Father’s Speech on January 1, 1992 at World Mission Center, New York
The topic for Father’s message this morning is Hana nim-eui Nal kwa Sae Nara Tongil: God’s Day and the Unification of the New Nation. The Unification Church has very special holidays that other churches do not have. For example, we have Parents’ Day, Children’s Day, God’s Day, the Day of All Things, and so forth. If there was no fall of man, God’s Day would have been the center, for in celebrating God’s Day we can celebrate everything.
God’s Day is supposed to be the day of wedding, or marriage, in which everyone and everything come together in joy. Because of the fall of man, the original ideal of mankind has been lost. Therefore, the road of restoration began, and we are seeking one goal after another, step by step. For that reason, all the different celebrations have come into being.
Initially, God created men and women as the highest creation. Because of the fall of man, men and women became the lowest beings. All the things of creation are above them. For that reason, in the Old Testament Era, we sacrifice all things to restore the children. The Day of All Things would be bring-ing all things to the offering table, and by doing so, restoring the children.
Then we sacrifice the children and restore the parents. Jesus I Christ came as the only begotten son. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ paved the way for the coming of the parents, in the form of the Lord of the Second Advent.
Jesus did not come just as lord, ultimately he came in the capacity to become the true parent to mankind. If the Israelite nation and Judaism had united with Jesus at that time, that goal would have been fulfilled. Therefore, all the things which had fallen down, and the order which had been reversed would have been restored. Jesus would have been in the parents’ position, with the Israelites as the children and all things below them. These positions would have been completely restored.
The consequences of the crucifixion of Jesus have been quite serious, repeating the fallen format. Once again, mankind entered into the fallen position.
The crucifixion eliminated the possibility for mankind to have True Parents at that time. With unrestored, fallen status, all the things of creation have nothing to do with true man and God’s providence.
Before the crucifixion of Jesus, the Israelite nation and the Jewish faith were strong, but after the crucifixion all these were nullified. Christendom was in the spiritual realm of salvation. That was the only thing that was available to humanity.
The God-centered sovereignty was lost. Therefore, twelve different tribes arose, laying the new worldwide foundation for the second coming of the Messiah. Each of the twelve tribes not only moved itself, but also divided into so many different tribes, or denominations, so that today there are more than twelve hundred different tribes acting independently of each other. There is absolutely no harmony in our world today.
If Jesus was not crucified, he would have been the king of kings. That nation of Israel would have become a powerful God-centered sovereignty and the unification of the world nation would have been accomplished.
After the crucifixion however, Christianity was granted only spiritual salvation as a spiritual movement or religion, without any physical nation or sovereignty. For that reason, Chris-tian faith traversed the Roman Empire, the British Isles, and crossed the Atlantic Ocean, coming to the United States as a Protestant nation. Christianity then moved over the Pacific to the Asian rim, circling the entire world in that fashion.
If Jesus had not been crucified, then all the Asian religions, such as Confucianism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, which had become prosperous by that time, would have become the foundation for the spread of Christianity. The unity of religious faiths would have occurred at that time, centering upon Asia.
However, through the crucifixion, Christianity lost the physical body of Jesus. It was taken away by Satan. In order to restore this lost body, Christianity had to go to the Roman Empire. Who took the body away? The Roman Empire. Satan is always seeking the destruction of the body, and Christian-ity is going after its restoration. That is why there was a great showdown in Christian history in the Roman Empire.
Because of the crucifixion, Christianity could not have a physical empire or dwelling, only the spiritual realm. This is the reason why Christianity has been destined to have another coming that will claim physical sovereignty as part of the dispensation. With Christianity alone, that cannot be done.
CHOSEN SACRIFICE, LAUNCHING PAD
The Vatican was formed out of Roman Catholicism, and a worldwide foundation was made. However, they did not realize that the Vatican exists to realize substantial world salvation. The same thing was true of Judaism which, before the coming of Christ, was longing for the salvation of their own race and nation. “The Jewish nation shall become a proud nation and a proud people.” But they did not realize, that God’s providence is always for the sake of the world. God uses the chosen nation as the launching pad, or the sacrifice, to save the entire world. They thought the Lord was coming to give them a great reward. But on the contrary, the Lord comes with God’s true love to sacrifice the chosen people for the sake of the rest of humanity. Roman Catholicism did the same thing in a way. They did not realize that they were not to enjoy life for themselves, not to enjoy their own power, but they were to sacrifice as a parent and as an elder brother for the sake of unfortunate humanity.
Therefore, God did not allow the Vatican and Roman Catholicism to continue in that fashion, because there was so much corruption and selfishness. So God’s cleansing work took place through divisions that chipped away from Roman Catholicism and the Vatican. That produced the Anglican Church, and the Protestants. The Protestant movement sprung up in the will of God. It was not done at someone’s whim. The British nation played a very important role. From there, under great persecution, Protestantism was born, that is, the Pilgrim Fathers came to America and created a new world of Protestantism.
The Roman Empire was a peninsula. From there Christianity moved to an island nation, which was Great Britain, and then to the American continent. That is the way history has been moving, from the peninsula, to the island, to the continent.
At one time the power of Great Britain shone all over the world. The saying went, “The sun never sets on the British Empire.” Why was so much power given to this small island nation? God wanted to use that island nation to bring the Gospel to every corner of the earth. One of the most important accomplishments of that era was that Great Britain produced the Pilgrim Fathers, who set sail across the Atlantic Ocean and came to the American continent, bringing the new Protestant independent, unified sovereign nation. This was a first in human history. In a short period of two hundred years, the United States of America has become the world’s most formidable superpower.
The United States, however, is under the Christian heritage, which has no body, because Jesus’ body was lost. So it is only a spiritual movement. The United States has been preparing for the day to receive the body, which is the coming of the Messiah. The United States is prospering economically, but at the same time dwindling religiously. After World War II there was a great deal of spiritual revival, but not enough sovereign-ty responded to it. Failure came after World War II because of this division and disunity. Will the United States prosper or decline? There is only one way we can judge. The United States is a Christian nation, blessed for the sake of the world. For this reason, if we are going to serve and sacrifice for the sake of the world, according to God’s will, then this nation will prosper. Otherwise this nation will dwindle.
The United States should harbor no animosity toward anyone, just as Jesus forgave the Roman soldier who pierced him at the time of the crucifixion: “Please God forgive him for he doesn’t know what he is doing.” The United States must assume the same position today. The United States should not dwell on selfish interests. If someone hits your body, still you must embrace him with a generosity great enough to embrace humanity. If this nation keeps giving love for the sake of humanity, God will never let this nation decline!
FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY
Failures come when nations try to manipulate circumstances for their own sake. For example, at the time of Jesus, the chosen people felt that the Messiah was for their own benefit. So they rejected and crucified him. Roman Catholicism and the Vatican had worldwide hegemony, but they thought that the blessing was for themselves. They started to dwindle, losing power and suffering division, because they opposed God’s will. It was God’s will to use Roman Catholicism for the sake of the rest of humanity, also the British nation, and the American nation. An important nation with a mission given by God will always decline if its people feel that they have received the mission for their own sake and think selfishly, because that is not God’s way. It is not God’s goal. On the other hand, if they sacrifice for the sake of humanity and the world, they will prosper.
After World War II the United Nations became the dominant world organization, but it was not used for the purpose of God’s will. Instead, the United Nations was infiltrated by communist propaganda. For that reason, the U.N., which is a noble ideal, has not been used for its original purpose.
Right after World War II, if established Christianity, the United Nations and the United States of America had accepted Father, his teaching and true love, then today’s world would not be like this. Today we see the most incredible moral degradation throughout society, worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. Father expounded in the early morning sermon that since established Christianity did not embrace Father’s mission, Father was cast out, and from scratch laid his own foundation for forty years. Upon that foundation, in 1985, a new dispensation was begun. This year, the consummation of that dispensation will be coming. Christianity in the United States is dying. For twenty years, ever since Father came to this country, his most crucial mission was the restoration and revival of the Chris-tian faith. Why does Reverend Moon have to do this? Father came in the parental position, therefore he views the children’s position with unselfish agape true love. Maybe it is too late for the first generation. They are spiritually dying, physically dying, morally dying. But Father sees the second generation. They are the genuine hope for purity, and through education, Father will see that this nation’s revival can come through them.
Forty years was like a worldwide wilderness period. Like Moses, who lost all his tribe, Reverend Moon lost all the foundation, and began to work in the wilderness to establish a new foundation. However, as Moses and the first generation could not enter into Canaan, the first generation might falter now too. The second generation, however, will be able to cross the Jordan River and go into the land of Canaan. In the land of Canaan there were seven foreign tribes who were not on God’s side. Reverend Moon, in the new wilderness period, has passed the persecution peak.
NEW NATION, NEW PEOPLE
This forty years of wilderness work has been completed. This is really something to celebrate. Father declares a new era for the Unification of the New Nation. This morning, the new nation is born. The new nation must be filled with new tribes, new families, new people. We must renew ourselves. This is the wonderful providence of the Unification Church. Each one of you have been given tribal messiahship. You have become an extension of Reverend Moon, going out to the world to do the messianic work. Reverend Moon’s twelve tribes and tribal messiahship are covering the four corners of the earth. We can see hope.
Christianity has progressed through sacrificial martyrdom. But from now on, upon Reverend Moon’s victorious foundation, you go out as tribal messiahs and there will be no such thing as martyrdom. You shall be welcomed and received, because this is the universe’s atmosphere.
Look at the Soviet Union. Thousands of elite university students have been taught the Divine Principle. Many became members and lecturers. Many republics have asked Reverend Moon to come and teach their citizens the Divine Principle. There are so many requests like that.
Father has paid all the necessary indemnity for you himself. Because he did so, when you go out as tribal messiahs you shall not be facing any martyrdom or incredible persecution. Father paid the price-you can go out free.
Right wing and left wing are both confused, and actually there is no longer such a thing as right and left wing. The only thing remaining is head wing ideology, God-centered ideology. Where is the center? Where your head is. This is where God dwells, that is why head wing connects to Godism. So when you say Godism, that encompasses all the religions. No religion can deny Godism. In the Western world there are many well-studied and brilliant scholars, but they could not tear down the communist ideology, Marxism-Leninism. Even religions were contaminated by communism when they tried to confront it. But even those most absolutely equipped with Marxism-Leninism, when faced with Reverend Moon’s ideology, needed only three nights and four days of study to see their whole ideology become a vacuum, and themselves become like children, newborn into Father’s ideology.
There is no doctrine Godism cannot embrace. Many religions have been floating in the air. They do not have any contact with the living world. These are not true religions. Religion must benefit the living people. The Unification Church and our Father’s doctrine never denies reality. Reverend Moon devised the most realistic, most practical critique of communism, and solutions to communism. Unificationism, Father’s ideology, starts with the very beginning of history, the creation. Many religions and philosophies do not have a clear root. If the origin is not clear, you cannot end up anywhere. But Father’s teaching, shows the original creation very clearly, therefore from that point you can project the correct future, clearly. Also, historical patterns are absolutely clear.
ASIA IS THE CENTER
The United States of America will be heading towards Asia, no question about it. Why? Because Jesus’ body was lost there, so at this time it will be recovered, physically and spiritually united. Otherwise, we cannot accomplish God’s purpose. So, Asia is going to be the center of the future world.
Why is this unity so important? Because Asia is the spiritual homeland. Western culture and technology represent physical and material advancements. The two must come together; the Western body must be given to the Oriental mind; the Oriental mind must be given to the Western body. This is the ultimate unity, and will be done in the Pacific Era in the 21st Century, from 1992 on. When you say Asia, there are many countries, but actually, there is only one country centered upon a strong Christian foundation. That is the Republic of Korea.
The history of restoration will be repeated. Great Britain’s mission shall be repeated in the Pacific Era in Japan. Japan therefore has been economically successful. After Japan, the providence will be heading toward Korea. For forty years, the United States has been working closely with the Republic of Korea. From island to island, to the peninsula nation, which is Korea, then going into the continent of Asia, which is the largest continent on earth. Japan was very clever. It took the best out of Europe. It took Britain’s political system, Germany’s military system, and law from the Roman Empire, presently Italy. Japan got them. After Japan, going in reverse cycle, history will move to the Roman Empire’s position, which is Ko-rea. In Korea is the ultimate showdown between the Cain and Abel worlds, satanic and godly worlds, Jacob and Esau worlds, at the universal level. Therefore, the nation is divided.
North Korea is an atheist country. Why is there no God? In order to substitute man as God, they have to deny God from top to bottom. There was once an era when the world was governed by knowledge (the head); then, power governed the world (the body), that was imperialism; next came the laborers’ era (the legs), or communism. Now the head era is gone, the body or power era is gone, and the leg era is gone. But communist theory says that man made God instead of God made man. Communism is based on a lie. Therefore, it simply could not last.
Today, Father’s ideology and Unification ideology is head-wing ideology. This is the ultimate ideology for the Kingdom of Heaven. Today, the entire world is in confusion and trans-formation. The whole thing is turned around. When you turn things around the right becomes left and left becomes right. Barabbas, representing the Islamic realm, was in the rear of Jesus, but when you turn it around it becomes the front. You have no idea how much confusion has been created in the world in the last year-and-a-half. I felt that after visiting father Kim and son Kim, that the first generation that belonged to Kim Il Sung is virtually over. The real power is now bestowed upon his son, Kim Jong II. He assumed supreme command of the armed forces of North Korea. Within this young man the entire power of that country is concentrated. Father felt that all he has to do is turn this young Kim around. Just push one button in North Korea and all twenty-five million will be turned around!
ONE IMPORTANT BUTTON
In the Soviet Union, another important thing happened. During the failed coup d’etat, the media was on the side of the coup d’etat, because they didn’t want to be executed. But one newspaper said, “No, we are not going with the coup d’etat. All you political leaders, get out! We are going to run the newspaper.” That was Izvestia, the largest newspaper in the Soviet Union, with thirty million circulation around the country, including all the republics. That newspaper recommended to Father that they print Father and Mother’s history and the Divine Principle in one book, which they would promote in Izvestia and sell throughout all the republics. They are telling Father, “Reverend Moon, we have got to rush, before any other religious denomination becomes prevalent here. First, we want your book to completely cover the Russian republics.
We want to quickly publish one hundred thousand, then five hundred thousand, then one million.” Izvestia’s idea is that the Soviet Union needs a new ideology. The vacuum cannot be filled by anything other than Reverend Moon’s ideology!
In a way, Father has so much ease working with the communist nations, because he doesn’t have to worry about too many buttons. Father only needs to select one important but-ton to push, and everything will jump!
The first becomes the last, and the last first. It is really happening. The free world is so independent-minded, and has such incredible moral degradation. You do not know where to begin to change this society. Communist countries are trained to serve one system, but they are hungry, seeking not only physically but spiritually. They want to heal their spiritual hunger, and nothing is better than the Divine Principle.
Right now, Great Britain is receiving a lot of benefit, working with France and Germany and other European nations. At the same time, Japan is reaping so much benefit. Japan will inevitably return to the Korean peninsula, as much as the British Empire came from the Roman Empire, which is the Italian peninsula. But Korea has an incredible historical background. In the South all Hebraic culture comes to fruition. In the North, all the Hellenist culture comes to fruition. It is the confrontation of these opposing ideologies. In the North there was the master of the Cain tradition, Kim Il Sung, who is called Father by twenty-five million people. He is the false parent. The parentage of the entire communist world is embodied in Kim Il Sung. He is God’s ultimate opponent. In the South, we have the True Parents, True Father. It is not a contest with Roh Tae Woo. It is a contest between the two fathers, one false and one true.
North Korea is using militaristic influence, trying to develop nuclear arms. But in South Korea, Father’s attitude is always to give. Give sacrificially and embrace them. The amazing thing is this: for forty-six years North and South Korea have been talking, at the government level. There was not one inch of progress or agreement, except for the agreement in Panmunjom as to the height of the flag pole. But this time, Father made an absolute breakthrough.
Father entered North Korea not just as an individual, not just as the head of the Unification Church, not even as the President of the Federation for World Peace. Father entered North Korea upon the foundation of the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the American constitutional government and the Christian foundation, plus what Father had accomplished the last forty years. Father entered into North Korea, not hating but loving with true love. So the other side, through Father’s foundation and warm true love, naturally surrendered. If the archangel had not fallen, then Adam and Eve would have attained perfection and entered the Kingdom of Heaven, and of course the archangel would have gone together with them. By the same token, Father looked at Kim Il Sung saying “I came here to love you. You must fulfill the archangel’s role, together with the True Parents. Then I shall lead you into the Kingdom of Heaven.”
The first time Father met Kim Il Sung they cordially shook hands and embraced-two giants embraced beautifully as friends, initially. But when the conference concluded, they left holding hands, as brothers. From friends to brothers. The next time Father meets Kim Il Sung it is going to be as father and son. That point is the end of history.
PEACE OF ASIA THEN WORLD
For that reason, upon Father’s victorious foundation, the unification of the new nation was born today. The unification of the Fatherland is the most imminent goal, and Father is going to be a key factor. Next will come the peace of the entire continent of Asia. Asia has roughly 3.3 billion people, more than half of the world’s population. By having those Asians under Father’s wing, the worldwide Kingdom of Heaven will be ushered in. Then not only Christianity, but all those good religions of the world, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam and Hinduism, shall find their truth centered upon True Parents. From there unity, harmony and understanding will emerge.
Then, what about world history? The world is departing from the individual independent nation period. In the future there will be blocs of nations. Europe is the beginning point of this history; in 1992 they will have a common market, the European Economic Community. More and more nations will form into blocs. Germany is playing the major role in Europe, but presently has many problems because of its own unification. When this bloc of nations comes together, which nation is going to play the major role? Whether Britain or Germany wins this position is important because that particular country will wield a great deal of influence. Two important things are the similarity of cultures and the similarity of languages. There are many factors to draw people together, but most important is religious background. That is, the common Chris-tian religious background. Because of their Christian back-ground, the way of life is similar. We must find some solution in Europe, based upon which power can unite the religious influences into one. Someone and some power must unite all the religious elements in Europe-the major religions of Roman Catholicism and Protestant-ism, and also Judaism and Islam-into one brotherhood. Whichever nation unites religions will win leadership. If that is done by France, France will be that country. If that is done by Germany, she will be the key nation. Britain, yes, or Italy.
But the problem is, where can they find the solution? Only one person, Reverend Moon, has the key. And the Unification Church has the key. Those who come from Roman Catholicism, please raise your hands. Those from Protestantism, please raise your hands. Those of another religion, Hinduism, Islam, please raise your hands. What about those who had no religion? You can see this assemblage includes all kinds of religious back-grounds, but we are united into one.
This is the future. Therefore, I am watching the Italian, German, French and British missionaries, testing out their abilities, their sagaciousness, their vision. Germany has been recently united, but actually there is no heartistic unity. Eastern Germans are complaining a lot, saying that they would rather stay under a communist regime, than rely on handouts from West Germany. A lot of people are not happy.
The European Common Market is going to be powerful. South America and Central America are becoming like one nation, North America is becoming like one nation, and Asian countries also are becoming one bloc.
RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP
Roman Catholicism prevails in the south and Protestantism prevails in the north. Catholicism and Protestantism are not on good terms. This is the reason Father always places importance upon religion, the ideology. As much as Father is expecting Europe’s future to be decided by its religious leadership, Father feels the same about South, Central, and North America. Their future shall be decided by how their religious communities can unite and work together. This is why Father created organizations such as the Association for the Unity of Latin America (AULA) and also the Summit Council for World Peace. These organizations are geared to bring about blocs of nations working together. Where shall these bloc nations go? Always they are heading toward Asia. That is their goal.
The Asian cultural spheres-Buddhism, Confucianism, all kind of roots-are very difficult to unite. Many thousands of years of different traditions exist. The Korean peninsula, how-ever, is different, because it is basically Christian. Buddhism and Confucianism are very weak there. Christian unity is everything in Korea. This is why the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace and the Federation for World Peace were both inaugurated in Korea. From Korea, Father can influence other Asian religious communities.
One world is always on Father’s mind one nation under God. That will be done centering on Korea. First of all, we must concern ourselves with Korea’s unification, upon the Christian foundation, which will become an influential focal point for the Asian region. We can influence Japan, Manchuria, China, and Southeast Asian countries, which all belong to the Asian sphere. Because the future direction is toward Asia, there will be evil forces trying to bloc unity in Asia. Therefore, Father is bringing Islam, Judaism, Roman Catholicism and all his worldwide foundation to support this march toward Asia. The world of peace is the goal. One true love ideology. This is where the world of peace can be obtained.
GOD’S TRUE LOVE PASSED OVER
The philosophy and ideology for the peaceable world is God’s ideal of creation. I did not create a new ideal. God has the original ideal of creation, which follows nature’s principle of the pair system: man and woman, male and female, plus and mi-nus. The whole universe consists of subject and object, in a position to have give and take. Men and women are created for one single purpose: in order to consummate true love. God wants love to blossom and permeate everywhere.
You have heard about Darwin’s theory of evolution. Did evolution come first, or the concept of love? (Love!) Before any-thing was created, there was only one thing in God’s mind-true love! He had an incredible urge to manifest true love into visible form, the creation. In order to fulfill that love, God needed to create subject and object, in a pair system. Were male and female created as a result of evolution? From the most simple organism, the amoeba, to the sophisticated human being, God’s true love passed over many millions of hurdles. By doing so, new, advanced creations came into being. The theory of evolution totally disregards this. When you are genuinely in love, would you like your love to be invaded by an-other man, or another woman? Absolutely not! Without the concept of male and female, how could an amoeba evolve into the very sophisticated creation of human beings? The theory of evolution is an absolute lie. It is a comic observation of external events. Do you believe man and woman were created through evolution? (No!)
All those professors who thought that the theory of evolution was absolutely brilliant, when they encounter Father’s explanation, within a couple of hours they completely surrender: “Reverend Moon, we were completely wrong. Please for-give us.” We have such a strong armament-the truth! We must be strong soldiers of truth occupying the world. We have so much power. Do you know that? How can you use it properly, that is the question. You have to take a serious Korean course, then you can use this armament, Father’s words.
Father’s God’s Day motto refers to the “new nation.” God could not have that new nation. He has not yet been able to educate the citizens of the new nation. God’s intention is to have God’s Day, God’s nation and the perfection of all things. The only remaining thing is education. A manual shall be created on how children shall be educated from generation to generation-God’s educational textbook. That is the major project. Father has a textbook which God wants to be used for the education of all mankind. There shall be no more degradation. That textbook was not created because of the fall of man. Now, God is declaring a new nation, and Father’s most immediate and urgent task is to create the textbook for the education of the citizens of God’s nation. Do you want to have it?
God’s sorrow was that He could not teach this textbook. The title is: “Education Textbook for God’s Day and the Unification of the New Nation.”
- True education for true children.
- True education for true brotherhood.
- True education for true parenthood.
- True education for true couple relationship.
These are the four major areas of education.
THE DWELLING OF GOD …
First of all, how can we educate our children to become true children? Father is trying to make the invisible form of God visible. Within God there is plus and minus, which God ex-tended into the visible world, resulting in children. They should meet in the most glorious place. A boy is growing up this way, and a girl is growing up another way. (Father draws on the blackboard.) This is the children’s position, and as children grow up they branch out as brothers and sisters. This diagonal line represents brothers-younger and elder. They become teenagers and come to realize what they need most. In the plus position, a teenage boy comes to the poignant realization that he needs a partner. As a teenager, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, you are the world’s greatest poet, artist and movie star. You can be and do everything. But the most important passion is the search for an object of love. When they are young, boys and girls persecute each other, playing pranks on each other. But as they become teenagers, around seven-teen, girls become very attractive and boys become very hand-some. They come together to the center, then the invisible God comes down to the center, ready to meet and join with man and woman. This is a vertical line. God’s love is coming down vertically to the center, man is reaching that line, woman is reaching that line, then, at that particular point, love sparks. Within the body of Adam and Eve, God’s image enters. The Bible says that the dwelling of God is with man. God’s dwelling place becomes physically available within the body of Adam and Eve. This is the absolutely ripe, perfect moment-the unity of God, man and woman. Man and woman become the temple of God.
When a man and woman come together in the center, they not only meet each other horizontally, they meet with God coming down vertically, so they become God’s dwelling place-God-centered man and woman. From there, multiplication occurs. They become husband and wife and then parents through giving birth to a child. They become substantial parents. God becomes the spiritual parents and man and woman become the physically substantial, God-centered true parents.
The mind is your vertical self. Your mind occupies one un-movable vertical posit ion. The vertical line crosses the horizontal line at a ninety-degree angle. Even eighty-nine degrees or ninety-one degrees cannot be a vertical line. The true love passage is a vertical ninety-degree line. Between men and women, horizontally, and between them and God, vertically, love travels the shortest distance. So they will meet at the absolute horizontal line with the absolute vertical line. You become God’s true sons and daughters, by receiving a vertical spiritual lineage from God. Then you receive the physical horizontal lineage from True Parents. If you do that, you are becoming the children of Heavenly Father.
NINETY-DEGREE PERSON
So far, everyone is trying to do it. Protest ant churches are saying the same thing, and Catholic churches too, but what is wrong? The angle was not an absolute ninety degrees. The vertical line is always there, but the horizontal line crosses at different angles. So, religion has got to straighten out this line. How much established Christians have been believing in the Bible and meditating and fasting does not make a difference. When you go to the spirit u al world you will find out if you crossed the vertical line with your horizontal line at a ninety-degree angle or not. That will determine your heaven.
The Unification Church education is to help members receive the vertical sphere and True Parents’ horizontal lineage at ninety degrees. We have twelve months in a year and the Kingdom of Heaven has twelve pearly gates. When you are a ninety-degree person, vertical and horizontal, you can knock at any gat e and you will be welcomed, because you fit everywhere. Therefore, the twelve apostles and Jesu s tried to create the ability to get into the pearly gates from every angle. However, the three main apostles ruined this. That is, these three could not unite into one, so needless to say the unit y of the twelve apostles never happened.
Father is asking you Unification Church members, are you going to harmonize with twelve, or even one hundred and twenty? Then you will be able to enter into every pearly gate in heaven. You will harmonize everywhere you go … this ninety degree piece fits everywhere. So in true love, when you maneuver, you do not diminish but rather you multiply. When you become a ninety-degree man, the whole universal atmosphere will protect you. This is natural law.
How could Father survive until now? I stood in the center at all times, so that the entire heavenly fortune surrounded and protected me. Through this I prospered. No one can at -tack you when you stand in the center. Only with true love can you be ninety-degree men and women. That is why you need True Parents. Through True Parents you co me to know the True God. God becomes the living God, the day-to-day God, restored God.
Father and God’s goal is for you to become more and more like God every day, resembling Him more closely. Then you become true children, t hen true brothers and sisters, then true husband and wife, and ultimately you become true parents yourselves.
Would anyone exchange this for something else? Those who want to live exactly as ninety-degree men and women, please raise your hands! All of you! You raise your hands easily, but to fulfill in your actions is very difficult! Even God has not been able to make that ninety-degree angle until now in His creation. Reverend Moon brought the solution. Until he did, everyone was in absolute darkness.
There are many people assembled here. Our job is not that complicated. All we have to do is to go back to the original position. Five-and-a-half billion people are a lot, but when you divide them into categories, there are only two kinds men and women. Men are the letter M and wo men are the letter W. Who is on top? American women say women are on top. You have to understand that women are in the bowed down position, not the upper position. Do you understand?
There are two kinds of people–men and women! One man trying to take two women is a thief, and one woman trying to take two men is also a thief, maybe worse. This is the natural creation formula. No matter how much people are against this formula, it is an absolute standard and those people will decline.
In the Garden of Eden, did God create one man and two women? Yes, he did! (No, Father!) Okay, Father agrees with you. God created one man! True love is absolutely one way, not two ways. Making the horizontal line is only one way. Can two lines make a horizontal line? No, it absolutely cannot happen. Are there two vertical lines? No, absolutely one vertical line. True love combines horizontal and vertical at one unifying point, not two points. These two lines unite at the universal center, then God exists absolutely forever at this central point. Humankind and all of creation will follow that center point. You have to understand this clearly. True love is absolutely one position! One requires an absolute subject position. The subject wants to meet one object position, not two, making an absolute true love central point. That will exist eternally. No power can displace that point. With your mind and body united centering on true love you can go anywhere in the world, and influence people and creation. Why? Because God’s ideal is the center place. That kind of subject position automatically creates the object position. This is the natural, principled viewpoint.
How can brothers come together then? Do not forget two things: Do not forget the vertical and do not forget the horizontal, which is True Parents. The vertical self, vertical line, is God who gave you life. The horizontal parents are True Parents-the second creator. The vertical parents are in the mind position and horizontal parents are in the body position, and they unite into one.
SON AND DAUGHTER LOVE
When there is a daughter and a son, how does the son look at the daughter? She is not just an ordinary woman. He should look at her as the most absolute image of truth. She has a vertical life, or mind, and horizontal unity with True Parents. This is where human rights come from-the dignity of and true value of man and woman.
parents. I want to love her, that means I want to add a third position. I want to unite them. So, behold, there shall be a beautiful unity inside of God. That is how the boy, the son, should think. Actually, when you love your sister you are loving your mother. To inherit your mother’s love you love your sister. That is the way you look at it. So you feel, I would like the mother’s love to be with us, with my sister, my mother’s love, and I want to be a part of it.
You are not just an attachment to others, you are a part of them. When you hate your younger brother or sister, actually you are hating your parents and God. You are denying the very existence of your own position, denying your original value. When you deny your sister you deny God, deny True Parents, and also deny your own partnership with your wife. In true love, therefore, there are all kinds of relationships-your love for your brother, love for your sister, your elder brothers, all coming together because above them True Parents are involved, and the vertical Father, God. This is the children’s love.
So do you want more brothers, or less? (More!) You should have more than three brothers and sisters, at least, which plus yourself make four. This at least covers the four seasons-spring, summer, autumn, and winter. There are always four directions-south, north, east and west. Jesus would go around with his three disciples, making four. You have three levels of face, three joints, and the body has three major parts. Man and woman plus love is three.
At the time of Adam and Eve, for example, there were only the two of them. If Adam had hated his sister and future wife, what would have happened? Denying his sister is denying his Parents, God. That means, when you love your sisters and brothers, you are becoming one with your parents! This is the basic education for children’s love.
Then, we just expand it to true brotherhood. Brotherhood is expanded into a much wider territory, with a lot of complicated relationships arising. However, the basic principle is the same. The first level is the unified sons and daughters, and then you move to the next level, brotherhood.
When you are growing up, you become very opinionated. “Oh, my brother is receiving more love from my parents.” So, what would you say? “I am going to get rid of him, because all of my parents love doesn’t come to me; he is taking it.” Would you do that? If you love that brother, that means your brother has become part of you, your asset. Then when your parents love your brother, you’ll benefit. If your beloved brother is living in a large mansion, then if you truly love him, when you visit him it is like visiting your own home.
Why do you need brotherhood? Because in the spiritual world, everyone becomes your brothers and sisters and you must have training before you go. In the physical world, you have to learn how to relate with brothers. Plus and minus, elder brother and younger brother, nations, all are sort of counterparts, subject and object. So one little family goes in here, applying that principled formula, and bringing two sides into one, then expanding it, then eventually this will prevail on the worldwide level. Wherever you go with this philosophy, you will experience no contradiction, even if you go to the spiritual world. Your heart and mind are so pure, so loving, giving and unselfish.
Think in this fashion: if your elder brother becomes an important, famous person, and has been given great love and education from your parents, and received a lot of universal blessing and good luck, then you can consider, “He is receiving all those things on my behalf.” Then you have no reason to be jealous of him, because your brother’s success becomes your own success. Your older brother comes to you, the younger brother, and lifts you up: “I am doing this for you, my younger brother. My parents are loving you, I am doing everything so that these fruits can go to you.” God and True Parents united into one are helping you. This is the dual parents’ purpose. What an enviable position!
Christianity has been divided into different denominations; their relationships must be brotherly relationships. Then a beautiful, heavenly society can be created. You have so many possibilities to go into heaven. When your elder or younger brother enter into heaven, you can just stick to them, ride piggyback. This should be expanded to the world level. What a different place the world will be when centered on true love. You can move anywhere. Is that a happy position or unfortunate one? (Happy one.) If you have no brothers and sisters, you are losing the entire heaven and earth; you are alone. Through loving your own brothers you are actually restoring the universe; it will come to you.
If you have the love of your parents, you can occupy your family. With the love of brothers, you can occupy the universe and receive the universe. Upon the foundation of loving the family and the universe, man and woman become husband and wife. Perfected men and women are elevated into a God-centered temple and are virtually saints. Then they are united as husband and wife. In a way, men and women becoming husband and wife signifies north and south, east and west and the entire universe becoming one. They stand in God’s place. Do you understand? Man and woman marry in order to occupy the cosmos; it becomes your home. Women represent the west and bottom, and men represent the east and top. Coming together they represent the universe, and in coming together the globe is completed. They move around everywhere, they make a sphere. You marry in order to occupy the universe. You also occupy God and True Parents, the vertical creator and horizontal creator. You unite with God, and be-come one with His universal love, standing on the same level with Him. You inherit everything from God and True Parents. Combining with them you can connect to the whole universe centering on true love. When you regain that position the couple inherits the earth.
CONCENTRATED ALL HIS LOVE
Absolute subject and absolute object-a couple. Husband and wife become the living God walking on the face of the earth. You are absolutely perfected, resembling God. Therefore, you have the power of creation. That is why God will say to multi-ply and have children in the same way that God created Adam and Eve. Why did God have children? So they could stand as second, co-creators, resembling God. God concentrated absolutely so He could bequeath all His love when He created Adam and Eve. The relationship of parents and children is the most important thing.
What about American families? Satan occupies them. Satan wants to destroy the whole free world. Thus the world is rolling down the evil way into the bottom of hell.
Who can save the free world in such a miserable situation? Not just anyone can do that. American political, military, educational, media and religious leaders cannot. Only by uniting in love with God and True Parents can you solve everything. Connecting with true love and becoming one: following that way you can connect everything to the way of perfection. There is no other way.
Married couples will definitely become the parents of children. When you become parents, you are acting in the position of God, both creating and educating children to become true men and women. That is your responsibility. What Father has been teaching you is the textbook for educating true children. If you think anything that Father is saying is wrong, raise your hands. Even those unfortunate, orphan children in America, who do not know who their father is, and unwanted children, going from living with one parent to another, let them listen to this kind of truth. Would they like to be children in this kind of category? Would they like to be educated and live in this kind of way? (Yes.)
Men and women, boys and girls, these relationships centered upon the children’s position, brother’s position, couple’s position, and parents’ position are absolutely miraculous! When you go back home, ask yourself a question, “Do I love my children and my brothers and sisters? What about my wife or husband, my parents? What about my neighbors?” Have you loved everyone according to these concepts about which Father has been talking? If you have, if your answer is an unqualified yes, then what you are becoming is not an earthly royal race but a heavenly royal race, a God-centered royal race.
All these positions and relationships were broken into pieces and left to rot on the ground. That was the consequence of the fall of man, which Father has been restoring one step after another. We are all the way to where we can celebrate God’s Day and the Unification of the New Nation today!
So, God and True Parents, you, your spouse and children, your brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, you have all the family relationships. But all these relationships are included in the relationship between Adam and Eve, the whole formula. Once this education is complete, religion will not be necessary, because the purpose of religion will have been fulfilled. From now on, basic human education must be recast according to these teachings. Then the heavenly kingdom here on earth shall be the reality.
My conclusion is this. All the Unification Church members lucky enough to be educated like this today, are absolutely blessed and fortunate people. By absorbing every element of these teachings you will not miss one step of it. You shall become the royal family of God. That is our goal. One, two three, four teachings. At least you have to accomplish and perfect one of these. You may not do all four, but at least do one of them! Those who will say, “Yes, Father, I will do one of these, raise your hands!” This is the basic textbook for the education of the children of God, to become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. You have a lot more to do.
Today, I have been concentrating to give in a nutshell the central teaching, the whole essence of what I have been preaching through the years, all two hundred and fifty volumes. Father himself is reading thirty to fifty pages every morning. You have to do the same. Because the world is an evil environment, we must prepare ourselves so we will not be contaminated. The only way is to be equipped with the truth.
In 1992, we must make a resolution that we will not act by whim or in an unprincipled way. We are going to follow the Principle of our True Parents exactly. Yes or no? (Yes!)