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<span class="author vcard" >By <a class="url fn n" rel="author" href="#" title="View all posts by Fami1yfed">Fami1yfed</a></span> <span><time class="onDate date published" datetime="2018-06-23T15:17:10+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/23/original-palace-of-utmost-happiness.html" rel="bookmark">June 23, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-23T15:17:10+01:00">June 23, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1983.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1983</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">December 1, 1983<br />
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Translator – Sang Kil Han</h3>
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<p>Happiness is the common desire of all mankind. Each individual wants to be happy, whether he is white, black, or yellow. What constitutes happiness? We can say that things and events of value making relationship with each other give us happiness.</p>
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<p>What are the things of value? They can be traded for something else which also has value. Most people regard money as something of the utmost value. Likewise knowledge and power are things of value. These things are in the object position to the subjective position of man’s life. They are things which man can consume, spend. and then derive value from.</p>
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<p>When we cite money, knowledge and power as things of value, is man included in their value or does he exist somewhere outside of them? We already know that man gives value to things by recognizing them. What about the value of man himself? We often bestow the greatest value on the things we mentioned, but we don’t even consider humans as more valuable than them.</p>
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<p>When the universe itself seeks value, it does not seek money, power, and so forth. It is obviously humans who have the greatest value. Why does the universe view man as the most valuable being? We can understand this easily. Man is in the position to make relationships within his environment. Because man is the center of the creation, he can classify it, bestow values upon the universe and so on. Therefore without man, all things would just stand where they are and their value could not be recognized.</p>
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<p>Imagine the world without man. Would gold, diamonds, or pearls have value if human beings didn’t exist? What about knowledge? Would it have any meaning without man? Power might exist, but without man there is no one to exercise it. The lion is very powerful within the animal kingdom but he is restricted to certain activities according to his instinct. He has a certain time to eat, just as do rabbits and deer. In that sense, each animal has its own limited power.</p>
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<p>There is no consistent exercise of power comparable to man’s. Man can plan, allocate, and act according to his own thinking. The animal kingdom doesn’t have this capability. The lions just eat whenever they get hungry. They chase their prey and in that way exercise their power. Most of the rest of the time, they just sleep, not thinking about anything else. Imagine if the lions prowled twenty four hours a day, then the other animals couldn’t be free to live their lives!</p>
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<p>It is truly man who serves as the center of the world, recognizing and exercising values. If a person saw a big mountain of diamonds, he would want to do anything to get it. But a lion might be sleeping on a mountain of diamonds and not feel any differently about it; he certainly wouldn’t feel any special happiness to be there. If a lion had an opportunity to gain instant knowledge about something, would he recognize it? No, he couldn’t care less.</p>
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<p>We take it for granted but it definitely requires man to recognize these values. Animals are not interested in money, power, or knowledge: it is only humans who are. In that respect, when we ask the question, “Is man included within the things of value, just like money, power, or knowledge?” we must answer yes. In fact, man himself is very much the center of these values.</p>
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<p>There are many similarities between animals and human beings; both must take in food, for example. But the standard of value within the animal kingdom is rather simple, whether we speak of lions, rabbits, and the like. The value system for human beings is complex and varies according to the time in history and according to the culture.</p>
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<p>There are all kinds of people. What kind of person is most precious? What are the criteria to determine this? We know that people have two elements-one is spiritual and the other is physical. Combined, they create a whole person. The person who lives entirely according to his physical impulses is almost indistinguishable from the animals.</p>
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<p>What truly differentiates man from the rest of the animals? We can reason that if man has some quality distinctly different from the animals, that quality must be the determinant of man’s value. We can logically see that such a thing must not be within the physical aspects of man, which are not that much different from the animals. Whatever makes man different from the animals must lie within his spiritual side.</p>
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<p>Something spiritual must be, in itself, very different from physical things. In order for something to be high, there must also be something low. If we consider spiritual qualities to be high, then physical qualities must be allocated to a lower place; they cannot both be high. On the other hand, if we place the higher emphasis on physical values then the spiritual values must be in the lower place.</p>
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<p>Man generally tends to prefer the higher, rather than the lower, values. Likewise, people generally prefer to be on the summit of the mountain rather than in the depth of the valley. Why is that? Why don’t we value the lowest of all low points? The answer is very simple. When you go up to higher and higher points, you can see more and more and look out over wider and wider distances. Everything in the world is beneath you and you can see it. Whereas the lower you descend into a valley, the more limited your vision becomes. Ultimately when you are at the rock bottom, you can hardly see anything. Thus you cannot connect with anything else and cannot bestow value upon anything else.</p>
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<p>We can conclude that people like to move up to higher and higher points so that we can command the widest view, in order to actively create relationships. Some people prefer the lower positions. Why is that? It is because life is simpler there; one hardly has to do anything and can easily rest in that position. We can see that the man who is constantly searching to relate with higher things and loftier things is more valuable than the man who is satisfied to remain at the lowest level.</p>
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<p>Thus we can more easily classify the different kinds of people. One kind of person strives to maintain relationships with higher and higher values and is therefore a more spiritual person. Another kind of person is satisfied with relating with the lower, more physical things in life. The physical needs of a person remain the same’ regardless of his interests in life; the spiritual side, however, is the variable side. Thus the spiritually higher person is the one who is the most valuable because he has the highest aspirations. This is the distinguishing line between people.</p>
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<p>In other words, the man who has the largest concerns is the man with the highest value, while the man who has the smaller concerns, specifically himself and his immediate surroundings, is the one with lower value. We can say that people are either more animalistic or more spiritually oriented. The animalistic person is the one whose life is centered upon himself, disregarding the whole as the center of himself. The spiritually oriented person thinks of the whole as his own center, not himself.</p>
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<p>The members of the Unification Church have a clear goal-to become spiritually oriented people, constantly thinking about the benefit of the whole and not worrying about themselves. This kind of character is very distinct in our church. That has been my teaching all along-for you to learn to live for the sake of others. That means you must become the kind of people who are so spiritual that you live for others before yourselves.</p>
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<p>What is so good about living for others and what is so wrong with living for yourself? The person who lives for others becomes the center of the whole and takes responsibility for others. Is the self-centered person the center of the community, society, or the nation? Or isn’t the person who thinks about the country first and himself last the one who becomes the center of the country? The person who wants to live for his own sake will exist somewhere on the outskirts of society. The one who lives for others will be welcomed by all other people. What quality is it that is welcomed? That quality is something good to behold, something which is nice to be near. It is something which is pleasing to people.</p>
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<p>Harmony, wholeness and a lack of conflict are desirable situations. When two people are dwelling in conflict, their world is unhappy. If one person says, “You must live for my sake and I will live for my sake, too,” all activity and exchange stops. There can be no excitement, joy, or satisfaction.</p>
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<p>The eyes on your face belong to you, but do your eyes exist for you alone? Don’t your eyes exist for the sake of looking at other people? Was your mouth created to give you joy by speaking about yourself or is it there to address other people for their sake? If someone is all by himself, talking and laughing, he is considered insane’ The ears, too, exist for listening to others. You don’t have ears just to listen to yourself singing a song; you want to listen to other people singing and talking. Your nose doesn’t function to smell yourself but to smell the world around you. The sense of touch, as well, focuses on others. Of course, you can feel your own touch but primarily you want to touch and be touched by another person.</p>
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<p>When we seek something beautiful, what are we seeking? Is it beautiful for a person to say, “Everything should be for my benefit.”? The beautiful person is the one who says, “All my senses are directed to giving for the sake of other people.” All of our senses agree that the person who gives for the sake of others is beautiful and the selfish person is ugly.</p>
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<p>The eyes on a person’s face exist to see the beauty on another person’s face; that is their normal function. We can say that our five senses are originally created to do good for the sake of others rather than for ourselves. We can also understand that doing good for others, showing concern for others and thinking about their welfare instead of our own will cause other people to welcome us and enjoy our company. When we see that people universally respond to this standard of unselfishness, we can conclude that it is part of man’s original mind. Likewise, it is the original mind of man to reject selfishness.</p>
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<p>Suppose you could ask a man’s feet, “Where would you prefer to go-to a person who is always doing things for your sake or to a person who wants you to serve him?” Anybody’s foot would say, “I would prefer to go to the first kind of person.” The hands of any person would also answer the same way.</p>
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<p>Now we are in the position to determine what is a good person and what is a bad person. Likewise we are ready to think about the better person and the worse person. The better person is the one who tries the most to live for the sake of other people. Going one step further, we can say that if a man likes a certain person and does many things for that person. it is good and the man has a certain standard of goodness. But what is even better? The better person is the one who does the same good things for the person he doesn’t like. A good person does good things for people he likes but the better person does good things for everyone. regardless of whether he likes them or not. The best person is the one who loves his worst enemy.</p>
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<p>Thus we have a logical basis for stating that Jesus was the best person of all because he was a man who loved his enemies and taught others to do the same. Jesus was such a spiritually lofty person that he perceived a world in which nobody hated anyone else, in which there were no enemies. If there were not just one person like Jesus but if all of humanity tried to live like him, it would be a world in which everybody was living for the sake of others. That would be Heaven on earth. Just thinking logically we can see this.</p>
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<p>What could be the place of the utmost happiness? It must be the place where happy people get together and live. What would draw happy people together? Would it be lots of money or power? Can we imagine that money or power could ever live for our sake? What is the central element which draws happy people together? Is it some special food that emits happiness, or some magic power that automatically causes happiness to come about? No, it is love which is the central element of happiness and causes people to serve each other.</p>
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<p>We can conclude that living for the sake of others is not only the way to happiness but it is also the way man was originally intended to be. When people live together in that fashion. everyone finds happiness. The person who gives more and more for the sake of others finds himself being raised higher and higher spiritually; he will naturally be pushed upward. And when he goes down, other people can go up. This is the law of motion.</p>
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<p>Since Reverend Moon is a smart man, I concluded that the most profitable way to live is for the sake of others and inevitably, whether I sought it or not, people would welcome me and cherish me. Is that a correct or a faulty conclusion? I can assure you that I have tested this method and it never fails. No matter how many different ways you may try, this is the best way to live.</p>
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<p>If love itself were looking for a place to rest, where would it go? It would go to the home of the person who is living more than anyone for the sake of others. Love would be comfortable in that home and would not want to go anywhere else. It would rest totally relaxed, with limbs widespread and mouth snoring.</p>
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<p>Wouldn’t you like to be so thoroughly bonded to love that you could not break loose? Your eyes, ears and every part of you would be totally attached. Would you still want the freedom to go off somewhere and live alone? No, you would want to stay stuck to love forever and ever. Wouldn’t you prefer to be even a slave of love rather than be free in a place devoid of love?? Ideal love allows a husband and wife to want to be slaves to each other.</p>
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<p>When I first began to talk today about living for the sake of others, I could see in your eyes that you didn’t like the idea so much. But now. after I have explained the reasons and you can understand with your original mind why it is the right way of life, you are coming to agree with me.</p>
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<p>A woman naturally wants to embrace the person who loves her the most. How can you know that one man loves you the most, more than any other? The man who loves you unconditionally, regardless of what you do, is the man who loves you the most. The man who is determined to love you even at the cost of his life will be the man who will win your love. A woman will want to settle down forever with such a man who has eternal, unconditional love.</p>
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<p>I would certainly choose to live forever in a place of love. even if there were no money. knowledge or position there. I would never choose to live in a place of great money. knowledge and power but without love. Don’t you also feel the same way, regardless of whether you are men or women?</p>
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<p>Now we know that the original palace of utmost happiness is none other than this place of true love. When a man sees a woman who is willing to dedicate her whole life and career to him he feels love for her. He will be able to look at her forever and never get tired of her. Every time he sees her, he feels a fresh and new sensation. Even though he may stare at her for ten years, he would never get bored. The object of our love is that valuable. We never get tired of hearing expressions of utmost love, even after ten or a hundred years. We are ready to hear even more! These kinds of things happen to the person who lives for the sake of others.</p>
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<p>Who is the ideal man or the man of utmost value? We can say that the person who gives himself totally throughout his life for the sake of other people, for the sake of nations and the world, for the sake of the cosmos and God, with no moment in his life when he just focused upon his own desire, is the ideal man. Suppose such a man happened somehow to die in outer space, where there is only a vacuum. The whole universe would want to go to where that man is. This is possible because spirit men don’t need air to breathe.</p>
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<p>The ideal person can live anywhere in the whole universe and harmonize with everything. The center of love is the essence of life and the origin of all power. That place is where people laugh the heartiest and weep the deepest for the sake of their love. Regardless of whether you were laughing or weeping, you would be happy there. Sometimes you cry when you are ecstatically happy-you may laugh and cry at the same time.</p>
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<p>You don’t mind whether you laugh or cry when you are living for the sake of others. Why is this? It is because God is the subject and He created His object to live in that way. God is the one who loves others the most and who created the universe according to His ideal. Heaven is the place where people who lived this way of life on earth get together eventually. You may think that is just one way of creating Heaven but the truth is that Heaven can be formed only when people live and work for the sake of others.</p>
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<p>Until Reverend Moon brought this solution, you people had your own individual ways of life. The American society has been the most prosperous in human history, but now you have something to compare it with. Instead of thinking that the American way of life is the greatest in history, you can see the difference between that and what I have been teaching you as the ideal. Is America far from Heaven or not? If the American way of life is far from Heaven, with its individualism and so forth, what is it close to? It is close to Hell. You did not know you were living in Hell until you found Heaven. Do you want to continue to live in Hell?</p>
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<p>Do you women spend hours in front of the mirror, thinking, “I’m going to attract the attention of a lot of men by looking so pretty”? Or do you think, “I want to look as pretty as possible in order to spread joy to others”? Is your thinking a little bit of both? The first way of thinking is the way of Hell, while the second is the way of Heaven. Even though two women may be doing exactly the same thing-spending the same amount of time putting on makeup-their motivation determines whether they are on the side of Heaven or Hell.</p>
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<p>The individual who seeks to serve the needs of his family, rather than just his own needs, is a better individual than the one who seeks to serve only himself. And an even better individual is the one who loves his family but is willing to serve the needs of the country above his family. After he gives himself to the country, the truly valuable person is willing to give himself for the benefit of the world. Ultimately he will give up everything he has done for the world for the sake of God’s love. That is the way of life which I have been pushing you Unification Church members to pursue.</p>
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<p>There is no loftier way of life for any human being than this one. We are pursuing the highest, most ideal way of life. I have been pushing you, day in and day out, never allowing you to settle down with any lower goal. How do you like that? Will you tell me, “I am content to be just moderately happy. I don’t want to work so hard to become the happiest person.”?</p>
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<p>When the time comes for you to go to spirit world, will you be able to say, “I have lived for the sake of others; I have no regrets.”? Or will you say, “I wish I could live longer and change my ways. I didn’t live fully for the sake of others.”? What would you choose as your dying attitude-one of satisfaction or one of regret??</p>
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<p>Suppose there is a man who says, “I have no regrets about my life,” and another person who says. “Yes, I have done my best in my life but maybe I could have done more.” The second person may weep as he approaches his death, while the first one would not. Yet which is the preferable attitude to have? The person who has given himself to the utmost yet still wishes he could have done more is the person of the greatest value.</p>
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<p>Suppose there is a Christian person who says, “I did everything I possibly could have for the sake of my country and my Lord. Now I am tired and I want to go to Heaven. I will stop giving now but whenever I die, I am certain I will go to Heaven.” Will such a person go to Heaven? Perhaps he will be expecting everybody to respect him, since he did so much in his earlier life for the nation and for others. But to his dismay, he will not end up in Heaven at all. This is because he didn’t genuinely live for the sake of others but rather for his own rewards and self satisfaction.</p>
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<p>This illustrates the clear contrast between the concepts of Heaven held by established Christianity and the Unification Church. One says, “I will work very diligently all of my life so that I can gain a reward for myself in the afterlife.” But the Unification Church way says, “This is my destiny to live for the sake of others and I will continue this way for my whole life. Even after I die, I want to continue to do more.” That is the humble attitude of one who does not believe that God owes him something great, but is ready to go wherever God directs. Will he go to Hell or to Heaven? Certainly, he will go to Heaven.</p>
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<p>Which way would you choose to go to Heaven-the Unification Church way or the way of established Christianity? It is actually self-serving to do good things for the purpose of gaining Heaven. The two ways of life are not really different on the surface; the difference is internal. The difference is in the quality of love. In the Unification Church, we do everything for the purpose of the greatest love. The established way does not think so sincerely about loving others but of many other things.</p>
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<p>Another contrast between people can be seen when they discover that they have done something wrong. Those who are motivated by love can quickly change their ways, while those who are lacking in love are not so willing to do things differently. When someone is not motivated by love, he is more attached to his own point of view.</p>
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<p>Recently one of the elder members of the Church told me, “Father, you have worked so hard for so long; from now on you must receive glory.” For a moment I considered that possibility but it felt very strange to think about. Then I thought to myself, “No, I will probably continue to do more and more.” Then I saw that that person was thinking to himself, “Since I have worked so hard, too, I have some reward coming to me.” However. that is not the way I think.</p>
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<p>Nobody questions the idea that since I have worked hard and long for the sake of the world I deserve recognition. But I immediately reject such thinking: my whole being feels that such an attitude is wrong. Recently Reverend Kwak spoke to me about a certain member in his department. This member had said, “I have been working very hard for nine years on the Science Conferences so l would like to be able to sit at the head table.” l exploded with indignation. Such an attitude will put that person into the lowest possible Hell. He will have to work another nine years to overcome the consequences of such a self-serving request, even though he certainly did work very hard for his mission. This is especially true in front of True Father and in front of God, who has spent so many thousands of years working.</p>
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<p>After just nine years someone says that he deserves to go to the head table? That is incredible! I thought to myself, “If I were him and I saw that there was a place at the head table among all the scholars and so on, would I feel comfortable sitting up there? Just in terms of knowledge, those people are much more advanced than I am. It would take a lot of guts to sit up there!”</p>
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<p>Now that I have explained all these things, you are in a good position to judge yourself. Do you think that what I am saying is correct? You can be candid with me this morning. I have been telling you all along that you must live for the sake of others, but did you welcome my words? Or did you prefer not to listen to the things I was telling you? Perhaps you said to me, “No, I can’t do it!” However, you have been living for the sake of others through the Unification Church lifestyle, so do you regret it now?</p>
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<p>A few months ago I directed all the women who had less than three children in their care to go out to IOWC. Imagine how close God would feel to the woman who had three children yet still determined to go out to IOWC. That would be going beyond what I directed and she would be giving such a precious offering to God. It is even more precious to see a woman with three children going out than a woman with two children. What about the mother with five children, who knows my direction and still goes out to IOWC? That would be the highest, greatest person. At this time of national emergency, she would realize that there was no room for just thinking about her own family. Certainly if the nation ceases to exist, the family will cease to exist.</p>
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<p>This is literally the great emergency time for the entire cosmos-not only for this world but also for the spirit world; not only for now but also for all of history. What exception can we make? What can hold anyone back from concentrating on the central activity?</p>
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<p>If I had poured myself out in Africa to the extent that I have here in America and had spent the same amount of time, effort and money, do you think the African people would have responded much better than the Americans? Yes, they would have. So do you think I made a misjudgment to come here rather than to Africa, where I could have made better results? The answer is simple: it is only because of the special position which America occupies. Africa is not in the same leadership position to the rest of the world: it is only one of many areas in the world. On the other hand, America is the single most important country in God’s dispensation at this time. Therefore, I had very little choice but to come here and do my utmost. America represents the entire world, so by working here I am working for the rest of the world as well. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>What if Reverend Moon goes away from the Unification Church in America? What would be the future of the church? I can easily imagine what would happen. The church would probably become very Americanized and far from God’s desire. That would not be acceptable to me. What must the American Church achieve-to twist the Church into an American image, or to change its American self into the Unification Church image? We must “Moonize” the American Church not Americanize the Church.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church is a unique entity; it is different from any other part of the world, past or present. God has started His own new breed of people, which cannot compare with anything else, including the American society. Everything we have done and everything we have started is from a distinctly different philosophy from the rest of the world. What we are doing has never existed before; therefore in the future, we must expand what we are doing to educate other people in the world.</p>
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<p>When this tradition is firmly established in this country, the richest people will be extremely happy to spend their millions in Africa to develop it. So America has only one way to go-simply speaking, America must live for the sake of the world. That is the responsibility of America because it happens to be the center of the free world.</p>
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<p>People who live to the utmost for the sake of others will attain not just mediocre happiness but the utmost happiness. If there are eight brothers and sisters in a family, which is the central figure among them? Regardless of who is the eldest, the brother or sister who dedicates himself the most to the others will naturally take the position of center.</p>
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<p>The same is true within the Unification Church. The person who lives most fully for the sake of others is the one who is closest to me and to the central figure position. If you have some question about whether to listen to one leader or another, you can evaluate them yourself according to this standard. Who lives for the sake of other people more? Whichever leader fulfills that standard better is the one to whom you should listen.</p>
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<p>There is no established seniority within our system -no matter who a person is or what position he has, if he is living for the sake of others more than anyone else then he should be the center of the whole movement. Therefore because of this standard, there is no place for factions or divisions within our Church. We don’t determine our leaders by vote but by asking our consciences, “Which person is living the most for the sake of the country and for God?” Your own conscience can answer that question for you.</p>
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<p>Some leaders like to think that they are higher than others simply because they have been around longer or because they have more experience, but that is not the criterion. The leader who is living fully for the sake of other people doesn’t even have to think about his position within the Church. Anyone who is giving less than another person should humbly follow that other person.</p>
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<p>The position of Cain and Abel is not decided by any other standard except by who is working and sacrificing more for the sake of others. Such a person is automatically Abel. Even though someone claims the position of Abel and sits as center leader, giving other people commands, gradually that person will feel more and more uncomfortable and he will be obliged to move out of that position. He is Cain if he is not living for the sake of other people. So we have a very simple criterion for deciding who is Cain and who is Abel.</p>
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<p>Who goes to the original palace of utmost happiness? It is the person who will not only do his very best to live for the sake of others, but even after that he cries because he regrets not being able to do more. That original palace of utmost happiness is the place where God resides and such a person will speak with God there. This original palace is not an easy place to reach. But if you have lived your life in the way I have been describing, nobody can ever complain against your going to that palace. Instead everybody will applaud because the standard is clear for going there.</p>
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<p>Does your hand exist for the purpose of grabbing things for your own sake or for the purpose of serving other people? What about your eyes and ears? They are there for seeing good in others and hearing good about others. Very exactly, every part of the body must be cherished for the sake of others. A woman must not appreciate her own body just for her own sake; her bosom exists for the sake of’ her children. not for herself You should remind yourself over and over that your body is not for yourself but for your children and your husband- there is nothing you are born with which is just for your own purposes. You must embed this thinking deeply into your mind. The very reason why you exist on this earth is not just for yourself but for the sake of others.</p>
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<p>When we realize this, we will know very clearly that we exist for the sake of God. For whom does God exist? God exists for us, for mankind. If you are working in some office for the purpose of earning money to feed your family rather than just yourself, that work is more precious. Since you have to support your family, you must exist as well so you must support yourself, as well. A person who thinks like this is a happy person. But in American society today we unfortunately see the reverse way of thinking. Each person wants to claim more and more for himself, forgetting more and more about his family and other higher purposes. More and more division is coming about and division is the first sign of destruction. If that division continues to grow, destruction is certain. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>This is an inevitable principle, not my own personal way of thinking. The laws of creation operate in this way. You American women should think every day about what I am saying today. Whenever you look at yourself in the mirror, think about the purpose of your eyes and every part of yourself. See how much your thinking changes and, as a result, your happiness. This is really the revolution. Only you can determine how much this revolution is needed within yourself. I cannot force you but the more you change, the better. You may say, ‘1 am afraid of changing too much.” But you can benefit the most from the most change. Then your happiness grows until it reaches the utmost level.</p>
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<p>As intelligent, reasonable people, do you think that what I am saying is true and reasonable? Will this way of life guarantee your prosperity? Yes, prosperity will come to you through this way of life. I have maintained this way of thinking and have never faltered in teaching and living this way, even though the rest of the world has tried to make me stop. But who has perished-Reverend Moon or those who refused to live this way of life? Reverend Moon has prospered. We must learn to proudly uphold our utmost way of life; the more people speak against the way you are living, the more you should be proud and confident. Our way of life is the way of victory-not only for ourselves but also for other people. As we live this way, other people will be helped in the future. You must be confident, no matter what.</p>
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<p>Many people have not been able to predict their future so clearly, but our future is guaranteed as long as we continue this way. Very soon multitudes of people will want to come and join our movement and our lifestyle. This is not just my opinion; I know that this will happen. You must understand clearly that there is no alternative way of life.</p>
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<p>There is only one road and it is very simple to follow in order to progress from the rock bottom of life to the original palace of utmost happiness. It is like a ladder leading from this earth to that palace. When you are living for the sake of other people, you are climbing up that ladder one rung at a time. Eventually you will reach the top; it is inevitable.</p>
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<p>Even from my own individual point of view, I can see that the Unification Church is the most precious place. You are my own children and according to the worldly standard, I should not let you suffer. But according to my philosophy, I always push the ones I love the most out to the most difficult experiences. Whenever I meet with you, I never speak just loving kind words. I am the same with all my loved ones. I always tell you to sacrifice for the greater and greater purpose. I have been doing this to the ones I love the most for the past several decades.</p>
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<p>What I want for all of you is that you survive-you don’t have to be fantastic, just survive and hang on to this way of life. Do you understand? Will you continue to complain like you have in the past? This is the undeniable way to go! You must pledge to me that you understand this point clearly today and that your goal is the palace of utmost happiness. You must understand that the only way to the goal is by sacrificing to the utmost.</p>
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<p>Today is the first day of December, the last month of the year. As you listen to a sermon such as this, you must immediately think to yourself, “Oh, I regret that I have not lived up to this standard for the past eleven months. But for this one remaining month I will live this standard to the utmost so I won’t feel regrets about 1983.” This month is a special month of temptation, when people naturally yearn to return to their hometowns to visit their loved ones for the holidays.</p>
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<p>Your minds tend to float here and there during this time but you must anchor yourselves down. While every one is going home and enjoying Christmas, we are staying in the most difficult, hellish circumstances. While others are enjoying a heavenly time, we continue to serve this nation and the world. Would you prefer to be in this Hell or to go to that Heaven at this time? The wise person is the one who goes into Hell at this time because in the future he will go to that original palace.</p>
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<p>When everybody is eating turkey with greasy mouths, you eat your meager meals at the World Mission Center, having only water to moisten your mouths. But we are making history and this is the only source of pride that we can claim throughout all the future generations. If we don’t live this way, we cannot have pride for the future. Will you be proud to say. “I had a glorious Christmas, with turkey and all the trimmings.”? But when you can say, “I had only meager food on Christmas Day 1983,” that will be your most precious record for history.</p>
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<p>Many Koreans work hard in America for four or five years so that they can return to their country and have a nice rest. On the contrary, I am looking forward to a trip to Korea now because Korea desperately needs a revival. The Korean nation is suffering; there is so much turmoil and the government doesn’t know what to do. I will go there and inspire them and then I will return to America. My trip to Korea will entail a lot of hard work; it certainly will not be a vacation. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>Many people say to me, “You are not a young man so you should slow down.” but I don’t agree. Now that I am over sixty, I am only thinking of how much more I can do. My teaching to you is to live for the sake of others and to start now. during your young years. As you live this way, I know you will achieve a lofty standard by the time you are my age. Therefore I always encourage you to take on suffering and sacrifice for the sake of other people. I know for a fact that this is the very best way of life.</p>
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<p>I urge you to live this way to the utmost for this last month of the year. If you do that. you will restore the other eleven months. If you can pledge that you will do this, raise your hands. Thank you.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">Twelfth International Conference<br />
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<p>Honorable Chairmen. Committee Chairpersons, distinguished scholars, ladies and gentlemen. I wish to express my sincere gratitude to you for coming to Chicago to participate in the Twelfth International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences. Since the first ICUS, these conferences have progressed greatly. The ICUS achievement is a result of the coordination and dedicated work of many of you, performed in the face of enormous pressure and persecution. Your work has created in the ICUS a conference unsurpassed in the entire world. I would like to express my deepest appreciation for your efforts and contributions and, at the same time, congratulate you for what you have accomplished.</p>
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<p>The world is undergoing rapid changes which correspond to the remarkable development of science and technology. As a result, the established values of society are being shaken at their foundations, causing confusion and conflict on every level. This trend has been accelerated by the growing influence of atheistic materialism. In short, many difficult problems beset our world today. Until now, people have not been able to find true solutions to these problems.</p>
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<p>It is clear that neither Democracy nor Communism provides the means to cure the ills of society. Originally, both Democracy and Communism developed out of the desire to solve humanity’s common problems. Yet not only has Democracy been unsuccessful at this task, but it has also proved itself unable to resist and overcome the destructiveness of Communism. Communism, on the other hand, also is completely unable to solve the world’s problems, and. ironically, it creates even more woes for the human race. Thus the world is at an impasse: Democracy and Communism are faced with a “no-win” situation leading to a dead end. This being our present reality, the future of humankind seems bleak and unpredictable.</p>
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<p>Why, then, are Democracy and Communism not the answer? A careful analysis of both systems shows that neither one has a core of “truth” in the ultimate sense. Democracy may serve as the basis for a political system. but it is not a clear and comprehensive world view. Communism is an inclusive. systematic world view, but it is one based upon false assumptions and distorted facts. What is needed, then. is a third alternative. a movement based upon a new understanding of truth, one which gives hope by presenting a new vision of world society. This is in fact the Unification Movement. with the Unification ideology-a complete, systematic world view grounded in truth and absolute values. A new cultural revolution is coming, and all scholars and professionals are called to participate in creating it.</p>
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<p>Learning from the shortcomings of Democracy and Communism, we conclude that a new cultural revolution can come only on the foundation of absolute values. These cannot be relative values grounded in the changing world of phenomena. Rather, they must be universal and ultimate values, grounded in the unchanging world of essence and cause, in the fundamental relationships between God. human beings and the universe.</p>
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<p>We initiated the ICUS meetings for the purpose of resolving the present world problems and developing this third alternative world view. When I founded ICUS twelve years ago. I established the central theme of Absolute Values.” I did so because I believe that unchanging, universal values are the essential foundation for a true world view. In addition to the ICUS meetings. I initiated many other conferences and projects. in order to prepare for the building of an ideal society such as exists in the dreams and hopes of all people. The purpose of the Unification \10`ement, for which I have been working all my life. is to create the new cultural revolution based upon this new systematic world view. Our movement has expanded to over 130 countries. As a result. many conscientious people now seriously consider our guiding principles- the Unification ideology-as a new system of truth.</p>
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<p>Generally there has been openness to the Unification ideology in the democratic world, and great interest in its potential. The Communist world. on the other hand. has been consistently hostile towards the Unification Movement, and has used the democratic system as a tool to destroy us. Communist leaders regard us as their primary enemy, and have opposed each and every project related to Reverend Moon. The ICUS organization is no exception. Communists know that Reverend Moon founded this conference and has always considered it to be of highest importance. This is a major cause of the accusation and persecution ICUS has received since its beginnings.</p>
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<p>Communists use deceit and terrorism to undermine the Free World. You undoubtedly are aware of Communist slander and sabotage in your own countries. as I am aware of their work against the Unification Movement. We cannot overlook this problem any longer. Therefore. I have chosen this occasion to speak to you clearly about the reality of the Communist attack against the Unification Movement and the entire Free World. I think it is necessary for you to know these things for your own sakes, for the sake of defending academic freedom. and for defending the Free World as a whole.</p>
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<p>As the Unification Movement has developed worldwide there have been many incidents of hostility and persecution from Communists. As a result we have suffered many setbacks everywhere. It originally was a mystery to us why we received such opposition, when our activities were so beneficial to society. To discover the real source of the opposition, we began an investigation. Today, I am going to speak about the information we have uncovered in Japan. where the Unification Movement is successful and very well-known. I believe this information will be useful to people in all countries, since the Communist effort to destroy the Free World as well as our movement is consistent worldwide. A more detailed exposition of what I am about to say will soon be published as a book. which I hope you all will read.</p>
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<p>Like the United States, Japan boasts of great freedom for her citizens. Few people realize that in the midst of such an ideal, the KGB and Japanese Communist Party are attacking freedom by instigating deprogramming” actions against people who decide to join our movement. At times they even obtain help from the courts. Our investigation reveals conclusively that Communists have organized to spread lies, distortions and unfounded allegations. in a conspiracy to destroy me and the Unification Movement. Through the systematic spread of disinformation. the Communists work to create mass mobilization and to establish a unified front” against the Unification Movement This creates polarization. conflict and struggle-a situation Communists always capitalize upon in order to eliminate all possible opposition.</p>
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<p>The Japanese Communist Party regards the Unification Movement as its principal enemy. It has publicly declared that the struggle against our movement is more crucial than the struggle against ”Japanese Capitalism” and “American Imperialism.” At the National Leaders Conference of the Japanese Communist Party held June 5-7, 1978. Chairman Kenji Miyamoto stated that the destruction of the Unification Movement is a “righteous battle which will be remembered in history.” Furthermore. he urged all “democratic forces” to unite and launch an all-out effort toe accomplish this ‘historic task.” The Communists in Japan have mobilized several hundred groups to oppose us.</p>
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<p>I founded the Unification Movement for the purpose of realizing the ultimate ideal of God and humankind: the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Ours is a movement to revive religion and to educate people in all aspects of human endeavor. It is historically inevitable that a spiritual movement such as ours encounter opposition from established forces which proclaim different interests and directions. All religious movements had to go through intense persecution and hostility at their outset. Only by overcoming those difficulties were they able to form the mainstream of thought and guiding force for future generations. Judaism, Christianity. and even Democracy and Communism, are examples of this pattern.</p>
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<p>Likewise. from the beginning. Reverend Moon and the Unification Movement have endured tremendous misunderstanding, accusation, persecution and trials, not only in the area of religion. but also in the fields of politics, economics. culture. science and technology, media and education. We have been opposed and persecuted by every part of society, from the general public to governmental authorities. wherever we have been. In a sense, therefore, all people in the world are directly or indirectly responsible for the fate of the Unification Movement, and are accountable for their actions in front of God. The worldwide opposition, however, has been orchestrated in particular by Communists. Their target is anything with Reverend Moon’s name attached to it.</p>
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<p>For most people, then, it has been quite difficult to gain a proper understanding of the Unification Movement Most of what people have heard and read about us has been the reflection of lies and sensationalism spread by our opponents, compounded over the years. What people tend to believe about Reverend Moon and the Unification Movement is merely the repetition of false allegations made long ago. Following Lenin’s teaching that “A lie repeated one hundred times will become a truth,” Communists have repeated endlessly the same false rumors in order to give them credibility. For example, in the past twelve years, the Japanese Communist Party has printed 1.6 billion pieces of anti-Unification literature in their propaganda organ AKAHATA and its affiliated publications. This comes to sixteen pieces of malicious propaganda provided to every Japanese citizen!</p>
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<p>This is but one of the many sources of disinformation put forth in the Communist attempt to destroy our movement. Anti-Unification propaganda also flows unceasingly out of countries such as Red China. North Korea, East Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya and others. These lies filter down to public officials. government leaders. intellectuals, religious leaders, the media and eventually to the general public. By then. the distorted facts have been heard so many times that people believe them to be true.</p>
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<p>The most despicable act, however, is the inhumane treatment of those who join the Unification Movement. It is clear that the so-called “deprogramming” movement is supported by Communists. Judges and courts, who are supposed to be the custodians of human rights, often collaborate in this infringement upon fundamental religious liberties. Ironically, the greatest violation of these rights takes place in countries which loudly proclaim their regard for human rights and the freedom of religion. The methods involved in “deprogramming” are like those used in Communist concentration camps. Using parents and relatives to entrap members, deprogrammers” commit grown adults to mental hospitals. with the supposed illness” of holding of a minority religious belief. Other typical deprogramming techniques include kidnapping. illegal detention, violence, psychological harassment. sleep deprivation, inducement to use alcohol and drugs, sexual seduction and rape. By such threats, harassment and manipulation professional “deprogrammers” force members to renounce their faith. Many people are injured physically and psychologically because of this criminal activity. You cannot imagine the deep sorrow I feel when I see so many people whom I love suffer for their faith and ideals. Incredibly, the deprogramming movement accuses us of using the reprehensible tactics which they practice so wantonly.</p>
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<p>You may wonder why Communists have so much fear and hostility towards Reverend Moon and the Unification Movement, and why they are trying so desperately to destroy us. As you know, the ultimate goal of Communism is nothing less than a Communist Party dictatorship subjugating the entire world under the banner of atheistic materialism. Actually, Marxist theories-such as the Labor Theory of Value, Surplus Value Theory, Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism-are inversions of the truth, which are put forward to justify violent revolution. Until now, nothing has existed which could overcome the terrifying reality of Communism. The Unification ideology, however, exposes the fictions of Communism. They know this and therefore are trying to exterminate Unificationism at the source. Communists are extremely afraid of anything which exposes their true identity.</p>
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<p>Because of ignorance, millions of people have been used and slaughtered without mercy by Communism. Some are courageous enough to fight, but because they lack a strong ideology and organization they are isolated, weakened and easily defeated. Today hundreds of millions wait for liberation from Communism with tears of desperation. I myself spent nearly three years in a Communist concentration camp under the North Korean dictatorship of Kim 11 Sung. They sent me there to die, but I survived and eventually was freed by the United Nations forces. My life’s mission since then has been concentrated on how to establish the absolute truth, a truth superior to Communism, which can bring about the world’s liberation from Communism.</p>
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<p>I now can speak clearly about the crimes I witnessed. I now have the substantial foundation to speak, to act, and to surpass Communism. Thus you can understand why the Communists are afraid of Reverend Moon and his organization.</p>
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<p>What the Communists find very difficult to understand is, why does Reverend Moon’s movement continue to grow so successfully in spite of all their opposition, persecution and slander? For instance, in Japan we have more than 3.5 million members in the International Federation for the Victory Over Communism (IFVC).</p>
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<p>First of all, Communists do not realize that God is alive and substantially working behind the Unification Movement. Second. they do not understand the true essence of religion. and the fact that the original mind of human beings feels truly satisfied only by God’s truth and love. Finally, they do not realize that God’s laws, which govern the spiritual world and the universe. do not operate in accordance with dialectical materialism.</p>
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<p>The Unification Movement is sustained and motivated by the deepest religious experience and discipline, based on the fundamental truths of the universe. For that reason we can move the original hearts and minds of people the world over. For that reason our members can overcome trials and hardships no matter how severe. They have learned to forgive. They accept persecution and trials as nutrition for their spiritual growth, rather than as a source of resentment against those who persecute them. In short, the true members of the Unification Movement have an unshakable faith and power to persevere through any opposition. This is proven by the fact that we have already established strong foundations throughout the world.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon and the Unification Movement are involved in a life-and-death mission for the sake of God and humanity. However. this mission is not the monopoly of the Unification Movement. The members of this movement desire to work with all people of conscience and ideals in the new cultural revolution. The people of the free world. especially Christians and all religious people. should be the greatest friends of the Unification Movement. Tragically, these people have been ignorant of the Communist strategy and unable to distinguish friend from foe. As a result they often have attacked and subverted their true friends. Recently, however, the situation has been changing. People are becoming indignant about the threats and injustices of Communism. Recent events clearly expose the strategy and tactics which Communists have used ever since their beginnings. Conscientious scholars, professional and religious leaders are beginning to join under the general banner of Unificationism, as they become more and more concerned about the future of religion and the Free World. Also, people are attracted to the Unification ideology because of its power to combat moral decadence and its very potent counterproposal to Communism.</p>
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<p>Today, you and I stand together confronting a common destiny. Let us work with each other to defend the academic world from Communism and to fulfill the task history presses upon us at this time. I and my followers are determined to meet this challenge. From this day forward, let scholars throughout the world join together to take leadership in every field. On the Communist side, Marxist scholars play leadership roles by guiding students and campus activities. In concert with labor and minority organizers they create a formidable ideological and social front, which works ultimately to the detriment of real human happiness. Thus we are urgently compelled to establish a systematic, social foundation through the responsible cooperation of professors and students. To my bones I have come to realize that a person who advocates righteousness in this evil world can be eliminated easily if he has no substantial foundation. Thus a unified front of scholars and students must work together with Christians and all other religious believers.</p>
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<p>Living at this most important time in history, we stand on the boundary of life and death. I cannot but fervently desire that, as ambitious and righteous scholars and educators, you will make substantial, constructive changes in the world. Let us work together in a unified front embracing all areas of life. Standing at the pinnacle of history, let us ignite the new cultural revolution reaching the four corners of the earth.</p>
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<p>May God’s abundant blessing be with your countries, your families, and every one of you. May God guide your discussions in this Twelfth ICUS meeting. Thank you very much.</p>
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<p>We know that heaven is what we all desire, but where can we find heaven? Christians have generally believed that heaven is where you go after you die. Most other religions also believe this. However, the Unification Church is different from other religions in this respect, since we believe that heaven must start on earth.</p>
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<p>Let’s stop for a moment and think about where we are now: are we already in heaven, approaching it, or are we far away? Religious people agree that life in this difficult world of the present is the result of the fall of man. The fact that people have lost heaven shows that mankind is fallen.</p>
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<p>Who is at the center of heaven? Heaven is the world which is centered on God. Life in the world since the fall, however, has been centered on Satan. We must ask: did mankind fall from the top or the bottom of heaven? If we reason that at the time of the fall, mankind was in the process of advancing higher and higher into heaven, then a fall along the way would be more likely than a fall from the top. Were people growing higher and higher into heaven on their own, or did God have to make daily efforts to lift them up? Again, we say that mankind had to climb upward on their own, without someone constantly lifting them up.</p>
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<p>Every day of their lives, our first ancestors were growing in goodness. This is also the direction of our original nature. If we did not have this inherent sense of direction, each person could be on his own tangent and much confusion would result. If it were necessary for God to direct every activity of every person, how much effort it would require! Without much difficulty, we can conclude that God must have created people with an inborn sense of direction, so He wouldn’t have to teach each person individually. Also, our own experience tells us that each of us wants to improve daily. No one has to make you feel that way; all of us were born with that characteristic.</p>
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<p>We also know that each individual is unique and embodies truth. All of us were born as the result of a father and mother who were both individual entities of truth but at the same time different from each other. It is inconceivable that everybody could be exactly the same. God desired that each human being on earth be distinct from every other individual. Without individual human beings, God simply cannot feel the joy that comes through responding objects. Since each person serves as an object which God can love, everyone is equally important. It is impossible to imagine two people looking exactly alike and responding in exactly the same way. Each person has distinct features and actions, manifesting the infinite variety that gives God joy.</p>
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<p>Certain things are unchanging in the creation. For example, mankind is divided into only two sexes, and there are only four seasons of the year. However, each season varies, and there is great variety within the two sexes. For instance, there are infinite varieties of clothing. Though there is only one way to walk-one foot ahead of the other-no two people walk in exactly the same way. Each of us laughs and talks differently and our facial expressions vary. All of these are characteristics of an individual entity of truth. How awesome it is that out of the billions of people on earth, no two are alike, even though their faces all have the four basic elements-eyes, ears, nose and mouth!</p>
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<p>Heaven is where billions of people can live in harmony, and yet all be different. God, the subject, finds the utmost beauty in the harmony of four billion different living beings. Moreover, everyone who previously lived on earth is now in the spirit world. Altogether it is like one huge house in which God wants everyone to live and rejoice together.</p>
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<p>Once we get there, what shall we do–study together? Sing and dance? Perhaps you would get tired of doing only those things. Perhaps after eating, singing and dancing, you would feel something lacking, and suggest fighting-just to have something different to do! People who have lived in a mansion for 20 years and have servants preparing steak dinners for them every day get tired of it and may go out looking for a McDonald’s to get some cheap food they can eat with their hands. I’m bringing up this point because some people think of heaven as a lofty place where you just sing, dance and eat, a place you would soon tire of.</p>
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<p>We can agree that heaven is a good place, that is simple enough. But what about life on earth-what is the situation here? It took God six biblical days to create all things. On the sixth day, after He created man, He said, “It is good”; and when He created woman, He said, “It is very good!” The earth was created good, but we still think of heaven as a better place than earth. What is the element that makes heaven better?</p>
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<p>For a scholar, to know more today than he knew yesterday is better. For a businessman with a good purpose, to be richer today than he was yesterday is better. Suppose some scholar mastered all the available knowledge about a subject; that is good, and he would be proud of it. After a while, he might begin to think that no one is better than him. But if there is a God who is definitely above us, He would say, “Did you create that knowledge and the things from which you learned, or did you merely discover what was already there?” Can you say that you are the source of your knowledge? No matter how much you know, the source was already there before you. Therefore, everyone comes under the realm of knowledge, not above it. No matter how great are our abilities, still we come under the realm of knowledge.</p>
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<p>Westerners know that knowledge brings power, and so they tend to value knowledge to the utmost. Do you feel intimidated by an intellectual, or can you see that an arrogant intellectual has nothing of true value? Actually, as a scholar’s knowledge deepens and he realizes that he is approaching the One who created these things, he normally becomes much humbler. God is above us all and sees everyone. Would He lift up a humble intellectual who has discovered the truth of the creation through diligent efforts and calculations, or would He prefer the arrogant one? In every area of endeavor, God loves the humble person.</p>
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<p>Suppose you master one specialty, whether technical or metaphysical. Would you choose to remain on that level of knowledge or go on to a higher realm? I am sure you would want to go on. Even the people in spirit world want to advance to higher levels of knowledge. Why do people have such a nature? We were created to live in the realm of a Being much higher than ourselves, and by entering into a subject-object relationship with Him, we are automatically lifted up to His level.</p>
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<p>Do just intellectuals feel this way, or does it apply even to illiterates? It is clear that knowledge is not the closest thing to the essence of the Supreme Being. We cannot deny that the world values knowledge; people compete to excel at the best universities. Suppose we look with God’s eyes at a recent Harvard graduate who may be filled with pride at his accomplishments and have an air of superiority. We laugh because he is out of position, don’t we?</p>
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<p>The same applies to money. The richest man may be proud of his immense wealth, but all he did was accumulate material that had been created by someone else. He may feel that nothing is above him, but after being wealthy for a long time, would he prefer to remain in the realm of money, or would he want to go beyond it? Here again it is evident that our original character craves unity with a higher Being, the one who created everything on earth.</p>
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<p>Think about power. Would you like to have great worldly power, where anything can happen at your command-or rise above that realm of power and find union with the universal subject? I am sure all of you would answer that instead of remaining in the realm of money, knowledge or power, we long to live as an object to the higher subject who is in heaven. When we can establish a harmonious subject-object relationship with Him, we will be lifted up to that level. We are not belittling the realms of money, knowledge and power, which are very orderly and require much effort to master. However, for what purpose do we want to master them? Our goal is to become closer to the one who is above all those levels. The material world in itself is never the goal; we seek to penetrate it and transcend it to reach God.</p>
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<p>There must be some pinnacle or summit of money, power and knowledge in the material world which connects with the boundary of God’s world. When someone reaches that summit, would he want to debate with God in order to see who knows the most? Would he declare, “I have mastered all knowledge, and no one knows more than I. Let’s have a debate”? The first word God uttered would knock such a person flat! Would a man of power challenge God to see who was the strongest? Of course not.</p>
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<p>Since God couldn’t care less about all these material things that absorb our interest here on earth, we can understand that none of these things is a source of true pride. What is it that God cherishes more than all of these? It must be something which all of us, including God, long to attain. It must be true love. All over the world, people are praying to God. Often they ask Him for more money, more prestige, or better health. If you were God, wouldn’t you Bet tired and bored hearing such prayers?</p>
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<p>We realize that heaven doesn’t begin with money, power and knowledge because they can’t satisfy our original nature. Then what kind of heaven are we talking about? We say that heaven transcends all these and we are seeking something much more significant. Love is such a short word, but what are its properties? With love, you could ride on God’s back and He wouldn’t mind. With love, you could put your foot on top of God’s head and He wouldn’t object. With love, you can even control the heart of God.</p>
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<p>Suppose there was a giant who had a beloved wife so small he could carry her in his pocket-a pocket wife! When that wife said something to the giant, he would behave most humbly before her. We can often see dramatic examples of love. It’s worth studying what makes such relationships work.</p>
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<p>If wearing the cheapest possible clothing would bring you a step closer to heaven, you would want to do that, right? If you knew that love could be found in hell, you would be willing to live there, wouldn’t you? l he suffering we undergo in order to come closer to the highest being is actually a source of rejoicing.</p>
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<p>Love has no boundary; it can control even heaven and hell. Does love influence mankind alone, or also plants and animals? Researchers are discovering that plants like to hear music. Do you prefer listening to birds chirping in harmony or watching them fight? There is no boundary in the world of love; there we can rejoice any place we go and be welcomed everywhere. When you comprehend this, much of your internal turmoil will be solved.</p>
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<p>Is love something you can achieve all by yourself? You need an object for love, don’t you? We may respect the efforts of a man who works tirelessly to attain some goal. But suppose he meets a woman and completely abandons his work. Someone observing such a drastic change might think he was crazy. However, which is more right: to pursue knowledge or power whatever the cost, or to give up such a quest for the attainment of love? Would God approve of the latter choice? According to Principle, God would declare that the person who gives up everything to pursue true love with his spouse is the smartest of all. No one has really believed this and carried it out; but if God finds one man who does so, He can have hope.</p>
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<p>Love, here, does not mean having relationships with many different people, but rather a man and woman establishing a circuit of true love together that will endure for the rest of their lives. Together they may dig deeper and deeper, even down to the bottom of hell, and then rise again. For the sake of true love, they could even give up heaven and choose to remain in hell. Do you agree? They could go freely up and down.</p>
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<p>For the sake of true love, could you give up all your material possessions, even all the education that you labored during your life to gain? You women, would you like to have a husband who would do that for you? Some people cannot abandon such things without great struggle, but wiser people can set them aside like a pair of old shoes. Which kind of person are you? I believe we should be ready to give up everything for true love. Once you women know the value of this love, you should be able to renounce everything you cherish in life to find such a man. Do you agree, or do you feel you have to be practical?</p>
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<p>What is the most precious thing one can imagine in this world-money, knowledge, power, or love? You already know the answer. Unification Church members are often persecuted by people in authority, but it doesn’t bother us so much because we are seeking true love. When you joined the Unification Church, you typically gave up whatever money you had and dedicated yourself to finding this love. People in the world suppose that I am controlling you, and they oppose me out of misunderstanding. Are you paid for loving me or loving God? No, it comes from your own conscience. Perhaps you cannot explain why, but you know that when you are near me you feel happier. People who haven’t experienced this cannot understand how white people could be drawn to an Oriental; the only explanation they can concoct is that you must be brainwashed.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church, people are motivated enough to cast aside the typical order of American society and devote themselves to attaining absolute, true love, whatever the cost. People of the secular world don’t perceive the greatness of pursuing true love. Even those of you on the path to true love don’t comprehend the enormous value of this pursuit! This is today’s situation.</p>
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<p>You don’t realize that you have crossed the threshold of heaven. Where is the heavenly life? It starts here on earth. People must be able to transcend race and nationality, embrace both wealth and poverty, master both secular and metaphysical knowledge. Heaven begins when you can move from one extreme to another for the sake of love. This is happening now. Thus, God’s love is with us and the power of the universe protects us. No matter what we encounter, as long as we are living for God’s purpose we will be advancing upward and becoming better and better- even though it may not be apparent to us. Suddenly one day we will realize it.</p>
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<p>We don’t want to keep heaven to ourselves, but to keep extending its boundaries further and further so more people can enter. Real Moonies couldn’t care less if others misunderstand and oppose us; we just keep advancing, even while asleep. We cannot stop because of opposition or because we are tired.</p>
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<p>It is the desire of the universe as well as human beings to return to the original order of creation. When we go to sleep, the universe takes over where we leave off. This actually happens. When our motivation and purpose is love, we don’t become discouraged when some calamity occurs. We know that such occasions are good opportunities; they are signs of even better things ahead. Do you think people who live like this will die early or live longer than usual? Such people usually live longer because the universe protects them.</p>
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<p>Spirit world is an immense place, with no boundaries of status or culture. Love forms the only boundary. Imagine an American who has never transcended his culture going to the spirit world and expecting privacy and individualism. He will be a heretic in the spirit world! Privacy means personal boundaries, and there are no such boundaries in heaven. The rule there is to open all doors.</p>
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<p>For whom do we open our doors? For true love. True love says, “Feel free to move into my domain whenever you feel like it” There is no such thing as true love working only during certain hours. If you truly love someone, what do you reply when he knocks on your door at 3 a.m. and you are sleeping? Would you scold him for waking you up? Suppose you have prepared a nice meal for your family of five, and suddenly your parents walk in. Would you ask them to go to a restaurant and return later? I have heard that this actually happens in America. Or would you invite them in and feed them and later worry about what you will eat?</p>
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<p>Anything that advances love is courtesy and anything that blocks it is discourtesy. If I drop in without calling first and say, “I haven’t eaten lunch,’ would you reply, “Father, you shouldn’t do that here in America”? Perhaps you would suppose I was acting according to Oriental custom. You should be prepared for Mother and me to walk in at any time. If a couple is making love in the evening when I knock, should they be upset by my interruption, or should they welcome me? Your first reaction would be to wrap a blanket around yourself and dash to open the door and say, “Father, what a surprise! We didn’t expect you!” You laugh at this situation, but actually it’s not a laughing matter.</p>
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<p>I have trained myself like this, and you on your part should do the same. I open up East Garden to almost everyone; many unworthy people come in, but I leave them alone. No matter how furious I may feel, I let them stay as long as they want. Many times I pretend that I don’t see what happens. I am training myself to love the unworthy ones as much as the worthy ones, because people of all extremes will eventually belong to heaven.</p>
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<p>In this way of life, we must continually keep eternity in mind and concentrate on doing away with all boundaries. We live like this even under severe persecution. The world thinks I am a multi-millionaire. Though our movement spends millions of dollars, there is hardly any money in my pockets. Even if there is $10 million in the bank account, I would still worry because there are so many projects to carry out. Whenever a project simply has to be done, it has been my experience that the necessary budget somehow becomes available. Later I wonder how it all happened. My only principle is to live for the sake of loving mankind and God. When I act out of love, I find that somehow things get done. From experience I know that love is the greatest power.</p>
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<p>When news comes that a tornado is heading for a certain town, the residents evacuate it and run away. But if people hear that a tornado of love is coming, they will converge on that town from all over! Wouldn’t you like to be in the center of a love tornado?</p>
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<p>Recently, Mother has been taking members from other countries shopping, spending time choosing things for them to wear. Even when she is tired, she goes out for long periods of time. I was surprised and impressed, and I thought about how beautiful it was. Eventually Mother will get old and need a cane, and I can imagine young people joyfully following her around, like kids in a toy shop! what a Beautiful scene that would be! She could never do that for money- only in the name of love.</p>
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<p>Even though Mother may not have a lot of money, still she manages to buy something for everyone who comes along. Now you can begin to realize what true happiness is. Love means to give without reservation. My urge to offer a person something-even if it’s only a blank piece of paper I have written on-is an expression of my love. If I really mean it from the depths of my heart, that paper is worth millions of dollars. When your small child brings you a trifle of no monetary worth, you should receive it and sense its value. Once you experience the first love with your God given spouse, your challenge is to maintain it and share it freely with the rest of mankind.</p>
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<p>This way of life serves as the foundation for the heavenly life on earth. Imagine a huge tree with roots deep in the ground, a thick trunk, and branches lifting its leaves high in the air. Is it more natural for a leaf on the top of the tree to focus on its relationship with a nearby leaf, or with the tips of the roots deep in the ground? Naturally it wants to relate with the roots. Don’t you think the branch bearing such leaves would someday become the biggest one on the tree?</p>
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<p>How about you? As individuals, we are like the leaves and we have to think about God at the other extreme. No matter what happens to its branch, if the leaf focuses on the root with true love, the universe will protect it and make sure it doesn’t perish.</p>
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<p>You may take it for granted that I will overcome all persecution, yet thousands, even millions of people have prayed for God to destroy me. The only way I could surmount that was to penetrate deep into the love of God and act accordingly. The prayers against me are selfishly motivated, but my motivation is to help God and mankind. Therefore, the universe must protect me. As a result, the Unification Church has made great advances. When an individual thinks of how he can contribute to the universe, the universe literally protects him. Could I cause that to happen with money or power? Only with love. If you are fundraising centered on God’s love, you can persevere without getting exhausted. However, if you are self-centered, you tire easily and have difficulty continuing. For whom do you do this?</p>
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<p>A sister may once have seemed small and valueless to the world, but when she joined the Unification Church, she began to nurture true love. Once she marries a most outstanding man, her family will be amazed. A truly dedicated couple will have exceptional children. This is a promise as well as a prediction. When will this happen? We must be patient. That blessing may come in two or three generations.</p>
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<p>We have to regard every person as part of one whole tree. Hopes and dreams are fulfilled in love. In your spouse and in your children-to-be, you must find your hopes and dreams. One day we want to be close to the throne of God, but only through love can we even imagine it. We are not suffering under an illusion; we are living the dream of love centered on True Parents. It is far more real than the secular world that surrounds us.</p>
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<p>We want to extend the boundary of love further and further in order to make room for more people. Heavenly life must start on earth and true love perpetuates it. When we as objects are united in a circuit of love with God, our perfect subject, the electrical energy of love will ignite in each of us.</p>
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<p>When we are released from our bodies and go to the spirit world, we will realize all the effects of love. There is nothing we cannot do there. Everything will be as we wish it to be. However, we start that life here on earth and reap its fruits in the spirit world. We have to connect with the root of the tree. After joining the Unification Church, we begin to trust and give to others. Even if we are sometimes betrayed or disillusioned, it is better to give than to close our minds. Someone with a closed mind can never improve.</p>
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<p>Even though we cannot see the fruits of such a life immediately, we should remember that this is the first step in creating heaven on earth. In this foreign culture of America, I have taught that all the branches must respond when direction comes from headquarters, so that everyone can grow for the purpose of love. We are guaranteed that heaven is near for those who practice this way of life. Everyone will welcome such people. There is no magic shortcut to heaven; we can attain it only by practicing the heavenly way of life.</p>
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<p>This does not mean that money and knowledge are useless. They are valuable when they are employed for the sake of love. But a selfish person is better off without them; he will be complacent and will not search for love. When we have true love, we want to bring Joy to others even if it means working throughout the night. For the sake of your loved ones, your original mind wants you to overcome your limitations of time and energy.</p>
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<p>This place where you are sitting is much more precious than you can imagine. You can be grateful for the adversity you meet along this path and for the times when you work day and night because it brings you closer to God. God knows you are suffering. You may think that you have a reason to complain, but don’t you suppose I have even more reason to do so? Had I complained, the Unification Church would never have come this far. Had I complained, I would have washed out a long time ago. However, I knew that loving God and mankind was the most powerful force.</p>
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<p>This is a time of turbulence. When you are on the crest of a wave, you can see everything and have tremendous hope. But when you are in the trough and cannot see what is happening, you are apt to become discouraged. However, one day the storm will end and the sea will be calm and you will realize how strong in love you have become. I guarantee that when we live this way of life, God’s love will remain with us for eternity and the universe will protect us.</p>
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<p>Good morning, everybody. My topic today is our position from now on. Where is the Unification Church going from here? What is our position? We can develop further and march forward, or we can stand still, or we can retreat. There are many directions in which the Unification movement can go. That is true not only of us but also of the free world and communist world. Where is the free world headed? Where is the communist world headed?</p>
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<p>Three distinct worlds are existing simultaneously and competing with each other: the free world, the communist world, and the Unification world-the new world that is coming into being. The Unification movement is not defined by any particular nation or limited to one land. For example, you cannot refer to the United States Unification Church, the Korean Unification Church, or the Japanese Unification Church. The Unification movement cannot be defined by such boundaries. Why? Because five different colors of skin have come together to create a global movement.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, look at the United States. It is centered upon the Christian culture. This culture has a global perspective but now is at a deadlock; it cannot move forward and embrace all races, all boundaries, all cultures. So today the United States is not meeting global expectations. Even if this country hopes to be a global catalyst, the rest of the world is not responding to it.</p>
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<p>The same is happening in the communist world. Communism also has a global ideology and tries to embrace all races, nations, and peoples. However, its shortcomings and inherent difficulties are becoming evident to the world. It is actually a failure. The way the communists are presenting themselves now, it is virtually impossible for them to embrace the world.</p>
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<p>Communism proclaims one ideology, one world system, and one world culture, but look at how the rest of the communist world relates with the Soviet Union. For example, there is a Euro-communist movement, but it doesn’t want to come under Soviet communism. Likewise, there is a conflict between the Soviets and Red China. These are just two manifestations of the fallacies and shortcomings of communism. It is now evident that world unity cannot come through communism.</p>
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<p>What is the real difficulty of both the free world centered on the United States, and the communist world centered on the Soviet Union? Both are plagued by self-centeredness. Both the United States and the Soviet Union focus upon their own self-interest.</p>
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<p>The United States has become the central leading power of the free world, but what would happen if that center was moved from the United States to another nation? Which country is ready to take up world leadership? If the new leader of world culture were a country of an entirely different cultural background from the United States, there would be problems of adjustment. If the United States had to give up world leadership and adjust to new leadership, two things could occur: it could decline, or it could retreat for a time while it adjusts to the new situation. The United States would be in a dilemma to which there may be no clear solution. Even today it is suffering.</p>
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<p>The same things can be said about the communist world. Suppose Red China were to become the future leader of the communist world. It would be very difficult for the Soviet Union to humble itself toward Chinese leadership. It would face the challenges of arrogance, cultural barriers, and a different mentality.</p>
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<p>The superpowers talk about world peace, but they themselves are obstacles to unity for the sake of peace. Who shall be the center of that world peace? The superpowers have incredible difficulty determining that. In order to be truly peaceful, the world must have a center. There are so many different cultures in the world and not everybody can play the central role, even though most nations probably think they would like to become the center of the new world order.</p>
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<p>Since everybody wants to project himself into the central position, the guidance of religion is needed. Both the communist world and the free world are trying to mobilize forces for one unified world. The ideal of the United Nations, for example, is a good one. Both the League of Nations and the United Nations were founded to promote world unity; but instead of unity, division resulted.</p>
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<p>The Unification movement will definitely reach the point of global unity. The Unification movement does not exist just for the sake of the free world, and it is not totally abandoning the communist world, either. The free world and the communist world both aim for unity, but greater divisions and confrontations are the fruits of their efforts. So what kind of role should the Unification movement play? I am constantly thinking about that.</p>
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<p>What is the basic difference between the Unification ideal and the ideals of the free world and communist world? Both the free world and communist world are seeking horizontal solutions. The democratic world is based upon a universal religion Christianity-but Christian culture is declining because people are pushing God behind the scenes, excluding Him from daily human problems. They relegate God to a secondary level. The communist world, of course, had no vertical dimension from the outset, since it is only horizontal and material. Therefore, both the democratic and communist world operates on a horizontal level.</p>
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<p>From its outset, the Unification world has been a vertical one. Our goal has been to unite the world and all things, but what is our starting point? Who marks the beginning? Not people, but God. God occupies the driver’s seat. A second distinction is that, while the democratic world and the communist world talk about peace as a goal, the Unification world talks about peace as a starting point. Therefore, history mandates that the other two worlds will decline and the Unification world will rise.</p>
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<p>The communist world, however, is trying to destroy the rest of the world and subjugate everyone to its will. Also, it is bent on destroying all religious heritage and practices. So until the mandate of history unfolds, we must be able to defend ourselves.</p>
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<p>The democratic and communist worlds have a common shortcoming: before world peace can be established, they always start to divide. National interest makes it difficult to transcend racial and cultural barriers. Americans, for example, think of themselves as primarily an Anglo-Saxon country. How can we overcome such a nationalistic and racial shortcoming? The United States has been a melting pot; people came from Germany, Italy, France, and throughout the world. But even with these nationalities, the melting pot system did not quite work out; people cannot completely digest the barriers of former enemy relationships. The English, French and Germans have all been enemies in the past and since they came to America, they have been unable to completely overcome that.</p>
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<p>Also, the Anglo-Saxons have had a super-culture mentality, which demands that all others unite with them. However, they have no clear worldview to offer. Therefore, racial problems have beset America throughout its history, even though the Constitution proclaims a universal ideal. The same thing happens in the Soviet Union. The problem in our world today is that no worldview has had the power to transcend barriers of race, nationality or culture. Without such a worldview, communism will come and go, and democracy will come and go. They cannot remain.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, the Unification movement offers truly new horizons. I talked deeply about this yesterday. We want to make the world one. We are not just pulling people on a horizontal level; we are uniting vertically with God and jointly possessing Him. We share a common parenthood and common heritage. This is how we want to unite the world. Our worldview is on a totally different scale and it gives the Unification movement incredible appeal.</p>
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<p>Yesterday I talked about the Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel countries. After the human fall, all these relationships became enemy relationships. The Unification movement is trying to pull these enemies into unity, as a demonstration of our new worldview. But even unity among enemy nations is not our goal; it is just the starting point. This is the kind of foundation our movement has.</p>
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<p>We have something to offer in international affairs. Our worldview has the power to digest cultural barriers as well as racial barriers and national barriers. Whatever we gain, we want to offer to God-not just to the Anglo-Saxons, or the Koreans, or the Japanese, or the Germans. We aim to unify the whole and bring it to God.</p>
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<p>When this God-given worldview becomes a reality, we will see a new culture, a Unification culture. None of the cultures of the world has ever been centered on God, but when we make the God-centered world view a reality, a God-centered culture can begin.</p>
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<p>Where do we go from there? We are talking about cosmic unification, universal unification-not just of one nation, one people, or one race. What’s more, this is no vague concept, but precise, logical, scientific thinking. We are not talking about something in the clouds; we are living that ideology now.</p>
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<p>What controls people and the world? Many people would answer economic power, knowledge, or political power. Of those three, which is the center? It is knowledge or wisdom, but even that needs some organized system of thought, some philosophy, or ideology. By knowledge, I do not mean encyclopedic knowledge, but an organized system of thought, based on specific principles and philosophy. Can force conquer knowledge, or knowledge conquers brute force? Knowledge can overcome power; so ultimate power stems from wisdom and knowledge. By ideology I mean the sum total of knowledge, from the individual, family, tribal, national and worldwide level; the common knowledge operating on all levels is called ideology.</p>
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<p>The democratic world considers freedom their goal. The communist world proclaims the goal of peace for those who are suffering now-the “proletariat,” or the laborers and workers. Is the democratic goal of freedom something permanent? In Western society, freedom used to be based on morals, ethics, values and traditions; but now freedom has become whatever people wish it to be. Music, for example, used to control musical instruments, but contemporary musicians use their instruments like weapons, pounding on them, breaking them into pieces. Is that freedom? Freedom is still the goal, but its definition has changed, therefore, it has no permanency.</p>
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<p>The same applies to peace. Is the communist world’s goal of peace something permanent, if it depends on the workers? The communists proclaim peace, but actually they are bringing war. Peace is a disguise, since selfishness is imbedded in it.</p>
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<p>The communists brought revolution to places such as North Korea by proclaiming, “Workers, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains” That was an incredible slogan, and with it they gained power. But what has happened? Kim 11 Sung is trying to make leadership hereditary by passing his power on to his son. Can you imagine what a heresy that is within communism? They proclaimed the People’s Republic and they talk about peace; but their definition of peace has changed. Let’s think about ourselves and the Unification world. Are we going to base our goal on some variable definition, or something permanent? In Unification ideology we recognize the relationship of sung sang and hyung sang. The democratic and communist worlds talk about peace only on the hyung sang level. They do not realize that behind the hyung sang there exists a sung sang world as well-the world of cause and substance. Sung sang is subject, permanent, unchanging and absolute. It can progress without altering. The hyung sang world can make progress and still retain its basic nature, as long as it recognizes the sung sang. There are the four directions of north, south, east and west and they all take their turn, like the four seasons; but they bring variety, not fundamental change. As long as we recognize that the sung sang is unchanging, there is no problem.</p>
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<p>The Unification point of view looks at sung sang as the cause and the beginning point; we anchor our ideology upon the sung sang level, not just the hyung sang level. Do you follow? We deal with this hyung sang world, of course. We work with the democratic world and the communist world, but we remember that they are only the hyung sang level, and our base is on the sung sang level. We are working to achieve the Unification world, where all races and colors of skin combine to create one harmonious family. That is our ideal. That has been the dream of many saints, sages and prophets of the past. That has always been the ideal of the greatest thinkers.</p>
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<p>People come to the Unification world from different backgrounds, cultures and races. Are they capable of creating harmony on their own power? How can you make unity? Through me? Through my ideology? No, this is not my ideology, but God’s. The power of God’s sung sang is what creates harmony; I just interpret it.</p>
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<p>Yesterday I gave everyone a very strong mandate to learn Korean. Some people might think “What kind of Father is he? He is destroying our culture!” That is a problem!</p>
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<p>I spoke on this platform yesterday; I speak here virtually every Sunday. No politician or philosopher in history has ever spoken so much or to this extent. It may seem incredible, or sometimes crazy! But you Moonies come here totally focused, not wanting to miss even one word of the message; you take it very seriously. Even when I seem to be relaxed and speaking casually, you listen as if every word counts.</p>
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<p>Your thoughts are based on a completely different kind of foundation; that makes it possible to build a Unification culture based upon one God. In my messages, I am interpreting God to you. That is why you take everything I say seriously, isn’t it?</p>
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<p>This morning you had pledge service at 5:00. You said, “I am proud of the one sovereignty, proud of the one people, proud of the one land, proud of the one language and culture centered upon God” As you said it, did you immediately say, “That’s impossible”? Or did you pledge it because you know it is possible?</p>
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<p>Has it ever been possible in any culture for a black and a white person to get married, with a yellow person in the center, bringing them together? Such a thing has been beyond people’s imagination in the past. No national president has ever sat down and thought about the day when a white man and a black woman would get married, even without sharing the same language and needing an Oriental to interpret for them! Such a culture was never even thought about. But in the Unification world, that is an everyday occurrence as normal as eating breakfast.</p>
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<p>Think of the scope and power of the energy we generate, compared with the energy generated by democracy or communism. Shall we follow the communist tradition? Shall we follow the democratic tradition? Or shall they follow our tradition? Righteous and intelligent people will surely conclude that our view is far more advanced. Our way of life is a truly new concept, and they will have to come to us.</p>
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<p>Both the democratic and communist worlds are caught up in the same dilemma: they cannot transcend the barriers of nation, culture and race. They are stuck at their level, and are unable to break through. How about the Unification Church? Will our tradition come to a standstill at a certain level? Will we be able to make a breakthrough?</p>
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<p>We are extraordinarily strange people. We recognize that we are strange, but the important thing is that we are hopeful strangers! People may say you look the same as you did before joining the Unification Church. “Your eyes are still blue, your hair is still blond-nothing has changed. But how can you make such extraordinary plans?” they may wonder. What changed was your way of thinking.</p>
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<p>From such objective evidence people must eventually recognize that the future world is the Unification world. That world will eventually come. When you listen to me, does it sound logical and scientific? Are you completely convinced that such a world will come?</p>
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<p>Without your realizing it, such a new culture is being constructed. Think of the international marriages. When a British and a French person are matched, or when a French and a German person are matched, they may not be so happy with each other; but they do get married! Blacks and whites marry, Orientals and Occidentals marry. As this happens, national, cultural and racial barriers are transcended.</p>
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<p>Unification families are multi-colored. When a German marries an Englishman, where does their family belong? When an American marries a Japanese, does their family belong to Japan, or to America? Neither. The only place they belong is in the Unification movement. They belong to a universal nation. Therefore, when the Unification movement eventually stands up and manifests this culture, don’t you think that nations and sovereignties will follow this ideology?</p>
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<p>You have a very special position in relation to me. America has always taken pride in being a melting pot; whoever comes here becomes absorbed in the American culture. It is a process you call Americanization. But 10 or 12 years after coming to America, instead of becoming Americanized, I have made Americans “Moonized” Furthermore, these Moonized Americans are flying off to the Orient, to Africa, to Latin America; they get married and go away from America. Is this bad news for America?</p>
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<p>Dr. Durst sometimes says that Americans are joyful, exuberant people; they do things because they are fun. That is all right; however, such a culture cannot digest all the other cultures of the world. American people like to talk; they have a great sense of humor and make lots of jokes. However, joking will not bring world unity; it cannot digest the rest of the world. Joking is like loosening the belt. What is needed is a tightening of the belt. Joking may lead to openness and eventually promiscuity and free sex. Joking encourages permissiveness; people laugh and laugh and feel they can do anything. People even laugh at immorality today; they can undress a woman and laugh, attributing it to their sense of humor.</p>
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<p>Joking in a secular sense is a satanic weapon. To have some sense of humor is fine, but when you use it in such a way, it becomes a destructive force, instead of advancing goodness. Joking may be 80 percent moving backwards and only 20 percent moving forwards. With an 8 to 2 ratio, it can only bring negative, destructive results upon mankind. This doesn’t mean I object to a certain sense of humor. Humor in itself is a good thing, and there is a lot of good humor in the Unification Church. I myself have a strong sense of humor. The important thing is that humor be constructive.</p>
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<p>I have already talked for an hour and 20 minutes. My conclusion is that the Unification world will become a reality. You also have concluded that it is on the way. Our position from now on will be to influence and have dominion throughout the world. I don’t mean that Reverend Moon is the one who will have impact; I am bringing God’s dominion over the world. As the prophet, I am bringing all these messages and revelations from God to the world, but I don’t claim ownership over them. I give all the credit and glory to God. My proclamations are simply Godism, a God-centered ideology.</p>
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<p>When great scholars develop a new philosophy or discover a new formula, they hold onto it. Karl Marx came up with a new idea, which became known as Marxism; Lenin’s interpretations were called Leninism. But the idea I am bringing is Godism. That is my conviction. What is amazing about my work is that I am a spokesman for someone else, and that someone else is God. Once mankind realizes that, they will stage a grand celebration that will last forever.</p>
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<p>I have brought the message of Godism, and I am investing my whole life and energy into it. I am not merely talking about it, but I am living it and sharing it with the world. No great honor has come to me in the process-only mistreatment, persecution, imprisonment, and even tortures. So am I doing it for my own benefit and well being? For whom am I doing it? For God and for humanity. My proclamation is centered upon one thing-selfless love; my ideology is to live for the sake of others. This is the core of my teaching.</p>
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<p>Now I want to ask you, for whom are you working? Why are you here? I am not teaching you to live for me. I live for the sake of God and humanity, and I am teaching you to do the same. The content of my teaching belongs to the public; I am offering it for the sake of the world. The ownership belongs first to God and then to mankind; I am the mediator. This way of life is large enough to embrace all kinds of small contents; there is room for many thousands and millions of people.</p>
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<p>Let me ask you another thing: Was it a good or a bad thing for you to join the Unification Church? You did not come here seeking your own personal pleasure, but you have encountered suffering; so was it a good or a bad thing to do? Why was it good? Because God takes delight in your actions, and humanity will receive the benefit of them. Why does God take delight and humanity gains the benefit? Because by our work, God’s ideal is being fulfilled and manifested and the dream of mankind is becoming a reality.</p>
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<p>Even if I suffer, even if I must become the sacrifice and die, God takes delight in my deeds and humanity gains the benefit. Therefore, my life goals are also automatically fulfilled because my aim is to serve God and humanity. It gives me boundless joy to see that God takes delight and humanity gains benefit from my actions. Is there anything else that counts? Ask that question of yourself.</p>
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<p>So is it good or bad for me to teach you to live for the sake of others? Good things are related to eternal qualities. I am clearly instructing you to live sacrificially for the sake of others-not for yourself, but for your family, your tribe, your nation, and the world. Why am I teaching such a way of life? Because I know that this is the only way God’s ideal and God’s goodness can become a reality. When you live this way, you leave a legacy of tremendous joy in this world; that joy will not diminish or disappear, but remain forever. You are creating an incredible permanent asset.</p>
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<p>Then by what power will we accomplish this? By the power of knowledge, politics or money? The weapon we use is the love of God. Yesterday I talked about “GL Power” God’s Love Power. Because God’s love is the sum of everything and every goodness, it represents all goodness. How does GL Power come? Through great orators? Through geniuses? Or perhaps through a woman covered with diamonds! People love wealth and honor; perhaps GL Power belongs there.</p>
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<p>No, GL Power comes wherever people practice living for others. You can be absolutely sure of this. GL is most comfortable with a sacrificial way of life. I have an excellent brain. If I saw that you were losing everything by sacrificing yourself, I would not teach you to do so, and I would not practice it myself. But I discovered that to the degree that you sacrifice for the sake of others, an equal degree of God’s love and greatness will come to you. Your reward is parallel to the amount of your sacrifice. The quantity of GL you receive is equivalent to the quantity of service you give to humanity.</p>
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<p>Every day I look at my own children in East Garden and wonder who is going to be the champion, or king, of GL. My sons? My daughters? My sons-in-law? My daughters-in-law? Who will be a GL champion for the sake of the world and God? I also look at our church leaders that way. When I look at the Korean leaders, I see not just their appearance but also their deeds. Who is really sacrificial? Who genuinely wants to give himself for the sake of our church and for the world?</p>
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<p>Let’s consider the qualities of someone you might describe as handsome: thin-lipped, fair-skinned, or whatever. I normally think that the more a person looks exactly the opposite-thick-lipped, coarse features-the greater the chance he has of being firmly grounded in the Principle and having GL dwelling in him! Think about it.</p>
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<p>Think of a telescope powerful enough to magnify things thousands of time, so that even trivial details can be observed. With my spiritual GL telescope I can speak with a person for three minutes and know him deeply. I can tell what kind of GL capacity he has with this GL telescope.</p>
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<p>Am I such a great and persuasive speaker that I could tell thousands of lies and make them believable to you? Do you think I am trying to hook you? Or are you personally convinced that what I am teaching is the absolute truth? Which way do you feel? What a lucky and fortunate person I am today, because from tomorrow on the Unification movement will have no problems! With such men and women of confidence and absolute faith, there is no way we can fail!</p>
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<p>To return to my sermon topic: do you feel our position looks a little better, a little more favorable than the others, or is it extraordinary and unprecedented in history? Are we one among many, or are we unique?</p>
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<p>We are going beyond communism, democracy, and the whole world. The Unification movement has a clear ideological, scriptural and philosophical base. On this foundation, we are exhibiting our new way of life: that of conquering totally the barriers of race, culture and language. In our Unification culture, marriage is very important as a means to fulfill God’s ideal. But there are many difficulties in international marriages, so many that people may call them impossible. Only through extraordinary commitment, selfless love, and devotion to others can we create harmony. There is no barrier we cannot melt by following this way of life.</p>
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<p>Since you are trying to live for the sake of mankind and God, when you look at your husband or wife, regardless of the circumstances you face, cant you serve him or her as a representative of the rest of the world? You should be people of such great capacity for love that no matter how impossible a person your spouse may be, you can melt and digest him or her. If I give you the ugliest man as your husband, or the ugliest woman as your wife, can you decide to just close your eyes and love your spouse? Eyes are always making judgments, so just close them! Then it makes no difference if your spouse is black, white, or yellow; you are holding another precious human being, another child of God. That should be good enough.</p>
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<p>Before the Holy Wedding in 1960, 1 met candidates from all parts of the world. You can look at black people and white people, examining and choosing, but there is no such thing as perfection. One person may have better qualities in one area, the next excels in another area, and the third has something else that is special. You compare one man with another, or one woman with another, but no one is perfect. When you do meet your husband or wife, you meet your God-ordained destiny. You should have the attitude that since your love is pure and unchanging, whatever woman becomes your wife will be a happy woman, because you will give her your genuine love. “When she is happy, I will be happy. What else do I need?” That is how you should think. It is possible to do it!</p>
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<p>You were born once and you only live once. When you know this truth and follow this ideology, your life is worthwhile and rewarding. All your five senses, as well as your arms, legs and body become your pride because they respond to such a great thought. Your heart beats to this truth. The mere fact that you are responding to such an ideal indicates that you are great men and women.</p>
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<p>Are you satisfied to just observe life, or don’t you want to jump in and play the game? Once you have played the game well, everything becomes so easy, so rosy. When you see things from a positive point of view, other things don’t even bother you. Your eyes impart hope. You Moonie women, don’t put on too much makeup; don’t spend too much money or time on your appearance! When people look deeply at you, they should feel some charm radiating from you; your eyes shine differently, they have a special brilliance.</p>
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<p>Was it the right decision to come to the Unification Church? Do you want to stand still at this level, or do you want to launch yourself up to a new height? Whom would you like for a companion? You might answer that you are going with your husband or wife. But I tell you, your companions on this journey are God and humanity. They are your best friends. When they are pleased, then you know you have done your best for your wife or husband and for your children. So even if you are separated from your spouse and children for a long time, when God and humanity are satisfied, people will ask where your wife and children are. When you reply, “They are doing elsewhere the same thing I am doing here,” people will bow down to you and say, “Then go and bring them; you have done enough. We will carry on your role; you should have a home now”</p>
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<p>Wild animals know how to love their own offspring; lions and tigers will not kill their young because they love them. When they trust that someone is caring for their little ones, they will not harm him, either. If even the beasts understand parental love, how much more will God and humanity want to love your children and care for them. What joy it will give you when the entire world loves them! You will feel that their love is far superior to your own. You can love your children directly, but it gives you even greater joy to see that others care so much for them.</p>
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<p>If you want to dedicate yourselves to a higher love and make a deeper commitment to sacrificial living, and if you can pledge this unconditionally, raise your hands and say Amen! God bless you.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">November 5, 1983<br />
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<p>Do you understand the significance of Children’s Day in the providence of God? As you know, restoration has been a history of paying indemnity. Children’s Day is one of the milestones which True Parents recovered in their providential course. Sufficient indemnity conditions in the history of restoration were necessary for the True Parents to appear. The True Parents had to come in order for true children to come into existence.</p>
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<p>You know through the Divine Principle that religion itself became necessary because of the fall of man. In the broad sense, the purpose of religion was to bring back the Heavenly Kingdom on earth, because that was what was lost at the fall of man.</p>
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<p>When you throw a stone into a pond. it creates an expanding ring of waves. The original world was to have been something like that-God wanted to make His original impact and to have it expand throughout the entire universe. That ideal love wave would have been something in which God and man could take delight. All of creation was to take part in that joyful love wave. We can label that original impact GL, for God’s Love.</p>
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<p>Because of the fall of man, the GL impact was pushed out of the center point and even outside of human reality. Thus the impact was from Satan’s love, or SL. Although God’s love wave was excluded by Satan’s love, the original pattern of love designed by God still remained. We read in the Bible in Romans 8:22 that all of creation is groaning in travail. In other words all of the physical world and spirit world-the entire realm of God’s creation-is in the realm of grief. Instead of the waves of God’s love occupying the whole world, Satan’s love waves centering upon disunity, disharmony, jealousy, and crime took over. All of these elements have caused tragedy in human life.</p>
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<p>Therefore the waves of God’s love must be renewed in order to make an impact upon this world. Although God’s love was always there, He has had no way to convey His love waves to the world until the time of the installation of True Parents. That is because they were the central point of those waves. The first True Parents, representing the love of God to others, also had to be True Children on another level. Without both parents and children, God’s love could not be fulfilled on the earth. We know through the Divine Principle that the work of restoration has been done through the process of re-creation.</p>
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<p>The entire world of creation has been governed by satanic love yet the original system still remains. That system has been working for Satan instead of God, which is a tragedy and the source of God’s broken heart. For all these years, Christianity has spoken of the power and greatness of God but people have not understood that God’s heart is one of sorrow.</p>
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<p>Everyone here is destined to return to the original form; in order to do that. we must be restored to the original form of love. Who will determine whether you have achieved the original love of God? It must be Satan who gives his approval to you. You must be able to stand before him and say, “I have true love, don’t you agree?” and he must nod yes.</p>
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<p>Would Satan say that life or love came first? If Satan asked that question to God, how would He answer? Certainly, God would say that love is primary before life. Therefore in order to obtain true love, which is more valuable than life itself, you must go beyond your own life in the secular world. Anyone who says, “I want the love of God but I cannot go beyond my life,” will never reach the love of God. This is a very important, cardinal rule for the Unification Church way of life. In order to attain true love, you must go beyond life itself. That is the point of the showdown between God and Satan within oneself.</p>
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<p>Jesus said, “He who seeks to gain his life will lose it but he who seeks to lose his life for my sake will gain it.” Why did Jesus teach such a paradox? It is because the true love of God is beyond the realm of life in the satanic world so unless you are willing to give up that life, you cannot reach it. Therefore self-denial must be perfect in order to return to the love of God. This is not Reverend Moon’s sermon; this is what the principled point of view states.</p>
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<p>Between love and life, it is love which comes first and is the subject. Therefore in order to return to that lost original love, one must be able to give his life for that purpose. Without that attitude you cannot return. Today there are at least one billion people in the world who profess to be Christians. Among those people, how many of them truly understand this point we are discussing? Only the controversial Moonies know it.</p>
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<p>Moonies are those who are voluntarily taking the road of death, going beyond it and reaching out to the true love of God. We are telling Satan, “My neck is on the line for the sake of God’s restoration so if you want to take it, go ahead.” That is the dedication of this new breed of people. Is that true or not? Unless we do that, we simply cannot reach that goal.</p>
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<p>Do you think I am walking a different path than you? No, I am living by exactly the same principle. Suppose the president of the United States joined the church in the future. Do you think he would have a separate set of rules to go by which would be easier? How about the pope? This is a universal principle which everyone must follow, regardless of who he is. Only those who live by this principle will be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.</p>
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<p>God created the angelic world first, then all the things of creation and finally people. Therefore in the process of restoration, God mobilized the angelic world first, then all things and then men and women. Loss of life and blood shed was inevitable in the process of restoration because of the principle we are discussing that regaining God’s love is greater than our life. That is why sacrificial offerings were needed.</p>
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<p>In the Old Testament era God required offerings of the things of creation such as doves, lambs, and so forth. In order for someone to become eligible to enter the realm of God. he had to cleanse himself from the satanic realm: thus cutting the offering and the shedding of blood were necessary.</p>
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<p>God promised that He would send a messiah through His chosen people. Before the messiah came, God wanted to claim certain territory and certain things for the messiah, starting on the individual level. The messiah came as the true son of God in order to claim true ownership for God; therefore, preparation had to be made. Without that, Satan would not allow the Heavenly Kingdom to come. That ownership was not just a simple legal registration; it was ownership according to the love of God. No one is truly entitled to own the things of God’s creation until he has the true love of God.</p>
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<p>The messiah came as the perfected Adam and he was to restore a perfected Eve. Together Adam and Eve were to install the True Parenthood centered upon the true love of God. From that point on, true distribution of things and ownership can begin centered upon the love of God. All the levels of ownership-individual, family, tribe, and so on-have to be linked to the true love of God through the messiah. Only then can true ownership be claimed.</p>
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<p>The messiah came to make the impact of the waves of God’s love throughout the chosen nation, which is the first territory that God can claim. Next Jesus was to go to the Roman Empire and from there spread God’s territory to the whole world. As the messiah claims ownership over the things of creation, automatically God becomes their owner again.</p>
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<p>In the world today, do you think the USA is under the domain of the love of God? Is there any country on the earth that God can claim as His own? No, there is not. Therefore, none of the churches on the earth can claim that they belong completely to the domain of the love of God. That is because they have never yet seen the True Parents and therefore have never yet belonged to the messiah.</p>
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<p>Under these circumstances, for you to be sitting here listening and learning from the True Parents, belonging to the True Family and gaining the position of true children, is an incredible honor and a privilege. This base alone can break through the satanic realm and lift mankind up to restoration.</p>
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<p>How much do you understand the value of the True Parents? Do you appreciate being able to listen to their teaching? Do you know that this is more valuable than your own life? It is important to know if you have that kind of dedication. Within the Unification Church there are people who are destined to drop out and perish; they are those who think they know True Parents but actually value them very lightly.</p>
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<p>Even though such people say they belong to True Parents, they want to bring True Parents’ ideal down to the level of satanic love, trying to justify such love. That is impossible: there is no relationship. There can never be compromise on the part of True Parents with satanic standards. There can be no compromise between the love of God and the love of Satan-not even one percent or even a fraction of a percent. Today you must come to the realization that the truth is absolute.</p>
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<p>It is most important to ask how we can make the initial impact of God’s love on the earth. That is the key question. When you were first born, did you cry out in the realm of God’s love or the realm of Satan’s love? No one can say that he was born into the reality of God’s domain. I want you to understand this clearly. There is a boundary between the GL realm and the SL realm, just as there is a boundary between Heaven and earth.</p>
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<p>The true hope of mankind is not so much honor, education, or social status. Rather it is to be restored into the realm of the true love of God. That can never be achieved by God alone; He needs the fundamental base of restored Adam and Eve-the True Parents. I look at everything from this point of view. Every person and action can be evaluated according to the GL line or the SL line. Anybody who thinks, “I can go over to the GL line very easily,” please raise your hand. If even you Moonies cannot raise your hands, what about those people out there on the street?</p>
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<p>There is a great amount of ignorance among religions today and in ignorance there can be no perfection. At this time the truth is being revealed through the Unification Church so many theologians around the world are coming. Without understanding the Divine Principle, no one can answer the questions of theology, philosophy, or history regardless of how much he might study.</p>
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<p>Since God’s pattern still remains in the satanic world, in many cases the power of love is stronger than life. There are many stories in which people die for love. Therefore how can any of you claim, “I don’t want to lose anything in my life but I still want to enter the realm of God’s love.”? That is impossible. God cannot accept such a person. I want you to understand that until Reverend Moon came to proclaim the way to receive the love of God, there was no one who passed over the line and who fully dwelt in the love of God.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon is walking through the valley of the shadow of death here in America, declaring that he will go to Moscow. My march is toward Hell, in order to liberate it. My goal is one thing: to make the impact of God’s love in the center of the world which will be the wave of a family, tribe. nation, and world. Until this happens there can be no Kingdom of Heaven on earth. We have begun the GL wave with the Unification Church holy weddings.</p>
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<p>From God’s point of view no one in the fallen world is truly qualified to be married. This is why Christian culture elevated celibacy to such a high status in the past. It is only when someone establishes himself upon the GL foundation that he becomes eligible to marry. Many Christian ministers and churches believe that they are perfectly all right in the sight of God, but that is not actually the case. Reverend Moon gave you the blessing only upon the GL foundation.</p>
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<p>This morning at Pledge service, I told the couples that the children of the Unification Church should be able to speak the tongue of the True Parents. When the time of blessing comes, I have a big problem because many Westerners ask me for Korean spouses. I don’t have enough Korean people in my pocket! After all, those Korean men aren’t so handsome, are they? Furthermore, they are very short and smell of kimchee! But something tells Moonie men and women to connect their lives with the nation of Korea. That is one reason why other people say you are crazy and “brainwashed.” They simply can’t explain it any other way. However, you know that you have the ability to share what you have learned with that very person who calls you crazy.</p>
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<p>Even the leaders of the church have not realized the importance of putting their lives on the line for the sake of God’s love. He who seeks to lose his life for God’s sake will gain it. This phrase graphically illustrates the relationship between God’s love realm and Satan’s love realm- you must give up one in order to gain the other.</p>
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<p>The relationship between a step-parent and stepchild is normally not as loving as between natural parents and children. When a man marries a woman who has children by a previous husband, it is natural that he would have some difficulty accepting those children. That is universal human nature. If you think in such a fashion, can God look at the children of satanic love and say, “No problem. I will bring them up and love them as My own.”? God wanted human history to begin with His own true, unstained children. He never wanted to have to adopt satanic children and recreate history with step-children.</p>
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<p>In the true, original world of God’s ideal there would never have been such a thing as stepchildren or adopted children. If a child is adopted, then his true lineage came from deterrent parents. God never wanted such a thing to happen. However. the reality is that the world is full of stained children and God must deal with them. How can the children in the satanic realm become the children of God? It is only when they deny their lives and say, “I want to give up every aspect of my satanic life and become a new person.” That is the reason you must be willing to lose your life for God’s sake. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>You Moonies must understand this truth absolutely clearly. Particularly, the leadership must understand this. You must never think, “I am a leader and therefore I have great value.” Such thinking has no merit in the sight of God. It is only by fulfilling the principle of self-sacrifice to the letter that you gain such merit. When you are heading toward restoring the love of God, you cannot accumulate any value at all from the satanic realm. Therefore you must separate yourself from Satan. He will be holding on to you tightly so the only way you can separate yourself from him is to die to that old self, the self in the satanic world, and then resurrect yourself within the Heavenly world.</p>
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<p>It is a failure of conventional Christianity to think about going to Heaven only after death. Instead, we should think about restoring Heaven on earth. That means we must restore the GIL realm on earth. All those Christians who think they are living properly and expect to go to the highest Heaven will only go to some middle area. Even Jesus himself could only go to Paradise because he wasn’t able to bring the total, victorious love of God and establish the GL realm on earth. Instead, he was attacked and crucified by the satanic power.</p>
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<p>Christianity has never understood the true agony of Jesus. He suffered terribly for the three years of his public ministry. Finally when he was on the cross, he shouted, “Eloi, Eloi. lama sabachthani?” meaning, “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?”</p>
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<p>Since Jesus could not establish the GL foundation here on earth, the Second Coming became necessary. The Unification Church has proclaimed that the Second Coming will be on the earth, not on the clouds of Heaven. Now the Unification foundation is greater than the Christian foundation and the time has come to declare it.</p>
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<p>There was a prime opportunity for the GL impact to be made in the world right after World War II, when all the anti-Christian forces were defeated. That was a world upon which the Lord of the Second Advent could land and make his impact, spreading the GL waves. However after World War 11. established Christianity opposed the work of the Lord. Ever since then, Christianity has been declining in world influence. For Christianity, the forty years since 1945 have been comparable to the Israelites’ wandering in the wilderness, prey to the eagles.</p>
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<p>While traditional Christianity has been declining, God has been pushing young people toward the Unification Church. The first generation of Israelites out of Egypt all died in the wilderness; it was only the second generation that entered the promised land. By the same token, the older generation of Christianity is declining and the second generation, the youth of the Unification Church. is rising and preparing to enter into Canaan.</p>
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<p>This is the 38th year after 1945; that is why we have declared our three-year course up until 1985, which will complete the forty years. The democratic world has tried its way of life but there is too much corruption and it doesn’t work well. Likewise the communist world has tried to enforce its way of life but it isn’t successful either. Where can the people of the world turn for hope? The Unification Church and its ideal is the only hope for this troubled world; it is the one lantern shining bright in this wilderness.</p>
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<p>Your Moses-the only central figure in the Unification Church-is Father. It is most important now that you set your sights on Moses; hold on tight and follow him closely and you will make it through the time of wilderness. I want you to understand that the Unification movement is the alpha and omega, the first and last. We are mobilizing people with the power of love so that they are willing to dedicate their lives and move forward into the land of Canaan. There has never before been such a movement in history; this is the first and the last.</p>
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<p>Our job is to get out of the SL realm and move into the GL realm. Until you give up your life, you won’t make it. It is not a joyful way nor a way of fun and entertainment. This is a time for commitment. Both internally and externally, you have to give yourself unto your life. We have one common goal, one mission. We do everything together-eat, sleep, work-and we will get there together.</p>
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<p>We are the last gypsies in history. There are gypsies in the secular world who go around from place to place, trying to gain a little money here and there, a little food, finding shelter wherever they can. We too are gypsies, but a different kind. We go around from place to place. trying to get people into Heaven. We have a different kind of motivation and a different goal.</p>
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<p>Are you committing your life to God? After God, are you committing your life for the sake of humanity and all things of the universe? We are going to leap forward for the sake of humanity and all things, reaching out to the realm of the love of God. In many parts of the world, for example in Africa, people feel that only the ideology of Reverend Moon gives them hope. What about you? You have been remolded and recreated; in that way, you have become men and women with a vision and a goal. There are many people in the world who are living in the realm of human trash; they can’t even think or talk about the GL realm.</p>
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<p>I want you to understand this truth-that you must sacrifice your satanic self in order to be born into your Heavenly self. The first step is to make an offering according to the Old Testament tradition. God sent the messiah 2,000 years ago and if people had accepted him, it would have been the time for creating the Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, the crucifixion was not the mission of Jesus; he wanted to create the GL realm on earth with his body intact. He wanted to install the True Parenthood but his desire did not happen.</p>
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<p>There were many martyrs in Christian history because they also had to go over to the GL realm; in order to get there, they had to give up their lives in the satanic realm. Christian history has been one of expectation of the Second Advent. What is the Second Advent? It is the time for the actual fulfillment of the GL base on earth-the True Parenthood.</p>
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<p>How can the Lord come on the clouds of Heaven if his job is to create the GL impact upon the physical earth? Unless he is a physical man, how can he become a true parent? The traditional belief that the Lord is coming on the clouds of Heaven is like a fantasy story. The things which God lost were the real things here on earth-the love of human beings, family love, social harmony, and so forth. Therefore in order to restore these things, the Lord must work as a real man.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon has been working at this task for 40 years and many people have tried to destroy me; but I will not be destroyed because the power of God is with me.</p>
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<p>The history of Joseph is a model for the dispensation of God. He had eleven elder brothers who tried to kill him but failed, so they sold him into slavery instead. Many years later, however, all his brothers and his parents as well had to come before Joseph to beg for their survival. The Unification Church and Reverend Moon, in particular, are in the position of Joseph. The rest of the world, including the Christian denominations, have been trying to kill Reverend Moon but they will not succeed. Eventually, Reverend Moon will be in the position to save them-giving them nourishment and eternal life.</p>
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<p>Even though human history is a fallen one, the original pattern of God still remains. Adam was supposed to love his elder son, Cain, first. This is Reverend Moon’s ideal so I have given love to the elder brothers in faith-the Jewish and Christian people. We have put ourselves in the younger brother’s position, giving them our respect. Furthermore they do not understand the protocol of the Heavenly Kingdom so we must teach them the Divine Principle and guide them as our elder brothers. You will see that the second generation of the Christian churches, the sons and daughters of Christian leaders today, will want to come to the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>Those of you who belonged to a Christian denomination before, please raise your hands. Why did you come here ? Why don’t you go back to your old church? Some of your parents are saying that this is a heretical church so why did you come here? One of the phenomena of the last days is that truth looks like falsehood and lies look like truth; in other words, confusion reigns and people receive lies as truth and mistreat the true things.</p>
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<p>How can you distinguish between truth and falsehood? There is only one criterion-put the truth or the true person into a melting pot. Whoever is false will be burned up, leaving nothing but ashes but he who is true as gold will never be diminished by the fire of the furnace. That is what the Unification Church is doing. We are all being put into a burning furnace, a melting pot.</p>
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<p>Ordinary people with ordinary faith could not survive such a furnace. In order to be purified, it is good to be put into such a faith furnace many times-the more the better. Many furnaces have been prepared for you. Moonies from all over the world were brought to the U. S. to do witnessing, fundraising, and so forth. Then many of you went to Korea and Japan to work with the IOWC and that was another furnace. After that, missionaries went to the jungles of Africa to wrestle with the poisonous snakes. That was not enough, so we inaugurated Ocean Church-that is the toughest melting pot of all! Those of you who enjoy Ocean Church, please raise your hands.</p>
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<p>Perhaps we will have one final melting pot-an African safari. But you won’t go into the jungle with rifles; you will have to use your bare hands against the wild animals, like Daniel in the Bible. By that time, most Moonies will throw up their hands and say, “This is it. I can’t go on! I am sure now that Reverend Moon is crazy!” But I will be watching to see how many of you will be survivors of the lions’ den.</p>
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<p>Daniel was able to tame the lion with his love. In the same way, the true Moonies must be able to become the friends of lions. Therefore, when the lion comes roaring up to you, you can open your arms and say, “My dear, let’s kiss and hug!” If you have true love, the lion won’t bite you. With our love, we are going to experience many miracles!</p>
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<p>Those of you who feel you can go that far in your faith, please raise your hands. With that kind of commitment on your part, everything will be all right; no power can deter such committed people. When you enter the lion’s den thinking you are surrounded by ferocious beasts, you will find all of a sudden that they are angels of God. They will reveal their true nature to you just at the moment when you think the lion is charging toward you. Then you can share a loving embrace with them. The test is whether you can have the faith to reach such a level. At that point you can experience the strongest kiss ever.</p>
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<p>When I go to Alaska. I will invite everyone to go bear-hunting with me-not with guns but with our bare hands. Will you go along with me? When you are willing to go anywhere with me, I will go anywhere with you. In reality, when men and women are in serious danger and they are competing with each other to sacrifice their own lives. they create a beautiful, protective spirit around them. Satan will retreat from them and God will come to take care of them.</p>
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<p>So far, this has been Chapter One. I would like to move on now to a more advanced lesson.</p>
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<p>Today is Children’s Day but what kind of children are we talking about? We are talking about true children who are born in the GL realm, grow up there and marry there, becoming perfected children of God. Were you born in the GL realm to True Parents? You have already been born and you are a reality on this earth; since you cannot ever go back and be physically born again, we must create a way to achieve the same goal. Therefore the Unification Church follows the process of indemnity.</p>
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<p>The True Father and Mother have given physical birth to thirteen children. While those children were growing within their mother’s womb, the members of the Unification Church took the position of spiritual twins to them. Although they could not actually be inside the mother’s womb, they could feel that they were a twin to those true children. To the Western world, such a concept is difficult to accept but it is feasible to Orientals. The elder members of the church understood this concept and prayed earnestly to create such a bridge between themselves and the true children.</p>
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<p>We have many symbolic ceremonies in the Unification Church. For example in Korea, whenever a mother gives birth. she drinks a certain kind of soup; then she shares that soup with the rest of the family. Also when the baby drinks from a bottle. it is passed around for everyone else to drink from. This kind of training is being given so that you will understand that the joy of the true children is also your joy; their sorrow is your sorrow. You can link your emotions with theirs. These kinds of intimate family activities are hardly known to the Western members.</p>
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<p>The mission of the Western world is to lift the Unification movement into the worldwide level. Without even knowing it, you have already been grafted into the True Parents’ family on the individual. family, tribal, society, national and worldwide level. Someday you will have a moment of realization and you will say, “Yes, I am truly linked with the True Family.” These next three years will be your opportunity to come to that poignant realization. This is why the Korean elders have come here I wanted you to achieve that emotional link between the Korean and Western tradition. You will inherit such a heartistic connection, not from me directly but from the Korean elders, who are in the position of archangels to Adam and Eve CHILDREN’S DAY</p>
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<p>It was God’s design for the archangel to take the position of teacher to the growing Adam and Eve even though he was ultimately in the servant’s position. The Korean elders will bring all the children of the True Parents-whether Oriental or Western-together into one family. Only when you are true brothers and sisters can the True Parents completely accept you. From the Divine Principle point of view, the Korean elders are in the position of unfallen archangel in the Garden of Eden and you are in the position of Adam and Eve. Their primary purpose is to teach God’s tradition to you.</p>
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<p>Can you say. “Oh. we don’t need Korean leaders here in America!”? Some Americans might say, Father, America is a great country and we are first-class citizens. Why can’t we just rely on our own leadership and take care of ourselves?” There have been all kinds of criticisms of the Korean leaders coming to me, so that my ears feel like they are full of buzzing bees. Why so much noisiness in the American Moonies? It must be because you don’t need the Koreans, is that true? Do you think I enjoy listening to noisy buzzing now, after ten years of being in America?</p>
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<p>On this Children’s Day I am clearly declaring two things to you: from the heartistic point of view. you must inherit the True Father’s tradition from your Korean leaders. Secondly, you must inherit the economic tradition from the Japanese leaders. The Heavenly tradition will not come out of the United States. You must receive it from your leaders and digest it. The problem is that you have rejected what you have been given; you must take it with an open mind and create harmony from both the Korean and the Japanese church traditions.</p>
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<p>You must thank God and the True Parents that they have given to America and the Western world this opportunity to learn from the tradition of the Unification Church. The Japanese leaders have come here in order to truly launch a new national tradition in this country. Internally, you must dig the ground of the Koreans; externally, you must dig Japanese ground. Digging into those two grounds, you can take the very best out of them and be immeasurably enriched.</p>
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<p>Achieving harmony with leadership is similar to riding a horse. You cannot complain against the rhythm of that horse; you must ride with it and fit yourself to it. Without such an attitude, you are not appreciating your own Parents, your elder brothers, and ultimately you are not recognizing God.</p>
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<p>In the ancient past, the elder brother, Cain. did not love his younger brother but killed him instead. In this new age. we must set up the new tradition. The elder brother must truly fulfill his role and the younger brother must be a true younger brother. Will you stubbornly hold your chin up and complain against your brother, or will you humble yourself and be grateful to God? Which way do you pray-with head up or head down? Will you promise to me today that you will have a grateful attitude? If so, you will become one with your leaders.</p>
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<p>Now you know that this time in which we are living is the time of total indemnification. Therefore if you win the final showdown now, you will be all right in the future; but if you fail now, you will never be able to make it up. This is the time to inherit that GL center built upon the Heavenly tradition and expand it to the national level. After you erect the national level, there will be no more obstacles.</p>
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<p>All the American leaders must be aware of this truth very clearly. Japanese leaders are going to give you their external, economic tradition and you must receive it 100%. Likewise the Korean leaders who have been taught by me for such a long time will teach you how to create the internal tradition; you must receive it fully. Korea is the Adam nation and Japan is the Eve nation; the two nations are working together now.</p>
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<p>Why do you think Korea has become such a focal point in the world at this time, especially with such recent events as the KAL tragedy and the bombing in Burma? Why must Korean people continue to suffer in such a way? The Koreans must be careful because now, after the disasters in the air and on the ground, another disaster might occur in the ocean. This is because the law of indemnity must be fulfilled on the national level.</p>
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<p>There were people from 16 nationalities killed in the Korean Airline massacre. As you know, during the Korean War 16 nations fought together for the sake of freedom. In Burma, Korean national ministers shed their blood and died. Due to the Korean Airline disaster, the three primary dispensational countries became more closely united- Korea, Japan, and the United States-because they suffered the most.</p>
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<p>Japan has been in a position to move in many directions; it could unite with Soviet Russia or with China or North Korea. But at this time, Japan is moving toward the United States. Japan is like a teen-aged woman who could send signals of invitation to Russia, China, North Korea, or the United States; she has many “marriage” possibilities. However, due to recent external events, Japan is being forced to unite with South Korea and also the United States.</p>
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<p>Our members created the International Federation for Victory Over Communism in Japan and it has now gained a membership of nearly 3.5 million; it is a tremendously strong organization. In Korea, the IFVOC has 70,000 members in leadership positions all over the country. especially on the village level.</p>
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<p>At this time in both Korea and Japan, the governments and the public realize that they must pay attention to the Unification movement and Reverend Moon. Korea and Japan will be linked together in a brother/sister relationship; every Asian nation will observe this alliance and will want to be a part of it. Thus it can be spread to Free China, the Philippines, Malaysia. and so forth. Such an alliance will transcend national boundaries. There must be a strong and powerful Asian alliance to fight against communism. Once this kind of alliance is formed, the international highway project which I announced at the Science Conference in Korea will immediately begin.</p>
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<p>What about the United States? Will you Americans follow this way? In Latin America and Africa it is just a matter of time before they join this path. The United States of America is no exception; this great country also needs to receive the guidance and counseling from Reverend Moon. The moment will come when this country will receive God’s ideal and will blend it into the American dream.</p>
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<p>Today I have another dispensation unfolding. I would like to organize the Koreans in America today, allowing them to take the front-line role here. In the future, the 240 million people of America will want to learn Korean so they will need many teachers. Therefore, we must mobilize the Koreans here to fulfill that job. What do you think about that? The Korean residents will find that they have no other direction to go except toward the Unification movement; particularly the young people will join. Otherwise, they will find that their purpose of coming to this country will be nullified.</p>
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<p>Today we have many Korean leaders attending a conference. I will announce to them that the time has come that they must pay attention to Reverend Moon; the Korean community cannot neglect him any longer. With or without the help of the Korean-American community, my work will continue and succeed in the Western world. Unless they are with me, the Korean people will be deeply ashamed. I don’t want them to fall into such a bad position but would like them to join with me.</p>
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<p>Do you want to learn Korean? Every Sunday morning you say the Pledge: “I am proud of the one Sovereignty, one people, one land, one language and culture centered upon God.” You have been making that pledge every week so now the time has come to fulfill it. You must learn the mother tongue of the Heavenly Kingdom. I will tell you why. In order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world, you must be able to converse in the mother tongue; without that. you will become second-class citizens of the spirit world.</p>
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<p>If you don’t believe you will be affected in spirit world by not knowing Korean, tell me. I am sorry but this is true. It is not because of the language itself but only because the Korean language is the True Parents’ language.</p>
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<p>In spirit world, the universal language is that of the True Parents. If you don’t believe me you can go to spirit world and come back and tell me what you discovered! If I didn’t teach you these things now, later on you would come and complain to me. But you have heard this very clearly, haven’t you?</p>
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<p>The world of the new culture, the Unification culture, shall become a reality very soon; in fact the major foundation for this new culture shall be laid before the 1990’s. By the year 2000, we will make tremendous achievement in uniting culture and language. After the first day of 1990, I will hold an international conference and I will not use an interpreter! All of those Unification Church leaders who do not speak Korean at that time will not be able to participate! Because of the barrier of language, the heartistic connection cannot be established through an interpreter; we must communicate directly.</p>
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<p>In addition, the Korean language is fortunately one of the finest languages of any human culture. It has an enormous number of adjectives and it is an ideal language for expressing religious philosophy.</p>
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<p>The Japanese are limited in their pronunciations much more than the Koreans-they can’t even pronounce McDonald’s! When they say Happy World products, they put an extra syllable on the end. Mr. Oyamada told me that one scholar in Japan is telling people the best way for them to learn foreign languages is to study Korean first. Once the Japanese master Korean, they will be able to learn any other foreign language.</p>
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<p>If I am studying English at my age, you have no excuse not to study Korean. My memory is not like a young person’s so new pronunciations and vocabulary are very difficult for me. But still I am making this effort and I have learned so much English that I can check Col. Pak’s translations to make sure they are right! However, I do not want to speak to you in English. It would be too convenient for you if I spoke English. I want you to learn Korean.</p>
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<p>You must realize on this Children’s Day that it is necessary for the Oriental leaders to come here to America, particularly the Korean leaders. I want to ignite within you the desire to learn Korean; by my pushing you this way, the Korean leaders become that much more valuable to you. You will feel you must pay closer attention to them.</p>
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<p>You must realize that since learning Korean is so important, being able to learn from the elder Korean blessed couples is a joyful opportunity. Not only are you learning the Korean language from Korean elders, but your textbook is the Divine Principle book. That is extraordinary good fortune for you. They will not only teach you the Divine Principle, they can also teach the spirit behind Divine Principle and you can know more about my life. Do you need that?</p>
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<p>Now Chapter Two is finished, so shall we continue? It is getting close to lunchtime, so shall we cancel Chapter Three? No? You are really cruel Moonies-this is a celebration day and the only person who is really working is me! Since this is Children’s Day, you are supposed to be the ones to come to Mother and me and make our day a relaxed and happy one! Instead, you want me to continue to work for you so that you can receive more? What can I do? You children come to me spiritually hungry, yearning for spiritual food and as a parent, I must give that food to you. It doesn’t matter how hard I have to work. So I must go on to Chapter Three!</p>
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<p>The Cain and Abel relationship is one of the major problems of our way of life in the Unification Church. Why is that? According to the Divine Principle, in order to fulfill our goal we must bring physical unity between Cain and Abel; somehow their struggle must be harmonized. I will speak in greater detail on this to the leaders tomorrow but today I want to share the essential points with you.</p>
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<p>There are eight different stages in the process of restoration. The ultimate goal-the GL realm-is way up on top; underneath are all the stages which are within the realm of satanic love. As you know, Abel was on the side of God and Cain was on the side of Satan. God wanted to work through Abel not so much for Abel’s sake but for the sake of saving Cain. Therefore, Abel is in the position of mediator for Cain.</p>
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<p>Abel’s responsibility is to subjugate Cain and Satan, who surrounds Cain. Abel also must separate Satan from himself. Therefore, Abel’s first responsibility is to save Cain; second, to separate Satan from himself. These are the two main purposes of Abel.</p>
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<p>Thus any Unification Church leader who likes to sit back in a comfortable chair and order other people around is going against this rule. Those who are in the central figure position within the Unification Church have the job of saving Cain and then separating Satan from themselves. Can they do that by hating Cain? No, only by loving and winning the heart of Cain.</p>
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<p>Abel is privileged to have been given the GL love seed. This GL love starts on the individual level. The only way of reaching the love of God is by Abel sacrificing himself for the sake of Cain. Satan knew that Abel’s mission was to subjugate Cain and he didn’t want that to happen because he didn’t want to lose Cain. This is why the original Cain killed Abel and throughout history’ whenever an Abel type tried to lead a Cain type. the Cain would again reject him or try to kill him. Thus. Cain automatically opposes Abel. Abel has to love Cain at least three times more than he loves his own children in order to win his heart.</p>
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<p>In order to win the Cain world and create God’s realm, an archangelic realm must be created in preparation. The entire religious world is equivalent to the archangelic realm on God’s side. The archangel’s position is to protect Adam and Eve, thus the religious world was supposed to serve as protection for the Messiah when he came.</p>
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<p>There was a golden opportunity for this archangelic realm to be created right after World War II, centered upon the United States. This would have stopped the expansion of communism and the U.S. would have been the leading nation for Christianity. Unfortunately, the U.S. failed to fulfill and could not protect God’s realm and property.</p>
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<p>Communism has run rampant throughout the free world and has even infiltrated world Christianity, for example through the World Council of Churches. The current trend of liberation theology and “Christian Marxism” is the way in which communism has infiltrated Christian churches. The ministers who are following such theology and trying to play an “activist” role are being used by the communists, whether they realize it or not.</p>
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<p>God has not given us any weapon to fight against this sort of thing except love. God’s way of defeating His enemies is by natural subjugation, never by force. Satan knows Heavenly law and he admits that he is a bad guy. He says, “You and I both know, God, that I am fallen. But I am still in the archangel’s position so you and Abel must love me. Even if I have fallen, you have to fulfill your principle which says that your son must love the archangel. Otherwise, there can be no Heaven.” This is Satan’s claim.</p>
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<p>This is the answer to the mystery of why God sometimes appears to be helpless or even “dead.” Although he is fallen, Satan has been requiring God and God’s true child to love him. Therefore God’s men and women have no choice but to love their enemies. Before you love your own sons, you must love the archangelic sons-Cain. They are your enemies but they are also your elder brothers.</p>
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<p>This is a very crucial point of Divine Principle. Unless you demonstrate your love for your two enemies- the archangel and Cain-you will not be permitted to enter Heaven. Today’s Christianity has no idea of this. In both cases, you must do this by love, not by force.</p>
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<p>If there had been no fall, the GL realm would have grown automatically from the bottom line to the top. There would not have been a Satan or a Cain, only the direct dominion of God. But because of the fall, each level of existence has had a barrier. Adam and Eve became like enemies; Cain and Abel became enemies; parents and children became alienated from each other. Thus God’s dominion was lost on all levels. Therefore, we have to fight every inch of the way from the individual level all the way up to the throne of God.</p>
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<p>The restoration has to be done in steps; it cannot be accomplished in one stroke. The beginning point is the individual level; then the family, tribal level and so forth. On the first level, there is Satan in the father’s position and Cain in the son’s position. When are they subjugated? Only when they see Abel approaching with the willingness to give up his life for their sake; that will be the point when they are subjugated.</p>
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<p>Thus you must go into the domain of Satan and love the people there with your life; then they can be subjugated. Satan and Cain will unite together in order to try to kill you, as Abel. However throughout history’ religions made great strides when enduring persecution. Why is that? It is because of this principle.</p>
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<p>This is the reason why you go out, even after receiving the blessing, and suffer on the front line for three years. As blessed couples dwelling on the family level, you can endure great persecution from Satan’s realm and still remain one as husband and wife. The blessing itself is never the end of the road in the Unification Church; on the contrary, it is the beginning. I have always pushed the blessed couples out to greater levels of challenge.</p>
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<p>Without this process, you cannot move up to higher levels. You must go into the satanic realm, make your showdown with God’s love, and when you are victorious you can return to God with Cain following you. In that way the younger brother gains the elder brother’s position. Cain will happily take the position of younger brother and follow Abel to receive the love of God. This is the reason why the second son in history was in the more blessed position.</p>
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<p>Cain needs his younger brother as his mediator to return to God. He knows he is not worthy to go directly to God. Originally Cain should have been in the position closest to God; but because of the fall, he could not be in that position. Therefore Abel has the job of connecting Cain to God.</p>
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<p>You cannot go to a higher level as Abel all by yourself; you must bring your Cain with you. That is not so easy to do; in fact, Cain will try to destroy you. It requires tremendous GL power to consume the satanic force. Cain and Satan are very arrogant, cruel, and barbaric but you must be able to melt them with the GL power. In order to live this principle, our church has been spending ten times more money on our interfaith movement in Korea, Japan and the United States than on our own needs. This is because I want to demonstrate unconditional love for our elder brothers.</p>
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<p>For the sake of this country, we have spent tremendous sums. America is in the position of Cain to me, trying to destroy me through the courts. Even while fighting the current court battle, we made the Inchon movie and we began The Washington Times. There is not one single soul in America who can see these projects and say, “Reverend Moon is just trying to make money.”</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon is doing these things only for the sake of this nation. My purpose is to follow the principle of natural subjugation. Ultimately Americans will realize what I have been doing for them and they will repent. This is the central truth of the Divine Principle; therefore, Americans will come eventually to pay homage to Reverend Moon.</p>
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<p>In the time of Jesus, the Jewish faith was in the Abel position and the nation of Israel was in the Cain position. The nation should have been subjugated naturally by the Jewish faith and by Jesus. However, the nation of Israel linked with the Roman Empire, the enemy.</p>
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<p>If there had been unity between the people of Israel, the Jewish faith, and Jesus, history would have been entirely different. The teachings of Jesus would have moved eastward first, toward India and Asia. Christ’s teachings would have gone to that gigantic area, which was like a spiritual vacuum waiting to be filled. However, because of the rejection of Jesus, the early Christians had to sacrifice their lives and work within the Roman Empire-the opposite direction from Asia. They had to go into enemy territory and win by GL power.</p>
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<p>In order to fulfill, you must travel to another land- the sojourners’ land. For Christianity it was Rome; for Islam, it was the Arab nations. For example, Jacob had to leave the land of Canaan and go to the enemy territory of Egypt in order to move the dispensation forward. Within that enemy territory, the nation of Israel took its root for 400 years; later on they traveled back to the land of Canaan. Since there was no unity between Egypt and the Jewish people, a gigantic division has persisted ever since between the two peoples.</p>
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<p>This principle has to be repeated over and over again on each succeeding level-family, tribal, society, nation, and world. As you go up to each higher level, you must also go into the enemy territory and make your showdown with the power of God’s love. This process has to be repeated over and over again-Abel goes out and brings in Cain again, for each level.</p>
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<p>The leaders of the Unification Church must understand that they cannot be leaders until they are first servants-until they subjugate Cain naturally by their loving actions. If the Christian realm in the free world today practiced this principle, the entire world could be restored within seven years. The U.S. would certainly not be in the shape that it is in today. However, Christendom did not do that; most Christians did not even know they should do that, much less how to do it. That is why the Unification Church has come up from the very bottom, rebuilding each step all the way to the GL realm.</p>
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<p>This is the reason the Unification Church welcomes the road of sacrifice and suffering; it is the road by which we can demonstrate the GL power on every different level. This is why I defined Moonies as those who are willing to go out and suffer unto their lives for the sake of Cain and Satan. I have walked this path myself; by the year 1976, the worldwide opposition was at its peak but even under those circumstances I moved forward. The principle actually required that I be persecuted by the entire world.</p>
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<p>The Washington Monument Rally in 1976 represented the ultimate showdown between Satan and Heaven. The power of the entire world wanted to eliminate the Unification Church from the face of the earth. God chose Reverend Moon as His champion, representing all the levels from individual up to the world. I led everybody into the wilderness and welcomed that showdown there. Christianity was supposed to accomplish the things which we did, long before we did them; but since they failed, the Unification Church had to move quickly and lay the foundation in the shortest possible time.</p>
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<p>One of the most extraordinary occurrences in history is that parents have been kidnapping their own children out of the Unification Church. Some of those parents feel that they would like to kill Reverend Moon and resent that he ever came to this country. How did Reverend Moon survive up to this point? It was because God worked for 2,000 years to create a nation such as this, in which freedom of religion, assembly and speech are guaranteed. He knew the kinds of danger that would confront His son so He prepared this foundation to prevent the enemy from killing Reverend Moon.</p>
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<p>Perhaps the government will send me to jail. That is all right; I will not die there. Actually, if such a thing happens, progress will come to the Unification Church by leaps and bounds.</p>
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<p>On February 23, 1977, I declared that the Unification movement was finally taking the offensive rather than the defensive position. At that point the Unification movement took the position of representing Christian culture; no longer did the traditional Christian world have that position.</p>
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<p>Before that time I always resisted confronting our enemies through the courts, but after that I directed that we fight every step of the way through legal channels. During these past seven years, we have won many significant court battles from the small to the largest level. We will not reveal all of those victories until America is naturally subjugated; that day is at hand.</p>
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<p>Why is America so divided today? Why are there such large numbers of broken homes. juvenile delinquents, so much moral degradation, drug addiction, homosexuality and so forth? It is because God is pushing this nation down like a stick in the ground so that it will receive His Heavenly prescription.</p>
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<p>There is one doctor coming from God with the right prescription for treatment-that doctor is Reverend Moon. This country is mortally ill; unless it receives the proper treatment it cannot survive. That prescription for treatment is the Unification Church. Do you agree with me?</p>
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<p>Ten years ago America had a confident attitude and scorned any warnings which Reverend Moon offered. They said, “You have come to the wrong country. We don’t need your advice.” At that time I declared that America was in the position of a sick patient, needing a doctor to come from outside of the home with the proper treatment. Also I said that this country was on fire and only a firefighter from outside could save it. However, the established white culture was very insulted by the suggestion that a humble Korean man could help them in any way even though they knew that what Reverend Moon was saying was correct. They knew that this country needed “major surgery” in order to be saved.</p>
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<p>An incredible fact is that, while the media and other forces were persecuting Reverend Moon, many young people came to hear him and joined with him, dedicating their lives to his cause. For the establishment that was bad news, but for God and the Unification movement, it was great news. In one part of the country, people were yelling in rage while in another part people were shouting “Manse)” to the Heavens.</p>
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<p>You have no other way to turn; you cannot go back to the way you were before, living just an individualistic way of life. Try it and you will see that it won’t work. There is only one way to go now-God’s way. We are moving through the wilderness with courage and we will not stop until we go all the way to Moscow and liberate it! At the Washington Monument rally, I declared that our next goal was Moscow; the leaders of the Soviet Union laughed at such an idea and thought Reverend Moon had to be crazy. What has happened? It is 1983 and they are no longer laughing. Now they are very worried and fear that Reverend Moon’s goal will truly be fulfilled.</p>
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<p>All the projects which I have inspired have really hurt the Soviets. For example when The Washington Times started, Pravda criticized it in the strongest language. Why did they do that? It is because they were hurt by it. When The Washington Post heard about the CAUSA International movement, they devoted three pages to denouncing it. Why? Because they know it is succeeding and it hurts them. We are bad news to them but good news to Heaven.</p>
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<p>Within the Unification Church, we have the understanding of the Divine Principle which we follow completely. The communists do not have this truth. Reverend Moon is quickly becoming a universal Abel, not only recognized by the internal members of our movement but also by people in the outside world. In the next three years, the position of Reverend Moon and the Moonies will completely change from being laughed at to being respected.</p>
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<p>The time has come when you can truly challenge anyone who speaks against the Unification Church. In many cases. you have been weak and unable to declare to the world, “I am a Moonie and proud of it!” Can you do it now? God’s battle is a lonely battle. Likewise, Reverend Moon came to this country with a lonely mission; I went to the highest officials of this land, including the presidents.</p>
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<p>No recent president has had such guts as Mr. Reagan. That is what will rekindle the confidence of the American people in the American dream. Look at how effective the operation in Grenada was. How could President Reagan do that? The right kind of spiritual atmosphere was formed by Heaven’s forces. Even though Grenada is a small island, many American presidents have been afraid to take such a stand. Particularly since the Vietnam war, most politicians have been too timid.</p>
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<p>Grenada was a dynamic operation, but a small one. When Reverend Moon goes to Moscow, that will be a super-dynamic operation! We must go. We have no time to waste!</p>
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<p>The communists in Korea, Japan, and the U.S. have been put on the defensive because Reverend Moon has launched his ideological offensive. Furthermore the highest levels of intellectual people, especially scholars, have been realizing that Reverend Moon has brought the new understanding to guide people into the 21st century and beyond. We have brought people of the scholarly world together and also the people of the media. That is the mightiest force that God can create. When those two worlds can unite righteously and fight head-on against communism, that will spell the end of communism.</p>
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<p>In a way, I abandoned my home country of Korea and came to America to confront persecution. I did it because of this principle. I knew that if the Oriental people united with the Occidental people and all the five colors of skin came together to create a harmonized base, it would be the foundation upon which the True Parents could be welcomed. This is the ultimate line-up to create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth-God, True Parents and the harmonized children of mankind.</p>
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<p>No philosopher has ever understood that the foundation for the ideal society can be laid only when people from enemy nations come together harmoniously. Reverend Moon has not only proclaimed this truth, he is fulfilling it. Korea and Japan were bitter enemies for 36 years; the U.S. and Japan were enemies in World War 11. as were the U.S. and Germany. Yet these four countries have been brought together under Reverend Moon to create a foundation of faith and brotherhood.</p>
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<p>In 1975 when I sent the missionaries to 127 countries, I selected representatives from the U.S., Japan, and Germany. As they were going in my place, they also represented Korea. Therefore, these four nationalities were represented in 127 countries. My instructions to them at that time were, “If you are united, God will come to dwell with you.” Why is that? Because they were citizens of enemy countries and they became like a lightning rod; all kinds of opposition and spiritual difficulties would be attracted to them. The only way they could survive was to unite with each other. That is why I pushed them into that situation.</p>
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<p>You must know that these final three years of the dispensation are no longer on the individual level; they are on the worldwide level. You are all participating now in the final showdown. This is where we are today! Any self centered individuals within the Unification movement are not thinking about God’s goal and dispensation. Instead they are thinking about their own small situation or some petty grievance, such as “somebody didn’t recognize me,” or “so and so has a better situation.” Those people absolutely must repent and change-you must cleanse yourselves and become new men and women.</p>
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<p>When Jesus was hanging on the cross, he prayed, “Please, Father, forgive them because they do not know what they do.” He was not just praying for that one Roman soldier who was piercing his side; he was praying for the forgiveness of the entire Roman Empire. He came with a universal, international mission, not for just one soul or one group. Today the Christian churches are looking for “my Heaven, my little cubbyhole Upstairs,’7 but that is not the way God sees it. Either you win the whole world or nothing can be won.</p>
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<p>I knew that incredible sacrifice would be required and my own life has been the first offering. My life and my family have always been the first example of sacrifice; in that way I have loved the world. Your mission is to walk the same path; you cannot escape it. You must deny yourself, receive your mission and be willing to fulfill it with your very life. You must willingly and eagerly go forward, sacrificing your own self, grateful for God’s love-that is the secret.</p>
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<p>After I leave this country you will have to remain as my representatives, leading the crusade. Therefore you must repent and change now, while I am here. You must consummate your missions and repent now. I am looking at each of you with this viewpoint-who among you can be my best representatives here after I leave’, This is the guideline behind our training and leadership programs.</p>
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<p>The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is significant. Abraham prayed to God. “Please forgive these cities if I can only find five righteous men,” but he could not even come up with five righteous men. Therefore Sodom and Gomorrah were given up to their judgment. Today’s Unification Church members are in the position to be like the five righteous men in each city; because of them, this nation will be able to survive. But who are those five truly righteous Moonies, those who have given up their lives for the sake of the country? Only those Moonies who are willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater purpose are the righteous ones.</p>
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<p>I want to be proud of you. You should grasp my vision and charge forward bravely into the enemy camp to win the victory. I have always known that my stay in this country was temporary; someday I will go back to the Republic of Korea. Since I left Korea ten years ago, it has been going through tremendous turmoil, with one crisis after another. Kim Il-Sung is always poised and ready to attack the south; the only power that can stop that aggression is God and the Moonie power.</p>
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<p>I know communism to its core so I know how to fight against it. We have our own plan; we will never kill anyone but rather we “attack” with love and block the enemy’s advance in that way. We cannot be destroyed in that way and we will be protected. The current nuclear freeze movement here in America and Europe has an extremely naive way of thinking; they have no understanding of the true nature of communism. Satan always attacks as soon as he sees that the enemy is weakened.</p>
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<p>At this time I am leading the battle on the ultimate level, the eighth one, and you are participating in this battle with me. From the victory in this battle the lineup of God, True Parents, and true children will be established. All of you are representatives of all the races of mankind; as you come together and live in harmony, you create the foundation upon which True Parents can be installed. Then the satanic love community, instead of opposing you, will want to buy you out! They will welcome you and want to join with you. At that point, I am sure that the Kingdom of God on earth will be a reality. That day is not too far away.</p>
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<p>The Korean nation has had a long and proud history of over 5,000 years. However, during modern history they have been enduring much more turmoil than ever before. Only by welcoming Reverend Moon can they have hope; that is why I want to initiate a new dispensation among the Korean people. Many top-level Christian scholars and theologians have already united with me; now the problem is the Christian ministers. But even they will not take much longer before they come around to seeing the truth of the Divine Principle. There is truly no way for Christianity to maintain its life without uniting with the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>The Divine Principle is not only traditional, it is also logical and scientific. There can never be perfection when ignorance exists; ignorance only breeds more ignorance, mistakes, and darkness. The Unification Church is not bringing more ignorance to the world; it is bringing the truth, with a 20th century scientific viewpoint to back it up.</p>
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<p>There must be unity between Cain and Abel as well as separation of Satan from oneself; when you fulfill these two goals on the universal level, we will instantly move into the final objective. Within the ideal realm of the love of God. there can be no taint of the satanic power. You must completely eliminate Satan’s power from within you and then you can walk freely forward into God’s realm.</p>
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<p>The true way to celebrate Children’s Day is to rededicate ourselves to this common purpose and age-old goal. Beyond race and creed, we want to bring together as many children as possible who can accept True Parents. We are proud to be here to celebrate this Children’s Day and proud to pledge ourselves to this common goal. Amen!</p>
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<p>Where will you achieve true unity? You will not do it sitting here but only out on the battlefield. Those who do not want to go out to the battlefield should pack up your luggage and move out. We don’t want soldiers who are fearful; we need champions. Those who are vacillating back and forth and have no commitment might just as well leave now. To have such soldiers within our ranks is a shame to us.</p>
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<p>Do not pay attention to anyone, including leaders, who do not obey me; those who don’t listen to me but insist on doing things their own way should be kicked out. Even if they are Korean or Japanese leaders, it doesn’t matter. The precious leaders are those who are following God’s will.</p>
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<p>Can you pledge to me today that you will bring unity on the international level? Once you are in the position of the true children under the True Parents, there will be no boundaries for you.</p>
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<p>Please stand and make your pledge. If you can say, “Father, we pledge to accept your direction and become your true children, bringing the world into harmony. By living the Divine Principle we will bring God’s Kingdom on the earth,” please shout, “Yes, Father! Yes. Mother! Yes, True Parents.” Thank you.</p>
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<p>People generally have the desire to live in goodness and pursue justice. That is a common goal of human beings. It is not only your desire now, but it was also the desire of people in the past, and it will be the same for people in the future. Even though we live with incredible evils around us, it is our human desire to be good and to live in a good world. Then the question arises, what is good? What is evil? We need to understand this difference clearly, like black and white.</p>
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<p>We can give a general definition of good and evil and say that good is something which never changes. Its value endures forever, so it is unchanging and everlasting. Then what is evil, on the other hand? Evil is changeable and temporary. Good and evil differ from their very foundation. Goodness is long-lasting and unchanging, while evil is short-lived and changeable. We can compare many relative levels of goodness. The greatest goodness would be the longest-lasting, the most unchanging.</p>
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<p>This is the kind of definition we need. The definition of good and evil has not been clear throughout human history. It has always been a source of confusion. Also, when we talk about goodness we’re talking about something very precious, something of great value. What is value, then? Value represents the degree of goodness contained within something. When people consider what is most valuable, they often think in terms of material things. Women may think of diamonds, for example, while men talk about money or gold. Some people may think of jewels like pearls, for example.</p>
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<p>Why are those materials so precious? It is simply because they are unchanging and long-lasting. Certainly diamonds and gold are unchanging and long-lasting, and the pearl exhibits an everlasting harmony of color. Thus we say that they are good things. People want to wear something that lasts a long time; they like to decorate themselves with rings, necklaces, and earrings.</p>
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<p>A person may decorate his or her body with precious metals and other things, but what about the person himself? Shouldn’t he be more valuable, more priceless than the things he is wearing? Why do women, in particular, want to wear precious jewels and own beautiful objects? Even unconsciously, that is a message coming from history: women are changeable in nature and, therefore, they want to encourage themselves to be unchanging by wearing long-lasting and unchanging things. What about you women? Do you agree with me? Reluctantly?</p>
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<p>History proves that women are more changeable in nature. Therefore, God has special devices to keep them unchanging. What about those people who are always running after the latest fashions? There is no question that women are the ones who are most sensitive to fashion.</p>
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<p>Women are always looking for something more exciting, more fashionable and more beautiful. The eyes of a woman move around everywhere, like a searchlight.</p>
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<p>Just look at the colors of clothing in this auditorium. The men’s clothes are dark, stark, tasteless; look at those beiges. But now look at the women and how colorful they are. They are wearing all kinds of colors-different shades of yellow, red and so forth. They not only wear colorful clothing, they also paint their fingernails colorfully.</p>
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<p>These are the expressions of a changeable nature. Generally speaking, where can evil infiltrate first, or more easily-in the men’s or the women’s camp? Although you may deny this adamantly, history is your proof. Even the fall of man was initiated through the changeable nature of woman. Sorry.</p>
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<p>You know that I have suffered a great deal in prison. I was tortured many times and to an incredible degree. Here in America it is very rare to see prisoners or criminals tortured. Thirty or forty years ago, particularly in Japan when it was under militaristic rule, incredible inhuman torture was the daily reality. Most political prisoners were tortured, and often killed by torture. In proportion, 80 percent of the deaths of men were caused by torture, whereas the other 20 percent were women.</p>
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<p>Why is it that so many more men die under torture than women? Even under torture, men do not easily lie or make up stories. They can determine not to speak and thus they get killed. But the tendency of many women when torture comes is to confess. Sometimes they even fabricate a confession. In these kinds of dreadful situations, I understand that it is very difficult for women to keep secrets. However, when there is something fun, joyful, or beautiful, the one who wants to run forward to be there first is a woman.</p>
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<p>You should not feel sorry or disturbed about this because I am just speaking factually, from a historical analysis. Of course, I am speaking relatively. It doesn’t mean that all men are good. There are evil men everywhere. But relatively speaking, more goodness has been consummated through men.</p>
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<p>Since the 1960’s, the world has been filled with turmoil. The fast-changing tempo is almost dazzling. People’s values have been changing. Whole nations have come and gone. One government might appear to be very strong but it could easily start crumbling. Look at the United States. At one time, this country seemed invincible, but in one decade it has come to look miserable as it has been shaken by incredible turmoil.</p>
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<p>The traditional virtues of family, brotherhood, loyalty between husband and wife are crumbling like fallen leaves. This is a tremendous era of confusion and chaos.</p>
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<p>Since their atmosphere and surroundings are changing so much, people become victimized. So many people just drift into each situation. Will the changeable nature of this world stop now, or will it change further? Will there be more changing down the line, or not?</p>
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<p>Changes are not a problem if they are for goodness. But if the changes carry us further down into degradation and evil, this is a problem. If we’re changing into the heavenly situation where everybody can enjoy the ideal and an abundance of goodness, that is fine. But now we are already beset with so many problems of poverty and hunger, and we see further changes for the worse. What can we do? Can we expect joy, peace and beauty funkier down the line?</p>
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<p>The circumstances, surroundings and atmosphere of the world have been changing for the worse. The United States is getting worse and worse, and eventually, it could fall to the level of India, where poverty is rampant and human suffering is so deep. What should we do about this?</p>
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<p>America today is virtually an “eating country” Not only do we eat three meals a day, but we have coffee breaks and snacks. Add up all these things and desserts, too, and you’re eating all day long. The very word “diet” connotes luxury. In the rest of the world, millions of people are starving to death. Yet in this country, people talk continually about dieting.</p>
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<p>Who do you think is more miserable? In India, people suffer from hunger but they hope to acquire more food and nourish themselves. Here, people have abundant food and yet virtually starve themselves to death by their dieting. What is their hope? The American suffering is a peculiar suffering and is more miserable, in a way. There is hope in India; even though they’re hungry, they still have certain goals. But, on the other hand, in this society you have everything, you’ve achieved everything, still you’re hopeless. This is truly miserable.</p>
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<p>The balance of history is always changing. Movement and change occur and take away the abundance from one area and add to another. The United States is in the process of abandoning, throwing things away. But the underdeveloped countries are seeking to acquire more. Which side will prove to be better? The person who has lost hope and is trying to get away from reality? That person has no more room for development.</p>
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<p>Let us compare Europe and America, culturally and historically, and see which side is more changeable. What do you think? Very reluctantly, you’re saying America. Then, if America is more changeable than Europe, which area is more close to goodness and which is closer to evil, according to the criteria we have been discussing this morning?</p>
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<p>Americans are fond of saying that they are first class citizens of the world. They are most proud of the American culture. What do you think? Is that an accurate statement? One source of pride has been that America is a melting pot. People come from foreign countries to this melting pot and become Americanized.</p>
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<p>When you heat up a melting pot to the highest possible temperature, it becomes a ball of fire. You can’t tell by looking whether the contents are metal, gold, or dirt. You have no way to distinguish until it cools off. When America cools off, what kind of material will be found there? What do you think? What is the essence of America, its bottom line? Do you have confidence to say, “Yes, Father, we’ll find genuine gold there”?</p>
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<p>What is the nature of gold? When it is placed in a melting pot and becomes a ball of fire, the essence of gold does not change. It still remains gold. What about you Americans? Are you made of gold? This is the way to evaluate the true characteristics of America.</p>
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<p>Melting pot is a good term. I like it. The problem is, what are you melting in the pot? Is it gold, or human waste, or what? America’s true future and hope is its young people. Are the young people of America chunks of gold? You say “No” What I am saying is that, due to so much change, Americans have lost the essence of their original human nature. Wherever you go, whether to the North Pole, the South Pole, or anywhere, you have to maintain your essence. But what has happened? America is completely changeable. The rest of the world can see this. Therefore, Americans are not welcomed. That’s why you are likely to hear, “Yankee go home,” almost anywhere in the world.</p>
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<p>Wherever Americans go, they pursue their own self interests. The United States, sadly enough, is more and more approaching the standard of universal evil. A new fashion, a new way of thinking, or a new way of doing things is not necessarily evil or bad. As long as you maintain the essence of your original nature, to dress these characteristics with a new fashion would be good. But when you lose your bottom line, there is nothing to hold onto. The worst possible evil can come when you lose your original characteristics.</p>
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<p>Women have a woman’s essence, an essential original nature. Men have a man’s original nature. When you ask an average American woman if she has maintained her essential original nature, not too many women could say yes. What is the true women’s essence? The number one element of the women’s essence is heart: a heart of pure love for husband, for children. Women have an abundance of tears; they are very rich in that realm. Why did God create her that way? God made women closer to the heartistic world. When God created human beings, He was not interested in more material things or precious metal; nor was He seeking power, money, or anything like that. God wanted an object of love. God created us for the purpose of shimjung.</p>
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<p>Who is God? God is the subject; the masculine nature is in the subjective position, but there is also the female character within God. Men are meant to be masculine, courageous and bold, with broad shoulders. Those are the manly characteristics. Women, on the other hand, are a little smaller, yet full of the flow of heart. Because of that power of heart even though they are smaller in stature and physically weaker than men, women have the power to overcome men. A man’s love is more external, like skin, while woman’s love is like a seed-inside the heart. Now I am speaking very good things about women for a change.</p>
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<p>A woman has much more ability to move the heart of the parents by her tears, by the heartistic approach. A man will go out and be active all day long, and then come back home. What is home? Woman’s embrace, her love. A man cannot survive without that warmth and love. Look at children. They always miss their mother, mother’s heart, mother’s bosom. Woman is the symbol of love, like the torch of love. The husband comes home, the children come home, all the members of the family come to the mother’s bosom, the place of love. That is historically the women’s position. What do you think? No matter what time of day, midnight or early in the morning, if the man comes home and his wife is not there, he feels lonely, even devastated. The children play all day long outside, go to school, and then they come home expecting to see their mother. If she is not home, the children feel that nobody is home. They feel lonely without their mother.</p>
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<p>Women in America are trying to win equality and take the men’s position, but that’s not necessarily wise. They might be able to acquire more material, external things, but actually they’re losing incredible internal things, that is, a heartistic home and loving atmosphere. I have analyzed why America is changing so fast and it’s mainly because women are going out trying to take the position of men.</p>
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<p>I want to make sure that you understand that good and evil are determined by changeable or unchangeable, temporary or long-lasting nature. Thus any society that is changing too fast and losing its original characteristics is always the place where more evil can creep in.</p>
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<p>I am not condemning change. Certain changes are necessary, but we have to evaluate what is needed and what is not needed. If you try to improve yourself by changing without losing your original nature, essence and characteristic, that is good. I encourage that. That is necessary, in fact. The Unification movement is not a status quo movement. On the contrary, we are trying to bring about a change in America-a true change. But we are going to change it by bringing back America’s soul, by restoring the essence of human beings.</p>
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<p>Satan hates that kind of change. He doesn’t want to see a logical, orderly, Principled change. He would like to say, “There is no such thing as Principle, ethics or morality. That’s all manmade. You should just act like the animals. That’s the way you can have the most fun” This is how Satan whispers in the ears of people.</p>
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<p>The crucial question is whether we can change for the better, not the worst. I don’t worry so much about change in itself; change is not evil, but losing the soul, the essence of man, the original character of the American people, that is my worry.</p>
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<p>When some ideal society has been created, the American people would probably like to get there first. Maybe they would be the most excited. But you won’t get there until you restore the unchanging eternal character within you. For example, a wife who tries to improve herself so as to be more beautiful for her husband has a good attitude. But just making yourself up without having a heart of love towards your husband is only external improvement and will not bring about constructive change.</p>
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<p>You must secure the essential characteristics first by laying the right foundation, then you can bring the external change. But without bringing the heart into it, trying to change only externally will bring disaster and destruction. When you have a secure center and then you make a change, the change will create a widening circle which will stay with you. That would be improving the situation. It doesn’t degenerate. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>Wearing cosmetics-external makeup-is not necessarily evil. But you must make up your love first. Your essential characteristic of love should be pure, genuine and everlasting. Then you can dress up externally with no problem. One kind of a woman only cares about making herself beautiful externally. But there’s another kind who may wear no makeup but has a genuine heart of love. Which one is more truly beautiful? A busy mother has no time to put on makeup. She is occupied with the chores around the house all day long, besides taking care of the children. Even though that mother is working all day long like a servant, with no time to put on makeup, she has the most noble, divine appearance.</p>
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<p>By now, we know the definition of good and evil and we can apply it in many ways in our daily lives. Centered upon that understanding of good and evil, we’re talking about the last world, the final world. When you constantly pursue goodness, you will have to move toward Heaven. When you pursue evil, you will go down into hell.</p>
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<p>Are you Unification Church members going to be changing men and women in a changing world, or unchanging men and women? My goal is to create men and women of unchanging character. Such men and women are trained, seasoned, and toughened by the changing world. From a fortunate way of life with plenty of food, comfortable shelter, fine clothing, I am pushing you into the most suffering way. You are learning to do without material comforts. In that way your true, unchanging character can be toughened. Your unchanging character must exert creative energy and take the initiative to convert the changing world into an unchanging one.</p>
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<p>My life is a good example. Since I came here, people have been trying to Americanize me. Instead, I have been “Moonizing” America. Because I am taking this route, persecution is inevitable. I have fought the battle all the way to this court trial. But, then, even while I have been engaged in this court battle, I have been doing many constructive things, such as founding The Washington Times.</p>
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<p>In this changeable land of America, I am trying to do something unchangeable. No matter what the circumstances may be, I will not be swayed. I came with a principle and upon that principle, I intend to recreate America. That is my determination. The Unification movement is trying to restore the essential heart of the American people.</p>
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<p>The conclusion is very simple: those who become Moonized will prosper, while those who are Americanized will decline. This is Reverend Moon’s perspective. Do you welcome it?</p>
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<p>From this standpoint, do you think I can trust American people? Why can’t you say yes? Do you think I should follow your way or should you follow mine? Do you say, “Father, we gave in nine times; at least you should give in once. What about some compromise?”</p>
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<p>This is my agony, in a way: the question of how to deal with America. One thing is absolutely clear. God has left this changeable America, but God will always be with the unchangeable Reverend Moon. America, what would you like to do? Would you persecute God, chasing Him away from America again? When we expand the unchangeable territory, making it push right through to the changeable world, the boundary of God expands. In other words, we must convert the changeable world into an unchangeable world. By doing so, the territory of God is expanded. What do you think? Do you feel this to your bones, or does it simply sound good?</p>
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<p>Our way of life, including witnessing, fundraising, and many other difficult missions in the Unification Church, is merely a training ground where God pushes changeable people into a changeable world, trying to season and harden them into unchangeable men and women. That is the purpose and goal. What is needed more than anything else in America is the unchanging power of human beings, more than military power, money, political power or anything.</p>
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<p>Once the United States was involved in Vietnam, it should not have retreated until the original purpose was achieved. In other words, America changed its mind: “Oh, we got involved there, but to look good we must get out” Reverend Moon is not leading that way of life. He’s standing in the forefront, telling the American people: set the right purpose, then stay on it; fulfill it unto your life. Even though you die, you stay with it until you fulfill the purpose.</p>
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<p>No matter how badly America treats Reverend Moon, even confining him to prison, it won’t make any difference; it will not change me one iota. Why do I have that kind of character? It is because something else is connected to it. Therefore, with great confidence, I came to change this world into an unchanging world.</p>
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<p>Let’s say that within one family, there are two types of persons. One is principled and has a stable, unchanging character. The other is changeable, moment by moment. Which would you respect more? The unchanging quality doesn’t all of a sudden come out of the ground, or out of heaven. It comes on a foundation. The children in a family must follow the parental way of life, which comes with a history. Children who rebel against their parents normally end up in disaster.</p>
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<p>The work of Satan is to bring division between parents and children, to drive a wedge between husband and wife. Satan wants to make a changeable world. God wants united, Principled, unchanging families. God cannot put His trust in a family that is divided and changing all the time. He knows that such a family cannot accomplish His will. The essence of the family is love-supportive and sacrificial love. The quality of sacrifice is in the love of the parents for the children; such love enables the children to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the parents, the husband for the wife, and the wife for the husband. This sacrificial love is the unchanging, essential quality of family love.</p>
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<p>Those who want to offer themselves for others will be raised up in every situation. Why is the Unification Church rising? It is simply because of our absolute sacrificial love for the world. We strive to give ourselves for the sake of the world and go beyond our own personal or selfish benefit. Because Reverend Moon has practiced this throughout his life, he’s rising like the sun. The Unification Church members will be the same. If you follow this principle, you will rise, too, because that is universal law.</p>
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<p>With this principle, we can even go down into hell and set about changing it into an unchanging world. Therefore, we don’t even fear or worry about going to hell, because we know we can make it into a heavenly place by our unchanging character. What do you think? Is this noble thinking? Hell is the assembly place for the most changeable persons. Thus we will go there and convert them into unchangeable people. Those hellish people will come after you, wanting to bite you, tear you apart. But you have to persevere until the final moment.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon has been withstanding, persevering for his entire 60 years. The world has tried to tear me apart, accuse me, persecute me, and I have endured it. That’s how I have accumulated the gifts of Heaven, something I can bring back home and give as a gift to God. I want to prepare such a gift package for God.</p>
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<p>My philosophy is rather simple. Truth and the principle of goodness are rather simple although they are difficult to practice. In this changeable world, are you the unchangeable men and women? How can I trust your statement? How can I test you? Do you say, “Put us in the melting pot; heat us in the oven and let us melt. We’ll turn into gold; then you’ll know you can trust us” If you were placed in a discotheque, that’s a melting pot, too. What happens? You can find several people who are ready to be converted into Moonies. You can bring several lost souls out of that place and convert them into gold chunks. When you follow the fashionable, secular way of life, you cannot bring anything precious and noble to God. What do you think? Is my statement correct?</p>
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<p>Your youth lasts only a short time. It will never come back. I know that this is a very precious moment of your life. How can you invest that precious moment for the best purpose? This is the key question. There are basically two ways. One way is to just have fun; enjoy life. Go out dancing and dating and pursuing your carnal desires. But another way is to burn the energy of your youthful passions for the sake of something good, something unchanging. In doing that, you will be persecuted but you will be doing something centered on God’s principle. Those are two ways you can invest your youth.</p>
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<p>Those two options are always there. They were available for me, as well, and they are available now to you. Those two options will be available to the future generations. The Unification Church also has two options. One is to absolutely follow Father’s way. The other is to “use your own judgment” Of two Unification leaders, which one do you think you would prefer to follow? You may have a central figure who, when I say something, says, “Let’s have a meeting and discuss whether we will adopt Father’s way or not” What would you think about such a thing?</p>
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<p>The important fact is that all of the central figures are under my direction. Because of my background and accumulated authority, there is no one among the church leaders who would challenge that. I have absolute faith and confidence through my own experiences, because of the Principle, and the heavenly revelation that this way of life and this movement will prosper and be the winner in the future.</p>
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<p>There are missionaries working throughout the world. The entire spirit world came down to assist many of those lonely missionaries in their unfamiliar lands. Why is that? Spirit world is of an unchanging quality, so they assist our missionaries because they are part of the unchanging character of Reverend Moon. They want to see the way of life that Reverend Moon is promoting flourish. Anybody under such suffering circumstances who is willing to suffer more will receive more power from spirit world. Those missionaries who said, “Oh no, I didn’t expect this. I must go back to my former way of life. This is too much,’ did not receive the help of spirit world. There are two types of missionaries.</p>
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<p>If you want to receive help from spirit world, there is one sure-fire way: go down to the bottom of hell. That is an iron rule of the Principle. People say “This sounds good to my ears, feels good to my mouth-I love to talk about it; but I don’t want to do it” No such excuse will work, because when you really hear goodness and speak goodness, then you have to do goodness. That is God’s rule.</p>
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<p>There are so many cases in America where people have said, “That sounds very good, but I don’t particularly care to join in that action. After listening to all of the Divine Principle, it’s a beautiful truth, a beautiful revelation, and I can accept everything. However, I want to remove one word: indemnity” But without indemnity, the foundation of the Principle is shaky. There is no value in it.</p>
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<p>I am living for the sake of the fulfillment of that one word: “indemnity” How about you? You must conquer the route of indemnity in order to open the heavenly door. You must look at indemnity as God does. Are you thinking that seriously about the meaning of the word indemnity? Do you say, “Here in America we are on the top of the world, so why should we need indemnity? We have everything”? That will not work. This is a showdown. The word indemnity divides heaven and hell.</p>
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<p>Indemnity is a defense against Satan because Satan says, “I want to go to heaven but because of indemnity, I cannot” Satan always declines indemnity. So as long as you hate the word indemnity, you are still remaining in hell. This subject will be taught during the Children’s Day Conference. It is very clear, but we don’t have time to finish today. Do you follow?</p>
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<p>There are two avenues or paths to follow in the last days. One is the hellish way, the other is the heavenly way. So there are two last worlds. As we know, evildoers will be destined to hell and good people will be destined to heaven. The question is, what is evil and what is good? Who are evil people, who are good people? Those who strive to keep the soul, the heart, the essence of life and who work to bring an unchanging quality into this world are the good people. Those who have lost their own essence and character and who compromise with the world by saying, “I just want to do things the way everybody else does,’ are the people who are destined to hell.</p>
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<p>I sacrificed my youth because I am wise, not because I am dumb or foolish. I have dedicated not only my youth, but my entire life for the sake of this principle. Now the time has come, however, that Reverend Moon has risen above the level of the world. The entire world has to recognize what I have done. So actually, the battle is over. No matter what the outcome of the court battle, it won’t bother me because victory has been declared. There is no power under the sun that can bring me to defeat.</p>
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<p>Where do you want to go? Are you destined to go to heaven or to hell Do you say, “Oh, Father, we failed so miserably. Please help us”? Or would you say, “Father, please come here; I’m waiting for you. I’ve laid out the red carpet for you” What kind of men and women would you like to become? Is it going to be easy to do that, however?</p>
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<p>I gave you the Blessing and I wish you to live well. That doesn’t necessarily mean for you to just live physically well. It does mean that I want you, as husband and wife, to be destined to Heaven. Even if it means that you two suffer together, or even if you two are separated here on earth, you shall be destined for Heaven. That is the true Blessing.</p>
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<p>As husband and wife, even if you had to be separated like the North and South Pole a thousand times, nothing should truly separate you. Here in America, where husband and wife can always be together, there are millions of separations. There is a drastic contrast between these two different types of couples. Which one is an unchanging couple- those who are physically separated but united in heart, or those physically united but heartistically separated? Who knows true unity?</p>
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<p>Even Satan, when he looks at this kind of couple, would take his hat off and bow down to you saying, “Truly, the Moonie couple is amazing; I can’t touch you” Satan would give up on you. The Moonie couple and family are like that; Moonie society is like that.</p>
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<p>Why should we live like this? I am pushing you this way so that you can get a diploma, a certificate of approval, and you can be accepted in the original world. When you are crossing the boundary between hell and Heaven, don’t you think you will need a certain ID card to pass? You must have a pass to go through the gate. In other words, if you are moving from one world to another, you actually must be approved by both worlds. Satan must say, “Yes, she deserves to go over there” And the Heavenly world must say, “Yes, she is qualified” Unless you have two passes, you cannot get there.</p>
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<p>How will you get that pass? You must fulfill the criteria of indemnity; that becomes your qualification. What is the basic essence, the content of indemnity? It is separation from Satan. Do you have a record of separating from Satan? If you have failed to obtain the indemnity passport, your only destiny is hell. Why do I let you suffer? It doesn’t bring me money or honor; it doesn’t bring me joy. So why do I push you into suffering? It is only because of my concern for your eternal life. I want you to receive the proper passport to Heaven. That passport must be signed by the True Father. There is no boundary with such a passport. To have it signed just by Dr. Durst, as an American Church passport would not do. You would not have total freedom. You have to fulfill the requirements, otherwise that passport will not be issued. Thus the final world of Heaven and hell will be determined by that passport.</p>
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<p>As you know, the ultimate showdown comes when you die. Inevitably, the final world will come at that time. At that moment, the important thing is whether you have that passport ready. Do you have it? You’re working on it. How long are you going to be working on it? Who knows if you will die today or tomorrow? Who knows if you will live another ten, twenty, or fifty years? This is a serious matter; it is not a joke.</p>
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<p>God would like to see more individuals, more families, more societies, and nations receive this passport. This is how the Heavenly Kingdom can be created here on earth. It is God’s desire that more people pass this test. God wants to have one nation obtain this passport so that then He can bequeath the entire creation to that nation. That is the ultimate purpose of creation. Then Satan could not even approach you.</p>
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<p>What about you? Have you completely separated from Satan? Does he have nothing more to do with you? There must be separation from Satan on the individual level, the family, clan, society, national and the world level, as well as the cosmic level. There are many different levels of the separation from Satan. When did you separate from Satan? You know the Principle. How did you separate? You should answer, “Only by paying indemnity have I separated from Satan”</p>
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<p>Those who have a good post or a title, who are leaders of the Unification Church but who are actually doing nothing, just wasting their time, are rascals. They are like a walking pyramid of devils, I feel. It doesn’t matter if you are a scholar or a national leader, if you don’t pass this indemnity test, you are nothing.</p>
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<p>No one really teaches indemnity; you have to find your own way. But you have a guide-the Principle. If you fail this test, then you are destined to hell. There is no way out. This is not a threat. In order to undo the fall, the road of indemnity is inevitable. We are going to erase all the false writing that has been made on the white sheet of history. You may erase and erase and erase until you’re almost dead and it still won’t be erased. When you are stretched out until you have almost given up, when you feel you have nothing left that is how much effort it takes to eliminate fallen nature from ourselves.</p>
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<p>As long as you have fallen nature within you, Satan will say, “This is my property” He will make his claim. This is the very reason Jesus said, “Whoever tries to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake shall find it” (Matt. 16:25) This teaching sounds paradoxical, but it is perfectly fitting. You have to erase everything down to the completely white original paper, even cleaner than the original. Why? Then God can forget the dark memory of the fall of man. We want to erase that memory within the heart of God.</p>
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<p>From this standpoint, you can see how childish and naive your thinking has been. While the American public is living so well, do you want to live even better than they, or do you want to go to the pits of hell? America must empty herself for the sake of the poor. Those Americans who are willing to give their profits, heart, soul, their very lives for the sake of the poor-for people in Africa, South America, Central America, the Middle East-they are the Americans who will go to Heaven. There is no question about that.</p>
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<p>You have to face the extreme. For example, when Africans come to America, instead of saying, “This is a heavenly country. I can live and eat well here,’ they should put themselves at a lower level for the sake of America. Then Africa will go to Heaven. When African members come to America, I will not let them enjoy themselves. I will bring them down to the worst possible level and let them suffer. I will send them to the black communities to develop their parental heart.</p>
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<p>Who will do more, who will take a more public stand? That’s the key question. If black people are more sacrificial for the sake of America, then they will be the winners. If they are only self-centered, they will be the losers. Laziness is the worst enemy of the black community. Reverend Moon came to America to wipe out that laziness. South America is the “mañana” country. In Brazil, for example, if they don’t accomplish something today, they don’t care; they can do it tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. But that is not acceptable to me.</p>
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<p>I came to ignite the fires of revolution in people’s hearts, so they can change drastically and give up their old habits and bad traditions, and be molded into a new beings. Let’s say there are three women living together. How can you evaluate which one will go the highest heaven? It’s very simple. The person who wants to dedicate and sacrifice herself the most for the sake of others is the person who will become the center person. The sacrificial person becomes the Abel, the center in spirit.</p>
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<p>This is the reason the Unification Church cannot be divided; this principle is absolute. Who will be standing on the Heavenly side? You know very clearly. Whether someone is self-centered or public-centered will determine the leadership. This formula will override all other rules or laws of Heaven and earth. It goes beyond them all.</p>
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<p>Of the CAUSA leadership, who shall ultimately be the center among them? Those who sacrifice more for the public purpose. It is simple. Whoever suffers and sacrifices more for the sake of the world will become the center of the world. Is this rule right or wrong? Is it correct only when Reverend Moon is preaching, or is it correct forever? The sacrificial person will become the center of his home. Likewise, in society, that kind of individual will become the center. On the national level, as well as the world, that kind of individual will be in the center.</p>
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<p>In the entire world, there is only one person preaching this principle, over and over again, and that is Reverend Moon. No matter what happens to me, I will never change. I continue to push for this one principle throughout my life. Even if you all fulfill and harvest the results of this principle, still I will teach the same thing. Are you the harvested fruit, the seed?</p>
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<p>You say, “Father, you always talk about the same thing at Belvedere” I tell you, even though this generation comes and goes, I will still preach the same principle, because it is the cardinal rule. If there was a shortcut, I would have been the first to find and take it.</p>
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<p>Do you want to receive the passport to Heaven? The Unification Church has true Moonies and false Moonies. Which one are you? I see only one true Moonie here, and that’s myself! There is still a certain gap between my thinking and yours. That means you are not yet a true Moonie.</p>
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<p>In measuring anything, you have to have a standard. If you want to be absolutely accurate, you have to apply that standard absolutely. Then you can expand that standard in all four directions; you can be sure you are correct.</p>
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<p>Our title today, “The Final World Centered Upon Good and Evil”, indicates the goal or target for anyone to become a true Moonie. You will achieve that goal only by principled living, by completely uniting yourselves with this principle. Then you shall survive and prosper. Just analyze yourself and your deeds from this standpoint and way of life. You have to abolish your self-centered family, nation, and world concepts and change them to God-centered concepts, as I have been teaching you. You need to receive these concepts and forsake your old ones.</p>
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<p>If America wants to live up to the absolute will of God, then America must follow this principle and give up herself for the sake of the world. President Reagan’s announcement that the Marines should go to Grenada to protect the American interests and the 1000 American lives there wasn’t good enough, in my eyes. There are 400 billion people around the world, and there are 150 million dead from the yoke of communism. For the sake of all the enslaved human beings, America should sacrifice herself. The President’s announcement should have acknowledged that. Then God’s blessing could be given to America. America must be centered upon the fulfillment of God’s will in a sacrificial way. Then this nation shall be blessed.</p>
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<p>Communists are the tools of Satan and Satan is a liar. Because they routinely resort to lies, it is clearly impossible to create conferences or any kind of reasonable dialogue with communists. Communist regimes are the most changeable of all; they are absolutely irresponsible, cruel and barbaric. In order to deal with them, we have to enforce an unchanging quality, an unchanging principle and a sacrificial way of life. That is the only way we will overcome them. My goal is Moscow. I have a long way to go, but I have already come a long way. My suffering in America is as nothing; I am anticipating even greater suffering. If you cannot follow me during this American battle, I will be going on to greater hardship and suffering and you will not be there. I want to train you to be the “remnant,” those who will remain, who can survive to the last. That is the kind of men and women I want to see.</p>
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<p>Do you think going to Moscow will be easy? Do you think the suffering there will be lesser or greater? For that reason, I let you suffer here in America. You have not seen suffering yet in this country, in these circumstances. For three to seven years, you must give your life and your soul to this land; then you will become a true American who can inherit the God-centered, blessed America. I am pushing you to become the surviving remnant. When the missionaries went out, I never even looked at them for seven years. Compared to their lives, you cannot even say you have suffered. Reverend Moon is, in a way, God’s missionary to America. Isn’t that true?</p>
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<p>Did I receive a hearty welcome in America? No, I was rejected; the foundation I have laid in America has been created upon rejection after rejection. The world and America must come to recognize Reverend Moon’s accomplishments. They cannot deny them because I built them upon rejection. I have suffered ten, even a hundred times more than you. I face problems all the time. Witnessing and fundraising are ten times easier than that. How can you complain or doubt or be wishy-washy when you know what I face? We still have a long way to go to reach the final world.</p>
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<p>God is not looking at only you; He is looking through you at the world, your nation, your family. You are at the center, like the chosen champion-that’s the way God expects you to fulfill your responsibility. Do you think that kind of responsibility is easy? You may cope on the individual or family level, but what about the national or world level? I am coping with that level all the time. Therefore, all you have to do is unite with me and then my triumph becomes yours. Thus you should always ask me to give you more suffering, more challenge, ask me to let you do more for the sake of the world. Such men and women shall truly become the children of God, pious sons and daughters. But I want you to know that I will never let you do it alone; I will always be with you.</p>
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<p>Those who are determined to become champions and be centered on goodness at the end of the world, raise your hands please. God bless you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">October 4, 1983<br />
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Belvedere<br />
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<p>Have you ever thought about what we mean exactly by <em>“Day of Heavenly Victory?”</em> Does it mean the victory of Heaven in America, or in the world, or throughout history and throughout the cosmos? Does it mean that every person has gone successfully through his path of restoration and that everything is going properly in the world? Certainly not, so what exactly is the victory of Heaven?</p>
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<p>If you had to answer that question on a test, what would you write? You would fail the test if you couldn’t answer that question. Since you don’t fully know the answer, it is probably very good for you to listen to my explanation.</p>
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<p>God established His ideal and goals for the creation in the very beginning. Once He accomplished His goals, that would have been the completion of His ideal. We know that the ideal does not exist totally within God but requires the participation of His creation. Therefore the word “Heaven” does not exist alone; it requires a corresponding position to have meaning.</p>
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<p>When you write “Heaven” in Chinese, you use the characters representing two persons. Oriental people have been using characters in their writing which contain a lot of revelatory information without realizing it.</p>
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<p>The immensity of Heaven can be filled by the presence of two persons. All the things of creation might protest when they hear such a statement, saying, “What about all of us! Are you completely ignoring us and including only mankind?” God would answer, “You do not understand. Before I ever created mankind, I created all the different components that would go into them. That is what all of you are.”</p>
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<p>Perhaps all the things of creation would scrutinize what God said and complain, “I don’t see myself in any of those human beings.” But God would tell them, “Everything in creation is included within human beings. Nothing exists which is not included.” Then all things might say, “Please show us some proof.” How would God prove it? He could say, “Let’s have an entertainment program. Let’s challenge human beings to imitate the gestures of all the other forms of creation.”</p>
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<p>Man could imitate the way a bird walks and the birds would watch very closely. Then the lark could ask the human to mimic its voice; the sheep and the cow could do the same and man could do it. Perhaps it would take all day long, but finally God could say, “Now do you agree that all of you are represented in human beings?” They would have to agree.</p>
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<p>This is why the Divine Principle calls man “the microcosm of the universe.” Each person is a tiny universe. Thus we can more fully understand why two persons represent the entirety of Heaven. When we say “two persons,” do we mean two men, two women, or what? We mean one man and one woman! That is the only combination possible that could include all the aspects of the creation. One person must be a plus and the other must be a minus.</p>
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<p>You may think you clearly understand the Divine Principle, but you haven’t asked enough questions of yourselves. The original plus being is God, the origin of the universe. When you understand that God is a plus being, it can make Him seem closer to you, instead of considering Him a far away, distant figure. Men are predominantly plus but they have an element of minus in them; likewise women are predominantly minus but they have an element of plus. There are certain basically plus characteristics and certain minus characteristics within the sung-sang element of man. We can see these things very clearly, now that it has been laid out in logical form. But nobody in the past has ever had such a complete and all-encompassing understanding.</p>
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<p>God is the original plus being and mankind is the original minus being. Within that entity of mankind is perfected man and perfected woman. They are intended to become true parents. What do true parents do? Once they are perfected they become one with the original plus being. When a strong positive electrical current exists, it will flow down into a strong negative current and they will produce a tremendous spark of light. What is it that original man and woman produce when they spark together? True love. All mature men and women have the potential for a tremendous spark.</p>
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<p>You might ask God, “Why did You impose a regulation or commandment on love? Why can’t man and woman just do whatever they feel like doing as soon as they are capable?” Because of the Divine Principle, we can know the answer. The commandment not to eat which God gave to the first man and woman was a great thing, for which they should have been grateful. It was all right for the man and woman to be close to each other, but there was one thing they could not do. They were not supposed to enter each other’s holy palace of love; God told them they could do anything else, just not that one thing.</p>
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<p>Once those two had become perfected according to God’s standard, God’s original plus of love could have moved into their palaces of love. That was the plan for creation. Today the Unification Church members are receiving the same commandment. Why is that? It is because original love is waiting for you. That is a most beautiful and powerful thing.</p>
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<p>Now that we understand this beautiful plan of creation, we can look at the way love has been degraded in the secular world, particularly in America; truly that love is no higher than that of dogs or other animals. We can determine not to take part in any of that degraded love which Satan has produced. Knowing the principle, we can see that what passes for love in the secular world is something outside of principle and therefore the source of man’s destruction, not his perfection.</p>
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<p>These are simple but extremely important points which must be understood if we are to figure out the rest of the problems of the world and ourselves. As soon as the people of the world find out that Reverend Moon is opening the gate to this understanding, they will start to run after him and try to go with him. You state leaders and IOWC leaders, will you also follow after Reverend Moon at any cost?</p>
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<p>You may say, “Yes, I am trying to follow after Reverend Moon but he always gives me such a hard time, how can I follow?” Why should Reverend Moon do such a thing? When I look at you, I can see that you are not alone in your pursuit of me; someone else is following you. Satan is coming after you with a dark cloth to envelope you; therefore, I must pull you free.</p>
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<p>The average person doesn’t realize that Satan is following after him because he can’t see him. He might be told about Satan and then turn around and say, “Satan, go away!” but he can’t see him anywhere. Therefore, I must kick and push that person. At that point Satan will come and whisper in his ears, “It’s not worth it to follow Reverend Moon.” Should I leave that person alone to do things exactly as he sees fit, or should I try to pull him toward God in the shortest possible time?</p>
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<p>When two people are engaged to be blessed, they might be tempted to focus entirely on their love and ignore my warnings, saying, “After we are truly united we can listen to Father.” Then they put my words second in priority to their relationship. Such people are definitely going in the wrong direction to find original, true love. It doesn’t matter how difficult it is to get to our goal as long as we get there.</p>
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<p>Why should the state and IOWC members listen to their leaders? It is so they can come closer to me and understand God’s situation better. Each member must understand what the highest Abel is saying. Then if one of their intermediate Abels starts to do things which are inconsistent with my goals, they can report that to me. Who is the highest Abel? From the Divine Principle perspective, I will demote any leader who is inconsistent with my words.</p>
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<p>To disentangle Satan from an individual and chase him away is my greatest responsibility on earth. Whom do you like to follow, the central figure who is always sweet to you or the highest leader who is always harsh? In the very beginning, Adam and Eve listened to an “intermediate Abel,” the archangel, who came to them with sweet words which were inconsistent with God’s words. God had said, “Don’t,” but the archangel said, “Do,” and that was easier to follow.</p>
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<p>Although I will be kind to you most of the time, when it comes to this principle I will never compromise and I will be harsh. My simple rule of judgment is whether a person follows this principle, even though it is very difficult. If he does, I know he is going the right way. But if someone refuses this principle and only wants to go the easy way, I know he has the wrong attitude. How can I judge other people’s intentions so clearly? Because I myself have gone the same way and I have always found that there are at least two ways to do something-the easy way and the more difficult way. My intuition always told me that the difficult way was also the right way to go and sure enough, it always was.</p>
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<p>This is most serious. Only you can be the ultimate judge of whether you are following this principle. No central figure, even Reverend Moon, can guide you 100%. This is so serious that I am harsh, not only with all the leaders, but also with Mother. Actually I am harshest of all with Mother. Even though she might be totally exhausted after some event, I will urge her to continue. That is not because I hate her but because I love her. I cannot bend the principle for anyone.</p>
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<p>Without the eyeglasses of this principle, it is often impossible to judge whether a person is truly righteous or not. But when you know that the person who is willing to go the difficult way has to have a righteous motivation, then you can see people more clearly. Some American members might have thought, “Until now, things were always sunshiny but since all those Japanese, European and Korean elders came, the weather is getting very cloudy!” However, if the weather here in America remained only sunshiny bright all the time without any clouds and rain, it would soon dry up and become a desert, don’t you agree? Therefore, please welcome any clouds that come along!</p>
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<p>This is supposed to be a day of celebration, so why am I giving such a harsh and principle-oriented talk? It is because this is the most crucial, basic point. I must be sure that you understand this because until you do, you are not really qualified to listen to the meaning of the Day of Heavenly Victory.</p>
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<p>Certainly, I agree that the climate of the American movement has been shiny and bright, but that brightness will never bring rain. Only with clouds and pouring rain can America receive the outpouring of spirit; without that, America will just dry up. There are two ways to go: the easy way of constant sunshine until you dry up, or the difficult way of clouds and rain which will bring the outpouring of spirit, and ultimately prosperity.</p>
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<p>People in the secular world say, “Why do you Moonies go out on rainy days and work? Why not just go out when the weather is nice?” However, Moonies ignore those words because we can only claim our victory and our pride once we have gone through the difficult days. You must know this point clearly. Are you only thinking about your own happiness with your wife or husband? I know your thinking so I am teaching you these things.</p>
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<p>We are now standing on the most fearful crossroads because of this principle. Once you tell me, “I understand what you say,” you had better realize that you will be expected to carry it out. If you don’t want this kind of purpose, then you can do freely whatever you want. But if you listen to me and you understand the seriousness of this, you will have to follow. It is true that younger members can learn from older members but you must always be careful. Discern whether the judgment of older members is actually right, according to this principle.</p>
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<p>I am making myself available just like a ladder. You can climb on me in order to go up higher. Will you tell me, “I want to climb on you, Father, but please make it easy.”? I want to make it as easy as possible, but there are certain principles which I cannot bend or alter. I want to tell you members who have been in the movement for many years that if you have the ears and the eyes to receive what I am saying here, the American church will begin to prosper. Not enough members are doing that.</p>
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<p>Go ahead and try what you might think is the best way to go. I can guarantee that the only way is the way I am directing, even though it is very difficult. If the road were broad and smooth, many would have chosen it. There is only one road to the goal, and that road is narrow. The True Parents have worked at the risk of their lives, with backbreaking effort, to make this road passable for individuals, families, nations and the world. Can you try to follow that path now and expect it to be easy? Can you say, “No matter what Father says, I will go the way I choose.”?</p>
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<p>I am now giving the same direction to every member in the Unification Church: if you know that your central figure is not going in the same direction as Reverend Moon, you are now authorized to leave that IOWC commander or leader and go where you know the leader is following my direction. Of course, you must let someone know what you are doing. You should call Kim Tamura here at Belvedere, who will record it and let Headquarters know.</p>
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<p>The same thing applies to all you state leaders. If you want to protest to me, saying, “Father, you are not living up to the principle which you have taught me,” that is fine; you can go where you feel you can do it better. But then you have to make your report to God! You can tell God that you don’t think my method will work and that you are taking over as chief restorer. Who knows, God might accept that! Is that fair enough? The same principle applies to every state leader, commander, Korean leaders, and so forth. There is no exception.</p>
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<p>The only thing we really care about is reaching the goal of true love. Everything else is subordinated to that. This is the most wonderful of news. Once we penetrate that point, everything will be accomplished; we will not have to do more.</p>
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<p>You must think about the current world situation. Look at it through God’s eyes. Who can solve the problems for God? If we can solve these problems, we will be the greatest people of history. We must proclaim to God, “We will do it! No matter how difficult, even unto our lives, we will do it!” God will be so grateful that we took care of His problems and that we are making one ideal family.</p>
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<p>I have spoken to you for a few minutes in English so that we can communicate directly. I know that Korean is very difficult for you to learn, but you have to be able to understand me. By learning Korean, you can understand the spiritual world more clearly. Are you studying Korean? You must study hard. Korean has twenty-four characters in its alphabet. You can learn them within twenty minutes. There are just a few sounds, such as “th,” which are not included; except for that the Korean language can pronounce the sounds of all the other languages in the world. For this reason, Koreans can learn other languages quickly.</p>
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<p>This is my honest opinion and not just because I am Korean. The Korean language is the best for people to express deep feelings, especially between lovers, and for the expression of profound religious feelings. Therefore, will you quickly learn it? Koreans have a kind of “revolutionary” character. They want to do things in a dramatic, total way, not in just a simple, linear way. That is why God chose a Korean to come to America. Only with a revolutionary way of thinking could anyone deal with this giant, cumbersome country.</p>
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<p>What is our biggest purpose? It is to reach our goal of true love. All the other things are minor and transitory. In our Pledge, what do we claim to be proud of? One people, language, and culture centered upon God. What is that culture? Do you think the American culture is God’s culture? What about the Korean culture? No, God’s culture is the Adam culture. Who is at the center of the Adam culture? True love is at the center. There is only one true love, not many different ones. Thus we are proud to use the language of the true love culture.</p>
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<p>True Adam is the True Father. The true language is the one which the true children inherit from the True Parents. That is the principled view of “true language.” How do you know that Reverend Moon is the True Parent? Actually, you don’t really know. Once you go to spirit world, though, you will know. The True Parenthood doesn’t come from Reverend Moon himself, it comes from God; so unless you know God, there is no way you can know the True Parents. Thus you are in the process of learning about the True Parents, about God, and all the aspects of spirit world. You certainly cannot claim to know everything at this time.</p>
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<p>You are like university students, in the “universal university” of the True Parents. If you don’t learn about every point from the professor, you can’t be qualified for your diploma. The Unification Church has all the different grades of students-from kindergarten through elementary school and on up through college and the postgraduate level. Everybody is learning together and striving for the same ultimate goal.</p>
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<p>You have many different excuses for not studying, “Because of my wife/husband, I couldn’t make a good grade,” and so forth. However, those excuses will never take you to the destination. Unlike some of the traditional Christian churches, who think they can do whatever they want and still get a passing grade for Heaven, it is not easy to receive a diploma from True Father’s school.</p>
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<p>If we could give grades to Heaven itself, wouldn’t you prefer to go to the PhD level, rather than the elementary school level? In order to get there, you must have great discipline. You must be able to deny yourself; you cannot just look at or listen to whatever you feel like, and you cannot just sleep whenever you might feel like it. Such is the life you are leading now. I have been working throughout my life for the purpose of preparing the course for you.</p>
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<p>You may have been a member for many years and perhaps a leader for a long time in the church, but you should ask yourself seriously how much you really know the True Father. Many scholars outside the church study comparative religion and sometimes they understand more than you do. Thus how can you claim seniority? These are important points which I am digressing to explain; I want you to be fully aware of these things.</p>
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<p>In order for a man and woman to get completely close to each other, they must first be close to God and the True Parents. The person who understands God and the Parents can then become one with another person. Until such time, you must restore the ability to truly love each other with the brotherly and sisterly heart.</p>
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<p>God will come to visit you, even though you may not know that He is near. When the moment of contact between man and God, the original plus being, occurs it will be like lightning. Then the entire universe will be shocked by that love and they will explode in joy because their original Subject will have come into them. So far, that has not been achieved.</p>
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<p>The talk this morning is centered on the <em>Day of the Victory of Heaven</em>. Let me ask you a question: is the Day of Victory of Heaven that day in which all the population of the earth has joined the Unification Church? Is the Day of Victory of Heaven the day in which all the people of the earth welcome the Unification Church and rejoice that it is here? No, the Day of Victory of Heaven is the day when the original plus being became one with the original minus being, man. How many people are required to achieve that? Only one man and one woman, plus God, making oneness in love as husband and wife. But before a man and woman become husband and wife, the principle requires that they become brother and sister in the true sense, with true brotherly and sisterly love.</p>
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<p>That is our pattern. You get matched as an engaged couple and then you relate like a brother and sister, going your separate ways. You should remind each other, “We must listen to our parents first of all.” After you have become one on that level, you can reach the level of true parents yourself. That is the path of reaching the heart of true love. Thus you are preparing yourselves to become true parents, by first becoming true brothers and sisters, then true couples. Unless you go through these stages, you cannot give birth to true children. Can you reach that level? If you do not, your children will accuse you.</p>
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<p>We know clearly how Adam and Eve failed along their path to that goal. In order to correct their failure, you must understand what I have been discussing today. Do you think I, too, have had to follow this road of principle or am I exempt because of a special power from God? I had to be the first person to go this path. Satan knows clearly what is needed for God to come into this world; therefore, all his forces were mobilized to block True Parents from reaching all the way to God. He knew that if the True Parents were not established, he would have been able to reign without interference forever.</p>
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<p>Satan’s forces tried everything to stop the True Parents from achieving unity, striving to block each step which they had to climb. Thus the strongest time of persecution and effort on the part of Satan centered on that day of the victory of Heaven. Satan always tries to work through a person’s immediate family-the people closest to him-in order to get him. The entire family must achieve unity with no one being outside that unity.</p>
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<p>Both Satan and God knew very well that the path of restoration lay in the unity of True Parents and their family. God was hoping for that to happen and Satan was hoping to prevent it. God provided the proper religious environment around the world, through Judaism and Christianity and so forth, to help His goal to be achieved.</p>
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<p>History has a clear cause and effect. If the religious leaders had helped Jesus during his time, the world could have been restored then and the misery of the world would have ended. All the twelve tribes could have achieved unity as well. Today the disharmony between Arabs and Israelis is the result of that failure of 2,000 years ago to achieve the unity between the twelve tribes. There is no way to achieve unity between the Arabs and Jews outside of the teaching of the Divine Principle because that is the only way they can possibly understand each other and overcome their differences. You may have wondered why we hold the Conference on God and the Youth Seminars; the main reason is that we are striving to bring about that unity.</p>
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<p>If established Christianity only knew about the Cain and Abel principle in God’s dispensation, America could have come into perfect unity as the Abel country after World War II. That was the most opportune time, but because of ignorance it didn’t happen. The entire earth could have been united under God, even the Soviet Union, but America did not seize that opportunity. Therefore, God could not stop communism from rising up and striking at America.</p>
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<p>Nobody else understands this historical fact. Now is the time for Christianity to be revived and to fulfill its destiny. America is deteriorating morally because of Christianity’s declining influence here. All the religions of the world must be brought into unity as well.</p>
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<p>Satan knows very well that God wants to see the unity of the world. Thus communism is striving to do that very thing-under Satan’s guidance. He wants to destroy America in the process. There is no other religion in the world that sees this fact; the Unification Church is alone in proclaiming it. Reverend Moon is the only one bringing an ideology powerful enough to defeat communism, but many Americans are turning against Reverend Moon and are inadvertently aiding Satan’s efforts in this country.</p>
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<p>That which America had the potential to establish after World War II has been recreated by Reverend Moon- uniting all different kinds of people, reviving the Christian spirit, and so forth-except we have had to do it without any nation’s support. While I was carrying this out individually, I was opposed on every level-by friends, members of my family, and the country. You can inherit the victory which is established on a certain foundation, but once that foundation is lost you cannot go straight to the original goal. Once you become a sinner, there is no way to get back to the original state without indemnity. Thus the Unification Church’s most important teaching is that of indemnity. Indemnity is the key to reaching Heaven.</p>
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<p>Indemnity is, first of all, the key to opening Heaven. I knew when I had to go up the sharpest hill of indemnity. Because the established Christian churches in Korea opposed me, I had to re-indemnify that. This is why I founded a true ecumenical movement. There is no other way to get back to the original situation than by loving our enemies, those who persecute us. Therefore, we must love the established Christian churches regardless of what they do against us.</p>
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<p>It was at this time in 1976 when I made all the re-indemnity conditions. Then all the opposing forces were massed together-including all the free world, Christians, Jewish people, and communists. We sent missionaries to 127 nations around the world, to indemnify the fact that all the world came against our movement.</p>
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<p>There has never before been a religious leader in history who was attacked by the entire world and all the other religions as well. Satan was saying, “All right, you made a family and a clan; but let’s see if you can survive this worldwide opposition.” Even Mother herself didn’t understand what I was doing. All she had to do was have absolute confidence in me and follow my direction. This condition was very significant for Mother. If she was able to support me throughout all the trying times, she was also able to take the victory with me. Whatever I was able to accomplish was equally shared with Mother because she made me the success that I was. You, the children, had the same responsibility as Mother: simply to support the True Father.</p>
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<p>The Washington Monument rally was the peak time of the opposition from the entire world; since then it has been dying down. Satan’s explicit purpose of opposing our movement in 1976 was to chase us away from America, but he failed. After that, people started to wonder how Reverend Moon had been able to produce such a large scale rally in America when he couldn’t even speak English.</p>
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<p>Those things which America needed but was totally unable to do have been done by Reverend Moon. At this time, people are giving Reverend Moon credit for being an indispensable person for America, but you can look back and see where we started. Many people are beginning to understand the value of Reverend Moon to this country. Much of their opportunity was wasted, but they still have the chance to follow God’s direction.</p>
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<p>If they put me in jail, I will stay there for a year and a half, then I will have to completely give up on America. I will have to leave and God, too, will leave this country. This is why I am exhorting all you Americans to try their best at this time. This is not a threat or a retaliation against injustice; it is purely the prediction, based on the Divine Principle, of what the world will become in the future. Do all you fifty state leaders clearly understand now, on behalf of all Americans? This is why I have so often spoken of having to leave the country.</p>
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<p>Until 1985, even if the government fails to understand and support us, we must educate the American people ourselves, telling them about what is imminent in God’s providence. You must understand clearly that this is why all the Japanese, Korean, German and European members have come here. The American people must be made to understand during these next two or three years.</p>
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<p>Like the three days of darkness of Jesus, these next three years will be our chance to rise above the cross. If we are determined to even go to jail for the next three years if that can bring life to America, we can go over the time of crucifixion. But if nobody does anything victorious, we will certainly be defeated.</p>
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<p>Many people have started to see that our movement is capable of protecting this country from communist infiltration and takeover. Americans are also beginning to realize that our movement has the only solution to the problems of drug abuse and youthful degradation, as well as the widespread immorality and the deterioration of Christian influence.</p>
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<p>The Israelites never realized who Jesus was until after he was dead; but by then it was too late. Now, before Americans crucify Reverend Moon, they must understand and appreciate his value and for the next three years start to follow the guidance and direction of our movement. If that happens, they will be most fortunate.</p>
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<p>There is truly a potential for blessing in America because many leaders, including intellectuals and government people, are beginning to realize this point. The persecution of 1976 is being reversed; instead of trying to chase our movement out of the country, many leaders of Christian churches are standing up and speaking out for us. If we can teach Americans the value of the Divine Principle during these next three years, the country can be saved.</p>
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<p>All of the money that our church has been making and all of the effort we have been expending has been for the sake of America. If Americans beg us to continue our work, then I would have to think twice whether I should accept their apology and stay here. That is the position I am in now. Many people in South America are calling to Reverend Moon and asking for him to come there.</p>
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<p>These next three years are our opportunity to march forward into Canaan. If you don’t make it, all your descendants will blame you. Those Israelites who refused to listen to Moses in the wilderness all perished. From 1945 until 1985 is our forty years’ wilderness period. The entire world is actually in the wilderness-turmoil and tribulation are occurring everywhere. But now that time is coming to an end.</p>
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<p>The European leaders have their own pressing timetable and responsibilities. However, there is nothing more important than the crucial moment the world is facing, centered upon America. That is why those Europeans were called here; in the long run, their work will be of greater benefit to their own country than if they stayed home at this time. If those European leaders do not see this clearly and have left America without seeking my permission, they are really short-sighted. They will leave a big stain on the history of the dispensation.</p>
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<p>Nothing is more important than God’s dispensation at this time, so everything else must be subordinated to it. Have you ever stopped to think that it is up to you whether or not America will accept and welcome True Parents? That is a truly honorable and important task in God’s dispensation. I know that any individual or family that misses this once-in-history opportunity to help install the position of True Parents in this country and world, will cry out with regret for generations to come. This is certainly not a threat but an assessment of the world, based upon the Divine Principle. Do you understand?</p>
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<p>This day of October 4, 1976, was the day when the persecution started to turn around. That was the day when the True Parents could put down their marker in the earth. Instead of passively enduring persecution, we could take the offensive against Satan and begin to work positively for God. That was the first time when True Parents’ settlement could be established and the possibility of your settlement came into being. Therefore, on the first day of this year, which was seven years after that victory, I proclaimed the motto, “Home Church Is Our Land of Settlement.” For the first time, our motto included the idea of settlement.</p>
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<p>Since the True Parents struggled against evil on the world level to establish the Heavenly settlement, all the members of their family must fight against evil to establish their own settlements. Until that point in 1976, there was no time in the history of the Unification Church when we could even begin to take an offensive position toward the persecution. But now, for the first time, we have assumed a rightly aggressive stance. During the next three years, if we win this fight, all the problems will be dissipated. After that victory, no matter what we do-dancing all day and night-nobody will accuse us for it.</p>
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<p>The original man and woman became one and settled down, just like God’s original plan of creation. This was accomplished even while Satan’s forces were opposing them on every level. Fighting against Satan, the Parents established their eternal settlement on the earth, and that was the Day of the Victory of Heaven. When that happened, God was no longer limited to working only on the vertical level, but was also able to work horizontally. Until then, you had to pray so deeply and strongly before you could receive any direct guidance from God through spirit world. But now, since you are horizontally aligned with the True Parents, each of you can receive guidance from spirit world directly in your work. How encouraging that is and so much easier for you to make your best effort! From this time on, since we are in the realm of the horizontal influence, this can happen more and more.</p>
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<p>By the True Parents “settling down,” I do not mean that we will continue to live where we are now, in America. It means that wherever True Parents may go, the dispensation can be continued based upon that country.</p>
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<p>Where is that Heaven for which we have cried out for so long? It is right here on the earth, not somewhere in space. Heaven begins when we survive and win over all the persecution and opposition. We are together here in America from all the different countries and races, working like a hurricane to establish God’s domain. This country represents the world; beginning here, we can spread God’s settlement over the whole earth. Then we can live the original way of life.</p>
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<p>Those Japanese members did not come over here to make a living for you Americans! You must save this country. All you state leaders-do you understand that? It is good for you to make this determination on the Day of Heavenly Victory. Moses got discouraged and blocked from succeeding in his mission by his tribal chiefs. You fifty state leaders are in the position of those tribal chiefs. You must lead and teach with all your energy. No matter what, we must bring everyone into Canaan.</p>
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<p>This Day of the Victory of Heaven is the day when Heaven had the minimum foundation here on earth for God, the original plus being, and the original man and woman to get together and realize God’s ideal of creation. From that small foundation onward, it can grow in strength. Such is the significance of this day. I want you to know that all the work I have done was for the sake of this victorious day. The victorious result of all my life is what I am about to give to you by letting you work for the next three years. Compared to my entire lifetime, this is a tremendous privilege for you.</p>
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<p>Up to now, I have personally struggled around the world-Korea, Japan, and now the U.S. But you don’t have to go anywhere else besides this country for the next three years, fighting for God’s providence, and it will be the same victory as the one I gained after a lifetime of struggle.</p>
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<p>This is the moment of declaration to this country and the whole world. America can never solve its own problems without the guidance of Reverend Moon and the Divine Principle. There is no place in the world for America unless it follows this guidance. If the rest of America is not listening, how about you Moonies? Do you believe that what I am saying is true? Do you KNOW this is true? How can you know it? All the hundreds of things Reverend Moon predicted in the past have come true. Therefore, you can trust that what I am predicting now about the future must also come true.</p>
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<p>Even now if someone says Reverend Moon is the Lord of the Second Advent, many people respond, “It is possible. Reverend Moon seems to have that potential.” So during the next three years, are you really going to dedicate your entire energies with utmost seriousness, or are you going to straggle along like in the past?</p>
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<p>I know that this is the only way for you to go; either you must do it now or much later. Do those things during the next three years which you can tell stories about for the rest of your life! The record you establish during this time will be the public record of your relationship with me. No one has ever before stood and proclaimed so clearly what a good reward you can claim if you do certain things during the next three years. These words of encouragement are truly a blessing for all those who happen to be participating in today’s celebration.</p>
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<p>Can you imagine that the Unification Church could ever be more persecuted than we were in 1976? The only way that could happen would be if America completely failed and communism took over the world; if that happened, then no Moonies would survive. But as long as America survives in the dispensation, America doesn’t even have to fight against communism. The Unification movement will directly solve the problem of communism without any fighting. We can solve all the problems of youth degradation and drug abuse as well, very simply.</p>
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<p>Therefore, continue working for the goal of educating the American people. Let them know how much they need the True Parents. I expect you to be brave and audacious. Is this a moment of pride for you, or misery?</p>
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<p>If I explained everything I have said in exact detail, it would be too complicated. The person who listened would have had an added burden of responsibility, so I just give the broad points and you can still be on God’s side without such a burden. This is a principle which I have followed in teaching you.</p>
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<p>Each of you must achieve your own Day of Victory of Heaven before you can achieve your perfect unity as a couple with God. Unless you do that, you will not rise above the situation you are in; you will be unable to settle. You should be grateful that I am so concerned about your own day of settlement.</p>
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<p>You want to love your spouse, don’t you? The Day of Victory of Heaven will be transferred to you and you can establish your own day of victory by following the victory of True Parents in the two or three years to come. When this happens, the Unification Church will not have to face anything like the persecution we faced in the past; nobody will have to be martyred again. When America comes securely within God’s domain, communism will be no problem in the world even though they might appear to be very mighty.</p>
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<p>I have thought that ,in order to continue God’s will in America, we could raise up Senators and Congressmen centered on God. God certainly does not want to see weak, self-centered Congressmen in this country; He wants a righteous president and government. This is why I have worked so hard to train you how to win over communism. This has been my continual purpose.</p>
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<p>Are you going to inherit that Day of Victory of Heaven? You should organize your own rallies in each state, the way I did with Yankee Stadium, Washington Monument, and Madison Square Garden. Since I knew you state leaders could not do that by yourselves, I gave you the assistance of IOWC to create the right environment for you. Are you going to follow my pattern of activity? Even though my directions might sound very drastic, still you should not criticize from your own viewpoint.</p>
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<p>Are you state leaders going to follow me as your leader and example? I asked the major leaders not to hold conferences among themselves or with the state leaders unless it concerns ways of pursuing my direction more effectively. That kind of conference is needed, but any conference which has the result of watering down my direction should not be held. If you hear someone saying something contrary to my direction, you should point it out to him. Don’t just sit there and be polite; tell what you know to be right and wrong, even if it is your Abel you are speaking to. Will you really tell what you know to be my direction when someone is wrong? This will ensure the strength of our activity.</p>
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<p>Suppose it happened that a leader was the target of someone pointing out an error in thinking; he ought to say, “Thank you for that.” This is a way of self-protection for you ordinary members of the movement. You cannot blame your Abel figure later for some misdirection he gives because you have the responsibility to follow my direction, regardless. The one who gives misdirection is not Abel, but Cain; he is standing on Satan’s side. If your leader cannot exercise proper leadership, then I will do it in his place.</p>
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<p>Now you understand clearly what “central figure” means. You must know clearly that the primary central figure is God. The main central figure for our movement is Reverend Moon; the rest of the central figures are all in the position of intermediaries. How can you ever think of giving the same consideration, even less, to the main central figure as you do to the lesser ones? It is no wonder that the Unification Church is inefficient with such an attitude.</p>
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<p>This is certainly the Day of Victory of Heaven and at the same time it is the day of victory over evil’s domain. It took us a long time to get to this point, but now we have a clear path. I have truly told you everything you need to know. From now on, no matter where I might be, you shouldn’t try to seek me out for additional instruction.</p>
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<p>These next three years will be the most crucial time for you and at the same time for me in the worldwide dispensation. Do you realize that if I go out of my way for your sake, there is someone who will accuse that it is unfair? From now on, I will not regularly appear for all the public gatherings. I know when I pray each morning what is in store for me that day; so when I feel that a day is Godly, certainly I will come and share with you. If I feel it is not wise, then I won’t. Please understand this.</p>
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<p>Instead of looking for me, put yourself in my position and do the same as I would do. I would like to stand in the front line forever, but it is best for the overall purpose that I do not. You must also have the opportunity to establish your own victory. I ask you to do your very best during these next two or three years. Will you do it?</p>
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<p>Instead of teaching you directly, I have given you the Korean and Japanese leaders. I have been teaching them for many years and they have more than ample ability to lead you. If you feel really lonesome for me, please turn to them just as if they were me. God bless you.</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">October 2, 1983<br />
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<p>As a rule, people prefer new things. Where does that trait come from? It can be traced all the way back to God. Of course, the creation itself is not new’ for it has been here millions of years. The person you saw yesterday will still have the same eyes and face today. But knowing that others like new things and you are the same old person, you can add a new gesture or a new look.</p>
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<p>We often want to change our environment or add something new in our lives. We don’t want to stay in the same place, but to go to new places. People in the countryside like to visit the city, while city dwellers like to visit the country. The person living on high ground likes to come down lower sometimes. All these urges to move around come from our human desire for newness and change.</p>
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<p>If a person lives in the same town his whole life, he will probably seek his changes through art’ music, and culture. A woman may wear a yellow dress one day and a green dress the next, with all different accessories; in this way she is making effort to look new all the time. We can conclude that it is a human trait to add things to one’s environment so that it is not the same all the time.</p>
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<p>Today’s topic, My New Self, raises the important question of how to renew ourselves every day. As we know, everything exists in reciprocal relationships. Men exist in relationship with women and they both have marked differences. Can you imagine if a man and woman looked just exactly alike, like twins, and they got married? Marrying someone who is exactly like you, with the same personality and everything, could not be very much fun.</p>
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<p>The fact that everything exists in reciprocal relationships is an amazing indication of some overall will. How is it that a man can find something new in the same woman day after day? The opposite is also true. For a woman, a man seems constantly new. Men and women each smile and laugh, but in different ways. Looking at them’ do you think the man’s or the woman’s face is more expressive in laughter? Is the skin on a man’s face thicker than that of a woman’s? I have worked with people all of my life; people are like my “occupation.” Therefore. I have noticed that women definitely have a greater variety of laughter and smiles than men. Furthermore, men have a rather limited variety of hairstyles and ways of dressing, while women have no limit! If you watch people yourself’ you will notice how women’s faces break into many different expressions of laughter and joy, while men show much less facial change.</p>
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<p>Men walk in a simple and straightforward way but women have many different manners of walking. If a woman on the street is wearing a tight dress, one can see how many muscles are moving and how much she is swinging and swaying. Furthermore, such a woman will probably be wearing high heels and that will make her motion and rhythm even more noticeable. Why have women’s fashions become so varied while men’s are more simple? Knowing that a man wants to see something new, a woman wants to show herself in new ways in order to attract attention from her environment and thus make more relationships with other people.</p>
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<p>If you look through a man’s attaché case you will probably find just a few things inside, but a woman’s purse is like a department store! I depend on Mother to find me things like a toothpick or nail file, small things I can never seem to find. It amazes me that Mother seems to carry them all the time! She never fails to produce what I need.</p>
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<p>I have reflected on whether I really appreciate how Mother tries to be new and fresh for me, and I think I have not given enough attention to that part of her. For myself, I don’t like to be bothered with things like wearing a watch but it is a necessity. I have never worn a ring for one entire day; I put one on once but took it off before long. I have seen women with rings on almost every finger. Why would they do that? It is their effort to add new facets to themselves.</p>
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<p>We can assume that a person not only likes to express new aspects of himself, but he also expects others to have variety so he won’t be bored with them. Since change is an important part of life’ it is more valuable that we find ways of changing ourselves rather than expecting others to change for our interest. One person may be able to write articles on a wide spectrum of subjects. We can see that the more varied your ways of thinking and experiences, the more variety you can employ in your descriptions and writing.</p>
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<p>Babies grow and change gradually but constantly. I have noticed some distinct changes lately in our youngest daughter Jeung Jin. This morning after Pledge service, she came over to Mother and me and in her own language was elatedly trying to explain something to us. Naturally she assumed we could understand her! I believe that God feels the same way toward man, seeing distinct changes in us.</p>
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<p>It is natural for people to want to express something new and original which others have never seen before. This is especially true among married couples. When two people are newly wed they are planning to live with and look at each other for thousands of days into the future yet they both have eyes, nose, mouth, ears and so on. Even so, they are looking forward eagerly to their future together. Contrast the way you would feel if you knew you would have to read the same page in a book over and over again every day in the future. That would be suffocating to even imagine. There is a serious point here. Can a couple be happy if their lives are as monotonous as reading one page over and over?</p>
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<p>There is only a limited number of ways in which a woman can make up her face. When God created Adam and Eve, did He anticipate all the things they could do when they grew up? I have studied how people have only four basic elements with which to create the variety of their expressions-eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. It is like having four different kinds of flowers in an arrangement. Every part of the face has a limited number of features. Thus it is difficult to create changes in your appearance, since there is such a limited number of elements available. God must have thought about that.</p>
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<p>Literature has described the human features in many different ways, such as “dog’s eyes” or “ears like a rose crushed into a rock.” I tried to figure out how any ear could look like a rose crushed into a rock and it doesn’t make much sense. But the words create a certain image and draw a person into the mood of the author anyway. The human eye is basically simple, but there are thousands of adjectives you can use to describe it. However, all of those adjectives are not enough to describe and appreciate a loving eye. You could describe the hands of your loved one in thousands of different ways and still you couldn’t finish the job. People appreciate the variety of expressions about limited things because it expands their own viewpoints.</p>
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<p>Imagine a man and woman living together without the element of love. Love is the binding element which allows men and women to stay together, even though they may fight. Let us take a closer look at love. When you wear the eyeglasses of love, things look the way you want them to look. Without love, men and women would fight like savages.</p>
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<p>God created you and knows your every part better than you do, so what do you have that is new to present to God? When God created man, did He envision excitement and newness coming from him or did He expect just a simple being? Would God be content with only simple things from life? Today man creates many kinds of things, even toys that sing! God must have envisioned that kind of creative capacity when He created man.</p>
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<p>Once you have observed a beautiful yellow flower, you probably won’t look closely at it again unless there is something new happening there, such as a bee or butterfly winging around it. How unstable and wobbly a butterfly moves, but still it is lovely. Bees can fly away quickly in an instant, but a butterfly can never buzz away. Butterflies are like clowns in the world of flying!</p>
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<p>We can see how God is interested in a world of variety, change and newness. All trees have certain elements in common but there are many different kinds of trees, each of which evoke different feelings in the observer. In the vast oceans there are myriads of small living things in each drop of sea water. Japanese may walk like squirrels, while Americans stride like cranes. Look at the variety of insects living in the grass. Some of them rub their long antennae together and receive sensations in that way. If you watch carefully, you want to know what they are saying to each other! Even God would like to listen in on their love talk.</p>
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<p>God is intrigued by all the different reflections of Himself, feeling that even though each person has a different form, in essence we still resemble Him. When springtime comes every person-man, woman, boy or girl-feels like singing, doesn’t he? What is it in the spring that makes you feel like singing? The returning birds add their songs to the air and the bees and butterflies are busy everywhere, adding their own joyfulness. Anyone who is watching all this feels drawn into that harmony and feels like singing. Don’t beautiful flowers remind you of the one you love? The blooms exist in harmonious pairs and that will give you the urge to express your love in song, as well!</p>
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<p>I spoke yesterday about salmon and how the small fish swim to the sea; then four years and thousands of miles later they return to the same river where they were hatched to lay their own eggs. A male and female in a pair lay the eggs, inseminate them and then die together, never leaving each other. Imagine a man and woman marrying, making love just once, and then dying. How intense and serious the couple would be! The behavior of the salmon sounded so amazing that I took an opportunity to study them myself. Sure enough, the fish swim in pairs and the female follows the male exactly. I could understand how serious they would be about their once-in-a-lifetime event. I wondered what a person would choose-whether to make love once and then die, or to live longer but not be able to make love.</p>
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<p>How much newness is there in man’s love-making? How different is it from the rest of his activities? This is a serious thought. Have you ever thought that love-making was as solemn an event as if your life were at stake? A may fly lives only one day after it hatches so in that day it must mate. In that sense, it is a creature of the air comparable to the salmon of the water. I wonder if there is also an animal living on the ground which has only a short time to live and one chance to mate before it dies.</p>
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<p>We have many good reasons to be grateful for being born as men and women. There are many kinds of animals but, for the most part, they all have only one or two mating seasons each year. Are people also restricted to only one season for making love? It is my opinion that if mankind had only one mating season a year and men and women remained separate for the other months, there would be no divorce! Did God make man and woman the way He did so that they could divorce more easily? Certainly not.</p>
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<p>Put yourself in God’s position and think what He would want for men and women. Would He want people to experience love just once or twice every hundred years, or to feel a new sensation of love every other hour? We resemble God; therefore, God resembles us. How would God want to love man? Would He just look at us or touch us and be satisfied? Maybe God just thinks about love. What would give enough sensation to God that it is a new experience?</p>
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<p>As we know from the Divine Principle, God is in the position of subject and the subject always takes an object. Let’s assume that God is like a man. Man has the dual characteristics of mind and body. Imagine that the mind says to the body, “I love you,” and the body replies, “I love you too.” How would they express their love for each other? That is a difficult question.</p>
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<p>Does God love, too, or is it only man who loves? Certainly God loves, but how does He love? Would God have sons and daughters when He makes love, just as man does? That’s a point to think about! God is a being without form so He can be anywhere, such as within your body or in the creation. Where is God’s home and dwelling place? God dwells right at the center of our minds. The feminine part of God lives in the deepest part of woman’s mind. There is deity in both Adam and Eve because God dwells in them; that means they possess deity as the visible God. Thus we say that man, as the visible God, is the dwelling place of the invisible God.</p>
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<p>God created Adam and Eve and waited for them to grow up, anticipating that when they were old enough, He would dwell within them and in their love. Adam and Eve were meant to enjoy each other just as God enjoys them, and when they made love, God would have the sensation Himself of making love. Therefore love is the supreme, most holy temple. In true love, there is no place where God is not. Once you meet true love, you will always find God there. You will naturally find the master of true love in the midst of it. When Adam and Eve became perfect. God would dwell in that couple as His visible holy temple.</p>
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<p>Since the fall, there has been no more delicate or titillating subject than love, simply because it has become degraded. There should only have been original holy love but the world has never seen or even heard about it. Therefore, the topic of love has usually been an embarrassing one. But there is truly nothing holier than the original love. The original place of love is God’s holy palace or temple. Therefore, lovemaking is the most precious act any human can ever do. You have never heard much about that, have you?</p>
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<p>You cannot open the gate of your holy palace at your will; only human beings of original love can open the gate to true love. Only the king and queen, true man and true woman, can possess true love. It is through that original, holy love that God’s sons and daughters are to be born. This is the true, original purpose of the love organs of men and women. That of the woman is the queen’s holy palace of love; the man’s is the king’s holy palace of love. The love meeting of the king and queen is the supreme event of their lives together.</p>
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<p>When men and women make that highest relationship, they are like brothers and sisters of God Himself. Therefore, men and women possess infinite value, kings and queens surpassed only by God. They are that important. Since man and woman are created with that dignity, they yearn for the best in all things and are not satisfied with second-best.</p>
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<p>There is nothing you would trade for the one you love. Since God created the whole universe with His supreme ideal in mind, He would not trade the whole universe for His loved ones. The blessed couples of the Unification Church are the first people to have the key to open the holy palace of love. That gate has been tightly closed and no one has ever been allowed access before. God has waited and prepared for thousands of years and finally, through the blessing, you are given the key to open it. It is like a huge tree with many branches, and you are one of those branches. All the flowers are in pairs and they are filled with God’s love and joy.</p>
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<p>We can readily understand how destructive fallen love is, how people are like miserable thieves who take love and waste it. In today’s society, for example, women can go around practically naked but they always wear at least two things-something covering their breasts and something on the bottom. Why do they do that? They are not necessarily modest but something tells them that those parts are too precious to show off.</p>
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<p>When a man and woman experience true love together, God immediately visits His holy palace. If you are like the negative pole in electricity, you will always attract the positive pole. At that moment of making love, human beings have God with them-they are God. Thus the Unification Church regards love as the most important, sacred thing, higher than anything else.</p>
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<p>Every human being has that most holy palace. Life is perpetual preparation to be worthy of having God dwell with us. We must continually ready ourselves so that at the right moment, God can live within us. Why is a woman a very precious being? She has within herself the holy temple which her king can enter, to rest and enjoy. Unfortunately, many women have lowered their standard of love to that of a mongrel dog. How incredibly far their love has fallen down! They still have original minds which are struggling to pull them out of that abyss, but they are constantly being pulled down.</p>
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<p>Do you men also have a precious temple in yourselves? Yes, you do and you must never stain that precious part by ungodly contact with another. Since we are built as a holy temple, we must constantly prepare ourselves to be ready to open the door and welcome the king or queen within. Man and wife are like a flower which produces a seed, their common product. God’s deity also resides in that seed. The same elements and nutrition are being distributed from the root. With this true love, equality between man and woman becomes possible. Until that time they are separate and different but in true love, they are truly equal. Do you clearly understand?</p>
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<p>God created man and woman to be His final, most precious dwelling place and holy temple. When a man lies down beside his wife, it is truly God the King who is lying beside her. Only the master of love can open the gate of love, no one else. Now you know how God makes love. He is there in the man’s and woman’s hand; when they are giving true love, God is always there. When God is there, everything is yours; that is the privilege of being with God.</p>
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<p>We can make many mistakes but a mistake against holy love is the one which must never be made. Since Satan destroyed the original love, a fallen act is the one sin and crime that can never be excused by anyone.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon has clearly defined the standard of original love and has shown the secret crime of Satan; therefore, Satan will have to pack up and leave this earth. That day is getting nearer and nearer. Now you know where the holiest place of love exists. Both man and woman should cherish this to the utmost; we must live in that way. We can understand how truly heartbreaking it is for God when men and women treat their love as a degraded or unimportant thing.</p>
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<p>Since love has been debased, frequent lovemaking has been seen by some as an undesirable thing. But in actuality, that is not true. We must remember that the holy temple of the woman exists for the man and that of the man exists for the woman. They are not there for the individuals but for their spouses. So the most holy place of both the man and woman actually belong to their spouse. Therefore, the individual must not think that he can do whatever he wants with his body; he must preserve it for someone else.</p>
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<p>We must straighten out the serious misconception that an individual is born just for himself. Woman is born for man and man is born for woman. Today there are many women who like to believe that they exist only for themselves and not for anyone else; this arrogance brings so much pain to God. A true woman will dig into the deepest place of love within a man and bring it out. In doing that, she fulfills her capacity to assume the same rank as God. A true man will try to make himself completely available for the woman, prepared to give everything of himself to her. Every part of him belongs to her, not to himself.</p>
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<p>If you truly know in your deepest mind that what I am saying today is the greatest truth, then a tremendous revolution is now catching fire on the face of the earth. Once this truth settles into the minds of mankind, the most deeply rooted moral problems will be clearly solved and erased. This is what will bring equality among all people and raise up each person to his proper position in the universe. We can understand why man always pursues the highest and best and is not satisfied with second-best. We know why God created people as His sons and daughters and the meaning of true love. All these things can take their proper place within your thinking.</p>
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<p>You and your loved one should cherish each other as gods. You must worship your partner as God’s own dwelling place. No man or woman will ever dislike being treated as a king or queen; this is what they deserve! Don’t you think that would be a happy position? At the holy moment of true love, God bequeaths the whole universe to man. Unless we bring ourselves into that position, we cannot claim our rightful inheritance from God.</p>
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<p>Children born out of the pure relationship of love between Adam and Eve belong to Adam and Eve, but they are also God’s own children. Since God does not have any form, including a spiritual body, Adam and Eve present themselves as the visible form of God in spirit world. Jesus, in the position of Adam, has a spiritual body but the Holy Spirit, in the position of his spouse, has no spiritual body like God Himself. This is why a man doesn’t want to live without a woman and why men and women want to live together forever.</p>
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<p>Now we can understand why God made the infinite variety in human nature, as a source of constant excitement for Adam and Eve, to stimulate the pulse of love in their hearts as often and as intensely as possible. When you understand this, you must suddenly realize how much sin you committed in the past and how you degraded yourselves without even knowing it.</p>
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<p>The key of your love is one that belongs to you and to no one else. It cannot be transferred to someone else or thrown away. But once you use it wrongly, you cast down into the dungeon of Hell something which, only moments before, was the most beautiful palace in the world. Now you blessed couples know how to conduct yourselves. I must remind you that a woman has no right to criticize her man as worthy or unworthy. If she criticizes man, she is criticizing a part of God. Equally as serious, punishment is certainly due if a man or woman violates the holiness of the spouse. You should not fight, and striking each other is out of the question.</p>
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<p>You have learned great new things today and now you must discover your new self. These are the most precious words I have ever given you; they are the deepest words I have spoken up till now. Knowing this, if we could have that holy love just once and then die, we could die without regret. But certainly we can live better than the salmon or may flies and discover a completely new self. When you are the victor in true love, you can proclaim yourself a winner before all the universe and God.</p>
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<p>When you look at your spouse with these new eyes, you can discover someone worthy of exciting the universe. of changing the movement of the cosmos. It is not sinful to regard what belongs to woman as the most precious thing next to God, or what belongs to man as the most holy thing next to God. To regard each other in that way is never sinful or degrading; it is only proper. When such a couple passes by, all the single persons will applaud with praise, respect, and love. All things of the universe will rejoice and dance to see such couples.</p>
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<p>Do you think such love is possible? It is possible, but it is not easy; it is very difficult. For original Adam and Eve before the fall, it would have been the easiest thing but once a bad mistake has been made, it is hard to get over it. Starting from pure, true love each man and woman would have easily established their true love couple; their first love would have been their eternal love. But now, since many of you have already had a first love, you must make this second love greater than the first; with that viewpoint, the second love is permissible. But if this second, new love is less intense than the first one, it is a crime. In other words, if your love for your God-given spouse is far greater than the love you ever had before, it will cover the mistakes you made in love.</p>
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<p>We can conclude that life should be born out of love: we should live with the experience of love and lovemaking, and then go to Heaven in love. The man and woman who live in that way will be the most fortunate and happy. If we live on earth with God as our Parent and then return to Him in spirit world, it is like returning to our homeland: it will not be fearful at all to die. It will only seem appropriate to return to God after our life on earth.</p>
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<p>Death is simply losing one’s body; everything else remains with us, exactly the same as before. Some animals shed their old skins as they grow. Man is the same- once he completes his growth and becomes perfect, he leaves his body behind like an old skin. He is like the cicadas that sing their love songs all summer and then in autumn fade away.</p>
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<p>Now you know that without man, there is no way for woman to go to Heaven; and without woman. there is no way for man to go to Heaven. This is the reason why the blessing is so precious. You are in a most precious position. Understanding this secret of the original creation, you know what has been ailing mankind ever since the fall and how to correct the situation. By your receiving the blessing, the necessary process has begun for couples to return to their original position as the visible body of the invisible God. When I speak about this lofty subject, it inspires you to fulfill your role in the restoration at this time; you feel that the new world is near.</p>
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<p>Mankind has hardly known anything about God, the meaning of life, about man and woman, but I have brought you now to this high ground, ready to become the true temples of God. You must realize that because of this, you are standing in the greatest position in history. If you take these words into your life, you will have completely different eyes toward your spouse. Before now, have you ever loved each other as husband and wife with such a high understanding of your love? From now on, will you begin to love in that way?</p>
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<p>Now you have the confidence to renew yourselves. Once you have become new, you will have nothing to do with Satan. but be one with God. In the complicated path of restoration, God has worked His way through this tangled world to find you. God will be the intermediary, bringing you together with your spouse and then you will live together. At that point, does it really matter how you look? Would it matter if your spouse had only one foot? After deep toil and suffering as descendants of fallen love, you have come to the point of this new start. Do you think you have the right to a better situation than what you have had? The fact that you now belong to the True Parents is far beyond your own merit; it is more than what you actually deserve.</p>
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<p>Men and women have been desperately seeking each other’s love throughout history. Now, all of a sudden, you can open your eyes and see your true spouse. No matter how he looks, wouldn’t you want to hold his hand? Why did we get married? It is to untangle the long, complicated history of human regret. We marry internationally and untangle the ancient problems between the races. Such marriages can be the literal bridge between the black and white races. Knowing this, you are only too happy to undertake such marriages.</p>
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<p>Do you think people have a certain color in spirit world? No, people shine with the brightness of their love. A light bulb contains a tungsten filament which looks black until the current is turned on; at that point, it glows and gives off light. In the same way, a person’s value in spirit world is determined by how much he experienced God’s love on earth. People glow according to how intensely they have felt God’s love.</p>
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<p>Through the words of this sermon you will be able to understand many former mysteries and you can become a new self. You can see how we can recreate newness on all different levels-the self, the society, the nation, and the world. Are you truly grateful for what you have received? If I taught you the fundamentals of God’s truth, that would certainly be something to be grateful for. But more than just the fundamentals, I have explained the real contents of the truth and also you have been given the environment in which to live it. This is my gift to you. There is no other way you could have come to this point.</p>
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<p>Because you have the relationship of true children to the True Parents, there is no way they can refuse your desire to be here. You know how important it is to follow the True Parents and how fortunate you are to have received the blessing. To oppose and deny such parents would be the heaviest mistake. The entire universe would turn against such a disrupter in order to protect its original state.</p>
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<p>Now you can start the month of October with this knowledge, making a brand new start and marching courageously toward the goal. Now that you have received this understanding, how many of you have determined to become completely new selves) Thank you. Let us pray.</p>
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<h3 align="CENTER">September 11, 1983<br />
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Belvedere<br />
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<p>I spoke twice before on this topic in June. Do you remember Parts One and Two? Taking up this subject again today, I would like to bring together all the different points we have discussed and make a conclusive sermon.</p>
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<p>Every person will eventually ask the profound question, “Where does mankind come from?” Religious people say that God created men and women. How does God exist and where did He come from? Even though religious people may know deep in their hearts that God does exist, they cannot describe precisely and step by step how God came to be and so forth. If God can come into the grasp of man, then man could reproduce God. In other words, if God could fit within the grasp of man-if people could draw Him, see Him, and understand Him completely-then God would no longer be the kind of God we need. It is ironic but we do not need a God who can fit completely into the understanding of man. God is God because He is beyond human comprehension.</p>
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<p>People often ask themselves, “What are the truly good and precious things in life?” First of all, they are not the things we can produce or manufacture; anything that can be easily replaced when lost cannot be really precious. We call those things which are rare “treasures.” What is a treasure? We think in terms of gold, diamonds, silver, pearls, and so forth and one characteristic of those treasures is that they have a value which is not diminished by the passage of time.</p>
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<p>A diamond is called a precious stone. Why is that? First of all, diamonds are the hardest material of all. Also, regardless of time and space, the characteristics of the diamond do not change. Furthermore, if you take a diamond stone anywhere, whether to England or Asia, it is always a diamond with the same value. Even if you take it into tropical weather or a very cold climate, its value won’t be affected. Therefore, unchangeability is one aspect of a precious stone.</p>
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<p>This is beyond human capacity. Even though men have tried to duplicate the diamond in artificial ways, they have not been able to do so.</p>
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<p>Think of gold. Why is it a precious metal? First of all, the rich color of gold never rusts but maintains itself forever. Time passes, places change, yet the same golden glow continues to shine. If we were to try to evaluate gold and diamonds, which would be the most precious? Since diamonds are actually compressed carbon, they cannot be burned. Likewise, you can melt gold in a very hot furnace, but when it cools down it is still the same element.</p>
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<p>Have you ever thought about the currencies of the world’s nations and their standards for value? They always base their currencies on gold, not diamonds. Why is that? Gold cannot be damaged by fire, rust, or cold. It is truly unchanging, therefore nations agreed upon gold as their standard for currency.</p>
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<p>What are the characteristics of a pearl? It is made up of shell and therefore it can be tarnished or dulled, but its essence will not be changed. The beauty of a pearl is that it harmonizes with everything; it has the “color” of harmony. Do men or women like pearls the most? For that matter, who likes treasures in general? It is women. Why is that? Women exhibit changeable qualities and therefore, they like to possess things which are unchanging. When a woman looks at a diamond, she can enjoy a give and take relationship with it. The diamond is very hard and you are soft; thus the contrast is stimulating.</p>
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<p>You enjoy draping yourselves with golden necklaces because of their simple, rich, shining color. You feel that you want to shine in that way, too. Since pure gold is soft and is therefore adaptable, you can bend it and shape it but it will not break. If a woman has a basically sharp nature, she might look at pearls and say, “I want to be harmonizing like that. I must learn from the pearl.”</p>
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<p>Sometimes I wonder when I look at a woman who wears lots of pearls and diamonds if she really deserves to wear such precious things. The true beauty and pride of a woman is her inner self and personality, not those external things. However, many women want to take pride in their earrings and necklaces. If you could ask a diamond, “What kind of woman would you like to be worn by?” it would answer, “I want to be on a woman who is absolutely pure.” For a woman to really deserve to wear a diamond, she must preserve absolute purity. Therefore, those women who go to one man and then another do not deserve to wear diamonds. The woman who devotes herself to one man day after day, regardless of the circumstances, is the one who is deserving.</p>
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<p>Gold is genuine; it has absolutely no falseness. Inside and out, its quality is the same. Where is a woman like that? Only a woman such as that truly deserves to wear a gold ring. Is that a correct statement? It is so crucial that a woman achieve the quality of harmony. You must be able to harmonize with your surroundings, your neighbors, and so forth. When such a woman wears pearls, it is most becoming.</p>
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<p>When the woman wearing precious jewels actually possesses the same qualities as those jewels, she will be pursued by men, not for the sake of her external treasures but for the sake of her personality itself. That is, the woman herself is the treasure. Would you like to have your husband attracted to your diamond ring? Certainly not. Would you like your husband to love you because you wear golden necklaces and wristwatches? Would you like your husband to love just one portion of you-your eyes, for example? No, you want a man to love your whole self and appreciate the harmony of all your parts.</p>
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<p>If you were confident of possessing the qualities of jewels, you could sit quietly on a dark mountain top and shine, just as a diamond shines at night as well as by day. Within such a woman there is an everlasting quality which never becomes boring, just like gold which never loses its glow. The person who is harmonious like a pearl can embrace her environment and be a harmonizing factor for the universe. Would such a woman remain all alone on the mountain top? That woman has greater value than any diamonds she might be wearing. Suppose that woman were sitting on a rock of solid gold. Which would be the more precious-the woman or the golden rock? Even the birds flying in the air would like to stop and be near that kind of woman.</p>
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<p>Many years ago, I visited Iran and saw a bank in which a large chunk of precious metal and diamond was on display. People lined up from very early in the morning to simply look at that treasure. I was amazed to see how eager people were to see just a stone. What about a woman with the shining quality of diamonds? If she were sitting somewhere, how much more would she attract the interest of people, particularly men? They would want to line up for many miles just to see her. Do you think the husband of such a woman would want to go away from her? Even if he had to leave, he would tend to turn around many times to get one more look at her. It would be hard to go to work! Her beauty and love would always pull him around.</p>
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<p>When a person has something very precious, he doesn’t want to leave it but will circle around it, looking at it and appreciating it more and more. He can never get enough of it. To parents, their loving children are like a precious diamond. The parents will just circle around the children, never wanting to go away from them. When a woman has a beloved husband, she will not want to leave but will want to be around him all the time. Likewise, a man will want to be around his beloved wife. The most precious aspect of such a relationship is that it lasts for eternity, not just a brief time. That is the kind of situation where we can use the words “forever” and “unchanging.”</p>
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<p>We can understand from this example that whenever there is a true subject of love, the object will not want to leave but will want to be there always, turning and circling around it.</p>
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<p>Let’s return from precious metals to the topic of God. Who is God? God is the one who is able to create gold, diamonds, pearls, and even women-all that beauty. What does God like the most? What is a diamond, gold, or pearls to God? More precious to the heart of God than those treasures is something which is alive. It is wonderful to God to think of a treasure that can follow Him when He takes a walk. Also, if a thief ever tried to grab His treasure, it would know how to dodge and jump away and still follow God. That kind of treasure would never be lost and God would know it was always following Him.</p>
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<p>God wants a living creature whose heart has the purity of a diamond, the genuineness of gold and the harmony of pearls. That is the best object for God. Put yourself in God’s position. If you had a choice between a diamond as big as the planet earth and a living creature like we described, which would you want? If you caress a diamond, it doesn’t say anything but a living creature is different. When God touched His treasure it would respond with joy; it would laugh and appreciate everything He does. Certainly God would want a responding treasure.</p>
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<p>What kind of response would be the best for God” Would He want to be slapped when He touched His creature? No, He would want to see a sign of love. If that living treasure came and hung on God’s neck, would He say, “Don’t touch me, you dirty thing!”? Certainly not. God would be so pleased and would hug that treasure right back. Since God created that living treasure, He put His own heart and spirit into it; so when it responds to Him, it gives Him endless, ecstatic joy.</p>
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<p>After that living treasure hugs God’s neck, it would then want to express its joy by kissing God all over. You Americans should know about kisses. Kisses are a very important part of your culture! After embracing and kissing, you want to express even more joy through songs and dancing and throughout your daily life. You want to go deeper and deeper into your joy.</p>
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<p>Once that kind of relationship is established, does anyone want to just say, “Bye-bye. It was fun but I’m going now.”? No, it is not natural to leave but to stay together even beyond death itself. You want to bind yourselves together; if you could Scotch-tape yourselves together, you would want to do it. You feel like being welded together.</p>
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<p>If you had a wonderful living treasure like that, who never wanted to leave you, wouldn’t that make you feel good? We humans might feel good, but what about God? Wouldn’t He feel good, too? You don’t know, do you, how that would make God feel? Do you have any proof? Maybe if His living treasure grabbed onto God’s neck, He would feel burdened. Maybe God would want to feel free and independent. Maybe He would complain against His treasure. Do you think so?</p>
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<p>It is easy to get bored with other people when you spend a lot of time together, doing the same things, so there must be some element which is completely stimulating and never boring. Even if God kicked His living treasure, it would not run away but would come back to Him. The living treasure who wants to stay with his master all the time will look for something to win the master’s heart. If you had that kind of “magic” substance, you could prick God’s nose with it when He is dozing and He might sneeze and wake up, but He would feel absolutely joyful. In that case, would God complain, “Ouch, Achoo!,” or wouldn’t He say, “Oh, even as I sneeze, this feels so good!” We need to find such a magic substance.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon’s brain was always thinking, “What is that magic substance?” He discovered that substance, finally, and it is called true love. If true love is really a magic substance, do you think it can be exchanged for gold, diamonds, or pearls? It couldn’t even be swapped for the whole universe. How about a PhD? Wouldn’t you like to have that first? How about power and authority? No, you agree that true love is the most valuable thing.</p>
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<p>Is there some sort of a true love injection somewhere? People normally do not like shots, but what about the true love injection? Any injection is bound to be painful, but to receive that magic substance wouldn’t you overcome your dislike? What about a true love thorn? Even though it would prick your finger, wouldn’t you want to touch it anyway? The person who understands the taste of true love will appreciate the sweetness of touching the true love thorn. The person who does not know true love will only feel the pain of that thorn, without the sweet taste.</p>
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<p>What is the taste of true love-sweet, sour, bitter? Is it like a thorn or being hit by a club? Can you describe the taste of love? It contains all these components I have mentioned. Lovers can give so much pain to each other, like an injection, with just one sharp word and it penetrates to the deepest part of your heart. Then what happens? Will you run away from that pain, or will you go beyond that pain and unite with each other again? True love requires uniting beyond the pain and not going away from each other.</p>
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<p>Sometimes a husband and wife may quarrel bitterly, to the point where they feel they want to divorce. But if they will go beyond that point of pain, they can experience a much deeper and more profound sweetness. When they pursue that deeper goal, then they really understand and taste true love. Do you understand? When you exchange harsh words, you can either go away from each other or you can re-unite.</p>
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<p>Where is true love going to dwell? Will it be in the short-tempered person who runs away from his mate when sharp words are exchanged? No, even after you have fought for a thousand times you should search for a deeper level of understanding. That is the place where true love can dwell.</p>
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<p>Does true love come easy, like a cheap drugstore item? No, true love is at the point which is beyond the pain of the cross. In order to reach it, you have to go to the Mount of Calvary. Let’s say true love was a person. If he were looking for his partner, where would he look? Would he look in some cheap place, such as a house of prostitution? Or would he look within the deepest, most hidden and difficult place to get to?</p>
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<p>Let’s say true love were a person called TL. We are the members of the TLC-True Love Club. TL wants to create a large, rocky mountain as an obstacle. TL only wants to become the host to the person who can climb the thorniest, highest mountain and then knock on the back door of his house, saying, “Mr. True Love, I am here.” He would be more moved by such a person, rather than someone who loudly knocks on the front door, calling out to him to come answer.</p>
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<p>Those who are determined to climb the thorny paths in their search for true love are usually regarded by secular society as crazy people. Who are the Moonies? We are the pioneers searching for true love. Everywhere you and Reverend Moon go, controversy arises. Are you a bunch of gangsters or bandits? I really like to see persecution come to our church because it is like the thorns along our path. Only if you are willing to pay the price and if you are determined, will you gain true love. If the road to true love were a wide highway along which anyone at all could come, then true love would have very little value. What is your destination?</p>
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<p>Which kinds of flowers do you prefer-lilies, roses? When a person buys his lover a flower, he often gives a rose. In order to receive that flower, one has to grasp the thorny stem. In other words, you have to go beyond the thorns to receive it. Thus the rose can teach a lesson about love. It may happen that the beloved will prick her finger when she grasps the rose, to the point where she bleeds. Still she would not want to reject the flower, but would lean over and pick it up where she dropped it. Why is that? Why wouldn’t she just throw it away? Because the rose’s perfume is still there, even though it may prick your finger. Its ultimate beauty remains and that is what you like.</p>
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<p>Man and woman come together and create a family. Do they want to live together for just a short time, say one year, or for a very long time, even forever? There are plants like the lily which bloom only one year and then die. Would you want a love like that, or wouldn’t you prefer a love like a tree which stays green and healthy, year after year? In order to reach the blossoms of a rose bush, one has to lean over a lot of thorns, insects, and so forth. There are couples who are like the lily and couples who are like the rose bush. The lily is often a symbol of religion. It grows only in one certain direction and looks like a trumpet, while the rose bush grows out in all directions, 360 degrees.</p>
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<p>The rose has a stem, but it also spreads out as a vine. It has the ability to climb upward and also to spread out sideways. When you pick the roses and cut back the bushes, they will grow thicker the next year. Thus, you should give the roses to someone; they need to be harvested. You don’t lose anything by that, but rather your roses become more beautiful.</p>
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<p>In the same way, love should not be directional. Religion, like the lily, is directional, but love should be universal-going out in all directions. A couple in love should not expect to have a “greenhouse” type of love. They should not want to just sit back and receive a beautiful, sweet outpouring of love from each other. Rather they should seek a rich life together, trying to serve each other, dedicated together even through suffering. “Greenhouse” love is protected from the harshness of the weather but when you are out in nature, you have to endure whatever comes along-sometimes rainstorms, hurricanes, and snow. That is what seasons and solidifies your love.</p>
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<p>Love is amazing. Even as a slave of love, you can make a queen envious. People only say sweet words of praise to a queen, while the slave of love must suffer many difficulties selflessly. The nobler position is to be a slave of love.</p>
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<p>This is boiling down to one simple question: what is true love? Is true love the attitude of receiving? Or isn’t it the attitude of wanting to generate love, to give it? Certainly, giving is closer to true love than receiving. The love of God is not the kind that just sits and waits to collect from others. It is a love which is sacrificial, giving for the sake of others. The person with God’s love does not want others to sacrifice for his sake but prefers to sacrifice for their sake.</p>
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<p>The essence of God’s love is that of giving and living for the sake of mankind. Therefore, the more that kind of love is given, the more it grows and becomes strong. It never becomes weaker. The essential motion of the universe is that of circling; all living things are moving in a basically circular motion. The more you give with love, the more you increase your energy and replenish yourself. As you give love, it automatically returns to you; then you receive it and give it out again. The result is that love returns to you greater than ever. The creation of the universe was the result of this principle-of initiating the giving action, then receiving, then investing more, receiving more, and on and on. That is the way all creativity occurs.</p>
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<p>By giving true love you can connect yourself to the universal essence and therefore you will not be diminished or destroyed. Everything exists in relationship to something else; there is no single object within the universe. All things exist in the system of subject and object; one is up, one is down; one is left and another is right. This principle is true, whether for the animal kingdom, the plants, or the minerals.</p>
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<p>The universal principle is one of initiating action by giving of the self. According to this principle, all beings must become harmonized with something greater than themselves. The universal principle is a giving, harmonizing and creating principle. Thus the more you give, the more harmony is produced, and the more goodness is created.</p>
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<p>Goodness is characterized in this way: that you live for the sake of others. This is what I have been preaching over and over again. That is what we mean when we say that the individual should live for the sake of the family, the family for the society, the society for the nation, and the nation for the world.</p>
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<p>What is a good husband? He is one who lives for the sake of his wife, and the good wife lives for the sake of her husband. What is a good couple? Those who are living for the sake of their family, their children. Good citizens are those who live for the sake of their country; good leaders live for the sake of the people. What is a saint? He is a person who lives totally for the sake of mankind, beyond the boundary of any nation. Who is God? One definition of God is that He is the Being who lives for the sake of the universe, rather than Himself. Therefore, all things must need God. Is that true or not?</p>
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<p>The critics of the Unification Church may tell you, “Reverend Moon has made up a very persuasive theory, but it has no foundation. He is just trying to hook you. He wants to make all you young people suffer. What kind of principle is that, living for the sake of others?” Wherever we go, we are looked at scornfully and persecuted. Why do we have to live such a peculiar way of life? When you do something for the sake of others, ultimately others will do the same for you. Thus when you move in a complete circle for the sake of America, eventually the entire country will join in that effort.</p>
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<p>Reverend Moon is following this principle exactly. I have been doing things for the sake of America, even though Americans seem to be misunderstanding and persecuting me. Eventually, however, this internal giving will become external. Within twelve years of my arrival here, America will be in the position to understand and welcome me. 1973 was the first of the twelve years; so we have only three more years to complete.</p>
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<p>At this time in 1983, the dawn has begun. No matter how dark the night, the dawn heralds to the world that the sun is rising and once it does, all darkness vanishes. Reverend Moon has been turning and giving light in the darkness, just as the moon gives light in the night. When the morning comes the moon is replaced by the sun. which gives the light. Although my name is Sun Moon, according to the dispensation the order is Moon-Sun. The restoration course is one of reversed procedures.</p>
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<p>You are heading for true love. Will you try to enter by the front door or by the back? Those who proclaim themselves proudly, saying, “I did it myself. Look at me!” are the front-door people. But the person who just quietly and humbly feels that he is not deserving, that he has not done enough, is the one who goes to the back door. And God will be there, urging such a person to come in. God will receive the people coming in the front door with His left hand, but He will receive the back door people with His right hand.</p>
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<p>Even the Unification Church has people on the left hand and on the right hand side. Those who always want to receive the glory, credit and recognition will be received by me with my left hand. But those who always want to give more, are humble and unassuming and meek, are received by me with my right hand. Which would you rather be? Therefore, you must never try to take the easiest way. You must voluntarily take on the toughest course.</p>
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<p>It is easy to answer correctly with your mouth but doing it with your deeds is not easy at all. I have honestly studied for ways I could make you suffer more. On the surface that seems very cruel but I know that the winners of this course will receive the gigantic prize of true love.</p>
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<p>When I selected True Mother in 1960, the same principle was applied. There were a lot of candidates, ostentatiously demonstrating themselves and their beauty and worth-wearing lots of makeup and so forth-but I completely ignored such women. I was looking at the women who humbly came in the “back door,” who wore no makeup but always tried to serve others and never even considered themselves as candidates for the True Mother. The true candidates were those who made up their minds to be the last ones in the Unification Church to receive any sort of glory.</p>
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<p>Normally one would describe the tail of a snake as the farthest point from its head, but that is not so. The closest part to the head of a snake is its tail because of the way its body coils around. Thus the eyes see the tail first. Likewise in relationships, the head should always make a relationship with the tail and thus make a loop. The “tail position” is not worthless at all; quite the contrary. Within a family with many children, it is normal that the youngest child will receive the most attention from the parents. Even a king of a great country will want to pay attention to the little children, who are like the “tails” of the country. As the king loves and cares for the smallest child, he is already loving everyone in between. When he loves the least, he loves them all.</p>
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<p>I have been practicing this way of life. I do not usually pray for the best people in America but for people who are suffering the most in the world, such as those in communist concentration camps. I also pray for the most suffering members of the Unification Church. In that way, I am praying for all of humanity.</p>
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<p>I just returned from the World Media Conference in Colombia. Rather than meeting with the President or heads of state there, I preferred to see our unassuming and poor members and encourage them. I am constantly teaching our national leaders that instead of seeking to reach only the top people in government and such, it is far more important to go to the far corners of the nation and meet with the most humble, suffering members. They should shed tears with them, pray for them, take out their own money and buy little things for them. That is more precious. By doing that, a leader is setting the condition of loving everyone in between the top and bottom.</p>
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<p>Before I came to stay in America, I showed my love for the things of creation by establishing the holy grounds in every state. I wanted to love this land and its terrain more than anyone else in its history. Thus I rode in a car, day in and day out at top speed, traveling to every corner of the country and stepping on the land there. I ended up way down south in Key West, Florida, arriving at 3 o’clock in the morning. There were two drivers taking turns in our Plymouth station wagon and they were constantly dozing off; that was very dangerous. I never dozed because I felt almost like I was meeting my new bride. How could I not stay awake to love this land?</p>
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<p>I certainly visited with people at the top levels of this country, from the President on down, but I was more interested in visiting the humble and poor people. All my actions were motivated by this principle of meeting the highest and the lowest. Reverend Moon would like to be in the tail position in our movement. Wherever I go, I want to do the worst and most difficult things, the things which all the other members hate to do. That is my precise position today. By this principle, the Unification Church will have to prosper; there is no other way.</p>
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<p>There are businessmen who are able to amass fortunes from the humblest beginnings. Such people feel that no matter how much money they make, even one penny is precious. That is the way for a businessman to be successful. By the same token, when you work hard with the same attitude, valuing every penny you earn and spending it for the sake of God and humanity, it is forever protected and no one can take the value of it away from you. But those people who work hard to make money only for their own selfish purposes will not earn anything of lasting value.</p>
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<p>It is important to know how to earn money, but it is even more important to know the proper way to spend it. Col. Pak, for example, is in charge of a large budget for his many big projects. I am always watching to see what kind of attitude he has and how he spends that money. The Media Conference uses a lot of money, so I was watching to see how they managed it. There were many imperfections. The Media Conference is important, but it should always be done for the sake of the largest purpose. When something is dedicated for the purpose of humanity and the entire world, money will want to come joyfully for that.</p>
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<p>Whether you live by this principle or not, it will continue to prevail throughout history. History is waiting to see the true subject who will successfully practice this principle. Reverend Moon has learned this truth. This was my first visit to Colombia, but the people were very open and receptive to me. Even the government people went to great lengths to provide for my protection. Everywhere I went, they were trying to help me.</p>
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<p>Why did they want to do that? They felt that Reverend Moon’s visit was an extraordinary opportunity and they didn’t want anything to happen to mar it. They wanted Reverend Moon to enjoy his visit and leave with a feeling of happiness. They knew that if anything bad happened to me, it would bring bad consequences to their country. What about you? Do you want to protect me? Why do you feel that way?</p>
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<p>In order for mankind to be linked to true love, someone has to stand in the position of mediator. I am in the position to link everyone to that ultimate goal, so that is a most precious position. For a woman, her husband is her mediator for true love. For the true family love, the children are the mediators, as well as the parents. There are always vertical as well as horizontal channels for love.</p>
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<p>Where does God exist? He does not exist within the limited scope of our understanding but in a position beyond. That position of “beyond” is not somewhere dark and unreal; it is under law and principle.</p>
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<p>The Unification symbol is divided into two parts; so is the Korean flag. Likewise, the nation of Korea is divided into two parts. This division is one of confrontation and collision but division does not necessarily have to be negative. When there are two beings, there can be a beautiful harmony of give and take when they move together. The Unification movement is trying to convert the confrontation position into the position of give and take. America is a realm of confrontation and rejection, but I would like to make it a place of smoothness and harmony.</p>
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<p>Wherever there is confrontation, I seek to bring about harmony and reconciliation. The rear must come to the front and the front goes to the rear. By their swapping positions, harmony can be created. Satan should have followed men but instead tried to control man from the front position. God’s way is never to force someone to do something, because such a thing will not last. God always subjugates by natural means. He wants to be followed voluntarily, without any coercion. That is why God always uses persuasion, rather than force and that is why God’s will has taken such a long time to be accomplished in history.</p>
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<p>If someone looks at you with sharp, hostile eyes, you must defuse his hostility. Likewise when someone speaks strong, hateful words to you, instead of forcing him to stop, you must simply mellow his heart so that he will automatically surrender.</p>
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<p>In this day and age, there is one man proclaiming the core truth of the universe-that is Reverend Sun Myung Moon. The proclamation is very simple: you are born for the sake of others; you must live for the sake of others and even die for the sake of others. It is a very simple but very profound message arising from the universal principle.</p>
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<p>The way of life of parents is to live for the sake of their children. The way of life of a king is to live for the sake of his people. The way of life of the people is to live for the sake of the king. God exists for the sake of the universe and the universe was created and exists for the sake of God. I am preaching to you today of true love, a way of life for the sake of others.</p>
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<p>If anyone here has an objection to this principle, please raise your hands and tell me. Do you hesitate to raise your hands only because you are afraid? Then, you accept this teaching as the truth? Does accepting it make you feel good or bad? Even if you feel bad about it, the universe is saying, “How wonderful!” and God is saying, “Yes, my son, that is my truth!” You don’t have much choice in that case. Living for the sake of others even unto your life has to be the right way. There is no way around it.</p>
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<p>Those who live with true love here on earth will go through the automatic doors of the Kingdom of Heaven- you won’t even have to touch them but they will open wide for you. When you walk through those automatic doors, will God shout, “Who opened those doors without my permission?” No, God will just jump out joyfully and greet you, “Welcome, my child! I have been looking for you.”</p>
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<p>Do you know why God gave you a spouse? He wants you to have someone as your object, for whom you can practice living for the sake of others. The privilege of a wife is to be the special object for one man so that he can practice God’s way of life through you. The men and women who practice this principle are the happy ones. You are happy because eternity is with you. The entire universe can have give and take with you. However, if both of you are primarily looking to receive from the other, that will create a confrontation relationship and you will be stopped and destroyed. The everlasting relationships are those of giving and receiving, while confrontation relationships will always end in destruction.</p>
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<p>It is not good for a woman to think, “Now that I am married, I can receive love from someone.” You should get married in order to have someone you can love, someone to whom you can give your tenderness and warmth. As a soft, fragile woman, your desire should be to give yourself for the sake of your husband. The tough, muscular man pursues a soft, tender woman as his object to serve for the sake of others.</p>
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<p>There is a warm and a cold current in the ocean. The fish who live in the warm current can only multiply in cold water and the cold water fish can only multiply in warm water. That is a precious means of give and take. Thus man pursues woman and woman pursues man. True love requires living for the sake of others on every level- spouse, parents, and grandparents. This is the most noble and sacred duty of human beings. If someone within a family exhibits truly selfless love, he will win the hearts of the rest of the family and all the blessings of that family will flow to him.</p>
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<p>Self-centered love produces no growth, only destruction. An example is when a husband never looks to serve his wife but thinks she exists just to serve him. No matter what, those who give selfless love will win the hearts of anyone else. Even the most cold and hard-hearted woman will be won by a husband with selfless love. If you follow God’s principle and live His way of life, God’s love will definitely come knocking on your door.</p>
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<p>It is often the case that people who are searching for love are only searching for a good time; then whenever difficulty comes, their love is weakened. But those who engage in love from a selfless attitude, enduring the worst possible situations, will never lose that love. When you only love someone during the most favorable conditions, any difficulties will weaken your love. When you start your truly pure, selfless love from the worst possible condition, the only thing you need to expect is improvement. Wouldn’t you prefer the second situation?</p>
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<p>When you are first married, would you like to be in a position of envy to everyone? Or wouldn’t you prefer to be in a position in which others are skeptical of you? Who in the world looks favorably upon a mass wedding? Most people think it is quite strange. Why did Reverend Moon use such a method? Instead of urging you to meet each other freely and search for the mate you liked, I matched you. Why? The Unification marriages truly represent marrying for the sake of others. You marry for God, humanity, for the sake of America, Africa-since white and black people marry. Your marriage is not controlled by you but by God; thus in a most fundamental way, your marriage is by and for the sake of others. Once you accept the marriage from me, you are trying to live for the sake of others. What a dramatic way of life, No words are needed; your noble deeds are good enough.</p>
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<p>On Adam and Eve’s wedding day, what sort of choice did they have? Could they think, “I don’t like him/her,”? The animal world is the realm of pure principle. When male and female animals meet they don’t talk things over or question each other and make contracts. When male meets female, they simply mate-and they mate for the sake of each other, without any thought. The female doesn’t say arrogantly, “You males come to me the way I like!” When they are ready for conception, they don’t have any hesitation. The female sends out a signal to the male, who quickly gets the message and gives back his corresponding signal. Then they begin circling around each other.</p>
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<p>Male and female are two separate beings but they are truly one. Thus they long for and seek each other for the purpose of unity. The movement for “gay rights” shows the current confusion of society. If such a culture were approved by God, all of humanity could be extinguished within one century! That is Satan’s ultimate challenge to God. It is like him saying, “I am going to wipe out the human race.” While America has been going toward that perverted direction of “gay liberation,” and so forth, the Unification Church has been going in the opposite direction-that is the mass weddings for the establishment of ideal men and women. We marry for the sake of God, the future of humanity, and the sake of the country, as well as the sake of the children. Without that kind of principle, there can never be such a thing as eternal happiness.</p>
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<p>What kind of people are gathered now in this room- good or evil? What are the characteristics of good people as opposed to evil people? Individualism belongs to Satan, not God. Because of the increasingly individualistic attitude among Americans, it is more on the evil side. That is why America is declining. Individualism must be changed to the way of life that benefits the whole. A self-centered society always fosters criminal activities such as robbery, murder, and drug-dealing. This is because the common ethic is that anything which benefits the individual is good. But when you are living for the sake of others, you will gain true prosperity, happiness and beauty in your life. Does anyone here have an objection to that?</p>
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<p>Those who work very hard and gain PhDs at prestigious universities are most often doing that for their own individual benefit. However if you study for the sake of the country, for humanity, and for the sake of God, you will gain everlasting benefit. This country needs such people; this world needs such people. Don’t you think so? What about God, does He need such people? You should eat, breathe, and sleep for the sake of others. This must not be just in your thinking; rather, every cell of your body should feel and live this principle. It should be automatic and done without even thinking. This is the mission of the Unification Church-to mold such men and women who can live for the sake of others automatically.</p>
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<p>The words “man” or “woman” mean half of the whole. Therefore, you must not consider simply “my” determination, “my” desire, etc. When you speak of “I,” you are only 50% of the whole, whether a man or woman. Each woman was born for the sake of others, not for the sake of herself. Why did God give you large breasts? If it were just for yourself, it would be too burdensome but it was for the sake of your babies. Likewise, you don’t need wide hips for your own sake but for the ability to bear children. Your own sexual organs were created to receive from someone else, not for your individual purpose. The entire design of your body eloquently testifies to the fact that you were made for the sake of others. Is this wrong or right?</p>
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<p>Why does a man have broad shoulders? He is like the lion who must go out and defend others-not himself, but his family. When men and women come together, their proportions create a solid square. The woman has narrow shoulders because she is supposed to be embraced within the man’s arms. It would have been too difficult for your husband to take you in his arms if you were very broad shouldered! The physical attributes of man and woman make perfect harmony when they lie in bed together. If they both had wide hips, they wouldn’t be comfortable!</p>
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<p>A man has a larger nose than a woman but that creates a balance. Women usually laugh in a downward direction, while a man will guffaw loudly in an upward direction. A man without a woman lives in a lonely world, and vice-versa. Do you women want to live alone, wearing your makeup and looking at yourselves in the mirror?</p>
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<p>This principle is applicable all the way up to the level of our Creator. What does the Creator like to see most of all? TL for LT-True Love for a Long Time. God created human beings for the fulfillment of the highest ideal of true love. Within God there is both masculinity and femininity so He would come to visit a man with a woman as His medium. Likewise, He would come to a woman through a man. Why is this a good thing? Because the man and woman can love each other and create the spark of love.</p>
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<p>Living for the sake of others is the only way the ultimate harmony between man and woman can be achieved.</p>
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<p>As you try to serve each other, you confront in a way by trying to give more than the other. Thus as you both push toward the center, your energy becomes totally rounded. That is where the true couple comes into being. This is how you can occupy the world of up, down, right and left. Upper represents God, lower represents earth. Right represents men, left represents women. In order for men and women to truly unite in true love, they must meet with Heaven and earth; that is, they must achieve vertical unity. Without finding God, there is no way true love can be fulfilled.</p>
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<p>Thus, within the center of creation exists the Tree of Life-men and women. When you read the book of Revelation, it says that the Tree of Life will emerge which will go on forever. With true love in the center, men and women as the Tree of Life will harmonize on the universal scale and will ultimately reach the heart of God.</p>
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<p>You men need to achieve strict vertical discipline. When God comes first in your love, you do not lose any love between each other. This is because you are creating more capacity within yourselves for love and can love each other more. Those couples who love their children more than themselves allow God to truly be with them. True men and women are those who love humanity, each other, their children, as much as they love God-that is, they are loving Heaven and earth. The Unification Church installed this as the Heavenly four-position foundation.</p>
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<p>As men and women come together in the give and take of love, expanding themselves to greater and greater capacity of love, they eventually become universal men and women. The ideal world is one in which people love the world as much as they love God, their spouses, and their own children. That must be the reality.</p>
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<p>What is the ideal man? He is the man who commits every ounce of his energy for the sake of true love. For example, he uses his eyes for the sake of true love to the maximum degree. Even for all eternity, his eyes will never get tired of looking at his beloved ones; an eye with that kind of energy is a true eye.</p>
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<p>The true man’s ears never get tired of hearing the sounds of his loved ones. Likewise, his nose is utilized for the maximum capacity of expressing love. His mouth would do the same; he would kiss his loved one everywhere. Suppose there was a man who kissed so much his mouth got completely chapped and his lips were bleeding, but still he would want to kiss his loved one! The sense of touch of a true man is able to experience true love constantly in every cell and never get tired. Such is the stimulation of true love!</p>
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<p>The true husband and wife can love that much. You must maintain some thread of connection with each other, even though you cannot be together all the time. Perhaps you might keep one hair from your spouse’s head in your wallet during the day. At night, you might wrap it around your finger, just so you can feel the presence of your beloved one. Is there anyone here who thinks that is just too much love?</p>
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<p>The person who is intoxicated by love is like a boneless person, melted down, but still he wants to experience more and more love. There is no word and no expression for the fullness of true love. There are paintings of beautiful naked women in art museums and whenever you men see such things, you can relate that beauty with your own wife. A man with that attitude will never fall or go wrong. He should also think, “That is just a painting; my wife is alive, warm, and responsive to me. My wife is a million times better.” If you have such an attitude, it is all right to look at such paintings. The wife of such a husband will be a happy one.</p>
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<p>Likewise, when a woman links every experience she has with her husband she will have a very happy husband. When your hair gets gray, look at it as the result of giving out all your energy in love. How wonderful it is, then, to have gray hair! It doesn’t matter what kind of clothing you wear; with true love, your value is not diminished by such things. Perhaps your wife is pale and sick sometimes; certainly she may not be a beauty queen, but if you are giving your entire heart and soul to protect and uplift her, it won’t matter.</p>
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<p>As a matter of fact, I told Mother last night, “I love you so much, I don’t want you to depart from me for even a minute. Perhaps I will tie a rope to your leg so that even when you go to the bathroom, I will know where you are.” Certainly there is not a pleasant perfume in the bathroom, but that isn’t important. What is important is if love is there. When I said that to Mother, she liked it very much. I told her, “Even when I must sleep apart from you I want to have a piece of your hair under my pillow.” We made a resolution to practice that kind of love.</p>
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<p>The husband and wife who are always united, regardless of comfort, health, whether happy or sad, are the beautiful couple. Mother doesn’t enjoy boat riding very much because she gets seasick very easily. I spend a lot of time out on the ocean and Mother always wants to go with me, even though she gets sick. She thinks, “I just want to stay with Father.” That is truly beautiful.</p>
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<p>The ideal family begins from the ideal husband and wife. You are the personification of true love so every cell in your body, from the soles of your foot to the top of your head, must express your love to your loved one. It is the process of nature for lower forms of creation to be used by the higher. For example, plants are eaten by animals and animals are eaten by man. This is not a cruel thing because those other forms of creation were meant to be absorbed into the higher expression of love. It is men and women who must give the highest expression of love because they are the beings who are ultimately fulfilled by God. Thus the plants and animals can go with them into God’s love.</p>
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<p>The journey of all creation is a journey toward God. The mineral kingdom lends itself to the plant kingdom, which is one step closer to God. The plant kingdom gives itself to be eaten by animals, which takes them one step closer. The animals give themselves to the service of men and women, and in that way come to the love of God. Thus mankind represents the entire universe when they join together with God. There have been many interpretations of this phenomenon, such as the law of the survival of the fittest, and the stronger eating the weaker, and so forth. But from the principled point of view, there is a clear purpose to why these things happen.</p>
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<p>If you give yourself for the sake of the True Father, do you lose anything? No, you are consummating yourself by joining a higher realm of love for God. Thus your sacrifice is never in vain but is fulfilled. God gives True Father incredible difficulties-is that because God hates me? No, God wants me to experience and personify His love more. Therefore, I can have no complaint; everything is OK because of that.</p>
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<p>The entire world is linked by the four directions-up, down, left and right. Men and women, and mind and body all have four directions. When husband and wife truly love each other in a sacrificial way, they become the center of the society, nation, world and universe. Likewise, any nation which embodies such a spirit will become the central nation of the entire world.</p>
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<p>You need parents, representing the upper direction, and you need your posterity, representing the lower. You need your own generation, as well, representing left and right. Heaven and earth must be linked to all of these. Without the relationship of all these components, there is no way you can be linked with the universe. The teaching of the Unification Church is for the individual to live for the sake of the family and in that way you become the center of the entire circle. When the family lives for the sake of its tribe, it becomes the center of that tribe. When that tribe lives for the sake of its society, it becomes the center of that society. This is the way in which the principle is expanded to all levels.</p>
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<p>Just as the minerals, plants, and animals are absorbed by human beings, the individual is absorbed by the family, the family by the tribe, the tribe by the society, and so on. By giving oneself sacrificially you are absorbed into higher and higher levels of accomplishment and ultimately you can enter into the heart of God. Don’t you agree?</p>
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<p>Sometimes you might complain, “That sounds like a good theory, but it won’t work. Our society is not structured that way. Individualism is still very important.” What do you need the most-a democratic world or a world of love? On the journey and search for true love, do you need your individualism or your accomplishment of love? You need love even more than yourself! Would you prefer the realm of love or the realm of freedom? Reverend Moon has come up with the statement that the world will not survive or be meaningful without the fulfillment of love. That is why we never hesitate in the face of persecution. We must move forward, advancing this principle until we are victorious and prosperous in this way of life.</p>
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<p>At the same time, the entire universe is coming toward the center point and the center is moving outward. There are two powers-centrifugal and centripetal-pulling and pushing, which must harmonize to create the circling motion. Through these two powers, what would be the ultimate essence of energy that would bring them into the center, permanently installed there? The power of true love will bring the ultimate anchor and foundation.</p>
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<p>There is nothing under the sun that disregards or hates love. Even a piece of grass, a tree, animals, insects -every bit of God’s creation is thirsty for love. According to the ideal, if the master of a garden really loves his trees and plants, the insects will stay away and will not harm those plants. If the insects come there, they would just rest or play; they would not want to harm the plants because the power of love would protect them. Look at the universe from this standpoint–the shining sun, moon, the sparkling stars, the breezes, all the things of nature are whispering of universal love. Everything is singing for love. Everything is a love ornament for the center of this universe. God created those love ornaments for the stimulation of the God-centered husband and wife.</p>
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<p>It is common to refer to the things of nature when speaking about love. When you describe the eyes of your loved one, you might say, “They shine like an innocent dove.” Or someone might say, “That couple is dancing around like a butterfly.” The butterfly actually has a very irregular motion, seemingly without any system, but looked at from the eyes of love, it is beautiful-it is like dancing.</p>
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<p>You should live your life on earth with ecstatic love and then you should enter into Heaven. God will welcome you saying, “You are the fulfillment and personification of my love!” Then you will praise God, saying, “My God, you are the center of my love. You have given me so much love!” True love is a great power.</p>
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<p>God is not a subject of fear; He is the subject of loving intimacy and He wants to touch you everywhere. That is why there were no clothes needed in the Garden of Eden-they make the expression of love more clumsy! Suppose His son or daughter bit God’s hands. Do you think God would get mad? No, He would be pleased at such a love bite. The husband who really loves his wife might sometimes get carried away and just bite her! She could look at that red mark every day and say, “This is my medal of honor which my husband gave me!” That is better than a gold ring!</p>
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<p>The ideal family is like a feast ready for God all the time. I want to make God laugh the greatest laughter of all in history. I want Him to be so filled with laughter that He gets a belly-ache! Think of it-God responds so intensely to your love that you can penetrate His very heart like a missile. He would never complain against such powerful love, even if you bruised His chest! Because you made such an intense impact upon God’s chest, He would need a special ointment to heal that place. Even God hasn’t planned such an ointment yet, because the impact of man’s love hasn’t been so powerful. So God will tell you, “Because of your love, I had to create this new love ointment.”</p>
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<p>If you create marks of love all over God’s body so that He is sore all over, will He want to cover up those marks? No, not at all. He will be proud of them, like medals of honor. There must be something which we can do, something which history has never seen.</p>
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<p>Men and women feel so intensely toward each other in their love and I want you to understand that God is just the same. When you are really enjoying the ecstasy of romantic love, God is enjoying that love, too. God will be holding one hand of the husband and one of the wife, saying, “You two are mine forever. I will never release you. You are the prisoners of My love.” What would you say to that? Certainly you would be happy to be God’s prisoners. Wouldn’t you shout out in grateful joy? The ultimate expression of joy is tears. All the tears of the present world are merely a dress rehearsal for the future. We are sweating and shedding tears now for the sake of that ultimate expression of joy. How wonderful that is!</p>
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<p>in that precious love, there is no comparison with diamonds, gold, or pearls. Your five senses should be wide open to perceive the love of God. When that love completely overwhelms you, imagine such a position! You will become totally intoxicated, like a wonderful dream. What a peace within you-quiet, genuine and ecstatic peace. It is only in the world of principle that that is possible. But in the world in which the self is the center, that can never be possible.</p>
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<p>Therefore, the road of true love is the most precious. If that road happened to be the road of slavery, I would not mind going that road. The true American dream shall be found on that road. If the road of democracy takes me away from the road of true love, then I will run from democracy. Even if all of America comes against us, it will not change anything. The way of life we are pursuing is so extraordinary, I would not swap it for anything. This is the road of Reverend Moon. Even if 240 million American people come and spit at me, I shall still prepare my offering to God, restoring peace.</p>
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<p>This is dramatic and romantic, but it is the true model and ideal. If even the animal world has an instinct to sacrifice for the sake of love and offspring, how much more does the human world? Ironically, the human world has become so self-centered, it is often blind to the beauty and purity that exists in the animal world. Therefore, Reverend Moon has come to this country and this world, determined to inspire a new breed of people dedicated to the true way of life, centered upon true love.</p>
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<p>Man must restore his original, fundamental way of life no matter how difficult it may be. Unless we achieve the original human nature, there shall be no lasting peace. Do you follow? Those who are married, please raise your hands. You husbands and wives must give your total devotion to the fulfillment of this love. It is not the appearance of your face or the color of your skin that determines the size of your love. There are beautiful birds, such as the raven, which are black; they are that much more beautiful because they are black, not any less beautiful.</p>
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<p>The unity of husband and wife is the basic building block of Heaven. You must make your foundation on that level. Then you can be linked with the entire universe, all the way up to the bosom of God. We love our children because they are the manifestation of the love between husband and wife. We can give our very lives for those children; that is the beauty and the duty of the parents. When you fulfill your duty towards your children and your fellow man, then God will fulfill His duty towards you and He will take responsibility for your well-being.</p>
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<p>How can you show yourself as worthy of God’s love? Only in one way-by exhibiting love for the sake of others. If God sees that you are self-centered in your love, He will leave; He will not be able to work with you. Then Satan will come in and the result will be destruction and confusion within you.</p>
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<p>With true love for the sake of others, we can go over the Himalayan mountains. You can write the most beautiful literature while you are crossing those mountains; it will become the love literature for the sake of humanity. It will be the textbook of love and it will be most famous.</p>
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<p>When I came to America in 1971, I knew I would face tremendous persecution and opposition, but I knew if that was the road to God’s love, I would not have any regrets. I knew that God would be with me and protect me, guiding me to the goal and that ultimately God’s victory would be secure. After North America, I will go on to South America and then Africa. If more persecution is awaiting me there, still I will go on. Even if I falter or drop dead at some point, I will never hesitate to go this road. You can write on my tombstone, “The man who dedicated himself to the fulfillment of the love of God faltered here with his dream unfulfilled.” But someone will come and pick up that dream and carry it on.</p>
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<p>You husbands and wives should not dream of material things, thinking, “I need good clothes, a nice apartment, an automobile,” and so forth. Those things have only temporary value. You are clothed with the love of God, even though you may appear physically very dirty or dingy. That is the most dazzling crown of glory in God’s sight. This is what the ideal family is all about.</p>
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<p>Mother and I are heading for Alaska now, which is like the “end-point” of America. I want to visit a certain couple I met who live out in the wilderness with only the bears as neighbors. I think I would like to live with bears for one year. However, I have a problem. If I tried to live out there, someone would find me and soon many people would want to come live with me! Then it would no longer be a wilderness!</p>
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<p>During the salmon season, the commercial salmon fishers in Alaska are very busy. Many of them do not care anything about nature, about the community or about the Alaskan people but are only concerned with making money. I am determined that our people must have a different attitude. We must think about the people who live in Alaska, many of whom have no contact with the rest of the world.</p>
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<p>We also have shrimp trawlers along the South American coast, employing many Korean fisherman. All the good captains there have been seeking to work for the Unification Church fishing boats. Why is that? It is because we do not fish for any selfish purpose or even for the sake of the Unification Church. Instead, we are doing it for the sake of the world, all of humanity. They know this and we treat them well.</p>
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<p>Knowing this, would you try to stop me and Mother from going to Alaska? No, you would bless us. What if I asked you to go there too? Would you go? Would you say, “Let me think about that for a while. I will sleep on it.”? I need the kind of people who will say yes or no immediately.</p>
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<p>First-class American citizens like yourselves are competing with each other to go into the lowest positions in the world in underdeveloped countries. In that way, the highest and lowest points come together, bringing balance. I would like to see American citizens going to the worst parts of the world, striving to take care of the children there and working harder than the parents of those children. Would you be willing to do that? Is that crazy thinking? No, that is not only smart thinking, it is especially smart. Ordinary wisdom would not come up with such a thing. The Moonies’ activities are always outside of the ordinary-especially smart.</p>
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<p>If Mother and I had not gone to the World Media Conference in Colombia, it would have been an ordinary event. But because we were there, the participants had a special shine in their eyes and the atmosphere was very warm, even throughout the city. Although the media used to be completely negative toward me, now they are showing a lot of interest. The media thought that if they attacked me a few times, I would soon be incinerated and would disappear. But they have been hitting me for twenty years and Reverend Moon has only grown taller and stronger in the world! If I were to call them and give them tough, honest criticism, they would say, “Thank you, Reverend Moon.”</p>
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<p>Do you think that Reverend Moon’s way of life has been right or wrong? The way in which I was received in Colombia was almost exactly like a head of state. When I landed at the airport, they did not put me through customs, immigration, and so forth. A limousine pulled up immediately to escort Mother and me, as soon as we disembarked.</p>
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<p>The most important thing you must realize is that although Reverend Moon has no secular sovereignty, no nation, they still treated me like a head of state. Even if Reagan came there, they couldn’t have given him any better protection. They were not doing it out of a heavy sense of duty, either. The security people were truly honored to escort Reverend Moon. Mother and I were deeply touched by their sincerity. Think of how God must see that scene, thinking, “Even though my son doesn’t have a nation or any secular sovereignty, that nation is treating him in such a fashion. Bravo! Job well done!”</p>
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<p>From the beginning point of the husband and wife, the family, we shall become the building blocks of the Kingdom of Heaven. Your husband might feel so much love for you that he would decide to pull out one hair every day in order to have something of yours to keep. If you turned out to be bald-headed, how would you feel? You would be a happy, bald-headed wife! You could call it a love head.</p>
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<p>Eternity is our goal. I have been testing all these things I have spoken about on Mother, experimenting with our way of life. When I suggested them to her, Mother was flabbergasted and felt no desire to dissent. She had no room for complaint-it was a great strategy. Therefore, I am the happiest husband!</p>
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<p>The happy couple is the beginning point and from there, we must have happy children, as the building blocks of the happy Heavenly Kingdom. Do you want to become candidates for the building blocks of the happy Kingdom of Heaven? God bless you!</p>
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">September 4, 1983<br />
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Belvedere<br />
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<p>What comes to mind when you hear the term “front line”? Beyond any front line is an enemy line and an enemy country. One’s enemy is dedicated to destroying him; therefore, unless one defends himself in battle, he will be destroyed. The citizens of a country have a responsibility to defend their country and themselves. There are different kinds of conflict on the earth, but none is the same as war in which governments and people are united, with the goal of common survival, to fight an enemy.</p>
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<p>Every battle leads either to victory or defeat. If a war ends without a clear conclusion, for instance with a truce, that conflict is destined to continue until either victory or defeat is determined. Both nations fighting a war want to win, so what determines victory or defeat? The greatest power determines the outcome, whether it is military, economic, or political power. There is also the invisible power of spirit and determination that influences the outcome.</p>
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<p>We cannot forget the recent war in Vietnam, when America was embarrassed by its first defeat. How did America come to be defeated? There is no doubt that this country had sufficient military power and it certainly had sufficient economic power. The fact is that it was the power of ideology that defeated America in Vietnam; no one can deny this. This country, defeated by ideology in Vietnam, cannot continue in this condition. America is immersed in a global conflict and it did not end in Vietnam; we are still moving toward the final showdown, so it is very important to know precisely where we are.</p>
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<p>Since America was defeated by communists in a small, rural country like Vietnam, people in places like the Middle East and Africa wonder what will happen when America directly confronts nations like Soviet Russia and Red China. Red China alone has a population of 1.3 billion; that is over five times the population of the United States. The goal of Soviet Russia is clearly that of global conquest, and the communist leaders there see America as their foremost enemy. Will America really have the strength to defeat them?</p>
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<p>America withdrew from Vietnam and then pointed to the Monroe Doctrine, warning other nations not to bother this hemisphere. Most Americans never imagined that their enemies would invade the countries in their own backyard, but even the Pacific Ocean is no obstacle to the people whose goal is global conquest. Furthermore, even outer space will be utilized and both sides are now scrambling to dominate it. This is precisely the situation today.</p>
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<p>The present American mood seeks to avoid involvement in any other war. Imagine a wrestling champion who comes before an audience and challenges anyone to step forward and defeat him; if no one volunteers, he can truthfully claim that all of them have been defeated without even fighting. The audience may ask the wrestler to just step down and shake hands and make peace with them, but that wouldn’t work. The challenge must be met.</p>
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<p>Communist leaders have been raised from the cradle to believe that their goal is to defeat America; this has been the communist doctrine for over sixty years. Military training is targeted at the United States; soldiers even practice shooting at dummies representing Americans to feel realistically that their goal is to kill Yankees, to cut out their eyes, cut off their ears, and so forth. That is inhumane, but the end result of such training is an incredible animosity toward America on the part of the soldiers.</p>
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<p>America, on the other hand, doesn’t want to fight and only wants to enjoy peace. The problem remains that such an attitude doesn’t create any dialogue. The whole world was outraged by the barbarity of the Soviets’ shooting down the Korean airliner, but that was just another Soviet challenge to the United States. The Soviet Union is exactly like that wrestler on the stage, shouting and swinging his fists and causing all kinds of embarrassment to his opponents.</p>
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<p>What is President Reagan going to do? What would God want him to do? God is watching the President’s reaction, feeling that if he lives up to His expectation, then God will give more blessing to this country. If Reagan doesn’t do that, though, America’s future is that much more dismal. If you have no resistance when an enemy virus invades your body, it will ultimately travel to your brain and heart and your position will be desperate. Can you just offer to shake hands with the virus? No, you would be dead. By the same token, does Satan understand about peace?</p>
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<p>Currently the free world has no way to confront an atheist adversary who wants to take over the world. If communism is victorious, this whole planet will be under the rule of atheism and God’s ability to rule will virtually be kicked off the earth. What about God’s providence if ail religion is made illegal in the world? Human life has no more innate value than dust and dirt to communists; murdering “reactionaries” is nothing more than shoveling dirt away. They can do that without any pain in their conscience.</p>
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<p>Communists, who view Western capitalists as bloodsuckers who are draining the blood of the world, consider themselves historical champions. They are out to destroy the enemy, capitalism, and the center of capitalism which is the United States. Can you deny that the communists think this way and that they educate their citizens this way from birth? How can you simply ask them to stop? There are already communist nations in this hemisphere who would like nothing better than to spread communism to Mexico and then, of course, to the United States.</p>
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<p>The free world is in a miserable situation and is being pushed into a corner. The internal situation of America is one of moral corruption; so many young people taking drugs and chasing after artificial joy. Who shall secure the future of this country, the senators? The President? The armed forces? No matter how strong the military may be, it comes under the command of the people through Congress. No army is stronger than its leadership.</p>
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<p>The Commander in Chief of the armed forces is the President, who is a politician and can be replaced every four years. If somehow a communist were elected President, the Pentagon and armed forces would be under his command. There is a great power struggle between conservatives and liberals in this country, and history is watching to see what direction Reagan will set. By contrast, the Kremlin has a well-orchestrated plan for undermining the different seats of power in America-the armed forces, Congress, the White House, and the media. They are focused on one goal-how to destroy America.</p>
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<p>Communists believe that struggle is everywhere, especially between classes of people. They believe that struggle eventually leads to the victory of communism; this begins on the ideological level, in which their superior “scientific” ideology confronts all other, weaker ideologies.</p>
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<p>While the communist world is extremely controlled and goal-oriented, the free world is susceptible to corruption. Politicians in a democratic society have to win votes by hook or by crook. This situation can be likened to the biblical description of the wolf in sheep’s clothing; the American society is so vulnerable, the wolf has a golden opportunity to infiltrate.</p>
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<p>This is the external and internal reality of the United States. Day in and day out, communists are pushing farther into America. Look at the college campuses, where the future leaders are supposedly trained: left-wing ideologies are rampant there; colleges are literally becoming instruments for communism. In every field-science, the media, even the military-efforts are made to infiltrate. Communist leaders have concluded that people in the free world are only walking corpses; if they were alive, they would show some signs of resistance! Thus they are certain that this is a rotten civilization.</p>
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<p>The only solution is to make the communists taste our strength, showing them that people in the free world are not just corpses. Because the communists have become so complacent about their strength, one strong confrontation could shatter them.</p>
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<p>Americans must realize that while they are living lightheartedly now, a powerful enemy is creeping up on them, armed with daggers. Could anyone joke if he knew that a deadly blow was only moments away? Clearly, America is destined for doom if it continues its present ways. Too many American women do not care about the world situation but only about their make-up, diets, or catching a husband. Communist policy makers depend upon such weaknesses.</p>
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<p>Who are the front-line soldiers in this war? People in the West normally do not want to be on the front line, but communist soldiers are forced to stand on the front line every day.</p>
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<p>Within communist countries there are honorary organizations for people who have betrayed and even killed their own parents. After 1917, when the communists took over Russia, they perceived a great obstacle to their revolution in the form of Christianity. In order to infiltrate and destroy the churches, they urged the young people to show their faithfulness to communist ideology by reporting their parents if they were counter-revolutionary. Can the West seriously think it is possible to negotiate with such an opponent? Would a nuclear freeze have any effect upon such people? Compromise and negotiation have no effect. I pity the American people and their blind leaders.</p>
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<p>I have been fighting communism my entire life and I know what it is. When I was a student, I already understood that communism was the worst enemy of mankind and God, and I was resolved to fight it. I opposed communism in North Korea and suffered under it. I fought it in South Korea and now I am fighting it in Japan and America.</p>
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<p>We have been talking about external political situations; what does that have to do with us? After all, we are a religious organization, so why should we worry about it? We worry about communism because it is not only the enemy of mankind but the enemy of God. Communists are determined to exterminate religion as “the opiate of the masses” Can we just sit and pray and ask God to take care of us?</p>
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<p>Communists may come after us with guns and bombs but our tactic is to destroy an evil ideology with a true ideology, through strong, disciplined organization. Therefore, we need strong men and women. The sign of the communists’ strength is how they can grab people and pin them to the ground, but the sign of our members’ strength is the way we can knock the communists out with words if they argue with us. Furthermore, we have to be able to defend ourselves if they attack us and be able to defeat them. Our members are confident in the face of communist challenge.</p>
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<p>In Japan our members challenged the communists to debate their philosophy over the radio and television and let the public make a Judgment. But the communists retreated. No one wants to confront our ideology. For the first time in their history, the communists are truly on the defensive. I am the man they fear the most in the free world.</p>
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<p>Many people thought Reverend Moon would never last, but instead of disappearing I am rising like the sun, bringing the only hope to the world. America has been reluctant to believe I have anything to offer, but now this country has no choice, especially since the communist countries recognize me as their archenemy. The communists know that Reagan will come and go and they see that secular American society is corrupted, but they cannot take Reverend Moon’s movement lightly for we have a strong ideology, strong organization and committed members. When the IOWC was formed last spring, everyone went.</p>
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<p>Some leaders have come to me with requests for vans and mobile centers and a whole shopping list. Would a real soldier require a chair and fight a war like it was a video game? If you are just riding in your vans, will you win or lose the war? Moonies’ training includes a lot of walking; can you sell flowers by just sitting comfortably? No, you have to go after the people. I know that tall women are especially susceptible to backaches and even more so after bearing children, but I also know that lots of walking will help heal those aches. Many Americans take time out to do jogging these days, but our members combine their jogging with their work!</p>
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<p>I want American women to feel that their sweat is their makeup and lipstick. That attitude will lay a foundation for lasting peace in this country and for your children’s prosperity. Don’t you think the success of our noble crusade is the most important thing you could work for? Do you have an appetite now for being on the front line?</p>
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<p>After the Washington Monument rally, I announced that our next goal was Moscow. I am sure the communists snickered then, but now they are not laughing. This year we sent a second delegation of opinion makers to Moscow. The first time, the communists didn’t pay much attention; but this time our group was treated with great respect. The Kremlin bent over backward to please it. The communists knew very well who was behind that project.</p>
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<p>This year we also initiated a fact-finding tour for journalists, sending them to places in Central America that are sore spots for Soviet Russia because they don’t want them investigated. At the current World Media Conference in Colombia, South America, the 600 journalists in attendance want me to address them; I am still deciding whether or not to do so. If I go I will certainly talk bluntly about the world situation. The news media is such a powerful tool, but so far they have been spreading only liberal or leftist views. Our movement is assembling Abel-type news media for the cause of God and freedom.</p>
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<p>Amazingly, it is not the free world but the communist world that knows Marxist ideology is inferior to our ideology. Previously, the communists were confident that they could win, but now we are on the ideological offensive. Over the past ten years in Japan, the communists have been tasting what the Unification movement is all about, and they have seen our ability to turn events around. Therefore, as soon as I came to America the news media felt the influence of those who are anxious to have only bad things said about me and to keep America from accepting me. Who uses brainwashing? It is the communists. They saturated the news media with accusations that I use brainwashing.</p>
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<p>I want you to understand that all communist activities are coordinated internationally. Court battles similar to the one here in America are being fought almost simultaneously in Germany, England and France. The communists’ ultimate target is no longer the United States but Reverend Moon and the worldwide Unification Church.</p>
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<p>What America needs most is strong, committed leadership; without that, this country cannot survive. I am trying to provide vigorous leadership and a strong organization for the sake of this country. America is now looking for such things and I am trying to meet the demand.</p>
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<p>I confront people, trying to wake them up. Universities must understand that the Unification movement deserves greater respect than communist activities. Our CARP movement does not hesitate to confront the communists on campus.</p>
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<p>What do you have that is so special? The truth. Who will recognize your truth and accept your True Parents? The best way to wake up the free world is to persuade the communists that Moonies are their worst enemy. The communist newspaper Pravda leftist publications in Japan, as well as The Washington Post have attacked me. In doing so, they are recognizing me.</p>
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<p>Where is my home? Do you think of East Garden or Belvedere as my home? No, those are Church homes. The money I spent there was to make them Church properties. Ordinarily, people with money are anxious to hoard it in secret accounts, but I am anxious to mobilize every penny to create Unification properties. Am I foolish to act this way? Still, I have no place to call my own. I would like to visit you in your homes, but I also know you are not well-to-do. You married couples are lucky to have a little cubbyhole of your own!</p>
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<p>Why are the communists so afraid of me? Do I have fighter bombers or atomic weapons? Do Americans fear me because I am a violent person or murderer? I am none of those things. Americans are afraid because they see that young people of many nations change when they hear my teaching.</p>
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<p>Are you brilliant young men and women? Not quite, but I hope you will become brilliant. Am I a fool or a wise man? If I am wise, as you say, why can’t I escape persecution? I am persecuted because I am too smart. An ordinary man just takes a branch, but I want the whole tree! An average wise man has a few followers, but I have thousands from many nations. It is almost like I am uprooting the tree!</p>
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<p>Scholars will have to spend 600 years studying the 60 years of my life in order to get a glimpse of why young people respond to me so much. People may not like Moonies, but now they have to accept that we are on top of the world. The Unification Church cannot be uprooted from American culture; it is here to stay.</p>
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<p>What is so great about getting up early to fundraise and witness and go on the IOWC? Your parents think I am a love-robber, that I stole you away. Did I rob your parents of their child, or did you come to me? I never stole you away. The Unification wall is very high and only the best people can jump over it.</p>
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<p>There is no restriction on leaving but what will you find when you return to the secular world? Even though you have worked hard here and endured difficulties, you will realize that this life is the most genuine and fulfilling one. Here you can make the world come alive! If you leave, you may have more time for sleeping and eating, but in the secular world you deal with the walking dead. If life outside the Unification Church were better, I would be the first to leave.</p>
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<p>Do you think my life is easier than yours? Why would I put myself in such a difficult position? From the very beginning, my goal was to reach the apex of the world for God. I knew that the world would oppose me, so I resolved to win the battle and make a foundation each step of the way. In Korea, no one thought I would survive. When I came to America, people were absolutely convinced I would flop. The recent court battle gives people the conviction that I am finished, but through all these circumstances, I have only risen higher. Actually my battle in America is over. Not too long from now, America will see us as its only hope. During our many recent conferences, many scholars and thinkers have come to respect our movement.</p>
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<p>It is the news media which has crucified me. However, there is a segment of the media which realizes that I am the only one who can unite the God-accepting media against the God-denying media. Everyone said it would be crazy to start a new newspaper to compete with The Washington Post. They predicted that The Washington Times would not last six weeks, but it has been going now for one-and-a-half years and has become the preferred paper of this Administration. It is a God-fearing, anti-communist force working for the sake of the world. Now it is a national and international newspaper, read in the capitals of the world.</p>
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<p>The time will come when people will not only welcome you but request your leadership. I am trying to prepare you men and women for those opportunities and thus members of the Unification Church are trained to do not just one, but dozens of things at the same time.</p>
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<p>I have been given all the worst possible titles. When people call me a Korean evangelist or industrialist, they use the label “Korean” in a scornful sense. Could anyone coming from the small, backward country of Korea have anything to tell this rich country of America? The initial reaction of most Americans is that they don’t need my advice.</p>
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<p>You know the arrogance of the United States; it thinks it has the world under its arm. When The Washington Post and The New York Times printed allegations against me, most people thought I was finished. However, our Church just grew faster.</p>
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<p>I am now becoming a champion among the news media of the free world. We are assembling and organizing all the Abel-type people in order to chop up our target, communism, and to liberate the communists. When Americans see that it was a yellow man, not a white man, who defeated communism, they will be totally surprised. That day is near. It is far better for America to suffer that embarrassment than to be defeated by totalitarian communism. Eventually the free world will apologize to me for its opposition.</p>
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<p>We are the front-line soldiers in this battle against communism. In Korea and Japan we have many communist enemies. But when we have won the final victory and they are turned around, we will have one great tearful reunion. They will no longer be our enemies, but our brothers and sisters-children of God. Right now, while we are concentrating on this battle, we need front-line soldiers. Our present course is one of difficulty and suffering. The value of being on the front line at this time is so great that the value of even the whole United States is small by comparison. This time is unique in history. God is watching American women in particular to see if they can play a major, pivotal role. If you can, God’s blessing will be great.</p>
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<p>Our arms are not rifles or bombs. We will fight with the weapons of truth and love, lifting the enemy up in the air and making them lose control. I am like a giant hydraulic lift, raising the entire world to its maximum height.</p>
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<p>There are political parties in Korea and Japan which realize the power of our ideology and the strength of our movement. They are trying to root it out but as they keep pulling on us, they realize that our roots have no end. When they pull out enough roots, they will be buried by them!</p>
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<p>Your parents and your society have tried to kidnap you and bring you back. But you won’t be defeated by them. Will you be victorious over communism? It is easy to say yes, but to actually do it is something else.</p>
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<p>I am making meticulous, step-by-step preparations for complete victory. When this movement makes God real to the world, the God-proclaiming ideology shall overcome the God-denying ideology. Do you share this commitment and conviction? This is the final, historical battle line; after this is won, everything is completed. Once we are victorious, the world will come under God’s ideology. This is God’s desire and, knowing that, I have devoted my entire life to gaining the victory.</p>
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<p>Am I a stranger to you? No, I am your True Parent. True Parents and their children will naturally live together forever. Your eternal home and family is based on the True Parents. That home will be erected here on earth and continue forever in the spirit world. God designed the whole globe to be our homeland. This planet is the land of children who love their Heavenly Father. Every Sunday we say, “We are proud of the one sovereignty, proud of the one people, proud of the one land”</p>
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<p>You cannot regain this position anywhere else. Therefore, if you are wise men and women, you will sincerely try to strengthen your relationship with the True Parents. This bond is the foundation for your eternal well-being. If you are separated from us here, how can you meet us in the spirit world? It will be impossible. Here on earth you have to establish the tradition of being pious sons and daughters of the True Parents and patriots of the heavenly nation, not just of the secular nation. When you feel close to True Parents, you feel we are your own mommy and daddy and you are an intimate part of the heavenly nation. But when you are distant from us, everyone else is a stranger. What a miserable destiny that would be!</p>
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<p>How grateful you can be to know that True Parents are truly your own eternal father and mother! 1, too, am investing all my strength to secure that one eternal relationship. God wants to touch you and comfort you. He wants to tell you, “Well done, my son and daughter” Your true, lasting existence will begin at that point.</p>
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<p>Our immediate job is to liberate the world from communism. We have missionaries all over the globe, including the communist countries. Some of our brothers and sisters have become martyrs for this cause. I have prayed tearfully over their pictures, crying out for them in prayer. Our missionaries are yearning for the day when I can come to their liberated countries.</p>
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<p>No matter how much suffering and difficulties come our way, we shall march forward until the day of final victory. President Reagan will face many difficult times in the future; without the guidance of God, he will be unable to survive. Do you need my guidance, direction and commitment? Once I tackle a project, I will not leave it until I succeed. Even though people make dire predictions about such things, I always succeed.</p>
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<p>I am always standing on the most dangerous front line of all because, more than anyone else, I am the target of evil. Many times some national intelligence has warned me of approaching danger, but I have never relied on men-only on God. I have absolute confidence that my life is in God’s hands. My attitude is, “Thy will be done” I have already transcended the danger of physical death many times in my life. Have you made that kind of decision?</p>
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<p>I am warning you that our front line is the most vital position. Unless we succeed now, we will never do it. This is the opportunity to be victorious. With commitment and determination, we can win.</p>
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<p>I am giving you such a strong sermon today because this is such a critical time. We must tighten our belts and rededicate ourselves to these clear goals which I have pronounced. We will bring direction and guidance to America. Like a locomotive, we will pull this country and the world. For this goal, we shall go to the front line. There is no substitute. Shall we do it?</p>
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