confidence that you belong to Him, there is already a separation between God and yourself. Instead, why don’t you go a step further and say, “God, you cannot stay here. Why don’t you go to Africa to save the people,” or “God, you can rest here. I will go to the end of the world to bring back the people.” Would that please God or not?

After saving the whole nation of America, there is no other place for God to go except to Africa and other countries. By that time would you still belong to God and go wherever He goes? In that case, do you belong to God or does God belong to you? If you take the initiative and go yourself to the tip of Africa, then God is compelled to follow and would say, “My, you have done a good job.” Then you could say that God belongs to you.

From this viewpoint, let’s look at my situation. All the Unification Church members are always curious to know what I am doing. Just yesterday I visited Washington, D.C., and as I was leaving one of the sisters stepped out and said, “Oh, Father, you must stay with us longer. Why don’t you stay here in Washington?” I answered her, “So many people are waiting for me to speak to them tomorrow morning. Would you still want me to stay here?” But she insisted upon my having to be there.

Is her way of thinking acceptable? No. Of course you want me around, but if you are wiser than she, you will go one step further and think that I am needed everywhere, and let me go according to my will. The same principle applies at your home, at your school, and in your society.

When you are asked where you belong, you can say you belong to the Unification Church. To whom does the Unification Church belong? It belongs to God, but what side of God does it belong to? You want to have our movement belong to God’s heart or to be within the scope of God’s heart. Do you know what I mean by that? You as an individual don’t just want to belong to the heart of God so that you and God are together exclusively. God’s heart is broad enough to encompass the whole world; that is why you want to belong to that part of God.

Don’t ever be anxious to just be alone within God’s heart. When you know how broad God is, you would rather cover the external area first and then come to the very central point. When you want to love God, would you just want to love God’s heart alone, or love every cell of Him, as well as everything that belongs to Him? Would you want to have your mate just love your countenance or your limbs, or would you want to have him embrace your whole self and everything that belongs to you?

You would want to have your sweetheart love and embrace you, turning round and round with you, having the whole world spin with you. Before you can say that you love a person, you must look all around and see the scope of his heart; you must love everything and everyone he loves. When you encompass all those and then come back to that person, then you have the truest love,

If God would cry out to the whole world, “Those who love me, step forward,” you would want to run to God full speed, making a straight line, not a zig zag, or detour. If you were the one to reach God first, would God look at you and say, “You seem to love me more than those other people do.” Would He say that simply because you reached Him first? Instead, He would tell you, “I am bigger than Africa, or America, or South America. Why don’t you turn around and love those people and bring them back to me; then I will know that you really love me.”

God would ask you, “Have you loved America? Have you loved Africa? Have you loved Asia?” If you can answer yes, then God will be pleased. Instead of reaching Him earlier than the others, He would like you to win their hearts and then come back and report, “I am here with all the people.” What would God say to you then? If you were in that position, would you admire those who reached you earlier than the others, coming straight to you? If God were to give His love to the people who came straight forward without minding others, then His love would just be wasted. But if He loves the other kind of people who can embrace all His children, then His love will be multiplied.

Would you want to be loved by God? Do you want to possess God’s heart for eternity, or have your heart possessed by God for eternity? If you really want to be possessed by God, don’t ever think of going straight to Him, to claim Him for yourself alone. That doesn’t make any sense.

In the Christian churches we hear people praying fervently, but they pray for their denominations, for their families and for themselves; not too many people pray for the whole world. There are vast numbers of people praying for themselves, fewer people praying for the nation and still fewer people praying for the world.

But what is God’s thinking? God is always thinking of the whole world, not just you as individuals. God is always with the whole world, so when you pray for yourself, that prayer cannot be accepted by God. You must pray, “God, I know that you are looking for all men and for the whole world, so I must look for a nation through which we can save the whole world. I must look for a church which can save the whole nation, I must locate a family which can save the church and an individual which can save the family.”

We must realize that if God wants to encompass the whole world, then it is not God’s will for us to pray for things on a smaller scale. Your prayer will not be realized in that way. To what scope of God’s heart do we want to belong as a movement? Would we want to belong to God’s heart by ourselves, or as a family, or a nation, or as the whole world centered on God? It is a serious question.

God would tell you to come to Him after loving your family, society, nation and the whole world, but there is an even greater way. You can forget about yourself and your family and reach to the end of the world; love the whole world first, and then your nation, your society, your church, your family and yourself. Which of the two ways would God prefer for you? Because God loves the whole world, He would gladly sacrifice His own son, or the church formed around His son to save the world. All through human history God’s loved ones were sacrificed or martyred for the sake of the whole world.

You can say, “From the beginning of the New Year Father has been telling us to love the world at the sacrifice of ourselves. But I am the most important. Only after loving myself can I love my own family, and only after loving them can I love my church and only after that can I love the nation. I cannot afford to love all humanity unless I love the nation.” You may have been saying that in your mind, and if that is so, then you are the unhappiest person in the whole world.

Looking around, you see many opposing parents kidnapping members and you are agonized. Are those parents right or are their children right, even though they are being kidnapped? If the children are thinking in a higher dimension, the parents should follow But what is God’s thinking? God is always them, instead of them following the way of their thinking of the whole world, not just you as individual- parents. In God’s sight the greatest patriot would be the one who loved other nations even more than his own, even though those nations might be his enemies. It is logical for God to say, “Love your enemy.” If there were a fight between the Unification Church and the established churches, which side would you take? If you were in God’s position, would you like only those who are standing on the side of the Unification Church, or would you like those who stand on the side of the established church members, doing things to win their hearts?

In the latter case, those in the established churches will say, “That man can love his enemy. We have been opposed to his church, and have done vicious things against it, but he still loves us and is doing things for us.” Then they will admire you and bow their heads. Otherwise, even though you may win with your fists and take power over other people, if you are not able to love them, then in your heart you are already defeated. That is God’s way of thinking.

Who are you in the Unification Church? Who am I? I am the person responsible for the group. As the leader of the Unification Church, should I teach you to love Unification Church members alone, or to turn around and love the whole world and then come back to me? Even though you may fight among yourselves in your zeal to win the hearts of other people, if you go out to bring those people back, I will be pleased. Even though you fight among yourselves, that can be forgiven if you go out and love other people and bring them back.

Even though you are naughty in your family, if you can go out into society and be respected, and you can love other people and win their hearts, your parents will like you. In our church some members may look helpless, or tax and irresponsible, but once they step out of the center they are full of enthusiasm and zeal to win the hearts of the people. I like that kind of person.

That kind of person will prosper in our movement. Maybe you are the kind who says big things and looks more capable than anyone else in the movement, but you are loathe to witness to the people and scared to approach them. I don’t like that kind of person, and neither will God. You must remember that God is always saying, “If you really love me, you must love people outside more than you do your own brothers and sisters in this movement.” Would you rather try and do that? If you love the people of the whole world more than you love Americans, the people of your own nation, then the scope of God’s embrace will be greater.

If you can love the vast number of people living in the spirit world more than you do humanity, God’s love for you will be greater. If God loves only His immediate children, or those who are closest to Him, then He is not God. What is God doing at this moment? Whatever God is doing, He is not doing it for Himself, but for the whole world and humanity. You must know that. If God is high up on a throne, just wanting to do everything for Himself, then He is not God at all. God is the one who loves all humanity, the whole world. That is the kind of God mankind is searching for. Even without being conscious of it, all of humanity knows deep in their hearts that God is that kind of person, and when you become one with Him, you become the center of love too. You want to be loved by God in this sense don’t you?

Then which way would you choose, to go straight to God faster than other people, or to go around the whole world to encompass all humanity and then come back to love Him? We are in need of such persons, such families, and such nations. An individual with that kind of thinking would not sit still just loving his family even though he is told to. He would just run out and try to love the whole world. Suppose there is a family of such people; even though they are told to stay to themselves and be happy, the whole family would run out to reach their society and nation and the world.

That is the way of God, and the truest church will discipline and teach you in that way. Then what is the definition of the true nation? From this formula, a true nation must be one which sacrifices itself for the sake of the communities and families in the nation, and externally reaches out to the other nations of the world. That must be the true nation.

What is the true Kingdom of Heaven on earth that we talk about? The Kingdom of Heaven on earth in its truest sense must have citizens who can love God, the spirit world, and all humanity. We must always have that picture in mind. Starting in the center is the individual, then the family, clan, society, nation and the whole world. If you as an individual want to sacrifice yourself for things that cover the whole world, then what kind of person are you? You will be loved and protected by your family, by your tribe, by your community, by your nation and the whole world. Even God will respect and protect you.

Being protected like that, you are not exposed to danger. Wherever you are, even though you are separated, away somewhere at the end of the world, the whole world will come to encompass and protect you; the whole world will always be with you. I am not quite that kind of man yet, but wherever I go, for instance if I go to Korea, the whole nation is concerned about my actions and my whereabouts.

It is more so with you people. If I go to Korea, your heart is with me there. If I go to London, your heart will be in England with me. That’s what happens if you have a broader scope of things in mind, trying to love them. If you are that kind of person, are you unhappy? Wherever you are, you are not alone; the people of the whole world will protect you. You are important enough to be protected by their warmth of heart. If you try all through your life to love yourself and do things only for yourself, your greediness will make you ugly and unhappy. Whatever you do, wherever you are placed, there will be no protection around you. Instead you will be accused by Satan and taken away.

Would you rather be an individual who is protected by a wall of love, layer by layer, including the whole world, or a person exposed to satanic invasion all the time? It is not easy. When things are not easy it means they are important or valuable. Loving the world is something that even God would think very difficult, but we are more than sure that He wants that and that He is trying to have us do this kind of thing. In the Unification Church our whole effort is to live this philosophy.

Do you really love the Unification Church? Honestly speaking, when I am centered on my physical side, I don’t like the Unification Church. This is my confession: You must know that if there were no God at all, I would have gone an easier way. But because I know that there is a God who wants me to love the world, I have tried to live this way all through my life. Wherever I have gone I have faced opposition and people have reviled and abused me, but I have withstood all of that. What am I doing here in the United States to make the people oppose me to the extent of hating me? Have I been wronging them in some way so that they have to persecute me?

I am doing things the other way around. I am disciplining and training the drug-oriented, immoral young people of this nation who have been leading decadent lives. I am bringing them back to a normal way of life; even more than that, I am bringing them back to God’s way of life. Yet Americans have opposed me. Usually people coming to America are seeking to take money from this country of abundance, but on the contrary, I brought my own money to be used for the young people of this nation, and through this nation for the world. Am I doing something wrong?

People know that Koreans are struggling in poverty and that the Japanese too have more difficulties than most people in America. When I bring money and manpower from those countries to this nation of abundance, why do people here oppose me? Do people here really love God? People in America and elsewhere too, usually say they love God only because they profit by doing that.

I am surprised to know that in America they say “Jesus Christ” when they are disappointed or disgusted. Does that mean that they are pleased or grateful? That phrase is being used in the wrong way. If people are asked whether or not they really do love God, if they are honest their answer must be, “No.” If they have different ideas than God has, they are separated from God. Americans are enjoying free sex and drugs, and I know that God doesn’t like that. While doing that, can they still say they love God?

Since we love God in the truest sense, it is natural for us to be disliked in a world where people do not really love God. If you were God, would you say that only whites should marry whites, or blacks marry blacks, or yellow people marry yellow people? Should the races be mixed together in beautiful harmony? In the outside world, do people like the idea of all those races being mixed together?

God would like to say, “You Americans have had abundance and prosperity long enough. Why don’t you sell all your property and go to Africa and all the underdeveloped lands and care for those people?” God does not like the idea of just you being cozy in decent homes. If you sold all your things and went to the underprivileged people, He would like you better. Let’s say you love your home. You clean and decorate it and create a warmth of love and happiness there. Then if someone suddenly shows up and tells you to sell all those things and to go help underprivileged people, would you really like that? You may say yes because you are crazy people, but average people would say, “What do you mean, telling me to sell everything I own and go to Africa to love those people? What do you mean?”

I am taking children away from decent homes and teaching them to do things contrary to what normal people do in the outside world. That’s why I always think it is natural for outside people to dislike me. I don’t mind that. As I said before, from the physical point of view I don’t like the Unification Church either. That is true. Honestly, aren’t you like that, too? If I were alone in the world I could go my own way, but because I know there is a God, I cannot do that. Never a moment in my life have I ever wished that God did not exist. By living this way, I know I can occupy the heart of God. I think I have found the most precious thing in the whole world.

Looking at me you know that I am just a humble man, but I am sure that God is loving me. What do I have that He loves? I have gone through many experiences which no other person can imitate, and God knows that I have done all this for His sake and for the world. When I was hungry in prison, God would provide something for me to eat. When I was a stranger in a remote village, witnessing to the people, I always found that God had prepared all the necessities for me.

Sometimes I was out in the country with no money for travel expenses, but a miracle would happen and money would be brought to me, or a ticket. I am just a small man, but I think about things that are important to God. Therefore my thoughts reach Him and make a triangular circuit with someone else. Then unexpectedly that person connects with me and provides the things I need. There’s no need for a telephone to connect us.

Many people in the United States would like to see me dead and my movement scattered, but has that happened? As time goes by I become more and more famous; in three years I have stirred up the whole nation of America. When people really look closely at you, they know that our movement will prosper because your faces are shining and your eyes are glowing. People who are really discerning will say that this movement will prosper.

How would God look at these things? I have been struggling so hard, never wasting a moment of my life, and without asking for help I have finished many tasks, always worrying for fear that I would pass away without realizing the Kingdom of God on earth. When I go to spirit world will God relax and say, “When you were on earth I always worried about you, but now I can relax”? Would God be glad that He can stop worrying because I have already passed away? No. Instead He would say, “You did your very best throughout your life. I will at all cost have your ideal realized on earth, even though you are in the spirit world.” Because of this the Unification Church can never perish.

Look at yourselves as individual members of the Unification Church. Are you going to be a plus in this movement or a minus? We know how to reach God’s heart. We have to encompass the whole world and bring it back to God and reach His heart. I want you to put a world map on the wall of your room, and I want you to look at it from the viewpoint of God. If you were in God’s position, would you concentrate on America, a land of abundance, or would you concentrate on India where people are starving to death, and the other underprivileged countries where people are living in misery? God would rather have you concentrate on India than America.

Would God focus His attention on college campuses in America where people do things like streaking, or would he think instead about Africa, where young people cannot even go to primary school? He is concerned with the underprivileged people in the land of Africa. If there were people who wanted to snatch away the wealth overflowing in America to help those people, God would love them most. What we are doing here is just that. We want to fund-raise here and use the money to establish universities, hospitals, and many other facilities for underprivileged people who have already gone through difficulties.

Those who oppose our movement would hate that idea, but what do you think? Our way of thinking is not ordinary. I am teaching young people from the best universities here to go to Africa and India and help the people there, rather than only do things for this country. I want the young people from advanced nations to experience the lives of the people in underdeveloped nations. Is this kind of idea bad or good in God’s sight? If I put this kind of thing into practice and you follow me, what would the world look like in several years? This is the only way to erect the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. There is no other way to save the world.

How are we going to do it? The wider the scope of things you embrace, the more you are going to be loved by God. In the Unification Church you must go to at least three countries in your lifetime and help the people there. Why is this so? The ideal number is three; there were three sons in Adam’s family, in Noah’s family and also Abraham, Isaac and Jacob indicate the number three. You have to go through at least three nations bringing God’s message.

The same thing applies to me. Starting from Korea I had my mission in Japan, and now I am working in the United States. Excluding Korea, I have to restore Japan, America and finally the Soviet Union. Only by doing that can I cover the whole world. We must save the communist world too. Would God want to just demolish the communist world? If there is unity and harmony in the democratic world tinder the will of God, then God will use it to save the communist world. What nationality of members should I send to Soviet Russia? Would it be easier to send people from America or Africa to do the job? I would rather send Americans to do the job.

You will be miniature Reverend Moons there and duplicate what I have been doing here. You must realize that without going through three nations, you cannot go to the heavenly kingdom. If you just live and work for your nation, you cannot go to heaven. If you really want to belong to the heart of God, you will always think of the world and all humanity first. You must think of working for the whole cosmos, including the spirit world, and then for God. You say you want to save the whole world. Then you must find yourself loving all three races as you would your own brothers and sisters or yourself.

In our ideology there is no such thing as a national boundary because all the people of the world are the children of God. If there were no boundary between Canada and America, America and Mexico, what would happen? Have you ever stopped to think of that? National boundaries are man’s invention. Birds are free, flying from country to country. Do they need passports to cross the boundary between Canada and the United States? Even poisonous snakes can freely cross over the boundary between America and Canada. We too should be free to go anywhere. In the sight of God there are no such things as passports. Once there are people all over the world whom God loves, then we will not need passports to go from place to place.

When that happens in the future, if I am in Africa, you would rather be there. What must there be in me that attracts you so? Isn’t it strange that your mind is drawn to me like that? You are drawn to the divine love in me, like sunflowers are drawn to the shining sun. Though I was born in Korea, I have never thought of myself as a Korean because I know that God loves every nation and every man. My job is to love and to save the whole world so I have tried to love at least three nations. You also are in the position of having to love and to save the people of at least three nations. In the future, I am going to marry black, yellow, and white people together, and I will even provide their homes.

My desire is to see all three races mixed together, living happy lives in one world. It is possible only for those who love God and want to belong to God’s heart, which encompasses the whole world. I’ve got to do this in my lifetime. I want you to follow this way to reach God; only by loving humanity can you do that. If you really want to belong to God’s heart, you must leave where you are and go out into the streets of New York to witness. If you leave New York, your mind must be always with the people in every nation. After loving all the people in the whole nation and winning their hearts, then you can come back to love your church, your family and yourself. That is the only way you can belong to God’s heart.

If you realize this and put it into practice, you will never perish, but prosper. I will protect you, and our movement, this society, this nation, and God will protect you, ever being with you. Then you are going to be the happiest person in the whole world.

## LET US MEET OPPORTUNITY WELL

By Fami1yfed June 12, 2018 June 12, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### January 2, 1977
World Mission Center
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

The topic of the message this morning is: “Let Us Meet Opportunity Well.” One particular opportunity can decide whether a life will be successful or not. One vital statement sometimes can play a decisive role in the destiny of a man. A person can ruin his entire life through an unwarranted or improper statement. Sometimes too, when a person hears things that are not good or righteous, his whole life can be ruined. And sometimes a mistaken action can ruin an entire life. If someone mistakenly makes a wrong friend, that one friend could ruin his life.

Many saints and wise men of the past taught that it is very important to be cautious about what is listened to, what is spoken, and what is done. This philosophy is true everywhere, East or West.

On the other hand, one righteous, good statement at the opportune time can bring total, dramatic success to a life. Hearing the right things at the tight moment can bring about a decision which will make an entire life a success. One right action at the right time can bring great success. For example, one of the sisters here could go out to the street, meet a good man and have one conversation. That could be enough for them to become friends and he could eventually become a member and later her husband. People are always eager to meet someone who can tell them the right thing, who can influence them to speak and act in the right way. Isn’t that true?

There is one predictable tendency working strongly in human life: When someone gets into difficulty, that person has no time to think about others because he is too busy thinking about himself. Isn’t that true? When the chips are down, people are always engrossed in solving their own problems. In doing that, a person may sometimes say things that are not true or may even try to take advantage of a friend.

In human life, it is not easy to find a person who can really be trusted. It is rare to find a man or woman whom you can always rely on, trusting in their judgment and advice. Frequently we are desperately disappointed to discover that our most trusted friend betrayed our trust. This life is very difficult. Nowadays it is difficult to trust even your own parents, your own brothers. Then how much more so is it true of your own friends?

People are wondering whether there is anyone who can be trusted regardless of the situation, in any emergency or difficulty. We sometimes think that the saints of history, the holy men of the past were different. Are they what we need today?

What kind of person should a saint be? Saints are those who live their lives with a noble purpose. They are the ones who have a cause greater than themselves. They devote themselves to that purpose and do not change. That is the definition of a saint.

Should there be only one saint then, or two or three saints? What about two great saints pursuing world salvation? Let’s say both are claiming that they can save the world. Could it possibly be true? In that case, they might also be competing with each other. Could normal human weaknesses appear on that level too? One might say, “I’m going to achieve it first,” and then the other would say, “No, you stay behind. Let me do it!”

When we see eminent world scholars gathered together, it is frequently very difficult to come up with a unified opinion. Each one of them has his own claim, and they just won’t bend at all. Those who have experienced college life have probably seen that prominent people can be very narrow-minded. It could be true that even the highest saints would compete, trying to reach the goal faster than anybody else. It may be a logical conclusion that even saints would try to push their own claims first.

Among saints there are different levels of accomplishment, different levels of nobility. Some are superior to others. In the final analysis, who is the absolute saint? He is the one who truly is not contaminated by human weaknesses, who would not try to take advantage of others to push himself ahead. He is the person that you or anyone could absolutely trust. He would never betray you under any circumstances. In our history we have had many saints, many holy people, many wise people and philosophers. From among those great men we should be able to pick one who fits this category, one who could give his life for his enemies, who even at the moment of his own death could still have room in his heart to bless his enemies, one who could be concerned with the well-being of his enemies rather than his own.

In history there are many teachings. One is that if someone mistreats you, repay him in the same way: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a death for a death. However, the most revolutionary teaching was given by the saint who said, “Love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you.” Needless to say, that was Jesus Christ.

That one man was the only saint to absolutely fit the qualifications. Did Jesus make his own proclamations, or was he teaching according to someone else’s will, denying his own ego? What do you think? Jesus was not proclaiming his own message. Above him was someone else: God. Jesus’ teaching was God’s teaching; his emotional reaction to things was not his own. This means that the proclamations which Jesus made were God’s, and God can be trusted 100%.

Ultimately speaking, we can conclude that in this universe there is only one being you can fully trust: God; and His characteristics were manifested through Jesus Christ. God’s words are always truth. He cannot tell any lies, and His actions or His instructions are always for your benefit, not His. He will never take advantage of you for His own benefit. He is the one who can always be trusted. I found God to be the one subject who can be absolutely trusted. That’s why I believe in God.

I found out through experience that no matter how difficult a situation may be, I can rest assured that God will not exploit me. In the worst kind of situation, when I was in prison for example, going through incredible suffering day to day, even in that prison cell God was with me. God did not say, “I don’t know you any more. You are miserable. I don’t care about you.” God was there to comfort me. When God speaks, there’s no hint of a lie. Even though what He says sounds unreasonable sometimes, God speaks only the truth. Sometimes what He says is very bitter to me, and I feel I cannot accept it or adjust myself to it. But I must accept the truth because God is not speaking for His benefit but for your benefit, for my words of God. giving. Is it for my own benefit, or am I speaking for you well. From that knowledge, God will ask certain things of you and teach you certain things of far greater value than anyone could come up with for you. Sometimes God will order you to do certain things that are absolutely contrary to your own thinking. So then, what will you do? You might say, “Well, God, you are you, and I am 1. So you go your direction, and I’ll go mine.” But that is the road of destruction. Sometimes you may feel that it’s virtually impossible to follow His instructions, yet once you accept it 100%, there is always a way to fulfill that instruction. You can always find a way if you take it seriously.

Let’s say God promised you something. Is it an empty promise or will it be delivered? Once God makes a promise, once God makes a decision, He always keeps that promise even if it takes thousands of years for it to be fulfilled. Time after time He has fulfilled His promises. We all need this God.

How about human promises? We promise each other quite a bit. Sometimes we even make promises knowing that we will never fulfill them. In other words, we lie. We have all lied; none of you has been perfect. In human affairs everybody lives like that. This is the honest situation.

Human lies are everywhere because lies are very convenient. Without lies, commercial people practically couldn’t continue in business. What about God? He does not lie, and does not hear lies because He knows they are lies. He sees through them. Often we listen to lies without knowing it, but not God. We are exposed as we really are before God because our lies cannot hide anything from Him. This means you cannot even trust me 100%. I have human weaknesses. That’s an honest and frank statement. However, I am introducing you to a person you can trust 100%: God. My mortal body will live only one generation here on earth, but God will remain here forever.

There is no one in the universe who knows you someone else, someone perfect? You may not trust more than God, your past, present, and future. You me 100%, but you must trust my teaching, my words never know too much about your past. You never 100% because they are not my own. They are God’s know too much about your future. But God knows words. If you take the word of God more seriously than I do, and you fulfill it more perfectly than I do, then God will be in a position to bless you more than me. That’s very honest.

After I came to America I undertook an extraordinary task. I went through all fifty states on the Day of Hope tour, and initiated many gigantic campaigns, Madison Square Garden, Yankee Stadium and Washington Monument. Was it all done for my glory? God remained the same as before, but I emerged as a giant figure in a way. It almost sounds like I became famous instead of God! Isn’t that peculiar? The important thing, however, is that God’s goal in asking me to do certain things was not for His own sake. God already has the highest possible position of glory and power. In every way He is already at the top. So now He is pushing me.

Sometimes parents give their children a hard time and nag them to sit down and study, to read or practice something, to go to school and become straight-A students. But do they do that for their own sake? Some parents are so ambitious for their children that the children think, “Boy, I can’t stand this. I wish my mother and father would die quickly.” They may not think that badly, but at least they sometimes think in passing, “I wish I could be away from Mommy, so she couldn’t speak to me, so that I can do my own things instead of listening to her.”

The same thing is true for all mankind. You may often think the same thing, “I wish there was no God. He bothers me too much. Oh, God go away somewhere. I want to do my own thing.” I’m sure some of you are thinking right now, “Oh, I wish Rev. Moon were not here. He bothers me too much. He pushes me too much!”

From this time on you all have to run in different directions. Some will go fundraising, some to the IOWC, some to witnessing. Are you willing? The time will probably have come that you will think, “Boy, I shouldn’t have come to the Unification Church. I thought the Divine Principle was very good, but now that I know it and am trying to live it, it bothers me too much. I wish I’d never known Rev. Moon; I wish I’d never heard of the Divine Principle.” Only a handful of people are saying, “No,” but they are probably a very crazy group. Those who are just sitting and listening and don’t know what to say are probably in that first category.

This morning I am speaking very frankly, because I know what kinds of things you will have to go through. Today you will bid farewell to me, go out and get down to work. My job is to fulfill this mandate from God. “Push them, send them out.” So you have to go out. Even if my heart is crying, I still have no choice. I have to push you, send you out. I keep saying, “Go,” and without reservation you go the road of suffering.

Why am I asking you to go the road of suffering? First, it is for you; second, for your own generations to come and third, for your own nation, and for the sake of the world; maybe after that for God’s and my sake. Actually, whether you do these things or not will not affect my position at all. I have my own Position in heaven and earth. Nobody can change it or alter it. So why do I keep pushing you? For your own sake, for your own children, your own country. Whoever defies my teaching is actually defying his own self, his own posterity, his own country, and the benefit of the world and God. He is not defying me at all. He is defying himself.

I am not sure whether you like me or not. Do You? Our physical make-up is entirely different. You have blue eyes, and long noses, and I have dark eyes and look strange and foreign to you. Maybe the color Of our eyes is different, but the color of our minds is the same. Because of our minds we can become one and unite. How do you know I’m not the world’s worst con man or swindler? Have you seen my heart? No one can see it. How can you trust me? You can only trust me by experiencing life together with me. Maybe your future experience will be entirely different. Regardless, are you ready to go?

I tell you one thing: You will never lose yourself; you will never be harmed by going this way. Suppose I were telling you lies, but you took my lies as the truth, as God’s words and lived them 100%. God knows very well what is true or false. In that case, God may condemn me, but God would never condemn you. God may not give me the blessing but He definitely would not withdraw His blessing from you. Actually this is a challenge. Even if I am telling you lies, if you take them seriously as the word of God, and you fulfill them, actually there is a chance that you could become the real Rev. Moon. You can’t lose. When you take things seriously and live the teaching, not for your own sake but for God’s sake, God will never abolish your deeds.

This morning, the time has come for the most critical showdown of the Unification Church. Right now our opportunity is knocking at the door. We were already launched yesterday. There are many different consequences waiting for us depending on whether we shoot straight upward, downward, or maintain a horizontal path. There will be three types of response from this point on: Some people will take off and go upward to prosperity. Some people will decline, and some people will try to just barely maintain a horizontal level. Which one is your choice?

In order to shoot yourself high you need jet thrust. You need guts and energy. To shoot yourself high you need an Apollo 11, a million pounds of engine thrust to push yourself up. Do you have that kind of engine behind you? The person who is dozing, is his engine ignited? Dozing people do not know the right direction. If they are ignited, they could take off downward instead of upward! It is possible. All of you sitting here are Apollos. Are we all heading in the same direction? Do you want me to push the ignition switch? In the Unification Church, the most critical opportunity is at hand.

How can you take my word 100% seriously? You got up this morning for pledge service, didn’t you? Tell me very honesty, were you willing to do that this morning? Don’t tell me big lies! You did it because you had to! Even I didn’t want to get up at 4:30. Are you different? Why do I do it if I don’t want to? Because there’s someone upstairs watching me.

Nobody really wants to go out there selling peanuts and flowers. Nobody wants to go out there on the street, acting like a crazy man trying to grab people and witness. You act almost like servants to the people, trying to win their hearts, trying to talk to them. When you think of it, the amount of work you have to do to win one person’s heart is incredible. And you have to do it day in and day out. You go out fundraising every day, from early morning to late night. Are we really fond of doing it? We do it because we have to.

Actually, I don’t like to speak harshly to you or be too strong. I came back from my tour, and without any rest I had a fifteen hour conference talking to state directors. Then I came here and spoke twice yesterday and now for a third time. It would be very convenient to say, “Well, I’m tired, and you’re tired. I need some sleep and you need some sleep. Let’s forget about the mission. Let’s go sleep for a full twenty-four hours.” It would be very nice. I wish I could do that. But someone is watching me, thinking, “That’s not the proper thing to do.” That’s the problem. What should I do?

As I told you, God is telling you to do certain things for your own sake, no matter how harsh it sounds. Once I receive a certain direction, I must transmit it to you 100%, and I myself have to live it. My teaching is coming from God. Those among you who value my word and take it seriously will, in a way, be blessed more than me. You will never be ruined, and you will ever be destroyed; you can only prosper.

It is my duty to push you out all the way even if you hesitate, regardless of whether you like it or not. That’s love. When you live this teaching, then God will guarantee your own life, the life of your posterity, the life of your nation, of the world and of mankind. The showdown of such important success or failure is at hand.

Today, I mentioned that one word can be critical. Sometimes one word of a good and true teaching will change your life and bring you into great success. That word is coming this morning. Everyone who listens to my word, takes it 100% seriously, lives it and accomplishes it, will not be disappointed. We must not become people who just do nothing, who mull over the question of whether we should go or not. Instead, all we have to do is take the initiative and go. Then we can find out for ourselves that we will not be disappointed.

Respected people outside will say, “How crazy you are. Why did you become a slave of Rev. Moon? I have never seen such a fool.” Do you have the courage to overcome that kind of reaction?

Let me tell you one episode from my past. Many times in North Korea and one time in South Korea I was in jail. There was one ardent member following me around that time, but he became tired and left. Then he read in the newspaper that l was going to jail. At that time many members were trying to encourage me, saying, “Don’t worry, Father. You just wait; we shall do 1000 times more than you.” But this particular person came to the prison, curious to see how I looked. He happened to be in such a position that I met him face to face, and I will never, never forget that man’s statement. He said to my face, “You fool, are you still doing this?” What he meant was, “I am smart. I know what is the best way to live. But you are foolish. Are you going to continue your crazy life for eternity? You’re going to ruin yourself that way!”

But what happened? Today after 20 years, that man is gone. He thought he had the most successful, prosperous life. He thought he was very smart, but that man was ruined. In the meantime God has been continuously raising me up as a worldwide figure. I remember back to those difficult days when so many people came and heard the Divine Principle and were so excited. But as soon as they realized that the road of the Divine Principle was not easy, those who were clever and ambitious in a secular way quietly dropped away. Particularly in the early days of the Unification Church, they would not stay. They thought that they were smart and those remaining inside were foolish. Now, 20 years later, what’s happening in Korea? If they have even survived, those smart people are coming to our members trying to get a minor job. Now they want to be benefited by the church, saying, “I used to be a member. Can you help me?” Now they realize that we are in a position to help them, and they are coming to beg for positions.

The same thing will happen right here. In America we will see a repetition of our movement’s history in Korea. After I came to this country, I was mistreated. All the mass media attacked me, yet I have disregarded it and gone on with my own plan. Under those circumstances a normal person would have collapsed or been destroyed a long time ago. But instead of being destroyed, my work through the Unification Church is getting stronger and prospering more every day. Right here in New York we are now publishing our own newspaper. Right here we are having a festival in our own center. This is only one beginning here in America. Do you think I am creating my own empire with a throne, signing papers every morning? Not at all. I don’t even have a little desk of my own. The secret of my success is simple. All I am doing is listening to God and absolutely trying to enforce His will. That’s all I do. As the Bible says, “He who seeks to lose his life for my sake will find it.” That’s the creed I have been living.

So this morning, let us seriously think about our future. We have two years to go, 1977 and 1978. How far will you go? There are many ways to go all the way. You can go all the way relaxed and in slow motion. Which way are you going? Like the Apollo? Everybody’s lining up now for a long marathon race. I will say “Go!” But if there are 1500 people, at the goal line we will have 1500 different arrival times. Where do you want to place? First or last? Only one arrival can be first.

The marathon runners in the Olympics run for two and a half hours. When they cross the starting line, are they really committed or not? When Olympic winners are running, are they thinking, “Who is my date tonight? Where should I enjoy my vacation? What should I eat tonight? Which restaurant should I go to?” Will that kind of man end up in first place? Never! That’s against God’s rule.

The person who wins has absolute concentration. His ‘whole body is focused on the goal. He thinks, “Nothing but victory, nothing but victory. I may die, but I don’t care 1 will go to the end.” That person will win. This morning, you are on the starting line; you can all be marathon champions.

Many people comment that the Unification Church members are smart, bright young people. Are you really? That means that the elite of American society has gathered together in the Unification Church. Since you are the brilliant young people of America, I’m sure that your judgment would not be wrong. I’m proud of having the elite of America in our church. America is a first class nation in the world, and you are citizens of that country, so compared to you I may be considered second or third class, right?

When you say Korea, people think, “That’s a backward country, a trashcan.” I came from that country, so I feel that if I do not fulfill my promise to God, He may have room to forgive me because I came from such a country. But if you do not fulfill your promise to God, God will not forgive you. You have come from a great country, and you are the elite of America. With the pride of being the elite of America, citizens of this most advanced nation, leaders of the free world, you have made a covenant with God. Then you are going to fall behind the Japanese? Are you behind the Koreans?

When you go horseback riding, do you want to ride a little pony, or a beautiful championship horse? When you compare nations to horses, America is like a championship horse, really beautiful and tall, brilliant. Compared to that horse, the Japanese people are like little ponies. You feel good to hear that, but the Japanese certainly don’t! Yet it is the truth.

Yesterday I announced that I have already laid the firm foundation for building the Kingdom of God here on earth. No one can destroy this foundation. Upon this foundation anybody can go out and be prosperous. Since I am here in America, I want to give my trust first to the American people.

So far, many people have trusted America, many Asian nations, many African nations. But then America backed down and they were disillusioned. is that true or not? Now I have come from Asia and I am going to trust the American people completely. if you retreat, what will happen? Will you disappoint me? Are you going to be different Americans? You should not continue America’s backward, retreating tradition. You must be the ones to take this initiative, to accomplish the mission. Can you do it?

I will wait and see. I will watch everyone perform. I want to really see what Americans can do. To show your own strength, you should not need members from other countries. The Japanese really shouldn’t be needed. None of the foreign members should be needed. nose here who think, “In every cell, in my spirit and soul and appearance, in every way I am 100% American,” raise your hand. You are really Americans, and you have made a covenant with God. Then when you run, are you going to be in first place or last place? Are you going to be conscientious in witnessing, and talk from morning to night, with your lips all overworked and blistered? I have blisters as a matter of fact. Would you work that hard? Or will you just talk a couple of hours and then rest and eat ample food, and then maybe do a little more? When you go to your mission, will you need an automobile? Most Americans would say, “We must sit and wait for an automobile.” Would you walk? Run? You know the answer. You have already read my mind. You are really elite!

Tell me the truth. Have you Americans really, really demonstrated the dignity of America to the members from abroad? Have you really shown America’s pride and capability? What I am saying is very simple. I will give Americans the first chance. If you want it, take it; if you don’t, refuse, and it will go to somebody else. Will you take it?

Let’s sweep the fifty states. I came, one man from Korea, sweeping across these United States in three and one half years. Now here are 1500 here and all together many thousands of our young people. Do we have the capability to sweep through all fifty states? Can you pledge before heaven and earth as Your covenant to God that you will do it?

The Unification Church vans will say, “Boy, I wish I could go somewhere else because the Unification Church members are driving me twenty-four hours a day. They never let me rest even a couple of hours. I wish I could have another master.” Do you mind hearing such a complaint from your own van? Maybe your van will complain, but at the same time heaven and earth will echo with every step of yours. Heaven and earth will resonate together with your every action.

Heaven and earth will answer the vans of our church, and they will say, “Stop complaining. If you -n that much, you will end up in the museum of heaven and earth. You will be honored. Don’t complain; stop nagging.” Even the vans will get excited, “Me? Me? I will end up in a museum? Let me run 24 hours. Never mind, I won’t complain.” That automobile will fulfill a historical mission.

So who is going to produce this museum piece? Who is going to be the historical person who will drive that particular van so that it ends up in the museum? I’m sure one thing is absolutely clear. It will be a woman. These men, to be honest, are useless people. A couple of days ago there were assignments being made to the MFT, and IOWC. At that time the Japanese MFT leaders came to me and said, “Father, could you give us more sisters? The men don’t produce so much. The women are the ones who really do the work.” Why don’t you men give them a big applause?

Are you going to be defeated by these heroic women? So far your record shows you have been inferior to them. However, would you say then, “Father, maybe in the past something was wrong, but from today on, I promise you it is going to be different’?” These women are very clever. They applaud you, knowing that I will make you very strong and courageous; after all, you will become their husbands some day!

The Unification Church has gone over one important hill of victory. We have come to the pinnacle of the mountain, but that’s not the end of it. At this junction of history, Jan. 2, 1977, we have a most momentous opportunity to shoot for an even higher mountain, a higher goal, or we could decline. Lets say you are an MFT member. You’ve been working very hard, day in and day out, and one day you’re so discouraged, you cannot go on anymore. You feel you must pack up and leave. At that very moment, you may miss the most important person, a billionaire, with a big heart, ready to be ignited by the Divine Principle. If that one per-son came in, he could solve all the economic problems of our church by himself. Then as an MFT member you would have so narrowly missed that one great opportunity.

You never know when you might encounter such a person, at midnight, 4:30 in the morning, noon. Therefore you have to be alert twenty-four hours a day. So even when you go to the bathroom, say, “Heavenly Father, I have to spend the next few minutes in the bathroom. Could you watch for me?” That kind of feeling. Every minute of the day you are going to be alert. There is no time to be relaxed or offguard.

Witnessing is just the same. You are meeting people, young and old, and you have no idea what kinds of people you are meeting. Maybe you are witnessing to a person who will become President of this nation twenty or thirty years later. Maybe you are witnessing to a relative of the future President, to the very person who will guide the destiny of the free world. One man can change the world. Maybe that person is in the street, in the hamburger shop, maybe in the hospital. He may look very ugly and crippled at the moment. You never know. You can most ardently look for such a man. Pray, “Heavenly Father, give me one man who can change the destiny of this nation, who can change the shape of the world. Give me the chance to witness to such a man, to win such a Person’s heart.” Those who are always striving toward such a goal will always come up with the result.

You Americans and your nation of America are in the position to carry the destiny of the future world. God has placed upon your shoulders the greatest mission of all. We have been looking forward to the opportunity to change the destiny of the world. It is now at hand. We are the ones who can grab it. We can finally fulfill the expectation of God here on earth. I am Korean and have many handicaps. You are American. You should be able to do three times as much as I can do. Can you do it? Raise your hands and pledge that goal to me. Thank you.

## GOD’S DAY

By Fami1yfed June 12, 2018 June 12, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### January 1, 1977 – morning
World Mission Center
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

Today we are celebrating the tenth God’s Day. In order to have God’s Day come about, history has gone through many different periods of restoration. It has gone through the servant of servant period, the servant period, the adopted son period, the direct son period and then the parent period. Only after that could God’s Day be installed. Today we must fully realize that between the Unification Church and the rest of the world there are marked differences. We know the meaning of God’s Day whereas the rest of the world does not.

As you know, Christianity is the religion that brings man up to the adopted son level. Judaism restores man up to the servant level, and those who do not have religion are at the servant of servant level. It is a revolutionary accomplishment that the Unification Church is celebrating God’s Day today. It shows that we have not only fulfilled the servant of servant period, which is the non-religious era, but also the servant period, which is the Jewish era, the adopted son era, or New Testament era, and we have come up to the Completed Testament era where we are centered upon the True Parents, upon God’s Day.

According to the Divine Principle, the fall of man came at the second level, or growth stage. Adam did not fall by himself, nor did Eve fall by herself. Together they brought about the fall of man. The fallen action took place while they were seeking the positions of husband and wife. As a couple they fell. Therefore the restoration process, which is a reversal leading to achievement, also involves the husband and wife relationship.

The history of the Unification Church reflects the entire history of restoration. If Christianity had accepted the Divine Principle and me at the outset of our movement, then we would have stood upon the foundation of the adopted son religion, and we could have gone one step further into the religion of direct sons and parents. However, because of our rejection and persecution by Christians, this foundation was broken down. I had to initiate the Unification movement from the very bottom, starting from a non-religious status, from the servant of servant position. I have been a pioneer, coming from that very bottom level all the way up to the top level of God’s Day. I started this pioneering task from the very bottom and misery of human life, the servant of servant position. But I am not just walking by myself. I am leaving behind a bridge, which the rest of mankind can cross to achieve the same accomplishment.

Until 1960 my pioneering task was incredible. But after 1960 the first victorious foundation was laid: The holy wedding ceremony between Mother and myself took place. Through this, the complete foundation for the declaration of true sons and daughters could emerge. Upon that victorious foundation where God could recognize true sons and daughters, the holy wedding of True Parents could take place.

Before Adam and Eve became husband and wife, they were supposed to grow as individuals. They had to be perfected and recognized as children of God before they could move into the husband and wife relationship. Now the True Parents have the mission of restoring and purifying the position of fallen Adam and Eve.

You all know very well through the Principle that Jesus came as a restored and perfected Adam, born without any sin. At that time, there was also a restored Adam who was to support the pure, sacred Adam. That position was to be fulfilled by John the Baptist. John the Baptist was the representative of all fallen men who were to be restored into the Adam position. In other words, he was reaching toward the perfection of Adam from fallen mankind’s position, while Jesus Christ was in the position of original Adam, not knowing the fall or sin. Jesus was anointed and given that position of perfected Adam. These two Adams were supposed to become perfectly united into one.

Why was this unity between perfected Adam, Jesus, and restored Adam, John the Baptist, necessary? By having John the Baptist as a representative unite totally with Jesus, all fallen mankind could have been saved by the grace of Jesus. John could have established a bridge for all mankind to cross to be perfected. Jesus Christ came from the lineage of God, as the direct heir of God. John the Baptist and the rest of mankind came from the lineage of the fallen archangel. Because their lineage was different, no matter what John the Baptist and fallen mankind did at that time, they could not have reached the position of direct heirs to God. They could be restored only up to the adopted son position.

Jesus belonged to God while the rest of the people belonged to satanic parents, and therefore had to be restored to God’s side as adopted children. Since their lineage was different, they could only be adopted, but Jesus came as the Tree of Life, the true olive tree, to graft fallen mankind onto him, and to give them true life. Through him, all mankind had a way to become direct heirs of God.

If there had been no fall, there would have been no fallen men. There would not have been different lineages. All men and women would have belonged to God as direct sons and daughters. However, because of the fall of man, a different lineage was born. You must know that the Messiah, Jesus, who came 2,000 years ago, was in the position of perfected Adam, or perfected father. The rest of fallen mankind was to channel through John the Baptist and become completely one with him, to be restored as sons and daughters of God. If John the Baptist had united with Jesus, and all the Jews had completely united with Jesus as the Messiah, they would have been restored up to the growth stage and gone beyond, reaching the perfection stage, the third and final stage of growth.

Once again, because of the fall of man from the growth stage, everything was lost. There was never a celebration for God. There were no parents, no children. Even the things of creation were lost to Satan. However, once we restore ourselves up to the growth stage, within a 7 year period everything that was lost must be restored. After the installation of True Parenthood comes the restoration of the children. In the Bible we can see that there were 12 apostles, 72 disciples and 120 disciples following Jesus Christ. They were supposed to cross over the growth stage into perfection, but this was not done 2,000 years ago. After the installation of True Parenthood, however, I accomplished this in 7 years time.

You see, Jesus Christ could not become the True Parent alone. When you say parents, you are automatically talking about two persons. After Jesus Christ had reached perfection and completed his individual ministry, he had to work for the installation of True Parenthood. Therefore Jesus declared himself a bridegroom, and it clearly mentions in the Bible that he was searching for a bride. However, the crucifixion took away his chance to be installed as a parent. Then since there were no parents, no real children could come, nor could the things of creation be restored.

Therefore, in the time of Jesus, God’s Day was not installed, nor was Parent’s Day, Children’s Day or World Day. Jesus ascended into heaven as a bachelor, remaining, in a way, in the archangel position. Therefore, since the possibility of physical salvation was lost, Christianity has been a religion of spiritual salvation. The crucifixion came about primarily because of the failure of John the Baptist. Since then Christian history has been the history of the adopted son religion, but only spiritually. Therefore, the Christian position is in a way inferior even to the position of Judaism. Judaism at least had the servant position spiritually and physically, while, even after attaining the adopted son level, Christianity does not have its own nation or integrity of territory.

At least in the time of Jesus, there was a chosen nation with integrity of territory. God could claim, “These are my people, and this is my land and my government.” After the crucifixion of Jesus, however, there was no such land which God could claim. Why is that sovereignty, that nation, needed? A sovereign nation is absolutely necessary to fulfill God’s work because with it He can deal with the satanic world on an equal basis. When you have a nation, you cannot easily be attacked; you have your own ways of protecting your people. After all, power is derived from sovereignty. Each nation has its own law, defense power, political power, and economic power. Yet without having these, Christianity still had to go to the worldwide level. Therefore, everywhere Christianity landed, what happened? It suffered; the believers were martyred and put through tribulation. All kinds of suffering continued throughout the 2,000 years of Christianity.

Christians today do not know the position they have. They just blindly believe in Jesus Christ and accept the words of the Bible. They feel that some day Jesus will come on the clouds of heaven, and all Christians will be lifted up in the air. Somehow they will have a rendezvous with Jesus and have some kind of millennium up there. That is horrendous, empty, hollow. Religion is not out there, but that’s where Christianity is.

Through the Divine Principle we know that the Lord of the Second Advent cannot appear in that kind of supernatural fashion. Jesus Christ could not return that way because the work of God which was left undone 2,000 years ago was to be done here on earth. Therefore, the mission of the Messiah is a physical, realistic one. As a man he must come up from the bottom of human misery. He must come to the most miserable nation and lift the human status from the servant of servant position, to the servant position, to the adopted son position and to the direct son position by physically putting together the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. That is the mission of the Messiah.

Christianity today is really viewed by God as the foundation upon which the Messiah can come. When Christians accept the coming Messiah, the physical living Messiah, their spiritual accomplishments shall become physical accomplishments as well. They shall become physical, adopted sons instantly and move on to become direct sons and daughters of God.

For this one world, how many Messiahs does God need to send? This one world needs only one Messiah. However, the religious foundation is not only Christianity. All the other major world religions are also preparing for one day, for one person, for the coming of the Messiah. That is the goal of their preparation. Christianity itself is not the goal. Christianity is only the preparation. The goal is to meet and accept the Messiah.

Since the Messiah who must come to restore the world in our time will come as a physical man, can he be the same Messiah who came 2,000 years ago? Can he be the same person? It is clear in our Principle that Jesus, the Messiah 2,000 years ago, and the Messiah who is to come in the 20th century, cannot be the same person, just as Adam of the garden of Eden and Jesus Christ were not the same. Because of the failure of Adam, another person, Jesus, came in the position of Adam to restore his failure. By the same token, the Lord of the Second Advent is coming as the third Adam, to restore Adam’s failure. The most important truth the Unification Church is proclaiming is this: the Messiah is the third Adam.

What is the qualification of the third Adam? The third Adam must be able to restore the failure of the Adam in the garden of Eden. Also, the third Adam must be in a position to complete or perfect the mission of the second Adam. Where should this third Adam come? Should he stay up on a big throne in spirit world and say, “Everybody listen to me”? Is this what he should do? He must come down to the place where Adam committed the sin, where Jesus left the mission undone. Compared to this realistic truth, when you think that the Christians outside believe that Jesus is returning in glory and power on the clouds of heaven and that he will supernaturally lift up a few Christians here and there to meet him in the air, it is horrendous.

God is a God of principle, a God of logic, not a God of magic. Once Christians accept the Messiah, then where should they go? They should clean the house, like Ajax, going down where all the sins are committed. Adam’s sin must be washed out; Jesus’ unaccomplished mission has to be accomplished. Together with the physical Messiah here on earth Christians should build the Kingdom of God on earth. That’s the Christian mission.

When the Messiah comes, everybody has to go back to the position of Adam and Eve before their marriage. We have to start life all over again; a reorganization will take place. Actually, before the Messiah comes and parenthood is established, we are like orphans. All the marriages of the world are illegal in the sight of God. Who should marry first? The parents, of course. Their holy wedding must come first. After that, the children will get a chance to be blessed by the parents. That is the most natural sequence. When people recognize the coming of the Messiah, should they still continue a husband and wife relationship? That means that they are opposing the Messiah in a way which cannot be accepted in the sight of God. That position is not yet completely reorganized. They must return to the position of Adam and Eve before the fall.

When the Messiah comes, he is bringing an entire revolution. Therefore, the Bible teaches that he who seeks to lose his life will gain it, and he who seeks to gain his life will lose it. Those who are trying to save their own lives will be destroyed. If the Messiah were coming in a glorious manner, that kind of principle would not apply. This particular teaching of Jesus in Matthew is so wise. We have come from satanic lineage; therefore, we must kill our old selves in order to be born anew. This is the great revolution of man. When you feel your old self, the archangel still living in your heart, you have to completely empty yourself, lose yourself.

This is really the simple, ultimate truth of Christianity. Unification Church is teaching the same truth. He who is willing to lose his life for the sake of the Messiah will find it. Every day our way of life must be a process of losing our lives in order to find them. This is the secret of everything. Isn’t that logical?

That does not mean you have to take a kitchen knife and chop off your head. What I am saying is that once you determine to give up even your life, there is nothing you cannot do, nothing you can complain about, nothing you cannot obey. Killing yourself, or losing yourself does not necessarily mean chopping off you head. Your head has no sin. Your inner self does. Then how should you lose your inner self? What should you eliminate? Your greediness, your false ambition, your ego. Do you have any of that?

Everybody has ego, false ambition and greediness, the “I want to make that mine” mentality. Greediness is a link to the satanic chain. If Satan pulls, you have to go. False ambition and greediness in the garden of Eden brought about the fall of Adam and Eve. Therefore, in order to separate ourselves from that realm we have to completely liberate ourselves from greediness. Our way of life should be such that everything which sounds good, looks good and is beautiful belongs to God, not me.

First, there is the greediness of wealth or material. Second, there is greediness of love. What is that? Between the archangel and Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, what was the fall? It was illicit love, the ambition of love. According to the Divine Principle, everything really belongs to God. If we let everything belong to God and let God give things to others as blessings, then the things can become ours, too. By the same token, love belongs to God. Then, the fall in the garden of Eden was that they just wanted to get rid of God, to have nothing to do with God, and to have all the love for themselves. That’s what the fall was.

Third, we must give our lives to God. In other words, your life must be born of God. Are you, and all mankind, originally born of God? The human souls coming to life every day in the hospitals everywhere, are they born of God? No, they are born of Satan. It’s the honest truth; they are born of Satan.

Three major principles have to be restored to God’s world and God’s direct sons and daughters. We have to unwind the sins committed by Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. First, we must be able to return all the things we possess to God. Second, since all the love that we want to possess does not belong to us, but to God, we must return all love itself to God. Third, our lives are born of Satan, so we have to return our lives to God. God could say, “Well, I don’t need it. It’s really smelly, and I don’t want it,” but He will not. God embraces even such children because in principle all men were created by God as His children. Even though we deviated, we originally belong to God. God knows that the human fall did not come after perfection; it came during mankind’s immaturity. Therefore, God knows it can be restored, and man can grow into perfection. That’s why mankind has the hope of restoration, the hope of becoming whole and perfect in the sight of God.

When you give up all your things, your love, your life itself, it is really a dying process. He who seeks to lose himself for the sake of God will find himself. Your lost things will be replaced by God. He will share His love with you, and God will give you new life. Instead of losing life you will find it. Actually, in a commercial sense, this is a very good deal. Would anybody refuse to exchange an old, smelly, ragged jacket for a new silky tuxedo? Would anybody object to that’? That’s the very thing we are doing with our lives.

Who is the wise man, then? The person with smelly clothing who says, “No, no I cannot give them up. Don’t touch me. I need them”? Is he the wise man, or the person who says, “God, all right, I’ll get rid of everything. Here is the jacket; here are the pants; here’s my T-shirt; now I’m streaking to God”? Actually it’s so beautiful. You go back to God naked. You don’t claim anything. Then God will abundantly bless you with everything that you need.

This fallen world is trying to parallel the heavenly program in a reverse way. Satan always imitates heavenly things first. In the outside world, no matter how wealthy you are, you can’t maintain that wealth generation after generation. The system doesn’t allow that. There are inheritance taxes. If a person works hard and accumulates millions of dollars in this bank and that bank, when he dies, most of the money doesn’t go to his children or to his family; it goes to the government. It is taken away from him. Therefore many people wonder why they should work so hard trying to accumulate wealth. After all, what good is that wealth to them? Consequently their appetite for becoming rich decreases.

Secondly, in the secular world, there is a great deal of division in love. Love is in trouble in the outside world. Human love relationships are becoming more like those of animals. A beautiful, noble relationship of love is rare to come by outside. People just marry by contract, or for convenience. Then when they get tired of it, they separate and meet someone else and separate again and so on. Who’s doing that, God or Satan? In a way Satan is doing it, but God is permitting it. Because that will become an advantage. God sees that human ownership and love have to be reorganized, so He is letting them be broken down.

In the outside world, many people are losing ambition and losing their vision for their own lives. Many people are killing themselves; even young people kill themselves. They think, “Why should I live? This is a terrible world. I have no reason to live.” I am sure some of you in this room at some point almost felt that you would rather kill yourselves, that you didn’t have a purpose for living. Even though you may not have said it to anybody, whoever has had that kind of thought cross his mind, raise your hand. You barely escaped, didn’t you! Now that you know Divine Principle and see the purpose of life, does anyone still want to kill himself? Raise your hand. No one. Then I have saved many lives!

The secular world is going in that direction, but it is not necessarily bad, or a cruel act of God. God is thinking of the total renovation of mankind. He is shaking men up so that they can transform their lives more easily into new lives, new eternal lives. Even the satanic world is doing heavenly things first. One example was the young peoples’ streaking fad, but they did not know which direction to run! They were still running around in the satanic world, We should become naked spiritually and run to God.

Many years ago I predicted that people in the Western world would expose themselves, would run around naked, and that would be one sign of the end of the world. You don’t even have to receive a special revelation to know that. Do you know why this phenomenon is happening? When such extreme actions happen in the secular world, that means something wonderful, positive and dramatic is happening on the heavenly side. All we have to do is ready ourselves and wait because the time will come when this wave of people searching after the truth and value will eventually knock on the door of the Unification Church. They will have to because there is no other alternative.

When you join the Unification Church, I emphasize giving everything that you have to God for three years. All the love that you enjoy, bring it to God until you have only your one life left. Then even that life itself, give it to God. However, we not only return all these things to God, we make it even more dramatic. We go down to the bottom of the misery of mankind. Why? If we penetrate down to the bottom of the satanic world, Satan has no way to approach us with any accusation.

So we give and give. In a way, we kill our own ego by going down to the bottom of the misery of man. Fund raising is one exciting way of doing this, and witnessing is another. Sometimes you even go to a beggar and ask, “Could you buy these products’? Could you buy this candy?” You couldn’t bring yourselves down any further. You bow down to beggars. That’s hard work, from early morning to late night. That’s the way you earn fifty cents, a dollar, two dollars and so forth.

Does this go into your pockets? Not at all, this is God’s money. There should be no greediness, not even a tiny bit. Everything you do, even your sweat and blood, should be offered to God. If a person would say, “Well, I work so hard. This money should belong to me. It should fill my stomach; it should buy me some warm clothes,” that’s a satanic string. Suppose one person earns $100 per day. Then, if $90 goes to the Church, and $10 stays in his pocket, that $10 will become a chain that Satan can hook onto. You will be pulled to Satan by $10. Do you understand? This is not my gimmick to make you work hard and give everything to the Church. You will find out how important this is. You must totally isolate yourself from Satan’s accusation.

While you are doing this, you are given up by the world. Your own parents say, “Are you crazy? I can feed you; I can clothe you. Why do you act so crazy?” And your old boyfriends and girlfriends say, “I thought you were very intellectual, but I see you’re really dumb. Get lost.” In other words, the world completely abandons you.

Furthermore, you are not only abandoned by the world; you go a step further. You say, “God, don’t worry about the rest of the world. Don’t worry about my parents, or my girlfriend. If you need my life, I am ready any time. Just give me a little cable that says, “I need you.’ ” The person who does this is going way over the line of the fall, way beyond the satanic realm of accusation. Then Satan has no power over that person. You are eager to go that way because you are just sick and tired of the satanic influence of the world, and you want to completely cut yourself off from it. So shall we do fund raising?

Who are fund raisers? They are not too far from being beggars, maybe beggars’ cousins. Master and doctoral degrees from high-ranking colleges and universities are nothing to be proud of when you become a fund raiser. You can’t say, “I am a Ph.D from Harvard. Here’s a peanut. Pay me!” It doesn’t work. You have to just completely humble yourself. But that’s the beauty of it. Even a Ph.D. from Harvard doesn’t say one word about Harvard, or about his Ph.D. He bows down, “Could you help? Could you give one dollar?” It’s absolutely beautiful in the sight of God. When God sees it, He has tears in His eyes.

Our young people must know why I have pushed them into such a miserable way of life. Now from this morning on you should know clearly. This is why, even without my chasing them, all the MFT members are voluntarily working from morning to night. They have that realization. They are not working for me or anybody else. They are trying desperately to rid themselves of the shackles of the satanic world. Those who think they will do anything that can get rid of Satan’s shackles are crazy in a way. But that is not their ambition, that is God’s ambition. They are greedy to more dramatically give their lives to God.

Actually greediness is not necessarily bad. When it belongs to Satan it is bad. But once you are on God’s side, God’s things, God’s love, God’s life are most precious. Then you should become greedy and more ambitious to get more from God. Christians should not say, “Oh God, I am proud of my religious denomination. I am a Presbyterian elder, and I have accomplished great Christian works. I am an honorable Christian.” There is no such thing as “my church,” “my land” and so forth. All Christians in the world outside have the same destiny as you of getting rid of the bondage of Satan. They have to liberate themselves, totally emptying themselves. All fallen people here on earth would say, “Oh, sure, I want to go to the Kingdom of God in Heaven. When I die I want to go to heaven.” But there is no way for them to do it until they pay the last penny, the last debt. They must go through the same procedure of giving up themselves as you do.

Now some people in the Unification Church say, “Why do we have to be so extreme? We will just set the condition and do things in a more gentlemanly way.” That will not work because when you live in a mediocre way, there is a great area left uncovered. In that kind of area Satan can remain hidden, and he will hook you in so many different ways. The meticulous way is the only way we can go, not the mediocre way. Divine Principle teaches that you should start out at the bottom of the Principle, and even leave extra room for security. If the Principle says you must go to that pole, then go around that pole and come back. If you say, “No, I don’t think I have to go all the way to the pole. Let’s just circle around ten times,” no matter how many million times you circle around here without going to that pole, the principle will not be accomplished. Do you know that?

If there were some shortcut in the heavenly way, I would not have waited for you to tell me. I am smart enough; I would have found it out already. But there is no shortcut available. None. When God says, “Empty yourself,” that does not mean you can leave a little something in the corner. When God says, “Empty yourself, and I’ll fill you up,” that means you have to empty yourself completely.

The important thing is how you think. Suppose you’re to meet a very important person and have only very dirty working clothes. You are in jeopardy, and you think, “What should I do’? I have to meet that person, win that man for God.” Then, when you go into the center, there is a nice jacket hanging on the wall, and without even asking whose jacket it is you just take it and wear it, and go out to meet the person. In that case, if you are not doing that because you just want to look handsome, not even subconsciously, and if you were only thinking of the mission of God, then that’s not a sin. In the sight of God, your state of mind is beautiful.

Later the person who owns the jacket will discover that someone else wore it. If he is truly God’s son, he will say, “Great! Any time you need my jacket, take it again. After all, it’s God’s jacket. God asked to me keep it for a good purpose, and if you have good purpose, go ahead, use it.” That’s a great brother. How you think is the most important factor. When the Messiah comes, no official titles will be important, pastor, deacon, elder, whatever. Everybody has to line up behind the Messiah. People can’t say, “Well, Messiah, would you wait a little bit? I have my family to take care of. I have a little baby to feed.” It doesn’t work.

There’s one thing that I dislike very much. Sometimes elder members have come and said, “Father, this is my son; this is my daughter. Please give them the blessing.” I dislike that so much because that’s not God’s way of thinking. Before your own sons and daughters, you should think of others, of those who really give their blood and sweat for the cause. That’s the person you should bring. “Father, this man really gave his life and blood to our movement. Would you consider him for the blessing?” Then I welcome it.

When the Messiah comes, he will not come in glorious fashion, imparting light from the clouds of heaven. He will come as a man. If Christianity has the wisdom to recognize and accept the Messiah wholeheartedly, then with that foundation the Messiah could accomplish the Kingdom in seven years. Since the Messiah is coming as a man, a physical man, you can’t know whether he will come as a white man, a black man or a yellow man. God will choose.

The Messiah might come as a Ph.D., or as a laborer, as a dock worker, or even a hunchback, a cripple; you have no idea. God might think that if the Messiah comes in a very miserable fashion, human sin can be eliminated or indemnified faster. Why not? God might do that. If the Messiah is so miserable and all mankind bows down to him, then perhaps the misery of mankind would be wiped out more quickly. Instead of being a superior personage, the Messiah may appear very miserable. That might be a faster way to pay off the debts of the world, the debt of sin. What if the Messiah didn’t even have the ability to walk, if he had to crawl on his belly? The Christians and people of the world religions might say, “How could that man be the Messiah? Impossible.” But God always does the impossible. That’s why He is God. In that case, suppose Bo Hi Pak were the Messiah? He would be too good to be the Messiah!

We are men of logic; therefore all these things have to be analyzed and clearly arranged within our own minds and hearts. Now, do you know the truth or are you just going in darkness, which one? The power of the Unification Church is that you are not in darkness. You can direct yourself to the goal. Amazing, isn’t it? There are so many hundreds of MFT members working this morning all over the country. They have every freedom; they could run away at any moment. Furthermore, their parents are in a position to kidnap them. But instead of our members trying to run away, and telling their parents, “Please kidnap me,” they are working from morning to night, fearful that their parents might try to kidnap them. Why are they working so hard? I didn’t tell them anything. However, they saw the truth. They know the direction and goal, and that gives them power to go on. Are you in truth and light? Will you go?

What would you do if I said, “Don’t go any further. Let’s stop right here.” If you told me, “All right, but I know your truth and your secret, and I want to go ahead,” and you went first and waited for me to come behind you, would you feel good? You would have beaten me in a way.

The three years after you join is the period for emptying yourself so you will be entitled for the blessing. Christians outside just do not know the true Will of God or the way the dispensation is unfolding, yet they are trying to call us heretics and devils. Once you know the truth, this is really an honorable accusation. They point fingers at you and say, “You are of the devil; we are of God.” But we are the ones going forward and becoming prosperous. They are becoming smaller and smaller all the time. God has already left them.

Don’t be disturbed by these people. Pity them. Do you know why? They will have to pay the full penalty of their actions. Blessing will finally come to us equal to the persecution they gave us. Actually they are losing by cursing us. Think of it. We’ve been accused, but we are buying up their seminaries, their colleges, their convents and monasteries. In history the true religion has always been accused by the established religion, but in the meantime it prospered. That is the way religious history has been, and we are no exception. The fact that we are being accused by all the established religions around is one sign that we really are the true religion.

Three and a half years ago when I initiated my U.S. crusade here in America, the media was scornful, writing negative things about me. They are still doing it, but in three and a half years 1, the very same person, am publishing the most dynamic, the most freedom-oriented newspaper in New York, the major city of America. Did you hear about News World?

In 1965 when I first came to America and went around establishing the Holy Grounds, many centers didn’t even have a decent room to accommodate me. Many times instead of staying at the center, I just drove on. Now several years later, in 1977, we are sitting in the New Yorker Hotel, in the Grand Ballroom. You all have rooms, don’t you? In the past in the Unification Church, wherever we went, there were only poor homes. We just slept close with no elbow room, no bath, nothing. Now after several years, we have too many rooms. We have to catch up with the rooms, rather than the rooms catching up with us.

Yesterday at the Director’s Conference, I instructed the state leaders to look for a Unification Church headquarters building for their states. It should be superior to any Democratic Party or Republican Party headquarters of that state. After all, it’s going to be God’s house. It should be the most prominent building in a superior, central location of an urban area. Do you want to have that? You may have to fund raise for that until you get very old!

In a way I am a very greedy man. I came to New York and wanted to occupy the Empire State Building, the status symbol of New York and the United States. But God wants to make it His house. Furthermore, another ambition came into my heart recently. We must buy the Trade Centers down on Wall Street because we need twin towers, one for Adam, one for Eve. With Adam and Eve standing side by side on Wall Street and the Empire State Building standing in the center as the archangel, that’s very good symbolism, don’t you think? Are you interested in getting them? When you say yes, are you promising me or God? Since you didn’t promise me, I’ll sit and watch you fulfill your promise to God.

Our concept of the Messiah is really extraordinary to the Christian world. They will be completely shocked by it. Our teaching is revolutionary. The Messiah comes as the third Adam, but he does not initiate his own task immediately. He has to go down to Adam’s position and restore Adam’s failure. Then he must go down to Jesus’ position and restore his work. Only when God acknowledges that he has restored their positions, can he begin the work of the third Adam, his own mission.

The Messiah is coming for both spiritual and physical salvation. His victory will be a physical one, the establishment of the physical Kingdom of Heaven on earth. For that purpose the third Adam is coming. Since Judaism did not accept the Unification Church, we had to go down to that level, and taking the role of Judaism, re-establish the foundation of the Old Testament era. Since Christianity rejected us, too, we also took on its role. Upon this foundation of our own then, we are now erecting the Completed Testament era. I spent 30 years laying this foundation from the very bottom. Then I came to America for worldwide salvation. Finally in 1976 the Yankee Stadium and Washington Monument victories brought us to the worldwide level and were conditions for the physical victory of erecting the Kingdom of God on earth.

Today on this first day of 1977 we have a new beginning based on the invincible foundation I have laid. Now all we have to do is expand our victory on the horizontal level. If we had the money, nothing could stop us. How can we earn money? With our own hands, our five fingers. If you listen to me, within several years time all our dreams will become real. Each state will have a beautiful center and a newspaper company.

This morning I saw a little sign saying, “Happy God’s Day, 1977.” But God’s Day is not yet quite happy. This world is still in the hands of Satan, and spirit world is still struggling and suffering. We have declared God’s Day for sure, but our goal is to make a Happy God’s Day in the future.

Our task is not going to be easy. Those who do not have an appetite for arduous, difficult tasks had better pack up now. Only a person like me, someone really persistent, committed to a foolish degree can achieve the goal. Those mere passengers who want to sightsee along the way are not needed. They will never make it to the end. Will you still go? Actually, today the United States of America is in the same position as the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago and Korea is in the same position as Israel. In Jesus’ time the Roman empire and Israel crucified Jesus together. But this time, the U.S. government and the Korean government must not eliminate me.

My advice to the Korean government has been to take a strong stand. Korea must be independent, not influenced by other nations. Korea is a special nation. With a communist takeover so imminent, the government and the president have to be strong. Yet historically America does not want allies with strong governments, full of conviction and faith, but the time has come. The Korean government said they must be strong for religious freedom. They must not repeat Israel’s failure of 2,000 years ago when it favored killing Jesus. There are two kinds of Americans in this country: noble, thinking, patriotic Americans, and also unpatriotic rascals. Would you want President Park to be strong in his commitment, or just a follower of the U.S. State Department, trying to do whatever they want? A strong champion may be very lonely, but he will never be truly alone because God is always on the side of the courageous person. If America is taking the wrong route, someone must tell America how to change its direction.

I want American policy makers to know that if they lose Korea, like Vietnam was lost, then America is not going to be safe. Within 3 years time, another Pacific war will be fought, but in this land, not anywhere else. The U.S. is very important to Korea, and at the same time Korea is very important to the security of the Free World. If Korea is lost, then the next target will be Japan. If Japan goes, then the Pacific Ocean will be lost. Then what? You will have to dig trenches in San Francisco and Los Angeles. This is not just my opinion. I have a God-given vision as to how the future of the world will be molded. That is the only reason I survived this far. Without having that vision, I would have been destroyed a long time ago. Now a prophet must speak out. America must change her policy and go out for the sake of the world. The confrontation between Korea and the U.S. is almost like David and Goliath. With faith, a little boy like David can win.

Spiritually speaking, however, we are all on one team. I am not America’s adversary. We are on the same team. The well-being of the U.S., the well-being of Korea and of the free world are all one. I have already made a footprint in the history of America. My philosophy and ideology will remain in the history of religion in America.

In a little while, I won’t have to speak out. Many eminent scholars and theologians will come out defending me, and the philosophy of the Unification Church. It has started already. Brilliant scholars all over the world have come to know us. They have discovered that my philosophy and theology are the most refreshing and revolutionary they have ever found. All the agonizing problems of theology and the world have been solved in the Divine Principle, and they are now speaking out. Do you like that? If they do too good a job, they will remove all the persecution from you! But we are not swayed by anyone else’s feeling. We are moved only by the truth of God and His will. Wherever we see a need, we will go and help, regardless of whether it is appreciated or not.

This God’s Day is significant because we are now adding the physical element to the foundation of spiritual Christianity, which is the adopted son’s religion. Through this, the entire world is now ready to join in the adopted son’s level of restoration. Because, of this physical element of victory, no one under the sun can ever be in a position to destroy our movement. No one can touch us. Furthermore, the destiny of the free world will rest upon our shoulders. People will say, “That’s ridiculous. You are absolutely crazy. This handful of people doesn’t have anything. You are talking about the destiny of America, the destiny of the free world.” I say, “Just wait and see.”

In appearance we have nothing, but we have everything. We have God, and we have the spirit world. Unification Church members consider all those in spirit world our supporters, and that makes about 1,000 times more friends than the population of the U.S. They are all my followers. They don’t listen to the President of the United States. I am not in a position to be bluffing. This is a public meeting, and every word I say will be registered right here on earth and in heaven, so I must tell the truth. And this declaration is not directed only to you. It will be listened to by all the members of the Unification Church. I also want the rest of the world to hear it. From today on we must have no fear. We must march forward.

On this tenth God’s Day, 1977, our determination is to unite together, to shatter all the negative forces, and to lock up the victory for the year. We are going to be spiritual bullets of God. Once a bullet is fired, does it take a spring walk and go sight-seeing? No. A bullet travels straight to the goal and hits the target and achieves its purpose. In my heart, there’s a great deal of grief and wrath over sin. I have endured that heavenly wrath for 30 years. God has endured His wrath for 6,000 years. Even if my hand is crippled from overwork, even if personally I don’t have anything at the end of this work, at least we must build a new foundation upon which mankind will have hope. Then the world will never look down on us. We must accomplish this goal while I am living here on earth. That should be our pledge today.

Early this morning my New Year’s message was on the topic of “The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and the Ideal Family.” We are the people who are going to create ideal families, ideal societies, ideal nations, the ideal world and eventually the ideal Kingdom of God. That is, God’s unchanging wish. His grieving heart must be liberated. For that very purpose God Himself has always been giving His entire heart and soul. For that very purpose Jesus Christ came. However, he tasted the bitterness of the crucifixion without fulfilling it in the fullest degree. As God looks down on earth on this New Year’s Day, there’s no hope for Him other than the Unification Church. You are God’s only hope and we are such a meager group of people. Because God is the living God, however, He will give us power; He will give us energy, and He will give us the wisdom that we need. He will make us invincible. From today there are 730 days until Dec. 31, 1978. The countdown has started. Unless we lay a sufficient foundation in these two years, the free world will decline; America will decline, and there will be no hope for mankind.

Today we must pledge and rededicate ourselves in the most solemn way that we shall become God’s champion pioneers for the next two years. We aren’t in darkness. We know the truth. We know the goal. We know the strategy, so all we have to do is give every single ounce of our energy, and go the heroic way. Everyone shall become a victor for the sake of God and humanity. In 1976, 1977, and 1978 we will pay the indemnity for the cosmic dispensation. We will pay the accumulated 1,000 year old debts of mankind in these three short years. Once this is done, heaven and earth will be ours and God will dwell with us. Truly the Kingdom of Heaven shall be a living reality here on earth.

Today, let us pledge solemnly to God that no matter what the difficulty, no matter what tribulation we meet, we shall not be stopped. We shall push through until the final victory is won. Let us pledge together by raising both hands to Almighty God. Thank you.

## THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH AND THE IDEAL FAMILY

By Fami1yfed June 12, 2018 June 12, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1977

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### January 1, 1977 – Midnight
New Yorker Hotel
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

Today I spoke to the State Directors and leaders of our movement for the entire day at the conference in Belvedere. I told them that there are marked differences in the meaning of the dispensation of 1976 and 1977. The year of 1977 is the year for a leap of success and great glory.

Once all of you here in the auditorium are united with the Unification Church members from all over the nation and all over the world, then certainly we will possess the key to unlock the most difficult problems of our free world as well as those behind the Iron Curtain.

I want you to know very clearly this morning that the years of the dispensation up to 1976 have been for indemnity, for paying off the debts of the past. Therefore, if we had made a mistake, the accumulation of all our work and the foundations laid so far would have been lost. We would have bad to start again from the very bottom. But from 1977 on, the meaning of the dispensation will be different. It’s no longer vertical. Now that a firm foundation has been erected completely, all we have to do in 1977 is expand on the horizontal level.

So far the history of restoration has been a path of repetition: laying the foundation, having it broken down to the bottom, laying it again, and then bringing it up to the family level, tribal level, and national level. When it failed it had to go down to the bottom and come back up again. Up and down, up and down, history has been the repetition of such failures. But now, with the completion of 1976, God and I have laid a firm foundation. That foundation is unbreakable, invincible. From now we can have a victorious, horizontal expansion throughout the world.

Therefore, on this particular, meaningful morning I would like to proclaim to you the motto of the year: “The Kingdom of God on Earth and the Ideal Family of Heaven.” That is going to be the 1977 motto.

I want you to know that throughout the history of restoration, God has been seeking one ideal, perfected family here on earth which could transcend all accusation from Satan, which could claim victory upon the worldwide level. Because of the fall of man in the garden of Eden, God has never seen a perfected family prospering here on earth.

If there had been no fall, then the first family of heaven would have been established in the garden of Eden. It would have had nothing to do with Satan’s accusation. It could only have prospered under God’s dominion.

It is my great pleasure to proclaim this morning that after 6,000 years of Biblical history the Unification Church has achieved that cornerstone of the ideal family here on earth. No matter what the satanic world does, no matter how frantic their accusation and persecution- may become, the ideal family is destined to expand onto the worldwide level. This is the foundation we are standing on in 1977.

I want you to know that from this year on, the more the satanic world accuses and persecutes us, the faster they will crumble. In the meantime the prosperity of the God-centered family and kingdom will flourish.

In the unification Church our ultimate goal is the erection of the Kingdom of God right here on earth: the family of God. Each person is like a brick needed to create the foundation of the family. Each member of the Unification Church should dedicate himself to become a part of the foundation of that family. Together we must all be able to create one family on earth which can come under the complete dominion of God. All men are in the position of Adam, and all women are in the position of Eve. United under the protection and grace and love of the True Parents, we can truly create a God-centered family. This is our homework. Each one of you must feel to the bone that you are born again as true sons and daughters of God, that you belong to True Parents, and that you live together with the true family of God. I am in the father’s role, and you are in the children’s role as sons and daughters. But you and I together will never create the true family here unless God intervenes and becomes its center. We must feel that to the bone. God is the binding force of my own family. So too God must become the binding force of the heavenly family made up of the True Parents and you.

You must become true sons and daughters belonging to the True Parents. We should not come and dwell in your hearts as a concept, but as a natural part of your life. You don’t have to explain spring, do you? You know when spring is here; you feel it. In the same way, down in your flesh and bones, you must feel united with the True Parents as one family.

The most important factor for you to become a member of this heavenly family is for you to realize fully that you are the sons and daughters of God. In other words, you should be able to say, “I am completely separated from the satanic world and perfected in the sight of God. I stand in your sight, Heavenly Father, as your son or daughter without shame, with pride.”

What is the fall of man? What are fallen children? They do not feel to the bone that God is their Father. They have no concept of God in their minds. You must have the following realization and awakening: “I have been born again. I have a new life. I belong to True Parents. Through the power of the True Parents, I am now engaging in a new life. I am God’s son; I am God’s daughter.” You must feel that realization down to the bone.

Second, you must come to this full realization: “I am a qualified citizen of the Kingdom of God.” Third, when you see the nation, when you see the world, you must feel the grace of God and think, “God has given this world to me as His inheritance. I am entitled to claim this world as the son or daughter of God.”

These awakenings and realizations are the most important task of our members in the year of 1977. First, you must realize that you are the direct sons and daughters of God; second, that you are citizens of the Kingdom of God; and third, that the world is an inheritance from God. God has given all these things as blessings to the children of God. The individual with these realizations is headed for perfection. That person is entitled and qualified to become a member or a center of the heavenly family.

In our way of life, we can see two distinct worlds existing. One is the heavenly world to which you belong. The other is the satanic world outside. Many people are still there suffering, and it is crumbling. As citizens of the Kingdom of God, we should not become victims of the other world. We must be in a position to influence the other world, to bring the other world back to God so that we can expand God’s territory.

There can be no value comparison whatsoever between the good the satanic world has and the still poor, meager conditions we see inside our own world. You will see the things that look so good outside crumble, decay, and decline. In the heavenly family, however, the things that look so poor and meager will be blessed, will flourish, and prosper. Instead of being influenced by the satanic world, we shall be in a position to influence it.

What is the secret to influence the entire satanic world and restore it to heaven? Everything the people outside do is completely opposite to what we do. We are moving toward reorganization of the true family on a worldwide level. But the satanic world is destined to destroy the family. There, if there’s a family of six or eight people, the parents and children look forward to being divided. The parents say, ” All right, when you become a certain age, you go out on your own. Be independent.” The parents are for them selves; the children are for themselves, and the grandchildren are for themselves. The members of the family find themselves completely divided.

On the contrary, the heavenly world sees to it that all eight family members come together. The grandfather and grandmother give their inheritance in terms of tradition and way of life to their children who are the father and mother. The father and mother, in turn, hand down the tradition they received to their children who are the grandchildren of the grandparents. When each family has grandparents, parents, and children together, the heavenly tradition of the three stages of creation (formation, growth, and perfection) will truly be represented in those families.

Let’s look at Adam’s family. God is in the grandparent’s position to Adam’s family, Adam and Eve are the parents, and the children of Adam and Eve are in the children’s position. We are born as children. We grow into adulthood, and then we give birth to children. Later we become older and become grandparents. That’s the way we become perfect or complete.

At the time of Adam and Eve, the family was supposed to be organized in three vertical levels with God as the grandfather. From that time on all the families of the human race were supposed to be organized in a similar pattern on the horizontal level. If Adam and Eve had not fallen but had become perfect and had a family, their family would have been the center of the entire heavenly universe of heavenly families.

As you know, God is spirit, and God is invisible. The invisible, spiritual God wanted to manifest Himself as a visible being in Adam and Eve. They were supposed to be the visible form of God, the walking God, the tangible God. Their mind or spirit was supposed to be the inner temple, or the dwelling place of God. Externally Adam and Eve were to be the physical parents to their children. And with God dwelling in them, spiritually they were to be in God’s position to their children.

To achieve this position Adam was to be perfected as an individual by uniting together with God as one. Eve was also to receive God and be united in oneness with Him. Then the two individuals, man and woman, were to unite together. This mutual unity should have been external and internal, with the power of love as the binding force.

Why did God create the universe? Why did God create man? God wanted to be in a position where He could exercise His own love. He wanted to have an object to whom He could give His love. If that had become the case, perfected Adam’s family and all mankind would never have seen the fall of man or any sin. Your direct father would have been God.

Here on earth we’re supposed to live like Adam and Eve. The Kingdom of God here on earth is the place where we produce qualified, perfected Adam-type parents. When they are perfected here on earth, then automatically the Kingdom of God in heaven will be open, and they will be elevated in perfection there, living like God, parents for eternity.

When we ask who really desires to dwell in the Kingdom of God on earth and the Kingdom of God in heaven, there is no one who does not desire it. It is our human destiny to create the perfect Kingdom of God here on earth. In order to do that, the first order of business is to have the first family of perfection, or Adam-type parents of perfection, here on earth.

In the entire world only we in the Unification Church have the terminology “True Parents.” I want you to know how precious and valuable it is. This is the most significant aspect of our church. In order to create the Kingdom of God here on earth, we need True Parents in the center as Adam and Eve who were supposed to be the True Parents of mankind. Because they failed, mankind never saw True Parents until the Unification Church. This means only the Unification Church knows how to erect the Kingdom of God here on earth.

I want you to know clearly the definition of the “Kingdom of God here on earth.” The Kingdom of God on earth is the place where you live with the True Parents’ family, where you become the True Parents’ children. The Kingdom of God in heaven is the place where you live in eternity with Heavenly Father and the eternal parents.

Think of it. If Adam and Eve had not fallen, they would have lived their entire lives and would have had children. Then who would have terminated their earthly lives first, the parents or children? The Parents, naturally. If Adam and Eve had not fallen, they would have become the first two persons elevated to the Kingdom of God in heaven. There they would have occupied the throne of God, since even in the spirit world God is invisible.

When you go to spirit world, you not only have a heavenly father but also a heavenly mother. Without both a father and mother there is no regeneration, no multiplication of new life. Actually Adam and Eve are the manifestation of the duality of God, the two essentialities of God manifested as two persons. The father and mother become one and together represent the full image of God. Actually, the father and mother who are elevated into the Kingdom of God in heaven first would become the king and queen of the world.

In the Unification Church when you pray hard or when you have spiritual experiences such as visions or dreams, not only I appear but also Mother. That is our special characteristic. You can feel that Mother and I are truly living with you in person. We will appear together all throughout your life. I want you to know that the invisible God, Almighty God, can manifest through True Mother’s and my image. We are His visible image here on earth. God shows Himself through us to you, His children.

The Unification Church has another marvelous aspect. Although I am just one individual with one physical body here in America, at the same time I am appearing in 120 nations all over the world, leading people in the same spiritual crusade. Is this just a dream or is it really happening? Who is doing it? Not I, but God Himself is doing it. God is the one who manifests Himself, but with my image. Even without my permission He is taking my image and going all over the place. Many, many mysterious things are happening, and reports come every day to me. In some cases when the missionaries got diarrhea and were so sick they could not go out and witness, all of a sudden I would appear to them and lead the way saying, “Come, follow me. Do just is I do.” Giving out pamphlets and lecturing, I would lead them and then suddenly disappear.

MFT members often say, “Well, one day I was so tired that I couldn’t get up in the morning. Then, all of a sudden, in a vision Father was coming with a big basket of peanuts and selling them like hot dogs!”

God can manifest Himself in such a way to assist you and lead you in the front line. In order to lay that kind of foundation, God has been working many, many thousands of years. Many sacrificial offerings have been made. Many martyrs have died, and much sacred blood has been shed. Upon that foundation alone God can now appear and work with the Unification Church in such a manner. Almighty God, who is the creator of heaven and earth, and of mankind, is appearing to you directly in the forms of Mother and me, borrowing our images to work with you. God is doing that only because Mother and I have laid a complete foundation for salvation. This crusade is going on, transcending national barriers, transcending language barriers, transcending racial barriers.

What about the communist world? Do you think there is any barrier spirit world cannot penetrate? Do you think God recognizes any national barrier? Compared to the billions of people outside, we are a small minority, just a handful of people. But you must know that the entire spirit world is rushing down into this world like Niagara Falls. Like a flood, the spirit world is descending on this world.

When rushing water comes pouring down a place like Niagara Falls, it finds the slightest opening, even a little creek. The water knows clearly where the gaps are and pours right down into them. By the same token, compared to the size of the world, the Unification Church is like a little creek, a tiny gap, but the water knows it very well. When you make a little creek, the water comes dashing into it, and splits it wide open.

Think of it. God paid such a price to see perfection here on earth. So many saints and martyrs died; so many Christian sacrifices have been given. Everybody is waiting for the day of fulfillment. Now when God is coming down trying to assist you, do you think He is coming all by Himself, or is He bringing millions and millions of escorts with Him? The spirit world could not function until the appearance of Unification Church. Why? Because there was no handle to grab; no rapport was established. There was no love between the races. There was no one who could prepare the base so that God could really bring down His hosts of angels. But now the Unification Church represents that base, so God can bring down any number of angels or spirit men He wishes.

So far, there have been many, many evil spiritual phenomena. There are many evil, lost spirits haunting people. There are also many mediums trying to tell fortunes. Spirits can also actually cause diseases and accidents.

What is the difference between evil spirits and good spirits? When an evil spirit approaches, you somehow feel fearful and uncertain and very unstable. But when some good spirit is trying to embrace you, you feel so good without reason! You’ll be walking on Cloud 9! A satanic spirit is like the winter wind, making you shiver. But a heavenly spirit is like spring. It melts you, relaxes you, and gives you the warmth of love and comfort. You should feel that in the Unification Church. If you don’t feel it to the bone, then you still have a way to go. When you come into the Unification Church, without reason you feel so free and so secure, happy, and energetic. But when you go outside, even though there are cars and lots of food, and your parents are waiting, and your brothers and sisters treat you to good things, still you some how feel uncomfortable, scared and shivery. You just want to stay by yourself. You must experience this kind of distinction between the two worlds. Those who do not have that feeling are not quite members of Unification Church.

People outside do not know the secret of Rev. Moon. They think I am carrying around a big bunch of pills, and new members coming in get a pill or an injection. They think that’s how we make Unification Church members. But when they look into it, they can find no pills or injections. My secret is deeply hidden. They can not know it until they become members of the Unification Church.

Divine Principle is like a big reservoir of the word of life. When you listen to Divine Principle, it’s like sticking a little rubber straw into a big reservoir. You have a limitless supply of the water of life coming to you. You just keep drinking and drinking. If somebody tries to make you go away, your mouth may stick to the straw even though your body is taken away.

Imagine a little honeybee going from flower to flower to suck the sweet nectar. If you try to pull him away when he is sucking the nectar, even though his wings may break, he will not release the flower. You, too, can experience that kind of concentration. Something in Divine Principle is sweeter than nectar. You want to stick in a little pipe into the Divine Principle for the rest of your life.

In your deep prayer and meditation and in your daily life you must be able to see Mother and me appearing, living with you in spirit. Some people could experience us not just in dreams and visions, but literally living with them, always beside them. If you could feel such parental warmth and presence 24 hours a day, would you like us to stay with you, no matter how old we are? (Yes.) Then, you will have the ecstatic realization that you belong to parents who have eternal life. Your life will be connected to eternal life, to the eternal source, the unlimited reservoir. If you have had that realization, you are already living in the Kingdom of God. In the past religious history of the world, the experience, the exhilaration you taste in your life could not occur. This is the first and last time in history.

May I ask you one question? Is honey sweet only to white people and bitter to black people? Is honey sweet to everybody? Even to a hunchback or a lame duck? What about to God, is honey still sweet? Then what happens if there is something sweeter than honey? What is that? (Love) (Father laughing) What is love? Show me a sample on your palm. You say love is a mysterious thing. When someone says, “Show me love,” you cannot show a piece of love. There seems to be no such thing as love, but actually there is. When it is there, there doesn’t seem to be any. When there is none, then it seems to be there. It’s very mysterious. What does love look like? Love looks just like God. When you see God, there is no God to see. But there is definitely a God. God is both there and not there. He does not come within your grasp. The master of love, the host of love is God, God owns love.

A person who is becoming like God and trying to take after the image of God would be pulled by the power of love. That person would truly recognize the power of love. I am in a position to receive love from God. Do you think I am entitled to it or not? How do you know? It is something intangible. You cannot see or explain it by words, but I have some mysterious, magnetic power. Is it true? Now I must beg Mother’s generous understanding. Suppose I were not yet married and were very handsome. Then, of all the Eves here whoever would want to marry this type of person, raise your hand. If I said, “Get away, get out,” and kicked you and chased you out, still all would come, “Oh, Father, please!” That’s why I am criticized by the outside world. They don’t understand such a magnetic force.

There were many occasions in Korea and Japan where married couples shared a love so sweet and tight that they would have died for each other. They each thought that there was no one better under the sun. But once one of them teamed the Divine Principle, all of a sudden, that person would change and say to the mate, “I don’t know you any more. I just want to go and stay with the church.” That kind of situation brought a lot of criticism to me. There really is some power there! But the amazing thing is that it doesn’t work only with young people, but with 70 or 80 year old grandmothers too! Honey is sweet not only to young women but also to older women! And men want to know the Unification Church, too. All you men try hard to become my close friend. You want me to recognize you, to call you by your first name. Unless such power existed in this room, how could we be united like this? It is impossible. Anybody seeing this particular phenomenon would say it is impossible.

There is some invisible yet very clear binding force of love. Several weeks ago, I sent all the Japanese married couples back home. With only three days notice I said, “You pack up and take off.” Those wives, many sisters, said, “I’d rather die here. I don’t want to go.” I said, “Why? Go to Japan. Everybody is there: your family, your own culture, the language you can speak. You have good food, a home and everything. Why don’t you want to go?” “Because, Father, you are here in America. I don’t care about the Empire State building. I don’t care about the New Yorker, but I care about you, I want to stay beside you.” Everybody said that. There is some mysterious binding force, a magnetic force of love in the Unification Church.

But the outside world cannot understand this noble mysterious power of love, binding the Unification Church. That’s why they say all kinds of things about me. “Well, Rev. Moon is a great orator. He is spellbinding. When he starts to speak, everybody melts.” And other people say, “No, he is not an orator; he is a hypnotist.” “No, no, he is magician, He does magic.”

People say all kinds of things about me, but none of them are true. The original nature of man and of all living things is to gravitate to the source of life. When God, the invisible source of life, is permeating me, all key to the realization of the Kingdom of Heaven on living beings are attracted to me by a natural force. That is the way we are united; that is the way we are bound together. Nowhere in the rest of the world can you find such a binding force.

When you come to the New Yorker, do you think, “I’m going to stay overnight here. This is Rev. Moon’s house.” Or do you think, “This is my home, our home.” The second view is true. That’s why you are crazy, living in the world’s biggest house, right? But that’s true, it is your home. Who made it so? I taught you, but did I make you fill out a form so you would feel this is your home? No, the source of power is not in me. It is in God. The power of God is making you feel at home. I only serve as a channel for that power to flow from Him to you. I as a person cannot manipulate such a magnetic force. I myself have nothing to do with it. It is the power of God, the nature of God’s force flowing through me. I merely set the condition, and the dynamic, universal force of love flows through me to be conveyed to all mankind. It is like spring coming in March and April when the entire world warms up all of a sudden. You don’t know where the power came from, but spring definitely is there, and flowers come up, and the breeze begins to play, and the birds to sing. That power goes beyond the global level of the earth. It goes all the way to the cosmic level. That power has no limit, no end. This force of love goes beyond time and space.

However, I do not control time and space. Only God can control it. Do you think God has a watch and timetable to count time and limit space? The power that is manifested through me to the Unification Church is the power of God. No other person, no other universal force could do that. Even Satan could not do that. Actually, this most determined energy is God trying to fulfill His desire to see one perfected family here on earth. The Kingdom of God here on earth is not going to be manufactured by man’s hands. God is going to bring it about once we manifest ourselves as instruments of God.

This morning’s message is dwelling on the topic of the Kingdom of God on Earth and the Ideal Family. Why the ideal family? Because the ideal family is the earth. Without the ideal family as a building block there can be no Kingdom of God.

In this room many different nationalities and races are together. If someone says, “I don’t care about black people so much; I don’t care about yellow people,” that person is already opposing God Himself because God wants to bring all races together. If someone says, “I don’t care about the rest of the people,” that shows he is not parallel with God.

Think of it. In Africa there are many missionaries working with black people even though they are receiving some persecution from the government of those African nations. Still many people are receiving revelations and dreams, and they are cooperating with our missionaries. They are hardworking black brothers and sisters. Over there in Africa if one black sister or one black brother comes, our missionaries treat them as God would. It is God who is embracing them and bringing them in, teaching them and feeding them. Then in America how can we say, “I don’t care about black people”? People who would say that are really traitors in the sight of God. How can we bring about the universal, cosmic warmth of love that transcends national and racial barriers? How can we make this universally known? How can we expand it to the world-wide level? This is our task.

The answer is simple. God is our parent, both father and mother, and embracing them together God loves all races. How could I take a position opposite to that of my own parents? Impossible. Our key to unlock the Kingdom of God here on earth is this: you must make a relationship with me, feel a closeness and warmth of love for the True Parents and expand it to every comer of the earth. If you are able to do that, we will have the Kingdom of God quickly. If you can go to other continents like Africa and Asia with parental love and embrace those people, then you are a universal person. Your character is a cosmic character.

What is the definition of the ideal family? The ideal family possesses the eternal love of God; the ideal family possesses the everlasting love of husband and wife, and the ideal family will have love between parents and children, These three eternal and lasting loves combined together will make an eternal family.

Married people, if you love your own wife, if you love your own husband, then when you look at other men or women, you will respect and admire them just as you do your own family members. For men, the female world is an extension of the world of your wife. One woman was selected out of all the billions of women as a representative woman. A woman must think of her husband as the representative of the entire male race, the symbol or center of the male race.

When you go to the spirit world, that world works like this: The person who has lots of love toward his own parents, toward his own brothers and sisters, husband or wife, and children, that is, the person who experiences a deep sense of love in family life will have much, much freedom to maneuver. He can go horizontally in all directions, everywhere without any limitation. In contrast, a person who has no experience of love is narrow-minded. He isolates himself in spirit world and has no freedom at all.

The love between parents and children is a vertical relationship; the love between a husband and wife is a horizontal relationship, and the love between brothers and sisters is a circling, surrounding relationship. These three relationships are different. If you experience here on earth a deep sense of love in these three different ways, then you will be able to maneuver vertically without limitation, horizontally without limitation, and circle around without limitation. Those who did not taste parental love because of the early death of a parent, for example, are tragic people in a way, because they lack that very important aspect of experience. Likewise, those people who never experienced family life, the husband and wife relationship, are also in a way very poor in spirit world because they lack one important aspect of life. Also, those without brothers and sisters are in a poor position because they can not live a full life in spirit world with one whole area of experience lacking. A wholesome family life, therefore, has grandparents, parents and children. If one generation is lacking, the family somehow feels crippled. The ideal family alone can serve as the building block of the Kingdom of God on earth.

We have the mission to create the ideal family here on earth. When those children who enjoy a deep warmth of love with their grandmother and grandfather go out into society, into the New York streets, for example, they will feel very close to the senior citizens. To them the senior citizens will look like their own grandmother and grandfather. Somehow they will want to talk to them; they will feel close to them. When a young person who is used to helping his grandparent at home sees a senior citizen needing assistance, that young person will dash to him and help. If sons and daughters enjoy their father and mother’s love, when they go out and see someone like Daddy, someone like Mommy, they will feel very close to them. They will want to talk to them and help them. That close feeling will manifest itself automatically. Also, when those who have a beautiful tie between brothers and sisters go out into society, they will have more intimate relationships with their surrounding neighbors and will get along well. When a sister and brother who have a deep relationship go out and deal with the opposite sex, they are very natural. They don’t feel any carnal or unhealthy feeling, but experience a brother-sister feeling. The Kingdom of God here on earth is the family that can truly experience such loving relationships with God at the center.

This year I declared as the motto of the year 1977: The Kingdom of God on Earth and the Ideal Family. Now we have come to the era when we can physically construct the Kingdom of God here on earth by creating the family. You individually must become members of a heavenly family on the horizontal level. We must experience this love in our society and our world. For you, Heavenly Father, God, is in the grandparent position. The True Parents are in your parent’s position, and you are in the true son’s and daughter’s position. Even though there are many billions of people in this world, you are just like Adam and Eve who were born in the Kingdom of God, in the garden of Eden. You are like a person who was just created by God in the garden of Eden. By setting this condition you can experience your own Kingdom of Heaven here on earth, and you can qualify for the eternal Kingdom of God in Heaven.

We are bringing back the garden of Eden. We are bringing the entire world population into the Adam-type family. That’s what your job is going to be. All men of the world are brothers. Once you live in the full realization of that, no matter how much Satan may try, he will have no condition to accuse you. If you recognize Heavenly Father, belong completely to True Parents, and completely make yourself the direct heir of Adam, how could Satan have any power to accuse?

If we had the ability to telecast the entire heavenly new truth through the networks by satellite for seven years, within that time we could really turn this world upside down into the new heavenly family. The important thing is we won’t have to ask the people to come and join. Not at all. All we will have to do is let them know the truth, let them know its value. Once they recognize the value, we won’t have to ask them to come or to do anything. For their own sake, for their own good, they will just fight to come in. They will be able to see clearly that their eternal life depends upon it.

By loving True Parents you are loving God because you have a visible symbol. How wonderful! God is invisible, but having True Parents you have a visible symbol. When you love the True Parents’ children and love the True Parents, you are actually loving Heavenly Father because they are the manifestation of His spirit. Why is this? Because they are the king and queen of love. They are the manifestation, the personification of the love of God.

This year we are going to concentrate on the construction of the ideal family and on this love of parents. When you see poor people and beggars, look at them from the viewpoint of God, with parental love. Before anybody touches them, you should go and embrace them as a member of their family. Wherever we stretch out our arms to those in the world, we create a little creek flowing from the reservoir of God. God is pouring out the water of life and the water is flowing through your creek, all the way down to wherever you go. The deeper the creek you create, the more water will go through that creek. You are serving like the trunk of a tree or as a small reservoir. You are in a position to distribute the love of God.

Sisters, I want to ask you a serious question. When you get married and have a home, will you welcome your own physical parents as well as your in-laws? America hates in-laws; can you love them? America today is truly hungry for parental love. You know the phenomena of hippies who run away from home. These phenomena occur because the young people don’t taste love at home. They are hungry for love, but they cannot taste parental love, grandparents’ love, or brothers’ love at home, so they run away somewhere to try to satisfy themselves. If you welcome your own parents, your own in-laws and you serve them and love them just as you love your own True Parents, then you could be a saint.

Today in America, what are the many senior citizens, grandmothers and grandfathers, doing? They are just wasting themselves in senior citizens’ homes. They have a couple of friends, the sun during the day, the moon at night. Watching the sun during the day and moon during the night, they wait for the day of death. That’s a pitiful situation.

Here in America I heard a very uncomfortable report of family life. When one couple was visited by their own parents, they nagged them, “Why didn’t you call me? If you had, we could have prepared dinner for you.” This may sound very kind, but actually I said, “How ridiculous! Since when do parents have to call and make dinner reservations?” If God were coming to Adam’s house, would God call Adam and say, “I’m coming; prepare my dinner.” In the sight of God, that is absolutely unacceptable. The children’s home is the parents’ home. The parents’ home is the children’s home.

Here in America, when a little baby comes out of the nursery in the hospital, he or she goes right into a separate room at home. The babies seldom sleep together with their own parents. Therefore they can not feel the warmth of love from their parents. They are very seldom fed by their mother’s milk. Not sleeping together with their parents, the children are just like pets. You should not treat your children like that.

It is a beautiful scene when a couple of children come and want to sleep together with their father and mother. It’s all right. Accept them. If there’s not enough room, then sleep upside down, one head this way, one head that way. Organize a little better! The children may actually think it’s uncomfortable to sleep between their big parents, but they feel good. The next morning they say, “Mommy, I want to do that again!” Children must feel the temperature of their parents’ bodies.

Look at God’s point of view. Do you think God would say, “Well this is my son’s room, my daughter’s room, my first son’s room, my second daughter’s room, my baby’s room.” Too many bedrooms would be needed in that case.

Let’s say a good thing happened in a heavenly home. Then what is the first thing that happens? They share it. If a good thing happens to Eve, she wants to share it with Adam. She calls, “Adam, where are you? Come here.” If something good happened to him, he would call Eve, and God is the same. It’s wonderful.

If a good thing happened would a father say, “Don’t call your younger brother. He is a greedy man and we don’t want to celebrate together with him. Don’t call your elder sister. She is a very stingy person, and we don’t want to share with her.” Do you think that would happen? Once a joyful thing happens, they want to laugh together in all different ways, to make a harmony of laughters.

Those who set up a boundary saying, “Oh, nobody can bother me; no one can disturb me,” create their own satanic prison, satanic fence. You have to knock out all barriers or fences from around you.

From 1977 on we are going to initiate such a movement. All the women of Unification Church need to be trained to serve their grandparents, to satisfy them and give them some comfort and happiness. Think of yourself. In your mind you have been thinking, hiding someone. “I don’t like that brother. Even though he is my own brother, I don’t like him so much.” or “I am not that close with my own sister.” If you have animosity in your heart for some person, you must go to a similar person and serve her, serve him, and try to make up. We have to learn how to live together in human relationships. How can we serve each other? Unless you can be a harmonizing, unifying family person, you will not be admitted into the Kingdom of God as a good citizen. You will not be qualified.

Those who really have a special distaste for senior citizens and older persons, grandparents and grandmothers, raise your hand, please. There are many, I’m sure, but you are afraid to raise your hands. Those who are fond of old people and don’t mind speaking to them, who want to give them some kind of comfort, raise your hands. There are many people who didn’t raise their hands.

What if I would assign you to a grandmother and grandfather 500 years old? Would you volunteer to serve them? The kind of person who loves older people, the older the better, would be very good because, after all, who is the oldest person in the universe? God is really the oldest grandfather! Those who love God will be in a position to love everybody younger than God.

In the garden of Eden, God’s ideology was “familyism,” grand big old familyism. God’s family includes all races. Japanese can go into that family, Americans, blacks, Puerto Ricans and everyone. Those who dislike living with other people are the ones who will be expelled from God’s family. “All right, if you don’t like everybody else, get out.”

Is the ideal as simple as one color? Just red, is that ideal? Or would a combination and harmony of many different colors be ideal? Which one? When you paint a masterpiece do you need only white paint? No, you need all kinds of paint. White people alone could not come up with a beautiful painting. You need everyone, red, yellow, light and dark, black and white, everyone.

Do horses say, “You black horse go away. We are the brown horse family. Don’t come near us.” Do they say that? Do dogs segregate themselves saying, “You black puppy, go away, we are the brown puppies”? Is that true? Do they dislike each other? Do they care about or even recognize different colors? Then why do men? Man was supposed to be greater than they.

Something is wrong, fundamentally wrong. We have to fix it, mend it. I come as the champion to repair that which is out of order. We must repair the human race. Do you think God will say, “Rev. Moon, don’t do that, don’t touch it”? Do you think God will say that? Those people who say, “Rev. Moon, don’t touch us, leave us alone,” are the people to whom God will say, “OK, I’m sorry, but get out of my house.”

This year, 1977, we must inherit the tradition of our own parent, God in heaven. We must adopt His ideology as our ideology, His way of life as our way of life. Unmarried men and women, you are going to look forward to the ideal family and the creation of such a home. You must become individually ready for it, trained for it and disciplined for it. Married people should be in a position to really live the heart of God in your home.

Today we must pledge together to our Heavenly Father that this year’s motto is going to be centered upon the ideal family. We must exert ourselves and construct the Kingdom of God here on earth. The motto is: The Kingdom of God on Earth and the Ideal Family. We must live up to God’s expectation and the True Parents’ expectation and be ready to truly center on this heavenly family to come. Those who pledge to become such persons raise your hands and show your pledge. May God bless each one of you. Thank you very much. Let us pray.