Reverend Sun Myung Moon
The Cosmos is My Hometown and Fatherland
Belvedere International Training Center, Tarrytown, New York
December 19, 1999
Translation
by Rev. Peter Kim
Unofficial
Notes by Tyler Hendricks
We should
begin each day with hoon dok hae, but
I am going to give a special message this morning. So when you go home, be sure
to read “In Search of the Origin of the Universe.”
Where is
your hometown and fatherland in this world? Everyone has a different hometown
and fatherland, because we have different nationalities. To resolve this, let
us examine the meaning of the cosmos. There can be many different hometowns,
but there is only one cosmos.
In Chinese
characters, which are mystically formed, chun
represents heaven, joo means house
and chun joo means heavenly house, or
cosmos. Chun consists of two people,
but the second character means house. So this means a house in which two people
can dwell freely, with no restrictions. Chun
joo means two people living in the heavenly house in total freedom.
In
English, we cannot separate the syllables “cos” and “mos,” but in Chinese
characters we can do this. If you look into the structure of Chinese
characters, you see this deep meaning. When we say chunji-in, it means heaven and earth and the individual. Everything
is included there. When we study our own body, we find elements both spiritual
and physical. Chunji-in includes it
all. In your face, everything is in pairs. Your face is like your house.
Subject-object relationships are there. Your eyes represent heaven or God.
Oriental
thought usually has a broader meaning or perspective than western thought.
Western people cannot do several jobs at one time, but only one at a time. But
Orientals tend to think that one or two jobs are not enough, and I can handle
up to ten, just as I have ten fingers. That’s why Orientals have a tendency to
set priorities for their jobs. They prioritize in a yin-yang way, this, then
that, coming in, going out. Oriental culture is more round, inclusive and
embracing. Western is straight and narrow. So westerners can go out but not
come back. So westerners need Orientals in order to return. To grasp the entire
universe you need this chun joo, this
house. So you should hang on to Orientals.
If I keep
talking on the meaning of Chinese characters, there will be no end. But this is
common sense to everyone. Just make sure you westerners are united with
Orientals in order to form a sphere, a “no-edge” personality. Front and rear,
upper and low, when you establish all these points, you can secure your
position in the center. A globe needs a center, uniting what is above and
below, right and left, front and rear. You cannot just deal with the front; you
need to know the rear. You need to know past and future, east and west, eastern
and western cultures. These relationships should exist, not just one side or
the other. Even when we sleep, we lay on different sides of our body. Which way
is the most fundamental? On the back? Yes. That way, when you stretch, you can
free up all your limbs. When you lay on your side, one side of your body is
strained. Laying on the stomach, then what do you do with your face? This is
logical. Raise your hand if you tend to sleep on your stomach … on your side …
on your back. Those who sleep on their back get 100 points.
Your mouth
represents all things. What do you consume through it? Three meals a day and we
drink water many times a day. I see many westerners carrying bottles; they must
drink many times a day. Where does it go? It goes into your stomach. So
westerners have a big part of their stomach for water. Easterners don’t eat or
drink so much between meals. Ancient people did not have soft drinks, but they
would drink during meals, then walk a long ways and find another place to eat
and drink. Those who drink a lot of water are the ones who need to diet, who
are overweight.
If you
need to diet, make sure you don’t drink much, then you will be successful. The
more often you go to the bathroom, the more successful you will be with the
diet. Give away more than you take in and your body will become smaller. Just
make sure you use all your energy to eliminate water from your body, because
3/4 of your body mass is water. When we fast seven days, we drink water. We lose
weight. That is a natural cure. Artificial drinks, such as soft drinks, are not
so good for health. My lifelong principle is not to eat between meals and not
to drink much. But at mealtime I eat anything that is available. Everything in
this world is prepared for our consumption.
Make sure
you position yourself in the center. Above and below represent parent and
child, right and left is husband and wife, and front and rear are brothers and
sisters. With proper relationships in these directions, we can form a spherical
shape in our life. Then every section of the sphere converges in the center.
Nothing is present in the center; it is the zero point. Yet from that zero
point, everything is connected on the circumference, at the same distance. The
center point is number seven. That’s where you should be positioned. That’s why
there is the expression that seven is a lucky number. That is where God dwells.
Yet God is invisible. It is the invisible center, where God stays.
When we
join spirit world, God will guide us, yet God is invisible. We cannot see
above, but we can see below. Therefore the visible below and invisible above
should become one. That is perfection. If you just have one of them, it is
incomplete. The visible body and invisible mind should be one, then you are
complete. If either is missing, you are incomplete. You cannot live just with
right and not left. They should come together to establish a different
direction. When you move, there is front and rear. The air in front of us is
pushed and that air behind us is following. This relationship should have a
balance, equality. That is why those who insist upon selfish individualism are
the most stupid people. They disregard this principle of unity. Above and below
are heaven and earth, right and left represent humanity, and front and rear are
past and future. The three elements should be combined together. In this sphere
are three different circular movements, centering on the three directions. When
the three circular movements unite, the seed is produced. The surface of the
seed is hard. The seed has two sections inside, representing plus and minus,
and a round shape.
You may be
handsome but you still need your parents. A man needs a woman and also brothers
and sisters. In your parents, you should be able to find everything, all
directions, because they represent everything. They already grew up as brother
and sister and husband and wife, and now they are parents. So everything is in
them. So whoever denies parents is a total failure and has no value in life.
Such a person does not have this formula or pattern. As Adam and Eve grew up
from childhood to become husband and wife and father and mother, we all go
through the same process and need to accomplish the same things. These three
angles of circular movement come together and become one eventually. They
mingle together and form the center and the outcome is the seed of your family.
So in your family you find your parents, husband and wife and children. Your
family can do this circular movement. This is the model for the ideal existence
of the family. So you should receive parental love, conjugal love and brothers
and sisters love. Your children will love you after you have given enough love
to them.
Then what
is God? From where does this movement start? From above. First is above, then
below. In the oriental language, we say left and right, in that order, not
right and left. Right and left is the correct, original order. Right is first,
front is first, then rear. Some American women say women are first, not men.
When I watch the secular world’s trend, those well-educated women and more so
those popular entertainers think they are the best and have all power in their
hands. They try to control their husbands and all men. Singing and doing art
does not make a complete human personality. It is just one aspect of human
life. In their singing or art career, if we remove love, there is just a shell
left. These artists and singers, do they have true love? When they behave as
they do, they are not fostering love but destroying it. So those entertainers
have more chance to fall and ruin their life, destroying their love. The human
race has reached this point. There is no return and they are doomed to perish.
When God
is with the movement of the sphere, the seed can be formed. The dimensions
become one. The seed is protected by three layers, with plus and minus inside.
In other words, our family should become like God. In the principle this is the
four-position foundation and triple objective purpose, and this is the origin
of the universe. This principle exists in everything. Can a woman become a
seed? To provide a seed, she needs to go through three stages, child, wife and
parent. Then she can provide the seed of life. That way she can exist for
eternity in the universe. Like a wheel spinning in the universe.
If you
dislike your parents, raise your hands. Can you control your parents? In the
secular world there is the saying that parents cannot win from their children,
but this is the result of the fall. The fall means you are rolling down the
hill. So the parents ended upon below their children. If you have no one in the
position in front of you, you are doomed to roll down and fall down to hell. If
she has no husband, the woman has no normal future, and without children, the
parents will lack a normal future, because their lineage will not be carried
on. What can unite us? Power, knowledge, money? All these are comparative. One
person can have more than another does. What is the substance to unite them all
and build a balance? The substance is love. That is where God comes. True love.
Love is the power that makes above and below, all sides united. Centering on
God, every existing being should be balanced and united. Based on this
principle, there should be a center.
A soccer
ball is round, like a sphere. For it to be so there is air pressure pushing
with equal power in every direction from the inside. Otherwise it will not be
round. There is a centrifugal force pushing out in each direction at an equal
amount. What makes that possible? The power of love. True love power is giving
power. If you apply that into your life, you will find the balance. It is not
receiving power but giving and supporting power. So if you stand in the center
and give out, there is natural harmony. At that point you are in total negation
of yourself and you are just giving. In this zero point, everything is
welcomed. This giving power is internal power. You negate yourself and keep giving.
So receiving power will follow the giving power and the eternal movement will
begin.
The entire
cosmos exists as a sphere, with God at the center exercising giving, true love
power. Heavenly fortune is being applied to every corner, making sure everything
grows and prospers. In this universe, there is always the giving power, true
love power, but because of this, a receiving power follows and fills the
vacuum, creating eternal movement and the center is established. Love is
flowing constantly, as water and air flow. Water, air and love all flow. Does
light flow? Whatever flows goes out and comes back. What is the circular
movement with light? How does it circulate? Inside the sun are millions of
substances exploding, and they appear as the penumbra, the different colors of
light, materials that reflect certain kinds of lights. There is nothing lost in
the universe. They flow away but eventually return.
Today’s
topic is that the cosmos is my hometown and fatherland. In this house, the
cosmos, all beings are included. God is in the center of the sphere and God is
giving His power to support everything. Once everything receives, it has to
give back, like a reflective light. Like God, they should be willing to give
more than they receive. This leads to the expansion of everything and of the
cosmos.
A good man
is one who gives more than he receives. This is a good man, and those who give
less than they receive are called evil. Parents are the example of goodness,
because they want their children to become of more value than they. Between
husband and wife, each expects the other to become greater than they are. The
elder brother expects the younger brother to become greater. Those who give
more than they receive are the origin. Even in one’s conversation, if you feel
happy by hearing something, then you feel like talking more and more. If you
are intoxicated looking at someone, you keep looking and looking. In
relationship of husband and wife, you may just kiss or hug at the beginning,
but you get hotter and hotter and finally say, even if we die, let’s just stay
this way. Once you understand the principle here, you need no more explanation.
The top
unification members are the ones who give more than they receive. Those who
practice what they read in hoon dok hae are the number one members. Is this
right or wrong? [Right!] Those who receive and just consume and do not return
anything, move backwards in life. It looks as if they are walking forward but
they are moving backwards. [Father performs a “moon walk” very excellently.]
You are in relationship to everything in the universe, so you should give back
everything that you receive. Then you can be in balance with the universe.
Otherwise you will be disappear because you do not fit in the universe. This is
a simple truth. Your eyes want to look at a beautiful thing. When you realize
the value of the beauty and keep looking at it, the value goes up. The same
applies to smelling, eating and hearing. With each sense, you will follow whatever
is the more attractive.
The
conclusion is to become a person who can give more than he receives. In the
cosmos as my hometown, what position am I talking about? If you position
yourself on the border, you cannot reach everything, because some things are
close and others are far away. The position you call your hometown and
fatherland, in which every position and angle will welcome you and do a mansei, is what position? It’s like a
soccer ball being filled with air, that you cannot see but you realize is
there. The entire sphere is totally vacant; you don’t see anything. Even at the
center, nothing is visible. However, there is a secret. Just like God, you
don’t see anything in the external world, but once you reach the core of the
internal world, you can reach out to the external world and the internal world
as well. Without experiencing this absolute zero point, you cannot know about
or experience God’s love whatsoever. So we have to unite ourselves.
Mi guk (the Korean word for America,
lit. “big country”) sounds like sea weed soup in Korean (“mi yuk guk”). It means you have failed in your exam. We should
negate America so we cannot even see it; so it is invisible. While we are doing
this, we should go for God. While your are negating yourself and your country,
keep going for God and you will reach the core of the cosmos and find God. Then
everything will appear before your eyes at once. It is not easy to deny and
negate yourself. That is the point of delineating the eight stages. As when God
created the universe, there was nothing and He created it from nothing. So we
have to go to the zero point, achieving nothingness, then we meet God and come
out of God and like God created all things, we will receive this substantial
world. This means that we should be able to digest everything created by God.
The
survivors will be the ones who have the power to digest everything. Through
this, you obtain what you need, as the strong digest the weak and gain the
nutrients from them. You survive and prosper. Whatever is to be digested
doesn’t survive. You eat it through your mouth. What do you want to eat? The
most delicious one first or the most dirty one that you dislike? You may call
this a food chain. You think you should consume fruit, grasses and grains. But
for them to grow, they absorb dirty things including smelly fertilizer. They
provide fine nutrition from it. What of the tiger that can kill a cow? When it
eats the cow, the tiger’s stomach turns the meat into fertilizer.
Whatever
we absorb, the lowest possible one first is the best. Do tigers eat each other?
The world of tigers and lions are different. Lions move as herds and eat at
night after sneaking up on the prey. Tigers hunt day and night, moving alone,
and protect each other’s young. The lion sneak up on deer sleeping at night.
Tigers don’t. So I like tigers better. The strongest animal is the Siberian
tiger, with stripes on its fur. If tigers were to give birth every year, there
would be too many. So they give birth every two years. The period to raise the
offspring is two years. Where in the world is food found most? Fish always eat
smaller fish as well as insects and small animals. Though they live in the
water, they can catch food near the water. Also birds will catch fish that are
near the surface.
Where do
you want to build your hometown and fatherland? When you say, hometown, you may
refer to the entire earth, but fatherland refers to where God dwells. It is on
the earth. Where on earth? You may have to be more specific then. If it is
within the United States, no one can respect you. You are not even worth
kicking out. Ideal people would not identify a city in America as their
hometown. Your hometown is this entire world. The definition of hometown is
where your parents live, where you were born and where your brothers and
sisters live. It is the world in which the true people are born.
In
history, at certain points the different races came out. Whose children are
they? [God’s.] Have you seen it? Whatever angle you look, God is the master,
owner and captain. So God is the original father of all people. Someone may
point to different colors of skin as meaningful. But that is not a substantive
difference. In reality, the different races walk and in the substantial matters
they are the same, such as in walking, talking and smiling. Unlike different
species of animals, we all resemble each other, even in dancing and singing.
Even my grandfather can dance. [Father does a nice tap dance.] Eventually we
will realize among the races that despite the skin color, we can do everything
together. We eat with two hands, unlike monkeys. We are on an equal level,
therefore, in eating, singing, making love and dancing. We know inside that we
all are human beings. The races do not have a different way of defecating or
urinating. But animals are different from us. Everything else is the same, the
blood, the way of eating and talking, the color of your muscle. The only
difference is the skin color, the surface. Why?
The white
race is descended from polar bears. Animals blend with the environment for
camouflage. In the same way, the white race appears as they do because their
ancestors lived in the wilderness of snow, and looking for water their eyes
became the color of water, blue. Caucasian hair is many colors, because there
are many colors in the environment. The coloring is not God’s creation but due
to the environment. They had to hunt everyday, so they became excited about
seeing blood. So the white race history has always been stained by blood. Who
eliminated the American Indians? White people. How can we understand that? The
white race is the polar bear race. They came through the Scandinavian Peninsula
and to Great Britain, the island of pirates. In what can you take pride? They
tried to conquer the world.
Orientals
are brown bears, fourteen feet high. But will a brown bear and polar bear that
are male and female fight or unite? They will unite, naturally. All animals
disregard color within the same species when they mate. Following this natural
law, we in the Unification Church have been practicing inter-racial marriage.
Yet no one likes me doing this. Some like it and like to follow that marriage
system. The black race represents the tropical regions. Whites represent the North
Pole, the yellow race another region, so if they all mix together, their
descendents will be the best. Fish and birds practice the same principle, such
as fish moving from fresh to salty water. Birds migrate between cold and warm
climates. Eating a lot of meat lessens the sperm count and eating fruit the
sperm count becomes bigger. So the whites will decline and the blacks increase.
You should
be able to eat everything. Snake meat, lion and tiger meat are good for your
health. Our boundary of living is limited, and so to taste the different
regions you should consume the meat that comes from that region. Even the
pumpkins are different, big and small, but the essence is the same. As a
Unification Church family, within three generations, which families will be
more ideal, that which has a big mixture of races, or not? [Mixed.] Do you like
mixed food? By having a colorful family, you have a privilege. Different times
of day represent different seasons that connect with different races that make
different kinds of food. So you will be healthy. Your stomach will be healthy.
You can have your meal in different locations during the day. Your stomach will
be well trained, because it will be disciplined, therefore you will be healthy.
After you get used to hot food, you like it. And if you can handle the hottest
food, you can digest any kind of food.
So what
kind of lifestyle do you want to live? In an office all your life, confined to
one place? Or like Father, going around the world and experiencing everything?
That is like God, who wants to experience everything that human beings do. If I
bring a big alligator here, big enough to swallow three people at a time
… If that alligator meat is well cooked, every species will enjoy it. But
some people are too sophisticated to eat it. So in that way, the creatures are
superior to some human beings. In that case, the more civilized, the less
value, because they are over-refined. God created everything in this world for
the sake of human beings to become strong. So if you just eat one part of it,
you will not be strong.
So as
human beings we have to train ourselves to digest everything and be healthy.
Will God favor the narrowly confined person or that one who wants to check and
taste everything in the world? Do you wish to confine yourself to eat only that
which is not moving? If it’s not tasty, it probably has medicinal qualities.
For example, human waste can be used as a medicine for certain diseases. Some
scientists claim that urine can cure diseases. Even drinking urine, each sex
should drink that of the other sex to have it more effective. Even for fish,
you defecate, your dung will float and a lot of fish will come to eat it. You
should waste nothing. Plants absorb animal waste.
Your teeth
are designed in order to break down all kinds of foods. Darwin teaches that the
strong eat the weak. But that’s not true. The baby whale is weak but it eats
smaller fish. The fish with the bigger mouth eats the smaller one. So you see
more small fish than huge whales. There are 3,600 species of fish in the Amazon
area. They consume water with all its organisms. It is not a crime for them to
eat whatever fits in their mouth. The larger the fish, the fewer the offspring.
Small ones lay several million eggs at the same time. When they are first born
they are hardly visible. Relations of cousin or uncle make no difference to
fish; if it fits in their mouth they eat it. What of human beings? How many
children can we produce? Rabbits produce 10 babies at a time, five times a
year. Rats and mice produce seven to ten, once a month. So the fearsome animals
hunt at night. Tigers travel up to 100 km per night to find prey. God created
everything mysteriously. A bear takes so much energy just to take one step. But
his nose is so sensitive that he can spot food from miles away, so he can go
directly there. Who created them in such a way?
Would you
like to train a tiger and sit and ride on its back? If you train it with love
from its infancy, the tiger will become your horse. It will rather eat its own
parent than you, because you are the love master. He will even want to die in
your arms. If you give enough love to all the animals, more than their parents
do, they you will inherit their health and more when you kill them and eat
them.
In Jardim
I did an experiment. When rain comes hard, we say it is raining cats and dogs.
Cats and dogs fight. So I told President Kim to have the dogs and cats eat and
sleep together. Now they are very friendly with each other. You can even make
friends with rattlesnakes if you give enough love. I winter, snakes have cold
body temperature and want to sleep with you in the warm part of your body.
There is nothing surpassing love. If a little child loves the cat most, the cat
will go to the little child. The cat will follow love, even from little
children. There is nothing in the natural world that does not return the equal
amount of love they have received. Only human beings violate this and they are
destined to go to hell.
The cosmos
is my hometown and fatherland. You may have come from all over the world, but
centered on true love there is only one hometown and one father. Everything
goes to the true love place, the center. This planet earth can become our
hometown and fatherland. The fatherland is where God and I dwell.
[Father
asks Japanese members present to raise their hands, and there was a large
number of them.] At this rate, within ten years the Japanese will conquer
America. The Americans are becoming slaves of free sex and homosexuality and
their race will become extinct. Go ahead and have a lot of children. Is it blessed couples or plus couples? From now you can call blessed couples, “plus
couples.” In ten days, we will step into the new millennium, at which time this
name change will take place. Plus indicates that we want to give more and not
be indebted. Plus couples always want to add more, to make a plus. There will
be plus parents and plus children. Then what is the name of our race?
Unification race, because there can be all five races to be found. What color
garment do you prefer? White, black, brown? [Rainbow.] All colorful.
We do not
have a hometown on earth yet. We need the trinity of love, life and lineage.
These are like the primary colors: love, life and lineage. To have love we need
the same lineage. Above love are God and our ancestors. Based on them we
establish the center point of above, below, right, left and front and rear. So
we can find love, lineage and family. Love is connected with life, they all
have to be connected. Then we can become perfect. All our mind and body should
be mobilized. Love is not a means to do or protect something else; love should
be love itself. No one can change this.
You need
all three of the trinity together or none of them can exist. [Pointing to a
sister in the front row.] Even if she seems to have life, she should have love
and lineage connected or there will be no life. Love is there to create eternal
history, connecting past, present and future. God’s lineage can be tens of millions
of generations. That’s why this love, life and lineage always travel together
at a perpendicular angle. So in history you can point everywhere and anywhere
and get the same thing. Centering on this we can return to our hometown and
fatherland automatically.
The
conclusion in the eyes of God’s ideal of creation is how we can become true
human beings who possess the true life, love and lineage. Resembling God,
whoever possesses these are the true children of God and will belong to the
eternal Kingdom of God on Earth with God. We marry in order to protect and keep
this heavenly tradition. Above and below, and east and west, we have to create
the same quality family. Be the woman who wants to create a pure lineage with
her husband. Take a meal not of leftovers but that is newly prepared. Do not
mix your food or your lineage and love with junk.
When an
infant first sees the world, he looks at the face of his mother. To the infant,
the mother comes before the father. Mommy sounds like “maum” (“mind” or “spirit” in Korean). She gives mind and heart to
the baby, so he looks at mommy first. The baby’s mouth wants to kiss mommy’s
mouth first, not daddy’s. Breastfeeding is a treasure. In the oriental
tradition, before you have a baby, a daughter in law is disgraced if her father
or mother In law see her breasts. But after the baby is born, her breasts can
be seen while breastfeeding. When the position of the subject changes,
everything can change. The mother is most intimately involved in raising the
baby. This is also true for the animal kingdom. In that sense, who’s love is
thicker? The mother’s love is thicker, because the children are part of the
blood and flesh of the mother. They received it from their mommy. From a
mother’s point of view, the baby is her second self. Just as Adam and Eve were
born from God and were part of God, so God had to love them; He had no choice.
Before the fall, they could touch God, talk to God and receive love from God
directly. But after the fall they lost this. So we have to know the importance
of keeping the right lineage.
When Adam
and Eve were born, their lineage was that of God. To extend this lineage, what
did they have to do? Their children were to have become the grandchildren of
God. But they didn’t do this. Whose lineage were Cain and Abel’s? Satan’s.
Satan is God’s love enemy, an adulterer. In Chinese characters the word for
adultery, khan, consists of three
women. People did not know who Satan was. Now we know that Satan’s identity is
that of the criminal who became God’s enemy through adultery.
Originally,
Eve’s body, especially her love organ, was to have received the seed of God.
Instead, Satan’s seed came in to her. Think of how Eve’s body suffered such
misery. As a woman, she knew that the seed in her womb was not the prince of
God, but rather of Satan. So she was sad. From that point, the love of God and
world of Satan separated. Because of that separation in Eve’s body, we became
the descendents of Satan. Have you thought about this? We realize what kind of
descendents we have become, not the children of God who are happy, but of His
enemy. If Father’s teaching is true, I have a question for you. Who among you
does not look at the mirror in the morning? When you look, realize that every
strand of your hair is an enemy to God. Your eyes belong to Satan, God’s enemy.
Your nose, mouth, ears— your entire body belongs to Satan. Therefore God
doesn’t welcome you.
From God’s
point of view, we are all the children of God’s enemy. It is as if a robber
came into your house and raped your wife and an unwanted baby were to be born.
All the family members would turn their backs on such a baby. We are those
fallen descendents. This turn of events would be considered tragic and
repulsive even in this fallen world. In the original world it is even worse
than that. In God’s sight, those kinds of rapists appear all the time and rape
God’s children. How does God feel? Will He recommend that they marry, or leave
them single? He will leave them single. On top of that, we indulge ourselves in
free sex, taunting God. God’s eyes will just spit out a fireball and turn the
world upside down and make hell. We inherited this satanic lineage and
practiced satanic love so our life is a satanic life. If God wants to forgive us,
even if He chops us up into a trillion cells and blows them into the air and
sees us like dust floating around, He still feels agony and sadness. He just
wants to blow us out so there is no trace of Satan. He feels this because we
became His enemy of love, lineage and life. It’s the boundary between heaven
and hell.
God’s
position is to love the children of the enemy more than He loves His own
children. If He could love us the same level as He loves His own children, it
would mean nothing. God creates restoration by giving more to the enemy’s
children. Falling water may take thousands of years to eliminate ink from a
paper. To create a new life you have to give more than you did at the outset.
[Father draws a womb with a fetus.] The fetus asks, where is my original world?
Where can I belong? It knows that it is in a fallen mother’s body. The seed
came from a fallen father, fallen seed from fallen love, life and lineage. The
fetus goes through agony. God will hear it. Will God pity the fallen mother’s body?
We’re talking the entire human race, not just one woman.
When the
baby is born, from the world of mother’s womb, the water world, into his world
of land. The baby will absorb all things to mature in this world that is the
expansion of mother’s womb. Just as the fetus receives nutrition from the
mother’s womb, so we receive nutrition from the planet earth. The earth is our
second mother. So we have to love the land. God loves the land and so we have
to do so also. God created it for us. We travel from the world of water to the
world of land, and eventually to the world of spirit. This final stage is the
era of the sun. The mouth represents era of water and the nose the era of land.
You drink water with your mouth and inhale air with the nostrils. Your eyes
deal with light from the sun. So everything flows, water, air and sunlight. So
your eyes can figure out if everything is balanced—hence measurement comes from
your eyes. In this physical world, we pass through three stages, the era of
water, land and light, the world of sun. Centering on the sun’s position, the
galaxies are always there, but we cannot see them. We have night and day on
earth, but the spirit world is always bright, there is no night. We have the
eras of water, of air, of love. Love never stops, like sunlight. Love should
flow constantly, day and night, pole to pole. That’s spirit world. Everything
will be harvested and shipped there.
Originally,
those who are qualified to live in the world of love are those who go through
the three stages without falling. The father gives a pure seed and the mother
forms the fetus and the baby is born. Then the child should live in true love
all the time and be harvested as the fruit of true love who remains in spirit
world all the time as a love being. Only the family unit can enter the world of
love, the spirit world. Therefore, throughout history there was no one
qualified to enter this world of love, inheriting love, life and lineage. So
God has been sitting alone all these years. God created this planet earth to
serve as the hometown of all these people originally born without sin. This
world, however, that was to be such a hometown, has turned into hell. That is
the agony and sorrow of God. God has said that the land and human race and all
things are in sorrow and agony. No one can object to this explanation.
God could
not destroy everything because He is a God of principle, but He has been
patiently waiting in agony. Therefore it has been God’s historical wish to
change this fallen physical world, to encourage us to drop and negate
everything by ourselves and reconnect to God. That what God has been waiting
for all these years. God’s desire has been to purify the fallen lineage and
give true love and make this a world of true love. The person who can take this
position, that one man, is the messiah. Throughout the Old Testament, New
Testament and Completed Testament eras, this one man for whom God has been
looking is called the messiah. The messiah is the one who can cut off this fallen
life, lineage and love, erase it, and stand as the man who inherited God’s
line, love and life solely. By doing so he can build the chosen race that is
engrafted to the messiah and by doing so build the world of the original life,
lineage and love. He is a true olive tree into which the wild olive trees are
grafted. This is the messiah’s mission. Once we are engrafted, we also take the
position of messiah. So we should go out to the world to be welcomed as the
messiah.
He should
be able to make God happier than Adam and Eve before their fall. To do that,
the messiah has to build a family base. This family should bring joy and
happiness to God. Otherwise there’s no result of the indemnity course. The messiah as True Parents comes for the
sake of humanity as the origin of God’s true lineage. As true love children, we
should be able to feel thousands of times more value from true life, love and
lineage than Adam and Eve found in the Garden of Eden. That’s why we have to be
reborn through this process. Once True Parents come, all the fallen lineage,
life and love has to be denied and the entire human race will be … God wants
100% of us, not 1% less. Have you become completed? What’s your new name? [Plus
couples.] Do you know how to say it? But do you have the substance, the content
it represents? You are like the descendents of polar bears landing in America
and claiming it as your own. You are thieves and robbers.
We have to
know ourselves. To cleanse ourselves we need tons of blood and sweat. We have
to work it out. Unless we completely cleanse ourselves in order to be qualified
to join True Father in the spirit world, we will have to go through the eight
stages in spirit world, which is much harder than doing it here. The secret is
to live for the sake of others. God has been working for thousands of years.
Without true love there is no way we can find true lineage. To practice true
love we have to give our life for the sake of others. How can we go beyond this
satanic realm? It is our eternal desire. We have to realize the life course we
are destined to travel. We go through eight stages, up to the grand parents’
stage and then the king-queen stage, at each stage working constantly to purify
our lineage.
[To a
sister in the front.] You were not born for your own sake but for a man. In
Jesus’ life, he didn’t have the period of husband and wife, parents or onward.
He desired these things, but didn’t have them. So Father had to fulfill all
this. I had to choose True Mother to fulfill the position of all women in the
world. We call God “Father” and we call True Parents “Father” also. We have to
distinguish between them as follows: Heavenly Father is invisible. They have an
above and below relationship. True Father is our visible Father. God is in the
superior position in relation to each polarity.
The
blessing means that True Parents bequeathed us the victory; it all comes to us
as an inheritance. We can follow their model on each of the eight stages,
interconnecting with True Parents’ course on the stage we’re on. This
inheritance comes to us through the blessing. The blessed couple represents
plus and minus connecting to God. We are the effect; God is the cause. Just
follow that one line through eight stages and join True Parents on the top. We
don’t need to go out sideways. We all want to become the center of ourselves as
individuals, our family, our tribe, etc up to the top stage with True Parents
as king and queen. The beginning and end should be the same. If the beginning
is on the individual level, then the eighth level should be on the same axis.
To have them the same quality, we have to live a life of giving. To advance
from level to level, we have to totally negate ourselves on that level, leaving
nothing behind. When the entire family invests itself fully and there is
nothing left, then you go to the tribal level. The same principle continues on
and on.
So on each
level there is indemnity. Whatever we achieve has to be re-invested on the next
level, individual for family, family for tribe, etc. We have to create a
broader foundation on each level, or nothing is indemnified. We are now going
through the worldwide scale indemnity period. Up to this point, the history of
restoration was “turning backward” because it was restoration, through the
completion of the 3rd Adam period. But from now it is the 4th
Adam period, and the world is spinning in the correct direction. Before now,
Satan was always waiting and invading between parents and children, brothers
and sisters, husband and wife. There have been 100s of religions and nations
and finally the True Parents came and taught the law of indemnity and the 4th
Adam era began and there is to be no more indemnity. So we have to come through
these stages, and the short cut is the vertical line, life for the sake of
others. Once this entire world is full of this true love, Satan will be chased
out and we can bring the 4th Adam era concept into daily life. Once
the true lineage is in us and we are living the true love life, Satan cannot
enter anymore. But in reality we are in the bottom of hell. But I paid enough
indemnity for all these stages, so there is no concept of hell anymore.
God
Himself practiced absolute faith, love and obedience when He created the
universe, reaching the zero point Himself because He gave everything. But since
He gave everything, everything is returning to God, even a greater amount. The
output is greater than the input in the world of original love. When we say
absolute faith, what is it referring to? God. Whoever lives more for the sake
of others will become the center, because everyone will like that person and
support that person. This principle applies on every level, to the tribe,
nation and world and cosmos and even to God. This is how God remains as God. This
is why God is the eternal Father of humanity.
We can
unify the world and cosmos by living for others and giving more and forgetting.
Look at my life. The entire world opposed me and Satan opposed me. But we kept
growing. God’s strategy is to be hit first and then take what belongs to Him.
Satan is the opposite. Now they all support True Parents.
Most of
you had no choice about your mate. Father chose for you. But was it voluntary
or forced? [Voluntary.] Are you becoming one as husband and wife? [Yes.]
Suppose all Americans and Germans married each other. Don’t you think the two
countries would become one? Then making a unified world is no problem. Exchange
marriage will lead to the Kingdom of God on Earth right there. By following
God’s mandate, all should marry and become good husbands and wives. I have
brought together heaven and earth. I have married people on earth with men who
lived thousands of years ago. They live together at night in many cases. Who
gave that direction? God cannot do it;
True Parents did. It is the human responsibility to get rid of the false
parent. The Kingdom of God on Earth is where the couples who love each other
absolutely can enter. If you form a family and love each other completely,
you’ll enter the kingdom.
Those who
received the matching from True Parents and enter heaven that way have the same
value as True Parents. This historical banquet is taking place now here in this
world. Please remember: life, love and lineage. What kinds of life, love and
lineage? True life, love and lineage. God’s life, love and lineage. That is the
base of the Kingdom of God on Earth. Those blessed couples will live in heaven
in the spirit world too. We should be ashamed of our historical hometown; it
will be cleaned up. Our true hometown is the entire earth. Because of Satan we
had this concept of a hometown somewhere in the secular world.
What kind
of language is English? It is the worst language. All the world’s languages are
the worst languages—even Korean. But because True Parents use it, Korean has
been revived to the level of the true language. Where is True Father’s
hometown? Physically, it is the planet earth. To secure your actual hometown,
it has to become the land of blessing. First we have to establish our hometown,
then we can establish the fatherland. Yesterday, upon my return, I gave a
message to the leaders at East Garden. The essence is that our homeland is
where Korea, Japan and America become one nation. The original ideal homeland
is where the ideal family dwells. The ideal homeland is where our blessed
couples go and settle. We have to find one unique homeland where the blessed
couples can go and settle. Therefore, I am giving this mandate to the entire
human race, especially the next 400 million couples. You will have to go to
Jardim and get your photo together with True Parents, to belong to the True
Family and be registered in the heavenly kingdom. You need proof to show you
belong to the true family. What else can prove it but the photo?
Jardim
educational headquarters is like the registration booth for the Heavenly
Kingdom. It serves to register blessed couples in the original world, the world
in which the original parents and children live together. I will assign people
to different locations from now on. That way we will find our original
hometown. We will have God, True Parents, true children and true couples.
That’s our original homeland, where God, parents, children and all live
together happily. We will have our own country, then Father’s nation, Mother’s
nation … That’s why I directed all the blessed couples to go through the
40-days workshop at Jardim and to give the Total Living Offering. You should
have completed this by now, but any couple who did not gets a special
permission to come up with the offering now and at least make the schedule to
go to Jardim later. If 10,000 couples show up there, I will make provisions to
handle it.
Get ready
to offer everything to God. The $16,000 is conditionally representing
everything that you have. We should be able to offer every penny to God.
Especially wealthy people exploited poor people so much. To indemnify this
false accumulation of wealth, you get this $16,000 condition. In addition to
that, as blessed couples you should restore 180 families. Now it will become
seven generations of 180 families, which comes to 1,260 families. A drawing
will choose those blessed couples who went through this process and assigned
either to Korea, Japan or America. There will be a drawing. We will know where we
will be sent. South Korea is not so big, so it will fill up soon. Before the
limit is reached, you have to work hard to bless people so that they can come
to live with you. That way, Korea will be full of people from all over the
world. There will be no more unbalance of race, wealth, etc. It will be all
equal. Don’t you think it should be done that way? [Yes.]
It goes by
order. If 240 million Americans continue to oppose True Father, they will be
the last in line and when they realize that this is the way to bring peace and
justice to the world they will go to the most remote countryside. It will be
like changing the position, making the first last and the last first.
My
restoration by indemnity in the 40-year wilderness course is done, to the point
at which I can mobilize the seven nations again. But if the Christians neglect
to receive this blessing, then others such as Muslims will step forward and
receive it. I brought 1,000s of Japanese volunteers here, wives and mothers, so
Americans could receive the blessing, but if American’s still resist, I will
send the sisters elsewhere. The original blessing was lost due to failure of
the mother figure in the Garden of Eden, so I have sent the mother figure to
the entire world. As a result there is no one in the world that did not hear
about the Unification Church blessing. All those married and single people in
spirit world were matched and blessed. Anyone who did not hear of it is not
tuned into the human race.
My plan
now is to send all the blessed couples to the world to give the blessing to the
world. Then the cosmos will become the heavenly kingdom. You don’t know where
you will be sent. But shouldn’t you go? [Yes.] We have no sovereignty yet.
There will be a huge movement. Once the blessed couples’ nation is established,
its resources will go to God’s dispensation, not the secular world.
Everything
is part of the cosmos, so the cosmos is our hometown. Remember the value of the
lineage, the blood lineage. As a blessed couple, how can you keep your lineage
pure and intact? That’s the key. Those couples who do so will be the couples
and families who will be connected directly to the True Family’s lineage
through the blessing. So make sure you train yourself to be able to handle all
five races in your family. In the spirit world the same organization is taking
place. The time will come for you to abandon everything, house and cars. Before
that time comes, why not voluntarily offer it so it can be used for God’s
dispensation? Then it can be used for the dispensation. If you offer it, you
will be recognized in spirit world. If you hesitate and watch and see what
others do, it will be too late. Soon there will be the longest line in human
history, of people lined up to offer everything in order to change their
lineage. It will be a new world. From next year we will begin that providence,
after my 80th birthday.
Centering
on the year 2000, the three years prior and three years after, altogether seven
years, the world will go through a great transition. That is why the
Unification Church has been rising so rapidly over the past three years. I made
the various proclamations to allow this to happen. Right now, the blessed
couples are receiving family level education at Jardim, but someday the entire
tribe must go through it and also the nation will go through it. That is why I
am holding these hoon dok hae
conferences. Then national level registration can take place.
We have learned that we do this by living for the
sake of others. It is finished. Everything is finished. A beautiful world will
emerge in that place of true love, the so-called Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and
in spirit world. It will be a world of freedom. We can go everywhere throughout
that world. There will be no fences. Satan made those barriers.
[Father
has us repeat after him: life, love, lineage, true love, true parents, true
God.]
On earth
and everywhere, we are making that Kingdom of God. The fatherland is only one,
the cosmos, where God dwells in eternity. So we know what we are lacking, where
we are now standing and how to get there. Absolute faith, love and obedience is
our determination in going forward, whatever guidance is coming from True
Father, even having to offer our life, our fortune and everything, taking a
flying leap at the speed of light so that instantly we are with God. The more
difficult the mandate, the greater the blessing.
[Rev.
Peter Kim prayed.]