# Category: Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986

## TRUE PARENTS AND I

By Fami1yfed June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### June 15, 1986
Belvedere
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

There are many people living in our world today, but most of them are standing in the fallen realm rather than in the realm of God. There are different divisions within this satanic domain, such as community, nation and world. The people are divided not only into north, south, east and west, but also into five different colors of skin. There is also the major division between Oriental and Occidental. The principal thing that everybody is doing is fighting among themselves. Furthermore, they do not know where they are heading; they do not know their exact goal or purpose. Our world is not heading toward hopefulness and the ideal, therefore, but rather toward decline and disaster.

That phenomenon persists not only in the Orient but also in the West. Because of such problems, people cannot feel hope for this world. Who can be responsible for the world? America-and you are primarily American people gathered here today-is part of that declining world. It makes no difference whether someone is educated or ignorant; all are heading toward the same destiny.

The original hope and ideal for mankind was lost because of the fall of man. Now each individual has to deal with the most complex and confused way of life. Many people are in agony; they recognize that they could be in better shape-morally, spiritually and physically-but they are not. They ask themselves, “Why can’t I be more healthy?” Many individuals are suffering because of this struggle between their mind and body.

The problem of discord between mind and body is more difficult to solve than all the problems of history. No individual can be totally happy unless he enjoys balance and harmony in his life. The greatest human suffering is caused by the conflict and discord in our society. We have to deal with such a complex and chaotic world, but at the same time, there is an even greater problem within each individual-the discord between one’s mind and body.

When can we become truly happy people with harmony between mind and body? There are not two ways to become perfect, but only one. Thus we have to come up with one solution. This is the greatest of all problems. Each individual is the subject over his environment, and this is centered upon his own world view. You perceive the colors in your environment, and you feel certain things; you are the subject of those feelings.

We want to be happy and joyful, but that is not possible unless there is truly one harmony. Many people have made great accomplishments through history, and there are many such people living now. However, history has yet to see one person who could say, “I am totally at one within my mind and body.” Even such a great man as St. Paul, the one person besides Jesus who could properly be called the founder of Christianity, said that he was waging an internal battle between the laws of his mind and the laws of his body. “Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?” (Romans 7:24 NAS) The Bible records that confession of St. Paul’s.

What about Jesus? Although Jesus had a single, clearcut purpose and direction, there was a great deal of conflict between his will and his actions. Let’s look at this and how Jesus was united between his mind and body. How could he become totally one, within perfection?

First of all, we have to recognize that Jesus was not the cause of the universe. He is the true object of God, a God-sent individual. In the Unification Church, we make this Christological question very clear: Who is Jesus? We commonly describe Jesus in many terms: Messiah, Savior, and so forth, but the most important description is that he was the son of God, as well as the potential True Parent, the True Father of all mankind. What is the definition of the True Parent? The True Parent is the person who reflects perfectly the image of God and who can disseminate the power of true love.

Do you find your own mind and body always divided and in conflict? Ask them, “Although you are always fighting with each other, don’t you want to unite? What would you like to be united upon? ” The answer would not be money, power or knowledge, but only true love. What, then, is true love? Nobody likes to be told, “Your love is false.” But on the other hand, is anyone a true man, a perfected person? You shrug at that, knowing that you are not. When you speak about true things, you have to be true according to God. He is the center, the truth, the subject of the universe. You have to be one with Him.

We commonly say that there are many bad people in the world. What do you base such a statement upon? What is the dividing line between a good person and a bad one? What is the dfinition of goodness? When you say, “This is a good deed,” what is that centered upon? You may make a lot of money-you may hit the jackpot- and say, “That is good!,, On what basis is that good? Or suppose you are elected to some important political office, gaining a lot of power. You would say, “That is good!” But what is that good centered upon? Or perhaps you have acquired a great deal of knowledge and you feel that is good.

There must be a center, some reason that defines whether something is good or not. That center is true love. Any deed or thought that contributes to true love is a good deed or thought. But if it does not do that, it is on the side of evil. All five senses of our bodies are mobilized to find and concentrate upon true love, nothing else. Ask your eye what it wants to see and it would say, “The only thing I want to look at is true love; I don’t want to see anything else.” The eyes are not interested in lots of bright colors, for example, without true love. Not only our five physical senses but also our five spiritual senses have this motivation.

Do you think the mind is equipped to know and detect true love, or not? What do you think? Is that an inborn virtue of the mind-to be able to detect true love? You have an original mind, so why doesn’t that original mind become bold and strong and take initiative to demolish all the ungodly things around it? Why doesn’t it move forward to take dominion over the universe? The original mind has become weak and has failed to take the subjective role; it is always being pushed into the corner. Why has the original mind been in such a miserable shape?

Since we have an original mind, it should be in constant communication with God, receiving power from Him and taking the subjective role over everything else. Why hasn’t it been like that? The reason is that evil history began before each person was born; it was there already. Before your original mind ever came into being, there was already an evil dominion over everything. Your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were like that-all the way back to Adam and Eve. Before Adam’s and Eve’s original minds took hold, before they were able to take dominion over the universe, evil came into being. The fall occurred and the true lineage was turned around.

Men and women are supposed to be perfected, united upon one love, in communion with God. With one woman and one man, centered upon God’s love, unity would be complete. We would be born of God, in that case, because everything originated from Him; no foreign element would have come in. All generations would have come directly from God, therefore, and there would have been only one God-centered lineage.

We are supposed to be united under one true love, centered upon God; total unity and harmony were supposed to mark the beginning of human history. But that was not the case; the force of Satan invaded. God would like to have dominion over all things-not by force or violence-but by love. That was the original principle of creation. Because of the forceful and violent invasion of evil, however, there was no chance for true love to reign over all things. Furthermore, every individual was born under the satanic lineage; thus it is the same fallen bloodstream.

The fall of man was the putting aside of goodness and truth. Even though we know such things are there, we have been pulled to the side of evil and fallen into bondage. The original mind is within each person; people are aware of goodness, true love and beautiful ideals, but the body has become the slave of evil, pulled into evil activities. A prisoner or slave has no freedom.

In the center of fallen man there are two minds: one is the original mind and the other is the instinctual, bodycentered mind. We are supposed to have only one mind, but man became divided into those two minds which fight between themselves. The body became the battlefield for those two minds. Surrounding the body is the family, which is also a battlefield; likewise the community, nation and world all became the battlefields for those two minds.

We must have a true self in which the original mind dwells. So we must go back to the very beginning point- the state of mind where there is no division or discord and only harmony and cooperation. Then the body will cooperate with that one mind; then you can find your true self.

How could such harmony come into being? Only by the touch of true love. Human beings have departed from true love; true love is always with God, of course. There are millions and millions of spiritual miles between God and man. How can God take this evil world back to Himself? What is God’s method and strategy? How can He go into the very core of that struggle between the mind and body and resurrect man’s original self?

God has to establish a beachhead by which to enter the satanic world; that beachhead is true love. Initially, it will be small, but as soon as God gains a foothold He can move forward and go deeper to expand His foundation. In a way, God’s true love force is invading the satanic world from all four directions. Throughout history, religious people always encountered persecution; no religion has grown without persecution. Those people who opposed religion have been in control of the principalities, those within the established power structure.

There is a certain axis at the center of every individual, and the body is meant to turn around that axis. That axis is your original mind; your body is trying to turn on that axis. There should be no resistance. When the original mind-the mind before the fall-takes the center, the body automatically centers upon the power of true love. That should occur without trouble or difficulty. Such turning action by the body should be natural and easy.

The original mind and original body, unstained by satanic elements, have the goal of unity centered upon true love. That was the original design of creation-an unstained, good mind and body united upon true love. Let us compare this with the two prongs of a tuning fork. When you hit one prong, its vibration will send sound waves to the other prong, which will make a sound of the same exact pitch. The initial sound or vibration within people should be that of true love; true love should hit the mind first, causing it to reverberate at a certain frequency and convey true love to the body. That is how it was supposed to be. But what happened? Because of the fall of man, the initial impact was not true love but fallen love.

God has to make a new impact upon the original mind of man. This has been the work of God in history-to make an impact so that the mind could also give powerful treatment to the body. Thus filial piety has been upheld as a virtue in the home, centered upon the parents. When the homes exemplify filial piety, loyalty is also stressed in the country, centered upon the king or leader. This is the way the individual self revolves and, at the same time, turns around in a bigger circle. As you know, the earth turns on its axis and, at the same time, it revolves around the sun-human internal life follows the same principle.

The solar system does not stand still; as an entity, it turns in a great, cosmic circle. What is its most central theme, its center? It is love, true love. Therefore, love has been taught in the home. Centered upon the parent, the expression of that love is called filial piety. In the nation, when love has been stressed, we call it patriotism or loyalty. On the world level, the love of mankind has been stressed and that is called saintliness. That quality of love, of course, is true love and that should be at the center. When true love takes the center seat, everything else will fall into its proper place. Right order shall be created around that eternal and unchanging axis.

What will bind a man and woman together into one? What force could do that? What is the force to unite them? It is only the force of true love. That is what we call a couple-the husband and wife. They begin to orbit, circling around, and they create a family. A family is no longer centered upon an individual; the family has a larger purpose and goal, so each individual must harmonize with that goal. But then the family is circling around the nation, which is an even greater entity. Then the nation should be circling in orbit around the world; the world should be its center. Then the world should be orbiting around the universe, centered upon the love of God.

You can see here the complete illustration. Once the individual, with his original mind and body, has become united upon the axis of true love, he will revolve around the family; then the family revolves around the nation, the nation around the world, and the world around the universe. Finally, the universe will revolve around God. The central axis is always the same-true love.

God has been working through religion, trying to regain the world and restore it to its original shape. Since the body has been dominant and the mind has been weakened, religion has always chastised the body in order to strengthen the mind. This is why physical chastisement has always played a role in religion. Anything which is not parallel with the goal of true love had to be pushed down, eliminated. In that way, the true love-centered mind could prosper.

In a way, God has been farming, planting the seed of true love within the barren soil of man’s mind. He has been fertilizing it, watering it, planting the true love seeds. God has chastised and tried to eliminate anything that hurts true love. In this process, He has allowed religious people to make a great number of sacrifices. Many people suffered in order to safeguard the growth of true love. They then inspired and spurred many others on to greater heights. Seeing such righteousness and sacrifice gave them energy to go up to even greater heights.

Eventually, the world came to be divided into two major camps-one which accepts the theistic, or religious, point of view; the other embraces the atheistic, materialistic viewpoint.

What about the problem of religion? There are great numbers of religions. How can we evaluate them? There is one simple rule: the religion which demonstrates the greatest love of God should be at the center and then absorb the others, bringing everyone into unity. What is the essence of religion? It is God and love, those two elements. Centered upon God, love will win and prevail over the world.

In speaking of God, only one religion calls God “Father,” and that is Christianity. This must be made very clear: Christianity alone proclaims to the world that God is our Father. What is the definition of a father? What is the difference between a true father and a stepfather? The difference is in the bloodstream, the lineage. Nobody says, “God is our stepfather.” We say, “God is our Father.” That means we claim to be in the bloodstream or lineage of God.

Do all those who call themselves Christians really feel they are connected into one bloodstream, centered upon God and part of one lineage? What is the Kingdom of Heaven? It is the same whether we speak of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth or in heaven. We speak of the Kingdom of Heaven as God’s house. God is our Father; the parents and the children dwell in the same house. The children are entitled to live in that house because they are one bloodstream, one family.

In the Bible, Jesus is described as the “only-begotten son.” What does this mean? He was the only person who had inherited the total love and total lineage of God, and the only person who could represent it. For that reason, he had the power of God’s lineage flowing through him. That is why he became the Savior. Christianity has taught that God is the Father of mankind; furthermore, Jesus taught that he was the only-begotten son of that God. Christianity’s message, therefore, is that it is only through Jesus that we can be connected to the lineage of God; otherwise, God’s lineage cannot flow through mankind.

From the point of view of the Principle of Creation, “only-begotten son,, means that Jesus was in the position of the unfallen, perfected Adam. Adam fell in the Garden of Eden, so Jesus was meant to be the perfected Adam who entered into the fallen world and restored his bride. It was his mission to restore a woman to the level before the fall.

Eve was in the position to be the true mother of all mankind, just as Adam was supposed to be the true father. Jesus came on the level of the chosen nation, and he came as the perfected Adam to restore Eve. If that had been done on the national foundation, they would have become not only the true father and mother of mankind, but also they would have become the king and queen of Israel.

If they had not fallen, Adam and Eve would have become the True Parents in the Garden of Eden. Once Adam and Eve were perfected and completely centered upon true love, they could not have fallen. There was no way they could have deviated from their original position because no power could separate them from true love.

True love should have been the central binding point between Adam and Eve. But what happened? Within Eve, her own self, and not true love, became supreme. The evil of selfishness crept into the Garden of Eden, planted in the heart of the woman, and it has now grown to encompass all of humanity. What do we see today? The entire world is riddled with selfishness. Contemporary America is the most self-centered nation. Youth today are even labeled the “Me Generation.” How can such a thing be? This is the satanic attitude; it belongs to hell.

What is the center of America? Is it the Pentagon? Is it wealth or knowledge? Certainly America today has lots of power, money and knowledge, but these things cannot become the heart and soul of America. If they did, America would certainly perish. America must be centered upon true love; only true love will bring unity between mind and body, and then the family, society and nation. When that happens, this nation will flourish.

Let’s say there are eight individuals within one family. The center of that family must be God and, as everybody comes toward God, they can cling together and be united. That is the way it was supposed to be. Your heart or original mind is the very deepest part of your being, and that heart is connected to the mind of God. That was the model. Your original mind is in a direct vertical line with Heaven. Everybody else has an original mind, too, which is part of the same line.

The vertical line with God and the horizontal line of human relationships must cross at a 90-degree angle. Wherever you go or whoever you meet, you should always have a 90-degree angle. The love between men and women, for example, is real; your experience of that love is very real. That is the horizontal line. The problem is that people have lost the vertical line; they don’t experience it. They don’t even recognize the existence of any vertical line. Instead of coming to the center and uniting around God, each individual is trying to become the center, to pull everything toward himself.

The United States is supposed to be a Christian nation. Why has it become like this? It can be attributed to what is called American pragmatism. This basically means that one doesn’t have to be bound by any principles; whatever benefits you, you just go in that direction. People pursue self-interest in all directions; it doesn’t matter what it is or where-as soon as they see something of self-benefit, they try to grab it. The result is that people don’t care about what happens to the rest of the world; the world can even become a sacrifice if it benefits them. That is pragmatism.

The pragmatic way of life repels religion and scorns its principles and rules. The truth is that pursuing self-interest is not fundamentally bad, but one must put internal, spiritual interests first before external self-interest. Ironically, however, Satan has divided the internal and the external world; he has been holding the external world under his wing. For that reason, in order to pursue your internal interests, you have to go against your external interests. That is what makes things very difficult. You have to fight and make sacrifices in order to pursue your internal benefit.

The pragmatic person is one who focuses on accumulating all his material wants; that is what the “Me Generation” is all about. What is really important for a person, however, is to gain internal, spiritual benefit. In order to gain those benefits, you have to sacrifice the external things. This beautiful truth is far from the American way of life. Even if American people gain every sort of material wealth, if they have gained nothing internally, they will have lost everything.

The irony is this: the United States, which is supposed to be the one central Christian nation, has become the worst example of the satanic domain. Because of this, then, the laws of the universe are opposing this nation. No matter how much the government and the American people may make effort, there is an even greater power pounding on them so that the nation continues to decline more and more.

What about the Unification Church in America today? What are we? Do you think you are going to be digested by the “Me Generation,,, or are you going to digest them? You don’t have unity between your own mind and body, so how can you go out and say, “I’m going to conquer the ‘Me Generation”? That is a contradiction, isn’t it? The present day reality is a real problem. We must bring a solution.

God is not part of the “Me Generation.” God’s interest is the benefit of the whole. The benefit of the whole comes first. It is not money, power or knowledge which encompasses and embraces all the things of creation and the whole universe; it is true love. If the fall had not occurred, True Parents would have been established in the Garden of Eden.

After the fall of man, God had the option to destroy every single human being. He could have said, “They are bad and I don’t want to see them.” But as you know through the Divine Principle, there was a reason He did not and could not do that. His second option was to restore the world, and in order to do that, He had to send a savior. That savior was the second opportunity for the installation of the True Parents. Jesus was that savior and, as you know, that was not completed. Thus God has given the third opportunity.

The principle of salvation is quite simple. Because mankind was supposed to begin with True Parents and that did not happen, false parenthood came into being. We have to be rid of that false lineage and be restored into the family of the True Parents, the true lineage of God. The mission of the Unification Church is to reorganize the families of the world.

Today’s topic is “True Parents and I.” Are True Parents absolutely necessary? Without them, the world has no hope for salvation, no way to turn. We have to bring the world back from the false to the true parenthood. Beginning with True Parents, direct oneness and union with God can come about. In this way, the true lineage of God can be installed and expanded.

Where were you born-under the true parenthood or the false parenthood? The Bible talks about the wild olive tree and the true olive tree. The true olive tree’s root is straight from God; so God’s lineage is symbolically expressed in the true olive tree. Everybody comes from the false root, however, which is expressed as the wild olive tree. New life can only be given through engrafting with the true tree. That is the destiny of all men and women.

It doesn’t matter whether the wild olive tree is a thousand years old; in order for the engrafting process to take place, we have to cut off that wild tree. Let’s say the wild olive tree’s root is very large and it has many different branches. On the other hand, let’s say the true olive tree is just tiny, with only a few little branches. Even though the old olive tree has been growing for thousands of years and has 44 billion leaves and buds, it doesn’t change the fact that it has to be cut down.

Do you think the United States portion of the tree should be left alone? Shall we think, “The United States is the number-one country on the earth; we have a great culture to preserve, so don’t cut the U.S. portion,” Or should we say, “There have been great people in the United States, like George Washington, and we have had important ministers who have done so much to advance Christianity. We have had great numbers of true leaders in this country; this nation doesn’t need salvation, so leave it alone”? No, we just cannot say that.

Is it correct to say that America should be an exception because of its great Constitution or its freedom? When God decides to cut the wild olive tree, He will do it. He does not allow exceptions. Outwardly, the bud on the satanic, wild olive tree looks just the same as that on the true olive tree; in fact, it might look a little better, since it receives better nourishment. So those buds might ask, “Why should we be cut?” All the four billion wild olive buds out there are looking at the Moonies, thinking, “How pitiful they are, so pale and miserable. We are much better off than they are.” As members of the Unification Church we cannot indulge ourselves in the lifestyle of the outside world until we have gained real freedom for everybody. What do you think about my conclusion? Is it right or wrong?

When God decides to restore the wild olive into the true olive tree, would He say, “Let’s just do a little bit now and a little bit tomorrow, and a little bit next year”? What do you think? Would He like to take ten thousand years to do it, or wouldn’t He want to do it all at once? What about Reverend Moon? Would I like to do it piecemeal?

Even though the root of the true olive tree is small, the important thing is that it is resting on God. The root of the wild tree is resting on Satan. Always remember that, even though you are restored members of the Unification Church, your original roots from your ancestors are from the wrong, satanic side. We have not been born of the True Parents but of the fallen lineage, and we are in the process of being restored.

When you look at trees you can see that their natural instinct is to reach up to the sun. It is the same with the flowers and grasses. Even if a branch is growing downwards, the leaves will reach upwards. The sun represents the source of life, so all the leaves and buds face toward that. The branches, the root and the stems all come under one direct line and that is the Tree of Life. When the tree grows taller, the branches become wider. The trunk goes up in a straight line, and at the same time, the roots reach out and take hold of wider and wider territory. The energy of life passes through that straight line, up through the trunk to the branches in a direct line.

Your original mind is the deepest part of yourself. Right below that is God, so your original mind rests in the fertile soil of God. In the engrafting process, the branches are cut off but the root remains. Then the true branches can begin to grow. When that process begins, even though that root is the original satanic one, it will be transformed into a new root.

Can we penetrate all the thousands-of-years-old customs of the satanic world and bring about a revolutionary change? Do we have that kind of energy and vitality? If that satanic root maintains itself, then the fruit will not be good, even though engrafting was done. The true tree will not develop properly. In other words, maybe the shape will be just like the true olive tree, but the olives won’t have a good taste. How can God enjoy that poor tasting olive?

After the engrafting process takes place, how do we transform the root into a new one? No matter how much effort is made by all 44 billion people in the cosmos, it would not come into fruition. Only by the power of the love of God and the True Parents will that root be transformed. Therefore, you will be plunged into the melting pot of the True Parents and God so that all your fallen, foreign elements can be burned away. All that will remain of you is what is centered upon God and the True Parents’ love.

Do you already possess the true love that can burn up the iniquities and ugliness of the satanic world? Even though you are engrafted-you turned your lineage over to the True Parents and God-your power alone will not be enough to burn up the iniquities of this world. Your children, the blessed children, will be more powerful than you; they are purer than you.

Do you think the True Parents should listen to and follow the advice of the fallen generations? No one can advise the True Parents because there is no one with sufficient purity to advise them. The True Parents act from the genuine, true thought which flows from God and true love.

Let us reflect upon ourselves in the Unification Church. Since we joined this church, what kind of life have we lived? God and the True Parents created a new, true love pond. Have you become like a child, taking off all your clothing and plunging headfirst into that pond? Or are you just standing on the edge and dipping your toes in? When you jump into that love pond, is your body so filthy that you will make the whole pond dirty? Is that the kind of men and women you are?

Most of you have been a part of the life of the Unification Church for many years, and most of you have received the Blessing. What kind of members are you? Have you been living according to something less than the real Unification Church direction? There is much more distance to be covered, so we have to be shedding tears. We must be kneeling on the floor and repenting. Repentance must be the first thing on our agenda.

Your mouth is still so imperfected, so dirty and fallen, yet that mouth is saying, “We don’t want those Korean and Japanese leaders. All we need is the American way.” But you must correctly understand one thing: I am not promoting the Korean way or the Oriental way. I have been opposed by the Korean and Japanese people for forty years. Why have I been opposed if I am promoting the Oriental way?

I even went to Danbury. A prison is the lowest place in any society, but that is where I went because this country opposed me. I did that to save America. Do you think we can save this country with the power of our fists? No, it can only be saved by true love. This principle has not changed one iota.

When I was in Korea these past six months, I was given the constant message, “American members want you to come back.” Why should I have come back to America, really? Because it’s comfortable, or for money or fame? No. If I wanted to, I could certainly acquire more of those kinds of things in some other country. I came back here in order to wage the final battle for this nation’s sake.

“True Parents and I” is the title of today’s sermon. You call me and Mother your True Father and Mother, correct? What do the True Father and the True Mother do? The True Parents provide you with the root of God, upon which you can grow and prosper. True love can spring forth like water from that root, and all of humanity can dip themselves into it and be saved.

Before this time, even though the root of God and true love was there, it was not flowing to humanity and the world. Thus the True Parents came to bridge the gap so that true love can flow. Logically speaking, without the appearance of the True Parents, there could be no way the true love of God could flow into mankind. This is the absolutely logical conclusion-the appearance of True Parents is the hope of humanity.

In the Unification Church the most peculiar, extraordinary phenomenon is occurring. Young people do not want to arrange their own marriages; they place this most important decision in the hands of the True Parents. The young people who are joining the Unification Church are some of the best people in the United States. They are highly motivated and sincere and they dedicate their lives to the True Parents. Those most brilliant young people are giving up their own country, in a way, as well as their own parents and families. They give up their social status and their studies when they decide to follow Reverend Moon, a man who has gone to prison. Why is that?

We have great numbers of Japanese members in this country. Have they come to America because they are so eager to live with white people? NO, their only reason is that the True Parents are here. They have left their home and crossed the Pacific Ocean, coming to this foreign land, unable to speak the language or understand the culture. They came here to work for the sake of saving this country, working harder than the American people That is truly extraordinary and amazing.

What about you first-class American citizens? Are you proud of that? There are many city and regional leaders who have really overworked the Japanese members, letting them go out and do all the fundraising. Then the leaders sit down and spend that money. Actually, if I were just a secular businessman and I brought those Japanese people here to suffer so much, they would all turn against me, saying, “What are you doing to us?” Would probably be clubbed to death by them. Instead, they never complain. The American people are the ones doing the most complaining, behind the scenes.

In this situation, who shall be responsible for the future of America? Those Japanese people, or me? Who shall be ultimately responsible for America? Yes, it is you Americans. I will go back to Korea and the Japanese will return to their country. After that, what will you do? Can you say, “No problem. We can take care of all America”? It is a shame that among Americans, the black and Hispanic people are following the True Parents more faithfully than the white people. That is the reality. While this continues, the white-centered culture will decline; more animosity will arise toward the white people on the part of minorities. The black people will resent more and more the self-centered and arrogant white people’s traditions.

Your relationship to the True Parents should be very clear to you through this morning’s sermon. The Bible says that you should not worry about what to eat or drink or where to dwell. Those things are what the Gentiles worry about. You only have to worry about one thing- seeking God’s Kingdom. By the same token, in the Unification Church you should only worry about becoming a partaker of the true love of God and the True Parents. Plunge into it and become intoxicated by that love. When that is the case, nothing can bother you-not your family, not the way of life, nothing. Are you totally immersed in the true love of God? That is the question.

When I observe many of the long-time members of the Unification Church, I see them saying, “I am working for the sake of the whole.” But they are actually the most tired-out, dispirited people. I don’t want people to be like that. We are going to face the most difficult times from now on. If you Unification Church members today are virtually exhausted, can you face it when even greater waves of difficulties hit you? Will you find the power and energy to break through and overcome it? You must be thinking this way. You have to be more serious. Think, “I am ready for the greater difficulties ahead of us. Nothing can deter me.” You must think that way, being ready to spring into action at any time, bubbling with enthusiasm. Otherwise, you will be distracted, left out from the ranks and left behind in the march. I have been in and out of prison, not just one time but six different times, but I was never deterred. My spirit was only strengthened. When I came to America, my destiny was, in a way, to march toward the prison. I knew that and I welcomed it; if that was my destiny, I would not shrink from it. I have never deviated from my path.

Today I declare that in the march toward Moscow, I expect another prison to be waiting for me there. Will you let Reverend Moon do all the things necessary to get to Moscow? Or do you want to go ahead of me and prepare things for me? I want you to know that there are members, brothers and sisters, working behind the Iron Curtain in all those satellite countries who are desperately laying the foundation.

When I was in Danbury, I did not rest even one day. I had many plans and strategies, new organizations to create. Those things are blossoming today. Even yesterday at the breakfast table, Dr. Pak reported some event to me and I asked him to give that information to Dr. Durst. If even Dr. Durst doesn’t know about some of the things we are doing, how much do you not know?

This is the time of the showdown; we are now at the crossroads. We are not talking about tomorrow; it is today. When I am at East Garden, I am always busy, always active. I don’t have any leisure time. When I was in Korea for the past six months, almost 40 million Korean people were completely awakened by my presence. That includes national assemblymen, who are the equivalent of U.S. congressmen. What am I trying to do? I am not seeking political power. I have only one thing on my mind: to do the will of God and create the nation and world where God’s love can prevail. I want to plant God’s love in America, Korea and all other nations.

Are you becoming the arms and legs of Reverend Moon? Do my arms and legs reach toward their own selfish interests, or toward the interests of God and true love and truth? You are the fruit of Reverend Moon in America. I have sacrificed my own family, clan and personal affairs in the process of loving you. I would like you to be such accomplished people that I could take you to Korea and Japan and let them see you and be proud of you. That is my ambition.

What does that come out of-love or hatred for you? Do you know I love you? I would like you to become people I can be most proud of. That is my deepest, inmost thought. I am waiting for that. Dr. Durst sometimes tells me, “American members are working very hard and suffering a great deal.” But what about those Japanese brothers and sisters? They are working day in and day out, ten or even a hundred times harder than you. I would like to send the American leadership to Japan to join the fundraising crews for several months.

I brought the Japanese members here so they could help you to grow in membership in America. Then I will send American members to the rest of the world. As much as I am proud of the Japanese members here, I would like to be even more proud of the American members around the world.

Do you think that in this world restoration the Japanese or the Americans would be faster front-line soldiers? What does your common sense say? The American people would be faster because the United States is the most important and respected country in the world. I want you to know that America is the Abel nation. God guided and nurtured this country for 200 years, bringing Abel-type people from around the world into this microcosm.

In order to become the new forefathers of America, you must do more than those Puritans who came on the Mayflower. You must go beyond the strengths and sufferings of your ancestors in order to live up to your mission. In the future there will be less persecution but there is still an incredible uphill battle to wage. There are so many barriers, so many languages and cultures. Each country has its own idiosyncrasies. How can we harmonize all these?

What will digest the discord among the people in the United States-the Anglo-Saxons, the Jews, the Hispanics, the Blacks, the Asians, the German descendants, and all the rest? Inside this country there is incredible corruption, discord, and struggle, but America just puts on more makeup, like a beautiful woman on the street. But that is not the answer. That does not bring peace to America. I want you to know that the external element is not the primary factor.

Think how difficult it is to keep your own standard in the Unification Church. Self-management is not easy, so even after ten or twenty years in the church, people are still struggling. How can you bring the people of the world into one? Should we expect God, who does not even have His own hands and legs, to do it? He has to work through His instruments, human beings. You are God’s instruments. Actually, all that God can rely on fully is the True Parents and you. Each one of you should be such a vibrant dynamo that I could pick you up and plant you in some foreign place and see a Unification Church germinate there. That is what God wants.

What shall we do, then? First of all, we have to combat the self and be victorious in that battle. You must have a deep sense of gratitude, saying, “God picked me up and restored me. Knowing that I have found the True Parents and I am in the position to serve them, I am deeply grateful.” Unless your life is based upon such gratitude, sooner or later you will drift away. Gratitude is the basic, fundamental attitude of my own life. When I listen to the worldwide reports of church leaders, I hear more discouraging ones than good ones. There is more suffering than accomplishment.

In many cases, the destiny of a nation is hanging by a thread. Each day, I make decisions that directly influence the destiny of the nations in the future. Your own decisions do not have impact upon the destiny of whole nations, but I am in a different position. When one decision is wrongly made, then I am responsible and the burden falls upon me. I know clearly where I want everyone to go and I give the direction, but everybody is reluctant. They don’t want to be directed; they don’t want to go.

I am sure some of you have experienced the loss of parents or spouses through death; some of you parents have even experienced the loss of children. In such cases you experienced tremendous heartbreak. How much more pain must God feel when He loses His most genuine, lovely creations. Can you imagine the broken-heartedness of God?

Do you think I should continue to suffer here in America? Can you be responsible for my tradition, for what I have been doing? Do you have the energy and power to do it? All right, let’s do it then. Let’s give ourselves totally and sincerely to it.

I will tell you something that I experienced a couple of years ago. I visited one place where there was a member who had decided to leave the Church that very day. It happened that I was on the same airplane with that person. Up to that day, that member had felt that I was his Father, but on that day, he decided that I was nobody. He walked past my seat on the plane, and he didn’t even look at me or have the common decency to greet me and say hello. I thought that, even supposing we had not shared a religion or teaching, at least in terms of human decency, is that any way to treat someone you know? Is that the product of individualism here in America? How can someone turn around so completely in one day and create such a wall? I was really wondering about that. This is not only one instance-there have been many in my life. These show the potential ugliness of the human heart.

Here is another example. There have been businesses and enterprises which our movement initiated. I assigned a leader to one of these, but I found out that he was treating the members there like slaves, giving them incredible treatment, simply because they were black and Hispanic. That person didn’t even like them. Think of that from the parental point of view. It’s unimaginable. I have had to swallow things like this more than once, digest them and move on. I didn’t express anger. I want you to know one thing: I have been in America for fourteen years, during which I have poured my heart, soul, body and material for the well-being of this nation. No one can deny that.

I have spoken to you frankly at times. I have scolded you, yelled at you, sometimes even pounded on your heads. Is that because I hate you? No, it is the expression of my love; I want to see you grow as rapidly as possible so that you can reach a certain level of accomplishment in the shortest possible time. For fourteen years I have left Korea behind; I have abandoned my country, in a way. When I went back this time, the Korean people did not want me to return to America, saying, “Why should you go back there?” They strongly expressed their desire for me to stay. But I persuaded them that I had to return, and then they wept behind the scenes without saying anything, knowing I had to go.

You don’t have to remember all of this. But one point is very important: who will be responsible if I do leave America permanently? During these past six months, have you been assembled at Belvedere service like this every Sunday morning? Think about Belvedere without True Parents. Imagine if I left America forever, never to return. Think about that.

If you want my heart to continue to dwell in America, it is basically up to you. It will be determined by your own attitude toward me and the movement, toward the Principle and toward your mission. That will determine how long I will continue to dwell here and give my love here. Have you ever imagined me spending these past fourteen years in some country like Brazil or some other Latin American country?

The American church has not yet become self sustaining, either spiritually or materially. Does this mean you should just give up? Is that what you will do? We have a very serious decision to make. I have one important mission remaining in this country, one more thing to do and I am tackling that now. Regardless of whether you listen to me and follow me, what I have spoken on this platform shall become a part of the history of the United States. This is the central point of the future of this country. With these words, you in America shall be judged. So it is a most serious moment when you are listening to me at Belvedere. The key question to ask yourself is, “Can I do what Father has done and succeed in his mission in this country?”

If your determination is firm, you can go forward without one iota of deviation no matter what difficulties you may have to face. I have done that in my life. Look at my own children. They came to America simply because their Daddy and Mommy came here; there was no other reason. They have grown up here, enduring a lot of ridicule from this society. Imagine the children’s position when their father went to prison. Think of it from a father’s point of view: “What did I give to my own children? Am I bringing honor to them?,, Now they have become an even greater target of ridicule from society and their peers.

Mother, through no fault of her own, has suffered because of me. What about prison? Nobody can be trusted there. It is like the wilderness, without any protection. Mother went to the prison virtually every other day, like clockwork, rain or shine. The average woman would give up, saying, “Why should I do this? I am disgusted by my destiny.” Without knowing the True Parent’s ideal and the dispensation, she would have had an entirely different experience. Do you think that she shed a great deal of secret tears? Mother and the family had to go on and conduct five o’clock Pledge service each Sunday, painfully aware that I was in prison. I’m sure they shed a lot of tears.

Why did I come here to America? Why have I become such a controversial man, going through so much pain and persecution? It is only for the fulfillment of God’s will. You have to remember this point.

This is my first speech at Belvedere since the six months in Korea. I want you to know that I have done everything possible for the sake of the United States. Probably in another six months, I will review the events in this country. As I said, there is one more important thing I am undertaking. Then my mission is truly finished in America. The other day, we held a leader’s conference after my return. There I told them, “My mission in America is consummated.”

Who shall succeed me in this mission? Do you have full confidence to be the ones? I have never forgotten my first flight over the Pacific to the United States-my thoughts on that plane are still vivid in my mind. After I landed in America, I visited forty-eight states within forty-three days. While driving on the road, I was thinking about America, planning for the future. I always comforted God, saying, “Father, You have Your will for this nation and I shall fulfill that for You. I will bring the glory to You.” To fulfill that pledge, I have worked every day and night for the past fourteen years in this country. Of course, I have done a lot of activities centered on the church, but I have done things beyond that, too. I have initiated many national and global projects. In a way, there was a declaration of competition between the U.S. government and the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Do you have confidence? I know you do not have enough of the right kind of confidence. That means we need help from God. We can obtain this through deep prayer, dedication and sacrifice. Many American young people do not like that kind of life. I know that well, but someone in America has to do this mission.

The final battle is ahead of us. With determination and a willingness to sacrifice, we shall tackle and win the glorious victory. For fourteen years, you have been like children. I have accepted your complaints and your criticisms. Before you get up in the ring for the big championship fight, you can say all kinds of things: “I’m tired, My legs hurt.” But once you are in that ring, you have no time to worry about such things. You have to just fight and knock out your opponent. That is the only goal once you get in the ring.

What you should do is liberate me from all the pressure and burdens I am carrying. I do not have the freedom to go anywhere freely. Once you know the truth and you are determined to unite, plunging into the mission, we know we can win. Victory is assured. God has prepared everything. Therefore, we can be bold and strong! We are going to bring the turning point of human history. From now until 1988 is the time of emergency and crisis for the United States, as well as for international communism. So we are going to have three exciting years, plunging into our victorious battle.

Let us pledge that victory to God. Those who are marching toward that final battlefield to win the victory which God promised us, let us say, “Amen!” and raise our hands . Thank you. God bless you.

## THE GLOBE IS OUR HOME

By Fami1yfed June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### June 8, 1986
World Mission Center Grand Ballroom
Translator – Bo Hi Pak

Nowadays, many people talk about our world as a “global village.” According to the Principle, we know that Satan always presents his own imitation of God’s plans first. When we speak of a village, it denotes a small, simple, cohesive area in which one clan lives together. When we describe the globe as a village, then, it takes on entirely new meaning.

Suppose that the fall of man had never taken place. In such a case, one family would have grown into a tribe, nation and a world. They would all have been under one master and a part of one simple organization. The important thing is that such a society would have only one culture, one habitual way of doing things, one tradition. There would have been only one language, of course. That is how the world would have been if the fall had not occurred.

Within that ideal of the original world, there would have been no boundaries or separation between nations or peoples. Everyone would have felt part of one village, living under one chief As much as God can travel freely all over the place, those who belong to God – the inhabitants of the world – should also be able to travel without any limitations. That would be a world of true freedom.

If God has freedom of travel, what about God’s people? There’s no question that they should have the same privilege. The earth belongs to God and, at the same time, it belongs to God’s people. However, the fall occurred and ownership of the land fell into Satan’s hands, rather than God’s. The people who inhabited the land also fell under the dominion of Satan. More unity would have come about as history progressed if this earth had been populated by people totally centered on God. Everyone would have become more and more harmonious. Satan took dominion over the land, however, and there has been more and more division as history has proceeded. The fact that people fell under Satan’s dominion produced tragic consequences; we have lost freedom and have been in the chains of Satan-total bondage rather than total freedom.

God Himself has difficulty proceeding with His dispensation of restoration in this fallen world, trying to return it to its original design. The history of God has been the history of struggle between the forces of good and evil. That is why so many struggles are recorded in the Old Testament. An example is Jacob’s struggle against the angel representing the evil forces. Jacob was victorious and that is when he was given the name “Israel” meaning “the victor”

Jacob was the first victorious ancestor in the Old Testament. God’s desire was to have Jacob’s clan grow into the tribe, people and nation to which He could send the Messiah. The Messiah could not come, however, until there was a national foundation. As you know, the history of Israel was always one of dividing between God’s side and Satan’s side; there were frequent periods of purification in the nation of Israel.

Who is Cain? He is the one who represents the satanic forces, but at the same time he is the elder son. Who is Abel? Abel was also the offspring of the fallen parents, but he is in the elder sons position on God’s side. There are two factions, then-one headed by Cain, as the elder son of Satan’s forces, and the other by Abel, in the position of God’s elder son. Between these two forces, there has been constant struggle and confrontation.

History has been a process of separating Cain and Abel, beginning on the individual level. God wanted to see the forces of goodness prevail over the satanic forces and then move on to the family level, clan, tribal and national level, and so forth. Giving the name “Israel” which denotes victory, means that God successfully separated Abel from the satanic camp and carved out a realm for His total dominion. That is the meaning of the name “Israel” Satan has held power over everything in this world; he has divided people into different nations, trying to block the Heavenly forces from gaining influence. Those people who are chosen by God and who represent His side, however, always have world unity as their ultimate goal. The instrument of God for this dispensation is religion; thus He initiated the central religion. Many secondary religions prospered and moved up to certain levels, including the tribe, nation and world. God has had the strategy of combining all the religious forces into one in order to win the world.

Centering upon religion, God has been working to create an organization that could encompass the whole world. That kind of movement is essential for God. Right after World War II, a special situation arose through the victory of the Allies over the Axis powers. Christianity had a base around the world and one Christian nation was at the center of the world-the United States. That was exactly the situation God had been yearning to see throughout history. If the United States had fulfilled its God-given responsibility, then an entirely new dispensation would have unfolded.

Why did America fail to grasp the opportunity to fulfill God’s will at that time? First of all, at that time the people of America did not have any understanding that they were representing the mainstream of the will of God. They just did not realize they were the chosen champions of God. In other words, America did not know God’s expectation for this country.

America was founded for the sake of religious freedom. The first settlers left behind the religious persecution of Europe, under Catholicism, to establish a new world of freedom. They came here and created a new nation, basically under Protestantism, which recognized the ideal of religious freedom.

That is very significant. The people who came to the New World were risking their lives and had given up all their worldly goods, status, and even their families, all for the purpose of pursuing religious freedom. In a sense, they were seeking to form a one-world nation. Those first Puritans saw each other as brothers and sisters; from that point of view, they envisioned the establishment of a global nation. The United States has become what is called a melting pot, where everyone from around the world can be harmonized with everyone else. All of this is under the concept of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.

What happens when you melt something solid? It becomes liquid from the heat. From God’s point of view, there is no limit to the number of people that should come and be melted together in this melting pot of America. All the nations of the world should be connected with the Christian nation of America, according to God’s desire. But according to the satanic point of view, people want to preserve their own positions in this country and prevent others from coming here. So America has not moved truly toward God’s direction; this country should be opened up.

After World War II, the victorious nations centered upon the United States granted independence to the nations they conquered, rather than occupying them. Thus, rather than a winner and loser relationship, they initiated more of a brother and sister relationship. America should have gone even further and given sacrificially for the well-being of those nations, sharing with them the wealth and power which she enjoyed. In that way those nations could have become truly equal, with equal opportunity and wealth for everyone. That would have created an incredible, worldwide foundation of unity upon which the Messiah could come and usher in the Kingdom of God on earth. That was the utmost thought in the mind of God.

Christians have been expecting the Second Advent of Christ, as it is taught in the Bible. During the two thousand years of Christianity, it seemed several times that the Second Advent might be imminent, but then it didn’t happen. The concept of the Second Advent was not clear in the minds of Christians in general.

The United Nations was born after World War II, granting membership to every nation. The United States was more or less the central figure of the United Nations. The concept of the United Nations was that of one world government, but the United States itself was confused and did not share that concept. God’s dispensation was for the United States, as a Christian nation, to take the central position in the world as the leader of the United Nations, while moving aggressively toward the realization of one world under God. The Christian culture was supposed to be at the center of the United Nations.

At that very time, the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity came into being. The name itself signifies the tremendously difficult task we were undertaking: the unification of world Christianity. I was fully aware of the difficulties, so why did I initiate such a task? It is because that was the very concept of God, His desire for that time in history. Our movement was begun in parallel to God’s thinking. However, I knew that such unification could never come through merely human endeavor; spiritual endeavor was needed as well. That is why we also included the words “Holy Spirit Association,, in the name of our group.

At that time in Korea, many spiritual phenomena were occurring. Numerous spiritual groups sprang up. Some represented the Old Testament Garden of Eden; others represented the New Testament Garden of Eden. Their goal at least was correct, but they were divided in their concepts of spirituality. Korea was still under Japanese occupation. The imperial government of Japan had tried to force Shinto worship upon the Korean people. The Korean Christians were divided into two camps-one which went along with Shinto shrine worship and the other which refused to accept it and considered it idolatry. The first group was in the forefront, while the second group was basically underground.

The new spiritual groups were a part of the underground Christian community and they were receiving special communication from spirit world. Who was supposed to be in the position to lead these groups? Those sacrificial groups had received the amazing word from spirit world that the time for the return of the Lord was imminent. Furthermore, they were told that he would come as a person in the flesh. They knew that much but they did not know who or where he was.

Those spiritual groups were supposed to be united and work together for the independence of the country. They were supposed to assume the central position in Korea and take primary responsibility after the liberation from Japan. Unfortunately, however, the Christian groups who had cooperated with the Japanese occupation and accepted Shinto shrine worship became the dominant group working with the United Nations forces. They focused primarily on political and economic independence and prosperity, but they should have worked for the benefit and resurrection of the Korean churches first.

The spiritual groups should have spoken up and asked the former Shinto shrine worshipers to join in a national time of repentance. Together they should have worked for the resurrection of the Christian churches, but they didn’t. If that had happened, those resurrected Korean Christian churches would have been totally ignited with the fervor of expecting the Messiah. They would have been filled with excitement, making preparations for the Second Coming. That is how the church should have been energized.

The most fervent Christian work had been going on in North, rather than South, Korea. The North should have played the central role in the needed revival of the Christian churches. If that had been the case, there would have been harmony between North and South, centered on Christianity. But the country became divided between the Cain and Abel elements instead, and the confrontation between them became rampant. Before the revival of the Christian churches could come about, the satanic forces of communism overran the northern part of Korea. Under these circumstances, South Korea had to go along with a separate independence, which was secured in 1948; they had to be separated from the North.

The spiritual groups were the only ones who understood that the Lord of the Second Advent was coming. Before they could become the central figures of the Korean nation, however, they were blocked by three groups. First of all, the conventional Christian hierarchy opposed them because they felt threatened by them. Secondly, the Korean government opposed them, mainly because of influence from established Christianity. Thirdly, the communist government of North Korea opposed them viciously. It was virtually the same position of the Unification Church today. We are supposed to be at the central position, playing the subjective role, but we have been opposed by the same three elements established Christianity, the secular government, and the power of communism.

When the Unification Church was newly born, it was like an orphan because it had no allies and no place to turn. The established Christian churches were not allies; the Korean government was not an ally and, of course, the North Korean government was totally opposed. The Unification Church was born under such adverse conditions and we had to move forward anyway to establish the global foundation. Under such conditions, I had to move step by step, dealing with the established churches, different governments and communism. Forty years later, we have come at last to this opportune moment for fulfillment.

The Unification Church has been marching forward for 40 years under incredible persecution, but we have been moving steadily toward the goal. We have gone from the family level to the clan, tribal, national and worldwide levels. In the meantime, we have been persecuted and opposed by the established Christian churches, the democratic and the communist governments of the world. Under such difficult circumstances, we have continued to grow and have reached the worldwide level.

What about the United States of America? Forty years ago, this country was virtually at the center of the world- it had everything going for it. It was the image of dignity and glamour forty years ago, but today that dignity is virtually gone. This country is losing everything, including its Christian foundation. Because that foundation is shaken, all kinds of internal difficulties and moral corruption have sprung up.

I have received persecution from every direction and have dealt with every difficulty, overcoming each one. Finally, I established a beachhead here in America in 1973. Forty years ago, when I first proclaimed the Messianic message, if the Christian world and the United States had accepted it, God’s dispensation would have been fulfilled at that time. Then there would have been no room in the world for the rise of communism. I want you to know that God had been planning and hoping that the Christian foundation would become the Messiah’s foundation and that the Christian leaders would become the disciples of the Messiah.

I want you to understand very clearly what we have been toiling for during these past twelve years here in America. It is to bring the leaders-Christian as well as secular-to an understanding of the Messianic message. Right after the liberation of Korea forty years ago, a sort of vacuum was created. God wanted to see the fervor and hope for the Messiah to prevail over that country, so that before the nation was rebuilt, the Messianic spirit would become the national spirit. But that did not happen. The secular nation came first instead, without the Messianic goal. Today the United States is weakened and crumbling, in a way, so this is another opportunity for the Messianic spirit and message to prevail.

What was the result of the failure of Korean Christianity to embrace the Messianic message? The secular government became powerful and established Christianity became the enemy of our movement. Communism also became rampant. This kind of opposition will not go away until we succeed in one nation, particularly this nation of America. I have not been welcomed here in America, but rather have been persecuted by virtually every segment of society, including the Jewish community, the Christian community, and the governmental power. Even under these circumstances, I have continued to forge ahead.

My dispensation has been parallel with Jesus, dispensation 2,000 years ago. When Jesus came, he was not welcomed. Everyone in Israel opposed him and the prepared foundation did not hold up. Jesus had to begin his own foundation and move forward, struggling to win every battle. He was not able to prevail and thus he had to go to the cross. Forty years ago in Korea, I faced opposition which made it impossible to establish God’s will at that time. For that reason, I had to come to America and establish a new foundation. Ultimately, I am fulfilling the dispensational will.

Two thousand years ago, Jesus was supposed to be supported by John the Baptist. Because of that failure, Judaism came against Jesus at that time, as well as the nation of Israel. Ultimately, the entire weight of the Roman Empire fell upon Jesus. Similarly, when I came to Korea and heralded the message to Korean Christianity, which was in the John the Baptist position, they failed to accept it. Because of that, established Christianity of the world came against me and the secular governments of the free world came against me. Likewise, I was opposed by the power of international communism, which is almost in the position of the Roman Empire at this time. This is the historical parallel.

I knew I had to make the showdown between life and death by taking some drastic measures. That was the imprisonment in Danbury. Through that suffering, the hearts of many Christian leaders were melted and public opinion in the United States could be turned around. Because of my struggle in Danbury, many people were able to see the severe truth: that Christianity in America today has come to exist in name only. There has been a deep invasion of humanism and materialism. Likewise, the government has been totally victimized by secular humanism. The churches have become aware that they are surrounded by hostile forces.

For the first time, American Christian leaders are realizing that the government has become truly anti-God. Many laws have been passed which have chipped away at the freedom of religion and worship here. Christianity has come to this painful and poignant realization through my own imprisonment. For that reason, even after I entered the prison, I did not allow myself to rest at all because I knew it was the time to bring an awakening in Christianity. Thus I worked hard to unite and inspire American Christianity from the prison.

During my imprisonment, I launched an incredible crusade throughout this country. First of all, we pressed forward with the CAUSA movement to educate American leaders and unite them under Godism, one God-centered viewpoint, so they could clearly see who are the enemies of the Christian churches today. Furthermore, I launched a very spiritual movement, in order that the power of the Holy Spirit could move and bring the people into oneness, to go beyond superficial worship.

At the time of Jesus, crucifixion, everybody ran away; there was nothing but division among his disciples. But when Reverend Moon was crucified-put into Danbury- the Christian communities united with me for the first time. Thus Danbury brought about two extraordinary consequences. First of all, the American churches came to the point of repentance; second, for the first time, representatives came to me and apologized for the conduct of the United States of America. The day I left Danbury, representatives of American Christianity welcomed me as their own victorious champion. Furthermore, the message of repentance and change was proclaimed throughout the country. These were the two most incredible victories won through Danbury.

Danbury brought the painful awareness that Reverend Moon was the best friend of America, but that he had been treated as the worst enemy. The Unification Church is not the enemy of American Christianity at all; it is their sacrificial central figure, leading all of Christianity in a new direction. Thus they came to respect and appreciate us much more than before.

Because these phenomena occurred after Danbury, many other changes have occurred as well. At this time, I have restored the elder sons position-that is, the elder sons position represented by American Christianity. Furthermore, even the United States government has begun to realize that they need a champion to stop the spread of communism, and that champion is Reverend Moon. They see that I am teaching the one, unique answer to communism.

I want you to understand that after the victory in Danbury, besides the changes which took place in this country, drastic changes also took place in Korea. Within six months time, the Korean people virtually fumed around in their opinion toward me. They came to see that Reverend Moon is not only the friend of Korea, he is also the champion who has the only answer for the ultimate peace and security of that country. In just six months, I was able to bring about a revolution in the education of the Korean people, from the grass-roots level all the way up to the scholars and intellectual leaders, and finally, the political leadership, represented by national assemblymen and congressmen.

What was supposed to be done forty years ago was not accomplished. Now forty years later, after the foundation of victory in America, I achieved the victory in Korea. Now all I have to do is link together the two victories-American and Korean. The final chapter would be the natural subjugation of the Christian leadership of America, as well as the political leadership, under God’s ideal.

Within the two political panics of America, the Democratic party tends to be rather left-leaning and liberal. On the other hand, the Republican party is very much beset by the problem of materialism. American political leaders in general are thinking very selfishly-at best they think of the national interest, but they do not think about the well-being of the world and all of mankind. They do not understand that America does not belong to the white majority but to God. He wants to use America for the sake of establishing the common brotherhood of the whole world. America was meant to be God’s gift to the world, not a blessing for the American people.

In the history of Israel in the Old Testament, there were the kings Saul, Solomon and David. David was the eighth child of his family. Nobody expected that David, the simple shepherd boy from the wilderness, would become the king of Israel. But he was qualified to be the king because of his concern for his people; he fought with Goliath at the risk of his life for the sake of saving the country. That kind of spirit is what the United States needs today. Because of his spirit, God chose David to become the king of Israel.

Who would deny that the Unification Church today is in the position of David? Furthermore, we are also in the position of Joseph, the eleventh son of Jacob, who was mistreated terribly by his brothers and finally sold into slavery in Egypt. But what happened? Later on, God placed the destiny of all the other brothers, as well as their parents, in the hands of Joseph. He was in the position to save the entire family. The Unification Church will be in exactly that position.

Those historical people unexpectedly became the heirs of God’s sovereignty. Likewise the members of the Unification Church today are sacrificially following God’s will, giving up everything for the sake of the salvation of the nation and the world. You are absolutely the chosen ones with the mission to save the country and the world.

I myself was in the same position as David and Joseph. For that reason, no matter what persecution I faced from my brothers in Christianity, I never felt hatred toward them or sought revenge. Rather, I was patient and persevered, knowing that they would one day come to me, the way the brothers of Joseph did, and ask for help. Joseph forgave his brothers, although forgiveness would be impossible from a purely personal point of view. He knew that they all came from the same parent, their father Jacob. He felt, “They are my brothers and regardless of their crime, I will forgive them,, Likewise, from the personal point of view, I might feel no reason for forgiveness toward the leaders of established Christianity. But knowing that God is our common Father and I must embody His will, then I can and must forgive them.

The hope for the revival of America hinges upon the awakening of Christianity, which represents the Christianity of the world. The wealth, resources and technology of the United States should be dedicated to serving the whole world. When it shares with the rest of the world, the United States can preserve its own identity and prosperity. Such an awakening needs to come.

According to the original design of God’s providence, the Unification Church should not have been the ones to do the Victory Over Communism work. That mission was originally the responsibility of Christianity and the United States. But because of the failure of those two parties to oppose communism successfully, the Unification Church and I had to take on that mission. By doing so, we now have the opportunity to unite with Christianity and the American nation and government.

I want you to know clearly that the Unification Church has three primary missions: first, to liberate communism; second, to save America from crumbling; third, to revive Christianity. I have been teaching the same thing all these years. We must liberate the young people of America from moral degradation; because the younger generation is in danger, the whole country is in danger. I have continually said these things, over and over.

Reverend Moon has emerged as the one leader with the answer to communism; with the solution to American moral degradation, particularly among young people. Finally, I have the concept or ideology for the unification of Christianity. This is recognized by more and more people.

What about you? Do you have the absolute commitment to defeat communism? We are launching the ideological offensive that can totally destroy that false ideology. Are you confident that we have the message and the power of love that will totally eradicate the moral corruption of this country, especially among young people? Furthermore, we have the Principle which has enough power to unite worldwide Christianity into one cohesive body of God. Do you have confidence in that? Yes or no?

This is not something we are just talking about; it is already a reality. The Unification Church members must clearly know the reality of the United States today. You need to have that painful understanding. This assembly here today includes all the races of the world. Will you American people say, “I am special because I am a white, U.S. citizen”? Is that kind of thinking acceptable to our way of life? We are the champions of the future world, that global village to come. I want you to understand that you represent the Reverend Moon of forty years ago. At that time, I was alone, the only person proclaiming this ideal of God. Today, you are in that same position, and proclaiming that same ideal.

You must know that your mission is a messianic one. Two thousand years ago, the Messiah came with God’s ideal. Today I have taught you the same ideal; each of you has to proclaim and fulfill the messianic message, moving forward with dignity and power. I want you to understand that the democratic world is going down; likewise the communist world is crumbling. There will be one new ideology which rises up, however, and will win the victory. That is Unificationism – Godism.

This is the time for the transformation and we are at the crossroads. For that reason, we have a big job ahead of us. I have a clear plan and strategy mapped out for this country. Unless the members of the Christian community receive the infusion of God’s ideology, they cannot have a worldwide concept or a clear idea of where they stand. Likewise, the leadership of the United States has become too self-centered and nationalistic. They desperately need new vision which will free them to see the reality of the world.

I am like a man intoxicated with this mission. It doesn’t matter to me whether it is daytime or nighttime. I have commissioned you as co-workers and champions, to be like my partners. You are the only group of people I can trust in this country. You can move forward and represent this ideal, heralding it to the others. For that reason, you are in the position to indemnify the failure of the United States and the failure of the Christian community. You can pick up that failure, pay the indemnity and win the victory.

As much as I have suffered for the world, going to Danbury and paying indemnity on the world level, today is your time. You are going to face your own Danbury, pay the indemnity for the sins of this nation, and bring this nation and world into resurrection. So today, you are inheriting my mission. As much as I have toiled and shed sweat, blood and tears for this country and world, especially these past twelve or fourteen years, now is your turn. You can plant my tradition upon the global community which is our world.

I want you to understand the story about Elijah in the Old Testament. During Elijah’s time, Israel was divided between north and south. There were ten tribes in the north and two tribes in the south. God was working with the two tribes in the south, striving to liberate northern Israel and bring them back to His side. Elijah won heroic battles over and over; he demolished all the evil gods and idols of Baal. After that, there were still tremendous obstacles for Elijah, so he became very disillusioned and gave up on his mission. He ran away and tried to hide, even trying to die under the shade of a tree. But God didn’t allow him to rest there. An insect came and ate the leaves of the tree and made all of them wither away.

At that point, Elijah was totally disheartened. He said to God, “Everything has failed. Now, God, I am all alone,, God responded, saying, “Elijah, what are you talking about? There are still 7,000 warriors who never surrendered to Baal. You have that many men to work with. Don’t give up your mission!”

There were also 7,000 hidden champions available at the time of Jesus. If Jesus had been able to mobilize them, he would not have been crucified. Today, Reverend Moon has gone to Danbury; I knew that there were 7,000 warriors prepared for this time of the Lord of the Second Advent. This was just like the time of Elijah. I was completely alone, discredited, dishonored, confined to prison, so I was in the position to be totally disheartened. But I was not. I knew there were 7,000 champions awaiting. This is the reason I gave the mission to the CAUSA movement to educate 7,000 ministers and equip them with our ideology during my imprisonment.

Furthermore, I directed the mailing to 350,000 ministers of a letter from me, as well as the Principle videotape, so that they could become connected to me when I was in Danbury. Ministers throughout the country were moved to see that, even though I was in prison, I was not giving up trying to reach them. Also I directed the Unification Church members to go and reach out to the ministers. Many ministers have come to me now and I have given them the direction, “Go and reach out to the politicians and national leaders.” This is the stage we are at now.

Our job is education. Today I would like to educate Christianity first. Let them know there is a living truth and a hope. We have to educate and communicate that hope. That is what you have been doing in your work with the ministers. Some leaders might think, “Well, we have been working very hard, reaching out to quite a few ministers. Maybe when Father comes back from Korea, he will let us have some time for relaxation,, But I am telling you right now, there is no such thing as relaxation. I will give you even more pressure, added missions-to go out and win the greater victory.

The United States today is losing everything. It has lost the world, the nation, the community, and is now almost down to the point of losing the family. Today, the American family system is crumbling to pieces. The father, the mother, the children – all these are just individual segments of society. This is a sign that the United States is crumbling in the ultimate degree. Such destructive consequences are being reaped because people have pursued self-centered love.

As the American home crumbles, the homes of the world crumble, too, because America is in the position to spread its virus to the rest of the world. Therefore, we cannot let this country crumble. Your land, your home is in trouble; it is on fire. The fall of man crept into the family, so Satan’s ultimate goal is destruction of the family unit. Then there will be nothing for man to hold on to. That is Satan’s strategy and that is what he is doing in America today.

The fallen family that began in the Garden of Eden is being exactly re-manifested in the American family. Instead of being a loving, cohesive unit, the members have become like enemies to each other. Parents and children battle with one another; husband and wife become enemies; brothers and sisters fight and struggle.

Somebody has to become the flag-bearer, to go forward and accomplish the mission. The champions will not come out of the traditional Christian churches or the United States government. They will not come from the civil service. The only hope today to bring God’s will to the American home is the Unification Church.

Parents are the head of the family. The problem is that fallen families have been under the false parenthood. Therefore, let the false parenthood pack up and move out; we shall move into the American hearts with the concept and love of the True Parents. We can save America by doing that; we will have won the entire battle. Then we can win the communist world because their strategy to destroy the American home will be impossible.

This is the reason the home church providence was inaugurated. The time will come when the home church concept can be applied everywhere. The White House will do home church; the State Department will do home church; the Defense Department will, too. Everywhere the home church principles will be applied and then we can wipe out Satan, and all the communist, secular humanist elements from our society.

The concept of the True Parents must prevail everywhere -not just in the Unification Church, or in the Christian churches, but everywhere – every office of the senators, congressmen, in the state legislatures, in every business and shop. Everyone belongs to a family and the family must be centered on the True Parents. This ideal of the True Parents is the ultimate ideal for everyone, the one which will install the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. We are going to transform our globe into our home. Our homes must be headed by our master – the True Parents. That is the ultimate ideal of God.

All family roots so far have gone back to Satan and the fall, so we must change our roots to become centered upon the True Parents and God; then the family will be secured for eternity. I want you to know that all the systems which are so powerful in our world today and all those values such as nationalism, government, ownership – all started from the false root, the satanic root. They did not start from God’s tradition, God’s root. All ungodly things must be changed.

This is why the spirit world is being mobilized by God to bombard the world; every system is in trouble today, under attack. With this sort of trouble, they must be knocked down to the point where they can say, “There is no hope here. Maybe there really is some hope in the Unification Church. Let’s go and listen to Reverend Moon and find out”

Who has the answers? The President of the United States? The free world? The American government, no matter how great its defense system might be – with many weapons, an army, navy and air force – it cannot give the answers. More than ten years ago when I first came to America, I bluntly stated, “America will crumble if it continues on its present course.” Everybody laughed at me. But today you bright, young American people know in your hearts that America is truly moving in the direction which I described then. Have you come to that realization?

We know it, and therefore we have to get down to work. We have to reach one more minister, one more politician each day. We have to transform them with this great hope. Only Reverend Moon and the Unification Church represent true hope for this country and world, as well as hope for God. Each one of you has been commissioned with a task today. You are now inheriting this challenge and mission to save America, save Christianity, and liberate the communist world – those three primary missions which I set upon forty years ago. You must understand that I have been working for forty years to lay this foundation so that I could bequeath the mission to you.

The globe is our home, our base. That home was invaded and came under satanic rule. At this time, after returning to the United States, I am declaring that your mission is to teach the people of the world that their homes and families must come under God and the True Parents. The name of the True Parents must be restored into every home so that the entire globe can know them. That will be the day of true and ultimate victory. This movement must be spread throughout the globe to every continent, every village. When that happens, you know the world will truly be transformed into the Kingdom of God on earth.

After World War II, the United States was given the opportunity to restore the world and, because of that failure, this great country has been declining since then. Now we have come to the end of that decline. Because of the emergence of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church, the tide can be turned. The ultimate goal God established forty years ago shall become a reality, but only with our sweat and labor. America has been responsible for the moral degradation on the worldwide level, because it has spread its viruses of free sex and an animalistic way of life. Now we have to change that. We must indemnify it.

The beginning point is the home. God must be able to say, “This is a home in which I can dwell” From that beginning, the home can grow to influence the community, nation, and ultimately the world. This is the transformation we foresee. The blessed couples, particularly, are in the position of restored Adam and Eve and must spearhead this crusade. These next three years until 1988 are the most crucial years of human history. All of the blessed couples and every member of the Unification Church must move aggressively forward for national and world salvation, under the banner of the True Parents’ ideal.

You must have the conviction, “The Christian leaders and the national leaders cannot survive without committing themselves to these ideals. The White House will not survive unless they embrace God’s ideal” You must have such conviction and absolute faith within your own heart first. As you know, the first opposition came from the established Christian churches. I have worked with them and finally embraced them; now Jacob and Esau have met. The national leaders are next. They have been in the position to oppose me and Danbury was the result of that. Now we must move forward and win on that level.

When the Christian churches and the national leaders come to the awareness of the ideal of the True Parents, what will happen? The entire world and nation will respect and love you as their elder brothers and sisters. America is a Christian nation and Christianity should be in the position of Abel, to embrace with True Parents first. That is the beginning point of victory in this country. American Christianity should win over the Cain-type United States government and bring this nation under the one will of God. What will happen then? The True Father will automatically emerge as the true Abel of the entire United States.

Once Cain and Abel are totally restored into God’s side, there will be no such thing as Heavenly representative and satanic representative. Both the elder and the younger sons will belong to the Heavenly side. Once this sort of restoration occurs in one place such as the United States, it will automatically occur on the worldwide base. Thus communism, which is in the Cain’s position, will be restored to God’s side.

If the messianic message had been accepted forty years ago, there would have been no emergence of communist power. At this time, once the Cain and Abel elements within the United States accept the messianic message, what will happen? Restoration will occur here and then communism will cease to exist. To that end, in Geneva in 1985, I declared to the world the end of communism. From that point on, communism began to decline more rapidly, while we are climbing up more rapidly.

When you listen to me speaking, you come to the full understanding that the time has come to restore true brotherhood among nations and peoples. We must all dwell with the one concept of the True Parents. We are in the position to do that job at this time.

The Unification Church is not a political group. We are ultimately an educational movement. We are teaching about true love and the True Parents; others can translate these materials into every aspect of life, including political philosophies and so forth. But we ourselves are not a political group. God’s message is one of natural subjugation. This is the great difference with the teaching of the communists. Their revolution is by violence. Our job is to teach the people so they can naturally change. This has always been our way.

When the homes are occupied by God and guided by the truth of the True Parents, then every facet of the society can be changed. Politicians have to get their votes from the homes. Church leadership and political leadership together should develop the network of the home churches. Once that is organized, it is final. Do you understand where we are going? We are going to educate the ministers and the political leadership. In the meantime, we will work with the home church system to create a total network.

The ultimate goal is a God-centered way of life for the family, the church, the community, and the nation. Ultimately the world will become God-centered. Who would oppose that? Nobody.

I have erected this foundation through forty years of constant persecution. Now the era of persecution is ended; you will work without it. How can you fail? We are creating our own planet; the earth shall be one village in which everyone can move freely. You will be able to go anywhere- Germany, Japan, and so forth-at any time. The world will be like one home, one village. This is why we already initiated the International Highway project.

Without your knowledge, I have already erected an enormous foundation, working within the Christian community and political circles and many different areas. That is the inheritance you have received today: to take over my mission. Are you ready to march forward to the ultimate completion of the True Parents’ ideal?

You must not forget, particularly you American people, that I have come to this country, which is actually a foreign country to me, and accepted persecution and rejection, even imprisonment. Under these circumstances, I have never given up but have concentrated completely on saving this country. You must remember the path that I have walked. During these next three years, no matter what the difficulty, we must not complain. Yes or no? This is the time of total commitment.

This is the conclusion of my sermon today. Just as I won my victory, each one of you – including every echelon of the leadership of the Unification Church – must win your own victory. No matter what, you must not complain but remain 100% committed. Those who pledge to do their absolute best to fulfill the True Parents, ideal, raise both your hands, please. Thank you. God bless you.

## THE DAY OF ALL THINGS

By Fami1yfed June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1986

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

June 7, 1986
World Mission Center, Grand Ballroom
Translation – Bo Hi Pak.
How long have I been gone? When you are waiting for something or someone, the days seem long. Have the days been longer during True Parents, absence? Coming here and seeing your happy, bright and exuberant faces makes me feel good.

If there were no True Parents, we could not have such a gathering, in which people are assembled from every continent in the world to celebrate this historic day. I would like you to fully realize that tremendous suffering and historical preparation were necessary to allow this celebration to happen. Many special saints-from the earliest days of Judaism and Christianity-have lived and died for the sake of a day of such historical significance. It is because of their preparations that we could gather like this.

You need to remember that each of you is the fruit of your ancestral tree. In order for just one fruit to be harvested at this time and in order for each one of you to be here in this room, hundreds of thousands of years of effort have been made. Those sacrificial people of the past could not be here today but you can, so you must be deeply grateful for all their effort.

Today, then, is the day of harvest of the fruit of history- yourselves. This fruit represents the hope for mankind, the hope of the True Parents and the hope of God. When the seeds from your fruit are planted, they will be the hope of the world. That is the meaning of this gathering today. Truly the blessing of God has been given abundantly to each one of you. Amen!

Today is the 24th Day of All Things. Are people included within all things or are they in a separate category? Only the Unification Church celebrates these special holidays, including God’s Day, Children’s Day, Parents, Day, and Day of All Things. In our observance of these holidays, we are setting a new tradition for history. If there were no God, there could be no such celebrations. God is the Creator and we and all things make up His creation. So the Creator and the creation represent two levels.

Why did the Creator create human beings and all things? Do you think the purpose of creation was to fulfill God’s need, the needs of all things, or the needs of people? In other words, for whose purpose did God create-Himself, human beings, or all things? We have the understanding that God created out of His own need, but why does God need all the things of creation, if He is almighty and omnipresent? He can fulfill His wishes and desires at any moment and He must not be lacking anything. Do you think it was absolutely necessary for God to create men and women?

When we talk about human beings, we talk about the two elements-men and women. For men, what is most important? For woman, what is most important? Is it money? Knowledge and power-that must be it. We know that money, power and knowledge are not absolutely important, but there is one thing which is. For men, it is women; for women, it is men. They need each other, absolutely.

From a fundamental viewpoint, why were women born? You were born for the sake of men, period. And we can say the same thing for men-you were born for the sake of women. There can be no completion or perfection of humankind unless there is true harmony and unity between men and women. How can men and women become one? It is only by love. What kind of love? True love. True love means original love. God is the origin of love, so when we speak about original love, we are talking about the love of God.

The value of men and women is the same in that respect: You are not living for yourself but for the sake of each other. A woman lives for a man and a man lives for a woman. By living that way and loving each other, the true value of a man and a woman comes into being.

Who created this idea and these ideals? They do not spring from men and women but from God. The purpose of existence for men and women comes from God, just as the motivation for human beings springs from within God’s heart. God was motivated to create men and women, not as a manifestation of His power but as the result of His love and creativity. It doesn’t make you feel so good to think that you are merely the product of someone’s power, but being the product of love makes you feel very inspired.

Imagine if God created men and women as a commodity by which He could earn a lot of money. Then we wouldn’t feel good at all, would we? You laugh at such an idea-to think that God would create us for His fund raising product. You laugh because it is absurd to think that God needed people for earning money and fattening His bankbook. We are created out of far nobler motivations.

Our body, then, becomes one with our mind-not centered upon money, knowledge or power but centered upon true, original love. Your body has five senses and so does your spirit. These spiritual and physical senses are meant to harmonize into one, centered upon true love. Then there is no further need, no place higher or more fulfilling. That is the way mind and body are supposed to be, totally happy.

There is a physics experiment in which one of two metal bars is struck with a predetermined velocity. The resultant sound wave hits the second bar, which vibrates with a sound of the same wave length. Likewise, between mind and body there is meant to be one shared vibration; each of them is meant to vibrate on the same wave length. Our mind and body are waiting for the true love vibration, which does not come from within human beings. That love vibration must come from somewhere else and hit the mind, which then hits the body. Then they vibrate together with the same wave length.

Men and women, therefore, are like two standing, complementary sound bars. A man’s sound bar can only resound in response to the woman’s love, and vice versa. Each should initiate the vibration of the other. Thus we say that love doesn’t really belong to you; it doesn’t even come from you. It comes from the other side, your object.

The man has male sexual organs and the woman has female sexual organs and even those do not belong to themselves alone. You are the custodian of those organs and they exist for the sake of your mate, who has the true ownership. This is a rather new realization. So you have no freedom to abuse those parts. This is a major problem with American society today, particularly with the young people. They think their love instrument is theirs to use or abuse, according to their whims. All kinds of moral degradation have come about because of such thinking.

Today’s American young people are, in a way, the saddest, most tragic generation because of this lack of understanding. The self-indulgence of the so-called “Me” generation is leading young people to their own destruction. God did not create them for that purpose. They have no way to find their original, Principled satisfaction and no way to fulfill their lives, as long as they pursue that deviated way.

How many owners of your love should there be? Why only one? Some people cry, “The more the better!” Is that correct? Ultimately speaking, the ownership of love doesn’t belong to either men or women but to the original owner, God. When you speak of “God” you include the meaning of absolute. The absolute God created for absolute purposes. In love, therefore, that means only one, not dozens of extras. Something absolute doesn’t need a spare because it cannot go wrong.

One of the greatest truths taught in the Unification Church is that God has dual essentialities of sung sang and hyung sang. What is the creation? It is the place in which the invisible God planted His character and gave it visible form. The creatures God made are the evidence or manifestation of God’s nature. We have seen that two different kinds of people came from God’s planted seed-men and women. We say, therefore, that God cannot be represented through men or women alone; neither one fully completes God’s image.

What was God’s motivation in planting His character into the creation? It was love. God was seeking the fulfillment of love through give and take with His creation. God expressed Himself through the two beings of plus and minus, or men and women, and neither can find their completion alone. Without their completion of love, then even God cannot find the completion of His love.

Completion comes as men and women grow in love and come closer and closer together. Men and women grow in two ways-first, in their individual love for God. They realize that love comes from God and their desire for loving Him becomes stronger and stronger. In the meantime, as they mature, they also begin to desire love from each other-men from women and women from men. The body structures of men and women change as their capacity for love grows. An amazing thing is that there is a “homing device” within them that always draws them together; it never pushes them in the opposite direction.

Men and women are meant to be the temples of God, so when love grows within them, the dwelling of God comes closer and closer. In other words, the time when the love between men and women can be consummated is the same time when their love for God can be consummated and completed. When God-centered men and women consummate their love, God also feels the fulfillment of His love.

The movement of God’s love is vertical. The universe has vertical and horizontal lines-all created beings move in vertical as well as horizontal lines. When you talk about the angle of horizontal lines, you automatically denote the vertical line.

When we say “She is a woman” we denote the existence of man. Likewise, when we say, “He is a man” we include the existence of woman. The two opposite positions must exist in relationship, never separately. These words then: “Men, women, and love” can be said only within a complementary context. We assume the existence of the others when we say any of those words.

The motion of love is always circular. Many times in movies we see two lovers running toward each other and embracing, turning around and around. Men and women are meant to turn together, but they must have an anchor, some center and discipline to their love. They cannot just revolve in every direction.

In the expression of love, each cell is almost ready to explode. Of course, that kind of explosion does not produce chaos; it is guided by a certain discipline. There is great flexibility and harmony in the expansion and contraction of love. When do you meet God? Men and women centered upon true love represent the total image of God. That is when the image of God becomes real.

The motion of love joins together with the vertical line coming down and gigantic circular movement is begun. In other words, the love of God along the vertical line is always circling. At the same time, men and women are also making circular motion in their love. This is another element of universal principle-there is no straight line or movement in God’s creation; it is always a circling movement. Everything comes to a certain point and then returns, then comes back, and so forth.

In the circling motion of family love there is the father’s position, the mother’s position, the children’s position, as well as God’s position. That is what we call the Heavenly four-position foundation. God, on the vertical line, is connected with the children; the father and mother are connected on the horizontal line. When millions of these Heavenly four-position foundations fill the earth, that will be what we call Heaven on earth.

Always the vertical line of true love must intersect the horizontal line at a ninety degree angle. Your horizontal line must cross the vertical line at a ninety degree angle. Then your small circling motion can expand to larger and larger levels. In order to cross with a perfect ninety degrees, there can be no deviation. You must have absolute love toward God. The woman must love her husband absolutely; the man must love his wife absolutely. The fathers and mother’s love toward the children must be absolute, without deviation. If any deviation is there, a ninety degree crossing cannot be possible.

In this Heavenly four-position foundation, you can experience love of the children, love of the parents, love of husband, love of wife, and love of God. Learning these things qualifies you to enter the Kingdom of Heaven; without these you cannot dwell there, either here on earth on in the spirit world. What is the Kingdom of Heaven? It is like a storehouse of all these loves-of the parents, the children, husband and wife. It is where they can dwell after being harvested. That is what we call Heaven. That particular result can only come through living within a Heavenly four-position foundation here on earth; by practicing these loves you will attain the proper qualification to enter Heaven in spirit world.

How does a tree naturally behave? What is the ideal for a tree? There are many different types of trees, such as the chestnut, fir, and olive, but each one’s goal is to create its most perfect fruit. That perfect fruit would be identical to the original chestnut, fir or olive. That is the goal of each tree; they don’t want to produce anything different from the seed which started them. That is the only way the same fruit can be multiplied, generation after generation. Later on, the seeds from each fruit can be planted in a larger space and multiplication can take place a hundred fold, a thousand fold and even a million fold, each with identical results. That is the way Heaven grows. Do you follow?

The love of God is like a weight which drops down on a string; the children are at the base, in the receiving position, where that weight falls. The line of that string is always absolutely vertical. The position of a woman, as the mother, is to live for the sake of the other three elements-first for God, then her husband and children. When she does that, she also engenders the man’s love toward God, toward the children and toward herself. You cannot engender the love of other people unless you live for their sake first. For that reason, anyone who lives only for his or her own sake will not bring forth good fruit, good result.

In the world today and particularly in the United States, so many people seem to be “me”-centered. People think, “You must come to me and do what I want. I am the most important” The fall of man originally created this way of thinking. That is what brought “me” into center stage. Because of the fall, everything is reversed. Restoration, therefore, is the removal of “me” from the center; let “me” serve for the sake of others. By doing that, we engender give and take in the proper order.

Everyone has his proper position. The man takes the right side, the woman the left side; God is in the upper position and the children in the lower. These are the four positions, existing in complementary directions. There is only one power in the universe that can bring all these directions into harmony at the same time, all at one stroke. That power is called true love.

I emphasize true love simply because there are other kinds of love as well. There is selfish and perverted love, which exists in opposition to true love. True love always selects the center as its meeting place. God’s true love wants to go to the center, as does man’s and woman’s true love. In that love, one gives himself one hundred percent with no reservations. With that kind of commitment, there is virtually no consciousness of day and night. You don’t say, “Wait until tomorrow morning. This is a bad time” Any time, any moment is okay.

You can travel all the way to the ends of the world if you originated in the center and you will always come back to that center. God doesn’t have to go chasing around all over the place. He can sit and wait at the center, knowing that everyone will inevitably come back to Him.

When you are living with this 100% commitment of true love, you don’t have to worry or have ulcers. You can always have serenity and peace of mind, knowing that as you stay in the center, everything always comes back to you. You are the winner. This is the ideal realm of the heart of man – shim jung – heartle. When there is 100% commitment, there is 100% freedom. The tiny little child can climb all over his grandfather; he has that kind of total freedom. The big, muscular husband can lay his head on his wife’s lap. That is what we call the romantic, dramatic life of men and women, where you enjoy true freedom within true love.

Let’s say the wife is totally exhausted at night but as soon as she sees her husband’s face, she becomes renewed and revitalized. That is the power of love-to ignite and electrify. Love is like electricity. Suppose one parent is totally distraught because he thinks his child has been lost; then all of a sudden, that child comes back. When the parent sees that child again, he or she becomes instantly rejuvenated. Without knowing where such energy comes from, that mother or father becomes a new person.

This is the same as God. In a way, God is tired and fatigued, like the disheartened parent. But as soon as He sees the perfected Adam and Eve in the unity of true love, He can forget everything, including His tiredness and His dignity, and become electrified with true love. He could come down and find His dwelling among human beings.

When that union of true love occurs between people and God, there will be nothing but joy and celebration throughout the universe. There will be singing and dancing in Heaven, on earth and everywhere else in that celebration of love. Looking at the families of the world from this heavenly, ideal standpoint, we can see that they are very far from it. There has never been 100% commitment but always some reservation. Men and women want to claim their own rights, saying “This is mine. Don’t touch that” They want to claim their own territories and their own “personal secrets”

With such selfish reservations, a woman could never become a beautiful wife, for instance. Rather, she would be like a monster, ready to shoot out venom. Many American husbands tremble when they just think of their wives! That is one reason men pursue other men and women pursue other women. This perverted situation occurs because our society has fallen so far below the realm of God’s principles. This is the reality of American life.

Reverend Moon has come to ignite the reformation of love and inaugurate the new, harmonious family system. This is Heavenly principle. No matter what people may say about Reverend Moon now, history will vindicate us. Eventually, America will realize that it needs Reverend Moon to be saved. Amen!

Reverend Moon’s dream is to restore the world into a beautiful palace where the dignity and sovereignty of love can reign. There all men and women will live in families under the principle of true love. That is the ideal of the True Parents. Love bestows special privileges. First of all, it makes people equal: regardless of social differences, two people are on the same level when they are in love. Suppose a young man has a very small, homely wife whom he loves nonetheless. Imagine that that young man eventually becomes the President of the United States. No matter how small or ugly his wife may be, she will be elevated into the status of First Lady. Isn’t that true?

Another privilege of love is that of inheritance. The beloved gains the right to own the treasures of the loved one. What does this mean? This is a great truth. When you men and women create the perfectly loving couple, God’s dwelling place is within you. You are loving God and thus you are, in a sense, being elevated to the level of God. The children and God gain the same level. Furthermore, you have the right to inherit the Kingdom of God. Everything that belongs to Him belongs to His children as well.

Compare this concept with the way many American people approach their relationships. Many women want to have their own private bank accounts that their husbands cant touch, and vice-versa. How different that is from the

ideal. You can lose your separate bank account at any time, but you can never lose love. Even though the satanic world came into being after the fall of man, people still retained a taste of the original love. That is why we have hope, even in this world, for true love and restoration.

The universe has a built-in defense system. Anybody who lives for the sake of original love will be welcomed by the universe and embraced. On the other hand, anybody who tries to turn away from true love will be rejected and punished by the universe. For that reason, all types of love other than true love will eventually be destroyed.

There are powers of both attraction and repulsion in the universe. The law of repulsion, however, exists in order to protect rightful give and take between subject and object. As you know, there are the two forces of plus and minus in electricity. Plus and minus pull each other in order to harmonize and unite. But plus and plus repel each other, as do minus and minus, in order to protect the cohesiveness of the plus and minus unity.

Why are we gathered together on this Day of All Things? I have been speaking all morning about true love. What does that have to do with all things of creation? All things exist for the sake of the expression of true love. Look at the beauty of the flowers and all their different colors; look at all the other beautiful things of nature. All these are meant to provide a better environment for men and women to experience and express true love.

When all things welcome you, including the trees, flowers, rocks, water and grasses, how do you want to respond to them? Would you give them an insipid greeting, or would you feel like shouting out your joy to see them? Rather than just shouting out “Mansei!” separately, wouldn’t it be better for husband and wife to be holding hands and jumping up together, whirling around and shouting “Mansei!” with all your might?

Look at the flowers and how they express love. Within one flower there is both the male and female aspect, the stamen and pistil. Plus and minus are contained within one; love is joined within each flower. Why did God create all things? It was in order to make an environment in which husband and wife could engender the best, most beautiful love. All things exist to augment that true love.

There are many different kinds of flowers, but no ugly ones; every flower has its own unique beauty. Likewise, all the animals express their uniqueness for the sake of human beings. The male and female birds sing love songs to the universe for the sake of men and women. All the creatures are there in their own special fashion to express the love of God toward us. To play music, you need a musical instrument. By the same token, to engender love you need some instruments. All things are those instruments of love.

If you could ask a flower, “What kind of place would you like to decorate with your beauty?” it would tell you, “I want to decorate the room where the true glory of God permeates, where true men and women are loving each other” That is the true wish of the flowers. They want to be placed where they can glorify God together with men. Therefore, even after all these thousands of years since the fall of man, the flowers have maintained their tradition, blossoming year after year, waiting for the one day when they can say, “Hallelujah! Finally we have seen true men and women on earth. The dwelling of God is with men. Now let us really, fully blossom. Amen!”

All things are waiting for that one day, the day of the appearance of true men and women, so they can finally fulfill their purpose of creation. Look at the lilies here on this table. You can imagine that they must be jubilant to be decorating the room where I am speaking about true love. These flowers never expected to be in such a place. It is their great joy and surprise! When you go about your daily life, you tend to become apathetic and not pay attention to the flowers and other forms of creation. In that case, they will never appreciate you; so from now on, you have to appreciate the character and personality of all things.

There are many great classics of literature written by the best writers of history. What is literature all about? It is largely the description of the things of the universe, such as the oceans, wind, rocks, and so forth. If you removed the descriptive words from books, you would have virtually nothing left. Writers always give the most realistic and meaningful descriptions of human beings by comparing them with things in nature. For example: “My lover’s smile is like the morning lily” “She blossoms like the springtime cherry tree” Without such comparisons, what do we have left? “My love has a round face” or “My love has a big nose and small eyes” Not much in the way of literature. When people who live in the desert describe love, it reflects the desert, since that is all they know.

I have expressed two important concepts today, namely that all things are the ornaments of love and also that they are like the bridge for love. That is why God created all things of creation-for the sake of men. I want you to know that nature is yearning to see the house of the true husband and wife. When you become such a couple, your home will become the place where the birds will want to sit and sing. The animals and even the insects will want to come into the loving circle of your home. With such welcome and support from all things of the universe, that couple will be bound to live a good life.

Much of the food we eat comes from grain, which is the seed of the plant. The seed is produced after the flowers blossom; then we men and women use that seed as our food. When you eat, you are really engaging in a universal natural process, so you must have a deep sense of appreciation: “God provided this to me, but I must become a center of true love or I won’t be worthy of it”

If someone wants to disregard other people and just love flowers, for instance, that is not pleasing to the flowers. The flowers don’t like to see bachelors particularly; they like to see the harmony of love between true husband and wife. When you observe birds, doesn’t it look more attractive for a pair to be flying together, rather than just one bird?

Perhaps there would be one assertive male bird who didn’t feel like flying with his little mate because she was smaller and weaker, and without her he could fly faster. If he thought that way, it would be against the law of the universe. Even though it may slow him down, the male bird has to fly with his mate. He might pull out ahead a little, then slow down to allow her to catch up with him. This is the beauty of nature. They might fly a long distance and then make a stop on a tree branch somewhere. The male might feel strong and fresh, while the female might be gasping for breath, so he would try to comfort and help her.

If you take love out of the universe, everything becomes a desert. Isn’t that true? Unification Church members are the happiest people because we have so much love within our hearts that we are anxious to share. We want to have give and take with other people and also with nature-flowers, trees, birds, fish and so forth. How can you ever be bored with such a life?

When you observe a small mountain stream flowing down and joining with a larger rivulet, the water splashes and crashes against rocks and sand. It may seem to be a difficult and even joyless battle for the water to find its way to the bottom of the valley, but that is not so. The water makes music and rhythm as it dances down the mountain, and as long as there is someone who can appreciate its song, that stream will be happy.

The important point is that nature is looking for its counterpart. Without men and women, all things would be terribly lonely. People must be here to appreciate the things of creation, as well as give glory to God-this is our duty. Even in New York City, where things are sometimes very desolate and dirty, we can appreciate the buildings and think, “They want to see me” You can go out each day and say, “Hello, New Yorker and the Empire State Building” As you greet these things, they respond to you! With such a heart of love toward all the things in the world, a person can never get bored or lonely. You will be filled with love all the time and ready to give love to others.

The Unification Church alone truly appreciates and celebrates this Day of All Things. We know that all things of creation have been grieving in their hearts, yearning for the appearance of the true sons and daughters of God who would appreciate them and take dominion over them. They have never had such proper dominion until the time of the True Parents. For that reason, the Day of All Things is crucially important. For the first time in history, we are giving true joy to all things.

In conclusion, I want to say to you that this is the day of the appearance of the true sons and daughters of God. Now for the first time, all things have seen men and women who interact centered upon the true love of God. Because of this, they feel they have found their true masters. The work and the desire of God for all these years has been to see the day of harmony between the creation and human beings. This is that day. Amen! Let us pray.