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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="2018-06-25T05:20:17+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/25/let-us-liberate-god.html" rel="bookmark">June 25, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-25T05:20:17+01:00">June 25, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1989.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1989</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<h2 align="CENTER">REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON</h2>
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<h3 align="CENTER">February 26, 1989<br />
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<p>All religious people believe in God and say that God is omnipotent and omniscient. but in history religion was always trampled upon by worldly power. Why did God allow this? Does it mean He is impotent? Our topic is let’s liberate God but people in the established churches would ask what that means. Are we so powerful that we can liberate God who is so omnipotent?</p>
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<p>What is the area where God is not liberated, where He can not do what He freely wants? What unification does the Unification Church want to achieve? It’s the unification of all religions. If there is a God, then he would want the unification of religions. There cannot be complete freedom if there is no unification of religions. Likewise, there can be no true liberation of God if there is no unification of religions. But unification is not easy. When God sees one man who says he is united in mind and body and says he has united his family, tribe and nation and world then this is the real day of unification and liberation.</p>
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<p>Who is God? We say that God is the creator and we are created beings. But if we are just created beings then we are an integral part of God and therefore we could never really be free. Centered on man then, God could never be completely liberated. If there was something that could unite God and man wouldn’t that be ideal?</p>
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<p>What is an angel? We say that Satan is an angel but what is Satan? Was he created before man or after? There are so many questions like this to be answered. If man has fallen has he fallen centered on Satan or on God? Actually man has fallen in front of God.</p>
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<p>The standard of a nation is the Constitution. If someone violates it they commit a crime from the viewpoint of that country. In the religious world we say that God is our Father, but what kind of Father? We have many concepts of what a father is. The problem of the relationship between man and God is that we must fully understand the nature of the relationship and know what kind of father He is.</p>
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<p>Before the concept of “I” there is the concept of mother and father. Without parents I do not exist. Likewise, without God we do not exist. God is the original ancestor of mankind. If God is the origin of man and all creation what then is His purpose? There must be a purpose. The principle of cause and effect suggests to us that the cause of all causes must be one. The root must be traced back to the original cause. Can the cause of our body and the cause of our mind be different? Can the roots of our body and mind be in two different places? We can see that the way our body and the way our mind want to go are different. It’s as if our mind is straining for a higher ideal, going vertically upwards, whereas our body leads us outward in a horizontal direction. But were these directions different before we were created or after? If we trace the difference back we find they have one origin.</p>
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<p>If body and mind started from one point, where is that point? That is a very important question. What makes body and mind separate? What was the point of departure? The point where body and mind started is the beginning of our life. But did our life begin with our birth or with our parents’ love? Our conclusion is that life begins with our parents’ love. Where did our parents’ life start? It’s the same. It began with the love of our grandparents. And so it goes back. All life began with God. But where did the life of God begin? What is the central starting point? In God also it must be love. If we analyze the creation of all heaven and earth, the motivation cannot be found in life. Is there any joy in life itself? When God began to move do you think it was life that made him move? Look at ourselves. Does a man move because of life or because of love? If we move centered on love, there is joy. But if we move centered on life it is very limited because it only concerns ourselves. All lasting movement has to be centered on love otherwise it will be limited. The source of life is love.</p>
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<p>When we see movement we want to participate in movement that is as great as possible. We do not want to move on an orbit which is as small as a squirrel’s treadmill. Rather we would like to describe an orbit as large as the earth’s movement around the sun.</p>
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<p>In a family, children will be proud that they have been loved by their grandparents as well as their parents. The more love we receive, not only from our parents, the more we like it. If we can receive the love of all generations back to the origin of mankind that is ideal. We want eternal love. Life is a static thing. If life were our ideal those who lived longer would always be over us. There would be a hierarchy of age. But in love everything is dynamic. I can be the subject of my grandparents. The positions are flexible and dynamic. So what is it we want most and God wants most? Our purpose and God’s purpose must be identical otherwise we can never eternally became one. Husband and wife can never unite for eternity if they do not have an identical purpose.</p>
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<p>Given how important this is, we wonder, “Does God have love?” We have to conclude that if God is alone, He does not have love. There has to be a partner with whom to exchange love. All of creation can only achieve its value if love is realized.</p>
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<p>The single girls here, do you want a strong husband or a weak husband? Which would you chooses weak husband with love or a strong husband without love? Of course you want a husband with love. Even the leaves of a plant would say they would want to live with you if you had love. Our whole body likes love. Our cells get intoxicated with love. That is why dance was invented. Dance came about because of love. When love comes everything is OK If I keep going on like this it will be difficult to come to a conclusion.</p>
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<p>What God likes most is diamonds. (Laughter). What? Did you ever see love? Everyone wants to have the valuable things they can see. If things are visible, like gold nuggets, you get-greedy far them. Love is so precious that everyone wants to have it. As the creator, God is only one, there cannot be two. But because He is alone, He cannot have love. So one of His creations must be the object of His love. There are two poles. As the electrical give and take increases, the more they are attracted. (Father illustrates by leaning on Mother).</p>
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<p>If you do not have an object of love you naturally look for one. Is the life of an aging bachelor one filled with happiness? So the absolute God can fill His absolute ideal by Himself, right? Why don’t you say “Amen?” So you know better than me, do you?</p>
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<p>If you understand that the principle at the root of all creation is love, then you can see logically that God cannot achieve love by Himself. He needs an object to love and without it He cannot fulfill His own ideal. This object cannot be an integral or dependent part of God. It must be independent. So what does God absolutely need? Love.</p>
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<p>In creation we have left and right. Is that the same as good and evil? Is the universe dualistic? No, they exist in order for them to become one. All of created things exist in these coupled relationships and their purpose is to become one. Birds are male and female. When the male moves, the female follows and when the female moves, the male follows. Why do birds sing? They sing because they want to attract each other, they sing because there is male and female. Why do people cry? We cry sometimes for joy and sometimes for sorrow. But the fundamental quality underlying joy and sorrow is the same. The source of all motivation is always love. A patriot who dies for his country does so because he thinks the nation he loves will love him in return because of his sacrifice.</p>
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<p>So the conclusion is that if there is love, the unification of earth and heaven will be automatic. The liberation of God, then, is only possible through love.</p>
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<p>What kind of liberation do you want? Do you want to be liberated by money? I have money. Do you want to be liberated by power, By knowledge? Or do you want to be liberated by love? Love is the only power that can liberate people and bring them together without people disliking it. The power that can liberate God is the power of love. It is the only power that can communicate through all the directions. The up-down direction is represented by the parent-child love, the left-right by conjugal love and the back-forward direction by the love between brothers and sisters.</p>
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<p>If you realize the value that is created through love you can see that all of creation is like a gift from God to us. Through our love relationships with God we can see that everything, the flowers, the trees, are like presents God has prepared for us. Just as we treasure the handkerchief our wife gave to us as a present, we treasure everything in creation as God’s present if we have a close relationship with him. This plant is a gift from God. Let me taste it. (Father bites the plant on the podium.) It’s a little bitter but we need bitter things.</p>
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<p>The problem is how can we liberate God? Until now He has not been able to have a relationship of true love. Do you think He has been happy or sad?</p>
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<p>After thousands of years the spiritual world says Reverend Moon has loved more than anyone in history. People on earth who persecuted him and accused him of heresy now say, “He is definitely a patriot,” and after admitting that, “but he is still a heretic.” If Reverend Moon proposes to God, “Let’s love each other,” do you think God would feel good or bad?</p>
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<p>If you love God at the cost of your life and live a life of love will you go to hell or heaven? All those who have lived like that are in heaven. Jesus was like that. He loved God, man and the universe to the point of death. Buddha was like that and Confucius was like that. They lived lives of love.</p>
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<p>God wants to become a true parent but He also wants to become a true spouse and a true child, centered on love. God wants to establish a perfect globe of love, where if He reaches left or right, up or down, back or forward, he finds an object of love. He wants to create a complete all-embracing sphere of love.</p>
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<p>If this ideal of love that God desired in His creation is established, then the relationships between God and man, and God and the universe, between man and man, and man and the universe, and so on become relationships of very short distance. If it is established, He will feel like dancing. Would you like to see God dancing? God needs an object to start this relationship with. He needs a person dedicated to the point of death and one who has loved more than anyone else. Would you like to be the messiah? If you would, I will be your John the Baptist. Anyone who wants to take my place, please come forward.</p>
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<p>God needs an object for His love, but not just an individual. He also needs parents. God’s ideal of love starts with True Parents. What is God? He is the vertical parents. What is the relationship between God and True Parents? I am talking about this with you now but it has taken me all my life to work this out. I have wrestled with God, asking, “What are You, who are You?” and have invested all of my energy in this.</p>
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<p>Where is God? I found that God is in true love. The home of God is true love. God needs to establish True Parents who are connected to Him by true love and who become ancestors of a true lineage which is able to pass on true love to their descendants. The love of God is like that of a vertical true parent that comes down to man. In True Parents this love is met by a horizontal true love. Why does the love between God and man have to be vertical? The answer is that love wants to go the shortest way. The shortest distance between God and man is the vertical way and the shortest distance between husband and wife is the horizontal. What I have been telling you for over a year now is that the angle between this vertical and horizontal direction must be a perfect 90 degrees in order for this love to be true love. Only if the love of God can enter vertically can all relationships automatically fall into place and be stable, eternal and unchanging. Only if the vertical is established can there always be a 90 degree angle whatever direction the horizontal goes out in.</p>
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<p>When I talk to you for hours I do it because I’m crazy because of love for you. Do you think that is good or bad? Some of you want me to talk for only 40 minutes and you complain when I talk longer. But if my motivation is right then all your blessings are taken from you and given to me. So my talking for a long time is really just a strategy for stealing your blessings!</p>
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<p>The circle of love is an eternal circle. I am passing on the love I received from my parents to my children. My parents loved me and raised me, so I want to have sons and daughters to love as my parents loved me. I can only give the love my grandparents gave to my parents if I have children. God wants to get into the circle. He wants to have children and love in the position of parents and He also wants to love in the position of children.</p>
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<p>Who are our parents? Physically our parents are our parents but also, through our mind, God is our parent. Also the earth is our parents because when our parents produced us they received the energy and the elements from the earth. We are in a parent-child relationship with everything in the universe through this kind of love. Our mind is from our mind-parents and our body is from our body-parent. Our vertical self is connected to our mind-parent and our horizontal self to our physical parents. Our mind is our vertical self and our body is our horizontal self and when we achieve a perfect 90 degree angle we became a universal pattern which fits anywhere we go. But through the fall we have lost our mind parents and Satan has become our vertical parent and the directions are out of focus.</p>
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<p>Those relationships are connected through lineage. Even the relationship with Satan is connected to a blood lineage. God cannot pull out that evil root. If he did he would destroy all mankind because all mankind is related through blood lineage to Satan. God cannot destroy Satan without destroying mankind. The out-of-focus directions can only be rectified by an absolute standard and only through natural subjugation can the true directions be established. The individual needs an absolute faith in God and must voluntarily follow the absolute standard of love. When a person tries to follow the absolute standard all the wrong directions collide with it and he is persecuted and criticized. This is the reason religion always met with persecution and opposition. This is one of the secrets of the history of restoration. Only through the blood lineage can the correct directions be established. Therefore a messiah is needed who can establish the position of man vertically with God and then connect a woman to that central focus and then establish the position of the True Parents. Then these directions can be passed on through the blood lineage and a world can be established that is free from Satan and cannot be attacked by the world of Satan which is established on a false base.</p>
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<p>Only through natural subjugation, that is through love, can God subjugate Satan. Satan is in the position of the love-enemy of God. He is like the adulterer to God. He has taken away Eve from God and raped and committed adultery with three generations. The relationship between God and Satan is like that between a man and another who has committed adultery with his grandmother, his mother and his daughter. But still God cannot judge Satan. He can only subjugate him through love. Through God’s love Satan can see what his position really is. Adam has to love Satan in such a way that Satan understands his real position and repents for his wrongdoing.</p>
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<p>Satan has conquered more than 75 per cent of the world. Materialism and humanistic philosophy have conquered more than 75 per cent of the mind of man. True Parents are investing the absolute standard of love without holding anything back in order to naturally subjugate Satan.</p>
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<p>First there has to be an individual subjugation of Satan so that the individual can stand in a position of true child of God, free of any relation with the blood lineage of Satan. Through the fall, the dominion of the first son was taken away by Satan. The first son has been in the position of Satan, so in restoration the individual must restore the position. The one who does this becomes the true son of God. Jesus was the only son of God because he subjugated Satan on the individual level and achieved the position of the first son on that level. But in order for a new blood lineage to be established, this dominion has to be established on the family, group, national and world levels.</p>
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<p>The liberation of the individual cannot be achieved by anyone else but the individual. When a person is released from prison, not only his lawyer must sign, but also his prosecutor. For us to be liberated, Satan has to set us free as well as the messiah. We must absolutely establish the vertical and horizontal relationship within us and latch onto the love of True Parents and separate from the blood lineage of Satan.</p>
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<p>To separate from Satan you must have an absolute faith in God and absolutely center your mind on God. Father has absolutely focused his heart and mind on God and has become the strongest person in history in that respect. Physically I am also strong. I am 70 years old, but I am still not afraid to wrestle with a young man. My eyes are small, so it is easy to open and close them. How difficult it is to open and close them if you have big eyes like Pak Bo-hi. Also I have big hands, so don’t mess with me!</p>
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<p>Churches that are small-minded and pray, “God, please bless our church,” will not prosper. If the Unification Church prays like this it will fail. But if we pray to sacrifice ourselves for our family and our family for the nation and so on, to establish a world free from Satan, then we will flourish.</p>
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<p>So how can you liberate God? Only through loving our enemy on the individual through the worldwide level can we liberate these levels and liberate God. Victory for God can only be won through love for the enemy.</p>
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<p>Only the person who has absolute love for the enemy can become the center of the providence. The world of God cannot be established centered on any of the current political or worldly leaders but Father has the qualification. In Korea we had the reception for “The Segye Times” and lots of important people were parading proudly around and talking big, but when Father came in everyone froze and they all stood to attention.</p>
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<p>Without loving your enemy you cannot come to the side of God. There is no liberation without love of enemy. Father matched so many Japanese and Koreans because of this principle.</p>
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<p>People who have left the Unification Church cannot live at ease, because once you have had the love of Parents you can never live without it.</p>
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<p>Because we have inherited through the blood lineage of Satan a distorted angle between our mind and body, we must, through the exercise of true love, focus our mind on the absolute vertical and put our body in a perfect 90 degree angle to that. We must inherit the blood lineage of True Parents by matching ourselves to their angle. True liberation of the individual, true liberation of the nation, is only possible this way. Liberation theology teaches the liberation of society first, but what is a liberated society with individuals who are not free. True liberation can only come starting from your own heart, through true love. Those who pledge to become princes of liberation, raise your hands. Let us pray.</p>
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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="2018-06-25T05:19:49+01:00"> <a href="/blog/2018/06/25/our-church-and-korea-as-seen-from-the-providence-of-god.html" rel="bookmark">June 25, 2018</a> </time></span><time class="updated" datetime="2018-06-25T05:19:49+01:00">June 25, 2018</time> <span class="bl_categ"> <a href="/speeches/categories/rev-sun-myung-moon-1989.html" rel="tag">Speeches of Rev Sun Myung Moon 1989</a> </span> </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
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<p>The history of mankind centered on religions is directed by the providence of God. It cannot be understood from the viewpoint of man alone. History has had a basic direction and has developed in a cyclical way. Just as morning, noon and evening, the time of day and the seasons of the year repeat themselves in a continuous cycle, so there is a pattern in history.</p>
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<p>There is a national history of Korea and we have tribal and family histories. On an even smaller level, there is a history of each individual. Trends in philosophy are always the guiding factor in history. In the history of democracy the central nation has been America.</p>
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<p>A saint is a person in history who has lived centered on God. The great saints have been people in history who have lived centered on a thought based on God. A nation which would live like that, completely centered on God, would be remembered throughout history.</p>
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<p>The democratic world should provide spiritual direction to the world and also lead it politically. But democracy lacks the spiritual, internal element. Thus it has lost its power to be the leader of the world. Humanistic philosophies also lack the vision and strength to lead mankind. Communism basically understands the principle that there needs to be a comprehensive view with social and internal aspects. It tries to replace the spiritual, historical roots of mankind. It has replaced the saints of history with the founders of communism and has replaced the ideal of God with the idea of a communist utopia. But however great a philosophy based on the human mind may be, however, it can never reach the level of truth of a philosophy coming from the mind of God.</p>
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<p>How can a religion offer a final eternal place of settlement for the individual, the family, the nation and the world? Religion must even show us a place where God can settle down, where God and man can be together and want to remain eternally. Many religions talk about the last days and the end of history but the question is-to what extent can a religion show us the direction, purpose and the consequence of the last days.</p>
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<p>If we want to find the place where we can truly find our position of eternal settlement we must find a relationship which is 100 percent vertical. If we come into such a relationship with God, our understanding of the world becomes absolutely clear. A person who has this vertical standard becomes a person of true morality and true character.</p>
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<p>If a man has such a true morality and character he himself represents the relationship between God and man and that represents human history. The vertical direction symbolizes the connection between the deepest root and the highest branches. Harmony in history is centered on that standard. Only when one person has this vertical connection can others unite with him and then create harmony. If the president of a nation is not completely vertical then complete harmony among the people of his nation is not possible.</p>
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<p>A person of virtue should give an impression of straightness, not leaning to one side or the other. You become a person of virtue by centering vertically on God. But you also need the horizontal axis, which starts with the family. It comes from the relationship with parents, spouse and children. That is where you get the horizontal direction. If your vertical pipeline is perpendicular it communicates clearly but if it is out of line the communication is distorted.</p>
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<p>Is Father a person of virtue? What is the opposite of a person of virtue? Was Father born with his abilities or did he learn them? (Born) No, I learned it.</p>
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<p>There are persons of virtue in Germany ·, Japan, America and other countries. But are they connected to the great vertical axis and the great horizontal axis or are they only limited to one particular place? A true person of virtue has to connect his axis beyond his limits of nationality, race or culture. For example, a western person of virtue has to be able to embrace the east and bridge the gaps between Orient and Occident, the rich north and poor south. He must be able to love not only the people of his own culture and class but also the rest of mankind. A true person of virtue must be able to communicate with scientists, laborers, farmers and fisherman.</p>
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<p>Today’s topic is our church and unification from the viewpoint of providence. What is the difference about Rev. Moon? He is a strange person.</p>
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<p>Many Unification Church members are very self-centered. They want to receive blessings and become great people in a very egoistic way. God has said a person must focus his vertical and horizontal with 90 degrees so that he can find his ideal direction. (Amen) God has to say “Amen!”, not you! Your face should ideally represent horizontal and vertical lines. If the lines are leaning to one side your face does not look good. If you look at a person’s shoes you can see the character by how they are worn down. A person with the character of a thief leans to one side. His shoes are worn down unevenly. Now I have said that I should check my shoes. (Father holds up his shoe).</p>
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<p>The earth turns not at will but on its axis. What is the ideal position? The center, the place where all directions meet. The vertical and horizontal meet in the center.</p>
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<p>If a person came to that central position he could move in any direction without changing the focus. How many times would God like to see that? If someone comes to the center God would like to see that person rotate for eternity. That person becomes the standard.</p>
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<p>What kind of person would God like most? What kind of person would saints like most? The person God would like to see is not just a scholar, a businessman or a politician, but one who has a character like God. He would like to see a man of virtue who resembles God. Who does God like most? (Father) How do you know I am not a thief, a fake? You must say that the person I am talking about the man of virtue who resembles God-is the one that God likes most.</p>
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<p>Does God need God or does God need man? God in Korean is “Hananim” which means “one.” Since God is “one” why did he create man as “two”-man and woman? Have you never thought that God failed when God produced the other sex? Wouldn’t it have been better if God had created only males? God is alone so he is sort of depressed. The horizontal must be there for the vertical to expand and become circular. On the horizontal level God had to create man and woman so that through their horizontal extension the focus would come to exist in the center. Only through give and take between two can the horizontal expansion take place. That’s why God needed male and female. Is God a man or a woman? He can relate to both because he has the characteristics of male and female united within himself. The male and female characters represent the two directions, the male representing the vertical and the female representing the horizontal.</p>
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<p>Should male and female unite centered on the man or on the woman? In Korea there’s a saying that if the hen crows the house falls down. But we should say that if the hen crows the cock dies.</p>
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<p>Today in our world of scientific enlightenment we want explanations for everything. We research all fields wondering about the hows and whys. Even thieves research before they steal. if you asked established church ministers why God created man and woman they would say we must just believe that God did it because it was for the best. But that is not a satisfactory answer. Do you want to become like Father or Mother. If you say Mother, what kind of attitude is that? God created heaven first and then earth, not the other way round! God created man to represent the vertical and woman the horizontal. Why do women not have beards? Because they were made to run around on the horizontal and their beards would get caught up on things. (Audience laughs.) We should say that we want to resemble God which means we should resemble Father and Mother.</p>
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<p>There should be only one head in the family, not two, and this is the same in the church. There should be only one head. A person of virtue is one who resembles God. So what is a true son of God? A true son of God is one who is completely united with God centered on love. Centered on true love the horizontal and vertical unity of the world can be established. The history of God was the history of establishing the perfect relationship between God and man where man resembles God, a male that resembles God and a female that resembles God. In God’s providence the unity of man and woman represents that point where the vertical and horizontal directions are united. That is the eternal meaning of marriage, where husband and wife come to the center, which is love and the source of life. If they are united in marriage they cannot move around at will. They must be connected to the center of true love and the center of life.</p>
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<p>The purpose of the providential history of God is to establish one man and woman as the ancestors of mankind, free from the fall, who can represent the true horizontal direction related to God.</p>
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<p>Was Jesus a manly man or was he effeminate? He was, of course, very masculine. Would it have been a sin if Jesus, as a masculine man, wanted to marry a woman, or would that have been unrighteous? God’s providence is for a righteous and perfectly masculine man to become one with a perfectly feminine woman. If Adam and Eve had become one, free of the fall and centered on true love, this beautiful relationship would have made the flowers bloom. When the flowers bloom, can the butterflies stay away? Would the birds stay away? No, they would be attracted, too.</p>
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<p>When perfect harmony is created, when true love is realized, it is like thunder and lightning and all creation resounds in response to the echo. If you discover true love and nature rejoices, do you feel happy or not? Why don’t you answer? (Happy!) That’s good!</p>
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<p>Why is it much nicer to walk in the rain and snow with your partner than to walk alone? Did you ever walk in the falling snow? When it snowed at night Father never stayed at home. He wanted to walk through the hills and forests to watch the snow fall on the trees. When all the world turns white the impression of the greatness of nature is so acute. Snow is like the unity of heaven and earth, the marriage of plus and minus. When you see marriage you are moved to tears of happiness, of sadness and love. Those of you who are married know what I mean. Some other religions advocate celibacy but in the Unification Church we say that man has to marry. Are there two different Gods, one who says marry and one who says don’t marry?</p>
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<p>What does the Unification Church mean? It is the unification between true man and true woman. What is true man and true woman? They are persons who resemble God, man who resembles God and woman who resembles God who become sons and daughters of God. God wants to establish such a relationship where he is the vertical parent and man resembling God establishing horizontal parenthood centered on true love. Then if God saw Adam and Eve overcome the fall and become one based on true love would he want to be in a distant vertical relationship or would he rather be very close? Actually he wants to be as close as possible. So “vertical” means the closest possible distance, not great distance. God wants to live in the heart of man and feel and touch the love that exists between husband and wife.</p>
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<p>Husband and wife can only achieve perfect unity if the individual never loses sight of the vertical from beginning to end. The horizontal unity can only become perfect centered on the vertical love of God. All give and take has to be centered on the vertical. The relationship does not spark centered on just the wife or husband. But if they are both connected to the vertical then the electricity flows. When they come together it is like a cosmic explosion. Once that kind of unity is established between husband and wife even God cannot separate it. The point of perfect unity becomes the departure point of God’s history and the point for all of the universe to come into harmony. Once man and woman are united in true love there cannot be real unhappiness.</p>
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<p>A husband and wife represents the east and west, the husband representing the eastern hemisphere and the woman representing the western hemisphere. When they become one it is like the universe uniting. The love of husband and wife becomes the love of parents and that is the most precious thing that exists in the world.</p>
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<p>Is it easy or difficult to follow the belief of the Unification Church? Is it easy to come here and listen for two hours to my speech? If you drove two hours you would already be past Taejon (city in central Korea-Ed.) If husband and wife become centered on true love we don’t need religion any more. We won’t need rules and regulations.</p>
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<p>The relationship between husband and wife has to be centered first on the vertical love of God. Otherwise there is no direction for their love and Satan can turn it in any direction he wants. These days love relationships are not centered on the vertical. The world is chaotic and full of sin and suffering. Only the person who connects to the vertical center can remain stable and unshaken. Has Father ever demanded that you believe he is the Lord of the Second Advent? I have never done that. But I know in my heart that all people who are not connecting to that center cannot last. Only the person connected to the vertical center will last forever. History will prove whether Father is connected to the center or not.</p>
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<p>Our topic is the Unification Church from the providence of God. We also have the concept of unification in our country. But do we have unification? We have the communist faction, the Kim Dae Jung faction, the Kim Young Sam faction. Can we have unification without true love, without God? It’s impossible. If the Unification Church connects to the vertical center based on true love it will be the faction that will endure.</p>
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<p>There’s some sweat on my face. When it runs down my nose I sometimes want to drink it. Sweat has a nice taste. It’s nice and salty. When you have true love you can love your sweat, your snot and even the unpleasant smells of your own body. Those who run away from their own smells, raise your hand. (No response). You must appreciate the aroma of your own body. (Audience in hysterics). If you are centered on the vertical love of God, will you curse God for having created all these bodily functions or would you rather praise God? When I was young I thought that bodily waste should be an object of love. I looked down the toilet and saw the different bits of waste and touched them, thinking, “This is my mother’s, this is my brother’s,” and so on. I thought, “What if I died and had never touched this?”</p>
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<p>The world is beginning now to realize Father’s value. In America everybody knows Rev. Moon. They used to think Rev. Moon was bad, but now they are changing their mind. They are beginning to learn that Rev. Moon is bringing them new light, new revelation. The person who can bring harmony to the world is the one who can become a leader. The nation that can bring harmony to the world is the nation that will lead the world. If the Unification can bring harmony, it will become the leading religion in the world.</p>
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<p>Now many people in the church are getting doctorates. If you are a Ph.D., do you want to become a Ph.D. of true love?</p>
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<p>Who has more value: One who dies in true love or one who lives in true love? Jesus said those who are ready to die will live and vice versa. Do you think Father has had an easy or difficult life? Do you think I have always received God’s love? In the deepest pit Father has always promised God that even if he has to go forever without happiness and joy he will go. Even if he has to go through the roughest of times he will do it. Father is not interested in establishing a political party or achieving high office, and all those who criticize Father for seeking worldly power misunderstand completely. Father is not interested in the branches. He wants to go into the deepest parts of the smelly earth and establish roots. God wants to establish absolute value, absolute standard. He needs an absolute man and woman that represent this absolute standard of value. This absolute standard can only be established on love. If a man and woman with the kind of love that can embrace the world can unite, they can become the absolute point of reference, the perfect object of God. The history of man has not had a center that could unite the generations and unite the nations horizontally. This world is a place of struggle and confusion.</p>
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<p>Why do we exist? We exist for God. What comes first, love or life? Love is prior to life. It comes from the eternal ancestor. Our lives must be completely dedicated to love. We must sacrifice our lives for love.</p>
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<p>God wants to have a model of the ideal man and woman that show the pattern of love. There has to be a model for the individual that represents the vertical in his relationship with God and the horizontal in his relationship with his body and mind. If you are united in mind and body, you don’t need things to decorate your body. This watch is a present from Hyo Jin Mm for our birthday, but actually I don’t need a watch. I can tell myself when I want to wake up. (Father takes it off, but can’t get it on again. He walks over to Mother, who puts it on for him). Mother just told me, “Come to the conclusion (of the speech).”</p>
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<p>God wants true Adam first. He created Adam before Eve. So Jesus was a man. Rev. Moon is always the one who gets blamed for the mistakes of the Unification Church. If Rev. Kwak or Rev. Kim Young Whi make a mistake, I get the blame. You can run away from the church but I cannot. The central persons of this world always run away at some time. The President of Korea is not ready to put his life on the line. He is ready to run away if things don’t work out his way.</p>
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<p>How old am I now? I am 70. Do you remember how 70-year-old grandmothers walk bent over? Why do I keep on working instead of relaxing and letting younger people take over? There are many things for me to do in the spiritual world. The pattern Father is establishing for the Unification Church members is for you to be prepared to invest yourself at any time and to put your life on the line. If you don’t follow that pattern there is no way you can succeed.</p>
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<p>The providence of God was to establish the central model for his love. Jesus was to be the true Adam. God wants to establish the vertical line through the True Parents. That is the focal point of His providence.</p>
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<p>The reason God’s providence has not been accomplished until now is because these vertical and horizontal directions were not found. Because True Parents have established this absolutely focused direction the light of truth, the light of God is bound to beam forth to illuminate the world. Christianity does not understand this central point and thus can only serve as the preparation for the Unification truth to flourish. Only by adjusting ourselves to the vertical and horizontal direction of God’s providence will we be able to progress. Every other way our progress will be blocked.</p>
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<p>God’s purpose is to provide models for the individual, family and the group. God wants to have a model for the true religion.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church will an oriental husband and a western wife, representing the plus and minus poles, become one if they are both individually united in mind and body? Father is matching people beyond racial and national boundaries. He is not creating a Korean or any other race but a new love race. (In English:) Satan hates the love race</p>
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<p>Has the West welcomed or opposed the Unification Church? Father has been opposed wherever he went. Do you think the Korean government has supported or opposed Father? He has been opposed everywhere.</p>
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<p>Are you going to become models of God’s love? All the women in the Unification Church are so attracted to Father because he is the model of an individual. Many young members are attracted by Father’s sons. Members hope that some day their children will marry with Father’s children so that they can be connected. Some day you will all be connected through your descendants to Father’s lineage. You have to work and prepare for that time. The model of true love can always be followed. Whatever this model does you must be ready to follow. When parents hit their children and the children still have an unchanging love, the parents’ hears will be completely melted away. The parents will bow and cry tears before a child who returns with love even after being hit and scolded.</p>
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<p>Father has never condemned any of his enemies or prayed for something bad to happen to them. Father has loved America. Because of this America cannot but acknowledge Father and repay the debt of love it has incurred.</p>
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<p>History has been God’s effort to establish the true pattern for the individual and to establish the True Parents who represent the true horizontal and vertical directions and who can become the true standard for mankind.</p>
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<p>The purpose of the Unification Church is to establish a standard for all religions, for all of mankind. So it has to sacrifice the most and go through the most difficult course. We have until now given more funds to other religions and other churches than to the Unification Church. Through the Unification Church Christianity must fulfill its purpose and through Christianity religions must fulfill their purpose. Because the Unification Church has that mission even if we had the money we would not spend it on ourselves. With the money we have we could build nice houses for ourselves, but the only way to come out of the world of death and escape from Satan is by following the pattern of sacrifice and love.</p>
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<p>God had prepared through His providence to unite the world centered on Christianity. After the Second World War the struggle of Cain and Abel should have been finished and, centered on Christianity, the providence of God should have been accomplished.</p>
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<p>God’s plan at the time of Jesus was to unite Asia centered on Jesus and then unite the West with Asia. But because the foundation was not completed, the providence went through the western world, centered on Christianity. So Christianity flourished and developed western civilization. Then it came to Korea, raising Korea as the central nation of Asia to the point where it could lead the unification of Asia that was not accomplished at the time of Jesus. The Second World War represents the imitation of Satan of God’s unification. Japan was the satanic representative of Eve. For 40 years Japan occupied Korea, symbolizing the 4000 years during which the fall of Eve dominated Adam.</p>
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<p>During the war, Japan, Germany and Italy formed an alliance representing the unity of Eve, Adam and the archangel on the satanic side. The pattern of restoration requires a central person, a substantial offering and a time period. It is followed on the satanic and heavenly side. Geographically, the peninsulas and seas and islands are symbols of the male and female sexual organs.</p>
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<p>Korea as a peninsula represents the male organ whereas the Mediterranean and islands like Japan represents Eve’s womb. In the time of the Second Advent all the countries providentially are looking toward the Adam country. They need an Adam nation that can establish the center for unity. Eve and the archangel have to cooperate to establish the position of Adam. The time we live in now is such a time. The countries in Eve and archangel positions on the satanic and heavenly sides have to cooperate to establish the position of true Adam. So Japan, America, China and Russia have to work together in order for Korea to unite and become the center of unity that can restore them too.</p>
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<p>What would have happened if there had not been the Ehwa incident? Yonsei and Ehwa, the Christian universities, would have united with Father and within seven years the unity of the world would have been possible. Because of this failure the Unification Church had to be established in the place of worldwide Christianity.</p>
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<p>But because Christianity did not unite with Father the foundation prepared by God was lost. Originally Britain was in the role of Eve but instead the country in the Eve position on the side of Satan, Japan, had to take the role. America had to be the Abel and Germany, the Cain. Only after establishing Japan, America and Germany in front of God in these positions could Father establish Korea in the position of Adam. To establish the foundation for Korea to take the role of Adam, Father had to go a 40 year course of indemnity.</p>
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<p>For 40 years, the fight was mainly with communism and even Christianity was infiltrated by communism. In the last days, it was prophesied that the wolf would appear in sheep’s clothing. After Father had established the foundation in America it was like the criminal on the right side of Jesus uniting with Jesus. On that basis Father could come back to Korea.</p>
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<p>The reason Korea had not been established as Adam until now was not because of the failure of America or anyone else but because of the failure of Korea itself, centered on Christianity.</p>
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<p>Adam and Eve fell on the individual level and through that the foundation for the national Adam and Eve was lost. Through the blessing of 2,500 Korean-Japanese couples, however, Father has married Adam and Eve on the national level. Internally Korea’s position as Adam has been established. The internal foundation for the unity of the four nations around Korea is laid. If there is a general election through all Korea in the future, the factions that represent the four nations will compete for dominion over Korea. But internally the foundation for unity is already laid. The head is there that can unite the other directions.</p>
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<p>Now the opposition to the unification movement is no problem any more. Whether it comes from political power, Christianity or even communism’ Father has established all the foundations to be victorious in all these areas. The movement to break through on the local administrative level is laying the foundation for the harmony of the different political factions. This will give the Unification movement the power to tell the parties to stop fighting and unite.</p>
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<p>For the next four years we have to establish this internal foundation for the unification of Korea. Our topic was the Unification Church and Korea seen from the history of the providence. Now Korea has come to the point which God had prepared 40 years ago, but because of the failure of Korean Christianity to unite with Father he has to do the work at age 70 that he should have done at age 30.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church must be aware of its responsibility to establish itself as the model, the standard of good, on all levels.</p>
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<p>Is it better for the church to have a difficult or an easy time? When we are going a difficult course we can become more powerful and can better establish the true standard of God. To be able to go a difficult course is actually a blessing. Who should demonstrate and protest, those who have a difficult time or those who have an easy time? Those who have an easy time now will have no right to receive blessing in the future so they should be the ones to protest now.</p>
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<p>The second generation of members have to earn the inheritance of the Unification Church. You want to go to Seoul National University and Yonsei University but if you don’t want to go to the Song Hwa Theological Seminary you do not understand the value of True Parents’ work. You must inherit the tradition of True Parents and be able to establish the standard of True Parents’ pattern that you are not ashamed of. This is the third Sunday in February. In March spring comes. You must really determine yourselves and realize what the unification of Korea means. You must understand the meaning of the providence of the tribal messiah. We have to re-establish the lost Korea.</p>
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<p>We have to go out and bring the love of True Parents to the hometown areas, winning them over by loving them more than we have loved the external world.</p>
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<p>Father prays:</p>
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<p>Heavenly Father, I thank you for the steadfast love you have given throughout the course of the True Parents. Father, you want to see the True Parents as the shining sun of mankind. You have prepared for the unification of the world centered on the unification of Korea. I thank you very much for the preparation and all the conditions you have permitted. Father, thank you for bringing the final day of judgment. The triumph of good over evil is so close. Please give the members here all the blessing and love they need and help them overcome all their circumstances. I pray especially for the foreign members from Japan and other countries working here. Let their suffering be the basis for the Korean people to understand the providence. All things we pray in the name of the True Parents. Amen</p>
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<p>As I think back to when I was young I remember I was very curious about my country and the eight provinces of Korea. I thought Korea was ideal when I looked at pictures of the country but I also felt there was a lot of suffering. It was hard for people in the villages to make a living. The more difficult the environment, the more effort is needed to make a good living. It is difficult to carve out a living in a place where there are mountains and rocks and not much fertile land. Man’s external environment is given to him. He cannot choose it.</p>
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<p>On the internal level, in history there are many factors which make it difficult for a people to preserve their identity without being swallowed up by enemy cultures. If we can see how difficult it is for a physical nation to survive and maintain its identity, how much harder must it be for a people who live by religion in the spiritual realm to survive. To find identity and place in the spiritual realm, a man must invest even more.</p>
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<p>A nation must go through difficulties to find its true home. For an individual, it is much more difficult to find his true home in the spiritual world. A person’s true home is in the spiritual world with God.</p>
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<p>Man has body and mind. Can the hometown of body and mind be different? Where is your mind or heart’s hometown? Where is the place it wants to find permanent rest?</p>
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<p>Father left his physical hometown many decades ago. He has lived in many prisons. But when he saw the sunlight come through the prison bars it was the same sunlight in Japan, America or Korea and he always felt great joy. In prison he met his enemies. In Japan, he met Japanese people and thought, “Even though they are my enemies they are close to me.” Through his prison experiences Father learned to love the people of that nation.</p>
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<p>Where is hometown? It is where our parents are. Parents can give so much. If you are sad, parents can give you comfort; if you are happy, you can share happiness with them.</p>
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<p>Your relationship to your parents is an eternal one. We always long for eternal and unchanging relationships. Our relationship to our parents is wherever we go. The true companions of our heart are our parents. We are longing for a partner who does not change his or her loyalty to us. For me, this point is with my parents; for them, it is their parents and so on. If we follow the line back, we come to the ancestor of mankind. Who does the ancestor of mankind relate to? To God. Our longing to return to our hometown, the homesickness we all feel is related to that original root.</p>
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<p>As we grow and go through education from kindergarten to university, it seems we go further away from our hometown, from that beginning point. But the further we go the more lonely we become and the more we long, perhaps unconsciously, to return to that beginning. Our memories from high school are usually fonder than those of university, and so it goes back. Our fondest memories are when we went holding our parent’s hand and met our kindergarten teacher for the first time.</p>
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<p>The animals have extremely strong maternal instincts. In my hometown the magpies built their nests very cleverly. It seemed as if they knew ahead of time what the weather that year would be. They seemed to know if there were going to be many storms that year. They built their nests according to how the weather was going to be. The birds put so much energy into making their nests just to protect their babies. Every day I went to see them. At first, they protested but later they seemed to be glad to see me.</p>
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<p>Nature is like a textbook. The memories I have of studying nature in my hometown are unforgettable. I caught so many frogs, big ones and small ones and studied them. I made a pond at home and brought them there. But sometimes in the morning they died. I felt so sad and said to the frog, “Your mother will be so sad. Why did you die? You shouldn’t have done that”</p>
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<p>In spring the mountains were full of flowers. It was so beautiful. Just sitting against a tree in the mountains in spring, dozing, was an unforgettable memory. The basic things we learn are in our hometown. As a child you played and fell down and your nose bled and you came home and got told off by your mother. Then she would wipe your nose and comfort you. When my mother comforted me and I said, “Thank you, mother,” it was a great feeling. I could feel that she was proud of me.</p>
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<p>I had many brothers and sisters and lots of relatives. We had many beautiful customs. For example, when one relative married and brought his bride to the village, for many days the family members would take turns according to their closeness to the relative to give feasts. So for many days I could go around without feeling hungry. The hospitality and happiness people displayed was beautiful.</p>
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<p>When my mother sent one of her daughters to marry, it was like a thief stole the daughter. She would cry for days before she had to send her daughter away to join her husband’s family. It was as if she were losing her daughter forever. Today’s Unification Church parents have it good. You can be reassured about letting daughters go with the husband that Father chooses. Another thing I cannot forget is watching my mother working. She worked so hard her legs swelled. When I grabbed her legs I could feel how swollen they were. When I pressed my hands against her leg the mark remained for a long time. But she still kept on running around. I was deeply moved by her devotion.</p>
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<p>In your hometown you learn the basic things of life, how to put on your clothes and so on. I remember when my mother scolded me, for example when I climbed up a tree. once she hit me very hard but afterwards she cried and said to my brothers and sisters she was sorry. But I think she did well. I think when parents hit you they feel even more hurt than the child. These incidents of being spanked or hurting yourself become strong, fond memories and make you feel so sentimental about your childhood.</p>
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<p>I can see now that the things I learned with my family and my relatives and neighbors gave me the education and strength to build up the Unification movement. You cannot imagine how much I long to return to my hometown. This desire was very strong in me even from very early on when I went to school in Seoul. In my first summer vacation I naturally longed to go home but I didn’t. I denied the longing and purposely did not go home.</p>
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<p>All of us have so many childhood memories. We long to go home. In the spiritual world we will need a museum exhibiting the places we loved. It’s a beautiful experience to return to a place you loved long ago and find it the same, to find a tree as you remembered it.</p>
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<p>We have to preserve the things that remind us of our past. In the Unification Church, too, we must do the same. Would it be better for you if we preserve the original church building or tear it down and build a new one? Which would give you more pleasure? You would be happy to find things as they were when the movement began. Would you like to go to my hometown? But I won’t let you go. If you still want to go, then I’ll let you. You have to have such a strong desire. Why don’t we have a church museum? We have to make a museum that shows the history of the church from the beginning. Don’t you think God himself would like to visit such a museum?</p>
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<p>Our hometown is the place where we can find the center of the foundation of our life. Why is that? Because our parents are there and their eternal unchanging love is there. What about orphans who have no physical hometown? We should not pity them so much. Their hometown is where their fond memories begin. When they are blessed, they find the partner who loves them and their life can begin.</p>
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<p>When I was in school I never ate lunch. I felt I couldn’t because there were so many who couldn’t afford it. At that time I was teaching Sunday school in Sobingodong in Seoul where they used to have ice houses for the collection of ice from the Han river. (Sobingo means “east ice house.”) In those days when I was a high-school student teaching Sunday school, my speeches were much more interesting than now. When I cried in front of them, they cried and when I said something funny, they exploded in laughter.</p>
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<p>I didn’t eat lunch but brought food to the poor people in order to share their suffering. I didn’t return to my hometown in order that I could share the loneliness of people and of God.</p>
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<p>When you leave your hometown, like Father went to Seoul, it is like going into exile. It was the same when Father went from Seoul to America. What about when you go to the spiritual world? Why is it that even in the spiritual world people feel that their home is still that tiny spot on the earth? It is because of their parents. The love of parents is at the root of your love for your nation and the world. When you really love your country it is like loving your parents and brothers and sisters.</p>
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<p>The ideal world is where everybody is at home, where the world is your hometown. The world of heart is the world of your parents. All the people who have developed the heart of parents make up the ideal world. In the spiritual realm, a world where there is no nationality is forming. Here we still have France, Germany, England and the different nations. But in the spiritual world, in the world of the heart of the parents, there is no longer nationality like that. People are welcomed as if they are all members of one family.</p>
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<p>The lesson we can learn from the fond memories of our hometown is that the fond memories are where there is love. Because man is born from love, the place where we meet love for the first time is where we are happy.</p>
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<p>If you are a member of the Unification Church you have to live like Father. This year alone we have spent hundreds of millions of won for the benefit of the Korean people. It cost a great deal to send the Korean professors to America. Now they want us to send school principals. Who will pay for it? President Kim, will you sell your house if necessary to send these people to America? Everybody in the church who lives at the expense of the church and gives nothing will have no place to stand. You have to give more than you take. I have come not to leave debt behind, but to leave debtors. Maybe you have not experienced this, but when you come out and proclaim, “I have come to make debtors of love, to give the love of True Parents,” and declare it in front of history and mankind the response from the spiritual world will be, “Amen! Amen!”</p>
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<p>Don’t you think the person who has invested everything and has gone through all kinds of hardship, not allowing himself peaceful sleep throughout his life for the sake of establishing true love, will he not be welcomed by all the spiritual world?</p>
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<p>You know how difficult it is to support a wife and children. But because they are your loved ones, you forget the difficulties and you are happy. In the same way if you can save one person by your effort and suffering you feel so worthwhile that you forget the troubles. If one husband, through his dedication and sacrifice, can bring salvation to his wife, liberate her from misery and sin, wouldn’t he be glad to do it?</p>
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<p>The longing of our original heart for our hometown is actually a longing for a universal home town where all the directions of the universe are represented in a three dimensional way. This home is at the center of true love. The mission of our life is to find and go to this universal hometown.</p>
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<p>Even when you think back to your childhood home and the friends you wrestled and fought with and who made your nose bleed, you still long for them even though they were your enemies at the time. You have no feelings of animosity, but rather you long to be with them. When Father went to prison in America he was actually longing for the prison in Korea. He felt tremendous love for the people who had put him in prison in Korea. He felt that prison is not a place of misery. It is a place where you can learn to love your enemy. Going to prison, Father felt he could understand Jesus who was able to love his enemy. It is a heavenly principle for us to want to go to our hometown, the universal hometown where you can live together with God. Throughout our whole life we are marching to find the eternal parent who can give us our eternal hometown. Let us pray.</p>
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<p>Father prays: Father, we have to understand our life is a way of returning to our hometown. It is a course of returning to the hometown of our hearts. We know, Father, when we are investing more of our effort into returning to the spiritual home of our heart to establish a spiritual home for mankind beyond any national boundaries, beyond any narrow borders, we know Your blessing is with us to a much greater degree than if we had just concentrated on our physical and national hometown. Father, please help the members of the Unification Church to become people who can, without any feeling of shame, go the way to establish the home for all mankind, the home for the original mind. Father, please make them strong and courageous on this way, that they may become your proud sons and daughters. All of this we pray in the name of the True Parents. Amen.</p>
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<p>Today we will talk about the tribal messiah. We know that as a result of the fall of man we are ignorant of God and His will. Instead of the good deity, God, an evil deity, Satan, has been established. Mankind was born for the will of God but has gone completely away from that will. Because we are His creation, the only way for us to go is the way of the will of God. Going the way of the will means going towards the fulfillment of an ideal world.</p>
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<p>What is this will of God based on? It is based on love. The unity of husband and wife is not centered on the husband or the wife, but on love. In the same way the unity between parents and children is not centered on the parents or the children, but on love. If the unity between husband and wife centered on love is possible, so is the unity between parent and child and likewise the unity between God and man.</p>
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<p>What God wants is not material. He wants an ideal family that is united on the basis of love. Love is what God really needs. If mankind lives according to the will of God there is no need for religion and prayer. If man lives according to the will one hundred percent, God will be with man. Religion would then be unnecessary. It is only because we are separated from God that we need salvation, and it is only because we need salvation that we need a savior.</p>
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<p>Man’s basic problem is that he does not know the purpose of his existence as it is willed by God. The most basic problem of mankind is not knowledge, however. It is centered on love. This love cannot be bought with money or power, but still God needs this love. What kind of love is it? True love. What is true love? True love is love that does not start from the individual. In Korea the leader who is able to love the 40 million people more than himself will be the true leader of the country.</p>
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<p>We know the universe moves according to the purpose of God. What is the purpose of the universe? If we look at the way the universe is organized we can see that the central principle is that the individual unit lives for the sake of the whole. The destiny of the individual is to live for the family, the family for the tribe, the tribe for the nation and the nation for the world. If the nation lives according to that destiny it is qualified to receive the blessing of the whole world. The world should live according to the heavenly destiny. How can we do this? This is only possible if we become one with God. The final destination of our lives is to become one with God.</p>
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<p>If we live according to the heavenly destiny we are qualified to receive complete protection from God. What then is the core element of this protection? Is it God’s knowledge? It is centered on love. If we live for the greater unit we receive its protection. If we live for our family, we are bound to receive the protection of our family; if we live for the country, we receive the protection of the country; if we live for the world, we receive the protection of the world; if we live for God, we receive the protection of God.</p>
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<p>Only if our love is based on true love can it create real happiness. If the love between husband and wife is not rooted in true love it is on shaky ground and is bound to create unhappiness. Only if true love is the root of our love can happiness be produced, even for God. In history, love has not been rooted in true love, so true happiness has never been achieved.</p>
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<p>Only when the relationship between God and man has entered into a true relationship where there is an absolutely vertical connection ·will there be a love which is impossible to separate. On that foundation the horizontal axis of love will be matched with a perfect 90 degree angle. Only then can true love start to spread.</p>
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<p>There can be only one parent in that absolute vertical position. That is the true Adam. He becomes the vertical parent of all mankind. In front of that vertical parent, horizontal parents will be connected. Why is there a need for horizontal parents? God is our vertical Father who has created us centered on true love. When God created us, He created the vertical direction in our mind and the horizontal direction in our body. The vertical direction itself already contains the concept of horizontal, just as the idea of right is inherent in the idea of left, and front in back, etc.</p>
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<p>God created the mind as the vertical. Thus implicitly there must be a horizontal-that is our body. To find a clearly defined direction you need two axes. God created a vertical parent, true Adam. Around the vertical parent, the horizontal parents are grouped and achieve the clan, national and worldwide levels.</p>
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<p>The horizontal level is the level of multiplication. On the horizontal level we can achieve the four directions of north, south, east and west and make a complete circle. When the vertical position is set up by the inseparable relationship between God and true parents, then the plane of love on the horizontal level can be established.</p>
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<p>When God is in our relationships, He calls us to come to the center. If He is in our marriage relationships, love calls us to the center even though the husband is in the east and the wife in the west. Love is not something that is in us, but it is in the center of all our relationships.</p>
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<p>Religion has so many rules. In our church we say that we have to fulfill our responsibility on all levels and even take responsibility for the liberation of God. Why is it so complicated? It is because we have to restore love on all levels. Peace without love has no meaning, unity without love has no meaning, freedom without love has no meaning. True freedom is only possible with love. Our own body and mind are only free if they are united and the unity is only possible through love.</p>
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<p>All the ideologues and activists who are working for the liberation of the world are not free themselves while there is conflict between mind and body. All talk about liberating the nation or the world is in vain.</p>
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<p>True freedom can only exist where there is unity and harmony. Nowadays people talk about free nations and free societies. But they all neglect that point. Is America really the land of the free? America began as a nation under God centered on Christian values. Look at it today. In some cities a woman cannot walk in the streets alone after dark. Is that freedom?</p>
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<p>There is a natural order. Look at the four directions. How do they come into place? Only by the east, west and south taking their proper places does north come into being. There is a natural order. The Unification Church stands for the unification of religions, but does it unify religions really? Can you unite all the religions? Is your mind and body united? First mind and body must be united for the individual to be able to devote himself to something bigger.</p>
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<p>What place is closer to God? The pocket of the father who spends all his money for the mission or your own pocket which spends all the money for yourself? The place closer to true goodness is the one that represents all directions, not just one. By using money for the nation Father establishes all four directions, not just one.</p>
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<p>How can the Unification Church unite religions and the world? It can do it if it is centered on one focal point, the vertical relationship with God. All the levels are related to this point. What is the subject of my speech today? The tribal messiah. What is the messiah? The messiah is the savior of love, the person who brings man back from the fallen way that is opposed to the purpose of God.</p>
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<p>Because man has fallen and the wrong center and wrong relationships have been established, the restoration is complicated. How can we bring man back to the true relationship with God? The Unification Church can only bring the world back into a true relationship with God by cutting the relationship with the wrong direction and connecting to the true center.</p>
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<p>In the Unification Church we have to connect ourselves to the vertical God and the vertical parents and become the horizontal parents who achieve a perfect 90 degree angle to that axis.</p>
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<p>The messiah is the person who can become the vertical true parent. From there the true liberation of the individual can begin. Liberation can only start from the point of the establishment of the true vertical parent. The liberation of the self can only be based on the unity of body and mind centered on true love.</p>
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<p>We talk about the liberation of North Korea, but the liberation of the nation is the fifth or sixth level after the liberation of the individual, family, tribe and so on.</p>
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<p>Liberation is only possible through unity. The individual can achieve liberation through unity of body and mind. The family can be liberated by the unity of the family members. True liberation can be achieved by unity focused on a greater unit.</p>
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<p>The Unification Church members in Korea say they are too busy working to support their families to work for the unification of Korea. I say they should sacrifice for the sake of the nation. But they want to work for the unity of their family first.</p>
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<p>If I sacrifice my own family for the sake of the nation and sacrifice all Koreans, including all the Moon family and relatives, will I succeed or fail?</p>
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<p>The course which will have lasting success is the one which sets the tradition. The individual who can set the tradition for the course of the family or the nation or world will be the one that will prosper. The true tradition of individual-level love is one centered on the family. The true tradition for the family is one that is centered on love for the tribe, the greater group. The true tradition of the nation would be a love centered not on the nation, but on the world.</p>
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<p>If you want to be a successful leader of a nation, you have to be ready to pay the necessary indemnity to set the course. Do you think (former South Korean President) Chun Doo-Hwan failed because he wanted to? He certainly wanted to do well but he failed. He did not find the way. President Park Chung-Hee before him was also unable to establish a true tradition. What about Father? Has he prospered or has he failed?</p>
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<p>Until now, the political parties and governments of Korea have opposed Father. But they have diminished and the Unification Church has not. The established churches have opposed the Unification Church, but they will not prosper.</p>
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<p>The reason Father has not failed until now is because he knows God’s principle, which is: If you are opposed, don’t fight. Then you will rise and they will decline. There are many examples in God’s creation of how He uses opposition to bring progress. For example, in winter the ground in the northern hemisphere freezes. When water freezes it expands and breaks open the ground. The seeds can thereby penetrate the ground and come out in the spring. You can see how God planned it all so beautifully. Likewise, Father never fought the opposition. He let the opposition break the surface so he could prosper through the openings it created.</p>
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<p>Man has to love the earth, he has to love creation, man and God. But how can we love God? We cannot really love God with original love because of our fallen state. We need a messiah who can restore our love to the place of original love.</p>
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<p>God’s providence is such that through establishing the vertical parent, He sets up the religion which can guide the nation. God’s providence was for Judaism to take that role centered on the true parent. The plan was for the nation to unite with that religion. Rome was supposed to unite with Judaism.</p>
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<p>The providence was for the messiah in the center to unite Cain and Abel horizontally. The unification of mankind is only possible with the vertical in the center. Christianity has lost the vision of the vertical parent. Modern theologies like liberation theology neglect the fact that the vertical relationship is necessary. Liberation of the individual, classes and nations are only possible based on the unity of the individual and classes and so on. True liberation is only possible centered on the messiah. We have to become messiahs who can bring liberation by connecting ourselves completely to the vertical center and then establishing the horizontal in a 90 degree angle.</p>
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<p>If a man himself comes into the position of this vertical point and achieves the qualification to be the messiah, does he need a wife? If a man is in the position of a true father he can only become father through his wife. He cannot be a father by himself. He needs a wife who also establishes the absolute vertical direction in herself. Only through their unity do they finally achieve the positions of mother and father.</p>
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<p>True unity is only possible by establishing a true center where left and right can meet and unite. The philosophy of our Unification Movement is not left-wing or right-wing, but headwing. Only if there is a head can the left and right unite. The head is God.</p>
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<p>The philosophy of Reverend Moon is for the individual to find this vertical relationship with God and on that basis to establish a perfect horizontal angle.</p>
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<p>Since Satan has occupied the horizontal level from the individual to the world, indemnity had to be paid on all levels so that the horizontal direction could be restored. That is the reason Reverend Moon has gone the worldwide course of indemnity for 40 years.</p>
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<p>Father had to go to the very edge of the horizontal axis and receive persecution to bring all levels back to God. Whenever Father came out of prison the Unification Church was lifted to a higher level. Through the indemnity of prison Father received the persecution of that level. In Danbury he received the persecution of the American nation. He went through it and when he came out the whole movement went on to a higher level. Just the fact that 7,000 ministers from America, the most developed country, came to a backward country like Korea to study the thought of Reverend Moon is amazing. How can you explain it?</p>
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<p>Father is directing enemy nations to love each other. There is much animosity between Japan and Korea. Father is asking the Japanese members to love Korea more than their own country.</p>
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<p>When the Israelites came into Canaan they were not very cultured. They envied the people living there. The second generation of Jews thought that rather than marry their own they would marry Canaanites who were wealthy and sophisticated. This led to many problems.</p>
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<p>Father is now matching Koreans and Japanese. Japan cannot complain and say that Reverend Moon is making Japanese members give up their traditions and adopt Korean ways because we are living in a time of freedom when people can marry who they want. The nations cannot complain any more when I do this. The time is coming when national governments will send congratulatory telegrams. The time will come when Father matches 20,000 or 30,000 couples at a time.</p>
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<p>In Korea men in some parts of the countryside have difficulty finding brides. There was a story in the newspapers of a man who committed suicide because he could not find a bride. There were 500 young men in the village who couldn’t find brides. There is an easy solution. In Japan there are 800 Japanese sisters awaiting matching. If the young Koreans want to solve their problem, they should join the Unification Church and get the blessing!</p>
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<p>Nobody can really oppose Father’s matching people as he wants because he is disconnecting them from the Satanic line and connecting them to the bloodline of True Parents. Nobody can oppose that. Father is one man in history who has fought with Satan on all levels and been victorious. There is no one in America who can now oppose Father.</p>
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<p>I have suffered and established the course of indemnity throughout my life. Am I attractive or not? My wife has to suffer more than any wife. Mother is so small, yet she has worked so hard and suffered because of me. Who has suffered the most in history to find just one true woman?</p>
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<p>Why do you think I am paying so much indemnity just to match men and women together to become Unification couples? All of the problems of the sins committed by men and women have to be solved. Such a huge number of complicated problems have to be solved.</p>
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<p>To create the unity of husband and wife is only possible through God’s love. To establish that tradition of God’s love requires tremendous indemnity. Father has never withheld his love from anybody. Father has never even wished for something bad to happen to Kim Il-Sung. Many Koreans hope he will die soon, but Father thinks differently. Kim Il-Sung is the false parent in Korea. Until Koreans give more love to True Parents than to the false parent, God does not want Kim Il-Sung to die. Father wants Kim Il Sung himself to be subjugated by True Parents’ love.</p>
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<p>If I condemn someone that is a terrible judgment; therefore, I do not do it. When I condemn someone, then God condemns them, so I don’t do that. I never condemn Mother. I just wait and let things go their course. In Korea our movement has established the Segye Il-Bo (daily newspaper launched February 1st), and now the major papers, the Chosun Il-Bo and the Donga Il-Bo, are very careful about what they say regarding the Unification Church. They have been very critical in the past. Even though Father does not condemn them, they are already condemned by themselves.</p>
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<p>Are you confident that you can save yourself, your parents, your brothers and sisters, your nation and the world? Who is the true master of the Unification Church? You are all fake. You are only true if you truly establish the vertical relationship with God and the horizontal relationships with your surroundings, your family and so on.</p>
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<p>There are many who criticize Father for claiming he is the messiah. Anytime they want to be the messiah and are willing to pay the indemnity, however, they can go right ahead. But no one is prepared to receive the inheritance from Father.</p>
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<p>Today my topic is the tribal messiah. You know how difficult it is to be the tribal messiah. Do you think you can go the way of true love without a leader, a guide? The course you have to follow is for your body and mind to become one, your couple to become one, your family to become one. Then you can unite your tribe.</p>
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<p>Even if you have a leader or guide, you still have to do your five percent responsibility. If you don’t fulfill your five percent completely, the leader can’t help you.</p>
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<p>Would you like to prepare your family and invite Father to your home? Father won’t come because the spiritual world would complain. Father cannot go to an individual now. Father does not pray for a sick person. My cousin, President Moon, asked me to pray for his mother. A medium told him she is angry in the spiritual world because Father did not pray for her. But Father cannot do that. He prays for the nation and world because the providence is on that level. Before God has a nation and world, Father cannot pray and ask God to act for the sake of one individual.</p>
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<p>The providence of the tribal messiah could only be established after Father had sacrificed the family and tribe for the nation and world. Three years ago, after Father had paid indemnity for 40 years, the Moon clan asked Father to be their leader. Since Father became the head of the Moon clan, the tribal messiah providence could start. That is the basis for you to become tribal messiahs. Now is the time for you to go back to your home area to your relatives and family members who have sacrificed for the sake of the world. You must ask them with tears for forgiveness for not having loved them during this time and in that way restore them.</p>
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<p>Father is the worldwide messiah and the nation has to welcome him. Will you yourself welcome Father and give him a great party? Without understanding Father’s direction, none of the policies or efforts for unification can be successful. Father has prepared on all levels, spiritually, economically, technologically. Father is now working for the development of China, bringing the technology and know-how from the developed world.</p>
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<p>Father already has the master plan for the unification of the world. He is now concentrating on China, but he also has plans for India and Russia. Some Koreans think they can go the direct way to open up North Korea, but they have to be very careful. The best way is through China and Russia.</p>
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<p>Father wants the Unification Church to be absolutely centered on the vertical direction. Only in that way can we break from Satan. In front of the heavenly principle of the vertical parents we have to establish ourselves in the absolute perpendicular position and, anchored on that central point, we have to go out to the evil world and restore all levels of individual, family, clan and nation and bring all of them back to God.</p>
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<p>Father has invested everything to restore the world back to God. The Unification Church has to go that way. Father has given the Unification Church of Korea an annual budget of $750,000, but he has invested millions for the sake of the established churches. Now the established churches do not have the power to attack the Unification Church. Even the nation does not have the power to overcome the Unification Church.</p>
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<p>What is this year’s motto? It is the unification of Korea. What comes after that? The unification of South and North. The unification of Korea means that all of South Korea has to unite with True Parents more than North Korea is united with Kim Il-Sung. Based on that, the unification of Korea can take place and, on that basis, the unification of the world can take place.</p>
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<p>The established churches think their power comes from knowing the Bible, singing hymns and praying. Do you think they can defeat the Unification Church? We know the Bible better than they do. Do you have confidence in that? Do you remember when we sang the same hymn hundreds of times over? We have spent many nights in all-night prayer vigils. We win on the prayer front, too.</p>
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<p>You have to understand the source of Father’s power. Father has gone out to the world. He went to America to the end of the satanic world to pay indemnity. Now he is coming back and the world must follow him. He has established the condition for America to follow him. Now the world is following Father to Korea.</p>
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<p>Until now there were no tribal messiahs. To achieve it you must establish the absolute vertical relationship with True Parents then establish the unity as an individual, couple and family.</p>
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<p>People are now realizing that what Father says comes true. Father’s plan is really clever. When the 90 degree angle is established at the center, then however far you go out on the horizontal axis, you can relate to the center.</p>
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<p>There is nothing to fear. All who oppose us will be punished by the spiritual world. The spiritual world gives them the disease by making them feel uncomfortable and then shows them the cure, which is to follow the unification movement.</p>
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<p>The time will come in Korea when everyone will become members and those who did not will have nowhere to go.</p>
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<p>Father has blessed 21,000 couples worldwide. They represent the foundation that Jesus could not establish. Jesus himself could not receive the blessing and establish the family foundation. But now the unification Church members have already received the blessing and have children. Only by becoming parents can the messiah actually be the root of mankind. Only then can the providence of God multiply. Now the Unification Church has multiplied to 21,000 blessed couples.</p>
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<p>In Korean politics there are regional factions, like the Kyongsang province faction centered on Kim Yong-sam, but in the Unification Church there are no factions. The Unification Church blessed families represent all mankind. If at the time of Jesus the six prepared couples of his family had united, he would not have had to go his public course. He would have married and, based on the unity of his own physical family, the Jewish nation could have united with him. Now the unity of the family of Jesus, including the family of John the Baptist, is represented worldwide by the 21,000 blessed families.</p>
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<p>Now I have directed tribal revival meetings to be held worldwide. We don’t have anything to fear. We already have the worldwide foundation. We have to follow the direction of the worldwide tribal revival meetings.</p>
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<p>Now Father has gone out to the world and returned to South Korea and is sending out the South Korean members to be tribal messiahs. The era of Korea has come. The world Unification Church members want to have blessing with Korean partners because they want to participate in the providence of Korea and share the blessing God is giving to Korea now. All the families Father blesses now are like ancestors of the new royal lineage. So therefore the members do not object if Father matches them across national, racial or cultural boundaries.</p>
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<p>Because True Parents have established the focal point of true love all the horizontal levels of family, tribe and society will automatically come to form around True Parents. Different ideologies and philosophies are losing their strength. As they decline, the Unification philosophy is emerging and finally it will be the only one left and the whole world will automatically follow it. When you go out as tribal messiahs, you have to follow the course of true parents, the path of indemnity, the path of tears and sweat and liberate yourself, your family and your tribe. When you shed your blood, sweat and tears for the sake of the world your course can never fail.</p>
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<p>When you go to your home area you have to dedicate everything to your relatives to restore them even if you have to sell your house and belongings to hold a party for them. You must win their hearts. In order to establish yourself as a tribal messiah you need to restore three families on the vertical level-your own family, your parents and grandparents-you need three families on the horizontal level. You have to love your tribe with the heart of love for the nation. If you are in the center, your love has to go in all directions to the extreme end. As you love the world, you must love God; to love the nation, you love the world; you must love the nation to love your tribe. This way it is impossible for Satan to take any part away. Your love for your partner and children has to equal your love for the nation, the world and God. If your love for your partner is not connected to God through all the levels then Satan can invade and take away that love.</p>
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<p>The mission of the tribal messiah is to set up the foundation for all the world to be adopted into the tribes. Father has paid worldwide indemnity conditions for the worldwide blessing to come into Korea. The establishment of tribal messiahs is laying the foundation for the whole world to be adopted into these tribes. When you establish the unity of three generations, you establish the vertical avenue for God to come into the family. Only through true love can God become your personal God. God must become the God of our family and nation and world. Centered on true love you have to break down the walls that have prevented tribal unity in history. Even Jesus could not establish the foundation for tribal unity. You must create the foundation to establish yourself as tribal messiah. From now on, don’t expect me to do the work for you. You have to connect yourself to the indemnity of True Parents and fulfill that responsibility yourself.</p>
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<p>Does Father have to pay for the local churches we are building or will you even sell your own house to pay for it? When you construct a building where you want to invite God, will you invest more than you invest into your own house? Our movement has bought land all over Korea to build churches even though it has no land for Father’s own house. Who will build the churches on this land? Will you do it, or will Father have to do that too?</p>
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<p>Can Father make cars? It is not easy. But Father is confident he is going to make cars which are better than Mercedes Benz. Just wait and see. Now our movement is buying land all over Korea, but provinces complain if we buy land in another province. Last night I went to Cholla province to look at land in Mokpo (a port on the south-west coast) and returned at midnight. That is Father’s lifestyle. Now people in positions of responsibility are realizing the only people they can trust are the Unification Church members. They will have to join the Unification movement. If you do your tribal restoration quickly, you can succeed on the world level.</p>
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<p>Who here is from Seoul? (Some raised hands). Who is from North Korea? (A few raised hands). You should go to your homes. I don’t care if the headquarter’s church is empty; this should be your priority. Even if you sell your house, you should give it up for the sake of Korea and the world. Father has established the worldwide foundation through preaching the word of God, so you should invest and dedicate yourself in the same manner. Father has established a very secure foundation which Satan cannot invade. You must make your own foundation which Satan cannot invade. Don’t forget that becoming a parent of your tribe has to be connected to your role as parent of your family and of yourself. So the beginning point is the unity of your mind and body. Just as Father is now giving more to China, Japan and Russia than to Korea, you have to follow the pattern in your tribal providence. Father has already paved the highway, but you have to pave the side road that leads into it. If it is established for the sake of the nation and the world, Satan cannot invade. For the next four years, until 1992, the tribal foundation has to be perfected and the unification of South Korea has to be achieved on that basis. Then the unification of North and South Korea can be established and the unification of the world can begin. Then we will be able to go anywhere in the world with God. You must understand that the tribal course is one without persecution. When you go home and love your parents and brothers and sisters, there is no persecution for that. This is the departure time for the tribal messiahs, so you must go back to your native areas and have revival meetings for your tribe and preach your heart out, thereby establishing the foundation for the worldwide messiah. Those who will do it, raise your hands. Those who won’t do it, will fade away.</p>
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<p>Father brought Japanese members to Korea because the Eve nation must first support the establishment of tribal messiahship. That is why the Japanese members are mobilized to deliver the newspaper and sell McCol. That is the preparation and condition for the providence of the tribal messiah to succeed.</p>
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<p>Father wants to send 2,000 members to China. Rev. Kwak, are you finding out which members can participate in a mobilization to China?</p>
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<p>Those whose hometown is outside Seoul, stand up. Those who will not go to your home areas to restore your family will lose the qualification of tribal messiah and will even lose the blessing. Korean church leaders whose hometown is outside of Seoul, but whose mission is in Seoul, should change their family register to Seoul so that they can establish their tribal messiahship in Seoul. The end of this lunar year is the deadline for you to start your tribal providence. The providence of Israel’s entrance into the land of Canaan to establish the twelve tribes is being restored through the tribal messiah providence. Now is the time for the Unification Church to establish the heartistic entrance into Canaan. If you fulfill the tribal messiahship, the Kingdom of Heaven can be realized in Korea. Once again, those who will go, raise your hands. Let’s pray.</p>
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