# Category: Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1978

## THE PATH OF THE CHOSEN

By Fami1yfed June 16, 2018 June 16, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1978

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### July 9, 1978
London, England
Translator – Sang Kil Han

In a family the son who is to inherit all the belongings and traditions of his father must have similar characteristics. Tradition establishes a certain way to live for each generation, and generally speaking, traditions are often formed in a time of great turmoil and upheaval. For instance, a country may face a crisis in which one wrong move could cause it to perish, yet by trying hard to go the right way the country is saved. This gallant moment becomes a priceless inheritance of that nation.

The traditions and the belongings of the ancestors and then the parents are acquired in a similar way. For instance, parents go through much difficulty to accumulate property; their son must be willing not only to go through the same difficulties they did but even more if necessary. If he has that attitude then he is the one who can inherit what his parents have accumulated. It goes without saying that with this attitude the son will not spend the inheritance for himself but will spend it for the sake of the entire family.

With this perspective we look at the many nations of the world. Among the countries there may be one which has inherited the tradition which all mankind is to follow in the future. God is seeking a nation which He can reveal His tradition to, and He will nurture that civilization according to His intention and plan for the future. Thus there must be a country through which God is manifesting His tradition. All nations must look for this one nation and for the tradition God wants.

Because mankind fell far away from God, He established religion to bring mankind into a close relationship with Him and then to bring man to the same level as Himself. God chooses an individual and then raises that person’s position to shorten the distance between that person and Himself. Then the world can become one with this person and live in the tradition that God desires.

The purpose of religion is to bring all families and nations to a way of life that coincides with God’s desire for the world. Yet as hard as he may try, man usually drifts away from the way God wants him to follow. Oftentimes men forget that their tradition is somewhat different from God’s. Each nation tries on its own to establish some traditions but it is easy to see that each nation has yet to find what the heavenly tradition is. God is seeking a nation to go in the direction He originally established, but the nations actually go in many directions, some even going completely opposite God’s way. The countries that are the most advanced or civilized are likely to be those that go the farthest from where God desires them to go.

A country which is going opposite God’s way must turn completely around and go back to the original point and then for the first time go in God’s direction. The nation which is going in a direction which is 359 degrees different from God’s must turn completely around in order to reach God’s original point; it can’t just turn one degree and start out right for the first time. Each country has its own tradition and boasts of how good it is, but if it is still far from what God wants it to be, the country must somehow do away with its own accumulated tradition and find the absolute way.

According to religion these are the last days. There are powerful and developed nations which were founded on good ideals for which many men suffered and gave their lives. Yet in these times will even those nations retain those original good ideals and be able to relate them to the tradition that God wants? Probably they will not. Regardless of the past suffering of its citizens, when God looks at such a nation is it good or bad? Can God accept all the traditions that each country has made and start His work directly on that foundation? If a nation has not been able to maintain its original good tradition then God will have to break everything down, even the things that people consider most precious. Only then can God implement His own will.

The time must come when no one is concerned about himself, his spouse, or even his own country, but rather wants to give all his attention to God. This is how God would want each nation and individual to feel in the last days. The young and the conscientious people in the world will be pushed by God to question and to look for the heavenly direction. They won’t be able to trust their families or even their nations to provide a guideline, and they won’t know where to turn. Certainly God will help and encourage each person to become this way rather than to be settled and content with his life. God will inspire each one to wander and seek to find the correct way.

As it is in the external environment, so it will be with religions. Each religion was supposed to center on God and go in His direction, but along the way each one deviated in order to fit into its external circumstances. Since religion is always influenced and molded by the background of a civilization or nation, it is shaped according to the needs of the situation. In the last days, however, God will push religions to search for the way He wants them to go. If God exists with us then He would certainly work in such a manner that He could eventually bring all mankind into His tradition. How can God lead men into the tradition He wants them to follow without making these things happen?

Were the English to question whether their great country is going the way God wants it to go and whether the Anglican church is leading the people in the right way, most people would easily recognize that somehow their nation has deviated from the way it should go. Until we are sure that God approves, we cannot be sure we are going the right way. Anglican church leaders may get together and vote on what is the right way, but no matter what they decide we cannot trust in their decision. Could God’s will be changed to correspond to their decision? Certainly not. God’s will cannot be adjusted. God’s will and man’s will are completely different, and instead of consulting with other men a person must search for a different way.

What are the last days? One way of defining them is to say that they mark the time when the finding of God’s way is of paramount importance. In the last days, people must search diligently to know the direction God wants them to take so He can work through them. Doesn’t it look like these are the last days?

What is the tradition that mankind is searching for? What tradition has God left for us? Since mankind is not going God’s way on his own, God is working very hard to reveal it. Does maintaining that direction sometimes require going different directions, or is it the same direction from beginning to end? History has been going in one direction and the direction of the future is only an extension of that. God has been consistent in the direction that He wants man to go.

God always looked for one ideal man. Does living in the ideal mean you can do anything you want? Or is it a way of life which conforms completely to a firm principle, after which one is free to do as he likes? What is an ideal train? The first requisite for an ideal train is that it does not travel freely over any terrain but always stays on its track, going quickly and smoothly forward. It is the same with man.

### God has a specific path for His people to follow

The meaning of “way” is very crude in the West, but in the Oriental and especially the Korean concept it is defined very precisely. There are certain ways in everything. There are specific ways a man has to go and ways that a country has to go. God has many ways for each thing to follow. For instance: a university student doesn’t develop his knowledge in any random way he likes; he has to follow a certain course of study that has already been developed.

As I said earlier, there is certainly a way the chosen people must go. It is not just any way that they select; there is a certain way that God and mankind expect them to follow. What tradition would God want? It is the one way that the ideal man would follow. The common man has no idea what the ideal is or what way he should follow it to be an ideal man. When the ideal man is thinking about spiritual things, he realizes that there is only one ideal way to go, not 360. The odds that he will find the right way, however, are 1 to 360. Each of us must have a clear realization about what is the one right way, but in any group every person always has a different idea about what that right way is. When God looks at a group He usually sees that each person is going in a different direction. At most only one of them could be going the right way but probably none of them are. Ideally speaking, each one of us must go in the same direction.

Some people will say that the ideal is having clothes when you are cold, having food when you are hungry and resting before you start to work. What I want to point out is that there is one way the ideal man must go, and the ideal way of life never deviates from that. Perhaps you are going a certain way because it is comfortable or you believe it is good, but if someone tells you it is the wrong way then you have to turn around and make adjustments, even if it is uncomfortable for you.

We are all in the same church, but every individual stands in a different position. On his way here every person came from a different direction, and the precise way for each person to follow is still not clear. A chestnut is round but has many burrs pointing in all different directions. As a group we are like this chestnut, but all the burrs should be pointed in the same direction.

Reversing one’s direction involves tremendous turmoil. It is very difficult and uncomfortable and conflicts with your desires, but you have to make this bold adjustment in your life nevertheless. This is what all religious men must do and this is the situation we find ourselves in. The conditioning of old habits and customs is a dreadful thing to try and change. For example, you have acquired certain eating habits over the years and completely changing them would be a very difficult experience. I am accustomed to eating rice, kimchi and other spicy foods and it is difficult to change to a completely different diet. One American IOWC member worked in Japan for two years and ate the same food the Japanese members ate. Even though Japan has many of the same foods that you find here in America, the minute this member returned to America the first place he went was a McDonalds! This is how strong custom is in our lives.

Even though God shows man precisely the right direction, do you think man will automatically go the right way? Even though He is pointed in the right direction, he wants to go his own different way every moment. His old customs will drag him this way and that, in directions that are completely different from the way God showed. In order to make sure he stays on the right way, he has to deny himself the things he is accustomed to, like sleep and familiar food; he has to make himself overcome many obstacles before he can maintain his course, but once he can do this all kinds of things will begin to happen in his life. A certain amount of time is needed before he can continue on this way without great effort.

When a person has little status, making this change will not be so hard. Nothing binds the poor man. He has nothing to eat, so when God says, “Eat this kind of food,” he is only too happy to go along because he never had anything before. He is not bound or accustomed to anything. What about someone from a first-rate nation which everyone else admires and looks up to? Those people who enjoy the highest privilege and standard will find it even more difficult to change and conform to a very definite way. It is hardest to follow a new way once you have enjoyed the best of everything. The Bible says that it is more difficult for a rich man to get to heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Certainly there is nothing wrong with having property and money in the bank, but the man who has everything and is content with his life the way it is will have the most difficulty changing himself.

It is easy to see which people will most easily find the new way in the last days. Those who don’t worry about old traditions or customs but who are serious about finding the way God expects them to go will find it easiest to live in the new way. The Bible constantly reminds us not to own things but to give them away and live for others. This is what Jesus taught and is the example he lived. He knew that it was the last days and he taught the people that it was absolutely necessary to forget the old ways and to live the new ways.

What are Unification Church members expected to do? This is the church which is to unify everything around a certain standard. Even after coming into unity with God Himself you will still have the same two eyes and nose and mouth. Are we going to make our two eyes into one? Our two ears into one ear? Is that the unity we are going to make? God will have one way or tradition for unity to be set up, and once it is done, even if a man drifts away it will be easy for him to return. God wants a tradition that is so strongly established that it is easy for people to return to it. The Unification Church is expected to live this tradition.

I never do anything out of whim, but must thoroughly check everything with Principle first. Before I give any instructions I have to make sure that everyone can come that way. Without doing this, I cannot unite people. Even so, the man who is accustomed to going along a path which leads through thorny bushes can go that way any time, but the novice will have much difficulty, inching along little by little.

What is the tradition that God wants? It is that of the one ideal man through whom God wants to establish the path so clearly that everyone can follow it. After this ideal man comes into existence God would next want an ideal woman. One ideal man needs one ideal woman, and then God would want them to have sons and daughters too.

When two or three people get together they often get in each other’s way because what each of them wants is different. Wouldn’t it be easier for one ideal man to remain by himself where he can do anything he likes as long as it is part of God’s way? Mr. Orme taught me a Cockney expression; when a man refers to his wife he calls her “my trouble and strife.” Does a man who talks like that love his wife or not? What can he do about it? If you have a new baby and a one-year-old, you aren’t free to sit down and entertain yourself in the evening. What’s so good about that?

Fighting to a moderate degree is normal when you are growing up because it stimulates you. A cub or kittens play around and sometimes get into a serious fight, but after a certain time they stop and go back to their mother. That’s normal for growing up. Inside a train going full speed down the track there are many things happening-a child is crying, someone is eating, one person is going to the toilet. When these things are going on, the people are not always conscious of the train moving; that is more normal than the passengers always being conscious that the train is moving and remaining fixed in their seats.

It is also normal for a man to have a wife and children and possessions. Imagine a world where there were only women. In fact, where there are many women in one place there is always trouble and strife. The concept of the “worst possible thing” is expressed in Chinese characters by putting together three characters for “woman”.

Normally a man needs a wife and children. Is that all he wants? We need neighbors and a town in order to live normally. If one woman looks good with blonde hair, is it true that every other woman must have blonde hair to be beautiful?

### Everyone is looking for the ideal

We frequently talk about “true” things, but what is the truth? It is a relief to exhale after holding your breath, but no one wants to exhale all the time.

You want to take air in as well, but just taking air in all the time is painful and even fatal. Both aspects of breathing are “true.” When a man walks about on a cloudy day he doesn’t have a shadow, but when the sun is shining he has a shadow with him wherever he goes. Both situations are “true.” The man who protests against having a shadow follow him everywhere is silly. Because of his particular viewpoint, even that which is true looks deviated. The truth is there all the time but what is “true” changes according to his perception.

Before a young woman gets married, she often wants to be left alone to dream about nice things. She doesn’t like anyone else, even her parents, coming into her room. After she is married she opens her door to her husband; then the truth is for her not to lock her door. Both are truth for her.

For me, the true way involves uniting the races, bringing people of all five races into harmony. I am really struggling to find the way to do that. Do you think it would be easy, or would it be a big headache? You can never know how much of a headache it is, but do you still think it is an ideal thing to do? Even though it involves much pain, making that harmony is a true and normal thing to do.

Is the love we talk about sweet all the time or is it accompanied by pain many times? Without doubt it is good, but sometimes it is sweet and sometimes painful. When we can finally harmonize our love we find that we are surrounded by the ideal.

What is an ideal person? Is he the one whose nerves are so sensitive that he explodes for the slightest reason? No. We certainly cannot call a girl who jumps at the slightest touch the ideal person. On the other hand, some people are so dull that they don’t mind if you completely forget them and don’t respond to them. The ideal person’s sensitivity is harmonized so that even if people poke at him he can persevere for a long time.

Who is the ideal player on the soccer field? The one who likes the ball the most is the one who loves to control the ball the most. The most ideal player loves the ball but loves to kick it the hardest. The ball will say that the ideal player is the one who loves the ball the most, but also who, when the time comes, can kick the ball the hardest straight into the goal. The ball is happiest and proudest when it is flying toward the goal. The ideal has nothing to do with just being comfortable; it has to do with fulfilling a purpose.

Westerners have high noses but if Oriental women had such high noses no one would want to marry them! God made Western faces more slender, even frail, while He made Oriental faces rather flat. Why is this variety ideal in the sight of God? If a surface is wide and flat then you don’t have to worry about a pitcher of water falling off; then for that purpose it is more ideal than a small round surface. Similarly, the ideal match will unite a person with a high nose and narrow face with a person who has a broad face and an almost flat nose. To God it would be the most ideal match and He would keep following that couple to see how they live together.

Everyone is looking for the ideal because they don’t have it yet. We don’t have the ideal because white people like only white people and never think about other races. Black people don’t worry about having harmony with white people. Not only that, even people of the same race sometimes fight with each other. Once the ideal comes, however, people will stop looking for the ideal.

In Scandinavian countries I saw many people wearing white coats. Is it true that Scandinavians don’t like other colors? If they do like other colors, why don’t they like people with another skin color? If they like only white then a world where everything is white should suit them fine, but certainly it is the ideal to have all different colors harmonized.

I could talk on this topic all morning. The different peoples each have their own ideas about what the ideal is. There is no limit to the imagination, but God’s ideal is not dictated by imagination. Imagination helps in understanding it, but imagination has no place in defining it. When God establishes the ideal it won’t necessitate following a narrow, confined path. In the ideal you can go anywhere you want, but if it is required of you, you are able to come back to the narrow path.

In the ideal you might have an enemy but when eventually you meet him again in a different situation and you take a second look, he doesn’t look so bad. Then when you meet him a third time you come to like him. In the ideal you are not enemies forever; there is harmony everywhere you look and nothing permanently offends you. Everything you see is good and the more you see it, the better it is because it harmonizes so well.

A British gentleman is supposed to have certain manners in eating, dress and conduct, even to the point that when he wants to laugh out loud he can’t! That’s not the ideal; when you want to laugh, you can laugh to your heart’s content. When you are really feeling good you can make all the noise you want. Don’t you agree? In the ideal world, if you want to stick your knife into your meat to eat it with one hand there is nothing wrong with that.

While we are still training ourselves, however, we have to be very rigid and precise in what we do. When God created all things He had to work according to a rigid law. For instance, water never flows from a low place to a high place. God has to uphold every law initially, but once the creation is complete God is not bound by the law any more; He can go anywhere and do as He likes.

### God’s tradition is directed to unity
in purpose and love

You were very joyful when you joined the Unification Church, but as the days went by you discovered how much indemnity there is in this life. First you found out about indemnity on the individual level and then you discovered indemnity on the family level, which is even more complicated. Then there is indemnity on the clan and national levels. It seems as though there is no end to the indemnity and that you will be going door-to-door forever.

Can we say that the Unification Church likes indemnity? Actually our purpose is to put an end to indemnity. Everyone goes to school but not many people like having to study for tests. In the Unification Church, though, we work to complete everything in the shortest possible period so we can graduate. You might even have to stay up all night studying so you can pass. If we were students we would study for three exams a week instead of just one, as ordinary people do. We don’t want restoration to take years and years so we work our hardest during this time and then we will be free and can graduate from indemnity.

Working in London might take a long time, but if working in Africa would take a shorter time then by all means we should go to Africa and finish quicker. If you walk instead of riding in an automobile, you can pay more indemnity. Perhaps by eating only one meal a day you could pay three times more indemnity than if you ate three meals. Then you might prefer fasting and working to pay the indemnity more quickly. We don’t like indemnity but we don’t mind it because our purpose is to get it over with as fast as we can.

In following God’s traditional way are we following a certain rigid law, or following our usual customs? We actually do this out of love. We follow the love which even within one person is connected to the universe and all people. Love is a law itself but it is much better than law. Where does that love begin-from man or from woman? Do you have a bag to collect your love in and when it is full you are ready to be married? Can a small person love only in a small way and a small woman be entitled to love only a small man? A person who looks like she doesn’t have much love might actually have very much love inside. Potentially love is everywhere and can be in everyone.

It is extremely important to realize that love does not exist for the individual. There is no such thing as love for the individual purpose. Love is for the common purpose, not for the individual. How strongly everything is connected together is a measure of how great the love is. Do you all love me? I can’t see it anywhere. Even though you direct all your love to me, we cannot have a great love until we have a common objective and purpose; centered around this common purpose we can have a great love. The word unification implies that everyone has a common purpose to share and center around which is bound by love. That’s the place where God’s tradition is directed. It is easy to understand that God will visit and want to stay wherever there is a common purpose binding people together in love.

Why did God make each person with two eyes? Wouldn’t it be more effective if each eye could look in a different direction, or better yet, if we had one eye on each side of our heads? However, the two eyes go in the same direction, moving together in harmony. Motion with the same rhythm, direction and movement is the ideal. If you watch a person’s eyes moving, you will see that they work together with precision. You feel uncomfortable to see a person squinting all the time, or rolling their eyes in opposite directions because it is not harmonious action.

Within the Unification Church there are many different varieties of people speaking different languages and having different shapes and habits. It is striking to see that all these different people are moving in the same direction, much different from even other groups of more similar people. Our diverse mixture is directed toward one objective, which is what makes us strong and significant.

When subject and object unite in perfect give and take, God will reside with them. According to Oriental custom, when someone who is your superior gives you something, you always receive it with two hands. This gesture expresses your receiving it as his object, completing the harmonious give and take. The instant you do that, the interaction becomes an object to God, the highest being. God does not give with two hands because He has to give with one to Adam and one to Eve. The superior person gives with only one hand, but the person receiving should receive with two hands.

Orientals have always been sensitive in this way but Westerners don’t even think about that kind of thing. For example, when Westerners come to hear me speak they sit down and spread themselves out, even leaning back on their hands with their legs sticking out in front. They never think anything of it and it is so innocent that I sometimes laugh. I am sitting in a mannerly way so I look even smaller than I am, but the big Westerners stretch out and look even bigger.

No object is bigger than its subject. The man is subject and he is bigger than the woman, for instance. Is there any species in which the female is bigger than the male? Does any man want to marry a woman bigger than he, or any woman want to marry a smaller man? Everyone agrees that they don’t, but they don’t really know why. The reason is really simple-that’s the way everything was created and intuitively people know it.

The first thing Oriental children are taught is how to sit and behave when they come before their parents or anyone of superior position. They will sit in such a way as to shrink as much as possible. Big people really have a hard time with this, but it is courtesy for them at least to shrink mentally. This courtesy is a very important thing in the Orient. In the West you greet each other with handshakes, which are horizontal actions. Westerners tend to express courtesy in a horizontal way.

When you return to your original position, women should never try to be bigger than men; this is one thing they must strive to keep in mind. Women are bigger in only two aspects-in their bosom and hips-and that is for the sake of their children, not themselves. They should never be proud of having a bigger bosom and hips than men. I have to emphasize this for Western women because they have an uncontrollable tendency to try to act bigger than men.

Does love originate from man or woman? The fall originated in a woman’s trying to take the initiative in love. You should keep in mind that the subject should initiate love. Should the woman follow the man or the other way around? Who follows whom in the fallen world now? You men should have the unswerving confidence that you would never marry if no woman followed you.

Will a hen crow, or only a rooster? Why is the male the one who makes a big noise? It is the male whose mind moves first in a great and far reaching way. The cock expects all the hens to follow him and his crow is his statement of this. The hen has hardly any voice, more like a cluck instead. The cocks are very dignified and brightly colored while the hens are inconspicuous and because of the male’s bright colors it is easy for the hens to find him. If the cock was meant to follow the hens then they would be more brightly colored. The pheasant is the same. You have a hard time finding the hen but the male is so brightly colored that he is easy to spot.

Now you know who is the subject. Will God with all His love go out looking for people to give it to, or should people come to God to receive love? Did God create Adam or Eve first? Would the man or woman have been the first to experience love? The history of love was to have started with man, not woman. If you follow the rope of love, the first thing you find is a woman, then a man and then God. In this way you can know that love originated with God, then flowed down to man and then to woman.

Nothing was built without reason; there is always a law and explanation behind everything. For example, both man and woman have hair on their heads, but a man has it on his chin as well. Why is that? The beard connects to the hair on top and it forms a complete circle. This symbolizes man’s resemblance to God, who is round and full. Women do not have beards since they are to be like a shadow of their subject. It is always the case that a woman’s value is determined by the value of the man. A woman can be very insignificant, but if she is married to the president of the country then she is treated with the same respect.

### The circle of love in the heavenly home

In the West you say, “She got married,” but in the East they say, “She went to her husband’s house.” Does a husband go to live in his wife’s house with her family? That is the exception to the rule. In this view a woman is like an extension of her husband. You probably think this seems to devalue women, don’t you? This is the way God made things and you must accept that women are the weaker sex. Even though I speak strongly like this to Westerners, both men and women want to follow me and are thankful. You don’t mind when I speak like this about women?

How are subject and object different? The subject is responsible for 360 degrees; he should stay in the center and not go back and forth from point to point. Am I the subject or is the Unification Church subject? Should I go here and there or stay in one place, even though the world is racing about? Even if my life is at stake I will bear down and maintain this position. The object has 360 degrees to choose from and can move around. In dance who moves around the most, men or women? Wouldn’t it be more stylish if the man moved around more than the woman? No, it would actually be a strange sight. Even dancers follow the law of creation; by standing firmly in one place, the man is in a better position to face in all directions.

When you say your father is the center of your home, you are saying that he is responsible for all the activities and affairs of the family. With some exceptions in the West, who is primarily the center of the family, the man or woman? Does the father or mother go out to defend the home from invasion?

In addition to that, the management and education of the children are the responsibility of the father; he must take care of all 360 degrees.

When someone makes a mistake in the Unification Church will people say, “That person was bad,” or will they point to me, regardless of who did the wrong deed? All accusations come to me because I am the subject and the one who is responsible overall. If I say I want each individual to be responsible instead then I cannot be a leader. I am always in that position.

God’s love comes first to the man and then to the woman. If the man has the left hand of God then the woman has to go around and have His right; the man holds God’s left with his right hand and the woman holds God’s right hand with her left. That’s the only possible circle. Once it is complete there is no difference between them because they are all one. That’s the way the whole universe operates, starting on God’s left and then coming around full circle to His right.

Before becoming one there is a distinct subject and object, but once there is perfect unity there is no subject or object; they are one. This even includes God, who is subject of all. God and man and woman are one and are no longer separate. No one can deviate from this formula or tradition. Even though you drift away and live as you like, you must come back eventually. It is always men who inherit the works of the household, not the women.

When the parents hold hands with God, whom would the children hold hands with? With the world. Daughters go to another house when they marry. They do not return but stay there, forming a larger circle. The son stays in his house and takes responsibility there. In this way a household gets bigger and bigger.

The daughters-in-law come from outside of your home while the sons-in-law live outside of it. But even though one stays outside and another comes into your home to live, they are all part of one big family circle and contribute love just as your own sons and daughters do. That is the ideal of family love, all connected to the same love as the parents. The sons and their wives and the daughters and their husbands are connected on either side and the whole becomes one harmonious family, the ideal.

Even though a household would like to keep its most valuable things to itself, half of its most valuable components come from the outside. Parents can’t call their in-laws strangers and never mingle. Instead, with time those in-laws come to be as much a part of the family as the original children. In this way everyone is to be connected. If someone objects and feels this is not right, it means that he can never let his son or daughter marry.

Why should one have to receive a total stranger from outside his family, loving him as much as one’s own family? Love is the very force that causes this and all harmonious connections are made through love. Through the same love everyone has a common objective and purpose. When parents receive a newcomer to marry their child, they must remember that this person also has his own home and parents. A daughter-in-law must always be aware that her husband is supposed to receive the love of his family and she must follow the same path as her husband. Since his parents love her husband, she must love them in the same way, as well as the rest of his family. She must love everyone who loves her husband; then she becomes the ideal daughter-in-law. In return they must love her to the same degree that they love him. In this way the ideal family is formed.

Any wife who objects to having all these relationships is in the wrong because she is preventing love from making a complete circle. By denying that love she is cutting the circuit and then because of her others must do without love. It has tremendous adverse effect on others and for that reason she is a bad woman. Tremendous resentment will be directed toward her and her in-laws will try to change her mind so she can be a conduit of love. It may be good to resent her in that case because she is the one who upset the whole balance of the universal tradition, and because of their resentment she may correct herself. In that sense their hostility may be a good thing. Since she is blocking the flow of love she must receive the blame and pay indemnity to mend the whole thing.

It takes a great effort on my part to educate Western women about this because they are not accustomed to this daughter-in-law concept. Most of them want to live apart from their in-laws and not be burdened. What about the future daughters-in-law of the Unification Church-will you welcome all your in-laws and become the key person to create the ideal, or will you choose to have only a small family? This is the first time I ever heard Western women say they want to be daughters-in-law in a large family!

Perhaps you won’t mind your in-laws as long as they are young and can take care of themselves, but what about the grandparents who can’t move around and must be waited on? You may even have to bring them to and from the toilet like babies. Would you prefer a family with just grandparents, or one with great-grandparents as well? Why? Isn’t it more comfortable to have fewer people to take care of? If you can embrace and love many generations in your husband’s whole family then the circle of love becomes worldwide, embracing even spirit world, and your love becomes more meaningful. In this way the whole universe becomes filled with love.

The daughter-in-law who really wants to live with her in-laws will be right at the center, but the one who dislikes it will live off to one side and her world will be very small. Who should you love the most- parents or grandparents? You should love the grandparents even more than your own husband and his parents. The grandfather is himself plus his offspring, so he is actually bigger than his son and grandson. The grandparents should feel that the more sons and daughters they have, the better. The more they welcome everyone, the more enriched in love they will be. If they limit themselves and don’t like their children’s husbands and wives then they cannot be a harmonious part of their family’s life and must stay away. This would be the most painful thing of all.

Is it more fortunate to have many or few sons and daughters? Once your family is harmonious, the more you have, the better. But if they are always struggling and fighting and there is no hope for having oneness then the fewer children you have, the better. This is why the tendency now is to have fewer children. It also signifies that people are saying they will settle for a smaller love.

This morning we have been thinking about what tradition of love God would want to set up. Logically speaking, this family love is the only tradition of love God could set up. Is any better way possible? Is the present standard in the West the one which God was anxious to set up, or is it only one big headache? Westerners are very individualistic and there is no place in the ideal world of God for that characteristic. Although self-centeredness is widely accepted in the Western world it is vastly different from God’s way of thinking.

Since God’s desire is to set this tradition and I am united with God in that, how can I be welcomed by the Western world? Only after hearing an explanation from the very beginning can Western women understand the way God wants and see that it is the only possible way for them to adopt. Those who came in the middle of my talk can’t understand why I say this.

The more you hear the more you learn, but it is difficult for you to carry out what you learn. Nevertheless, you have to do this so all of heaven and earth can come into your possession within your love. If you carry it out you will have more of the ideal and be much happier.

Since every family will have half of its members coming from outside, loving these “outsiders” means you will widen your love to include the world. Since the new person in your family is loved by his parents and also by your own child, you too must love him to complete the circle. You will rejoice with this new family as well as with your own, loving your new sons or daughters as much as the children you have been loving for many years. This is the ideal family, and that is exactly how God is.

You don’t have to wait until you become an in-law yourself. You know what it is going to be like, so when you meet an old man or woman you can love him or her as much as the grandparents they remind you of. Since we all have a common ancestor, this relationship will eventually connect the entire world. If you meet some middle-aged people who are around the same age as your parents, then you think, “Since I feel this way towards my parents, I should feel the same toward these people.” Or if they are the age of your elder brothers and sisters, or the age of your younger brothers and sisters then you can love them as much. If you feel the intensity of love toward others as you do in your own family you are an ideal man or woman. Having such men and women as His children is the maximum that God could expect.

The inevitable conclusion is that there is no other way than this tradition of love. God has felt this way all through the past and He would like to pass it along from generation to generation. This is the one tradition of love God would like to establish for mankind for the past, present and future. When God can see you living this way He will be completely happy and never want anything more from you. Once you accomplish this you would never want anything more from God either. This is the highest possible ideal.

We have spent years learning the morals and ethics that direct the path the chosen people must go. Those people will make up the chosen country which will perpetuate the tradition of God’s love. Those people will be more determined than those of any other nation to work out this purpose and tradition. When this ideal is realized can there still be borders between nations? Will nationality matter? This tradition of love is the solution to all man’s problems, without exception.

When the chosen people live that kind of life on earth, they will be loved by everyone and everything. Absolutely no one will detest them. Being loved by everyone and everything is the same as being loved by God because if a person is loved by everything that God created, God Himself must come there. This way of love is the path the chosen people must go.

Fund raising and witnessing are part of this part and in these activities you move from one area to another, picking up what is there and carrying it to another place to set it down. That’s what you are doing all the time in your busy schedule. There is a play called “Kismet”, which portrays a beggar who diligently begs alms from the rich. A heavenly “beggar” has a sense that his responsibility is to send many rich people to heaven by persuading them to give alms to the poor. He doesn’t care whether the rich know why they should give things away to others, as long as they do it and can go to a good place in heaven. Getting donations from people is most difficult, but once you move their hearts they are very generous, and by doing so they receive blessing.

### It is good for you and good for them.

A beggar begs to survive, but we have every other reason to beg but that. What we do may look the same but it is very different; in some sense we are related to beggars, but our nature is completely different. The money we raise goes far away when it is sent to Africa, Asia, America, everywhere. Money does not travel in vain; spiritually it is like a necklace circling the world. In the southern mountains near France and Switzerland our members go fund raising house to house and they send that money all the way to London to be spent in a country that in the past was an enemy of their homeland. Is that good or bad?

I am considering buying a college here. I have been there seven or eight times already, as recently as yesterday. Every time I go there I learn more about the place and have more ideas about how to use it. There is no reason for you to be tired from your work. When you are tired it is because you have forgotten why you are here, but once you remember you can’t be tired.

Nothing is easy for me; you might think otherwise, but in reality things are most difficult for me. I am always encouraging you to witness and fund raise and I put out more effort for you than you do for other people. If you are begging for a certain amount, then I am begging on an even larger scale. If you really understand this then you will feel better than you have been. Since we are centered on God’s principle and purpose, everything we do contributes to the realization of the ideal, bringing it closer and closer to reality. When we are absolutely sure that this is the way and there is no other meaningful alternative, then there is nothing we cannot forgive.

Now you know what kind of God our Heavenly Father is and what He is doing. He loves and welcomes whoever is doing what He wishes. That is the way everyone chosen by God must go. It is the one law and way of life every chosen man must follow.

Are you going to try to do that or are you still just thinking about it? Those who know for sure what we are to do and why. raise your hands. Let us pray.

## The Go-World Brass Band

By Fami1yfed June 16, 2018 June 16, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1978

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### July 6, 1978
Cleeve House, Wiltshire, England
Translator: Col Sang Kil Han

> Rev. Moon went out one day and bought sixty-one brand new instruments to create the core of four new brass bands. Why? The Unification Movement should open up a new age of witnessing to the truth with music. People don’t have to come to church to hear the truth-they can watch television and listen to the radio and become Unification Church members! Nowadays, music often has no life to it. But when people hear spirit-filled music more than three times, they will not be able to stop. They will want to hear more and more and they will want to come to the lectures.

I am happy about your strong will to learn. A man with strong will and hope has got it made; the rest is practice!

First of all, I want to remind you that these musical instruments are the most important token of the dispensation in Britain at this time. They will be a historical treasure for hundreds of years. How long each of them will preserve its original condition is up to you; it depends on how much you can take care of it with love. Maybe there will be a historical prize for whichever instrument among the sixty-one pieces keeps its original shape the longest.

A history should be made for each instrument, with a log-book recording the names of all the men and women who handle it. You should write your name down as the first person to play the instrument. When you turn it over to the second player, you have to sign the book recording the condition in which you transferred it, whether it was scratched or damaged, and so on. The book must travel with the instrument, and the person who takes it over will know it inside and out, generation after generation.

If you care for it properly, your instrument can last for hundreds of years. When the time comes that only one of these instruments still remain, hundreds and thousands of people will want to come and see it. That interest can be strong enough to restore one nation. Even more importantly, when you go to the spirit world your having possessed that instrument can be a source of pride.

All women care about their appearance, and therefore their make-up is very important. But caring for your instrument is even more important than caring for your own face. When you lay it down, for example, be sure to have some padding or cloth at the contact point. If the instrument is damaged, you have to feel that is like a scar on your face.

You must love your instrument before it can produce a good sound for you. When you polish it, don’t use a coarse cloth but something soft, like velvet. Be especially careful with the instrument case, which often takes a beating. Study carefully how to transport the instruments without damage. Once I saw a brass band with dented instruments and it didn’t look good. Sometime in the future, I will make an inspection to see how you are managing. Please take care of the instruments!

### Become a good lecturer

I have already instructed you to become competent revival lecturers. I already told you how to do this and provided you with the two, four and six-hour lecture manuscripts. You have to memorize these, and make tapes of yourself delivering each section. In this way you will soon be able to give a good lecture. You should be able to memorize the two-hour lecture within two days. This is the same task confronting an opera singer who has to memorize a two-hour opera very quickly. The leader of each band should be strong and diligent and make sure that everyone remembers this point.

Actually, no one else has a group that sings, lectures and plays instruments! You are doing all three; and I plan to have more than twenty groups like that. You will quickly become famous, and England will quickly see the significance of our work. Whenever you go to a village and give a performance of the band. all the villagers will attend. You can give an instant performance anywhere; for instance, in the restaurant where you have lunch. Perhaps the second time you go there they will let you eat for free, not because you don’t have money but because they like you so much. Soon everywhere you go you will receive a free meal! Then they may give you lodging too. Or you can visit some big company, and tell them ‘We will entertain you in the lunch hour,’ and give them a good performance. You can make the appointment in the morning and go there at lunch time. You must keep going. You can perform in the college dormitory, in the hotel, wherever you are staying. You can even stay outdoors with a sleeping bag.

When you are very tired from practicing and playing, learn how to sleep for fifteen minutes on your bus, so that you can perform almost 24 hours a day. I advise you to get a bigger bus, so you have some room for that. But make sure that the driver doesn’t sleep! We will go on, 24 hours around the clock, giving one performance after another. When you do that you will get noticed and become really famous. By all means, welcome those musicians who want to tag along with you. If each one of you can lecture you will quickly make new members. By the time we have twenty teams England will be really fond of us!

I bought these instruments brand new, but I will not do this in future. By the time you build up a reputation, then when businesses ask you, ‘How can we help you?’ say that you need more instruments. Without really witnessing but through a good performance, you can add to your numbers and to your instruments. Some companies may donate enough instruments for a whole band. We have already improved a lot.

The British members have to give a straight talk about the purpose of the band. You can say, ‘The country is declining and we have to do something about it, to revive the Christian spirit through rousing music! We have to have a new youth movement or England will be washed down the drain! We are doing that and we will continue to do it. So please help!’ If you play a good number, they will probably not expect that you can also give a good lecture. But when you talk even better than you perform, they will be impressed and may donate a lot!

### Make your own lectures

Each one of you should make your own script for speaking. Make notes from my talks and sermons, from the Bible and so on, and when the opportunity comes, speak out! You have to be like a movie actor or actress. They have to memorize their lines. The director gives them their part and they have to practice that. You too must read and practice many speeches, and later you will become a really good orator.

When people ask you to give a lecture, keep going for as long as they are ready to listen. Don’t ever say, ‘Well, it is time to stop now.’ You have to be prepared to speak continuously! When people want to hear you speak, you must be ready to give not just one chapter, but the whole of Divine Principle. You must be ready to lead an entire workshop by yourself. Many people can’t do that, but you can and you can play instruments too.

This is a new style of working, found only in the Unification Church. Even the Christian churches do not make every person play an instrument. All you have to do is perform with confidence, and big companies will like to support you. You won’t have to fundraise as you did in the United States.

### The Electronic Church

In this way we will begin an ‘Electronic Church.’ I have a plan under way to witness through broadcasting. Nowadays, people do not want to go to church, they want to stay at home. But they still want to worship if they can. In the United States, I have already invested a million dollars in the Manhattan Center to make a good studio. We will show good musical performances together with a good sermon, for an hour or half an hour, and distribute tapes of this performance all over America and the English speaking world, both on television and radio.

Then no one will have to go to church! Our sermon will be a hundred times better. We will ask people to send contributions so that we can make more tapes. Now we are making investments, but later we will be making money. Then we will build our own broadcasting station. The day for just building a church is already past.

You will have a direct connection with this project. When your performance is successful, you will become an important part of the electronic church. We need many band teams, even as many as 40. Each team will make live video recordings that will introduce you to the public and to the television stations. If you are selected to perform twice-yearly that will be enough to pay your way.

In this way, the broadcasting providence can be expanded to all different countries. As our standard goes up and our spirit becomes greater, I would like to add dancers to the groups. This will be a hot thing. Now we are beginning to organize this spiritually. After England is organized, then France, Germany, Italy, Spain will all organize their own teams. We will go on, and become very active in this way. The band will also be a good recruiting station. The best people will be picked up to play for the New York City Symphony. You know we have our own performing center in the Manhattan Center, once a famous opera house that we are now restoring.

We are opening up a new age where we are witnessing to the truth with music. People don’t have to come to church to hear the truth. They can watch television and listen to the radio and become Unification Church members! Nowadays, music often has no life to it. But when people hear your spirit-filled music more than three times, they will not be able to stop. They will want to hear more and more and they will want to come to your lectures.

### Improve your technique

As I said, you are full of will and full of beans and you have to have the confidence that one day you will be on top of the world. Have the determination that you will never be a second-rate player. You should get a tape recorder and tape your performance and listen to it. Every three or six months, you should listen to the tape and compare, and see how you are improving. If you are not improving much then you know you are not doing well!

So we will have to buy 61 tape-recorders for this group. How much is such a machine? About fifty pounds? A good one will cost at least a hundred pounds. Well, perhaps we only need one good quality recorder per group. But everyone should have their own cassette player for studying the Divine Principle lectures. If you study a tape twenty times, you can surely learn it by heart. When you memorize a lecture, then you can give it by yourself. I will buy 61 tape recorders right away.

Every week or so, the leader of each group should change around so that they can see how the situation is changing. Every week there should be improvements in your playing from the week before. Each week you should also be able to lecture for 15 minutes longer. If you follow this plan you will a good musician and be able to give good public lectures in six months.

Normally, a school for musical and artistic training takes ten or twenty years to establish itself. But when I started the Little Angels, we had nothing, no one dancing even a step. But within three years the children were ready to go to the world.

When you are hungry you want to eat food. You must practice with the same feeling and urgency. The first thing in the morning, you must be thinking of your music; you have to fuse it into your life. When you listen to music over the radio, try to learn from it. You can think, ‘If I were a music writer, I would not write in that way. I can do better’ If you practice and are eager for that, you will soon write famous songs.

### The keys to success

You can forget everything else, but not what I have said today about the way to success! The first point is to be emotional. When you play joyful music, you should express the happiness of someone who loved for years and years without being noticed, then finally was recognized by the beloved. When you play sad music, you should express the passion of someone who was rejected by their lover and is ready even to die. You have to experience this and reflect it in your music.

The second is to practice with the hunger of a person who hasn’t eaten for a day or more. When you eat food, you will become bigger; when you practice you will become better. Do you follow? When you eat and are happy, think ‘This is the way I must feel in practice!’ If you do that, it will soon become a habit. When your feelings are very intense, you still need to have good technique or it is no good. If you practice like that, then one day you will surely be recognized by the entire world. Do you have confidence? If you keep that vision and practice like a hungry man, you will definitely be able to do it. But if your stomach is already full, you will not improve.

Thirdly, you must take care of the musical instrument as you would take care of your own body, so that it can last hundreds or thousands of years. The last instrument left after a thousand years will be irreplaceable. Have that feeling, don’t abuse but always love your instrument. Finally, since the Unification ideology will unite the world, I am teaching you to master it for that purpose, and to make it your own.

### Harmonize with nature

Once in a while, when you are all alone, get up early in the morning when the sun is rising and nature is really beautiful. As the birds start to sing, you can really melt into nature. You can feel, as all the activity for the day is about to start, that it is you who will give the starting signal. Likewise, in the evening, when the birds have gone back to the nest, and the sun is going down, you will give the command ‘the day is over.’ In the middle of the night, when the moon is shining, you have to send good dreams to people, don’t you? And in the middle of the day, when the sun is hot you can invite people into the shade while you play some cool music.

When you try these things, you know how to be one with nature. You will see symmetry and harmonize with it and that will help you to play beautiful music. You can see a waterfall and play like that; or see in the step of horses a march for hundreds of people. If you play like that, harmonized with nature, you will do much better.

In some movies, you will notice that the music is inadequate, and you will know how to improve it. Although I have never been a professional musician, I know that music can be no other way. Since you know how to play, you must feel even more strongly about music than I do.

Music and prayer are really close and go hand in hand. If you play in harmony with nature, your prayers will become harmonized too. Even though you don’t know what you are praying, those prayers will be answered. When you are sorrowful, you must shed tears in prayer; when you are happy, you can smile. In natural prayer, you could even be lying down and rolling in the grass! Harmonizing with nature and creation is the way to pray.

Really bring your character into your music. If you are serious, bring that characteristic out and harmonize it with others in your playing; do the same with sorrow or joy. I do the same job of harmonization at the matching; I always matches the serious with the joyful, the happy with the stoic and so on.

If you live this way you will be recognized by the world. So please practice and live like that!

## THE START OF THE 40-DAY WITNESSING CONDITION

By Fami1yfed June 16, 2018 June 16, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1978

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### July 4, 1978
London, England
Translator – Sang Kil Han

Each person has 360 homes, and even if it is difficult to find people there it is necessary to keep revisiting. Street witnessing has not been effective because it is difficult to find again the people you meet, but the people in your areas all live there and most of them will stay. When you meet good people, ask them if they have a friend who might be interested. It is not easy in the beginning but it gets better once you get started. In the beginning you must spend three to four weeks to find three people.

This is the order in which to work: Go visit each of your 360 homes and pick out which ones are positive (A), not so bad (B), and negative (C). Then you will have forty to fifty A houses which you can visit every day. Out of those choose twelve and then the three best to concentrate on. Concentrate on one house where you can go and live. This will be your home church. The first three very good homes are difficult to find, but after that reaching out to twelve is easier. If you faithfully do that with lots of prayer and heart, finding three families in forty days is not difficult. Within one week you should be able to find a house in which to live.

When visiting your houses you can offer to help the people with some chore or task. If you meet a policeman in your area, explain to him what you are doing; “I am witnessing to these people for the sake of England and the world.” He can help you in some way.

From morning until night each of you must concentrate on witnessing. Think all the time how to bring three people in forty days. By the time you visit your 360 homes you will know who is a communist, who are good people and what each family does. By the time you have been in your area for three weeks you will be saying, “Good morning” to nearly everyone. At first they may not understand what our faith is or what we believe in, even after you try to explain, but they will know that you are a Moonie and a good person. Then they will begin to invite their relatives to come to their home to meet you.

People in your area will talk about you to their friends in ten other homes; “We have a very friendly young person visiting our home almost every day. He is a Moonie and very nice.” If they all talk to their relatives and neighbors it means that 3600 homes will hear about us and word will really spread. There is a Korean saying, “Words, which do not have feet, can travel a thousand miles.” Even if people are not deeply religious they will recognize you as a good person and word will spread.

Do not witness so much in the street because you don’t know anything about the people you meet. A nice person who says he is interested may actually be a communist. This was our experience in Japan. Members witnessed and worked hard on the street but no one listened; if a person came up who said he wanted to know about the Unification Church, of course they were very glad to bring him to the center. Such a person might stay as a member for some time, getting much information from doing jobs like typing letters and bookkeeping, but then go back to the communists. There have been a number of members like this in Japan who acted very dedicated but then left.

If you witness to people in their own homes then you can know who they are but on the street you can never tell. If people walk up and say, “I am interested in the Unification Church” they could actually be dangerous. This is why, after long experience, we are going to visit homes. Witnessing in a specific area brings a better result and is better for security.

Those of you who have been members for five years, stand up. How many spiritual children have you brought in that period? Imagine how many people you could have restored in those five years if you had visited people in your 360 homes every day. Our goal is to bring one person every month. If you visit 360 homes for five years then chances are that all 360 homes can be restored. How did you work before? You went out on the street but in five years you only brought two people, or ten people at most. This method has not been effective. If you visit your area every day then in one year you can make a relationship with every household. When there is a birthday you will go and celebrate with the family.

You may meet many people in the parks but most of them do not stay and those who do often have many problems. You know that Abel-type people are always busy and don’t hang around parks, while those who have nothing to do go to the park all the time. We want to witness to the best people. We don’t want 1,000 people who always follow a leader; we want one leader who can lead 1,000 People. Always think that you can find one man in your area who can lead all 360 homes.

How can you say you are dedicated if you have restored only two people in five years? If you had married five years ago you would probably have at least two children by now. When we are really dedicated we should each be able to bring one person a month and twelve people a year. Even at that rate, in one lifetime of witnessing we could each restore only 600 people. How can we save the world by restoring only 600 people? Even the leaders have only brought a small number of people. If some members bring only two people in five years they may bring only 20 people in a lifetime. How can you expect to go to heaven if you bring only 20 people in your lifetime?

This is a very serious problem. You already know that your result has not been good and this is why I am encouraging the home church concept. Starting tomorrow, concentrate on your area very faithfully. Within seven days you must be able to find one home which welcomes you. You can stay there and then you won’t have to come back to the center except on Sundays. Stay in your home church and witness from there.

Everyone of you must do that, but I know that not many people are confident yet. When the seminary students came I chased them out the same day they arrived and told them that if they didn’t find a place to stay they should sleep in the park or railway station or go witnessing at night. You must do the same thing and try your best in the next seven days to find a home which can accommodate you.

Because you have had a center to sleep in and meals to eat every day, you came back and said you couldn’t find any place for a home church. You could go on like this for weeks and months and nothing would happen! The seminarians have been out already for a week and will continue for several months. Starting tomorrow you must look for a home which welcomes you and witness from there.

You must be careful to follow the pattern faithfully. The leaders are a bridge between you and me, but I will also tell you how to do this mission. Even Mr. Orme must understand and carry it out. We must raise our standard very quickly and understand that this is a heavenly army because in the future we will have to fight communism, the fore most enemy of God in Europe. The Western way of thinking is very weak and the communists will dominate that kind of person because they are much stronger. We must be aware of that and become equally strong. The communists are gaining ground in nearly all countries now. This is a serious, lifeand-death matter.

We are in London but we should not have an easy, comfortable life. How can you eat and sleep if you have brought only two people in five years? I do not want to be called Father by such people. How can you say you joined the Unification Church to help do the work? If you really think about God and His will, how can you be so weak? How can you sleep and eat if you cannot witness enough? How can you expect to be blessed? You are not doing it for me or anyone else; you are doing it for your own benefit. Without having many spiritual children you won’t go anywhere in spirit world. You must decide that you want to be intensely active. You only have your physical body for a short time.

Do you realize that each person must win at least 84 spiritual children in seven years? It is the fault of the leaders if you did not know this. How can they call themselves leaders if they do not make sure the members are informed? Who of you know that we will be restored only by paying indemnity? If you don’t pass your examinations at college after four years then it is easy to fail again and again; if you try your very best the first time but you fail then you are not encouraged to try once more. You may try your best to witness but if you fail then you lose confidence. If you get married and your husband wants to have children but you keep putting it off, what will happen? You only have a certain number of years in which you can give birth to children.

### Your personal foundation to receive the Messiah

First you restore yourself, then your spouse and then your children. Once Adam and Eve are restored they have to restore their family. The Bible records that Noah faithfully worked hard for 120 years and he saved his family of three sons and three daughters-in-law, numbering eight all together. Those eight were the only ones to be selected when God took them as a seed and destroyed every other person.

Yet even after Noah had established the condition to save the entire world, Ham failed and God’s dispensation to save the world could not be established because the family failed.

After that Abraham was chosen to take the place of Adam and Noah who had failed. Since his was the third family chosen, Abraham had to set the condition to save the world. He journeyed far to prepare and establish certain conditions, but even he failed later when he made his offering. Then Abraham had to stand in the position of Adam, with Isaac in Noah’s position and Jacob in Abraham’s position.

Jacob led a complicated life in Haran, which represented the satanic world. He worked desperately for 21 years to prepare his foundation, doing something much more difficult than Adam, Noah or Abraham had done. Only after 21 years had he completed the condition to stand in Abraham’s position, going through almost impossible difficulties in order to indemnify the failures of Noah and Abraham.

To be specific, he had to restore the 10 generations between Adam and Noah, plus the two generations of Abraham and Isaac. He had twelve children to restore the twelve generations and then he had to restore Noah’s family of eight by winning over Esau. All this had to be restored in one generation. Before it could be complete he had to subjugate Satan spiritually, fighting the angel at the ford of Jabbok. Only after that could he start horizontal restoration through the twelve tribes. It was the twelve sons and seventy family members that Jacob took to Egypt who formed the foundation for the twelve tribes and 72 elders of Israel.

All those who went to Egypt suffered terrible persecution and many were killed but their race ultimately survived. Moses gathered the twelve tribes and 72 elders and led them out of Egypt, doing on the tribal level what Jacob had to do on the clan or family level. The same principle worked in Jesus’ time. He had twelve disciples representing the twelve tribes and 72 apostles representing the 72 elders, and he set the pattern on the national level. Jesus was to gather the Israelites and then go to Rome, where he could have set the foundation to save the whole world.

First Jesus had to gather three disciples, representing Adam’s family, Noah’s family and Abraham’s family. Centered on those three he could gather twelve disciples representing Jacob’s twelve sons and also the twelve generations from Noah to Abraham. Without fulfilling those numbers he could not form a foundation to work with the races of the world. After gathering the 72 apostles Jesus had to begin his substantial work just as Jacob needed 72 before he could accomplish his condition. Without that number, Jesus could not have connected the dispensation to the tribal or national level. If the Jews had accepted Jesus then all these things could have been done at once, but instead he was rejected and the foundation was lost. Jesus had to start all over again by witnessing to his own disciples, first bringing three, then twelve and 72. Then he would have connected that foundation to established Judaism, the race, nation and eventually the world. He tried desperately to do this in three years but he could not make his apostles unite in harmony. Instead they deserted him.

Since Jesus’ foundation was lost he could not work successfully 2,000 years ago, and without restoring this there is no foundation for him to work upon when he comes again. We are the ones who must restore that foundation which was lost in Jesus’ time. This is the origin of the Unification Church’s work. Each of you must be aware of why you need to do this. Because Jesus was killed we inherit the responsibility, even though we come from different races. All members of the Unification Church around the world are descendants of the people who killed Jesus and this is why we must assume the responsibility ourselves for having killed him. This is why we must physically restore the foundation which Jesus has already restored spiritually.

We can ask God for the Messiah to be sent after we each make the foundation of 84 spiritual children, the basic foundation on which the Messiah can come physically. Even then we cannot take many years to accomplish it; we must do it within seven years as indemnity for the 7,000 years of history. No matter what happens, we have to accomplish this goal because without this foundation the bridge between heaven and earth is not properly established and the two cannot be connected. Jesus was very serious in trying to do that, leaving his home just as you are doing now. The people laughed at Jesus and criticized him, just as they criticize you today.

If Christians had understood and accepted this then the Messiah could have come among them after the necessary foundation had been laid. But that has not happened, and instead Christians oppose us. If Christians had already laid the foundation then no one in the world would have to pay indemnity as we are doing now, but since Christianity did not accept the responsibility, we have to restore that foundation individually. We are working very hard to pay that indemnity.

After laying that foundation, communism must be overcome. As soon as the Unification Church members awaken to their responsibility and lay the needed foundation, God will have no more use for Christianity and it and communism will fade away because the foundation of substance will have been laid.

I am responsible for a different level of indemnity condition than you, but each person must lay his own foundation of restoring 84 people. To do that you must be better than Jacob because you will restore them all in one generation instead of three. Then you can be resurrected or revived, just as Jesus was resurrected on his spiritual foundation. This is the real foundation, so in the dispensation each of you must restore 84 people.

After gathering the 84 each person must survive the world’s persecution. If you do that then the world foundation can be laid on which the Messiah can come and be connected to all the nations and the world. These 84 people should not be just anyone but people who are strong enough to defend you. When Jesus was persecuted his 84 people were sleeping, but they should have risen up and declared, “You can kill me but you cannot kill my Lord.” Our position is like that of a grandfather; when he is threatened his sons and grandsons will make sure he is not killed. Eighty-four couples are necessary to protect the central core.

We begin first with our concepts but we must become increasingly serious, becoming as desperate as though we were dying. Only after we have done that are we literally building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Without doing this we are not qualified to live in the Kingdom on earth, nor can we be accepted in the Kingdom when we go to spirit world.

This also applies to me. Based on the same principle I must have 84 people protecting me. Where as your situation is relatively simple, I must fulfill a more complex situation on the individual, family, tribal and world levels. This is exactly what I have done. Twelve couples were required representing the formation, growth and perfection stages. Because of the fall of man the number was extended three times so the 36 couples served as the twelve in my case. Next I blessed 72 couples, then 120 and 430 couples, extending onto the world level. To establish the 430 couples was very difficult and I fought with my life under the severest persecution. You must not take the easy way in witnessing either; you must really know the meaning of what you do.

The 120 couples represented all nations, just like the 120 elders who received the Holy Ghost at Pentecost. The 430 couples represented the 430 years of slavery in Egypt before the return to Canaan, as well as Korea’s history of 4,300 years on the world level. The number seven, or three plus four, is included in 430, as well as twelve, or three times four. Thus 430 includes the numbers three, four, seven and twelve. It represents the number that can go anywhere in the world.

Next 777 couples were blessed. The four in the number seven includes everything, like the four sea. sons and four directions. There are three months in each season, and altogether that gives the number twelve. These numbers are all symbolic and they are most important to God because in different combinations they fulfill certain conditions. Once these were put into effect then the heavenly families, centering on Korea, could go to every part of the world to fulfill the dispensation. When that was done, the dispensation on the world level really opened up.

On the foundation of 430 couples I could travel around the world for the first time in 1965 and establish Holy Grounds. Man and all things were lost but they can be restored on the basis of Holy Ground. I set up a total of 120 Holy Grounds in 40 countries in 1965, and then I could symbolically restore mankind, represented by 777 couples. Every combination was included in this number-those who failed, those who fought any nation, people of any color skin and marital status. Because of that the heavenly nation can move from one end of the world to the other. Even though you move together in large numbers, Satan cannot say anything because the condition for you to do that is already established. After the 777 couples were blessed it became possible for members to travel from nation to nation to work and I started moving members to different nations.

If you have a family of your own then you qualify to work on the world scale, and on the foundation of your family and race you can go anywhere in the world to help people. You must understand now the meaning of leaving your home to find these 84 people. Once the third seven-year course is over you won’t even have to leave your home to find 84 people. You will be able to find them by bringing your own relatives, but until now that was not possible.

You cannot start with your grandparents but must start with your parents and work backwards. When you can bring members from your own family circle there will be no persecution, but now you are still in the transition time when you have to bring people outside your family to make your foundation. This is why you must start home churches. Once you restore 84 people on Cain’s side then you will go back to bring your own family members. In doing this you will be working to lay a foundation just as Jesus did. You will become like a parent to them in the True Parents’ position.

Jacob went to another country to work and he also fought the angel to establish the necessary condition. Thus, when he came back he was victorious and he was welcomed by his relatives. When Esau welcomed Jacob the foundation was completed. By working to find 84 people you are doing what Jacob did in wrestling with the angel. It is very much spiritual work.

Once you have set up the necessary foundation outside your home you will be welcomed automatically by your relatives when you go home. If you bring 84 people in seven years then your relatives will congratulate you on your hard work and they will listen to whatever you say because you will have established the condition of spiritual victory.

Jacob’s 21 years in Haran were necessary to gain first his wife and then his children and then all things. Because Jacob was deceived by Laban after the first seven years, he actually worked 14 years for his wife. This is why you have to work hard for seven years. If you bring in 84 people then you will be qualified to have your spouse and children and then you can become perfected. You definitely need your family, don’t you? Even that comes to you in three stages. First you gather people from outside your home as the formation stage; gathering your relatives from your own home completes the growth stage and having your own sons and daughters completes the third stage. Then the tribal position will be formed and on that basis you can go anywhere and accomplish anything.

This is restoration by indemnity. God does 95% and you must do 5%. Your 5% responsibility is to restore 84 people. If you cannot do that, it is the same as being in Egypt and unable to come out. The Israelites wanted to leave Egypt but they could not until the proper time. I drive you out because this is so important that not doing it is the same as dying.

### Your 360 homes represent
your ancestors and relatives

Should I just say nice things and make you happy? Or should I let you know how important this is, even though it makes you unhappy? I must force you to understand how important it is to achieve this number of 84. If you do your 5% then you will inherit many things, such as the 95% which I did for you. It can all become yours. How can you complain, “Father, this work is too hard”? Are you doing it for me or God or for yourselves? Am I saying these things just because they are convenient or because they are based on the laws of history and restoration through indemnity? This is all true, down to the smallest historical detail.

This is why I am so furious at hearing that some people have only brought two spiritual children after five years in the Church. How can a leader who is responsible for members say that? How can we have such low standards? Everyone has violated this law, even Mr. and Mrs. Orme, but now they must enforce it. This is why we haven’t much time to eat or sleep or even die, because if you die now you are in serious trouble! How could you finish what you need to do if you die now? Could you come back again? I know very well that you are not thinking seriously enough. What I had to do was unbearably difficult but I finished it after 20 years, in 1976. I was even able to shorten the time period because of my seriousness. Even now if I go to spirit world I can say I have accomplished everything that I needed to do. The dispensation will never suffer because I left anything undone; there will be no postponement or lengthening of restoration now.

You can be grateful that this is not impossible or even very difficult because now there is less persecution. Once you go back to your homes you can do everything in three years or even three months. The world is already in an accepting mood. Already persecution is lessening and when you go back to your own home and country people will welcome you because you are a member of the Unification Church. They will listen very carefully; then they will understand and accept you and in a few weeks they will all follow you.

Now you are going back and forth between two countries, one where you feel confident and another where you are not so confident. You are not appreciated very much now, but later when the work becomes easier it will not be so valuable. The spirit world will be very grateful to you for what you can do now. Also, what you do now is helping to fight the same war I am fighting. If I am the general then you are all soldiers and we will fight together. Later when there is no persecution and the work is much easier you will not be a participant with the True Parents.

What is the privilege of fighting the same war with the True Parents? It means that you can become part of the same family. This is the one time in history when you can eat in the same place and live in the same place with me, but later you cannot have this privilege. We are standing right on top of the hill. You must really understand what a glorious campaign this is to be participating in. Spirit world will applaud you and your children because of what you can do.

This is why I gave you each 360 homes. Why 360? There are 360 days in one year; that includes twelve months, as well as the numbers three and four. All the heavenly numbers that God uses are there. It also means every single year of history, including all the families and thousands of generations who have lived. That is the same as an extended form of the 36 couples, which represent all human ancestry. Everything is represented in 360.

When you visit the 360 homes you should have the feeling of visiting your own ancestors and relatives, of going back to your own roots. Those homes in your area represent all your ancestors in spirit world. Among your 360 homes are all the generations of your ancestry, all the different combinations of your blood lineage. London has a unique combination of all races so it is really an ideal spot. This is why I insisted that everyone concentrate here and not scatter all around England. You have many, many relatives all around the world, and even though you don’t know what your lineage is I have reached out and brought them into your homes.

Knowing that these 360 homes represent your ancestors and relatives, you have to be determined to hold on to them and restore them all one by one, never letting go. You should have a real fear of failing to do that. If God could do it all by Himself it would be easy but man has to do some of the work, although God pioneers it. God is always following man around, so from the moment you wake up you must be focused on your people. Some people will persecute you and others will welcome you. You should feel grateful to experience God’s heart whenever you face opposition and persecution. Even if it is so bad that you cannot do your work you must feel grateful for that. You have the opportunity to experience some of God’s pain and by going through it you establish the condition to pay the indemnity of the past.

Be determined to find three families first, then twelve, 72 and finally 360. Everything will revolve around that number. The first three will be the most difficult to find but once they come you have a foundation for twelve, and then getting 72 will be much easier. Once you meet the requirement of 84 then 360 will quickly come in, all at one time. Do you have time to rest in the park or to go shopping often? Everyone must work with his full heart and dedication. The fact that you are here with me in the right circumstances to do this work is something to wonder at. What you are doing now is not to save other people but so that you can live.

Since I have told you to work here like this, heaven has already prepared the way for you. You can be very strong with anyone who is opposing you. It is vital that you speak emphatically with such people; you can even be angry with them. This is the perfect time to work hard. If this had happened a year ago you would not have been protected when I came, but now all kinds of controversy are starting. God is handing everything to you at one time.

It says in the Bible that when Mary Magdalene saw Jesus after he had risen from the dead she tried to touch him but Jesus refused her. Jesus had to lay the foundation first of 12, 72 and 84. Only on that basis could he receive his wife. Since he had not done that yet he could not go near even as close a follower as Mary.

You never knew all these details until tonight, but you did know that you were supposed to find one person per month, didn’t you? You can even bring 84 people in 7 months. It’s only a matter of your desire. If you think that seven months is too long then you should be able to accomplish everything in forty days. You know now why you are going to witness to so many people; it is not to make the Unification Church prosperous but for your own individual merit. It is absolutely necessary to understand this. None of the millions of Christians on earth knows this. Do you think God will give them even more blessings then? However humble Unification Church members may be, if they understand all this then God will really treasure them, regardless of how feeble they are.

It is on this foundation that the Second Advent can materialize and on that basis your marriage will become possible. Have you been qualified up to now to be in that situation? Are you going to be qualified? You have the chance to be in that position because God and the True Parents have already done it. When the going becomes difficult do you remember that fact in gratitude or do you complain?

I am very serious inside when I see how you spent the previous forty day condition. How are you going to make it? I was going to pray for you for forty days and see that you got started very well. Then I could leave to visit other countries and go back to Korea eventually, but if you slump down like this how can I be free to go? I must make sure that you understand this properly.

Tomorrow begin everything afresh, not like yesterday or today. Now that you know how important it is you can make a new start tomorrow. I actually blame the leaders because they were responsible for explaining this to you. If a leader didn’t understand then he should have asked me once more to explain it to him. Now do you know for sure? If you don’t, ask those who do to explain it to you.

When I made plans for home churches I made sure with heaven first that it was the right plan. I got assurance, not just once but many times, and God said to go ahead with it. You must know that I always check things in advance. There may be some disadvantages or shortcomings but they don’t matter. We must be united and go ahead full speed. If you aren’t serious then it will be impossible for you to follow me in the spirit world. I am going so fast that you will never catch up with me otherwise.

If it were not a difficult task then Jesus would never have died on the cross. There is no excuse or compromise in restoration. God and spirit world have chased me also. God did not prevent me from going to the communist prison camp or stop people from opposing us. God could have prevented those things but He would not. The path of indemnity is utterly serious. Even if you miss some meals or don’t get much sleep, you must keep going to your houses and witnessing to the people.

Your real ancestors will live because of this and if you make this foundation your children will prosper, as well as your country. There is only one thing we have to do and as a result everyone will benefit. If you are really successful and you have some time to spare then perhaps you can go witness to the people in the parks. I have explained everything to you in detail, so now if you still don’t follow it is no longer my responsibility. What can I do if you refuse to listen? It is only after you do your 5% that you can be connected with me. If I had not done my 5% I would not have any connection with God.

This formula applies to all generations and we are no exception. That’s why we have to fulfill the formula of 84 people, and only after that can we sleep properly. If you must rest then only do it at night. How can you go to the movies unless you have finished this? When I go to a movie it is only because I have done my work and then I take a few people with me so that they can have some enjoyment.

If it is very hot you cannot even buy some cold drink. If you are really busy finding your spiritual children then how can you be satisfied with getting a drink? If you are really sensitive and serious about this then you won’t even know if your hair needs washing or your clothes need mending. If you can’t finish this in seven years then it might take another seven to finish. Actually, if you don’t finish in seven years it will take three times as long, or 21 years. After that you will have no more chances. While this is still unfinished can you think about getting blessed? I could only allow those who already have the blessing to receive it because they had brought at least three spiritual children and I took that as a condition, on the understanding that after the blessing they could continue on to bring in 84 people altogether. Even those who haven’t succeeded after three years of separation should not want to live together. If you want to live together you must work much faster and fulfill this number. You should post these numbers everywhere, even in the bathroom on the sink, to remind you every minute of the day. From now on you will think this way, won’t you? You must never forget this, even for one minute.

It’s already past 1 a.m. Yesterday was the anniversary of the day I went to prison. All the Christian churches and the government came against me and sent me to prison, even though I had never violated the law. Now we are confronted by the American government, even though we have violated no laws. We will never give in, but will fight until we win. I never give up but those who come against us and try to prove we have done something wrong always collapse. I am determined that no matter how hard Congressman Fraser comes against us that I will work harder to finish the dispensation. I pledged this to heaven. When September comes everything will be complete.

This is the last persecution you will experience so it is something to be thankful for. Only two more months are left until it is over. Is it better to be thankful for persecution or for not being persecuted? Later on history will ask those who were persecuted with me to stand up and you will be among them. Later there will be presidents of nations witnessing like you are doing, as well as television stars and famous people. Then you will want to do it too but there will be no place where there is not already someone witnessing before you. Soon everyone will know about Reverend Moon and the Unification

Church and there will be no one left to persuade. Within seven years after the word spreads that the Unification Church is good everyone will come to our Church. When they all come, your seven-year course will not be necessary any more.

Is it good for you to go on with this course so that you are challenged to really work hard, or to have no persecution to face and no indemnity to pay? If everything comes automatically then you will not be grateful. Would you prefer a difficult seven year course or an easier way? All you have to do is quit the Church and go home and come back seven years later. By that time you will have no seven-year course to go through and everything will be easy. But if you know the history of the Unification Church then you will cry, and if you work hard you will have many more reasons to be grateful. As long as you go this seven-year course you are fulfilling your responsibility.

As I said before, within seven days you must find a place to live. This is the same path that Jesus walked when he looked for one home in Israel to welcome him. If you find three homes and then twelve, then even if you are persecuted you are making good progress. Those of you who will find a home within seven days, raise your hand. I know you are very good at raising your hands all the time, but do you mean it this time? Will you really try your very best?

If I didn’t know all of this, I would be very comfortable, but no Unification Church would exist. Then you would be comfortable too, right? You have no experience to compare with what I have gone through. I was in your situation a long time ago, with much to do and far to go with my family. I had a thousand times more difficulties than you do now.

When Mother first became my wife I was very stern and serious with her. I never gave her any freedom because I was determined to make her perfect. If I followed her in some way without realizing the consequences then very grave results would have come about. Women always want to have pretty things and to fix their hair and wear make-up. Now Mother is free and if she wants to do her hair in a certain style, fine. Even if she wears red or black clothes now, that is all right, and she can buy clothes on her own. but this was not always so. You have thought that Mother was very happy and carefee and everyone envied her, but Mother has had a more difficult time than any other woman. Even now her role is not simple.

Only a few years ago Mother was required to give a full bow to me every morning. She has to live according to a strict code. Even though she loves me very much she cannot freely express her feelings as an ordinary woman would. She cannot kiss me at will and even if she is tired she cannot sleep just any time. She always has to watch me. One by one I made sure Mother could be free to do certain things. It took seven years of very rigid steps for her to pay the historical indemnity for all women and be liberated herself. I was the sternest of all husbands, a most fearful man during those seven years. Later I became the one who loves the most. It was not fair to her but it was for the sake of all women.

This is why Mother respects me. She truly knows how principled I am and how everything I do has a cause in God’s will. She feels that I am like God. Once she became like that then I could reciprocate and feel the same way toward her. Now she is free to fix her hair any way or go shopping by herself. People who have only known her a short time think she goes shopping all the time, but it was a long time before she was permitted to go at all and now she only goes once in a while. If she had not paid all the necessary indemnity in Korea then she could not go to a foreign country and work with me.

The Principle way is very strict. That is why I had to abandon my own parents and relatives until everything was accomplished. Now you know that starting this morning you must go strictly the Principle way. Set the goal of bringing twelve people during these forty days, so that you can bring at least three of them. They must be people whom you can feel would protect you even if your life were threatened. You must love them more than you would your own children and raise them up as your most beloved ones, knowing their preciousness. You must be connected to them not by thought or intellect, but in heart so that you can live and die together.

Now that you know for sure what to do you don’t need me any more, do you? Let us pray.

## Victorious Sons and Daughters

By Fami1yfed June 16, 2018 June 16, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1978

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### June 26, 1978
Lancaster Gate
London, England
Translator: Col. Sang Kil Han

> Jesus said that those who are willing to die will live, but those who try to live will die. How is that? If you are going to die, how can you live? Jesus’ meaning is that in order to bear the cross of the heart you have to go through this step of being willing to die. Bearing the cross is better than dying. The truly victorious sons and daughters are the ones who are willing to die for the cause and they go right into the realm of heart and are able to bear the cross of the heart of love.

> As true sons and daughters we have already worked hard, but we should do even more, going the impossible way without complaining and still feeling that we have not done enough. If we don’t do that, someone else must and that is most likely our parents. If we don’t want the ones we love the most to carry the cross, we must take it ourselves.

Western people in general do not have so deep an idea and feeling towards their parents compared to oriental people. Let me ask you, a question: have you, at any time in your life, heard other people say that they miss their parents so much and long for them so much that they cry? Have you ever experienced this? Well it is possible that this is the first time you are hearing about this, let alone experiencing it yourself. Western parents are the same; when their children reach the age of 18, they do not expect to feel like that towards them. They expect them to go away at 18 and have an independent life. Isn’t that the way? You get accustomed to that. All Western people are like that. Then, even though you begin to think deeply about the Oriental custom, it is very hard to understand how they can be like that.

According to the Principle the parents and the children live together eternally, that’s the original way of creation. Also, man and wife, married couples, should live together for eternity. Without doing that the eternal four position foundation can never be established. We also understand according to the Principle that parental love for the children, the love exchanged between husband and wife, and the children’s love for the parents must all mellow together to establish the realm of love. Looking at that we come to the inevitable conclusion that the parents must feel genuine love towards their children; the husband must feel that love towards his wife; the wife has to feel the same love towards her husband; and finally the children must feel that love towards their parents.

It is logical to assume that children who never experience deep love for their parents cannot really experience overall love, nor can parents who though they give birth to children never feel deep love for them. We cannot say that such a man or woman has experienced love. Do you agree? As Unification Church members go along and deepen their experience of the original way, they must really feel all the time that God is right in the center as the nucleus of the family. They will cluster together and keep on loving.

We are born as a small child and as we grow we are perpetually in need of and always longing for our parents and our parents’ love and our brothers’ and sisters’ love. Adam and Eve were brother and sister in the beginning; as they grew older they started thinking about their own spouse and longing for each other. Children crave for the parents to love them, which is a vertical love, but as they grow up they develop horizontal love. Then they get married. We must therefore develop our love, on the basis of the love we feel towards the parents as well as brothers and sisters. From that love grows the love you feel towards your own spouse.

### Children’s love has been lost

As a result of the fall, however, throughout history children have been indifferent to the parents and the parents found themselves in the position of thinking about and loving their children one-sidedly. God has always stood in that position. His own children have never returned His love. This is such an incredible misery for God and for human beings as a whole. The what is the purpose of restoration? In other words, what are we being restored to do? You can say that the purpose of restoration is so that children will once again feel original love towards their own parents. When that day comes it is not just that the children have to go in search of the parents nor that parents come all the way down to connect with the love of the children; rather they will long for each other, they will miss each other, and they will love each other so deeply that they will meet right in the middle point, where they are supposed to be anyway. That love is connected right at the center.

The husband and wife must find their own focal point of love. By doing so, all will become one. This harmonized and perfected love has four directions, not only one. Nor is it only on a plane, but three-dimensional, like a ball. Once it has become like that no matter how the ball rolls, there is a power of love right at the center point flowing all the time. That is love after having attained unity.

Now we can ask ourselves a question about the way we are and the way everybody else is, not just our contemporaries but throughout all of history. The children never had any deep feeling toward their parents, not half as much as the parents love towards their children. Now is this how it is supposed to be, is this the way God expected it to be originally? Or do you think it is not something you desire, but you find it as it is? As far as parents go, they have deep feeling toward their children, no matter how old their children become; this is generally true, not only in the Orient but also in the Western world. As far as the parents’ love towards their children goes, there is not much difference between East and West, isn’t that so? That’s the way they are and that is the way they were supposed to be originally. But when the children do not think the same way about their parents, we can really feel that something is greatly wrong. Even by reasoning, we feel that it is just not right.

A husband sometimes misses his wife so much that he sheds tears. If we categorize this phenomenon, is it a horizontal pattern or vertical pattern? You might say it is horizontal because husband and wife miss each other on the same plane, but they don’t miss the parents vertically. This is the case in the Western world but the East is different to that. In the Orient the husband can forsake his own wife and he would rather do that than forsake his parents. In other words they can never forsake the parents. The husband knows that his parents are very valuable more so than his own wife.

### East and West must combine

When I really characterize the Western way and the Oriental way, I come to the conclusion that the Western way and the Eastern way must combine in order to be made perfect. Do you understand what I mean? There are striking characteristics in the Western world, and there are all kinds of deep stories in classic literature about how a man misses his wife. The so-called love stories are so deep and so intricate and so involved but there is not a single instance where they are about a child missing his or her father so much that they did something about it.

In the Orient it is completely the other way around. You might wonder ‘Oh is that true?’ It is: look it up. There are hardly any love stories in the East, and they are not so significant. But there are hundreds of stories and classics of how the son and daughter try to serve their parents. Whereas the classics of Western literature tell the story of love or the experience of love in a horizontal way between husband and wife, the oriental classics are not so much about the experience between husband and wife, but about the relationship between father and son or mother and daughter or children and parents. What is modern in this society is an old tale in the orient, and an old tale in the orient now becomes a modern problem for the Western world. What has been traditional in the Orient must become contemporary in the West, and vice-versa.

Therefore, what Oriental people have been feeling throughout history must become a modern feeling in this western world, and what has been felt in the Western world must also become the classic of the Oriental world. The fact is that they must supplement each other, they must be integrated. Each one is so significant and each one is lacking so much; that it is now the problem we face. We can understand that through this phenomenon.

The Western people have been in search of love throughout history. Ever since they became conscious they have been looking for better and deeper love. Today, Western people must come to realize that parental love, which makes Oriental people so hopeful, will also fulfill what they have been searching for that for such a long time. The same thing goes for the Eastern world. They have been developing their vertical love, but now it is time to start experiencing what the Western world has experienced for a long time in the past.

But here we must take heed, there is one caution we must exercise. This analysis does not mean that the love of the Western people has been shallow and not meaningful; it is not that at all. They keep what they have been developing. But in addition to that they have to be more serious in their search for vertical love. The same applies to the Oriental tradition; it is not the case that it is the perfect way, so they can stop right there. Nor is it true that they must now learn how the Western people love each other to the exclusion of tradition. It is just that on the basis of what they have been experiencing, they add the love that the Western people have been experiencing for such a long time to become perfect.

Yet we must understand that there is a priority; which is more important than the other. The most important love is what Oriental people have been experiencing; vertical love is first then horizontal. That is one concept we should not forget, otherwise we will be confused. Unless it is firmly established then the universe will wobble!

As you know, all instruments to measure degree always have a center or zero point. That point is on the vertical axis, and at dead center, 90 degrees, the crossing point is set and that symbolically signifies that the starting point is on the vertical standard line.

You can see that when a person has a very straight line vertically, like a straight nose, and a straight horizontal line like two eyes and a mouth, you get the impression that he is a conscientious man. The nose symbolizes Adam and Eve; the eyes symbolize God, because whenever you feel something the eyes start first, isn’t that right? Why is the mouth not vertical instead of the way it is? It is because it symbolizes the earth. When we laugh heaven and earth will rejoice together. Your eyes and mouth laugh at the same time, don’t they? The nose does not express itself so much but the eyes and mouth do.

### Our face is symbolic

When a person on stage laughs while telling a funny story it is not so funny, but if he tells a funny story and he does not laugh, it has more effect and impact on the audience. So that type of person who tells a funny story and makes the whole world laugh, is symbolized by the nose. The person who does not laugh is like a nose. But a man like a nose makes the whole earth and heaven laugh by telling them jokes! Adam and Eve are the ones who started the whole thing and they should have made heaven and earth rejoice! This is so simple that one might say it is just coincidence, but it never is.

Our face is symbolic in many ways. For example, when you yawn your hands go to your mouth. It is the same in the East and West. Have you ever stopped to think why the hands go to the mouth when you yawn? The mouth is supposed to be straight on the horizontal axis, stabilized, but when the mouth is wide open it is like the earth becomes very insecure, very unstable. The hands try to warn the mouth not to do that for too long! There is always a reason for everything man does.

We can see so much difference between the way the Western people think and the way Eastern people think. The Western civilization is a materialistic civilization isn’t it? Then what is the purpose of Western civilization? For it to become normal the Western civilization must be spiritual. It has been so materialistic that the purpose or the ending must be that of a spiritual nature. Then to what degree? Just enough to balance it? No, the spiritual nature must be deeper than the materialistic idea; your own spiritual nature must get the better of your materialistic nature, it must be strong enough to dominate the materialistic nature. Then it is not only normal but you can say, it is perfect.

The same goes for the Eastern world. They have been so spiritual in the past that now they don’t even own a thing! Now they have come to learn about materialistic values and ideas, but one thing they must never forget; they must never sacrifice their own ideas to gain the other. Rather, they have to retain that intact as a basis to become perfect. The Eastern world has so far been stressing the importance of the spiritual way but now they have to stress the materialistic way as well, but when they do then their own spiritual nature must have a firm grip over the material things; it should never be inverted.

The Western world has to put aside the material things temporarily and then they have to do their utmost to receive the spiritual side in the shortest period of time, and never again put that under the materialistic value, but rather raise that and bring the materialistic idea under the newly-gained spiritual things. That means that it is somewhat easier for the Eastern people, because they already have the spiritual basis, which is subject. But in the West it is almost completely upside down and people have to change their values, raising up what they have newly acquired as the subject, and putting what they have always had in object position.

This is always difficult to practice especially in the Western world. In the very beginning they are not very certain, but even after they become very certain it is still very difficult in practice. There is talk of Western civilization reaching a deadlock, and what needs to be done is to turn around upside down to become right side up.

An automobile which is going very fast and collides into something turns around just like that, but if everything goes at a normal speed nothing happens. That is the insight we gain as a Westerner. Ever since 1960 the Western world has such a fast turnover of ideas, faster than they can handle. Things have been moving very fast and sometimes their ideas never catch up. Then what do we have to grasp now? Westerners need to grasp onto new knowledge for the East, and Orientals are longing for a Western partner, more so now than in the past. This is all a natural tendency. because as we say earlier, what has been the classic in the West is what the East has now, and what the East has had all this while is what the West lacked.

The ultimate purpose is to restore love and find love, to find perfect love, the most ideal love. In the future you will be asked, ‘Where is your husband’s home? Where is your wife’s home?’ If you say, ‘Oh it is about three hours away,’ that is not so attractive. But if when you are asked where your spouse’s home is you say that it’s on the other side of the earth, several hours away even on the Concorde, how dramatic! We are destined to encompass the entire world for one extreme to the other. At the most recent blessing there was such an intermixture of nations, far above the law of averages. That in itself is very symbolic of the trend of the future. I did not plan it that way.

Should the four-position foundation become square, round or what? The right proportion is so that this each extreme will connect and have give and take. An intelligent man is able to analyze all this instantly and correctly, and have that as a very solid basis in thinking. Before we are able to do that we feel that something is changing. If we don’t know what is changing, then it only confuses us. We have to know exactly what is taking place by reasoning. So far the Western people have been saying ‘Let us go to the East in search of something,’ but the Eastern people have not done that. It is only recently that they come to take interest; still nobody says ‘Let’s go to learn in the West.’

The Western people went to the East and brought things back. Actually what heaven intended was that they came to be motivated by God. What they learned from the East did not necessarily belong in the West. Now God is blessing the Orientals with material things; far harder to understand, once we know nothing is coincidence but a perfect pattern.

### The new Eve nation

Why did God give Japan the blessing? Because Japan is the Eve nation. Since Eve messed up she must have lot of things to restore. Japan is an island country; England is an island, and another Eve country; that is why of all the European nations, she has the blessings. An island people always miss the Continental country because the island is the woman and she always longs for the continent, a man, isn’t that right? Who is the banner bearer for the western materialistic civilization? England is because it is the Eve nation; England is a forerunner and a the flag bearer of the entire western materialistic civilization.

To realize this was Britain’s responsibility; but there was no way of their knowing this. No human mind would have ever caught up with this original idea, and because of their higher standard they had to grow and help to educate the rest of the world like a mother. They never did this, the idea never occurred to them. They just went on and on, like a mother taking the things from the children’s area back to her own. The people who are treated like that will gradually grow bigger and bigger and then, when they become conscious of it, they will reject that mistaken motherly role.

If England had fulfilled her motherly role as an Eve nation, with all that this role involved historically, and if she had nurtured and helped the small countries, then they would never have tried to be independent and follow someone other than the British people. They would have followed England. At one time it was said that ‘the sun never sets on the British Empire.’ When their blessings reached that peak, if they had embraced the whole world and loved them and stayed with them they would not have found themselves in the situation they are in today. Do you think I thought that explanation up, or do you think this is very much in accordance with Principle and the dispensation?

After the decline of the British Empire, Japan appeared, which is also an Eve nation and which is taking exactly the same role as Britain. Let’s say tentatively that once Britain’s time passed Japan’s time came. Now the Japanese are being called an ‘economic animal.’ They will just gain everything, especially through their developments in electronics, developments which are almost invisible but which influence the whole world. The English people sought for land, which is quite visible. But the Japanese may be on a higher plane because they don’t look for land, because everyone is on the lookout there, but for things which can’t be seen so easily.

In electronics, computing and even automobile manufacturing, Japan is advancing powerfully. Although these markets have a long history, Japan is catching up at a high level. She did not have any knowledge, but within less than twenty to thirty years they are gaining all the market. God is transferring these blessings to the Japanese. This is so real. Then what is happening to Japan? They are going around gaining economic superiority, but then they are doing exactly the same thing as the British, lining their own pockets.

But there is one difference. If Reverend Moon had come at the height of the British Empire he could have helped it change, but it didn’t happen, it was a hundred years ago. However, he is trying to correct the situation in Japan, saying, ‘You shouldn’t do that! Take everything out of your pocket and go to America and give it to them; send all the Japanese members, with their pockets full of money, to Britain and give it to them.’ Reverend Moon is making the Eve nation function in the normal way.

The Japanese family members are now much better, but five or ten years ago they said, ‘Father, it’s not fair! It’s our money, we worked very hard and earned it. We don’t even have a decent church in Japan, why should we go to America and work ourselves to the bone, spending all our money there. What connection do we have to them?’ They are now thinking the same thing about England. So let me ask the Japanese members, do you know now why I am making you bring all your money to spend in England and America. You do? I am anxious, seeing as how no sooner does the money roll into the Japanese bank than they find it going out faster than it goes in. It goes to America, England, Taiwan, everywhere. This is not because I hate the Japanese, but because it is what God desires, and if you do what God desires, the blessing will continue forever and ever. But if you go against it then it will become less and less.

Well, our members may be all right, but the Japanese government is becoming jealous, saying, ‘It looks as though Japanese wealth exists for the use of the Unification Church.’ This is exactly what the government officials are saying. They have binoculars in order to see where Rev. Moon is spending the money. On the other hand, it suits the Western people fine; they applaud and say, ‘More money, more money!’ The Japanese should say that too but they don’t, they complain.

Now here is an important difference. If the Japanese complain, as long as I help them, they will continue to prosper and survive. But if the recipient, or the country that receives the benefit opposes us then they cannot survive. That’s the bottom line. I know that, and when it comes to this, it is quite serious. If I bring the money from Japan, the Eve nation, and spend it in England, then England must welcome this and be appreciative, because I am transferring the blessings, however small, here. When you say, ‘I don’t want the blessing,’ then that’s the end of it. Then God will say, ‘Well, if that is how you feel, then I will put it into another country in the Orient.’ What will happen if that comes to pass? Do you really understand?

Orientals are in a better position to manage without Reverend Moon because they are more spiritual, but the Western world can never survive without Rev. Moon. There is so much to be done that without the aid of the man of super effort, the Western world just cannot survive. They don’t know enough, and they can’t carry it out.

Would you like to see Reverend Moon just forget about the Western world and go back to the East and help that Eastern nation? Do you want that? But what will happen if the Western world continues to linger in welcoming him? Then he will be on his way to the Orient. I have fulfilled my responsibility toward the Western world already, and if they don’t help themselves and start doing things on their own, then I feel I have already done enough.

Is it only the Unification Church that needs Reverend Moon in the Western world? Or does the entire Western world need him even more? If you really feel that the answer is ‘more’ and everyone feels that, and if we do everything to make them feel that, then the Western world will survive and prosper. You will live and the Orient will live, in fact the whole world will live. East and West are like twins, born at the same time and with the same mother.

The Japanese developed themselves and little by little secured industrial territories and markets. The ball-bearing is an example: the Germans enjoyed what appeared to be an invincible position, but now the Japanese have sliced right into that market, just as I predicted.

The Japanese have their own problems too. Now the Koreans are taking a lot away from Japanese industry. If Japan does not fulfill its historical dispensation rule as ordained by God, and the dispensation is always there whether people recognize it or not, if they do not learn the Divine Principle and become Unification Church members, if they miss the divine role, then God will transfer that blessing to some other country. That’s what happens.

Fifteen years ago I predicted that Japan’s economy would really prosper one day, but that at that time Japan had better stick close to Korea, and never try to push it out of the picture. They would never survive if they did that. They would have to develop together, otherwise Korea would one day become even more prosperous than Japan. However, fifteen years ago nobody paid attention; it was really too far ahead to understand. People tried to understand but could not visualize how this would come about.

But who is the master of the entire Principle? Who knows the principled plan of God, who knows what country has to play what role and what will happen next if it doesn’t? Once I knew all the principle, I did not have to move around everywhere. I can sit right here and do nothing, and things will develop just as they should.

### The way ahead for England

As a result you are in a better position to evaluate yourself. Are you fortunate to have joined the Unification Church? The British people have been on top of the world most of the time and they never suffered humiliation. Nobody ever said anything to them, but now their position is miserable. It was necessary to explain to you in great detail what’s happening. The simple way is not always the best way to explain certain matters of principle. At least you have had a glimpse of how the world will operate, and how it has been going on.

One thing we must come to realize now is that no matter how many things we do, no matter how many complications are already there, England must live with it. England must live with the world; must love Africa, must live with the problems of other people and other countries, from the North Pole to the South Pole. Even though there are no men living there, it is still a problem area. You must learn to live with all the problems around the world. If you try to isolate yourself it will never work and you will perish.

Then where would you like to live? Would you like to live in England, or on the Continent? Would you like to go to the North Pole, or live in a vessel on the ocean, or dig a hole in the ground and live there? The conclusion should be ‘I would like to live where there is true love. It really doesn’t matter where I live. If I live in England, the Continent, the North Pole, or under the sea in a submarine or under the ground, I will live anywhere as long as their is true love. That’s the best place for me!’ We must feel that. Do you understand? Will those who have a differing opinion raise their hands? That is, a man who still thinks, ‘I want to live in such and such a place and that is it.’ Does that mean all of you already resemble God and Father himself?

Then what is True Love? Where is it? It is in the Father’s dwelling place, where the vertical love of God and the horizontal will become integrated. Then what is the purpose of creation? Why did God create the whole thing? Just to establish the four-position foundation. This one simple sentence explains the meaning of the entire world. We also come to realize that the Unification Church fits well on that ideal foundation. Everything can be explained. It shows all the historical trends and sequences, reasonably and consistently. Isn’t that right?

If I ask, ‘Where would you like to live?’ you may say, ‘Since I am a white man, I will go where a white man can live.’ It is good if a white man has the feeling he can live with others, but what happens if there is no such thing as a place where the white man lives? If you happen to find the four-position love where the black man comes, you have to pack up, even if you are white and go all the way down to live with the black man. It really doesn’t matter where the black people live or where the white people live, what matters is ‘where true love is,’ that is where we have to go and live.

I have already explained enough to you, so shall we stop there? This morning’s talk started from the victorious sons and daughters, and how to become like that. When you sit right up where you are supposed to sit, you are victorious. I can stop right here, having explained everything that was necessary, but shall I go on?

Do you need Reverend Moon? What about the rest of the white people who are not in this room; they will say ‘leave me alone!’ If you become too different from the rest of the white people, turned completely the other way round, then I will be hated for it. But what if you turn only half way, knowing that one day you will have to turn completely towards me? Then they will say it’s not too bad because they still feel close to you. If I think like that, perhaps I should stop right here, not wanting to make you change all the way but only halfway so that people can catch up with you.

How about you? Would you like to turn around completely, now that you have started? Or do you want to stay at the half way point? Completely? Then who gets blamed for that! People will say that British Unification Church members are very good, but Reverend Moon is bad, very bad! Strange logic, isn’t it? Would any members sympathize with Reverend Moon, thinking, ‘It’s because of me changing radically that Father gets blamed!’ Has any family member felt that? Not so many are nodding in agreement!

### An unhappy incident

Recently there was an unhappy incident in America. As you know, the drug problem is very severe in the United States, much worse than here. Unification Church members represent a cross-section of society, and one of them came with a very severe drug problem. Will power is not enough to deal with physical addiction, at least not in the beginning, but he tried to overcome. Finally it was too much and he ran away to find a peddler to buy drugs and he was caught by the police. Then he said he was a Unification Church member and that Unification members habitually use drugs! That’s what the newspapers reported! It just happened that way.

There are all kinds of criticism of Reverend Moon, and yet the truth is obvious and clear, like broad daylight compared to the dark night. But some people misunderstand and believe that the Unification Church makes people use drugs. Nobody believes us now. They say, ‘Reverend Moon teaches people never to use drugs, but on the other hand, he encourages others to use drugs. It’s a double standard.’ That’s the only explanation they can find, so they just repeat it. If you do wrong, they will say Reverend Moon taught them, but if you do good they will forget that Reverend Moon taught you. You don’t even think about it, but I get blamed for many, many things for which I can never, never be responsible. Don’t you sometimes sympathize with me for that?

Many times Reverend Moon makes young people work hard. Actually, it has nothing to do with Reverend Moon, they are working hard not for me but for their country, England for instance, and indeed for the entire Western world. I am spending my own money here in promoting the Christian tradition, and working just as hard myself.

I have explained in simple words how to become victorious sons and daughters. Simple though it is to explain, it is difficult to carry it out.

We must know that all men and women are offspring of fallen mankind. No matter how beautiful or pretty one may look and one may be, we cannot free ourselves completely from original sin. There is still some connection there. That means we are distant from God. It is not just one inch, a foot, or even a mile, but from one extreme to another. Then exactly just how far away are we from God in our way of thinking and doing things? If God is going one way we should go in a similar direction, but if we go in the other direction it means that we shall never meet eternally. Do you understand?

You can only imagine how difficult it is to teach people, to explain to them many, many times in many different situations how to go along with God, or to go together hand in hand. The most desirable thing, to get them to go in the same direction, is the most difficult thing, not simple at all. Then how do we direct them to the same way? We do that centering around the heart, with our love.

### The cross of heart

The Korean word Shimjung can only be translated as ‘heart’ in English, so we use the word heart very often. But its meaning in Korean is much more profound. We must meet God on the way of heart, and it is difficult to do that. It means that we have to bear our cross, which is not a physical cross but a cross of heart and love. Can you imagine that? The cross of heart cannot be compared with the cross of the physical body; it is much more difficult. Since love is more valuable than our body, it is not hard to imagine that the cross of the heart, of love, is more difficult to bear than the cross of the physical body.

Then, under these circumstances who bears the cross of the heart of love? God or man? If you say man, do men and women know that they are supposed to do that? Do they know in which directions they are going, or even if they are going at all? They don’t know. It is completely logical that somebody has to bear this cross, but no one knew this. The only one who knows must bear the cross and the only one who knows so far has been God. This is why God has been bearing the cross of heart and love all the time.

How simple it would be if the world still consisted of just one man and one woman. It would really be good, wouldn’t it? But as we know, the world is far more complicated than that; there are more than four billion people living here. If there were only one couple, God could work on them.

If you bear the cross of heart and love for the Queen and her husband, then would that solve the problem? No, it wouldn’t, because there are many more people living with exactly the same problem, which means we have to bear every one of their crosses. Even if Heaven is successful in turning one man and one woman in to the desired position, that’s not the end of it. Around them are a family, tribe, nation and world.

When we love God more than we love ourselves and Satan, then we are drawn very close to God. Turn around in the same direction as God, and after that, whatever God commands us, we have to run and obey it. If He says go up, we go up; go down and we go down. We have to reach the level where we can do whatever he asks. You can’t say, ‘I want to do it this way.’ There is no such thing as the words ‘I want to.’

Then why must we do that? Why should we not complain if and when we are asked to do things which we don’t want to do? We should not do that because we now know that God has been bearing the heaviest cross, the cross of heart of love, and doing that for me. I must be prepared to undergo all the difficulty, even though in fact I may be exempted, I must at least be willing to do that to go to God. This is why we obey God without complaining, to bear the cross and to make the indemnity as short as possible.

In order to comply with the command of God one has to separate from the multitude, bringing out into the open the individual, family, clan, nation and world. Christianity has been doing that, bringing the individual out into the open, showing them God’s commandment and making them go God’s way. Christians already established this example in the past, and so nobody who is a good Christian can just act as he or she pleases, but everybody tries to act in the way God wants them to.

The Messiah will be sent among that multitude and the Messiah will represent the original individual, family, clan, race, nation and world. It needs to be done all in one time. The Messiah is here on the foundation of Christianity, and each individual will become completely one with the Messiah, separated from Satan by denying himself. All the family will become completely one, and even the nation will become completely one with him. He represents the original nation and all the levels of society. If every level united in that way, then the Messiah would complete his mission successfully within seven years, bringing everything into unity. He would form one great nation of the whole world.

When the Messiah comes and says, ‘Now we must go!’ people will be curious and think that there is something there. They will tag along, until they reach the same place as the people who work very hard. When the Messiah says go to Africa, or the North Pole, nobody will question it. Everyone will become completely one with the Messiah and go. He will physically move a great multitude from one place to another place on earth, attracting enormous attention. The people who tag along will end up with the same blessing.

In seven years everything will come into perfect unity. After that everyone will stand on the foundation of having worked on the individual, family, clan, racial, national and world level, simply by having worked together. If Satan tries to accuse you or tries to get hold of you on the individual level, you can kick him right out, all the way to the world level, because you have already worked for the sake of the world and he has nothing to do with you. You will have established yourself and no one will ever blame you on any level, saying that you have not accomplished some condition. You have to establish yourself like that.

### Christians must meet the Messiah

Christians have been doing this all along and have been expanding the Christian power into a huge realm. But what if the Christians do not accept the Messiah and reject him? What if they do not know who the Messiah is and do not go along in his direction, then what happens? All that the Christians have painfully accomplished during the last 2,000 years will be shattered into pieces; there will remain no trace of their work. The Christian world will be like a cemetery where vultures come down to eat the dead bodies. They may become like that if they do not recognize and follow the Messiah. After all these years of working hard, generation after generation, how pitiful and miserable it is if that is the consequence they have to face.

Still, God’s dispensation must go on. What happens if the Christians do not meet God’s expectations? Then the Messiah will have to find someone else; someone who can represent the individual, the entire family of the world, the race and the country that can represent the world. The Messiah has to find that country himself. On that foundation, he can continue to work the dispensation in the same way as the Christians would have done. This is his alternative.

We must realize what the Unification Church is all about. If Christians had done their work correctly, then the Unification Church would not have been necessary, and especially not the road of indemnity. However, because Christianity failed to function properly, the Unification Church was founded by God and True Father to gather people together and out of that gathering to find the individual who can represent all individuals of the world, the family which can represent all families, and the nation that can represent all nations. With the world formed in this pattern, the Messiah can do the work of world restoration just as he would have done with the Christian churches. True Parent’s family have to be directly involved with this process and this is what the Unification Church is doing now.

When Reverend Moon brings the dispensation to the national level, the nation will oppose him; Korea did that. It is like rocking the entire country. If I move to the world level, then the world will oppose me, rocking the entire world and making a lot of confusion, always without base. During this time all the Unification Church members will come much closer to each other and all the people of the five different races will start moving from one place to another in a great movement.

I will say to the French, ‘Move right through to England,’ and they will all move to England. I will say the same thing to the Japanese and the Germans and they will all move too. The Germans cannot say, ‘We can’t go for this reason, for that reason,’ and on the contrary they will question nothing, thinking that as long as I am there they will go. They will be only too happy to go! All of you came on that basis.

Didn’t you look back and say, ‘Oh, I like it here. I want to stay; I don’t want to go to England, but I am supposed to go and so I must!’ Or were you only too happy to come because I am here? This is one command, and wherever the Messiah is, if he calls people they will be only too happy to go, without looking back. You know the story of Lot’s wife, and how she looked back toward Sodom and Gomorrah and became a pillar of salt? The Bible is teaching us a lesson. Have you come in that way? Are you really working with the thought that even though this is not your country you will love it even more than your own, restoring the failure of your ancestors all the way back to Adam and Eve?

### Following True Love

The great movement from one country to another is now possible, but where do we go next? We go where there is true love. We are always going there, even when we are staying and working in one place. We are going to where the true love is. That’s where True Parents are for the first time in history. We go there to True Parents and then we are always reaching out for ‘my true wife’ and ‘my true husband’ and at a later time for a true family of your own. This is where we are going now. But once you find the Messiah and get hold of him, you should never let him go, even though your limb or part of the body is chopped away. Even your wife running away must be seen as a secondary matter. Just cling onto me.

Even if this is a lot of nuisance, I won’t say ‘Go away!’ Will you become like that? Even if I were to kick you away and your pride is hurt, you may cry out like a small child who is scolded by his parents. He goes away, but only a few steps and then he comes back again, and you come right next to me, still crying. Then I would not kick you out again, but let you stay. This must be more than a metaphor, but an actual feeling that we must develop. We must be connected to the Messiah, and we must love him, and love has no reason, more than the king, more than anything else in the world. At first you may just think that you should become like that, but you must really try more seriously. Once you do that, you will develop a habit later on. Your whole body will automatically become like that.

Within the Unification Church, even though our work is hard, we must go beyond it. Whenever we see Parents our mind rejoices, but whenever they are out of sight, we become heavy. We have to find ourselves in the position where the moment we see them again, we are picked up, elated, and forget the difficulties. But do all of our minds work that way now? Do you really like and love True Parents? When you are the saddest, and you are really crying for one reason or another, and I appear right before you, you should instantly forget about it and love and smile with me in spite of yourself. We have to become like that; and if we are not then we have further to go.

One reason we should become like that is because Satan, who is right next door, will snatch you away any time he wants you. As time goes on and the Unification Church grows, the beautiful girls who have worked for many years may become rather tired. Satan will then come in the most brilliant manner and say, ‘Don’t follow Rev. Moon, I will introduce you to the most handsome and richest man in the entire world, and you can really live nicely, so why follow Rev. Moon?’ And then that woman must say ‘No!’ with straight eyes. Even if she still manages to say ‘No’ with wobbling eyes, she will still pass the test of Satan. But never become like that. You should open your eyes wide and look straight and say ‘No!’ Don’t say you will think about it and say no later; you must say no at all times. That’s how determined you must be.

The same goes for men too. Why do they have to follow Rev. Moon? Satan may say, ‘Forget about your life, forget about everything, here is a beautiful woman, and you can live happily ever after with her!’ Or more subtly, ‘Let’s have a little time off, why not just one day, why not just one month?’ You will have to say a straight ‘No!’ instantly. You must train yourself to become like that.

In the beginning, I was never to be opposed. If Christians had never opposed me in the beginning then the world would have been much simpler and the world would already have become one. Communists would have dissipated a long time ago, like snow in the spring. But as a result of the opposition of Christians, I had to find a substitute. So the Unification Church really had to suffer and is still suffering. Meanwhile, the Communists continue to exist until today. That’s the problem now.

If the Unification Church carries out God’s work correctly, then the Communists will go away as they were originally supposed to. But if not, there is a danger that indemnity will have to be paid by the people of the communist countries. This is what we have to worry about now. Every one of us should realize how difficult it was for Rev. Moon to lead the Unification Church, making sure that all indemnity was paid and paying most of it himself. It is not a simple matter to take care of Communism. We also have to bring Christianity into unity despite the fact that they oppose us, and they do not know the truth. The communists also think they are right, so we have to show them and bring them into the light. We are therefore left with two tasks to do.

### Going beyond the Old and New Testaments

Now you know a lot, and that’s important. Where am I? In what degree of transition am I? What should take place in me now? There are steps we can take to win the victory. First, we must establish our standard, starting with becoming victorious over the Old Testament standard and perfecting yourself on that level. That means that when you compare yourself with any biblical figure in the Old Testament Age you must be better than them, for example better than Noah when God told him to build the ark for 120 years on a mountain. Everybody jeered at him, but he just did it, and never complained.

We should not complain, and continue to build the ark for 120 years. We have to do that. Are you like that already? Can you prove that you have become like that? Actually, it isn’t difficult and not complicated. When you determine yourself, say, ‘Even now I am ready to die for the sake of the will of God. That’s plenty, more than enough. Abraham did the hard work, but he did not die although he was ready to die. If you feel you are really ready to die you are better than Abraham. That is the standard of life.

After that you will have to pass the standard of the New Testament. That means no matter how many people oppose you, no matter how much society opposes, jeers at and harasses you, your faith will still not move. We may find ourselves like the early Christians who were put into the dens of lions who ate them alive. But none of them said, ‘I will escape,’ but rather, ‘I am only too happy to die for God!’ They said that and they actually did it.

If, however, the Christians had thought at the time of dying in the lions’ den, ‘By my dying I will go to heaven,’ then they would not have gone to heaven, and even if we died the same way, we would never go to heaven simply by dying. Only by obeying God, and saying, ‘I die for the sake of mankind; I love mankind so much that even though I die I must keep on loving,’ can a person go to heaven. Jesus showed exactly that example, but his followers did not follow it. They thought Jesus died thinking only that he was going to heaven, and thought the same way at their own death instead of thinking as Jesus did that their death was for the sake of God and mankind. The death is the same, but one goes to heaven and the other does not.

When you suffer, don’t just think you are doing this simply but rather that you will widen the road of restoration by paying more indemnity to enable more people to come the easier way. Why shouldn’t we feel that we are suffering for the sake of going to heaven? Because God has not been doing that and we have to take exactly the same pattern as God. When we suffer to an impossible degree, we still have to maintain to ourselves ‘I will compare to everyone in the Unification Church, but I will suffer the most. I will never be outdone by any other member. I will be the one who suffers the deepest!’

We have to be like that even within our Unification walls, feeling that even if the President or highly placed leaders in the church were to escape at the point of death, we would see it through without evasion. We have to be like that; it is my only criterion. When I look at Unification Church members, I do not see them in any other way than this; to be ready and even willing to face death for the sake of the country and the sake of others. I look at Dennis Orme this way; I look at Doris that way and I look at the Korean staff members that way. I look at everyone for this one criterion: who is willing to die for the sake of the world?

It is a principle, a rule, that the children must stand in front of the parents. We will eventually have to reach the level where if the parents are endangered then the children will come right in front of them to try and protect them; and where the children are endangered the parents will come right in front of them to cover them. Where there is a wife in danger, then the husband will try to save her at the risk of his life. When the husband is in danger the wife will do the same thing. Everyone is trying to get ahead of each other to protect the others. We have to be that close-knit and integrated. This one original standard must come into existence in this world before God’s true center of love is established.

Then who is qualified to go into this realm of true love? Actually, everyone is trying to qualify. Then how do we know if we qualify? What is the standard? Well, anyone who is willing to protect his own parents, protect his own spouse, his own children when they are in danger, disregarding his own safety without hesitation, of such a person you can say he qualifies to go into the realm of this love for the first time.

When I say you must go beyond the level of the Old Testament time and the New Testament time, this is exactly what I mean. More than anyone in the Old Testament era, to be ready to die at any time for the sake of others; and not because of a personal desire to go to heaven, but for the benefit of others. If you do that, then you will qualify and you will go to heaven. The Old Testament can be compared to the time of the children and the New Testament era to that of the true spouse, or married couple, and the Completed Testament Age is the time of True Parents.

The Old Testament Age is the time of preparation to get married; the New Testament Age the time of engagement and the Completed Testament Age the time of marriage, going to the perfect realm of the heart of love. God has been working the dispensation age by age throughout 6,000 years. So it is not only true but logically consistent that if you are willing to die for your parents, your wife and your children, then you are the master of all of history at all different times.

Here we must be reminded of one important thing. In the Western world there has been a tradition of dueling where men challenged each other and fought and died for their wives; and you are naturally ready to die for you own children. You have done that, and it is relatively easy to do. But you have never tried to defend your own parents with your life; you simply don’t have that example in the Western world. Now we most build our own example and tradition, not so much in respect for wife and children, but for the parents for the first time.

If a father, wife and children are in the same danger, and there is a husband trying to save them, a Western man, by the way, to whom will he go first? I feel he will go to his wife first, but this is wrong. He should go to his parents first, because they represent God. It is not correct even to save the children first. If a man dies in defense of his parents, then he will cover the entire realm and God can restore the position. But if he died in defense of his wife or children in preference to his parents that is not good enough. What is your opinion? Is this wrong? Is it not so reasonable, not so logical?

In a family, if there are perfect relations between the parents then the horizontal relationships between the children come into existence automatically. If there is a perfect plus, a perfect minus appears automatically. This is a heavenly law. What about the existing family or social standards in the world? There are standards, but they have nothing to do with the original way.

### Let us reexamine ourselves

Then we have to reexamine ourselves. Who or what am I? We come to realize more and more that the enemy’s blood is running in our veins. Satan’s blood is trickling within us. We have to realize this. That is how we are all born. Now if we once realize that the satanic blood is flowing within us all, we may determine that we will subjugate that blood lineage within us. Even though we wanted to go the way Satan would have liked, we think that our spirits will be strong enough to dominate the body. But is this true?

We loosely reckon that if the body is directing us in one way, we ought to go in the opposite direction, assuming that that is the correct and spiritual way. We can say to God, ‘God, it is fitting that I should shed this blood,’ or in other words, we are unworthy of following God without any conditions. Even if we have to shed our blood, we deserve it; we have to be confident of that. We may pledge to God, ‘Just as long as I come near you, whatever happens doesn’t matter. I will exchange my blood, sweat, tears and everything I have for the right to come to closer to you.’

However, even if a person has 70 per cent of heavenly blood and only 30 per cent of satanic blood left, he will eventually turn round and go back to Satan. Even 98 per cent is not good enough. You have to have 100 per cent of heavenly blood and not even one iota of Satan’s blood remaining within you before you can go straight to God and guarantee that you will never deviate from that.

Which way are we going? Do we sometimes wobble, but still go in the right direction, or do we go straight to God? Sometimes you don’t walk straight, do you? We must determine to go straight and not to wobble a little bit and by doing so we know our blood will be completely devoid of satanic blood. What about a woman who says, ‘I am already 35 years old and not married. Father shows no sign of blessing me yet.’ So she looks around and thinks,’I would like to live with a man like that.’ Is that walking straight? Is that a sign of Satan’s blood working in you or isn’t it?

### We marry for God and the world

So even when we marry, we marry for the sake of God and mankind, and we should not even think of getting married for ourselves because that has no meaning. What if you are blessed with the one you hate most? Can you imagine that? Can you say, ‘Well, here is the worst woman for me, but God must have worked so hard to bring her to the level of the blessing! At least she is a woman!’ Knowing how hard God worked, if you go along with it, you are right. Moreover, you know that you are not perfect either, far from it. But still God has brought a woman to you, so you can feel that God has a hope and he is trying to accomplish his will in the world even through a meager person like yourself.

In history it happened that many people were kidnapped and plundered in time of war and the meanest man would snatch a prisoner and marry her against her will. He would marry her at gun point and out of that would come children, some of whom might well be our ancestors. There were not only one or two cases like this, but thousands and present-day mankind is the result. It is better, then, to persevere, no matter how difficult your marriage is, so that you can indemnify all those things of the past. In this way you will become the king of all those marriages, the king and queen of indemnity and those people will really worship you for what you have done.

Compare this with a plain man and plain woman getting married and enjoying so-called happiness, which is a low standard of happiness in a meaningless marriage. Yet if you marry for this ideal, it is far better and more meaningful. Do you understand? What do you have in your body? Satan’s blood. We must admit that we do not necessarily look to God so we have to consciously change that.

All you sisters and brothers, you want to get married, don’t you? You must become entirely like concrete in your self-control. If a man becomes sexually excited, he must turn to that part of his body and say, ‘You must understand the situation of satanic history!’ It is the same for women. When your bosom expands, you have to feel likewise and reprimand the bodily instinct. Look at yourself in the mirror and challenge Satan, ‘Why are you doing that?’ Then you have to retreat; ‘settle down.’

You may laugh, but this is a very real situation, and not funny at all. Those of you who have had a bad experience of reprimanding and scolding your own body, raise your hands. Everyone should be in complete control of their own body, never entertaining temptation and really scolding yourself to subjugate the flesh. One must be completely confident about this; it is of fundamental importance before you can ever qualify to be blessed. Whatever the temptation you might face, you can say that has nothing to do with you. You can come back to the zero point. To repeat: this is a basic test you have to go through, and only after you are absolutely confident that you will never fail do you qualify for the first time to be blessed and to do more important work in the dispensation. Actually, that is difficult. It is not easy to reach that level.

### Changing the blood lineage

The blood of the enemy is flowing in man’s body, and not just that of a simple enemy but of an historical enemy. Yet that blood will gradually change into that of an adopted son. The man with Satan’s blood will go against God, in the opposite direction, but the man with an adopted son’s blood will tag along with God. Wherever God goes, he will go. That is how you know he has an adopted son’s blood.

Then when can you say you have the blood of a true son or daughter, and be sure of that? That’s when you always find yourself in front of the parents, ready to protect him and to do what they do. There is a difference between the adopted son and the true son. The adopted son is aiming to get the inheritance, but the true sons are not so concerned. When it becomes dangerous, the adopted son tries to escape and is not willing to devote his life. The true sons and daughters are different in that they will spontaneously do anything for the parents.

What kind of son are you going to be? The answer is easy, but the reality is very difficult. If you will be a true son, are you ready to give up your own life? Jesus said that those who are willing to die will live, but those who try to live will die. How is that? If you are going to die, how can you live? Jesus’ meaning is that in order to bear the cross of the heart of love you have to go through this step of being willing to die. Bearing the cross is better than dying because after dying you have nothing.

Each one of us knows very well who we are. We know whether we have the blood of Satan flowing within us, or of an adopted son, or a true son. Each individual knows that for certain, doesn’t he? Do you or don’t you? You judge for yourself what position you are in. An adopted son can never enter the realm of heart. Only after we become true sons can we go into the realm of heart. This is why I am speaking this morning about ‘Victorious Sons and Daughters.’

The truly victorious sons and daughters are the ones who are willing to die for the cause and they go right into the realm of heart and are able to bear the cross of the heart of love. As true sons and daughters we have already worked hard, but we will do even more, going the impossible way without complaining and still feeling that we have not done enough. If we don’t do that, someone else must and that is most likely our parents. If we don’t want the ones we love the most to carry the cross, we must take it ourselves. Once we join the church in some way we are getting rid of the cross, but still you see in the world so many people still bearing their cross. Knowing that, you want to do as much work as possible to relieve them.

I have been doing that for many years, but now we realize this we will do it in his place. The parents will experience a new love for that kind of son, and there will be a reason for them to love him more than others. Parents like most the sons and daughters who really like to work on their own. The spirit world tells you this, advising you in a dream to follow me no matter what, and never let go of me. This is because I am doing the work of heaven. I am supposed to teach you, but heaven teaches you in my place.

Would you like to be the sons and daughters of Satan, adopted sons and daughters or true sons and daughters? For us to become like that we have to be prepared to face the situation of dying more than three times, feeling ‘This is the end of my life; tomorrow I may die, proverbially I die.’ We have to go through this three times before we get close to the realm of love. If something extreme happens to me, I cannot complain. If I find myself put in jail, that can still be a source of gratitude, for at least I am alive! Never complain because the work or the situation is hard. Then it has no value. You must always be willing to follow, and not only to follow but also to find the work of heaven and do it, to be sacrificed and go.

Such a man is a worthy one and he will surely reach this realm of love. We will do this kind of work which calls for this type of sacrifice, and we will do it here in England, trying to work harder than anyone else for this cause. We must feel responsible and work harder even than the heroes and patriots in the spiritual world who worked hard for the sake of this country, and be grateful to God. Maybe they suffered as much as you did, but the difference is that they complained while they died, while you go through your hardship being thankful and grateful to God. Such are the sons and daughters of God.

Even though we go without sleep, without meals, we will still work harder than anybody else and not complain, but be grateful for even that. Jesus showed us the example when he prayed, ‘God, not as I will but as You will,’ and we as Unification Church members have to pray as Jesus did and even more. We must always pray like that. Have you ever prayed that seriously? When we go out witnessing and people persecute us, mistreat us and say bad things against us, sometimes we cannot help the tears rolling out of our eyes because we are so mistreated; but we still have to be tolerant and pray to God, ‘Do as You will, not as I will.’ Then you will go over the situation and Satan will leave.

### The borderline in myself

There is always a borderline, with one side being heaven and the other side belonging to Satan. If you go over the borderline, always falling on the side of heaven, you will eventually find yourselves as sons and daughters of God. It is a habit, almost like conditioning. It will take you at least seven years before you become accustomed to it. Is that easy or difficult to do? Difficult work is valuable and precious.

Now do you know where you are on the historical map, in the Old Testament time, the New Testament time, or the Completed Testament time? You know that, and you also know whether the blood flowing in you is the blood of Satan, of an adopted son, or the blood of a true son and daughter. If anyone still does not know where they are, raise your hands. If you still do not know then either you have never heard of the Principle or you don’t have any intelligence!

When you go to heaven, you must know to which area of the spirit world you are going. Even though we are all doing the same activities in the same Unification Church, the heart of someone who has the mind of a true son or daughter goes straight to God when he goes to the spirit world, but the adopted son goes to Paradise, like Jesus and his disciples. The one who has Satan’s blood flowing in him goes straight to hell when he goes to spirit world. But as a Unification Church member you would still go to the boundary of Paradise and Hell. This is not just an abstract thing or imagination. You just go there and you will find out. We should make sure before we go, though. Your mind already knows and you cannot deceive anyone. You go where you are fit to go. Even when you are in the spirit world you can’t complain about where you are. You will have to say, ‘I had to come here, I knew it.’

But here is something very important. While you have your physical body you can go through all kinds of barriers, almost instantly, once you make up your mind and train yourself to do that. But once you get rid of your body and go to the spirit world, you can never go from one place to another. Here, when someone teaches you, you learn seriously and you can do so much; but in the spirit world you already know things without being taught, but you cannot move freely. You cannot even go next door, although it is only one step away. This is why we drive ourselves to surmount all difficulties while we still have our physical bodies. If you do that, you don’t have to worry about it when you go to the spirit world.

This is what happened to St. Paul. He was not of great faith until he saw the spirit world in a vision and saw that there were three levels there. After that, he never cared about anything anymore. Even though he was dying he went to every corner of the world trying to do the most difficult things because he already knew what was awaiting him when he went to the spirit world.

This is what I myself found. Since I know it very well, nobody has to tell me what to do and what not to do. Even though everyone says bad things about me, I still know that this is the one thing I must do, and I do it. We must be very careful, realizing that here on earth, no matter how difficult it is, all you have to do is turn around one step, and then adjust your heart to the good way. But if you don’t do that on earth, when you go to spirit world it takes a hundred or a thousand steps, or even a thousand years.

### Don’t think this course is difficult

Here on earth we have to tolerate much suffering, toil and hard work, but we must still go over this one point. Once we determine ourselves and we are ready to die, then it is no problem, and you can do that much more, and more quickly. It really does not take much effort, and you can do almost anything very quickly. There are many boundaries, but once you are determined to die, you can almost jump them all in one leap, if you do it here on earth. Don’t think it is difficult to go from the individual level, family level and national level. If you have the determination to do it, the barriers are already down. Heaven has already shown us that if an offering sheds blood then there is a straight path to the destination without obstacles. When you determine yourself, you have made yourself an offering. Whenever you are willing to die, you will live, for sure; your life is guaranteed.

Then why do I encourage you to do things the difficult way? Is it because I am not smart enough? Then what about Jesus? He was the son of God, but he too went the difficult way. If God is omnipotent, which means he can do anything, then why does he encourage his people to suffer? Because this is the only way, by making yourself determined even to die you will drastically change. God is advising you to do that, even demanding it. Are you going to be true sons and daughters? Do you really mean that? Then now you surely know what to do, how and why, so you cannot say later, ‘Father, I didn’t know, and you didn’t tell us.’

### Working on the world level

It is difficult, in the worldly sense, to move from one country to another, where customs are different and you don’t even speak the language. It would be more difficult if you were sent to evangelize in places where the church is not already established, but in fact wherever we go, we find the church is already there. We have a foundation, and so the work is much easier. Who made that foundation? Of course, it was me. If you had to make the foundation yourself it would be much more difficult.

I am providing the foundation in England for free to all the nations who come here to do this work. Once we work on this foundation we will pass on the inheritance to those following us. As we expand our territory, we will pass it on. We must be willing to work harder than True Parents, with the attitude that we are ready to die tomorrow. If we do that then we actually won’t die. Nevertheless, be determined that if there is any point where death is necessary in the Unification Church, that you will go there rather than anyone else. Those who think like that are guaranteed to reach all other goals.

One of our Family members came to me and said, ‘Father, according to your speech, it looks like we must go to Russia soon. In Russia, if I am arrested I could be sent to prison camp, possibly sentenced to death, but I will do that ahead of anyone else in the Unification Church.’ And before I could say ‘Yes’ he just went there. He wrote a letter to me saying that he expected to see me in the spiritual world. This should be the typical example for all of us, not an extraordinary one.

This task is holy and sacred. St. Paul did not go to Rome to have a comfortable time, but he was ready to die. When I came to America, I did not expect to have a comfortable time. In fact I was ready to die, for this was possible at any time. I collided with people, including those in authority, and gave some very straight talking. This nearly cost me my life. You know how much wickedness there is in America and the world, but I had to proclaim this truth and moreover, I taught many thousands of American young people who are working straight towards this goal without wobbling. I say things to people and look them right in the eye.

As long as there are these kinds of people all of us respect and would like to become like them. Every country has its own heroes. Here in London, at Trafalgar Square, we see Lord Nelson’s statue. When the French people come to London, perhaps they do not want to see him, but he is a patriot for the British. If he had not been determined to die for victory, is it possible that he could have led his men in combat and achieved that victory? Not at all.

Even though Admiral Lord Nelson fought bravely and won a great victory for England, has he become a son of God? No, far from it. He could not get anywhere near that position. You are in fact in a much better position, even with the little you do now. But can you keep that position without being as determined to sacrifice for the cause as was Lord Nelson? We should surely be even more determined than Nelson himself, since we know this way is right and that there is no other way to go. Whether we live or die really doesn’t matter so long as we do our job right.

It’s a strange thing, but as we have said, the man who is determined to die bravely will in fact live longer. I can see this in my own life. I was always willing to die, but God, knowing the consequences, cannot permit that. With me all ready to die, God sent down his angels to prepare the situation so that I would live. For example, even in the prison camp at Hung Nam, where so many died, I was protected. I was often starving and only a few days from death. But then a person would mysteriously bring food to me saying, ‘In my dream I was commanded to bring this food to you. I don’t know what’s going on, but here it is.’ On other occasions, during the Korean war, I would sense intuitively that I should leave a place, and moments later it would be shelled. This was not just once or twice but dozens of times. Yet I do not normally make a point of telling this to people because it is something which is not normal.

Anyway, when we are willing to die to save someone, we will not. Both will live, the saver and the saved. Everyone of us must experience that way of live at one time or another, and preferably make a habit of it. There are times when you have no leader apart from God Himself and True Parents. At that moment friends are no help to you, nor are leaders. Only your determination that you are not doing this for yourself, but for God and all mankind, remains.

### How we must work now

Some of you are bound to go witnessing and end up sitting on a bench doing nothing, aren’t you? When you feel that your feet are aching too much to carry on, but keep walking with your aching feet, it is more valuable and you will bring in better results. When we do without food or sleep, our work is more precious and much more of a condition of indemnity. This is the way we must feel to become victorious sons and daughters. While you are working hard in London, you should still think, ‘Well, this is a hundred times better than going to Africa by myself, or to a place where people were barbarians who understand nothing of the ideal and do not even work. I must preach the gospel here and then go to the communist world where they may try to hurt or kill me when I am captured. Even then, I must do that and work harder.’ Working in London is the best place for you to be trained.

You can imagine that if you were to go to a primitive tribe in Africa and tell them about Adam and Eve, Abraham and Moses, they would never understand what you are talking about. You would have to start from scratch and build up, year after year, even to be able to mention Adam and Eve before your die! If you go and talk about Abraham in the communist world now, would they understand? And you will have to tell them all about the Christian religion, and other religions, before they can understand that you are talking about Adam and Eve and other biblical figures.

But here in London, you need only mention the name ‘Moses’ or ‘Abraham’ and people at once know whom you are talking about. You never thought about this point, did you? It takes less effort here. After all, this is less of a barbarian country! This knowledge can be a source of power. You can feel that this is even an easy life and that you can easily do it. But if you complain here, then how can you even imagine making one step out of the country and going to Africa or into the communist world? There they will try to kill you, or put you in jail; here, they won’t.

My topic this morning was ‘Victorious Sons and Daughters.’ What I actually had in mind was how you have to work here in order to become such victorious sons and daughters. Knowing the qualifications, we now have to train ourselves. I told you that even if you walk until you drop, and an ambulance picks you up, that is part of the glory of doing God’s work. We should compare ourselves with people of the world who are working hard for their own sake and then work harder than they do for the sake of God and mankind. This gives us courage and power.

Now do you know for sure how to become victorious sons and daughters? Those of you who do, raise your hands. Now that you know for sure, if you pledge to do it and put it into practice, raise both your hands, with your fists clenched as tight as you can. Look at your own fists and see how dependable they are. Even though your hands get tired, they should always stay there; we should be determined. God Bless You!

## LET US BE GRATEFUL

By Fami1yfed June 16, 2018 June 16, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1978

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### June 18, 1978
London, England
Translator – Sang Kil Han

> Many, indeed most, of Rev. Moon’s speeches address the enormous issues of God’s providence, and the great mission of restoration of the world. But here is something quite different: a very practical homily on the importance of gratitude, illustrated from his own life with humor and sincere concern.

No one planned to be born. We just find that we have been born. And although your parents gave birth to you, they couldn’t plan what kind of personality their baby would have. Now science has progressed and parents can find out the sex of the baby before it is born, but previously, parents never even knew if they would have a boy or girl.

Have you ever thought about what you would like to be if you could plan ahead of your birth? Now you are grown up and you have some concept of your life, but if you could plan your own image in advance of being born then no doubt you would be a very special baby. However, even if you turned out according to your plan, would you be satisfied for very long?

Even if you could be born to your own specifications, that would probably have little to do with your satisfaction. There would still be many, many elements with which you would not be satisfied. No doubt many of you, especially the women, complain to yourselves, “Why didn’t my parents make me a little more beautiful? Why is my nose like this and my mouth like that?” Have you ever felt that way at one time or another?

Many times I have asked women whom everyone agrees are beautiful whether they feel pretty and beautiful. Almost always they reply, “No.” They were dissatisfied with many things about their appearance. Everyone admired one sister’s eyes, but she thought quite differently; her eyes were the part of her face that she hated most. They reminded her of an enemy of her father’s and every time she looked in the mirror that unhappy memory was renewed. Although many people envied her beauty, she had all sorts of complaints about her appearance. No person is really satisfied with himself even though many other people feel that he should be. This is a very common thing. You can see that this is not a simple matter.

### Someone was happy to find you
just the way you are

Conception begins with two cells that keep dividing and by the time a person is an adult the number of his cells is truly an astronomical figure. We can imagine that the distance from the tip of our foot to the top of our head is comparable to the distance from one end of the solar system to the other. A baby in its mother’s womb is already a big universe.

The cells don’t know how the whole being is going to be shaped. Imagine that the eyes didn’t find their right place and ended up at the navel instead. Perhaps one palm might be turned outward while the other faced the normal way. The nose could have been made crooked by one simple misalignment of cells, or the teeth could have grown from the fingertips. Imagine how easily the parts of your body could have been misplaced. But they were not. Instead, everything took its proper position. Even if you don’t feel handsome you can feel relieved and happy that you were born normal.

Do any of you women feel that you were very unfortunate to be born as a woman? Considering all the complicated processes of your body you have every reason to be grateful to be born as you were. Many mothers confess that when they are in labor it is so painful that they wish the baby were very small like a fist so that birth would hurt less. But then once the baby is delivered, the mother’s concern turns instantly to her child and she checks everything to see that all is normal. She examines the eyes, ears, nose, hands and feet and opens the mouth to make sure the baby has a tongue. It is a great relief when the baby has its first bowel movement and the urine flows out right. This might sound funny, but the mother is quite serious about making sure the baby is functioning normally. Can you feel that or do you think the mother is worrying too much? The mother has great anxiety until the baby takes its first milk; then for the first time she knows that she has a perfectly normal baby and she is relieved.

You should know that someone was happy to find your eyes the way they are and every part of your body the way it is. Your own mother was the first one who really rejoiced at the way you function. What about your father? Your mother was so happy after making sure that everything was in the proper order that to see her relief your father was also happy.

When nursing her baby, does any mother think that it would be better if part of her baby’s face were different? Even though the baby may be clearly out of proportion, she never thinks that way because she is happy that her baby is healthy. Does the father feel happy too? Does any father bring his child up thinking that she will have to have plastic surgery when she grows up because she is not very pretty? On the contrary, even though the father does not think she is beautiful he still believes that as she grows up everything will come into proportion. Don’t you think the father and mother will feel like that?

Have you heard the saying that when a baby is very pretty at first she generally grows up not being so attractive, and when a baby is rather ugly when she is born that she grows up to be more beautiful? This seems to hold true generally. A girl who looks very pretty when she is 20 or 21 years old seems to become less beautiful as she ages. If she looks a little plump at 21 or 22 years of age then she will look good the rest of her life and not be ugly when she gets old. No matter how beautiful a girl is, it seems to be difficult to retain that beauty after she has given birth to three children.

Your parents were the first to be concerned about how you looked, and once your mother was satisfied that everything was all right she prayed and hoped and did everything for you. Now that you are fully grown what right do you have to complain about the way you look? It is unjust to complain about the way you look. If you keep your mind beautiful as you grow older, then always the appearance of your face and body will improve, becoming more and more beautiful.

### Whoever can feel grateful in the midst
of impossible circumstances will find himself
in the highest place

If you don’t like the way you look then do you wish your face could be molded to your satisfaction? Of course not. No two petals on one flower look alike, and if you examine all the small stones and pebbles on a mountain carefully, you will see that they are all different. That is one of the beauties of nature, and so is the way you are born. To begin with we ought to be grateful for the fact that we were born normal, that our eyes are not malfunctioning or in a different place than other peoples’ and not worry about whether we have attractive features. We ought to feel very happy to be born in the first place; then we must go on to be grateful to our own parents. If you are not happy at the way you are born then how can you ever be grateful to your own parents?

Now you have grown up and you have done many things before finally joining the Unification Church. Is the fact that you are in the Church a source of complaint, or should this be a reason to be grateful? What are you so grateful about? You have to get up early on Sunday morning and then come here with sleepy eyes, and then after my talk you find yourselves out in the world, caught up in all the frictions of dealing with people. How can you say you are grateful?

The fact that we are alive and get tired and sleepy is a source of gratitude. Last night I talked until 4:40 with one of the older members who recently came to give a report. I never slept at all, and when it was time for service I just washed my face and then came down here. Even though I was utterly tired I felt I needed to speak to you family members. It is not easy sometimes, especially after a sleepless night, but then I felt grateful for that. You know how satisfying it is when you push yourself bard without rest and then finally you get a chance to sleep.

In your own lifetime, especially in the future, do you think there will be more moments of being grateful or more moments of being unhappy? Will more unsatisfying things happen or more happy things happen in your lifetime? Can you call yourselves happy now? Do you feel grateful?

Why do I talk about this? You might reply that it is because this attitude determines who goes to the best place in spirit world. If I speak too much about the spirit world then you will really feel lightheaded! In one word, though, whoever can feel grateful even in the midst of impossible circumstances will find themselves in the highest place in spirit world.

You might wonder who your eyes take after. Of course there is only one person whom you take after, God Himself. No one else. Your nose, ears and limbs all take after God’s. There are some tall people, some short people, some people big and some small, and all of them have much use in God’s world.

When you have to flee from a situation rather quickly do you think it is good to be big or to be small? When there is a great crowd of people and you want to get away quickly, the small ones have much advantage. Definitely when we have to house many people in one room, we find that being small is awfully convenient. On the other hand, if you need to take something off a high shelf then it is much more convenient to be tall.

Smaller people sometimes feel, “Why am I so small, when everyone is so big?” Never think in that way. Small people have many advantages. For instance, if there is a flood in an area, the small ones will be the first ones to submerge, and everyone will take it for granted that the small ones should be carried on the shoulders of the tall ones. Then in a time of famine when there is nothing to eat, you should think, “I was born prepared for this situation. Being small I don’t have to eat much.” When there is nothing around to eat and you find yourself as big as Mr. Orme you will be certain to starve, whereas if you are small you will never starve. Feel grateful for that. In the same critical situation the big person will never make it but the small one will. If your parents had hidden a very precious stone in a small hole then with your small hand you would be the only one able to take it out.

Don’t ever feel dissatisfied or complain about the way you were born, even if you are small. Think about how at night a big person is certain to crash into the doorway in the dark, whereas if you are small you can easily get by it without running into it. You have to always think like that because there is always a valid reason behind these things, and thinking in that way will always help to make you more positive about what you were born with.

### Have confidence because you come from God

You may feel you don’t have any particular talent but don’t ever envy another person whom you consider gifted. Being born without an obvious talent can in itself be called a gift. Many people have a difficult time in life because of their so-called talent. You must really take hold of everything in your life like that. This not just a way of coping; it is a better attitude and way of life than the man has who was born tall or talented and has all kinds of problems.

Many women don’t want to sing because they think they are not beautiful, but this is not good. The bullfrog is by no means beautiful yet he is the one who sings the most! No matter how you feel about yourself you are still beautiful and handsome, so you ought to sing out by all means. You have to feel that all the time.

Everyone likes the person who can sing and be optimistic. Even God likes that kind of person and will help him more than those who are always solemn or depressed. No one likes to hear critical comments all the time, including God. Some dogs are very cute but not if they bark all the time. A dog can bark once in a while but most of the time he has to be agreeable.

The pretty girl may have a smile that everyone likes, but even if you’re plain your smile has a unique attraction that only you can have. The pretty girl can never smile the smile you can. You can smile in your original way and you can laugh your original laugh.

People walk in all different ways, each having unique characteristics. No two people walk exactly alike. Some people even walk as though they were swimming or trying to catch something. Everyone may have somewhat similar features, but they all laugh differently and smile differently. Some people start smiling with their mouths while others smile with their eyes. There is no set standard for smiling. You set the standard of smiling for yourself.

You can feel confident enough that when you see someone in a beauty contest you can think, “She is in the process of catching up with my smile. Mine is the perfected smile and she is just in the process of coming my way.” If you don’t like the way your face looks then feel it instead of looking at it. Then you will know that it is a very good face.

Everyone is different, and the one who may look very pretty from the front is not so pretty when you look from the back, while someone who looks beautiful from the side is not so beautiful from back or front. A woman whom everyone agrees is beautiful might have unattractive hands or feet. Some women have hips far out of proportion to the rest of their bodies.

If a man or woman is very handsome but his ears move like a donkey’s then his whole look is out of proportion and is unattractive. If a person’s face is not particularly special, however, and his ears are like a donkey’s, that is actually becoming. It balances. Standard beauty with donkey-like ears doesn’t suit, but an average or unattractive appearance goes together with this kind of ear. Now you know not to make light of these things for they are very important for conducting yourself in the right way.

Have you ever prayed to God at one time or another, saying, “God, why do I look the way I do now? Can I improve those looks?” We have one classical story about a grandmother in Korea who is so old that she is as wrinkled as a pumpkin. Everywhere I go she goes because she wants to be with me so much. Even if no one knows where I am she is already there, and if I ask how she found me, she replies, “I had to figure it out.” Every time I give a talk she is there listening in the front row. If someone asks, “Why do you sit so close to Father all the time?” she says, “I am worried that if Father does not see my face he will miss me.” She honestly feels that.

Once I told her, “Stop following me all the time and never sit near me again. Things go wrong if I even look at you!” Then she really had a problem because she felt she couldn’t live without looking at me. After I spoke to her so strongly she disappeared for three days and I felt relieved. But what happened was that she went to seriously protest to God, “God, You simply have got to do something about this. Father says I am so ugly that he just cannot bear looking at me all the time.” Then she asked God what she should do because she simply couldn’t live without being around me.

I thought she was gone forever but after three days she came up to me with a beaming smile. She was so happy that she came even closer than before and I asked her, “Where have you been the last three days? I thought you had gone for good.” She replied, “I have been praying to God.” Then I asked, “What did He reply?” She answered, “God told me that I shouldn’t even worry about it because no matter how ugly I am I still look like Him. Also, no matter how beautiful a girl may be, she still has His looks. Then God told me to go even closer to you because I look exactly the way He looks. This is exactly what God told me.”

This story became a real source of inspiration for everyone. If even an 80-year-old grandmother has that kind of guts then you young people must have confidence in the way you look and in the talents you have because they come from God. You can be confident that no matter how you think you look, all mankind is really in love with you. Not just one or two, but all men are really crazy about you. This is very important.

### Be content within yourself before you set out

If you don’t like yourself, do you think someone else will like you? No one will like you if you don’t like yourself. The person who hates himself will be hated by everyone. There is no way that people can like him because he is his own best friend, and if he doesn’t like himself, who could he expect to like him?

It is also natural that if I love myself so much, I love my father and mother in turn. Since I like myself, someone else can come to like me as well. If I like myself then at the same time I can like other people too. You have to think like that. If you consistently feel like that and practice it then you can be loved by other people. If you are really liked by other people that means you like yourself and you like other people.

If you really introduce the element of light throughout your life of 70 or 80 years on earth, then living is actually rather simple. Our entire life falls into six categories: to go and come and to feel good and feel bad, to sleep in the evening and wake up in the morning. Our task is how to make full use of these six categories. When it is good to go some place and good to come from some place; and when it is good to fall asleep and then good to wake up and good while you are awake; and if you feel good after you feel bad, then your time will be well-spent.

When you feel good and then extend that to God, He will feel good too. When you feel good and extend it to other people they will likewise feel good. This is the true religious life. I like being here in England, so the rest of the foreign members will like it also. This is for my happiness as well as the happiness

of everyone else. The fact that we are here and doing the work gives me pleasure and gives God pleasure in the same way.

Everyone must also learn at one time or another that if you eat food you don’t particularly care for, you should eat it just as though it were the tastiest thing in the world. Then it can taste good. It is nice to eat tasty food, but what we ought to do is what we usually don’t want to do. If you chew a slice of bread enough then it tastes very sweet. That simple food can be so tasty and sweet that you will never want to get butter or cheese to eat with it because it’s not necessary, and also because it covers up the simple taste of bread. Hard work can be even more enjoyable than leisure because after we get the hard work done, resting is even more satisfying than usual.

This morning I want you to learn that we must simply be aware of being grateful for what we are bestowed with. When you wake up in the morning and see the sun shining you must be confident that the sun shines for you and not only for someone else. You can even think that if you did not exist that the sun would have no more use. The birds sing and even the insects buzz to please you rather than anyone else. You have to feel, “The stars twinkle and the moon shines just for me.” We each have to feel like that.

Each person should make it a custom with himself to be grateful for the many things that he has been taking for granted. “That exists solely for me and if I don’t appreciate it then it is all wasted, which is just not right.” Wherever you go, feel grateful that these things exist for you. Even if it takes much conscious effort to understand, we have to learn this lesson of being grateful for every situation.

Most churches have comfortable pews and nice organs, but here we have become accustomed to sitting on the floor. After sitting for three, four or five hours your legs ache and your feet get numb. If you can think that this is a good situation then you are beginning to understand gratitude.

Many good people have been sent to prison who did nothing evil. If you find yourself in prison even though you may not have done anything wrong, it will be a totally new and broadening experience. That should serve as a source of gratitude too. When you go door-to-door and witness you cannot just start out and expect to be welcomed by the people. You have to be really content within yourself, and before you set out, think, “What kind of people am I going to meet today? Definitely I’ll be meeting all different kinds of people-short, tall, people with smiles on their faces, people who leave a bad taste in my mouth.” Just think that they are there for your own enjoyment. First of all you have to be contented; then as you visit them you will be able to receive all their different sentiments.

If you are very busy and going somewhere but someone stops you to ask the way, don’t ever think that it is a bothersome thing. Take a moment and explain to him how to get to his destination. During that moment you are existing for that purpose alone; with that feeling you must perform that service. One thing is for sure; by doing that you will never lose. Much gain will result from that kind of situation and attitude. You will never lose because that is the nature of the universe.

A complaining mood can chase away someone who is trying very much to help. It is totally possible that he could be a tremendous help to you but because of complaining to yourself the chances are that you will chase him away.

### Starting today, lead a life of gratitude

One way or another all of you have joined the Unification Church and since coming everyone is grateful to be here. Who would God like more and who would heaven like more-those who always were grateful and happy in their ten years since joining the Church, or those who were always half complaining? It goes without saying that it is those people who have lived a grateful and happy life during these ten years who would be most welcomed by heaven.

Starting today, you are about to lead a life of being happy and grateful, aren’t you? Then in your mind there is no cloud and you feel less tired and downcast. You will work more efficiently and even accomplish better everything that you plan.

You can check this point by putting it into practice for one week, trying to be always grateful and happy as much as you can. Then at the end of the week, pray to God about anything. You will feel that your prayer will come more freely and be answered right away. It will be like seeing the sunshine. If you feel very unhappy inside, however, like having a cloud over your mind, then at the end of the week when you pray to heaven you will feel a heavy feeling and know that your prayer is not working so well.

You will find out that you always have to protect the openings in your body; you have seven of them in your face. When you hear something you must listen to it in a positive way and feel that it is doing something good for you. Feel that it is meant to be good for you. Even if you hear someone complaining, think that he is getting rid of his own problems; never let it shake you.

When your eyes see something, look at it always in a positive way. If you see someone who doesn’t do anything right, then think, “He is trying to get rid of his own problems that way.” Turn everything into something positive. Then you can look with generous eyes. Feel that a person will or will not do a certain thing as a result of whether or not you look at him with generous eyes.

Sometimes people don’t like bad smells, but you have to teach your nose a lesson. Give a sermon to your own nose about how it likes nice smells but it should also like unpleasant smells. When you talk, speak as though you were singing. When you have some hard things to do, accept the fact that once in a while you have to do hard work also.

When you feel contented within yourself then you will become very generous. From early morning to evening see everyone in a positive way and never resent people. Then in the evening you won’t feel so tired but will even be inspired to speak to people more. If you experience one day in your life like that then your witnessing will become very successful. Even though not one person responds that day, your feeling will be planted in everyone’s heart and there it will grow.

When I was in prison I normally prayed seven hours a day. One day in prison someone said something which upset me so much that I could not help but shout out one word to counterbalance it. To my amazement it took me a full two weeks to recover from that. Sometimes it is that difficult. Becoming upset and angry hurts the religious life very much, damaging the peaceful inner life. You know it is only on the warm days that flowers bloom, not on the stormy, cold days. Likewise, our minds should create this warm climate in which to bloom.

Those who never feel contentment or peace and gratitude in their minds can never help other people, let alone save them. When you go out witnessing people sometimes say harsh things to you, but never get angry at them. Be prepared for that and respond, “Now is the time when I can be really grateful.”

If you practice only this one thing during your witnessing it can bring more sense of goodness to your life than any fancy thing. It is worth spending the rest of your life learning this one thing, to be grateful under all circumstances. You can be grateful because things are difficult. People often complain to me that nothing seems to go smoothly, but then they have to try harder to get things done. If you can go over all difficult situations and still be thankful then you have nothing but success ahead of you.

These days some of you bring your lunch with you during the day. Do you put it in your pocket) Sometimes it is a nuisance because it is heavy, but then that can be a source of gratitude too. Have you ever had the impulse to console the sandwich bumping around in your pocket all morning and say, “You worked hard and now I will eat you in a good way”? It reveals a good nature if you feel like that. Eating that simple food tastes much better once you know how to be grateful.

Perhaps you start the day out with a grateful mind, then by lunchtime you feel just a lime complaint, then by dinner maybe you are thankful, but in the evening you complain a little more. What kind of day is that? How much better it would be if you had a grateful mind throughout the day. Would you want to become like that?

Do you each have a handkerchief? If you don’t then you should buy one and use it to train yourself. One way is to fold it around your hand; then on a normal day if you feel like complaining, look at the handkerchief and let it remind you of this morning’s resolution. This kind of technique is necessary.

So far you have been witnessing with the attitude, “I am supposed to do this and I don’t have much choice.” If you go out witnessing in that mood then you can’t be grateful because of the purpose you serve. How many of you have been witnessing with grateful minds? Don’t tell a lie!

We have much to complain about because the center is congested and the food is not so good and you can’t even take a bath every day. Sometimes you meet people who are not so good, and you don’t even have an automobile to go places but have to walk. If you want to complain there are many topics. Those of you who have an average of one complaint a day, raise your hands. No one? It is not likely that no one complains!

Sometimes people laugh at you at the wrong time and sometimes people step on your foot so you complain. Many times you have an urge to complain. Sometimes when you want to cross the street someone bumps you aside and is offensive. Let’s get it straight; those who have complained an average of one time a day, raise your hands. That’s more like it. Those whose hands did not go up, you are lying! This is important enough to take time to talk about because if you make a habit of complaining then no blessing will come to you, even though heaven may try; if you gripe then heaven has to change its direction. How can you witness and complain at the same time? You can never effectively witness to another if you complain.

Starting today, you should carry some token reminder for the times when you have the urge to complain. Let us try for the rest of the week never to complain, even one time, and even if you meet an impossible situation still smile with gratitude. See what happens when you go to knock on people’s doors. Don’t think about doing it for the rest of your lives but just for one week. If you really experience this then at the end of the week I will urge you to complain and everyone will choose not to.

An ugly man who tries to be grateful even when he has ample reason to complain has more power than a magnificently handsome man. It’s like the law of indemnity. If someone works hard when he doesn’t have to then his effort has much more meaning than just fulfilling what is required of him.

Whoever has lots of reasons to complain but doesn’t can feel that he is paying 1,000 times more indemnity. Those who are not handsomely born but are very grateful are a thousand times better than the handsome man or beautiful woman who can only harbour grievances. When you look in the mirror, be determined to make a beautiful woman and a handsome man ashamed by your being grateful all the time. By living this way you are shaming the people who have great worldly standing. Can I trust you in this?

Many people may pray for hours but they still complain. Certainly this does not make any sense because it nullifies their prayers. No matter how nicely a person may witness to other people, if at the end of the day he complains then it’s like spilling all the clean water into muddy water; the water is never clear. Look at nature and everyone around just as if you were seeing the bright shining sun in the morning.

I wonder sometimes why men started shaving their beards. Why do you think? If you have a heavy beard then even if you have a sense of deep gratitude it doesn’t show, but if you shave your beard off, the slightest emotion shows in your face. I think that’s why men started shaving.

What about women; why don’t they have beards? They are supposed to show every emotion that they have and I hope they will all be good, positive emotions. I think women are experts at laughing, singing songs and dancing. The only time men become happy is when women are happy.

Today is June 18th, and until June 25th we will continue to be grateful and happy all the time. Shall we do that? I feel that if you could live a life like this for one full year, it would be the same as if you had prayed for three hours a day. After praying for that amount of time you become closer to receiving spiritual experiences. If you feel this way then it will be like a sunny day and the flowers will bloom in the warmth and everywhere there will be peace and contentment. You can become like this by your feelings.

There is a Korean saying that the harmonious family will always be successful. That means that if you have a happy, grateful life within the Church, never complaining, then everything that you do will bring nothing but success, health and agreement. When you are elated and laughing then you are opening yourself up and even your blood can become clean. If you live like that then even though you are very tired after coming back from a day’s witnessing you will still look much prettier coming back home than when you started out in the morning after a refreshing sleep.

If then you still cannot tolerate something and you’re about to burst, always call God’s name. Then you will get over that situation because God has been overcoming for many thousands of Years. If I can do it, you can. If you have that feeling then you can immediately surmount the problem.

Don’t make light of this; I thought I needed to talk to you about this more than anything else. When I looked at you I thought this was what you needed most — to be grateful in every situation.

Let us pray.

## THE BURDEN ON OUR SHOULDERS

By Fami1yfed June 16, 2018 June 16, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1978

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### June 11, 1978
London, England
Translator – Sang Kil Han

> By June 11, the International One World Crusade (IOWC) had been witnessing in London and other cities around Britain for two weeks. Although the initial response was good, Rev. Moon knew well that the young members were encountering many difficulties.

> This is a really pastoral speech, full of concern to explain the way of true love for the sake of others. Those who truly live with God will have many spiritual experiences which will help them reach out to others and share the light of God’s love.

We all have difficulties at some time or another in our lives. Especially when we want to excel or do better than other people we have to work harder and experience more difficulties, and this is true of the family and nation as well as the individual. If one nation wants to be more prosperous or become better than others then it will experience the same obstacles as an individual. The same holds true in God’s dispensation.

Religious life must have an added dimension concerning dispensational life and the spiritual level, which is lacking in worldly life. In everyday life you aren’t expected to do any better or go any further than the people around you. The religious life is completely different, however; you have to set your own goal and pursue it.

We find that now the earth and spirit world are separated. Originally there should have been no division between them, and if man had not fallen they would have remained united. The situation now is that the spirit world and earth are divided and we experience this daily because the mind and body are trying to go in different ways. Most people never think about whether the mind or body should go first; if their mind works faster then they follow that impulse, but if the body is stronger then they follow that direction. They have no idea where they are going. Often we find the body acting as if it were beyond control, persisting in its own direction even when the mind is insisting, “You should not do that. I should not live this way.” Our struggle is essentially that of guiding the body in the right direction.

If a person does not have religious experience or understanding, he thinks that man was created to live in this state of conflict. Scholars conclude that God cannot be perfect, that He created man to live this way and improve little by little every day. Some believe the theory that in the beginning man was evil but will gradually become good.

Hegel observed the state of fallen man and said that by nature men struggle among themselves. There is bound to be some struggle because history has been opposing the influence of the fallen men who have been leaders and have influenced many people’s lives. If Hegel is right when he says that man inevitably struggles then we will never see the dawn of peace; the struggle will become greater and greater until it reaches the point where more than half of mankind is annihilated.

Many people try on their own to find some solution but conclude that it isn’t possible. We often meet people who may have tried hard every day but gave up when they saw no result. They realize that man has no answer and think it is impossible for him to live in harmony.

Those who observe the incapacity of religious groups conclude that God must not exist. Even Christians are so confused that they seriously consider the possibility of a Christian communism. If we have clear minds, can we possibly say that such a thing as Christian Marxism or an atheistic clergy can exist? Are there religious people who can solve these problems? The standard thinking of today’s religious groups is that they cannot work out a solution. If God exists, however, it must be possible to do this, and if God is working, He would work with religious people who act in accordance with His plan. However, religion today is so discredited that people freely adapt it at their convenience to better their way of life. Religion is not fulfilling its original mission nowadays.

### Creating unity is the most
difficult problem in this world

The problem still exists. Our mind and body are still separated and struggling and this makes life very difficult. Therefore, to understand God is very difficult. It also must be very difficult for God to work with such people. We see all around us that man exists, but do we really know from direct experience in daily life that God exists? Probably by thinking about it you decided that God exists. Some people know by experience or feeling that God exists, but can your experience convince others of the existence of God?

Only very few people have experienced God. When you speak of this to another person who has never felt it, your experience means nothing to him. Some people try very hard but they can’t experience God and to these people He does not exist. Mind and body are still separated; earth and heaven are still separated. The question is when will they come together. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just sit down and wait for that to happen?

Happiness and the ideal come about when the mind and body unite and follow the mind’s desire, and when heaven and earth unite and go in one direction. Scotland and England used to fight each other and even now they are not completely united. Of course, we can easily say the two countries will unite when their leaders unite, but even then a problem still exists.

A person may have great aspirations but he goes in one direction today and another tomorrow. Even if he does achieve unity of mind and body he must travel the straight path or the difficulty is still unsolved. When will Germany and France come together? When will black and white people unite? Should we just sit still and assume that suddenly unity will come? The earth has not achieved unity so we cannot expect it to unite with spirit world. This is a complex historical problem, not just the problem of one generation.

The most difficult problem is not getting a job and earning a living but creating unity in this world. It is even easy to make money but virtually impossible to make unity. If someone shouts on the street in a loud voice, will unity come? If you have powerful muscles can you create unity? Of course not. Then how will unity come?

Who is a happy man? Is it the man who laughs or the one who cries? It is the one who laughs. Does a man laugh when his mind and body are struggling or are united? Of course he can laugh when the two are harmonious. The mind and body must stand in the same position. The conclusion is that the man whose mind and body are united all the time is the one who can laugh all the time.

What makes the mind and body unite? Is it having abundant food or power? Is it having many people at our command? Only love can accomplish this. Can you say you love someone if one eye is looking at him but your other eye is looking somewhere else? Love comes when all our attention is focused on one point. When we are in love all our heart and mind are directed at the object of our love. When you meet someone you love do you just gaze at him and do nothing? You want to become one with him and both of you direct all your energy in reaching out to one another.

If someone you love hits you on the head you don’t mind. If someone loves you so much that while you are kissing he bites you on the mouth, do you protest? You don’t mind. That is a strange thing, isn’t it? It is characteristic of love that when you are hit by the club of love you don’t mind. When you are in love you are not bothered by hunger, you can do without sleep and you don’t even mind dying.

Do you have that kind of love in yourself? You don’t know now whether you have this kind of love or not, but once there is an object for your love you will know; you can’t eat or sleep or do anything without thinking of him or her. Then for the first time you will know what love is. Do you want to get married in the future? Why? It is to experience love.

Where does love exist? When I asked the question about love no one was sure if they had it or not, but if you do have it do you know how valuable it is? In these times English boys and girls have physical love as casually as though they were going to a restaurant to eat. Do you want cheap love or valuable love? Which of these three would you want -valuable love, even more valuable love, or love of absolute value?

There are many shades of love. When we talk about “love” we must mean love of absolute value. It is not enough to settle for anything less. Do you want love which varies from day to day or do you want unchanging love? Would you want to have three loves or only one? You would rather have three 20-pound notes instead of just one, so why do you say you want only one love? Do you want knowledge of many things or of only one area? You would prefer having power over the whole world to just having power over England, right? Why then do you want only one love? Many times people fall in love with more than one person, but still they want one love. That is because people want love that is unchanging, absolute and unique.

We conclude that love is the one absolutely necessary thing if we are to bring everything into unity. We know that in love we will be happy. In order for England to become one, for Europe to become one and for the whole world to become one there is only one ingredient we must have-love. The communists proclaim that the Marxist ideal will unite people, but it cannot work; no matter how good it is, that ideal is not close to love and cannot work. The ideal which has nothing to do with love will get nowhere.

Love unites all five senses and gets everything focused in one direction. People who are in love talk and talk and talk because their senses are focused on the same thing. When we experience love our minds and bodies are not separated. Love is the strongest element in bringing the mind and body into unity, even in bringing the earth and spirit world into unity. It can bring everything together.

Is it true that you like love the most? Do the Germans, French and British all think that way? Are black people an exception to this? There is no exception to this. There is only one kind of true love. Do you generate the love that you have in yourself? You don’t decide to have love-whenever there is an object to love, you spontaneously express love. This phenomenon is bound to happen. It is the same with electricity; wherever positive electricity exists, negative electricity automatically comes into being.

Before you were born did you make sure that there would be an object for your love here on earth? You were born without making sure, but still there is an object for you. Sometimes it seems that there are more men in one place and more women in another, but in the world as a whole there are equal numbers. I am told there are more women than men in England, so in Africa there are probably more men.

Actually in God’s sight there is no black and no white. When I am matching couples I will notice their color if I concentrate, but in making a good match it is not the most important thing. Once you are in love you do not see color. If you look through the glasses of love, you love everything you see. This is why love is good and why we can find no better solution.

Is love round or pointed? If you think love is wide and immense then it is wide and immense, but if you think it is small and narrow then it is. You have probably seen that some women don’t like their husbands to talk to any other women, even grandmothers. They have decided what shape love is and their love has a limited area. But once you have love and direct it in the right way, you can love the aristocrat or the humble man, men or women, rich or poor. You can also love God. You cannot measure God by your money, power or knowledge, but with love you can measure God’s greatness.

The ugliest woman in England can still marry the Prime Minister and if they are in love then they are hooked to each other. Once you are in love it doesn’t matter how ugly your spouse is; even his ugliest feature will seem beautiful to you. Nothing is insufficient to love. Everything is perfect. I could go on and on about this subject.

If once in your life you could grab a rope of love, would you let go even if it were attached to a Concorde about to take off? Love must be good indeed if you wouldn’t let go. When I speak about love, even those who are sleeping perk up and begin to sparkle. Only the one who knows love will doze off. Money and power are inadequate to create unity. No one can deny that only love has the power to unite. Both the ignorant man and the scholar can agree on this.

Why do men separate from each other? If two people had been united in true love before the fall they would never have separated. Once you are united in love separation is impossible. We know now that man’s mind and body were separated because of the fall, but we can explain this in a better way now-the essence of the fall is that man never achieved the highest love and unity. The love that worldly people pursue is a changing love, not the original absolute love. What we are trying to do is turn that degraded love into good love.

### You can only expect to receive true love
if you make absolute effort

If God exists then where would He be? Does He like love, or does only man want love? How do you know? You can reason it out. You are created in the image of God, and since you like love so much your origin must like love as well. Since God is unique and everlasting, the love He likes must have these qualities as well. Let me ask you some questions. Does God prefer changing or unchanging love? Do you want absolute or relative love? Will you have only one unique love or different loves?

God must like unique love. In order to experience God’s love, should we or should we not take after Him? We must change and become like Him before we can experience His love. A magnet draws iron to it, and we must have certain properties so that the magnet of God’s love can draw us to Him. We find that we don’t always have those elements, that something is isolating us from the magnet.

Do you go in only one direction or many? People, and especially women, sometimes have as many as 360 directions. We should throw that tendency away and all go in one direction. If you are working for a Ph.D. at a university you must go in one direction; if you only work when you can or when you feel like it then you will never receive your degree. This morning we should make up our minds to go in one direction because that way alone leads to happiness. Whether you like it or not, it is better than going in many directions. Would you take the direction in which only England can become one, or the world, or the spirit world and physical world? The right conclusion is that we have to go in the direction where true love is and where truth is.

How could you people come together in this room when your ancestors fought one another in the past? Why have you come here to the Unification Church? The only real answer is that there is no other place but the Unification Church where people can bring their minds and bodies into unity, as well as the family, nation and world, and even the universe. God is working that way and that is where we want to go. Are you fortunate to come here or unfortunate? You might have thought, “I was so tired last night. Why does today have to be Sunday?” Is that so? Did you do well to come to the Church? Did you have only a short distance to go or a long one? Can you run to where we are going? The Concorde is not fast enough to bring you there so you must ride on something else. How can you be confident that you will make it while you are still alive on earth?

What is the fastest thing that can bring you there? There is nothing faster than love. The sun’s rays travel very fast but love is even faster. It is unique and everlasting. It never changes and is powerful enough to unite everything. Do you think that you as a human being can live without love? If you know that it is better than anything you ever imagined, would you mind working hard to obtain it? Or are you just going to make a little effort and then wish for love to come to you?

You have to make absolute effort to get this love. If you do just a little and then expect love to come, you are nothing but a swindler and your attitude will prevent love from coming. In order to have love you can’t even mind if your ear is blown off or you lose your eyes or your face is deformed. We need love so badly that we have to try our absolute best to get it. Even if our lives are at stake we have to reach out for love. It is worthwhile for me to risk my life to win that love. You may have only vaguely understood this before but now you know that love is as good and great as this.

If you women are ever going to love someone, is it going to be with eternal love the first time, or are you going to try something else and then have real love the second time? Spiritually this is very important. What are you going to do if you had many loves in the past? You must look at yourself in the mirror and know if you are sincere enough to find true love or whether you are only looking for an easy way and will settle for animalistic love.

With God you can experience love. Everything else in our lives so far has to be denied because it has nothing to do with God. The love you knew had nothing to do with God’s love. As long as you cling to some love from the past you have nothing to do with this new love. If you men still want casual love sometimes then you haven’t thought deeply enough about this. Are you women the same way? What are you going to do if you find yourself naked in the same bed with a man? Will your mind go horizontally to the man beside you or will it go vertically?

There are three things to overcome before you can be given the blessing-the urge for food, sleep and physical love. These three things are the doors through which Satan can freely come in and out. Whoever is serious in his search for God can never be concerned with getting better food. He can never think he needs more sleep in the course of his search, and he can never feel that he is too lonely. You must think, “Even if I have the poorest food in the world I will still do the best work. Even though I am never loved by anyone and I feel lonely I will still love God, heaven and mankind at any cost.”

We must want to be like that for the simple reason that God is like that. Does God sleep or eat three meals a day like we do? Does He love just some people or does He love even His enemies? If we live like this what will we gain? When we come near to God and resemble Him then the love of God will visit us. This is what we gain. You won’t have to pray for God to come to you; even if you pray for God to stay away He will still come!

How do you know when God has visited you? Even though you are only thinking about going in one direction your body will have already started on its way. Even though you are not thinking, your feet will be carrying you somewhere and you will profit from it. Your legs won’t feel heavy but feather-light. Have you ever experienced this phenomenon? You will have conquered the world at that point and you will have a victorious feeling.

We call the love among mankind a horizontal love and the love with God a vertical love. When we are visited by God our horizontal love is great but the vertical love with God will be a stronger sensation still. Should we experience horizontal or vertical love first? As a result of the fall mankind experienced horizontal love first, meaning that everything they did came before their love of the origin of the universe. How could they occupy a permanent position in that case?

What is religion? Religion is the correct path for finding vertical love. You must clearly understand that this vertical love can only be reached before horizontal love exists. In order to experience this vertical love, we should never have even a trace of horizontal love. You have all kinds of horizontal love in your past experiences. Do you still cherish those memories or are you trying very hard to get rid of them in order to reach the vertical love? What must you do?

Man was supposed to have vertical love first and afterward have property and belongings, not before. Once we reach that vertical love, everything around us all belongs to us because it all belongs to God. The first thing we were supposed to have was the love of God, before having love for a man or woman and before having property. No matter how precious a work of art may be, it cannot be compared with the value of a person who owns God’s love.

Whatever the cause, complaints have no room here. In the Unification Church we are supposed to have a vertical love with God. That is what we are here for. We call this the Unification Church because we are here to unite our minds and bodies through this love. Once they become one in love they can never separate. Man would have achieved this if he had not fallen, and now we are going to restore it. This is why we use the unique term of “true”-“true individual”, “true family”, “true nation”, and even “True God”. Until this time people have only experienced God as a God of indemnity or restoration through the Bible or history. That is not the true God.

God was originally a loving God and since the fall He has worked very hard, not to establish laws and enforce them but to become that loving God again. We want to find the God with a loving heart because this is the true God. This is why we need the concept of “true man” and “true parents”. Through true love we can connect husband and wife and we can connect God, parents and mankind.

The bachelor should love God more than anything else. Indeed his only concern should be to love God. Our missionaries overseas have been married for three years and have not even seen their wives. Before thinking about them they came to experience vertical love. This brother here has been overseas and has not even seen his wife because he knew that first he must establish vertical love. Habitually we have come from the left side, but now we realize that we must come from the right. It is a struggle because if you start to turn right three times but go the wrong way four times then you will go straight to the satanic world.

### We do not marry for our own happiness

You have found someone here in the Unification Church who is concerned about what you must do and what is ahead of you. Nothing is more important than this, even school or marriage. At the time you reach thirty and it is almost too late to have children, that is a good enough time to match you. Even so, after you are married you don’t live with each other right away. Where else in the world can you see this kind of thing? Something that never happens in the world is starting here. Unity is difficult but here it becomes very possible.

Is it good or bad that you are married later in life? The one thing we have to do before getting married is to live for other people, never for ourselves. Because of the fall people habitually live for themselves but we will stop living like that. For whom do you get married? For yourself? No, first you get married for God, then for mankind and then for children.

These are the very points I am concerned with when I am matching couples. If I see that two people will love God together and serve mankind when they marry then they are a good match. I also see whether their children will live the same way in the future. I feel sorry for you because I am not concerned whether individuals will be happy being married to each other!

If I match a greedy man with a greedy woman then they will talk about robbing other people. What else can they do? How should I match a greedy man? I will give him a wife who is completely selfless, who does not want anything. He will talk to her about getting this and that but she will be indifferent and not respond. Even if he gets frustrated and says, “What kind of woman are you?” she will never pay any attention. Then her husband must think, “Now that I am married to her I must love her.” If he will not separate from her then after a long time he will know that he is the one in the wrong because of his greed and he will try to change. She will lead him to the right side. Under these circumstances we need to change each other.

It is a miracle if a man and woman like each other. It never just happens. There is always a struggle for betterment and self-realization. Step by step they get nearer to God. If you don’t like this way and only want to satisfy yourselves now then your children will not prosper. You must understand how your husband should feel if you lack something. A man must understand how his wife is. Once you become one in vertical love, electricity will jump between you like lightning. There is always a spark between positive and negative, and when that happens a man and woman will become one and everything around them will become one. Then heaven and earth will be altogether one.

Once that happens then every part of you is anchored at the center. If your feet want to go away, let them go because they will not carry you far when your head is anchored in the center. If there are enough people of different races experiencing this electricity then no human being can dislike another human being. This is why all religions work for love. Jesus died never letting go of this love.

Our number one enemy is our body. Religion teaches us to subjugate our bodies and live according to our mind’s direction. Satan has hooked a cable to our bodies so we have to cut all our ties to the physical realm and emphasize the mind. The reason Satan has such a hold on the flesh is because we think of ourselves first. Eve thought first of herself. Now our bodies are battlegrounds between God and Satan, with both claiming ownership and not letting go.

Why did you Germans, French and Austrians come to England? You are here not only for England but for the world. After working with your own families and countries you must work for the world and you came to England to satisfy that condition. It is the Unification Church tradition that we must give ourselves up for the family, the family for the sake of the nation, and the nation for the sake of the world. This is a very wonderful thing that the Unification Church is aiming for.

As I said earlier, love is the narrowest and the longest. Love stretches out vertically to the individual. When you exercise your love of family it goes even higher up, and when you extend the love to the nation it goes farther still. There is only one center and it never changes. If we are determined to love the family more than ourselves, then the clan more than the family and then the nation and world even more, love is added on and on and reaches straight out to God.

The lowest level of love is the individual. Even after marriage our couples don’t think first about each other but even go to different places to work for the sake of the world. We do that in order to restore love, making the condition of loving the world more than our family and more than our own country. Once we do this then God has to come; He cannot deny us and say He doesn’t know us.

When do we meet God? Not just anywhere, but only in the front line. You will experience that. Restoration by indemnity also takes place in the front line. If an individual tries to live for himself then God never comes to him, but once he sacrifices himself for the family God will come. I know this principle perfectly and this is why I drive you out for the sake of the world. This is the most important thing in your life. I am chasing you out to the front line on the world level.

Satan is trying to discourage you through accusations about our Church and the opposition of different people, but if you are not lured away he will be unsuccessful and will leave you alone. In America the IRS has investigated us and the Justice Department has come to see if anything illegal is happening in our Church. Both agencies have gone to greater lengths investigating us than they normally do with other groups. Even the State Department and Congress have investigated to see if they can find anything wrong with Reverend Moon and the Unification Church but they have not found the smallest thing wrong.

Whoever investigates me will find that the Unification Church has made money, certainly, but that we spent it for the country and for unselfish causes. I even brought money from outside of America and used it for the sake of that nation. It is the same here. I do not want to spend English money.

All the IOWC members from other parts of Europe work harder than highly paid people, but you do not expect to take any rewards back from England to keep in your own country. You do it all for the sake of England. This is something unheard of in the past.

Can you complain when you experience difficulty or when I push you to work for the sake of the world? I myself work in that way because I must meet the same condition. You can only have one complaint about yourself: “Maybe I am eating too much or sleeping too much.” You can only complain to yourself, not to others. You should say, “I should sleep less and work more.” People in the everyday world hate that kind of thinking, but they must change that habit later on and adopt God’s way of thinking.

We are building the bridge of love from the individual, family, clan and nation to reach God. Once you pave the highway then everyone can drive from here to there in no time. All your family, country, and even the world can fly to God from any direction because no matter where they take off from, they will still reach the destination. I don’t choose to land in any other place except where God is. No matter what country I am in I can fly to God in the same way because I am working on the world level.

When a French member comes to England and then wants to fly to God on the foundation of the English family, the Ormes will not deny her that. They will say, “Go ahead.” Since all the necessary conditions have been laid, no matter where you go you cannot be denied the privilege of going to God on the foundation there.

We are going to establish a new tradition for the family. Have you ever thought about what you would do if after you are married and living in one room I come to stay overnight? If I visit you then will you have me sleep in the middle of the room, with the husband on one side of the room and the wife on the other? Is that the right way to think or not? Should I call ahead of time for permission to come? Even though this has not been common practice in the world, you should start doing this for your own parents. They can visit you any time they feel like it. Also, you must teach your own sons and daughters this way. Parents don’t need any prior permission to visit their children.

If I walk in without notice and you have only cooked for two people you cannot say, “I’m sorry. We don’t have enough for you.” Even though the grown children have to go without food, the parents must be given the first portion. In the present way of life parents must call ahead and give notice to their children about visiting them. They shouldn’t have to call first. You should accept it that Mother and I need not to call to come visit you, nor your own parents. We must have that attitude as a standard. You will do the same with your own sons and daughters.

Since establishing the four position foundation is the objective, man and wife should live together and their brothers and sisters and parents must be able to live in the same house. That is the original way. If the Queen decides to visit any family they should welcome her like their own mother.

### Our burden is heavy, but it is better to die
than to leave it behind

How can you say the Unification Church is good? It is good because we are bringing all the young people in to pay indemnity to restore the world. God likes to see young people coming to shed their blood and pay indemnity. Old people are not so sensitive and they are closer to going to spirit world, while young people have the future ahead of them. Since we emphasize young people working for all mankind this is a good church. God wants to have the best young men and women make the indemnity conditions for this cause.

If you are to make an offering at the altar, do you give an old cow which has had calves, or do you offer a young calf which has never given birth? Are you also pure? If you are pure then it is good that you work with blood and sweat for mankind and heaven. According to the amount of indemnity we pay, the quicker the world will be restored. Those who would like to do that, raise your hand.

The topic of my talk is, “The Burden on Our Shoulders”. We will carry the heaviest burden on our shoulders, even if it is weighing us down. We will never be crushed but will just pick it up again and walk strongly on. Actually, if the load becomes unbearably heavy it is better to be crushed and die than try to escape it and have no connection with this course. Which possibility would you choose of these three? Are you going to support it, leave, or be crushed by it and die? Have you really experienced the load being so heavy that you are not able to support it any more, that your teeth make a grinding noise because of the heavy load crushing down on you? Although it is difficult, you carry it nevertheless.

The more difficult a load it is to carry, the more valuable is God’s reward. God will reward you with His love and you will never lose but will only gain. I do the same as you but I have been working harder and longer than you have. People with red, black, blond and white hair will all respond to me because I have loved them so much. What does an Oriental man have to do with Western people? Nothing, except for this tie of love. There are many Orientals in London but do you ever glance at them? You pay attention to me even though I am Oriental because you have true love and want to reach out with true love to me. You are even ready to give up your own relatives to be with me. That is the way the heavenly heart works.

One foreign missionary recently came to London and reported to me. He said that many missionaries came to Africa from America and Europe but they worked in the daytime with the black people and at night went back to their own compounds. They never ate the same food or tried to understand the people by living with them. They maintained a separate way of life, but our missionary was different. He ate with the black people, slept together with them side by side and cried with them. They prayed together and did everything together. One day some people came with a gun to shoot our brother but for some reason they only struck him with the butt of the pistol instead. God worked a miracle to save him at that time because during his three years in Africa he was giving true love.

Now you understand why I choose this way, despite opposition and persecution. This is why Satan hates me so much and wishes that I would be killed and discontinue. This will never happen as long as God exists because He will make sure that I go on and on. The same is true for you. Only God’s love can bring all things into unity. Every individual must find for himself the point where his mind and body can become one with God. When you cry for the world you will meet God. When you consistently work for the world, even at the risk of your life, going unceasingly in this one direction, then God’s love will never leave you.

You will discover that when you are not working for yourself God will come and do the work for you. The Unification Church has the ideal of making that kind of man and woman out of everyone. Eventually they will become parents of children like this who will be leaders. You have to determine to drop everything else in order to be here and continue on and on until you reach the love of God. We don’t care too much whether we prosper or perish; we are heading in one direction and we want to do better day by day. Then we are like the rising sun which can only keep rising. You can be confident that wherever you go the sunshine of God’s love will be there.

The reason you go door to door witnessing is to give that light to your families also and this is why you must have a clean, pure mind when you visit the people. When we are not carrying our own burden but are supporting the burden of the world we never tire of it; we are never exhausted because love is never exhausted. How many times did you think, “I wish I had not joined the Unification Church”? Even those people who say no must have thought that at one time or another.

You are not telling the truth when you say you love me, are you? I don’t like love which goes up and down; I like constant, unchanging love. Will you love like that for a change? Even if I make you suffer more will you ever complain? Your answer was not so convincing! If someone slaps your face or spits at you, do you feel inside, “Why did Father bring me all the way here to let me go through this desert?” I want to believe you when you say no.

Will you do something as though you had a flame burning inside or in a lukewarm way? If you are driving an automobile at high speed and then brake abruptly there is a shrieking sound and much heat. Are you going to wobble and zig zag to a halt or are you going to stop right away? You feel good if you can come to a neat, quick halt so go ahead and train yourself until you can do that.

You can go straight while you are doing things you enjoy, but you must also go straight when you have to do things you don’t like. You don’t like to be criticized and accused, do you? Neither do you like it when someone prevents you from doing something you like. Your answers to my questions can only be genuine if you give them because they are the same answers that God and mankind would give.

### When you live with heavenly heart,
God will always be ahead preparing your way

We have the heaviest load on our shoulders not just for a short while but for the longest distance and if we are absent-minded for a short time then we will crumble. Once you drop a heavy load it is very hard to pick it up again so you should never put it down. In this situation dying is better than abandoning the mission. Even if a person should die as he labors under his load he is better off than any man on earth because in the spirit world he can receive all the love which belonged to him. If you die then someone else will lift the load off for you, but if you just leave it behind then it is always your responsibility.

Can you go the path now? It is a very difficult path and that is why you need me. When you find it difficult and you pray to God, “What am I going to do? This is unbearably difficult,” then God will come and say, “Let’s go.” He will show you the way. When I appear in your dreams and visions God will teach you something. If you keep this persevering attitude then God will stay right with you and prepare for everything in your life. Without fail I will appear in your dreams to encourage you.

When the way is very difficult and you are walking with tired legs, you will experience many times that without realizing it you are talking to me and going on. You won’t be able to go this way without love. Only your true, straight love makes it possible. If you live in that true love then you are living with God every moment of the day, not just now and then. This is very true. You are gradually learning more and becoming connected to the realm of heart.

Even when you have tried your very best in witnessing or fund raising, when you come back exhausted you must think, “I must do a little bit more today than I did before.” That thinking is very precious and necessary. You might feel you should go out one minute earlier than the day before, or that you must work throughout the night without sleep. Even when we are dying we must say, “I have not done enough. What can I do if I die now?” We must go to God feeling ashamed that we have not done enough.

Always when you have tried your best in witnessing or fund raising you are tired when coming home at night but you must find some time to pray to God and cry for mankind. Since you are longing for love you must live this suffering life, no matter how difficult, and in that heart you can persevere and go forward. Think about how to experience the grief and sorrow of having lost loved ones and yearning for that lost love. You must be prepared enough that even if all at once you lost your beloved ones-your wife, children and nation-you could still go on. Sometimes you should find yourself speaking even without knowing what you are saying or doing. Then you will find that you are not speaking by yourself but God is speaking through you. All of these experiences are necessary in our life of faith.

Why are we going to do this difficult work? In order to meet the heavenly people. If you go this difficult way you will surely meet the heavenly man you have been looking for. Always be ready to meet me, perhaps while you are walking the street on your way somewhere. Also be prepared to meet God in the most unexpected place. If you are walking into the most miserable prison you can feel, “Isn’t this where I am supposed to meet God?” Feel like that and prepare to meet Him. I lived this way constantly and when I went to prison I found people God had prepared for me. I was in a very dangerous situation but God protected me.

You never know who you will meet when you go witnessing door to door. You might find an important man who later on might save the whole nation. You must be prepared to meet such a person. Even though you are tired you should visit one more home at the end of the day because that may be where you meet the person who could save the nation. You may have visited a hundred homes and not met the man who could save the nation, but he might be in # 101. If you live like that then God will lead you to such a man.

Wherever you go with that heart, spirit world will prepare for you. Always think that you are going to find someone whose heart you can connect with the heart of God. You are reaching out to heaven and that door you knock on is your stepping stone. We are always searching for that special, righteous man, and if you are walking with God’s guidance then all of a sudden, without realizing how it happened, you meet someone and you are sure he is that man. You can experience this not only once but several times while you are witnessing. It should even be a common thing for you.

Sometimes you want to cry because this life is difficult, but you will understand how difficult it must have been for God in the past. Once you meet someone good you must love him as God loves him. When you are together you won’t want to part from him and will want to stay as long as possible. When you really feel his preciousness you will pour out all your energy and want to do still more for him. When you meet strangers with this heart they are not strangers but seem more like your brothers and sisters. If someone is poorly dressed you want to buy him some clothes, even though you cannot.

We can meet good people everywhere and widen the spectrum of love everywhere we go. God’s love is returned to you in proportion to what you do. Whenever you visit a house, think that this is the house of a precious person whom God loves. Don’t treat him in a casual way but show your earnest concern and respect and he will ultimately accept you. Then the people will miss you when you are away and will want you to come often. We are distributing love to them, not trying to take something away. The power of love is like a magnet drawing people to you. When you have that kind of mind and pray to God, you will feel as though some strings attach you to the person you are praying for; you are pulling him and he comes to you in response to your prayer. When you pray about his home over and over again, when you visit there you will feel that the people will never let you go. You will know ahead of time that you will run into this person at a certain place, and sure enough he will be there, even if you are late. I want you to have that kind of experience.

When you live your life that way year after year, you will automatically experience the love of God, which you never want to replace with anything else. Then you will see visions even with your eyes wide open and you will even see me walking in front of you in a substantial way. If you look at something on the wave length of love, there is nothing you can’t understand.

You can know what intensity of feeling you must have before this can happen by comparing it to the most intense love you felt before coming to the Church. You have to go beyond that before you will start experiencing these things. You should want to witness with that strength of feeling and to meet someone who can be witnessed to with that intensity of love. You should want to see this person so much that you are ready to cry. This is not an easy life to go through because our eyes should always be wet with tears for the family, the nation and the world.

Have you ever stopped to think how you would feel if your husband and children were kidnapped? This is exactly how God feels in His mind. In God’s eyes all men have been taken away and He is desperately anxious to bring them back. Certainly we cannot draw them back to our own homes without the feeling of love. The fall came through individual love, but in restoration we bring people with public love, no matter what nationality or race they are from.

All the women feel that they want to marry someone like me, not because I am handsome, but because of the love of God. If someone receives the love of God, in your heart you want to live with him forever. This is why wherever I go the members want to give their deepest heart to me and prepare everything for me.

You have met me in your dreams, haven’t you? I give you spiritual guidance to bring you to a higher level than the fallen world of love. Even though a couple have an intense love with each other, once they go to the realm of God’s heart they respond to the original love of God, which is on a much higher level than the love they felt between each other.

Whenever one man feels like I do, the women will tag along after him and listen to him. You must have a straight mind and not think badly about such a person. The same happens when a woman becomes like that; then the men will follow her. Most important of all, you must always regard the women as your sisters, or if they are older cherish them as you would your mother. Never think of a sister as your wife or girlfriend. The same thing goes for the women; never think, “That brother has such a straight mind. I wish I could be blessed with him.”

You must keep yourself very clean and pure so that even though you cannot yet generate the light of love yourself you can at least reflect that light to the world like the moon. As your mind and body become completely one God’s love is within you, and with a pure mind the brightness of God’s love will come through you. To be like that you must live for the sake of other people.

If you continue then your brightness will reach farther and farther and your spectrum become bigger. The world is pitch dark with no source of light but in that bleakness you will be a twinkling star. Then later you will increase in brightness and become like the moon and later like the sun, radiating that light from inside yourself. No matter how dark the world may be, like the sun you will light the darkest corner of your surroundings with your love. Are you confident of that? Do you really feel that because of you the entire city of London will be filled with light?

Hold your torch higher and higher by investing more dedication and heart and prayer so that even people far away can see you and be brought to God. If you live like I have then you will be able to do big things. When you live your life like that then intuitively you know when you are going somewhere you shouldn’t be. I don’t look any different from everyone else but I am different in this respect, and whenever I see someone I can know which way he is going in his life.

That sensitivity of love applies everywhere. Nothing stops it; it penetrates everything. I am good in all areas because of this principle, and I could give you so many dramatic examples that if you heard all of them you might start to think that I was very strange! But because of love such “supernatural” experiences become commonplace. Other people don’t have that experience because they lack love. This is where the whole problem lies. Love is better than any power, better than money or knowledge. It can even control God. If you want to do something with that kind of heart then God has to agree with you.

Since my early life I have been through much suffering but I am not exhausted by it. You must direct yourself so that your mind and body are in harmony and then you will emit the energy of love throughout your life and live in spirit world eternally with the same energy. Expect it to be difficult, but know that it is all worth it. If you sink down for even one moment it is more difficult to come up again, so you must always keep going forward. At one time I had the experience of saying the wrong thing and then I had to spend seven years indemnifying that one wrong statement. You must be aware of the formidable sensitivity of our situation.

Now many of you live an inconsistent life without Principle and from now on you must be more careful. If you do then for sure you will be the sons and daughters of God. Then you will be the happiest people in the world and you will make others happy too. I have been like that ever since I was young. Even if I do nothing now, spirit world is anxious to help me. I made the foundation for this love to originate in myself.

Now it is easy to learn Divine Principle but remember how difficult it was for me to discover it, and not only that, but to practice it and establish all the necessary conditions at different times. It has taken God 6,000 years, all of human history, to restore the world. That meant it took all of human history to restore one Adam and for that Adam to restore the family, clan and nation; now we are in the process of restoring the world and even the universe. I had to establish all those conditions in one lifetime. I am doing what God could not do by Himself. As I said earlier, man alone cannot create this unity, only God and man together.

Now the conventional religions have declined, but now along with God and the power of true love we are reaching out to the world to achieve unity as God intended in the first place. I imagine picking up one woman and shaking her and seeing everything undesirable fall away. Then only her pure nature will remain and with the positive and negative electricity of God she will shine like the sun to the end of the world. Would you like to see that happen too?

Your eyes are emitting rays of light and a fragrance emanates from your whole being. You will experience this sooner or later; this is not a dream. When you become spiritually elevated in that way and go into a dark room you will see your hands shine like a lamp. Original man was that precious. If a man has sin, however, he cannot see into you. If your hands glow like that because of love then your eyes can see through any barrier and understand anything. People will want to follow such a pure man of understanding and become like him. You have to establish that pattern so people will want to follow your tradition of love. Here are brothers and sisters who came all the way from Japan to show that example here in England.

When you return to your room at the end of the day and you are tired but your room is dirty, are you going to go right to sleep or are you going to clean the room first? Even while you are sleeping you may meet God so you must wash yourself before you go to bed.

If you are carrying a big load of love, it may fill your sack so full that it breaks open and the love spills out. Then many people will come after you to pick up that spilled love for themselves. You may hear many comments like, “The Divine Principle is fine but I like this person more than the truth. That’s why I am following him.” But even though they like you, the people will not do just as they please; instead they are going to follow your direction. You came because you like me, but you don’t do just as you like, do you? You follow my way.

If a very pure girl goes out witnessing then many men will follow her, being even ready to die with her. That is fine, but once they come to the Church they will not do just as they like but will follow our direction. If you have a genuine love and try to save people then men and women will follow you and come to the Church. One thing we must get straight at the beginning is that none of us can do just as we like once we come to the Church.

Sometimes it happens that a man of true heart is sleeping in one room and a woman walks into that room in spite of herself. It is a natural thing to follow that love, but she must have the situation explained to her and then be returned to her own room. She was spiritually moved to do that but a person’s spirit can only be controlled by the truth. It must be explained so as not to hurt her and then she must go back to her own room. Since man fell because of love, we are going to restore original love. We are guiding people with the torchlight of love and showing them the way.

Love does not exist for ourselves; it exists to save others. You must know clearly about the purpose of love and the way it operates. If you are a magnet then you can always feel a sense of elation and happiness, as though you were full of electricity. You can always feel that in your right hand you hold my hand and in your left you hold Mother’s. Then the electricity of love will flow through you and you will glow in the same way as Mother and me. Think that you have a pulling power, like gravity, always pulling something or someone toward you. In order for you to become like that your mind and body must become one. Then no matter how difficult the road, you are going with the heart of God.

Always have the feeling and heart of being in the four position foundation. If you practice what I taught you this morning then compared to the last two week’s work your scope of activity will greatly widen and you will become more dynamic. Then you can distribute more love everywhere. When you fund raise you are not collecting money but planting a seed of love everywhere you go. When people open their doors and receive you then the seed of love will grow in that house. Now you know that love is the only thing that makes unity possible.

While you have your body you must be able to develop it as a conductor of electricity, charged with love. Then when you go to spirit world your spirit body will be healthy and heavenly. If you don’t do that now, however, it is hell. I know this is difficult but it is all worthwhile. For the rest of your lives you must remember this principle of love. This is the most difficult thing and the heaviest burden, but because of it we are able to find the most precious love. Let us pray.

## THE DAY OF ALL THINGS

By Fami1yfed June 16, 2018 June 16, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1978

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### June 6, 1978
London, England
Translator – Sang Kil Han

> The Day of All Things is one of the major Holy Days in the Unification tradition. Rev. Moon describes the significance of these days in the formula of restoration, and explains why sacrifice, offering and bloodshed has been necessary in God’s providence.

> Another major issue addressed in the speech is the parallel fortunes of Korea and Israel. Why do God’s chosen people suffer so much? The central religions in the providence, Judaism, Christianity and the Unification Church, are like three brothers; and when they unite the history of sorrow will be over. This is the task of the Messiah and those who follow him.

In the Unification Church we have four great ceremonies which the world is not yet aware of. You already know that those are God’s Day, Parents Day, Children’s Day and Day of All Things. Those who are celebrating one of these four great days with me for the first time, raise your hands. Today is the 16th Day of All Things.

If the fall had not taken place these specific days would not have been necessary, but as it is, it is the destiny of religious life to have these days in the process of restoring them to their original position. If the fall had not taken place, Adam and Eve and their children would have been the center of all things, but since the core became fallen, so did the surroundings.

God is a mathematical God, so horizontally speaking there are three steps in creation which center around parents, then children and all things. These become three circles or realms, and they form three different steps. Because of the fall they were not perfected and it is as though they do not yet exist. Originally, parents, children and all things came in order of importance, but this has become reversed since the original parents fell. Now in the order of gravity of sin the parents are the worst of all, the children are next because Cain and Abel did not fulfill their mission, and all things are the least sinful.

When man fell, creation stayed on its original level while the parents went all the way down and children were little better. Because of this reversal all things were better than man. In the original order of creation the parents were to be the closest to God while all things were farthest away, but as a result of the fall all things stand closest to God and the parents are the farthest of all from Him. The dispensation behind restoration is to put these back into the proper arrangement. Everything must be put in its proper position, bringing man and parents closest to God.

Because of the fall man became stained with satanic blood. To restore that, we know from history that God worked in each stage of the dispensation to separate good from bad, step by small step. The good that God can claim is separated out from the whole.

Religious people had to shed blood to pay indemnity for the satanic blood. All good men of religion had to sacrifice themselves, being restored on that condition; God made them sacrifice themselves and often they had to shed blood. Originally man would have gone to God directly, but now we have to put all things of creation ahead to go to God before us, and upon the acceptance of our offering we too can then go to God. Restoration is recreation and God created all things first; in conforming with this principle all things must go before man.

History reveals that always blood must be shed before an offering can be made to God. Therefore, whatever was sacrificed was killed and cut in half, to ensure that one part representing goodness was separated from the bad so that God was free to claim it. You already know that in Abraham’s offering a heifer was cut in half, a ram and a goat were cut in half and birds were to be cut in half. Treasures as well were laid on the altar in the Old Testament.

In simple creation no bloodshed should have been necessary, but because the fall introduced Satan’s blood, the shedding of blood is necessary in order to restore the original position. This is why we see in the course of history that whenever a. offering was given it was made by killing things.

By instructing man to shed the blood of animals, God could begin to restore man without shedding man’s blood. That offering served as a condition, but most important of all it was to separate the offering from satanic domination, the whole purpose of restoration. If the animal that is shedding blood is not obedient and goes against its master, then the offering will not be valid. Many animals could protest, but some animals like the heifer and the lamb are very obedient and calm. The lamb is the symbol of obedience and the dove is the symbol of peace, so those animals were selected. Who kills these animals for the offering? The chief priest is the one who kills these animals, and in order for that offering to become a valid and acceptable condition, they have to be completely obedient to the priest, never protesting.

Even though these are just a few small examples, they comply with the larger principle. These conditions are necessary because man fell and thus there is something wrong with him. Even so, today’s Christians do not have even a vague idea of the nature of man’s sin, nor do they know why this bloodshed is necessary. In the Jewish religion a baby boy is circumcised on the 8th day after his birth. Why should the chosen people shed blood this way, and why on that particular part of the male baby? By shedding blood from the male organ the man fulfills the condition of obedience. The woman, however, does not have to shed blood; all she has to do is be obedient.

In some primitive religions men were killed as offerings. This was necessary to restore a large continent or a big part of the world, so spirit world taught certain people this practice and men acted accordingly. In the entire history of God there were few occasions like that where human sacrifice was necessary, but the so-called primitive peoples did not know this principle and needlessly continued this practice, later in history often offering virgin girls.

It is not that God likes bloodshed and cruelty, but we cannot deny that the human fall took place and that God’s salvation is necessary to restore man’s original position. Because evil blood is present in man it is necessary to shed blood to establish the condition to be restored; also, it is the reversal of the way the fall took place. To be saved means to be restored from the fallen position to the original unfallen position, but before you are restored you must make certain conditions. Three things are needed. First is the offering. Second, it must be made by a man in Adam or Abel’s position; that is the position of chief priest. Third, a certain period of time is needed; the offering cannot be accomplished in one second or two minutes. These are the three essential elements. Together, all things of creation, children and the parents will form three steps.

Why did people make offerings? They did so to establish a condition to return to the position of Abel and then eventually to the parent position. The main principle is to restore sons and daughters who can sacrifice the things of creation, which are of lesser importance. First all things and children restore their position in the reverse way and then parents are restored to their original position. That is why you first have to have an offering to establish a condition for restoration. Then you need to have a person in Abel’s position, which is the same as Adam’s position, and finally a certain time period is needed to carry everything out. In many cases this time period is a multiple of four; we also see the numbers three seven and twelve often. These three elements are needed to establish the condition by which you are restored.

In order to make the offering the date must be set. We don’t do that at just any time. We set a date and then prior to that time we make wholehearted preparation, purifying our minds and bodies. Then we make the offering a very clean one, separating evil from it and becoming completely one with it. By becoming completely one with the offering you know that you have returned to God’s side. It now belongs to God.

Satan will not easily retreat, however. He will say, “This belongs to me!” Satan’s characteristic is that he does not want anything that once belonged to him to go back to God. Whenever he is in danger of losing something, he even tries to kill it so that God won’t have it. A man may dedicate his offering purely enough for it to belong to God but Satan protests. Since God is a God of law and principle, He will require blood to be shed because of the bad blood within and that will erase Satan’s right to claim it. God cuts it in half and says, “Now it belongs neither to you nor to me,” and then waits until man acts.

Since man fell according to his own will, God lets man make his own choice about whether to go to Satan or to Himself. If the man chooses to go to God at this time then Satan must give in. If in making the offering this person becomes completely one with the man in Abel’s position and then wishes to stay on God’s side, Satan has nothing to say.

At this time the man who is making the offering in Abel’s position must have a tearful heart, pitying all things which have to die because of man’s sin. “Because I wronged and because of my ancestors I have to kill you.” We have to pity the sacrifice. The chief priest must have that kind of tender feeling. Satan is happy because he has killed the offering, determined that it will not go to God, whereas on the other side there is pity and tender emotions. Thus the offering that starts out on Satan’s side begins to move over to the other side.

By becoming completely one and choosing to stand on God’s side, a man will establish enough condition to be restored to God’s side. Likewise, the chief priest who makes the offering and all people who are attending are one, standing together in the same position. Together they successfully offer the sacrifice and eventually they will automatically return to God’s side. This is why the chief priest has to make an offering with much heart, and also why those for whom the sacrifice is being made must be very obedient and completely one with the chief priest. If anyone were critical or tried to interfere, he could never share in the blessing that comes from making the offering.

Many different things can be said about what religion is, but the fundamental description is that religion must accomplish the offering. This is clearly the essential basis of religion, no matter which one it is. Seeing the sacrifice of its members we can understand that the Unification Church is an offering. The chief priest in this case is the church leader. Because the Church itself is the offering, the chief priest puts the Church and all of its members in the sacrificial position.

Then what is a chosen people? They are not privileged people, as many worldly people think, but they are the people who are to be sacrificed for the sake of the world. The chosen people are not sacrificed for their own sake but rather for the universe and for God. The chief priest in this case is God. As His people satisfy basic conditions within their religion, it goes on to higher and higher levels. Religion does not just evolve by itself, but develops according to God’s Principle. Some people intuit that this is the spirit of religion even though they do not know the details. Nevertheless, all religions have drifted so far away from this principle that they cease to be of service to God. They have become useless and unnecessary. Christianity is no exception to this. However, even though Christians may nut understand the reason for sacrifice, if they choose to comply in heart then God can continue to use them. If they are unable to do this, though, they will decline and no longer have the assurance of being God’s instrument.

What about the Unification Church? It is no exception. If the Unification Church deviates from the original principle by neglecting the truth then eventually it will become useless and cease to be God’s own instrument. God is in the parental position and if Reverend Moon is in the Abel position then you Church members are in the Cain position and you belong to the world. As the ones who are physically in the position of offering, if you will become completely one with the chief priest in the Abel position, and never separate from him but be obedient like a lamb, then we will be accepted by God. This is exactly what you are doing. You go out to fund raise with great heart and dedication because your only desire is to be accepted by God. We are now gathering and preparing the offering. In this way all things, children and parents all go everywhere together. One stays with the other.

People ask, “What does Reverend Moon do?” The chief priest does many things in preparation. To whom do the altars and preparations belong? They all belong to the chief priest and He dedicates them to God. In the capacity of his position the chief priest must meet the necessary internal conditions.

What belongs to God belongs to His children and what belongs to a son belongs also to God as Parent. A chief priest is a child of God and likewise, he returns everything he has to his own Father, God; there is no separation anywhere. Today’s churches belong neither to the congregation nor the church minister. In the Protestant churches the elders select the ministers but this is actually against the nature of Principle. Christians don’t know this but it is supposed to be the other way around, with the minister choosing the elders in that church.

Everyone knows that one big reason for the churches’ fast decline is a wrong attitude toward material things. They do not have a clear idea of heavenly direction and they do everything according to their own will. The congregation, which is often influenced by material concerns, dominates the minister instead of uniting around his position. The essence of a sound religion is this very point of making an acceptable offering.

When you truly understand the principle of it, we might say on one hand that the Unification Church property belongs to the Unification Church, but in another way it also belongs to England. England owns the Unification Church. They are one and the same; they can never be separated because the purpose of the Unification Church is to return England to God. It is very simple logic.

If we stand by our words all the time, the world will know that any religious endeavor on our part is to promote the future welfare of mankind. Our activity can never go wrong whether we act for the Unification Church purpose or directly for England, because eventually everything we do will be for the world’s benefit. If we work directly for the world’s welfare, of course, that will suit people even better for the present, but soon sentiments will be heard that all efforts like ours are welcome.

Our fund raising activity is done with genuine heart. We know our purpose-we do it for the rest of mankind, parents and for God. If we do it with more heart and dedication than worldly people who are earning their own salaries then Satan has nothing to accuse us of because he knows that this money is eventually being spent for all people. What happens when we fund raise and we decide to keep the money for our own individual purpose? Then there is no way of escaping Satan’s blame, and everything we gathered will all return to him.

All of our efforts in being restored are being done through this principle. When a chief priest makes an offering, he not only offers what the members have prepared but has to chip in on his own. He has to produce his own offering and add it to the general offering, giving everything together to God. When Satan sees that, he knows there is no point in opposition because eventually the benefit will come to him too. Satan certainly cannot accuse when man does as God does. This is the law of religion in simplified form. Every religion must somehow fit into this principle.

The Old Testament Age was the age of the offering. By making offerings the servant can be restored as the adopted son. The adopted son is in the Cain position, which is equivalent to the angelic position. The archangel fell because Adam fell and everything else suffered as a result. All things of creation long to find people in the Cain position on God’s side. Generally this level of restoration is called the Old Testament era.

What is the wish of all Cain-side people? Their wish is to meet their Abel because through their Abel they are going to be restored to God. This is why the people of the Old Testament Age sincerely yearned for the Messiah to come. The Messiah that they were waiting for was actually their Abel on the national level, and if all those in a Cain position could have become one with him then they could have been restored to God.

What is the purpose of meeting Abel? To have someone who can run errands for you? All Cains will meet Abel and work according to his command. Cain will do the work but Abel will directly it wisely. The way for Cain to live is through Abel, and even if we must make our lives a sacrifice we can never separate from our Abel.

We know what took place in history. Cain killed Abel and it became the source of regret so painful to God that it is beyond description. Now this must be reversed. If Cain is so completely dedicated to Abel that even if Abel wrongs Cain he never rebels, then that Cain will be instantly brought back to God. That is the clear process of recreation. Does this apply to you? This is the law of God and the law applies to everyone.

As the chosen people, the Israelites were in Cain’s position and waiting for the one person in Abel’s position, the Messiah; once he came they were to become completely one with him. However, they did not perceive God’s will so they just acted as they wanted to act. They did not unite, but did everything according to their own point of view. The people of Israel were faithful and had made many offerings; even the land they had was an element of their offering. Though the Israelites were on God’s side they were still in the Cain position. Consequently, all of what they had to offer was still on Cain’s side and was not ready to be offered to God. Without becoming completely one with Abel, their offering could never be accepted by God. A nation by itself can never be restored even though the people have made many offerings. Their offering has to be completely one with Abel before it can be offered to God.

If this unity had been created, the nation of Israel would have been restored to God’s side. To meet this condition, the Israelites needed to know clearly that everything they had belonged to Abel. It is up to Abel to do whatever he sees fit on the foundation of complete obedience and complete dedication to God. This is the whole purpose of religion.

Whatever happens, Cain must be determined never to separate again from God, never to object again. As Abel makes Cain’s offering he may even decide to cut it in half for the sake of the world, but the offering should never revolt. If the people know for sure what their position is then they will never oppose Abel, but the Israelites did not understand this and they did not believe in Jesus.

When Abel is rejected before he successfully accomplishes his offering to God, can God continue working in the same place? For thousands of years the Jews were the chosen people but God had to leave them and start again with another religion. Nevertheless, God continues to love even the man who has lost his position. The Jewish people tend to be blessed with wealth, but other countries have persecuted them regardless, even confiscating their legitimately earned property and killing millions of them. By shedding blood and paying much material indemnity, the Jews struggle to come near to the Messiah.

It is really a heartbreaking situation that we see now. Because Jews are lacking their central Abel, God cannot use what they intended to offer as a legitimate offering. Many generations ago they killed their Abel so God accepted their material offering only to indemnify the position they held before they failed. Once the death of Abel has been indemnified, the Jews will make offerings in a different way. The only way for them to be restored is for the Messiah to come again on earth in the flesh and ask God to forgive what they did when the Messiah first came. God will listen to that prayer.

It can be concluded that once the country in which the Messiah comes again is completely separated from evil, the country which strayed from God by rejecting the Messiah when he first came will also be brought back to God. It never was a coincidence that both Korea and Israel won independence in 1948. Just as the Korean people are now divided between North and South Korea, the Jewish nation on a world scale is divided into two blocs-one being Israel and the other being Jews scattered around the world.

The Jewish people living in England have much money but they cannot take it just anywhere they want to because England will stop them. In America there are many Jews with much property but they cannot freely take everything they own to another country either. This is the reality. Israel is cut in two just like Korea is cut in two.

The Jewish people are puzzled about why a chosen people could be subjected to so much misery and injustice. Non-Jews cannot explain what took place in history either, but this is simple to comprehend once one has a glimpse of what has been happening throughout history.

The futures of Korea and Israel can shake the future of the world. The more problems that originate there, the more tension there will be in the world. The situation of South and North Korea is not just the division of a country. It is unique in that the whole free world is sympathetic to South Korea while the communist bloc supports North Korea. Neither side can lay a finger on the other without stirring up worldwide opposition.

The religious issue is also prominent at this particular time because the Unification Church happens to be from South Korea. Korea has become the center of controversy for the entire world and on every continent people know about the Korean minister, Reverend Moon. Spiritually speaking, Korea now occupies the crucial center, while the Jewish people hold the key to material things. Eventually these two must become united. History wants to see the Jewish nation harmonized with Christianity.

Historically speaking, the central religions in the providence are like three brothers; the eldest brother is the Jewish religion, Christianity is the second brother, and the Unification Church is the youngest brother. To actualize the pattern of the three brothers in the world, all the Arab countries have to become one centering around the Jewish nation; centering around Christianity the Western world must become one and centering around the Unification Church all Asia must become one. The world situation can be narrowed down to that. South America and Africa are mainly Christian and in that sense they are extensions of the West.

Who will bring these three together? The restoration process involves going on a reverse path, and once the purpose is fulfilled, the Unification Church will take the position of oldest brother, while Christianity and Judaism will be the second and third brothers. How can this third brother take the position of eldest? Heaven will do that because the Unification Church has the ability to bring these three brothers into unity. In other words, since the eldest brother has failed to make these three into one, the youngest one, who will succeed in bringing the world into unity, will inherit the position of the eldest.

Most of you come from Christian backgrounds but in a few more years many young Jews will also come. Most people automatically accept their parents’ traditions without understanding them. That spirit is very good, but we should understand clearly before we believe in something. Before you commit yourself deeply in heart to confidently believe in something you must know about each aspect of it.

The Jewish religion opposes us and the Christian religion opposes us but we oppose neither. Who among these three is capable of uniting all three into one? Then if someone had to be God’s first son, who could it be? Because you are Unification Church members you think it will be the Unification Church but what are your reasons?

The Bible promises that the peace makers will become the sons of God. Each nation in the democratic world opposes us without any substantial reason. The communist world opposes us like it opposes everyone who isn’t communist, but what about us? The only reason we speak out against communism is so we can teach the communists about God. We are making peace with them too. All Cains and Abels on God’s side as well as all of creation will become completely one, each one obeying the other. Then they will make an offering to God and completely separate themselves from evil. Once God accepts this offering the history of sorrow will be over.

Most people in the world believe that each nation should remain autonomous and they criticize me for stirring up America when I am a Korean. Now they say, “Now he comes to England! Why doesn’t he just go back to Korea and stay there?” I cannot. If I did then I could not function in my own country. During this period, which not even our members understand in detail, I will go to Europe and then back to Asia; then eventually I will return to America where my cause is.

In this period you and I must complete the condition of all the world’s indemnity. While America is opposing me I would like to see all Europe become united with me. If Europe cannot do this then it won’t complete its own purpose. No matter what happens in any part of Europe we must always be completely one. It is impractical for me to go to each country, but by bringing representatives from each country to work together here, all of Europe will eventually share the same blessing. England may have been the enemy of many other nations in the past, but now those nations are working hard for England.

We only see the results now but when we dig into the original cause we see that the cause and the result are consistent. Even in religion we have to be reasonable, checking all the evidence and explaining it logically. Then we can commit our hearts and everything which is precious to us.

Even after basically understanding the foundations of everything, we still suffer very much. Do you welcome this suffering or do you reject it? No one wants to suffer much so how can you say you welcome your own suffering? Your fate is to be restored. The whole nation is to be restored. In other words, if Abel sacrifices everything for the sake of the Cain on God’s side and Cain sacrifices for the sake of Abel, then together they will sacrifice for the sake of God. Finally, only through the parents can we gain life in the true sense and then go to God. This is the original procedure.

The more you become aware of the meaning of “True Parents”, the more significant that becomes to you. Only through True Parents can the entire world be dedicated to God. If True Parents did not exist, the world could never be dedicated to God and the fallen world could continue, having nothing to do with God. This is how important True Parents are in the consummation of religion.

That’s the meaning behind all your work here. You are actually not sacrificing only for your own country, which you thought was difficult enough, but in some cases for a country which may even have been an enemy before. As I said, you must make a condition for restoration, having each of the necessary three elements. In the parental position you are restoring three members in your own country, like restoring Cain and Abel.

If you can accomplish all that I have asked of you, I can begin to give my responsibility over to you. Strictly speaking, I can delegate all responsibility to you if you are prepared. If something had happened to me ten or twenty years ago then the world would still be doomed to total misery, but not any longer. At this historical point, even were I to go to spirit world you could still carry out the will of God. The will of God is now solidly founded on earth.

Let us pray.

## SPEECH TO THE ONE WORLD CRUSADE EUROPE

By Fami1yfed June 16, 2018 June 16, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1978

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### June 1, 1978 – 5.30 a.m.
Lancaster Gate, London
Translator – Sang Kil Han

> A prominent theme in this speech is the attitude members of the Unification Church should have to the name, `Moonie.’ God is disappointed if he sees people being weakened by such jibes. Moreover, the name is an honorable one and should be worn with pride. People who oppose the Moonies normally know little or nothing about the facts.

> At the end of the speech, the decision had been made to send members all over the country to witness, rather than remain only in London. It is interesting to note that the selection was by lottery — Rev. Moon’s favorite method.

For the last few days you have been working in London. What do you feel about it? This is the first time in history that we have had such an activity as this in Europe with so many countries centered on one town. So as this is the first time that anybody has done such work in the streets, the results that you are bringing forth in Europe will become a great conversation point.

Then how has this work come into being? The Unification Church is doing this in the name of God. Although the Unification Church is doing this, it is essentially God’s work-we are doing it for Him. So it has to result in success. We are doing this in God’s name and therefore it is of great significance. There is no other work more significant than this one. And the very elements that are working here, like the German, French, all the other European nations and also the British were enemies not long ago. A relatively short time ago, they were fighting each other. But now they are working as brothers and sisters. Then are we really working as brothers and sisters? (Yes!) Do you really feel that in your mind now? (Yes!) So the work we do now is not just our own work; it may be that when we fail this is not our personal failure but a failure for the future of Europe. But once we become successful then we will establish a great pattern for the future. This being initiating work, then lots more activities will follow in the future and this will be prevalent all throughout the European continent.

So it is very much as if each country has sent its own soldiers, its own army to form an allied front to work in this country and in this town as we are doing now. So we must now be aware in our work that not only will everyone in Europe pay attention to us but also all the spirit world will pay attention to what we do. So in this way and in this respect, we have to be very much aware that we are the soldiers, the very fine selected soldiers of the Heavenly army. So while we are working here, we have to know that and think about that every moment of the time and day, we must have this very strong realization that we are soldiers.

The Heavenly soldier is the same as the regular soldier. The army is for fighting and it has to fight very effectively. In order to do so we have to belong to some command – to a higher command and only in this way will the army fight a great war in a very effective way. Soldiers do not usually select their own battlefield. In other words the soldier doesn’t go south or north because he believes it is good, but he goes as the situation demands and as the commander/instructor instructs him to and then he fights his best. Another thing an army does is, in order to win a victory, it does not think of anything else but victory. Even lives are of secondary importance-the first is victory.

It doesn’t matter whether the enemy is strong or the enemy is weak, we always fight against the enemy, pouring everything we have into it. So once we are instructed to go and take a certain objective, no matter what the situation is, we will march forward and get that objective. With this view, what kind of soldiers are we going to be? Are we going to be a small, weak army or are we going to be a strong army? (Strong!) Then we say we will become a strong army, but it is not that simple-we have to do something before we can become a strong army. In order to make ourselves a strong army, we have to be equipped with three great elements. First, the armament especially the spiritual armament must be a strong one. And then, and only then will we have our outer armament-we must have other arms to fight against the enemy. With these two, we are well under way, but this on its own is not enough either. Then thirdly, we have to train ourselves in accordance with all the principles. Once we are instructed to go forth with a certain objective and we accept it, then 5 or 7 of us or a squad of us working together would have to go and get that at any cost. Many people may feel differently about the situation but one thing is for sure-if the army is afraid of something, or afraid of the enemy, or not so confident in what it does or not so determined in what it is supposed to do then such an army can never fight, we know that. So we have to know what our enemy is, what we are supposed to do, what we are fighting for- then we can say ‘yes, now I am determined’. We have the spiritual determination. This is the first thing. Then the second one is ‘what are we going to fight with? – we have to collect our outer arms and once equipped with these then we have to train ourselves every day. Do the thing and practice and practice in order. We have to collect our outer arms and once equipped with these then we have to train ourselves every day. Do the thing and practice and practice in order to get our work done better.

Since we are already in the battlefield, in the battle against evil, you might say, then we cannot try to arm ourselves with spiritual armaments here at the battlefield. We cannot try to collect our arms and equip ourselves here at this battlefield and we cannot go through real training in the real battlefield. We are already in the battlefield. All of these preparations should have been done before we came over to the battlefield. So that means, by the time we are in the battlefield, we should have learned every way of fighting and every way of reaching the enemy, every way of winning over the objective and have practiced that by witnessing in local areas and we should have already had that training before we got here. And that is a MUST, there is no other way to get around to it. Then if we are not trained like that, if we do not have that armament, spiritually and outwardly, then what happens? Then we will fight on but we have to suffer much unnecessary sacrifice. In all fighting there are sacrifices but in untrained fighting there are double and triple sacrifices. Even without worrying about that, even with what we have, to try to do the work, we get tired and we find very little time to spare. We are totally involved in it and even without thinking of these preparations, we are already very busy in fighting the war.

Well in these circumstances, what kind of uniform are we soldiers wearing now? Here we must realize that the uniform we are wearing now has the name-tag of the Unification Church and has the name of God inscribed on it. Imagine, those soldiers wearing a uniform which says Unification Church and God and imagine all the people looking at that fighting soldier-if he is not winning over Satan but instead he is not strong, even weaker than Satan and loses the battle, what do you think? All the people around would look at the uniform and what would they say? It is not very difficult to imagine. That weak soldier may be beaten but he is not an individual, that is where the problem lies. The individual may lose the war and so what? Other soldiers can come in and fight the war better, but, when an individual soldier loses a war, that means that the Unification Church will eventually lose and all Europe will lose and God will eventually lose. So this is never a simple matter, rather it is the greatest matter we can ever think of. So we can all think of this in parallel with our own lives. Either we give our life, or we lose it. We have to have this kind of determination. When we select a soldier, the soldier is selected to represent that nation, the best ones in that nation, the strongest ones in that nation are picked out as soldiers- the weak ones and the sick ones are not selected as soldiers because they will only die in the battlefield. No army does that. They pick up the best ones in their country. So soldiers are always young people, picked at the prime of youth. The soldiers must be very simple minded with nothing complicated back home. No family to take care of, no children, or not many and also they should have a simple strong straight-forward mind in that their only objective is to win in the name of God.

Another thing the young people hate very much is to be beaten by someone – to be outdone by someone. This is something they dislike very much. The old people say “Oh, I lost because there were lots of problems behind me and many things are in my way,” but young people can never say this because there are none -no obstacles in front of him, no complications behind him. So let Father ask you a question now. Are you young people, or are you old people? (Young!) Your eyes are shining, shining really brightly and the muscles are strong and your body is in peak condition. If young people are forced to sit down like this for three hours then they really boil inside and they just want to break the window and burst out. Do you feel like that? (Yes!) Whenever you move your arm or move your leg, whatever small movement you have, you do with a powerful and confident force. And all of you are in your twenties and early thirties and all have this element in you. And what about the thoughts we have. The thoughts in our heads-all the same, uniform, the same thought? Or some people have one thought and others have another different thought? Which one is it? (Same!) Same? (Yes!) So we have the same thinking. Are we the same in that everyone thinks they are losing or are we the same in that everyone knows that we will eventually win? (Win!) Even in winning there are two possibilities. Maybe the enemy is weak. It is very exhausted, so you walk in and take the enemy. That’s one way. The other is that the enemy is too strong, just like we are, but maybe we are even stronger, so when we really fight then because we are stronger, work harder and we are more determined, we beat the strong enemy army. There are even two ways of winning, then which way are we going to win the victory? Because the enemy is weak or because we are stronger? (Stronger!) When we shoot at them with words, they are going to shoot back at us too and we will really have fierce fighting and we will win over this. Or instead, everyone is sleeping there, so you walk in, you sneak in and then you shoot them and you win this way. What kind of battle are you going to have? With the enemy sleeping, or the enemy fighting back at you? The first one or the second one? (Second one!) You are walking down the street and the people come and ask you, “What do you do?”, “What is your work, what is your profession?”, “What are you?” You say, “Well, I do this – and, sometimes I do that, and, er … ” Are you going to reply like that or instead are you going to say, “I, I am a soldier of the Heavenly army and my mission is to fight and win every battle!” Are you going to say this? Which one? The first one or the second one? (Second!) Then, if the people ask you what you are, are you going to say, “Well, I’m fighting, I’m in the Heavenly army. ” Are you going to say that or are you going to say proudly, “{am a member of the Unification Church!” Which one are you going to say to the people who ask you? (Second one!) Second one? You like Moonie, Moonie, Moonie? (Yes!)

Sometimes, when the situation is rather bizarre, you might say you are Unification Church members. But never do this from now on. When you say Unification Church, say it with pride, say it proudly because this Unification Church, the name of Unification Church is the source of pride and is something solemn, you know that. So far, have you been saying the name ‘Moonie’, ‘I am a Moonie’, have you been saying that with a proud confident mind, or as if you don’t want other people to find out or don’t want to admit you are a ‘Moonie’ or something like that? (No!) There is nothing to be ashamed of. it is the proudest name. Those who have thought in the past that ‘Moonie’ is a very proud name, raise your hand. Is that true? You have always thought that the name ‘Moonie’ is a name to be proud of? (Yes!) Well, most Unification Church members, ‘Moonies’, when other people call them ‘Moonies’, they don’t like that. Is that right? (No!) Father understands that many Unification Church members did not like that. Isn’t that right? Why don’t you answer now? Is that because something is holding you back? Is that because sometimes in the past you did not feel so good saying ‘I am a Moonie?’ Of course not, you have always been proud of this.

For those people who do not like the name ‘Moonie’-then, where does the name ‘Moonie’ come from? Has that name come from his own mouth or from somebody else? Then who is that somebody else who started saying ‘Moonie?’ Well, actually, no matter who said it, the name came directly from ‘Moon’-and they called it ‘Moonie’. So, when people are not so proud of being called ‘Moonie’, that means he or she is not so proud of Father himself. Isn’t that right? I don’t like him, so when people call me Moonie, I don’t like it. Isn’t that right? Isn’t that the way? (No!) Actually, it reasons out that way doesn’t it? Actually, the name ‘Moonie’ does not even come only from the name Moon. Why would Reverend Moon do anything if it was not God’s will? Actually, the name ‘Moonie’ comes directly from God. So when we are ashamed of being called ‘Moonie’, that means we are ashamed eventually of God. This is one thing we do not feel and have not felt in the past. Then why does Satan call us ‘Moonie? Actually, Satan has a purpose. By saying ‘Moonie’, he wants to harass us and make us weak. If he says, ‘Moonie’, ‘Moonie’, and a person doesn’t like being called ‘Moonie’, that person becomes weak. This is what Satan has in mind. So these are Satan’s tactics. By calling everyone ‘Moonie’ and speaking bad things about Moonies then he will make the soldiers weak and cause them to lose their will to fight and will chase them away. This is why he calls them ‘Moonie’. We shoot with our words of God and he is shooting at us by calling us ‘Moonie’ and that is his own bullet too, you see. He shoots at us by calling us ‘Moonie’. So what the enemy is hoping when he says ‘Moonie’, is that the bullet will hit your head and you will say, ‘Well, I don’t want to be called ‘Moonie,’ so you fall on the ground. That’s what the enemy wants you to do. Do you understand? So when people ask, ‘Are you a Moonie,’ then if you feel, ‘Oh, I don’t want that,’ then you are already weakened. Rather, you must feel, when you see someone coming, that he is going to ask, ‘Are you a Moonie?’ You must think to yourself, first, what you are going to answer and what you think about this and determine yourself. The enemy is really getting at this very point, so if one person comes and asks you and you don’t like that, what then if two people come and ask you? or three people?- then you will just have to escape. If one man can call you a ‘Moonie’ and you are afraid, what if three people come at you and say ‘Moonie?- then you will have to run, isn’t that right? Then how can a soldier fight with such a weak mind?

So, we should know enemy tactics and we should be prepared when they say ‘Moonie’, to say, “Yes, I am a ‘Moonie’, but what’s wrong with a ‘Moonie?” Just tell me one thing which is bad about ‘Moonies? Just tell me one thing which is wrong with ‘Moonies? So when someone calls you a ‘Moonie’, you have to feel excited. Oh, he called me a ‘Moonie’, and I am going to fight over that name ‘Moonie’ today. We have to feel the confidence in ourselves. You have actually much to say about being a ‘Moonie’ yourself. Deep inside you have a strong heart wanting to talk about being a ‘Moonie’. What about those people who call you ‘Moonie?

Actually they are much less than a ‘Moonie’. Not even their little finger can touch that name ‘Moonie’. Have you ever thought that the ‘Moonies’ happen to be the only ones working for others in a world where everybody is just working for themselves-these very brave people, who have their own problems in their own countries, are now coming from the entire Europe to help in England. How great they are-and they ought to know about that. So you can say, have they ever thought of, or tried fighting for Europe, or tried working for England? Have they even thought about it? If they have not even thought about it, then they are not any better than you. Certainly they are not any better than you, so how can they call other people such names. Do you understand?

So the name ‘Moonie’ can work in two ways. If the enemy calls you by the name ‘Moonie’ and you are weak and inside you become complicated and you lose your will to fight, then this is what the enemy wants but if, when they call you by the name ‘Moonie’ and all of a sudden you feel very proud, if at that moment you think about Father and about God Himself, the almighty and strongest God, then you go over this name ‘Moonie’. It is like a trigger – when they say the name ‘Moonie’, then you will always spring up and become stronger. It can work both ways.

This is a very true situation. If you are proud of being a Moonie and if you talk to them strongly, then those people will later be ashamed and they will be afraid and will go away and then the name Moonie will have brought you victory. You have to make this work-instead of being (eaten. So we must be aware and we must be confident. We must work inside and out that whenever this Moonie name is spoken, then that means all of Europe, that means all the tradition, that means all of God’s work, so you have to really feel the strength in that name. And certainly we cannot say we are the soldiers of the Unification Church without knowing how to raise up the name Moonie and knowing how to be proud of the name Moonie because there are all the elements to be proud of in the name Moonie. Do you understand or don’t you understand? So in the last few days, you have heard the name Moonie quite often, haven’t you? Then did you feel good or did you feel not so good? (Good!) When you said that why did you laugh at the same time? Why did you laugh? Doesn’t it say, yes, I heard and I didn’t mind but I didn’t feel good. Isn’t that right? (No!) Are you sure that you know? (Yes!) What about the people who say Moonie in such a way that it’s like Father was struck. If you get three punches like that, then just go to some corner and do nothing, you lose all power inside and such a soldier, can you call him a soldier? Can he ever win anything? Such a soldier? Even the dog or cat passing by would laugh at such a soldier. ‘Oh, there’s a weak soldier, he’s supposed to be a Unification Church member. The dog laughs at you, the cat sneers at you. Don’t you understand? (Yes!) When someone calls you Moonie and then your eye is all of a sudden sparkling, shining like a diamond, saying, ‘Yes, I am a Moonie, do you want to learn more about Moonies? because it’s good. You want to be a Moonie too?’ (Yes!) If they have some objections about Moonies, you can say, ‘Let’s hear it.’ Let them talk about bad things about Moonies and then if they are wrong, you tell them it is wrong and you tell them why it is wrong and they will retreat because they are ashamed. And what if nobody calls you Moonie? Then you should actually be bored, you don’t know what to do because nobody calls you a Moonie and its too peaceful. Then what you must do is go up to that man and say, ‘Why don’t you call me a Moonie? Why don’t you call me a Moonie, don’t you know the Moonies?’ You have to challenge them.

I So starting from this morning, listen to the ‘Moonie’ many, many times, make them say ‘Moonie’ to you. If they keep quiet, then you should go and jab them, ‘Call me Moonie, don’t you want to know about Moonie? There are many Moonies in London, don’t you want to know about them and what they do?’ You have to do that. And then obviously you know, they don’t want to hear ‘Moonie’. When you say, ‘Moonie, don’t you want to hear about Moonie?’, then they don’t want to hear about Moonie. Then they retreat. Don’t you feel good and confident when the people retreat and run away when the Moonie name is called? Wouldn’t you feel strong at the name of Moonie? (Yes!) So think about it now-for a few seconds. How many times would you like to be called Moonie in one day? How many times? Is that 100 times or 1,000 times a day? (A thousand!) If the soldier is more and more excited every time he is called Moonie, then the more often he is called Moonie, the more he will feel the power coming, so that soldier is a real strong soldier. Well, then you say, ‘Well, I may be called a Moonie when I’m sitting on the park bench, then I don’t mind.’ Do you feel like that? Or do you feel you don’t mind being called a Moonie anywhere you go? Anywhere, like a public toilet, in a bus station, riding a bus, in a shopping center, no matter where, in a restaurant or wherever it happens to be if a man comes out and calls you ‘Moonie’, still you will not mind- an unexpected ‘Moonie’, even better. Will you feel like that? Or, will you feel, ‘Well, I can be called Moonie, but only at the bench of a park where I am doing nothing, then people can come and call me Moonie, then I don’t mind. So which one? (Everywhere!) It is a simple thing. From today on we will never mind being called a Moonie. In fact, we will take that name and wherever it is spoken, we will be proud of it and we will use it as a source of power and we will clad it around us and use it as our armament. You know a tank? A tank is made of very strong iron, if you shoot a bullet, it will never go through a tank-so you must be like a tank. When they call the name Moonie, you be like a scrap of iron. Those who want to make themselves like a tank with the name of Moonie, raise your hands.

Are we going to make an armament out of the name Moonie? Yes? (Yes!) Actually how exciting it would be if, when the people are so indifferent, when they are busy and all of us say, ‘We are the Moonies’-the people will shout out and they will be surprised and want to learn more about us. Theatres and schools, especially young children and students will want to learn about Moonies. When you make a noise and people come up to you and you have to speak then you will say, ‘Well, there are two kinds of people that are called names. One is the very capable man, so they call him names, and the other category of man they call names is the one who is incapable. He is not so smart so they call him names.’ So there are two kinds of people who are called names. One is good, so they call him bad names and the other is bad so they call him bad names. Isn’t that right? There are always two kinds of people. Then you will say, ‘I will let you decide if the Moonie is good or bad, we believe in this and we do this because of this.’ Well, when the people gather round you, you will say, ‘I am so and so from such and such country.’ Let us say you are a young German, you can say, ‘I am German, from Europe and we used to be enemies during the war. We used to be England’s enemy and you were our enemy in the past war, but now we have come here, not thinking about the time when we were enemies; now we are here to help in your own country, right here.’ ‘I come from Germany and you try to cut my leg and cut my arm and even my throat because I am a Moonie.’

Well, that’s your background, but now you are here to teach many things and to teach bad people good things and you have to make those people who are not really worthwhile, spend their days in a worthwhile way. Then, if you do this, are you good or bad? When you are called names, you have to explain yourself, you have to persist, you can really blame them for not understanding you and trying to make out that you are a bad man. If you really protest against them then they can’t say anything. Are you good or bad? You came here to steal something didn’t you? You came to London to hurt somebody, didn’t you? (No!) Certainly not to steal from someone, but we spend our own money, we paid our own plane ticket and bus ticket out of our own pocket, so that means we didn’t steal anything here. We give to them and also we came here to teach them good things, not to teach them bad things, so what are we afraid of, what are we ashamed of? Certainly there is not a thing in our minds to be ashamed of. Do you understand? So now you know there is no other bunch of people like yourselves.

There are millions of people living in London, but they are not thinking much about London or even the country itself. They have never even thought about saving this country and this city or all of Europe. You know that, and it is like a very incompetent animal running around. They never think about higher things, but you thought about higher things, like God, and you came here to work for them. So what are you afraid of, or what are you ashamed of? You have to be confident in everything you do because you know you are good and you know why you came here.

So since you like to be called by the name ‘Moonie’, when you come back you will be bored, you will want to be called ‘Moonie, a little bit more. So as soon as you have finished your meal, you go right out to the street to listen if people are calling you a Moonie. When you become like that, that soldier will fight a hundred wars and win 100 different battles. Everywhere he fights he will win. Do you understand? So starting from this very moment we shall be proud of the name ‘Moonie,, it is the name of pride instead of guilt.

Since you are so confident and smiling, the people must say, ‘When I looked at the Moonies for a long tune, I was kind of scared. Although they were smiling it was strange. I looked at their eyes and became more and more fearful.’ when your reputation in London becomes like that then you are a winner. Other people think that your eyeballs should never move around because you are very tense, because you are brainwashed, because you are very much like a machine and because you are a robot. ‘Oh, they are just terrible.’ But they should not say that, instead they should say,’They were smiling, their eyes were moving around, they were sparkling, but the longer I looked at them, the more scared I was, I don’t know why’, they have to say that. And they also have to go round London and say, ‘Oh, I talked to a Moonie, his mouth was like a machine gun, and not just a javelin, but a machine gun where every word is just like a bullet. It really struck me, and went through me. Oh, I’m rather afraid to talk to them.’ You have to win that reputation.

They will say the English Moonie is very fearful and very strong. But how about the French Moonie? Maybe he is not so strong, so they go and have a jab at the French Moonie. They may not speak the language, but they can have a jab. So the Londoners will come around and jab the French Moonie. But the French Moonie, once he gets mad, shoots out a faster bullet than the British Moonie and then they will say, ‘Oh, the French Moonie is much worse than the British Moonie., With the German Moonie, the same thing, he has a different kind of gun, but that is just as fearful if not more fearful, like a rocket. Each nationality of Moonie must win his own identity. Do you understand? (Yes!) In London we will speak about you like this, very soon.

Today is the 1st June, the first of the month. The first day is always important. Now you have a good present. Before you eat your breakfast, you have a good present. The present is the name Moonie. The fantastic name of Moonie. Actually the more you think about it the more you realise this is a fantastic word-this is a fabulous word. Everything is in the name of Moonie, God, heart, everything is there, but for some strange reason, the enemy would rather use it against us. With some success, they have been calling us Moonies and that has served to weaken the Unification Church soldiers. Then why do they oppose the Moonies? Has anybody thought about it? Why do the people oppose the Moonies? Because that is an established reputation. Everyone knows that once they listen to a Moonie, then there is no other way but to become a Moonie themselves- that’s why they are afraid. Isn’t that right? (Yes!) How fantastic it is. There is no other possibility. If a Moonie talks to somebody then the only possibility for that person is for him to become a Moonie himself. There is no other way. How powerful, how miraculous the name and word Moonie is! The Moonie instantly makes a good man out of a bad man. So what’s wrong with that? To take a bad man and bring him up into a good man to make a good man out of all those bad people. Is that bad? (No!) So before you joined the Unification Church, were you a bad man or a good man? (Bad!) But, now are you a bad man or a good man? (Good!) And you don’t have to wait for other people to tell you that because you know it yourself very well. We know deep inside how bad we were, but now we know how good we are.

You can describe how much you have changed. A long time ago in Germany, you hated the British people so much that you did everything to destroy this country. Now you have changed and ‘you come in such a way that, even if you go through much pain and many tears and a lot of misery, you are determined to love this country. You have changed that much. It’s almost as different as the difference between heaven and earth. And it is not even a crooked way of changing but you went straight up from the bottom. You shot right up to Heaven. That’s where you are now. This is a source of pride. If this is not a source of pride, then there is no source of pride in this world. This is certainly the source, the very source of pride. So why do we have to be passive? Why are we not active rather than passive? Why do we have to escape? This is like Father said this year. You have to be brave and you have to become audacious, very courageous. Are you going to be like that? (Yes!) Those who are determined to become like that, raise your hands.

You came from Europe to London. They speak a different language to you. You don’t understand what they say, so you say, ‘Well, they speak some language that I don’t understand’, but all Family members from Europe you have to forget about being German. Don’t think that the English language is a strange language. Try to forget your own German, try to forget that you are a German and that you are from Germany. Try to forget that idea. Again, your internal enemy is- ‘Oh, I am German, therefore I cannot speak English, so therefore in London I cannot do very much.’ that’s the enemy-that’s the second enemy to you. We should not feel that way. Forget that you are German. ‘I speak Heavenly language’ – you might think that deeply. Don’t worry about what to say. But your face can say a lot even without your mouth. If you are peaceful, if you are loving, if you are confident and if you forget about your German or your French, then the British people will take you as a beautiful person.

You know even in London, even in Britain many people are mute. Many people have mouths but cannot speak. They are deaf, there are many people like that, even in London. They are British but they don’t speak English. Maybe you are indemnifying for all the deaf and mute in Britain. But those are the people who cannot do anything because they are deaf and because they are mute – they are invalids. You may be temporarily at the same level of deafness but you can do many more things here-one hundred times more than the average British person can do for this country. So you have to be proud, even to be temporarily deaf and temporarily mute. Do you understand?

Two lovers-when they fall in love with each other in the beginning-do their eyes start speaking first or do their mouths start speaking first? (Eyes!) You know that answer, don’t you? So even without a mouth, even without a language, even without speaking, there are many channels of communications So when you walk, do not go around looking miserable-do not walk as though you have lost all power and everything-instead, on the contrary, look very blight, like a man who saw the light in the pitch dark-in the middle of the night he saw the sun rise up-so inspired and so uplifted. We have to look like that and walk like that. Do you understand? Imagine someone in the pitch dark night, never expecting to see the sun rise up very quickly, but then the sun rose up very quickly, how surprised he is and how happy he is. You can imagine how full of hope that man is-when in the middle of the night, he sees the sun rise; when in the middle of the winter he sees the bight hot sun, then how hopeful and bright he is. You have to look like that. Do you understand? Not only should you look bright and hopeful, but also you have to feel like a General who has hundreds, thousands, millions of soldiers under him. Actually you have that. You have hundreds, thousands and millions of soldiers under your command-you have to feel like that and be confident of it. That General will fight a hundred battles and he will win every one of them. You have many spiritual soldiers following you. You are an Army Conscription Officer, the Induction Centre, if you want to have a strong army like the British army, or the French army, then you go out to the street but when you pick up a soldier do not pick up anyone. The bad person will not become a good soldier. The very weak person, even if he becomes a soldier, will not be of any use. So you can go out and look at a boy and say, ‘You are not handsome enough for me’, and you walk past- you have to be choosey. In other words, pick out the best ones. Well, you know, not the best ones maybe, but avoid the worst ones.

Since Father promised you a standard, Father has a little concern, worry. For example, there may be three men to witness to, but instead of picking the three men, you pick on a weak man who has nothing to do-lying on a bench, does not know what to do, so you talk to him and he walks, he does not even walk straight, but somehow he walks to the Centre, and even listens to the lectures. He listens and says, ‘yes’ to this question end ‘yes’ to that question. He says ‘yes’ to everything even to contradictory questions. Do not pick such a man. Pick out the smart ones, those who are most difficult to convince He will ask you all kinds of different questions and he will try to scratch you everywhere and he will try to oppose you. He will even bite you sometimes, you know. Pick out those kind of people. Do not bring those people who are ready to listen to you because if you leave them alone, then they will come by themselves anyway, but those ones who try to escape from you, those ones you would like to become soldiers, but who run away. Then you run after him and hold him, and tell him you like the ‘run-away’ soldier. That’s the one you like and you just bring him in. You have to have many special occasions like that. You know, the ordinary, the stereo-typed person will make you tired.

So Father’s point this morning is don’t worry that you don’t speak the language. If you witness to three men in London,- when you don’t even speak English, then the same Frenchman, who goes back to France later, will witness to 10 men, with no problem, more than 10 even in one month. Do you understand? So here Father expects you to win the war, win the battle everywhere you fight and also, at the same time, train yourself to contact people, to talk to people through the eyes and through the mouth-train yourself here in London. All those from Europe must just think, ‘This is a battleground and also a training ground.’ Never worry about speaking the language-do you understand? We should be proud of the name ‘Moonie’ and we should never worry that we don’t speak the language.

The third element is that we have to walk as if our legs are very pious-we walk and walk and walk-they feel like poles, like sticks. When you walk, the arms and hands can say a great deal too. Some people walk very weakly and their hands never move. (Father indicates.) But when the legs walk very briskly, full of hope, then your hands will swing along-they will dance the same rhythm, so you walk like that. (Father demonstrates) Do you understand? Father spotted someone last night, when coming into the entrance, and Father wondered, ‘Didn’t she eat dinner or lunch, is that why she is walking like that? Powerless. Father just didn’t understand why she had to walk like that. You should look bright and so nice that people come and wonder what makes you so happy. ‘I came to meet you this morning that’s why I was so happy. It was you that I was so hopeful to meet.’ You are a very happy man to meet him. ‘I feel the power running out, maybe I am tired so my power is all running gut.’ when you notice that, right away you have to bring your arm above your eye level and swing your arms when you walk. Now you know that when your eyes cannot see your hand coming up so often while you are walking, you have to tell your hands to come up to eye level. So when you are tired bring your hands up to eye level. Do you understand? You have to give the typical impression that the way a Moonie walks is different from the way British people walk. When you walk briskly then your image is established. So build a good image of yourself. Don’t build a bad image for the Unification Church members here in London. Don’t let them think that you are powerless, that you are tired. No, you are not. Do you understand? So you have to feel like a victorious soldier landing in the enemy country. You certainly would never walk like that when you are victorious. When you are a victor then you should walk with pride-you must feel pride in here. Even if you have a broken leg, then you have to walk briskly and run if you are going somewhere. Do you understand? These are all necessary things in your fighting. Today when you go out into the street and witness to people, you have to remember these things and they will help you to win the war.

So Father would like to go out into the street and see how you work. From this moment on Father expects, since you are so inspired, so confident, that the women when they walk will walk very briskly, with a motion from left to right, tossing their hips around. But don’t overdo it, you just walk confidently-don’t try to walk conservatively. We should never walk sideways. Some people walk sideways, but you must walk straight with all buttons buttoned up. there is nothing more ugly that seeing a woman sitting like this. (Father demonstrates). So when you are tired then you can take a little rest, but while you are resting, although you are exhausted, look as though you are appreciating the scenery. You know, not just ready to fall asleep with your mouth open. Do not do that. But remember that since you are a soldier and an enemy to them, you don’t know when they are peeping at you, but they are always looking at you. You see, they are always looking at you, you have to know that. So we have to be refined and trained in every way. Like the way we sit, the way we walk, the way we approach the people and talk to the people- everything is training, we have to do it many, many, many times so that we get the knack of it, get the best way. Some women’s shoe laces are too long and when they walk, they toss from here to there and look very unstable. So we have to cut them in the right way and tie even the shoe laces in the correct way.

Especially in women, the hair is very important and when they are tired and the hair looks as though they have just got up, the women who never comb their hair just look terrible. So comb your hair. Always be clean, although you don’t use cosmetics that should make ,you even more beautiful. Many times Father sees some imbalance among the women-women who never really comb their hair so their hair is always floppy; then they have ear-rings and they are never really becoming – not matching, not harmonious So you always have to keep your appearance tidy, especially women’s hair. Do you understand?

So now we know that we have to be proud of being a Moonie and secondly, we have to forget from what country we have come and that we don’t know the language, and the third is what? We have to be bright, bright like a man or woman who saw the daylight in the middle of the night, hopeful and bright with a confident smile. And such a man will walk briskly too. Never walk like a straggling soldier, never do that. So the people like this, such proud people, have so far been living in a conservative way-now this is the time to show up. Are you young or old? (Young!) Since you are young, you have to have something alive in yourself. When there is a wrestling match going on inside a ring, then you cannot help but to want to jump up in the ring and do it yourself. You have to feel that. If there is an exciting match going on and you want to sleep you are not a young man. Do you understand? You have to be brave, and nobody can beat you, this is one thing you have to be confident of. Nothing can beat you. Father knows that you have already thought about these things at one time or another, but today everyone will feel like that, at the same time, this is why Father told you this morning. Many times you don’t know what your face looks like or what your expression is like-you don’t care, but now you must care. If other people look at you, then other people should feel bright. You have to make sure that you look like that and if you don’t then you have to train your face to look like that. Ask other people how you look, and if they say you’d better wear some more smile, then you do that. Do you understand? So you have to have your own image of yourself-you see. ‘I must look like that, I must give the people this kind of image, this is my image’, and you have to live up to this image. You must create your own image. Actually, you should have worked this problem out a long time ago in your country. You should have already created your look and your image, but now Father allows you a minimum time so you must do that very quickly -will you? (Yes!)

You see when you fight the war then you have a feeling, ‘Oh, I’m going to win’, if you have that feeling you will win, so the spiritual beginning is very important. When you know you will win, when you feel that you would win, you will win. Since you already have that qualification your ideal is very high and, according to your determination, God is right behind you, right beside you so you really have to make every standard high – walking, dressing, looking, talking and heart – all the standards must become high- must be as high as you are supposed to be. You know the swallow and the sparrow, the sparrow is the local bird, a small bird; the swallow is a similar size but the swallow flies thousands of miles in one stretch over the ocean. How can they be the same? And also, when they fly, the sparrows jump, they do cute things, but swallows have acrobatic flying, they fly like circus flyers. So you have a choice too. Are you going to be a sparrow or, are you going to be a swallow? Look at the swallows. Even while they are resting, always they think about going far places, crossing the ocean once more- they always plan like that. So you have to become very ambitious too-you have to think what you will do tomorrow, the next year, you have to build up hope, you have to build up that ambition inside you, like a swallow and never like a sparrow who lives from day to day. So Father asks you a question once more-will you ever try to become like a swallow, or would you be content to remain as a sparrow. They are so similar, but they are so different in quality. It’s as different as heaven and earth. So are you going to be a swallow? (Yes!)

So you really have to be a high being. You have to be a target of admiration for other people, even in the way you look and the way you think, don’t be just a mediocre man. Father understands that, especially after the meal, when the weather is warm, your legs are so tired. Its alright if you rest a while but if you sit down on a bench, sometimes you start dozing off, you could fall asleep in spite of yourself, you cannot control it sometimes, but don’t. Don’t you ever doze off on a bench because nothing looks so bad. What about the enemy-the newspaperman-this time the newspaper man will come and the papers will try to discourage you, they say, ‘She can’t have eaten for a long time by the way she walks’, and they say, ‘They haven’t slept in years because wherever they go they doze off.’ They can and Father would not be surprised if they did. So even if you are very tired do not doze off when other people are looking at you-other people are always looking at you. It you really must sleep, then you must cover your face with a handkerchief, so that they will never know who you are, but don’t let them know you are a ‘Moonie’.

Nobody cleans up in London nowadays, so whenever they see how you are clothed, more or less disciplined, they will immediately know that you are Moonies, even by the haircut-no way of escaping. Since you are so good,the people will try to find the smallest fault and say that you are that good. That’s what they are saying. So you have to always be conscious, you know, always be aware so that they will never say anything, not even the smallest thing, bad thing, about you. Don’t let them. So you have to make sure that you will never be the target of criticism for them. Do you understand? We have to be worthy soldiers, and we have to have a soldier’s qualifications have to have all the qualities of a real soldier-we must become like that.

We think we are alone but don’t you ever think that, it is never true. You are not alone. When I am active, the earth looks at us, and also the Heavens are looking at us, and the nature all around us sees us at the same time-the trees, grass, flowers, even the flying birds and insects see us. Do you think that when you are resting on a bench they never see you? They all see you. And not only that, but also the live spirits, the people in the spiritual world, your own ancestors, are definitely looking at you, and not only looking at you, but trying to help you. All the French people in France are watching over the French contingent in London and saying, ‘Oh, the French Moonies, the Moonies from France came to England, so how are they doing?’ they are always conscious of this. Well, don’t you think this is true? They look at you and your own parents and friends, of course, are very much considering you. They are aware of you and of what you are doing here-they think about you and how you are doing. You see, spiritually speaking, even your unborn sons and daughters are looking at you now. Your sons and daughters will later look at the picture and say, ‘This is my mommy and my daddy working in London- that’s fine, but why is she so powerless, why is she so sad?’ They will wonder and you can never be proud of that. What can you say? ‘Your mommy was too tired at that time-your father was too tired at that time.’ And these memories don’t erase – they go on and on. This is no imagination, it is very easy to understand. Now you have a video-tape don’t you? The television play something, you record it and right away, in one second, you can go back and play it again. The same thing can be played a thousand times, a million times over again. Can’t it? Video-tape, movie. And when you go to spirit world later, what will you do? Everyday, will you dance every minute, or will you get tired of dancing? And you will do nice things but you will get tired of that too, so what do you think you will do with all the time you have in spirit world? You will want to look at the movie, you see, and you will say, ‘Oh, I remember so and so after such and such a time, I want to see that scene again.’ All you have to do is push the switch, then it is there like a movie, all of the details exactly as it happened here. Do you understand? So you want to be proud of yourself at that time. If you have nothing to be proud of now, how could you have a good film? But the fact that you are worried about the country, that you are not only worried about it, but you actually came physically to work to help to build a new life, that can be a source of pride for everlasting years. These are the truths, the facts. So we have to retain some documentary of our young life, ‘When I was so many years old, I came to London and I did not look tired. I looked very good and I worked really in top condition.’ You have to establish during these 40 – 50 days what you are going to be, you will have to have this as a film recording. So depending on what kind of hard work you put in here, your future will be determined, as well as giving you a permanent film to show every time, over and over again, something to be proud of in the future. Do you understand? (Yes!) Then you will win the confidence of the people, you will win the approval of Heaven and God will give you the blessing, with a nice husband and wife, bridegroom and bride, and you will have good children -children who are better than you.

This is not just an idea but these are things which will be happening in a few years. And don’t let the spirit world comment that ‘he is such a nice husband, but she is such poor quality, that’s not fair why did Father match that way?’ Don’s be in an inferior position. The same applies to the man. You keep a diary, don’t you? I did so and so, I got up so and so, the weather was fine. You keep a diary every day, but what you do every day is more accurate and more vivid than the diary. If you think like this, then you are not wrong, you are right. So every day you live is like keeping a diary in the spirit world. Do you understand? Especially, the public work, the official work, namely the Heavenly work that you are doing this is all recorded. Private life may not be so closely recorded, maybe you can forget a thing or two, but all the public works that you are doing now or are about to do, that record is preserved, that record is preserved for a long time. Do you understand? You see, even during the world wars, when the army fights some people are afraid. They run away ill the worldly army, don’t they? They do. Once the army catches them, then they are shot. They even shoot their own soldiers. They sentence them to death, don’t they, after Court Martial? Same thing in the spiritual world, it is the same way. That means we are here for public activity for the Heavenly work. We should never do private things too much, or at all if we can help it. Actually, individually, you are just as smart as Father himself. On the individual level maybe some people are very smart. So you know that you always have to think about what you do, and that image that you create will be the Unification Church image; and the Unification Church image must be the top grade to move this London, and eventually to move this world so that later spiritually, our generation will remember that we did a good job of work.

Soon people will talk about you whether you like it or not. Londoners will be talking about you very soon-in five days, ten days, one month, they will be talking about you very much. So soon they wild decide-are you good for London? are you helping Britain? or are you not so good for London? or are you not helping the British situation at all? They will soon decide for themselves. Do you understand? You are what army? Heavenly soldiers, Heavenly army? Then how do you have to be prepared? There were three elements Father spoke about this morning. First, what element? Spiritual armament. Second? Then what? Outer armament. That means walking straight and having a good appearance, with hair done nicely-presenting yourself so as to give a good impression-a good impression is your weapon. Then training. You always have to train yourself. Training means practice, if you do this once, twice, three times, one hundred times, then you will do very well. Later you won’t have to try. You will just do well. Training is important. So are you trained now? (Yes!) Are you really trained? Do people like to hear the Moonies’ words, or don’t they? (They like it!) They like it and are you well trained in that way? They can call you names and you will like it, and when you speak they will like it too. Your ears and your eyes are trained for that.

Father also told you this morning especially the European members, that you should never worry, don’t ever think too seriously that since you cannot speak English, what can you do? Don’t think that way. Because as Father says, your eyes speak much faster and say much more than your mouth. Father also reminded you that everybody is watching you; they have a watchful eye. They are not indifferent to you – that’s one thing they are not. They always think, ‘Is he good? Is he bad?’ they always think like that. So don’t look bad and don’t make a condition that Satan can say, ‘Oh, the Moonies, since they are doing this and this they are bad’-they try to make small things big. So don’t even make the smallest mistake-become perfect.

Some people will even take statistics-they will investigate the Moonies, how their appearance is, how their conduct is. When everybody thinks vaguely, then maybe there is a way to get away, but when they check one by one and they say, ‘So many Moonies did such and such a thing, so they are bad’, if they become like that then that is a very bad thing for us. So we have to know that some people are always watching us and we should not think ‘nobody is watching us so we can do this’-we should not think that way. Do you understand? You must tell yourself many, many times-the Unification Church’s future depends on you-which is same as the future of France is depending on you, now the future of England is actually depending on you. If you don’t do the work right, then the Godhead cannot do anything about this country-Do you know that? Father doesn’t say this to encourage you, it is because this is the very problem that the Government has too. This type of activity is very important and indispensable in Europe. Europe definitely needs this type of activity which we are doing in London so that all the EEC people and presidents think that they can copy this kind of activity, but then they have to think how you did it. You know how to do it-how to introduce it to their own country. They always think about it — don’t think ‘this is our activity’-Unification Church activity, religious activity-don’t think like that because the political people are thinking very seriously about the same thing. They know that something must be done to bind the EEC countries into one inseparable, very tightly united block, but they don’t know how to do it. So you must know that they must eventually become international-joint EEC activities- so we are showing them the example. We are showing how to overcome the language barrier. In the EEC they have the same problem as us, they have the economic block, but they want a flow of internal minds and thoughts too. So how can they overcome the language problem? If they marry the same people they stay the same for a thousand years-the French will remain the French, the Germans will remain German- nothing will change. And to them, the ideal situation is that the Frenchman or the Frenchwoman goes to another country and works harder for that country than his own country, especially if this is the enemy country, i.e. the French people come to England and the German people come to England and work harder for that country than they worked for France or Germany. The Presidents are thinking that this is the ideal situation. Do you understand what that means? So they have already formed the EEC block, although economically based, because they know-we all know-that an individual country can never live; it can never become independent and live. So they have one country (economically the EEC is one country) but they think ‘language has to be overcome to make our EEC really work’. They think that language is a problem. And then how can they establish the pattern of inter-marriage? This is another probe, fem. And then there’s loyalty. The English only live for the country of England. That’s natural. The British and the French will work very hard for France, but how can the French come to Germany which used to be their enemy country and then work harder than they did in France? This is the problem now. How can they overcome these three things? Do you understand? Now, you are pioneering that very thing. This is not an idealistic, vague activity, what we are doing is an actual example — maybe a few years later they will copy us. Then it will have become history. From our own experience in the Unification Church, language is only a secondary problem. When you see Father you have a feeling for Father and when you meet brothers and sisters you greet them without thinking ‘is he German?’ That’s the second question, or maybe after a long association you say, ‘from which country is she?’

And it is not so important whether she is French or German. Like the last marriage, 75% of the couples did not speak the same language. It was no problem, when they looked at each other, they knew that they liked each other very much and they can learn the language later. So if you marry someone who doesn’t speak your language then can you not come to England and work for England better than your own country? Certainly you can. You can because you can marry a German, you can marry an Englishman, why can’t you work better here? Because you are here to help the country, then you work much harder than in France and in Germany. Father married them. Yesterday when Father went to Aberdeen there was one member who was blessed a few days ago and he asked, ‘Who did you marry?’ (Of course, he was an Englishman). He was married to a French person and Father asked, ‘Do you speak French?’, and he said ‘No.’ ‘Then does she speak English and he said, ‘No.’ ‘Then how did you communicate?’, and he said, ‘Somebody translated for me. Then Father thought (even though Father married them), Father really thought it kind of strange- how can those two express their opinion and love through an interpreter and it still works? Sometimes one man is married standing at the Blessing ceremony in the East (in the Orient) and one is in the United States. There is the Pacific Ocean right in front of them and they did not see each other-there was one case like that, he was standing right here and the other was standing right in the United States and the Atlantic Ocean is right between-they have not even seen each other, but they know they love each other very much, they know that this marriage will become an absolute success. How is this possible? We know it is real. We definitely know it is good, we definitely know it is valuable, we definitely know it is a very Holy thing and we must keep reminding ourselves and be confident in what we do, and what we will do, especially those young people who are not blessed yet.

Even without communism, even if communism did not exist, the EEC itself has a great problem as Father has said-the language, the marriage problem and loyalty – all these are very important problems, but the communist is there, the wolf, the big tiger, the big hawk is up there, trying to snatch the country and the people, trying to take their thoughts. So to them it is important, it is a critical moment now. So the season is ripe-the EEC certainly, and all the European nations need exactly the same type of activity as we are doing now in London-they know they need it. A hundred people will look into the activity of the Unification Church and they will come to the conclusion that, ‘Well, firstly the language does not seem to be a real problem-they can always improve that. And that marriage is no problem at all because they get married and then they have a better marriage and a more beautiful marriage than a ten years’ association between a man and a woman from the same country. It’s much better than that. On loyalty, there is no question about it. Wherever they go, they work harder than in their own country, or as hard as in their own country.’ When they satisfy this check list of three, the hundred people will say the same thing, ‘The Unification Church activity was good in these three ways,’ then this means the world is already unified by itself. This means that if we become successful here in London, all the European leaders, all the world leaders will look at us with respect. Do you understand? (Yes!) So they say, ‘You are good,’ but when you go back to your own country, your people will ask you, what did you do?’ You have to have lots of things to talk about when you go back home. You cannot say, ‘Well, I was in London and I got up early in the morning and I ate breakfast and I went out witnessing sometimes, I witnessed and sometimes I did not and I came back.’ You cannot say that, but also you cannot lie. ‘Well, I witnessed to one hundred people’, you cannot say that. Even though we are tired, we must always think that what we do here is of much influence back in our own country because they are watching us. Very much influence, not just a little influence. So do you think this work in London should be very easy, or do you think it must be difficult? (Difficult!) Yes, you call it difficult, but this is what you like, it is what suits you. The more difficult it is, the better it is in each country, because it has more power to work in France and in Germany when you go back. You cannot say, ‘Oh, Unification Church activity is good, so we will do the same.’ No, you have to analyse what is good, how to do it, what to do. You have to have everything, so you have to establish that here; they will ask you later. This is not the first time in the Unification Church history. Twenty years ago when the 36 couples were blessed, Father told them just the same. They were very young people, like you assembled here now. Father told them try your best, don’t try to accomplish beautiful fantastic things, but try to consider your suffering, do much suffering and still be very strong and straight, don’t go down, don’t doubt, don’t compromise, but you must stay alive and stay suffering, Father told them. Some people listened to that very deeply, but some people did not listen to this deeply, so some people did just what they wanted to do, did not care so much about what Father said. But now 20 years later, today, many people who worked very hard like you do now, they are very thankful to Father for what they did. So we must know that now, even 20 years later, those people who worked really hard have many, many things to talk about-‘We did such and such a thing when we went witnessing, there was such a situation’. So now when they go back to the United States, many people in America say, ‘Please tell us what you did in the past?’ So they speak and they become a source of much inspiration. Many people are really moved. If you do as Father said today, if you look bright, have a spiritual armament and always have a tidy appearance, if you do that, then at a later time, in many years to come, if you persevere through this period, you will never regret it. You will really find that there are lots of things coming to you in the future. Do you understand? Twenty years ago it was the same way. This year it is the same way. But what about those people who did not work as Father told them to? Maybe they have a Ph. D, maybe he is Dr. so and so. But what good will it do when many people come and ask him to talk to them? Then he has nothing to talk about -he cannot say ‘I am a Ph.D. and I started so and so’, that moves nobody. But now you are working very hard, suffering much, so if somebody wants to speak to you, he must have suffered even more, experienced a more difficult life, then he can come and talk to you. Isn’t that right? So from now on, it won’t take 30 years, it won’t even take 10 years. The people will ask you to come and talk to them very soon about what you have been doing day by day during these 40 days or these next few months. They will take this example and it will serve as an element to bring all Europe into unity. This very practical thing which we are showing to them is something we already know. Do you understand?

So starting tonight, you must write a diary, every day like 1st June, but don’t write anything long, like you used to do in school-make it very short, i.e., ‘Today my mission was generally successful’, or ‘Could have been better’, ‘Failure’, ‘No failure, I met a good man today’, ‘I didn’t meet any good man today’, ‘Today was an impressive day’, ‘Not so impressive day’ – only six or seven words like that, but this is a perfect diary. If you faithfully write this out in your diary and later, even in 10 years time or 100 years later, this becomes a real treasure for the family. The family treasure which is worth more than a diamond as big as your fist. This is a real treasure. Father has recorded that kind of major event also. Father made notes on a major tour and assembled all of those notes at that same time. Everyone kept such a short diary, but it included all the major happenings- ‘I met the Prime Minister who was walking down the street’; this actually happened, you see-one member did. That kind of thing is a major happening. Now some day Father will print that. Likewise here your record is part of a hatful of records. So this is what we keep it for-we are not such big men you may say – we are ordinary men, but whatever you do, whether you like it or not, it is history. What you do now will later be the only material for history, there will be no other history. The government or cabinet will not be history. Do you understand? So this is a very important thing that you are doing but we don’t keep telling ourselves what to do in history. We don’t do that, so we really don’t realise the importance of what we are doing. But we must, because if we do then we can work better. Do you understand? All of us now are soldiers in Heaven, the Heavenly soldiers of the Heavenly army. So as Heavenly soldiers we should fight bravely and with a clear conscience. Do you understand? Those who have decided and are determined to do that raise your hands.

So much time has passed, now it is 8 o’clock. Father started speaking at 5.30 a.m.

Yesterday Father left Aberdeen and then Father went to Edinburgh and then Father went to Dunbary and then Father got on the shuttle plane and came to London and during this time Father was feeling out the atmosphere of other cities, outside the major city of London and thinking, always thinking which is more effective, what’s the possibility of deploying the number of forces. So Father, in the last few days, has really thought about how to accommodate all the members. Now we are 500, but soon there will be many more than that. This house is really too small and we have so many hags, even the small bags are so big, we need a room to store them and we don’t have that. So Father went all around London in order to buy a house or rent a house even, but it is not available. So many people in the city that not even a small room is vacant. A very small vacant room, 9 million pounds or something like that, so it is just not practicable. So now even psychologically it is not so good among us-we love each other very much, but there are too many of us, you see. So actually, we are overcome by the number and when we look at the people, they don’t look like people, they look like some herd, you see. So that’s no good and Father thought about a practical way of dividing the number into different centres. Actually, Father was to spend one week outside London, but Father did not like it-Father thought he had to come back very quickly and do something about this. Do you understand what Father’s problem is?

So now for a few days it is alright for you. Maybe we will work like that, but one month is too long. So Father finally had to decide although Father didn’t like it-Father wanted everyone of us to live at the same Centre with Father, but this is not possible. So Father decided to divide you into Centres; still concentrating on the same objective, same goal, but physically live in different places. Father had to decide that. And it is also our thought that would a thousand people working in the same area bring more result? Or should we divide this up into a thousand different centres and work separately, independently. Of course, that has more result. If a thousand people get together and go all out at the same time, the result is great, but if you disperse them into a thousand different places and put the result together, of course the overall result is greater than one thousand people all at the same time. Do you understand that? And another very good reason is that if a thousand people are together they look at each other’s face, ‘Oh, if I don’t do it she will.’ You know that is common psychology. ‘Oh, there are so many people, maybe I don’t feel so good in the stomach today.’ But when everyone goes out as a pioneer, even a high school girl, even a middle school girl, in Korea in the past went out witnessing, all by herself, not even an adult accompanying her, not even a friend going with her-but then she had to pray hard because God was the only one she could turn to, so the result was better than going together.

So if you visit one man, don’t just visit once in a while or once a day, but visit in the morning, you visit after lunchtime, you visit before dinner, visit the same people many times. This is more attractive. Do you understand? So Father decided to send out each individual to one thousand different places. That’s why we have a mobile team-the mobile team moves from one place to another place fast. They go here, they go there, like a streak of light. Then where are you going to stay? You will have to find a place to stay. Well, there is no curfew. You can walk the street for 24 hours and nobody can say anything. Like a deer It! the mountain, you have no house but you won’t freeze. You are healthy. Father thought like that-what is your opinion, what do you think? You have become very serious now because you are thinking, ‘Where am I going to sleep tonight? Tomorrow night? You are serious, aren’t you now? You have no friend so what are you going to do? We have only one person to go to? Who is he? GOD. Then if you really appeal to God, certainly God will answer. If you don’t, he won’t. Then you have to sleep some place else. So one thousand places, different places, how’s that? In one thousand different places, and you will go? (Yes!) If Father orders you now to go to one thousand different places-that means an easier life for Father-because Father certainly cannot visit the one thousand different places, so Father cannot visit his place and her place, but not visit his place, it is not fair, so Father has to stay right in the Centre and go nowhere, then it’s very easy for Father. And then everyone is so hardpressed, and other people will be coming, so everyone is really running to make his own foundation, which is also good. Those who will do that, who think that individuals scattered around would be good, raise your hands. O.K., then you don’t agree? You still would like to go with a few people, raise your hands? Well, don’t you have anyone who would like to go with a few people together? Does that mean that if Father orders you to go, all individually, then you will go? (Yes!) Then is it better to go one man, or is it better to go two together? (Two!) That’s man, especially after the fall, somehow they wanted to support each other.

Father feels sure, certainly, that if he disperses everyone to a thousand different places then the result would be the best. Don’t you think so? Who does not think that way, raise your hand? But, like Father said, if a thousand people went a thousand different ways actually result-wise, that’s the best, who agrees to that, raise your hand? If you were in Father’s position, then which way would you decide- you have to decide one way or the other. Then would you decide on the way which brings in more results or the one which is more convenient but doesn’t bring so much result? Which would you decide in Father’s position? So from today, we will go to one thousand different places. And then, if you go to a thousand different places independently, would you go to the town or the countryside or would you stay in the London area and go to a thousand different places? Which would you prefer? London or any other country areas? (London!) But in London the places are so expensive. Where are you going to sleep? Whereas in the country it is not so expensive, maybe they will let you stay free. But you like to stay in London? (Yes!) You know how big large cities are, the city is very impersonal. There are so many people, the people do not mean too much to them so they try to live off other people. Always they fight and they cheat, whereas in a remote area the people’s minds are much purer and they pay you more attention. So which do you think is the easier to live in, the countryside or the city? The countryside is much easier to live in than the city because the city has no space. If you cook your own meal once in a while, maybe once in a while you go to the drug store or you go to the market and buy some bread and want to make something.

In the countryside maybe you can go to a farm and ask, ‘Can you please let me use your kitchen’, and, of course, they say, ‘Go ahead’, once in a while, but here in London if you walk in they would never listen to you. They would chase you away. So very obviously we must go to the countryside rather than stay in the centre of London. You go out to the countryside and witness to three people. In London, even three is not easy, but in the countryside compared to London, it is very easy, almost in a single day you may be able to do so. Compared to London it is very easy, and that’s true. So what is your conclusion also? Should you stay in London and struggle and witness, or go to the countryside and witness there? Those who think the countryside, raise your hand? Which? Once more. Those who would stay in London, raise your hand? More people for the countryside, they would prefer to go out to the country. So it is very simple if you really think about it. It is much better to be out in the countryside than concentrated in London as far as lodgings and things are concerned. So Father now decides we will go mainly to the countryside. And do you still prefer that one, absolutely one individual goes, or that two go together? What about four going together? Well, then maybe you can have your way. Father has come to your way of thinking. There is only one condition though, maybe you will go as four people-Father will allow you and Father will arrange that you go together. But don’t think that in the Centre there are four people working at the same time-No. As far as you are concerned, you are alone- think you have come all by yourself. And if the population is forty thousand people in a small town, four people take forty thousand-don’t think that way. Divide it into four and one man responsible for ten thousand people.

Each one, always think that you are by yourself, not two men, not four men come to the same Centre. Do you understand? The only time when four can get together is when you eat together, and you can sleep together, maybe. And if you bring the people in, one lecturer can give the lecture at the same time, maybe it is alright. But you are alone, you are independent, you are not working together. You are to bring people in, and you have to compete with each other as to who brings the most people in. Do you understand? As far as Father is concerned, he is distributing you into one thousand different places. He is not putting you in ten different places. You must find your place to sleep, to witness and when you witness you have to give them a lecture-if you do all that by yourself in a thousand different Centres, then maybe it is not so effective. So what Father has thought is that instead of having to find your place, you can sleep in that Centre, you can eat in that Centre and you bring people into that Centre and the Centre Director can even give the lecture to them. How easy it becomes. Do you understand? And Father thought may be that way, we will bring more results than by one man doing everything. So Father thinks now that under the circumstances, perhaps this is best. Let them sleep and stay together and they will bring people and they and the training centre will operate as one, but still as far as Father is concerned everyone is independent. Father is letting you out to a thousand different places, not 100 different places at 10 men each. No. Do you understand? So you always have to work out how to depend on someone in your work since you don’t speak the language. So here the organisation was by tribe, Father was reported to yesterday. There is a French tribe, a German tribe, but that has no meaning, why should it, since the language should not be the first problem. So now you will all be mixed up. Those who speak English, whether English, German or French, raise your hands. 25% who don’t speak English. 75% who speak it – then Father is not terribly worried about it.

What is the ratio of sisters and brothers? More sisters than brothers, but not much more (3:2?).

Those who want to go to Plymouth, raise your hands. Well, maybe it will work better if Father makes a lottery.

A lottery was made and groups of 20 people were sent to various different existing centres.

## To the Crusade

By Fami1yfed June 16, 2018 June 16, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1978

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### Lancaster Gate Church
London, England
May 27, 1978
Translator: Col. Sang Kil Han

> Right after the 118 couple Blessing, Rev. Moon began to assemble a new International One World Crusade, an evangelical team made up of church members from all over Europe and the world. In addition to the 236 newly blessed members, others began to arrive. A week after the Blessing, over three hundred gathered late Sunday evening to receive their first briefing from Rev. Moon.

> Here, he describes the ‘formula course’ of life in the Unification Church. Through this course of three to three-and-a-half years of fundraising, followed by a similar period of witnessing, every individual can symbolically restore the things that Adam lost in the Garden of Eden.

Who are you? What kind of people are you? What is the Unification Church? What do we do here? Our basic problem is, how can we restore the world? As you know through the Divine Principle, since we have deviated from the original state, we’re going to return to the original state. That’s restoration.

In order for you to restore yourself back to the original state, you have to know the process of how you have deviated from the original state. Unless you know how you deviated from the original state, there’s no way you can restore yourself back into that original state. But by knowing the fallen process you know what kind of tools or media you need to climb out of the hole. You might need a ladder. You might need some helper. You might need certain conditions, or whatever, in order to get out of the hole.

God still remains in the original position. He has not moved. We men fell down from him. There was a gap created. Separation occurred. In order for us to return back to God, what should we do? This is our study. This is the purpose we must pursue in our life. This is also God’s problem, too. Do you know how we can get back to Him? Do you know how we can get back to Him?

You heard that men fell. But you do not know what the Fall is? Are we really fallen? If being in the fallen state meant you had one black eye and one cheek disfigured, these kind of things would be obvious. But the fallen state is not that obvious. This is a mental, spiritual state. We have to teach people about the fallen state so that they can understand.

The world is like a ditch. The world is like a trap right now. There are many billions of people who, without even realizing they are fallen, are trying to live happy and prosperous lives. That is what we call the kingdom of hell. The world is hell. Everywhere people are struggling to survive and trying to be prosperous in their own way. They bump into each other all the time.

God is looking down at this desperate, blind struggle. How much His heart must be broken! God is looking down at His own children, who don’t even realize that their father, God, is above. They are trying to secure their greedy ambition. This miserable situation has grieved God’s heart.

If God is looking down at the fallen world, which is hell, and He is still happy and comfortable, then He is no longer a good God. He would not be a God of mercy or a father at all. If God is really God, He must have some solution to the situation. The only possible solution comes from God. Nobody else can bring the solution to this black, dark world. No man can help. Only God can come down and help.

But the people cannot see God. They don’t know God. It’s just like people in darkness, they don’t see anything. By the same token, people in the hellish world do not see God. You think your eyes are open but you don’t see God. Actually you are blind. You are in darkness. You don’t see the most important reality. You don’t see God.

### How God reaches us

So how can God communicate with men? How can men realize God is still there? All the five organs are controlled by Satan. All the powers of identification are under the control of Satan. God cannot communicate through Satan’s channels. There is only one channel remaining to God. That is communicating with man through the mind, the deepest corner of the mind. Not the normal mind, but the deepest corner, most mysterious corner of the human mind. What is that deepest corner of the mind? That mind is fervently going after one ambition. ‘I really don’t care about this world. There is no hope. I do not see there is anywhere in this world I can be prosperous just competing with these people. There is nothing really attractive to me. I really want to live according to my conscience. I really want to see God.’ That desire, that ambition, that one deepest corner of the human mind, that spirit is alive.

The physical eye is looking out, trying to perceive visible things. But our internal mind, our inner eye is looking back, looking down on the inner portion of the mind. That mind says, ‘Well, I do not want to live like everybody, keeping up with the Joneses, just struggling every day. People are going after all these vain things. I’m just sick and tired of this. I just really want to turn around. I just want to find some kind of tranquillity, some kind of peace.’ That desire, that’s the only hope that God can work with.

God is looking for men and women who have that deepest corner of the mind actively working, the conscience actively working. He is trying to search after that kind of people, that kind of comfort, that kind of hope. He is looking at such men and women as the hope to be God’s champions. Do you follow?

These people are working against the world. They gave up the world. They are looking for hope in some other direction. When these people are found, God speaks to them. Sometimes almost in a dream, in a dream or out of a dream, somewhere in between, God appears to them and communicates to them.

The work of salvation, the work of restoration of God, has started from such minds, those minds which are giving up the secular world, trying to look at the other direction, such as nature, sunrise, sunset. You become a prayerful mind. Sometimes tears run out, without even knowing why. Looking for something noble, something deepest and most meaningful, something valuable, something of eternal beauty. Those harboring that kind of ambition, that’s where the work of God’s restoration can start. Do you follow?

God is searching after these people here on earth and when God finds such people, God is coming down gradually, through the angels, getting closer to these people, to harness them. Those angels coming down, having contact with these people, conscience-enlightened people, bringing them slowly yet surely to the right direction for restoration. That’s human history. Do you understand? It would be better spiritually and physically if all these phenomena started at once. But it doesn’t work that way. It always has to start out from spirit.

That is the system God is working through. God is speaking throughout history, as you can see, through dreams, through visions, through revelation. He has been whispering to people, gradually enlightening people into spiritual awakening and bringing them further down to deeper and deeper realization. That may have seemed superstitious sometimes, but actually it has materialized as religion. The world’s religion has been that kind of tool of God.

Throughout history then all these kinds of basic and more advanced religions have come about, which will embrace or absorb a wide area into a larger religious sphere. As you know, there are now four major religious spheres in our world.

Today there are several major religions we all know of, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Confucianism, and so forth. But in the end all religions are going to accomplish one and the same thing. All the religions of the world have been pursuing one common goal. So far all these religions have been the accomplishment of the spiritual foundation.

### The Messiah

But finally God has to think of one more thing, a very important thing. How can He link this spiritual foundation with physical reality? How can God bring the two worlds together into one?

Why should God do that? Basically there are two kinds of people. After religion was born, there are two kinds of people here on earth. One is religious, spiritual people. The other is very secular, earthly people. God needs to have some prototype, model nation as an example. He cannot start to work all over the world at once. He must start from one place, one physical territory. For 4000 years, God has been working through Israel, known as the chosen people, chosen nation. That was God’s prototype, where God would like to link the spiritual accomplishments with the physical reality, expand them into physical reality. The Messiah is the one who, as God’s champion, is given to the chosen nation.

Now here is the difference. Before the Messiah, everybody has certain spiritual accomplishment. It’s like one single rope coming down from God. You’re hanging on that rope. Each individual is hanging on that rope. However when the Messiah comes, it’s almost like mass production. God didn’t want to approve each individual himself. It’s too tiring. His two arms get tired. So God thinks, why not bring the nation as one lump into the net? Pull in the nation all at once! That is the role of the Messiah.

But those fish, in order to get into the net, they have to have a certain order to follow. Do all the fish automatically go into that net? No. They have to follow a certain pattern and orderly fashion, like the British people! Orderly fashion!

However, the important thing is this: the Messiah came with the net, heavenly net, to draw up the world. The chosen people of Israel and the Gentiles are all equal in front of the Messiah. That’s what the Israelite people did not know. The qualification to get into that net is the same for all. Everybody has a fair chance. The Israelite people did not have any better chance. All had the same qualification. The nation of Israel was merely a prototype. The nation of Israel was the experiment of the Messiah. He throws the first net to Israel to bring that nation into restoration. Then the Messiah knows that the formula works. Then he throws another net to the Roman empire, Chinese empire, Japanese empire, whatever. Through the same formula he can bring the nations one by one to God. That was the purpose of the coming of the Messiah.

But then what happened? Messiah came with the net to save the nation. The Israelite nation, instead of going into that net in an orderly way, cut the net. Not only did they cut the net in the lower area, they also cut down the basic rope, the essential rope, which God can pull. The whole nation was cut down. The rope which can pull the nation was cut off. The net that can hold the chosen people was cut off. Four thousand years of God’s work of preparation was in vain.

Even though the Israelite people failed the Messiah, the work of God to restore the world went on. Another 2000-year period of preparation started. Preparation to bring down a greater net. God has been preparing for the greater scale, the world-wide scale, at another opportunity. That preparation is the foundation of Christianity.

Spiritually everybody still hangs on to one rope to God. But there is no unity, no harmony. No matter how good a climber you are, you cannot bring the nation up to God. Furthermore, when you climb up to a certain level, you know you cannot go any further. You get tired. You have to release the rope. Therefore no matter how good you are spiritually speaking, all people in the world need a mediator, the Messiah, who can bring them ultimately to God. You cannot get there without a savior, in perfection, because no individual has that capacity. You hang on the rope, but you can only hang on at a certain level and for a certain time. You just simply cannot get to the destination.

### The Second Coming

Therefore, God has to promise the people the second coming of the Messiah. Without the Messiah, without that mediator, there’s no way the ultimate salvation of God can be fulfilled. Every man needs the Messiah. When the second Messiah comes, what will he bring? He’ll bring the same thing, the same net that God provided before, except that this time the size of the net is a little bigger. This time it can hold a bigger nation, even a whole continent, the whole world. Same method, same principle, bringing spiritual people, secular people all together into that net, somehow holding the nation and pulling it up to God. That is the method. The only difference is now that at the time of Jesus, the prototype God was dealing with was one race, Israel. The Jews were the chosen people. But this time God is working with many races, all of them, regardless of black, white, yellow.

Suppose the Messiah is here. He throws the net. It happens to be that the first one landing in that net is a Frenchman. Then say you have a German who says, ‘Oh, oh! I don’t like that Frenchman. I don’t want to go into that net.’ It doesn’t work that way. All right, if you don’t want to go into that net, get out of here! Only people who say, ‘It doesn’t make any difference. I don’t care whether it’s a Frenchman, a German or a British gentleman, whether it’s a man or a woman; it doesn’t make any difference. I just want to be inside. We want to get all the people inside. Bring them in. Let’s go together.’ That’s the kind of spirit we need.

In the end, if God is working in this fashion, there has to be a movement which will transcend the nationalities, transcend the races, transcend the languages. That kind of movement has to come about in order to fulfil God’s wishes.

However there is one important warning we have to understand. Many people are so greedy. They know there is a net. They know they have to get into that net. But there are so many things, like ropes holding me down. How about my beautiful house, my beautiful farm out there? It’s too big to pull into the net. How about my family? What about my children? What about my fortune? What about my club membership and honor and all kinds of things? And national pride? Trying to bring everything inside that net doesn’t work, because the net has only so much room.

So what you need in order to get into that net of the messiah is one major operation: cut the ropes! You shall become completely free from everything. Then you can fly up, fly down, whichever direction. To respond to the instructions given to you, you must be flexible, you must be mobile, like an airplane. That kind of movement has to come about in order ultimately to fulfil God’s will.

Think about what kind of opportunity for restoration comes. Do you want only yourself to be restored, or do you want everybody to be restored, together? So we must make an advertisement. We must make it known and recruit the people to go together into that net. You cannot say, ‘I will only take a German with me, because I’m a German’ or ‘I’m only interested in British people, because I’m British.’ That’s not God’s work. You are going to bring everybody, practically everybody here on earth. How do you do it? You have to go across seas and go beyond national boundaries. Go there, go here. You have no time to sit at home.

Already you are lucky, because you are inside the net. The Messiah is pulling the net and the whole nation is going up to heaven. You say, ‘Where is my Daddy, my Mommy, my little boy? Where is my country? While you’re in motion, being pulled up to heaven in the net, you say these things, but once you land in heaven, then you forget. All you’re interested in is God. You want to get closer to God. Nothing will stop you. You just go right into God. Nothing is more important.

The Unification Church is this net. When you come into this net, you forget everything. You’re so far away from your homes in your thinking, far away from your Daddy, from your Mommy. Even today in the newspapers, there is a story about this. It was not positive publicity. But what happened is that this person, known as the ‘British nanny,’ is telling the truth. She is 23 years old. She was travelling in San Francisco and she was approached by two of our members. She was so happy. She told the reporters that once she got to the workshop place, she forgot about her home, London, job, Daddy, Mommy, everything! Are you one of those? That’s why the world will say that you’re crazy.

The amazing thing is this. The people who say we are crazy are desperately fighting with each other, deceiving each other and killing each other. They are destroying themselves. Meanwhile we are going up into heaven. Our net is going up. Is this true?

### Beyond national boundaries

In the eyes of the world this is really a crazy people’s gathering here. Look what’s happening here. I am speaking in one language. It has to be interpreted into English. Then there is another interpretation into French and another interpretation into German, and Italian. It’s a really crazy bunch. However, why do think it’s happening? There’s all kinds of people, beyond the boundaries of nation, beyond race. We are gathered together as a happy family for one common purpose. This is great.

We’re all different. Our hair color is different. Some is black, some brown, some yellow. Some blue eyes, some brown eyes, some dark eyes. Skin is different. Your dress is different. All different. Not even one is the same. Yet we are all in one common purpose and goal. We know we are in one net. We know we are going up. We know God’s winch is needed and we know this net is going up. Think of the day you came into Unification Church, maybe a year ago, two years ago, three years ago, whatever. When you compare those days and now, you should realize how far you are already elevated. That does not mean you are rich. You may have no money in your pocket. Maybe you are not wearing too good a suit. Maybe your stomach is hungry. However, something has been elevated. You know you are in the net. You know you are moving up in real value. It’s almost like you are trapped in the net. However, you know something of priceless value is going up and up. You know you are every day nobler, more divine, closer to God. That’s the job the Unification Church is doing. That’s the place called the Unification Church. So it’s an exciting place, a very enthusiastic place. It’s a most dramatic place, into which we have all come.

When we go up, God will open up the net. All of a sudden, you are in a new world. What will you do? Will men run after women and women after men? I’m sure you Westerners would do that! No, what you need over there in Heaven is that you have to organize your families. There must be parents at the center of the family. Therefore we have parents. Therefore we have True Parents. This is new terminology, which only the Unification Church has. This is the organization of families. We need a center; the center of a family is parents. We have True Parents.

What are we then? We are true children, true sons and daughters. We come under one family of God. By what can we testify to that? You are brothers and sisters. You look at each other as brothers and sisters, because you know you come under one parenthood. We are brothers and sisters, and have that kind of intimate feeling. If you do not have that feeling of brotherhood, you are not qualified to be a member of that family. Family members are those who harbor a desire for the benefit of all rather than just for themselves, public benefit rather than selfish benefit. Above me, there are my parents. Above them, there is God, the universal Parent. So I must protect His interests. I must protect True Parents’ interests, God’s interests, before mine. That should be the basic attitude of citizenship in that family.

What was the Fall? The Fall came about due to selfish motive. The desire to promote myself, that desire brought the fall of man.

We are talking about a messianic net. It’s a big enough net to hold one whole nation. Who’s at the top of that net? The totally unselfish people are at the top of the net. The less unselfish people are in the middle of the net. The little bit unselfish people are at the bottom of the net, but still inside the net. We are still coming up together. There are ranks. Those are the ranks. Even in the net there are some squabbles, some brotherly squabbles. Sometimes there is a little jealousy or fighting among the brothers and sisters, ‘I don’t like that brother’ or ‘I don’t like that sister.’ Still, it’s within the net, and entirely different from the satanic world.

What kind of people are you going to be? Would you say, ‘I’m German, and Germans come first?’ Or would you say, ‘We French people, we should go on the top?’ Or, ‘We’re British, and British should come first. We’re gentlemen?’ Or would you rather say, ‘Let’s go together. I don’t care whether you’re German, Italian, Austrian, it doesn’t make any difference. Let’s come together, totally live unselfishly and stay at the top of the net?’ First way or second way? Why do you like the second way? Your inside says, ‘I want to go first way,’ but your mouth says, ‘Yes, Father, I want to go the second way.’ Right?

Do you really not care what nationality you are? You want to go together? That’s the heavenly concept. You know what will be looked at favorably by God. Number two: ‘Yes, Father, I’m going to go beyond nationality, beyond race, beyond language. We will unite under one concept to love God and love True Parents.’ Those who want to live by that philosophy, raise your hands please! How much better it would be if you did it the first time, without being told. Since I told you what should be right, your score will go down from 100 percent to 50 percent. Have you decided, or not? Raise your hands then! This time you have pledged with your mouth. But from now on you do it in action. You live it, by deed.

We understand now. The organization of your own family, will that be good enough? No. When we go up in the net, we may be at different levels, but still we are all members of the Unification Church. This is the principle I gave you, the Principle of Restoration. More importantly, we must remember that restoration is recreation. We are recreating ourselves. How? How did we become different? I used to be thinking only about myself. Now I’m thinking about somebody else before me, about the public, about God and the well-being of the world. That’s the difference. That is the restored state. You can prove to yourself that you are restored because your way of thinking is totally different. It has been changed 180 degrees. ‘I used to be a selfish person. Now I became an unselfish person.’

What is the center, particularly of love, your expression of love? ‘I used to love in a selfish way, but now I love in an unselfish way.’ The fall of man came about because of selfish love, self-centered love. Restoration can be brought about by unselfish love or, in other words, public love, love centered on others.

### The Blessing

Do you know we had a Blessing? 118 couples were blessed last Sunday, one week ago. Those people gathered together and I matched them as public people. I didn’t ask, ‘Who would you like? What is your selfish desire?’ That kind of question I did not ask. I said, ‘Can you go beyond nationality, beyond race? Can you really marry someone for the sake of God and for the sake of the world?’ And people said strongly, ‘Yes!’ So Austrians went beyond Austria. Germans went beyond Germany. They all gathered together as Europeans. I understand Germans and French people are not particularly friendly to each other. They’ve been fighting each other. They’ve been arrogant towards each other. They’ve cursed each other. Even if the president or king or queen of your country said, ‘You marry a German!’ or ‘You marry a Frenchman!’ you would say, ‘No, sir. It is impossible. Unto my neck it is impossible.’ But for the sake of God and True Parents, when True Parents ask you to marry a German or a Frenchman, you say, ‘Yes, Father. Thank you.’

I did not even deal with those people who said, ‘I want to do it this way, my way.’ ‘My way’ went out of the door. Those people were not included. I blessed those who said, ‘Yes, your way, God’s way. Yes, Father. I’ll accept, whatever. To glorify God, I shall accept.’ Those who were hesitant, those who could not quite have courage, no real faith to accept my recommendation, you go home and find your own mate. It is not that easy. You cannot find any better one on your own.

Unification Church members should know why we are married in mass weddings. By doing so, marriage itself is the best plan to glorify God. By doing this, we can multiply by thousands at once. One by one is too slow. With one labor pain, 118 new couples were born. New families were born. I gave birth to 118 sets of twins. Actually, that was not just a wedding, that was a day of rebirth. All of a sudden they awakened into a new birth and then they saw that their spouse was there. It was a double birth. 118 couples born together in one day. Zoom! New birth! Heavenly blessing, mass blessing it should be. The larger, the better.

A public person, God-centered person thinks in this fashion: even my love should be used for the public purpose, not for my selfish purpose. By giving my love for the public purpose, God-centered purpose, I shall restore the selfish love of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. With that God-centered love, totally unselfish love, you simply cannot repeat the fallen action. There is no way you can fall again. Do you understand?

However, rebirth was not given in the world-wide Garden of Eden. There’s a most dirty and wicked world out there. We only get rebirth within the society of the Unification Church. The organization of the family is not enough. The family must grow into the tribe. The tribe must grow into a race, a nation. That nation will grow to the world-wide level.

Those who are included in the blessing should never think that they are perfected, that’s a mistake. You have seven more years to go to finish your period of perfection. We have still a long battle to fight. Those blessed couples are the ones who are given the chance to fight that remaining portion of the battle, but together as husband and wife, that is the privilege. The battle is not yet over.

Adam and Eve, because of the fall, lost the original world. They lost all things of creation. So in restoration we cannot just go to Heaven without any gift. We must bring gifts to God. We must restore two things: all things of the world, and the original world. In the Unification Church tradition, we divide the seven-year course into two paths. The first three and a half years is part one, and the second three and a half years is part two. Or, first three years and second three years. Three-three. In the first three years, you blessed couples are going to organize your family, your spiritual family, in order to restore Adam’s family. Adam’s family had three children. You must restore this.

For three years you, in the position of Abel, are restoring Cain. In the Garden of Eden, Cain slew Abel, his younger brother. This time that should not be repeated. Cain should love Abel. For three years you are going to demonstrate that kind of quality. Suppose you bring three spiritual children, and they get the blessing, with another three sisters or brothers, then there are six members of the family. You and your spouse are in the position of Adam and Eve, so it will be eight members of the family. In the Unification Church, after that blessing, you must restore Adam’s family, which has eight members. You and your wife are effectively bringing six members into the family in the first three years. This is your job.

So for the first three years you do not engage in the physical relationship of married life. You live a spiritually married life and restore spiritual children, at least three each. After three years you unite as husband and wife, physically and spiritually, and have your own children, physical children. So by the time the seven-year course is over, you will have restored both. Spiritually, Adam’s family will be restored, and yourself, with your own children, will have reached perfection. That is the formula.

### The Tribal Messiah

You will have an Abel-type Adam family, which is yourself and your own children. Also you will have a spiritual family, which is your spiritual children. Cain family and Abel family should unite together. When you fulfill this, then you represent God and True Parents. In other words you are elevated to receive a new title. You shall become the messiah yourself, messiah for you own people, own clan, own tribe, tribal messiah. You become a tribal messiah at that point.

You become messiah for your clan, messiah for your tribe, then you go up to become messiah for your nation. Based on that principle, I already ordered the blessed couples below the age of 30 to go on without having physical married relationship together. They are to go out and restore three spiritual children. After three years, you have a home and a family, then you have your own children and go on again for another three years. After that you shall become elevated into messiahship.

When the fall of Adam and Eve took place, four things were lost. Number one, all things of creation. Number two, they lost each other. Husband and wife had nothing to do with each other. Thirdly, they lost perfected character. Heavenly character was lost. Finally, heavenly heart was lost. Therefore blessed couples should work to recreate each other. They should help each other in order to recreate the lost character. You must not consider yourself perfected. You should understand that. So husband and wife are actually like infant babies. You are recreating each other, helping each other, so that you can recreate more and more the original state of Adam and Eve. Three years is this period of recreation of heavenly character. While you are creating your own character, you are restoring spiritual children.

When you work that hard for three years, you know you are trusted by God. Under no circumstances can you go wrong. You will go right. Under those circumstances you will be united spiritually and physically and you create your own family. It is not easy. You might say, ‘Well, we want to have a family very quickly.’ You might think so. But that kind of attitude will destroy your home eventually. It will not last. You get tired of it. Unless we become like Adam before the fall, unless we perfect ourselves, we must not consider anything further. ‘I’m not quite ready. I’m not quite eligible. I must recreate myself first before I go on to the next level.’

It is not easy. That recreation takes place under adverse conditions. We live under adverse conditions. This is a world opposed to God. Under adverse conditions, you are going to be taught the heart of God very clearly. When you restore that lost Adam and Eve in yourself, you must restore all things of creation, you must restore yourself, you must restore the three archangels, you must restore heavenly character and heart. All these qualities have to be restored. When do you do that? Over this seven-year period.

The entire Biblical history of 6,000 years has been lost. Therefore the restoration is a conditional restoration. 6,000 years is restored in 600 years, 60 years, and so forth. With the day of Sabbath that becomes 7000 years. Six days plus one makes seven. That’s why it is three years and three years, plus one year added to it, makes seven years.

As you know, the sequence of God’s creation was that first God created the angelic world. Then God created the physical world, our planet. Then God created Adam. Then God created Eve. Then God wanted them to develop heavenly character, then heavenly heart. After marriage, they would move into the world of heart. That’s the way God designed and planned it.

When we look at 6,000 years of human history, the religious world out there is equivalent to the angelic world. It is a recreation of the angelic world. The angelic world was created before the earth. This is why the religious world has been denying the material, physical world. For the angelic world, there is no existence of a physical world; it is not even yet created. That’s why, until now, it has been religious doctrine that you cannot worship God and money together. You cannot serve two gods. As long as there remains an angelic world, that principle stands true. The angels and God together next created all things and Adam, Eve, and so forth. Internally, the religious is angelic world, but externally they are going after the real world or physical world, the material world. Our world is getting closer and closer to becoming one.

The time will come when the world has become one, but there is no master, no owner, no host or hostess. Still in the angelic world the master has not been created yet. The Messiah is coming on that foundation, the religious foundation, spiritual foundation, and the physical foundation, which is the material world. Upon this base the Messiah is coming in the role of Adam, as the master, for the first time as a host to the world. He will appear in that capacity.

Restoring that angelic world, restoring all things of creation, the Messiah is moving towards forming a family, finding an Eve. Heavenly organization will take place. That was God’s concept. In the Garden of Eden, Adam lost everything. The Messiah is coming as Adam to restore everything: angels, all things, Eve. Everything that Adam lost in the Garden of Eden the new Adam, who is the Messiah, has the right to restore.

Today our world is like a hopeless world, with no master. There is the communist world. There is the free world. No real master. Unification Church is born in this particular era as the master of the world. We are born as host and hostess to the world. With our sweat and labor we will unite the world into one and we shall build the Kingdom of God. Kingdom of God is one nation, beyond national boundaries, beyond races. That is the Unification Church, creating one nation. In order to create one nation, what do we need? We need territory. We need people. We need a sovereignty. We are gathering one by one as God-centered people, moving toward the ultimate realization of the Kingdom of God here on earth.

### Restoring what Adam lost

You individually must have this as a goal. It should be fulfilled by you as an individual, because you are Adam. You are going to be restored into Adam. Adam needs everything. In order for you to become perfected Adam, you need angels around you. You need all things, materials around you. Then after that you need your babies, your wife.

When you join the Unification Church you start immediately to restore those things that Adam lost. First of all, we do fundraising, but not because of the money. We need the money, but that’s not the primary goal of fundraising. The primary goal is the restoration of one condition that Adam lost: all things. We must restore all things first. We go out and raise funds from all kinds of people. Poor people, rich people. By letting them pay a small portion of their material for the sake of God, that will create a channel for them to receive the blessing, a national blessing. In order to restore that capacity, you, as Adam, have been given a great deal of trial. People are nasty and scornful towards you. They spit at you and laugh at you. You have borne these things for the sake of God. You have persevered, with patience, and have gone on for the public purpose. You should have pride. Under any circumstances you must not lose your pride. ‘Yes, I’m Adam. No matter what you say, I’m asking you to donate a pound to our cause. Actually you need this. I am the one who is going to restore you. I’m not begging you.’

We must set the record. Our record should be good enough to beat the satanic record. It should be a heavenly record. You are Adam, heavenly restored Adam and Eve. How can you allow yourself to get behind and say, ‘Satan does 100 percent, but I will do 60 percent?’ Impossible. This is our MFT, our fundraising movement, which will really demonstrate that quality. Under those adverse conditions, we will really win. We go out to the satanic angelic world and take the material from that world into the heavenly world.

After that, what condition remains? We must go into the society, which is spiritually the satanic angelic world and restore them into heavenly angels. Then we transform those heavenly angels into heavenly sons. You make them into spiritual sons. They started out from satanic angels and were restored into heavenly angels. Then they become adopted sons. When they meet the True Father, they will be made into direct sons of God in front of True Parents.

Originally, if there was no fall, they were supposed to be the direct sons of God from the very beginning. Because of the fall, they became satanic angels. They will be restored to heavenly angels, adopted sons, and ultimately direct sons and daughters of God.

Actually in the Garden of Eden, angels brought the fall, and brought Adam and Eve down. They worked against Adam and Eve’s perfection. This time restored angels, instead of destroying Adam’s family, will support it. They will be obedient to it and serve it. When they become restored angels, they should obey you and come under you. They should follow you. That’s what you need: three families as spiritual sons and daughters. You need spiritual children, three of them. Even Jesus needed three spiritual children, who were his three major disciples. You need your three disciples.

After MFT, the fundraising movement, we move into restoration of the children. You must restore man. That is the second level of clear criteria or formula that we follow as Unification Church members. You go out therefore witnessing. No matter what, you must go out and restore three spiritual children. It’s like restoring three satanic angels. They were rebellious too, at first. But somehow, under whatever adverse conditions, you must have somehow tamed them, trained them, led them and made them obedient to you. That is the first job to do.

In order to do that, what should you do? You must love them, serve them, be like a servant to them. That’s your job. That’s the only way you can win them. When you are serving them so humbly, you are automatically separating them from Satan, because Satan cannot follow you. Why? Because Satan is arrogant. Satan’s method is jealousy, arrogance. You go the opposite direction: meekness, humility. Satan cannot take you.

They love you so much and appreciate you. They’ve never seen such unselfish love, pure love. Their mind is so moved by you. They will say, ‘You are like my Mommy, you are like my Daddy. You are like my new father, my new mother. I never imagined my father is this good, my mother is this good.’ Your spiritual children will literally become your children. In that moment they will come into heavenly children’s level. They are linked with True Parents.

When three Cains are restored by you, instead of killing you, they will love you. The Cain and Abel relationship is restored fully. Cain actually slew Abel. This time Cain loves Abel.

Furthermore, your spiritual children among themselves are Cain and Abel as well. Instead of fighting among Cain and Abel, they love each other and really become united into one. Then in that moment you take the position of parent above them. In the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel fought and killed each other, and this led to the destruction of all of Adam’s family. This time restored children love each other. You are in the parents’ position and your spiritual children are in Cain and Abel position, so automatically you are elevated into the level of parenthood. In parents’ position, you are in father’s position and mother’s position, so how can you fight among yourselves? Impossible.

### The formula course

This is the formula of the way of life of the Unification Church. When you come into the movement, you go out to MFT, fundraising movement, by which you discipline yourself under hardship, and under adverse conditions you restore the things of creation for a period of two to three years. Then you move on to witnessing. Witnessing is another level. Adam was lost; you are going to restore that by finding spiritual children.

You are mapping out your course to heaven. First you go through restoring all things of creation through fundraising. You must restore your spiritual children through witnessing. You must win the Cain and Abel struggle by serving them, so that you elevate yourself to the parents’ position. By doing so, you will form your own family, heavenly character, heavenly heart, and ultimately heavenly citizenship. That’s the way it goes. That’s our way of life.

Everybody goes through that formula or pattern. Some can go very slowly, some can go very fast. That all depends on you. There is one kind of person who will give his very life to it, without any reservation. Total commitment! That person will go very fast. Those whose effort is half-hearted and mediocre will take many, many years. Even then they may never get there. As Jesus said in the Bible, the one who wants to secure his life will lose it. The person who wants to give his life for my sake will find it. Amazing! It’s a contradictory teaching, but amazingly it works in our life.

All religions have a tendency to disregard the material. Why should Unification Church go out and get the material in? The answer is this: we are not a religion of the angelic world; we are a religion of Adam’s world. This is an Adamic religion. Before Adam was created, all things were already created. So we must restore this. God gave all things to Adam. God created all things for you.

Therefore I have many kinds of reputation. Some people say, ‘I thought Rev. Moon was a religious leader, but he has many, many businesses. He is known as a millionaire and a billionaire.’ All kinds of rumors are going around. There is a certain truth in it, as I am engaged in all areas of human activity, not just spiritual work.

### The value of fundraising

So, shall we make money, yes or no? Shall we bring satanic people in and restore them to heavenly world, yes or no? In the satanic world, the families are being destroyed. The family system is going down the drain. Shall we restore Adam’s family into the heavenly world, yes or no? Will Satan take a delight in this or will God take delight? That’s restoration. We go the reverse way, the opposite. This is recreation.

If I said, ‘We don’t need you. Don’t go out for fundraising,’ what would you say? You would say, ‘No, Father. You taught me the truth. I want to go out and restore all things of creation!’ Without all things, how can we find Adam? Adam should be created after all things. All things should be created first. Even at midnight you would sneak out and fundraise, and bring in the result. Even a little thing like that, just one or two things, and you would consider that they represent the restoration of all things. You would think, ‘These are more precious than I am, because without these things being restored, I cannot be born as Adam, or Eve. I cannot be recreated.’

I don’t know what you are selling. Sometimes you are selling peanuts or chocolate bars. You may say, ‘How can I sell this chocolate bar and these peanuts?’ You must think, ‘Well, these things are like God. Without them, I cannot be recreated. Mr. Peanut, thank you! You are the re-Creator.’ What the papers say, what the world will say, it doesn’t make any difference. As long as God recognizes it, as long as God gives it dignity, God will give me power. I will fundraise anywhere. I will go to the bar, the street where there is prostitution, Buckingham Palace, it doesn’t make any difference.’

You will ask the Queen, ‘We are going to restore this world. Will you help us?’ It’s certain that the Buckingham Palace people know who you are. You are Moonies. They should know what we are doing.

While you are going around from door to door and street to street, you meet all kinds of people. Beggars and noblemen and kings and queens, you bump into all kinds of people every day. At least 12 months, at least two years, you have to go through this ordeal, this way of life. You have to go around this small country of England at least three times-walking not riding. Have you done it?

So far you might have been thinking, ‘Well, I’ve been given a fundraising mission. I think Dennis Orme is making the money to operate this Church so he’s sending me out. I don’t like it too much, but I have to do it.’ I’m sure many of you go out in this frame of mind, but it’s no good! You’re going out there to restore yourself or recreate yourself. It’s a sacred job. It’s divine work.

When you go out fundraising on MFT, maybe you have two pockets. One is the Church pocket and one is your own pocket. Some money goes in the top pocket and some goes in the bottom pocket. Yes or no? I’m sure some people may not do that but they think, ‘I’m earning much money today. I deserve some, because I worked very hard.’ That’s a logical, Western way of thinking. I’m sure some people think like that. Those who did think that way in your heart, repent right now, today!

You should say, ‘So far I didn’t know the truth. But Father, I know the truth now, and I repent.’ Then you will be forgiven. Don’t think that way anymore. Instead think, ‘Every penny is a savior. It is going to restore me and it is going to restore Adam and Eve. This money is like God. God created the world. I am restoring that world. Then after the world, I shall be created.’ The material in your hands should be like your own self, own life, spiritual life, spiritual children, True Parents, and God. Looking at it as that precious, it’s divine. Because out of that material, those things can be born. It is true. Out of your earnings, that particular restored material, those realities will be developed and come true.

Meantime, you are creating yourself. You become financially independent. You know you have the capacity to sustain yourself under any circumstances. In the future, you will win spiritual children and have your own physical children. ‘Yes, I am going to be an autonomous person. I am going to create the means to support them.’ That kind of feeling, as well as training, is what you are given.

You, as a parent, as a tribal messiah, you are going to be the standard for many children, many people. You will marry them and let them live, let them support themselves. You should be a giving person. You should be a dynamo. You are not the recipient of somebody’s favor. You are going to give favors.

As you know, there is nothing that I have not done. All the jobs I have experienced! There is no trade to which I am a stranger. For the sake of witnessing, I have had all kinds of experiences. I have been mistreated. I have been laughed at and scorned. However, I never lost my dignity. I have never really had time to fight against it, because I had such an important mission to fulfil. I had to deal with this mission, instead of dealing with those nasty people. I had no time for that.

### Where we are now?

My struggle culminated at the Washington Monument rally in 1976. So far the history of man has been dominated by Cain, but I want to make history be dominated by Abel. That struggle was completed in the victory at the Washington Monument rally.

After the Washington Monument victory, I knew that the following three years, 1976, 1977 and 1978, would be a most difficult period, an adverse period. As you know in the Divine Principle, there is a three-day period. Before Moses’ exodus, there was a three-day period. Jacob had a three-day period. Abraham had a three-day period. In all these cases it needed a three-day period of suffering as preparation to take a new leap in history. That is what we are passing through right now, over the course of three years.

From the very moment that President Carter became President, in a way a weak President, the government harassment of our movement in the United States became most critical, most rampant. President Carter is the 39th President of the United States. The number 40 is very significant. 40 days, 400 years, that’s the way history moves. Everything is now coming up to a climax.

Right now almost nobody has hope. The free world does not seem to have hope. The Communist world has a lot of problems. Even the Unification Church doesn’t seem to have hope, because we have a lot of problems. It’s that kind of age. But we’re going over the hill together. The important thing is we’re driving through it. We’re going over the hill, all three: the free world, the Communist world, the Unification Church. When these three go over the hill, two of them will go down, but the Unification Church will take off! Do you want to take off? Right now we’re on the runway at the top of the hill. Europe is high on the top of the hill right now. You’re on the runway. You’re in the Cain position, do you know that? America is in the Abel position. They are the younger brother. You are the elder brother. When the elder brother takes off, then America, the younger brother, will follow you and take off, too. That’s why I came to Europe. That’s why I asked us to gather together in London.

Do you know what is the meaning of ‘Lon-don?’ ‘Lon’ is borrowing money, a loan. ‘Don’ in Korean means money. In sound, Lon-don means the bottom of bankruptcy! You took a loan out on everything and you have nothing. All wiped out. Lon-don means the bottom of the world. You’re all bankrupt and have come to the bottom now! We have to solve the problem by beginning with the members. So we have to work from the bottom up. That’s why we start out from London.

We’re going to restore this bankrupted world. We’re going to bring them a new spirit, new hope, new morals, everything. Can you do it? Did you come to London just for sightseeing and observing things as a spectator? Or are you actors and actresses? Not ordinary ones, but leading actors and actresses? You are going to take off. Are you ready to lift everything in London from the very bottom up? Are you ready to pick up London? That’s why I came here.

In America they didn’t know that I was taking off for Europe. All of a sudden, they learned I am in Europe, in London. Everybody asked, ‘Why is Father in Europe? We were just about ready to take off, but Father is gone already.’ Here in London, you will take off first, and America will get so mad, they will take off even more strongly.

You are elder brothers to America. You should have the dignity of elder brothers and sisters. Teach them a lesson. Show them what to do. You show the example, that’s what I want. As soon as Europe shows the example, America will follow. Europe and America will be restored together and take off together. You’re going to do it. What a beautiful secret you have.

England is a small country. Also, England is an island country. You have water around you. If you want to run away, you have to jump into the water. Germany, France and Italy, they have some land borders, so if they want to leave they have the freedom to go by land. In England, there is no way to run away. There is water around you. You have to stand and fight! No other way.

If you have an ultimate battle with the Communists here in England, then the Communists have water behind them and will have no way to run away either. They must be defeated by us. Would you win or would you be destroyed? British citizens: are you stronger or are the Communists stronger? How about the English people out there? Are they or the Communists stronger? Which one is larger in numbers, the Communists in this country or the English people? Are the English people afraid of Communism? In a way they are pretty scared about Communism.

Let’s say the Communists win over half of the people of Britain. What would happen? Do you think that the Englishmen would still say, ‘No problem. They’re no internal threat?’ Actually some Englishmen became Marxists. But the important thing is, between English Unification Church members and English Communists, which one is stronger? Are you really stronger? We will see. We want to prove which one is stronger.

## Preparation for Blessing (II)

By Fami1yfed June 16, 2018 June 16, 2018 Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1978

## REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON

### May 20, 1978
Lancaster Gate Church,
London, England

> This is a very short sermon, given just before the Holy Wine Ceremony for the 118 Couple Blessing. Rev. Moon explains again the spiritual status of men and women after marriage, and checks that all present understand what it is they must do.

> The Blessing was held the following day, and in the evening after the ceremony, a grand wedding reception was held in the Chelsea Town Hall.

You will say ‘Thy will be done! Please, God, Your will be done!’ For this you must thank True Parents. True Parents have given you everything free, you know that. Be happy and be good. Today is a joyful day, and tomorrow will be an especially joyful day for all of you. Create a joyful atmosphere, and live in joy in your entire life. Think about the joy of Jesus Christ, if after 2,000 long years of waiting, he was able to be at a wedding ceremony. How great that is!

The Holy Wedding ceremony took place in 1960 when Father and Mother were installed as the True Parents. What a joyful and wonderful day that day must have been! Tomorrow you must be just as joyful as Father was in 1960. Why? Because you are fulfilling God’s will.

You met your wife today. You did not know her before, and she did not know you either! But that is splendid, perfectly splendid! Come together and be joyful. If you have that kind of frame of mind you can go on like a dream for thirty years. In the name of God and for the sake of God shall we shall pursue happiness? Amen!

Tonight we will have the engagement and Holy Wine ceremony, and that will conclude today’s activities. There is only one hour and forty five minutes left today. So have a quick wash standing up in water. Tonight improvise somehow, just clean your body and come to the engagement ceremony.

But before the wedding tomorrow, you must somehow submerge yourself into water. Your satanic stain must be all gone; you must wash your whole body seven times. If you can’t wash your whole body seven times, you must wash at least three times but your lower area, the sexual area, seven times. You must clean up all past sin. Think, ‘I have sinned, I was fallen,’ while you are washing your body. Get all of the past memory out. Liquidate, conquer and get rid of your sinful memories. Do you follow me?

### The Purification Period

Do not ever think that just as soon as you get married you will begin married life immediately. No, Jesus took 4,000 years to arrive on earth; even after his crucifixion it took 40 days for the resurrected Jesus to come back and work on earth. For you too, the time after blessing is vital.

This purification period is very important. You should be united in spirit first before you unite in body, and so a minimum 40 day condition of separation before consummation is absolute. However, in our tradition, most of the blessed couples have abstained for at least 3 years. That has been the tradition.

During this time you must be absolutely united in spirit. Then you can become physically united. As soon as you meet as men and women, there is the attraction of your physical bodies and sexual desire. That’s the kind of thing you must overcome, even if at times you have to think in such a spiritual way that you imagine that you cannot be united in eternity! Though you certainly are respected as husband and wife, and you are indeed legal husband and wife, your unity will come gradually. You must know each other and respect each other. You can hold hands but beyond that you should have a certain restraint.

The husband like an elder brother, father and husband for his wife. The wife is like a sister, mother and wife for her husband. You will look at her or him first as a sister or brother, then as a mother or father and finally as husband and wife. Then you are authorized and you qualify to move into husband and wife position. Do you follow? It is not feasible as soon as you marry. Do not think, ‘We are husband and wife, so we can just go and have a good time and have children immediately. That is not the way we do it. There is the rule or the principle for you to observe. Three years purification is our way of life.

However some of you are getting old, and in many cases, Father has made the following adjustment: if either wife or husband is beyond the age of 30, then your purification period shall be one year and a half. Then you shall commence your married life and have children. But anybody not yet 30 years old shall maintain the three years.

In the case of those brides or bridegrooms age 33 or more, whose mate is over 30 years, these couples shall observe a purification period of 120 days-roughly four months. Raise hands please, those in that category. There is one special case of a couple who have been advised by a doctor not to have children after 30 years. You too may engage in married life after 120 days. Now is everybody clear? There are no questions, no mistakes in understanding?

### The role of husband and wife prior to consummation

The three days ceremony, according to the Principle, signifies that a woman gives new birth to a man, recreating him physically. This is a mother’s role, and so in the three year period of separation and purification, or one and a half years, or 120 days, these periods are the time where the women serve in the role of mother. The man should be like a child really serving his mother. You men here should also serve your wives. The man should be subordinate in this period, and the woman should be in the subjective role.

Women can even say, ‘Do my errands! Do my hair! Wash my feet!’ and the men have to say ‘Yes Mother!’ By doing so a man can become like a really loving baby, like a child. You women will feel you cannot live without him, like a mother who cannot leave her baby alone. That kind of feeling must be created. Until the three days ceremony this custom or tradition must continue.

America is a women’s world, right? This way of life will last for 70 years, but then it will decline and go away. The idea of ‘ladies first’ will go away, and men will go first! If American women think they can have a field day and try to continue to enslave men, what will happen? Men will leave women and women will live all by themselves. That’s why American men do not want to marry American white women, thinking, ‘They are stubborn and arrogant; they are bossy and talk too much!’ American men will say, ‘I just want to marry an Oriental woman!’

### The three-day ceremony

When you finally meet as husband and wife physically, there will be a three-day ceremony. For three nights you will have to go through certain procedures, All the blessed members will have a special lecture and receive special instruction on how to go through the three-day ceremony. This three-day ceremony signifies that the women physically give up their position and physically give birth to their husbands. After the three-day ceremony, then restoration has taken place.

Your position of meeting as husband and wife, on the first and second nights, will be with the wife in the upper position and her husband in the lower position. This represents formation and growth. The fallen action came at the top of growth stage position. However, on the third night, which represents perfection, there should be restoration of dominion. Adam should restore dominion, so the husband is in the upper and the woman in the lower position.

All this will be explained in detail at the time of the ceremony. But in Principle, on the first night you will really purify yourselves and carry out everything as instructed. The husband should make three bows to his wife. The wife receives those three bows, and they will then engage in sexual action, with the woman in the upper position. The second night repeats the first night. However, the third night is different. Until the third night, women are subject and men are in the object role. On the third night there is total restoration of dominion of husband. You men will restore your rightful authority as a husband on the third night. You will receive the three bows, and you are in the upper position. After that, from the third night on, the woman should serve the husband more than the husband serves her.

Once you know how difficult it is to reach to perfection then you should not even conceivably think of the fallen action again. Let’s say there is a temptation, a typical temptation. A beautiful woman comes to entice you, or a handsome man comes to woo you. Look at that person as a serpent! Besides your husband or wife, nobody else should be in a position to woo you or entice you. Anyone else is the serpent, the archangel.

Once you know the entire spiritual implications of your blessing, you cannot help being joyful over how precious you are, living in this era, meeting Father and gathered in this particular room.

### Final details

Let’s go down to work then. Have supper quickly. Bathe yourself and gather together as quickly as possible. Dennis Orme will let me know as soon as everybody is ready. This is the draw. All women come and pick a number; you will line up according to this number, so keep it and don’t lose it!

The holy salt tradition began with the Holy Wedding in 1960. We should actually burn all old things and wear new things but since we can’t do that in real life, Father created holy salt. That has spread all over the world and becomes your holy salt now. That has the same power to make all things new. Through the power of the holy salt, with the spirit of the holy salt you are making the material God’s material.